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Thursday, November 3rd, 2022 1:00 PM

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Smart Resume not working

This issue seems to be widespread.  My problems started several weeks ago.  The Smart resume seems off by about 60 seconds.  The show runs into the commercial segment and the commercial is still running when the Smart resume ends and the show should be starting again.  A lot of the time ours will not allow you to fast forward to the show, when the fast foward is stopped it loops back around and starts playing from the point where the fast forward was started.  

Is there some type of fix for the issue?

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3 years ago

@user_7deca9  

 

My wife just loves the smart resume when she watches of favorite sitcoms, we have had similar issues & how we fixed ours is by doing a hard reset on the cable box, by unplugging the power cable from the back of the cable box for 30 seconds, give that a try & let me know if that resolved the issues, if not I would recommend going to the local xfinity store and swapping out the box for new box.

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3 years ago

After reading numerous posts regarding this problem in another topic (similar topic wording), I see that the thread was closed with no solution.  I, too, am experiencing this problem in northcentral Pennsylvania in which the Smart Resume stops ~30 - 45 seconds before the actual program resumes.  Is there a solution to this problem?  I spoke to an Xfinity rep (he said he was a Tier 2) earlier this week and was told there was a local problem and it would be fixed by Friday, Nov 4.  It wasn't.  Come on Xfinity - where's the fix??

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@niaw1 Hello! Thank you for reaching out to us here on our Community Forums page. We are very sorry that you're having trouble with smart resume. Have you attempted to swap out your TV Box for a different one to see if the problem continues after that? 

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We did swap out the box.  The new box did not fix the problem.

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Hello @user_7deca9! There is currently an ongoing issue with Smart Resume functionality, where fast-forward is stopping around 30-40 seconds before the program resumes. This is a known issue at this time a resolution has not been found. We will continue to work on improvements until a resolution can be found. 

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@XfinityThomasC​ If this is a known issue, then how come other 'official xfinity employees' keep asking users to trouble shoot the problem on the MANY other threads regarding smart resume. Making it seem like, oh it's just your box, or your channel, etc. No, it's not. It's affecting everyone and it's obvious Xfinity is aware of the problem. So why aren't all the employees that respond to the forum on board with that?

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2 years ago

We are having the same issue. Vancouver Washington area.  if you are reading this and have the same issue please post that you are having the issue.

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2 years ago

Same issue here for past 6 weeks or longer. Yes, I've done hard resets, swapped boxes, etc but the issue is clearly not on the end user but the provider side and seems worse than when it began.

Some television shows I've recorded in the last 10 days have 1 huge smart resume with a ridiculously long duration of perhaps 10 minutes followed by no others. 

As others have stated, the start & end times of programming has changed as well do that they begin a little late then run over the allotted time and even setting the DVR to record 3 minutes beyond the end time does not always catch the last few sentences of a program.

It's looking more like full time cord cutting may be in our future. 

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