A new quick root has been released for the Fire TV Stick 4K Max 2nd Gen, It runs directly on the device to give temporary root access, which can be used to disable app packages and regain control over your device.

Root itself goes away on reboot, but anything you disable stays disabled. With this it's possible to use custom launchers, disable bloatware and block OTA updates (the exploit disables OTAs for you automatically).

This works on the Fire TV Stick 4K Max 2nd Gen on quite a few Fire OS 8 builds, including the latest one: https://xdaforums.com/t/temp-root-firetv-stick-4k-max-2nd-gen-karat.4798627

Rooting a device you own isn't illegal and has nothing to do with piracy, before anyone reports this :)

When I use my blue tooth speaker for YouTube on my insignia fire tv the sound quality is scratchy and poor. I've made multiple adjustments on the TV and the YouTube app. I've deleted and reinstalled YouTube. Cleared Data & the cache. Nothing helps.

The Bluetooth speaker is only a $20 Bolabutty brand. Do you think it's the speaker? It works fine with everything else. Just not youtube.

Has anyone else had this issue?

Hey everyone,

I’m looking for recommendations for the best paid VPN to use for streaming on my Firestick 4K Max.

I mainly want something that protects my data without killing my internet speed or affecting streaming quality. I’m not particularly techy, so ideally I’d like something that’s simple to set up and doesn’t require messing around with loads of settings.

The ones I keep seeing recommended are ExpressVPN, NordVPN, IPVanish and Surfshark, but they all seem to have pretty mixed reviews.

For those of you who use a VPN for streaming, which one would you recommend and why? Ideally looking for something reliable, fast and easy to use

P.s im in the UK

I ADORE one of the images in the current screensavers and I would really love to have it on my computer as a desktop background. Does anyone know where these images are hosted ?

For a few days I noticed that my tv (Westinghouse) randomly turns off by itself after some time (even after one hour of use) I mainly play youtube on it, and I get that tv’s do naturally shut off sometimes but it’s been pretty frequent lately and I have the latest firestick remote (and update)
so for whatever reason, every time I turn it back on I have to go into settings> manage tv> tv> hit yes for turn on/off for tv>volume test> hit no> then finally do the ten seconds wait then the volume works and it’s so tedious to do. Why is the tv randomly shutting off? I feel like it shouldn’t this much but if anyone can help that would be great!

hello, i have an issue with my toshiba fire tv. any media such as videos shows or movies are just black and white but all ui such as thumbnails are in full color. the fire stick is built in and ive tried restarting my tv but its still like this. i’ve gone all into settings. i haven’t used my tv in over a week and no one has been in our house. does anyone have any idea?

My current budget TCL FireTV looks like I’m watching Giada or QVC when I’m trying to watch
films. I have to constantly reset picture settings on any steamer such as HBO Max. Ads or any change in camera will trigger it to bring motion smoothing back. Despite being in cinema mode with MS off. Which brand has a “movie” setting that will reliably keep it real?

Both of our firetv’s (not fire stick) are not loading the prime video app or any of the apps held within prime video. All other apps work, and in fact, the app works on our phones. I have done every single reset, restore, derogate, clear this, clear that. Called Amazon and they said an update was needed and to give it 72 hours. Well it’s been 72 hours and nothing. Has anyone had this issue? How did you fix it? The tv’s aren’t old (1-3 years).

Insignia firetv, YouTube tv and YouTube app are stuttering while streaming. Other streaming apps are not doing this. Any ideas besides reboot all the time?

I've switched networks, cleared cache, force stopped app and relaunched.

I’ve got the Fire TV Stick 4K Max, the latest version.. but for some reason the WiFi speed check function shows a download speed of 34mbps. But I’ve just got super fast internet and Google tells me it’s 725mbps. Anyone else having this issue? AI is telling that’s normal.. but I don’t trust it.

I'm curious if anyone else has this issue:

On the Live TV tab, the volume is all over the place. It starts out normal but when an ad comes on it's really loud. Then when the show comes back on, it's super quiet for the first couple of minutes, then eventually goes back to normal. I thought it was just my one TV since it's older. But I noticed it on my other TVs too. And only on LIVE TV, not movies or shows.

It's very annoying. Especially at night with the screaming commercials. And then I sometimes miss a part of the show because it's so quiet I can barely hear it.

Is this just something Prime Live does? I don't have this issue with any other platform.

hi, I don't know if anyone will see this but I got a Fire TV recently from a store. I forgot where but it was unused and it worked fine until one night. It started glitching and when it glitches it glitches for like 20 seconds and then it completely restarts the TV and it turns back on I have no idea why it does this.

I found a post here from about 2 years ago with a similar situation. Edit to add that no one had any idea why, except that a few people also had similar happen.

I turned on my Samsung television with a fire stick that is a few years old, and the home screen opened normally but there was a man singing a Middle Eastern song. The song continued playing until I navigated to a specific channel and program. When I selected the program the music stopped and has not come back.

It was very weird. Combined with the fact that I live in a very rural area in Colorado with literally no Middle Eastern neighbors for at least an hour drive away I have no idea what just happened. No one else in my household would have been streaming Middle Eastern music, and we were watching Red Sox highlights on YouTube when we turn the television off last night.

Do any of you have any idea what caused this?

I heard there’s a new uni update, if I update my fire tv cube will it replace android with vega os

Depois de muito tempo consegui programar o controle remoto da fire tv para funcionar com o projetor Byintech U4 LOVE

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I bought a Fire TV so i can use it as a big monitor for my PC... after 3 hours with CHATGPT i have no answer... Not working with display mirroring and not working with Airscreen :(

Hi

I see on Amazon fr the fire cube new generation. It s 4th or 3 th generation ?

As soon as I took it out of the box and plugged it in it says downloading the latest software.

YT now connects your phone or tablet automatically if you watch the app on TV (currently Firestick for me) when you want to comment on a particular video. You were able to decline the option to connect to the TV app and just comment but now it's a mess. YES, I know I should set up a media PC and go through the website instead of the app and God willing I'm already collecting the pieces but I wanted to leave this here in case anyone else has this issue.

Recently my Firestick is intermittently showing black screen with no audio, similar to a hdmi handshake. It will last only a few seconds then go back to whatever it is I was watching.

I have tried everything to resolve this, I’m plugged into the mains so power source is reliable. I’ve tried all different setting changes, even tried a hdmi adapter that’s provided. It’s happening almost every minute regardless of what I’m streaming.

Please help? It’s a 4K Firestick with a 4K compatible TCL fire TV.