We need to be critical so we will know all of the receiver's weaknesses, but things like how long the motor moving message stays on, and how sensitive the signal bars are supposed to be are personal preferences. You have to make a distinction between preferences and things that do not work correctly.
The signal bars on the Raptor could use some work. Sometimes they take forever to come on, but they do show up eventually, and I have adjusted my dish more than once by listening to the beeps and not looking at any signal bar.
I had a list of things that did not work correctly with the Raptor. Several things that I thought were broken or did not work correctly were written down to be posted. Most of the items on the list were never posted because the things actually worked correctly after I understood them, or I was making mistakes and the things worked when my mistakes were corrected.
These receivers are not designed to need an almost continuous rebooting as you have mentioned. Rebooting or having to reboot to restore normal operations are the signs of an error.
True, these receivers will have an occasional freeze up that requires a reboot but it should not be often under normal conditions.
Eisha's TS fixit addon seems to solve some of the problems that were mentioned earlier about the recorded TS files not being able to be transferred from from the Optibox to another receiver. my Pansat 9500 has been able to play TS files that were made on the Optibox aftern the fixit addon has been ran, but no such luck getting them to play on the Openbox S12. Have you had any luck getting files to play after using the TS fixit? If you had luck with the Openbox, what firmware file is installed on it?