Mini Stealth TV Television Remote (color may vary, white/black)

While I was buying a $5.50 "learning" remote from Amazon, they recommended I buy this tiny universal remote too.Pros: Very interesting programming. No more books filled with TV model numbers and remote-codes. Just point the remote at your TV and hold down the mute button until the audio mutes. Then check that the Volume and Channel buttons also work. Worked for me first time.It's got a big CR2025 battery in it.It wasn't until I stabbed the cat in frustration that I realized I had to remove a slip of paper from the battery compartment so the battery terminals would make contact. Recommend putting the cat out, first. Fortunately, we also have a dog.You might have noticed this remote doesn't have any number buttons. Just Volume and Channel Up / Down, so you have to step one channel at a time. Mute works. AV/TV button doesn't do anything on our 27" Toshiba CRT.Cons:After about 50 or 100 button pushes, this universal remote looses its setting, so you have to do the "Mute" procedure again. We still have other remotes around so it's not a disaster when this one returns to stasis, but in 3 weeks I had to "reprogram" the remote 3 times.I didn't expect this remote to keep losing its programming. I don't know if that's a problem that will remain the same, or get worse till the remote is useless anymore, so off with its star. In the meantime, I'm happy to have one more option besides the very old buttons on the TV's original remote.

I purchased one of these about a year back, and it worked well. That unit had the correct instructions and I had no issues using it within 3 minutes of opening the package.I purchased two more recently (one for another area of the living room, one as a spare) and had issues. First, the instructions - as other reviewers pointed out - are incorrect. Press and hold mute until the TV goes on mute then release. Make sure it's working by testing the buttons. You may not release the mute key quickly enough, and might have to re-run the process, but once it is set correctly you're good to go.That being said, only one of the two units actually worked. The second refused to set up, even with a brand new battery. I did notice that the second one produced a loud "click" or "snap" when I pressed the mute button the first time, so I suspect it was simply shoddy workmanship in production.When the work (as 2 of my 3 did on the first try), they work great! No problems for over a year with the first one, and no issues in the week or so of using the 2nd. And they are lower-cost items, so I do not expect perfection. Definitely recommend buying 2, and being ready to return one.

Tiny universal remotes like this can be handy if you're often assaulted by TVs turned up too loud and/or tuned to a station you hate (even in your own home). And I prefer a remote with multiple functions to ones like TV-B-Gone that only turn the TV off. (Turning the volume down is more polite.) But this didn't quite do the trick for me.First, it was hard to use. To set it, you have to hold down a button (say, mute) until the TV reacts, then release it immediately. At that point the remote would be set to control that TV. But I often released the button a fraction of a second too late and had to repeat the whole procedure until I got it right.Second, like many of these small remotes, its code book was limited; there are a lot of TVs it just wouldn't control at all, including the Olevia TV I was using when I bought it.More importantly, though, it just wasn't built to last. First, one of the IR LEDs went out, reducing its range and making it useless from any distance. Then the battery clip failed, so it quit working completely.Still, if it works with your TV, it makes a cheap, handy "essential functions" remote. Just don't expect it to outlast more than two or three batteries.

For $2.00 I wasn't expecting much, but it does work. Takes a bit of getting used to since holding down the mute cycles through hundreds of TV codes. When you finally do get a response, it still may not be the right code. It's like those universal remote codes. Some work, some don't. Just hold down the mute again it it will continue searching where it left off. I tried using it on an 8 year old Samsung, a 1 year old Samsung, and a 10 year old Toshiba. All succumbed to the little remote. Can't wait to use it in my doctors office. One nice option would be arrows and OK/Enter buttons so screen mirroring prompts can be selected.

I read the many reviews saying that they received a defect, but I decided to take a gamble and bought one. When I received it I was very disappointed as it didn't work. I played around with it some more and realized that I was simply using it incorrectly. It is actually kind of confusing. You have to point it at a tv and hold the mute button to program it. You have to hold the mute button for a while for it to work. It is not very responsive and you sometimes have to hold a button for it to work which is why I gave four stars rather than five. In all, it works and I like it. It's a lot fun to prank people with this and laugh at them.I would definitely recommend this to a friend.

Surprisingly not a dud, as I was concerned about after reading past reviews.Pretty low power, i.e. it does not work without a direct angle nor through my sweashirt. barely works through t-shirt at very direct angle as opposed to my satellite remote that works through a sweatshirt at any angle. (ok if careful but not completely discreet)Works well on the 3 TVs i tried it on (Samsung 55" js8500, Panasonic 42 inch flatscreen HDTV and something else similar). Coworker said she could not get it to work on her Vizio.Battery (unbranded CR2025) died after a few weeks of extremely light use. Put in a proper Energizer (CR2032) and hoping for better results there in terms of how long it lasts.