How To Fix Missing Icons On Amazon Tv

At that place's an issue that seems to be affecting select Fire TVs which causes all images and icons on the home screen to be blank. The issue also affects the app row, making it impossible to distinguish i app icon from some other. The Fire TVs suffering from this issue are otherwise working fine, but it makes navigating the main Fire Tv set interface very difficult.

All images inside the Fire Television receiver launcher are pulled down from Amazon'due south servers and cached (i.e., stored) locally on the Fire TV. This is as well true for the app icons on the habitation screen and in the grid of all apps, just is not how the app icons in the Manage Installed Applications menu nether Settings. While icons on the dwelling screen are pulled down from Amazon's servers, the icons in the settings carte are stored inside the apps themselves, which is why they are non affected past this outcome.

This issue is likely acquired by the Fire TV either non beingness able to download images from Amazon's servers, Amazon's servers refusing the connectedness, or the Fire TV incorrectly storing/retrieving the downloaded images from its cache storage. Issues similar these tend to eventually resolve themselves, but here are some things to effort that has worked to, at least temporarily, fix the result.

The first thing you should endeavour to set this issue, and whatever other problems for that affair, is to reboot your Fire TV. You can practise so from the My Fire TV Card under settings or by only pulling the power cable out for a few seconds.

If your Fire TV is using VPN or DNS settings that hide or redirect your internet traffic, this could also be the cause of the consequence. If you lot accept a VPN configured, try disabling it and so restarting your Burn TV. If you have custom DNS settings, try changing your DNS settings to either Cloudflare'due south servers, which are 1.1.ane.1 and 1.0.0.one, or to Google'south servers, which are viii.eight.8.viii and 8.8.four.4, and and then restart your Fire TV. If this solves the issue, then note that restoring your previous VPN or DNS settings will probable crusade the issue to eventually reappear.

Something else y'all tin can try is to reset the Fire TVs launcher habitation screen app. To do and then, connect to your Burn down Boob tube via ADB and then run the following ADB command:
adb shell pm clear com.amazon.tv.launcher

Subsequently resetting the launcher, information technology's a proficient idea to too restart your Burn down Television set. Your Fire TV may feel a chip sluggish for a few minutes while its launcher tries to repopulate all of its data due to the reset. Resetting the launcher with the ADB control in a higher place volition not articulate your apps or settings. It will, however, reset the customized club of apps that you had set.

A final possible solution is to bank check how much free space your Burn TV has. If your Fire TV is total, then it won't be able to brandish images because it doesn't take room to download them. If your Fire Tv has less than 100MB of gratis space, and then information technology's a good idea to, at least temporarily, uninstall apps to free up space. Alternatively, you can effort immigration the enshroud of all of your apps individually to free up some space without removing any apps. Clearing the cache will not reset whatsoever of an app's settings, but clear the app'due south data will.

If whatever of the solutions mentioned above worked for you, be certain to let anybody know in the comments. If yous've found a different solution to this problem, be sure to mention that as well.