Posts: 1
Joined: Feb 2017
Reputation:
0
2017-02-17, 04:15
(This post was last modified: 2017-02-17, 04:18 by Ddi1776.)
Kodi 17 is not compatible with my Samsung gala tab 3 light 16.1 worked great is there still away to use or download the older version
Thanks for any help
Posts: 2
Joined: Feb 2017
Reputation:
0
Will there be permanent support for the older releases or will the new addons be compatible with the older releases?
Posts: 12,492
Joined: Oct 2014
Reputation:
608
For the most part we don't create the add-ons (with a few exceptions where team members write stuff on their own), so that question would be down to the individual add-on authors.
But of course newer versions of Kodi offer new features, and occasionally the way existing things are done are either improved/changed or occasionally removed. So if add-ons make use of those new features, there can be times when add-ons need a certain version of Kodi to run.
We do not support older releases in terms of bug fixes etc (that's what the new versions are for), but we do what we can to help out if there are issues reported here.
Posts: 12,492
Joined: Oct 2014
Reputation:
608
On Android there's also the interaction with the firmware itself (the version of Android that runs).
Krypton requires Android 5.0 (Lollipop) to run, which may be what you've encountered in this case if your device is using Android KitKat (4.x). Such devices either need a firmware update (to Lollipop, Marshmallow or Nougat) or you're stuck at using Kodi Jarvis (or need a new device...).
Posts: 3
Joined: Aug 2017
Reputation:
0
Hi. I only just heard about Kodi and decided to put it on my Samsung Tab 3 in order to get a feel for what it's all about.
As per other posts here, i can't get it. The Play Store (or at least the search bar) does seem to recognise searches for Jarvis 16.1 for download. Though it still doesn't seem to offer that to me.
So you have a link above (which I'm looking at on my laptop pc) for older releases. But I don't understand it. I just want a nice shiny icon like you get in the google play store! So i click Android I presume. Then...I get a screen with three lines: (1) Arm 64- v8a, or (2) arm/ or (3) X86/. What is this? I don't understand it.
If I ask it to save somethig it's going to save it on to my pc (unlike with google play store, which links PC and tablet). Do I need to open the link on my tablet and save something?
The other option mentined is to update the firmware. I presume that means on my tablet. Is this easy to do? Do the automatic updates that happen on my tablet not update things?
I just want to get a feel for what KODI is. As you may have guessed I'm not very IT savvy...
Posts: 12,492
Joined: Oct 2014
Reputation:
608
2017-08-06, 22:29
(This post was last modified: 2017-08-06, 22:31 by DarrenHill.)
Krypton needs android 5 or higher to run. Hence why the play store is giving problems.
As noted above, you're probably best off with SPMC if sideloading is not something you're confident with.
A fork is when someone takes the code and works on it seperately and in a different direction or with a different end target. But SPMC is produced by Koying, who is a team member and our former android developer and it works very well.
Posts: 38
Joined: Jun 2015
Reputation:
1
rrain
Junior Member
Posts: 38
2017-08-07, 01:40
(This post was last modified: 2017-08-07, 01:41 by rrain.)
There is a modified version of Kodi 17 Krypton that works well with Android Kitkat ver 4.4 devices.
google - MyGica Kodi 17 for Android 4.4 -