[ATV] Apple TV 3.0 update going live

[jerndl]

I did a factory restore and it went back to 2.3.1. I then ran the patchstick that I had created for 2.4. It seems to work ok so far. The 1st thing I did was set in the Launcher settings, ATV OS update enabled to NO. Hopefully that is the correct way to prevent auto-update. What are the differences between 2.3.1 and 2.4, do I give up any significant functionality? Also is there any reason why this is a bad idea? Thanks.

Jay

[davilla]

Hahaha, Apple knew I was going on a trip and would not have an AppleTV around for a few days so they waited until now to post the update. Need to find the mole and silence them.

[ewequeone]

I'm ready to help hunt them down ...

Originally Posted by davilla

Hahaha, Apple knew I was going on a trip and would not have an AppleTV around for a few days so they waited until now to post the update. Need to find the mole and silence them.

[Bobby Blixberg]

Originally Posted by Esra

I've disabled the updates.

Hope they come out with a working patch stick soon, the new ATV interface looks awesome.

*word*

[HvClausewitz]

Originally Posted by davilla

Hahaha, Apple knew I was going on a trip and would not have an AppleTV around for a few days so they waited until now to post the update. Need to find the mole and silence them.

At least they can now state that this time took a few days longer until everything will be back to normal for us XBMCees.

[neotrex]

Any idea when launcher will be updated to handle the new menus or will i have to downgrade for a while?

[DaveGee]

Originally Posted by neotrex

Any idea when launcher will be updated to handle the new menus or will i have to downgrade for a while?

The new launcher was finished years ago... Davilla has it burned to a dirty CD and its sitting on top of his beer fridge in the garage. When will he release it? Beats me, you know how it is.. he goes off on the month long benders and then has to find his way back home from who-knows-were... It could be a week it could be a month... lets just hope he steers clear of the cops... not like LAST TIME...

Sorry I had to..

We should all know by know that it'll be done when its done... Davilla is juggling quite a number of XBMC centric projects and word on the street says he even has a day job that pays the bills that allow him to exist and perhaps even a personal life to live as well!

In the end I for one would not expect to see an updated patch stick appear overnight and if XBMC is you're main use on the ATV then you should follow one of the downgrade links posted above.

[zerostar]

The good news is that when you run the patch stick on 3.0 you have SSH access again. This means Apple isn't looking to completely lock us out, if there were it would be trivial to block the patch stick method.

Looking at the new menu system it seems like a daunting fix to get the patch updated, I will play around to see if XBMC runs on 3.0 if anyone likes? I didn't think to launch it before I downgraded...

[satyamb]

I have turned on my apple tv today and automatically it got updated to apple tv 3.0 ...........All my menus and every thing got changed ..........it has completely new look and feel . All my previous XBMC menus are gone ..........I am actually running apple tv 2.4 with xbmc ...........now this new upgrade killed all my xbmc menus .............is there any solution for this .........If I re do the patch stick this will resolve the problem ? ...........

any one has similar experiance ? Please help me

[jerndl]

Originally Posted by satyamb

I have turned on my apple tv today and automatically it got updated to apple tv 3.0 ...........All my menus and every thing got changed ..........it has completely new look and feel . All my previous XBMC menus are gone ..........I am actually running apple tv 2.4 with xbmc ...........now this new upgrade killed all my xbmc menus .............is there any solution for this .........If I re do the patch stick this will resolve the problem ? ...........

any one has similar experiance ? Please help me

No easy way to fix problem. See this thread. For the time being it appears that you are going to have to downgrade to an earlier ATV firmware rev and re-run the patchstick. As I stated in the other thread I was able to do a factory restore to 2.3.1 and the 2.4 patchstick appears to work OK. Hopefully there will be an update that will work with 3.0 before too long. Good luck.

Jay