Oh my dippy days, October, page 208 I think, is the last time I was on here. Had to take a break because this whole thing was consuming me and my time. Although I have been taking a little peak hear and there at some of the email notifications. Lots of new folk, and even think I saw some accusations of SONY spy's in there too LOL. This is a bit of a lengthy post, but there may be some info that could help, or just a boring post.
Since Oct I sill have my KDL-50W805C, had and made numerous emails with SONY and other emails people were talking about way back when in earlier posts to [edited by moderator to remove email address] even call backs...WOW! All be it the call back came about 3 weeks a go, after the email was sent on the 06/11/15. It was the result of me emailing the mentioned address. I managed to get out of SONY as compensation a H-TC380 soundbar.... this was after I turned down the offer of a poor 3 month extra warranty extension. Don't really care about the soundbar, I use it as a PC speaker (because it has HDMI passthrough) and also because SONY gave me the money £249 to buy it. Argos had it for £199.99, so a bonus £49.01 to play with.
Now, I have had my auto updates tuned off for a while because one of them fixed stuff like 5.1, lip sync and others, there have been a few updates since, that I chose to skipped up until now, and that is because my setup, KDL-50W805C, PS4, SKY+HD, SONY BDV-E3100 were, and still are working in unison! What caught my attention on this particular update, was the instructions that came with it in an email, "Leave TV turned ON for at least 30 minutes after the installation is completed, to allow the background processes to fully update." This is not far off what I did a while back when things started to work on the TV.
I turned my auto update off quite some time a go, really don't remember which PKG2 it was, but I do remember that I did a factory reset, powered up, entered all the usual set up features and left the unit on for as long as possible without tinkering and pushing it like you would normally do with a new telly. Later that evening, before bed, I did what ever that update at the time was and kept the telly on for an hour or so after it had finished, again without tinkering or messing with it. Turned it off and went to bed, the next day, to my surprise I remember the telly turning on quick, menus being snappy and my personal fave 5.1 via ARC. From then on updates were turned off, I was happy.
Now I have been following peoples posts on here to see how the update went, first impressions were to avoid, but curiosity killed the cat, and I have always been curious as to what got the cat so curious in the first place.... so went ahead, did a reboot the night before (just the power button reboot). The next day turned the telly on and left for an hour. Turned off and disconnected all peripherals and did the dreaded possible bricking update and held my breath......... All went well! Again, left the telly to do its background processes for about an hour and everything is OK. Did have a moment as others have mentioned about the remote, but from past experience's I learnt to use the app to change the Vol or press home, anything really on the app and it wakes the remote control up instantly. I also now see from some comments that if I hang on a little 30 seconds it wakes up anyway.
I know I am one of the few now, that has a working TV, but it wasn't always like that! It was twitchy and did my nut in. I still have thoughts and pangs when something doesn't sit right with the feel of the unit. I sincerely hope that the future of these units get sorted, and that the update for HDD Rec and PAP as mentioned http://www.sony.co.uk/support/en/article/73499 here comes soon.
