How To Download Bell Fibe App On Amazon Fire Stick
Eliana Pomerantz
I just had my internet set up with bell and we got the fibe tv with it. My tv is Samsung and does not have the fibe tv app so the technician suggested getting a chrome cast or firestick. I have never used either, so I am just curious if one is better than the other for watching fibe tv on my Samsung?
I have 3 firesticks and watch Fibe TV on all of them. I'm getting a lot of lag (latency) on the application. I have one Bell box and it's working fine. It's worst when pausing/restarting a running program, or changing channels. We'll get the "thinking" bar for several minutes before it connects. The other night watching a recording it was especially bad every time we fast forwarded (to skip a commercial). This is happening on all three firesticks. There are no issues watching other content on the sticks (Netflix, YouTube, Disney etc.).
On an Amazon Fire Stick I receive error code 1009p/3 with an instruction to visit the bell fibe website to get more information. I used the virtual diagnostic repair tool recommended in the other thread. All it does is check network status and reboot the hardware.
You can identify Amazon Fire TV devices by looking for amazon.hardware.fire_tv as a feature. You can also use patterns in the android.os.Build.MODEL. See the Fire TV Device Specifications for information about each device's build model. The following image shows the build model for each device. (You can see this dialog when you upload your APK into the Dev Console.)
All Fire TV devices can be identified through the feature amazon.hardware.fire_tv. You get the feature by calling the getPackageManager() method on the Context object and checking whether hasSystemFeature() returns com.hardware.amazon.fire_tv. The following code shows a sample:
However, as more Amazon-powered devices come to market with non-Amazon manufacturers, combining the android.os.Build.MODEL with the Build.MANUFACTURER may not always work. Because of this, include a sensible fallback approach for future Amazon Fire TV devices based on the com.hardware.amazon.fire_tv feature. Here's a code sample that looks for the model but falls back on the feature:
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