Updated to 2.3.1, worked one day, now dead

[sandman42]

After updating to 2.3.1 yesterday, and all seemed to be well, then today when I came home my TV wouldn't respond to the paired remote. Went and got another Apple remote (from my MacBook), and tried it -- the LED on the front flashed amber, which is normal for an unpaired remote. Then I noticed that the paired remote would cause the LED, which was dimly glowing white, to go blank when you pressed a button.

Tried to unpair the remote by holding 'Menu' and '<<' on my laptop's remote, but no joy. Then I tried 'resetting' the TV by cycling the power (unplugging the power cable). TV looked like it was restarting, but never gave the startup movie and now seems totally dead. What I get now is the LED on the TV glows white dimly, and goes blank if I push any button on either remote, but that's it.

I'm afraid it's just dead, but if anyone's got any suggestions I'm all ears. Thanks.

 

[sandman42]

Left it unplugged overnight, then tried plugging it in (to power) this morning. The LED flashes amber (normal startup sequence) for a while, then goes out. Nothing on the TV screen.

If I press 'Menu' and '-' on the paired remote (to restart) I get the amber flashing LED again (so it is seeing the remote and responding), but the outcome is the same as above: the LED goes out and nothing shown on the TV.

I suspect the 2.3.1 update messed me up. Anyone know how I can totally re-initialize the TV?

 

[sandman42]

After messing around with it a while more, re-seated the HDMI cable and it came back to life. Seems all is good.

 

[UMHurricanes34]

This happened to me a day or so back, scared the crap out of me. It would just blink amber, unplugged it and plugged it back in...still amber. I don't know what happened, but it eventually just came back on.

 

[kolax]

+1.

I half thought I had the wrong remote for it, so I unpaired and repaired the remote and that seemed to sort it.