This morning, I turned on my Scooba and it started beeping a scale of tones and blinking all its lights in sequence. After an hour or so of resetting, cleaning, disassembling, researching, and scratching my head, I stumbled across the solution on Roomba Review. But, for me at least, it was even easier than all of that. I don't have any of my own pictures for this procedure, but it's pretty straight forward.
- Remove the battery and power.
- Remove the two screws holding the bumper shell in place and remove it.
- Carefully peel up the sticker with the control buttons on it. This sticker is actually the control panel. There is a data cable attached to it just below the "Clean" button. Be careful not to break it!
- Clean the surface under the sticker with some isopropyl alcohol. (I didn't actually have to do this, but I'm sure it doesn't hurt.)
- Gently replace the "sticker" (i.e. control panel) and make sure it's completely flat.
- Check to see if it works again. If not, repeat.
- Replace the bumper shell and screws.
2 comments:
Awesome, worked for me!
Although some minor differences, never used the scooba, so water/moisture wasn't the culprit here, did the 5 beeps and then 4 beeps all lights flashing. But it was the clean button being stuck on and entering into diag mode.
I ended up putting little pieces of rubber underneath the power and clean buttons, so they would spring back into the off position. Appears that the manufacture was a little to liberal with the glue that held down the front panel. Some of it leaked over and caused the clean button to be in a constant open state.
Those crappy button never seem to work right, somewhat disappointed with roomba for using such a flawed design. (almost as bad as the front wheel on roomba vac).
IT WORKED. I use my scooba all the time and one month after the warranty expired the "Scooba Stuck In Diagnostic Mode" problem started. I followed the steps and my scooba is cleaning as I type. I am so glad it was really quick and easy too. The whole process only took about 20 min. Thank You damonkohler much appreciated.
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