TV turns on randomly on its’ own

Could be your remote. See my post. We had to remove the remotes batteries at night.

Unfortunately, after 7 days since receiving the new remote our TV turned on again, by itself, tonight. Any suggestions on what to do now?

No timer. We have both the TV and Xfinity DVR plugged directly into the wall. Still testing if remote is the issue, by removing batteries when TV is off.

We had two remotes in the room, 1 is new. We removed the batteries from the older remote yesterday, and the TV turned on again tonight. When the TV is off, we will remove the batteries from both remotes. Waiting to see if TV still comes on.

No, we have not swapped out any HDMI cables. Wouldn't using coax cables reduce the quality of the TV? Both the TV and the DVR are plugged directly into the wall.

Peg4, 

 

Thank you so much for trying.

 

Did the remotes without the batteries still have the tv come on? 

Updated: December 15, 2019

Our 65" Samsung TV (with Xfinity as the Cable and Internet provider) was purchased in 2014, with no issues until the last 8+ months. Issue: The TV turns on by itself. This Samsung TV is connected to the main DVR, we have the Xfinity X1 platform, cable TV and Internet. (Note: We have a total of 3 Samsung TV's, 2 are older models, and do NOT turn on, they are not connected to the main Xfinity DVR.

List of what we have tried to remedy this problem...
• Replaced remote batteries
• Replaced remote with a new X1 remote.
• Before turning off the TV, at night, we make sure the last 2 or 3 viewed channels are on "LIVE" viewing.
• Removed batteries from remote at night, when done watching. (Usually the TV turned on no more than 1 hour after turning off the TV.) Sometimes this happened multiple times a night. Many times we noticed there was a scheduled program recording that recently ended ... but not always.
• Disconnected Sony DVD player from TV and Xfinity DVR. No other devices are connected to the TV except a Samsung sound bar.
• We turned off the internet connection to our TV.
• Turned "OFF" all HDMI (Any-Net) settings in TV. (see image)
• Removed the batteries from the remote. (This seemed to help for a while, or maybe it was just a coincidence.)
• We turned off ,TV settings for automatic Software Updates.

•••• Currently trying this...
Disconnecting the HDMI cables from the Xfinity DVR at night. Note: Tonight we turned off the TV, and immediately disconnected the HDMI cable and the TV turned itself back with the message... "No HDMI Connection". This happened twice. So we turned off the TV, and then waited atleast 30 seconds before disconnecting the HDMI cables from the Xfinity DVR. The TV did NOT turn back on that time. (I'll post an update on this possible [annoying] fix.

Does anyone have any other suggestions to try?

Note: We do not know if this is an Xfinity issue or Samsung issue, or a combination. Others have posted that their (NON Samsung) TV turns on by itself. So it has to be a feature (bug) that these TVs share, or possibly an HDMI cable issue... or Xfinity cpuld possibly be triggering the issue (bug) with their software for the X1 platform.

Removing the batteries from the remote no longer working.

Update, 9/10/19
Suddenly the TV is turning back on again about 4 times over the last week.

Here is my 2 guesses., as to why after months of no issues, the TV has started turning on again.
(1) TV shows that we have scheduled to record, were not recording over the summer. Niw with the new FALL season beginning, those shows are now recording again. The TV comes on, between 10 to 11 pm EST.
(2) Xfinity did another software update, related to the remote functions. We previously determined the Xfinity remote was causing the TV to turn on. We got a new remote, new batteries, but the TV still came on. Then we removed the batteries each evening, and the TV did not come on. And the season ended over the summer.

Anyone with Comcast/ Xfinity figure out why this is happening? Read my previous posts for more details. This is really frustrating. Thanks for any help!

Hi all - wanted to jump into this conversation as we are expereiencing the same thing with a brand new Vizio 75 inch Quantum P series. We use a new 4k xfinity cable box. TV is a month old, they came and replaced the motherboard and still the TV turned on by itself. I have made sure that nothing at ALL was plugged into the TV and it still turns on. They sent me a BRAND NEW TV and the issue is still occuring! I am at a loss - close to returning the VIZIO but something is telling me it is NOT the TV. I have NOT tried the remote trick that Peg has but I will tonight and see if the problem continues.