Just received an email from support saying they believe thereās another update due in a week or so
Hi,
Could you āexpandā or elaborate a tad?
I would expect a software support to have plans rather than beliefs.
Thanks @PhilippVH. That is helpful. I use the nova for roon only, and donāt connect via HDMI so I think I will resist the urge
Maybe I should have just dug out and linked the release note?
https://community.naimaudio.com/t/new-streaming-platform-firmware-3-5-release/
(3.5.1 is pure bug-fixing; since 3.5 introduced some unexpected effects.)
I emailed support earlier in the week on Richards advice to explain that I had a reboot event after upgrading to 3.5.1 and that was there response today.
But this is an unplanned bug fix release they are working on and the issue is tracking down something that happens rarely, that is hard to replicate. Thatās why Naim donāt have a certain release date yet.
Best
David
Oh no. Here we go agaim.
Itās a good thing. Much better than getting announcement an app is not being supported or updated anymore.
Not that hard to replicate on my set-up, where it happens at least twice a day! But fully appreciate your point that there are many, many combinations of equipment and hence difficult to track the bug(s) down.
Support told me on 5 October they were releasing 3.5.2 āwithin a weekā, so Iām hopeful of a fix shortly.
Not out of the woodsā¦ Seems right to me. Currently streaming Swiss Jazz internet radio on NDX2. Screen still showing image of last album i streamed from QOBUZ.
BUT current firmware + app are way more stable, functional and fast then previous releases. A few months ago I was close to throwing a brand new NDX2 out the 15th floor window. Not perfect yet, much better.
But the network connection and app of Naim are still nowhere near as good as the HiFi part. Itās the quality of the music delivery (DAC) that saved it for myāNDX2.
And it goes on. Nova bricked and required a hard restart. NDX2 has been fine since the latest upgrade āā touch wood.
This is what Iāve been referring to as a screen freeze. I have this about once per fortnight. The simple fix is to power it off and on again. This will bring display and music back in phase.
Yes, it does. However, that is not the level of quality that I believe one could (and should) expect from high end hifi gear. I believe Naim still recommends always power on, so cycling the power does not seem optimal?
Might be a dumb question, but would that particular station normally send album art/metadata that would display on the screen? I am wondering if that station does not contain any metadata and therefore the screen is just showing what the last album was from Qobuz because it has not received anything from that station in terms of metadata? In which case it may not be a freeze as such, more of a case of the unit not reverting to a generic āinternet radioā display?
If you played a new track in Qobuz, would the screen refresh with the new track info?
Either way it is, of course, undesirable behaviourā¦
Dumb questions do not exist, only dumb answers
Normal behavior: the ālogoā of the internet radio station should be displayed. And when you play another Qobuz album, that album should be displayed. It did not.
But please read previous answers: There was a āscreen freezeā. A power cycle on the NDX2 corrected the problem. But that is indeed undesirable behavior from high end hifi gear.
āBrickedā applied to electronic equipment generally means ārendered permanently broken and now as capable of performing itās computerised functions as a brick would beā.
Assuming a hard-reset resolved your problem, your Nova isnāt ābrickedāā¦
Oh well. I have been running the new firmware 3.5.1 since day one without problems. Today, my NDX2 experienced itās first stutter and reboot.
If it helps. I rebooted my ethernet switch, played 1 song on Tidal, 1 on internet radio then 2 on local storage before it stuttered and rebooted.
The rebooting of the ethernet switch might have something to do with it, or it might not. I am somewhat sad to see there are still problems.
Isnāt 3.5.2 just around the corner folks?
G