Bought a fire stick 4k, installed kodi and xanax with kodi using a guide on the website TroyPoint.
After everything is installed, the fire stick just shuts off. No black screen, no logo, just looks exactly as if the stick isn't even plugged in other than my tv recognizes something is in the usb port. I managed to get it to turn on a couple more times by unplugging my tv and holding the power button for 30 seconds, but then the stick turned off again and hasn't turned back on at all since then.
I plugged it into my computer but nothing shows up when I hit adb devices. Tried to find any guides through Google and YouTube but I'm just stuck.
Is there a way to reset my fire stick back to factory if it won't power on at all?
I've seen mentions on this forum of using a usb hub, a thumb drive, and an otg cable. I couldn't figure out how to use those items in my situation. Is that something applicable here?
lineguy said:
Bought a fire stick 4k, installed kodi and xanax with kodi using a guide on the website TroyPoint.
After everything is installed, the fire stick just shuts off. No black screen, no logo, just looks exactly as if the stick isn't even plugged in other than my tv recognizes something is in the usb port. I managed to get it to turn on a couple more times by unplugging my tv and holding the power button for 30 seconds, but then the stick turned off again and hasn't turned back on at all since then.
I plugged it into my computer but nothing shows up when I hit adb devices. Tried to find any guides through Google and YouTube but I'm just stuck.
Is there a way to reset my fire stick back to factory if it won't power on at all?
I've seen mentions on this forum of using a usb hub, a thumb drive, and an otg cable. I couldn't figure out how to use those items in my situation. Is that something applicable here?
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First thing you should do is trying another microUSB cable. If that also fails, then it might be a hardware failure.
Tried the different cable, no success. Thank you for the suggestion. I managed to get it running and did a factory reset, but it died again and the same thing is happening. Returning it.
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Hi All,
I recently unplugged my AFTV2's HMDI cable and then when replugging it, i cannot get video signal back.
I try to restart, and it doesn't get past the Amazon logo. No colour logo at all. It seems bricked form unplugging the HDMI cable?
To make things worse, this is the 3rd box I have had with this problem.
Any ideas what could be causing it? It has Firestarter and KODI installed.
Thanks
Same Here
That is interesting.
About an hour ago exchanged a 3 day old Fire TV at Best Buy for a new one because of this exact behavior. I thought it was defective. It worked for a couple of days, my kid unplugged it and re-plugged it a few times because the screen had gone black, and afterwards nothing. Booted to white logo, then went straight to black screen. I could connect to it with ADB, but it would no longer output video except for the initial white amazon logo at startup.
Also was running Firestarter and Kodi, nothing else (latest firmware, no root)
b1nuzz said:
Hi All,
I recently unplugged my AFTV2's HMDI cable and then when replugging it, i cannot get video signal back.
I try to restart, and it doesn't get past the Amazon logo. No colour logo at all. It seems bricked form unplugging the HDMI cable?
To make things worse, this is the 3rd box I have had with this problem.
Any ideas what could be causing it? It has Firestarter and KODI installed.
Thanks
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galvanash said:
That is interesting.
About an hour ago exchanged a 3 day old Fire TV at Best Buy for a new one because of this exact behavior. I thought it was defective. It worked for a couple of days, my kid unplugged it and re-plugged it a few times because the screen had gone black, and afterwards nothing. Booted to white logo, then went straight to black screen. I could connect to it with ADB, but it would no longer output video except for the initial white amazon logo at startup.
Also was running Firestarter and Kodi, nothing else (latest firmware, no root)
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Have you tried entering recovery and doing a factory reset?
See this thread here
I got this type of behavior and in fact it was my TV just unplug it and plug it back
My set up was originally through an amp, but I now have it plugged directly in to the TV. It makes no difference.
I only unplugged it because I was trying to solve the issue where all the blacks are crushed.
Amazon help just keep saying they are faulty and will replace them, but when I push them to try and offer a better solution as to why it keeps happening, they just tell me it won't happen again.
Dull.
gazdaman. said:
Have you tried entering recovery and doing a factory reset?
See this thread here
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No matter how many times I try, and believe me, it's a lot of times, I cannot get it to activate recovery.
I also can't get it be seen with ADB. It's recognised on the network, but ADB can't connect.
Just to close this.
It was my AVR putting voltage down the HDMI and causing the unit to brick.
Nothing to do with the AFTV.
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Have a Fire TV 1 that has been bricked for awhile now and noticed something that may mean something and may not. Anyway the fire tv will power on but there is no display from HDMI to tv not even white amazon logo, nothing. What is interesting is that it will temporarily connect to USB....It will connect then quickly disconnect when I attach a usb a to a cable? Is there any way to get it to hold that connection? Also does that even mean anything that it will temporarily connect? When it connects it shows as Fire TV device. Since it seems to be nothing more than a paperweight at the moment I'm willing to try anything especially since I have another Fire TV 1 and a Fire TV 2. I think it got bricked when we had a power outage. It may have been in the middle of an update since it was not rooted.
Any suggestions at all would be appreciated
dk1keith said:
Have a Fire TV 1 that has been bricked for awhile now and noticed something that may mean something and may not. Anyway the fire tv will power on but there is no display from HDMI to tv not even white amazon logo, nothing. What is interesting is that it will temporarily connect to USB....It will connect then quickly disconnect when I attach a usb a to a cable? Is there any way to get it to hold that connection? Also does that even mean anything that it will temporarily connect? When it connects it shows as Fire TV device. Since it seems to be nothing more than a paperweight at the moment I'm willing to try anything especially since I have another Fire TV 1 and a Fire TV 2. I think it got bricked when we had a power outage. It may have been in the middle of an update since it was not rooted.
Any suggestions at all would be appreciated
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It is no way back in without recovery being install and as your unit was not rooted recovery had not been installed for sure.
Just buy a new one at Walmart put the old one in the box and return it
Hello I am looking for guidance to fix my firestick. I've exhausted all search options.
I lost my firestick remote some time ago and just got competed moving. I decided to re setup my firestick. However I am running into the following issue.
I now have a new router, so my firestick is still looking to connect to the old router settings. I downloaded the firetv app but i can't remember my old router net id and password settings to create a hotspot with my phone and update my network settings.
I purchased a new remote as I have read you can just pair it to your current firestick by holding the home button for 10 seconds. I've tried this several times. However my firestick seems to be stuck in sleep mode. I have tried to unplug the firestick to reboot it. However I cannot get past the black screen.
I have verified that I am on the correct hdmi screen and the unit is plugged in. I also tried two different hdmi ports on my tv and no luck.
Does anyone have a work around or am I stuck buying a new firestick?
Do you see anything as the FireTV boots? It's just black?
malacoid said:
Do you see anything as the FireTV boots? It's just black?
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I do not get to see it even boot. When I plug the unit into the hdmi port the screen stays black. I am on the correct hdmi setting on the tv. I have 6 hdmi ports and have no luck on any of them.
I've read that people say the USB cord can get burned out so the unit is not getting power. I will swap my iPhone cord to see if that is the issue.
My Firestick is 100% stock. The other day it froze. I tried to reset with remote and nothing happened and after unplugging and plugging back in it came back unable to connect to WiFi or any remotes.
Amazon has been less than helpful wasting an hour of my time trying to reset and pair the remotes. The final icing was when they offered to sell me a new one at 20% off (my device is 1 yr old)
It loads up the home screen titles, then after awhile it says unable to connect to network. From there it goes into a screen saver but has no images.
It looks like everything essentially got turned off including ADB.
Am I pretty much SOL? All I think it needs is a factory reset but seems there is no way to do that without a remote?
Thanks in advance for any help.
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My Firestick is 100% stock. The other day it froze. I tried to reset with remote and nothing happened and after unplugging and plugging back in it came back unable to connect to WiFi or any remotes.
Amazon has been less than helpful wasting an hour of my time trying to reset and pair the remotes. The final icing was when they offered to sell me a new one at 20% off (my device is 1 yr old)
It loads up the home screen titles, then after awhile it says unable to connect to network. From there it goes into a screen saver but has no images.
It looks like everything essentially got turned off including ADB.
Am I pretty much SOL? All I think it needs is a factory reset but seems there is no way to do that without a remote?
Thanks in advance for any help.
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Is this the only remote you have to try ? Or do you have any other fire devices with remotes you can try ?
First of all I'd try unplugging the power half way through the boot, try it a couple of times to try envoke the optimising screen, this happened to one of mine before and the remote paired after I got the optimising screen up, think I unplugged power 2 or 3 times for this to happen. Failing that you could try pairing the remote with an android device, while your firestick is off then unplug batteries and power up your firestick replace batteries and try again holding the home button for 30 seconds, I know it says 10 seconds but that never worked for me.
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Is this the only remote you have to try ? Or do you have any other fire devices with remotes you can try ?
First of all I'd try unplugging the power half way through the boot, try it a couple of times to try envoke the optimising screen, this happened to one of mine before and the remote paired after I got the optimising screen up, think I unplugged power 2 or 3 times for this to happen. Failing that you could try pairing the remote with an android device, while your firestick is off then unplug batteries and power up your firestick replace batteries and try again holding the home button for 30 seconds, I know it says 10 seconds but that never worked for me.
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I have tried 3 different remotes. Have not tried the resetting during boot. Should I do it during the amazon logo or the firestick logo?
Thanks
Hockeyplayr999 said:
I have tried 3 different remotes. Have not tried the resetting during boot. Should I do it during the amazon logo or the firestick logo?
Thanks
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I'd do it with the fire stick logo, well that's when I did it, if after a few times it don't go to the optimising screen it can't hurt to do it on the Amazon logo. Let me know if you have any luck.
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I'd do it with the fire stick logo, well that's when I did it, if after a few times it don't go to the optimising screen it can't hurt to do it on the Amazon logo. Let me know if you have any luck.
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Well it went through the system optimization but still no luck connecting to WiFi or a remote. Thanks for the suggestion though, better than anything Amazon has offered. Just kills me that there is no mechanical way to factory reset the stick (something similar to the optimization trick).
Hockeyplayr999 said:
Well it went through the system optimization but still no luck connecting to WiFi or a remote. Thanks for the suggestion though, better than anything Amazon has offered. Just kills me that there is no mechanical way to factory reset the stick (something similar to the optimization trick).
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Ah ok, if you are 100 percent sure you have ADB switched off then I'm afraid there is nothing you can do as far as I'm aware.
If you had ADB switched on then enabling otg and using usb hub you could of plugged a keyboard in and navigated with that into settings and returned it to factory settings.
I fixed this problem by going on my Samsung TV settings and enable anynet+ (hdmi-cec). This allows you to use your TV remote instead of amazon remote. Then all good got back online and so on. Already happened twice and its very frustrating don't know what to do. See if you TV got something like that, which allows you to use its remote. Good luck
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.