Anyone had this happen?
I use a Roku Streaming Stick 4K on a 46 inch Sony Bravia from 2010 that started turning itself off immediately after powering on. It would turn itself back on and may do this once or twice more before staying on. Oh well, I've gotten over a decade of use out of this badboy as an auxillary TV in the house and figured it was time to upgrade.
Replaced with 55 inch Samsung from another room and utilized the same Stick. The Samsung started not powering on at all after never giving me problems in the past. The only other thing I have plugged into it is an Apple TV which rarely gets used.
I do plug the stick into a USB port on both TVs, and this is not a good idea but I accepted it since it worked for years with no problem. Heat generated from TV and multiple devices yada yada yada. Yes, yes, it is cheap China hardware that is made to be obsolete or break.
Anyway I left the Samsung off for a few days and tried it again, fired right up. Added the Roku and it was seemingly dead again. Took out Roku and plugged in the Apple TV and it came back.
Looking around the cesspool of Reddit, seems Roku is aware of this and has mailed out a "short HDMI extension cable" to people experiencing this.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Roku/comments/12mgswj/stick_overheating/
https://support.roku.com/article/226794787
https://my.roku.com/hdmi
TLDR: Roku sticks cause TVs to overheat and shutoff, Roku knows about it and offers a Band-Aid.
I use a Roku Streaming Stick 4K on a 46 inch Sony Bravia from 2010 that started turning itself off immediately after powering on. It would turn itself back on and may do this once or twice more before staying on. Oh well, I've gotten over a decade of use out of this badboy as an auxillary TV in the house and figured it was time to upgrade.
Replaced with 55 inch Samsung from another room and utilized the same Stick. The Samsung started not powering on at all after never giving me problems in the past. The only other thing I have plugged into it is an Apple TV which rarely gets used.
I do plug the stick into a USB port on both TVs, and this is not a good idea but I accepted it since it worked for years with no problem. Heat generated from TV and multiple devices yada yada yada. Yes, yes, it is cheap China hardware that is made to be obsolete or break.
Anyway I left the Samsung off for a few days and tried it again, fired right up. Added the Roku and it was seemingly dead again. Took out Roku and plugged in the Apple TV and it came back.
Looking around the cesspool of Reddit, seems Roku is aware of this and has mailed out a "short HDMI extension cable" to people experiencing this.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Roku/comments/12mgswj/stick_overheating/
https://support.roku.com/article/226794787
https://my.roku.com/hdmi
TLDR: Roku sticks cause TVs to overheat and shutoff, Roku knows about it and offers a Band-Aid.