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[Shield Android TV General] fredphoesh:
After two days with an Nvidia Shield Android TV , there are many pluses and minuses, but over all, it has BY FAR the best hardware of any android based box on the market... no question at all about that, and here are what I think are the biggest pluses and minuses.

PLUSES

- amazing smoothness in interface - no jerky, delays etc at all

- superb playback of all media, smoother than any box I have seen

- 192khz 24 bit audio output (kodi and mxplayer but I am not sure if they are able to output at that HD rate)

- very well built, sexy touch activated standby button

- very easy to get up and running with controller etc

- shield game streaming service is flawless, fast, smooth, HD

- gaming controller is high quality, has a microphone for voice input and a headphone socket, which work well.

- Voice search within Play Music for artist or track works very well, extremely fast.

- playing Flash-based websites like TennisTV.com etc on Dolphin in Desktop mode is way better than any other box I have tried (and I have tried MANY)

MINUSES

- have to sideload many apps you may want, like TED, BBC iPlayer, IMDB, Spotify, Movie Mate etc.. even Chrome Browser - but relatively easy to work around using APK Extractor to get APK's from your phone, and Chainfire's sideload launcher.

- no up front display of non-Android TV specific apps

- no recent apps

- no way to get to "now playing" with some apps like Spotify if you had returned home, unless its a leanback app

- no notifications

- no mouse on desktop, backpace key on keyboard not working as backspace but as left mouse click

- Keyboard is USA only, so UK users have to know, for example, that " and @ have swopped places

- voice search from the home screen does not find music artists on google play music or spotify, but only youtube... so "play van morrison" will play a track from youtube, and not from the 25 van morrison albums I have already uploaded to Play Music.

- my tv keeps on cropping a lot off the screen, there is no way to adjust the screen crop size, to reduce size so it fits better on my screen... I can adjust my screen but that is a hassle.

- very little customisation, settings limited too.

There is at least one NON-Android TV ROM for this device, so you can fix almost all of those Minuses, and you can run it using Squarehome or NovaLauncher or whatever you like, but I am not sure I actually NEED to customise the box. Personally I use it for Kodi, Spotify, Play Music, TuneIn Radio, Youtube, Movie Mate, all of which works fine... so for the moment, I am not rooting the box, and am adjusting my expectations and enjoying what works fantastically well, pretty much everything.

This is FAR and away the best box I have ever had, goodbye Tronsmart Drako, Minix Neo X8H+ etc, this is WAY beyond. At some point I may change to plain android, but so far I am fine with a couple of extra steps to be able to enjoy the voice input and superb power and playback capabilities.

Mark.
[Shield Android TV General] Natakranta:
Hi. I'm located in Ireland and looking for android TV box for my FHD projector. I'm considering MINIX Neo X8H+ or Nvidia Shield TV box (not yet available). What advantages of one over the other would you point? Thanks!

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[Shield Android TV General] fredphoesh:
Minix Neo offers access to almost all the play store apps without needing to sideload, with the Shield you need to sideload some apps, which isnt hard. The Shield has far better hardware, so you will get smoother HD playback, no question. If playing video is your main think, then the Shield's faster graphics, faster processor is the way to go. They are both good boxes, but my Minix Neo x8hplus is currently UNPLUGGED!
[Shield Android TV General] Natakranta:
I'd like to connect external 2GB HDD USB 3 to the box. Make it media storage to play on the connected to the box projector and available for all devices in home through my local WiFi.

How could I remotely control the box to manage utorrent on it from my phone, at home thorough local WiFi or externally when I'm away. Possible?

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[Shield Android TV General] fredphoesh:
Hi, sorry, no idea, I use it for streaming...
[Shield Android TV General] funtasticguy:
Hi Mark! For your minuses mentioned above, you might want to consider HALauncher found in the Play Store. I'm using this on my Nvidia Shield Console/TV and it looks and works better than the default Android TV "Home" launcher. This apps allows you to create your own Home screen with rows of your customized apps. For example, I have a row for my Emulators, Racing Games, Space Shooters, Sports Games, TV apps, etc. You can arrange these rows and apps anyway you want. You can also use your own background image. You can also rename the apps to your liking and edit the icons for higher quality 320x180 images. Everything looks great now. This is what Android TV home launcher should be like. The only thing that is missing now is a button for rebooting the system, and another one for shutting it down!

Check out the images below to see what HALauncher can do:

http://postimg.org/image/kuncrk5tf/

http://postimg.org/image/57w3e6s1f/

http://postimg.org/image/fkie09lkj

http://postimg.org/image/mjwfzmlir/

-- Manny
[Shield Android TV General] fredphoesh:
Hi Manny,

Yep, I've been using it for a few days and like it a lot.

My gripes are that the voice search doesn't work properly and always shows empty results, and there is no "now playing" function... and the lack of a power button. For some reason ALT-Tab doesn't show recent apps. Oh, there is no ALL APPS function either, so new apps are invisible till you edit the home screen. But yeah, the best home screen for the SATV for sure.

Cheers,

Mark
[Shield Android TV General] brando56894:
I agree with pretty much everything you said, I've had mine for two weeks and I love it. I have Kodi running to play local media, plex to stream stuff from friends servers, Netflix (which really upped their game since the last time I subscribed a year or two ago), along with tons of games. This will only get better over time, its still a relatively new product. I'm still debating on whether or not to root it, I think I'm going to but will be keeping the stock launcher because I like it, despite the lack of "recent apps" which I still don't understand why they didn't include it. The only reason I want to root it is so that I can install the Xinstaller module from Xposed so all my apps will install to my sdcard and not the internal memory.
[Shield Android TV General] mutelight:
I have had mine a few weeks and it is definitely a really nice device and it is crazy fast!

Really the only gripe I have is 4K support but that isn't Nvidia's fault. Basically because I am running through a processor (more or less an AVR without an amp) and HDMI 2.0 standard is not used on them, Netflix won't show 4K content on the device unless I am directly connected to the TV. :(

Fortunately Ultraflix works at 4K and everything else does as well.
[Shield Android TV General] fredphoesh:
Try HALauncher, it is good enough for me to not install a custom rom and root... So far! Also once you root you'll have to manually install rom updates and reinstall apps etc... Also you can move most apps to sd card. DON'T set to Automatically Move apps to SD card, that doesn't work. Install to system then move them to SD card in app settings after player no the game once.
[Shield Android TV General] tobalaz:
Had mine for about a week and like it an awful lot.

As someone who bought an Ouya, I must say focusing on the media services first THEN worrying about gaming made this a MUCH BETTER product.

I am a bit disappointed I can't have my HBO Go on it, there's currently no Amazon Video and the Netflix app needs better voice options, but I'm really digging the Gamestream from my PC upstairs to the downstairs TV, It works most of the time without a hitch. The only time it doesn't is when I'm playing my Steam games and the Ubisoft games try to go through Uplay and Uplay crashes or its a game I've never ran before and Steam itself crashes because it doesn't seem to like running a game in Big Picture mode if it has never been opened and ran at least once on my PC in normal Steam mode first, and those are client problems, not Nvidia issues so can't fault them there.

Yes, having to install some of my apps from the PC through the Play Store is a bit of a pain, but it also keeps the kids from loading it up with a bunch of useless crap, so I'd say its a fair trade.
[Shield Android TV General] mutelight:
Oh yes, speaking of Gamestream, what does everyone think of the quality?

I tried it both before and after the update that was supposed to improve the quality and have not been that impressed. The bitrate seems somewhat low and I get random stutter and both the PC and Shield are wired gigabit.
[Shield Android TV General] tobalaz:
Well as far as Gamestream goes for me, I've got my win7 gaming rig w/ an i5, 12gb ram and gtx 750ti hardwired to my Buffalo AC1750 and the Shield on 5g to a 42" 1080p TV and I've no problems with it, everything runs smoothly, well, smoothly when Uplay isn't f*cking everything up...

I had issues initially so I had to go into my router and change the settings for my 5ghz channel.
[Shield Android TV General] mutelight:
OK interesting, maybe it is is an issue with SLI since I am running 3 Titan Xs, i7, 32GB RAM, etc through an Asus RT-AC3200. I will try disabling SLI and see if that helps.
[Shield Android TV General] tobalaz:
You've really peaked my interest here, was the SLI making it not work correctly? Like maybe the video encoding being slit amongst the cards wasn't working too well?

I'm about to upgrade my 750ti so it'd be nice to know if it was SLI or just isn't playing nice with your Titan.
[Shield Android TV General] mutelight:
It is honestly hard to say, I still need to try disabling SLI to see if it helps. Also I should mention I have been running Windows 10 for a couple months now there have been a few driver updates for it since I tried it last.
[Shield Android TV General] furkna:
Video calling only available for the Shield ATV

One unique feature on the Shield ATV is the camera support.

Just plug a camera and it works! I've been checking out other Android SmartTV's and set-top-boxes, but yet couldn't find any other device having this support.

And, there is already a video calling android tv app on google play called "Tellybean - Easy video calling". It works perfectly on the Shield ATV.
[Shield Android TV General] fredphoesh:
Nice, but surely Hangouts works just fine, and even Skype?
[Shield Android TV General] furkna:
Your right. Since shield has camera support basically any video calling app might work. But I don't believe they work as smooth as Tellybean. Skype and hangout does not have Android TV apps (not gonna have one any time soon). They don't exist on google play for Android TV. You need to sideload their default android app.

Also, their UX is fine for a mobile app but not so much for a TV app. They don't really fit into the leanback UI. Not so usable if you are sitting on the couch and just want to have a video call. I use hangouts and skype on my smartphone and laptop but Tellybean on my TV :)

Tellybean is an Android TV app, shows up on Leanback launcher and it works smoothly on the shield ATV.
[Shield Android TV General] vn800art:
Hello! From Italy here! 10 days I have a 16Gb unit I struggle with Ethernet AND wifi 5Gb connection! Wifi N working about fine. Netgear R7000 and Fastweb FTTS connection 85MBps! I only get 10 MBps at most, and this is the only device that gets this low! Need to solve this or ask for replacement the soonest! Any help much appreciated.

Regards

Alessandro
[Shield Android TV General] tobalaz:
All I can suggest is make sure the Shield isn't sitting near a phone base, speakers, or right on top of the TV.

There's also the most remote possibility if its sitting near electrical outlets with unshielded wiring there could be feedback but that's extremely rare in newer houses, you've got to be in an OLD house for that.

Easiest way to test is just move it to a different room and see if its still getting the low speed or not.

Best of luck and enjoy.
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[HTC One X] QA Bot:
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[XDA Assist] kinhopeless:
Morning all,

looking for a reliable unlocker to network unlock a new VF-895N Vodafone Smart Prime 6.

Currently locked to Vodafone UK, no need to root as it's running almost vanilla Lollipop and it's for the wife, she will not need the flexibility root offers.

Apparently it's the same as an Alcatel Pop 2 Premium, which can be rooted with KingRoot, but if I'm rooting then I want defintive confirmation that it network unlocks it too!

Thanks in advance for any suggestions,
[XDA Assist] Razvan:
Hi there,

I'm sorry but I can't find anything related to your question/device except this thread: [ROOT] Requesting root for Alcatel Pop 2 (5) Premium 7044Y / Vodafone Smart Prime 6

Please post that in the forum bellow for more answers from the experts:

> Android Development and Hacking > Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Good luck
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] maxiv:
Hi everyone,

I've been playing video files from Genesis and set bookmarks. AA daylater or so, I'd like to resume those files from the bookmark or where I stoppedsafter kodi has been closed ... How can I do this? I can't find a "resume playback" option.
[G 2014 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SMMmmm:
Hi!

I've installed the CM 12.1 by downloading and following the instructions from the CM wiki page for Moto G 2014, and also by reading threads from XDA. Now I've been using this for the last 2 weeks and this is happening once after every 3-4 calls. Whenever I get a call the whole screen turns black and doesn't respond :/

I've a LG G Watch as my android wear, so I use that to receive the call. After the call gets over, the screen is still unresponsive and I've to restart the phone by holding the power button.

I'm updated to the latest nightly. How do I solve this issue? Any help is appreciated.

Thank you. :)
[G 2014 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SMMmmm:
This dead screen issue is still not fixed. The screen still dies after a few days of use. And it feels like the backlight of the screen turns off because all of the features of the phone still work. I've to restart the phone to turn the screen on again.

I'm updated to the latest nightly. Any fix for this issue? PLEASE HELP.
[G 2014 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fburgos:
Try different ROM remember clean flash
[G 2014 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Sarmatios:
I might have the same problem. I can see the phone is recognized by the computer and the adb command "adb devices" shows it. I also hear the sounds produced by raising the volume buttons. Rebooting it won't bring the screen on. Any idea how to fix it?

EDIT: I Noticed that flashing strong light on it shows the screen a bit. Managed to turn of the live display option and crank the brightness setting to the max like many suggested. No change. Also updated ROM to latest CM12.1 (20150831) tried flashing a strong light into the front camera/sensor and using adb to set the brightness to 200. Still no change

The odd thing that makes me 90% certain this is some kind of hardware failure is that the dark screen persists on recovery and bootloader screens, not just system.
[G 2014 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vaisakmct:
I have same issue, screen not waken up when call comes but just pressing power button shows screen for me
[Galaxy Note 4 Accessories] titchyyyy:
Can anybody re-direct me into buying the best glass screen protector for the Note 4? I purchased one on Amazon for £9 which supported 2.5D edges but it still has some horrible Halo effect going round the sides and isn't full sized at all. Would prefer to buy it from Amazon UK or any other UK store, not really wanting to use eBay. Cheers!
[Galaxy Note 4 Accessories] borijess:
I am liking nuglas. It has some halo but it's not terrible. Some people have reported no halo.
[Galaxy Note 4 Accessories] Kinsman-UK:
Browse this thread - extensive options:

http://xdaforums.com/note-4/accessories/tempered-glass-screen-protectors-t2878038

I'm using a Moshi iVisor which I got from MobileFun:

http://www.mobilefun.co.uk/moshi-iv...ote-4-glass-screen-protector-black-p51561.htm
[Galaxy Note 4 Accessories] titchyyyy:
Thanks for the help, I don't think I'll drop £30 on one but there seems to be a nice range of options on Mobilefun with good recommendations!
[General Topics] dmelton75:
Lets the flames begin. I've been an AVID Windows Mobile user for my PDA/Phone needs for the past 3-4 years. I've had a Treo, an HTC Wizard and TyTN and also played and supported applications in my workplace on Windows Mobile based handheld devices. I recently bought an iPhone and it's now my mobile device of choice, hands down. Obviously, it has a few shortcomings but so far nothing that can't be fixed with a firmware update. The lack of 3G is a non-issue to me, when I got 3G on my 8525 it killed the battery and sometimes I couldnt tell that much difference from using EDGE. Overall, I think MS better wake up, the user interface and ease of use on the iPhone make ALL my WM devices seem clunky and slow. switching to WiFi on my 8125 and 8525 was a royal pain in the tail but my iPhone switches seamlessly and fast. I'm no kool-aid drinking apple fan boy but I think MS better be paying attention.
[General Topics] Pumpiron579:
Hooked........MMM lets see.....battery does not come out....cannot buy an extra battery.....if your battery dies, it cost $80 to send it in and get it fixed...Apple I guess is smart.....Better not forget your Iphone in a hot car....:rolleyes:
[General Topics] Rudegar:
biggest issue imho is lack of 3th party applications
[Moto G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kwandroidguy:
Phone was working fine and left to charge.

Rebooted on its own and is asking for password to decrypt, when entered it goes to the decrypt screen and then immediately shuts off and restarts a couple mins later. Never happened before and don't see any relevant posts, please help. Very important data on phone, don't want to lose it.

Running stock 4.4.4 and storage is encrypted.
[Galaxy S 4 Mini Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cadilhac:
Hi there everyone!

I'm trying to `adb backup` a device with no screen. I installed CWM, a rootkit, and SuperSU/adbd insecure, fully updated. Now I have the following problem:

# Without adbd insecure, su simply fails, no message on phone from SuperSU:
pc$ adb shell
shell@android:/ $ su
1|shell@android:/ $

# With adbd insecure, validated in SuperSU
pc$ adb shell
root@android:/ # cd /data
root@android:/data # ls
opendir failed, Permission denied
255|root@android:/data # su system
DIE: credentials different than expected
1|root@android:/data # whoami
whoami: unknown uid 0
1|root@android:/data # su
root@android:/data # ls
opendir failed, Permission denied

Again, nothing shows up on the screen (I'm checking that using ADB Control, which, incidentally, has to be killed before launching `adb backup`, otherwise adb stops after a few seconds.)

Any help is wholefully welcome!

Configuration:

Hardware: i9195 with dead screen & digitizer, 8gb internal memory.

OS: Android 4.2.2

Mods: CWM installed using heimdall, RootKit from this thread, then SuperSU updated

Additional apps: adbd insecure, adb up to date on computer
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] weh123:
May tutorials po ba kayo kung pano iupgrade MyPhone Rio Lite S4700 to KITKAT?

Wala po kasi ako mahanap na tut...
[General Questions and Answers] sexykiller:
Hello there, I have recently got a tablet : ws1001q penta and I am unable to perform a firmware upgrade.

I can not use youtube, google chrome or facebook application on it.

I have downloaded the firmware from the website of penta but I can not find any proper instruction on how to put it.

Thank you for anyone who can help
[General Questions and Answers] Vii Vek:
Hello :) You don't need to reflash to unblock the tablet.

Since you already have root access on the tablet, you would want to first download a launcher from Google play.

Then download root explorer. If you know how android works. You can unblock the tablet using root explorer by deleting certain apks.
[General Questions and Answers] soleil13:
remove restrictions on Penta WS1001Q

Hi

I have the same problem as sexy killer. I think Vii Vek would help a lot by giving details.E.g why download a launcher (I have already installed Smart Launcher pro and it works OK). I also installed OI file manager and ES file manager in order to access root. And then Vii Vek could gently explain to us newbies by mentioning which apks to delete and where to find them exactly. Many anticipated thanks to Vii Vek.
[General Questions and Answers] Aniket532015:
I cannot root it
[About XDA developers] realista87:
i'm sorry to ask you a noob question but................ i remember that in the past time i used this forum as all other forums. every thread has 1 post, 2nd post 3...... and so on.....

but recently i can only see the initial popst, and to see every reply i need to press next button that's just aoutside a squared box where i see every person thatposted something.

i tried to check every setting on the forum.... i can't find a solution so see this xda forum as every forum..... with all post in one page!!
[About XDA developers] NOOK!E:
Which XDA Theme are you using?
[About XDA developers] bittooshubham:
Never faced this problem. .strange
[About XDA developers] Sami Kabir:
[MENTION=4244214]realista87[/MENTION],

Can you please show us a screenshot of it?

I know you said you went through every settings in the forum.. but can you please go through all the options under "THREAD DISPLAY OPTIONS" in here again - just to be sure?

And one more thing.. what theme are you using? (choose either XDA 2013 and 2015 if you're using a different one)
[About XDA developers] realista87:
thank you to all. [MENTION=4879114]Sami Kabir[/MENTION] i entered in your link and i edited that options.... i previously DID NOT TOUCH them.

Then i solve my problem and forum returned to be normal with all posts in the thread. BUT...................................... it's strange. I returned to the old settings and now don'0t return like before.

i only changed Number of Posts to Show Per Page, from default to 50., and Default Thread Age Cut Off from default to all threads.

.....not i returned all options like before but problem disappeared. i think it's a little bug..... i use chrome browser.
[Sony Xperia E3] pranayberry:
I have installed link2sd plus and linked all the apps to ext sd card. I dont have any internal data on phone memory. I also dont have any files on phones internal memory but still there is around 300mb free only. Moreover whatsapp data is also linked to memory card using foldermount. Please help is there anything that I can do?