Have you recently started seeing ads pop up on your Fire TV when you’re idle and the screen saver is activated? You are not alone and it is not a problem with your device. As seen with the Kindle and Fire tablets over the years, Amazon has finally decided to break the line and introduce advertising on the Fire TV.
However, unlike their e-readers, They don’t sell the cheapest Fire TV because it includes ads. No, we all have to eat the ad with the potatoes and something full blast on the screen is really invasive and beyond the discretion to include. Ads on Prime Video.
Fortunately, there is always a way to avoid such a thing and this is no exception. If you’re tired of seeing ads on your TV, stay tuned because we’re going to teach you how to remove ads from your Fire TV screensaver.
Option 1: Turn off the Fire TV screensaver
We’ll start with the easiest option to get rid of new ads on your Fire TV: disable the screen saver. If there is no screensaver, there are no ads.
Your Fire TV will simply sleep after 15 minutes of inactivity, bypassing the screensaver carousel and annoying ads. The only problem? The home screen promotional content carousel will still be there until the device sleeps. So, you only place ads that have nothing to do with serials, movies and TV shows.
How do you turn off the screen saver on your Fire TV? It’s as easy as doing this:
Go to your Fire TV settings (gear icon).Go to “Screen and Sound” and select the “Never” option in the “Startup” menu.
Option 2: Replace the Amazon carousel with your own photos to remove ads
Like other streaming devices, Fire TVs let you set your own photos as screensavers. This will help you to reduce the number of ads, but unfortunately this is not a real solution.
In fact, the device will continue to display ads, but after entering sleep mode. After a few minutes, your memory photos saved on Amazon Photos will wake up and you won’t see any more ads until you wake up and come back to it later. How is it done? in order to –
Upload some images you want to use as screensavers to your Amazon Photos account.Go back to the Fire TV and go to the “Display and Sound” menu in the settings, go back to the “Screensaver” Select “Daily Reminders” in the “Current Screensaver” sub-menu.
Option 3: Use a third-party app to replace Amazon screensavers
In fact, we will continue with the first two options. However, if you have time and feel like a tinkerer, there’s one more option: install a third-party app to replace Amazon’s screensaver mode and forget about ads.
We recommend Air Views Screensaver, an app that allows you to get screensavers from multiple sources. You can play them from your Windows, macOS or Linux computer.Although many things need to be configured. However, we will explain what you can do with it.
Aerial Views Screensaver is available in the Amazon store and is a free app. You just need to download and open it to get the screensaver playback options, which are three.
Remote Stream videos over the Internet from your choice of Apple, Jetson Creations or Robin Fourcade.. This option is very convenient, but it can consume up to 23 GB of data per hour, so it is not viable if you have limited data or a bad connection.Local: Use videos or images on By connecting Fire TV’s internal storage or an external storage source. to your Fire TV via USB. Of course, you need to adapt Chromecast to Google TV as a USB-resource: using your local network (LAN) Remotely upload images or videos from your computer or NAS device. This is the most complicated option since you have to configure many more things.
Now, to replace your chosen source, AirViews Amazon’s screensaver itself, you must execute the command from your computer. It can be run from Windows, macOS or Linux, however We leave the steps for Windows So as not to extend the course too often:
Make sure your Fire TV and computer are connected to the same Wi-Fi network Go to “Settings” > “My Fire TV” > “About”.Go back to “My Fire TV” > “Developer Options” > Enable “ADB Debugging” Press seven times on your device name.
Go back to “My Fire TV” > “Network”, type “cmd” in the address bar and press enter. A command terminal will open.
Type “adb connect IPaddress” (without the quotes and put “IPAddress” in front of the IP address) and return to where you’ll see a notification that you’re trying to connect to it. Accept by pressing “Allow”.Go back to your computer and type the following command (it’s the same) adb shell settings secure screensaver_components com.neilturner.aerialviews/com.neilturner.aerialviews.ui.screensaver.DreamActivity.
After that, it’s just a matter of waiting for the screen saver to activate on your Fire TV so you can see what you’ve set up with Aerial Views. And if you want to return to Amazon at any time, you just have to repeat the steps above and change the order from step 9 to this.
The adb shell settings keep the secure screensaver components com.amazon.bueller.photos/.daydream.ScreenSaverService
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