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Hiphubby123
New Contributor III
11 months ago

Cox Remote Battery Life

I replaced the batteries in my Cox Cable remote but the onscreen battery life indicator still shows a low percentage of 31%.  Isn’t the percentage supposed to update to show 100% after you put new ba...
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    Hiphubby123
    11 months ago

    I did check the batteries and they were good.  However, I decided to change them again and the next set of batteries worked.  The onscreen battery strength indicator now shows 100%.  Odd, but the batteries that did not seem to work were Energizer and the ones that did work are Duracell.  Maybe the remote prefers Duracell.  No, I doubt that has anything to do with it but it was strange.  Problem solved.

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Hiphubby123
New Contributor III
11 months ago

I did check the batteries and they were good.  However, I decided to change them again and the next set of batteries worked.  The onscreen battery strength indicator now shows 100%.  Odd, but the batteries that did not seem to work were Energizer and the ones that did work are Duracell.  Maybe the remote prefers Duracell.  No, I doubt that has anything to do with it but it was strange.  Problem solved.