Roku OS keeps renaming HDMI 1 input
In the last few days my TV's OS has suddenly begun renaming and changing the icon for HDMI 1 on it's own. I have two devices sharing HDMI 1 via an HDMI selector switch. One is a Nintendo Switch conso...
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Just began to notice this today, but I booted up my PS4 and was immediately greeted with a message about game mode being enabled. I thought that was a bit odd, as I already had the normal picture game mode enabled in the video settings for the input.
I went back to the Home menu to find that my HDMI switch's input had also been renamed to Playstation 4 automatically. Immediately started searching to try to figure out what could be causing it to find out that OS version 10.0 started rolling out and implemented a new feature, with no way to disable it.
https://support.roku.com/article/360051606053
Considering the input's attached to an HDMI switch, I now have an input that's constantly changing names based on what I last powered on, which is obnoxious to say the least.
The idea sounds good enough on paper, but there needs to be a way to toggle it off, and it should default to off in the first place. Nobody enjoys having things they manually set a specific way for a reason constantly changing without input. Especially as there's no way to rollback the update, and I'd assume the intention is to push this out to everyone eventually.
Even after the recent update to the Roku OS, game mode is still getting turned back on by itself at random. I am getting sick and tired of having to turn game mode off and changing the HDMI port's icon and name back to what I had them set to. Constantly changing things back to how I had them is becoming an exercise in frustration. Roku staff: do us all a favor and JUST GET RID OF AUTOMATIC GAMING CONTROL ALTOGETHER!
At this point nothing short of the complete elimination of automatic gaming control and game mode will satisfy me. Many of us have our TV picture settings customized to suite our own personal tastes and/or needs. Constantly having to change the settings and tile name/icon back is starting to get aggravating.
I am also experiencing this issue. I have a ps4, switch, and cable box all connected through an HDMI switch. Roku keeps changing the name and icon of the input to the first one that turns on. I don’t want to turn off game mode, because I want the decreased input latency it provides, I just don’t want it to delete my settings anymore!
For what it's worth this is happening with home theater recievers too, not just HDMI switchers. It only just started happening last night with my Yamaha V4A.
Of course, the comedy is that the Game Mode on my specific TV (TCL 50S25) is more or less useless - the input lag is effectively the same when it's on or off - but the renaming of the input, the annoying ugly pop ups at the top and the bottom, and the inability to shut it off or stop the tv from doing it whenever it feels like it is pretty highly annoying.
I'm also not sure if OS 10.0 is partially why my PS4 is suddenly having HDCP issues and preventing playback of blu-rays and DVDs to the TV through the reciever.I realize this is an old post, but this is still an issue in December 2022. To work around it you need to go to the input settings for your input, set the HDMI mode to Standard and turn off Automatic Low Latency.
