3900 dish to bev

[pornpirate]

Can a 3900 dish receiver be converted to bev, thanks

[fubr]

yes
treat it like it is ecm and restream tio bev i think,
i never haveone it so i could be wrong on this.
why you wanna do that for anyway with bev almost tits up.

[riverman]

Bell does not have a model 3900.Erasing a sector on a Dish 3900 and hooking it up to Bell will only give you a long wait for nothing.If you use the search you will find a special Tsop file that converts a Dish 3900 to a Bell 2700.I have done it and it will work.

[pornpirate]

Bell does not have a model 3900.Erasing a sector on a Dish 3900 and hooking it up to Bell will only give you a long wait for nothing.If you use the search you will find a special Tsop file that converts a Dish 3900 to a Bell 2700.I have done it and it will work.


This is exactly what happened, the receiver just sits there and nothing happens, its good that I backed up my tsop, anybody know what the special tsop file is that will convert 3900 dish to bev, (need the ethnic channels), thanks

[JT]

There is no firmware for a Bell 3900. Bell has never used the model 3900. The 3900 has a 2Mb tsop. The 2800's have a 512kb tsop. They are very different beasties. What you have to do to get a 3900 to work for bell is to take four 2800 tsop images and combine them into one 2Mb tsop image and write that to the 3900. It's a pain in the ass and not worth it if you ask me. Instructions on how to do this and pre-made images are available in the files section. Or. you can make a dual boot 3900 that will run both dish and bell on the same box. At one point in time, this was a neat trick because a guy could use two tsop images for Bell 2800 and two tsop images for a charlie 2800 and have one receiver that was pre programmed for both dish and bell, then install a toggle switch to go back and forth. Like I said, this is doable....just a lot of fiddling IMO and not worth it. The dual boot 3900 does not take firmware updates via the stream. To update the firmware the only option is to create an entirely new tsop image with the updated firmware and rewrite the entire tsop. I never liked the model 3900 anyway.

[JT]

Also, for future refrence, here is a list of like model Legacy receivers.

2700=2800=3700 (512kb tsop) These models have been used for both Charlie and Bev, and can be ECM repaired and service provider switched with a simple erase of SA5 and restream to provider of choice.

3800=3900=4800=4900 (2Mb tsop) These models have only been used for Charlie. There is no Bev firmware for these models. To ECM repair these models erase SA30 and restream.

[pornpirate]

you are absolutley right, not worth it. thanks for clearing that up.