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Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
Spoke a bit too soon. One has arrived, and powers up just fine. But is
tuned to the trnasmnitter wherever it came from, but not London. And the
child lock is set. It doesn't need to be set at all to use the tuner, so
no factory code like 1234 as on many things. So I'd guess if someone went
to the bother of setting it, they'll have used their own number.

Googled for factory reset and found two ways. Neither of which works.

Seller is just a dealer so doesn't know the code.

You get three goes at entering the code then it locks up for a while
before you can try again. Dunno for how long.

Bit more Googling found 1,9,left,blue, 0,0,6 got it unlocked.
Went to retune, but showing no signal in software.

Had another look for the spare SMPS ICs and found them. TOP 244. Fixed the
original. It shows full strength and quality on the same aerial feed and
working OK again.

Given I only paid £11 including postage, not worth the bother of sending
it back, since I'd have to take it to a collection point or pay extra for
home collection.

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*WHAT IF THERE WERE NO HYPOTHETICAL QUESTIONS?

Dave Plowman London SW
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