Short and sweet, my Amazon Fire TV Cube pauses automatically and stays pause until I hit the play button on the remote.

I’ve had my Fire tv Cube since April 2021. Since it’s been installed, it pauses automatically, no matter what it’s streaming. Hell, it even pauses when streaming Amazon Music.

Soon after I got the Cube, I contacted Amazon’s customer support. Together, we went through at least an hour of trying this and that. Amazon took control of the Cube. Didn’t help. I reset it. Didn’t help. Amazon updated the software. Didn’t help. You get the picture. Although the Fire TV Cube stopped pausing at one point in time, it is now pausing every time I use it.

According to one Reddit user, this is a known hardware problem with the Fire TV Cube. Here’s the post, from 2018:

It seems there is no solution to the problem with my Fire TV Cube. It’s still pausing, it’s out of warranty so I’m left with a pretty useless piece of hardware. My two Fire TV Sticks work perfectly.

You’ve been warned. Don’t by an Amazon Fire TV Cube. Stick with the Fire TV Stick.

Thanks for reading. What is your experience? Does your Fire Cube TV pause? Did you find a solution? Let us know. Cheers!