I use the Shield and Firestick but my goto is still the KM2!
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Hello. I read somewhere that the Shield has recently been filled with unnecessary apkās. Is this true to your knowledge please? I am in the market for an addition to my old fire stick.
There are some things that I donāt need preinstalled on the Shield but the 8G at $129.00 from Best Buy is still the best deal on the market today as far as Iām concerned. It isnāt full of unnecessary apkās as there is plenty of room to add multiple Kodi builds and apkās. I buy it and then add additional storage. I expect to still be using mine in 10 yrs.
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I use Wolf Launcher on the shield so it doesnāt really matter. Deleted a bunch of apps but I donāt even remember what came pre-installed anymore. You can hide apps as well. And with how easy it is to expand storage space itās not like itās bothering anything having a few extra apps on there. Still beats the hell out of the bloatware on firesticks.
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Thank you I was wondering about that.
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Thank you. I am really lookin for just a reliable fast streaming device with no frills. I donāt care that much about hd video as i do high quality sound. But even thats not totally important.
Miki
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Ya but you can do the same on the firestick. Use the Debloater and install Wolf Loader and Launch Manager. Hide all the Amazon crap. Stop the Data and ad crap so they have no idea what youāre doing. Stop all the main page movie garbage and make your firestick much faster. Lean and mean
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Sound is important. Took me a while to figure out how to pass through TrueHD audio using Kodi on my shield.
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I have the KM2 and am experiencing very slow response using Kodi 19.2 & 19.1, it takes several minutes to get it to bring up a tv show search or movie search and doesnāt seem to matter if it through Crew, Fen, the oath, etc. the response is still the same. I have added xtra storage and have put everything I can on the external storage but it has made no difference. Have you encountered anything like this?
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@Harleybw
Kodi takes up resources. It has never been super fast. It works better on other devises.
What this as well.
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The one and only ultimate device is Nvidia Shield 2 Pro. Just take a look at the benchmark
The best you can get for money.
Same here. Itās frustrating.
TXRon
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Maybe the biggest complaint I hear about KODI is how slow it is. And that is true kodi nowadays is āgenerallyā very bloated or at least gives that feeling. People want fast response. When kodi loads depending on your build many things all load at onceā¦and you get the sluggishness. I would suggest using a āless bloatedā build or using stripped down kodi with just the apps you want on it. Personally I use the Doomzday Sports 101 build due to its pretty small considering however I rarely use kodi now days since tivimate 4.0 has solved most issues. Its fast and does everything I need.
So much TV and so little time;)
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I have my km2 remote working with 3 devices. All work great
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Miki
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Maybe Mecool has finally released an update for their remote, after several months of customer complaints
tvbox1
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Iām happy with my km3. When it comes time to replace it Iāll probably stick with mecool
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Miki
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I guess my question is: can you operate all 3 devices at the same time, as in turn all 3 on or off at the same time?
Yes you can. Setting must be correct. I have km2, lg tv and a sony home theater. It controls all 3 as you want. On/off and volume
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Then there has been an update to the programming as it never could do anything more than turn on/off one device at a time when it was first released. Now what about a functioning browser that you can stream with, like Silk? Did they fix that as well? Mecool was suppose to inform me if and when they resolved these issues but Mecool tech support is non existent.
Miki
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@Marioaserrano
Oh and one more question, what āsettingā must be right? Thanks.
