VW Hack - Lost Voices

[capaull]

I ran the hack (successfully, or so I thought) for an original VW PhatBox with the original DMS. It ran on the PhatBox straight through, and ended with the announcement that the update was successful. However, when I use the PhatBox, I no longer have the announcements for the name of the album, genre, playlist, and artist. The system standard prompt is still there - "Now browsing artists - the current artist is" but there are no names announced. The PhatBox is still usable, but losing the announcements cripples the ability to find material to a large extent.

Any help you might offer would be appreciated. I have all the logs available, but don't want to add them unless I know they will do some good.

Thanks!

[sbingner]

that would be firmware settings, not related to the hack.  If you have a backup of your PHTSYS you can restore it and it should work the same... if not, just look thruogh and make sure all your announcements are enabled

[capaull]

I'm using the Windows 2.12 version of the tools. Does that make a copy of the PHTSYS? If not, when you say "just look through" in reference to the firmware settings, where do I find these?

Many thanks!

[sbingner]

In phatbox.ini and in the settings in Phatnoise Media Manager

[capaull]

OK - I seem to have resolved the issues. I don't understand how the firmware settings were scrambled. I also found that there were some problems with the music files on the DMS. All very confusing. I ended up resetting the firmware settings and deleting all my music files and added discs (playlists) from the DMS. I left the Welcome playlist intact, and then rebuilt the DMS with my music. Everything seems to be working fine again, which is a major relief. 

Thank you very much for your assistance!

Craig

[VorTechS]

The firmware update process puts the settings back to the factory state, I guess this is where the backup and restore feature would help if I ever get round to writing the restore side of it!