Not sure if this is from an update in the ikono software or what but lately I have noticed that ikono tv removes the kodi Icon and restores its original icon from the front page of the amazon fire stick. Is anyone else having this?
danknasty said:
Not sure if this is from an update in the ikono software or what but lately I have noticed that ikono tv removes the kodi Icon and restores its original icon from the front page of the amazon fire stick. Is anyone else having this?
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Yes, everyone had this problem. ikono tv renamed the image file. If you download jocala's latest version of adbFire (version 1.16), it can be used to put the Kodi icon back in place.
thepartpricer said:
Yes, everyone had this problem. ikono tv renamed the image file. If you download jocala's latest version of adbFire (version 1.16), it can be used to put the Kodi icon back in place.
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I have the new adbFire and when I try to apply the kodi icon again it gives me an amazon icon..
danknasty said:
I have the new adbFire and when I try to apply the kodi icon again it gives me an amazon icon..
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In that case you might want to report that in this thread...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2786505
I will try tonight once I get home :good:
wonneil said:
In that case you might want to report that in this thread...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2786505
I will try tonight once I get home :good:
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I'm glad someone brought up this topic. Even with the latest adbfire, the kodi icon is temporary. The ikono.tv will come right back. Also I've noticed that the ikonotv's icon does not change. its just the recent that gets changed. If we could manipulate the app's icon, then it would probably stick. Is there a way around that for rooted devices?
navigates said:
I'm glad someone brought up this topic. Even with the latest adbfire, the kodi icon is temporary. The ikono.tv will come right back.
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I'm always leery when someone says latest What version number of adbFire are you seeing icon reversion with?
I'm not seeing this behavior with adbFire v1.16/17 and the OP reported that it's fixed on his end. But to quote from another post in reference to icon changing:
jocala said:
I just re-applied the Kodi icon on my Stick's ikono, it's lasted through several reboots. This may be a rollout and I just don't see it yet...but if Amazon is proactively trying to defeat the icon change, we can probably wave bye-bye to that option
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jocala said:
I'm always leery when someone says latest What version number of adbFire are you seeing icon reversion with?
I'm not seeing this behavior with adbFire v1.16/17 and the OP reported that it's fixed on his end. But to quote from another post in reference to icon changing:
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1.17. The version where you can save vs typing in ip addresses. Has any thing changed since 1.16 and 1.17 to make the icon stay. Mine reverted back last night to the ikonotv's pink new icon.
The icon gets replaced on recents and not on the App. that may be the problem maybe?
navigates said:
1.17. The version where you can save vs typing in ip addresses. Has any thing changed since 1.16 and 1.17 to make the icon stay. Mine reverted back last night to the ikonotv's pink new icon.
The icon gets replaced on recents and not on the App. that may be the problem maybe?
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The only icon that we can change is the one that shows up in Recent. The icon in Apps is loaded by Amazon via the 'net.
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Hi guys
So I got to thinking. Why does an installed app from Amazon get on the home screen but a sideloaded app doesn't.
I took a look at the manifests of tvplayer from Amazon and google. The tvplayer downloaded from Amazon has lots of references to Amazon.com. Which one would allow a sideloaded apk with a modified manifest to appear on the aftv home screen?
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Hi guys
So I got to thinking. Why does an installed app from Amazon get on the home screen but a sideloaded app doesn't.
I took a look at the manifests of tvplayer from Amazon and google. The tvplayer downloaded from Amazon has lots of references to Amazon.com. Which one would allow a sideloaded apk with a modified manifest to appear on the aftv home screen?
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I think it has to do with the app being in your Amazon cloud. It's quite complicated as it doesn't really show a list of apps installed on your device.
rbox said:
I think it has to do with the app being in your Amazon cloud. It's quite complicated as it doesn't really show a list of apps installed on your device.
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Thanks for your reply rbox. Thought I was onto something.
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Thanks for your reply rbox. Thought I was onto something.
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On one of my lists of things to do is finish my AllApps mod to my xposed mod. It gives you a standard grid list of the installed apps.
rbox said:
On one of my lists of things to do is finish my AllApps mod to my xposed mod. It gives you a standard grid list of the installed apps.
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Yes but you need root for that. All the aftv's sold in the UK are not rootable at the moment.
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Yes but you need root for that. All the aftv's sold in the UK are not rootable at the moment.
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Yeah. The closest you'll get with an unrootable unit is the FiredTV launcher over in the apps section.
rbox said:
Yeah. The closest you'll get with an unrootable unit is the FiredTV launcher over in the apps section.
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Tried that. Not exactly eye candy. Went back to original launched with the llama mod to show SPMC.
Hi guys
I have ordered a fire TV stick which should be here today for the upstairs TV and wondered what version of kodi runs best and what everyone else running? I use an Intel nuc as my main kodi device with version 15 beta 1 and that works really well. I did previously have an Amazon fire TV a few months ago and ran spmc. Is spmc still the one to go for?
Cheers
rob77 said:
Hi guys
I have ordered a fire TV stick which should be here today for the upstairs TV and wondered what version of kodi runs best and what everyone else running? I use an Intel nuc as my main kodi device with version 15 beta 1 and that works really well. I did previously have an Amazon fire TV a few months ago and ran smpc. Is smpc still the one to go for?
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Some swear by spmc (latest) and some will say there's really no reason anymore to use spmc on android devices. You'll get different answers. I don't use my ftvs that much but tried both and honestly they both worked fine for me.
You know you can install both, right? So maybe setup helix and spmc (haven't tried isengard but I'd wait on that) then judge for yourself.
Btw--mine is running helix 14.2 and I'm not experiencing issues but your results could be different.
Thanks KLit75
I installed spmc in the end. It works well just cannot get it to show up in recent apps using the guide on here. Weirdly it showed up okay on my fire TV just won't on the stick.
Mine shows up on both my sticks, did you sync your account?
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Yeah I tried syncing and unsyncing lots of times but it just would not show up. I also tried deleting spmc from my amazon account and then buying it again. Could it be that I have spmc 14.2 installed and the version on the Amazon app store is a different version?
rob77 said:
Yeah I tried syncing and unsyncing lots of times but it just would not show up. I also tried deleting spmc from my amazon account and then buying it again. Could it be that I have spmc 14.2 installed and the version on the Amazon app store is a different version?
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Are they different? If so that might be the reason. I use llama through adbfire. It accomplishes the same thing and its easy.
The one on the app store is version 13.4.0. Or so it says on the Amazon page.
Yes I am using llama as well now. I have it set to load instead of ikonoTV and have replaced the icon with spmc. Works really well
Dont use Kodi, use SPMC. Its the same exact app however i hae never experienced an ounce of buffering or any other bugs using it. Its in the play store and ull have to sideload it obviously but if u want a bug free xbmc experience thats the way to go
I'll have to try SPMC. I've been having loads of trouble with Helix 14.2
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I'll have to try SPMC. I've been having loads of trouble with Helix 14.2
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If u do try SPMC when u open it for the first time ull get a message saying that u r missing the .obb file and it will close. I have uploaded the .obb file to my cloud storage and u can download it here.....
https://mega.co.nz/#F!NMY3XAQA!osUKjZn0jZ9OBE8ecrTIAw
once its downloaded ull need to paste it in /sdcard0/android/obb/com.sempax.spmc Once u do that SPMC will open and ull be good to go
NinjaPerv said:
If u do try SPMC when u open it for the first time ull get a message saying that u r missing the .obb file and it will close. I have uploaded the .obb file to my cloud storage and u can download it here.....
https://mega.co.nz/#F!NMY3XAQA!osUKjZn0jZ9OBE8ecrTIAw
once its downloaded ull need to paste it in /sdcard0/android/obb/com.sempax.spmc Once u do that SPMC will open and ull be good to go
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Thanks. I saw that and copied your files just in case, but I didn't end up needing them. I loaded the latest SPMC on and it opened just fine. I even got it to sync with Amazon and show up on my recent apps section without any issues. Unfortunately I also found that my Fire TV Stick is a piece of crap and won't stay connected to my network so I couldn't really test out how it plays.
I suspect most of the issues I've been having with Kodi stem from the Stick's inability to stay connected to my router. Last night it was so bad it wasn't even usable. It couldn't even get into the settings without it fighting me since they are locked with a pin that needs to verified via Amazon and it couldn't stay connected to get the verification. I contacted Amazon support and they are sending me a replacement due to arrive tomorrow. Hopefully it will work properly.
truckmann said:
I'll have to try SPMC. I've been having loads of trouble with Helix 14.2
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For 5 days I've been running isengard. Made the switch because it's compatible with fire TV skin
http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=207475
For an alpha skin, it sure hasn't been acting like it. I've had no serious problems. Occasionally it will crash on launch. I fix this by clearing cache just once. (For some reason I find if I try to hit clear cache more than one time it won't launch. But that's really common.
You also might want to rethink your setup. I install addon installer and only get the addons I use.
I'm running isengard on all my aftvs and I see no difference between that and helix/spmc which is a good thing because I wasn't experiencing many problems with either.
i havnt had any connection issues at all with my fire stick. r u sure its not ur router or router configuration?
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i havnt had any connection issues at all with my fire stick. r u sure its not ur router or router configuration?
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I'm not sure, but the old Fire TV stick continually got worse until it was unusable and it was the only device having issues. I have a replacement now and so far it's been working better.
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KLit75 said:
For 5 days I've been running isengard. Made the switch because it's compatible with fire TV skin
http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=207475
For an alpha skin, it sure hasn't been acting like it. I've had no serious problems. Occasionally it will crash on launch. I fix this by clearing cache just once. (For some reason I find if I try to hit clear cache more than one time it won't launch. But that's really common.
You also might want to rethink your setup. I install addon installer and only get the addons I use.
I'm running isengard on all my aftvs and I see no difference between that and helix/spmc which is a good thing because I wasn't experiencing many problems with either.
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Cool. I think I'll go ahead and try Isengard.
I installed Kodi 15.0 (Isengard) last night, mainly for the long-awaited reduction in jump-back and jump-ahead times. Used to be 30 seconds -- waaaay too much of a jump -- but now it's closer to the TiVo jump-back time of seven seconds. The jump time can be increased with additional clicks. Most excellent!
The only downside to upgrading that I've seen so far is that I seem to have lost my big blue Kodi shortcut that used to sit in the Recent Apps section at the top of the Fire TV homepage. The bummer is that the Kodi app is no longer available on Amazon, so I can't simply re-download and reinstall it. Anyone know why it disappeared, or more importantly, how to get it back?
I'll also mention that I installed FireStarter at the same time I installed Isengard, so it's possible FireStarter is to blame instead. Either way, FireStarter is still a good means of accessing Kodi quickly, but I do miss that big blue Kodi button on the Fire TV home screen.
Try this:
http://kodi.wiki/view/Amazon_Fire_TV#Launch_Kodi_from_an_Existing_App_on_the_FTV_Home_Screen
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Try this:
http://kodi.wiki/view/Amazon_Fire_TV#Launch_Kodi_from_an_Existing_App_on_the_FTV_Home_Screen
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Thanks for the link, but I tried the whole Llama replacement thing a while back, and the icon never stuck. After a few days, it reverted from the Kodi logo back to the original replacement app's logo.
Raymondo17 said:
Thanks for the link, but I tried the whole Llama replacement thing a while back, and the icon never stuck. After a few days, it reverted from the Kodi logo back to the original replacement app's logo.
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Did you try tubi instead of ikono? That worked for me earlier this week.
Raymondo17 said:
Thanks for the link, but I tried the whole Llama replacement thing a while back, and the icon never stuck. After a few days, it reverted from the Kodi logo back to the original replacement app's logo.
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AFAIK this happens only when the sacrificial app had itself an update. Just repeat the whole procedure to restore the icon.
So, just updating Kodi/SPMC installations automatically removes their recent app icons from the Fire TV home screen?
Axecaster said:
So, just updating Kodi/SPMC installations automatically removes their recent app icons from the Fire TV home screen?
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No, I meant an update for the sacrificial app not the sideloaded KODI.
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No, I meant an update for the sacrificial app not the sideloaded KODI.
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Ah, thanks for the clarification.
i want to update my version of kodi, i think i have an old verison installed. how can i update it and maintain the icon on homescreen?
is there a guide? the last time i did it was months ago and unsure if there have been changes to doing this / easier method...
to be honest i can't remember exactly, but i am using a llama / ikon tv replacement i believe)
thanks
wakkaday said:
i want to update my version of kodi, i think i have an old verison installed. how can i update it and maintain the icon on homescreen?
is there a guide? the last time i did it was months ago and unsure if there have been changes to doing this / easier method...
to be honest i can't remember exactly, but i am using a llama / ikon tv replacement i believe)
thanks
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Updating kodi probably wont effect the icon but if it does the easiest way is to use adbfire llama options. Then open llama and select import from usb (click icon in bottom left of screen as soon as you open llama.)
I had to switch to tubitv because ikonotv wasnt working right. Your results could be different.
If you are rooted and can get the Google Play store on your Fire TV, you can update it from there.
Hi all,
I have a 2nd gen FireTV, live in the UK, and I'm trying to install directv (not directv now). I've installed the tablet version from 1mobile market and that opens ok, let's me accept disclaimer, but then tells me my version is out of date.. When downloading newest version (5.0.107) from aptoide, it just doesn't open. Sometimes the disclaimer page loads for a second, but then it just closes again
I not 100% sure I have the right version for the FireTV
I have a US VPN connected
Any ideas?
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Hi all,
I have a 2nd gen FireTV, live in the UK, and I'm trying to install directv (not directv now). I've installed the tablet version from 1mobile market and that opens ok, let's me accept disclaimer, but then tells me my version is out of date.. When downloading newest version (5.0.107) from aptoide, it just doesn't open. Sometimes the disclaimer page loads for a second, but then it just closes again
I not 100% sure I have the right version for the FireTV
I have a US VPN connected
Any ideas?
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Try APKPure &/or APKMirror. Make sure you pick the right ARM or compatible Android version.
Y314K said:
Never mind.
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That's for directv now?
Tripledrop said:
That's for directv now?
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Updated info above.
Y314K said:
Updated info above.
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So should I choose the one for tablets?
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So should I choose the one for tablets?
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I would choose the tablets one just for the probably built-in landscape mode & the size of the channels guide alone.
Both versions seem to have been updated on the same day. Although they have different version numbers.
Y314K said:
I would choose the tablets one just for the probably built-in landscape mode & the size of the channels guide alone.
Both versions seem to have been updated on the same day. Although they have different version numbers.
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Ok tried that, seems exactly the same version that I got from aptoide, and closes just the same unfortunately ?
Tripledrop said:
Ok tried that, seems exactly the same version that I got from aptoide, and closes just the same unfortunately ?
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If your device is rooted. You might wanna try the XPosed Holo Themer module. See if that helps to open the App.
Try the non-tablet one next.
Could also be related to not having the PlayStore Services on our FTV's.
I tried the APKMirror tablet APK since it suppose to be nodpi. But it crashes as soon as it tries to load the agreement.
Tried the phone version too. That one crashes quicker. Will try to see if Holo Themer helps the Tablet App load later.