Bangha Posted May 13, 2016 Share Posted May 13, 2016 Hi everyone. After 6 months of dealing with a failing footswitch I finally completed the recording projects I was in and am about to send my Helix in for repairs. Sadly, this being France and with previous forum members experience this will leave me Helixless for 4-6 weeks. Before sending i through, I want to make sure nothing else is failing. (Occasionally I'll think I've hit a footswitch, and it requires a second stomp, but playing live I might have just missed it). I think I read somewhere there is an FS combination I can hold down upon booting up in order to access test mode. Does anybody know what that is? Thanks for the help Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zooey Posted May 13, 2016 Share Posted May 13, 2016 If you don't get an answer here, email L6 support. Under the circumstances it's a very reasonable question. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bangha Posted May 15, 2016 Author Share Posted May 15, 2016 Anyone have any clue? If I remember correctly someone had posted all the possible booting options for helix, I just can't track down that post. Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
klangmaler Posted May 15, 2016 Share Posted May 15, 2016 Anyone have any clue? If I remember correctly someone had posted all the possible booting options for helix, I just can't track down that post. Thanks! I only remember http://helixhelp.com/pmwiki.php?n=Main.ResetOptions for the moment... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silverhead Posted May 15, 2016 Share Posted May 15, 2016 Here are the startup options: http://line6.com/support/page/kb/_/effects-controllers/helix/helix-reset-procedures-and-troubleshooting-tricks-r768 I don't see one for Test mode though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
duncann Posted May 15, 2016 Share Posted May 15, 2016 Anyone have any clue? If I remember correctly someone had posted all the possible booting options for helix, I just can't track down that post. Thanks! The mode you're looking for is 4 & 5 while powering on. This will test all physical interactions with Helix, including the touch sensors. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
njglover Posted May 15, 2016 Share Posted May 15, 2016 The mode you're looking for is 4 & 5 while powering on. This will test all physical interactions with Helix, including the touch sensors. Does it walk you through pressing various buttons to make sure they work? Does it end up clearing anything out? Interested to know a little more about this since there doesn't seem to be anything on here about it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bangha Posted May 15, 2016 Author Share Posted May 15, 2016 The mode you're looking for is 4 & 5 while powering on. This will test all physical interactions with Helix, including the touch sensors. Thanks duncann! I'll be giving that a shot as soon as I'm back home. Have a great week! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HonestOpinion Posted May 15, 2016 Share Posted May 15, 2016 The mode you're looking for is 4 & 5 while powering on. This will test all physical interactions with Helix, including the touch sensors. Good one Duncann, thanks! This combination should be added to HelixHelp.com. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
duncann Posted May 15, 2016 Share Posted May 15, 2016 Does it walk you through pressing various buttons to make sure they work? Does it end up clearing anything out? Interested to know a little more about this since there doesn't seem to be anything on here about it. It doesn't really walk you through anything. It just presents you with a list of all the physical buttons. The list (selected by pressing the joystick button on the UI Test menu entry) starts out with red colored entries and each entry turns green once its associated control is pressed, turned, touched, moved forward, back, left, right, etc. I doubt it clears anything, or is capable of fixing anything that might be wrong. Just gives visual feedback about whether a control is working or not. The HD500(X) has a mode like this as well. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bangha Posted May 19, 2016 Author Share Posted May 19, 2016 Hey Duncann! Just wanted to say thanks again. That was precisely what I needed and allowed be to find any extra flaws (which I did) on my helix before sending the footswitches (thanks to you, footswitches) to be fixed. This will probably leave me without a Helix for a month or so, but I can't wait to have it back with full functionality again. Thanks! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
duncann Posted May 19, 2016 Share Posted May 19, 2016 Delighted to be of assistance. A month without Helix. Ugh. That's gotta be a tough one. Hope you have some equipment in the meantime. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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