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[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ECEXCURSION:
Just a word of caution: this warning also pertains to flash based memory (such as the onboard storage on the FireTV). If you're caching to disk (or the sdcard, in this case), you'll wear out the flash memory rather quickly. The flash memory used in the FireTV is not designed to write/rewrite it's data all the time. It might take a couple of years (maybe 3ish), but it will eventually wear out due to high read/write operations. After that you're kinda SOL...

If you have the RAM space available, and your internet connection is fast enough, I strongly suggest using that for caching rather than disk. I'm currently evaluating the advancedsettings.xml below. For me, they've made a significant difference in my ability to stream video to my FireTV box. It will cache 150.9Mbytes of data while streaming both local and internet content (requires ~450MBytes of free RAM for XBMC). Assuming you're streaming a 5Gbyte file (that's a very high estimate, online HD video is compressed to around half that), it will cache at least 5 minutes of video. If I run into any issues I'll try upping the RAM available for caching and let you guy's know what changes I make.

<advancedsettings>
<network>
<buffermode>1</buffermode>
<cachemembuffersize>157286400</cachemembuffersize>
<readbufferfactor>20</readbufferfactor>
</network>
</advancedsettings>
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sskuk:
I am seeing exactly the same behaviour and have come to a similar conclusion that there maybe some hardware/OS specific issues.

I have a gigabit lan to which the fire tv is connected and experience buffering during playback of "raw" bluray mkv rips. I've tried to disable the cache/buffer but I'm not convinced if this is making any difference. I have a wired PC running the same Helix build and advancedsettings.xml file. I see from task manager that during playback the Ethernet connection bursts between 35 mbps up to 89/90 when connected at 100 mbps, and as high as 300 mbps when I've enabled gigabit speeds. This is even with the cache apparently disabled. These bursts seem to correspond with the cache filling up.

It feels like there are wired Ethernet throughput issues that when combined with the read ahead buffer result the "Buffering n%" messages. Plus the setting to disable the cache in advancedsettings.xml doesn't seem to work either due to a bug or because I'm not configuring it correctly.
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] HeXDeMoN:
FYI , firetv only has a 10/100 nic so it wont get gigabit speeds.
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mychaelp:
I may have stumbled upon a fix for my buffering issues. I've checked over and over so many things these days with my network (router, modem, laptop with SMB external drive) and began moving in a different direction than just the advanced xml file (I tired about 100 options!). I looked at how to speed up serving up my files in case it really is just that simple. I found postings of editing Samba settings in the registry, but it was way beyond what I was willing to try. Then I stumbled on this blog

http://night-ray.blogspot.com/2010/03/improving-windows-xp-smb-file.html An old post from 2010 which looked promising. Since it's an old laptop I'm using I gave it a shot. Tested through 12 movies and no rebuffering yet. This may have given me just enough extra serving power to get enough data transferred. If you're brave as well and have XP (or maybe something similar can work for other versions) give it a shot.

I still have the huge buffer of 400mb someone posted in my settings but I've been clicking play about 2 seconds into it, so I probably need to adjust that down quite a bit and see how it goes.

The guy's blog is pretty interesting as I looked at it more, strange mix of topics, but I'll be writing him a thank you!
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] acesup_11:
This sounds like the same issue I had thought was buffering. I even bought a few of the highest speed USB sticks and external hard drives besides having gigabit connections and a nas. The issue is with frame rate matching that is giving the illusion of buffering. The AFTV cannot match frames with televisions (from my understanding only a lollipop version of android can) this is what is causing the issue. It also seems that the better your tv is the worse this looks.
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xm41907:
I was having the same buffering issue as most here. I came across a fix for me. I finally ditched the Comcast wireless gateway and purchased my own cable modem and router. The router I bought didn't have Samba capabilities and I was nearly going to return it for a new router, but then I remembered reading an article on how NSF was much faster than Samba. It took a bit of work setting it up, but the buffering issue has been much less! Now this could be because of switching to a dedicated router as well, but I have a strong suspicion that it is the NSF arrangement. If you're having buffering issues, give NSF a try. I would be curious to see what others experiences are between the two using the same hardware.
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mychaelp:
I am running off a Win XP Home laptop. If you have a guide as to how to install easily please link, otherwise I will need to stick with what I have going now. I don't see much difference with bitrates of 4k versus 6k on my screen to be honest so I just convert down and all is good for now.
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xm41907:
I don't know how Win XP would work but here is the official Kodi page on it:

http://kodi.wiki/view/NFS

And here is a good discussion between the two (older but still valid):

http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=89310
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] krakout:
A bit late to the party, but I stumbled upon this thread while researching how to optimise my AFTV playing from a NAS.

The initial setting in the OP said it should buffer 708669603 bytes which is 708,669,603 which, of course, is 700MB and will require 2.1GB of RAM as per the Kodi instructions, so of course it's a no-go the way I understand it? Probably one digit too many...

By the way, I found out that the AFTV is *crap* over ethernet. Even my first-gen RPi was much better. So i removed the cable and all is find over wifi (5G)...
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Nexusoid:
Can any Fire TV owners corroborate this? Why if I should pull the plug out, if this helps.
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] krakout:
Mind you, could be other factors as well that made my situation better, however since the AFTV sports a punny 10/100 that can't take advantage of my Mb LAN, I thought, why another cable anyway?

I read that its ethernet sucks anyhow in some other thread, and thought I'd try it. Really, the Pi was much better...
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] calisro:
I have not had a single buffering issue with my aftv wired. My fire sticks have terrible wifi though.
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] krakout:
Hm, just yesterday, even after having uppded the cache, playing a 1080 video (11,5Mbps video, 1,5Mbps audio) introduced quite a bit of stuttering... :(
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] drtbar:
I've been through all of the troubleshooting steps I could find, and still have not found a solution to the jittery/slow video play with files over about 15GB. I'd love to be able to play full blu ray backups, but I just haven't had any luck with kodi and the fire tv.

---------- Post added at 08:55 PM ---------- Previous post was at 08:25 PM ----------

Thanks for the info. This is one of the more informative posts I've read on troubleshooting this issue, however, not sure if the buffering problems are the same as the stuttering/slow playback. I am currently using wired connection, but intially tried a wireless connection and still had the same problems, only on files roughly >15GB.
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] krakout:
Concerning the file I mentioned above which is roughly 13Mbps and is a 16GB file, yesterday I played around with another directive, readbufferfactor. I watched a little of the file last night and finally it appears to be playing fine by setting it to 20 (tonight I'm going to watch it whole, so I'll report afterwards).

From the Kodi wiki:

I've set it to 20 myself, so it would need a constant 26Mbps connection which my wifi is more than capable of.

Again, preliminary results were promising, so maybe you could try that?
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] drtbar:
<advancedsettings>

<network>

<buffermode>1</buffermode>

<cachemembuffersize>157286400</cachemembuffersize>

<readbufferfactor>20</readbufferfactor>

</network>

</advancedsettings>

I've tried 3 different xml settings and this is the most recent. Looks like I've already set the readbuffer to 20. I'm going to try going back to wireless and see if that makes any difference as some of the recent posts have stated it worked better via wireless. Thanks for the reply!
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] krakout:
Our xml files are very similar :) And yes, I was the one suggesting wifi works better (unfortunately)!
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] drtbar:
How can you find out the framerate of the movie?
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] krakout:
Try this: https://mediaarea.net/en/MediaInfo
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] krakout:
So, last night I watched that huge 13Mbps file I was talking about. It was mostly fine but video was dropping frames in action scenes (where bitrate is, I guess, higher). So I'm getting there, I'll think I'll up readbufferfactor again, maybe to 25...
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] drtbar:
Keep me updated. I will also try to find out the bitrate of some of the ones giving me problems and see what the limit is to where I experience problems.
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mjbxx:
You might want to double the cachemembuffer size when considering the HOW-TO:Modify the video cache wiki page advice below. The Fire TV has 2GB of RAM and can easily handle the 800 RAM total required by this .xml setting.
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] krakout:
True, and I've been thinking about it, but 2GB is the total of RAM it's got - how much of it is actually free after boot? Similarly-specced mobiles often leave less than half the RAM available for instance...

In any case, I'd say it's definitely a bug with Kodi... So much cache would suffice for whole *minutes* of a 1080p video, and it still struggles...
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mjbxx:
I have Kodi set up and just checked it in System Info to see that I have roughly 1.2 GB of free RAM. In theory, I should be able to increase the cachemembuffer size even higher but am quite satisfied with the .xml setting as is.
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] krakout:
Oh, where do you see that? Haven't noticed... (and cannot check right now, the wife is playing Grim Fandango on the TV :D ). If it's so then it's true, you can up it by quite a bit!
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] drtbar:
I checked mine while playing a full blu ray back up of avatar 38gb, and says I have 760MB RAM free. So less than you, but will try upping the cachemembuffer and see how it works.
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mjbxx:
In Conflence you just select System Information on the Kodi home screen then scroll down to Hardware to see Total Memory and Free memory.
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] drtbar:
FWIW, when I downloaded that file, AVG detected an adware virus.
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] krakout:
Cheers. By the way, I just discovered an error in my config - my buffer was NOT 150MB but only 15... had forgotten a '0' :D so it should be ok by now.

Ahh yes, had forgotten about that!

Malwarebytes doesn't show anything and I haven't had any issues...
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ctrlhomer:
After spending an entire day trying to figure this issue I am about ready to give up.

For me most 720p tvshows play fine no buffering or caching issues. Just about every movie I playback all buffer 720p with mostly being DTS, ac3 does not seem to cause problems as much. If I remember correctly the early days of raspbmc had the same DTS audio issues.

What I have tried

0 cache does everything buffers

I have tried just about everything cache size from 50-400mb

Readbufferfactor from 1-20

Trying SPMC, 14.2, 15.0 alpha 1 all seem to have the same issue. I even went updated my routers firmware (Asus RT-16)

My media shares are setup in nfs to avoid the extra overhead from smb

When I was waiting for the cache to fill, I noticed one thing. Why does the cache fill at about 500kb-1mb rate, and sometime even slower like 32kb? Even with a 10/100 card that's about ~10% of max bandwidth. This leads me to believe that the aftv is having some kind of bottleneck or decoding issue when on ethernet.

Now when I switch to wireless the buffering issues almost all but gone. I can freely skip around without major issue. What up sets me is my 1st gen 256mb raspberry pi playbacks better...

If I have to use wireless so be it but I like using slingtv and it less lag when wired.
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] krakout:
Quick question - where did you get 15a?

And yes, AFTV's Ethernet sucks big time...
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ctrlhomer:
You can download 15 alpha 1 from the kodi's main page

Good thing my aftv did not cost me a ton. Like $45 because I am going to look at a better solution if I cant resolve the ethernet issue.. :(
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Sizzlechest:
There have been reports that wired performance on Fire TV is worse than wireless. That been said, I don't recommend zero cache. Here's my advancedsettings.xml.

<!-- tuxen -->
<advancedsettings>
<network>
<curlclienttimeout>45</curlclienttimeout>
<cachemembuffersize>104857600</cachemembuffersize>
<readbufferfactor>10</readbufferfactor>
</network>
<gui>
<algorithmdirtyregions>3</algorithmdirtyregions>
<nofliptimeout>0</nofliptimeout>
</gui>
<videoscanner>
<ignoreerrors>true</ignoreerrors>
</videoscanner>
</advancedsettings>

The readbufferfactor entry may help you. I have it at 10, but try increasing it if this doesn't help. Note that older kodi/spmc releases (12.x) don't implement that. You should be using 14.1 or higher.
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] krakout:
[MENTION=5539562]ctrlhomer[/MENTION] : Ah, I thought you were talking about 15.0a for SPMC, ok. [MENTION=3338723]Sizzlechest[/MENTION] : yup, been saying that for its Ethernet for a while now... I agree about setting cache to 0. Here's the current settings I'm testing:

<advancedsettings>
<network>
<buffermode>1</buffermode>
<cachemembuffersize>262144000</cachemembuffersize>
<readbufferfactor>30</readbufferfactor>
</network>
<pathsubstitution>
<substitute>
<from>special://profile/Thumbnails/</from>
<to>smb://GRYZORNAS/VOLUME_1/media/xbmc/Thumbnails/</to>
</substitute>
</pathsubstitution>
</advancedsettings>

However, with this I'm getting the message that cache has been filled before reaching its set size, which is strange because whenever I check it, the AFTV has more than a GB of free mem... I don't know if readbufferfactor has any effect here or I should lower cachemembuffersize.
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ctrlhomer:
I was digging around on the Kodi forums and someone mentioned that VC1 does not playback nicely on fire tvs. Any truth to that? And is their an easy way to tell if the media file is a vc1?

Edit

I read that android has issues with 23.976 fps which is common for movies, could this be the issue?
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Nexusoid:
I have yet to see any evidence of Ethernet being slower than wireless, other than you repeating it over and over. Care to provide a link to someone actually confirming it?
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KLit75:
I never read anything specific online, but on my network 5ghz consistently clocks in higher than ethernet on aftv. I'm not talking slight either. Wired--70 to 85 mbps/ 5ghz--110 to 133 mbps. I'm sort of OCD- like with speed tests and I've tried many different cables. I STILL keep it wired, however, because I believe there's less interference and anything approaching 80 is more than fast enough for my needs.
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] porkenhimer:
Thats because when you run an internet speed test using wireless connections the results are misleading. I have used several USB wirelesss cards that would say my speed was always the same no matter what I had my router set to. There are some cards that for example say they can run at 150mbps, then you run a speed test and it will always say you are running at the highest speed the card is rated for. Wifi speed test are garbage. Speed test using ethernet are accurate. There is not one device in the world that has a more stable and faster connection using wifi then using ethernet. Ethernet will always be faster and much more stable than wifi. Back to the topic, in most cases buffering is not caused by a connection but by the stream itself. I have mentioned this several time, if the stream is encoded too high it will cause buffering and there is nothing that can be done to stop it. I cannot stand it when someone encodes media and thinks they have to set the kbps rate so high that nobody can even stream it. If you are watching a stream in XBMC/Kodi and it keeps buffering, hit the menu button on the remote and some text will popup showing you the kbps rate for audio and video. If the kbps rate listed for video is several thousand kbps then thats why its buffering. Its tough for any device to stream media files that are encoded at several thousand kbps. With the Fire TV 7-8000kbps for streams is about the highest you can go without constant buffering. Maybe a little higher or maybe even a little less 7-8000kbps. No media really needs to be encoded that high, cause the file is only ever gonna look as good as the source that it was converted from. I have converted several video files and if the file to start with is of great quality then it does not really matter if i set it to 2000kbps or 2500kbps, cause its will look exactly the same either way, but I think people think that the higher the kbps rate is means the better it willl look, which is not true in the least. The likely conclusion is that the device simply cannot handle streaming the file and is causing it to buffer, and its also likely that it has nothing to do with your connection.
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] navigates:
My Setup

In My setup I don't have any buffering problems. Here is how I have it setup.

Hardwire to the router: Netgear NightHawk

Laptop with upgraded AC broadlink card.

Even If I am direct streaming bd50's. Its smooth. One point to note is that the Laptop has SSD and is connected on the 5GHZ AC band and is connected at about 740mbps on average to the router. Router is placed below my TV so its close in proximity.
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tubateacher:
Hi, Newbie here. i have read your posts but where do I write the settings. Is it on the fire stick itself and if so in which menu/sub menu.

Apologies if theis seems an obvious question and thanks in advance
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Antieco:
im facing buffering issues with steams on icefilms & similar addons, what would be the best setup for an amazon fire stick? i just modify buffering to 0 in order to have it cached to hdd... but it keeps stoping ..

any suggestion?
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] NinjaPerv:
Try SPMC instead of Kodi. Its the same exact app derived from XBMC but i have experienced 0 buffering when i watch anything. I had buffering issues like crazy on Kodi. Not sure wut SPMC does different but it works so much better.
[Android Apps and Games] eng.ahmed.android:
Football Logo Quiz - Android Game

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Description :

Football Logo Quiz is aworld wide game. Finish at least 5 logos in every level to open next level . Get scores & collect hints to help you recognize hard logos and share logos with frieands on facebook & twitter. Also get one player name and clue sentence for every logo. You can read all information about the club logo via wikipedia link. You may also want to get general statistics for your game and control game settings.​

Demo Link : Football Logo Quiz - Demo Version

Note: You will find the link of the

source code

in the previous demo link.

Screenshots :

Check attachment files.
[HTC Desire Eye] :
Q&A for How to Root Desire EYE [Simple Guide]

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[HTC Desire Eye] tie96:
This recovery is stock,need to flash twrp,sorry for my english.
[HTC Desire Eye] Shameera_N:
This is TWRP not stock :)

Anyway, I have updated the download link again.
[HTC Desire Eye] abudi91:
triangle with ! comes up

I have flashed the recovery.img but when trying to boot a screen with image of red ! comes up.

Should I try a different recovery?
[HTC Desire Eye] dano_connor:
I'm stuck on the recovery screen. (It's a triangle with the exclamation point in the middle)

power and volume buttons are unresponsive, and bootloader said unlocked before I installed the recovery.

Any ideas?
[HTC Desire Eye] paranoiad:
Same here

I have followed the instructions and i too and up with that triangle when i try to enter recovery mode.

Pics attached.

Please advice
[HTC Desire Eye] armaankhan354:
How to s-off the device..
[HTC Desire Eye] govardhan.mane@gmail.com:
Red triangle whne going into recovery HTC desire eye

The red Triangle that you see while accessing recovery on your HTC desire eye is the 'Stock Recovery' ,in order to access stock recovery you need to click volume up and down button at the same time and then press power button and release all buttons after half a second and then voila!, you are now in stock recovery.
[HTC Desire Eye] armaankhan354:
Do you have stock roms back up.....?
[HTC Desire Eye] snehonja:
Stuck at red triangle as well. S-ON, International, unlocked.

TWRP Build from thid thread: http://xdaforums.com/desire-eye/development/recovery-twrp-2-8-4-0-htc-desire-eye-t3008442 works.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] silva_acc:
I people!!!

i need some help .

i have a BQ Aquaris E5FHD and i want to install the lg g2 notification bar with the QMEMO and QSLIDE.

JUST SIMPLY TO WORK LIKE A LG G2 OR G3..

Can anyone help me with this PLEASE PLEASE
[General Questions and Answers] ptyo1:
hello everybody,

sorry for the translation. i'm french and i use a translator.

after days of fruitless searching, I have to turn to you and your lights.

I have an honor g750 3x -T01 and as explained in the title, when I turn on my phone , I have the Huawei logo appears and the phone restarts. if I do not remove the battery, it continues indefinitely.

when I start in recovery mode , I have 3 options:

-mode recovery - > when I select it, I do not have my menu before but the phone will reboot and it continues indefinitely.

-mode fastboot -> when I select it, a line appears mode " fastboot " and I just do anything. I said that I do not know at all what mode.

normal -mode -> well it just restarts and we go for a ride

I enclose a picture of my screen when I press vol + and power

I'm not trying to put you tear to the eye : lol: but that frankly you are my last hope. I do not really know what to do .

@ + ptyo
[General Questions and Answers] ptyo1:
UP please help. All my Roms i ve got have .app and not scatter file. Do y ou know were can i find it ?