Originally Posted by KChiefs1:
What are these build addons? Should I download them?
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No, don't bother. Those are simply user provided KODI versions with addons and sources pre-configured. They use shitty unreliable sources that never update correctly, and some of them come with adware and garbage installed that you don't want. They offer nothing you can't install yourself. They never work correctly. If you see a particular addon in those youtube videos, just install that addon yourself. But don't mess with custom pre-configured KODI versions. You'll be much better off installing via Addon Installer as outlined earlier in this thread, and installing your addons that way. [Reply]
Step by step instructions for installing kodi with the tvaddons setup. has worked perfectly for me. super easy, fast, and reliable. I recommend this to everyone. [Reply]
I turned on my firestick a while back and it acted like it was brand new. made me attach my amazon account all over again etc. once I got back in Kodi was gone....as was Netflix. (my kids use Netflix...so I keep it around)
very weird. I've had it for a couple years and never had anything like that happen. I reinstalled Kodi...no biggee. I also tweaked it for fixing buffering problems as I'd done before. mostly it's fine.....mostly. some times though the movie starts glitching.
now here's my question....before the reinstall...when it would glitch...I'd pause and go do something for 5 or 10, I'd come back and you could see at the top by the pause icon that some movie had...well...had buffered up...like it had downloaded some and was ahead of itself and I'd be fine. but NOW....that never happens. the gray bar never grows. I can't for the life-a-me figure out WHY. it doesn't happen all the time....but when it does....even if I wait 20 minutes, the grey never grows.
hope this makes sense to somebody...and better yet hoping someone has a suggestion. I'm wondering if, when this happens, that I've simply accessed a crappy link.
one last thing to note, this has happened before on a 1.5 hours into a 2 hour movie. was fine and thing pow...not fine. [Reply]
Originally Posted by frankotank:
I turned on my firestick a while back and it acted like it was brand new. made me attach my amazon account all over again etc. once I got back in Kodi was gone....as was Netflix. (my kids use Netflix...so I keep it around)
very weird. I've had it for a couple years and never had anything like that happen. I reinstalled Kodi...no biggee. I also tweaked it for fixing buffering problems as I'd done before. mostly it's fine.....mostly. some times though the movie starts glitching.
now here's my question....before the reinstall...when it would glitch...I'd pause and go do something for 5 or 10, I'd come back and you could see at the top by the pause icon that some movie had...well...had buffered up...like it had downloaded some and was ahead of itself and I'd be fine. but NOW....that never happens. the gray bar never grows. I can't for the life-a-me figure out WHY. it doesn't happen all the time....but when it does....even if I wait 20 minutes, the grey never grows.
hope this makes sense to somebody...and better yet hoping someone has a suggestion. I'm wondering if, when this happens, that I've simply accessed a crappy link.
one last thing to note, this has happened before on a 1.5 hours into a 2 hour movie. was fine and thing pow...not fine.
The bolded is your answer. "Tweaking it for buffering" means that you edited the advancesettings.xml file or you used an addon to do so. That file provides custom settings for how much KODI can download ahead in the movie, where to save the cache, and how fast it can download. That's how you tweak for buffering, and that's what controls the amount it downloads ahead. Sounds like you screwed something up when doing that. You might have to either redo the advancesettings.xml settings, or delete the file completely. I really wouldn't recommend messing with the advancesettings.xml file unless you know exactly what you're doing. Especially on a Fire Stick. Because with the wrong settings, you could run the FireStick out of memory and storage both. The stick doesn't have the capable hardware to handle incorrect settings. [Reply]
I tried to get it back to the way I thought I had it before....which included the xml change but also still allowed the buffering up. so I'll just ditch the xml changes and see how it goes. [Reply]