WDTV Live G3 suddenly started behaving weirdly

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WD TV freezing all over the world: List of solutions

Hello friends in the last few weeks I have found at least a dozen of posts with users talking about the same problem: The image freezes while playing a video and the devides does not respond to the remote. the solutions given in all theses posts the can be summarized in the following: 1 “Rollback to the earlier version of the software”. Say goodbye to p2p downloads, Miracast, Grid themes… This seems to work in most cases but not in all. In my case this “solved” the problem 2 “Disconnect th…

Cause Freezing found! WD, PLEASE PUT THIS SITE BACK ON LINE ASAP!

This is what another smart guy found out: It seems that WD took the site wdtvlive.com/wsapps/appservice.svc/json/browseapp offline. THIS IS CAUSING ALL THE (FREEZING) PROBLEMS OF FIRMWARES IN AT LEAST THE 2+ RANGE! REMEDY: Redirect in your router www.wdtvlive.com to 127.0.0.1 or block the access to the WDTV for this site and all should work properly again. More specifick: block if possible http://www.wdtvlive.com/wsapps/appservice.svc/json/browseapp but that will be hard to do on most rou…

Blocking the device in the router work for me 1 week freeze free.