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Amazon echo show 8 3rd Gen: Streaming stops and starts

Wed, 08 Apr 2026 10:55:58 -0700

Streaming stops for 10 sec, starts back up for 10 sec, and repeats.

Amazon Echo: How do I fix my Alexa's wire.

Mon, 24 Mar 2025 18:38:02 -0700

I have a Amazon echo and I have been using it for the past 5 years and now it's wire has been getting loose alot lately. And every time we use it, it turns of.

⟐ Edited March 24, 2025 at 18:38 MST

Amazon Echo: My speaker blew out when I turned it on

Tue, 21 Dec 2021 20:01:05 -0700

I turned my speaker on and asked Alexa to play Christmas music. My speaker sounds like it blew out. What can I do

⟐ Commented December 21, 2021 at 20:01 MST

Amazon Echo: Dropped my Alexa now the top is off can it be repaired

Fri, 17 Sep 2021 15:00:28 -0700

Dropped my Alexa now the top is off can it be repaired

⟐ Commented September 17, 2021 at 15:00 MST

Amazon Echo: Does not connects to wifi

Mon, 14 Dec 2020 20:35:31 -0700

Hello,

Echo plus lights up and advises that it’s ready for setup but it does not connects to wifi to complete the setup.

Amazon Echo: Can I repair my cable for my echo

Mon, 14 Dec 2020 06:05:51 -0700

Can I fix my power cable for echo .

Amazon Echo: Where I can buy genuine power cable?

Mon, 31 Aug 2020 15:39:18 -0700

When is plugged in the blue light don’t appear,that means the power cable is broken,I assume?!

Where can I buy a genuine power cable or how can I check if is for sure the cable itself and not the jack from the power ?

Thanks !

Amazon Echo: Alexa not responding at all.

Wed, 29 Apr 2020 15:05:48 -0700

My Alexa Echo Plus has stopped responding. I have reset using both the buttons at the top and the small reset button on the base, I have also deregistered on the app, all to no effect. Unit will go into set up mode, will run through the setup process and reconnect to my wi-fi but no response at the end of the set up - any ideas?

⟐ Answer deleted April 29, 2020 at 15:05 MST

Amazon Echo: Volume ring not control volume

Fri, 20 Mar 2020 16:02:09 -0700

Volume ring on Echo not controlling volume properly. Jumps to LOUD volume with little or no control. MUST verbally control volume setting.

Amazon Echo: Echo fell off counter need some parts. Where can I buy?

Sat, 25 May 2019 21:30:50 -0700

The top half broke. Electronics are good but the 4 screw that hold the top on broke. So I need the pieces that have the screws attached to.

⟐ Answer deleted May 25, 2019 at 21:30 MST

Amazon Echo: Amazon Echo circuit diagram?

Thu, 06 Sep 2018 05:55:08 -0700

Hello, I got my hands on a (what it seems to be) water damaged power board for an Amazon Echo, and wanted to try to fix it (Yes, I know I can get my hands on a working echo in Ebay for 40 bucks, but I want to try to bring this one to life). Also I have noticed a lot of users with similar predicaments pretty much stuck where I am, so maybe as a collective we can bring light into this matter? :P

Is there anyone that might have a circuit diagram of the echo power board? There are several components I think I will have to replace (resistors and capacitors), but I need to know the values for them to get the spare parts.

The closest I got on getting information on the power board is this PDF that tries to reverse engineer some aspects of the echo itself, but there is no diagram, only some information regarding test point values.

Here are some images of the trouble areas and the current status:

Thanks a lot for your time!

Amazon Echo: Echo doesn't react all the time

Tue, 29 May 2018 15:58:42 -0700

Echo doesn't answer most of the time. It hasn't been moved, dropped, etc

Amazon Echo: Lobotomize it and use it only as a powered speaker?

Tue, 29 May 2018 06:15:53 -0700

I find the Echo more annoying than helpful but this is probably because I haven't set up the unit with all the permissions it wants (as I simply do not trust it after reading about how it sent a recorded conversation to a friend of the owner without the knowledge of the owner).

One might reasonably ask why I bought it. Well, it was gifted to me and can't be returned so I'd like to make the best of it.

So...I'd like to add an "audio IN" port so I can plug in a phone or radio or CD player and remove power from the "motherboard" so that Alexa has been lobotomized.

Althernatively, I know I can bluetooth a phone to the Echo but maybe I can disable the Echo's WiFi (using the Alexa app?) so my phone (an old Nexus 7 I've dedicated as a music player) is the audio source and Alexa can't contact the mothership in any manner.

>>>>>[Edit: Did the above but, even with the "shut up and stop listening" button enabled in the top, Alexa keeps talking when, for example, there's a glitch in the Bluetooth connection - making sounds and telling me when BT is reconnected.]<<<<<

What do you think? Suggestions welcome.

Thanks,

Barry

>>>>>[Edit: Wiped all recording history at the Amazon site and unplugged the echo from power. Now will attempt to lobotomize the beast and make it a "powered speaker". Failing that, it goes into the garbage.]<<<<<

⟐ Edited by author May 29, 2018 at 6:15 MST

Amazon Echo: Why will the light ring not come on

Tue, 19 Sep 2017 13:05:31 -0700

My white light is on , but the ring doesnot come on

⟐ Commented September 19, 2017 at 13:05 MST

Amazon Echo: Why do it make a tap noise when turned on and nothing else

Sun, 05 Feb 2017 16:31:31 -0700

Tap noise coming from speaker when turned on and nothing else

Amazon Echo: Who is the Amazon Echo speakers (tweeter, woofer) manufacturer?

Tue, 08 Nov 2016 02:58:47 -0700

Hello, I would like to know the brand of the speakers used in Echo. Or type, some specs at least.. Or even better, where to buy some of these nice speakers..

Thank you

Rob