My sister wanted to change our Toshiba TV to her favorite cartoon, Tom and Jerry. But after she entered the channel number, the TV went black and white. I've tried to get the TV working again but then I noticed that it was on TV 4, the thing is I don't know how to get it back to channel 3, PLEASE HELP!!

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To see if the problem is with your remote control, go to the receiver and use the channel up/down buttons on the receiver itself. If you can change your channels with the buttons on the receiver, the batteries in your remote control probably need to be changed.

If you can't change channels from the receiver, turn off the receiver. Then unplug it for at least 15 seconds. Plug the receiver back it and turn it on. Again, try changing channels from the receiver itself.

Tune to a channel, and while programming is playing, try tuning to the missing channel by entering the channel number on the remote control keypad to see if channels change. Do not try to select the channel from a channel list, program guide, or favorites list.

If this approach takes you to the correct channel, you need to adjust your favorites list function. Press the "guide" button on your remote. Look for a button on your remote called "fav" or "list." Press it several times and watch for an indication at the top of the guide that you are moving from "all channels" to a particular favorites list.

If you are locked on one channel only, your Channel Lock feature is likely active. Consult your owner's manual to unlock the rest of your channels. See your owner's manual for information on managing favorite channel lists and locking out channels. Enter your password, if necessary.

• You have to set the channel you want as a favorite first and you can do this from the TV. This is why the channels skip as you press up and down. Sometime or another those were someones favorite channels.

1. Press "MENU" on the TV until "SET UP" appears on the screen.
2. Now press ^ or v until "FAVORITE CH" appears in purple.
3. Now press < or > to display the favorite channel FAVORITE CH menu.
4. You will use < or > to got between "SET and "CLEAR."
5. So now go to "SET" and press ^ or v until you get to channel 1.
6. If you want to delete a channel first then select "CLEAR" and then add the channel you wish.

• What your doing when you push the channel up and down on the TV buttons is going through the favorite channels. So make one of the favorite channels channel 1 and program your remote.

• Hope this helps and thank you for using FixYa.

Regards, Tony

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Auto channel search is your friend. Once the tv has been through it and finds active channels, your channel button should work the way you envision.

Also have a 42" Toshiba and had the same problem, then had issues moving the channel order while some channels were set to skip.

What I ended up doing was retuning the tv. Then went through the channel list (Menu -> Setup -> DTV Setting -> Channels) and changed the number of the channels I didn't want to 1000+ (using the red button, ie 1001, 1002, 1003...). This in itself does not change the channel order, but when I then move these channels to the end of the channel list and because they are numbered numerically I can be sure I don't miss any.

Next I went to the channel options (Menu -> Setup -> DTV Setting -> Channel Options) and marked all the channels I'd moved to the end of the list as channels to skip and locked. This does not remove the channels from the EPG but it does move them to the end of the list and when scrolling with the channel +/- buttons these channels will not be selected.

Ideally I would also like to delete channels such as QVC etc altogether and would love to know if anyone has a more effective solution to this issue.

Possibly you're not hitting the numbers fast enough or there is a problem in the delay circuit in the microprocessor. Stargazer

Possibly you're not putting the numbers in fast enough. If you are then there maybe a problem with the microprocessor responding too quickly to commands. I've never seen this problem before, but my TV will do the same thing if I don't get the numbers in fast enough. Stargazer