How To Stop Your FireStick or Cube From Going To Sleep, Also How To Extend the Time Before it Sleeps

Chris – thank you so much, this helped prevent the fire stick from going back to it's home screen and losing my place in a paused video. However, the screen saver still invokes – is there any way to disable the screen saver so the paused image just remains on the screen? I'm doing something specific where I want a particular image (part of a paused video) to remain on the screen so the screen acts as sort of a photo portrait. Thank you!

Mine never would connect to the usb debugging?

you don't have to do this anymore with the modern version all you have to do is press a couple of buttons you don't have to type in the script anymore you need to update this video 98% of this is not necessary anymore

Very grateful for this video. Fire TV Stick 4K. Thank you!!

Will periodic firmware updates have any effect on this change?

here i am trying to learn code lol – thank you!!!!!

Would this work on the new ambient experience too? It only plays for 15 minutes or so then goes to sleep. Thanks in advance for your answer.

Zero dislikes Flawless victory. ty for this!

thank you a ton! should i be concerned if the name on the ABD shell is not my own? like before the :/$ is a completely random name, so is it just randomly generated?

Thank you so much for making such an easy to follow video!

Something of note, I followed the instructions for 0, but it still showed 1200000 (and changed the shell name from kara to mantis?) when I checked to see if it worked. So I tried a second time and used 2147460000, and it worked correctly.

I am using an Ethernet adapter for the Firestick and I thought when it went to sleep it would lose Ethernet connection and I’d would have to reboot Firestick in order for it to see the Ethernet connection again. I did this and it still loses Ethernet connection after a period of time so I guess the sleep function isn’t causing this.

I buy new firetv 4k max 2023 and in this new model is impossible disable sleep mode that start after 30 minutes. All known adb command not solve… 🙁 i hope you find a solution

Thankyou. Excellent work. Why would Amazon make it so difficult?? Your guide worked perfectly.

What a legend thanks so much. You have a new subscriber now

Thank you, thank you. Definitely not easy to type on the remote but I got it done. I tried a few videos and I even reached out to Amazon and they gave me a link of a video that was a nightmare. So fingers crossed that this does work. Thank you for the time that you put into this. Greatly appreciated it.

Thank you very much for this video. Been trying to fix this for months after getting my fire tv, every solution i found on the internet didnt seem to work until i came accross your video.

Big ups man👍🏽

So I have found this only works when I am only in Netflix and Paramount all others it doesn't. HELP!

it says "an unknown error has occured" when I try download the app

I can’t thank you enough. Been trying for a year how to figure this out. Your explanation was perfect. You could not have done better!! Again a huge thank you 😊

You, sir, are awesome. And amazon is kinda a dick for not making this an interface option

This did not work for my fire tv 4k Max second generation. Set the time out to 0 and made sure it saved per your instructions but it goes to ambient mode ( which is fine) but then goes to sleep after another 10 minutes or so and requires me to hit the middle button on the remote to wake up

I followed this to the T, but alas, my FS still goes to sleep:(.

What might have went wrong?

Mate…For 2nd generation Firesticks, given that at each restart or shutdown the commands sent with adb (see sleep), it would perhaps be appropriate to create an app that starts when the FireTV boots and that creates the commands not to send the FireTV in sleep mode…. a little idea. You have some news ?? Thank

hello just wanted to ask if it was safe to remove the apps after i've done with them?

Thanks so much for this video i was very nervous at doing it however it worked! Again thank you so much!

Since the latest update to my firestick the ADB commands are not working to keep my stick from going to sleep. I have redone them, no luck. Any suggestions?

ADB Shell won’t kill your tv but still listen to him he knows what he’s talking about but it will say not found if you enter it wrong

Great videos except it might have been helpful had he said, If your fire stick is new look for the three straight lines on the remote and you can switch the time on your screen saver without doing these steps 😮

WHY can't Amazon just have a disable function for this…. or a timer that remembers what time you selected? It's so ridiculous. I can go to Settings -> Sleep Timer and set it to 180 minutes, but if I turn the TV off and back on again the timer goes back to 5 minutes. This is incredibly annoying when I need to pause what I'm watching for more than 5 minutes! I come back and have to turn the TV back on, go back into the app, select the show again, and restart it….. this is truly unacceptable. This should not require a Developer Options work-around or any third party apps. I'm going to leave a review for my TV. It's about time. I give it 2 stars.

whats the code for enabling widgets in a custom launcher?

Thank you very much, it works perfect!!!…! Is there another option to keep an App (Dazn) running in the background without being closed automatically after some time? (Fire Cube 3) Thank you…!

I did the same thing second gen 4K Maxx here and it didn't do anything do you have any idea what it would take for a second gen fire Stick?

Great video! Easy and high success rate.

I love you! ❤

Thank you for sharing
Very clear and concise directions
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I did everything exactly as you instructed in the video and my tv is still going into sleep mode. And yes, I triple and quadruple checked. My screen was even the same as yours. What went wrong? I have a fire tv.

I was just wondering if followed your step by step process and my tv isn’t shutting off anymore but my apps are still shutting off did i do something wrong?

MY MAN!!! THANK YOU!!!! I spent two hours chatting with Amazon, one of the techs just shut down the chat and the next couldn't figure it out either. I cannot thank you enough for fixing this annoying issue….thank you infinitely!!! I'm going to leave it paused all night for the hell of it 😆

Thanks!

Very nicely done! 😎
Mine rolled out slightly differently…
But it didn't turn into a brick! 😁

This really worked. Thank you so much. 🙏

This is excellent. My TV kept going to sleep within 10 mins.
This works but would I ever need to undo this?

Will this method keep screensaver continuesly ON?

Good job my man It was frustrated now no more shitty sleep mode THANX

You’re awesome bro. Thank you!