Hi
My Amazon Fire TV cube (2nd generation) has suddenly STUCK in "ANDROID RECOVERY MODE". (see image)
Fire cube has blue light circling.
Options to “factory reset” / (or) “try again” are displayed, but am unable to select either option to execute command via cube buttons or remote.
Holding mute and volume down buttons for 60 seconds does NOT reset/restart
Unplugging device from power for 10 minutes does NOT change boot up status.
I do have a 3 port USB / ethernet hub attached to the cube.
Any guidance would be appreciated
spud1962 said:
Hi
My Amazon Fire TV cube (2nd generation) has suddenly STUCK in "ANDROID RECOVERY MODE". (see image)
Fire cube has blue light circling.
Options to “factory reset” / (or) “try again” are displayed, but am unable to select either option to execute command via cube buttons or remote.
Holding mute and volume down buttons for 60 seconds does NOT reset/restart
Unplugging device from power for 10 minutes does NOT change boot up status.
I do have a 3 port USB / ethernet hub attached to the cube.
Any guidance would be appreciated
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Was u ever able to get this issue fixed? I have same issue after update
mike2e427 said:
I have same issue after update
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Were you using adoptable storage? Not merely external storage that is accessed independently from internal storage, but rather external storage media adopted to act like internal storage?
mike2e427 said:
Was u ever able to get this issue fixed? I have same issue after update
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No. I never got a reply. Amazon were hopeless, too. They had absolutely NO CLUE what I was talking about. Now out of warranty after just over a year. I can't believe there is no fix, though. I've got a 3rd gen version, now. It seems that Amazon deliberately updated the software to make it inaccessible, forcing you to buy a new one . I'm sure the geeks will discover a fix, though.
I have a Fire TV stick with the same issue. It looks like Amazon is using a tablet bootloader that navigates menus using the device's physical buttons. However, the Fire TV Stick DOES NOT HAVE physical buttons. You may be able to navigate your Fire TV Cube using these buttons, located on the device itself.
Your device is a no recovery at this point. I had this 2 weeks ago. The physical buttons on the cube don't work in that menu, best I could do was to get it to highlight "Try Again" by pressing and holding volume down. I couldn't get it to successfully choose either of those options. I even tried with a physical keyboard plugged in, no luck.
jlb1234 said:
I have a Fire TV stick with the same issue. It looks like Amazon is using a tablet bootloader that navigates menus using the device's physical buttons. However, the Fire TV Stick DOES NOT HAVE physical buttons. You may be able to navigate your Fire TV Cube using these buttons, located on the device itself.
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Thanks for the suggestion. However the cube buttons do not function under these circumstances. There is no official solution to this at this moment in time. Keyboard via usb adapter doesn't work either.
roligov said:
Your device is a no recovery at this point. I had this 2 weeks ago. The physical buttons on the cube don't work in that menu, best I could do was to get it to highlight "Try Again" by pressing and holding volume down. I couldn't get it to successfully choose either of those options. I even tried with a physical keyboard plugged in, no luck.
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Thanks for posting. Amazon have been hopeless, their chat ops. are hopeless. No clue about this issue. There told me it's "out of warranty" offered me a 15% discount off a new one. It been a real waste of money for such limited use. I guess that's how they make money. I've read they repeatedly update the OS to make it impossible to access it.
Hi not sure if this will help buy I had the same issue with firecube Gen 3 will trying to add external storage and to be honest I got it fixed but not sure how as I was throwing everything at the issue and hoping something would work.what I did do was to use a method for fixing a firestick that's in a bootloop I connected a usb keyboard to the cube and just kept pressing the key combo (ctrl+alt+printscreen+menu+I) repeatedly I took a while but eventually a screen came up that an image of a firecube with the words no command under it from there it rebooted. Again not sure how I got it done but it worked for me
cam65 said:
just kept pressing the key combo (ctrl+alt+printscreen+menu+I) repeatedly I took a while but eventually a screen came up that an image of a firecube with the words no command
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Would you please quantify "a while"? Approximately for how long did you smash the "ctrl+alt+printscreen+menu+I" key combination? Which keyboard key is "menu"?
Hi it took me about 15 to 20 minutes of pressing the key combos I'm guessing you have to get the timing right I will include a link to a YouTube video which works for a firestick in a boot loop that's what I did to get my cube working again
cam65 said:
Hi it took me about 15 to 20 minutes of pressing the key combos I'm guessing you have to get the timing right I will include a link to a YouTube video which works for a firestick in a boot loop that's what I did to get my cube working again
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And I should have said when I pressed the combo buttons I just held them for about 30 seconds to a minute if nothing happened I released and pressed them again
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I used to turn off power for any unused devices, even it takes only few watt. There is no menu to shutdown and turn off fire TV before I cut its power. I'm wondering whether it is safe to cut its power at any time. Or it's not necessary to have a menu selection to shutdown system? Thanks.
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billsam38 said:
I used to turn off power for any unused devices, even it takes only few watt. There is no menu to shutdown and turn off fire TV before I cut its power. I'm wondering whether it is safe to cut its power at any time. Or it's not necessary to have a menu selection to shutdown system? Thanks.
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It should be safe to just unplug, but if you use it often eventually it could cause a problem either in the firmware or the the connection itself. A simple solution would be something like a Woods wireless remote outlet. The one I have comes with 3 plugs and a remote with a switch for each. The plug can take a bit of room on the surge protector but so does the FTV power cord. I just press and hold the select and play buttons on the FTV remote for about 5 seconds and when the screen goes black I hit the power button for the outlet.
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I used to turn off power for any unused devices, even it takes only few watt. There is no menu to shutdown and turn off fire TV before I cut its power. I'm wondering whether it is safe to cut its power at any time. Or it's not necessary to have a menu selection to shutdown system? Thanks.
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Get a Microsoft remote (MCE Remote). The power button on the MCE remote will put the firetv back to sleep. When you hit the power button again it turns back on, or hitting any button on the firetv remote.
I actually prefer the MCE remote because it offers more function when using XBMC and VIMU. I can actually time skip vs ffwd, hit stop, etc... Only complaint is there is no home button. The microsuck button does not take me home, and I have not figured out how to program it on the MCE remote.
mattngsx said:
Get a Microsoft remote (MCE Remote). The power button on the MCE remote will put the firetv back to sleep. When you hit the power button again it turns back on, or hitting any button on the firetv remote.
I actually prefer the MCE remote because it offers more function when using XBMC and VIMU. I can actually time skip vs ffwd, hit stop, etc... Only complaint is there is no home button. The microsuck button does not take me home, and I have not figured out how to program it on the MCE remote.
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As i've stated in another thread, "sleep" on this is pretty much the same as sleep on a regular android device. It's still fully awake, although the CPU might be downclocked a little.
As for home, you need F12 to get home.
rbox said:
As i've stated in another thread, "sleep" on this is pretty much the same as sleep on a regular android device. It's still fully awake, although the CPU might be downclocked a little.
As for home, you need F12 to get home.
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I love low watt setups, so I know the mind set for the OP. It would have been nice to be able power off the device! I was told that lab126 felt the footprint was small enough in standby that it wasn't needed. They also wanted to be able to update when not in use, etc...
You could hook it up the ftv to a power strip. I've seen power strips that have one active outlet and shuts off the rest of the outlets when the primary device is not used. That could be another option?
Rbox- Do you know where the MCE remote values are stored in the FIreTV. I want to see if I can modify so the windows button is f12.
mattngsx said:
Rbox- Do you know where the MCE remote values are stored in the FIreTV. I want to see if I can modify so the windows button is f12.
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Since it shows up as a regular HID keyboard I don't think it has a keylayout file. What I do know, is that the kernel could probably do it. The HID layer has a quirks system that allows you do to funky stuff for individual HID devices. Do you know the usb vendor and device id for the remote? I can take a look at the quirks stuff tonight and see if we can do anything. It might have to wait until custom kernels can be loaded though.
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Since it shows up as a regular HID keyboard I don't think it has a keylayout file. What I do know, is that the kernel could probably do it. The HID layer has a quirks system that allows you do to funky stuff for individual HID devices. Do you know the usb vendor and device id for the remote? I can take a look at the quirks stuff tonight and see if we can do anything. It might have to wait until custom kernels can be loaded though.
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I'm at work but I can pull the HID/Device info when i get home tonight. I will PM you the info, so we're not clogging the OP's thread.
It takes 3 to 4 watts to stream a movie - measured on a Kill a Watt meter. I forgot what the reading was on sleep mode but its not much. The max watts I've seen was 5 watts and that's while installing an app.
mattngsx said:
Get a Microsoft remote (MCE Remote). The power button on the MCE remote will put the firetv back to sleep. When you hit the power button again it turns back on, or hitting any button on the firetv remote.
I actually prefer the MCE remote because it offers more function when using XBMC and VIMU. I can actually time skip vs ffwd, hit stop, etc... Only complaint is there is no home button. The microsuck button does not take me home, and I have not figured out how to program it on the MCE remote.
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Which MCE remote do you use? I have one from philips but it doesnt work with my ftv.
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KillerJoeBR said:
Which MCE remote do you use? I have one from philips but it doesnt work with my ftv.
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What gen is it? I heard old mce receivers don't work? My USB receiver is a Phillips/nxp. It came with my zotac mini pc.
I just got my fire TV, rooted and installed a few apps including the firedtv.
I left it over night and realized it never went into sleep (the front led was on). I was able to put into sleep using a keyboard, but I don't want to keep the keyboard near my fire tv all the time.
Do you guys know what is wrong?
minmao said:
I just got my fire TV, rooted and installed a few apps including the firedtv.
I left it over night and realized it never went into sleep (the front led was on). I was able to put into sleep using a keyboard, but I don't want to keep the keyboard near my fire tv all the time.
Do you guys know what is wrong?
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Try rebooting your box and without loading any external apps, see if it goes to sleep after a certain time. My guest is that an app is still running in the background preventing sleep mode.
When I first installed XBMC that happened too. I found out that XBMC was still running in the background because I didn't properly exit the app. Clicking the home button on the remote just leaves XBMC running in the background. Exit by pressing XBMC power off button and setting the system power saving timer to shut down at a interval during idle works.
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Try rebooting your box and without loading any external apps, see if it goes to sleep after a certain time. My guest is that an app is still running in the background preventing sleep mode.
When I first installed XBMC that happened too. I found out that XBMC was still running in the background because I didn't properly exit the app. Clicking the home button on the remote just leaves XBMC running in the background. Exit by pressing XBMC power off button and setting the system power saving timer to shut down at a interval during idle works.
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You can also set the power off setting in xbmc to exit after some idle time value.
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Shinyhead said:
You can also set the power off setting in xbmc to exit after some idle time value.
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Yea, that's what I said. It's set to 30mins. Works fine.
I was just able to get what seems to be the last fire tv in amazons surplus through their prime now app. I set it up everything went fine then I clicked to update it and it did the normal update process until I looked up and saw a black screen. I unplugged the unit and replugged it and now all I get is amazon logo then black screen. Is there anyway to fix this I was really excited about having the last fire tv. Something I just discovered is that I can still connect wirelessly to the unit via adb.. I just restarted it. I dunno if this can help anything.
PROBLEM SOLVED faulty hdmi cable... This cable was sent to me from mono price about a week ago as a replacement for another defective cable.. sigh...
danknasty said:
PROBLEM SOLVED faulty hdmi cable... This cable was sent to me from mono price about a week ago as a replacement for another defective cable.. sigh...
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To fix the black screen/blank screen, we use the following steps to troubleshoot it:\
Your FireTV went to sleep and you just need to wake it up. You can wake up your FireTV by pressing the “Back” button on the remote.
Try the Fire TV Remote Shortcuts to see if one of them will wake up your Fire TV.
On the [easyazon_link identifier=”B00NO8JJZW” locale=”US” tag=”arizonacaorg-20″]Fire TV Remote[/easyazon_link], hold the REVERSE (or “rewind”) button and the UP button at the same time for 10 seconds. Your FireTV should start switching through the different video display modes (or resolutions). You can expect the light on your TV to change colors and/or blink. When it switches to a display resolution that works, press the SELECT button to select that mode. This will fix your display issue if your fireTV happens to be set to a video resolution not supported by the TV you have it plugged into.
Your FireTV needs to be reset to the factory default settings. To do this, press BACK and REVERSE and RIGHT and SELECT to get your FireTV to prompt you to do a factory reset.
Your FireTV is deceased. If you tried #1 and #2 above, perhaps your Firestick has perished.
You could be forcing a screen resolution such as [easyazon_link identifier=”B00V0923TG” locale=”US” tag=”arizonacaorg-20″]1080p[/easyazon_link] 60Hz. Try changing the display settings back to Auto, No Scaling (by hooking the FireTV to a [easyazon_link identifier=”B01CF3L3RS” locale=”US” tag=”arizonacaorg-20″]TV[/easyazon_link] that it’s known to work on).
Press SELECT & PLAY (Hold the buttons down for 5 or 10 Seconds) to restart your FireTV / firestick.
I hope it will help you out.
I can't find any information anywhere about this so hoping someone here knows something about this. We have an Amazon fire stick. We have a 1 year old. At some point she must have pressed some button combination that's unknown to us. We've now got a bar on screen that lists hdmi mode, CPU load, memory usage and download speed. Any idea how to get rid of it? Cheers
I currently have the same thing displayed after our kids began playing games on the stick. No idea as to how to fix.
We got rid of it in the end by switching off at the plug....
Hold the select and down buttons for 5 seconds, then release and quickly press menu. A menu will pop up, turn off "System X-Ray"
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I fixed my firestick. Exact problem
Bmdji said:
I can't find any information anywhere about this so hoping someone here knows something about this. We have an Amazon fire stick. We have a 1 year old. At some point she must have pressed some button combination that's unknown to us. We've now got a bar on screen that lists hdmi mode, CPU load, memory usage and download speed. Any idea how to get rid of it? Cheers
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Go to Settings.
Click through to "Device"
RESTART.
This will power down and automatically restart, cancelling whatever "order" your kids put in. It may cause a "ZOOM" effect when you restart, with a vivid yellow box around the screen...mine did.
To fix that: HOLD THE "BACK" AND "FF" BUTTON SIMULTANEOUSLY 5 SECONDS.
This is an old thread, but maybe, my input will help someone else. GOOD LUCK,
Hi all
My Fire tv box has started malfunctioning since the latest OS update. I am getting a message flash up about a new feature and then the screen goes black. Restarting doesn't help or doing the Amazon recommeded hard reset by pressing some buttons on the remote control. When i restart i get the Amazon Fire TV splash screen but then most of the time it goes to the black screen. Sometimes it comes up again with the info on the new features (something to do with Alexa) and then goes black. The only thing i can do is hold down the home button and then the screen comes up with 4 options with Apps, Sleep, Settings and one other thing. I can then go into my apps and use them. Any attempt to go back to the normal home screen brings the black screen
Anyone else had this issue? Spoke to Amazon cust service and they have tried troubleshooting and cant fix it. I have been told they cant help as i am out of warranty! So their update does this to my box and they cant help....terrible.
Hope someone can help...
afcchris said:
Hi all
My Fire tv box has started malfunctioning since the latest OS update. I am getting a message flash up about a new feature and then the screen goes black. Restarting doesn't help or doing the Amazon recommeded hard reset by pressing some buttons on the remote control. When i restart i get the Amazon Fire TV splash screen but then most of the time it goes to the black screen. Sometimes it comes up again with the info on the new features (something to do with Alexa) and then goes black. The only thing i can do is hold down the home button and then the screen comes up with 4 options with Apps, Sleep, Settings and one other thing. I can then go into my apps and use them. Any attempt to go back to the normal home screen brings the black screen
Anyone else had this issue? Spoke to Amazon cust service and they have tried troubleshooting and cant fix it. I have been told they cant help as i am out of warranty! So their update does this to my box and they cant help....terrible.
Hope someone can help...
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Try Settings -> Factory Reset
rainman74 said:
Try Settings -> Factory Reset
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I cant get into settings. It gives the option on the screen that comes up with Apps/Sleep/Mirroring/Settings but pressing settings doesnt work
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I cant get into settings. It gives the option on the screen that comes up with Apps/Sleep/Mirroring/Settings but pressing settings doesnt work
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adb shell am start -n com.amazon.tv.settings/.tv.FactoryResetActivity
I have the same issue, so watching this thread.
How do I issue the ADB command to a fire tv 2 box please? There is only a USB-A port.
Buy a USB A to A cable was the right answer. I have ordered one now, never had a reason to own one, till now.
plasmafire said:
I have the same issue, so watching this thread.
How do I issue the ADB command to a fire tv 2 box please? There is only a USB-A port.
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is the question serious? There are 1,000,000+ instructions on the net how to use ADB over WLAN
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcSCE0C4cl4
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!!