This is a quick reference guide to show you how to reset your Samsung DLP TV’s lamp hour meter or hour counter. Resetting the counter is a very simple proceedure.
Begin with the TV powered off.
Point your remote towards your TV.
Press:
Mute + 1 + 8 + 2 + Power.
Your TV set should now say “Loading Factory”.
Browse down to “Option” then press Enter (or the right cursor button).
NOTE: The Mute+1+8+2 buttons needs to be pressed down consecutively and fairly quickly. If your TV does not enter the service menu after using this combination, you can substitute MENU instead of MUTE. This seems to work for some sets. Also, the right cursor arrow also acts as the ENTER button, so try it if you’re having difficulty with the ENTER button.
To exit the service menu, hit press the EXIT button or just turn off your TV (remember not to turn on your TV immediately afterward!).
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Orlando says:
April 4, 2007 at 1:05 am
Thanks for the info. I thought I was doing something wrong when it wouldn’t work for me. I found in another site that the TV has to be ‘Off’ before pressing the buttons.
2336 hours on my lamp before it died. However, I re-installed the same lamp and it worked! I had read in another forum that that worked for another guy, so I thought I’d try it. Now, I’ll have to see how long it will last, this time.
admin says:
April 4, 2007 at 5:45 pm
Orlando, I just edited my first post. 2,336 hours, while like anywhere close to the expected 5,000 is not bad. You wouldn’t have pictures of your lamp enclosure and inside and outside of your TV would you? Most of the ones we see come in with a lot of dust and dirt covering the TV!
Another common problem, especially the Samsung DLPs is the lamp enclosure cover sensor. If this sensor is not depressed all the way, your TV set thinks the cover is missing and you will get the lamp error code too! We’ve seen this on a handful of TVs! Of course, like in your situation, it’s not always the lamp itself!
Jason Weathers says:
May 5, 2007 at 11:09 am
I’ve been looking everywhere for this information. Worked on the first try.
Thanks!
woody says:
May 14, 2007 at 4:18 pm
Thanks for the info. I have a set made in 2003 for the Korean market and these codes worked fine. I got 4770 hours.
arden says:
May 22, 2007 at 2:15 pm
Bought new buld and adapter from Discount-M… Picked up same day from Borderline Elect… very happy with price and service. Went home cleaned inside ,not that dirty, installed new buld and reset meter…. This set is 2003 50″ samsung owned since new…total on hour meter 14,070 on original equip. bulb… Thanks Arden
John Wall says:
May 29, 2007 at 9:44 am
How do you check the lamp hours? I have a Samsung HLP 5663W. My lamp went down and I just ordered the new lamp with the new housing from Direct Merchant.com. They had the best price I could find. I reinstalled the old lamp and it seems to be working ok. I will store the new lamp as a backup if there are no more problems. Thanks
John Wall says:
May 29, 2007 at 9:54 am
I was able to get to the options screen. I had to press the right arrow button on options rather than the enter. Lamp Life 7807. I guess that is what I was looking for? Thanks
Brad Van Elderen says:
June 2, 2007 at 1:37 pm
I just did the switch after 10922 hours. Thanks for the help.
–Brad
CHARLES J. WALSH says:
June 5, 2007 at 3:05 pm
Have two Samsung remotes. Tried your set-up with each, one “off” the other “on” and both “off” nothing seems to work. My model is an HLN507W. Any ideas?
Thanks,
Charlie
Tom Sanders says:
June 6, 2007 at 2:35 pm
My old bulb went dead and I just installed new bulb I ordered Monday. Very quick 2-day delivery. I installed new bulb and seems fine. I went through the procedures to reset bulb. It reads on lamplife 7910 hours. Is this the hours I used on the original/old bulb, or is this telling me how many hours on the new bulb I just installed? I have yet to do any reset.
Thanks
Silvia says:
June 8, 2007 at 11:39 pm
My lamp life was 9019 and still hasn’t gone out. We switched to a new lamp to see if the tv would be brighter as it seemed to be not as vibrant as it was in the beginning. I am keeping the old one as a backup for whenever this one goes out. I can’t believe it lasted that long and still hasn’t gone out. Sad to say tho that my color wheel went out on my Samsung HLR6167W TV. Guess there is a flaw in the color wheels on this model. Anyways, happy with the life of my lamp.
Mike says:
June 20, 2007 at 11:39 pm
9092 Hours and then a complete blowout. Purchased new bulb and replaced for hopefully another 9000 hrs
JC says:
June 22, 2007 at 11:36 am
Unbelievably 17,964 hours on the original HLN507 bulb. Had the color wheel replaced soon after my purchase, but the bulb lasted a LONG time. Use it 99% of the time as a DVI monitor for my desktop.
JC (San Diego)
admin says:
June 25, 2007 at 4:02 pm
JC, wow! That’s the longest I’ve heard from a customer…tell us about it…how do you (if at all) maintain the TV. Do you clean it? Is it in a dust free area? Do you leave it on all day and overnight? How often do you cycle on and off? Do you have it connected through a surge protector? etc. etc.
all in all…amazing! How long have you owned your set?
admin says:
June 25, 2007 at 4:04 pm
Tom, what you’re seeing is the counter for the old lamp…7,000 is very respectable. Expected MEAN life is 5000-6000, so you are above average
admin says:
June 25, 2007 at 4:06 pm
CHARLES,
Do you have the original DLP Remote or just a generic Samsung Remote? Discount-Merchant.com has original replacement remotes from Samsung DLPs for about $25 or so…very reasonable. Call them if you need one! 619-710-2637 x203
Vincent says:
June 26, 2007 at 1:36 pm
I got an old Samsung SP43J6HP, bought and successfully installed a new lamp, but the trick MUTE+1+8+2+POWER does not work… I get flashing 3 LED’s all the time…
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I tried the DISPLAY+P.STD+MUTE+POWER too, no hidden menu…
Any ideas?
jak says:
July 3, 2007 at 2:16 pm
i just recieved a hln437w from a friend who decided to upgrade. curious about the tv itself i started looking around on the web and came across this site. nice site by the way, very helpful. anyways i checked the counter after reading the life of the lamps was around 5000 hours. 13090 is what the counter is at. which leads me to my question. will replacing the lamp make the tv brighter? actually will it have any effect at all? any feedback would be greatly appreciated.
shane myers says:
July 8, 2007 at 8:48 pm
17,142 and at about half that time I got a dark border on the right hand side only about 1 inch wide. Took about 10 trys to get the option menu to pop up though with the menu 182 power. |Will a new lamp help the picture much like on some of the other tvs?
HLN5065W1X/XAA
typical use but i avoid turning it on if I am not going to actually watch it.
Tony says:
July 15, 2007 at 6:34 pm
Just a quick question. I think the instructions here might have a little mistake or maybe my tv is a little strange I am not sure but for me the Mute + 1 + 8 + 2 + power did not work… however I tried the menu + 1 + 8 + 2 + power and that did the trick.. so with er my TV is wierd or the instruction should read menu instead of mute
Tim says:
August 1, 2007 at 6:53 pm
I just replaced my bulb, BP96-00608A, with a replacement BP96-00826A.
10809 hours on the original.
I do have a white light above the power button about 4-5 inches long rising from above the switch. Is this something to be worried about? I have seen this on other DLP’s as well. I have a HLP5063W
NSS says:
August 2, 2007 at 2:43 pm
I just changed my lamp, thanks to your great instructions. It went very well! The number in the lamp hours was 2812850, I checked it after an hour it is now 2812851! I know this can’t be right, since I can’t reset the lamp hours. Any suggestions on how to reset? This has been more complicated than changing the lamp.
Thanks for your help!
Joe says:
October 3, 2007 at 9:36 am
I got 7400 hrs on my lamp on my Samsung HLR5078WWX/XAA
Cord says:
October 10, 2007 at 5:38 pm
Just replaced the lamp with one I purchased from direct-merchant, they were great to work with and had the best price I could find to boot, now I am trying to reset the lamp hours. I can get into the menu just fine and scroll down to “options” but when I hit enter nothing happens. It’s like it is locked out from adjusting any settings or something. I tried several other selections under the menu and I can’t select anything. Anyone go through this or have any idea what is going on?
Cord says:
October 10, 2007 at 5:49 pm
Finally got the menu figured out. I had to use the right arrow instead of enter to open up the options tab. Anyway 8010 hours on the lamp.
James says:
October 23, 2007 at 6:01 pm
2,392 hours on mine. I think it is still good though. I did not try to put it back in. Good luck to all.
Terry says:
November 3, 2007 at 4:19 pm
Thanks alot for the instructions on how to replace the bulb & reset the counter. It was really simple, took about 10 mins. I got 8308 hours out of my first bulb. I’ll see how long the 2nd last…
Thanks again.
Jake says:
November 5, 2007 at 3:14 pm
Just had a power outage. Now I got a dead HL-R4667W. Once power was restored I got the LAMP light flashing on the power button and a very dim light from the TV. Lamp light flashed for about 30 seconds then quit. The fan kept running for a while then quit and then just the red Tv set off/standby light came on. I tried again this morning (uplugged all night) and got no light from the TV set and the same Lamp flashing as before. Is this just a bad lamp? All other home electronics and computers are OK. Its Lamp Code sticker says BP96-00823A(0) but when I go to Samsungparts.com it was superceded by BP96-01403A.
pat bono says:
November 6, 2007 at 6:37 pm
I have a 3″ dark (not black)vertical band on the far left side of the picture on a Samgsung 56″ DLP purchased a year ago. This occures on all source feeds, any thoughts? Lamp has 6054 hours, rest of picture is great.
Pat
JOHN says:
November 8, 2007 at 4:48 pm
anyone think heat is a factor in lamp life? I just purchased a 50in DLP, I may put a small computer fan on the outside of lamp access door, “exhausting” warm air and that may extend lamp life.
JNA
Dick Moore says:
November 20, 2007 at 10:08 am
Just checked my bulb hours as I have had the Samsung 50 inch DLP for 3 years, reading was 10,790 hours.
I turn it on in the morning and leave it on most of the day, maybe that is better than turning on and off many times. As related above after reaching OPTIONS I had to use right arrow button on remote to get the hours.
Great site —Keep up the good work.
I had the 3 Year extended service from Sears, they will clean you TV once a year free during the extended service.
My TV has shut itself down a few times, only a few, after my final cleaning, the technician left me a new bulb, I have not used it as the TV has not shut itself down since last cleaning.
Peter Chaleumchai says:
November 29, 2007 at 12:24 pm
Hello,
I try to reset the lamp meter hours for my Samsung HL-P5674W some how it don’t work with mute+1+8+2+power
Is there any others option available?
Thank you, Peter
San Diego
Van Ho says:
November 29, 2007 at 12:36 pm
Admin,
I have Samsung HLN617WX, and lamp code is BP96-00224E(P). The lamp goes out dead. I just bought two lamps using BP96-00224J which is a new replacement for BP96-00224E. I did a reset showing 5252 hours. However the color is not as clear as original lamp. Do you know why? Hope that I can get some advice or input from you. Thanks.
PECK says:
December 30, 2007 at 11:33 am
i tried the trick didnt work…. do u hold mute+1+8+2+power all together one at a time!!!!!!
seth says:
December 30, 2007 at 12:03 pm
Whew! I was worried! Thanks for the info. it worked first try thank you so much!!
Seth
Seattle
Rose says:
December 30, 2007 at 1:36 pm
Mute-1-8-2-power works. Thanks! Lamp life 11,734. I just replaced the lamp. How do I reset it? My options are “lamp clear” and “user reset”. Any advice….
Rose says:
December 30, 2007 at 1:43 pm
If anyone else has the same question, I chose “Lamp Clear” and it reset my lamp hours to 0.
Susan says:
January 3, 2008 at 9:26 pm
13720 hours. Purchased 3 yrs ago-was original factory lamp. Thanks for the info!
Dawn says:
January 3, 2008 at 11:08 pm
My color wheel just died and I’d like to now check for the lamp hours already used on my 4 1/2 year old Samsung 50″ HLN5065W TV. I have a Sound system hooked up and I only use the Samsung remote to turn TV on or off, everything else is controlled with the VCR remote. What would be the procedure for checking the used hours without replacing the bulb at this time? I’m still waiting for the color wheel (back order) is it OK to turn TV on while it’s making that horrible noise; will it do any further damage? Thanks for your help
Ron says:
January 4, 2008 at 6:50 pm
It worked for me too. I am a bit slow and tried holding all the buttons down at once…then realized you are suppose to press them sequentially. I got 7K+ hours from the original factory bulb. Thanks for the hand. Greatly appreciated. BTW I installed the newer and smaller lamp using the adapter ring and installation was a breeze.
Vince says:
January 4, 2008 at 8:34 pm
Hey all,
I just checked my hours using the above procedure and am happy to say I have 7,736 hours on my 2003 HLN467. The picture looks fine, just maybe a tad bit dark which I am only aware of since reading these postings. Though I am experiencing a high pitched humming/whine until about 3 minutes after the picture comes up. Any ideas?
Thanks
Vince Stanley San Diego
Mike Lentini says:
January 8, 2008 at 9:56 pm
Samsung 4674W
5283 hours on old lamp.
it would shut off randomly, then work for a few weeks, then do it all over again. Replaced the bulb with new small philips and it works fine for now. It’s hard to trust this thing after reading all the posts. Next time I will buy the 5 year warranty for 300 bucks!!
Thanks for the help everyone.
Carl LeVake says:
January 9, 2008 at 4:01 pm
I have a dumn question. When you say mute +1+8+2+power what is the plus? Is that a button your supposed to push? I tried using the enter button but still couldnt get it to work. I have a HLP6163W
I did read about putting the bulb back in if it wasnt working and that did work.
Dennis M says:
January 11, 2008 at 6:47 pm
Thx a lot for all the inputs from this site. From lamp code, to installation through lamp counter and resetting it as well. So educational!!! I think, I now have closer relationship with my hlp5085w. Replaced the old lamp with 10433 hrs on it and now enjoying the new lamp.
Discount-Merchant, you guys are awesome. Cheapest compare to what I’ve seen and quick delivery, as promised. Thanks again. Good Life everyone.
Dawn says:
January 19, 2008 at 8:49 am
I’ve had the color wheel replaced by a TV Tech (costly$425) the picture doesn’t seem as sharp as it had been prior to the wheel burn out. From your instructions it seems easy to change the bulb. I notice on comments there are variations to the instructions. I have 50″ HLN5065W with a side sticker showing SVC Model: HLN5065WX/XAA Made in Mexico, Ser. #3CFW800964K. Do you have specific instructions for that model? Also what bulb part number do I order? thanks for your help
Dominick laforgia says:
January 22, 2008 at 9:56 pm
Hello to all, just replaced by lamp , as it was going dark from time to time, unit is a samsung hl 5067w over 32 months old, since i work from home , it on all the time. lamp counter was 12,587 hours!!!! u read right, C.City tech was overwelmed, he was thinking i was over exaggerating when i mention it must be over 11,000 hour, and flip when he checked the counter
Dawn says:
January 24, 2008 at 10:03 pm
I’d like to try to replace the bulb on HLN5065W. I have a Panasonic Theatre sound system hooked to it. I only use the Samsung remote to turn TV on & off. The Panasonic remote is used for everything else. Will I be able to use the Samsung remote to key in functions for this bulb change? Which is the correct starting point to reset bulb hours; mute or menu + 1 + 8 +2 + power? Thanks for your help.
greg says:
January 28, 2008 at 3:34 pm
hello
I just replaced my bulb and my lamp comes on but my screen is still black. any ideas?
thanks
John says:
January 29, 2008 at 1:31 pm
Checked yesterday and had 8295 hours on original lamp.8 hours later it blew.I have to wait on one to be shipped and it sucks with the superbowl being this weekend.I have a Samsung HLR5667W.
Tom says:
February 5, 2008 at 11:18 am
I have a HLR4266W, and experienced the on/off scenario for about 2 weeks. Took the back cover off and removed the bulb, and blew low PSI compressed air over the circuit boards, fans, bulb, and plastic covers. There was quite a bit of dust that blew out. Put it all back together, and the TV works great.