Getting Started - Setup & How-to

[ChillinFry]

Im wondering of I gift one Roku to a friend will she be able to use it? Being it has all my info...email, password, pin #?  Both my Rokus have the same info as if they were one...if info is changed on one will it affect the other?  

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[MoviesProbably · Accepted solution]

Yes, you can. On the front page menu, go into Settings then select System then select Advanced System Settings. The first option on the submenu should be Factory Reset. Selecting Factory Reset will erase all of your information and unlink the device from your Roku account. After it reboots, it should perform like new. Resetting and delinking one device from your account will have no affect on your other device.

[ChillinFry]

I dont see my reply, so Im sending it again. Thank you very much 😁❗I sure appreciate your help and responding as quick as you did. You have put my mind at ease and my friend will be very happy 😊👍👏...

[Iona-D]

I had a similar situation with a friend as well.  Although there are some big differences.  I chose to share my own account with him.

Before I sent the Stick Plus off to him, I activated it with my own account.  I wanted to share my paid & and free apps with him remotely.  If he had an issue with it, I take care of it. 

It's been a year now.  Through.this past year,. We went through the Lockdown, riots, and strange illness that kept.us apart.  He still had the little Roku I gave him.  It is like we are together when we had to be apart.  

If we do go our separate ways, I can very easily unlink the device remotely as well and he's on his own!

[SheilaKay]

I don't see what you mean by "front page menu".  Help please?

[renojim]

The "front page menu" is the menu down the left side of the Home Screen.  Press the Home button on your remote a few times and you'll see it.

[SheilaKay]

Okay, so this was helpful but I need a little more specific help.  I have a Roku device from my old TV which quit working (the TV quit, the Roku was fine).  I also have a new Roku TV.   If I do what's suggested here I'll be factory resetting my new current Roku TV settings.  I'm not gonna do that.  I also can't do it on the old TV because there's no picture.  Can we do it possibly on the TV of the friend I want to give this device to?  Plug in my old Roku device to her TV?  Assuming it's got the capability.   Thank you!!!

[renojim]

@SheilaKay, there's nothing that prevents you from plugging the old device into your new Roku TV and using that TV just as if it was the old TV.  On the new TV switch it to the input you connected the old device to (e.g., HDMI 1).  There should be tiles on the Home Screen of the TV for the various inputs.  Then using the remote of the old device navigate to Settings->System->Advanced system settings->Factory reset.  You could also just wait until you get to your friend's house.  Another way to factory reset a Roku device without requiring any TV is to find the reset button that may be behind a pinhole requiring a paperclip or something similar to depress the button.  Connect the power cable to the Roku device and press and hold the reset button for no less than 30 seconds.

[SheilaKay]

So, I did this reset, simply pushing the reset button on the device with the device plugged in and a little white light came on after a few seconds and blinked a couple of times.  Does that mean it's done, it's reset, it's cleared of my "stuff"?

Thank you!!!!  :-)

[renojim]

@SheilaKay, you have to hold in the reset button with the power connected for a full 30 seconds to perform a factory reset.  Simply pressing in the button momentarily just restarts it just as if you unplugged the power for a second and plugged it back in.  If you can connect it to a TV it should be at the "Select a language" screen once it's factory reset.