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Aloha! I searched the older threads, but hopefully someone is now onto Samsung's dismal reliability with some solutions. Our 15 month old 55" died while it was being watched. Not a Time Warner problem as another TV plugged into the cable works fine. Clicking the button on the TV or using the remote does nothing. Model # is UN55FH6003FXZA. The picture was beautiful, but 15 months old? My Samsung 46" died after 5 years. Recommendations? Mahalo.
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Disgusting, I guess you're 3 months out of warranty? I never buy the extended warranties and tend to depend on manufacturers to make a product with a decent life-span. Got home from a trip Friday and my Samsung remote wasn't working right. Many of the buttons dead. Called Samsung, no help, warranty expired. Scratched my head looking at the thing and finally decided to risk breaking it trying to open it up. Figured it out by chance, and got it open without damage. One of Samsung's original batteries had leaked fluid (acid?) on the PCB and integrated circuit inside. Wiped the ooze out and swabbed the area with alcohol. It worked by some miracle after the clean up. But your problem seems a bit more difficult. I've never used him, but there's a repair shop by the fire station near the Lincoln courts and park on the mauka side of Kilauea St.
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That's too bad. I've got 2 smart t.v.'s, a Samsung and a Vizio, both pretty new and I am more impressed with the Vizio even though when I purchased them both, the Samsung was considered superior technology.
Well I guess this means when buying Samsung, get the extended warranty.
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It's most like a capacitor. Samsung is known for using cheap ones. It's a really easy fix if you are handy and can do even minor soldering. Youtube search a video on the subject and you'll see how easy it is. most places charge $300 to do it and it's a $3 part. The best TV's are made by Toshiba and Sony. I'd never buy another brand of TV. I pasted a link below for you.
https://youtu.be/4cfYCn2xL8c
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To be clear, my Samsung is a great TV, and still works. At least for now. It has features that other TV's I looked at lacked. The batteries Samsung provided for the remote may not have been the best however. Perhaps a coincidence, perhaps a sign of poor cost-saving decisions managers made that could, in the end, diminish their product's reputation. For me, extended warranties seem like a sales and profit-making strategy which depends on buyer insecurities. I personally feel products should be manufactured with sound engineering from the start so that their life-span is in accordance with their purpose. The extended warranty offer which is sprung on buyers at checkout is an underhanded gimmick in my mind, and disingenuous at best. Why would a "reliable" product be sold with the cloud of eminent failure as a looming threat to the customer's satisfaction?
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I had a Sony that broke down after about 2 1/2 years but was under warrantee from Sears (3 year warantee). I asked the repairman when fixing my Sony what TV did he have the fewest repair calls for. He said it was without question Vizio. When my Sony broke again (after the warantee ran out), I bought a 55" Vizio smart TV with no warantee. That was in 2011. Haven't had a problem since
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I have 7 years on the current vizio ...replaced to power supply capacitors about year 3 ....I keep an extra board on hand. The high voltage board acts up in the winter, expecting that board to fail soon.
I have an old school 300 watt testy pioneer sx 1250 that will not start on humid days either ...the safety system will not let it start up. Once I run the tube set for an hour or two ...the air dry enough for the Pioneer to start, reassured it wont start a fire.....
The vizio will refuse to start if left unplugged (humidity) the safety system will not let the appliance start, if it thinks its in the bath tub..
high humidity effects all electronics equally it seems
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Mahalo to all for feedback. Complete agreement on extended warrantees. Samsung has shot themselves in their collective feet with these TVs. I like their phones and tablets. I was sold on picture quality, but hey, 'beauty's only skin deep'. Humidity is a reality here above 1000', but we have no mold problems. I guess the TV is the canary in the coal mine with respect to excess humidity. That said, compared to Florida, their ain't no humidity in Hawaii. Surely someone must have reliable TV in Florida. Will address the capacitor first, then see what's next. Vizio is looking pretty good. Or maybe more reading and 12-string playing. Thanks again.
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My thought - geuss is ... The acidic quality of the vapor especially problematical... exposed conductors are always oxidised. High resistance,in connectors, hammers the weak capacitors.
leave a paint can out and see what happens - grin
most brand names have their forums ...common failure modes covered.
good luck ....
