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cold weather issues

I posted first on Jan. 1 about losing signal on clear nights when temp. dips below -5 degrees, and I responded to some of you, but it seems that many of those posts have been removed from this forum! Well I think I got my issue resolved as of yesterday. It seems that I, like many other DIRECTV custo

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Cold Weather

Ive had Direct about a month and last night was the first night beloe 32 degrees my reception went away around 10 last night and statred working again around 10 this morning just wondering if anyone has had this happen if so what did they do?

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Losing HD & Locals in cold weather

We live in Iowa and had DirecTV installed in October. In December we had several days where temps dropped below 0, sometimes way below. When this happens we lose the local channels through DirecTV and most of the HD channels freeze up. We can still get the SD signals for those channels. We do not ha

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Cold Temps = Searching for Satellite 771

Our system was installed in September.  Service has been good until a few weeks ago when we started experiencing lost channels on our HD receivers (searching for satellite 771).  The same channels that don't work on the HD receivers work fine on the SD receivers.  I noticed the problem occurs when o

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Lost Signal when cold

Its amazing. I lost signal last night as the sun went down. Didnt have signal till 9AM this morning.Now I have signal, what did I learn.The temp has been below 0 past couple nights. When I went out last night after losing signal I had a fine layer of frost on dish. Went out this morning still had fr

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Outage because of cold

Does any one know when att will be back up and running? I live in the Chicagoland area. It has been out all day and no one has been able to answer my questions when I call. The house phone internet and tv is down.

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Left Out in the HD Cold

As of 3/31/2010 DirecTV is removing the last few HD channels I can get: those in the 70s (ESPNHD, ESPN2HD, HBOH, HDNet, and HDTheater). They offer a "free upgrade" to the HR-junk receivers, but I insist on waiting for the TiVo. I love the TiVo UI, have three HR10-250s and two other SD TiVos, and my

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Those signal readings look great. You should be able to still bring up the signal menu, even when the error is happening.  Also try spraying cold water on the dish LNB.  If it's a temperature sensitive LNB, then the cold water will make it work again

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771A only during the day

I just had a new install about a week ago and I am having a problem that I don't quite understand.  Around 10:00 AM or so just about every day I am getting the 771A message on both of my receivers.  The first day that it happened I called Direct TV and went through all of the troubleshooting tips wi

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I’m really getting cold feet switching now.. 

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How to Stay logged in on a TV (Samsung)

I'm new to Direct TV stream and have to log in each time to the app on my Samsung TV which is a pain. Does anyone know how to stay logged in to the app on the TV? Thanks, Frank

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it says to unhide your non hd channels ..how the hell do u do that..all my guides just show hd....

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Local Channels in Cincinnati Out?

Since 10 am est this morning all of our local channels have been out with the message saying not to call DTV they are working on the issue. It has been almost 4 hours. Wanted to know if anyone has any insight? Thanks.

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Yule log for 12/25/2022?

Is there a yule log available today? 12/25/2022? Still too cold in Wisconsin to use our real fireplace!

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@Neldad Quickest thing to try is unplug power and let it do a cold start-up.

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Uverse tv trying to boot up

Trying to watch tv, on main screen just cycling. Looks like it is trying to boot up

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But they ARE cold calls...and they ARE scam calls whether you want to accept it or not.

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Constant scam calls

Daily I get scam calls trying to give me 50% off my bill. Only makes sense that direct tv is selling my info and that’s why these scammers are calling me since I don’t get a call from any other service providers. I believe it’s time direct tv be held liable for this

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Go to Menu>Interactive>Interactive Apps>Weather and click on The Weather Channel app. The spinning green wheel will disappear. No need for a cold boot.

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Green rotating circle

Do you know why I have a green rotating circle in the lower right corner of my tv picture. It started a couple hours ago. The picture is otherwise fine.

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Thank you very much for the help.  We live in Texas so it doesn't get that cold here.  50+ degrees outside now.

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Bury a cable

Last summer, over 6 months ago, someone moved in the house across the street from me.  A few days later AT&T came out and ran an orange cable from the box at the back corner of my house (I live on the corner), down the side of the street, across the front of my house, then across the street to the n

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YEA!  Glad they got you up and running.  What you described is a "hard reset/reboot".   Kudos for the hot & cold water comment!

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Be sure you ask for a DVR that records, or you might get a DVR that doesn't record

After two hours total of AT&T support, rebooting, reinstalling firmware, we finally discovered the solution to the problem.  I wanted to share it here so others don't have to deal with this.If you order U-verse Total Home DVR, a technician will come out and install the modem, install the TV set-top

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Glad I stumbled across this.  I just hooked up an XBox One X this weekend and having the same issue.  Question, does the cold boot erase everything?

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Uverse box will not play through XBOX One X

I just got an XBOX One X and tried to use the hdmi cable to hook the uverse cable box directly to it like I had with my XBOX One.  But, the xbox one x and the att uverse cable box isn't showing any television at all.  It says "your tv signal was lost".  But, I have changed the hdmi cable 3 times to

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That Explains it! --the Account you cancelled are you sure That contract was complete --DO you have written proof  that it was complete -- Also How about the old Account number, You may just be in AT&T Hell for a lot longer

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Early termination fee

I have spent over 10 hours the last three months arguing with ATT about an early termination fee that was incorrectly applied. How do I speak with somebody so I will not be wasting my time contacting ATT 100 times about my bill? This is sad and frustrating. I'm unsure of how ATT can hold you to any

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