I had the same thing only after 24 hours it was still stuck on 36%! 

When my system was installed the engineer used some Devolo network plugs to link my system to my network as it did not come with Wifi.  This has always caused me problems and copying the original music onto the system took so so long.

I could have invested more money and upgraded the plugs but I had already spent a great deal and then realised I didn't need the BS5 at all - the BM5 has all the navigation and my TV could have acted as the BS5.   A warning for other perhaps.

I finally solved it this morning by linking one of the PCs via the plugs, moving my router closer to the BM5 and connecting it directly to it via a CAT5 cable.  My other PCs are all wireless so this presented no problems and my printer also connects wirelessly so aside from an hour of cabling it was a smooth transition.

I then ran the update and it went through in a few minutes.

With bated breath I expected great things but sadly not even the information message had changed.  So a massive amount of work for what.

Having bought B&O since the early 80's this is the first product I can honestly say that I regret buying!  In my opinion it was just not ready for release.

HVD wrote:

My BS5/BM5 has been frozeen all morning while updating. At 0800 it had downloaded only 24% and at 1200 it has only downloaded 63% of the update. My connection is 2 Mbps which should be ok (not fast). While updating and downloading I can't do anything on my BS5. I can't hear any music (N.MUSIC or RADIO) and the screen shows "update in %". I tried preesing "GO" which should terminate the update, since I belive something is not right, but with no luck.

Anybody who experience the same?

Cheers

Henrik.

Similiar. When downloading/upgrading I couldn`t use my BS5 and the update took a long time - about 3 hours. after it was finished it is working without any problems - like before....

Stefan

There is a very simple reason why the navigation on TV screen has still not been improved: it's called BeoSound 5!

If BO improves navigation via a software update then the BS5 is no longer necessary since you can pilot the BM5 content via any TV screen. In other words less BS5 will be sold!

Another example are the PHOTO and WEB options of BM5, which are not displayed on BS5 and here the software allows a reasonable fair navigation on the TV screen.

The BeoMedia 1 (a similar product to BM5) didn't have the BS5 screen and had an acceptable navigation system on TV screens for all options.

Well, in other words BO will never improve the navigation of N.MUSIC and N.RADIO!

Any comments?

I´m not sure about that. The navigation on the BS5 is so special and I don´t think they can do anything similar or exceeding over that.

But maybe if the call the Apple people 😁

Brgds Ingvar

"Well, in other words BO will never improve the navigation of N.MUSIC and N.RADIO!"

I hope for us, the customers AND Beo  that you are wrong. All I want is a navigation in N.MUSIC and N.RADIO mode as we already have in PHOTO and WEB mode. We already had this with the BM1.

When I got my BS5 in January 2009 Beo promised this as an update in six to eight months - July / September 2009.

In January 2010 - 12 months later - we got a quite useless link TV function, not an "exciting new feature".

Stefan

Agree.

Was a bit provocative in my previous message, but I really don't understand why they couldn't apply the same BM1 N.MUSIC and N.RADIO navigation features to the BM5!!

If you unplug your Beosound 5 you will have full navigation

I only have a BM5 and everything works fine!

Hi, I tried to update today but no new software was avaliable, perhaps they had redrawed it from distribution?

Brgds Ingvar

There seems to be a new sofare version available for download, but my system is stuck on 32% of the download, do I will have to wait and see what it ends up with later this evening. The fact that it gets stuck is in itself worrying and I hav difficulties believing that it is related to networking issues as all ther network devices work perfectly and my internet link is 400/400 in up and download speeds....

Look forward to hearing from the forum if anybody manages to get the update and more imprtantly what it contains..

//Rolf  

I ran the software update function and got a complete 100 percent download.  The update was loaded and the system restarted normally.  I looked at the release notes which said the update is about controlling  Beomaster 5 from linked TVs to display photos and album art.  My Beosound 5 is a stand alone system which is running normally.  I thought this link TV update had already been sent.