Original poster 3 points 2 years ago.
Fire stick gen 1 slow.
This is the original fire tv stick which was released in 2014.
On the menu items at the top of the screen scroll to the right and choose settings.
They sold a heck of a lot of 1st gen sticks when it debuted for just 19 and was then 24 on black friday a month later.
View entire discussion 6 comments more posts from the firetv community.
Get a speed boost by turning off.
Yes mine is also insanely slow.
However such small memory tends to get taken up rather too quickly.
It has the codename montoya and if this is the one you have you will not be able to use vpn.
Amazon firestick has a ram size 1 gb on firestick 2 nd gen and 1 5 gb on firestick 4k.
Scroll right and select device choose restart and confirm in the next window.
I ll do a factory reset and see if it makes a difference.
Which generation is my amazon fire tv stick.
With them you can stream hd movies watch live sports catch up on all of your favorite tv shows or even sit down and relax with a few games setup is easy too as all you really need to do is plug them in and enjoy.
That is not quite a lot but enough for a streaming device.
How to restart a fire tv stick.
I finally decided to upgrade and bought the new fire tv 4k for 50 last weekend.
It was slow when it came out of the box.
Open your fire tv interface and go to the home menu.
Click okay again and it will perform all the tasks i mentioned above speeding up your device.
Amazon fire tv stick.
Created oct 27 2014.
Amazon s fire tablets are slow but you can probably make them faster 2020 06 28 3 55pm pdt jun 28 2020.
The three generations of the amazon fire tv stick amazon fire tv stick generation 1.
Posted by 4 days ago.
At the very least i expect it to be 2 witht he 2nd gen stick as 1.
Low ram space is one of the culprits of the buffering you experience on firestick.
I ve been using the first gen fire stick and the interface is a slow stuttery mess.
Level 1 1 points 2 years ago.
The third generation amazon fire tv stick while an improvement on its predecessor is not a particularly powerful device and complaints about slow speeds are not uncommon.
The amazon fire tv and fire tv stick are inexpensive portable yet incredibly versatile little devices.
This is particularly effective if you re getting youtube app slowdowns or netflix slow mo to super speed problems.
Take a look at the picture above and you will find out.
I wouldn t be surprised if the 1st gen stick still makes up the majority of fire tv devices out there.