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Junk
I have the original Fire Tv, 2nd gen Fire Tv, 1st Fire Stick and a few 2nd gen Fire Sticks and for the most part been pretty happy.....Until this worthless piece of junk.
Preordered 3 of them, have set up 2 and not bothering with the 3rd one, all 3 are going back. While setting it up it forces an update so takes awhile to get setup. Installed all my apps and got everything up and running. Then realized my apps bar was blank and if I held down the home button and went into my apps that way, it would just show a loading screen forever. Restarting and nothing worked, had to do a master reset and start all over, which means that time I had to spend longer to setup my amazon account since it wasn’t there anymore.
When I setup the second one I immediately checked out the apps before installing any, same thing black bar and couldn’t get into them, had to do a master reset again.
I always setup parental controls so people cannot purchase videos and on this one made the mistake of doing right away, because then it makes you enter that pin for every single free app you are installing, come in now how stupid is that? I just don’t want people to buy crap, who cares about free apps, none of my other fires have done that.
Not bothering to test out further, packed up and sending all back, going to try out the Nvidia Shield Tv
Oh and I love how Amazon blocked reviews for a few days so they could sell even more units to people before they could see the reviews warning about how much of a piece of crap this is.
October 2017 · Electronics · verified purchase