Roku Device Features, Settings & Updates

[mainely4knittin]

I have a Roku 1 that we use many hours per day with no issues whatsoever. I told my neighbor about our Roku and how much we use it. Since she's elderly and on a fixed income, cable programming is too expensive for her. She bought a Roku Streaming Stick 2 days ago and I have spent more time at her apt in the past two days than at my own, this thing is awful! I just got off the phone with a Roku rep who just did not listen to what I was saying and I am beyond annoyed and frustrated.

First issue, she called and said it was stuck on pause and wouldn't "click". Sure enough, that about covers it. Nothing on the remote would work. I unplugged it from the wall outlet for a minute, plugged it back in and once it got going, it was fine... Until about an hour later when she was clicking through to change to another channel and it froze again. Repeat this times 5 (me going down, unplugging, changing battery in remote x 3, getting it set back up, etc) and that's where I was an hour ago when I finally called Roku.

While waiting for a rep, I noticed that when it was "frozen" and wouldn't work, if I pushed on the back of the remote where the battery door was, it would then work again! Also, if I rolled the batteries around under my thumb, it would work again. After having changed batteries 3 times since yesterday (that had been my first thought), I knew the batteries weren't the issue. I was thinking that something wasn't working correctly in the remote.

The Rep told me how to use 3 buttons to "pair" the device, while not hearing me that I'm going down the hall to another apt each time this elderly friend needs my assistance. I told him that wasn't going to work and asked if this were an issue that they know about... to which he said he'd never heard of such a thing before.

Can anyone help with this issue? Should we just take it back and exchange it for another?

BTW, I moved the Westell box closer, in direct line with the t.v. when I first set up her Roku - The stick isn't behind anything, it's stuck out from her tv quite well, actually.

[knuckle]

If rolling the batteries or pressing the back of the remote gets the remote "unstuck" my bet would be a defective remote -- loose solder connection to the battery or some such -- it is two days old I would exchange the unit

[mainely4knittin]

Thank you for your reply, Knuckle!

Yes, I think I will return it for her, as that was my thought too, about the battery connections.

Is there a way to wipe her login information, etc from it before I take it back?

Thanks in advance!

[mainely4knittin]

Just for my own information... any idea why the remote issue would cause the picture or clicking for channel to freeze?

[kc8pql]

"mainely4knitting" wrote:


Is there a way to wipe her login information, etc from it before I take it back?

Yes. Do a Factory Reset from the Settings menu.

[mainely4knittin]

Thank you for that information, I appreciate it!

[TransientNoise]

I have 2 Roku sticks. They both intermittently have the same problem. It appears the STICK gets into a closed loop in it's code and is not responding to commands from the remote. It seems to "time out" if you wait a few minutes and will respond to the last button pressed.