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Override Parental Control

We inherited an RCA F32645 but when we turned it on it had parental controls on most of the channels. How do we reset or disable the control without a code?

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Customer service at RCA stated that you have to simultaneously push the menu button on the TV and the volume down button on the factory issued remote hold for three seconds and the parental should unlock and allow access again.

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Press and hold tv button on the remote control and simultaneously menu button on the TV x 3 seconds that will reset the password Have a nice day

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    Press and hold tv button on the remote control and simultaneously menu button on the TV x 3 seconds that will reset the password
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PLEASE I NEED TO OVERRIDE PARETAL CONTROL

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Therefore, after you turn on PARENTAL CTRL, you simply hide the remote control so that your children can not watch the locked channels. The locked-out channels will remain unviewable even if the TV is unplugged or the channels are autoprogrammed again. The only way to view locked channels is to use the supplied remote control to set the PARENTAL CTRL function to OFF.

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Press and hold for 3 seconds the TV button on the remote while pressing the menu button on the TV.
This procedure will turn off the parental lock and erase the previous password .

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If Parental Controls have been set and you don't know the password, do this:
Press and hold the volume down and the channel up buttons at the same time for 5 seconds.
Now you can reset the password to 0000, and using that password you can now access the V-Chip menus.

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The factory default pass code of 6688 is also the override code, in case the owner forgets their pass code. If that doesn't work, another place in the owners manual says to push Function and Mute on the remote at the same time. Function is the top right button.
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