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Steve_K1
Binge Watcher
3 years ago
Solved

Roku 3 locks up at least once a day

ROKU 3 locking up. Roku 3 feeds not-smart Visio 55" HDTV through HDMI cable. All we use the Roku 3 for is to watch YouTube. Worked well for years. In recent months, though, we often saw "Loading, p...
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  • RokuMaresa's avatar
    RokuMaresa
    3 years ago

    Hi Steve_K1 

    Thanks for posting in the Roku Community regarding what you are experiencing with your Roku device.
    Please be aware that the Roku 3 is a much older device and it's possible that the device may simply be on its way out. However, we would be happy to see what we can do to help get you back up and running.
    I have passed along your information to our Support team. They will follow up and assist you.

    Warm regards,

    Mares

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TBacker
Channel Surfer
3 years ago

If you think about it, Roku's and similar devices have been doing the same basic tasks for years. The only difference is maybe a new audio / video format needs to be added from time to time.

I am pretty sure the issues are not nearly as much hardware as they are the software. A little secret - software coders are getting lazy and sloppy. Especially from the likes of big "don't care" corporations like Alphabet/Google/YouTube.

When Roku releases a newer device with a little more horsepower and memory, most of these coders will get more lazy, spending less time optimizing their code to run efficiently and instead let it bloat because there is now headroom to do so in hardware and they don't want to deal with it.

Those of us with older boxes reap what they sow when that sloppy bloated inefficient code tries to run on lower end hardware. Code which, if properly optimized, would be far more reliable on all hardware.