Amazon Fire Stick enables you to a stream film, media and series on your smart TV. However, it provides partial memory storage space which may experience certain issues subsequent to being overloaded with too many apps or downloaded videos. In a way to fix this type of issues you may need to reset your Fire Stick to factory settings to free up its memory and make it to run like a new again.
How to Reset Amazon Fire Stick
You will have two options to reset your Amazon Fire TV Stick. First one is via device settings and another using Amazon Fire TV Remote. Here’s we are going to show how to reset Fire TV Stick via first method, which be appropriate to all of the Fire Stick and TV devices. Follow the below step by step instruction given below:
- Go to Device Settings.
- Scroll down to “Reset To factory Defaults” In case you have a setup PIN, it will be asked to enter.
- On the next device screen, choose “Reset”.
- Done! Your Amazon Fire TV Stick has been set to factory reset successfully.
Another way to reset Amazon Fire TV Stick is by using remote. For that follow the below steps:
- All you need to do is to press and hold back and right button on remote together, until a Reset screen comes up.
- Now, choose “reset”.
If you don’t want to reset your Fire TV Stick Device that we recommend you to avoid Resetting Your Amazon Fire Stick by cleaning Up Your Memory.
How to Clean up Amazon Fire TV Stick’s Memory
Some of the Amazon Fire Stick’s user doesn’t want to factory reset their device. So for that, we are going to show couple of ways to free up the memory of Fire TV Stick instead of hard reset.
- On your Amazon Fire device go to “Settings” option.
- Under settings tab choose “Applications” option.
- Scroll down and the choose “Manage Installed Applications”.
- For any of the app which you like to remove from Fire Stick Device, Select that app and then tap on “Uninstall”.
As you can repeat this process for as many apps you want to remove.
Clean up Fire Stick’s Memory using ES File Explorer
An additional way of cleaning up Amazon Fire Stick’s memory is by using ES File Explorer. File explorer enables you to remove exact files which you’ve downloaded on Fire Stick. For this you need to download and Install ES File Explorer on your device.
- Scroll to left side of your device and then go to Home Menu bar
- Under menu bar click on “Search” icon
- On the search bar type for “ES File Explorer” and choose “Get Free to Download”
All done! Now you can easily delete files on Amazon TV Stick using ES File Explorer App. In a way to delete files follow the below steps:
- Step ahead to “Apps”
- Open “ES File Explorer” on device
- Go to “Local” option which will open Fire Stick’s internal space.
- Open Downloads folders to see download files. I you have downloaded android apps then in that case you need to open app folder.
- When the folder is open choose the file you want to delete. After that press and hold “Select” button on your Fire TV Stick Remote till when check icon appear green. Repeat this step in if you want to delete other apps also.
- In next step, scrolls down the screen and you will have a “Delete” button at the bottom of the screen.
- Now, choose “OK” and then check Recycle Bin of File Explorer to ensure that it’s been deleted from your device.
Hopefully all the methods have been explained using simple step by step instruction. Use the above methods for a great experience of Amazon Fire TV Stick Reset process.
