I want to talk about 3 things, backing up your Genos, older styles, and flash thumb drives.
First, I made a backup of my Genos through the menu, BACKUP/RESTORE, about a week ago.
I am so glad I did it.
What happened.
I was playing the Genos and trying out styles I had on my flash thumb drive.
All of a sudden, my Genos froze.
Any button I pressed, did not work.
I pushed the power button and nothing happened.
I had to pull the plug from the back to turn it off.
I then plugged it back in and was able to boot the Genos.
Then it would freeze after 5 to 6 minutes.
During those 5 to 6 minutes, it would function perfectly.
Again, I had to pull the plug because it would not shut down.
Solution
I emailed Frank at AudioworksCT, and he responded within 1/2 an hour.
I am so, so happy I bought my Genos from Frank!
He told me that a few people that loaded older styles would sometimes crash the Genos.
Then I restored the backup I had made.
Everything seemed fine for a little while.
Then it froze again but I was able to shut down.
A thought came to mind that I was not able to access on my flash thumb drive, the Discover Genos playlist.
I removed the flash thumb drive and looked at the files on my computer.
The ASSET files for Discover Genos were corrupted.
But when I put them on the flash thumb drive, they were fine.
So I had another thought that maybe there was a problem with the flash thumb drive.
Luckily, I have another flash thumb drive.
I loaded all the files I had on the other thumb drive to the new one.
Then I put that on the Genos and all is well now!
Everything works just fine!
The flash thumb drive was a Sandisk 64gb mini.
Then I went to the list of recommended thumb drives that Yamaha provided, found one that was a mini, and ordered it.
It seems the one I have now is not compatible with the Genos.
I like to use the mini thumb drive because I can always keep it in and not worry about transporting the Genos as it is so small it does not protrude out very far as a larger one may break with moving around.
Final thoughts
1. Make a backup of your Genos so you would nt have to do a factory reset if something goes wrong.
2. Be very carefull when loading older styles, I wish I knew which ones would crash the genos.
I never had a problem with my Tyros 4, Tyros 5-76 or PSR S970.
3. Only use Yamaha's recommended flash thumb drives.
Regards,
Gerard