Is the s95b a buy now with price drops?

MrRockliffe · 3 Jul 2023 at 11:32

CaptainRAVE said:
Was fine last night. Woke up this morning to an infinite boot loop with occasional green half of the screen

Gutted. Really struggling to adjust back to my old screen too. Going to have to wait to see what Samsung say I guess, but that could take weeks. All the similar repair posts online report the same happening again.

So I’m a bit stuck. They’ll tell AO.com it can be repaired and as such I won’t get a refund. So I’ll end up massively out of pocket and getting the G3 instead.

How long have you had it? I believe within first 30 days you can request a straight refund.

CaptainRAVE · 3 Jul 2023 at 11:33

MrRockliffe said:
How long have you had it? I believe within first 30 days you can request a straight refund.

To add insult to injury, 38 days

I guess I’ll just have to see what happens with the repair/replacement.

MrRockliffe · 3 Jul 2023 at 11:34

CaptainRAVE said:
To add insult to injury, 38 days

If it breaks again, you’ll be able to request a refund :-)

CaptainRAVE · 3 Jul 2023 at 11:34

MrRockliffe said:
If it breaks again, you’ll be able to request a refund

You mean after the ‘repair/replacement’?

MrRockliffe · 3 Jul 2023 at 11:36

CaptainRAVE said:
You mean after the ‘repair/replacement’?

Yeah exactly. I think you need to give them the opportunity to repair after 30 days.

If the repair fails/it breaks again, you’d be able to request a refund.

CaptainRAVE · 3 Jul 2023 at 11:36

MrRockliffe said:
Yeah exactly. I think you need to give them the opportunity to repair after 30 days.

If the repair fails/it breaks again, you’d be able to request a refund.

That’s good to know at least. I guess I just need to use it lots once it returns.

MrRockliffe · 3 Jul 2023 at 11:38

CaptainRAVE said:
That’s good to know at least. I guess I just need to use it lots once it returns.

If it doesn't break again, then great :-)

Personally wouldn't get another Samsung TV. The Tizen OS is awfully slow.

Generally though, it does the job and was an immediately noticeable upgrade from my old LG CX from a colour perspective.

CaptainRAVE · 3 Jul 2023 at 11:39

MrRockliffe said:
If it doesn't break again, then great

Personally wouldn't get another Samsung TV. The Tizen OS is awfully slow.

Generally though, it does the job and was an immediately noticeable upgrade from my old LG CX from a colour perspective.

Yeah, that’s a good point. Cheers mate, appreciate the post, very helpful.

hornetstinger · 3 Jul 2023 at 12:02

Google searching is bringing fair number of green screen failures.

Likely to be the main PCB video processor?

CaptainRAVE · 3 Jul 2023 at 13:19

Going backwards from OLED is painful

the shadow · 3 Jul 2023 at 13:46

Samsung

CaptainRAVE · 5 Jul 2023 at 13:06

They are sending out an engineer who I’ve requested for Friday, but they need to confirm. Could be anytime within the next couple of weeks I guess. Hopefully they can get it going again, then I have lots of time to test it!

tonyli3 · 5 Jul 2023 at 18:13

CaptainRAVE said:
They are sending out an engineer who I’ve requested for Friday, but they need to confirm. Could be anytime within the next couple of weeks I guess. Hopefully they can get it going again, then I have lots of time to test it!

Blimey been a member on here for donkeys without posting in years
Can be beyond a ball ache when a pride and joy tv goes kaput!still remember 3 years ago when my then 2 year old b7 developed horrible screen burn from playing loads of borderlands and it’s anti oled cartoon hud!
Hope the engineer turns up and sorts a fix for you Captain,you never know might take back off and squirt a little 3 in 1 oil in and be bobs your aunty

CaptainRAVE · 11 Jul 2023 at 18:59

Well, part came in early and they had a cancellation, so they’re repairing it tomorrow. Fingers crossed. I wonder how long it’ll last this time. I’ll be putting some decent gaming time in the coming weeks.

It says a lot that I haven’t been able to game on my old TV.

CaptainRAVE · 12 Jul 2023 at 15:51

Well they changed the panel, didn’t take long. I’m a bit sceptical as to how long it’ll last, but we’ll see I guess. For now, back to glorious OLED

robj20 · 12 Jul 2023 at 16:08

CaptainRAVE said:
I now have to wait for Samsung to ‘repair’ it. They can bin it for all I care. Need to try to force a refund, although not sure of the best course of action here.

When mine went wrong after about 4 months it took a bit of faff but got Richer Sounds to just swap it.

CaptainRAVE · 24 Jul 2023 at 11:44

So far so good with the repair, however, I was feeling the image to be a tad dim and it just wasn’t ‘popping’ for me whatever settings I tried. I read that firmware 14xx was a downgrade from release firmware and that the maxlux mod outlined below could fix this. Well last night I took the plunge and wow, what a difference to the picture, it really is impressive now.

2022 Samsung S95B dedicated GAMING thread, consoles and PC

www.avsforum.com

MrRockliffe · 24 Jul 2023 at 21:48

CaptainRAVE said:
So far so good with the repair, however, I was feeling the image to be a tad dim and it just wasn’t ‘popping’ for me whatever settings I tried. I read that firmware 14xx was a downgrade from release firmware and that the maxlux mod outlined below could fix this. Well last night I took the plunge and wow, what a difference to the picture, it really is impressive now.

2022 Samsung S95B dedicated GAMING thread, consoles and PC

www.avsforum.com

That will likely have voided your warranty unfortunately if you accessed the service menu

From memory, it flags something in the software - if Samsung happen notice this, they may refuse a fix.

CaptainRAVE · 24 Jul 2023 at 21:55

MrRockliffe said:
That will likely have voided your warranty unfortunately if you accessed the service menu

From memory, it flags something in the software - if Samsung happen notice this, they may refuse a fix.

Yeah, it’s a risk, but most people haven’t had an issue with it and tbh if I’m not enjoying the tv without the change then the warranty is moot anyway.

The service guy who came last time didn’t even check.