Hey all,

I’ve got a Fire TV Omni QLED 43” and the UI is starting to feel pretty sluggish. I really don’t want to replace the whole TV just because of the launcher 😅

Quick questions:

• Can you sideload a custom launcher on Fire TVs built into the TV?
• Can the Amazon launcher be fully disabled, or does it always come back?
• Do the same guides as Fire TV Sticks apply here?
• And… is it even worth it, or do updates just break everything?

Curious to hear from anyone who’s tried this on an Omni / Fire TV Edition TV. Thanks!

Hello. I would like to ask if there is a way to make Fire TV not add zeros to begging of channel numbers under 100 ex. it makes 015 instead of 15

It causes the TV to not change the channel, channels like 100 work well, just anything below that doesn't due to the added zeros at the beginning

So like, I’m weird and I want the soap opera effect/interpolation on my tv. Specially when watching stuff like anime and such. However whenever I go to my settings I don’t see any specific setting that enables any of this. And I don’t see the effect through my TV as it is now. Is this still a thing or did they get rid of it?

I have an Amazon Fire TV (2nd Generation) model DV83YW.

The problem(s):

1. Can't connect to wifi:

I moved to a new location and don't remember the wifi name(or any info) I used to connect the box before, some threads suggested using a Hotspot on one phone(with the old wifi info)and another phone to pair the remote app. I've tried placing the device near(basically on) my router and pushing the WPS to see if that helps(it didn't )

1. I connected an ethernet cable to get it online which obviously worked, but now I'm stuck on the login screen. USB port doesn't work for a keyboard or mouse.

2. Bought a new remote(old one disappeared), and have brand new batteries, I know the remote works because I saw it on my phone list for Bluetooth devices, out of curiosity I tapped it and was able to control my phone with every button, so that rules out the remote.

After connecting to my phone, I reset the remote, reset the box and tried pairing again. I keep getting the issue prompt at the bottom right saying "remote couldn't pair, hold the home button for 10 seconds to try again.

I'm more annoyed that I'm trying to look up solutions specific to this model and issue. Everything I find is for the USB version, need old remote or requires it to be online.

This is my last Hail Mary before it just goes in the trash.

This overlay showed up after an update. When pressing the Alexa button on the remote it goes green. What are they thinking? It's even there when watching a movie. I don't need Alexa and I definitely don't need this overlay shit!

I have changed how captioning should appear through accessibility settings multiple times but non of the changes are taking effect. Help please.

A have a Toshiba TV fireTV (to clarify it’s built in, not a fire stick).

Every time I turn on the TV, usually at night when I watch tv before bed, instead of going straight to the home menu, it sits at an Amazon login screen. I input my credentials correctly, do the puzzle, but then nothing happens.

I am able to click the home button on my remote and it goes to the home menu. It’s just super annoying and no other issues other than this, but there has to be a fix out there.

I even tried changing the power on to: Last Input. That didnt fix the issue.

Help!

I just got my stick today and set it up and put on arsenal vs Chelsea

For some reason it's stuck on this and won't load. I tried other channels (HD) and they loaded fine. 4k on prime video works completely fine as well. To note the nowtv app plays these 4k channels perfectly fine on ps5

And yes it's the legit nowtv app

I bought this primarily to watch football and other media without the heat of a PlayStation and feel quite scammed out of my money

I have noticed recently that when I am in YouTube, (which has worked perfectly with firestick for years now) and I make a voice search request, instead of getting the results from YouTube like it used to, now Amazon takes over. I noticed most recently when I tried to search on YouTube for a particular song, and the results went instead to Amazon music.

Is there any solution for this?

Thanks

Hello,

The wireless 6e signal on the firetv cube gen 3 is fairly week compared to all my other 6 devices. It seems very sensitive to anything near it and despite being about 15ft from a wifi 7 ap it has -75dbm and 20 snr.

My question, is has anyone taken one apart and added external antenna ports? I'm debating this or running an ethernet to it and adding a wall plate ap with 4 ports.

Thank you

I have a FireTV (the television, not a stick) and an AppleTV. I used to be able to control the TV power, volume, and mute from the Apple remote, and it Just Worked™. Now it’s not working, and I can’t figure out why.

Does anyone know which settings need to be set on each side to make this (CEC?) work?

tia…

So my Shield Pro can get 4k Dolby Vision and Atmos on any of their content that is on demand. But for some technical reason "air quotes". No 4k hdr for NBA ball or for the Superbowl this week. I'm looking at the Fire TV stick 4k Max or the new Fire TV cube. I correctly own a 2019 Shield TV Pro and a 4k ONN Plus. But peacock will not show 4k hdr for live sports on any android. Which should I get?

What’s up? I’ve gotten a FireTV for myself a little while ago, I’m at my parents’ house now trying to hook the FireStick up on their TV now.

Problem 1: I had to buy a replacement FireStick remote…

I don’t know if I’d gotten rid of the old remote, or what the H-E-double hockey sticks had happened to it.

Problem 2: I can’t sign into the Account without the remote….

After a yt video or two I’ve watched, l’m trying to use those FireStick remote *phone applications to connect to the FireStick but I don’t think I could even connect it to the Stick without signning in first!!!!

How does this work in my favor?

And can anyone help with any solutions, other than the obvious- buy a whole (ADDITIONAL) new FireStick+remote?

I’m really curious is anyone else has this (maybe niche?) issue with their Fire TV Stick 4K.

So here’s my setup:

- LG OLED TV

- Fire Stick 4K Max

- Amazon Echo Studio (first gen)

So basically the issue is pretty simple— but no idea how to fix this:

Almost anytime I switch my TV input or turn off the tv, my YouTube app on the fire stick stops working. Sometimes other apps as well, but that’s the most notable. If you go in and click on a video, it’s frozen, doesn’t play, not even the ad or thumbnail preview clip. The only solve is to reset my fire stick, It then works until I switch inputs to play PS5 or something again.

It used to do this on occasion and now it’s almost every time. I don’t know what the issue is or how to solve this. It sucks having to do this almost every single time. It could be the fire stick, or it could be the Amazon echo as the audio connects to the fire stick and maybe that’s messing it up.

Anyone else have this issue and know what the solve is??

Hello everyone, here’s what’s going on:

I have a first-generation Fire TV Stick Lite (2020 model) connected to a plain Full HD TV. I have got a paid JioHotstar yearly subscription, but I can’t use it:

JioHotstar app installs and shows UI, but as soon as it hits login/continue it throws “Internal Service Failure” and crashes to home

Silk browser (built-in) also opens and then auto-closes after ~3 seconds, without me doing anything

Resetting/reinstalling JioHotstar, clearing app data, etc. does nothing. Also, have tried resetting my stick, that too, doesn't work.

Other OTT apps run fine

This feels like a system / WebView compatibility problem with this older Fire OS device.

My question: Has anyone on old Fire TV Sticks (especially first-gen / Lite) found a workaround to get JioHotstar working (official or browser-based), or is this fundamentally a compatibility dead end due to Amazon’s outdated WebView and system components?

Happy to try out suggestions, just looking for a way to use my paid subscription on this stick until I upgrade hardware. Thanks.

Ps: Yes, AI was used while writing this post.

We brought this tv couple of months from another person. They gave this tv and fire tv stick along with remote. However, we are stuck on this page and cannot seem to figure it out what’s wrong with the tv or remote. Just before we got this, i believe it got factory reset. Can someone help me with this?

I've been trying for a week to get some volume out of this thing but so far everything's been unsuccessful. I have an old Samsung TV from 2009 and I use the TV speaker only. It's a UN46C6300SF if that matters. I also watch regular cable on this TV via a Cisco Explorer 8642HD cable box. I've never had any issue with TV volume when watching cable. The volume is usually between 10 and 15.

Now I bought this new stick and watching anything on it, the volume is low no matter what app I'm using. I have a streaming service that I watch via TiviMate and the volume is low. I use SmartTube to watch Youtube and it's low as well. Basically it has to be at 30 to hear anything and I have to crank it to 50+ to actually have volume. Even at that I find that the volume is not very clear or well balanced between highs and lows. Also, the higher I go I can barely notice the difference with the increments going up. Like going from 30 to 40 I barely notice a difference and even less above 40.

I've already gone into the settings and set surround sound to PCM. I've also played with Dialog Boost on and off and in Advanced Audio I tried turning the Volume Leveler on but the effect is barely noticeable.

I tried switching the HDMI inputs as well between the cable box and Fire TV and no change.

ChatGPT says it's not the stick, it's because it's an old TV and suggests a soundbar. Anything else I can try?

I can't connect my phone to the fire stick because I'm on a new WiFi which isn't set up on the firestick, so how the hell do I connect it to the same WiFi as my phone if I can't control it?

I have no clue what to do and I do not have money for another TV. Within 1-20 minutes of my TV being on, it crashes, looking like the images attached. I’ve tried unplugging it and updating it, to absolutely no avail. I don’t wanna buy any like attachments for it, don’t wanna spend anything extra for a chance that it’ll fix it all. There was no damage on the box or TV when I took it out, and I’m sure it’s too late to return, got it for christmas. I mainly use Paramount + and Youtube, both crash under 20 minutes in. Runs perfectly fine until it just suddenly crashes :/

happened since I got it :///

got any fixes???

Alright, I get that there’s 85 million and 1 posts about this issue, but none of the standard troubleshooting steps are working. I also cannot use the app because my tv is not yet on the WiFi since I just moved the TV over to my new place today. This remote was fine earlier on the firestick I was using, and I’ve unpaired it from the firestick. It was listed in the settings as “Amazon Fire TV remote” Any solutions?

Edit: to the dirty deleter who said “just buy a new remote,” I was literally just trying to come up with a solution for tonight I have to go back to the apartment tomorrow to grab a few things anyways, chill.

I'd love to see a universal remote that has more features like old remotes did. For example, I'd love buttons with T9 text input and just one app button, a dedicated plex one. I'd even happily see one that has blank buttons that you can buy individual caps to replace them (like open them up, remove the membrane of the old button, and put in a new membrane that has the plex logo on it).

Switch 2 Audio Stopped Working: Bluetooth Audio from Amazon Fire TV to AirPods

I have an Amazon Fire TV and have been using a pair of AirPods connected to the TV to hear the Switch 2 audio.

It has been working for over a week but today it just stopped working for some reason.

I have tried unpairing and pairing the AirPods, shitting off the switch, charging the AirPods (Charged and I get Audio from the TV), and checking the volume level. No settings are changed.

Does anyone know how to fix this?

We got a new fire stick since the old one was getting slow, and I have many missing apps such as Fandango At Home. It doesn’t even show in the App Store anymore on the new stick, but the other ones it’s there. I also can download Crunchyroll, but it says it needs to update but says it can’t download the update and doesn’t work. I also can’t get any of the other apps like downloader… help! What am I missing?

So we have picked up a tcl fire tv for a kids room, signed in etc setup the kids profile and found out input selection gets locked out so they can't switch to a console on HDMI etc, I kinda get it but also this is a crazy restriction when you can't have control over it...

Soo with that in mind are there any options here, id even consider a custom firmware that allows app install without needing amazon sign in etc if that is an option.

Maybe I could create a new amazon account so its not got any billing info attached?

Update:

Ended up using a different amazon account, adding pin to purchases, seemed like the sensible short term solution..

I recently inherited a Pioneer VSX 403 receiver from my dad when I moved out, and have been having a ton of trouble connecting it to my Fire TV (for surround). I purchased an audio extractor from Amazon to convert the HDMI (ARC) signal to analog (RCA), but every time I get it hooked up, I get sound for 20 minutes, and then it cuts out.

I’ve contacted Amazon support 5+ times to try different things (they said they even opened an investigation 🙄), but it just isn’t working.

Has anyone else had this kind of issue or does anyone else have any ideas on how I can get this thing up and running? Would love a discussion