Stop Kodi buffering

How to stop Kodi buffering

Video buffering issues on Kodi can be frustrating and negatively impact your live video streaming experience. There are several ways to stop and avoid buffering on Kodi.

Optimize Firestick: Explained

The Amazon Fire Stick is basically a budget Android tablet that has no screen and runs a custom version of the Android operating system, known as the Fire OS. Therefore, the Fire Stick has some physical limitations regarding the amount of memory available for streaming movies and TV shows. Therefore, it is a good idea to check your Fire Stick / FireTV box regularly and optimize it with (Clean Master).

Speed ​​Test

Before doing anything, run a speed test to see how the Internet works. Some connections are too slow to play videos in high-quality settings without buffering. If you want to stream in HD quality, it is recommended that you have at least 5 Mbps.

Like your phone, the Fire Stick gets stuck with small “temporary” files that the system never deletes, so we have to delete them ourselves by following these steps.

How to optimize Fire Stick

1) Remove additional applications from your Fire Stick by going to Applications in the main menu of FireStick. Then select an app you don’t need and hit Uninstall.

2) Install Clean Master for TV on your Fire Stick and use it to increase the available memory “RAM” of your Fire Stick by closing applications and processes that use background resources without any benefit to the user.

3) Make more distance from your TV to the Fire Stick. Why? Because electromagnetic interference can confuse the Fire Stick’s WiFi. So get a $ 5 HDMI cable that’s about 6 feet long (2 meters) and use it to keep your Fire Stick away from your TV to avoid EM interference.

Effects of optimizing FireStick and Fire TV

You’ll see reduced Kodi buffering after optimizing your FireStick, and you’ll see increased ability for Kodi and Our builds to connect to streaming sources when you choose a stream on a TV add-on like Kodi, Mobdro, and various other apps. we add. Menu lag is usually significantly reduced after optimizing your device. Another way to greatly reduce your buffering is to install a VPN, IPvanish is the best out there today.

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Limit the number of active devices on your network.

Multiple devices being used on the same Internet network will consume the bandwidth of that network and cause buffering, especially if your router cannot handle a large traffic load. When streaming videos, make sure internet usage is limited on all devices.

Reduce video quality in settings.

Lowering the quality of videos helps decrease bandwidth and buffering instances. If you use third-party software or services to stream videos, please change the video quality through the settings menu.

Consider using a wired Internet connection.

Wireless Internet connections are more likely to be disrupted by signal, frequency, and physical obstructions such as walls or furniture. Try switching to a wired connection to help eliminate buffering issues.

These are just a few suggestions for removing buffering. Give these a try and if you’re still having buffering issues, we can give you other suggestions. Feel free to comment at any time.

In this article, we’ll look at some actions you can take to improve performance on a Fire TV Stick so it works like new again. Many of these adjustments will have a dramatic impact on their own, but together they add up to a significant power boost and can speed up your shot.

Uninstall unused apps and plugins

This may seem obvious, but applications and plugins take up memory space and can run in the background, hogging resources. Uninstall the apps you don’t use and also remove the Kodi add-ons you don’t use. To uninstall the Fire TV apps, do the following:

Press and hold the Home (home) button.

Select Settings> Applications

Select Manage installed applications

Select the application you want to uninstall

Click Uninstall, then Uninstall again to confirm

Please note that some apps come pre-installed on Fire TV and cannot be uninstalled. We will show you what to do with them below.

Force stop unused apps

Unused apps that don’t have the uninstall option, or apps that you would like to keep but just don’t use much, can be stopped from running in the background. To do this, follow the exact same steps that you would use to uninstall the application as described above. This time, instead of selecting Uninstall, choose Force Stop. It may not be clear that something happened at first, but the app will no longer weigh your Fire Stick.

Clear data and cache

In the same menu where the Uninstall and Force Stop options are, you will also see Clear Data and Clear Cache. You can use them in almost every application whether you use it or not, but it is definitely worth doing it in applications that you don’t use that often. Perform these actions in the order they appear: Clear data, then Clear cache. This will also prevent apps that you have forcibly stopped from automatically reloading later.

Turn off features you don’t use

Press and hold the Home (home) button.

Select Settings> Applications

Select Collect app usage data and choose Disable

Select Prime Photos, uncheck Allow Guest Connections, and uncheck Access Prime Photos, assuming you don’t use this feature.

Select the app store. Here you can disable Automatic Updates, which downloads and installs new versions of your apps in the background. However, keep in mind that you still need to update your apps regularly to receive important security updates. We recommend disabling this only temporarily to improve performance when necessary. You can also squeeze a bit more performance by disabling in-app purchases and notifications.

Disable data monitoring

Data monitoring can be a useful tool to ensure that you do not exceed your Internet service provider’s monthly data allowance, but keeping track of downloads and uploads uses a small amount of system resources that can best be applied in other places. To disable data monitoring, do the following:

Press and hold the Home (home) button.

Select Settings> Preferences

Select Data monitoring

Click Data Monitoring to disable it

App notifications

Not only can app notifications be annoying, but they also affect performance to a mild degree. Fire TV allows users to disable notifications entirely or on an app-by-app basis. Access your notification settings by doing the following:

Press and hold the Home (home) button.

Select Settings> Preferences

Select Notification Settings

Enable Do Not Disturb by clicking it, or click App Notifications to turn off notifications for individual apps.

Another way to speed up your fire stick

Use a VPN, ISPs have been known to reduce their customers’ bandwidth for various reasons, but many particularly disapprove of Kodi users, whether they are used for legal activities or not.

To avoid this, we recommend that you connect your Amazon Fire TV Stick to a VPN. Short for Virtual Private Network, a VPN encrypts all Internet traffic on a device and routes it through an intermediary server at a location of your choice.