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I thought anyone following this thread might find it interesting that my second AFT finally stopped working this morning. Sure enough, I checked and over night it had updated itself to v5.0.5 of the OS.
I grabbed these instructions and 5 minutes later everything was working again. Also gave me an excuse to back up my data.
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2016-02-26, 19:01
(This post was last modified: 2016-02-26, 19:03 by hurlbert.)
Kodi is SLOWER after the upgrade to AFTV OS 5.0.5
Here's an interesting outcome of the upgrade on the AFTV.
BEFORE the upgrade to OS 5.0.x, I kept my data in a folder called "kodi_data" at the root of the USB drive.
AFTER the upgrade, I was forced to put my data in the folder called, /root/Android/data/org.xbmc.kodi/files.
I can now say with some certainty that things are about 50% slower in the new location with exactly the same hardware.
I had used the root location for months and months, so while I can't provide any measurements of speed, I know the performance well. The new location takes a few seconds to show the posters and show names when you go into an area of the library.
It's still usable, but I am disappointed that there is now a multi-second delay where there used to be a sub-second delay.
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Moving the data folder does nothing for me on MX pro with 5.1.1. Just loads into a default Kodi. Doesn't look for the .kodi folder in the new location. Tried placing the text file in the "sd card" folder (shows as a shortcut on my system) as well as just dropping it off in the "/" directory (and that one vanishes when I restart)
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Quit Kodi by using the quit option or shutdown menu from within Kodi.
In the root directory of the internal storage of your device, usually just mnt/sdcard (not mnt/sdcard/root) create a plain text file called: xbmc_env.properties
Note: You must use "xbmc" when noted above for the text and file name, even though the product is now called Kodi.
In xbmc_env.properties you need to tell Kodi where it's data will now be stored.
This will be done by creating a path statement like:
xbmc.data=/storage/sdcard0/external_sdcard/kodi_data
An Amazon Fire TV running OS to 5.0.5 and above changed the permissions related to the sdcard.
You must modified the xbmc_env.properties file to read (something like):
xbmc.data=/usbdisk/Android/data/org.xbmc.kodi/files
Copy the folders on the kodi data to /usbdisk/Android/data/org.xbmc.kodi/files. The "files" folder should contain folders that begin with "." - mine contains:
.kodi
.smb
I edited the xbmc_env.properties file locally, then pushed it to the Fire TV with these commands:
adb connect <my_internal_ip_address_of_the_firetv>
adb push "xbmc_env.properties" "mnt/sdcard/xbmc_env.properties"
adb disconnect
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Technically you can buy an USB Hub which can connect to the electrical outlet by itself, thus using it to power a hard drive connected to it