How to fix Sky Glass smart TV after update glitch

Thousands of Sky Glass owners were near incapable to ticker tv aft a dodgy update caused problems.

The update to their astute TV, which automatically downloaded, meant the tv simply wouldn’t crook on.

And the occupation isn’t constricted to Sky Glass either, arsenic Sky Stream, the pucks which tin beryllium plugged into different televisions, is besides affected.

The occupation was archetypal reported yesterday, with Sky saying: ‘We are atrocious that immoderate Sky Glass and Stream customers are presently experiencing issues erstwhile trying to power connected their devices.’

But thankfully there’s a comparatively elemental hole which tin bring your telly backmost to beingness if it’s not turning on.

Sky Glass not turning on? How to hole TV glitch

Sky has a afloat usher connected its website to ‘manually restart’ the TV successful bid to hole the issue.

It is done by turning disconnected the TV astatine the mains, and past pressing and holding the standby fastener that is recovered astatine the bottommost close manus broadside of the TV.

While holding that button, the TV should beryllium switched connected – and past the fastener tin beryllium un-pressed erstwhile the LEDs flash, which mightiness instrumentality 20 seconds.

The Sky TV should past implicit a betterment process that should bring it backmost to life. That could instrumentality up to 15 minutes connected slower net connections.

The TV should past tally its proprietor done a setup process that volition bring the TV backmost online.

The afloat usher tin beryllium recovered here.

Both Glass and Stream are portion of Sky’s determination to supply programming implicit the net alternatively of done the outer dishes which characterised its concern implicit the years.

Sky Glass televisions integrate the company’s software, meaning watchers navigate utilizing Sky’s ain menus, though it tin instrumentality outer inputs arsenic well.

Any bundle updates are sent to the tv and automatically downloaded and installed without the proprietor having to bash anything.

When each goes well, this means radical volition beryllium capable to usage caller features arsenic soon arsenic they adjacent crook the TV – but successful this case, the update has caused problems.

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