Well holy crap, I just purchased my first Firestick 4K Max and didnt realize just how powerful this thing is ! Mind you, I paid $95 for mine but then I am in Canada and you know how that goes and now need to go out and buy some more goodies. Good stuff …. Thanks …. 😊
Absolutely brilliant easy to do firestick storage update, my son could do this for me within the time you made a couple of coffees,I’m a disabled army war veteran,and having the easy access to stored recorded movies is far better,than chasing all over the internet to find something I like. Well done mate,great job. 👍……jimmy
Bruuuuuh! Thank you for this. I was so disappointed when I ordered all the equipment and couldn't figure out why it wasn't working. Thank you for this!
I'm glad I saw this. Aside from perhaps my own little modification this is pretty much how I'm going to setup my outdoor TV and issues with electrical outlets on a post. Thanks dude!
I’ve learned more about fire sticks than anyone else posting helpful hints I just want to thank you sir been using my 4 k max and learned everything about it from you I hope all your followers pay attention to you, you explain everything to where it’s easy to do and again thank you.
As long as you understand that stability of signal is more important that the speed number. Please make sure you watch our video on it. Super important
I only saw part 1 and attempted to try the setup. It worked really well, but never followed up on the rest because of life. Now with this comprehensive guide, I'll be doing expansion on my GF's Firestick and my own.
That's awesome. I can't wait to do this to my firestick. Thanks, I love your videos. On a fixed income but I try to keep up with the latest technology. Keep doing what you do. Again, thank you for your time it helps us people who need a little help. 😊
Awesome advice as usual! YOU were the one who got me interested in getting a friestick in the beginning. I have always found your suggestions and advice invaluable. Thank you.
FANTASTIC....I saw the 3 separate videos but I must say this is a great idea to have all three videos together. I am going to buy the Mission Power cable because I have been having problems with the Firestick and I didn't know what was causing this (on Amazon UK they have a third-party Power Cable but I plumped for the one you recommended as I have seen some negative reviews of the third party one). I really do think this cable will do the job that I want. Do you not think that the Firestick should have more storage than what it has? Great Video....keep on doing what you are doing. Thanks Harry (Northern Ireland)
Thanks again for another great video, as I update my fire sticks your videos get paused alot, rewound and watched again. can't beleave I said rewound shows how old I am
I really could use that O T G adapter!! Please pick me 😊 I love all your helpful Videos! They really do teach me A-lot about the Fire Stick. 4K mak is awesome! I learn different things all the time!! Thank You 😊
Great video and information. If your TV only has a USB 2.0 port, will it still supply enough wattage to power a external hard drive and the Amazon Firestick 4K Max, since the USB power adapter that comes with it is rated at 15 watts?
Depends on the drive. A thumb drive, yes. But if you are trying to get a 2TB, do the method we shared in our recent video with the use of a Mission powered cable. It will boost and hold the power to the drive.
Would using a 2TB thumb drive have any disadvantages or make it a complicated problem? Is it something you have covered before that I missed? You rock and helping us out is awesome. James
I purchased the equipment you listed in your video, which are the fire stick 4K max, the 0TG adapter, and the mission USB power cable. When the fire stick 4K MAX formats the 2 TB storage, for the device storage, the new app are still being download to the fire stick 4K internal storage, and not the device storage that the fire stick TV 4K is formatting. Is there anything that can be done?
Did you try installing from aptoide? You might be selecting apps from the Amazon App Store that can't go to external. If you install the same apps from aptoide, they will
we don't know our passwords and are afraid of losing our stuff. can we discover our passwords or backup the fire stick or maybe transfer the data into a newer fire stick? we have two fire sticks and they are both very old with only 5 gig of space. i love your videos and im going to order some of this stuff from amazon. thanks for all of your help
Great instructional video. Purchase everything from above links you had recommended. You mentioned recording tivimate to Seagate 2t can't figure out how to do that could you explain please THANK YOU
Got the equipment, set up as in your video, Still not detecting external storage. Not even getting the UNABLE TO READ USB DEVICE SCREEN. Can you advise?
We actually have some help videos for people that might have missed a step. Most issues are getting the wrong drive (we linked the correct one for you), or did not pre-charge the mission cable. Basic stuff. If you got the wrong drive, you may have to format it FAT32 separately, or replace is with the Seagate Slim One Touch
I brought everything you recommended. I had trouble with hard drive being recognized. But i formatted it and then the fire stick recognized it. I then reformatted the hard drive with the fire stick. All seemed to work ok. But when i turned it on again the fire tv stick would not boot. I found out tha gwhen i took out the hard drive the fire tv stick would boot up. But when i put in the hard drive the fire tv stick would just die and i would get a blank screen. If i unhooked the hard drive it would boot up again. Looks like power adapter that plugs in usb on tv has not enough power to support hard drive. I tried a usb thumb drive and had the same results. Do you think i have a bad usb power boost device? I even tried swapping otg cable.
It’s a power issue for you. Either you didn’t pre-charge the mission power cable as required before first use, or your usb on your tv doesn’t supply enough power to keep it charged. Not sure which cause I’m not there
How new of a TV does it have to be to be able to power the USB power supply? I think I remember older models may not be able to do this from a previous video... As always love the content and appreciate the tips and tech recommemdations.
That's some really good information and how to. For applications installed on the usb storage, do they get updated automatically from the Amazon app store?
I did everything even bought the additional usb ports. When I plug the 2 tb in I don’t get the pop up on the storage page to be able to set it up? What could be reason? I do have the 4k max
Do only certain apps transfer to the external drive? or can you store all your apps on the external drive so your firestick has only a couple apps on it? I currently am only able to save 3 or 4 apps to my external drive and everything else goes to my firestick. Am I doing something wrong? Great video and channel you have.
Only certain ones if you are installing from the amazon app store, but all if you install from aptoide. Do you have that app store installed? We have installers on patreon
Hey, I did this and it works great. Most of the apps I add go on the memory stick. My question is, is there an app that would let me download videos or pictures to the firestick ( new 4k max with higher memory, or to the memory stick. Thanks again, your videos are a great help.
I have a question I just got seagate 2TB storage. I did everything. Now when I was going to look at the apps I downloaded. It went into a loop. And something was beeping and now it stopped. And this came on my tv Amazon fire tv stick HDMI 1 No signal Do you have any idea why this is happening
Did you get the mission cable, charge it for 10 min before first use? Make sure to get the "slim" seagate? Super important due to power draw. We literally give you all the links in the video description
When you use explorer and transfer apps to usb unit and there is an update to any individual app you get error message "not enough space to update". At that point you need to uninstall the app and reinstall it and then transfer the app back the usb unit.
Ok, first I should say I am in the UK. I followed instructions on this video buying the command cable and the usb hub with LAN socket. I connected as instructed started firestick then plugged in portable usb 2 TB hard drive and formatted as instructed and installed a app. After a little while the firestick seemed to loose connection witht the external drive and suspect loss of power to portable disk. It then turned off and tried repeatedly to restart failed, restrart fail repeatedly. I then connected with wifi and used main power with OTG in line to which I connected the portable drive. Same issues, installed apps on the portable wouldn't run aagain lost connection. System still showing external drive but cant access and firestick locked up. Went back to basic connecctions and all is well. Have reformatted the portable on my PC to NTFS and it seems to function. Any idea whats going on? Thanks
Did you charge the mission cable for 10 min prior to first use like mentioned in the video and the tag on the cord itself? Almost sounds like you didn't? Also make sure you are using the exact drive we linked or it could draw too much power and cause this to happen.
@@CuriosityCafethanks for quick response, you are correct, I didnt at first but then did that but had same problem. No I am using an existing drive but I went back to mains power and still had problems where it was loosing connection with drive and locking up. It was showing the drive available but if I clicked on it in My Firestick the stick just locked up.I am on a brand new 4K Max
Honestly sounds like an issue with either the drive, or your usb port isn't supporting the power draw. Not all drives are compatible. I would try using the outlet instead of the usb port on your tv. if it's still doing it, you need a low power draw drive. We linked a few in our videos. I have many here that don't work like large thumb drives, some cheaper drives and my SSD... none work. I've tested many. That's why I put the links in there for you.
When I click on the OTG hub you have in your list, it does not show the one you are using in your video. The one Amazon shows and I ordered is a wall power type. How do you make it work with your Firestick so I can have Ethernet. Good video except for the OGB hub.
I can’t see it in my head. I am technically challenged senior. You have one power plug on Firestick. If you plug in the adapter where does the Mission power plug go. What am I missing. I need to see how you use/ hook up the split USB hub and still have the power block. Thanks.
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Well holy crap, I just purchased my first Firestick 4K Max and didnt realize just how powerful this thing is ! Mind you, I paid $95 for mine but then I am in Canada and you know how that goes and now need to go out and buy some more goodies. Good stuff …. Thanks …. 😊
Absolutely brilliant easy to do firestick storage update, my son could do this for me within the time you made a couple of coffees,I’m a disabled army war veteran,and having the easy access to stored recorded movies is far better,than chasing all over the internet to find something I like. Well done mate,great job. 👍……jimmy
Bruuuuuh! Thank you for this. I was so disappointed when I ordered all the equipment and couldn't figure out why it wasn't working. Thank you for this!
I'm glad I saw this. Aside from perhaps my own little modification this is pretty much how I'm going to setup my outdoor TV and issues with electrical outlets on a post. Thanks dude!
Thank you. We wouldn't be able to use the Firestick without your help
I’ve learned more about fire sticks than anyone else posting helpful hints I just want to thank you sir been using my 4 k max and learned everything about it from you I hope all your followers pay attention to you, you explain everything to where it’s easy to do and again thank you.
As long as you understand that stability of signal is more important that the speed number. Please make sure you watch our video on it. Super important
@@CuriosityCafe absolutely true
Wow! Incredible. I'm amazed. I had no clue all these features were available!
I increased my storage on all my sticks and cubes a few years ago. Works great. I record from Tv mate all the time. Love the insane sorage.
Never thought about using an OTG adapter, and wasn't aware of the booster/usb. Thanks SO much for this video
Very good and easy video, very informative!!! 😊
Perfect "how to" right there. You're always a wealth of knowledge. You help so many of us! Thank you.
I love you content I’m always learning new things to do to my Firestick. Thank you
I only saw part 1 and attempted to try the setup. It worked really well, but never followed up on the rest because of life. Now with this comprehensive guide, I'll be doing expansion on my GF's Firestick and my own.
Good info, as usual. Ive been following you for years now!
Wow!!! Well said brother. Thanks for the cool info. It is appropriated.
Awesome!! I need that!! Thanks for all your helpful videos!!
That's awesome. I can't wait to do this to my firestick. Thanks, I love your videos. On a fixed income but I try to keep up with the latest technology. Keep doing what you do. Again, thank you for your time it helps us people who need a little help. 😊
GREAT info. Excited to get one and put it to work.
Thanks for all of the info on what to get to add external memory to firestick
Thank you for the classes every time señor I learn a lot from you👏👏👏💪👍
thanks for all the information you provided for us I have learned a lot
You are the best at what you do
Great job
All of your info is so helpful. Thank you! ❤
Thank you for the video, it was a great help in getting it all put together.
Glad you posted this, just found the step I missed lol.
This is great and one of your better videos. Did not know they made a usb power cable. No more cable dangling down to the wall plug.
Very nice setup works like a charm
Great video thank u so much, I’m definitely going to do this 👍🏾👍🏾😊
Love this setup. Great info. Thank you
Thanks for letting me know the usb power booster bricked are back in stock. Just ordered 5 of them!
Thanx for all you do…
Awesome advice as usual! YOU were the one who got me interested in getting a friestick in the beginning. I have always found your suggestions and advice invaluable. Thank you.
Thank you! I’ve learned so much from you over the years.
Great information 👍
Great and useful video
Explained in detail and well done
I definitely going to this to my 4k max
And if I had another one too
That’s awesome
Very good and easy understanding
Wow, that's awesome. Thanks for the video. Get up the great work.
FANTASTIC....I saw the 3 separate videos but I must say this is a great idea to have all three videos together. I am going to buy the Mission Power cable because I have been having problems with the Firestick and I didn't know what was causing this (on Amazon UK they have a third-party Power Cable but I plumped for the one you recommended as I have seen some negative reviews of the third party one). I really do think this cable will do the job that I want. Do you not think that the Firestick should have more storage than what it has? Great Video....keep on doing what you are doing. Thanks Harry (Northern Ireland)
Thank You! ❤ This answered I think all my questions from your set up video! I needed this it was Great! Awesome content 😃🥂
Amazing
I love watching your videos. I have learned so much.
Great video, very informative and easy to follow.
Thank you very much sir, very informative 😎
It's awesome that you do this. Thank you
Man that was awesome I have to get that mission power cable, an I do get lots of buffering so being without the power cord will be good thanks
Wouldn't mind the whole set. Plus the expansion cables. Watching from kenya
Thanks again for another great video, as I update my fire sticks your videos get paused alot, rewound and watched again. can't beleave I said rewound shows how old I am
Love all of your videos so helpful!!!
I really could use that O T G adapter!! Please pick me 😊 I love all your helpful Videos! They really do teach me A-lot about the Fire Stick. 4K mak is awesome! I learn different things all the time!! Thank You 😊
Great job lots of room thanks
Very Interesting....I am going to give it a try.
This is great video and so much better method. Thanks
Great vidio many thanks your the man
Very tech savvy. Thanks so much
great job as always
Oh snap!! I love it
as usual, really helpful
Thanks for your videos!
Thanks so much for this video.
Great video and information. If your TV only has a USB 2.0 port, will it still supply enough wattage to power a external hard drive and the Amazon Firestick 4K Max, since the USB power adapter that comes with it is rated at 15 watts?
Depends on the drive. A thumb drive, yes. But if you are trying to get a 2TB, do the method we shared in our recent video with the use of a Mission powered cable. It will boost and hold the power to the drive.
Thank you for this info very helpful
I’m thinking of extending my new 4K Max fire stick now to 1 terabyte that’s plenty all the kit for around £70 I’ve looked on Amazon 👍🏻cheers
I like this video you exsplain it simple terms
Would using a 2TB thumb drive have any disadvantages or make it a complicated problem? Is it something you have covered before that I missed?
You rock and helping us out is awesome.
James
great setup
I purchased the equipment you listed in your video, which are the fire stick 4K max, the 0TG adapter, and the mission USB power cable. When the fire stick 4K MAX formats the 2 TB storage, for the device storage, the new app are still being download to the fire stick 4K internal storage, and not the device storage that the fire stick TV 4K is formatting. Is there anything that can be done?
Did you try installing from aptoide? You might be selecting apps from the Amazon App Store that can't go to external. If you install the same apps from aptoide, they will
i didn't know thx learn something knew everyday
I need this. Thanks for the info.
we don't know our passwords and are afraid of losing our stuff. can we discover our passwords or backup the fire stick or maybe transfer the data into a newer fire stick? we have two fire sticks and they are both very old with only 5 gig of space. i love your videos and im going to order some of this stuff from amazon. thanks for all of your help
Great info 👍
Great instructional video. Purchase everything from above links you had recommended. You mentioned recording tivimate to Seagate 2t can't figure out how to do that could you explain please
THANK YOU
We have support posts on this over on Patreon where you can get private help. Can’t really help over public comments on UA-cam
Cool,have to look into it.
❤ u for sharing your knowledge
wow thanks for your help
Got the equipment, set up as in your video, Still not detecting external storage. Not even getting the UNABLE TO READ USB DEVICE SCREEN. Can you advise?
We actually have some help videos for people that might have missed a step. Most issues are getting the wrong drive (we linked the correct one for you), or did not pre-charge the mission cable. Basic stuff. If you got the wrong drive, you may have to format it FAT32 separately, or replace is with the Seagate Slim One Touch
Awesome video
I brought everything you recommended. I had trouble with hard drive being recognized. But i formatted it and then the fire stick recognized it. I then reformatted the hard drive with the fire stick. All seemed to work ok. But when i turned it on again the fire tv stick would not boot. I found out tha gwhen i took out the hard drive the fire tv stick would boot up. But when i put in the hard drive the fire tv stick would just die and i would get a blank screen. If i unhooked the hard drive it would boot up again. Looks like power adapter that plugs in usb on tv has not enough power to support hard drive. I tried a usb thumb drive and had the same results. Do you think i have a bad usb power boost device? I even tried swapping otg cable.
It’s a power issue for you. Either you didn’t pre-charge the mission power cable as required before first use, or your usb on your tv doesn’t supply enough power to keep it charged. Not sure which cause I’m not there
Can the added device storage hold apps plus data (eg music)?
Yes
How new of a TV does it have to be to be able to power the USB power supply? I think I remember older models may not be able to do this from a previous video...
As always love the content and appreciate the tips and tech recommemdations.
Just make sure your tv has a USB port. If it doesn't, you can still use this with the power outlet
That's some really good information and how to. For applications installed on the usb storage, do they get updated automatically from the Amazon app store?
Thanks for the info
Luv the video
I did everything even bought the additional usb ports. When I plug the 2 tb in I don’t get the pop up on the storage page to be able to set it up? What could be reason? I do have the 4k max
You plugged it in with the same order and used the seagate slim one touch drive we linked?
I hope that works. The one I got before stopped working and broke my firestick until I figured out what was going on.
I want to know if you have video for setting up Dvr on your 4k max
UA-cam won't allow it. Reach out on Patreon and we can help you with it
Good stuff thank you
Do only certain apps transfer to the external drive? or can you store all your apps on the external drive so your firestick has only a couple apps on it? I currently am only able to save 3 or 4 apps to my external drive and everything else goes to my firestick. Am I doing something wrong? Great video and channel you have.
Only certain ones if you are installing from the amazon app store, but all if you install from aptoide. Do you have that app store installed? We have installers on patreon
Hey, I did this and it works great. Most of the apps I add go on the memory stick. My question is, is there an app that would let me download videos or pictures to the firestick ( new 4k max with higher memory, or to the memory stick. Thanks again, your videos are a great help.
Can you do same for the firecube and how to record tv on the usb. Thank you
Different process. We posted a video about 4 years ago on how to do it on a cube. Still on the channel
Enjoyed your video as always. My TV has HDMI, RCA and VGA input. Do I get an adapter for HDMI or VGA? Thanks
They have adapters on Amazon amzn.to/3Ugekpl
For this process though you don’t need any adapters for that. Just what’s in the video
Hey is there any device out there that would record on a fire stick while you're watching another program.
Yes a few we've share on this channel
How do you set this up using a Fire cube , please do a step by step video.
I did it two years ago on the channel. Still valid. Much more work to do it properly. Max is designed to expand, not the cube
I have a question I just got seagate 2TB storage. I did everything. Now when I was going to look at the apps I downloaded. It went into a loop. And something was beeping and now it stopped. And this came on my tv
Amazon fire tv stick HDMI 1
No signal
Do you have any idea why this is happening
And now what I did was I pulled out the 2TB out from the set up and the firestick comes back on. I don’t understand what is happening
Did you get the mission cable, charge it for 10 min before first use? Make sure to get the "slim" seagate? Super important due to power draw. We literally give you all the links in the video description
I’m sorry I just don’t know which one to buy I’m sending back the one I got. From Amazon. I went back on Amazon I just don’t know which one to get.
If you click the title of our video you will see the description section of our video. We put all the links in there for you. Can't miss it
Great info
Can I download live tv programs to a Hard drive to watch when i get home from work?
Yes, we have a few videos on the channel to help and private videos available on Patreon
When you use explorer and transfer apps to usb unit and there is an update to any individual app you get error message "not enough space to update". At that point you need to uninstall the app and reinstall it and then transfer the app back the usb unit.
There is a way to do it without uninstalling and reinstalling. We've shared it
Ok, first I should say I am in the UK. I followed instructions on this video buying the command cable and the usb hub with LAN socket. I connected as instructed started firestick then plugged in portable usb 2 TB hard drive and formatted as instructed and installed a app. After a little while the firestick seemed to loose connection witht the external drive and suspect loss of power to portable disk. It then turned off and tried repeatedly to restart failed, restrart fail repeatedly. I then connected with wifi and used main power with OTG in line to which I connected the portable drive. Same issues, installed apps on the portable wouldn't run aagain lost connection. System still showing external drive but cant access and firestick locked up. Went back to basic connecctions and all is well. Have reformatted the portable on my PC to NTFS and it seems to function. Any idea whats going on? Thanks
Did you charge the mission cable for 10 min prior to first use like mentioned in the video and the tag on the cord itself? Almost sounds like you didn't? Also make sure you are using the exact drive we linked or it could draw too much power and cause this to happen.
@@CuriosityCafethanks for quick response, you are correct, I didnt at first but then did that but had same problem. No I am using an existing drive but I went back to mains power and still had problems where it was loosing connection with drive and locking up. It was showing the drive available but if I clicked on it in My Firestick the stick just locked up.I am on a brand new 4K Max
Honestly sounds like an issue with either the drive, or your usb port isn't supporting the power draw. Not all drives are compatible. I would try using the outlet instead of the usb port on your tv. if it's still doing it, you need a low power draw drive. We linked a few in our videos. I have many here that don't work like large thumb drives, some cheaper drives and my SSD... none work. I've tested many. That's why I put the links in there for you.
@@CuriosityCafe ok thanks for advice, I will look for one of drives you tested. Thanks again for your help
When you use the Mission Power Cable and turn on the TV with TV remote, does it automatically turn on the Firestick?
As long as it's plugged into the TV USB port
I screwed up got ahead of the video I selected external drive and my2 2T was formatted incorrectly how can I reformat to make it work?
Eek, sorry. You'll have to remove the drive in settings. Or you won't be able to access it as internal storage
When I click on the OTG hub you have in your list, it does not show the one you are using in your video. The one Amazon shows and I ordered is a wall power type. How do you make it work with your Firestick so I can have Ethernet. Good video except for the OGB hub.
Yeah, the one I used was out of stock. This one works fine. Don't even need the OTG adapter with it
I can’t see it in my head. I am technically challenged senior. You have one power plug on Firestick. If you plug in the adapter where does the Mission power plug go. What am I missing. I need to see how you use/ hook up the split USB hub and still have the power block. Thanks.
We walk you through each device and how to plug it in. Right in this video