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.

It may not be overheating, it could be a short in the stick itself trying to send power over the HDMI port where it shouldnt. Thats why the cables can help sometimes by stopping or lessening this. The TV can shut itself off when it detects this short. Other than replacing the stick, there isnt much to be done once you know its the stick causing the issues.

In reply to FatZilla That makes sense too. This device may become my travel stick. We'll see it busts a hotel TV.

In reply to Al Bula

Al Bula said:

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That makes sense too. This device may become my travel stick. We'll see it busts a hotel TV.

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https://slickdeals.net/f/17416731-select-roku-owners-roku-devices-express-4k-24-streaming-stick-4k-30-ultra-60-free-shipping

Looks like Roku might be offering a deal if you need to replace.

Weird. I've had 3 of those Roku devices for years and have never once seen this issue.