I have installed Omega v21.3 on a 64 Gb flash drive and it works, but although I have a very fast fiber internet connection, it takes up to 2 minutes to load any images within the Add-on repositories, and at least 30 seconds before anything will begin to install. When I click on a category, for example Program add-ons, the screen freezes for anything from 30 to 60 seconds and the LED on the flash drive blinks at high speed while this happens.
At a guess, I would say the device is struggling to read the flash drive. Is there a minimum read/write speed required when using a flash drive, please?
I was afraid to do it because there is no stable release for it. Ok, I will do it, but I have a couple of questions.
I have installed a large amount of add-ons and begun scanning one of my drives (it has reached 2% of a single TV show after almost 2 hours!). If I reflash the drive with Piers, will I lose everything including all my settings, or are those stored within Android? Do I actually need to reflash the drive or would it suffice to copy and paste from the Piers file?
Also, given the horrendous speed of running CE from a USB drive, would it be better to flash direct to eMMC and would that lose me all the add-ons and configuration settings installed so far?
The only one I found says it is not working yet.
Now do you guys understand why I wanted to use the most recent stable version? I am 70 years old. Most of this stuff is far beyond my IT skills.
You’re misunderstanding “stable version.”
CE is a non-commercial product. Users are expected to inform themselves.
You call it a stable version, but it’s outdated and there is no longer any support.
Apart from that, all your questions have already been answered multiple times in this forum.
Like I said, I used the search and the only one I found that came close was the thread I posted. In that, it appears we are waiting on an updated Dovi.ko to be released although I did not see anyone having the issue I encounter when starting up. Perhaps I’m missing something?
Freddy told me to do a forum search and this was the only thread I came up with that discussed the latest dovi.ko:
I know you all think I am an idiot, and I probably am because I do not have the same skills as you guys. I installed Omega 21.3 and was told I could get no help because it had reached EOL. The only way to get support was if I installed Piers 22.0 beta1. I did that and posted a photo of the problem on start up. Freddy says I may have the wrong DoVi.ko file, so I asked for a link to the right one and got told to search the forum. I cannot find the DoVi.ko file that you claim nobody is having any problems with.
Thank you. I will read it. I just installed that file and can confirm it now starts with no message. The curious thing is that the patched fix file is one third the size of the one I had previously.
