Kodi upgrade

[joe645]

I have Kodi 16.1 (Jarvis) loaded on my Android boxes. I know there is a 17.0 version available. Just how do I update mine and if I do will I lose my addons?

[dishuser]

I have Kodi 16.1 (Jarvis) loaded on my Android boxes. I know there is a 17.0 version available. Just how do I update mine and if I do will I lose my addons?

what android version do you have?

[joe645]

I believe it is 6.0

[dishuser]

I believe it is 6.0
you can upgrade to 17.6 and addons will still be there

[joe645]

Is the upgrade available within my Kodi version now?

[dishuser]

just go to play store and upgrade

[Backup]

Not within Kodi... you can download from them and go right over the top of previous BUT sumtimes it won't work, and you have to do a fresh install. Go to Kodi and try ..we are all Beta Testers here. :)

[joe645]

final question, is it worth the upgrade. I have read some bad reviews of the urgrade.

[dishuser]

final question, is it worth the upgrade. I have read some bad reviews of the urgrade.
what bad reviews?
only change I noticed was appearance
plenty of addons won't work on older versions

[joe645]

Okay, thanks agiain

[joe645]

I had to uninstall my Kodi 16.1 before I could install 17.6 which I did. All my personal apps are not showing? Message says Library empty add media source to populate my add ons??????
What am I not doing or are my personal addons gone?

[Marley]

can you run 17.6 on what box

[duhhud]

are you talking about your own movies that you have on a hard drive if so you will need to go under video addons then files find your hard drive and re scan your movies

[expatter]

I had to uninstall my Kodi 16.1 before I could install 17.6 which I did. All my personal apps are not showing? Message says Library empty add media source to populate my add ons??????
What am I not doing or are my personal addons gone?

Normally you just install the newer version without uninstalling the old version. If you didn't copy your userdata folder somewhere for safekeeping, I'm afraid you're out of luck and have to start from scratch an reinstall everything and any library that you had. Bummer. It's a good idea to always have a backup if you have stuff you care about. When you reinstall everything, copy the userdata directory to a thumb drive or a network location.

[joe645]

Yea, that is what I figured but I was led astray by posts and Kodi itself that said my personal data and apps would not be lost. Oh well, live and learn.

[dishuser]

Yea, that is what I figured but I was led astray by posts and Kodi itself that said my personal data and apps would not be lost. Oh well, live and learn.

they won't but as you said you uninstalled it
what did you think would happen to your stuff?

[ilan]

Yea, that is what I figured but I was led astray by posts and Kodi itself that said my personal data and apps would not be lost. Oh well, live and learn.
I suspect those references were to an upgrade, not to an uninstall.

[dishuser]

I suspect those references were to an upgrade, not to an uninstall.

reminds of my sister inlaw asking where her pics were after I formatted her desktop...lol
at least with that you can recover