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/
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
So recently I was rearranging some of the cords on my TV when I realized that it has a USB in Port, and I was wondering if I could power my Fire TV Stick this way?
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So recently I was rearranging some of the cords on my TV when I realized that it has a USB in Port, and I was wondering if I could power my Fire TV Stick this way?
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If you TV supports the power(amperage) required by your FireStick I do not see a reason why not. Give it a try and find out for yourself if this is the case or not.
Okay I tried it, it sort of works it'll boot up but the network connection kept dropping. Most likely my TV doesn't support, but thanks all the same!
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So recently I was rearranging some of the cords on my TV when I realized that it has a USB in Port, and I was wondering if I could power my Fire TV Stick this way?
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It works but each time you turn power off the tv, you'll power off the device. If you're using something like Kodi, it's nice to turn off the TV in the middle of a movie and then be able to come back to where you started.
While moving around cords on TV, keep the stick away from the back panel of the TV. Use the usb extension cable. This will minimize the loss of network connection and will maximize network speed too.
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.