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mikkeltaylor · 2014-10-25, 17:09

Hi,
I've been trying all afternoon to install XMBC on the Amazon Fire TV I received today.

I've followed the guides over and over again and when using Terminal on my Mac (OS X Yosemite) to enter the commands it allows it but doesn't return anything to say it has been installed.

When I then check my AF TV the application hasn't installed. I thought it was as one was on ethernet and the other wifi, but that didn't change anything.

the apk i'm trying to install is xbmc-13.2-Gotham-armeabi-v7a.apk
my AF TV version 51.1.4.0_user_514006420

Any ideas how to resolve this?

Thanks,
Michael

AshMan · 2014-10-25, 17:11

have you looked under fire tv settings? it will have a manage applications section and it will be in there if it is installed. you won't see it appear on the fire tv menu….

did you install via ADB?

mikkeltaylor · 2014-10-25, 17:35

Yep, followed all the guides and go back to that section each time and it's not there.

I don't even get any sort of message in terminal to say connected or installed.

I'm assuming the fire TV must be turned on at the same time too?

mikkeltaylor · 2014-10-25, 21:15

Any ideas? Only reason I bought it is to install xbmc :-(

mjbxx · 2014-10-25, 21:29

(2014-10-25, 21:15)mikkeltaylor Wrote: Any ideas? Only reason I bought it is to install xbmc :-(

What software version is your Fire TV on?

mikkeltaylor · 2014-10-25, 21:43

I put that in the original post. It did install an update when I first booted it up too.

mjbxx · 2014-10-25, 21:57

(2014-10-25, 21:43)mikkeltaylor Wrote: I put that in the original post. It did install an update when I first booted it up too.

Dummy me and sorry for my oversite there. Can you try the SPMC APK, which is a Android specific build of XBMC and maintained by an XBMC developer named koying. Make sure you choose the "Non-launcher APK: link" if your Fire TV is not rooted.

mikkeltaylor · 2014-10-25, 22:02

(2014-10-25, 21:57)mjbxx Wrote:
(2014-10-25, 21:43)mikkeltaylor Wrote: I put that in the original post. It did install an update when I first booted it up too.

Dummy me and sorry for my oversite there. Can you try the SPMC APK, which is a Android specific build of XBMC and maintained by an XBMC developer named koying. Make sure you choose the "Non-launcher APK: link" if your Fire TV is not rooted.

Cool, will do mate. I'll give it a go in a bit and report back! Cheers.

mikkeltaylor · 2014-10-25, 22:41

That didn't work , but I did play around with some other things like creating an 'android' directory instead of the original file location. After that I played round with the apk file and think by copying it to the route of the directory and double - clicking it then that did something and after that I was able to connect to the ip address and install as that was the actual issue.

cheers anyway!
mike. :-)