How to Jailbreak your Amazon Fire TV Stick & Install Kodi in 2019
by Kindery Mills Kindery MillsIn this guide you will
learn how to jailbreak your Fire TV Stick and install Kodi.
Method also works on Fire TV Stick 4K and the Fire TV Cube.
An Amazon Fire TV
Stick is a streaming media player that converts any regular HDMI
compatible TV into a smart TV. The Fire TV Stick enables you stream content
from online media and entertainment services such as Netflix, Amazon Prime
Video and others via monthly subscription fees.
Jailbreaking the Fire
TV Stick allows you to install third-party streaming apps for movies, TV shows,
live TV channels, sports and more. Once more jailbreaking your Fire TV
Stick is completely legal. However, streaming pirated content is illegal, so be
sure you adhere to any copyright restrictions that may be applicable to some
content.
How
to Jailbreak your Fire TV Stick?
Follow the simple step
by step instructions in this guide exactly as shown you will have your Fire TV
Stick Jailbroken within just a few minutes.
Step 1:
Prepare the Fire TV Stick for Jailbreaking
First, you need to prep
the Fire TV Stick settings before starting the jailbreak process. This is not damaging to the device in any
way. You don’t need a computer, all you need is your Fire TV Stick, its
remote, and an internet connection to carry out this simple hack.
1. Select Settings on the home-screen using
your remote (on the far right hand side of the top menu bar
2. Select and click
on My Fire TV (or Device on older software)
3. Select and click
on My Fire TV (or Device on older software)
4. Next enable or
switch ON: Apps from Unknown
Sources
5. Click Turn on
Your Fire TV Stick is
now fully prepped for the jailbreak process.
Step
2: Install Downloader on your Fire TV Stick
The popular
Downloader app is a straightforward and convenient sideloading tool for
the Fire TV Stick which you will need to jailbreak your Fire TV Stick and
instal different streaming apps on it. It is available to download for free
from the Amazon App Store.
1. From the Fire TV
Stick home-screen use your remote to select the Search option (lens icon) in the top-left corner of the
screen.
2. Search for Downloader using the on-screen
keyboard.
3. Click Downloader from the search results
below the keyboard.
4. Click the Downloader
icon on the following screen and Download on
the next screen.
5. Wait for the
Downloader app to download and install on your Fire TV Stick.
6. Click on Open to launch the Downloader app.
Note: You
can also access Downloader app from the ‘Your Apps & Channels’ section.
Hold down the Home button on your Fire TV Stick remote for at least 5 seconds,
click Apps and you will find the app at the bottom of the list. You can press
the Menu button on the remote to move the app to the first row so that it shows
on your home-screen.
Step
3: Jailbreak the Fire TV Stick & Install Kodi
Kodi is a media
application that gives you access to a large variety of free entertainment
add-ons for Movies, TV Channels, Sports, content for Kids and more. With the
right Kodi Addons and Builds you can stream pretty much anything
you like.
Using the Downloader
app that you just downloaded from the Amazon Store we can now install Kodi with
the following steps:
1. The Downloader app
opens with the Home option
on the left pre-selected, click inside the URL field on the right-hand side of
the screen.
2. In the next pop-up
window, type in one of the following Kodi paths using the onscreen keyboard:
For latest Kodi 18.1
Leia – https://www.gostreamer.com/downloads/kodi181.apk
Or
For latest stable
version 17.6 Krypton: https://www.gostreamer.com/downloads/kodi176.apk
Next click GO
3. Downloader will
connect to the server and download the Kodi APK file. Wait for the download to
complete.
4. Click Install on the next window.
5. Wait for the Kodi
app to install. It should not take around 2 minutes or less.
6. An App Installed notification will
confirm that Kodi has been installed on your Fire TV Stick.
Awesome! Your Fire TV
Stick is now jailbroken.
You may now click Open to run Kodi or If you want to
open Kodi later, just click Done.
You can find it from the Your Apps
& Channels list.
7. Kodi will take a
minute or so to open if it is the first time, which is completely normal. Here
is how the home-screen of Kodi looks like.
Congratulations, Kodi
is now installed on your Fire TV Stick. For now Kodi is a clean build with
nothing to play. Please read our further guides to learn how to use a
jailbroken Fire TV Stick and load add-ons to Kodi.
Resource: https://www.gostreamer.com/blog
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Created on Apr 22nd 2019 23:46. Viewed 447 times.