Yeah, I knew you did:)

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I am sorry to hear that the TV started acting up again, Albert. You probably should have went ahead and resoldered all of the LED's. My TV is still playing well. But from now on when I do a repair like that, I will go ahead and resolder every LED since I already have the TV apart.
I ordered 100 LED's from China so I will have some in the future if I have to replace some. I now have a good board preheater so I can do a better job replacing LED's if the need arises.

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Good news on the SUPERB universal SUPERIOR USB programmable remote controller which I received superfast today! Above Medion codes didn't work for my MD20174 tv BUT Medion code MD20272 worked perfectly! So I think that this Superior USB 4in1 remote controller is a must have and also a very affordable device!!! Programming only took a few minutes and is SuperEasy!

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Hi Christopher,

I am glad that I worked on my TV. After disassembly and troubleshooting, all I had to do was remove the first pair of LED strips, resolder the LED's on the first one, and adjust their LED strip coupler pins. It would have costed me $300 - $400 to buy a new TV had I just thrown it away and bought a new one like most people do.

I may have found one for a little less than $300 if I caught it on sale. I replaced the primary e-cap and removed the factory glue for good measure since I already had it opened up. That saved me money that I used toward buying a new digital scope!

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Thanks Humberto. After fixing this Medion I still need a matching IR remote controller. So I tried all my 5 different programmable universal IR remotes but none worked. And I couldn't find the right code for this MD20174 Medion tv why I bought another USB programmable universal IR remote from this firm: https://superior-electronics.com/ on eBay.
Their programmer software database with over 260.000 codes is free and I bought an USB 4in1 Superior model and another IR programmer for my older standard also Superior type 4in1 remote. So I will be able to program two Superior remotes for hopefully any device in my home including the Medion tv. I hope that the available Superior database codes for Medion tv's type md20170 and md20171 do work with my repaired tv.

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Thank you Christopher. Like you I normally do not repair tv's. Simply because without schematics or service manuals they are very hard to fix. But occasionally they find my way like the Medion tv in this article. Which makes it more interesting to invest some time and money on trying to fix them.

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