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[Q] HDMI via Onkyo AMP

Good Morning,
I picked up a fire tv box yesterday and I am having trouble connecting it to my onkyo amp.
I plug it directly into my TV and it works fine, but when plugging it into my amp, all i get is a blue screen.
I tried altering the display from auto down to 1080p 50/60hz, but still nothing.
The box came pre loaded with xbmc, would it be something in there that is causing it ?
Has anyone else had this issue ? Any ideas on how i can get round it ?
Pete
I have just noticed that i put this in the wrong forum, please can a mod move it to the correct one. Thanks

theINSKIP said:
Good Morning,
I picked up a fire tv box yesterday and I am having trouble connecting it to my onkyo amp.
I plug it directly into my TV and it works fine, but when plugging it into my amp, all i get is a blue screen.
I tried altering the display from auto down to 1080p 50/60hz, but still nothing.
The box came pre loaded with xbmc, would it be something in there that is causing it ?
Has anyone else had this issue ? Any ideas on how i can get round it ?
Pete
I have just noticed that i put this in the wrong forum, please can a mod move it to the correct one. Thanks
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I just noticed the part about xbmc being preloaded on your firetv? I'm guessing you bought this used?!? If so, that might be part of the problem.

expose11 said:
I just noticed the part about xbmc being preloaded on your firetv? I'm guessing you bought this used?!? If so, that might be part of the problem.
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I run mine thru an Onkyo and it works fine. I pass thru DTS via XBMC. Great. You should really ask this question on the Onkyo forums and provide way more information about your setup.

jmerrilljr2 said:
I run mine thru an Onkyo and it works fine. I pass thru DTS via XBMC. Great. You should really ask this question on the Onkyo forums and provide way more information about your setup.
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Not sure if there is some confusion but I was responding to the OP. I was asking him if he might have bought his AFTV used since it does not come with XBMC installed. And not to keep this going or anything, but I can guarantee if he asked his question in Onkyo forums their response would be for him to go to AFTV, XBMC, or possibly XDA (although I doubt it) forums for an answer.

expose11 said:
it does not come with XBMC installed.
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Right the FireTV doesn't come with XBMC stock.
I have mine hooked up to an Onkyo NR414 (I believe) and it works fine. ALTHOUGH there were one or two HDMI cables that would give me a screen about HDCP, not sure if it was a blue screen. Try different HDMI cables.

Hi guys
Thanks for your help.... Spend this morning swapping hdmi cables round. Now it works a treat !!

theINSKIP said:
Hi guys
Thanks for your help.... Spend this morning swapping hdmi cables round. Now it works a treat !!
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excellent. Another thing to pay attention to is which box is powered up first. The order that seems to work best for me is TV, then amp, then FireTV.

[Q] Amazon Prime does not work after manual fw upgrade

Prime movies and TV shows do not load after manually upgrading to fw 51.1.1.0_user_511070220. I have root and nothing is being blocked on my router. Streaming with prime worked fine on fw 51.1.0.2_user_510058520. Oddly enough, the trailers will play fine but not the actual movie.
Anyone have similar problems?
Edit: I performed a factory reset and reinstalled everything to no avail.

Check to be sure your system has a correct timestamp? I had some really weird stuff happen earlier today when I wasn't able to get NTP at boot up.

Bizarre fix
So I replaced the hdmi cable and all is well again. Apparently the cable was bad only when trying to play prime movie and tv streams. It worked fine with all xbmc stuff and everything else like games and apps. Maybe the hdmi cable is old 1.2 and not 1.4. At any rate, I'm glad it wasn't defective hardware.

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So I replaced the hdmi cable and all is well again. Apparently the cable was bad only when trying to play prime movie and tv streams. It worked fine with all xbmc stuff and everything else like games and apps. Maybe the hdmi cable is old 1.2 and not 1.4. At any rate, I'm glad it wasn't defective hardware.
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Interesting. Thanks for posting the resolution.

Netflix app crashes after login details are entered

Hi,
I just got my Fire TV set up. Used Smart DNS Proxy as part of wifi set up. Installed Netflix. When I open netflix and login using login credentials, the app crashes. I can't go beyond login screen.
I can stream Prime videos, crackle etc but not Netflix.
1 click settings is correctly set on Amazon account. I have tried deleting data and cache of all the apps installed and restarted the fire tv but couldn't succeed. I even tried resetting the fire tv but it didn't help either.
Any help is appreciated.

Is there anyway I can enable some logging to see why Netflix is crashing?

gopichandpai said:
Is there anyway I can enable some logging to see why Netflix is crashing?
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adb logcat

I saw your thread on prerooted images: http://forum.xda-developers.com/fire-tv/development/prerooted-stock-images-t2882337
I see that you have provided a zip update to fix Netflix. Unfortunately, I am on the 51.1.4.0_user_514006420 version so I can't root my fire TV. Is there anyway I can apply your Netflix fix on this version?

Attaching the logcat output. Any help is appreciated.

Attached now

I was hoping that downgrading the Netflix app might work for me. I uninstalled the latest Netflix app and installed the old app http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00FLJ1CFM/?tag=aftvn-20. But, when I open the old app, it asks me to upgrade to the new version.
I am not able to use Netflix at all. I hope some one can come with a solution soon.

Found 2 error lines related to Netflix. I searched for those and both lines are sometimes related to orientation issues. Might not be related to your issue, but figured I will throw this out to you:
Do you have any apps loaded to change orientation on your FTV?

dbdoshi said:
Found 2 error lines related to Netflix. I searched for those and both lines are sometimes related to orientation issues. Might not be related to your issue, but figured I will throw this out to you:
Do you have any apps loaded to change orientation on your FTV?
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No, it is a new box. I have tried resetting the box and installed only Netflix. Even then it didn't work.

Netflix is updated to 1.1.1 build 125. I am facing the same issue on this version of Netflix as well. Raised a ticket with Amazon. It's been a week. Doesn't look like they have been progressing much on my issue.
I hope some one here will be able to help me fix the netflix issue.

Attaching the log from the new version of Netflix.

As expected, Amazon and Netflix said they don't support the issues when Netflix is accessed outside US, UK and Germany. Looks like I just need to wait for new firmware releases on Fire TV and/or new version of Netflix to see if it ever works.
I hope some one from here can help me with the issue that I am seeing. Or some one finds a way to root the latest version of the firmware so that I can install some custom firmware or older version of the firmware to fix the Netflix issue.

This issue was because of HDMI-CEC issue!
I disabled the HDMI-CEC and restarted the Fire TV and Netflix is working like a charm.

Netflix is crashing again after the latest Fire TV update. This is so frustrating.

you're not alone
i'm in US and just receive my amazon fire tv stick
software update being done automatically during setup, so it's up to date
netflix is not pre-installed, so i install from store ver.1.1.1 build 125
the app crashses straight away after login using login credentials

Thanks for your reply. It worked for me couple of times but 99% of the time it didn't work me. Raising a ticket with Amazon didn't help either. They are clueless!
The status as of today is it is not working.

I sideload latest netflix ver.3.8.3 from google playstore and netflix working
However since this netflix version for tablet, then fire remote won't work on this version
I'm going to call netflix and escalate this issue

Are you getting HD on the side loaded app?

gopichandpai said:
Used Smart DNS Proxy as part of wifi set up.
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Any chance of using an Ethernet cable just for troubleshooting?

wellersl said:
Any chance of using an Ethernet cable just for troubleshooting?
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Tried with Ethernet cable too. Same result

Amazon Fire tv running Kodi

Hello All,
I wanted to see if anyone can help me out on this issue.. I have a amazon firetv running latest firmware on it. It was on Gothom running fine and i completely uninstalled gothom and did a sideload of Kodi. I installed all the repo.. When watching a show the unit has become extremly slow and it is always buffering.. Not sure if it the site or the unit and something wrong with it.. Is anyone else having this issue.
thanks once again

cd112 said:
Hello All,
I wanted to see if anyone can help me out on this issue.. I have a amazon firetv running latest firmware on it. It was on Gothom running fine and i completely uninstalled gothom and did a sideload of Kodi. I installed all the repo.. When watching a show the unit has become extremly slow and it is always buffering.. Not sure if it the site or the unit and something wrong with it.. Is anyone else having this issue.
thanks once again
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I am using Kodi and it is working fine but i have rooted my fire tv so i am not using stocked amazon latest firmware so i am not sure if the latest stock firmware updates from amazon caused kodi to be slowed. I would check the basic things, internet connection speed, clear cache, apply the 0 cache setting to resolve the buffering. Also try to run the sames addon and shows or movies you watched on AFT on another device to see if you have the same issue. This will help you eliminated if it is a device issued or the issue is across the board, it could be the source it self is slow.
If you are wi fi try Ethernet is always best. if nothing helps, you can always remove kodi and install gotham or use SPMC or TVMC both are on amazon app store (free).
Sometime different version do slow things down when it comes to xbmc, I can tell on raspberry PI when i upgraded from Frodo to gothom, it was really really slow so i re installed Frodo.
Thank you

you need the zero cache mod to fix the buffering but tbh i had issues with kodi and tried all the build
i installed spmc ...have had 0 problems ..honestly 0
installed super repo too for my add ons and its brill working no flaws
cd112 said:
Hello All,
I wanted to see if anyone can help me out on this issue.. I have a amazon firetv running latest firmware on it. It was on Gothom running fine and i completely uninstalled gothom and did a sideload of Kodi. I installed all the repo.. When watching a show the unit has become extremly slow and it is always buffering.. Not sure if it the site or the unit and something wrong with it.. Is anyone else having this issue.
thanks once again
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[FTV2] Workaround to get DTS working with Kodi?

Hey guys,
I am not able to get DTS working with the new Fire TV and Kodi. I already received the surround fix update and only get 5.1 pcm. If I enable pass through I only get static/white noise since my receiver (Denon X2100-W) is not able to identify it as a DD/DTS signal. Is there any workaround around this or does somebody else have DD/DTS working with Kodi? On reddit I have seen other people having the problem as well so I thought I might ask here if there's a fix.
Thanks!

You must be one of the first to get the patch!
If this is only an issue with Kodi, perhaps you could try the Kodi Android forum.

I'm still running the horrible stock firmware, but a sort of fix for me regarding pass-thru is to stop the movie and then play it again. a little pop-up will say pass-thru enabled at the top and it works mostly like normal. this method was required almost everytime for DTS-MA sources.
edit: if i remember to later i'll try to figure out whether it's Kodi specific

Not for me, get the update 5.0.2.2 today and was full of hope for DD/DTS with Kodi but no way. So mine is on the way back to Amazon...