20 Most Recent Polaroid FLM-3732 Television - Page 8 Questions & Answers

This unit is having a intermittent component failure. The unit is probably going into the protection mode,to prevent further damage to the boards. You should take or send this unit in for testing and service at a service center. The service center will have all the correct service information to analysis the problem and service it for you. You can get information from the Polaroids customer support at this telephone number 1-866-289-5168. They will be able to tell you how, and where you can obtain service for your television. I hope this information helps you with your problem.

You may be having a problem with the parental control, This control has a video lock. You may need to unlock this to get the video working again. If you have your owners manual, you can find the instructions for unlocking the video on page 41 of the manual under parental settings. If not you can find a pdf copy of the manual on this link to Polaroids customer support website http://www.polaroid.com/CES/SupportProductDetail.jsp?prod_code=PT123&folder_id=0 If this does not help you, the customer support telephone number for Polaroid is 1-866-289-5186. They should be able to tell you how to get the functions of your television working again. I hope this information helps you with your problem.

Use this link to the online owners manual for your television. http://www.polaroid.com/CES/SupportProductDetail.jsp?prod_code=PT123&folder_id=0 Go to page 46 listed as the troubleshooting . Here you will find the selection a way to Change the volume lock on your television. This should tell you how to regain the use of the volume on your television. If this does not solve your problem, you can call Polaroids customer care at this telephone number 1-866-289-5168 give them the model number of your television and tell them the problem you are having with no volume. They will be able to either solve your problem or tell you how to get you television serviced for the problem.I hope this information helps you with your problem.

This unit has had a component failure.The unit should be sent or taken in to a service center for testing and service. The Polaroid customer support telephone numbers are 1-866-925-7278 and 1-866-289-5168. Give them the model number of you television and the problem you are having with it. They will be able to help you with your problem.The Polaroid customer support website is: http://www.polaroid.com/CES/support.jsp Give them the same information and they also should be able to direct you to a service center, that will help you with your problem. I hope this information help you with your problem.

Only 3 screws necessary to remove back plastic panel.
(1 large black, 2 small black)
Pull down - use fingernails if needed - and out to remove.

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The following link posted by stiv0 gives detailed instructions on how to replace the two capacitors that commonly go bad on this TV. When these capacitors go bad they prevent the TV from turning on. However, you still get a red light when you plug it in. Since your not getting a red light I'm not sure this fix will work for you. I'd open up the TV and see if the capacitors are bulged out as described in stiv0 post. If they are I'd go ahead and replace them and give the TV another try. This fix is fairly easy to do and very inexpensive so you don’t have much to lose.

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First thing, I would try and locate a board if that's what you want to replace. 90% of that module is non servicable.( must be replaced )

If the TV will not come on or go off manually then It sounds like your main control board has gone bad. I would recommend taking it into a repair facility to verify my suspicion.

hi..the reason to this problem is it got magnetized.
In that case,you have to do demagnetizing.
try this out..
thank u..
kindly rate my response..

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Try doing a "factory reset". This will "burp the baby". Turn the set on and ignore what you see. From the side control panel, push the volume+ and channel+ buttons in synch. This will take you to a base OSD (on-screen display) that can best be compared to the BIOS on your PC. The real goodies are here.

On the OSD, you'll see "picture", "audio", and "advance". Using standard navigational input on the remote, go to "advance". Tab down to "clear all". The set will appear to turn off, but the front LED will remain blue. The set is re-formatting the on-board memory and will restart in a few seconds.

Your panel should now restart as normal, but will be returned to factory "burn-in defaults". Your color and audio adjustments will be lost, so you'll have to do some fine-tuning in the regular OSD menu. Cycle power to the TV after you have made the desired adjustments.

TIP: Perform the factory re-set a second time, then select "picture". Toggle down to "video format". You might find it set to "Pal". Change this, using standard navigational input on the remote, to "NTCS" or "AUTO". Cycle power to the TV after you have made the desired adjustments. The TV will now perform at a refresh rate of 60hz, the American standard. "Pal" is 50hz, the EU and Asian standard. The improvement to image quality will be noticable very soon, as both your eyes and the set adapt to 9.94 hz improvement. NOTE: You may need to fine-tune the TV again after making this change.

Try doing a "factory reset". This will "burp the baby". Turn the set on and ignore what you see. From the side control panel, push the volume+ and channel+ buttons in synch. This will take you to a base OSD (on-screen display) that can best be compared to the BIOS on your PC. The real goodies are here.

On the OSD, you'll see "picture", "audio", and "advance". Using standard navigational input on the remote, go to "advance". Tab down to "clear all". The set will appear to turn off, but the front LED will remain blue. The set is re-formatting the on-board memory and will restart in a few seconds.

Your panel should now restart as normal, but will be returned to factory "burn-in defaults". Your color and audio adjustments will be lost, so you'll have to do some fine-tuning in the regular OSD menu. Cycle power to the TV after you have made the desired adjustments.

TIP: Perform the factory re-set a second time, then select "picture". Toggle down to "video format". You might find it set to "Pal". Change this, using standard navigational input on the remote, to "NTCS" or "AUTO". Cycle power to the TV after you have made the desired adjustments. The TV will now perform at a refresh rate of 60hz, the American standard. "Pal" is 50hz, the EU and Asian standard. The improvement to image quality will be noticable very soon, as both your eyes and the set adapt to 9.94 hz improvement. NOTE: You may need to fine-tune the TV again after making this change.

If you are handy and take the back panel off.The small square panel.Right under that panel youll see at the top two capacitors if the tops of those capacitors look swollen all you have to do is remove them with a solder gun.Go to your local RADIOSHACK I bought three for just 5 dollars replaced them and my tv turned right on with no problems.Just replace the two that are side by side.It will work.And youll save a whole bunch of money

When I looked on the board, they all looked fine so I changed 5 of them chosen arbitrarily (the one that best matched the description on the website) but no success, I will try this week end to change the others (I did not have enough caps). I found a way to test them with a meter but it is hard and unreliable to do it when they are still attached to the circuit:

The best would be to have a meter that can test specifically the caps, but if like me you don't have one, use the Ohm-meter mode to charge them then very quickly switch to volt-meter (be careful not to choose a tension too high that would fry your caps). You should see a tension really quickly dropping if the caps is still linked to the board. I found this technique on the internet, I don't know if it is really reliable.

I will try on this week-end to change the caps of the other kind on the board then I will tell you if I got lucky.

By the way, a few weeks ago when I called polaroid they told me they were about to change their policy about their TV so I think you should check that before you decide to destroy it with an axe or get a new TV.

I have the same problem. If there are some lights on the front that work you can use this fix (http://www.fixya.com/support/r741402-polaroid_flm_373b_lcd_tv_black_screen), but if you don't have any lights on the front, I haven't figured it out yet. I'm hoping someone will find the answer sooner or later.

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the tv has an internal program build in the factory. and now is corrupted a technician is needed to replace this memory. (Call the polaroid company "customer service" department to recomend you the authorized service center in your area)

the noise is probably due to bad caps-stiv0 has tips on how to change capacitors. I had the same noise and tv would come on after plugging and unplugging but eventually stopped coming on. I just changed the caps and now it works perfect and took approx. an 1hour and supplies cost approx. $10.00. Good Luck

see stiv0 for tips-i followed the steps and fixed my tv in less than an hour and supplies costed approx. $10.00. I used 1000uf 35v since i could not find 10v or 16v. You can find the caps at Radio Shack. Good Luck

Hey dugout3773, Your complaint stated above is fairly good for a consumer. Get back to me with these other items. How old is unit? Approximate " ON/OFFs" it has under gone. (350/yr is typical) Did you have a "perfect" picture and sound the day before? Because I'm just an Industrial technician working for company dealing with electronics hardware/software for the gaming industry (add-on lcd displays and comm circuits for casinos) I don't know the type of technology you bought. Is it an LCD/FPD or a true PLASMA Screen set. If you are sure that it is LCD type with fluorescent backlighting try shinning a very bright flashlight onto the front of the screen at different angles and let me know if you can see any hint of an image even though the screen seems to be totally lifeless. If you see an image displayed, at least part of the low voltage power supply is working and powering up the circuits that do video and sync processing and are able to send it to the lcd. 14in-25in and larger lcd displays use long thin straight cold-cathode-fluorescent tubes to generate white light to enable viewing of the lcd image. The lighting technology is similar to new light blubs, Compact Fluorescent light bulbs. Both types need a power conversion ballast circuit to light them. If the (ELECTRONIC BALLAST) called an INVERTER (low volt 12-24v dc to 800-1200v ac) fails you wont be able to light the screen. Well anyway being a consumer, you have only a couple of options open to you. Call up Polaroid and see if they do swapout+a cash donation to them. They in turn ship u a refurbished set of same model. Next try to find some local TV/computer monitor guy who knows all about flat screen repair and CCF tubes and inverters/ power supplys. You can get back to me at louie12fix on fixya or lmistyrel @aol.com BYE for now.