All smart televisions hide inside a menu specially designed for professional installers and brand engineers from which an immense amount of data related to the operation of the television can be configured and consulted. What if you could access that menu to fix some other problem?
The service menu of Samsung Smart TVs
The service menus , or service menu , are hidden menus that are present in the system software and that can only be accessed by performing a series of key combinations . Due to the delicacy of some of the settings that are available in these menus, these key combinations are sometimes huge secrets kept by engineers and official technicians of the brand, making them very difficult to access.
But of course, in an era in which thanks to the internet there are no secrets, you can imagine that these types of combinations are the order of the day, and that is exactly what we are going to teach you to activate today.
Be careful where you touch
The first thing that we must emphasize is that when accessing these menus we must be very careful with the sections and options that we touch, since we could annoy some of the settings that arrive by default with our television and cause a problem that we do not know how to solve.
If you do not have any problem with your TV, forget about this menu, since you will not get any extra functions that you do not already have. If, on the other hand, you are an experienced user and want to take a look at some of the available functions, you should also be careful.
What can I do in the service menu?
Some of the most striking functions that you can activate or deactivate from this menu are the following:
- Do a factory wipe
- You adjust the white balance more accurately
- Disable modes such as Blur Reduction, Anti-flicker, etc.
- Calibrate the screen
- Adjust speaker volume
- Know all the details like serial number, tuner type, etc.
How do I access the service menu on Samsung?
To access this hidden menu of the system you will only have to press a certain combination of keys so that the menu appears on the screen. But you must take into account some aspects. The first of them is the remote control, and the beautiful and minimalist multimedia control will not serve you for this purpose. In this case you will need the traditional remote control, with all the numerical keypad from 0 to 9 and the rest of the usual buttons.
You will have to have the TV turned off in Stand-by. To do this, press the off button on the remote once to turn off the screen (you will have to hold it down until it turns off if you have a Samsung The Frame).
With the TV turned off, it is time to press the magic keys, which depending on the television model or installed software could be one combination or another. Next, we leave you with all the possible combinations. You will only have to press the keys in the following order:
- Info, Menu, Mute and Power (most common combination that usually works)
- 1, 8, 2 and Power
- Display, P.STD, Mute and Power
- Sleep, P.STD, Mute and Power
- Display, Menu, Mute and Power
How to exit the service menu
Once you are in the menu, if panic takes hold of you and you want to leave as soon as possible to avoid any possible problem, you will only have to press and hold the Power button on the remote to completely turn off the television. The moment you press the power button again, the TV will start as usual in its normal state.
