Hi all.
I bought a rooted 1st gen FireTV a couple of years ago & it's been brilliant; I only use it for Kodi and have no interest in anything else. However, I recently started having constant critical low storage issues and faffed about with the box trying to fix it. In doing so, I inadvertently removed some system apps and my FTV no longer goes into sleep mode after a timeout but I've got Kodi working again, and Firestopper is great for auto-launching Kodi and mapping my Home button.
I'm wondering if it's worth upgrading the firmware from the current 51.1.4.1? I'm quite tech-literate but not with Android. The FTV boots into RBox's Boot Menu v1.0 and I'm not sure where to go from there in terms of ROMS, updates etc. I spent about 8 hours last night researching everything and my head is spinning!
Is it worth upgrading? If not, does anyone know why my FTV no longer goes into sleep mode when not in use?
Cheers
Gary
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I probably posted something very similar awhile back but hoping I might get some help. Since buying aftv in June I've had maybe 2 solid weeks of the smooth experience everyone talks about.
Just days after rooting (the day towelroot came out) I experience buggy behavior that compelled me to factory reset. Back then there was no risk of not getting root back. But it only helped for a little while.
Since then I've installed cwm and did 3 resets. The results were short lived.
Here's a list of all the bugs I can think of
1. Exiting xbmc then using Netflix only works about 50% of the time. Netflix will either not open or fail to play videos.
2. Exiting Netflix then launching xbmc almost always results in xbmc either not launching or launching with errors (web server failed, common cache, etc.)
3. (And this is one I've heard NO one report.) Unless aftv is rebooted before using, about 30-50% of the time the sound will cut in and out on ANY videos be it xbmc, Netflix or YouTube. Reboot fixes every time, but this is very annoying given the high frequency it happens. Now I've just got into the habit of rebooting first thing.
4. I'd given up on putting time into customizing xbmc because the best I can hope for is 2 weeks of stability before I need to start over due to it not launching or consistently launching with errors.
5. Because of #4 I decided to use tvmc. It ran great for awhile then refused to launch. A reinstall fixed it then 2 days later it was the same thing. I asked around but tvmc seems to be working well for others.
I'm currently running with a bare bones setup. Only using 21% of my internal space. Malwarebytes shows nothing.
Sorry about the long post. And I know despite the details it's impossible to diagnose what the issue is. What I'm looking for is advice on how to try and figure this out. How do I get a log going for the aftv itself? Where would be the best place to share a log? Which program would you reccomend? Please be as specific as possible. Thanks.
I have been using SPMC since the Ouya, and elmerohueso's thread (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2790392) at one point he had suggested it since it has android specific fixes that did not make it in the main KODI branch. It just got an update to 14.2.0 and he backported a new Isengard feature, skip steps. I certainly see functionality in this but am looking for a way to disable it, the kodi wiki (http://kodi.wiki/view/Skip_Steps) says the delay can be set to none via the GUI but mine's only allowing me to go down to 500ms, I see an advancedsettings.xml option for seek steps but not for the delay, does anyone know if there is a work around for this or am I the only one getting this?
Second thing, the new amazon update has many nice improvements, but has anyone else noticed the new Netflix no longer puts the FTV to sleep after sitting idle? The old app used to allow the FTV to sleep after sitting idle it would induce the screensaver then sleep. New app just sits on a dim screen forever, its only a problem cause on occasion there have been times where I've fallen asleep to something playing no netflix and the FTV stays indefinitely on and never goes to sleep all night . My question is this, Does anyone know of any tricks to make this happen automagically, through root/llama/scripts anything? It's a minor annoyance, but I have 4 FTV's in my house and my kids like to leave stuff on so I'm constantly having to manually put them to sleep its quite frustrating.
Any help is appreciated! Thanks all!
I know a few people have had similar questions but mine is just enough different that I thought I'd ask.
I used to be able to cast from youtube on my macbook air to my first gen fire tv. I sold the mac and now have a Lenovo laptop running windows 10. If I go into youtube (in a chrome browser) and hit the "cast" button one of my three fire tvs doesn't show up & the other two don't work.
Has youtube casting been disabled? Is there a three sided battle going on between Google, Amazon & MS for control over the cast landscape?
Any help would be great.
Thanks in advance.
rcrh said:
I know a few people have had similar questions but mine is just enough different that I thought I'd ask.
I used to be able to cast from youtube on my macbook air to my first gen fire tv. I sold the mac and now have a Lenovo laptop running windows 10. If I go into youtube (in a chrome browser) and hit the "cast" button one of my three fire tvs doesn't show up & the other two don't work.
Has youtube casting been disabled? Is there a three sided battle going on between Google, Amazon & MS for control over the cast landscape?
Any help would be great.
Thanks in advance.
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If it's working on your other fire tvs then logically casting wasnt disabled.
It's happened to me several times. Some fire devices are unavailable on the network and not sure why. I don't think I ever did anything to fix it--just moved on and now, in rare instances I try to cast, all my fire devices appear.
*You might want to try power cycling all them, including your router. See if that works.
KLit75 said:
If it's working on your other fire tvs then logically casting wasnt disabled.
It's happened to me several times. Some fire devices are unavailable on the network and not sure why. I don't think I ever did anything to fix it--just moved on and now, in rare instances I try to cast, all my fire devices appear.
*You might want to try power cycling all them, including your router. See if that works.
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it's NOT working on any of my fire tv's. Two of them show up on my laptop; one of them doesn't. But, I can't cast to any of them. So logically I asked the question.
Sorry you're having the same random happenings. I don't think random events are very logical.
Hopefully someone else will have resolved this issue or can confirm that Youtube casting is dead.
I had the exact same problem...and since im on the original firmware. (51.1.1.0) i did Nothing. I stopped using the fire tv. Im just now getting around to completely wiping, re--rooting, and going to install a newer firmware to try to fix it.
rcrh said:
it's NOT working on any of my fire tv's. Two of them show up on my laptop; one of them doesn't. But, I can't cast to any of them. So logically I asked the question.
Sorry you're having the same random happenings. I don't think random events are very logical.
Hopefully someone else will have resolved this issue or can confirm that Youtube casting is dead.
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I wasn't trying to be snarky when I said "logically" but I did admittedly skim your post and saw devices were showing up (missed the part where you said the ones that did appear werent working.)
Im at work. And I only cast from my phone/tablet. Last time I tried (sometime in the past 2 weeks) it was working.
Still thinking network issue. Try reboot. Another observation--Fire TV casts fine, no lag but I find it's inconvenient for me. From the time I hit the cast button to the time it actually plays the video, for me, takes 30 seconds or more. There are scenarios where it's definitely more convenient but its that long start up time that made me sort of evolve to just opening the YouTube app on aftv.
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I wasn't trying to be snarky when I said "logically" but I did admittedly skim your post and saw devices were showing up (missed the part where you said the ones that did appear werent working.)
Im at work. And I only cast from my phone/tablet. Last time I tried (sometime in the past 2 weeks) it was working.
Still thinking network issue. Try reboot. Another observation--Fire TV casts fine, no lag but I find it's inconvenient for me. From the time I hit the cast button to the time it actually plays the video, for me, takes 30 seconds or more. There are scenarios where it's definitely more convenient but its that long start up time that made me sort of evolve to just opening the YouTube app on aftv.
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And I appologize for over reacting and piling on the snark.
I don't think its a network thing since I can cast from my phone but I'll try rebooting everything.
Hello everyone! I have a basic, stock, NON-ROOTED FireTV. It is completely stock, and the FireTV box has already been replaced once for a new one for this exact problem...
So here's what's happening, anytime I watch something on my FireTV like Hulu or Netflix, the FireTV stops responding to any remote signals.
I think it's my FireTV's fault and NOT my remote's fault because I have brand new batteries in the remote.
This is incredibly irritating as you can tell because the only way to fix this is to complete unplug the entire FireTV, and that's difficult since it's hard to reach there.
Anyway, has anyone heard of this happening?
Thanks!
derpmcturd said:
Hello everyone! I have a basic, stock, NON-ROOTED FireTV. It is completely stock, and the FireTV box has already been replaced once for a new one for this exact problem...
So here's what's happening, anytime I watch something on my FireTV like Hulu or Netflix, the FireTV stops responding to any remote signals.
I think it's my FireTV's fault and NOT my remote's fault because I have brand new batteries in the remote.
This is incredibly irritating as you can tell because the only way to fix this is to complete unplug the entire FireTV, and that's difficult since it's hard to reach there.
Anyway, has anyone heard of this happening?
Thanks!
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My 2nd gen fire tv does this every once in a great while. All I do is pull 1 battery and put it back in. That fixes it immediately. I'm not sure why they lose sync with each other.
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My 2nd gen fire tv does this every once in a great while. All I do is pull 1 battery and put it back in. That fixes it immediately. I'm not sure why they lose sync with each other.
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mine used to be absolutely perfect the first year i had it, then i think around the time the homescreen layout changed that's when this non-responsive stuff started happening with that firmware update.
I’m not sure what exactly was “optimized,” but I (using mouse toggle) clicked the power optimizer and upon resetting my fire stick 2 automatically, I can’t pair my remote or WiFi to it. I’ve tried new batteries and I’ve tried holding down home for 60 seconds, select for 60 seconds, and even both for 60 seconds. I also tried 5-10 seconds, keeping them right next to the receiver. I apologize if there’s an easy fix for this but I’ve been looking possibl solutions up for a couple days and I’m out of ideas
Ditto...
I feel your pain — literally. I’ve spent 16+ hours since yesterday when my dreaded Kill All Apps ”clickedy-click” happened. I had an empathetic chuckle as I just came across your post during my umpteenth Google/XDA/Reddit search.. So, decided to join XDA [though been a fly for yrs here] just to say I’m afraid we’re outta luck & hardly alone. I can’t recall which app killer that did me in as I downloaded 3-4 of them from Aptoid to test out — though I think it was ATK? Thought I was “safe” since it’s not rooted and I’ve used similar apps without issue on several rooted phones over the yrs, but... hard lesson learned.
My issue is neither of my remotes (FS1 & 2) will pair, nor will any remote control apps for my droid, iPad, or Amazon Fire though this seems a fix for many, so might wanna give it a shot? I even dropped my Router (Xfinity- Arris) security — stick is still a no show, no ping.
Oh well, off to setup the ol’ 1st gen stick. Though I can’t blame Agenda 21/30, err, I mean Amazon, for this, after hrs of researching the “issues” I’m not so sure there’ll be a 3rd always-listening Alexa device in my collection...
Just a thought, have you tried connecting a OTG cable to the fire stick to add keyboard or mouse support?