Watching The Holiday....pretty fun so far, but am so pissed my remote is dying....have called my

[a kennedy]

cable, and yes I still have cable, about it 3 times within the last 3 days!!! I have received 3 different corrections to fix the problem. Have kept my cable only because they are local, ya know two counties away. But am so pissed.......now I have no volume or mute and as previously can’t turn the tv off. At least I have the option to change channels and fast forward with this movie I am watching. I am soooooooooooo pissed, and what’s hilarious??? My remote is a gawd damn fire stick FROM GAWD DAMN AMAZON!!!!! Yah, our small town cable company hooked us up about 1.5 years ago with these new remotes!!!! Damn, damn, damn. So now i’m stuck with a remote that doesn’t allow mute, or volume increase or decrease, and I swear I’m afraid to turn it off, because when I’ve done it before??? I CAN’T TURN IT BACK ON. So, here I am watching the pretty cute movie “The Holiday” with Cameron Diaz, Kate Winslet, Jude Law, and Jack Black.....and I can’t hear them, I do have the closed captioning which helps, but damn. HAVE I MENTIONED THAT I AM SO PISSED!!!! Now I have to buy a new remote from amazon, that’s what the 3rd advisor guy told me. Ugh.....i’m old, I just want my remote to work....I am so missing the days when we just had 3 channels to chose from, ABC, CBS, & NBC. Life was so much easier then. *sigh*

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1. Question?

Have you replaced the batteries?

[a kennedy]

2. You're kidding right?? YES!!!!

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3. I was serious, I have 7 remotes in my RV, and bad batteries are the main reason for failure.

Wasn't trying to be sarcastic, just a reminder.

[amerikat]

4. You can sometimes use a cell phone as a remote.

Google it.

[waterwatcher123]

5. Do you have cable for WIFI and the Fire Stick for Streaming Netflix, etc?

Did you check the batteries in your remote? Sometimes it is possible to have one good and one weak battery. Your Fire Stick can operate intermittently or not at all with weak batteries (AAA batteries). The Fire Stick is just a wireless transmitter that controls your TV.

If that is not the problem, maybe disconnect power to your cable modem and the Fire Stick television connector (HDMI port) for a couple of minutes and then start the system again. It may resolve itself with a reboot (fresh start).

Good luck and hopefully it is something simple so you can watch holiday movies!

[ms liberty]

6. Change the batteries around, and then smack the back of it with your hand a few times

That's usually good for a day or two!

[SheilaAnn]

7. A good, hearty smack on some of these devices works wonders. Go figure. LOL. n/t