Past week we provided some special builds on the forum which solved the problems for the users that had the zoomed in or partial screen using Kodi. Luckily a community developer invested a lot of time in tracking down the problem and together with our main Android developer came to a solution for fixing this. Sadly this is a quite technical process and could brick your device if not done properly. One method was to put special build firmware on the device which fixes the problem and Kodi would just work fine again. However for some this never happened and caused all the problems you might have experienced. Devices that came from manufacturers that had properly updated their firmware did not have this problem. This time after the 15.0 release it became clear that for several devices using an Amlogic chipset there was a change in firmware that caused Kodi to not function properly and only show a zoomed in or only used part of the screen. Firmware is the part where the manufacturer of the device has to make sure the everything works as it should like audio and video output. This is due to the fact there are tens of thousands of different devices out there with each it’s own Android version and each a slightly different firmware and hardware. Over time the Android version has travelled some bumpy roads. For the MySQL users out there we never bump the database versions in our bugfix or maintenance releases – you can safely keep using it within your network.

It should be ok to just install this on top of your current Kodi 15.0 or 15.1 version. To be safe just backup your userdata (online manual) first. This is still a release candidate once enough users have verified that these improvements work out well, and we did not introduce any major regressions, we’ll be releasing it as final 15.2 version. To counter some of these new issues, we’re bringing you this second maintenance release candidate called 15.2 RC1 which has some additional fixes on top of the 15.0 and 15.1 release.

Even though tens of thousands of users were already testing the 15.0 version before release and we try very hard to prevent them, as soon as million started using it, some problems we either did not think of or which we did not notice popped up. Once a ‘final’ version is released some new bugs and/or problems usually appear out of nowhere, and last release was no exception.

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