Amazon Fire Stick Slow Freezing And Buffering Fix

Amazon Fire Stick slow or freezing?, having buffering issues? The Amazon Fire Stick is a great device it is now struggling with Kodi 17 with MANY users complaining of slowness, freezing and/or buffering playback.

Below is 3 steps to try to hopefully improve your playback.

FIRST GOTO SETTINGS / PLAYER SETTINGS / HIGHLIGHT VIDEOS AND ENABLE EXPERT MODE (as in the picture)

 

Kodi fix for fire stick

 

Then follow the below steps:
STEP 1: Go down to the processing section and Turn down Enable HQ Scalers to 0%
STEP 2: Disable  MediaCodec (Surface)
STEP 3: REBOOT KODI AND TEST
If you still have minor issues you can try to disable Medic codec as well but try the (surface one first)
***VIDEO GUIDE BELOW***

 

Good luck & Let me know what you think via Facebook or Twitter.

 

 

6 thoughts on “Amazon Fire Stick Slow Freezing And Buffering Fix”

  1. I spent a week searching for a fix. I Came across your website Friday night. Thank you so for your quick reply and your fix! You made my week!!

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  2. You guys are great. Thanks so much. I use a firestick and just got the newest version of Kodi (17.3) and I’m On series finale of Sons of Anarchy, I couldn’t finish the series cause it wouldn’t load. I owe you guys.

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  3. My Kodi has been super slow and lagging. I decided after a week of wanting to watch the first episode of M*A*S*H and it stopping the first 3 seconds,that enough was enough. I just tried this, and it didn’t work. It’s extremely frustrating because we got our firestick about a month ago and it’s already giving us issues.

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    • unfortunately firesticks are one of the slowest kodi devices, make sure you use a good power supply that will help quite abit.

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  4. I have done the url thing and reinstalled kodi and exodus but still most films say no stream available arggggg

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