I attempted a full boot unlock and i might have bricked my fire tv. It is stuck on white amazon logo and black screen .i tried with key board by pressing Alt+print screen+ i but no joy and tried every combination of fire tv remot but no joy. Hope some one can help.
Same here, hope someone can help us
Went and lucked out lastnight with getting one rootable
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.
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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/
Hello, I have a problem with my Amazon Fire Tv (Not stick)
My problem is when turn on my Amazon Fire Tv it shows me a white Amazon logo and the screen turns black, the remote doesn't work, I tried to use 2 different tvs but no luck, I tried going into recovery mode with a keyboard but leads me in to a dead end that says something like "Amazon Recovery System 3e, your Amazon Fire Tv will restart in a couple minutes and should return to normal operations, if it does not restart you may pull the power to force a restart." Also, the light on the box is pulsing white then sometimes turn to orange and back and forth. This is not rooted or have a custom boot menu, its mostly used for Kodi.
Thanks.
Thats exactly what mine does. No luck here yet love to find solution.
I am getting this same screen!
Still no luck with this issue ?
I have a Gen 2 Fire TV. Completely stock, unrooted, locked boot loader. Only thing I side loaded was kodi. Plus I did those adb commands to hide the ad banner.
I don't know what happened but since last week I can't get my Fire TV to boot. Farthest I can get to is the white Amazon logo. Interestingly I can still connect via network adb. It just stays on the white Amazon logo, then I think it turns off after 2 hours or something (TV would go to the "no hdmi signal" screen). I unfortunately don't have the remote anymore. But I have flirc setup and a usb keyboard.
I tried the alt+print screen+i, but from what I've read this is needed right before the colorful Fire logo, which I can't get to.
I tried what the OP tried from this thread and I got the same errors he got. But mine didn't fix itself by just having it sit for a couple hours. And I'm on the latest version so I can't just wipe it, root, and reinstall the rom.
Curious an update came out last week I believe. I wonder if this issue is related to the update. Like a failed/corrupted update or something.
Any suggestions on what else I can try out? Thanks
Hello all,
I have a 3rd gen Fire TV that has been working fine on an old Toshiba projection HDTV, mfg 2004. Yesterday I went to turn it on, and it will boot through the black screen with the firetv logo, the screen turns white for just a second, and then the screen goes black. If you do the remote shortcut to reset the device, it will do this again. I've tried every setting on the TV. I've tried the UP/REVERSE combo on the remote, you can see it making changes, but a picture never comes up. I move the firetv to a newer TV and it works fine. Why did this work before, then quit? FireTV updated to 6.2.5.5 a week ago, and I can't remember for sure if i've used it successfully since then or not.
Tried factory reset, too.
Any help is appreciated.
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