my fire tv is rooted the problem im having is when i leave my fire tv overnight in the morning i have to completely unplug fire tv for it to reboot, if anyone has any simaler issues or knows why im having to do this i would appreciate their help. TIA
raider0 said:
my fire tv is rooted the problem im having is when i leave my fire tv overnight in the morning i have to completely unplug fire tv for it to reboot, if anyone has any simaler issues or knows why im having to do this i would appreciate their help. TIA
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Why specifically do you need to reboot? (Audio issues, freezes, ?) It might make a difference in the finding the right person to diagnose. Does it sleep or does it stay on overnight?
KLit75 said:
Why specifically do you need to reboot? (Audio issues, freezes, ?) It might make a difference in the finding the right person to diagnose. Does it sleep or does it stay on overnight?
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yes the fire tv goes to sleep but in the morning The fire tv is non responsive cant do anything with remote no lights on front and blank screen.
Try using CTRL+ALT+DELETE on your bluetooth keyboard.
I found it by accident -- it will actually reset the Fire TV instantly.
I've had the same problem on both my unrooted devices.
I usually reboot using the remote (hold down the main clicking button + play)
Is you firetv usually idle with kodi running? i always have kodi running when this happens
I don't have a Fire TV, but I have had this problem with my Fire TV Stick, which was hooked to my Samsung TV and now my Vizio TV. Every time I go to use the Fire stick, I have to unplug it from power and plug it back in. It is very annoying. I don't get any messages, just a black screen.
shawnlott68 said:
I don't have a Fire TV, but I have had this problem with my Fire TV Stick, which was hooked to my Samsung TV and now my Vizio TV. Every time I go to use the Fire stick, I have to unplug it from power and plug it back in. It is very annoying. I don't get any messages, just a black screen.
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I have the same problem. It seems to be getting worse. Pretty much everytime i use it it happens.
This happens to me as well. When plugged into my VIZIO tv, and running Kodi 17.2, the Fire TV will spontaneously enter a reboot cycle and will remain there until I unplug the power, wait 2 minutes and plug it in again. I have the new Fire TV 4k (hanging dongle), but this also happened when i had a quad core Fire TV Stick.. my original Fire TV Stick (with Voice Remote) continues to operate without issue to this day, albeit much slower since Amazon removed the Youtube app.
Oddly, the same device does NOT suffer from this issue if I plug it into my LG tv... Could it be an issue with the HDMI port (Port 1 (ARC) that I am plugged into??
Glad to know im not alone. Sometimes it will last for days, sometimes not.
I do use "advanced task killer" and "fast reboot" to kill kodi, netflix, firefox etc when Im not using them.
Guys, i used to have exact same problem and luckily was able to fix it. In my case as soon as the aftv goes in sleep mode it reboots in recovery mode . So because i have the TWRP customer recovery the box is not able to apply that update because is not the stock recovery. the only way to get it back to home GUI is to reboot the box from recovery. That was extremely annoying for me. A while ago i used to block the updates from amazon.com by using opendns, but stopped using it so the box becomes open for updates which automatically get downloaded on the box. Because im rooted there is a easy way of blocking the updates on the box itself by using Method 1 http://www.aftvnews.com/how-to-block-software-updates-on-the-amazon-fire-tv-or-fire-tv-stick/. However this will stop working if you factory reset the box, if you do so you'll have to apply the blocking procedure again.
After the blocking is done just upgrade the box to the latest prerooted firmware from rbox and you're set. this is the link to the latest pre-rooted custom firmware for aftv1 https://forum.xda-developers.com/fire-tv/development/prerooted-stock-images-t2882337.
i hope that helps.
To add to stutunaru, Method 5 is equally important to apply through TWRP, after a fresh ROM flash and before the first full system boot.
http://www.aftvnews.com/how-to-block-software-updates-on-the-amazon-fire-tv-or-fire-tv-stick/
I have a new Amazon Fire TV Stick. My TV only has 1 accessible HDMI port as the other one is on the back of the TV and I can't get to it easily. I have my cable box and my Fire stick hooked to a HDMI splitter. I do have to manually push the switch to move from the cable box to the Fire stick...its supposed to switch automatically...but that isn't happening...I can live with that. But the big issue is this. Scenerio...I'm watching a program on the Fire Stick and pause the program then turn my TV off to go to sleep. The next morning when I turn the TV on the screen will be flashing from black to grainy white. I can manually switch to the cable box and watch reg. tv. If I manually switch back to the Fire stick it will still be flashing. If I unplug the Fire stick and plug it back in it will work normally. Why does it do this and how can I avoid it. Thanks.
I have four Fire TV's, 2 gen 1, 2 gen 2. The FTV2's downloaded 6 gb/day while I was out of town. I had long wondered why I was using more data than I thought I was. Anyone had this problem? Is there a fix? I've disabled updates on both FTV2's.
any ideas?
how are you powering the fire tv? if plugged into a standard power socked I assume as with the fire tv stick it does not actually turn off. If powered via usb to the tv it will turn off so I assume that you are plugged into mains power and the device is still on and doing its stuff in the background thus using data. To use 6 gig i guess you was out of town for a while lol, anyway i think this is your issue and its not and error of any kind. to stop it unlplug the fire tv device when not being used
Was anything running when you left town or was it on the home page? Even if the screen saver kicks in 6gig/day is a lot.
You might want to think about making sure you fTV is in suspend every time you finish using it. The light on the front of the box should be off.
Hello,
I'm using the 4k stick for torrenting and also connect ssh to it. The problem is that after some hours I cannot remote connect to the device because it is in some sleep state.
I disabled sleep from the UI and messed with below settings but it did not help. After some time the stick goes offline.
settings put system screen_off_timeout 2147460000
settings put secure sleep_timeout 0
After some more research I've found that it might be a feature of the stick that puts it to sleep mode after the TV is switched off. The only workaround found is hacking the HDMI adapter so the stick will not know the state of the tv.
Does anyone know how to have the stick permanently available?
cristimnt said:
Hello,
I'm using the 4k stick for torrenting and also connect ssh to it. The problem is that after some hours I cannot remote connect to the device because it is in some sleep state.
I disabled sleep from the UI and messed with below settings but it did not help. After some time the stick goes offline.
settings put system screen_off_timeout 2147460000
settings put secure sleep_timeout 0
After some more research I've found that it might be a feature of the stick that puts it to sleep mode after the TV is switched off. The only workaround found is hacking the HDMI adapter so the stick will not know the state of the tv.
Does anyone know how to have the stick permanently available?
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"How to set custom Sleep or Screensaver times on the Amazon Fire TV or Stick without root" http://www.aftvnews.com/how-to-set-...-on-the-amazon-fire-tv-or-stick-without-root/
Thanks but as I said, trying different values for those commands did not help. After I power-off my TV the stick enters in sleep mode.
There is a program called "Stay Alive!" that has worked on my Tank for years now. Havent tried it on my 4k.
When you run it, it will display an error about google play services and appear not to run, but it still runs and you dont need to set anything up in the app itself.
Hi!
My Fire Stick Lite is connected to an OKI TV (old and very basic) and with external power.
It works correctly but when I put the TV in StandBy and then I wake up the TV again there is no image in the HDMI port but the Fire Stick is on since it responds to ping from my laptop (which is connected to the same network), that is to say that for a strange reason it does not send the video signal to the HDMI and I have to disconnect the power from the Fire Stick to restart it and then there is already image.
I tried another TV at home, a more modern Samsung and the same thing does not happen.
In the OKI TV options there is nothing to configure on the HDMI ports.
I am afraid that the Fire Stick will be damaged by continuous power disconnections.
Regards
pipe1984 said:
Hi!
My Fire Stick Lite is connected to an OKI TV (old and very basic) and with external power.
It works correctly but when I put the TV in StandBy and then I wake up the TV again there is no image in the HDMI port but the Fire Stick is on since it responds to ping from my laptop (which is connected to the same network), that is to say that for a strange reason it does not send the video signal to the HDMI and I have to disconnect the power from the Fire Stick to restart it and then there is already image.
I tried another TV at home, a more modern Samsung and the same thing does not happen.
In the OKI TV options there is nothing to configure on the HDMI ports.
I am afraid that the Fire Stick will be damaged by continuous power disconnections.
Regards
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You have to change the resolution.
AmznUser444 Dev said:
You have to change the resolution.
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Hi,
Did you change the resolution in the Fire Stick or TV settings?
Thanks
Well, I have found the solution.
Disabling the HDMI CEC in the Fire Stick configuration.
Now it doesn't matter if I turn off the TV completely or put it on standby, the Fire Stick is already available.
Thank you for your help.