{"id":548,"date":"2014-01-31T19:23:39","date_gmt":"2014-01-31T17:23:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bergs.biz\/blog\/?p=548"},"modified":"2015-06-19T09:14:08","modified_gmt":"2015-06-19T07:14:08","slug":"warning-to-install-latest-firmware-version-for-lg-bp430-bluray-player","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bergs.biz\/blog\/2014\/01\/31\/warning-to-install-latest-firmware-version-for-lg-bp430-bluray-player\/","title":{"rendered":"Warning to install latest firmware version for LG BP430 BluRay player"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of days I was offered a firmware update by my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lg.com\/au\/dvd-blu-ray-players\/lg-BP430\" target=\"_blank\">LG BP430 BluRay player<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lg.com\/de\/blu-ray-dvd-player\/lg-BP430\" target=\"_blank\">German site<\/a>), which I installed immediately when I noticed the update. The update process went ok, flashing finished with no (obvious) errors.<\/p>\n<p>Today my wife told me that the device suddenly doesn&#8217;t play any DVDs any longer. They screen just stayed white, without the DVD being played. Also, some videos from my NAS don&#8217;t play anymore via DLNA.<\/p>\n<p>I called LG support in Germany, but they&#8217;re not yet aware that the latest firmware seems to break things. They made me aware that on their website there&#8217;s still an old version available, but at the same time they said their technicians say you can&#8217;t downgrade.<\/p>\n<p>Before I would send back the player to Amazon (it&#8217;s only one month old), I tried whether you can downgrade the firmware anyway &#8212; and yes, you <em>can<\/em>. After I downgraded from the bad version <code>BD3.412.40122.C<\/code> to the older version available on LG&#8217;s site (<code>BD2.817.30806.C\/Date:2013.08.19<\/code>) all was fine again.<\/p>\n<p>So, beware before you upgrade to said version. I would definitely wait until a more recent version becomes available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LG BluRay player firmware upgrade broke things, downgraded to fix it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[106],"class_list":["post-548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consumer-electronics","tag-bluray-players"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Warning to install latest firmware version for LG BP430 BluRay player - Ralf&#039;s Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/bergs.biz\/blog\/2014\/01\/31\/warning-to-install-latest-firmware-version-for-lg-bp430-bluray-player\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Warning to install latest firmware version for LG BP430 BluRay player - 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