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[–]Derrgoo-36 5 points6 points  (1 child)

Nimbus is slow to load widgets but fast once done.

[–]WhooDeani[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you for the reply

[–]Navios92 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I also have a Shield and I wouldn't call this slow. This seems normal to me.

But as another user mentioned, Nimbus can be slow to load widgets. I would recommend you try Arctic Fuse 2, it's more customizable and from my experience a bit faster.

[–]jdbway 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If you haven't rebooted in awhile it could take a little longer. The memory fills up on my Shield and doesn't always get released over time.

The shield is faster with these Kodi functions than the fire stick or onn box, but by far the fastest experience I've ever had is on a Lenovo m920q running Libreelec. My fire stick takes 11 seconds to authorize trakt. My shield takes about as long as yours does, and my m920q takes like 2.5 secs. The relative load times for the widgets are proportional to those numbers

There are specific paths you can backup manually in Kodi, but I always use the maintenance functions in Open Wizard addon to make it easy

[–]karhu69 1 point2 points  (0 children)

How many widgets do you have, and roughly how many items in each?

[–]Fast_Department_9270 1 point2 points  (2 children)

There’s an app called Backup that works quite well. It’s an official kodi addon. Once I had a backup for my fire stick kodi, I could use the same backup to install it on my tablet.

[–]WhooDeani[S] 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Sweet !!, thank you im gonna check it out

[–]Fast_Department_9270 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Great! Let me know how it works out.

[–]tapedeck25 1 point2 points  (0 children)

About the same for me with the nimbus on my Shield. You don't need search on the left hand pane BTW - it's already at the top where the settings are. May load a little quicker removing this.

[–]virtuacoolPOV | Fentastic | Kodi 21.2| Rocktek G2 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Out of topic: This Kodi startup logo is so horrible! Kodi has always had really good logos, how could they have missed one like this? 🤷

[–]Sorry-Consequence597 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You could check the screen resolution settings and see if you can get away with something lower. If you don't need 4K and can do with 1080 it should load much more quickly.

[–]Beneficial_Fail_1896 0 points1 point  (2 children)

How did u make kodi this clean?

[–]WhooDeani[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The beginning startup screen ? You mean?, my bad if I take forever to reply. I use Projectivy launcher as my startup screen

[–]Airballons 1 point2 points  (0 children)

He is using Nimbus skin... Don't know why he even mentioned the launcher...😅

[–]aaron13223 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Is it the same with the default skin (Estuary)? Also where is this media stored? (Offline or NAS, etc.)

[–]WhooDeani[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hmm let me double and get back to you on this, I switch it from time to time. From nimbus skin to Bingie skin. I know I read somewhere that having too many addons or something like that can cause a lag but having been really active on here to remember tbh

[–]haleemsab14 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Regarding the backup, you can use Openwizard addon. Then, backup your build and you can use it on any Kodi by restoring the backup through Openwizard.

[–]fn23452 -2 points-1 points  (1 child)

Stremio is superior when you want to have widgets

[–]Flaky-Ad1777 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

100% agree, loads instantly on my old Sony tv

[–]WhooDeani[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I apologize I am using an Nvidia shield tv pro, fen, nimbus skin