Blank screens with upgrade to kodi 17.1

Hi team and readers,

I recently upgraded to 17.1 from 16.2.
I am using Amazon fire tv devices (1st gen).

In recent versions when I would load Kodi I get the Splash screen and it’s straight into kodi.
With the upgrade when I boot Kodi it appears as if the tv looses input signal before kodi finally launches. So if you are still with me basically I get a blank screen as if the hdmi input has been lost before it’s straight into kodi – no splash screen.

When I exit kodi I get a brief glimpse of the Amazon interface before it quickly turns blank – signal lost and then back to the Amazon interface. When exiting it’s a much faster process, maybe 3-4 seconds.

Wondering if any one can provide some direction on what is going on since it didn’t happen with previous kodi versions.

I’ve got 2 1st gen fire TVs set up on 2 different Samsung TVs and it happen.
I’ve got a 2nd gen fire TV set up on a 3rd tv and it doesn’t seem to do it on that one.