Wondering how to use phone as TV remote? The answer depends on your TV. This article covers two official routes: Samsung's SmartThings remote for Samsung TVs and projectors, and Google's Google TV app for Google TV and Android TV, using an Android phone. Other TV brands and iPhones aren't covered.
How to factory reset an LG TV comes down to one menu option, and LG's support page gives it a different name. In the page text we reviewed, LG calls it a reset to initial settings. This guide follows that page. It is LG's guidance for LG TVs, not a rule for every brand.
Why is my LG TV not turning on? LG's own troubleshooting page for a TV with no power points to four possible causes and walks through three checks you can do yourself. This guide summarizes that page. It is LG's guidance for LG TVs, not a rule for every brand.
Why is my LG TV not turning on? LG's own troubleshooting page for a TV with no power points to four possible causes and walks through three checks you can do yourself. This guide summarizes that page. It is LG's guidance for LG TVs, not a rule for every brand.
How high should a TV be mounted? Samsung's answer starts with the people watching: measure the height of your eyes from the floor when you sit in your usual spot. This guide follows the "How high to mount the TV" section of Samsung's US support page on wall mounting. It is Samsung's guidance, not a universal rule.
If you want to know how to calibrate Roku TV colors, the most specific numbers come from RTINGS, which published the picture settings it used on the Roku Select Series (2023). This page walks through those settings as RTINGS' page lists them. The page shows "Updated Nov 24, 2023".
Samsung says the About This TV page is where to check your TV's model code and other product details. This guide covers how to find Samsung TV model number details using the steps Samsung gives on its US support page.
It covers the menu route only. It follows Samsung's "Find your Samsung TV's model number and menu information" page, and it doesn't claim that the menus look the same on every Samsung TV.
"Mini LED" on a TV box sounds like a specific technology, but the name is looser than it seems. So what is a Mini LED TV? According to RTINGS, most Mini LED TVs use a backlight made of many thousands of much smaller LEDs, which lets the TV dim the backlight in many separate zones.
A TCL Google TV stuck in a reboot loop might sit on a logo, show a recovery menu, or restart again and again. TCL Support has a guide for exactly this situation, How to Troubleshoot a TCL Google TV in Recovery Mode, and this page walks through it in order. We haven't tested these steps.
The question of how to connect a soundbar to TV equipment you already own is mostly about planning, not about the cable itself. Which devices plug into the TV, which into the soundbar, and which port carries the sound all depend on each other. This guide follows RTINGS' soundbar setup article, which shows "Updated Oct 08, 2025". We haven't tested any of it, and we leave out the specific models the article uses as examples.