r/firetvstick

My apologies if this questions has been asked and answered (I swear, I searched for it and couldn't find an answer here). We just got a new Fire TV Stick HD after our dog chewed up the remote on our previous one, for which we had an adapter that let us attach to the power source and to our writer so we had a direct wired connection. With the new hardware not needing a power supply and the adapter not fitting the port, is there a way to still wire the connection to the router? Is it just getting a new dual adapter that fits USB-A and has an ethernet port?

Looking for a new device, but struggling to find them in the UK, they all seem to be out of stock except for the fire sticks and the Google TV streamer.

I wanted to give a Xiaomi TV Box S 3rd Gen a try, but been waiting 4 weeks for them to come back in stock on the website, but no joy.

The RockTek GX1 are also out of stock and the same story for the Strong Leap S3.

Are the Firestick and Google TV streamer the only available options? I was a bit hesitant to purchase either, in case side loading gets stopped on them in the future

So, around the time sideloading started being blocked, and a lot of sideloaded apps stopped working on older Firesticks, there was a workaround where u can enter some Amazon URLs that Firestick uses to get updates.

This way I managed to block updates and have no issue with apps and sideloading. Is this still a thing? Are they still blocking sideloading and already sideloaded apps to work? Or is this resolved?

Does the newest 4k 3rd gen fire stick with Vega OS allow plugging a usb Hard Drive with Y usb cable in order to watch movies and videos saved in there? Has anyone tested it?

Since Febbox is no longer available in the APP store to download to a HD Firestick, are there any alternatives in doing so?

Version 2.0.19 works only mobile . Isn't it ?

What is the maximum speed you are getting with your 6E connection? I'm only getting about 380Mbs with a connection that fast com shows as 1.2 Gps.😳

Moved and had to plug my fire stick back in (reset account). Firestick displays image on screen but remote won’t work. Changed batteries and remote still won’t work (not even a light).

Should I:
- replace the fire stick entirely
- purchase a remote replacement
- try restarting the remote or entire stick again

I was watching YouTube on my firestick, paused the video to watch TikTok (doom scrolling) and the sleep screen came up but after about five minutes, music started randomly playing, and when I clicked on my remote to see what it was, Spotify was open playing music. Spotify isn’t an app i use on there often, and was wayyy down on my recently used apps. The remote was not next to me so there’s no way I could’ve been pressed accidentally and I’ve never had any issues with my fire stick before. The firestick is under an account that has multiple fire sticks, but I’ve read that there’s no way to control it from somebody else’s. Does anybody know what happened?