yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Shield Android TV Android Development] zulu99:
Is not necessary fake your device.

You can download it from here https://apkpure.com/bein-sports/ptv.bein.mena

like all others FREE apk in case one of this show as not compatible in Google Play.

Apkpure is a great service, all apk are signed with the original signature of the developer, not like all others modified apk that you find in internet.

Is a digital copy of Google Play for all free apps, without device and country restrictions.

But do you think that a so great service like this can survive to the attack of titans ?
[Shield Android TV Android Development] oppressed11:
I downloaded and installed from apkpure , all the channels didn't work

I tried to install the app from google play on my phone and it worked like a charm but I couldn't stream the channels over google cast
[Shield Android TV Android Development] dillfever:
Zulu your app droidmote will not work on stock just on your rom?? just wondering...
[Shield Android TV Android Development] Zacharybinx34:
I have read.

1. I see no download for the game steam and only the hub.

2. Having to use the controller wired is a huge downside.

3. Voice search ONLY works by buying other accessories. It did not work with either controller.

What's the point of buying this device if you lose all of this basic functionality?
[Shield Android TV Android Development] Grippen50:
Zacharybinx34 depends of what you want to use it for. If you want an all in one package in which you can navigate the web, make video calls, have other handy apps on your hands and widgets, etc.... Full android is best but if you're a more dedicated user and want to used the voice and gamepad then yes the stock is best for you. I think Nvidia should provide both options on initial boot as it was suggested by me to them already. Right now for my usage I also prefer the stock.
[Shield Android TV Android Development] tailslol:
Bad permissions broke the file I assume.
[Shield Android TV Android Development] liz.beth:
First, thanks for writing this! Much appreciated.

Second, that adb setup file is reported by norton as having a virus and cant be run on my system.
[Shield Android TV Android Development] mandark_a:
I use this software, is quick and downloads the apk and the obb file.

http://www.onyxbits.de/raccoon
[Shield Android TV Android Development] tailslol:
suspend norton untill next reboot,damn norton,still that bad after all those years...
[Shield Android TV Android Development] Idan73:
1. It is one app with full pc streaming as well as GeForce Now (but you just want to complain)

2. Use third party wireless or bluetooth or droidmote (but you already knew that)

3. If all you want is to search for are movies, and videos, by all means, it looks you belong to stock. But if you want full google now compatibility, as you would on any other android device (being able to say "call wife at mobile" and have it dial out with hangouts app, being able to say "set nest temperature to 23 degrees" ...) .... Then....

Why bother, you've made up your mind before you even posted your first.... There was no need for that either.

Anyways, we prefer not to think of it as losing basic functionality (it certainly is basic), but rather gaining premium functionality that should have been available in the first place.

Note 5 ?
[Shield Android TV Android Development] liz.beth:
there is no such list of uninstalled devices in the device manager that i could find.

after installing adb i checked for legacy device to install

and then this never cam up as an option:

Select Fastboot interface (GOOGLE USB ID)

using windows 10 also
[Shield Android TV Android Development] firiel:
If your phone is routed, use es file explorer to send the apk to shieldtv
[Shield Android TV Android Development] tailslol:
this will sound a bit hard but google is your friend.

you can google how to use and install adb and the drivers,it is the same for all devices.

some poeple shoudnt try without the minimum required knowledge and research before flash a device...
[Shield Android TV Android Development] gnoober:
What does your device manage show different from before and after you plug in your Shield? Here's pictures of mine
[Shield Android TV Android Development] gnoober:
This is mostly true. I find the internet to be an unorganized mess now adays. usually when you look for that answer you get a thread full of people telling you to google it. There are more people telling you to google it than people answering the question, causing most to go into an endless cycle of nonsense created by the people that didn't help. I remember when google was a beautiful thing.
[Shield Android TV Android Development] liz.beth:
[/COLOR]

seriously, you dont know what my knowledge level is. I am reporting that there is a problem that these instructions arent working and so as to get a different instruction that does works and you assume its that im inexperienced or incompetent. Thats just rude. Good day.

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after i install adb 1.4.3 and plug in the shield console, there is no heading under device manager listed as 'other'. The device is connected as the shield tv console shows up as a hard drive in the file manager.

adb doesnt appear installed after installing it.

when i tried to install adb 1.4.3 in windows 7 on a different machine and i got to the last bit about installing the drivers and said 'y' to it, i instead got a pop up window of install command options like '/f to force install' and the like.
[Shield Android TV Android Development] liz.beth:
so as you can see from this that the adb device shows under universal serial bus devices. However, when i try to follow these instructions with the device where i could find it i didn't get the option to

Select Fastboot interface (GOOGLE USB ID)

that never showed up.

also, sorry for the pic shows up sideways.
[Shield Android TV Android Development] liz.beth:
adb reboot bootloader

The bootloader must be unlocked before all others operations with the command:

fastboot oem unlock

so i did that and this is what i have. see the pics after the fast boot oem unlock and just says waiting for device and nothing changes
[Shield Android TV Android Development] tailslol:
Yes if you knew what you was doing you should know that this step of installing the drivers manually is perfectly normal. Windows is not able to find the driver correspondence at first. It is shown in adb installation tutorial.

http://developer.android.com/tools/extras/oem-usb.html
[Shield Android TV Android Development] zulu99:
When you reboot the device in fastboot mode for the first time, you must install the drivers. If you don't see a new device in windows, change usb port or change cable.

it is understood that you must connect the micro usb part in shield tv and normal usb inside pc.

The command

fastboot devices

Is useful to check the devices connected in fastboot mode. In this way you can see if the shield is connected to your pc via fastboot before all others fastboot commands.

If the priblem persist, try with another PC.

This is the same thing for thousand of Android devices and is a generic question that every android users should already know.

Instead if you are an Iphone user, welcome in the Android world.
[Shield Android TV Android Development] zulu99:
In case you need a serious Splitter the Integral 4K60 4:4:4 600MHz is the best choice.

https://www.hdfury.com/shop/splitters/integral-4k60-444-600mhz/

https://forums.geforce.com/default/topic/859404/4k-netflix-setup/

Very interesting reading.
[Shield Android TV Android Development] Grippen50:
Actually in Win10 I had the same problem when I went back to stock rom. Device is listed but when you type in the command it just stay there waiting for the device and nothing happens. Eventually had to do it with my work laptop with Windows 7.
[Shield Android TV Android Development] zulu99:
I flash with windows 10, but some times, after window 10 updates, i must reinstall the drivers. But it work without problems. I suggest to use an usb 2 port and not an usb 3 port.
[Shield Android TV Android Development] zulu99:
Just an info for Android TV users.

I see some Android TV fans that try to modify standard apk with leanback banner and publish many modified apk to sideload to Android TV.

Apart that also if you sideload, the app can't work well in most case because the default dpi of Android TV show the app with bad resolution and others problems like option menu, status bar etc. etc.

If you not know, when you change the signature from the apk, the app can't be automatically updated from Google Play, so you must create another apk to have the app updated. This cause that you have always an old version or the app became old in short time.

If you need to sideload an apk, i suggest at least one with the original signature.

The fact that an user change the original signature of an apk and publish it, is legal only if the original developer not complain. So take care to do this.

https://www.google.it/search?q=google dmca

Instead an apk with the original signature is legit.

So, my suggestion is to not lose time with this modified apk. If you need the original version, is better if you download it from apkpure.com

In full Android instead you can download and update directly from Google Play. In case some free apk show as not compatible you can download it from apkpure.com

If an user use Android TV as it was invented, all ok not problem, but if an user try to transform Android TV in full Android with sideload he lose only time.

Android TV is a player for movies and songs, full Android instead is a real Android OS where you can watch movies, listen songs and all others millions things that Android can offer and multi touch is not a problem but something that help you in interaction if you use the right input device.
[Shield Android TV Android Development] Zacharybinx34:
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[Shield Android TV Android Development] Idan73:
Not sure if you're flaming , or trolling? He did not come to your thread, or post in someone else's.

Don't be dense, Nvidia controller WILL NEVER WORK wirelessly on third party roms. It is closed source and can not be made to work. Petition Nvidia. If your only reason for being here is to see if controller has been fixed ....you are wasting your time.

Same goes for remotes voice search and volume. Sure you can edit the voice search key layout to do a search instead of opening google now , but you need a mic , such as bluetooth and or usb. Then again, if you had those,you could just say OK GOOGLE.
[Shield Android TV Android Development] zulu99:
In this thread there are many trollers, for this reason some times i write strange things. These trollers come from some android tv community in google plus. Where I replied in the right way to some nonsense written and I was thrown out.

Are only NOOBS and they don't know nothing of Android, absolutely nothing and do and write things totally absurd everywhere.

Are like Iphone users, but i must suffer also this from long time.

If you like Android TV, why you are here ? And if you sideload apps why you like Android TV ? because you are a NOOBS.

Why ? Because if you sideload, you can do everything better and in more simple way with full Android.

full Android 5.1 is the best Android firmware all around the world in this moment, and if i'm not sure of this, i will never write this.

yes Android 6 is coming, and i will try to create also full Android 6, also if i'm sure that Nvidia will break things to avoid this.

But also Android TV 6, 7, 10 or 50 can't be better than full Android 5.1, because we can do everything for at least other 2 years without problems. Not like Android TV where we can watch only some movies and songs or play with a little number of games very expensive.

I apologize to all other users
[Shield Android TV Android Development] Zacharybinx34:
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[Shield Android TV Android Development] tailslol:
We are in a custom rom thread...if you don't want to speak about it you should go before being flaged.
[Shield Android TV Android Development] Idan73:
Read my second sentence. He can praise in his thread all he likes. You are free to post in general thread that you don't like his rom. But you are here actively complaining, without offering meaningfull discussion, user support, anything...

If zulu99 posts something in general discussion, please feel free to speak your mind.

BTW there's nothing for me to calm down about. I don't get upset over internet stuff. Do you really think we don't want the same things as you, with regards to proprietary stuff? But as i said , you're barking up the wrong tree.

Sent from my nVidia Shield Android TV
[Shield Android TV Android Development] zulu99:
If you can't live without 4K or you want just test the capability of your Shield TV, i suggest

UltraFlix that is a good app, despite what you can think. You can test the free contents or buy a movie.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nanotech.ultra_flix&hl=en-US

Or open youtube with Chrome browser in desktop mode and select 4K resolution

Netflix Android TV app should work also in 4K, but you need a TV HDCP 2.2 capable or a splitter like this https://www.hdfury.com/shop/splitters/integral-4k60-444-600mhz/

with this splitter and a capture card you can also record your preferred 4K contents, also on stock firmware.

correct me if i'm wrong about Netflix.
[Shield Android TV Android Development] xdakid:
zulu99,

2 questions..

1. I noticed there was a "Fix Auto-Mount of external usb storage' on 1.5 firmware fix...my sd card started to boot up not mounted on 2.2...was working fine the past 2 weeks. Is it something that I can fix?

2. In your firmware descriptions you mentioned "Compatibility with new games optimized for Tegra X1 like Doom 3..." Well, I downloaded Doom 3 from google play store, installed fine but boots up and shuts down after 5 seconds...Do I need to alter the build.prop?

Thanx again for this awsome rom!!
[Shield Android TV Android Development] zulu99:
About the sd card, i don't have problems. It work very well. I suggest to test it on your pc, if it work you can backup files, format it again and insert in shield tv. or format directly inside shield tv

Abot Doom 3, i tested it some time ago and it worked very well https://youtu.be/Tk906iHveVI

P.S.

I tested again Doom 3 and despite i bought it, after the first start it say to me "i can't validate the license, check your network"

But many others users have this problem also on stock firmware. You can read the comments on the game in google play and search for the same error in google. I hope an update will solve otherwise i must request a refund.

is not a firmware problem, it request to nvidia server some thing, but the request fail. for this reason the game can't check the license. is a bug in the game or a crap protection at nvidia server level.
[Shield Android TV Android Development] eowindel:
Thanks for this rom, installed yesterday and works great. I notice that i was not able to move to SD my apps, like "contrast" game, so i use folder mount to create symbolic link to SD card. I'd like to use the shield remote on some apps like kodi but i could live without it, i prefer to have no limitation on the system :)

Do you have a way to activate the immersive mode from your couch ? For the moment i have to push power button on the shield to select it, i tried to add a buttton in notification bar with gravitybox module, but i can't do that, a force close appears for gravitybox on this features, others are working...
[Shield Android TV Android Development] zulu99:
I use DroidMote to enter in power menu. I long press on power button of DroidMote and i select immersive mode from power menu.

But this work with all remote that have also a power button or with a keyboard with a power button.

About folder mount, is the best solution on this firmware and also on android 6, because with foldermount you can move every app (also apps that developer removed this functionality ) and because the disk will not be encrypted, so you can use it also on your pc, others devices and store in it also multimedia files. You can use the disk in both way, for apps and multimedia.

I already made a firmware 6.0.1 for Nexus Player so i know this.
[Shield Android TV Android Development] eowindel:
Thx,

Great for droidmote, i have not see that there is the powerbutton on the second tab, so perfect. As you speak about remote, i just think i can manage to setup my logitech Harmony with the shield, it shall work :)

For android 6 i do not follow the news, so if i understand, it will be possible to use SDcard like an internal memory but it will encrypt the SDcard so you can not use it on other device.
[Shield Android TV Android Development] zulu99:
yes right. and if the developer want, you can't move the app to the expanded storage. Instead foldermount work in trasparent way for the system, the data for android OS are in the internal storage although in reality they are stored on external disk. It's a god implementation that the original OS can't have for security reasons / piracy

In others words, if you don't know, Android 6 on Shield TV will add only others restrictions / limitations, nothing new. Especially for an android tv box, android 6 is android 5 with others limitations. But if you like app permissions, external storage encrypted, and more restriction on root access, android 6 is for you.

Today Android 6 can be rooted without problems thanks to Chainfire with an automatic customization of the boot.img, or creating a custom boot.img

But android 6 for Shield TV, will add also customization of the leanback launcher and ultraFlix, all thing that you can already have with the update of the apk.

But not worry, also if is completely unuseful, i will try to create also full Android 6 for Shield TV.
[Shield Android TV Android Development] UppGr4de:
I read on the geforce forum that if you use a remote with mic built in the sound won't work on the shield. Does that apply to this rom as well? I like the voice button on the shield remote and I wonder if I can use something similar if I flash this rom. I know the shield remote mic button won't work but there are other remotes with mic built in.

Also, great work on bringing the "unrestricted experience" on the shield @ zulu99, hands down sir.
[Shield Android TV Android Development] darktyroll:
http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=64634357&postcount=1295
[Shield Android TV Android Development] Idan73:
Lol. Finally managed to kill my June box. Not that I was hoping to, but seems it would have happened sooner or later as I have early release that plagued others as well.

Which is why I stayed on 1.8 release and 1.3 nvidia base for a while now. Things slowed down with work now so decided to try my luck. Guess I didn't have any. After flash official, box went into stock recovery and after restart, nothing. Light comes on, but that's it. No force hardware button working, nothing on TV.

Spent few hours on chat with nvidia (troubleshooting and generally trying everything they had on their script) and now awaiting email response from rma team.

My second box from early December sales works fine, and went through official updates without a glitch. Forcing fastboot via hardware does not work on that one either (read some reports that it works for some, not me though).

Hopefully I get rma without issues or stress.

Note 5 ?
[Shield Android TV Android Development] banderos101:
DRM - Dnever Rcauses Missues /s

Wait .........:eek:....did i do that right :confused:

:D
[Shield Android TV Android Development] tailslol:
outch for the box

and drm lol :silly:
[Shield Android TV Android Development] zulu99:
You must read this, i'm shocked for what happened.

Today i'm testing Doom 3 because an user requested me to test the last version present in Google Play

Premise: I bougt the game some months ago, and i made a video with my full Android firmware https://youtu.be/Tk906iHveVI

Today i downloaded the game two time in full Android and at first start it showed an error message relative the license. "Error validating license, check your internet connection"

I understood that the error was not relative to something bad in the firmware but was a protection.

I could not understand what the problem was because full Android, with regard to games and video decoding has everything like the stock firmware

I have two Shield TV, so on one of this i installed the stock firmware, i downloaded the game and it work.

I go back on full Android, downloaded the game again and it work also on full Android very well.

Or this morning there have been problems with google license servers,

or most probably the new doom 3 update in google play talk with nvidia servers and set the user as verified buyer only if start the game from stock firmware. But after you are registered on nvidia server as buyer, you can run it also on full Android or others firmwares. I think this because from logcat a registered some informations sended to nvidia servers. That this morning failed.

If the second thesis is true, this is a scam because an user that buy a game or an app from google play must be registered as valid users only on google servers.

The license of a game or an app, is linked to your google account and was managed only by google. You can protect your app like you want also with server checks, but a second database with your device informations, device id and user id is illegal because the users not know that their data are stored also elsewhere. and he has never consented to this.

test also you, and if my thesis is true, complaint with Google and Nvidia about that.

However now Doom 3 runs on my full Android Shield TV

p.s.

I am definitely not interested in games, i play just to test the capabilities of the firmwares and to test the precision of DroidMote on every game, multi touch and with controller support
[Shield Android TV Android Development] UppGr4de:
That's a fair point since I'm also planning on hooking a webcam (Logitech 910). I'm guessing that a webcam and a remote with mic

at the same

time is a no go.
[Shield Android TV Android Development] Obecny:
Thanks for a great rom, just installed it couple of minutes ago! So testing time for me!

Is the rom pure plain ? no live wallpapers, just few apps or I am missing something ?

there is no even this green nvidia wallpaper as on the picture just plain android wallpaper from google pure rom is that correct ?

- Is there any chance to install a screensaver like the one in the stock rom day dream module (chromecast built in) and have it active all the time!

for now I have display off set for 30 sec so the display goes black and waking up immediately and over and over

- Nvidia shield hub - to play (stream) local games from my local PC I have to be logged in into nvidia account is this normal ?

without login I getting a connection error to my pc :( the app moonlight form play store working without it but I have huge lag in it what is strange as the official app is pure smooth!

Thank you!
[Shield Android TV Android Development] rester555:
I read back in the thread [MENTION=1469500]zulu99[/MENTION]. GREAT WORK and great ROM! I will wait for your MM rom 6.0/6.0.1. I hesitated to do the 5.1 rom because I have been using the new Amazon Fire TV, but getting a full rom on that has been a pain and I might make a switch to my Nvidia Shield depending on what goodies you have in store! Best of luck.
[Shield Android TV Android Development] zulu99:
the firmware is basic as you see. but you can install everything and customize it like you prefer.

This is Android, like your tablet or phone. You should be able to do everything.

About Nvidia geforce / shield hub you can download it from google play to have game straming from nvidia and from your pc

if you find few apps that show as not compatible in google play, you can download it from apkpure.com or from apkmirror.com