With the announcement of Kodi’s latest build release, Kodi 17 ‘Krypton’, there is a lot of confusion on how it will work and on which devices.
The good news
Kodi 17 has gone through it’s initial beta testing, which means developers across the world have been putting a test version through its paces looking for bugs and issues with video playback and codec translation.
This is the first Kodi release that comes with a new default skin from the creators of Kodi and it is the same skin that we have been using for our version of Kodi 16 Jarvis. Estuary.
It’s always good when new versions of firmware/software get released, especially when they are as useful as Kodi, however, there is a drawback.
The bad news
Kodi 17 is only compatible with versions of Android 5.1 and above. Meaning that if your Android box runs on KitKat 4.2, then upgrading to Kodi 17 will not work.
But wait!
We are currently working on a solution for all those users stuck on Android version 4.2. We are looking at creating a Dual-boot firmware package for all of our Android KitKat Android boxes. The dual boot firmware will mean that you can use Android for its usual purposes, but when you want to use Kodi 17, you boot into Linux/LibreElec which has no restrictions on Kodi version.
We will be working on these dual-boot versions over the next coming months to be sure to subscribe to our newsletter for the latest discount codes, offers, and news releases
Hi, I have reset my mxq quad core, it appears that I run kit Kat 4.2, so I have this problem! What can I do or do I have to wait until the fix is sorted?
Hi,
You can’t update the Android firmware, however, we are about to launch a dual-boot version of the firmware that gives you Kodi 17 on a Librelec/Linux partition. Stay tuned to our blog and newsletter.
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Installed version 17.1 on my gotreamerG5+ on boot up there is a delay for it to open ,when it does it works OK until you try to open an app the screen stays black and won’t open ? Any ideas how to solve this please
Hi, which version of Kodi 17.1 did you install from the Kodi site? AM 64bit or AM 32bit?
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Hi
I have 2 droidplayer mx2dual core can these boxes be adapted and if so how cheers colin young
Hi,
we are working on a dual-boot LibreELEC firmware that runs on Kodi 17 currently. Sign up to our newsletter for more news on when this might come out.
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