My 4-year-old Samsung LED Smart TV (40", 5 Series), suddenly decided to reboot endlessly today. This morning it was still working. I switched it off as usual, before I left home sending my child to childcare centre, and myself to work (by pressing the power button on remote, so technically, it was in standby I think, the red colour LED was on). And in the evening, when my family came home, found that it fell into this endless reboot loop. The SmartTV logo will appear 2, 3 seconds, then disappear, and it appears as if it loses the source, and the red LED is flashing. Few seconds later, the SmartTV logo appear again, then samething follows. It just keep looping. No response to remote, cannot turn it off. I have to switch off power source to keep it off. And once I switch on power source, the loop starts again. It is similar like when our PC has problem, before it can load into OS, it auto reboots itself, something like that.
I searched online, and found that my problem is very similar to this:
http://www.hifivision.com/av-enhanc...ooting-again-n-again-after-smart-tv-logo.html
http://woikr.com/home-entertainment...when-updating-firmware-on-a-samsung-smart-tv/
Compared to this, mine, the logo stays a little longer:
I tried the suggested solution, MUTE, "2", "5", "8", EXIT, no use.
I let it stay that way for 2, 3 hours, thinking that it may be in the middle of undating firmware, no use.
My family called Samsung, asking about that (before I reached home from work), was told to disconnect all power, then power it up again, to try. Of course, it did not help. Asking their tech to come to check will cost SGD160.
I need help here. Anyone knows how to solve this? Or do you have contacts that can solve, but with cheaper cost?
TIA.
I searched online, and found that my problem is very similar to this:
http://www.hifivision.com/av-enhanc...ooting-again-n-again-after-smart-tv-logo.html
http://woikr.com/home-entertainment...when-updating-firmware-on-a-samsung-smart-tv/
Compared to this, mine, the logo stays a little longer:
I tried the suggested solution, MUTE, "2", "5", "8", EXIT, no use.
I let it stay that way for 2, 3 hours, thinking that it may be in the middle of undating firmware, no use.
My family called Samsung, asking about that (before I reached home from work), was told to disconnect all power, then power it up again, to try. Of course, it did not help. Asking their tech to come to check will cost SGD160.
I need help here. Anyone knows how to solve this? Or do you have contacts that can solve, but with cheaper cost?
TIA.