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Question

anyone know how to initialize a usb stick on a LG 50LA6230?

Aug 24, 2013 6:10PM PDT

I can't get any of my usb sticks to initialize on my new 50LA6230, it will read from the USB but it won't initialize the USB to enable me use it for recording. I have tried to manually initialize it but he option is greyed out. The USB were formatted as fat32.. anyone have the same problem?

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On Samsungs, they mandate it be a HDD.
Aug 25, 2013 4:35AM PDT

Maybe LG did the same?

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initialise usb
Sep 19, 2013 7:42PM PDT

I'm having the same problem on the LG42LA6230 I can put a USB in and I can record tv but I can't set it up to use with Time Machine. I can't initialize the USB, it is greyed out. I can't access Time Shift either, that is greyed out too.

Have you found a solution yet? I can't find one anywhere and the LG site is useless.

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Try it with a HDD.
Sep 20, 2013 1:41AM PDT

It's been confirmed that many recording Smart TVs will not do this with memory sticks. It's been discussed why but that doesn't seem acceptable to a few.
Bob

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Initialization
Sep 19, 2013 7:44PM PDT

Also, I have also formated the USB to fat32. I have tried 2GB, 4GB, 8GB usb sticks and aslo a powered USB HDD 250gb. No luck fro me on either one.

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Found the problem
Jan 6, 2014 2:54PM PST

Hi, I had this same issue with my 55LA7400 tv. I found that in order for it to initialise, I had to plug in an externally powered USB Hard Disk Drive into the third USB port (the one that says HDD IN) and then it would work. Mine wouldn't initialise at all with a USB Flash no matter which port I plugged it into or how I formatted it; but would read the data from it.

Hope this helps