20 Most Recent Polaroid FLM-3201 Television - Page 2 Questions & Answers

This brand seems to be having a lot of problems, if not the caps on the power board etc you may be done as parts are just a little too hard to find for these sets.

Check and replace the bad CCFL lamps inside the panel. This is due to backlight problem.

A remote is not needed. You have an issue with your set.

they are not repaired, if the caps are bad they need to be replaced, what would you like to know?

I have seen this before; takes several tries to get it on and gets worse and worse.

All these sets (not just your brand) have a standby power supply that runs 7/24 even if the set is not on; One of the areas these companies cut corners on is filter capacitors in the power supply.

Let us say they hve a unit with a 9 volt standby voltage (it is on all the time) and to save money they put capacitors rated at 10 volts= a tidy savings if you produce 10,000 units and the difference between 10 volt rated caps and 16 or 24 volt rated caps is a nice piece of money.

They do not care as the unit will usually last a year or two and then fail.

The good news is if someone opens the unit (UNPLUGGED FIRST) AND does a visual inspection they will be able to SEE the bad caps.

The caps are perfectly flat on top and the silver material has creases in it: a bad cap can instantly be seen and this is the first thing to look at: see attached photo of the typical type of cap.

I have seen units where anywhere from five to ten caps were bad; same kind of problem occurs in tower type computers; If you shop around the caps are pretty cheap and marked with value and voltage rating along with a minus and plus for positive and negative----each cap only has two leads and are fairly easy to replace.

There is no magic bullet for this: someone has to open the unit and look at the caps.


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Simple test: get a powerful flashlight and point it at the screen from up-close - if you can see the image the ballast board (the one that powers the tubes that generate the back lighting) has failed, if you don't see an image it's the CPU board.
Here you can find the service manual
http://www.polaroidsupport.com/polaroid/docs/FLM-3201_ServiceManual_20051205.pdf

Hello; Most newer TV's will let you choose the language shown on the screen. This is a menu item that is controlled by your remote. You many need to read / download to find how to change to English. John

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The screen is only black and white; means the picture displays is B/W?, or there is a screen with B/W snow? Please specify these. Is there sound OK, if when the picture is displayed?. Or the there is no light and picture on the screen, with perfect sound? Clarify these by Fixya please.

You have bad capacitors on the power supply board, they should be easy too see.

Replace power supply

Bad caps in power supply board

This sounds like a problem with your power supply circuit board.

Often times poor quality components are used in the LCD TVs and they tend to cause the televisions to fail prematurely.

Bad electrolytic capacitors are the most common cause of power supply failures in LCD TVs.
You can sometimes visually identify a failed capacitor by its BULGING TOP or by the scorched gunk leaking from it.

If the unit is still under warranty, you should return it immediately to the place of purchase for exchange or refund.

If the warranty has already expired you will have to decide on a course of action. You can just buy a new TV, you can pay someone to fix it for you, or you carry out your own troubleshooting and then buy the replacement parts and install them yourself.

You have to weigh the unknown potential cost of repair against the known price of a brand new tv.
And don't forget the new tv comes with a warranty while the repaired one, in questionable condition already, just keeps getting older.

If the problem is in fact just the power supply circuit board, a television technician will probably charge you about $150 to fix it. But if that's not the only problem then there may be additional costs totalling hundreds of dollars.

Trying to repair your own LCD TV can be financially risky, you can end up spending a lot of money changing out circuit boards and still end up with an unreliable or even dead unit in the end. It also requires at least a little bit of skill, know-how and common sense in order to avoid damaging the unit further and to keep yourself safe while working on the electronic parts.

Let me know if you are willing to disassemble the unit yourself and conduct some testing and troubleshooting and I will help guide you through it with much greater detail.

Here is a link to another senior expert's response to a similar question and his excellent LCD Troubleshooting Guide:

http://www.fixya.com/support/t8133519-not_power_up

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It looks like you have the Source Select to "ypbpr".
Press the menu button to display main menu.
If this is the first time you have used a Digital TV you will have to do the following.
> Connect the signal source either antenna or cable to the back of set.
> Select the same signal source in the menu. CH
> Choose submenu between TV and cable
> Scan the channels. Auto Search
>Save and exit the menu. Press OK

You can get the Owner's Manual from;
http://www.retrevo.com/support/Polaroid-FLM-3201-TVs-manual/id/279ag015/t/2/

No they are not the same, you can go up on the voltage but not down, but you need to be very close or dead on the uf.

Can u take the remote aparts,take some rubbing alchahol dipping it in with some Q tips.Clean the PCB board and the inner layer rubber plastics films,if it not worn out,should solved this problems,if ur remote CPU chip is not the problems like shorting out or dying.Wait like 20 mins.putting it together again.Change new batteries,should work again as before.Try website like Remotes.com to buy an original remote or very close to it.

If you were to log on to the manufacturer's web site, I think you will be pleasantly surprised as usually one is able to download, by model number, Customer Instruction Manuals, list of Dealers for spare part supplies and Driver downloads (if applicable) as required.

The information is normally free of charge.

I hope this helps.

Most Polaroids if you take the back panel off, you might see some open caps on the board

make sure you have the correct video cable. if it uses HDMI, use highspeed HDMI cables. Same goes if you use display port and make sure the correct input source is selected on the tv.