I had to quickly set up my Roku Forum account—to go from passive reader to active commenter—and say—this is driving me nuts, as well! And YES—it’s a recent bug for sure. Going back 3-6 months (can’t see the OP’s message date).
But it’s getting progressively worse, from once a week (fairly low on the “irritation scale”) to pretty much every time I use my Roku.
I don’t know if you guys have noticed this,, but the download time has also definitely increased (sneakily?) to the point where my most used channel (YouTube) loads EVERY time AND has gone from 2-3 seconds to 30 seconds or more.
I have the cheapest, older model Roku stick in my bedroom, so I just chalked it up to not having enough memory. But I have a fancy, brand new Roku Ultra in my living room (which I don’t use often)—and the **bleep** thing is doing it, too!
Why is this happening?? No offense to the previous posters, but the solution shouldn’t be on the Customer, such as:
YOU need to get faster Internet or YOU need to go buy an SD card and attach it (because if WE (Roku) added more storage capacity, it would hurt our margins).
What has changed over the past six months or so that would eat up the remaining memory on our devices?
ADVERTISING — Roku is loading us up with ads and very likely kicking our channel icons out of RAM to preload ads to assure their clients—“you will have guaranteed eyeballs on your tubi icon, even if they lose their wifi signal.” Ca-ching!
*This is just a theory, so if I find a quick and easy solution out there—’ll come back and delete this post and share the solution. But ROKU has developed a very greedy reputation lately. Just follow the money:
HBO-MAX - Ca-ching!
Spectrum - Ca-ching!
