UE40C5000 completely corrupted picture via service menu

palito · Post by **palito** » Tue May 08, 2012 12:15 am

Hi all,
I have corrupted picture of my Samsumng UE40C5000QWXXH with firmware T-MSX6DEUC-2010.1.

I wanted to start hacking it, but when I left service menu after setting Hotel Mode, I was very surprised with corrupted picture:

The only thing I have changed by my fail (and changed it back in next second before turning it off) was "Type" in "Option" menu. I have tryied to change it to all 40.... values but without success. I also tryed factory reset in SM but without any change

What can I do?

Thank you for any help!

palito · Post by **palito** » Tue May 08, 2012 4:39 pm

So I was searching for few hours and find out how to reset EEPROM. I have disassembled my TV and I was discovering every bug to find out which is the EEPROM. Here are the photos of the mainboard and the bug EEPROM on SAMSUNG TV UE40C5000:
http://i50.tinypic.com/16j6m1.jpg [full size photo]
http://i50.tinypic.com/1z1ycfn.jpg [full size photo]
Maybe someone can add them to wiki: http://wiki.samygo.tv/index.php5/UnBric ... PROM_Reset

Than using wiki Service menu: http://wiki.samygo.tv/index.php5/Service_Menu I found that my Panel Type should be 40D6AF0C because on the sticker on my panel is T400FAE2-HE:

And the Front Color is T-R-BLK. Am I right?

But the problem is that the picture hasn't changed. It is still corrupted. So I was googling some more and find out here: http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthre ... 746&page=4 that I should do calibration using the inverted chess pattern (download here: http://i48.tinypic.com/14106rb.jpg ) via HDMI input. So I made it successfully via HDMI of my Laptop but without any help in the corrupted picture.

Can someone help me what next should I try?

Thank you.

tempinbox · Post by **tempinbox** » Wed May 09, 2012 10:16 am

You can fix this by accessing in to the service menu you don't need to reset eeprom.
Go to Control
Then to suboption
Then change the value of "LVDS FORMAT" to VESA or PDP

palito · Post by **palito** » Wed May 09, 2012 10:32 am

Thanks! I'll try it when I'll come back home from work

palito · Post by **palito** » Wed May 09, 2012 8:14 pm

Thank you tempinbox very much!! Your procedure worked like a sharm

You made my day!

Than I have made a new calibration using this great pattern: http://wiki.samygo.tv/index.php5/Calibration for all the inputs and recovered all settings via hotel menu and channel backup from usb. Now my TV is completely working

Thank you again!

Moderator can lock this thread because it is solved.

Post by **juusso** » Wed May 09, 2012 8:42 pm

Glad to hear. And btw, thanks for pictures, will add to wiki.

palito · Post by **palito** » Wed May 09, 2012 9:01 pm

No problem

I hope they'll help some other

tempinbox · Post by **tempinbox** » Sat May 12, 2012 4:33 pm

You're welcome!

connector · Post by **connector** » Sun May 20, 2012 6:54 pm

palito wrote:Hi all,
I have corrupted picture of my Samsumng UE40C5000QWXXH with firmware T-MSX6DEUC-2010.1.

I wanted to start hacking it, but when I left service menu after setting Hotel Mode, I was very surprised with corrupted picture:

The only thing I have changed by my fail (and changed it back in next second before turning it off) was "Type" in "Option" menu. I have tryied to change it to all 40.... values but without success. I also tryed factory reset in SM but without any change

What can I do?

Thank you for any help!

Hi!,
if i could help you, my UE40C5100 it's a 40P6UF0E Panel Type:

40 --> Number of Inchs
P --> European CMO (version cn01 in sticker)
6 --> 50/60Hz
U --> Ultra Clear
F --> Full HD
0 --> Don't know, batch process maybe
E --> Edge Led.

SamyGO