While the Amazon Fire TV and Fire Television receiver stick usually run smoothly, sometimes they need a swift kick in the reset push. Hither's how to go your Fire Boob tube back to a factory-fresh state.

Why Reset Your Fire TV?

When it comes to devices with embedded operating systems, sometimes in that location's just a glitch in the car you lot can't explain, and Amazon's Fire TV line is no exception. Maybe a certain button on the remote just doesn't work right. Maybe it refuses to recognize your Wi-Fi network (not that we're writing this guide as a effect of that happening or annihilation). Perhaps despite inbound your Amazon Prime credentials a dozen times in a row, it just won't phone habitation and load your vast Prime library.

While nosotros don't encourage people to take the scorched-Earth arroyo to fixing their gadgets, unfortunately that'south sometimes the only solution that works. Whatsoever your ghost-in-the-machine glitch might be, there's a very good chance that a factory reset is the key to eradicating it.

The toll for resetting your Fire Tv set device dorsum to a showroom-fresh state is that yous need to go through and tweak all your settings every bit if you just plugged the device in for the first time: Wi-Fi credentials, Amazon credentials, any customization y'all've fabricated, and then on. Furthermore, y'all'll need to download all content once again like apps and stored media.

If you're non put off past the hassle and you're ready for that new-car smell, permit's reset your Fire TV.

How to Reset Your Burn TV & Fire Television Stick

Offset, let's get one matter out of the fashion. Even though we opened this tutorial with a joke about giving your Fire Idiot box a swift kick in the reset push, we can't actually suggest that form of activeness. Do we say this because it would be far too difficult to land a well placed kick into a tiny and recessed reset button hole? Who are we to judge your boot skills? The real reason is the Fire TV doesn't take a physical reset push. There are only two ways to reset it: via the Organisation carte and via remote control button combination.

If you want to leap right to the reset option, you tin do and then by property down the Back push and the Right push button on your Fire TV remote for 10 seconds until the reset screen pops up.

You can besides take the longer route, through the Organization carte, by navigating down the sidebar card until you accomplish "Settings".

There curlicue right until you see the "Arrangement" menu.

Curlicue down through the slide out menu until yous see "Reset to Factory Defaults" and select it.

When prompted, enter your Pin code (if you've gear up a parental/security Pivot code on your device).

A note regarding the security PIN–if you're resetting your Fire Goggle box because information technology won't connect to your Wi-Fi you lot're in a bit of a bind here. You cannot reset your PIN-protected Amazon Burn Telly/Idiot box Stick unless the device can phone home and confirm your Pin is right. This is a ridiculous situation that necessitates y'all connecting your Fire Tv to some other network (or using a network cablevision to plug it directly into your router).

Select "Reset".

Your Amazon Fire TV volition restart, yous'll run through the whole setup routine again as if the device is fresh out of the box, and–fingers crossed–the problem that prompted yous to reset the device is gone for practiced.

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