Tv won't go into auto scan 4 television stations Samsung model. La26d460e1hxxy

When you run a scan the TV changes to every channel and tries to tune in a station. that is why it takes so long. If your TV is only finding channel 4, I would guess that is the only station strong enough for it to pick-up. You should check and / or replace your antenna and or antenna cable. Then re-scan the channels. with a better antenna, it should find more stations.
Most older Tube type TVs need a converter to pick-up digital TV, if you have a converter, make sure it is plugged in.

You should not be getting any stations without a digital tuner TV or a converter box.

The FCC site says this:

The FCC established September 1, 2015 as the date for the termination of all analog low-power television service. Since that date, analog television should no longer exist in the United States. Until that time, LPTV stations were allowed to continue to operate their analog facilities.

If you try another TV does it pick up more stations?

Do a retune to this TV.

Press MENU button on the remote control and select
Install and Retune by using Left or Right button.
Press OK button and the following menu screen
will be displayed

Select Automatic Channel Scan (Retune) by using
Up or Down button and press OK button. Automatic
Channel Scan options will be displayed. You can select
options by using Up or Down and OK buttons.

Auto Channel Scan Menu Operation
Digital: Searches and stores aerial DVB stations.
Analogue: Searches and stores analogue stations.
Full: Searches and stores both analogue and aerial
DVB stations.

Whenever you select an automatic search type and
press OK button, a confi rmation screen will appear
on the screen. To start installation process, select
Yes, to cancel select No by using Left or Right
and OK button.

After auto channel scan type is set and selected
and confi rmed, installation process will start and
progress bar will move along. Press MENU button
to cancel process. In such a case, located channels
are not stored. The television will start to search for
all available stations. You must allow the television
to complete the search.

The TV user guide should provide the procedures of acquiring auto scan. For example, your TV may be acquiring functionality from satellites dishs or cable receiver devices. Performing an auto scan achievable with the remote control device with adjustment to settings on the channel buttons would produce a signal only with available transmitter stations. Performing a channel auto scan would display no signals without available receiver devices often acquired with susbscription from a provder either cable TV, sattelite or disk network, show on demand for example. However, performing an auto scan on a new Tv should simply display a count list of possible available channels on which signals could be display when any is provided. Good luck

Go into your menu and pick signal device, and auto program your stations.

You can try to buy a samsung universal remote, buy a samsung vcr which has a tv/vcr switch, and this will let give you control of the tv and also allow you to program the channels. Because the vcr acts as a tuner.

First verify that the direct TV satellite box is set to receive and display digital stations. If you old set on the sat was analog, the box may not have been reset. You may have to contact you satellite provider. Next you will have to go to the TV menu and auto program/scan in the stations. This should pick up all the stations.

To get any HDTV to work this is what you have to do;
CHANNEL section
1) Connect your antenna cable which you have done.
2) Go into the menu to the source option and select AIR/ANTENNA since you are using an antenna.
3) In the menu you will have to SCAN in the stations. This auto program will find all available stations.
Now you can watch tv by selecting the station you want.
The new generation of HDTV is different from the old analog sets. These have to be set up to work.
Exact information can be found in your Users Manual.

there isn't much you can do to solve this problem with the tv by itself. the auto tuning program has preset tuning sensitivities implemented by the manufacturer. the only thing you can do at this point is boosting the signal through a signal booster or a powered antannae so that the tv can pick them up.