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My skin keeps reverting back to confluence!! It really hurts with the WAF, as she is getting confused!! Is there a way to change the skin that Kodi reverts back to when it crashes? I am using Nexus Player and TitanMediaBrowser as my skin.
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Koying
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Kodi doesn't revert skin by itself, even after a crash.
Would your internal flash disk be full?
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jjtee
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I have a similar issue. Every few weeks it resets back to confluence and I have to reformat my normal skin back to my preferred settings. If it is the flash disk (currently using a generic android box) is there a way to prevent this from happening?
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Does your box have a proper way to shut down/reboot?
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i'm having the same problem. I'm using an Android M8 box approx 5gbs available on my flash memory. it takes me about 20 mins to set everything the way i want it and in 2 weeks out of nowhere it resets itself to stock confluence and all my settings are gone. the funny thing is all the apps are still installed just not showing up on the home screen, all the lazy tv settings are all working, next aired episodes is working, and everything I've added to the library is there. it seems like it's an appearance issue. Screen background missing, apps icons under the banner are missing, i renamed all the banner titles those are gone, removed some banner titles those are back, weather reset to nothing. I'm using CCM helix skin, and i shutdown kodi using the power button in the lower left corner. this can't be normal
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2016-04-25, 14:27
(This post was last modified: 2016-04-25, 14:43 by onlinespending.)
Curious if anyone has determined the cause of this issue and how it can be avoided. My skin and some (but not all) settings are reset to defaults (Confluence for the skin) every week or so. This on a Shield TV with very little else installed
It appears that killing power to the box while in the middle of using Kodi may be causing the issue from what I've read. The Shield TV usually never turns off but goes to sleep, and I have it connected to a controlled power strip that cuts power to peripheral devices (like the Shield TV) when my receiver is turned off. This didn't happen with older versions (using latest Jarvis based Kodi build and have also used SPMC) and feel that Kodi should be a bit more robust to not simply lose all settings in the event of power loss
Further reading suggests it's guisettings.xml being corrupted (written to during power loss) that could be the culprit. Which begs the question, why isn't Kodi doing "double buffering" of system files during writes? There's no reason this should ever occur. All updates are first written to a second file and an atomic write of a single pointer to the correct file is updated to commit the change. That's just one possible solution.