I know a few people have had similar questions but mine is just enough different that I thought I'd ask.
I used to be able to cast from youtube on my macbook air to my first gen fire tv. I sold the mac and now have a Lenovo laptop running windows 10. If I go into youtube (in a chrome browser) and hit the "cast" button one of my three fire tvs doesn't show up & the other two don't work.
Has youtube casting been disabled? Is there a three sided battle going on between Google, Amazon & MS for control over the cast landscape?
Any help would be great.
Thanks in advance.
rcrh said:
I know a few people have had similar questions but mine is just enough different that I thought I'd ask.
I used to be able to cast from youtube on my macbook air to my first gen fire tv. I sold the mac and now have a Lenovo laptop running windows 10. If I go into youtube (in a chrome browser) and hit the "cast" button one of my three fire tvs doesn't show up & the other two don't work.
Has youtube casting been disabled? Is there a three sided battle going on between Google, Amazon & MS for control over the cast landscape?
Any help would be great.
Thanks in advance.
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If it's working on your other fire tvs then logically casting wasnt disabled.
It's happened to me several times. Some fire devices are unavailable on the network and not sure why. I don't think I ever did anything to fix it--just moved on and now, in rare instances I try to cast, all my fire devices appear.
*You might want to try power cycling all them, including your router. See if that works.
KLit75 said:
If it's working on your other fire tvs then logically casting wasnt disabled.
It's happened to me several times. Some fire devices are unavailable on the network and not sure why. I don't think I ever did anything to fix it--just moved on and now, in rare instances I try to cast, all my fire devices appear.
*You might want to try power cycling all them, including your router. See if that works.
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it's NOT working on any of my fire tv's. Two of them show up on my laptop; one of them doesn't. But, I can't cast to any of them. So logically I asked the question.
Sorry you're having the same random happenings. I don't think random events are very logical.
Hopefully someone else will have resolved this issue or can confirm that Youtube casting is dead.
I had the exact same problem...and since im on the original firmware. (51.1.1.0) i did Nothing. I stopped using the fire tv. Im just now getting around to completely wiping, re--rooting, and going to install a newer firmware to try to fix it.
rcrh said:
it's NOT working on any of my fire tv's. Two of them show up on my laptop; one of them doesn't. But, I can't cast to any of them. So logically I asked the question.
Sorry you're having the same random happenings. I don't think random events are very logical.
Hopefully someone else will have resolved this issue or can confirm that Youtube casting is dead.
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I wasn't trying to be snarky when I said "logically" but I did admittedly skim your post and saw devices were showing up (missed the part where you said the ones that did appear werent working.)
Im at work. And I only cast from my phone/tablet. Last time I tried (sometime in the past 2 weeks) it was working.
Still thinking network issue. Try reboot. Another observation--Fire TV casts fine, no lag but I find it's inconvenient for me. From the time I hit the cast button to the time it actually plays the video, for me, takes 30 seconds or more. There are scenarios where it's definitely more convenient but its that long start up time that made me sort of evolve to just opening the YouTube app on aftv.
KLit75 said:
I wasn't trying to be snarky when I said "logically" but I did admittedly skim your post and saw devices were showing up (missed the part where you said the ones that did appear werent working.)
Im at work. And I only cast from my phone/tablet. Last time I tried (sometime in the past 2 weeks) it was working.
Still thinking network issue. Try reboot. Another observation--Fire TV casts fine, no lag but I find it's inconvenient for me. From the time I hit the cast button to the time it actually plays the video, for me, takes 30 seconds or more. There are scenarios where it's definitely more convenient but its that long start up time that made me sort of evolve to just opening the YouTube app on aftv.
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And I appologize for over reacting and piling on the snark.
I don't think its a network thing since I can cast from my phone but I'll try rebooting everything.
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Hi,
To protect our sight, I want to get a kind of app which can pause ten minutes for the netflix & hulu every half an hour, then restore and go on the process.
Is there any way to do it?
thanks
blackantt said:
Hi,
To protect our sight, I want to get a kind of app which can pause ten minutes for the netflix & hulu every half an hour, then restore and go on the process.
Is there any way to do it?
thanks
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I applaud you for your concern and interest. But other than a plain ol' timer app, I don't know of one. Your next best option is old fashioned self-discipline - with the help of a timer app.
My answer would be: don't. There is no evidence TV is bad for your sight at all. Nearsightedness (most common eye problem in young people) is caused by genetics or physical trauma to the eye. And the eyes going bad in older age is normal part of aging process (which is often mistaken for being caused by reading/watching because it is detected when reading/watching).
What is bad though is leaving small children unattended in front of TV - so I would try to avoid that (check on them from time to time, explain to them the more scary bits etc.).
Although as with all advises - it's only my opinion, decide for yourself. Also check your TV settings - there might be something (for example my TV goes black after some time when you don't touch the TV remote - even if you use the FIreTV remote during that time, so hiding the TV remote would work in my case ).
Hoping to get help with troubleshooting...
My hardwired aftv occasionally has Amazon video/Netflix issues but no problems for 3+ days now.
My aftv on 5ghz runs fine except...
I get into the habit on creating a playlist and falling asleep while it's going. This might be because it doesn't sleep automatically, but the next morning if I try to play a prime or Netflix video I can absolutely GUARANTEE it won't play. It will either show a message stating so or it will try to play but the picture goes on & off black until it just stops. Reboot and it's fixed.
It's getting more annoying because it's every day and this one has boot menu so boot time is significantly slower. I can provide more info if it's needed.
I think I can remedy it not going to sleep but don't think that should matter. Plus this aftv has always needed regular reboots because the sound would cut in & out otherwise. I attributed that to the older tv I'm using. Switching hdmi cable didn't help.
Btw--looking closely I see I still have a folder called "android apps" somewhere around sda/usbstorage even though I now mount to storage/usb/drive1...that folder survived several cwm factory restores. I'm about 90% certain it's not native, I created it but haven't gone ahead and deleted it just in case. It's probably not relevant to my above issues but just want to make sure. It can stay there as long as it's not creating conflicts since its just an empty folder. Probably from when I used stickmount awhile back.
KLit75 said:
Hoping to get help with troubleshooting...
My hardwired aftv occasionally has Amazon video/Netflix issues but no problems for 3+ days now.
My aftv on 5ghz runs fine except...
I get into the habit on creating a playlist and falling asleep while it's going. This might be because it doesn't sleep automatically, but the next morning if I try to play a prime or Netflix video I can absolutely GUARANTEE it won't play. It will either show a message stating so or it will try to play but the picture goes on & off black until it just stops. Reboot and it's fixed.
It's getting more annoying because it's every day and this one has boot menu so boot time is significantly slower. I can provide more info if it's needed.
I think I can remedy it not going to sleep but don't think that should matter. Plus this aftv has always needed regular reboots because the sound would cut in & out otherwise. I attributed that to the older tv I'm using. Switching hdmi cable didn't help.
Btw--looking closely I see I still have a folder called "android apps" somewhere around sda/usbstorage even though I now mount to storage/usb/drive1...that folder survived several cwm factory restores. I'm about 90% certain it's not native, I created it but haven't gone ahead and deleted it just in case. It's probably not relevant to my above issues but just want to make sure. It can stay there as long as it's not creating conflicts since its just an empty folder. Probably from when I used stickmount awhile back.
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A potential quick solution would be to use something to clear memory. I've been using Fast Reboot (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.greatbytes.fastreboot&hl=en) on all my android devices whenever they start to feel a little sluggish. It doesn't actually reboot the device, but simply clears memory by closing apps out fully. It's helped with Netflix issues before. It's much simpler than constant reboots, but it's not a miracle cure.
Sounds to me like XBMC is never actually closing down, and Android thinks that it's still actively playing video. Only one app can play video at a time in Android, and if you're playing a video in XBMC and attempt to play a video from another app like Netfix, it won't be able to start because XBMC still has the stage with regards to playing video.
Are you launching Netflix/Amazon from within XBMC?
Does it happen after you completely close XBMC, or tell it to force quit in the Android menu?
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A potential quick solution would be to use something to clear memory. I've been using Fast Reboot (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.greatbytes.fastreboot&hl=en) on all my android devices whenever they start to feel a little sluggish. It doesn't actually reboot the device, but simply clears memory by closing apps out fully. It's helped with Netflix issues before. It's much simpler than constant reboots, but it's not a miracle cure.
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Thanks. I'll try it. I had an app that scheduled reboots and it didn't remedy the problem but I'm open to any possible fixes.
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Sounds to me like XBMC is never actually closing down, and Android thinks that it's still actively playing video. Only one app can play video at a time in Android, and if you're playing a video in XBMC and attempt to play a video from another app like Netfix, it won't be able to start because XBMC still has the stage with regards to playing video.
Are you launching Netflix/Amazon from within XBMC?
Does it happen after you completely close XBMC, or tell it to force quit in the Android menu?
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Those are actually tough questions
I DO have a Netflix shortcut setup in xbmc but rarely use. I'll say lately, for some reason it's been working. Typically though, if I spend awhile in xbmc and then want to go to Netflix or prime, I'll stop the video (if playing), press home then force quit xbmc. This is out of habit because it has such a high fail rate. Of course I don't expect my wife & kids to do all that so that's were it gets more troublesome.
Stopping the video in xbmc is something I do 100% of the time now. I'm very conscious of it but do you think just having xbmc itself running causes issues when switching? I wonder if an app like llama can be set up to kill xbmc when pressing home? Or maybe the app in the post above might help?
I say tough questions because my viewing habits don't follow patterns. I will say it happens less when I force quit xbmc but that's not 100% of the time, probably 70 to 80%.
But one time I can COUNT on it happening is if xbmc idles while I sleep. When I wake up and exit, force quit xbmc...prime and Netflix don't work till I reboot.
Talking now I'm thinking MAYBE clear cache and force quit might help but there's got to be a better way. I've been a little lazy there not looking into that. My other aftv sleeps fine but it's in the living room so I don't leave it playing before going to bed.
I'll try the above app and adjust some settings to try and get it to sleep automatically.
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A potential quick solution would be to use something to clear memory. I've been using Fast Reboot (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.greatbytes.fastreboot&hl=en) on all my android devices whenever they start to feel a little sluggish. It doesn't actually reboot the device, but simply clears memory by closing apps out fully. It's helped with Netflix issues before. It's much simpler than constant reboots, but it's not a miracle cure.
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Tried it on my phone. It's a pretty useful app. Do you exclude any apps or do you just use the defaults list on your aftv? Thanks again!
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Tried it on my phone. It's a pretty useful app. Do you exclude any apps or do you just use the defaults list on your aftv? Thanks again!
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I'm not sure what you mean. It's a one click solution to clear memory.
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I'm not sure what you mean. It's a one click solution to clear memory.
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Yes. And this might just be being overly cautious. In the settings you can exclude certain apps. But I went ahead and just pressed fast reboot with default settings and it works fine.
Be nice if you could automate this to be triggered when exiting apps. Or put it on the homescreen for quick access. I guess you could with a launcher.
Very much appreciated! Thanks again!
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Yes. And this might just be being overly cautious. In the settings you can exclude certain apps. But I went ahead and just pressed fast reboot with default settings and it works fine.
Be nice if you could automate this to be triggered when exiting apps. Or put it on the homescreen for quick access. I guess you could with a launcher.
Very much appreciated! Thanks again!
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That's what I'm unsure of. How do you access the settings? You open it, it clears memory and shows you what it's cleared. That's it.
**Edit. Nevermind. I'm assuming you purchased the pro version. It looks like it does have settings to exclude apps and schedule "reboots". I've only ever used the free version.
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That's what I'm unsure of. How do you access the settings? You open it, it clears memory and shows you what it's cleared. That's it.
**Edit. Nevermind. I'm assuming you purchased the pro version. It looks like it does have settings to exclude apps and schedule "reboots". I've only ever used the free version.
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Yes. It's pro and it is effective for somethings. Unfortunately tonite I found out "simulating" a reboot is not quite the same as rebooting.
As I said, I've just got in the habit of rebooting this aftv before I use it...That's because for as long as I've owned it I've had this seemingly one of a kind issue where the video playing will have the sound cut in & out indefinetly until it gets rebooted. Don't matter if it's Netflix, prime, or xbmc.
It's done this since I bought it with stock firmware, at least 3 different prerooted firmwares and several factory resets. I've tried different hdmi cables.
My other aftv is ok. Only difference is it's hardwired and is connected to a better tv. But my network is solid. All devices, especially streaming boxes are fine.
Anyway. I was optimistic when I saw you could essentially reboot without waiting the 60 seconds or how ever long, to play something. But at least this one glitch still needs a real reboot.
I am happy that it appears to help with transitions from xbmc to Netflix or prime but it looks like I'll still be rebooting regularly (daily at least)
I think I posted about this awhile back but no matter where I look I can't find anyone that has this problem.
Hi,
According the instruction of aftvnews, I rooted my aftv. everything looks normal except the remote, since that, the remote gets sensitive. sometimes It will go forward quickly.
what about yours? How can I adjust the remote?
thanks
This happened to me a few weeks ago for a brief period randomly, but only in kodi/spmc. It seem to have corrected itself after a day or two.
Maybe try updating the remote control firmware if you haven't already. There's a guide on this at aftvnews.
Failing that, maybe also try to unpair then re-pair the remote. I know with bluetooth devices generally, this can sometrimes help fix odd issues.
Hello everyone! I have a basic, stock, NON-ROOTED FireTV. It is completely stock, and the FireTV box has already been replaced once for a new one for this exact problem...
So here's what's happening, anytime I watch something on my FireTV like Hulu or Netflix, the FireTV stops responding to any remote signals.
I think it's my FireTV's fault and NOT my remote's fault because I have brand new batteries in the remote.
This is incredibly irritating as you can tell because the only way to fix this is to complete unplug the entire FireTV, and that's difficult since it's hard to reach there.
Anyway, has anyone heard of this happening?
Thanks!
derpmcturd said:
Hello everyone! I have a basic, stock, NON-ROOTED FireTV. It is completely stock, and the FireTV box has already been replaced once for a new one for this exact problem...
So here's what's happening, anytime I watch something on my FireTV like Hulu or Netflix, the FireTV stops responding to any remote signals.
I think it's my FireTV's fault and NOT my remote's fault because I have brand new batteries in the remote.
This is incredibly irritating as you can tell because the only way to fix this is to complete unplug the entire FireTV, and that's difficult since it's hard to reach there.
Anyway, has anyone heard of this happening?
Thanks!
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My 2nd gen fire tv does this every once in a great while. All I do is pull 1 battery and put it back in. That fixes it immediately. I'm not sure why they lose sync with each other.
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My 2nd gen fire tv does this every once in a great while. All I do is pull 1 battery and put it back in. That fixes it immediately. I'm not sure why they lose sync with each other.
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mine used to be absolutely perfect the first year i had it, then i think around the time the homescreen layout changed that's when this non-responsive stuff started happening with that firmware update.
I’m not sure what exactly was “optimized,” but I (using mouse toggle) clicked the power optimizer and upon resetting my fire stick 2 automatically, I can’t pair my remote or WiFi to it. I’ve tried new batteries and I’ve tried holding down home for 60 seconds, select for 60 seconds, and even both for 60 seconds. I also tried 5-10 seconds, keeping them right next to the receiver. I apologize if there’s an easy fix for this but I’ve been looking possibl solutions up for a couple days and I’m out of ideas
Ditto...
I feel your pain — literally. I’ve spent 16+ hours since yesterday when my dreaded Kill All Apps ”clickedy-click” happened. I had an empathetic chuckle as I just came across your post during my umpteenth Google/XDA/Reddit search.. So, decided to join XDA [though been a fly for yrs here] just to say I’m afraid we’re outta luck & hardly alone. I can’t recall which app killer that did me in as I downloaded 3-4 of them from Aptoid to test out — though I think it was ATK? Thought I was “safe” since it’s not rooted and I’ve used similar apps without issue on several rooted phones over the yrs, but... hard lesson learned.
My issue is neither of my remotes (FS1 & 2) will pair, nor will any remote control apps for my droid, iPad, or Amazon Fire though this seems a fix for many, so might wanna give it a shot? I even dropped my Router (Xfinity- Arris) security — stick is still a no show, no ping.
Oh well, off to setup the ol’ 1st gen stick. Though I can’t blame Agenda 21/30, err, I mean Amazon, for this, after hrs of researching the “issues” I’m not so sure there’ll be a 3rd always-listening Alexa device in my collection...
Just a thought, have you tried connecting a OTG cable to the fire stick to add keyboard or mouse support?