Develop Bugs

XBMC screen output has gone crazy and changed resolution

Hello,
I have XBMC 13.0 Beta4. I have been using it fine for about a month. I changed to a new skin a few days ago but I am not sure this has anything to do with the issue. Today I was going through the menu looking at different options in the skin, however i did not change anything. I pressed the ESC key to get back to the home screen of XBMC. When i did this, the screen went wacky. Previously, my resolution was 1920 x 1080. Now, I see 3 windows along the bottom of my tv and about 30 small windows across the top of my screen (6 columns of 5 windows.) So when I go to settings, I see the resolution is now set to 720x480.
I am not sure how to get this back to normal. I cleared cache. Outside of XBMC the visuals are fine. Should I just upgrade new latest release? When I play a movie, movie plays on all "mini" screens. Sound is fine. I also tried setting XBMC visual settings back to default but that did not help.

I am not sure exactly what the issue was. I uninstalled and installed latest version of Kodi and the issue is gone.

I feel silly for jumping the gun there. It was working OK until I tried to add a network share. At some point it looked like it hung or something timed out. When I pressed the backspace button on the keyboard it immediately went to the weird output. Forcing a stop to the app and restarting does not help. Very weird.

HAD exaft the same happening some days ago with SPMC. Worked okay so far as suddenly while configuring YouTube addon via keyboard the Screen gone crazy... Upper half of the screen everything flickering and smeared and lower half showing xbmc three times. Resolution 720x480, not adjustable. Outside and in every other app everything normal. Everything I tried had no effect, until I deleted app data.

Having significant problems with Stickmount

Part of the reason why I got and rooted my FTV was for Stickmount so I can play my MKV files off my external HD. Even though it works sometimes, I have significant problems with it and I was hoping I could get help with it or if it's just unfixable. Note that these problems are all off of playing a file directly off an external HD, so I don't get why it doesn't work.
1. Even though my movie has chapters and it even indicates the chapters on the top of the player, it is not possible to choose chapters or skip chapters.
2. Fast forwarding barely even works at all. Hitting the up arrow on the select wheel is supposed to fast forward it by something like 10 minutes, but it basically does nothing. Hitting the right arrow is supposed to FF it by 30 seconds, but it likewise does nothing. And then when I try to fast forward it normally, the time indicated it is fast-forwarding a lot but when I hit play, it has barely gone anywhere at all and has lag to catch up to the fast forward which only went a minute or so in real time when the time counter indicates it was supposed to FF by 10-15 minutes.
3. The FTV has frozen the last 2 times I've been watching a movie and when I restart, I have to start again from the beginning and basically let it run for an hour or more before I can even start watching where it froze on me before.
I just don't understand why this app's functionality is so terrible. It's so bad for me that it practically makes it unusable. I sold my WDTV Live because the FTV was supposed to be amazing, but the WDTV never had a single issue playing back local storage, while the FTV with Stickmount is unusable. I would get the WDTV Live back but the FTV offers infinitely more possibilities and features.
Can anyone direct me perhaps to an alternative program to Stickmount, or try to help me to solve these issues I have been having? Was I just expecting too much from this player/Stickmount? It's so bad that I am considering selling the FTV since this was one of the key reasons for me buying it.

brtdud7 said:
Part of the reason why I got and rooted my FTV was for Stickmount so I can play my MKV files off my external HD. Even though it works sometimes, I have significant problems with it and I was hoping I could get help with it or if it's just unfixable. Note that these problems are all off of playing a file directly off an external HD, so I don't get why it doesn't work.
1. Even though my movie has chapters and it even indicates the chapters on the top of the player, it is not possible to choose chapters or skip chapters.
2. Fast forwarding barely even works at all. Hitting the up arrow on the select wheel is supposed to fast forward it by something like 10 minutes, but it basically does nothing. Hitting the right arrow is supposed to FF it by 30 seconds, but it likewise does nothing. And then when I try to fast forward it normally, the time indicated it is fast-forwarding a lot but when I hit play, it has barely gone anywhere at all and has lag to catch up to the fast forward which only went a minute or so in real time when the time counter indicates it was supposed to FF by 10-15 minutes.
3. The FTV has frozen the last 2 times I've been watching a movie and when I restart, I have to start again from the beginning and basically let it run for an hour or more before I can even start watching where it froze on me before.
I just don't understand why this app's functionality is so terrible. It's so bad for me that it practically makes it unusable. I sold my WDTV Live because the FTV was supposed to be amazing, but the WDTV never had a single issue playing back local storage, while the FTV with Stickmount is unusable. I would get the WDTV Live back but the FTV offers infinitely more possibilities and features.
Can anyone direct me perhaps to an alternative program to Stickmount, or try to help me to solve these issues I have been having? Was I just expecting too much from this player/Stickmount? It's so bad that I am considering selling the FTV since this was one of the key reasons for me buying it.
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I don't see that Stickmount is the problem. All it does is mount your external drive, which it does. So, what media player are you using? What file format? What remote? Kodi? There are alternate keymaps you can try.

Oh I was not aware that there were different players before. I have Kodi and I just go to Videos > Files and click my movie and it plays it
I got MXPlayer and it actually worked without a problem on the video, but I really don't want to have to use it because it is very messily organized with my files and takes more steps to open it.
I thought there was just a default player in Kodi?

brtdud7 said:
Oh I was not aware that there were different players before. I have Kodi and I just go to Videos > Files and click my movie and it plays it
I got MXPlayer and it actually worked without a problem on the video, but I really don't want to have to use it because it is very messily organized with my files and takes more steps to open it.
I thought there was just a default player in Kodi?
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Check out these two :
http://forum.xda-developers.com/fire-tv/general/mounting-external-usb-to-data-t2889319
http://forum.xda-developers.com/fire-tv/development/busymount-v1-0-t2920146

Has anyone got experience with this?

So,
I just got back from work and I purchased an ex disipaly M2-10 (M2-A01w), it's got 3gb of RAM and 64gb ROM and it's on Android 5.1.1 and EMUI 3.1.
The retail software on there is in the applications settings and it's called Retail Demo. It plays a video everytime I put the device to sleep and when I log back in, the tablet has all these awful demo screens up.
I can use the entire device fine, just it takes about 20 seconds for the video to pass, and for me to spam <back> enough for the demo screens to disappear.
Is there any way I can remove this app (I cannot uninstall from settings or force stop either) or is it a case of reflashing, if so, how do I do that?
Thanks,

Hi,
This is a demo firmware. You should update it with the "retail" one...
my2cts

I'm in the same position. I brought an ex display a few days ago. I found after a few factory resets it seemed to return to a normal tablet

Lightpack with Shield (Pro 500Gb)

Hi guys
Few days ago I have tried to set up my Shield with Pivos VUE lightpack (ambilight) screen capturing... Problem that I got right after installation of Prismatik.apk (developer software) is that screen capture doesn't wont to work at all. I was finally upset after hours of trying... And the on third day I have found in Play Market Andilight software which starts to work just like magick . My daughter likes to watch cartoons even more. It's not reklam, just hope that it will help someone like me

Insignia 58" Fire TV Audio Issues!?

I have two Insignia Fire TV devices. I have the 55" and the 58". After the most recent update (Fire OS 6.2.6.9 NS6269/2372) the TV drops all audio, usually happening after a graphical or video glitch. Sometimes it never comes back and I'm forced to reset the TV (via menu or remote hold select and play)! On Netflix the video will be playing and then all of a sudden it will buffer indefinitely and when I go back to the menu or exit and come back all sound is gone. The audio is gone everywhere, the Amazon menu also and in every app. On YouTube the video will glitch and repeat itself and then the audio is gone. On other apps sometimes there is no visual que and the audio is just gone.
So something has happened and I'm not 100% sure if the last update did it but about a day after that update I started to notice it. At first I thought it was a storage memory glitch. On the 55" model we had an issue where sound in many apps would be like 2 seconds behind the video and it turned out to be a storage issue. We had less than 600MB of space left and when I cleared up to 1GB+ the issue went away. So I did the same thing on the 58" and deleted many apps getting to 1.3GB free but to no avail. Amazon and Insignia are very good TVs but having only 4.27GB (probably 5 or 6 GB) is a joke! There would have been a $1 difference to make it like 16GB or higher! And when your screensaver app uses 500MB to 1GB WE SHOULD HAVE MORE SPACE! And using an SD card would be good if that wasn't also buggy as heck! I added an SD card to get my live TV video to go beyond 2 minutes and it worked for a day and then went back to 2 minutes and just to get it to work I had to format the flash memory to internal storage and then back to external. It was a joke but this is annoying.
My audio drops out two to three times a night and sometimes a reset doesn't fix it and I'm forced to pull the plug for 30 seconds. I also found that in Live TV mode the audio goes out every few minutes for a few minutes and then comes back on and does this cycle over and over forever! I think it's a system error also as the live TV buffer video so you can rewind and fast forward for two minutes and I think this is also being affected by this issue. So not even live TV is safe for me to watch now that I can't use any of the apps! WTF!? The tv is unusable! This needs to be dealt with ASAP! This is a software issue or unplugging wouldn't work. And I was going to try and hard reset and start over but Amazon should know about this and if it was the update it's going to happen again. I am here to provide anything Amazon needs to get to the bottom of this. I'm sure many people are experiencing this bug but it was hard for me to find the place to report it!? I don't have this new issue with my 55" model. Please help!
Info on TV:
​Insignia 58" 4K Fire TV Edition
Software:​ Fire OS 6.2.6.9 NS6269/2372
​Fire TV Home Version: 6200198.1
Model: Insignia NS-58DF620NA20
Storage Capacity: 1.01 GB of 4.27 GB Available​ (I had it up to 1.3 but the screensaver app keeps taking huge amounts of cache space!).
Also weird is my 55" model shows NA (North America) and 19 at the end to designate 2019 while my 58" shows 20 (I'm guessing meaning 2020 year model). Also the 58" model is gone from Amazon and BestBuy while the original 55" and below " 19" models are still for sale. Was there a hardware bug?!
Sincerely,
5th​

OK, this seems to be a huge bug with these TVs, just search Google for, "insignia fire tv edition tv speakers wont turn on". I found over 30 people with different sizes of the same TV that have the same issue! Mine started after that last update, I know 100%! I was also going to post mine also says tv speakers are "off" and won't let me turn them on. I did a hard reset (deleted everything from device and memory) but the issue was still there. I knew it would still be there as the update is still installed. I was able to fix mine temporarily by plugging in headphones and then unplugging them.
They setup a Geek Squad free home visit to look at the TV this Friday so I'll post back then on what they do. But please anyone else having this issue please call Insignia so they can report this bug. The more people who report it we might get it fixed! The weird thing is I could usually get the speakers to work by pulling the plug and then holding the power button for a few seconds and then turning it back on. But that stopped working so I tried the headphone jack and that did it. Once the headphones were unplugged the sound started to come from the speakers and it said "on" again.
My cousin has this same TV and he doesn't have this issue and I have the smaller 55 inch model also and it doesn't have this issue either. So something in that last update screwed something up for many of us.
5th

I found out this issue is affecting hundreds of people. The Best Buy forums are loaded with people experiencing this audio issue (https://forums.bestbuy.com/t5/Telev...-intermittent-audio-issues/m-p/1334032#M39005). Ok, after the Geek Squad guy came and installed the new mainboard the tv is working good. But it updated to the newest version (Fire OS 6.2.6.9 (NS6269/2372) which has been the catalyst for everyone's woes it seems. Also my cousin has the same 58 inch TV and his got the update a couple weeks ago but it only just started experiencing the audio issues.
So after the install my TV now thinks it's a 55 inch, lol. They must have sent the wrong board. They sent me the 55 inch board instead of the 58 inch one. So my 58 inch NS-58DF620NA20 now shows up as a 55 inch as NS-55DF710NA19! I'm hoping there is no long term effects or other odd side effects from this. I have gotten a few "system components" updates and I was hoping that these would fix these headphone speakers off bug. But everyone who has this issue needs to call Insignia and report it so the engineering team can work on a fix (and be notified) at 1-877-467-4289. I'll post back Inna few days and let you know how it's going. Maybe I'm ok now that my TV thinks it's a 55 inch?!
5th

My fix
I also have an Insigna 58" FireTV. To get it to work, I switch the "Input" to "Composite", hit the "Home" key and now the internal speakers are re-enabled.
I do have a Wii connected to the Composite input, but it is not on when I do the input switch.
The audio does dropout as described above, but not sure if an update broke it.

My fix:
I was having this issue. Turned out my friend had connected his wireless headphones and forgot to disconnect them. Check your “other Bluetooth device” setting for any rogue Bluetooth speakers.