Save me Jebus! or is my MCE remote dead?

Akuma · **11th April 2005, 11:29 PM**

Last night while watching the box my MCE remote started acting erratically. It wasn't responding to some button presses, so I got annoyed and held one button down for a 10-15 seconds. It did seem to recognise a couple of presses after that then went dead (no back light etc.) I pulled the batteries out of the remote and left it over night, for about 5 hours. In the morning I tried again with the batteries in. I pressed the volume up button once after I released the button the volume kept going up to full. After that the remote has been dead no amount of battery removal has resulted in any signs of life.

Has anyone experienced anything like this before? Has my MCE remote shut itself off as protection from my own stupidity or is it defective? Anyone know the procedure for shorting the terminals?

I'm not looking forward to getting this repaired/replaced. life without a remote is so boring.

eepunk · **12th April 2005, 12:01 AM**

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... Anyone know the procedure for shorting the terminals?...

Reverse the batteries. Dunno if it'll do anything for you though. That behaviour is unusual IMHO.

Sambooka · **12th April 2005, 11:05 AM**

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Originally Posted by Akuma

so I got annoyed and held one button down for a 10-15 seconds.

That'll teach it

Did you bounce the MCE box? I'm just wondering if the receiver got upset with you for abusing it's offsider.

I would be gob smacked if you have permenantly damaged it by holding down a button for 15 seconds...did you have your teeth clenched

Try leaving the batteries out and pressing every button a few times (go to town). that should be enough to drain any residual charge in the caps. Then try the reboot.

Cheers

Sambooka

Akuma · **13th April 2005, 10:19 AM**

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Originally Posted by Sambooka

did you have your teeth clenched

Yup, I should have known that would cause problems. I tried all the suggestions in this thread too and none of them worked.

Just to make sure I'm not a complete idiot I took the batteries supplied with my four week old remote out and put them in a torch to make sure they aren't flat. Torch produced a blinding light, on a whim I put the almost dead batteries from the torch in the remote and it sprang back to life.

* queue the x-files theme *

brainbreeder · **13th April 2005, 10:47 AM**

lol I thinks the remotes are not the most reliable things around. I only had mine for a couple of weeks and mine stopped working. Occasionally it will come back to life and then die again.....

The thing that ****s me is that I took 2 hours to figure out it was the remote. I never thought that the remote could stop working so easily, now i feel dumb not clicking on to the fact that the backlight didn't work, how obvious could it be.....

eepunk · **13th April 2005, 10:54 AM**

Good to hear it's working for you again.

Sometimes it's just voodoo and raindancing.

Sambooka · **13th April 2005, 11:16 AM**

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Originally Posted by brainbreeder

lol I thinks the remotes are not the most reliable things around. I only had mine for a couple of weeks and mine stopped working. Occasionally it will come back to life and then die again.....

The thing that ****s me is that I took 2 hours to figure out it was the remote. I never thought that the remote could stop working so easily, now i feel dumb not clicking on to the fact that the backlight didn't work, how obvious could it be.....

I don't think they're unreliable, they just don't like being sat on or pressed for long periods with your teeth clenched.

Should be in the manual I reckon.

Glad it's alive Akuma.

Cheers

Sambooka