XG1V4 box HDMI handshake problem

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@Rozr1 wrote:
I've had this issue ever since getting my 4k box. I have a samsung hu8550 (2014). Tech came out and said to try new hdmi cable. Try new hdmi cables that exceed 4k specs and still have same issues. Only way to get picture is to power box off and on. Guess I need to try hdmi color off and also should try port 3 on my tv since its 2.2 hdcp capable. All the other hdmi ports are hdmi 2.0 which are 4k ready.

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Rozr1

Several months ago I had the issue that had been going on for many months with my Q7 2017 Samsung TV  I have many posts you can review around Jan and Feb   Tried everything, new boxes, cables, comcast out 4 times, telephone calls to comcast nothing workied UNTIL  one of the members of the forum said try turning off th UHD to the HDMI port the x1 box is connected to.  It will not change the picture quality

I did that and have not had the issue even once since then.  Give it a try maybe will work for you   Good Luck

Thanks. I will try this solution on my Samsung 4K and report back in a couple of weeks.

Hi @WindsurfMaui, thanks for reaching out to our Forums! I'm sorry to hear about this connection issue you are experiencing between the X1 cable box an your TV. I would be more than happy to assist you with this! So from what you can tell, the box still appears to be online when it losses connection to the TV? Also when you reboot the cable box, it automatically just reconnects to the TV during the reboot? You don't have to adjust the HDMI cable or anything like that, correct? 

I have been good with no problems for almost 3 months now since i turned off the "HDMI UHD Color" port that connects to my Samsung TV from theXG1v4-A  as recomended by Samsung Tech Support. According to Samsung the HDMI UHD Color has to be on only if your doing gaming because it effects the refresh rate but has no effect on the 4K input .It's not a fix for the problem but a good HANDSHAKE workaround solution for me. I did the HDMI cable update which made no difference in my case. Having the box go into sleep mode also worked for me . Comcast called me 2 weeks ago and said their coming out with another update to the box soon which hopefully will work for me. All previous updates have not worked for me but did work for other customers. 

Yes to all your questions. Reboot to the box works everytime, HDMI Color is still turned on. Boxhas been replaced twice, Supervisor and a tech spent 3 hours checking all wiring ,signal levels and line noise but everything is fine.Prior to this there were many regular tech out to my house and tried everything possible with no success, thats when I requested a Supervisor or higher level tech come out.The Supervisor attributed the probem to the cable box and somebody calsl me everytime they send a update to my 4k box. I don't know what you can do that they haven't done but appreciate your help or suggestions. Think I need a fine tuned golden box  to fix my problem. 

Yes changing to 1080 does correct problem which was tried in the very begining . Doing that brings me back to the older box that I had before this one. I wanted a 4k box because I have Netflix which I'm getting from Comcast and that has a lot of 4k programing .

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@RickGr4 wrote:
The XG1V4 looks better on all programming including Netflix when set to 1080p.

I use my Sony 4K UHD Blu-ray player or Roku Ultra streamer when I am serious about watching 4K and or HDR programs.

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That is exactly what happened to us. When I switched the DVR settings from 4K to 1080p it immediately improved the color settings  on regular TV programs. We haven't logged into Netflix yet but I would assume the color settings are better there as well. And I am willing to accept this compromise for now but hope Comcast will fix the connection issue before 4K becomes common.

Both my 10+ year old DVR and the new 4K DVR are showing the same release. 97.1.2 as of 4/2/2019 

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@RickGr4 wrote:

New software and firmware roll out in waves across the country. It can be a  week or two before everyone has the latest. Comcast never provides exact dates.

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@jmg1951 wrote:
I was told by Comcast that their waiting for .3 release to be released because they want to send it to me to try, that was 3 weeks ago.

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Guess we’ll (I will See). I’ve been dealing with for many months (Check  my posts from Jan) a member on the forum suggested a couple of months ago that I not select the UHD going into my Samsung 2017 Q7  TV from the X1 box. It worked for a few months since he suggested.  After seeing some posted there were Comcast updates that had come out   I tried turning the UHD HDMI PORT BACK ON.  guess what.?  The next morning when I turned everything on again, the HANDSHAKE propblem back.  Had to restart the X1.  Then I once again put the HDMI Port back to UHD.  Now NO MORE HANDSHAKE ISSUES. just like before

anyway for me the issue was resolved a few months ago my turning off UHD to that HDMI port

just one thing I have seen a few posts that some said that by turning off the UHD to the port you will not get a UHD 4K picture.  Well, for me just as the person said that suggested that, IT IS TRUE (at least for my system) there is no detoriation in picture quality.  The person that suggested doing that said that it  is because of the way the X1 sends the signal.   I have no idea BUT what that forum person said was correct, at least for me and my system. 

Hope this is helpful because I’ve seen so many conflicting posts

rlee131