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My Freeview box has no EPG, is blank on FIVE, ITV3, ITV4, ITV2+1, has no sound o

My Freeview box has no EPG, is blank on FIVE, ITV3, ITV4, ITV2+1, has no sound or the channel line up is wrong

My Freeview box has no EPG, is blank on FIVE, ITV3, ITV4, ITV2+
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To deal with the problem you must clear the channel list completely and then rescan - if your box has it in the menus, please the 'installation menu' to do an initial scan or a reset to factory settings or First Time Installation. You MUST delete the entire existing list of channels. On most boxes this technique can be also be used:

Try this:

1) unplug your Freeview box (or idTV) from the mains;



2) unplug the aerial from the Freeview box by disconnecting the cable from the 'RF in' socket;



3) wait 30 seconds;

4) plug Freeview box (or idTV) mains back in;



5) do a complete scan for channels - it will fail without the aerial. (This may be in the installation or initialization menu, and is distinct from any 'add channels option'). Once this is done your channel line up should be empty;



6) reinsert aerial by reconnecting to the 'RF in' connection;



7) do a complete scan for channels again.



The Freeview channel line-up provided by six "multiplexes" - each of which carry five or more TV channels, radio channels, text services and EPG data. In this diagram each ROW represents a multiplex. If you are still missing a whole multiplex (ie everything on the row) you may need to replace your aerial with a wideband type, purchase a larger aerial or you may have interference from a VCR, games console, Sky Digibox or similar.



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Comments
Sunday, 25 March 2012
Dave Lindsay
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8:32 PM

Kev: See above for Joh K Slater's posting this morning.

It seems that there's engineering work going on, perhaps allowed due to the good weather.

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Big Al
8:35 PM

Unbelievable. Peterhead. Nothing but problems since the switchover. Changed ariel, changed TV. Today, back to no signal again. Fed up. Pissed off. Send me back my license fee!!

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Kev
8:41 PM
Middlesbrough

Thanks Dave,i have already tried to re-set them to no avail so i now have lost a lot of channels.I will have to try again at a later date,thanks again..

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Big Al
8:47 PM

This might be a useful link. The old British Rail "wrong type of weather" excuse...

High pressure causing channel loss through "Inversion" | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice

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steve
11:26 PM

Have retuned my TV combi Freeview have all bbc channels but all other have pixels cracking up all over the placec .....sooooo frustrating was fine prior to switchover ..whos to blame?

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Monday, 26 March 2012
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Alan
8:51 AM
Harlow

Hi I am also having problems with my freeview box, ie losing all ITV channels along with pick (channel 11), getting "no signal" appear on screen, then they come back , have done all the re tuning some times only getting 90 channels , then 126 channels. and HD channels have gone, getting my signal from Sandy Heath.
my aerial is on the roof

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Tim Bishop
9:49 AM

Just to let you know that my "no signal" problem I posted last week was due to old equipment... I bought a Goodmans GDR11, from a local high street retailer, for £24.99 plugged it and and Bob was my proverbial uncle! :-D Thanks for the replies, most helpful in pointing me in the right direction

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Rachel
10:30 AM

I'm another Chatham resident ME4 using the Bluebell Hill transmitter. Have had NO SIGNAL most of the day for about a week. Tried to retune yesterday and have now lost nearly all my channels - certainly the terrestrials and the only BBC channel is BBC4.

Anyone know what's happening with Bluebell Hill? I'm thinking about forking out for BT Vision as Freeview is getting worse and worse. Help please!

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a
10:48 AM

Have no signal for itv ,4,5,6,11,etc,got bbc channels and all hd ,

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a
10:52 AM

Live in sunderland got no itv,4,5,6,11 etc but got all bbc and hd channels,

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