yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Philips, Sony, TCL Android TV] jFalner:
My apologies for the belated reply! You should be able to using an FTP server on the television (as I mentioned in my previous post). You might need to determine the path and supply that manually to your FTP client on the PC—it will be in the form of a mountpoint like /storage/emulated/0/Android/data/ or /storage/emulated/0/Android/obb/. I fire up that Oxsoft FTP server I mentioned on the television, open good ol' reliable FileZilla on my laptop, and create a new server entry with the IP address of my television and a default remote directory path like the mountpoints above. You can read and write to storage attached to the television, whether formatted as removable or not.

(FYI—you can also read data from the root area of your device if you know where things are stored. But since no root access means no way to get a directory listing, you'll have to research the paths for your particular television and Android version, and put exact paths in.)

You might find more stability, incidentally, if you format your storage as device-dependent for your television. My Bravia tends to be quite flaky with storage formatted elsewhere or formatted by the television as removable storage, but formatted by the Bravia for exclusive use seems to be a little less problematic.

Hope that helps! :)
[Philips, Sony, TCL Android TV] :
[MENTION=8775992]jFalner[/MENTION]: many thanks man.. I'll try your methods :)

For now i have found an easier method doing something similar (but not this).

I use x-plore file manager in tv. I found out that i can't copy with this to external usb in general, but i can copy /delete anything i want to its specific folder in external usb storage: storage/blablaNameofExternalStorage/android/com.lonelycatgames.Xplore

So we can create for example a folder there eg Myfolder and copy anything there.

In this folder we can write delete copy past etc.. If we put there all our files, videos, and in other apps targeting this directory (for example an iptv app to record there videos) and not in root directory of external storage, then we can do anything, we have rights to copy or delete in this folder of external storage.

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Another question if anyone knows :

Sony XH90 has only one button. Does anyone knows how to go to the menu for factory restore with it?

I'm thinking of debloating the tv. Just remove a few apps. I have setup adb, connecting with the tv, i can freeze apps.

In a phone i know what to do if i got stuck in bootloader. But here I don't have volume buttons +- to go to bootloader menu and factory reset from there, if anything goes wrong and tv doesn't boot.

Is there any method for this?

Thanks,
[Philips, Sony, TCL Android TV] sps24:
i have sony 49x7500e today i see update firmware on sony website android 9 pie m excited and download install to tv properly like evrytime i update properly and its work good but this time after complete setup restart tv and again restart now its restart problem what i do
[Philips, Sony, TCL Android TV] Pcxm:
I have some problem on X905E. The starting process crash and tv don’t stay on.
[Philips, Sony, TCL Android TV] Rubenos:
Does anybody has any clue when Android TV 8 lands for ATV1 (Bravia 2015 Android TV)?
[Philips, Sony, TCL Android TV] darikelwan:
I want to know that is 3d movie is looking good in your tv , i'm also thinking to buy new android tv on my brother birthday to gift him.

Darik Elwan
[Philips, Sony, TCL Android TV] zkSnark:
I was having the same restarting problem. I think it is due to WiFi. So I disabled WiFi and used Ethernet for internet. No more restarting problem now.
[Philips, Sony, TCL Android TV] billjcarlos:
I recently bought a Sony KD-55A8 TV as a gift for my wife. Previously, I used TCL smart tv and It worked fine with all aspects. First time I bought Android TV for watching different streaming channels and for accessing region lock content I also get a VPN plan. But my concern is when I connect the vpn my internet went down like dead slow. What is the actual? The server distance or VPN connection? BTW I am using NordVPN.
[Philips, Sony, TCL Android TV] tomyan112:
Firmware update to v6.827 for Asia Pacific | Sony AP (sony-asia.com)
[Philips, Sony, TCL Android TV] billjcarlos:
For testing that it was the VPN connection or distance issue. yesterday I used another vpn which was given a free trial and connected with this one. The connection worked properly but unfortunately, the trial only for a single day. Now I have a good experience and decided to switch on this vpn but before getting any subscription, I want to know more about this provider either it is performing good on all devices or just good enough for android tv.
[Philips, Sony, TCL Android TV] novahob:
Fingers crossed this gets over to Europe soon 🙂
[Philips, Sony, TCL Android TV] ahhl:
hi everyone, i just bought kd55x800h, glad to know there's group here dedicated to Sony TV.

i am interested to do video call on the TV, is it possible? was told skype no longer there, can use zoom.

whether can use telegram or wechat or etc on the TV?

and can I use any type of camera (USB?) ?
[Philips, Sony, TCL Android TV] dennisthemenace85:
In general it's possible to use any of the mentioned apps on your phone /notebook and cast your screen to the Sony TV if your phone and TV are in the same network.
[Philips, Sony, TCL Android TV] pbergonzi:
Can someone extract the firmware from an A9G from before the the update that put "Highlights" on the Home Screen, and then tell me how to downgrade to that firmware please?

I don't want "Highlights" ads on my TV at all, and cannot return the TV to the store to get an earlier firmware on a TV that's still in the box.
[Philips, Sony, TCL Android TV] donedos:
I attacheck ausb camera with a mic and tried to use Zoom. but the mic is the one that is working. the Camera does not. I am still working out how to make it work on TV.
[Philips, Sony, TCL Android TV] Murmel2k:
Hi, I am using the SmartYoutubeTV App (for Adblock). It uses the same HTML interface like the official app. But I am having the problem, that my TV, a 2015 KD-49X8305C seems to have performance poblems playing 4K and FullHD videos. How is this possible? I guess the TV should use hardware acceleration for those. Is anyone of you guys is having the same problem?
[Philips, Sony, TCL Android TV] frentis:
I live in South East Asia, so my Sony KDL-50W800C updated to this version sometime around July 2020.

Sadly, this update contains a lot of bug (at least for my unit).

Known bug so far:

- Web browser stopped working (forced close)

- Screen mirroring error (stopped working, very low volume, etc)

- Content for YouTube (and other streaming services like Spotify) is not updating on the home screen

- Laggy interface

- Continuously disconnected from wifi network

- Cannot wake from stand by mode from time to time (had to unplug the power cord first)

Performed factory reset at least a couple of times but had no luck.

So I want to downgrade to the previous FW version if possible.

Anyone knows how?

Thanks in advance.
[Philips, Sony, TCL Android TV] Tugboat5000:
Is there anyway to get a DualShock 4 controller paired via Bluetooth on my x900-H? Sony support says the Bravia TVs no longer support the controller after the Playstation Now service ended. The controller works via USB, why would they remove support for Bluetooth connectivity?
[Philips, Sony, TCL Android TV] KJI:
I'm in Hong Kong with a mainland X9500H model. Trying to get international google functionality working. Sideloading APKs for google core services is not working. Has anyone successfully flashed a sony while in recovery? I have the androidTV Gapps packages I'd like to take a shot at.

If someone did an ADB pull of all the missing google APKs would that put me on the path to functionality?
[Philips, Sony, TCL Android TV] hackthis02:
Has anyone on here been able to get the new Android TV UI to load?
[Philips, Sony, TCL Android TV] sergio_italiano:
SONY KD49X8305C

Buy in Russia, Android 7.0

Need help about update firmware on high and how to edit launch screen, and top10 must have prog and services.
[Philips, Sony, TCL Android TV] goodflood:
KDL-43W807C (Europe)​

Firmware update to v5.457​

https://www.sony.co.uk/electronics/support/televisions-projectors-lcd-tvs-android-/kdl-43w807c

https://www.sony.co.uk/electronics/support/lcd-tvs-android-w75xc_w80xc-series/kdl-43w807c/software/00259461

Apparently it resolves a black screen issue as well as wifi issue... both of which I experienced. Hope it works.
[Philips, Sony, TCL Android TV] kkapoorr:
Can anyone tell me how I can hard reset the TV? I have a KDL W800D model from a few years back running Android.

Using the tv menu I select reset but it doesn't open the reset menu

I pugged the TV in while pressing the power button and the power+vol down button both but it doesn't go the the "erasing' screen. My TV's button layout is below.

I just want to reset it once since some functions don't work well including chromecast.

Any ideas are appreciated.
[Philips, Sony, TCL Android TV] ivigneshwaran:
I own a Sony 43w800d. I wanna change the motherboard, can anyone pls tell what chip I should buy?
[Philips, Sony, TCL Android TV] Note10.1Dude:
My x900E updated a couple of months ago and all is working fine. The UI is very similar to my Chromecast with Google TV that I have on a Samsung set (that I really don't like the UI for).
[Philips, Sony, TCL Android TV] card-us:
hi, i know this late but is there anyone here know how to solve sony android tv not detecting external hdd 1TB (apacer) & the system ask for formating the HDD...?

the model is Sony KD-55X7500H

on the tech spec it says support FAT32 & NTFS, but when try connecting ext HDD 1TB (NTFS) it ask for formating the drive...

thanks before
[Philips, Sony, TCL Android TV] Shobhitsonkar:
A strange issue occurred in my Sony W950D. I have updated to v6.827 Oreo. AAC 5.1 passthrough was working fine on stock video app and Disney plus via optical and HDMI. Months after updating, on one ****ty day while I was watching tv, it stopped working. Now I can't get AAC 5.1 passthrough working even after hard reset. I haven't installed or uninstalled anything that could have caused this. Although I have kept auto update on, my tv was already on latest available update. I am wondering if app update could have caused this? It was working means the feature was supported, Right? Is someone else facing this issue? Any solution for this?
[Philips, Sony, TCL Android TV] smartsreenath:
Add power supply to hard disk. By adding a usb hub with extra power supply will resolve the problem. 1tb need more power which will not be able to provide by the TV.
[Philips, Sony, TCL Android TV] card-us:
really...? okay will try it...thanks for the advice

edit: tested it with my usb 3.0 with external power ....& it's not working, the ext hdd still didn't recognise/detected by bravia...

weird since the ext hdd working perfectly on my old bravia android tv (KD-43X7500E)
[Philips, Sony, TCL Android TV] TW1954:
If the tv is asking to format the 1tb drive ir must have found the drive. All the drives I have atrtached to my tv have had to be formatted before the tv can use them. I use my attached drive to record programs via the YouView interface. Hope that helps.
[Philips, Sony, TCL Android TV] geojoking:
Four months later and I still don't have the new interface, in Europe. Does anyone have it?
[Philips, Sony, TCL Android TV] card-us:
thanks for the info, but that not what i mean, on my old bravia KD-43X7500E can detect all of kind of external drive (1TB HDD or any ufd) & in any format (NTFS, FAT32, even EXFAT)

what i don't understand why on newer model KD-55X7500H can't detect any of theose (only FAT32), but what the use of FAT32 if it use on 1TB drive
[Philips, Sony, TCL Android TV] card-us:
i think you'll need to manually instal it via home apps menu, for old bravia to be on google tv layout (but it's just layout/launcher) not the system (still ATV)
[Philips, Sony, TCL Android TV] jFalner:
Sorry, haven't been checking in for a while! Remember that the Bravia works with external storage in two ways. The first is as traditional removable storage. According to the specs, your KD-55X7500H should be able to recognize a USB drive formatted as FAT32 or NTFS only. If it isn't recognizing the more useful NTFS format, the drive might be formatted in some odd manner (like using a nonstandard cluster size). Formatting on a Windows machine running anything more recent than Windows 2000 or NT 4.0, using the default settings, should work. If not, check the port you've plugged into—some USB storage doesn't play nicely unless it's in a USB 3.0 port (and rarely, it prefers USB 2.0). The specs don't say, but given the manufacturing year, I'd guess your two ports are both USB 3.0. Be sure to try your drive in both. Of course, make sure you have proper independent power supplied to the drive. The Bravia has powered USB ports, but its output might not be sufficient for a power-hungry external drive.

The other way the Bravia uses removable storage is to pair it to the Bravia as "internal storage". This formats the drive using the Bravia itself, and locks it so that the drive can only be used with the Bravia which formatted it. The advantage here is that you can now move apps and files stored on the television's storage to the drive, and vice-versa. This is what I do with my X700D, and apart from a known issue where the Bravia occasionally "forgets" external USB storage, it works quite nicely. (That issue, incidentally, is resolved by a simple reboot. Recent firmwares have all but eliminated the problem.) I keep a file manager and a very lightweight FTP server on the television storage so I can readily troubleshoot and transfer files. All other applications are moved over to my flash drive where they have plenty of room to operate and can be maintained more easily.

From what you've said, I'd certainly look at the format of the drive. Unless you really know what you're doing, just let a recent version of Windows format it using default settings. No command line or Power Shell tinkering, no disk/partition utilities—just plug it in, right-click on it in Explorer, and Format.

Good luck!
[Philips, Sony, TCL Android TV] geojoking:
Which apk would I need to install?
[Philips, Sony, TCL Android TV] card-us:
there's apps on playstore..(which i can't install it on my bravia)

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.apps.tv.launcherx&hl=en&gl=US

or go to apkmirror

https://www.apkmirror.com/apk/googl...ndroid-tv-1-0-331643392-android-apk-download/
[Philips, Sony, TCL Android TV] er.tabish97@gmail.com:
how can i connect my sony smart tv to a gigabit internet, it doesn't support speeds more than 100mbps.

can a usb to gigabit adapter be used with the tv, if yes then how can i make sure that my tv supports internet through the usb before buying the adapter.
[Philips, Sony, TCL Android TV] Note10.1Dude:
People have gotten USB ethernet adapters to work on some Sony models at least. I'd search AVSForum for your tv model and ethernet.
[Philips, Sony, TCL Android TV] Dior DNA:
Maybe your TV gives adb network access and allows to see kernel config (zcat /proc/config.gz). My TV does so. Then, depending on which adapter you have in mind, you can check if the kernel has the required configs (modules (=M), or, in kernel itself (=Y)) set.
[Philips, Sony, TCL Android TV] Siddk007:
My Sony Bravia 4K Android TV (Model KD-43X7400H) received Android 11 update today. Just some UI changes. No Google TV layout yet.
[Philips, Sony, TCL Android TV] mumuli:
Hi, future here. I think android 10, cos android 11 for tv is rollout like 2024
[Philips, Sony, TCL Android TV] Siddk007:
check this link:

https://www.sony-asia.com/electronics/support/lcd-tvs-android-x74xxh_x75xxh-series/kd-43x7400h/software/00266781
[Philips, Sony, TCL Android TV] mumuli:
Ah, ok
[Philips, Sony, TCL Android TV] joeandjoe:
You can get rid of it using adb :).

Temporarily, you can restore it with factory reset.
[Philips, Sony, TCL Android TV] Danilo Pantelić:
Sony X900H/XH90: New firmware with official VRR mode & HGiG rolling out – update

The second firmware required for VRR mode, plus PS5-centric features

www.flatpanelshd.com

Sony firmware v6.1534 (26. 10. 2021)​

Source: reddit.com/r/bravia/
[Philips, Sony, TCL Android TV] hackwerk:
Very nice work @dabyd64 !

I can see youre on a much deeper/higher level than me in these matters, which is great.

Maybe together we can find some more interesting stuff (or holes/sploits) to finally master our televisions.

As said, I am def not an expert, but isnt the 'keys' file within the 'recovery-resource.dat' a file containing signings/keys for the Android Signature Scheme v2 (for APKs)?

I dug into that (and installed 'apksigner' tool in my Kali to be able to try Janus exploit, because several APKs in the TV are not v2 or v3 signer (only JAR) and should be vulnerable to signature forging (Janus), like the Amazon Video APK!

I did not manage yet, because janus.py (by V-O-E or by odenc) made an APK which errors at installation:

Failure [INSTALL_PARSE_FAILED_UNEXPECTED_EXCEPTION: Failed to parse /data/app/vmdl1430879602.tmp/base.apk: AndroidManifest.xml]

MetaSploit module not tested yet (not installed on my tv, and only locally usable, instead of also on a single APK *grmbl*.

See my post 2.12.

Edit 01: The otacerts contains a pem, which seems to be a (public) certificate, and not a private key (pk8) to sign packages/OTA?

PS1. To try EPK (Sony PKG?) extraction, we can either try out the epk2extract by OpenLGtv or the older fork, pk2extract by p0isk.

PS2. Where did you find the dump? Seems to be Russian (see emmc file), although codelines in other files are Chinese (MediaTek?).
[Philips, Sony, TCL Android TV] dabyd64:
Oh, no way, I just know to fiddle with electronics and some basic-medium Linux stuff, when I see/hear words like certificate, encryption, disassembling, I get a terrible headache and I run away.

The firmware is the same for Europe. Also, seems almost the same for other regions.

Of course, it has a lot from Mediatek, it's a MT5890 (This TV has actually MT5830).

All are closely related, with differences in the image processing unit (I think it was calles Reality engine?)

If you check uboot sources, there's a lot going on.

Also, checking the kernel sources, it has support for pl2303 usb-serial converters, but the script checks the uboot environment, only enables it if the kernel boot arguments has tty=/dev/ttyUSB0, which isn't the case (Set to /dev/ttyMT0).

Even there's JTAG over the HDMI pins.

But of course, that would require to modify the emmc, and sincerely I'm scared about all that security and one-time-programmable stuff, maybe it triggers something that cannot be restored.

I've probed with a scope lots of places in the board, searching for the serial port, no luck, it might be completely disabled...

Anyways, it would be strange to me that the keys could be retrieved so easily.

Maybe it's just a leftover, or not actually related to the firmware encryption.
[Philips, Sony, TCL Android TV] dabyd64:
Duplicated
[Philips, Sony, TCL Android TV] hackwerk:
Not really important, but If I understand correctly, Sony's feature VPU's (X1 < X1 Ultimate < X1 Extreme)(with 4K X-Reality (PRO) upscaling) do not encompass the main SoC / CPU / GPU.

However, they also speak of 'platforms' (Android TV) ATV1, ATV2 and ATV3 (based on different main kernel branches):

X1 Ultimate with MT5893/MT5598 & Mali G71 = ATV3 > 2018 (SoC + VPU combo)

X1 Extreme with MT5891/MT5596 & Mali T860 = ATV2 > 2016/07 (SoC + VPU combo)

X1 HDR (3rd Gen)(NO VPU) with MT5895/S900 & Mali G52 = ATV? UR? > 2020 (SoC only)

X1 HDR (2nd Gen) with MT5893/MT5598 & Mali G71 = ATV3 > 2018 (SoC + VPU combo)

X1 HDR (1st Gen) with MT5891/MT5596 & Mali T860 = ATV2 > 2016/07 (SoC + VPU combo)

X1 with MT5890/MT5595 & Mali T624 = ATV1 2015 (SoC + VPU combo)

Correct me if I'm wrong.

Edit 01: Extra Reddit and a nice (selected) line-up table at Dutch site Tweakers.net
[Philips, Sony, TCL Android TV] hackwerk:
Btw, in my first glance, I did found a funny file, in which a plaintext password ('msb6gopera5024pkcs12') is given to open 'secret' p12 cert files in the folder 'bbc'. However, it seems these are only files to communicate securely with BBC (FMT) iPlayer. So it may be fun to use to decode their streams etc or build custom BBC apps, but nothing else I guess.

I do not have enough space to extract all from 'your' bin unfortunately :(

Maybe you can share/Drive all extracts, or the most interesting folders to help me/others?

In regard to your grep; We need to know how we can unpack/extract PKG files (Sonys current and future firmwares)! I dont really understand 'dpk'? Should be pkg, or epk (see my post), shouldnt it?
[Philips, Sony, TCL Android TV] dabyd64:
Yes, it's a typo, Pkg!

Will upload later all the partitions.

Anyways, my TV was already dying, after dumping the emmc, I tried to replace it with a different one, didn't like it, probably it only allows certain emmc types.

After putting back the original emmc, it seems the heating ended its misery (Was already failing) and killed it completely.

It's recogniced but drops a lot of block errors when trying to read it.

So now I'm waiting for a new emmc AliExpress, we'll see what happens next.

I'm not a expert in certificates, in any way, but I've found a lot of of them, although I have no idea what the format is.

Will continue this later, I'm outside, and I don't carry my hacking stuff everywhere :LOL:
[Philips, Sony, TCL Android TV] dabyd64:
Here's the file, compressed in RAR4.

I attached a file containing the binwalk output for all files, and two small scripts for quickly mounting/unmounting the partitions, that way you don't have to extract anything, using a lot of space and time.

Copy mount.sh and umount.sh to the partitions folder, run chmod +x to make them executable.

Then run "sudo ./mount.sh" or "sudo ./umount.sh"

You need to use sudo, the standard user can't mount filesystems.

It will create a mnt folder, and everything mounted inside.

umount.sh will clean everything.

So far, the Interesting partitions seems to be perm(DRM/RPMB keys inside?), linux_rootfs_A,3rd_ro, 3rd_rw and system.

But eepromA has suspicious arrays of data...

Binwalk found tons of certificates in DER format, check the txt file.

I'm very interested in the rpmbkey, if extracted we could access the rpmb partition, allowing perfect emmc dumping and cloning, also probably downgrading...

I tried epk2extract (It supossedly supports Mediatek pkg files), but this is all it does:

Unsupported input file format: sony_dtv0FA50A09A0A9_00004100_155100c1.pkg

I have several PKG files. I found some patterns:

- 0x0 to 0x1F: header, same for all. 32 bytes... Maybe a decryption key?

- 0x20-0x16F: Another header? Changes between files.

- 0x170-0x1E5E813: Big chunk of data(30MB), same for all. Maybe the installation binaries?

- 0x1E5E814-end: Seems to be the update itself.

Check the Sony GPL sources here:

Sony Global - Source Code Distribution Service

Source code download

oss.sony.net

Download uboot 2011.12 code

Check this file: inc/drv_inc/loader_if.h (Also attached for quick reference)

There're some keys inside, also some header structures. I've been seeking the code for few days, it's pretty extense.

If more people are willing to dig into this, we could make a Telegram/Discord group to discuss it!
[Philips, Sony, TCL Android TV] hackwerk:
Hope to see some tips, hints and ideas soon. Wanna crack this baby before (or just in) 2022! :/

Ridiculous it costs us so much time to get into our (own) tv with Android 7 and security patches from may 2019, while we have source codes and images! :(
[Philips, Sony, TCL Android TV] zorglub!:
HI all

I'm the happy owner of a Sony 43X83019C android TV

I'm experiencing the following ( but minor...) problem: THe remote control cannot switch the TV ON or OFF....

In order to circumvent this problem, I'm using the HDMI_CEC feature

I'm the only one with this problem ?