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Anonymous User
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Black Box rebooting

Hi

 

Since last night I have two separate boxes freezing and rebooting. 

 

This morning they are just stuck on the Now TV splash screen. 

 

I've tried unplugging and also resetting with a pin but can't even get past this splash screen to do anything else. 

 

Any ideas please?

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schnapps
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Hi @Anonymous User 

 

When you pushed and kept holding in the pin for about 30 seconds in the small reset hole on the back of the older nowtv box did you leave the box switched on and left your television powered up on the correct HDMI channel ?

 

Normally when you hold in the pin for around 30 seconds your TV screen whilst holding in the pin will change with the Lets Get Started Message where you need to setup the box again from scratch.

 

If that doesn't work you could try pressing the Home Button 5 times quickly followed by pressing the FF button 3 times, quickly followed by pressing the RW button 2 times on the remote to access the secret screen to reach the factory reset option.

 

Though i doubt the box will allow you access to the secret menu whilst the box is in a continuous reboot loop that you seem to be encountering. 

 

Strange both boxes are encountering a problem at the same time, where i am guessing you have tried rebooting your Router.

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Anonymous User
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Have just read the roku thread and quite a few boxes went down whilst people played their switch with the new pokemon game. My son started to play the game Friday about 1 hour before the boxes went down, he's been on it most of the weekend and the boxes still have the same issue. Wonder if its just a coinsidence!

schnapps
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Hi @Anonymous User 

 

Have you tried the Nintendo Switch in Aeroplane mode to see if the Roku / NowTV boxes then work ?

Anonymous User
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Hi

 

I'm the original poster and it now looks as though my son's Nintendo Switch is the cause of my problems.

 

I guess a Roku/Now TV software update is now conflicting somehow with Switch.

 

I can replicate the issue by switching aeroplane mode on and off. As soon as it goes online Now TV freezes and restarts.

 

I guess another update will be required as this was never a problem previously. 

Anonymous User
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Quick update. 

 

I have narrowed it down to just the new Pokémon game for the switch. It came out on Friday. 

 

No other game causes this but as soon as Pokémon connects it freezes and reboots. 

 

Where do we go from here I wonder. 

 

It's not been a bad update from Roku but I guess only an update can fix things now.