The LG Smart TV is a great pioneer in 3D entertainment and makes for great viewing. It has a sleek design, and appealing look, and is available in various sizes.
The 42, 47, and 55-inch screens make home entertainment engaging. It has a spectacular LED display that makes images crystal-clear with its Full HD 1080p resolution.
However, we all have our preferences and you may decide to reset the TV to your desired standards, so it is good to know how to hard reset your LG Smart TV. If you want to reset your pin or parents’ password you don’t need to reset all TV. Just read this post.
Before you start reading this post don’t forget to read the comments there is a lot of useful information.
How to reset an LG tv?
- You can hard reset LG Smart TV by pressing Home, which will enable you to access the Home menu.
- On the Magic Motion, the remote are navigation buttons that will help you to scroll to the Set-Up option where you will press Enter.
- Next, press the navigation buttons again, scroll to Option, and press Enter.
- You will find the Smart TV Setting at the bottom of the list of options. Highlight it and then press Enter.
- Next, locate the command bar with the Reset Tab among the options at the top.
- Press Reset and scroll to the particular setting or option that you want.
- After choosing the desired settings, select Confirm to finalize your reset, and then press Enter.
- You have now reset your LG Smart TV.
- To return to the previous menu, press Back and when you are finished, press Exit.
You can automatically adjust and optimize TV audio. When the Smart Sound Mode is enabled, the Clear Voice II, Virtual Surround, and Sound Mode are automatically adjusted.
To do this, press the Smart button on the remote, then go to Smart Mode, this optimizes the TV to the selected sound mode, which can be Standard, Music, Sport, or Cinema.
After this, select Close. It is important to note that when Clear Voice II is on, Virtual Surround is not available.
LG tv factory reset without remote
If your remote not working or you lost it you can try to reset the LG tv without a remote.
- Try to reset it by using the keys on your TV.
- Try to download the universal remote app to your phone from the play market or Apple store and use it to reset your tv.
- Unfortunately but LG tv has no reset button as some manufacturers have.
LG TV FACTORY RESET CODES:
You can access the Factory Settings menu using the following methods and codes. The following codes are used to access the factory menu on LG TV. If the code does not work on your TV just try another one. There are a lot of models of LG tV
- INPUT + 3195
- INSTART + 0413
- MENU + 1105
- MENU + 9876
- MENU + 2663
- INPUT + 3195 + MENU + PIN
- INSTART + 0413 + PIN
- MENU + 8741
- MENU + 8743
- MENU + 7777
- MENU + 8878
- MENU + 0413
- MENU + 8665
- MENU + 0000
- MENU + 1234
- MENU + 5555
- MENU + 1147
- MENU + 1947
- MENU + 2008
If you need to reset the tv to original, factory presets but don’t have/remember the password. Go to any screen that asks for the password, hit the mute button 3 times. Another password box appears with asking for a 6 digit password. It is 129472. After entering this code you are asked to enter a new password. After entering a new 4 digit password you can then go ahead and go to settings and initial setup to do the hard reset. This is straight from LG customer support.
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No screen to look at to see if I’m even close to the right screen.
The tv has sound but no picture, so I can’t use the remote to reset it. if it can be reset
me too no Picture just sound
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Hallo guys i have new LG LED TV and my kids put a password and i don’t remember someones can help me do unlock?
Model: 49LB551T-TC
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Hi, may be you could help me! I bought last week a 47lb6500 and it has used 4.12gb of 4.3gb. I tried to uninstall all the preinstalled apps but nothing has changed.
Do you know if a hard reset could free space in the disk?
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Guys, i need help. On the security panel i block all the applications and now i cant enter the main menu for set up or anything. Should i do factory reset and if i should, how. Thanx.
Guys, i blocked all the applications in the security menu and now i cant enter Home menu. How i can do factory reset?
Mi smart TV lg 42LB5800 doesn’t allow to control by remote device, I can’t change volume, channel, go to smart tv, access by TVControl App, nothing works just turn on/ off with power button how can I reset it if can control it, warranty is due since may 2015, please help!!!
I have an issue with a 55LB5800 where the remote doesn’t affect the TV at all. I’ve changed the batteries and made certain nothing obstructs the IR receiver on the TV. The joystick under the TV does nothing either. I have to unplug the TV to turn it off. I can’t access Home to perform the hard reset. Any ideas before I call in a technician?
i’ve tried on LA 55LA970V, but don’t work, other solution? Thanks
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I have a 50pg20c that I need to factory reset please help
hi i have a LG 55LB700v TV is there a way to reset this as my mother has carelessly forgotten the passcode and with out it i cant reset it
Hello
I have turned on kaylock on my LG TV,now i forgot my password i cant change the channels…..
Please Some One Help Me
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Product :42CS461
42le5500 esqueci a senha e não consigo redefinir. Alguém que entenda e possa ajudar? Desde já agradeco
HELP, we have the 55in LG 3D smart tv and out son was pressing buttons on the tv itself because he thinks he is grown, I have no idea what button he pushed but the tv will come on and show “LF LIFE IS BETTER’ and then just go to a black screen?????????? How can I get the mode back on cable or get it to bring up the menu to view the settings? We have unplaugged EVERYTHING hoping that would restart it but no luck. Can we do a master reset since nothing is appearing on the screen???????????????? Feel free to email me directly at : tinamanley2010@yahoo.com
I can pick up sound but no picture on my LG TV when connecting my Sky HD box, it just shows LG logo and says no signal. It was working ok the day before and had not touched or changed anything?
model 42ld790-ZA
Hi — I have a problem with my TV. Audio is working but Video is not working. When I turnon TV I can see TV is on and a blank screen. Is this something fixable easily or not. Is this a Firmware issue ? HOME SCREEN is not coming up. Please help.
Hi — I have an LG47G2 TV. When I turn on the TV Audio is working but not Video. Screen is blank and I can see light in the back ground. Is this easy to fix or something that has to be done by the service person. I doubt if this could be due to firmware reasons and wondering if we this is a firmware issue. Any help is greatly appreciated.
Thank You.
I was having a problem getting my TV to do ANYTHING. It suddenly locked up one night on the clock screen (the screen you see when it first boots up) and I couldn’t get ANY keys on the remote to work.
I took out the MOBO, baked it at 275 for 15 minutes and viola, it works now!
A word of caution. There is a plastic piece that covers the HDMI and USB inputs on the MOBO. Pop that off or it will melt (as mine did lol). It didn’t melt completely, but it did melt to the point where it’s unusable. I have to contact LG for a replacement. They should give it to me for free for the poor design/QA.
Hi ..I can’t use any USB or memory card..it says application has stopped working …I called cc n thy say USB is corrupted ..I chngd it with d new one ..it still dsnt work…wht shud I do
mi tv se apago y ahora solo queda en el logo de lg y no pasa como si el software estuviese dañado o la tarjeta se bloqueo
Oh my god!!! Thank you very much for this article…its work for my LED 32LN5100
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Hi. I would just like to ask if desetting my LG smRt tv will bring back all the channels I lost during the thunderstorm? I checked the outket and cables wven retuned the tv. Still nothing. Help!
I bought a LG apparently is a commercial model LV555H now I want to use it at home but I can’t. How can I do a hard factory reset
Help! Have a LV555H checked online is a commercial TV cannot use it at home how can I do master reset
hi Nctrojanhorse — it worked well with my LG LED TV 32″
Thanks a lot… it works well on my LG LED TV 32″ Model 32LF550A-TE
I want to reset my tv
I can’t get YouTube just keeps comin up with network error 3 and I need the safety pin to take apps lock off I’ve got the 49 UB850v-zd can ya help me mate
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hi i have a LG LED 55 Smart TV is there a way to reset this as my mother has carelessly forgotten the password and with out it i cant reset it
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can’t do a factory reset . old android LG tv No Access to the TV settings is there another way to reset my TV . I was hoping there is a pin hole to reset tv like other devices do. TV got a bug.
take that tv to the LG electronics service center or call the local repair service
Hello, I’m having issues with my LG 49UF6490-UB. The volume randomly cuts for a few seconds then starts again. I also can not open advanced settings or the notifications tabs. I tried to factory reset already but it did not help. Any suggestions?
Why then clear the navigation channel settings must be reset LED LG
MY tv is jacked. I can’t do a factory reset because when I do it says “unfortunately settings has stopped” I can’t even watch tv because when I click on the screen to make the screen bigger it says “unfortunately home as stopped” and I can’t even access input to change inputs because it says “unfortunately one way remote has stopped” Can anyone help me? My email is brandonandbrandyw@yahoo.com
hello Brandy. It is look like program has error. I think your best solution is call to service center. thanks
Can you factory reset an LG smart tv without the magic motion or wand remote ?? I use an app on my cellphone (iPhone) please contact me
does anyone know how to factory reset my lg tv wothout a remote and without seeing the screen…?? my son turned the brightness all the way down and i cant see a thing… plz help
HI DID U GET ANY SOLUTION I HAVE A SIMILIAR PROBLEM
OK. Weirdest thing: the quick settings button only brings up the circle graphic with the x in it and none of the quick settings options shows up underneath. I need to access the settings.
hey guys ive got a problem with my lg 42lm620s tv when i try to turn it on all it does is the light flashing on the tv does any1 kno why this is? the tv turns on sometimes but not all the time.
Hi mate, Got back from work today (Xmas eve) to find my 1.5 yr old 55LB700V LG tv won’t go past the welcome screen. Had to rush out and buy a new TV as I can’t go through Xmas day watching a 28″ tv. Question is is their anything I can do or do I need an engineer to come and fix it? Foaming as the TV is immaculate. Cheers.
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Hello all,
is anyone able to help me with my issue, please?
I just tried to update firmware on my LG TV 55UG870V-ZA by manual method (download firmware file from LG website and extract it to USB flash drive into “LG_DTV” folder). Everything seemed good, so after update completed, TV was restarted and after restart only strange flashing screen without any normal image… In this moment I can only turn off TV…
Before fw update, my version was 2.xx.xx and I try to update 4.05.45 …
Is any way how to fix it? Some factory default or restore previous fw version from some service menu…
Many thanks, I am desperate from this :(
Hola buen dia. ¿Usted pudo resolver el problema que tiene o tenia el tv?
Gracias.
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I have a 55in LG smart tv ultra HD 55uf6450
And it is stuck in the startup phase with the three dots and the here we go screen.
Nothing seems to be working. I need help
Hi I have the same problem, did anyone help you with it as I tried everything
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Mine is 42LE5500-CA.
Its only displaying the LG Welcome Screen. Not able to access menu option. Some help
HELP, I have the 32in LG smart tv the tv will come on and show “LF LIFE IS BETTER’ and then just go to a black screen?????????? How can I get the mode back on cable or get it to bring up the menu to view the settings? We have unplaugged EVERYTHING hoping that would restart it but no luck. Can we do a master reset since nothing is appearing on the screen?
i dont have a remote so i used the buttons on the side to do factory reset but when it reaches the option to select general terms option 3 to accept the up down button is not selecting anything only the ok button can select all the terms and its just stuck on this part…
mine is 42LE8500-ZA
it has a really slow sound. please help me reset it. I have tried everything but to no avail. the sound is really really slow
I have the 55LA620V-ZA
I have a problem with the memory, I set up the tv but it won’t connect to the internet, I’ve checked the connection etc but it still won’t connect, so I can’t search for system updates either but that’s not the main problem main problem is that once the tv has been through the set up and the channels are saved etc once you turn the tv off and back on everything is gone and the set up screen is back and you have to go through this process ever time you turn the tv on. PLEASE HELP
Hello
i want to hard reset my LG47lm6200, how can i do it ? Please help me help.
Thanks
How do you do a manual reset? My TV menu is not working, neither are any smart functions for that matter. When I press the menu or My apps buttons all I get is a weird sqare puzzle on my screen. The TV itself has one button for on and off. I tried pressing it for various amounts of time, but it only switches on or off, does not reset the TV. This on and off button is esentially a joystick like button, can move in 4 directions, but those do nothing either, so I’m stumped. Is there any way I can manually reset this not so smart smart TV?
Hi everyone, I need help , when I turn my tv on it shows the lg welcome screen then three coloured dots blue , green and yellow, I can not get passed that, I tried all the reset options on different sites nothing doing, I can’t turn the tv off with the main on/off bottom on the tv, only turns off with the remote control, anyone know what’s wrong with it, thanks