Free: the Freebox V4 to V5 without request

You connect to PCWorld.fr with an outdated Freebox V4 old. Free think of you, and will send you a V5 gratis!

For a few months already, Free proposes to exchange free of charge its aging Freebox V4 (released in 2004) by a Freebox V5. But the Internet access provider leaves now more choice for customers still equipped with an old modem. Indeed, the renewal of the Freebox V4 by a V5 is now forced, automatically validated. At the time, sending a Freebox V5 is done without the Subscribers having anything to ask.

Free explains that no subscriber is of interest to retain a Freebox V4, knowing that it knows not to decode the video stream in MPEG-4. Another advantage for customers, the passage of the 802.11n standard WiFi, while the Freebox V4 is remained blocked in the 802.11 g WiFi.

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Free Mobile, the rate for valid Freebox subscribers even after termination

Free Mobile packages dedicated to the Freebox subscribers reduced tariff is valid even after termination.

Free confirmed information concerning which the preferential tariff applied to subscribers Freebox on its mobile packages, namely €0 or €15.99, is valid even after termination.

Thus any subscriber offer ADSL for Free which is tempted to see in another mobile operator if the grass is greener and later decides to resume package with Free Mobile will always be the reduced rate. Until then the termination and renewal to a Free Mobile offer wavered on the normal tariff to €2 or €19.99 for a Freebox non-abonné.

Offering Free Mobile enhances therefore with time even if it was known and knows still some defects of youth which should quickly narrowed to meet the current and future subscribers.

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The Freebox revolution magnifying glass transition to summer time

Every last Sunday of the month of March is the transition to summer time but this year the Freebox Revolution has missed the boat.

You to are surely overview Sunday morning and to have perhaps suffered the consequences if you use your Freebox Revolution as a reference clock: it is not passed to the time automatically.

Indeed, the main display of the Freebox Server always displays back to winter, or one hour less than what it should display (13 h 37 instead of 14 h 37 for example) and not means to remedy this by yourself, no option cannot adjust time manually. It therefore expected that the developers of Free offer a firmware update and then restart the box one of these days because currently the problem is still not solved.

Freebox Player is however not achieved by this issue, the time displayed on the main menu and the program guide is good but the programming of a record is still affected by this "bug", they do start and not end at the indicated time.

The only thing to do is wait patiently for that Free rule this small problem...

[Update of the 27/03 at 12: 35 pm]

Since yesterday evening the causes of this unfortunate bug are clearer. It affects the Freebox V4, V5, and V6, but also some competition, especially in Orange boxes. We learn that it is the µClibc library used by the Freebox to display the time issue. This explains that the time displayed on the TV is good, unlike that of the display on the front of the box. This bug occurs only in the years bisextiles and under certain specific conditions. So it may happen that all the 28 years. No luck! At the time, the transition to summer time is shifted one week, and without that Free does not change, the Freebox will spend all summer weekends only, normally.

However, we know that Free could be the problem and the correct upstream. Indeed, a fix for the µClibc library was broadcast from December to avoid the problem, but this update has not been integrated into updates of boxes. Remains to be seen if Free technicians will release a fix in the hours ahead, or if they will wait that everything returns to normal in the night of Saturday to Sunday...

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The Freebox Revolution starts to Facebook

Facebook, the social network number one in the world, is now available on the Freebox Revolution through a dedicated application.

Free has just announced the imminent availability of the Facebook application dedicated to its Freebox Revolution. The day will therefore have access to more than 800 million "friend (e) s" via their TV and can tchatcher, share videos, photos and communicate through an interface optimized for a screen TV display and the remote control navigation.

The application will be accessible by the menu "Web" after having updated the firmware of the Player of the Freebox Revolution available if all goes well this afternoon. After Twitter, YouTube and Dailymotion, the triple play of Mr. Niel box is enriched day by day and improves with time, those who have Free have really almost all - services - including.

    

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Freebox Revolution: an infra-red dongle

The Freebox Revolution will have its infrared receiver

At the end of the Freebox Revolution, Xavier Niel had been a pleasure to introduce the new remote control box incorporating a radio transmitter / receiver in place of the infrared, to bring new way to interact with the interface navigation, which was not previously possible with the old model. Free users but many have requested support from infrared to be able to use only one universal remote to control their home theater system via a Logitech Harmony or Tablet Sony S, for example.

Through the voice of Nicolas Pouillon, a developer Freebox, the official Free solution to this request is apparently already ready for a long time. Namely, the receiver chosen is none other than the small IR-605Q can be purchased individually. It can be found in France for twenty euros with a remote control.


This small USB dongle is already supported in the current firmware of the Freebox, and also provides full support for the old remote version 5, except for the lighting of the new Freebox from a deep sleep ... USB ports of the housing in this case being over powered.

The remote control codes used will be identical to the codes of AliceBox V5, already in the foundation of universal remote controls. Knowing that the remote control codes are set, maintaining the consistency over time on future updates will be provided for this receptor, because the support of all infrared receivers on the planet would take too much time.

For now, we have no date of availability of this small USB dongle in the shop Free. We do not know if it will be included soon for new subscribers.

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Freebox revolution: Konami dézone Blu - ray disc!

No, no, the Japanese firm of video games does not launch in piracy! Their code of cheating become cult is used just to enable the dezoning option.

Free developers are small fripons, and players is! Why? They have simply allowed the dezoning of the Freebox Revolution Blu - ray player by entering the manip' archi-connue Konami Games - that any geek self-respecting kept to life in a corner of his memory. Go, we give you the: high - top - down - down - left - right - left - right - B - A - Start.

To test this, make you in the section "Settings" then "Blu - ray" Free menu and type just directions using the arrows on the remote control. A menu titled "system.bdregion" appears, letting you free choice in the area of your Blu - ray (was: America-Japan, (b): Europe-Africa-Australia and C: Asia-Russia)... easy! Well, it is nice and fun, but there is still a lot of job to the developers that Blu - ray disc Freebox revolution is fully operational and as effective as that of a PS3, hum...

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Freebox Révolution supports finally Flash!

The browser of the Freebox Revolution can now view all the sites and Flash Video.

Pull out the champagne! Free has announced the availability on the day of the new firmware that provides housing Freebox Player - finally! - Compatible web browser integrated with the Flash content.

Announced at the launch of the Freebox Revolution in December 2010, this feature was done ardently desired. Iliad, the parent of Free, cracks also a press release announcing the good news awaited by many Free users.

Support of this format widely used on websites is a good thing, just hope that the processor of the Freebox swift enough to display all without jerkiness or slowdown.

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Free remove an update of the Freebox

Yesterday, Free proposed firmware 1.1 of the Freebox V6 and today, this firmware has been disabled. Indeed, many people returned to version 1.0.5.1 and the new firmware is no longer available.

Without that it is official, two reasons are emerging. the first is a bug blocking: our brothers have reported that many users had problems with the phone by installing the new firmware. Free have therefore decided to return to the old firmware the time to correct the bug. The second reason would be bound to a function: Free has proposed a new function called "AirMedia" in the Freebox. And AirMedia is "compatible" AirPlay, Apple technology. Seen the price charged by Apple for the implementation of AirPlay (informally between 40 and $100), Free surely uses ShairPort, an implementation open source of AirPlay, which uses the key private to an AirPort Express Terminal. That Apple has applied for Free to remove this function violates the intellectual property of the firm is therefore not excluded...

In the meantime, bridge, awaited by some, how does will be therefore remained available that shortly...

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