cclement Posted November 27, 2017 Share Posted November 27, 2017 Decided to update to 2.30 now that my band is done in the studio. Everything went almost perfectly. I downloaded the new HX edit and got all of my patches, IRs, etc backed up with no issues. Next, I ran the Line 6 Updater and it didn't see my Helix. Relaunched the Updater in "Admin" mode and all was good - "pilot error" on my part. Ran update process and waited while my Helix did it's thing. However, t the end of it, my Helix didn't reboot... it just sat there with a black main screen but all the scribble strips had the patch names from my set list on them. How odd. So I reboot the Helix and waited for it to rebuild all the patches. This worked fine, but I still noticed that after it finished that all of my patches were still in there. Very odd. So I shut down and rebooted with the 9+10 switches down and let it re-wipe/rebuild the prefs, IRs etc. Once that was done, I launched HX Edit and restored from my backup. And as far as I can tell... everything is good and stable. YMMV. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zooey Posted November 27, 2017 Share Posted November 27, 2017 Don't think that's a defect. New upgrade process doesn't wipe your presets or IRs, which is cool, though you should restart after updating to rebuilding your presets. Just a heads-up, if you did the default thing when you restored from your backup, you overwrote the new factory setlists. You now can expand the Presets section, and choose which setlists you want to restore. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cclement Posted November 28, 2017 Author Share Posted November 28, 2017 I'm not so worried about the Factory Presets at this point. It was just odd that my Helix didn't do the automatic reboot after the firmware update as it did in Glenn's video (and the instructions say it would). I did the 9+10 Reboot before I loaded my patches back in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jpdennis Posted November 28, 2017 Share Posted November 28, 2017 I am probably extremely neurotic and/or anal ... I backed up using 2.20 first (found out that was a waste of time). Next I installed HX Edit, rebooted my laptop just because, then backed up the Helix. I then updated the firmware letting the Helix reboot: it rebooted no problem. Then I turned it off and used the FS9+FS10 cold start to clear the Helix's head; noted that the reboot was extremely swift. I then restored my IRs, Global Settings, & one set list which is my favorite. I then did FS10+FS11 cold start and all seems well with the universe. YMMV (Refer to my beginning statement) ;-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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