Xbox Dash Next
Public Beta Bug Bash One

keep this thread to reporting/tracking current known and new bugs found during the Bug Bash...

pEAcE
JbOnE

not working
Xbox 1.1
i try everything
have TSOP 4 bank switch so i use diff bioses, and nothin change

setup "SetupNeeded=false" to true
changing folder names putting on c/e/f
hdd unlocking / locking

Still frag on Xlogo, MS logo appears
didnt try region change have 1
:..(
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working donno how donno why
on C/E/F everywhere!

bugs:

- frag when enter submenu w/o fies -
(emu's 4 ex. i dont have it = frag when enter)

- settings only with "XboxDashNext.xbx", editing not workin in dash
(only audio menu works fine/ rest of funcs doesnt)

- noise when enter 1st time to memory/games/setting

- Dpad doesnt work here only analog thumb to navi

- games pics look like in mirror

help needed
i can't get xdn running
i try to run it as an app
got xboxdashnext xbe and xbx on e:\
xbox dash next dir on e:\
did put that path in xbx
when it starts it goes back to my dashboard
what's wrong?

I can't get it to work either. I get it to load (says my hdd led) but then it stays on a black screen. Everything is in order and it should load.

the package is quite big than previous dash.. guess I have to work harder to get it work with my UDE2 fonts.

edit:

got it to work but it freezed after I clicked in Emulators button.

I hvae everything on F and is working fine.

Bugs:

-In games/apps the pictures in the background are backwards.
-It freezes on Emulators
-Text in the the music soundtracks are black against a black canvis.
-If you press X in settings, it will hang for a second or two.
-Sometimes, you can't move in the subments after you press "X".
-You can't get in any of the submenus.
-Rarely, you are able to get into the submenu that lets you change text, color, etc - but the submenu freezes.
-Annoying sounds when you enter Settings/Harddrive sometimes.

ok
i found that some people got it running well from f:
at the same time they are not able to run it from e: or c:
well i don't have f: partition so i'm stuck...
it's a stupid thing that it works only from f:
awaiting solution

got it running from e just fine, are you guys sure your editing the .xbx file fo it points to the right place.


but i pretty much have the same bugs as Zanime

all pretty much said the same so far - this one was bullet pointed and easily replied to

Same, not working.
Have 4981 Bios on 1.0 version xbox
I know that I have the settings right for XboxDashNext.xbx
- right directory, tried of c, e, and f. in apps directory 1 deep
Get black screen.
I missed up on the XboxDashNext.xbx once and it look me back to the dash.
can't figure this one out.

current settings:
XboxDashNext.xbx and XboxDashNext.xbe on C
app folder in F:/XboxDashNext
XboxDashNext.xbx says:
#
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# Xbox Dash Next Config File
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#

[Dashboard Settings]
Current Skin=MS Dash - Orange
Dashboard Data Path=F:\XboxDashNext

Have any ideas?

-The text overlaps other text in music
-When you hit x and pull up the "master menu", music seems fine, but if you go select menu's it works the first time, but if you get out and go back in, cant use it
-when you select menu's, and you scroll across the other options, it remains at menu's but with overlapping text of the other objects your selecting
-Also getting out of the master menu and going back in will kill your A button and you cant select anything except music.
-selecting system info locks buttons except for B which just takes you out of menu and have to hit it twice to get out.
-when selecting "menu" it just sticks at the "button" text and wont let you select anything
-cant get "user accounts", "settings", "skins", "explorer", or "system info" to work at all. Maybe you have to edit the dashboard xbx first? Dont know.
-Cant select "mode" in music panel
-Cant adjust volume but this is probably because i just dont know which button does it but ive selected everything i think
-EQ is broken (i think thats what it is?)
-When selecting hard drive, you can see a white box as the menu quickly comes at you
-As said emulators doesnt work if you have no emu's in the emulator folder, just hangs with loud noise (im gonna put some on to see if it works)



Hope im not being repetitive, I read through so shouldnt be. Love the direction this is going in and ive ran the ftp like a bastard and cant break it yet!

reporting buggs...
Booted up from F drive... place the xboxnext folder in F with the xBE> and xbx file in the root of F outside of the Xboxnext foler... launced it from file manager from XBMC...
I get the blue dash with three tabs.... MEMEORY,,, HARDRIVE,,, AND SETTINGS.
I GO TO hard drive .. it list .. games, emulators, etc.... click on any tabs from Harddrive Tab ,,, xbox freezes.. up... probably due to incorrect paths.. Also... i did get that weird noise when going into settings.. but go back out and then back in it goes away.... FTP workes...?? So far thats All I got for now.........

wireframe mode is deathly slow.

and i noticed that if you have the music (or whatever its called) menu up, and try to do wirefame, it only does it as long as you hold B, but if you go wireframe, then there, it stays wireframe

BIG BUG
this effects about %50 of XDN users so far
the dash doesnt load!

Im running x2_4983.06_512k.bin as my bios
official x2 bios, not edited

it loads evoxdash.xbe
then xboxdash.xbe
on my xbox

heres how I got mine to load.....
I have the older thc dashboard running as evoxdash.xbe

I put the folder "Xbox Dash Next" into my f:\ drive like so
f/Xbox Dash Next/

now I go into the dashboard dir
/E/Dashboards/

and create a dir called XDN like so
/E/Dashboards/XDN

I now put the files XboxDashNext.xbe and XboxDashNext.xbx into this dir like so
/E/Dashboards/XDN/XboxDashNext.xbx
/E/Dashboards/XDN/XboxDashNext.xbe

then in that dir rename the XboxDashNext.xbe file to default.xbe like so..
/E/Dashboards/XDN/defulat.xbe

then load up the old thc dash, and go to dashboards, and run the thc beta


DONE

I dont know if anyone has seen this bug but when i use the music player and press "X" to bring out soundtrack it just shows 1 of my soundtracks, thats it, with tHc original it shows all of them.

Bugs:
the popup menu(when you press X) seems to not work at all for me, Ftp seems normal for my crappy network, and thats all I've noticed so far...

Bugs that i have found so far are: The system info tab in settings is messed up (i think its not supposed to work but i posted it just to make sure), When i hit the X button the olny thing that works is the music selection other that the things wont even come up or get stuck, when i change the skin colors olny the tabs change colors, when i change the menu settings so games will be on top it doesnt work, you have to place the Data folder in the root of the F drive for it to work and rename the dash to Deafualt.xbe like "EvilTeddyBear" said. Other than that no problems (besides the usuall bugs). Also the FTP works perfect for me.

Folks -

As it appears that a good 75% or so of the people that have tried to install the new XDN have managed to get a black screen freeze, I have done some tinkering with this matter.
While doing so, and recalling some of the issues with the good-old THC, I was wondering if this issue is related to the M$ Dash version which resides on the user's machine.
A quick poll that I have done with some of the MIRC users have indicated that most of them had issues running THC as well (popping out that dreaded error 21).

Developers - might this be it?

One.

Just reading anonyone's post and thinking he may have hit my nail on the head...running v1.0 Tsopped box with 4981.06 bios and 4980.06 kernel, and absolutely no joy. Tried running from boxplorer and it just hangs at black screen, ran from Xcommander and it reboots to Ux, ran from Ux and it just hangs at loading Xbox Dash Next...

Xbox 1.1 with 4983.06. The program worked great! The only bug was that when I would choose Programs, there would be this horrible screeching. Then if I went back to the main menu, and then back into programs, the screeching didn't come up. Happened every time, and choosing emulators froze on me, but that's prolly cause I don't have anyhting in that directory.

holy exaggerations batman lol - we went from 50% above to now 75% - apparently it works for 4 people sitting in the north corner of their room with their xboxes facing south ;P

as the readme states there were some diff bios issues in testing. known compatable bioses...
X2 4981 and up, IND bios
...thats it, nothing was tested on any soft or hard or squishy exploit (hehe) - just chips and tsops with these bioses.

the majority of the 'bugs' listed in this page of the thread are scripting issues - nothing that is really a hard coded problem. Of course things don't work in the controlpanel - as the readme states this is nothing more than the xips from the tHc wip with some tweaks to use the new xbe. Nothing in this release is meant to simply be taken as is - this is a scriptable dash - and I just gave you a whole list of new scriptable things you can do - this release is for you people to test the new stuff and gimme feedback on how it does or doesn't work for you, not to say "not all the buttons in the control panel don't work". as for the user error factor, it's this simple... you have a folder, an xbe, and an xbx. put the folder wherever you want, lets say you choose E:\dashboards\XDN and you decide to change the folder name to XDN Data, you must edit the xbx in notepad so the path is now
E:\dashboards\XDN\XDN Data
that's it - put the xbx and the xbe anywhere you want to launch it from ( you can even throw it all in E:\dashboards\XDN\XDN Data ) and it'll run for ya. simple 'debugging': if it hangs on a black screen it is looking for one of the xbx's, either your path is wrong in the xbx or you added one too many '\'s (notice you only need one), if it reboots to dash on you it's most likely a bios issue. thx much for the feedback so far - and start scripting

peace
JbOnE

Not really sure if this is a bug or if it's ment to happen, but when browsing my xbox's saved games and such, It won't show my xbox live downloads.

Also couldn't get it working when I had the xbx and xbe files on the C drive and the Xbox Dash Next folder in F:\Dashboards\XDN\Xbox Dash Next. Got it to work by just moving the xbe and xbx files to the XDN folder and then renaming to default.xbe though.

I am reading your latest post here Jb, and still no joy. I have tried everything to the root of the respective directory, and I changed the xbx to reflect that but nochange in output...
More than likely what you have stated...bios related...thx for the input...

Try what the people that are succesfully getting it to work. put your data folder in the F drive nothing else and i think most people are forgetting to rename there xbe to default.xbe and not somehting else. Just put your data foler on the root of the f drive ane rename your xbe to deafualt and your all set, i dont even think you have to put your data folder in the F drive to make it work but its worth a try. Then agian it might just be a bios problem. Listen to what Jbone Is saying, hes the one who is making it or helping.

heres a pic of the dash on my dash folder on F:


n my setting on xbx : Dashboard Data Path=F:\Dashes\XDN\Xbox Dash Next

runs fine

great so far! the ftp seems to work just fine when connecting from pc to xbox. i have just tried usin xboxftp to transfer files from the box runnin XDN...it created all the directories with np, but when it came time to transfer files from the XDN box to xboxftp box it stopped. there was no disconnect error, but the xbox runnin xboxftp froze. the box runnin XDN didnt flintch, or freeze. i dont know if its a one time thing, or a problem with xboxftp, but i will test this further. anyone care to try this out?
haxjester

I've tried with X2 4981 and 4983. Double and triple checked to make sure that everything was in the right directory. Tried in every drive. Tried with XBMC, AVA, EVOX, Uleash, as Dash. Still the black screen or it hangs up in loading depending on the dash. My Xbox is a 1.0. Is there something else I should be listing? It doesn't look like it is the bios fault, might be for some poeple, but not everyone. Any Ideas?

did anybody tried the xiso xfer on this.. JBOnE said it worked.. i tryed it but got connection time out .. good thing i got ava n qwix

No go for me. Not working.. I did Progpatcher.exe the xbe so I can run it in 480P.
And I'm sure I got the placement of the folder correct on the f:\ parition with the default.xbe in the same spot. It hangs with blank screen.
My Specs are: XBOX v1.0, Executor Pro 2.0,Bios 4981 (custom, no Flubber animation or sound).

When you press X and Y together the Network info will get stuck behind the music player and won't remove until you reboot.

sorry

Booker T, read the thread before posting. Jbone just said on the second page, as well as in the readme that those arent usable in this BETA release. Also, he said it, but I dont think its gotten across to most of the users that this is SCRIPTABLE so that means that you can edit you dashboard yourselves. This is a good thing! You can customize and modify this to suit your needs and post your code for others to use as well. The last tHc dash was a collaborative effort and this one will be too. Basically Jbone did the hard work of organizing all of this and getting the basics in and adding FTP. The least we can do is the easy work (script) and benefit each other. This was released early so that we could find the bugs and report them. This is going to be one hell of a dashboard when its done.

Jb0ne said it's either a config problem or a BIOS problem if you can't get it to run:

I tried all the possible drives and config steps, but I just don't seem to get it to run on an Evox M8 BIOS.

Could some people who got it to run post what BIOS they are using?

If someone could confirm if they got it to run on M8 I know the problem is here between the chair and the keyboard.

Thanks!

X2 4981. Black Screen

Hmm.. I heard that if you try to load the .xbe and it loads back to your original dash you must just have an old bios. This is what is happening to me. I have a 1.6 xbox.. The only bios out for 1.6 is M8_16. So, I guess this means all xbox 1.6 users are shit out of luck on this beta bug release... right?

JBone & all,

Although I have previously tried all imaginable configurations, I have followed JB's comments and retried it with no luck. Simply a black screen-freeze.

My Specs. - v1.1 X2 4979

AnonyOne.

i personaly don't see how it could be bios related, what has been done to the dash that some bios's can't read ?.... I don't understand, any bios should work with this, the only thing stopping it from working that i can think of that would be bios related, would be the media fix.... and most bios's have that, the only other special things that new bios's have are things like , colour changing , igr , in built ftp and so on... none of that would effect the execution of an Xbe... Well, please correct me if i am wrong, because then again i know nothing about the bios's and how they work lol.

loggio.

Ive tried 4977, 4981, 4979, 4976.02, 4983.....all work. Ive also tried it on a 1.1, 1.3, 1.4 xbox and all is ok. Its got to be a user issue or something else. Im betting on user error.....I will admit that it took me about 20mins to get it right because I kept goofin my path and didnt finish the extension. I kept doing F:\dashboards\XDN instead of F\dashboards\XDN\Xbox Dash Next, and refused for about 20mins to admit I was wrong until someone in the channel reminded me of that. Although we waited 6hrs from 11pm to 6am to get it so I'll chalk it up to being tired. Ok, now im just making excuses

*Ok im wrong. I dont know why it works for me but ive read too many comments from people that know a hell of a lot more about this stuff than I do and if they cant get it to boot then something is wrong. What I dont understand is how two people can have the exact same setup and still have a problem. There may be a bad file out there?

Ok, after numerous attempts to get this dash to work i finally managed it..
It definately doesnt appear to be a bios problem.. definately either a minor bug with the icon code or something... had to install it on a completely clean hd without any games on it to get it to work..

Ok, looks worst than it actualy is.
I've only played whit it for 30min now and this is what I found most anoying.
First of all, the DashData.xbx doesn't seem to work 100%.I hadded a 5th menu inside the Hard Drive tab for a test and it didn't worked. The button never showed up and it made me have a look inside the Default.xip. I found the lines where the other "Dashboard","Games","Apps" and "Emulators" where and no other line seemed to be added from the entries of DashData.xbx. I'm going to try to manualy insert a new line but it will take a while to understand this coding.
(not cause its shitty,cause I'mn dumb )
Other thing, if you press both tumbstick and get the screensaver, then open and close the control panel the main orb takes a wierd position.(very minor bug)
Also, I though the sound sheme was to be change. Sound all the same in there.

oh, and by the way, wireframe mode is VERY laggy over here.

First off I dont beleive all options in the xbx are still available , Ill wait for Jbone to confirm that .

Second , Does anyone else have more than one option for a Game when its listing them ? For some reason i beleive i have 2-3 diff languages xbe showing up for one game ?

RjT