Hi, last night my fire stick was working fine and all of a sudden it reverted back to the home screen but wouldn’t load, it’s just a black screen with (search, home, your videos etc...) at the top of the screen and the 3 dot loading icon at the bottom. I’ve tried unplugging and plugging in, restarting the device but it’s still the same.
Can anyone shed any light?
Thanks.
Likesmoke247 said:
Hi, last night my fire stick was working fine and all of a sudden it reverted back to the home screen but wouldn’t load, it’s just a black screen with (search, home, your videos etc...) at the top of the screen and the 3 dot loading icon at the bottom. I’ve tried unplugging and plugging in, restarting the device but it’s still the same.
Can anyone shed any light?
Thanks.
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You may get that if it is unable to connect to your Internet
Check your network settings - restart the router
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Hello, I have a little problem with my ftv. I was playing Sev 0 when all of a sudden the screen went blank and started to flash some static/snowy images every few seconds. So I power cycled it and now when it comes up it shows safe mode in the lower left hand corner. Now I can't launch any apps and such but I can navigate around the menu. Anyone else experience this?
Edit:
Removed xbox controller dongle and unplugged it for awhile, power cycled it and all seems fine now. Must have over heated.
My tablet is displaying horizontal bands of colour, the same colours as what should be showing on the screen. For example, if I had a red, white and purple background, it would show red, white and purple lines across the screen. The tablet is still fully responsive even when this is going on (can still pull down the menu, touch to turn off, etc.). Sometimes just turning the screen off and back on gets it working right again, sometimes it takes a few taps on the back to the tablet. But once its working again, it stays working until the screen is off again for awhile.
I can use the tablet for hours with everything functioning as it should (using it now to type this post). After leaving it for an hour or two, I wake it up by pressing either the home or power key and the lines will be back. Even if it's shut down for a while, when I turn it back on the lines are back, and they appear right from boot, or even when off and charging, the green battery charging icon turns into green horizontal lines.
I've already cleared the cache, it was just factory reset, I've had the back off, disconnected the battery and reseated what I think were the screen connectors.
Any thoughts as to what is wrong and how I might fix it would be appreciated. It's a Note 8, 4.4.2, stock, not rooted.
ladybugg1629 said:
My tablet is displaying horizontal bands of colour
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I think it needs service, it's a hardware problem
You can use a HDMI adapter to connect to a TV or using Screen Mirroring Function to see the display on TV. If it's normal on TV, your LCD is defective or the LCD cable gets loose.
In order to get the LCD cable, your main board has to be removed as the LCD lies under it.
ok, just picked up a Kindle Fire HD 8.9 second gen from WooT, they say it is refurb'd.
Out of the box, it booted fine, I was able to go through the setup and add my amazon account, downloaded a few kindle books.
went to eat, came back, and the device is blank. Nothing I would do would bring it back, pressed power button for about 10 seconds and I see screen goes black ( it was black before, but with backlighting from the device being powered on). Touch poerbutton and it start booting, I think - displays a static 'kindlefire' white/orange logo for about 10 seconds, and then the screen is black again.
I have not attempted anything yet on this device - no root, no rom, nothing. WTH is going on.. put on a charger for a few hours, but there's no lights or indicators on this thing to show if it is charging or not. Did the searches and just find links to stories/videos of fols holding power button for 20 or 60 seconds and then it just works after that. Not mine.. nothing is changing ...
Is this thing dead? I really want it not to be, but I'm thinking in another day or so I'm going to return this to Woot for my money back if I can't figure out how to get this thing working .
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I think the unit had some serious issues. Was able to replace it with a different unit, and the new unit behaves as expected.
hello,
Thx to whoever will try to help in this topic.
i bought the the AFTV for 2 years and a half now i had trouble with the remote after six month of use and is not working with it at all so now i am using the App in my android phone or my TV remote to control it
that has been said now since 2 days i can't wake up my fire tv and have no access neither to home screen nor the settings
when i hit back nothing happen but the light showing that the box is responding to the button i pressed and when i hit home or settings nothing shows on tv but when i hold home screen for 5 secs i can see the menu showing Apps, Sleep, Mirroring and Settings. when i hit settings it turns back to the black screen and when i hit Apps it shows me all the apps installed and i can access them but when i hold home again and try to access setting again black screen
is there a way to fix this or how can i do a factory reset cuz i tried the combination back and right button for 10 secs but it doesnt show me anything so i can't be sure that i am really executing that task
please i need your help
also i am from canada and bought this when i was in US
Seems like none is interested in helping
Please can someone help
Try a different port? Try a different TV? Try a different cable? Report back after trying all 3.
Tried all 3 steps seems like the home screen and settings are missing
The only thing i can access is the apps
Fixed by putting back auto resolution si e erything turned normal i don't remember ever changing the resolution
Hi, how did you change the resolution if you couldn't access the settings?
If you hold BACK and REVERSE and RIGHT and SELECT simultaneously for 10 seconds, the Fire TV will begin to cycle through various resolution settings choose auto resolution.
I couldn't see settings and home screen they were always there but since resolution changed than i couldn't see them thought it was OS problem
After a couple of years of happy usage last night, my Firestick 2nd gen, got stuck on the home screen, and is now unresponsive to both the selector button, as well as the restart routine, (Holding down select and Play/Pause at the same time until it restarts).
I did a couple of hard restarts by unplugging it, and then plugging it back in, and it went through the entire startup routine, including the red "fire TV"" startup logo, and then it opened to the same frozen unresponsive uncooperative (Like my ex wife) screen.
I tried another remote, and that did not work either.
Just to see what would happen I blocked it on my network, since wifi blocking will take you to the "home is unavailable" firestick screen, which it did, but once I got there, the "Go to network settings" and "dismiss" options were unresponsive as well.
I don't mind having to reset it if I have to, but so far I haven't come up with a way to make it work.
All help appreciated.
Papamalo
papamalo said:
After a couple of years of happy usage last night, my Firestick 2nd gen, got stuck on the home screen, and is now unresponsive to both the selector button, as well as the restart routine, (Holding down select and Play/Pause at the same time until it restarts).
I did a couple of hard restarts by unplugging it, and then plugging it back in, and it went through the entire startup routine, including the red "fire TV"" startup logo, and then it opened to the same frozen unresponsive uncooperative (Like my ex wife) screen.
I tried another remote, and that did not work either.
Just to see what would happen I blocked it on my network, since wifi blocking will take you to the "home is unavailable" firestick screen, which it did, but once I got there, the "Go to network settings" and "dismiss" options were unresponsive as well.
I don't mind having to reset it if I have to, but so far I haven't come up with a way to make it work.
All help appreciated.
Papamalo
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Have you tried a OTG with keyboard?
I have plugged the firestick into my desktop using a Micro USB to USB connector if that's what you mean, but even though it loads up and my "devices and printers" panel recognizes it as "MTP device" and the driver panel recognizes it as "ADB Device", no further info or control seems to be available.
So I guess it plugs in, but what should I do now?
Thanks.
An otg (on the go) cable and keyboard will give you control like a controller. You can try moving with the curser and enter. This would eliminate a Bluetooth issue when operating the remote.
papamalo said:
got stuck on the home screen, and is now unresponsive to both the selector button, as well as the restart routine
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Have you tried fresh new batteries in the remotes?
Maybe you can install the app Remote for Fire TV from the amazon website (with the option send to fireTV Stick) and use your smartphone as remote.
normally this is the problem i get when the battery of the remote die..
This appened to my firetv stick 2nd edition just now. It happens after I plugged it in a new tv color.
Any ideas or a solution founded?
Thanks in advance!!