RESET OPTIONS
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1. Freeze While Operating or Editing - UNPLUG
2. Frozen, No Power or Response - SOFT RESET
3. With Power - HARD RESET
4. Initialize Unit & Format HDD
5. Menu Reset
• DVD tray won't open on new or hard-reset unit until it's set up, channels scanned, and you press DVD button first.
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• If unit shows a display in front panel but won't turn on with remote, try turning on with power button on front of unit to make sure it's not bad batteries in remote... esp. possible if you used the Funai-supplied batteries. Change batteries, you're done!
Check posts here for some good battery info.
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1. Freeze While Operating or Editing - UNPLUG
UNPLUG FOR 5-10 SEC.
This is the cure for most temporary freezes or other op problems when unit has normal power and should *always* be tried first. Use Soft Reset, #2 below, for a "dead" unit, i.e., one that can't be powered on.
Replugging within 30 sec (1 hour with 515) should retain clock, settings and timer rec programs. Recorded titles are *never* lost no matter how long unplugged. If you have Auto Clock set to ON or to a MANUAL channel (even w/o a good time signal), you'll have at least 2 min. to replug
(or maybe 60 hours w/515 like macdona's!?). Remember to check the Auto Clock setting just in case.
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2. Frozen, No Display and No Power or Response - SOFT RESET
This is almost always caused by power outages.
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If unit is "dead" (no display in front panel, not even --:--) and won't turn on or respond to buttons on remote (with known good batteries), try power button on front of machine. If no joy...
1-Unplug power cord and leave unplugged for
X* min. to drain all residual power.
2-Press and
HOLD power button in
on front of unit (not remote) while you simultaneously replug power cord; keep holding power button in until you see "P-on" in front-panel display.
3-Go through all setup procedures... set clock, set timers, scan channels.
You must see only - -:- - in display window, proving no residual power. If clock time appears, start over and wait longer.
*X =
10 mins. for 3575/3576/2080/2160/2160A/513.
At least 2.5 hours for 515/533/535/537/557.
No matter what FW version you have.
*REPEAT: FOR 515/533/535/537/557, LEAVE UNPLUGGED FOR AT LEAST 2.5 HOURS!
This Soft Reset retains recorded titles but loses clock time and timer programs... if you can see timer programs, write them down for easy reconstruction or take a quick-n-dirty pic of screen! It *may* also lose some channel memory. It does NOT reset the Auto Clock or other custom setting, so whatever settings you had before power-pull will be the settings after power-replug. Never hurts to check, tho!
This Soft Reset has worked for many people, so disregard any boo-bird who says the button-press is not needed. One user PM'd me about his "dead" unit that wouldn't start up. He had already pulled power for reqd time and more and replugged normally
several times with no joy. When he did
this Soft Reset, his machine started up normally on first try. Also,
see this post.
Note: It boggles my mind that anyone, except a diehard contrarian, would say you don't need to hold the power button in while re-plugging... you
have to re-plug, so what's the big deal with also holding a button in while doing it! Damnamighty!!!
If you have operating problems BUT can still access menus, and don't want to wait for power drain, try Hard Reset, SKIP 123 (#3 below), which has no waiting period.
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3. With Power - HARD RESET... SKIP and V.SKIP buttons are same thing.
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Press SKIP 123 buttons on remote within 3 sec. At FW Versions screen, press OK button on remote.
This Reset requires access to menus, so machine can't be "frozen" or inoperable.
This Reset retains recorded titles but clears the unit's flash/SDRAM memory, which includes:
- OSD Language (menu/display language).
- CH+/- button memory (maybe only digitals... channels are still directly tunable, just not with CH+/- button).
- Clock.
- Timer rec programs... take pic or write down your current timer programs since they'll go bye-bye.
- All General Settings... resets everything to defaults, incl. Auto Clock ON/OFF, Video Input, etc. Check ALL your General Settings to make sure they're back to the way you want them.
Items a, b and c will be auto-prompted, but you'll have to open Timer and Settings menus for d and e.
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4. Initialize Unit & Format HDD... SKIP and V.SKIP buttons are same thing.
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Press SKIP 079 buttons on remote within 3 sec. After Self-Check screen fills in (2-3 sec), press OK button on remote.
This does the same as Hard Reset SKIP 123 BUT it also wipes all recorded titles.
Best use for this is to Format a replacement, upgrade or external HDD for 1st use. You DON"T need a format to "clean up" an existing or used HDD... deleting all titles does just as good since it deletes all pointers and allows overwriting/recording from Loc 0, as if the HDD was a new, unrecorded drive.
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5. MENU RESET, General Setting > Reset All
357x, 2080, 2160, 2160A, 513 Only
Open the General Setting menu and, at the bottom, click Reset All.
The value of this reset is minimal, at best. It returns all General Setting options to their out-of-box defaults. It retains the clock, timer rec programs, recorded titles and channel memory. If you use this, make sure you go thru every Setup option and reset as desired, incl. Auto Clock which gets reset to its default, which is ON for all units except the MDR series, which are OFF by default.
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