Fix Amazon FireStick Frozen Problem (1-888-770-3378)

“If you are facing FireStick frozen problem then most probably it should be freezing at the startup. On the other hand your fire stick might be freezing during the play back of certain movie or TV show. But do not worry, just follow the steps mentioned in this article one by one and you will successfully unfreeze your fire stick."

In 2014, Amazon graced the world with the Fire TV’s miniature model known as the Fire stick. Amazon Fire Stick offers an easy and hassle-free way to stream over your favorite television shows, movies, and the like. Unfortunately, Amazon Fire stick does not have unlimited storage capacity. Thus, if the user is not careful about the number of downloaded shows or apps, the Fire Stick may experience performance issues such as FireStick Frozen problem or constantly buffering the content. 

No one wants to see a frozen FireStick as it will be unresponsive and you will no longer be able to control anything with the remote controller. Most of the time fire stick will freeze on the start-up thus you will not have any control over it. So if your fire stick frozen on home screen, there are few solutions that you can try to unfreeze your fire stick device.

1. Re-Start Your Fire Stick Device
2. Power Cycle Your Fire Stick for few minutes
3. Factory Reset Your Fire Stick Device
4. Clear Data & Cache
5. Update Your Fire Stick

Always keep in mind that you need do above mentioned things one by one and as soon as Amazon Fire Stick Frozen problem is solved you need to abort the sequence otherwise you might lose some of your apps and data.

If you remote controller is working fine while your FireStick keeps freezing and you can control few things with it, you can follow the below mentioned steps to re-start your fire stick with the help of the controller. You might find them a bit tricky but they are absolutely easy to do.

• First, you need to turn on your Amazon Fire Stick.
• Now on the remote, press “Select” and “Play/Pause” buttons together at the same time.
• Keep those buttons pressed for 10 to 15 seconds until your fire stick re-starts.
• Most of the time this will solve your FireStick frozen issue.

If the simple re-start does not work for you then you need to power cycle your fire stick for few minutes to solve fire stick frozen problem. This is super easy to do, just follow these steps:

• Take out fire stick’s power cord from the power outlet or USB socket.
• Wait for 5 to 10 minutes until device power cycles itself.
• Plug in back the power cord in the power outlet.

If the above mentioned things didn’t help to solve this issue then you should move to the next step to solve FireStick Frozen problem is a factory reset. But remember, it will delete all content from your device and you have to Register Fire Stick again with your Amazon account. Follow these steps to Reset Fire Stick to factory defaults and this will certainly resolve your issue permanently.

• On your “Home” Screen, look for the “Settings” icon, tap on it.
• Navigate to “My Fire TV” and tap on it.
• Now you need to look for “Reset to Factory Defaults” option.
• Now you will see a warning on screen, just agree to it and tap on “Reset” option.
• Wait for couple of minutes until this process is completed.

If you device is being used for a longer period of time then it might have collected lots of junk and garbage data in the cache memory as a result your FireStick keeps freezing on home screen. To solve this problem you need to delete that junk, follow these steps:

• From the “Home” page go to “Settings”
• Now tap on “Applications”
• Now go to “Manage Installed Applications”
• For each app, tap on “Clear Data”
• And then tap on “Clear Cache”

There might be some issues with operating system behind the FireStick frozen problem. If your fire stick has not been update for a long time then you should update it immediately to get the latest firmware from Amazon. This will help you to improve performance and prevent fire stick freezing issues, follow these steps.

• From the “Settings” menu, go to “My Fire TV”
• Now tap on “About” option
• If you see “Install Update” option, tap on it
• Wait for some time until your fire stick download and install updates

We hope the above mentioned tips helped you to fix Amazon FireStick Frozen issue permanently but still if you facing any problem, let us know in the comment section and we will try our best to guide to through the entire process. Alternately you can get in touch with customer service team on the toll free phone number for immediate assistance.