Xbox One doesn't turn on TV when system updates occur

Hello benh57, What Maxen13 said is exactly what happens. When a system update takes place, your console will run through the update install before it turns on your TV. If you manually power on your TV, you can actually watch as the progress bar goes past
and once it's finished it'll power up your TV. Granted it's a little weird, but the same thing happens every time I have a system update on my console as well. If you could, can you mark this as answered please?

It does actually turn the TV on, but not until it's applied the update. It's probably at the same point in the console's startup routine, except that it starts doing an update first which delays it turning the TV on for you.

Hi Harry,

Thanks for reaching out to us in the forums for this issue. Sorry to hear that when you turn on your Xbox One, you are stuck on the green loading screen. Have you received any error codes or messages prior to this occurring?

If the power cycle, as recommended by our Ambassadors doesn't work for you, then I recommend using the following support articles to troubleshoot the issue more directly:

Troubleshooting a blank TV screen or monitor while your Xbox One is on

Xbox One System Update Solution

Give the troubleshooting a try and let us know the results.

I hope that this helps out!

is it supposed to turn on though?

As stated above this occurs when the console checks for a system update and the time, 3am, is around the time when its mandatory to update, US time.

During the stage between Verifying and Applying, when the consoles restarts during the update, the Xbox button on the console will flash or pulse about 15-20 times for a XBox OneX and about 6-10 times for a Xbox Series X.

So, the consoles are designed specifically to turn themselves on in the middle of the night to run updates? That is a seriously bad design if you ask me...there's no reason for it to do that. None of my other electronics turn themselves on...my TV and PC both update when I turn them on. Looks like I'll start unplugging my Xbox at night in that case.

Having said that, neither my One X or Series X have installed system updates when turned off...they wait until I turn the thing on

I have verizon fios and have also noticed this issue occurring on rare occasions.

However I realized that the two times this has happened to me, the last time I powered off the xbox one was by holding down the center "logo" button then selecting the option for the system to turn off. (doing this in stead of my usual "xbox off" command)

The following day when I turned my system on, not only did the system not turn on my tv but it also had the 0x8027025a error.

Power cycling did fix the issue with the Tv app both times as well as turning the Tv on and off.

Hope this helps.