I just received a new Fire TV cube gen 3, because my old one is malfunctioning. I know, I hate these devices myself, but it’s the only option right now, since a new version of the Nvidia shield isn’t coming in the foreseeable future.
So, I plugged in the power chord and the HDMI cable into the cube.
When it booted up it showed a screen that it’s downloading the newest update. At first I thought this must be some typo-bug on the initial boot steps, because I haven’t even connected it to the internet yet, neither via cable nor did I go through the wifi setup.
After the update has finished, I was greeted with my real name and the cube indeed had the actual WiFi settings!
WTF?! How’s that even possible?
I don’t see why they wouldn’t. No way to verify I guess but it’s really hard to think Amazon wouldn’t come up with a system equivalent or better than what I did while reading this thread.
I imagine it’d be a one time convenience thing, or maybe you could open amazon and click ‘set up this device again’ or something and it reactivates