So about a month ago I upgraded ONE of my 2nd Gen FireTV boxes to a FireTV Cube to try it out (due $69 sale and having a 4K HDR TV)... one thing I'm not understanding is how the Cube deals with USB Memory Stick as storage.. Reading -> http://www.aftvnews.com/everything-...ternal-drives-peripherals-flirc-otg-and-more/ it appears I should be able to use it (similar to how I used the MicroSD on my 2nd Gen FireTV box, or the USB stick on my 1st Gen Fire TV box).
Part of my question centers around the following... the article talks about "External Storage" and "Device Storage" modes. Which is prefered? One of the main reasons for wanting the USB storage is to move my KODI/MRMC data to the USB Stick, similar to how i moved it on the 2nd Gen box. No matter which option I picked, I can't seem to access the USB Stick via ADB to move the Kodi/MRMC data to it (like I how I moved it on the 1st/2nd gen box).
Has anyone done this? can you provide any details/info?
KidJoe said:
So about a month ago I upgraded ONE of my 2nd Gen FireTV boxes to a FireTV Cube to try it out (due $69 sale and having a 4K HDR TV)... one thing I'm not understanding is how the Cube deals with USB Memory Stick as storage.. Reading -> http://www.aftvnews.com/everything-...ternal-drives-peripherals-flirc-otg-and-more/ it appears I should be able to use it (similar to how I used the MicroSD on my 2nd Gen FireTV box, or the USB stick on my 1st Gen Fire TV box).
Part of my question centers around the following... the article talks about "External Storage" and "Device Storage" modes. Which is prefered? One of the main reasons for wanting the USB storage is to move my KODI/MRMC data to the USB Stick, similar to how i moved it on the 2nd Gen box. No matter which option I picked, I can't seem to access the USB Stick via ADB to move the Kodi/MRMC data to it (like I how I moved it on the 1st/2nd gen box).
Has anyone done this? can you provide any details/info?
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Been messing with this for mos ... Came from a T95Z which mounts drives with no issue ... Fire TV can only natively mount FAT32.
So far I've tried to side-load Paragon NTFS which won't work without Google Play Services ... that hasn't worked ...
There are some other solutions like Stickmount which require root...
I also tried to transcode some MKVs into 4GB parts to fit on a FAT32 Partition, but the encoding failed (and it had been ages since I did this)
What a PITA ... Amazon obvi does this on purpose.
Old-school Fire TVers - please chime in and let us know how you have been mounting NTFS volumes in Fire TV and if these methods are possible on FireTV Cube.
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FireTV/Kodi - can you watch movies from a flash drive without internet connection?
Hi there,
I have an Amazon Fire TV box (and some sticks too).
And I use Kodi with it to stream video.
And I've also been able to play some movies that I have on a USB flash drive.
All good; I love it!
I then thought I'd be able to take the little Amazon box on holiday with me, and watch some movies from flash drives by just connecting the Fire TV box to the TV in the holiday cottage.
However, it didn't seem to work. I couldn't seem to get past the obstacle that there was "no internet connection" (cottage is remote with no internet).
My assumption had been that the video player software was installed on the Fire TV box (whether Kodi or the Fire TV software itself), and that the data (the movies) were on the USB drive. Therefore, no need to require an internet connection.
Is that assumption completely wrong, or is there some way to use that FireTV/USB setup to watch movies with no internet connection in place? Is there some setting/process I should adopt in such situations?
Many thanks for any pointers/advice you can offer,
Richard
rswan1967 said:
Hi there,
I have an Amazon Fire TV box (and some sticks too).
And I use Kodi with it to stream video.
And I've also been able to play some movies that I have on a USB flash drive.
All good; I love it!
I then thought I'd be able to take the little Amazon box on holiday with me, and watch some movies from flash drives by just connecting the Fire TV box to the TV in the holiday cottage.
However, it didn't seem to work. I couldn't seem to get past the obstacle that there was "no internet connection" (cottage is remote with no internet).
My assumption had been that the video player software was installed on the Fire TV box (whether Kodi or the Fire TV software itself), and that the data (the movies) were on the USB drive. Therefore, no need to require an internet connection.
Is that assumption completely wrong, or is there some way to use that FireTV/USB setup to watch movies with no internet connection in place? Is there some setting/process I should adopt in such situations?
Many thanks for any pointers/advice you can offer,
Richard
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Found the answer to this, elsewhere.
For anyone else that needs to know - apparently it's simply tied in to having "parental controls" enabled or not.
I had it enabled, and therefore the device couldn't validate the PIN entered, and so couldn't go any further.
With internet connectivity, I disabled parental control.
Then disconnected from the internet.
Then was able to start the device, get to applications / manage all applications - and launch kodi.
From there I was able to access my USB flash drive and play movies I have stored.
Looking forward to our next holiday now!
Love Amazon Fire TV
Love Kodi
Also if you have Fire Starter you can just launch any app from there and not the official menu.
Just remember that current version AFTV can only mount FAT32 partitions on your stick and needs and external power supply for (some) external harddrives.
Hello there, I have some questions regarding the FireTV
I bought one some day ago, I already have an AndroidTV box but it's sh*t and don't play 4k video so that's why I took the FireTV, unfortunately I didn't know that you can't put a NTFS disk on it.
So I have some questions, which can seems noob for you experts but I need to know, how can I read my HDDE (Seagate Expansion 3To) with the AmazonTV knowing that USB can't power it on, I guess the USB don't deliver enough power..
Also I'd like to root but I can't because I'm on 5.2.4.1 I tried the unbrick method provided here (I don't care if it bricks the FireTV anyway) but I'm stuck at "Reading 000000200 : 0%", I tried on W10, W7 it's the same problem. On Ubuntu I can't make the software working (Permission denied, tried with sudo & sudo su etc without forgeting the chmod -x...) I guess that's because preloader aren't the same anymore and can't read it.
Sorry for my english, and thanks for reading/helping.
Use Kodi and play with videos through network, I play UHD on external drive through my router with Kodi. I connect with SMB in Kodi. At least this works for me....
This is what I was doing before I bought the HDDE.. The problem is that I can't let my computer ON every night (I sleep with the TV yeah, bad habits ), It's been almost 1 year that my computer runs 24/24..
I use a wireless router that I plug a external hard drive into. I use it as a network drive, all my fire tv's and computers have access to it. Can you plug it into your router?
Unfortunately you don't have root, so looks like streaming content may be your only option. Personally I hate streaming and don't want to clog up my network so I use a rooted Fire TV with an external NTFS hard drive.
To answer the first half of your question you need to use a powered hub. The Fire TV can't power an external HDD, only thumb drives. Plug your external HDD into the hub, then the hub into the Fire TV. Works like a charm. I have a 4 TB HDD that I use for Kodi.
For those who do have root and want to use an external NTFS formatted hard drive (for those big HD files that go over 4 GB) I have a tutorial here: https://tinyurl.com/mgzvy52
You are wasting your time trying to root 5.2.4.1 on an unrooted device. The only method available is the one where you have to break out the soldering iron.
Michajin said:
I use a wireless router that I plug a external hard drive into. I use it as a network drive, all my fire tv's and computers have access to it. Can you plug it into your router?
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I do not have wireless router, also 4k movies would be laggy I guess. But thanks for the tip, I'll see if I can do something with it.
Thanks a lot PhoenixMark, that's what I saw on another thread, you can not root unless you dissasemble the FireTV.
Thanks for the tutorial, really appreciate.
It's been a while since i've loaded one of these and was wondering if any advancements have been made such as being able to simply load files directly to the stick 2nd gen without registering it and all that... and simply plug it directly into your computer and transfer the files. I know at one point this was possible with one of the fire boxes probably the 1st gen.
I guess i am going to ask why would you want to? it is far easier to sideload apps. Without being rooted you don't have many options. you might be able to load a flash drive with a on-the-go usb hub.
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It's been a while since i've loaded one of these and was wondering if any advancements have been made such as being able to simply load files directly to the stick 2nd gen without registering it and all that... and simply plug it directly into your computer and transfer the files. I know at one point this was possible with one of the fire boxes probably the 1st gen.
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Without registering a Fire TV you won't have much fun with the device. You will then regularly see hints for certain actions, which you have to click away.
Amazon already registers every device on delivery and links it to an Amazon account (even if you log out, Amazon still knows the link). The device also reports regularly to Amazon, so you will never be on the go anonymously anyway.
So I bought a 43 inch Toshiba Fire TV on sale at Best Buy a few months ago. Needless to say, it doesn't have much storage on it. Less than 8gb which can fill up rather quickly. So being that it has a USB port, I thought what the heck let me try getting a USB 3.0 stick and format it for extra disk space to save apps to.
So I purchased a SanDisk Ultra USB 3.0 64gb stick. Formatted it to Fat32, I plugged it in and got the pop up asking if I'd like to "Format as Internal Storage" which I did and it worked beautifully for about a 3 days. I was saving newly downloaded apps to it and they were functioning properly. Then today I go to use one of the apps and it disappeared. I open ES File Explorer to take a look at the stick and it's contents are empty. I check "Manage Installed Apps" all the apps that installed on the stick are gone! I do notice that when plugged in, soon as I power on the TV ES File Explorer is open automatically as if it's reading the USB but then it doesn't appear.
I tried switching Developer options on and off, no dice. I've had no new OS updates, I didn't change anything on the stick aside from downloading new apps (which is why I wanted the USB in the first place). It was working fine, why did this happen?
Hey, I'm pretty new in rooting the Fire TV 4k. I've worked a lot with MCUs and flashed smartphones though, so I'm confident. Is it possible to create a swap partition on a rooted Fire TV, e.g. on a micro SD card (this is plugged into a USB adapter)? Currently I have problems with the use of Kodi, UHD films buffer very long and my network is not the problem. So the only thing should be the memory. I would like to expand this with a SWAP (or maybe zram?). Is that possible?