Hi Sudoers:

At sudoroom Tuesday night Kent, Marc, and Mike opened up the 55” TV and discovered its a Toshiba Model K550WDR1 rebranded as a Best Buy Toshiba 55l621U. Can someone help to find firmware we can try to flash on this TV to see if that resurrects it?

Also: Kent seems to remember having a remote to this TV, and using that to have it show some menus temporarily: does anyone know where that remote is?

Photos here: https://photos.app.goo.gl/n1MzWjqAXdieAP6K7

Sncerely, -Peter

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Subject: Tonight: help fix the Toshiba TV
Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2024 14:05:28 -0700
From: Peter Mui <petermui@sonic.net>
To: sudo-discuss@sudoroom.org


Hi sudoers:

There’s a Toshiba 55l621U 55” 4K TV in sudoroom I’d like to put in service as the new jitsi and discord telepresence monitor. But it’s currently not working: it flashes on briefly and then goes out.

Normally this would indicate a power supply issue, but I’ve done a little online research and some people online claim the problem might be a firmware issue, e.g. see https://forums.tomsguide.com/threads/toshiba-55l621u-wont-turn-on-properly.464226/

Can you do some more online sleuthing and see if you come up with a plan of attack for fixing this TV? And let’s try to put our heads together tonight at sudoroom and get this puppy working: I’ve already got a rolling stand for it.

Sincerely, -Peter