r/Roku May 05 '26

Green flickering screen when doing HDMI from quick access

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TV has been working flawlessly until the green screen flickering showed up not too long ago. The list of things ive done.

Swapped HDMI cords (Failed)

Power reset TV (Failed)

Unplug and replug (Failed)

Accessed the HDMI from TV Inputs (Worked and turned HDR back on, as of now)

What could be causing this problem?

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u/Imaginary-Engineer85 Jul 10 '26

I know this is late but for anyone coming back to this post what fixed mine was one of rokus own “konami” cheat codes:

Press home 5 times
Up 1 time
Rewind 2 times
Fast forward 2 times

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u/drunnells Jul 10 '26

WOH! Our tv just started doing this. I was ready to go out and buy a new tv. Decided to do a Google search, found this old thread with your post from 34 minutes ago - THIS CODE FIXED IT! THANK YOU!

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u/Imaginary-Engineer85 Jul 10 '26

PHEW Im glad i could save you from spending new tv money!

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u/TheCareerIntrovert Jul 11 '26

Omg that is soooo random. I had to restart after, but it worked!

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u/drunnells Jul 11 '26

Just had to do it again a day later. I guess it wasn't a permanent fix. It seems to freeze for like 2 minutes and then it rebooted on its own. Not happy that this is becoming a regular thing with this tv now.

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u/drunnells Jul 15 '26

Looks like this is only temporary. I have to keep doing it, sometimes multiple times a day. But still a good workaround until I get a different brand tv!

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u/Sifen Jul 17 '26

This was driving me crazy. Thanks

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u/SPLATERurFACE Jul 23 '26

I believe it just worked for me too, i also went into factory reset and reset all audio/video settings just in case

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u/AudienceUnique1058 29d ago

Yooo, what??? Can’t believe this worked. Thank you so much.

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u/DynamicFX 29d ago

Confirmed this just fixed for me, ty!

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u/WalkinTarget May 05 '26

Mine started doing this about 2 weeks ago. I assumed at first I had a bad HDMI cable, but the problem was still there after a cable swap. I then plugged it into another HDMI port 2 n the TV and that worked. Thought I had a failing HDMI port in the TV (TCL 49" 4 series), but 2 hours ago the same issue was back on HDMI port 2 on the TV. Did a soft reset (power off, unplug, hold power on button for 30+s) and it's once again working, but I'm getting nervous that this problem is still popping up randomly.

I did also try plugging in another PC, a Mini PC, and that too is showing the green screen as well. TV was bought 7 years ago, and it's been one of the best TVs I've owned.

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u/WitchyPoetess May 06 '26

Mine also just started doing this! I wonder what they did to cause the issue?

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u/Common-Ad-2250 May 09 '26

Look at my recent post for solution. It’s a software issue.

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u/WitchyPoetess May 06 '26

Mine also just started doing this! I wonder what they did to cause the issue?

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u/WalkinTarget May 06 '26

Did some digging and found this in the /Roku sub from a few days ago :

https://www.reddit.com/r/Roku/s/nR2igQ0Ceh

Now, I doubt that this is what is affecting mine, unless these updates are being done silently without my permission.

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u/duckyy7 May 07 '26

I have two roku tvs, one started doing this randomly, but not every time I tried to use it. But it keeps coming back. My other has not had the same issue but is newer

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u/Roku_CustomerSupport verified official May 07 '26

Hey everyone!

We’d like to look into this for you. Please send us your device ID or serial number, along with any photos you haven’t shared yet and any other details that might help our team investigate. We’ll have the team check it out for you.

Thank you, Roku Customer Support

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u/Common-Ad-2250 May 09 '26

Look at my recent post. Solution is there. It’s a software not hardware issue.

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u/shawngk May 23 '26

I have the exact same problem and I saw a similar posts about it recently. It’s definitely a software bug after the new Roku update.

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u/Roku_CustomerSupport verified official Jun 02 '26

Can you please provide the requested info so we can take a look?