Service Alignment Mode Overview; Service Mode; Service Alignment Mode - Philips 8601 Series Service Manual

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5.1.2 Service Alignment Mode (SAM)
Purpose
In Service Alignment Mode service personnel can:
• Modify the NVM.
• View and clear the Error Code Buffer.
• Perform alignments.
Features
• Displays Operation hours counter (maximum five digits).
• Displays Software version, error codes and option settings.
• Allows Error buffer reset.
Table 5-1 Service Alignment Mode Overview
Main Menu
Hardware info
Operation hours
Shop operation hours
Errors
Reset error buffer
Alignments
AmbiLight
Option numbers
Store
Software maintenance
Test setting
BT Pairing tables
Wi-Fi Direct settings
Development 1 file versions
Development 2 file versions
Upload to USB
Download from USB
NVM editor
How to Navigate SAM
• In the SAM menu, select menu items with the UP/DOWN
keys on the remote control. The selected item will be
indicated. When not all menu items fit on the screen, use
the UP/DOWN keys to display the next/previous menu
items.
• With the "LEFT/RIGHT" keys, it is possible to:
– (De) activate the selected menu item.
– (De) activate the selected sub menu.
– Change the value of the selected menu item.
• When you press the MENU button once while in top level
SAM, the set will switch to the normal user menu (with the
SAM mode still active in the background).
How to Store SAM Settings
To store the settings changed in SAM mode (except RGB Align
settings), leave the top level SAM menu by switching off the TV
set: use the POWER button on the remote control or on the TV
set.
Store the mentioned exceptions separately using the STORE
button.
2016-May-09
Service Modes, Error Codes, and Fault Finding
Sub-menu 1 Sub-menu 2
White point Colour temperature
Refer to 6.3 Software Alignments
White point red
(Alignments) for details.
White point green
White point blue
Select module
Brightness
Group 1
Group 2
Store
Software events Display
Clear
Test reboot
Test kernel crash
Test application crash
Hardware events Display
Clear
Digital info
Clear paired remote control
Reset Wi-Fi Direct group
Type number
Production code
18AC SSB
18AC display
18AC supply
• Option settings.
• Allow Software alignments (White Tone Values).
• NVM Editor.
• Set screen mode to full screen (display all content).
How to Activate SAM
From the "menu/home", using the remote control, key in
"062596" and press button "INFO/OK" (do not allow the display
to time out between key entries).
SAM Overview
After entering SAM, the following items are displayed:
Description
View SW version, Standby processor version and Production code.
View the normal operation hours (no Stand-by hours) counted by the life timer.
View the normal shop operation hours (no Stand-by hours) counted by the life timer.
View all the errors detected since the last time the error buffer was erased.
Five errors are possible.
Reset the error buffer.
Select the colour mode: Normal - Warm - Cool, and to check result on screen.
Adjust the white point red value (0 - 127) and to check result on screen.
Adjust the white point green value (0 - 127) and to check result on screen.
Adjust the white point blue value (0 - 127) and to check result on screen.
Select the AmbiLight module (01-09) and check result.
Adjust AmbiLight brightness (0-100) and check result.
View and change option number Group 1 (four numbers, five decimals each).
View and change Group 2 Option number (four numbers, five decimals each).
Store the Option numbers.
Store
(-1, 0, 1 to 9)
Test setting.
Clear paired remote control.
Reset Wi-Fi Direct group.
Development 1 file versions.
Development 2 file versions.
Upload several settings from the TV set to an USB stick.
Download several settings from the USB stick to the TV set.
View and change in the NVM-editor the set type number, the set production code or the 18AC
of a part.
Note: The NVM-editor still has the same function as previous, alpha-numeric entry.
How to Exit SAM
Use one of the following methods:
• Switch the TV set to STANDBY using the mains button on
the remote control or on the TV set.
• On a standard remote control key in sequence "00".
Note: When the TV set is in SAM mode and switched "off" by a
power interrupt, then the TV set will start up in "normal
operation mode" as soon as power is switched on. The error
buffer, however, will not be reset.
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