I hope this fixes some issues you maybe having, and let me know what problems you have come across and what's worked for you. USB Formats - The most common format used is FAT32, but I also found that NTFS also worked to play media.
Thanks for update mate. Taken your advice regarding the Ugreen adapter. Slightly pulled the connection apart and it now works. Ding dangley doo..Thanks again.
Adam I have experienced what you had happen about saying no network connection. I found unplugging the Ethernet cable and plugging it back in after 3-5 seconds have fixed it. A question I have anytime I restart my firetv all my apps get rearranged. Any idea how to fix that? It drives me crazy. My system is set up as your video 4K Firestick beast mode.
I was pulling my hair out trying to connect the UGreen USB hub. I had the OTG cable connected to the Firestick and was using an ethernet adapter I bought off of Amazon. It worked well, but when I tried the UGreen hub it stopped connecting through the ethernet and would only connect WiFi. I tried every combination I could think of and still couldn't make the UGreen work. Then I watched your video...Viola! I pulled the usb connector slightly out of the OTG cable slot and it connected ethernet. I plugged in my thumb drive to the hub and it flashed the icon in the lower right corner of the screen. I can't thank you enough! In the meantime I'm upgrading to a new Firestick so that I can enjoy the convenience of OS7 and not the hassle of adding a drive through OS6.
Great advice . I began using a brand new firestick about 10 days ago, and my USB hub stopped working. After watching your video, I swapped the USB for one that is over 10 years old, and it is working a treat again. Many thanks.
I've just set this up having purchased it all in January and it didn't work, no ethernet connection or no additional storage & to late to send back to Amazon so I was a bit annoyed so I'm glad that you did this video. All it was was the USB was pushed in too far, pulled it out a little and bam all working. Thank you Adam and thank you to the person who suggested that. 👍
I literally had the same problem with the ugreen hub not working, I did what one of the people in the comments said ( you mentioned him ) and I pulled the usb input out a little bit and it worked!! Many thanks that person
I purchased the OTG cable along with the U-green hub as per the video "Turn your Firestick Into a Streaming Beast" for my 4K Firestick. Sadly the hub would not recognize either a USB stick or the ethernet cable being plugged in. I tried plugging the hub into the PC it it worked just fine, so I knew it wasn't dead. The OTG cable recognized a flash drive right away, so I was good there. I saw and then followed Dave Simpsons suggestion regarding installing a very short USB extension ahead of the hub and everything worked like a charm instantly. Not sure why this makes a difference but, it surely did for mine I saw where Paul Carranza stated he contacted U-green and they told him "IT IS NOT DESIGNED TO WORK WITH THE FIRE STICK". It may not be designed to work with the Firestick but, it definitely does with the little mod. Cheers :)
Man. You are the absolute best. I watched this video a long time ago and actually gave it a thumbs up- even though I didn't think any of the suggestions would work for me. I did a search again today and your familiar face was the first that popped up. To my amazement, the suggestions that made the least amount of sense is the one that solved the problem I was having for a year. After plugging in the USB source, I backed it out slightly and what do you know. I thank you so much.
I know this is an old video but it is still helping. My Ugreen adapter stopped working, i tried disconnecting and reconnecting all the cables and it didn't work so I bought a new one from amazon. It didn't work either so I searched for answers on the net and found this video. A wiggle on the USB between the adapter and the OTG and hey presto, it works. Now I have an adapter I don't need lol. Thanks, I love your channel.
Can’t thank you enough for this video! I have been struggling to get the Ethernet connection working on the ugreen hub - I followed the advice on loosening the usb connection to the otg and it worked!!! Thanks so much!
just sent the hub and power adapter back to amazon. did all the above and more and still would not work.. then i read online that the usb hub is not working for a lot of the new firestick models !! very disappointed ..
So glad I watch this video yesterday. Just had one delivered plugged it all in it didn’t work. So I done the little pull on the USB bit and worked straight away. I learn so much through your videos cannot thank you enough 👍👍👍
I know it’s a weird one.. but I’m so glad you’ve done a video on it and put it out there because I’ve literally just had one delivered plugged it in didn’t work done you little trick works a treat.. can’t thank you enough for doing the little videos that you do m8 TOP WORK 👍👍👍
@@happihibby You shouldn’t have a problem connecting it if you pay attention to this RUclips video.. Play close attention to when it comes down to wiggling the USB bit and then you shouldn’t have any problems but you may have to restart your device a few times
7:45 110v vs 220v is irrelevant as both are converted to 5v USB power anyway. In most cases a universal power supply included with a device will be rated something like 220V at 5A or 110V and 10A. Meaning both are putting out the same wattage (power) of 1100 watts.
This is very cool, but I am having a problem getting the firestick to recognize my WD 1 T usb hard drive. Does the hard drive need to be formatted FAT 32? If so, I can't get either my home computer which is running Windows 7 or my laptop to do this. Mt home computer USB can't deal with the size and my laptop doesn't offer FAT 32 as an option. All the other functions and wireless controller work great. Any suggestions please...Thanks for the great content! Also, I found a solution to one of the power problems, I was using the a TV power source for this setup and was having problems, so I tried using the opriginal Amazon power source to the firestick and that fixed the power issue for me.
That video was a definite help, I only recently found your BEAST video & picked up the accessories. Didn't work though. I gave the cable a wiggle & a slight tug and the blue light came on. Sorted !!
Thank you so much for this. I purchased all the bits with a voucher I got for Christmas and went to set it all up today. It didn't work. Watched this video and pulled the connection out slightly between the OTG and USB hub and hey presto, it worked! Mad that it fixes it haha 😂 we are all good and my Wechip remote is working now too. Thanks all :-)
I’m trying to wire direct to the modem and router at the same time using rj-45 splitter problem is fire stick 4K is not recognizing the wired connection. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thank you!
I was one that previously commented I could not get the Ethernet connection to work. I watched this video and was skeptical. The first thing I tried was to pull the usb part out partway and that worked. Thank you for the tips!
Great video that solved my problem. After moving house I could't get my Firestick 4k max to see the USB hub or LAN cable (despite the same set up working perfectly in my previous property). I just pulled the USB connection from the hub to the OTG cable out approx 1-2mm or until the blue lights come on the hub and my problem was solved. For good measure I upgraded the power supply to the Firestick and atttached one to the hub. All hunky dory now !!
quality, i bought the bits you suggested to hook firestick 4k up to the ethernet cable and at first it didnt work...but i pulled the usb plug out a couple of mm and voila, im now connected with greater speeds! top bloke, tar very muchly...
Unreal ! I spent hours online lookin for the answer, then I find this laughin brit, and he tells me to loosen the OTG to ethernet and USB adapter, and bada bing ! Ockhams Razor again. I appreciate your info relay from across the pond mate. - From a Scot in NH.
What worked for me (probably covered somewhere in earlier 486 comments). This is for larger than 32gb USB's. No problems with my FS 4KMax - detected large USB and formatted it for use. Not so with my FS Lite - recognized 32gb USB, but nothing at all happened when I tried larger USB's (wanting to add/access a bunch of movies in mkv/mp4 format, via VLC). Downloaded AOMEI, and formatted the 512gb USB to FAT32, plugged back into the OTG and the FS Lite & VLC recognized it straight away, and played well. As I'm typing this I just realized all I had to do was let my FS 4K Max format the 512gb USB!!!
I'm having the same issue with the Firestick still connected to wifi after plugging in the adapter. I'm not home now and just found your video. Will check out all these fixes when I get home. Thanks for all you do. I'll post my results. Cheers!
I have had all them problems you have mentioned in the end it drove me mad and I binned the idea glad you made this lastest video I will try some of your fixes Thanks
I'm currently using a 2nd Gen Fire TV Device. I'd like to be able to add 10/100/1000 ethernet adapter to this by getting a UGREEN USB 3.0 Hub Ethernet Adapter or going with a Amazon Ethernet 10/100/1000 adapter. But I did read somewhere that in order to get the full capability of a gigbit ethernet connection you should make sure you are using USB 3.0. With that stated my 2nd Gen fireTV device contains a USB 2.0 plug in option. not sure if either of these ethernet adaptors would work for me to get the full gigbit capability. Would I be better up upgrading my fire TV to the latest firestick or Amazon cube or something. Just looking for some pointer here. Thanks
An update to my problem with a new V.3 Firestick and Ugreen hubs that work perfectly with other Firesticks but not with my new V.3. After I got the memory stick working with a different brand of Usb hub I also tried an old generic 2.0 Usb hub and it worked fine with the V.3 Firestick and memory stick. I then rummaged around and found I had a Usb Ethernet adapter and plugged it into the working Usb hub that does not have built in ethernet and it works fine. From this experience perhaps a suggestion may be that if the wiggle trick does not work for you and have or can borrow alternative hardware give that a try.
I have an Transpe.ed Android 13 TV stick. I've bought a otg adapter & plugged into one end of the TV stick USB & the other RJ45 end into my modem. The modem light's up on that port.( No built in light on the otg adapter ) When I check the settings, on the TV stick only the wireless connection is made. No ethernet connection show's I've tried pulling out the USB a bit, but nothing changes... I've rebooted several times etc... HELP
Does the increasing storge thing work with all models of firestick? I have the base model, connected the otg cable with a fat32 formatted thumbdrive and nothing, no sign the drive is there. The firesticks all appear to have the same processer.
Hey. I am using the otg cable from Amazon and while it works fine with a simple usb stick, I don't have ethernet connection when I plug the U Green ethernet adaptor...
Hey Bub, I'm trying to feed my firestick into my tv's USB port- not power it from there. The reason why is because all four of my HDMI ports stopped working slowly one at a time. Any tricks to keep me watching the tube with my firestick? I'm kind of surprised I'm not seeing more people have this issue, and that more people aren't trying to convert their HDMI plugs into USB plugs. Also, do you have any insight as to why my HDMI ports all quit working? They started out just kind of randomly cutting out which would sometimes annoyingly cause my firestick to reboot. Then eventually, they would just flash and not show the home screen at all. Thanks!
having the same issue with my org cable, purchased 2 different ones from amazon and still can't see my hdd, will dig out a different usb device to see if that makes any difference.
I’m using Firestik 4k os 6.7 with the og adapter kit recommended, San disk 128 thumb for storage. Question - storage in my fire shows no external, in stick setting’s application, manage installed apps, all of my applications are on external and show the usb symbol except the damn Amazons that won’t relocate- when ya hover over highlighted apk, on right is details of apk and under storage, usb is listed for all apk’s but read - USB:0B? Why?? Is it not showing and stored data, I have 38 apk’s on external???
Wiggle the connection like suggested at 5mins seems to bring something up on the network screen but went off tried a second otg cable and now WiFi off? Rebooted WiFi on no wired connection. PROBLEM I noticed the e the Ethernet is not recognised as plugged in to something on the router. You get a yellow light to tell you it’s hooked up to a device and it does not light up on this. Switched cables and the light went out so something wrong either the Ethernet connection on the ugreen device
What happens when you have an Otg cable is making the firestick black out the sceen intermittently? Tried to put the stick directly into the hdmi slot on the tv but there is no space? The stick is too long for the allocated space?
Just purchased the new 4K Max FireStick. When I installed any 3rd party app, it was grayed out. If I went into manage applications, they were there and visable but not on the home screen. Any guidence would be grestly appreciated.
I have the exact same accessories but when connected I go to es file explorer it shows the external storage loading but doesn't load. Any advice please
I’ve got 3 4K Firesticks, 2 with both the USB hub and OTG and the other with just the OTG all kit bought from Amazon and no issues with the exception of the 4K in the living room randomly restarting itself every now and then and when running through the process using Remote ADB app I didn’t get the pop up message when I plugged in the USB to indicate the FS recognises it but it’s all up and running regardless.
My Ethernet will simply not register through the usb hub. I don't understand how this is powered out of the box. Doesn't seem to be covered in your set up description although later you do mention it may require a 5v power supply which I've now ordered. Both OTG usb cable and Ugreen usb hub seem to be working as somehow I got a blue light by getting some power to it somehow whilst messing about but I can't get the network signal through as it is. Frustrating.
Thank You! Success! After I worked out some of the glitches It worked fine. Just so if you get any questions. My UGreen USB ports did not work on my 4K, neither did the Ethernet connector. I used the Amazon Ethernet adapter and the OTG cable directly to my 4K and it got the job done. Once again Thank You for this video it helped me work out my issues.
Sorry I have the Ethernet Adapter still not able to connect through the otg cable with expandable memory. By Adapter u mean the square box with the small lead coming off it ?? Thanks Chris
Hi I bought some of these usb/ethernet hubs.There are 2 types the KY-888 AND KY 800. The KY-888 works on all firesticks the KY-800 DOES NOT WORK ON THE FIRE STICK.
My fire stick recognises the Ethernet connection but apps won’t load? Also when I run a signal strength scan, it says can’t be performed at the moment. Any ideas? It’s a generic adapter bought off eBay., could this possibly be the issue.?
My system works great bro, thanks to you. I use the same stuff you recommend. Im wondering: I use it with a usb remote, and a 1t hard drive connected to the usb ports. Question is. Can I somehow see this drive on the network, being that its connected to my router via ethernet cable? I cant see recording movies with tivimate, and taking the hard drive off to get the movies on my media server. What u think?
i just bought the ugreen ethernet usb , at the manual it says that need the driver need to be install before using ,but when i plug the ugreen ethernet at my amazon fire tv cube , so far its working fine without install/download the driver i just plug and play , speed test run so far so good , usb port also so far also smooth.. so my question did i still need to install the driver at my amazon tv cube sir ?
5:10 THANK YOU!!! I have a Gen 2 firebox/firecube that eventually needed space but wouldn't detect a usb drive. Switched the debugging and it poped right up.
Does the speed of your internet make any difference can’t get the adapter to be recognized but I only have 2.5ghz internet was wondering if it needs 5Ghz to work?
I am using an older plasma television with usb port. I tried to install the ugreen 4 port hub and otg cable with firestick via hdmi cable to usb converter plugged into the hub. Well my television displays cannot recognize devise. So I am I wasting my time trying to do all those devises on a older plasma television?
I bought the U-Green and worked for a minute then it stopped, so I returned it and got a replacement. The replacement didn’t work either. I contacted u-green and they told me IT IS NOT DESIGNED TO WORK WITH THE FIRE STICK, so I returned it. I purchased the USB upgrade from U-green (the silver one without the LED lights) worked like a charm.
I didn't think you were from Tennessee. 🤓 I am and also am tech-non-savvy. I've been trying to increase my storage with the otg cable since my son gave me the 4k firestick. Can't figure it out in American English or UK English. ES file Explorer shows my USB as usbotg. The up arrow is shaded out. Do you have a video showing installation and how to use all in one?
I’ve got the 2 cord dongle to utilize the SSD. I also purchased Amazon’s Ethernet connector. When I hooked up the Ethernet connection. The SSD stopped working. It would only work with one or the other. Not both.
Do I have to have an OTG cable or can I just use the ugreen multi port adapter and hard wire into the router and firestick? What do I need the OTG cable for?
Thanks so much for these videos. Watched loads now. Thanks to Andy Russell and yourself for the tip pulling it slightly out of the otg cable. Fixed connection problem straight away. Was just about to fettle it with the lump hammer... many thanks 😁👍
I have the OTG cable but the FireStick doesn’t recognize it. However I can get the file explorer app to recognize it so I can download movies to the app, then copy/paste then onto the USB drive.
I'm using the Avyxm ethernet adaptor usb 3.0 and it won't work. I've tested both cables and they work fine. Hooked the adaptor to my Samsung and got a wires connection so that cable works fine..Then I tried the USB of other cable my connecting a wireless keyboard and it worked fine also. I just don't understand why I can't get them to work together. Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks
Wicked video solved my problem, I've configured 20 odd 4 k sticks with OTG and 32 gb flash drives, and odd times suffer from crashing and continual rebooting tried everything I know, your comment on the Amazon plug only 1 amp makes sense the stick is trying to pull more power as ther is no fuse it will crash, now using my iPads charger no issues at all many many thanks.
Had the issue with connecting with Ethernet. All fixed now. I did what you said and unplugged the Ethernet adapter, plugged it back in a few times untill 3 lights came up, unplugged the Ethernet cable to the router and plugged back in and Boom Boom shake the room. The issue is with smaller adapters connection. May try a new one if it plays up. 👍
I was attempting to add more space to my fire stick however The flash drive doesn't show up I'm not sure why I purchased a two pack of ogt connectors it will show me at the bottom right hand side of the TV that it has been removed and when I plug it up I'll see the little label icon for the USB port appear but that's it when I actually go under storage all I see is you know the regular storage for the fire stick I know nothing's wrong with the flash drive because I have successfully put it in my TV not to mention I've tried this with several flash drives it's just not showing up kind of can't do anything without being able to see the storage
you brilliant bastard, I'd buy you a bottle if you were in the same country as me. It made my wired connection work again! Thank you! Now my fire stick can truly be a beast!
Really great information that could help me a lot ☺️ just found your channel and really happy I did .I use a lot of ugreen products and didn't know ugreen made one will be buying on of there's never had a problem with any item of there's cheers shez have a great day
Thanks for this follow up. I got the kit per your first video and it was not working. Followed your suggestions and it was actually loosening up the USB that made it suddenly work - thanks!
Have ethernet cable plugged straight in TV as smart TV wouldn't pick up WiFi if use this device to help Amazon stick work better as again rubbish WiFi will it still work for the smart TV or do I need 2 ethernet cables so getting main internet signal on both if that makes sense in UK Also think seen on one your videos you have sky go all on Amazon stick do you have a video how to download it. Thank you
my problem is during use the Ugreen hub & sandisk 128gb jump drive the firestick randomly ejects the USB. I even added a 5v adaptor to power the hub and that made it worse so the hub works but it randomly just ejects to the drive (I have tried several different jump drives) I'm in the UK and the firestick is powered from the wall socket.
The problem I had ( using the Ugreen adapter ) was the USB stick was showing in file manager Aps, but not showing under the Firestick 4k settings. The FS 4k even had the cheek to tell me I had to format to Fat32! It did this for me and the USB stick active light was on, but still never showed up in settings. The Ethernet was running perfectly. It seems its an OS problem. This only gets picked up and then formatted for internal storage for firesticks with OS 7. Those with OS 6 ( like what I have ) have to download an ADB app then run some commands to get it to access the firestick as storage, or part storage part memory stick. This was relatively easy to do but not as quick as having OS 7 in the first place. Just glad I didn't throw the adapter out as was getting frustrating!!
Ethernet cable lights are blinking but no wired connection detected. Tried a replacement Ugreen firestick adapter. Same problem. Tried the wiggling. What to do?
sir, thanks for all of your good advice, i have a queastion, not concerning this post ,can i put my youtube playlists, that are on firestick, smart tube next,no ads, of course, can i have them converted to mp3 from the firestick, is there an app, local , i could install and use? if not can i install google drive and puy them in my drive to be in files and folders ready to be converted? i want them on my new mp3 player. any and all ideas or suggestions will be greatly appreciated
Added USB to firestick 4k max. Only able to move 5 files using firestick features. Also, I have 3 different file explorers and none on them see the USB. Is there a setting I am missing?
Considering this video is about a different set of accessories for the Firestick this is probably not the best place to ask, but I'm new to this Firestick stuff and still learning, so maybe I can get an answer here, if anything maybe I can add to the pool of knowledge being built here. Before anyone asks I'd rather not have to buy another piece of hardware if I can help it, with everything going on in the world I do not have a spare $25-ish to get the UGREEN USB hub/ethernet adaptor right now, things are tight. I'm using the official Amazon Ethernet adaptor, came with the second hand Firestick when it was gifted to me, and a different OTG cable I had beforehand, a TUSITA 3-port charging OTG cable which you can find on Amazon. I cannot get both to work at the same time. Which ever of the devices comes second in the little daisy chain will let enough power through for the Firestick to boot up and function, no continuous restarts or anything, but other than that it won't work. I'm thinking that maybe it's because the female micro USB ports on both are designed to only allow power through, no actual inputs of any kind, but I don't have any other devices that use micro USB to test this idea with.
I purchased the otg and green adaptor so I could plug in a portable ssd drive and remote ... the remote works fine but never could get the fire stick to pick up the drive ... is it too big?? Or are there issues with connecting a drive of that type?? Haven’t tried a stick yet
I was having this issue with a 4K fire stick. Pulling the USB cable out a little did not work for me. I also tried using a USB C cable and charging block which supplies a little more power. That did not work either. Just to see what would happen I tried the setup on an older fire stick that I have on another TV. Surprise, surprise it worked! Now everything was the same except for the TV’s and the Firesticks. It failed on a LG TV with a 4K Firestick and worked on a Samsung TV with a non-4K version. Basically, this ruled out the setup I was using having bad cables or connectors. Go figure. I would be interested to know if the people who are having trouble all have 4K Firesticks, Or do some of the failures happen on non-4K Firesticks?
I have the Amazon OTG cable with a usb connection as well as the connection for the Firestick. The OTG does not find the thumb drive at all. I’ve tried most of the fixes I’ve read about. I did get it working sporadically on the Cube, but it turns to 💩 fairly quickly. I took your tip and plugged a nano receptor into the OTG and that works. Not sure why the thumb drive has issues. Restarts, etc. do nothing. I enjoy your vids. Thanks
i have had no problems since watching your video and buying the equipment - thanks ... however is it possible to save apps to a memory dongle to save firestick space and if so can you make a video on how to? ... thanks again
Just had to get one for my firestick as the wifi decided not to work on it but took me a while to get it working thanks to commentors tips in this video. I took USB out slightly and it came on now have 4K and a steady 92mbs connection :) Used a generic Omivine usb ethernet adapter with 3 usb ports £11 off amazon worth every penny
This worked great but I had to get another thumb drive. My firestick said the drive had to be fat32. I couldn't reformat because all my movies are on that drive. Does the 4k fire stick use other than fat32. Ntfs Also, I downloaded ES file manager and it will not give me an icon. I can start it from app manager in settings though. The Ugreen worked great. Thanks for all the videos.
I hope this fixes some issues you maybe having, and let me know what problems you have come across and what's worked for you.
USB Formats - The most common format used is FAT32, but I also found that NTFS also worked to play media.
Im new to all this i haven't got a clue
In the new update Amazon crash OTG USB 😔
Another great video youre a diamond geezer thanks for all your help
Thanks for update mate. Taken your advice regarding the Ugreen adapter. Slightly pulled the connection apart and it now works. Ding dangley doo..Thanks again.
Adam I have experienced what you had happen about saying no network connection. I found unplugging the Ethernet cable and plugging it back in after 3-5 seconds have fixed it. A question I have anytime I restart my firetv all my apps get rearranged. Any idea how to fix that? It drives me crazy. My system is set up as your video 4K Firestick beast mode.
I was pulling my hair out trying to connect the UGreen USB hub. I had the OTG cable connected to the Firestick and was using an ethernet adapter I bought off of Amazon. It worked well, but when I tried the UGreen hub it stopped connecting through the ethernet and would only connect WiFi. I tried every combination I could think of and still couldn't make the UGreen work. Then I watched your video...Viola! I pulled the usb connector slightly out of the OTG cable slot and it connected ethernet. I plugged in my thumb drive to the hub and it flashed the icon in the lower right corner of the screen. I can't thank you enough! In the meantime I'm upgrading to a new Firestick so that I can enjoy the convenience of OS7 and not the hassle of adding a drive through OS6.
Great advice . I began using a brand new firestick about 10 days ago, and my USB hub stopped working. After watching your video, I swapped the USB for one that is over 10 years old, and it is working a treat again. Many thanks.
Thank you!!! I can't believe that little wiggle on the USB actually fixed the problem, I was going nuts! Much Love and Happy New Year!!!
Same for me, neither the hub or ethernet connection worked until I wiggled it out a little.
Me too, thanks for this!!
I've just set this up having purchased it all in January and it didn't work, no ethernet connection or no additional storage & to late to send back to Amazon so I was a bit annoyed so I'm glad that you did this video. All it was was the USB was pushed in too far, pulled it out a little and bam all working.
Thank you Adam and thank you to the person who suggested that. 👍
I literally had the same problem with the ugreen hub not working, I did what one of the people in the comments said ( you mentioned him ) and I pulled the usb input out a little bit and it worked!! Many thanks that person
this worked for me. Thank you
I purchased the OTG cable along with the U-green hub as per the video "Turn your Firestick Into a Streaming Beast" for my 4K Firestick. Sadly the hub would not recognize either a USB stick or the ethernet cable being plugged in. I tried plugging the hub into the PC it it worked just fine, so I knew it wasn't dead. The OTG cable recognized a flash drive right away, so I was good there.
I saw and then followed Dave Simpsons suggestion regarding installing a very short USB extension ahead of the hub and everything worked like a charm instantly. Not sure why this makes a difference but, it surely did for mine
I saw where Paul Carranza stated he contacted U-green and they told him "IT IS NOT DESIGNED TO WORK WITH THE FIRE STICK". It may not be designed to work with the Firestick but, it definitely does with the little mod.
Cheers :)
Man. You are the absolute best.
I watched this video a long time ago and actually gave it a thumbs up- even though I didn't think any of the suggestions would work for me.
I did a search again today and your familiar face was the first that popped up.
To my amazement, the suggestions that made the least amount of sense is the one that solved the problem I was having for a year.
After plugging in the USB source, I backed it out slightly and what do you know.
I thank you so much.
I know this is an old video but it is still helping. My Ugreen adapter stopped working, i tried disconnecting and reconnecting all the cables and it didn't work so I bought a new one from amazon. It didn't work either so I searched for answers on the net and found this video.
A wiggle on the USB between the adapter and the OTG and hey presto, it works. Now I have an adapter I don't need lol.
Thanks, I love your channel.
Pulling the cable out a bit helped me out too! Cheers all
Can’t thank you enough for this video! I have been struggling to get the Ethernet connection working on the ugreen hub - I followed the advice on loosening the usb connection to the otg and it worked!!! Thanks so much!
just sent the hub and power adapter back to amazon. did all the above and more and still would not work.. then i read online that the usb hub is not working for a lot of the new firestick models !! very disappointed ..
So glad I watch this video yesterday. Just had one delivered plugged it all in it didn’t work. So I done the little pull on the USB bit and worked straight away. I learn so much through your videos cannot thank you enough 👍👍👍
Awesome stuff Peter. Who would have thought that fix would work 🤷♂️😂🍻
I know it’s a weird one.. but I’m so glad you’ve done a video on it and put it out there because I’ve literally just had one delivered plugged it in didn’t work done you little trick works a treat.. can’t thank you enough for doing the little videos that you do m8 TOP WORK 👍👍👍
Having problems with firecube not recognising otg or usb mrmory stick
@@happihibby You shouldn’t have a problem connecting it if you pay attention to this RUclips video..
Play close attention to when it comes down to wiggling the USB bit and then you shouldn’t have any problems but you may have to restart your device a few times
@@peterbenneyworth6450 yea was my stupidity to be honest but thank you 😀
7:45 110v vs 220v is irrelevant as both are converted to 5v USB power anyway.
In most cases a universal power supply included with a device will be rated something like 220V at 5A or 110V and 10A. Meaning both are putting out the same wattage (power) of 1100 watts.
We're legends like Bielsa in Leeds. Great help for the community Adam.
This is very cool, but I am having a problem getting the firestick to recognize my WD 1 T usb hard drive. Does the hard drive need to be formatted FAT 32? If so, I can't get either my home computer which is running Windows 7 or my laptop to do this. Mt home computer USB can't deal with the size and my laptop doesn't offer FAT 32 as an option. All the other functions and wireless controller work great. Any suggestions please...Thanks for the great content! Also, I found a solution to one of the power problems, I was using the a TV power source for this setup and was having problems, so I tried using the opriginal Amazon power source to the firestick and that fixed the power issue for me.
It is the settings in the TV settings for the for the the video resolution fix the Wi-Fi on the fourth generation fire stick cube
Wow! Wiggling out the Ethernet adapter slightly actually worked, thanks a lot... was literally just about to send the adapter back lol. Have a sub 👍
That video was a definite help, I only recently found your BEAST video & picked up the accessories. Didn't work though.
I gave the cable a wiggle & a slight tug and the blue light came on. Sorted !!
Yeah, i like every once & awhile to give my 'cable' a wiggle & slight tug too!
Thank you so much for this. I purchased all the bits with a voucher I got for Christmas and went to set it all up today. It didn't work. Watched this video and pulled the connection out slightly between the OTG and USB hub and hey presto, it worked! Mad that it fixes it haha 😂 we are all good and my Wechip remote is working now too. Thanks all :-)
Pulling it a little bit out from the OTG cable worked for me. Amazing, thank you very much.
OMG... That fixed my issue
I’m trying to wire direct to the modem and router at the same time using rj-45 splitter problem is fire stick 4K is not recognizing the wired connection. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thank you!
I was one that previously commented I could not get the Ethernet connection to work. I watched this video and was skeptical. The first thing I tried was to pull the usb part out partway and that worked. Thank you for the tips!
Awesoke to hear Rory. Crazy that works and I too was skeptical 😂🍻
Great video that solved my problem. After moving house I could't get my Firestick 4k max to see the USB hub or LAN cable (despite the same set up working perfectly in my previous property). I just pulled the USB connection from the hub to the OTG cable out approx 1-2mm or until the blue lights come on the hub and my problem was solved.
For good measure I upgraded the power supply to the Firestick and atttached one to the hub. All hunky dory now !!
I solved the problem after watching the section about wiggling the plug out a little and now it works fine. Thanks for the help
quality, i bought the bits you suggested to hook firestick 4k up to the ethernet cable and at first it didnt work...but i pulled the usb plug out a couple of mm and voila, im now connected with greater speeds! top bloke, tar very muchly...
Unreal ! I spent hours online lookin for the answer, then I find this laughin brit, and he tells me to loosen the OTG to ethernet and USB adapter, and bada bing ! Ockhams Razor again. I appreciate your info relay from across the pond mate. -
From a Scot in NH.
Have used this hub since your first video about it after ordering it, I've never had any problems with it .
Where you get the hub from and was it a Ugreen hub ? Thanks
@@alanpennington1646 Yes ugreen on amazon
OKAY Thanks
What worked for me (probably covered somewhere in earlier 486 comments). This is for larger than 32gb USB's. No problems with my FS 4KMax - detected large USB and formatted it for use. Not so with my FS Lite - recognized 32gb USB, but nothing at all happened when I tried larger USB's (wanting to add/access a bunch of movies in mkv/mp4 format, via VLC). Downloaded AOMEI, and formatted the 512gb USB to FAT32, plugged back into the OTG and the FS Lite & VLC recognized it straight away, and played well. As I'm typing this I just realized all I had to do was let my FS 4K Max format the 512gb USB!!!
I'm having the same issue with the Firestick still connected to wifi after plugging in the adapter. I'm not home now and just found your video. Will check out all these fixes when I get home. Thanks for all you do. I'll post my results. Cheers!
Backing the plug out a bit did the trick! Thanks 😌😊 so much.
Amazing...loosening the connection between the OTG cable & Ethernet adaptor worked! Thanks for sharing.
I have had all them problems you have mentioned in the end it drove me mad and I binned the idea glad you made this lastest video I will try some of your fixes Thanks
I've quit my job at the cat shelter
I had no choice as they cut meowers
Ahaha! -- That one deserves a handful of Irish confetti - (Gravel)
What's the largest USB drive I can add to the otg cable to record off my firestick
I'm currently using a 2nd Gen Fire TV Device. I'd like to be able to add 10/100/1000 ethernet adapter to this by getting a UGREEN USB 3.0 Hub Ethernet Adapter or going with a Amazon Ethernet 10/100/1000 adapter. But I did read somewhere that in order to get the full capability of a gigbit ethernet connection you should make sure you are using USB 3.0. With that stated my 2nd Gen fireTV device contains a USB 2.0 plug in option. not sure if either of these ethernet adaptors would work for me to get the full gigbit capability. Would I be better up upgrading my fire TV to the latest firestick or Amazon cube or something. Just looking for some pointer here. Thanks
Wow..wiggling the usb connections between the adapter and the ocg cable made my hub work. Dumbest fix I've ever seen. Thanks dude.
Yep this worked for me too but it was too late as I already ordered a power supply for the USB adapter!! This was on the fire stick 4 K
Why do moths fly with their legs open?
Have you seen the size of moth balls?
Can I use a USB drive in my Fire Cuve through the supplied Ethernet adapter, with an OTG cable or adapter, to increase memory?
An update to my problem with a new V.3 Firestick and Ugreen hubs that work perfectly with other Firesticks but not with my new V.3. After I got the memory stick working with a different brand of Usb hub I also tried an old generic 2.0 Usb hub and it worked fine with the V.3 Firestick and memory stick. I then rummaged around and found I had a Usb Ethernet adapter and plugged it into the working Usb hub that does not have built in ethernet and it works fine. From this experience perhaps a suggestion may be that if the wiggle trick does not work for you and have or can borrow alternative hardware give that a try.
I have an Transpe.ed Android 13 TV stick.
I've bought a otg adapter & plugged into one end of the TV stick USB & the other RJ45 end into my modem.
The modem light's up on that port.( No built in light on the otg adapter )
When I check the settings, on the TV stick only the wireless connection is made. No ethernet connection show's
I've tried pulling out the USB a bit, but nothing changes... I've rebooted several times etc...
HELP
Joke, a little kid threw some cheese and milk at me earlier, how dairy 🤗
Does the increasing storge thing work with all models of firestick? I have the base model, connected the otg cable with a fat32 formatted thumbdrive and nothing, no sign the drive is there. The firesticks all appear to have the same processer.
Hey. I am using the otg cable from Amazon and while it works fine with a simple usb stick, I don't have ethernet connection when I plug the U Green ethernet adaptor...
Hey Bub, I'm trying to feed my firestick into my tv's USB port- not power it from there. The reason why is because all four of my HDMI ports stopped working slowly one at a time. Any tricks to keep me watching the tube with my firestick? I'm kind of surprised I'm not seeing more people have this issue, and that more people aren't trying to convert their HDMI plugs into USB plugs.
Also, do you have any insight as to why my HDMI ports all quit working? They started out just kind of randomly cutting out which would sometimes annoyingly cause my firestick to reboot. Then eventually, they would just flash and not show the home screen at all.
Thanks!
having the same issue with my org cable, purchased 2 different ones from amazon and still can't see my hdd, will dig out a different usb device to see if that makes any difference.
I’m using Firestik 4k os 6.7
with the og adapter kit recommended, San disk 128 thumb for storage.
Question - storage in my fire shows no external, in stick setting’s application, manage installed apps, all of my applications are on external and show the usb symbol except the damn Amazons that won’t relocate- when ya hover over highlighted apk, on right is details of apk and under storage, usb is listed for all apk’s but read - USB:0B?
Why?? Is it not showing and stored data, I have 38 apk’s on external???
Pulling the USB cable out a bit worked!!! Thank you so much!!!
Wiggle the connection like suggested at 5mins seems to bring something up on the network screen but went off tried a second otg cable and now WiFi off? Rebooted WiFi on no wired connection. PROBLEM I noticed the e the Ethernet is not recognised as plugged in to something on the router. You get a yellow light to tell you it’s hooked up to a device and it does not light up on this. Switched cables and the light went out so something wrong either the Ethernet connection on the ugreen device
What happens when you have an Otg cable is making the firestick black out the sceen intermittently? Tried to put the stick directly into the hdmi slot on the tv but there is no space? The stick is too long for the allocated space?
Pulled the usb cable as you suggested and amazingly this worked for me too.
Just purchased the new 4K Max FireStick. When I installed any 3rd party app, it was grayed out. If I went into manage applications, they were there and visable but not on the home screen. Any guidence would be grestly appreciated.
Never missed a video of yours..much love from India..
I have the exact same accessories but when connected I go to es file explorer it shows the external storage loading but doesn't load. Any advice please
I’ve got 3 4K Firesticks, 2 with both the USB hub and OTG and the other with just the OTG all kit bought from Amazon and no issues with the exception of the 4K in the living room randomly restarting itself every now and then and when running through the process using Remote ADB app I didn’t get the pop up message when I plugged in the USB to indicate the FS recognises it but it’s all up and running regardless.
What's the largest USB hard drive that can be used please
My Ethernet will simply not register through the usb hub. I don't understand how this is powered out of the box. Doesn't seem to be covered in your set up description although later you do mention it may require a 5v power supply which I've now ordered. Both OTG usb cable and Ugreen usb hub seem to be working as somehow I got a blue light by getting some power to it somehow whilst messing about but I can't get the network signal through as it is. Frustrating.
hi mate ive got the ugreen gigabit ethernet adaptor but it wont work with my internet on firestick
Thank You! Success! After I worked out some of the glitches It worked fine. Just so if you get any questions. My UGreen USB ports did not work on my 4K, neither did the Ethernet connector. I used the Amazon Ethernet adapter and the OTG cable directly to my 4K and it got the job done. Once again Thank You for this video it helped me work out my issues.
Hi got the amazon Ethernet connector and otg cable can't get Internet connection with this ??
@@christopherprice55 You need the Ethernet Adapter too.
Sorry I have the Ethernet Adapter still not able to connect through the otg cable with expandable memory. By Adapter u mean the square box with the small lead coming off it ??
Thanks Chris
Hi I bought some of these usb/ethernet hubs.There are 2 types the KY-888 AND KY 800. The KY-888 works on all firesticks the KY-800 DOES NOT WORK ON THE FIRE STICK.
My fire stick recognises the Ethernet connection but apps won’t load? Also when I run a signal strength scan, it says can’t be performed at the moment. Any ideas? It’s a generic adapter bought off eBay., could this possibly be the issue.?
My system works great bro, thanks to you. I use the same stuff you recommend. Im wondering: I use it with a usb remote, and a 1t hard drive connected to the usb ports. Question is. Can I somehow see this drive on the network, being that its connected to my router via ethernet cable? I cant see recording movies with tivimate, and taking the hard drive off to get the movies on my media server. What u think?
Where can l buy something to power Ugreen’s Ethernet 3 USB adapter? any help/guidance will be greatly appreciated
Pulling the UGreen usb adapter out abit helped me too, so thanks Adam!!
i just bought the ugreen ethernet usb , at the manual it says that need the driver need to be install before using ,but when i plug the ugreen ethernet at my amazon fire tv cube , so far its working fine without install/download the driver i just plug and play , speed test run so far so good , usb port also so far also smooth..
so my question did i still need to install the driver at my amazon tv cube sir ?
5:10 THANK YOU!!! I have a Gen 2 firebox/firecube that eventually needed space but wouldn't detect a usb drive. Switched the debugging and it poped right up.
Does the speed of your internet make any difference can’t get the adapter to be recognized but I only have 2.5ghz internet was wondering if it needs 5Ghz to work?
I am using an older plasma television with usb port. I tried to install the ugreen 4 port hub and otg cable with firestick via hdmi cable to usb converter plugged into the hub. Well my television displays cannot recognize devise. So I am I wasting my time trying to do all those devises on a older plasma television?
I bought the U-Green and worked for a minute then it stopped, so I returned it and got a replacement. The replacement didn’t work either. I contacted u-green and they told me IT IS NOT DESIGNED TO WORK WITH THE FIRE STICK, so I returned it. I purchased the USB upgrade from U-green (the silver one without the LED lights) worked like a charm.
Could you provide an Amazon link, thank you.
I didn't think you were from Tennessee. 🤓 I am and also am tech-non-savvy. I've been trying to increase my storage with the otg cable since my son gave me the 4k firestick. Can't figure it out in American English or UK English. ES file Explorer shows my USB as usbotg. The up arrow is shaded out. Do you have a video showing installation and how to use all in one?
By the way, how do you format to fat32?
I’ve got the 2 cord dongle to utilize the SSD. I also purchased Amazon’s Ethernet connector. When I hooked up the Ethernet connection. The SSD stopped working. It would only work with one or the other. Not both.
Do I have to have an OTG cable or can I just use the ugreen multi port adapter and hard wire into the router and firestick? What do I need the OTG cable for?
Best dude in the business. You and tduk are the best hands down, only people I listen to
Thank you for that bud 🍻
Just been sweating at my cable’s and tried pulling usb out slightly and OMG it’s working great thank you 😊😊😊😊
Swearing 😢😢
Thanks so much for these videos. Watched loads now. Thanks to Andy Russell and yourself for the tip pulling it slightly out of the otg cable. Fixed connection problem straight away. Was just about to fettle it with the lump hammer... many thanks 😁👍
No problem at all bud and who would have thought this fix would actually work 🤷♂️😂🍻
I do not have developer options on my Firestick
Your set up works ok for me except 1 or 2 times a day it randomly says usb drive removed and I have restart whatever app I'm running from the usb.
I have the OTG cable but the FireStick doesn’t recognize it. However I can get the file explorer app to recognize it so I can download movies to the app, then copy/paste then onto the USB drive.
I'm using the Avyxm ethernet adaptor usb 3.0 and it won't work. I've tested both cables and they work fine. Hooked the adaptor to my Samsung and got a wires connection so that cable works fine..Then I tried the USB of other cable my connecting a wireless keyboard and it worked fine also. I just don't understand why I can't get them to work together. Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks
Wicked video solved my problem, I've configured 20 odd 4 k sticks with OTG and 32 gb flash drives, and odd times suffer from crashing and continual rebooting tried everything I know, your comment on the Amazon plug only 1 amp makes sense the stick is trying to pull more power as ther is no fuse it will crash, now using my iPads charger no issues at all many many thanks.
Brilliant stuff John 🍻
Mine also randomly restarts itself so will give that a bash. Sharing is caring 💪
Had the issue with connecting with Ethernet. All fixed now. I did what you said and unplugged the Ethernet adapter, plugged it back in a few times untill 3 lights came up, unplugged the Ethernet cable to the router and plugged back in and Boom Boom shake the room. The issue is with smaller adapters connection. May try a new one if it plays up. 👍
That's awesome. A crazy fix though 😂🍻
I was attempting to add more space to my fire stick however The flash drive doesn't show up I'm not sure why I purchased a two pack of ogt connectors it will show me at the bottom right hand side of the TV that it has been removed and when I plug it up I'll see the little label icon for the USB port appear but that's it when I actually go under storage all I see is you know the regular storage for the fire stick I know nothing's wrong with the flash drive because I have successfully put it in my TV not to mention I've tried this with several flash drives it's just not showing up kind of can't do anything without being able to see the storage
you brilliant bastard, I'd buy you a bottle if you were in the same country as me. It made my wired connection work again! Thank you! Now my fire stick can truly be a beast!
Really great information that could help me a lot ☺️ just found your channel and really happy I did .I use a lot of ugreen products and didn't know ugreen made one will be buying on of there's never had a problem with any item of there's cheers shez have a great day
Cheers Shez. Have an awesome day 🍻
@@FreeTech no problems thanks
Thanks for this follow up. I got the kit per your first video and it was not working. Followed your suggestions and it was actually loosening up the USB that made it suddenly work - thanks!
Have ethernet cable plugged straight in TV as smart TV wouldn't pick up WiFi if use this device to help Amazon stick work better as again rubbish WiFi will it still work for the smart TV or do I need 2 ethernet cables so getting main internet signal on both if that makes sense in UK
Also think seen on one your videos you have sky go all on Amazon stick do you have a video how to download it. Thank you
my problem is during use the Ugreen hub & sandisk 128gb jump drive the firestick randomly ejects the USB. I even added a 5v adaptor to power the hub and that made it worse
so the hub works but it randomly just ejects to the drive (I have tried several different jump drives)
I'm in the UK and the firestick is powered from the wall socket.
I've got a tv app on my firestick that allows me to record channels can I do it with this set-up (bigger storage) thanks 😊
The problem I had ( using the Ugreen adapter ) was the USB stick was showing in file manager Aps, but not showing under the Firestick 4k settings. The FS 4k even had the cheek to tell me I had to format to Fat32! It did this for me and the USB stick active light was on, but still never showed up in settings. The Ethernet was running perfectly. It seems its an OS problem. This only gets picked up and then formatted for internal storage for firesticks with OS 7. Those with OS 6 ( like what I have ) have to download an ADB app then run some commands to get it to access the firestick as storage, or part storage part memory stick. This was relatively easy to do but not as quick as having OS 7 in the first place. Just glad I didn't throw the adapter out as was getting frustrating!!
Ethernet cable lights are blinking but no wired connection detected. Tried a replacement Ugreen firestick adapter. Same problem. Tried the wiggling. What to do?
sir, thanks for all of your good advice, i have a queastion, not concerning this post ,can i put my youtube playlists, that are on firestick, smart tube next,no ads, of course, can i have them converted to mp3 from the firestick, is there an app, local , i could install and use? if not can i install google drive and puy them in my drive to be in files and folders ready to be converted? i want them on my new mp3 player. any and all ideas or suggestions will be greatly appreciated
Added USB to firestick 4k max. Only able to move 5 files using firestick features. Also, I have 3 different file explorers and none on them see the USB. Is there a setting I am missing?
Considering this video is about a different set of accessories for the Firestick this is probably not the best place to ask, but I'm new to this Firestick stuff and still learning, so maybe I can get an answer here, if anything maybe I can add to the pool of knowledge being built here. Before anyone asks I'd rather not have to buy another piece of hardware if I can help it, with everything going on in the world I do not have a spare $25-ish to get the UGREEN USB hub/ethernet adaptor right now, things are tight.
I'm using the official Amazon Ethernet adaptor, came with the second hand Firestick when it was gifted to me, and a different OTG cable I had beforehand, a TUSITA 3-port charging OTG cable which you can find on Amazon. I cannot get both to work at the same time. Which ever of the devices comes second in the little daisy chain will let enough power through for the Firestick to boot up and function, no continuous restarts or anything, but other than that it won't work. I'm thinking that maybe it's because the female micro USB ports on both are designed to only allow power through, no actual inputs of any kind, but I don't have any other devices that use micro USB to test this idea with.
Everything worked straight away but my download speed dropped to half vs WiFi? Any fixes?
I purchased the otg and green adaptor so I could plug in a portable ssd drive and remote ... the remote works fine but never could get the fire stick to pick up the drive ... is it too big?? Or are there issues with connecting a drive of that type?? Haven’t tried a stick yet
In my case my USB hub that was new didn't seem to work but a second type worked perfectly. So exchanging cables and hubs is a really great idea.
I was having this issue with a 4K fire stick. Pulling the USB cable out a little did not work for me. I also tried using a USB C cable and charging block which supplies a little more power. That did not work either. Just to see what would happen I tried the setup on an older fire stick that I have on another TV. Surprise, surprise it worked! Now everything was the same except for the TV’s and the Firesticks. It failed on a LG TV with a 4K Firestick and worked on a Samsung TV with a non-4K version. Basically, this ruled out the setup I was using having bad cables or connectors. Go figure. I would be interested to know if the people who are having trouble all have 4K Firesticks, Or do some of the failures happen on non-4K Firesticks?
I have the Amazon OTG cable with a usb connection as well as the connection for the Firestick. The OTG does not find the thumb drive at all. I’ve tried most of the fixes I’ve read about. I did get it working sporadically on the Cube, but it turns to 💩 fairly quickly.
I took your tip and plugged a nano receptor into the OTG and that works.
Not sure why the thumb drive has issues. Restarts, etc. do nothing.
I enjoy your vids.
Thanks
i have had no problems since watching your video and buying the equipment - thanks ... however is it possible to save apps to a memory dongle to save firestick space and if so can you make a video on how to? ... thanks again
My firestick won't recognise my USB drive but works fine with the ugreen ethernet but if I plug in the USB drive it disconnects the ethernet?
Would it be possible to connect a USB C hub to a firestick??
Just had to get one for my firestick as the wifi decided not to work on it but took me a while to get it working thanks to commentors tips in this video. I took USB out slightly and it came on now have 4K and a steady 92mbs connection :) Used a generic Omivine usb ethernet adapter with 3 usb ports £11 off amazon worth every penny
This worked great but I had to get another thumb drive. My firestick said the drive had to be fat32. I couldn't reformat because all my movies are on that drive. Does the 4k fire stick use other than fat32. Ntfs
Also, I downloaded ES file manager and it will not give me an icon. I can start it from app manager in settings though.
The Ugreen worked great.
Thanks for all the videos.