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Well I don't know if 3rd time is a charm here (as far as setup from scratch is concerned), but I set it all back up to gather the requested data and it's now working just fine. I really can't explain it... nothing has changed except a factory reset and going through the full setup yet again. All of the settings are again set identical and everything else, but now it's working fine.
I'll monitor the situation and report back with anything that I find, but I've put it through the paces as of this morning doing the exact same things I did before that caused it to crash (normal usage type of things, screen saver turning on, etc.), but it's working fine now.
I realize that's not helpful to those in this thread that are experiencing the same issues, but I don't know if it is just a matter of a factory reset after firmware update or what... but this is the 2nd factory reset I've done on the device (3rd overall setup from scratch), and now it seems to work fine.
What I don't get is how these Roku devices are working fine and then repeated bugs like this screensaver issue pops up or other numerous problems I've had but no explanation of why these happen so randomly out of the blue. Are they flawed updates that change the otherwise well functioning operating system. It's getting so frustrating with this new 2024 Roku version I had to buy to replace my previous version that only lasted 2 years which replaced another version that lasted 3 years, so I'm thinking of just giving up on Roku and going with Google or Amazon livestream. None of these community forums ever helped fix the issues. In previous cases they randomly went away on their own after weeks of frustration experiencing them.