The simplest guide to reset Kodi on your Firestick device
In this article, we have attempted to chart out a lucid yet comprehensive guide to reset Kodi on Firestick devices.
We all know how utilitarian of an app Kodi is. The ability to allow users to have an access to play and use streaming media consisting of videos, podcasts, etc as well as other media files outsourced from local and network storage media or the ability to allow different kinds of customization is what makes this free, open-source media player/center a perfect option for different streaming and non-streaming endeavors.
Now, today we will be concerning ourselves more with a facet of Kodi on Firestick that pertains to resetting it and the steps that we will be poised will be applicable to all the Amazon Fire TV devices regardless of their model.
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What do you need to know before you reset Kodi on Firestick?
If you are a regular Kodi user you may be under the impression that Kodi resetting is almost inevitable owing to the fact that it sometimes plunges into poor performance and may also succumb to various functional bugs. This makes the need for resetting Kodi on the Firestick even more pressing. What resetting will do for you is that it will push the software back to its original highly-functional state.
The main issue is that you must manually reinstall the programme if you purchase a new gadget or PC. And, in my opinion, it’s simply not worth it. When you have an issue with your FireStick or FireTV, it is not easy to get them back up and running. Kodi is a great multimedia solution that transforms your device into a media centre and allows you to watch both free and paid material (mostly free of course). However, this free and open-source platform is not without flaws.
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How to reset Kodi on your Firestick device
There are two ways via which will be resetting Kodi on your Firestick device. Firstly, we will be clearing the Kodi Data and then uninstalling the Kodi app itself.
Clearing Kodi Data from Firestick
Now, clearing Kodi data will simply save you the trouble of uninstalling the app that takes ample time. This entails that once you clear the data, Kodi Builds, Add ons, settings, etc will cease to exist within the software. Below are the steps through which you can do so
- Go to Applications from the home screen by selecting the gear icon.
- Open Manage Installed Applications.
- Now, the list of all the apps installed on your Firestick device will be displayed on the screen.
- From the list, select Kodi.
- Next, you will have to select the Clear Data option and again select Clear data to confirm your action.
- Now, the confirmation of whether the data has been cleared or not shall come through by looking at the right side of the screen that will be displaying the app details such as version, size, storage, etc. Before clearing the data, the app was taking 154 MB of space in storage and whereas the data itself was about 35 MB.
- You can now launch or open the Kodi app. Upon launching you will encounter ‘Preparing for a first run’ which would be suggestive of the fact that Kodi is working afresh or have simply been reset to default.
- Once you open Kodi and go to the Add-ons tab you will find that all your add-ons are a goner.
- Now, this method of resetting Kodi on the Firestick device was less intense compared to the one we will be showing below that will serve to remove the Kodi app from your Firestick device.
Follow our guide to set up your FireStick device
Uninstalling Kodi on Firestick
Uninstalling Kodi on Firestick may take a little bit of time as you will first have to uninstall and then reinstall it. However, there won’t be any discrepancy in the result produced with relation to the first method but the perk simply lies in the certain impediments that data clearing may not be able to take care of.
Reset Kodi on Firestick
Here is how you can Reset Kodi on Firestick by following the steps mentioned below
Go to ‘Applications’ from the home screen by selecting the gear icon.
Select ‘Manage Installed Applications.
- From the list thus displayed, select Kodi.
- Now, the same menu that appeared in the first method will pop up but the difference is you now have to select ‘Uninstall’.
- Select ‘Uninstall’ again to confirm your action
- These steps will lead to the uninstalling of Kodi from your Firestick device.
To install Kodi back again, follow the below steps:
- Open your Downloader app. (If you don’t have the Downloader app on your FireStick then you can follow get MediaBox HD guide as it has the detailed steps for intstalling the downloader app on any FireStick / Fire TV device)
- For the purpose of downloading Kodi on your Downloader app type URL http://bit.ly/kodi-176
- Install Kodi on your Firestick device
- Go to the installation Menu
- Go inside Kodi and open settings and click on the file manager.
- Click the Add Source option.
- Click on the ‘Browse’ option on the screen
- Type http://dimitrology.com/repo on the box and add the URL.
- Click OK and close the mini window.
These Kodi installation steps would be the harbinger of your successful jailbreaking firestick process.
For more information on how to jailbreak Amazon Firesticks and other Fire TV devices, you can check out our comprehensive firestick jailbreaking guide.
Is Kodi Legal?
Kodi is an inseparable part of Firestick Jailbreaking and is 100 percent legal, as is the selection of official Kodi add-ons. However, it doesn’t provide any security against content that is pirated or copyrighted or even malware, as it has the involvement of third-party developers. So you have to be vigilant in case. Kodi doesn’t have any media of its own. You will have to outsource it from elsewhere from the internet. Towards achieving that objective you would need the addons. You can visit the web to check out which Addons offer quality streaming.
We covered everything about reinstalling Kodi on a Firestick in this tutorial. We’ll be bringing you more helpful guides in the future so stay attuned.