My FTV has been buggy lately so I decided to do uninstall a lot of my apps and upgrade to 5.0 using Rbox's latest pre-root. After installing, my montdatatoUSB function was broken. I ended up deciding to do a factory reset, but something weird happened. It rest my user account, but it didn't actually reset the FTV. I still have my old apps. Plus, the newly formatted USB drive is visible to the FTV, but when I try to move an app to the USB, it says it is unable to move it. Ugh! I knew I was hesitant to upgrade for a reason! Besides flashing a rom and doing a factory reset through the FTV settings, how can I truly wipe my FTV and actually start from scratch?
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Hello all. Hoping someone can help me figure out why Pandora has stopped working on my N7 2013. It is fairly new, got it for Xmas. It is unlocked and rooted, but running the stock 4.3 rom (no interest in 4.4+ at this time).
Pandora was working fine at first, but when I opened it yesterday, it gave me an error, saying something like "your pandora session has timed out", and kicked me out of the app. Opened it back up, and it was stuck at the splash. Left it for several minutes, and nothing. So I force closed it, cleared it's data and cache, and reopened it, same problem. Uninstalled it, reinstalled it, same problem.
Went into recovery, cleared dalvik and cache, booted back up, reinstalled Pandora, same problem. So finally, I made a titanium backup of all my apps (no system settings), did a factory reset, restored my backed up apps, everything EXCEPT Pandora, downloaded that fresh from the play store, opened it, same problem... wtf???
Ok, fine, it wants to play hard ball... so I did another factory reset, then wiped data, cache and dalvik seperately. Booted, set up my google account, and didn't install ANYTHING, EXCEPT for Pandora.
SAME PROBLEM!!
What is going on here??? For what it's worth, Pandora still works fine on my phone (Rooted 4.3 GS4). So it's not a server outage or anything like that. This has been going on since last night.
My last ditch effort would be to restore the factory image, then unlock and reroot again but damn... what could possible be stuck so bad as to survive all that? I have not modified /system/ at all except for installing busybox and supersu.
... well... what the heck. So I flashed the factory image, and now, finally, Pandora is working again.
I can't think what the heck would have happened in /system/ or anywhere else other than /data/ that would stick through a factory reset and keep Pandora from working....
Any ideas? I really, REALLY want to avoid this happening again.
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I have installed Pandora v5.5
I don't think it is available in the Play Store yet. It could be an issue with ART and Lollipop. Flashing a stock older image could be what works with that version.
I only see Pandora 5.4 in the Play Store.
5.5 brings a new Interface and some really cool features. You have to find it online and side load it. Probably what your problem is/was.
Hi folks,
I've read an article on AFTVnews about Factory Resetting the Fire TV and I have been meaning to do that for some time now (An app I love, Mobdro, just force closes on me for some reason since last month and the devs can't help me at all) but the drawbacks (disabling ADB, turning OTA updates back on again) is scaring me a bit.
Is there any other way to completely wipe my FireTV of all data/cache/system files/ etc but keep my OS, ADB enabled, rooted, and OTA updates disabled (can't block from router, using pm.disable currently). Also, is there any other complications that may arise if I wipe it out. Like for example, busybox and towelroot will get removed.
My FireTV has the latest pre-rooted rom, it has recovery installed and I think the bootloader is partially unlocked
Thanks in advance
I have two FTVs both running old 51.1.1.0. Both of them have Kodi 14.2 and both crash shortly after I launch Kodi. They were both working fine and then both stopped working the same day. I thought there may have been an update, but that didn't happen. I can't figure it out and I'm really frustrated with these boxes. I'm ready to sell them and get something better. I can't even update them. Every way I try to update fails.
Any suggestions?
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I have two FTVs both running old 51.1.1.0. Both of them have Kodi 14.2 and both crash shortly after I launch Kodi. They were both working fine and then both stopped working the same day. I thought there may have been an update, but that didn't happen. I can't figure it out and I'm really frustrated with these boxes. I'm ready to sell them and get something better. I can't even update them. Every way I try to update fails.
Any suggestions?
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You have to provide a lot more info regarding your boxes. I am assuming your boxes are rooted or you blocked updates in your router because this is a very old firmware and if so you will not be able to update them over the air without enabling OTA updates.
Start here and read before you do anything (you can still keep root and update to latest OS3 s/w): http://www.aftvnews.com/start/
bula1ca said:
You have to provide a lot more info regarding your boxes. I am assuming your boxes are rooted or you blocked updates in your router because this is a very old firmware and if so you will not be able to update them over the air without enabling OTA updates.
Start here and read before you do anything (you can still keep root and update to latest OS3 s/w): http://www.aftvnews.com/start/
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They both are rooted. I'm just trying to update Kodi. I thought it would be best to keep the old firmware. I've used the Windows utility app to try and install the new version of Kodi as well as the fire installer on an android phone. Nothing seems to work. This is the way I've always done it. Let me know what other information I can provide.
Not sure why you want to keep an older firmware (newer versions bring fixes and improvements) but that is up to you. Have you installed something on both units that lead to the system crash? It is very weird that both units stopped working at the same time. Have you try to clean cache (not data) and run kodi again? If this does not work do a back up, uninstall kodi, reset firetv, reinstall whatever version of kodi you like and run it (do not restore you back up yet) if all is good (opens up) exit kodi and restore your back up. If it still does not open then something got corrupted in your data files and you will have to reinstall everything from scratch.
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Not sure why you want to keep an older firmware (newer versions bring fixes and improvements) but that is up to you. Have you installed something on both units that lead to the system crash? It is very weird that both units stopped working at the same time. Have you try to clean cache (not data) and run kodi again? If this does not work do a back up, uninstall kodi, reset firetv, reinstall whatever version of kodi you like and run it (do not restore you back up yet) if all is good (opens up) exit kodi and restore your back up. If it still does not open then something got corrupted in your data files and you will have to reinstall everything from scratch.
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I've tried clearing cash. The reason I didn't take an OTA update for firmware is because I thought I couldn't root the newer versions.
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I've tried clearing cash. The reason I didn't take an OTA update for firmware is because I thought I couldn't root the newer versions.
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You can still update to latest firmware (using rbox prerooted images). Follow link I posted above and read, read, read before you do anything.
I think the same as bula1ca write down here.
First update to the last availible prerooted rom. Read it here how to do: http://www.aftvnews.com/start/
Another question from my side is: Why did you use kodi 14.2.
kodi 16 jarvis is availible and you can use it as launcher too with a pythin script here from the board.
Feel free to ask your question but please read enough before
Greetings by Idijt
I have rooted firetv OS 5.0.3.1
However I havent installed twrp. My hdd decreased to 91%. I run bunch of different addons on kodi trying to fix it also deleted mbcache.db file and went down to 75%
I would like to reset it and install twrp. Just do clean setup. Is it possible not taking the updates?
If I hit factory default I won't brick it?
Thx for your help guys
Hi all,
I have a fire tv box gen 2 rooted running 5.0.5.1. I have had this box for a year now and all the ota block methods are in place and working well. Recently I noticed that bluetooth won't pick up any discoverable bluetooth devices anymore! I have tried turning off the box, restarting the box, and just about every method.
Yesterday it was showing the discovered devices and the ones already connected previously but wouldnt connect to them. I should also point out that i tried installing usb/bt joystick center apk for controller mapping and the first time I accidentally didnt give it root access then second time I reinstalled and gave it root access but told me it couldnt find /dev folder through root so i just uninstalled it and ever since then nothing has been working through bluetooth except the official Amazon remote. The led light in front of the box wont even pulse when trying to discover a new device.
So any thoughts on how to resolve this issue? Has anyone had this problem before? I might try restoring the device to factory default settings when i get the chance and see if things just start magically working again. Any help/suggestions would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Gsharp
EDIT: GOT IT TO WORK AGAIN!!!! Hey everyone so I tried everything from updating to the latest update to rebooting to clearing cache in TWRP and nothing helped. I have read that other people got it working again by restoring to factory settings oddly enough. So I did that but through TWRP by clicking wiping dalvik cache, clear cache, clear data, and clearing system and installing a pre-rooted rom (the latest version) and it started working again! Not sure if a file or something caused bluetooth to corrupt or not work but the Conclusion is if you are not rooted then you will have to reset to factory default settings in SETTINGS > DEVICE > RESET TO FACTORY DEFAULTS and if rooted just do what I mentioned above! You will have to restore all your apps/jailbroken apps again since you are factory resetting but worth it in my opinion since I love using headphones, bluetooth keyboard/mouse, and game controllers and rely on it heavily! Anyway's hope this helps someone who comes across this thread and is having the same issues!!
-Gsharp