[Anonymous]

“always try to use the original TV remote where possible. Things like Harmony remotes and other all in one remotes may not have all the buttons you need to press”

* Using the remote control:

* With the TV on.

* Press Enter …. Enter … Up … Down … Enter

* Some text about entering the service mode appears. Answer it.

* On Sony Pearl LCOS projector, the access changed.

* Press Enter … Enter … Left … Enter.

* Save your changes in the white balance area when done.

* Power off to exit the service menu or repeat the access code to take you out.

[Anonymous]

Greetings

Please do not post code requests here. Put them elsewhere and we will then post the info here (in alphabetical order).
If you post here, I will move it to one of these areas or delete the post.

Thanks for your cooperation.

Regards

above edited by Gregg

[Gregg Loewen]

For these models (the newest panels): PDP-4280HD, PDP-5080HD
and perhaps the 5010 (1080p units). The latest word from Pioneer is DO NOT TRY TO CALIBRATE using the service menu as the controls do not work as labeled. I have emailed Pioneer and have asked for clarification and updates.

Edit: See Michael’s note above….calibrate using the highs only…DO NOT TOUCH THE LOWS

[Anonymous]

Orion (used to make Sansui) makes LCD flat panels for several manufacturers, Sharp among them. Some internet threads bash these sets because they aren’t made by Sharp but may still carry the Aquos logo. When calibrated, they look pretty good. A 32″ Sharp-branded set measured under 5400K in “Warm”, over 9500K in Neutral, and I didn’t even bother checking “Cool”. So there was no setting that looked good at all. Neutral was very blue while Warm was a sickly yellow-green.

To access service menu:

Press and hold “Volume -” on the TV (not remote) then press and hold “9” on the remote for maybe 2 seconds or so. Menu pops up on screen… right in the middle, god bless their pointy little heads. Very basic menu, easy to find cuts (Cutoffs) and gains.

To Navigate the service menu:
– use the up and down keys above and below the “Select” button to change the menu item to next or previous
– Use the Volume +/- to change the value of the Service Menu item up or down
– Turn off the TV to save the changes you made

[Gregg Loewen]

To enter ISF modes on the BenQ 9000 and 10000

Go to the ISF Selection: then enter isf night (it may be ISF Day) down up and enter

[Gregg Loewen]

On the last generation or 2 of Hits crts:

Hold menu down on TV
Then hit menu 8 select on remote

There is no longer an ISF mode…but one of the catagories has all the settings.

[Gregg Loewen]

hold display until menus show up then hit menu

[Gregg Loewen]

726 and enter

[Gregg Loewen]

turn off the SNI parameters for the displays that do not have a DNIe off control in the user menu.

[Gregg Loewen]

Lumagen is excellent to work with. Call them with any problems and they will assist you.

Lumagen scaler info
enabling service mode adds some extra entries to the menu for configuration, such as grayscale calibration. Service mode is access by entering:
MENU 0 9 1 0
While in Service mode….and before you leave your clients….the last thing to do is MENU 0 9 9 7 this will save all your work to the unit itself as a back up file. You can then turn off service menu.

Now inistruct your client that if they ever make a mistake or move stuff around and it doesn’t look good they can go to the MENU>SAVE> options and select RESTORE. That will load back up all your work and put it in top form again.
Another way to reset the scaler is simply turn it off and back on. Clients can play to their hearts content provided they DO NOT save their settings

[Gregg Loewen]

Press and hold menu on the remote control until the menu screen dissapears. Release the menu button. A screen should appear asking you for a password. The password is 8741. This reveals a expert viewing mode. You have full picture controls and RGB cuts and drives. When this mode is calibrated, the User menu has a new Expert viewing mode that the user controls are grayed out. This mode is calibrated by input, so one calibration per input that is used.

[Gregg Loewen]

They are a good company to work with. If you have any questions call them…please post your findings here for others.

Seleco Sum 2 300 e calibration
try this …

press down arrow and menu at same time … on projector

or 1117 from remote
press + button on remote
Sim2 HT300: press the MENU and DN Arrow buttons together for about 3
seconds. Set password to 1117, then advance
After a conversation with Sim2 Tech Support, they provided me with the information needed to access the service menu. The steps are outlined below:

1. Press the ‘circle’ button (located below the number 7).
2. Press the ‘info’ button (located below the + button).
3. Enter in the code (66260).
4. Press the ‘+’ Button to confirm.

This menu allows access to change the following:
1. Color wheel settings.
2. Lamp Hour Meter Reset.
3. Color Temperature Settings.
4. ADC Calibration.
5. Display more advanced setup patterns.

This menu does not allow us to stretch the picture either horizontally or vertically.

[Gregg Loewen]

SIM2 DLP FP CX3 – Service menu access
This just came in……..

To get in the service menu of the C3X please follow these steps.
Push on the back of the unit the menu and down arrow simultaneously hold the bottoms for about 5 seconds then release them, you will see that a menu with a password will appear, using the numbered keys enter 88522, this will get you in the service menu.
C3X Lite
I calibrated the Sim2 C3X Lite today which is the same unit as the C3X except for a smaller lamp. The User menu is not traditional controls and only includes Contrast, Brightness and Sharpness. The Gamma settings are at the end of the menu full of “EN” gamma presets and are labeled “User”. The user gamma controls have a slider that ranges from 2.0 to 3.0. I ended up setting it to 2.8 to achieve a measured 2.4 gamma curve. The user color is a grid with only numbered presets and I found 22, 23 or 24 were the closest to D65 (I used 22).

The remote control is strange and you press the + and – buttons to open and then switch between menus. Use the arrow keys to maneuver and esc. to exit.

The service menu is accessed with the remote control by pressing the button with a circle within a circle and then the button with a square with the letter “i” inside the square. This brings up the password screen and you enter 88522 then the + to confirm. So the sequence is CIRCLE >INFO >88522 >+

The service main menu page is

Lamp Hour Reset
Color Temp Calibration

DMD IQ Test Patterns
Color Temperature (RGB Gain/Offsets)

Navigation is right arrow to enter menu item and then up arrow to advance. Esc to exit. The esc key always takes you out of the service menu but once you have entered service the first time you only need to keystroke CIRCLE>INFO to get back to the service main menu. This is handy when jumping back to the user menu.

Lamp Hour Reset menu is simply a lamp hour counter and a reset button.

Color Temp Calibration menu is the location of the Color Matrix table. To navigate to the table hit the up arrow and skip through RED, GREEN, BLUE, WHITE, test patterns then back to your input and the controls. I was excited at first thinking I could move the RGB primaries because the four columns of coordinates are the x,y,Y locations. The controls had no visible effect until I changed a coordinate and then exited to the user menu color grid and moved my preset off of 22 and then back which updates the output. This is not like the Samsung x,y,Y controls and is actually labeled x,y,L. The primaries did not move and when I moved green y 100 clicks the red shut off so the RGB coordinates in this menu may simply be defining the user color grid. I did adjust the white x,y,L controls to give me more range on the cuts and drives. Push + to confirm and then esc this menu to change the user menu color preset to update.

DMD IQ Test Patterns menu has no controls and you cannot keep the pattern up when you switch to other menus. Internal test patterns are all displayed at the default (wrong) color temp so they should not be used to calibrate.

Color Temperature RGB Gains/Offset menu has two submenus. The first is DRIVER and that is simply another set of 2 test patterns toggling back and forth between 20% and 80%.

The second menu is FORMAT and this is where the cuts and drives are located. Thankfully they do update in real-time so this is straight forward. These controls save as you go. esc to exit.

C3X Service menu defaults

Red Gain 5
Green Gain 5
Blue Gain 5

Red Offset 0
Green Offset 0
Blue Offset 0

Red
X .667
Y .325
L .113

Green
X .345
Y .631
L .846

Blue
X .132
Y .033
L .041

White
X .293
Y .340
L .1.000
The projector had 63 hours and was projected in a dealer showroom on a Stewart ST 1.3 screen. After calibration yiel
ded 19fl (lamp on low) measured with the eye one probe 24 inches from the screen using CF 6.0. The grayscale would not lay flat because the lamp is red deficient until you either lower Contrast in the user menu or lower the drives in Service to compensate. At one point the entire scale was totally flat except for 100 IRE until I lowered the Service drives another 20 clicks at the expense of 1fl. Nice grayscale results and a beautiful picture with some of the deepest and cleanest shadow detail I have ever seen on a front DLP.

The hdmi input is setup for PC levels 0-255 so I used the dealers Lumagen to convert the sources from 16-235 and adjusted the color decoder inside the scaler to compensate for the secondary locations. No Color or Tint controls available on this projector with an hdmi input.
Sony Service Menu
· Service Menu:
· ..Using the remote control
· ..Press (enter) (enter) (UP arrow) (DOWN arrow) (enter)
· ..Then (UP arrow) when it asks “do you want to enter the service mode?”
· ..Factory Mode:
· ..Using the remote control
· ..Press (enter) (enter) (LEFT arrow) (enter)
· ..Then (UP arrow) when it asks “do you want to enter the factory mode?”
o .Any additional menus usually pop up under the main INFORMATION menu

[Gregg Loewen]

The cursor buttons, go Right, down, left, up, enter, then hit 1 and you should get a menu to choose your region.

[Gregg Loewen]

To preform different service functions(not enter
different service level),

Press the VOL. DOWN button on the SET and one of the following NUMBER buttons on the REMOTE at the same time for more then 1 second.

VOL. DOWN and button 0 – Releases the V-CHIP password and locks the V-CHIP password
VOL. DOWN and button 1 – Initialization of the factory settings ( do not use this for normal service)
VOL. DOWN and button 6 – POWER ON total hours is displayed.
VOL. DOWN and button 8 – Writing of EEPROM initial data ( do not use this for normal service)
VOL. DOWN and button 9 – Display the adjustment menu

Pressing the VOL. DOWN button on the SET and the NUMBER 9 button on the REMOTE at the same time for more then one second will display the adjustmnet menu.

Use the CHANNEL UP/DOWN button on the remote to select the option to be adjusted and the VOL UP/DOWN button on the remote to change the value.

Press the MENU buttom on the remote to end the adjustments.

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