{"id":362,"date":"2016-01-01T00:00:07","date_gmt":"2016-01-01T06:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"index.php?p=362"},"modified":"2021-07-30T08:25:05","modified_gmt":"2021-07-30T14:25:05","slug":"upgrading-the-firmware-of-seikis-se39uy04-39-hdtv-to-the-final-jan-09-2015-version","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ysutopia.net\/blog\/?p=362","title":{"rendered":"Upgrading the firmware of Seiki&#8217;s SE39UY04 39&#8243; 4KHDTV to the final Jan 09, 2015 version."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Introduction: The Seiki 39&#8243; LED HDTV with 4K @ 30Hz support and true 120Hz support @ 1080p!<\/p>\n<p>I had been looking into buying a big screen monitor\/TV for my PC and settled on this one which can do 4K but at 30Hz. It runs 1080p @ 60-120Hz nicely from a DVI situation adapted to HDMI where audio is separately delivered by analog means, a feature that&#8217;ll be more rare in the future, as well as providing a VGA input port (extremely rare now). I think I&#8217;m pretty happy with it and ultimately scored it for a total of $211! With an extra $25 I threw in for a new videocard, my HDMI output now includes digital audio, so it behaves much better with any HDTV and no special mixing required! 1080p @ 120Hz is REALLY beautiful on this TV and likely will be the reason I keep it!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.microcenter.com\/product\/451211\/39_(Refurbished)_LED_4k_Ultra_HDTV\">http:\/\/www.microcenter.com\/product\/451211\/39_(Refurbished)_LED_4k_Ultra_HDTV<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seiki.com\/content\/39-se39uy04-led-ultra-hdtv\">http:\/\/www.seiki.com\/content\/39-se39uy04-led-ultra-hdtv<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s5.postimg.cc\/m5vocrmzr\/SE39_UY04_LED_ULTRA_HDTV_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Mission Accomplished! Seiki came through and emailed me back with the firmware today. The back&#8217;n&#8217;forth wait with them took about 4-5 days, and as I mentioned, I bought another one by the time they got back to me which had the 2015 firmware daveo said he received.<\/p>\n<p>Well, I almost didn&#8217;t feel like it as I had the first TV with the 2014 firmware boxed up to return for a refund, but I decided to install what they gave me for testing purposes and just for the heck of it so whoever rebuys it will be up-to-date.<\/p>\n<p>So, yeah, confirmed, what they gave me is same Jan 09 2015 firmware, thus I&#8217;m presuming this is likely the final version the SE39UY04 model will receive, so for those of you that wanna upgrade, here ya go!!! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>My download link for backup (with ReadMe\/instructions):<\/p>\n<p>1) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediafire.com\/download\/ftfq9d9tmf0xsns\/Seiki-SE39UY04-FinalFirmware-Jan-09-2015.zip\">http:\/\/mediafire.com\/download\/&#8230;\/Seiki-SE39UY04-FinalFirmware-Jan-09-2015.zip<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Original from Seiki &#8211; no idea how long it&#8217;ll last:<\/p>\n<p>2) <a href=\"http:\/\/1drv.ms\/1Uaenhg\">http:\/\/1drv.ms\/1Uaenhg<\/a><\/p>\n<p>So, after upgrading with this install.img, your service menu should show you this:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s5.postimg.cc\/kvazc2zaf\/Seiki_SE39_UY04_Firmware2015.png\"><\/p>\n<p>As my new, 2nd TV already shipped with this same version, I didn&#8217;t need it since they had nothing newer, but I hope it will be helpful to others so have it also!<\/p>\n<p>***************************************************************<\/p>\n<p>One last ProTip: Fixing the random blanking problem.<\/p>\n<p>In a previous post, I mentioned how I solved my blanking problem with this TV when I activated 1920&#215;1280 @ 120Hz with my computer. I felt I should repeat that info should it be helpful to others.<\/p>\n<p>This applies when using the Custom Resolution Utility to output 1080p at a glorious 120 Hz instead of 60 Hz&#8230; This TV\/monitor is beautiful once you can get it to 120 Hz, that&#8217;s for sure!!!<\/p>\n<p>So, here&#8217;s what I did wrong: In trying to create a custom resolution\/refresh profile for my Radeon 5450 video card using ToastyX&#8217;s CRU 1.2.6, I selected the first option under Timing which was &#8220;LCD standard.&#8221; However, this was not ideal with the Seiki 39&#8243; and would occasionally cause blanking regardless of the firmware I later realized&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The fix: I edited the profile and tried the 2nd option &#8220;LCD Native&#8221; which defaults to a perfect\/even 120.000 Hz (instead of 120.003 Hz) for the vertical refresh rate, and 135.000 kHz, etc. In the end, the profile should be listed as &#8220;1920&#215;1080 @ 120.000 Hz (297.00 Mhz)&#8221; &#8211; you want even values, no fractions, e.g. 120.003, etc.!<\/p>\n<p>So, if you&#8217;re having this problem and you created your own profile to force the option of 1080p @ 120 Hz, you might try checking that profile again.<\/p>\n<p>So yeah, that&#8217;s how I fixed the blanking problem, the settings for the custom creation of a new 120Hz resolution were not quite right&#8230; Don&#8217;t blame the TV just yet or the HDMI wire, although you&#8217;d want a quality, heavy gauged cable and not the el cheapos to rule the connection out. I changed firmware multiple times before having another look and realizing it was something as simple as this!<\/p>\n<p>Your 1080p @ 120Hz profile should like exactly like these screenshots and that&#8217;s what totally eliminated the blanking problem for my TV:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s5.postimg.cc\/93iinjfaf\/CRU_01.png\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s5.postimg.cc\/7083fvfhj\/CRU_02.png\"><\/p>\n<p>If you have an Nvidia card, you can use its proprietary driver software to set up a custom resolution so it&#8217;d be different then, but just make sure the 120 Hz is an even 120.000 Hz and the horizontal is an even 135.000 kHz, etc. As long as the clock limit doesn&#8217;t go over 300 Mhz, the 120 Hz resolution should appear in the Windows control panel app or your video card&#8217;s driver software. For 1080p, if you did it right, the clock limit should be a perfect 297.000 Mhz as shown.<\/p>\n<p>P.S. Follow this whole guide below if you&#8217;ve never done this before as you&#8217;ll need to patch your AMD\/Radeon or Nvidia drivers to get 120 Hz going:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blurbusters.com\/overclock\/120hz-pc-to-tv\/\">http:\/\/www.blurbusters.com\/overclock\/120hz-pc-to-tv\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Introduction: The Seiki 39&#8243; LED HDTV with 4K @ 30Hz support and true 120Hz support @ 1080p! I had been looking into buying a big screen monitor\/TV for my PC and settled on this one which can do 4K but at 30Hz. It runs 1080p @ 60-120Hz nicely from a DVI situation adapted to HDMI [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ysutopia.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ysutopia.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ysutopia.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ysutopia.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ysutopia.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ysutopia.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ysutopia.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ysutopia.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ysutopia.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}