Factory reset Vizio D40FM-K09

How to reset or hard reset an D-Series 40" Full HD Smart TV

If your Smart TV Vizio D40FM-K09 works very slow, it hangs, or you have a full memory and you want to erase everything, or you want to sell it or give it away and you want nobody to be able to access your history and passwords you can do a factory reset or format so that it returns to be like the first day.

IMPORTANT: formatting or resetting your Vizio D40FM-K09 to its factory state will eliminate all the personalized settings of the television such as the tuned channels and their order, input names, applications that have been installed, passwords of the accounts linked to this D40FM-K09, Wi-Fi passwords, Vizio user and web browsing history.

The Vizio D40FM-K09 TV will need to be fully configured as when it was turned on for the first time after purchase.

Estimated time: 15 minutes.

Restore from the options of Vizio D40FM-K09

You will need:

- TV remote

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1- First step:

Using the remote control of the TV D-Series 40" Full HD Smart TV, press the settings button, it is the button with the gear symbol shown in the following image.

If not you have that button on your remote press the "Menu" button.

2- Second step:

Once inside the settings menu of the D40FM-K09, using the buttons on the circular wheel around the "OK" button or the direction arrows on the remote control, scroll down to the "Admin & Privacy" section.

Press "OK" on the remote to access.
On newer TVs you need to go to "Admin & Privacy", however on older TVs you need to go to "System" to access the factory reset settings.

3- Third step:

Within the "Admin & privacy" or "System" section (depending on the version and year of the TV) you will see a section called "Reset to factory settings", use the buttons on the remote control to select this option and press the button " OK" to access.

4- Four step:

A window will be displayed with two options: "Restore" and "Cancel" to avoid restoring the TV by mistake, if you are sure that you want to restore the Vizio D40FM-K09 to its factory state and thereby erase all the settings and data, press "Reset" using the "OK" button on the remote control.

Confirm reset to factory settings Vizio TV

5- Fifth step:

The Vizio D40FM-K09 will shut down and it will take a few seconds or minutes to restart, do not touch any buttons on the remote control or unplug or turn off the TV during this process as it may cause a permanent error.

Once the restoration is complete, a menu will appear to configure the TV as newly purchased and installed.

Restore Vizio D40FM-K09 without the remote control

If you don't have the Vizio D40FM-K09 remote control, your TV has entered a reboot loop or is unresponsive, you can factory reset your Vizio using the physical buttons on the back, bottom, or side of the TV.

1- First of all, locate the power, volume up, volume down and input buttons of the Vizio D40FM-K09. They should be located on the back of the TV, on its right side, or at the bottom of the Vizio TV screen.

2- The television must remain on and connected to the electrical current, in the event that it does not show an image you must make sure that it is plugged in and turned on.

3- Press the input and volume down buttons on the Vizio D40FM-K09 at the same time, keep them pressed and look at the TV screen until you see a message with the text "To Reset to Defaults, from the back panel, press the Input button for 10 seconds", release the two buttons.

4- Press the input button for 10 seconds, without releasing at any time. It is possible that it does not work at first, in that case you have to try again. You will see a new message on the screen with the text "Memory is being cleared.The display will be reset shortly", release the enter button.

5- The Vizio D40FM-K09 TV will restart and it will take a few minutes or seconds to restore to factory settings, once restored you will have to reconfigure it, choosing the language, internet connection, tuning channels, installing applications or configuring Bluetooth devices.

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About the device:

The Vizio D40FM-K09 it is a television with the SmartCast OS operating system, an aspect ratio of 16:9, a refresh rate of 60Hz, 2 HDMI ports, 1 USB ports, a screen diagonal of 40" cm, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, dimensions of 0 cm width, 0 cm height and 0 cm depth.

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