3rd Version WDTV Live stuck on black screen

My wdtv is stuck on a black screen screen, red circle with a line through it, asking me to insert a usb drivee with firmware to recover your wdtv

I downloaded the latest firmware, formatted a flash drive to fat32, extracted the files to the root of the flash drive. inserted flash drive into wdtv, and nothing. hitting the reset button holding it for 10 seconds does nothing. unplugging the wdtv for 10 minutes does nothing. when i plug it back in, i’m back to the same screen

suggestions please

try editing the wdtvlivegen3.ver   file  eg. change the version number to a higher value and it will detect it as new firmware

VERSION=‘3.02.32’

LOCATION=‘wdtvlivegen3.bin’

PKG_LOCATION=‘wdtvlivegen3.pkg’

ROOTFS2=‘wdtvlivegen3.bi2’

power off your wdtv (at the mains power) … insert the flashdrive and power on

hope it works for you :neutral_face:

or you could try “rollback firmware”

http://download.wdc.com/wdtv/wdtvlivegen3_rollback_2.01.86.zip

Hi All

Have the same problem…brick!

Have read in detail the comments here. 

WD Live stuck on black recovery screen - holding the reset button does nothing, nevertheless have waited 1 minute to power back on, have inserted UBS both before and after restarting etc.

Have now formatted a least 6 different USB drives, using a least three different firmwares downloaded via links from this site, or wd.com - even tried going back to 1.16.13.

USB drives flash for about 2 seconds and then nothing.

Please help!

Thnaks

Colin