If your Fire TV Stick becomes slow to open videos and applications, you should free up space from the internal memory as much as possible
The Fire TV Stick it is a really good device for streaming movies, having all the most famous apps already installed.The presence of so many installable apps makes it worthwhile definitely complicated to manage the internal memory of the Fire TVwhich can easily find itself with full memory after a few months of use or after installing new streaming apps.
For these reasons it is advisable to keep all the methods in mind Free up memory on your Fire TVso as to be able to intervene when necessary or before the memory is totally saturated.
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1) Check memory on Fire Stick
First of all, you need to check the memory status and see how much free memory is available. To do so, follow these instructions.
- Press and hold the central button on the remote control or go to the top menu to access the Settings.
- Give her Settingsopen the menu My Fire TV and then press on Information
- Going up Storage to see the amount of total and available memory.
If the free memory is almost full, or in any case if it is less than 1 GB and there are delays in opening applications and streaming videos, you need to free up space on the Fire TV Stick. To do this, there are several applicable methods.
Uninstall unused apps
Applications installed from the Appstore take up a considerable portion of a Fire TV Stick’s storage space, especially games. If your Fire TV Stick is running out of storage space, you need to uninstall apps that you use little (except native apps like Amazon Music, Amazon Video which come pre-installed in your system).
To uninstall applications on Fire TV Stick, open the Settingsgoing up Applications and then up Manage installed applications and then scroll through the list to identify the apps to remove, also based on the space they occupy, indicated on the right.
To delete an app, press on it and then choose the option Uninstall. The application will be removed completely, freeing up space on your device.
Clear data and cache for each app
For the applications that we use the most and that we do not want to remove (or the pre-installed ones that we cannot uninstall), in the same Manage Applications menu it is possible to select the options Clear data e Clear Cache.
The first option, Clear Data, performs a factory reset of the app, eliminating all customizations and account data; therefore, if you use this option on Netflix, you will need to log in to your account again. If you want to keep an app installed, but never use it, it’s worth deleting data to free up space.
The option Clear Cacheinstead, it removes the application’s temporary data. You can therefore use it with Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and any other app without losing any personalized data. The space occupied by Data and Cache is indicated in the right column, for each application in the list.
Resetting Your Fire TV Stick
If your Fire Stick TV has frequent problems or errors that cannot be resolved even by freeing up memory, then it is best to use the recovery function. When you reset your Fire TV Stick, the device returns to its initial state, as it was when you first used it.
All apps will therefore be removed at once, all personal data, Wi-Fi connection data and the Amazon account will also be reset and reset. Factory reset can help fix many Fire TV Stick problemshowever it is recommended to perform a factory reset to free up storage space only when methods 1 and 2 didn’t work.
To do a factory reset on your Fire TV Stick, go to Settings > My Fire TVscroll down through the options and choose Factory information reset.
Conclusions
By following these procedures it is possible solve any space problem with the Fire TV Stick, thus avoiding playback blocks. If there is not much space, it is worth avoiding installing new apps if they are not necessary, using the integrated browser (Amazon Silk) instead of the apps as much as possible.
To learn more we can read the article on how Optimize your Fire Stick for fast video streaming on TV.