flickering black screen when installed

so i just tried to install the newest version of kodi 17 since 16 wasn’t going to work anymore on to my amazon firestick, it is a new stick, but few seconds after the app opens the screen flickers off to a black screen for a few seconds and then back on for a few seconds. It does this constantly while im actually on the app but when i get off the app say i go to the home screen of the firestick it might do it once but then stops and the firestick acts normally. Ive tried a few different ways to download it first with es file explorer but the same results happened and then i deleted it after seeing a post about bad adware coming from es, then i used the Downloader app and followed multiple videos step by step but still the flickering screen. i haven’t seen any other posts dealing with this problem. can anyone help me? ive been using kodi for over a year now with no problems then when i tried to update it i cant even use it!