Amazon 4K Fire Stick back down to £34.99

Rock Paper Scissors

Lads is there no way to setup one of these without a Payment method added to your account? I'm trying to set up one for a friend but it won't let me download apps.

TheDriver

I've used vpnunlimited on a home router for streaming, had some Netflix issues but wirks now and UK catchup works perfectly. Support is quick.

Discodog

TheDriver wrote: »

I've used vpnunlimited on a home router for streaming, had some Netflix issues but wirks now and UK catchup works perfectly. Support is quick.

I have no problems with Unlimited. It's whether the offer is genuine.

Discodog

OmegaGene wrote: »

Stacksocial have screwed over people on boards in the past, they resold getflix but the terms and conditions were all messed up, basically you couldn’t use it for firestick etc to access Netflix it had to be via a pc

Yes but others have been fine. It's a gamble but at €35 via paypal, not a huge one.

Discodog

OmegaGene wrote: »

The people used PayPal last time and only one or two got refunds
Stacksocial said tough titty and getflix weren’t the seller so couldn’t get involved.

Interesting & off putting.

I have emailed Keep Solid & I will post any reply

bromley52

OmegaGene wrote: »

Stacksocial have screwed over people on boards in the past, they resold getflix but the terms and conditions were all messed up, basically you couldn’t use it for firestick etc to access Netflix it had to be via a pc

The smart DNS from that offer won't work for US Netflix but installing and using Getflix VPN should work.

Discodog

Well Keep Solid are certainly on the ball - they replied within 10 minutes :eek:

They say that it's a genuine offer.

TheDriver

I bought vpnunlimited from stacksocial last year, paid I think 15 yoyos and get the same product as on their website. Support don't seem to differentiate between price paid so suspect their product is that unlike getflix who vary it

Discodog

OmegaGene wrote: »

Once it works with the firestick then you’re sorted

It does...........for now.

My concern is that I am an existing customer but only via the mobile app & three pay. Hopefully a different email address will be ok

ablelocks

OmegaGene wrote: »

I’m using the firestick today instead of the nvidia shield and for the money you can’t go wrong it’s a great bit of kit and will be handy for holidays

I bought one for that reason....but is there a way of using this with an external hard drive - I don’t think I’ll have good enough WiFi so trying to figure out offline options....

RossieMan

ablelocks wrote:

I bought one for that reason....but is there a way of using this with an external hard drive - I don’t think I’ll have good enough WiFi so trying to figure out offline options....

Only through your router if it's got usb. Or another pc.
Somt think you've any options of directly powering a harddrive from the fire stick.

bromley52

RossieMan wrote: »

Only through your router if it's got usb. Or another pc.
Somt think you've any options of directly powering a harddrive from the fire stick.

It is possible with an OTG cable such as this or even this if you want ethernet as well. You could also add a mouse and keyboard.

flangemeistro

Just looking for a bit of advice please everyone.
My prime account is linked to my Amazon.de account and I'm not even sure why but it's something to do with some free trial I had last year.
Anyway all my TV shows and movies are obviously in German even though my stick location is set to Ireland and my language is set to English.
Is there any way to change it over to the UK or US listings or will I have to cancel that prime membership and renew it on one of those sites?
Any advice at all appreciated.
Thanks

The high horse brigade

flangemeistro wrote: »

Just looking for a bit of advice please everyone.
My prime account is linked to my Amazon.de account and I'm not even sure why but it's something to do with some free trial I had last year.
Anyway all my TV shows and movies are obviously in German even though my stick location is set to Ireland and my language is set to English.
Is there any way to change it over to the UK or US listings or will I have to cancel that prime membership and renew it on one of those sites?
Any advice at all appreciated.
Thanks

Yes, set your address to parcel motel and your card to a UK card like Revolut, then ring them and ask for UK prime

flangemeistro

The high horse brigade wrote: »

Yes, set your address to parcel motel and your card to a UK card like Revolut, then ring them and ask for UK prime

Great thanks, will I do this on my .de account or my .UK account?

RossieMan

flangemeistro wrote:

Great thanks, will I do this on my .de account or my .UK account?

Whichever your account your prime is on.

polaris68

Discodog wrote: »

Well Keep Solid are certainly on the ball - they replied within 10 minutes :eek:

They say that it's a genuine offer.

Did you end up buying this?

JamesBond2010

The Spammer is back again

Discodog

polaris68 wrote: »

Did you end up buying this?

No because I am getting free, in effect, by using phone credit

Briain O Loinsigh

Sorry to have to ask this, I have two fire sticks and two tvs on UK IP working fine ,but the 4k stick is giving a 5005 error.
Are these using GPS now ?

bromley52

Briain O Loinsigh wrote: »

Sorry to have to ask this, I have two fire sticks and two tvs on UK IP working fine ,but the 4k stick is giving a 5005 error.
Are these using GPS now ?

Casting from your app should work but to permanently fix it you may need to change the country and address of your devices on Amazon to the UK.

polaris68

Discodog wrote: »

No because I am getting free, in effect, by using phone credit

Ok, I'll go for it. It's been working great for the iplayer during the free trial all week.

Definitely worth a shot since KeepSolid have confirmed to you that it's legit.

Dutchy

I'm using VPN unlimited (keep solid) and find the BBC iplayer stream dropping off / buffering every 20 mins or so. Not sure if it's because my wifi keeps dropping (is there a way to find out if it is ?) Or it the issue is with the VPN?

TheDriver

I've not had issues with it this week, works fine with itv hub and BBC player

sweetie

Discodog wrote:

My concern is that I am an existing customer but only via the mobile app & three pay. Hopefully a different email address will be ok

How much on three pay?

Discodog

sweetie wrote: »

How much on three pay?

€10 per month via the app on the playstore

TheDriver

Discodog wrote: »

Yes

How do you get VPNunlimited to auto start on the firestick? I must open the app each time and press start

Discodog

TheDriver wrote: »

How do you get VPNunlimited to auto start on the firestick? I must open the app each time and press start

There must be a setting on the app as once I turn mine on, it stays on.

Utter Consternation

I'm thinking of getting one of these for the young lad through parcel motel.

Is says on Amazon that 'This product only ships to the United Kingdom. Most content and services will not work if your country of residence is not the UK.'

Does that mean that half the apps loaded onto it won't work????

clint_silver

Utter Consternation wrote: »

I'm thinking of getting one of these for the young lad through parcel motel.

Is says on Amazon that 'This product only ships to the United Kingdom. Most content and services will not work if your country of residence is not the UK.'

Does that mean that half the apps loaded onto it won't work????

I have it, got it on parcel motel last week. the only one that I can see wont work is the amazon prime video, and I have prime account. Netflix/youtube works perfect. Other apps fine.

I have a vpn, havent tried it yet, must try and set it for uk to see but theres nothing on amazon Ive a hankering to watch.

small update. Just remembered I didnt try the iplayers

Utter Consternation

OmegaGene wrote: »

The U.K. players are very good and the main reason for a vpn or smart dns
Amazon prime video is pure muck, they put so much content behind a further pay wall it’s ridiculous

Now that's horsesh1t for a subscription service.

sweetie

It ain't Netflix I agree but there's The boys, the expanse, preacher, fear the walking dead, good omens, American gods, man in the high castle, Seinfeld, parcs and recs and a few others worth watching for practically free. I mean most people get Prime for the postage don't they. The really need to redesign their front end though.

Grumpypants

I swapped myself and the missus to Vodafone x recently and every top up gives €10 free mobile credit. So i use it for Disney life and Nord VPN.

€40 covers our phone use and gives us spotify premium, sky sports mobile, Disney life and Nordvpn as a nice bonus.

Between all that, netflix, prime video and music, bbc, All 4, youtube etc. the firestick is nicely filled.

funnyname

Grumpypants wrote: »

I swapped myself and the missus to Vodafone x recently and every top up gives €10 free mobile credit. So i use it for Disney life and Nord VPN.

€40 covers our phone use and gives us spotify premium, sky sports mobile, Disney life and Nordvpn as a nice bonus.

Between all that, netflix, prime video and music, bbc, All 4, youtube etc. the firestick is nicely filled.

Where does the €10 free credit come from? I thought you topped up by 20 yoyos and all of that went on the monthly deal.

gussieg

same here . im on vodafone x, and last month they deactivated my offer after ten days, left me 18 days unusable, and i get no 10 euro free credit, or maybe i do just no way to see it as the app keeps shutting down before showing the details.

andydurnin

What's the best VPN for best price for amazon stick so I can get USA Netflix, BBC iPlayer, ITV etc?

wally79

andydurnin wrote: »

What's the best VPN for best price for amazon stick so I can get USA Netflix, BBC iPlayer, ITV etc?

Haven’t really tried hard to get any of these but I have nordvpn installed and when it is running Netflix will tell me it can detect a vpn and won’t load

Grumpypants

funnyname wrote: »

Where does the €10 free credit come from? I thought you topped up by 20 yoyos and all of that went on the monthly deal.

The €20 goes on the top up but they had a deal going where you got a bonus €10 for every time you top up over €10. So i top up by €20, it gives me an extra €10 and then takes the €20. So i've been building up credit on the account. Had about €50 so bought xcom and the above subs.

wally79

OmegaGene wrote: »

Getflix smart dns works a treat for me for the last two years

Is that on fire stick?

RossieMan

OmegaGene wrote:

It’s working on the fire stick yes

Doesn't work on the firestick for me. Only windows and Android devices.

deco72

TheDriver wrote: »

I've not had issues with it this week, works fine with itv hub and BBC player

How did you get the iplayer and ITVhub onto firestick? I have NordVPN loaded but couldnt find the apps to get them.

RossieMan

OmegaGene wrote:

Did you buy it direct from getflix ?

Yea it was on sale. It talks about proxy errors on the website but my router doesn't give me those options to fix it.

wally79

deco72 wrote: »

How did you get the iplayer and ITVhub onto firestick? I have NordVPN loaded but couldnt find the apps to get them.

I think you need to download the apk and sideload them

Mickeroo

Clear your account off the stick, change your default/1-click address and payment method on amazon.co.uk to be a UK address, then log back into the stick and you shouldn't need to sideload iplayer or itv player.

wally79

OmegaGene wrote: »

I didn’t have to sideload anything, the stick was sent to Northern Ireland so U.K. apps are part and parcel of that

Yeah mine was too but not included. Think mickeroo might be correct

wally79

OmegaGene wrote: »

The bbc iplayer and itv player aren’t included you download them the same as any other app

Yeah sorry I mean they aren’t available in the Amazon app store

deco72

OmegaGene wrote: »

I didn’t have to sideload anything, the stick was sent to Northern Ireland so U.K. apps are part and parcel of that

I have my address set to NI on amazon and I can now see the apps when searching (which is a step in the right direction) but it says unavailable for some reason instead of just download like other apps.

Any ideas?

Mickeroo

deco72 wrote: »

I have my address set to NI on amazon and I can now see the apps when searching (which is a step in the right direction) but it says unavailable for some reason instead of just download like other apps.

Any ideas?

If you've already done the steps I posted above you probably need to get on to amazon to change your region.

deco72

Mickeroo wrote: »

If you've already done the steps I posted above you probably need to get on to amazon to change your region.

Cheers finally got it, when I just deregistered my account and logged back in it messed up the firestick altogether couldn’t open anything but once I reset factory settings and logged in all good was able to download apps. Thanks

deco72

has anyone been having issues with BBC iplayer? just keep getting an error 02001 which seems to be related to Samsung TVs from 2017.