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welcome back to cord cutters Li where we

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bill if I heard it or said it once I've

heard it and said it a thousand times

the Amazon Fire Sticks just don't come

with enough storage to install all your

favorite apps although the new second

generation 4K Max now has 16 gigs of

storage a lot of you either haven't

pulled the trigger on it yet or if you

did you still want more well if you

raised your hand then this video is for

you whether you have the first or second

generation fir stick 4K Max or any Fire

TV device running fire OS version 7 or 8

I will show you how to add USB system

storage to make room for all the apps

you can throw at it and how to move your

existing apps to the USB storage if

you're starting to run out of space on a

side note if you still have one of the

old fire sticks with fir OS version 6 do

yourself a favor and throw it out and

get a new model you will be happy you

did I have a lot to show you so if

you're ready to see how you can multiply

your system storage on your Amazon Fire

stick grab your otes and let's

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go before we get started just a quick

note to show you a couple of things that

you're going to need to get I'm assuming

you've already got your fire stick what

you need now is the OTG cable this is a

cable that plugs into where your power

normally plugs into the fire stick but

it has a connection for a USB drive that

you need to get a USB thumb drive I'll

put a link in the description for both

of these things and then it also has

this other y connection here that you

can plug the power cable into so that's

how you would connect this uh to get the

USB storage installed so you can add

apps to your fire stick in this video

I'm going to show you how to do this on

the 4K Max second generation but as I

said earlier this will work on all of

the firos 7 or eight devices the easy to

follow steps I'm going to show you in

today's video will not work on the older

4K fire stick with with the fire OS

version 6 adding system storage to those

older devices just isn't worth the

hassle trust me so let's get started all

right so before we get started I do want

to make sure that my Amazon fir stick 4K

Max second generation is up to date

first we can go into about and you can

see that excuse me this is the 4K Max

second gen and if you go down to check

for updates you can do that and it does

say that my Fire TV is up to date so now

let's go back to the home button we're

assuming now that you've already

connected the uh fire stick with the OTG

cable now we can take our our USB drive

and just plug it right into

the port on the OTG

cable and Watch What Happens it'll come

up with this message that says your USB

device is using an unsupported file

system and so what you want to do here

if we want to add uh device storage for

installing apps on we have to go over to

where it says device storage and click

on

that are you sure say

yes so this will take some time uh to

format but when it gets done it'll let

you know 12 seconds later all right so

it says formatting complete your USB

drive has been formatted you can now use

this USB drive to transfer data to

Amazon fir stick 4K Max click okay and

now if we go over to the Gear

again and go down to my Fire

TV and you go to USB drive it'll tell

you now that you have 59 and change

gigabytes available out of 59 and change

again this is a 64 gig SanDisk Ultra USB

3.0 drive I'll put a link in the

description if you want to get this

exact one that I'm using here in this

demonstration so now that that's done

you can go ahead and click the home

button

okay so now that we have the USB

installed for device storage which means

we can install apps on it we need to

have the explore File Explorer app that

is available in the Amazon app store you

can search for it by name you can just

type in

explore or you can use the voice

button but you'll see it show up here so

you can get it there or you can get it

at the cord cutters Li downloads page

which is the downloader shortcut code

61187 but just as easy to get from the

Amazon App Store so I'll assume that

you've installed explore let's open it

up for the first

time first time you do you're going to

get a message that says that it needs to

access photos media and files on your

device of course that is required to do

this so click allow what we're going to

do here on the right side of the screen

we're going to go to where it says

internal storage and we're going to just

select the

downloader folder we're not going to do

anything in there quite yet now let's

move over to the left side of the

screen and go into where it says app

manager and then installed this is going

to show you all of the installed

applications that you have on the fire

stick here I'm going to show you how to

move for example the mellin TV app um a

new app that I just installed recently

and so long press the select button and

you'll

see It'll say copy

click on that now this is the only time

you're going to want to check this box

where it says move mode so what this is

going to do it's going to uninstall

mellin TV from the fire stick and it's

going to move it to that downloader

folder uh that we have selected on the

right side of the screen so go ahead and

click okay on

that it's going to prompt you that to

make sure that you want to uninstall

this app and you say

okay so that's it so now mellin is no

longer on the fire stick but as you can

see it's over here on the right side of

the screen in that downloader folder so

now let's go ahead and click on

that and

install so just by having this USB drive

installed and set up for system storage

all apps that can be installed on that

USB will be installed on that USB some

can't some do it's a bit of trial and

error but let's see if this mellan TV

does what I think it's going to do so

click done after the app is

installed and now you can actually go

down to where it says mellan TV in the

downloader folder and you can remove it

from there so long press that and then

press delete because we no longer need

that installation file on the

device and click

okay so now let's go to the home button

and

if you go over to the apps button you

will see at the bottom of the list we

have melant TV

there let's quickly open it up and see

if it runs sure enough it does click the

home button one more time I want to show

you one more thing to verify that it is

and hopefully installed in the right

spot so we go over to the Gear move down

to

Applications go into manage installed

applications now if you scroll down to

mellan TV you will see this little USB

symbol there that shows you that it is

installed on the USB uh

drive we can back up a

step and for ver further verification we

go into my Fire TV go into USB drive and

now as you can see it has a little bit

less than that 5932 GB available now

it's that that difference between those

two numbers is the size of that mellan

app and that's all there is to it so

once again I do want to be clear some

apps can be installed on system storage

on the USB some can't so it is a matter

of you know trial and error I should

also say that some apps you don't want

to install on here so for example like

the Cody uh media player or IP vanish

some of those very high system resource

dependent apps you don't really want to

install on the USB storage it'll slow it

down and could give you some issues so

for some of the high processor intensive

um applications you may want to keep

that on the internal system storage and

not the USB now you might ask me how you

do that well after you've installed this

external storage as I said earlier all

apps that can be installed on that

external USB storage will be so in the

future if you want to install an app on

the internal um device storage not the

USB you will want to shut down the

device temporarily disconnect the USB

drive power it back up install that app

it'll install on the internal system

storage and then you can shut it down

again plug the USB back in and there you

go you'll be back where you were now

there is one thing I wanted to point out

just in case it wasn't really clear the

procedure that we just did was we

basically uninstalled the app and all of

its data from its existing place on the

internal system storage and we reinstall

that app on the USB system storage

therefore any data any add-ons any

extensions anything like that will be

gone and you'll have to redo that there

is no easy way to move an app from place

to place and keep all of that data

intact I know that was a lot so if you

managed to stick with me until this

point congratulations hopefully you've

been successful if you had any questions

that you came across or issues please

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