My very first post on the new Beoworld so, please be tolerant.  I have had a Beo4 remote for about 18 months to control my BC 9300.  You will not be surprised to hear that, although the BC 9300 is behind me I can 'fire it up' etc no matter which direction I point the Beo4.  As from yesterday this no longer applies & when I point the Beo4 in the opposite direction to the Beo4 nothing happens.  Being a total 'Thicko'  I assume (& pray) that this just means new batteries are required?  Comments please. 

I would assume that new batteries are required. Worth changing them before you go any further. The beo4 is fairly bombproof apart from falls onto hard surfaces and people spilling suff into the keypad!!

Oh! by the way, welcome to Beoworld.

Hi,

Welcome on the forum. The beo4 shows on the diplay when new batteries are required.

I think you should 'program' the beo 4 first before you could use it for diffrent B&O equipment.

Or maybe your BC9300 has a 'remote lock', I mean that you have to set your BC9300 to remotecontrol before it reacts on the commands of the beo4. 

Just a few suggestions, but maybe someone else knows the real problem.

Greetings,

Ruud 

ruudvdklauw:

Welcome on the forum. The beo4 shows on the diplay when new batteries are required.

Alex:

ruudvdklauw:

Welcome on the forum. The beo4 shows on the diplay when new batteries are required.

Does it? I've used Beo4s which have died as soon as I've pressed a button, but they show nothing extra on the display. Am I missing something?

Me too!

Thanks Graham.  As I'm always very gentle with my 'toys'  you've come up with just the reply I wanted.

John

Hi,

My beo4 really does give the sign ´Battery´ when they are low. Maybe some older or just newer types do not, my beo4 is about 7 years old.

Greetings,

Ruud

ruudvdklauw:

Hi,

My beo4 really does give the sign ´Battery´ when they are low. Maybe some older or just newer types do not, my beo4 is about 7 years old.

Greetings,

Ruud

On the older ones which the LCD screen dulls and then disappears. It happens so infrequently that you forget what is happening.

Beoaus

Hi Ruud. You must have a special Beo4!
I have about fiteen Beo4s and I have never seen Battery on the display.
Jerryatric, If it was fine for the last 18 months I wouldn't mess with the programming. Just whack some new batteries in. Bet that restores it to it's former glory.
Welcome to Beoworld, glad to see you went for gold

Andy T.

jandyt:

Hi Ruud. You must have a special Beo4!
I have about fiteen Beo4s and I have never seen Battery on the display.
Jerryatric, If it was fine for the last 18 months I wouldn't mess with the programming. Just whack some new batteries in. Bet that restores it to it's former glory.
Welcome to Beoworld, glad to see you went for gold

Andy T.

I agree 100% Andy and I've got a few Beo4's too.

Hello to all,

I can't show pictures of the beo4 with 'battery' in the display, because I don't have low batteries in the beo4 or in stock now.

But I can show pictures of the instruction manual (in dutch only, sorry) of the beo4 in which you can read what the display shows in case of low battery capacity.

The problem is: how do I attach pictures to this reply, I'm not very handy with computerprograms.

Bye,

Ruud

Hello to all,

I can't show pictures of the beo4 with 'battery' in the display, because I have no low batteries in the beo4 or in stock now.

I can show pictures of the instruction manual of the beo4 (in dutch only, sorry) in which you can read what the display shows in case of low battery capacity.

The problem is: how do I attach pictures to this reply, I'm not very handy with computerprograms.

Bye,

Ruud

Wow!
I feel really guilty suggesting that you could be mistaken, Ruud.
I have just checked on my English manual (New version AMEM etc) and, Lo!
"BATTERY Indicates that it is time to change the batteries in the Beo4 remote control "
I have never seen this display. I guess we change our batteries before they get low enough to display this message.
I am deliberately going to let one go flat then I'll send a photo in about two years

Andy T.

Apologies to all concerned, it appears that I was wrong!

My wife would say that she is not surprised!!!!!!!

Hello to all,

Apologies excepted!!!

Greetings,

Ruud

I meant of course: apologies accepted!!!

Bye, bye

jandyt:

Wow!
I feel really guilty suggesting that you could be mistaken, Ruud.
I have just checked on my English manual (New version AMEM etc) and, Lo!
"BATTERY Indicates that it is time to change the batteries in the Beo4 remote control "
I have never seen this display. I guess we change our batteries before they get low enough to display this message.
I am deliberately going to let one go flat then I'll send a photo in about two years

Andy T.

I've had a Beo4 for about 15months and had to replace the batteries last month, I was expecting -battery- to be displayed - but as mentioned above the only indication was the text fading.

Thanks to all who kindly replied to my query.  I'll let you know the outcome.

John

TEL:

I've had a Beo4 for about 15months and had to replace the batteries last month, I was expecting -battery- to be displayed - but as mentioned above the only indication was the text fading.

Hm, the text will fade and the display will show "Battery" but you can´t see it because the text is fading!

Maybe the warning should show up before the text started to fade!

Hi Folks!  The happy ending to my post of 19th June.  Incidentally, just noticed, I said, 'When I point the Beo4 in the opposite direction to the Beo4'.  I meant to say, 'The opposite direction to the BC 9300'.  How kind that nobody made a rude comment!  Anyway, the happy ending is that having inserted new batteries from 'Woolies' the Beo4  now works perfectly..  I shall now listen to a 'James Last' CD & thank all who were good enough to respond to my cry for help.

 

John

Sorry to resurrect this old thread,  but I would really like to know this for sure.
I have now had about 50 or 60 Beo4s of all three kinds, and have yet to see Battery in the display!

First person to send a photo' of the above, wins er.... my respect.

Andy T.