Hulu stopped working correctly on ALL my Gen 1 rooted FireTVs

[Sizzlechest]

The app runs and can play shows, but the controls do not work properly. I cannot select the shows I want to watch. I cannot scroll down either unless I use a mouse. I'm still on the latest flashed firmware available for rooted Fire TVs. I can't upgrade without losing root. Has anyone else noticed this happening? Hulu is version 2.5a

 

[MetalMan2]

Mine is doing the same thing... Basically can't scroll through the Hulu app (down or to the right?). If I push down it's definitely moving through the menus, but I cannot see what is highlighted. Just started a couple days ago.

I was on a previous version of Hulu so I updated it and rebooted, still wasn't working. Then I used Titanium Backup to clear data and rebooted, still not working.

Does appear to work with scrolling using a mouse like you mentioned.

On Rbox's latest rooted ROM (Android 4.2.2). I wonder if they just dropped support for this older ROM version.

 

[dbelleman]

Same thing here unfortunately.

 

[krawhitham]

Same thing here too

 

[Y314K]

Option 1: Quick bypass the problem with a USB/Bluetooth Mouse or Mouse Toggle for Fire TV App or some other mouse app of your choice.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.fluxii.android.mousetoggleforfiretv

Option 2: Get a hold of the prior FTV Hulu APK. There must be some folks here that block app updates on their FTV & can backup & post the prior version of Hulu for you guyz. Find out what version that would be & post the request in the FTV Apps section.

Either way, just patiently wait until TWRP, Boot Menu & PreRooted FireOS 5 ROM gets release in the next few weeks.

 

[Sizzlechest]

The USB mouse allows you to scroll down, but you still cannot select anything accurately. A workaround that I did was to get the 2.24.1 apk from my phone, sideload it, and operate it with a USB mouse. Of course, the quality is garbage and the remote is useless, but it kinda works. I can't get it to stream high quality video either.

 

[Ludacrisvp]

Can you sideload the android TV version of Hulu?

 

[Sizzlechest]

Ludacrisvp: Yes. That's what I did , but you need a mouse to operate it and the quality is terrible.

 

[Ludacrisvp]

Then you aren't using the android TV version of Hulu. That's the normal phone version.
After disabling the Amazon App Store I was able to install and run the android "Google TV" version of Hulu on my firetv it looks identical to the version that firetv uses.

I'm running version 1.3.0 of Hulu for android / Google TV on the firetv.

 

[deepasadish]

i can't get the android TV hulu plus app v1.3.0 to install. it says - install failed. looks like it requires lollipop at the minimum.

 

[Ludacrisvp]

I assumed you had updated to a rooted version of fireOS 5

 

[Sizzlechest]

If we could do that, we wouldn't be having these problems.

 

[Ludacrisvp]

I thought that like the fire stick there was a window of time where you could update and root with king root?

 

[deepasadish]

yes, but i think if you upgrade, your bootloader will be locked (even though you can get root).

 

[qwer777]

Try this older version (2.1.a). Works perfect for me.

 

[Sizzlechest]

So far, this works!

 

[vadindot]

I am having this problem too, has anyone found a solution yet?

---------- Post added at 07:48 PM ---------- Previous post was at 07:44 PM ----------

didn't work for me

Installing /hulu/com.hulu.plus-2.apk
537 KB/s (14527347 bytes in 26.411s)
pkg: /data/local/tmp/com.hulu.plus-2.apk
Failure [INSTALL_FAILED_UPDATE_INCOMPATIBLE]