Hi, I can't remember if a totally dead battery will prevent the remote to start when on the dock: I believe no. Anyway, you will find a lot of litteratue on pseudo-dead Beo6 on BWII especially from founder member Keith Saunders, Member Heinrik (can't remember his nickname) and myself. The general rule is that if your Beo6 wasn't crushed by a trailer running on it, it may still work. Two difficulties, one of them being quite funny though: - Find a reliable battery is a lottery, - Programming is a whole (not so complicated) knowledge to learn, but once you're used to it, you can do marvels with only one touch. Everything is on the forum. Good luck.

Thanks - I realised that the Beo5 and Beo6 have the same charger and the same battery, and I have a faulty Beo5 already (it has a display issue) which has had a new battery in the past, so I thought I would try and swap the battery. I gotrthe Beo6 open and got the battery out with considerably difficulty - it's a tight fit and it does not come out easily!  I could see as soon as I removed it that it seemed to be the original battery, B&O labelled, and showed obvious signs of leakage.  Luckijly though, so signs of damage to the inside of the Beo6 itself. I tried to take the battery out of my faulty Beo5 but I could not get it out - I didn't want to risk cosmetic damage to that Beo5 (I'm hoping I might one day be able to fix the display issue) so I sat them side-by-side while still opened up, and connected the battery of the Beo5 to the Be06 board.  The display and keypad lit up, so it seems it does work!  I've ordered a new battery for it on eBay. I have been able to figure out the programming for my Beo5s (I bought a cheap Win7 laptop from eBay for that specific purpose), so hopefully I'll be able to figure out the Beo6 too, once the battery arrives and I get it all reassembled.

Thats a good thing! Please keep track of the battery you've ordered on ebay and let us know how they work. It's always a problem to source good batteries for this remote. If you're handy with photoshop, I must have posted a script somewhere on BWII to make full screen pictures if you fancy. Cheers.

You can see here on the oroginal Beoworld :- Removing Beo5 Battery And searching "removing beo5 battery" on google brings up some suggestions for difficult to remove batteries. Once you start programming DO NOT rely on the USB connection to your PC to charge, it is not strong enough. Especially with the Beo6 because if you drain the battery and the remote goes dead, it is very difficult to revive. I always leave the dock plugged into the mains, and only plug into my PC for putting the file on to the remote to test, then connect back to the mains. Stoobie