Manage updates with the Download App
Bought a new (well, refurbished, but new to me) BD-E5900 blu-ray player earlier this week, and I'm having some problems with Smart Hub. Specifically, every single time I go into it, I get a message (sometimes right away, sometimes about three or four minutes in) that "Smart Hub needs to be updated" -- following which the "update" consists of systematically deleting every single app that I've installed.
I'm aware from doing a Google search that other people have reported the same problem in the past; however, I wasn't able to find a satisfactory solution as I've already tried all the reset procedures and they haven't changed anything.
Now, to be fair, the update warning does give me a chance to cancel it before it starts throwing stuff out. However, it is quite annoying to have to manually stop a machine from throwing out all my stuff every single time I want to use it (I, for one, do NOT welcome our new robot overlords) -- and if and when there ever *is* a real SmartHub update that I genuinely need to apply, I'll have no way to differentiate.
So is this fixable, or did I get stuck with a dodgy model?
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Re: Smart Hub deleting my apps?
by Samsung_HD_Tech 
- 2/28/13 8:20 AM
In Reply to: Smart Hub deleting my apps? by craigbear
Hi craigbear,
Well, since it's refurbished, it should be already reset and update-to-date on firmware, but let's check that:
Firmware: http://www.samsung.com/us/support/SupportOwnersFAQPopup.do?faq_id=FAQ00045083&fm_seq=51362
Hard reset: http://www.samsung.com/us/support/SupportOwnersFAQPopup.do?faq_id=FAQ00047787&fm_seq=51905
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by craigbear - 2/28/13 9:30 AM
In Reply to: Re: Smart Hub deleting my apps? by Samsung_HD_Tech
Well, I do have the most up-to-date firmware, and I had already tried the hard reset. So that, in and of itself, doesn't help much.
Something just occurred to me, however. I don't know all the precise nuances of exactly how SmartHub works, so I'm just spitballing and don't actually know if this is a real answer or not. A refurbished player could easily have been originally purchased just about anywhere in the world, and I know that different countries have different eligibilities in the app store because of content and rights restrictions -- but I don't know whether the SmartHub platform itself applies its own zone restrictions on top of those inside the app store that affect which apps I'm allowed or not allowed to download.
So is it possible at all that my problem results from a conflict between the applications that are available for my country (Canada) in the app store and the applications that my player thinks *it* is or isn't allowed to run because of wherever it was originally purchased?
Re: Smart Hub deleting my apps?
by Samsung_HD_Tech - 2/28/13 12:50 PM
Hi craigbear,
This might be the problem. You can choose the country code by doing this for US models: http://support-us.samsung.com/cyber/popup/iframe/pop_troubleshooting_fr.jsp?idx=409289
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progress!
by craigbear - 2/28/13 2:29 PM
In Reply to: Re: Smart Hub deleting my apps? by Samsung_HD_Tech
Thanks. I did that, and have gone back in and out a few times to test without running into the problem again, so things are looking good. I'll keep an eye on it and update this thread again if the problem recurs, but for now I'll presume that it's fixed. Cautious yay! Thanks again.
Re: progress!
by Samsung_HD_Tech - 2/28/13 2:41 PM
Hi craigbear,
Good to hear! Please do update us if you have any further problems or even a lack of them!
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by craigbear - 3/1/13 10:16 AM
In Reply to: Re: progress! by Samsung_HD_Tech
All still good as of this morning. Watched my first Netflix movie on it last night, and despite getting deleted a couple of times vTuner even managed to hang onto all the streams I'd bookmarked as favourites. So I guess it's officially solved, and if the problem ever does recur it'll be more likely a different issue that somehow altered my country setting again.
Gotta say, I've always been really happy with the Samsung products that I've owned (every mobile phone I've ever had has been a Samsung, right up to my current Galaxy S3, and I just recently bought a Galaxy tab after an unsuccessful dalliance with a generic knockoff tablet.) So I'm genuinely relieved that this turned out to be a minor hiccup rather than the first Samsung product I've ever had to throw out my apartment window 
Thanks again.
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by Samsung_HD_Tech - 3/1/13 10:51 AM
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