Kodi 17.4 will not download to my android box

New Kodi versions have changed the way the software reads and process addon code, making some older addons obsolete with newer versions of Kodi for instance, Kodi 19 updated the app to use Python3, which caused many older addons to stop working. These are additional addons that are required for the initial addon to work. At times, you may find a build or a specific Kodi addon causes a conflict with your Kodi installation. If this occurs, you may try to load up Kodi, only to have it crash every time.

Thankfully, Kodi addons can be deleted from outside of your Kodi interface. If worst comes to worst, you can delete as many addons or repositories as necessary without causing any harm to your base Kodi installation. You may, however, need to reinstall your addons again later. The majority of the time, a weak network signal or slow internet speeds are the cause of streaming problems.

This has been covered in more detail in our Kodi buffering article , so it might be a good idea to start there. Certain content providers restrict access to their videos using a process known as geo-locking or region-locking. The good news is that this is easily bypassed.

Users can connect their virtual private network VPN to a server in the correct location and will be able to access the previously restricted media. Color issues are far less common and are not necessarily unique to Kodi. If the colors are slightly off, the problem is likely due to incorrect monitor settings.

An example of incorrect video settings in Kodi. Most will have a button on the front that grants access to a picture options menu. However, if your monitor is properly configured, there are other possible solutions. While playing a video, click the gear icon. Next, click Video settings. There is a little-known error that can cause your Kodi addons to not perform searches, updates or streams correctly. If this is the case, try checking your device date and time. Kodi and its addons utilize the system date and time to correctly pull data.

If that information is wrong, you may in-addon searches may pull in bad results or limited results, and it may even impact your streaming or addon updates. There are a few issues that could be causing a black screen on startup, or creating a blank screen during regular Kodi operation.

The change from the Confluence skin to the new Estuary skin may cause you to experience some errors related to the Addons. Consequently, the fix for this issue is to delete your Addons. This should also help clear up the issue. This is because you may be using addons that have not been properly updated for Kodi When you use an addon search function, that addon caches information so that you can easily retrieve a result from the search.

Kodi 19 changes some of the Python code requirements, making it so that any addon not properly updated to match will fail to work properly. There is nothing users can do to fix this problem. You must wait until the addon developers update their code. There are a number of issues related to streams stuttering. For example, your internet speed may not be fast enough to handle the 4K or HD stream, and this may result in more buffering.

Do a quick Google search to see if this is a common problem with your specific device. Amazon Firesticks, for instance, are notorious for stuttering during 4K streams. In fact, some older models even stutter with p streams.

However, there is a relatively simple way to fix this armed with nothing more than a Google account. Essentially, you have to create a personal API key. The easiest solution is to delete your Addons This will disable but not delete all of your installed addons, allowing you to enable them one by one and identify the culpit. We often receive questions from people who have a fresh Kodi installation yet who are having problems watching anything. After a little digging, they reveal that all they have installed is a build.

There are several problems with this:. Our advice is to uninstall your build and manually install each addon you want. After all, Kodi 19 changed a lot under the hood and developers will be designing with the new architecture in mind moving forward. In fact, the most commonly seen Kodi problems can be solved relatively quickly. Just want to say thanks.. Also moving the mouse left a trail across the screen. Disabling Hardware acceleration solved these problems, so thank you.

Hi there, long time kodi user. Have upgraded to All good. Have various add-ons installed, working well. Am trying to add xanax build just for fun without success. Any ideas? Thanks, Ian. Have xanax build on my nvidia shield and no sports links want to open. Does it for all sports. Hope this helps, Ian. Hi Ian, I am using Kodi for several years now. I have it installed on many devices including raspberry etc. On one PC suddenly Kodi refuses to start. I tried latest version after uninstalling the old one and also fresh installing oldest versions e.

I have tried starting it as portable with no difference, I removed the extra monitor that I have in case this was causing the problem with no change. I enabled debug mode with nothing useful to show on an other PC with the same version of windows windows 10 Pro 64bit is running without any problem. Hi Carol, has Kodi ever started properly on this device? If not, a reinstall should hopefully set things right. Hi Aris, when Kodi refuses to start, the best option is usually to delete the Addons I deleted all and installed new version from Play Store, same thing.

I uninstalled and installed version I took a new nvidia out of the box and same thing. Yet the tv in another room also n India box is working fine.

A total mystery. Summary: uninstalled and reinstalled at least 6 times. Tried older Anyone help? Hi John, are you using an Nvidia Shield? Otherwise, there might be some sort of misconfiguration with the navigation settings on the problematic box. Kodi Now v I have to use Google Play to install Kodi, the only option, was a 32bit version [Arm7]. I have an Intel i5 [64bit]. I can not side-load the 64bit Intel version, nor the Arm8 64bit, without wiping everything and putting the machine in Developer Mode.

Koying, cared about coding for the Android environment, it stopped after he left the community, in I use venom on Kodi and all of a sudden it restarted itself and all of a sudden instead of a regular like blue Kodi home screen color and set up it was all red?

It was so weird.. The add on still works fine but that color change was super random. I am running Latest updates on everything, latest Resolver updates. I am using Premiumize. Great DL speed via a mb provider. I use Exodus Redux. My issue is that on every show, be it tv or movie, the program will play for approx mins then give a stutter and just stop and return to the provider screen. I can restart the show, FF and get back to where I was and it plays fine through to the end.

If I watch a 2 hour movie it will often stop twice after the same times. It is not a buffering issue. I have reinstalled Exodus Redux again and still the problem. This is really the only problem I have with it. I have no buffering issues. I use LibreElec which is set to current firmware.

Nuc hardware is set via Maintenance Wizard to play at optimum. Hi Paul — is this only an issue with Exodus Redux or does it affect your other addons too? Is hardware acceleration turned on? Hi Ian and thanks for the reply. I only use Exodus Redux and nothing else. When I open Kodi again, it loads with the normal Kodi screen version and immediately reverts to the blank grey screen. Hi, Ian I have kodi version It was working good.

Add ons I use are exodus redux, venom, the crew. These last couple of days every add on i use and every series i search for and every episode , the stream starts but the voice is faster than the video. After 1 minute and 30 seconds of streaming.

The video freezes and the voice continues. I deleted kodi and re installed it and i re installed the add ons as well. I dont know what is happening. Can you help me please. Hi Anthea, can you try turning off hardware acceleration for me?

Hi Anthea, can you try playing it in standard definition instead of p or p? If the show plays normally, it could be that your internet speeds are too slow. Additionally, you could check to see if this problem occurs on addons from the official Kodi repo. I updated my old Then, I could watch my Kodi add-ons, YouTube, mobdro, cloud tv, and the rest of my apps but could get no sound on any of them.

Now, sound works again for all the other apps again. This happens every time I try it. Any thoughts? Just try out each option to see which if any work. Hey man, ny brother used to have kodi, he deleted it, and I just re downloaded it for him. His settings are still on. What do I do? There are no other options to move forward to the next stage. Hi Scott, are you able to install addons?

Once you have some addons installed, they should show up on the video addons page. I typed it in at the add ins page at the respiratory just like u said. To name a few. I get the no stream available more often then not. I also recieve a error message saying the some of my playback files arent working.

Which doesnt tell me anything helpful. You tube still wont work and it takes forever for anything to even load. Same problems even with the fresh copy of kodi. Hi Ian I upgraded to Your login attempts are just being rejected due to a lack of internet connection, the passwords themselves are still valid.

To check, click the gear icon, then System. Do any of your other apps on the box have internet access? Cannot get it open at all.

I think the fastest way to get up and running again would be to completely reinstall Kodi and verify that each addon works, one at a time. Im only trying to use Kodi to stream from my NAS and have no addons installed other than come preloaded with Kodi and the confluence skin. At least once a day Kodi freezes meaning the only way to carry on is to force stop the app and reload.

Any suggestions welcom. Hi there. When disabling hardware acceleration the zoom works — but H. Do I need special hardware for being able to zoom AND accelerate playback or did I miss a special kodi setting? Thank you. Hi Cindy, do you mean in an addon or across all of Kodi? Hi, Ian. This is what happened when I added The Crew to So, in effect, you cannot make up a list to add to Favourites, because there is no data!

My problem is: my links to my individual TV shows do not work I click on the show and nothing at all happens — i. Movie links work fine, just not any TV shows. Just prior to this occurrence, the TV shows appeared with odd symbols e. This odd appearance was rectified when I cleared the cache. I have also cleared the Kodi cache. Any suggestion will be greatly appreciated! Best Regards. Thanks very much Ian for your prompt reply, I greatly appreciate it.

Would you have the best URL to make sure you get the official Kodi repo? Also, within the official Kodi repo, is there an add-on that you would recommend for watching TV shows not live? Hi, the official repo actually comes preinstalled.

All you have to do is click Add-ons on the home screen, then select the box icon in the top-left, then choose Install addon from repository. You should then see the official Kodi repo in the list on the next page. I uninstalled and reinstalled Kodi Downloaded Exodus and Exodus Redux, both open up, I click on TV shows, Most Popular then the desired show , the two circles running for a second then nothing.

No seasons…. Hi Orshe, Exodus seems to be having problems lately — are you able to use any other addons? Hello Ian. We have been using Kodi It had started slowing down a bit so we updated it to Everything went smoothly. The movies loaded much faster and with many more streams. Problem is that when we went to load one of our much watched TV shows we get some crazy looking coded list next to the title and when clicked nothing happens.

The movies play great, the TV shows will not play at all. We have uninstalled Kodi, losing all our favourites etc, and reloaded it along with trying new add ons. Same thing; great movie watching but absolutely no TV shows. Any ideas what the problem may be or what we may be able to do to correct it? Hi Thomas, it sounds like the addons you were using are the issue here. Can you try installing some from the official Kodi repository this comes preinstalled to check?

Ditto on not being able to get Exodus, Exodus Redux, or any other video addon to play or download anything. Was working fine yesterday. Hi Jeff, these addons are all forks of Exodus, which seems to be having some issues. Hi there, Exodus and Exodus Redux are not working for me. A movie or show starts and tries to play, then immediately crashes. Have you heard this? Hi Steve, I have had a few people saying the same thing lately — it looks like these addons have either moved or been taken down.

I added the Xanax build on Kodi through my firestick, and the majority of the movie streams are not working. What can I do to fix the problem? Hi Lee, we often hear about problems with Exodus and its many forks. I am having troubles with starting some live TV streams on my Android phone running Android I am using Kodi When the stream trys to finalize to play Kodi will shut down.

It happens on other streams as well while some streams will work just fine. I have done a factory reset on my phone, uninstalled and reinstalled kodi and deleted all files on my phone associated with Kodi prior to reinstall. Hi Don — does the stream crash Kodi on all of your devices or just on Android?

If you upload your log to pastebin. This happens a lot with older addons, since they either get taken down or move to a different address over time.

When I connect my WIFI it starts out great and after some time it goes into saved mode which screws everything up. The time on the front of the box is correct but nothing works.

Any ideas. Finally, if nothing else works, you can disable sleep mode entirely. Go into Developer options and enable the Stay Awake settings. I went through Applications and did clear cache and force stop with no results.

I then restarted Fire TV and did the above again. Still loading and disappearing. Any insight as to how I may be able to fix? Sorry to be a pain but I feel I have done everything possible to use box without success can yu give me soe expert advice for me I would seriously like to use thiss box as I feel it could be very good for TV films sports etc.

Hi, you mention that every build crashes — have you tried installing a completely fresh copy of Kodi? I have reinstalled a fresh Kodi about 10 times and used 3 different builds Misfits, No Limits, and Xanax Every time after force closing and reopening Kodi it crashes within seconds. Just to confirm, do fresh versions of Kodi work properly before you install the builds? Can you trigger this error and then upload the log to pastebin so I can take a look? How can you watch movies without the builds?

Do you have a video or any way of someone like me actually being walked through the whole process? Hi Darrell, builds are really just collections of Kodi addons. However, you can install addons yourself without much trouble. Ever ever since my boyfriend got a kodi box we have had issues loading movies and shows. It very frustrating cause we were told how great a product it is. Hi Ian, thank you for this very helpful article.

However, I have an issue not covered here. For the most part, all works well but a couple of times Kodi crashed when connected using remote desktop. I could open up again remotely and it was fine but not on the TV.

When opening on the TV, a black window appears and then closes after a few seconds. I have tried removing the db files as mention and no change. I have tried removing plugins but no change. I a have disabled hardware acceleration in the player settings. Hi Dennis, it definitely sounds like a graphics issue so turning off hardware acceleration was a smart decision. Thanks Ian for your prompt reply. Actually it was on windows mode.

Perhaps I should have tried full screen mode. Something interesting happened though. I was on remote mucking around with it and had trouble connecting to the PC remotely so I logged in locally via the TV screen and to my surprise, Kodi was still running.

I checked the functions and all was working but my add-ons had gone — maybe because I had deleted the db files as you suggested to someone else previously. I closed and re-started Kodi and it worked! I then copied back the original db files and restarted Kodi again and it worked! That kind of spec should be fine. As mentioned it works find over remote desktop and also with an external monitor. Hello, I was in touch a few weeks ago but my replies kept getting rejected from being posted again.

I tried everything and cannot get kodi to work on my android box, as an alternative, is it safe to install kodi with exodus etc. Thanks Phoebe. Hey our RVEAL box used kodi which gave us access to Apollo and Exodus and now after an update we cannot even access either of those two servers.

Are they gone forever from access? Other people we know with them are still able to have access to everything. How can we get them again, if possible? Today i completely uninstalled all addons, kodi etc. This allows them to block connections from different countries or regions, limiting how much you can watch.

A VPN, or virtual private network, will help you bypass ISP monitoring and throttling, as well as get around geographic content blocks on different streaming sites.

Not all VPNs are good for Kodi users. We recommend IPVanish for Kodi users. In our testing, we found it to be one of the fastest VPNs on the market. It also has a strict no-logs policy. IPVanish is a great way for Kodi users to protect their privacy while watching their favorite shows.

The instructions below will explain how to install Kodi on an Android Kodi box. This is usually an Android device with Kodi and a bunch of addons preinstalled. We do not recommend purchasing a fully loaded Kodi box. Fully loaded Kodi boxes almost always contain multiple copyright-infringing addons from repos that are not reputable.

These addons may contain malware. And they may cause your device to freeze, crash, or simply stop working at all. Even if these addons do not cause performance problems, they are usually full of dead links to unofficial streaming sites that have been shut down for one reason or another.

As a result, they often just cause frustration for users. We recommend purchasing an Android box or other streaming device that has not been tampered with. Once you have received the device, it is simple to install Kodi and reliable addons that stream from official sources. You can even modify the look of your Kodi installation with a different skin or build although you will may need to remove some addons from the build to make it fully legitimate. You can watch your favourite movies, sports, TV shows and even live TV trough the addons it has in its library.

This build is made specifically for kodi on FireStick users they like to have attractive interface along with amazing and reliable Kodi addons. Diggz XENON Build is a fast build in terms of performance and has all the latest add-ons, that are updated from time to time. Grind build has a very user-friendly interface that can be customized by the user according to his own needs.

Grind Kodi Build will require vpn for firestick , as this is a build full of unofficial addons. In addition, it has all the popular and latest add-ons that place it amongst the best Kodi FireStick builds. This build has been highly praised all around the world due to its clean layout, usage, and speed.

But with the number and quality of add-ons that it is offering are worth this size. This build is not too old yet it has established a reputation as one of the best Kodi build for FireStick Krypton version.

Nephilim is a smooth running build especially for devices like FireStick. Like any other build, it too has popular add-ons.

Hard Nox is a very well organized build having sub-menus and popular add-ons that are updated regularly. This build is not for devices with limited or small memory space. That is the reason we would call it best Kodi Krypton build for PC. This build can be downloaded through Ares Wizard. It runs smoothly on every device without any interruptions or delays. As the name itself tells, the Beast is furious and tough as in great. This without a doubt is the best Kodi Krypton build for sports.

The best thing is the speed of this build that is unmatchable. Of course things can always go wrong with any upgrade so there is no guarantee. Also if you have a very old Kodi box it may be best to stick with the older version depending on the hardware the box has. Kodi 18 Leia needs Android 5. Installing from the Play Store is easiest for most but either method will work. Installing add-ons such as Exodus is what confuse most. Below are the steps to install Exodus into Kodi 18 Leia with pictures.

The steps are similar to older versions of Kodi with a repository URL needed to be setup and than the add-ons installed.