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A while ago I bought a “The Frame” Samsung TV (QA32LS03CBWXXY). I’m not interested in the art mode features (as they mostly require a Samsung account, and this TV is not connected to the internet).

It is a 32 inch model - I didn’t really want the “The Frame” model, but the only other 32 inch samsung TVs had garbage quality sound, so I went for the “The Frame”.

So the picture quality is fine, the sound is good, but there is one significant issue.

When you turn the power off, it goes into “Art Mode”.

You can bypass this and get to “standby” by holding the power button down, but this can be flaky. About 67% of the time, the TV is accidentally triggered into art mode, and requires turning it back on and then off again. Fruskins abound.

So I found today some information about disabling art mode.

1. Enter Factory Service Menu

I needed to use an older Samsung TV’s remote: the smart remote is unable to trigger this. There are two possible sequences - the one that worked for me was “Mute → 1 → 8 → 2 → Power”.

2. Navigate through the menus: FMS → FMS → Option → Production Option → com.samsung/featureconf/frame_tv

3. Change the value to “false”.

There was no way at this point to exit the factory service menu, and the power button would only trigger art mode, not turn off the TV, so I needed to unplug and then plug back in.

Turned the power back on, and Art Mode is no more.