re: Fire TV Stick Problem: "Optimizing system storage and applications..."

My stick is about 2 weeks old. Not rooted, but with kodi, and started having issue stuck on optimizing loop, then on reboot loop not even getting that far. I carefully moved it to different tv’s about 15 times before this issue. What fixed the problem for me was unplugging the little HDMI extension that came with the stick. Worked right away plugging directly in to tv without that, and have’nt had that problem since.