[Philips, Sony, TCL Android TV] skorpioskorpio:
XBR-65X850C (US) Marshmallow update has some major issues.

First of all the apps I use are now all randomly dumped into "Featured Apps" which is not editable and littered with crap like DirecTV, Feelin, UFC and a bunch of other things I really could care less about. So now I have to Scroll and Scroll and Scroll to get to apps I actually use, apps connected to services I actually pay for.

...and that may be the least annoying thing in the update.

I can no longer have my own launch Icon of an app I care about in the editable section, Sony's tries to make this out as a feature, limiting launch icons to a single source, which is almost laughable since the longer things are up, the more and more copies of apps begin to litter the "Featured Apps" section. After 24 hours uptime, 2, 3 or 4 copies of Apps will show up in the launch bar. Eventually the whole interface becomes unresponsive, and for the first time since I bought this, crashes are now common.

Streaming service apps are way more unstable now, HBO Go for example staggers and studders like crazy and will either boot me out of the app, throw me back to it's main page or crash completely on average every 20-30 minutes. Other streaming apps also have studdering problems now that did not previously, and I have a 300+Mbs download connection, more than 3 times the speed the wired connection is capable of.

I have wiped it back to Factory Settings, which BTW does not wipe it back to as delivered, it wipes all the app data and leaves you with a post 6.0 updated environment, not the as purchased 5.1 environment.

Bluetooth is also less stable, and seems to forget devices, specifically, adding a Bluetooth keyboard and mouse wipes out the touch remote.

Looking at the memory usage, many apps were incapable of reporting their usage, throwing an error message along the lines of not enough memory available to show memory usage.

So I decided to add a USB disk to it, there are 2 USB2.0 (500mA) ports and one USB3.0 (900mA) ports, seems like the obvious place to put an external drive would be the USB3.0 port, right? Well apparently not, putting a drive there will see it format it and when you reboot (or it crashes), poof! gone. The reference manual states that "large" storage devices should be attached to USB1, one of the 2.0 ports. So if not for external storage, what is the point to having a USB3.0 port? Anyway, attaching a 750GB 7200rpm Hybrid drive seems to help some, maybe delaying my crash frequency by 50% but it still has all the same issues, just slightly less frequent.

Thought maybe an alternate launcher may be a solution, HAL seems OK, a little more stable than this updated Leanback, but now I am into the issue that there is no input switcher app available, you can't simply use an alternate launcher with 6.0 and you have to do some hacky tricks to get it to work and it's a complete crap shoot as to which launcher will come up when you hit the home button. Is there a configurable shortcut to switch to an HDMI input? Honestly I only use HDMI4/ARC and it is defined as the "TV" port, is there no way through an alternate launcher to just go there?

I've been quite pleased with this TV up until now, a few annoyances, but general pleased and have recommended these TVs to many people. But now I have a TV that has a hard time staying up for more than a day at a time, as opposed to months at a time before, usually only getting rebooted because of updates, to something that is IMHO a less than beta deal now.

These TVs are really nothing but a giant tablet without touch or a SIM card, so why can't it just be that? Doesn't seem like it should be that complicated to pull off.