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[Honor 3C Questions & Answers] arslanxazmi:
Hi all. I have Honor 3c international version with official Kit-Kat rom. I factory reset it using TWRP v 2.8.6.0 and after rebooting, phone showed my huawei logo and then after some time the screen went black. Almost 10 minutes later a white box appeared showing that it is upgrading and the files are being optimized but the phone got stuck on "Finishing Boot". Then the screen went black again. Phone didn't vibrate or reboot during all this. Its been happening since yesterday and i can't get past this black screen. Help please.
[Honor 3C Questions & Answers] hassanjavaid8181:
Flash stock rom via spft
[XDA Assist] XDA Visitor:
i want change Hisense T929 android 4. 0. 3 to 4. 2. 2.
[Android Apps and Games] trueFedeX:
Web browser optimised to use with Android-based TVs.

Features:

- working with TV remote

- tabs and bookmarks support

- voice search support

- use Android builtin web rendering engine (WebKit/Blink based)

- built-in download manager

- browsing history

Google Play url:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.phlox.tvwebbrowser

Now open source:

https://github.com/truefedex/tv-bro

XDA:DevDB Information

TV Bro, App for all devices (see above for details)

Contributors

trueFedeX

Version Information

Status: Stable

Current Stable Version: 1.8.6

Stable Release Date: 2023-01-05

Created 2017-01-26

Last Updated 2023-01-08
[Android Apps and Games] tdfsu:
I tried it on the Amazon Fire TV. The app loaded and functioned, just couldnt load a webpage with it. After typing in a web address and pressing enter, it would just return to the app homepage.

Any suggestions?
[Android Apps and Games] trueFedeX:
Very strange... Do you use built-in address bar (shown on top after pressing "back" button) or you use editbox on homepage?
[Android Apps and Games] 4everAnoob:
This app comes very close to being what I need.

I have a Mecool M8S Pro+ that I want to use to watch iPlayer on.

I have not had much luck using Kodi, and using any other way requires using a mouse and or keyboard.

So I tried your browser and I was very happy to see that I can now load iPlayer using the remote control!

But... when trying to view anything, there is just a black screen. Now this is something to do with how codecs are implemented in the system, I think.

I also tried different user agents, using the iPad user agent I can load the video, but it is too choppy to be watchable.

Using a user agent which simulates and older android device, iPlayer tries to redirect to a streaming app, BBC media player.

It does it through and address like intent://[appnamehere] but your browser does not seem to support this.

Basically what I am saying is, can you somehow adapt the browser so the engine is like Chrome and or can you add support for intent:// functionality to be able to open installed apps?
[Android Apps and Games] jbl0ggs:
Interesting. Will need to check this out now that Puffin Browser is going to paid subscription model.
[Android Apps and Games] Deathalo:
Installed and like what I see so far, nice recent addition of ad blocking.

Any chance of getting some sort of chrome/firefox extension for pushing tabs from a paired computer?
[Android Apps and Games] TheOrangeFlash:
I installed this app on my Mi Box two months ago, as soon as puffin asked for a subscription.

It was literally perfect, with fluid and fast navigation.

Unfortunately one week ago the app stopped to load my favourite website for streaming, it was so sad.
[Android Apps and Games] akashrathi7978:
I searched this on android tv playstore but it's not there so i have to sideload the apk
[Android Apps and Games] adame09:
Does this have an auto update feature? It's not in the play store.
[Android Apps and Games] Jennyfer75000:
Hi, I wanted to see my documentary episodes which are on Facebook and only available there but can't play any video it says "We can't play the video, please try again". help you are the best as it happens that it does not work.
[Android Apps and Games] Jennyfer75000:
Hi do you think this is related to version 1.5.8 or not?
[Android Apps and Games] Antori91:
Thanks for your browser.
[Android Apps and Games] Acorrales:
Hi there. I'm trying to play video from www.foxplay.com. After the video loads (or seems to load) and I click play, I get this notification: The web page wants to use following resources: android.webkit.resource.PROTECTED_MEDIA_ID.

I click on allow and the time bar starts running, but I got only a black screen without sound.

Is there anything to do on my side, to fix this issue?

The site works ok with firefox for fire tv, in desktop mode, but it is a PIA trying to do anything in that browser without the menu key.

Thanks in advance.
[Android Apps and Games] ad71:
Working with remote, Thanks!
[Android Apps and Games] TheAnSch:
Hello everyone, the browser is great! The only thing I really miss in contrast to the Puffin Browser is the ability to scale down the page size. Is the browser still being actively developed? Is it possible to build in the function?
[Android Apps and Games] asunix:
Works great than other browsers i've tried, very stable. No crashes on my sony bravia. Pointer is smooth. Adblocker needs to me more aggresive. Still getting redirect pages. A dark mode option. And player controls.
[Android Apps and Games] BigSlick76:
Bonjour

pouvez-vous ajouter une option pour le lancement au démarrage ?

c'est vraiment très sympa l'appli
[Android Apps and Games] msains:
I love TV Bro for the Mi Box.

I wonder if anyone has attempted to add something like UBlock to TV Bro ?

UBlock is brilliant at immediately closing new tabs that are being opened by Advertising sites et al.

UBlock is also open-source (see https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock#ublock-origin ) so I imagine

it would not be too difficult for a telented TV Bro developer to add such a feature to TV Bro......... PLEASE

If such a feature already exists on TV Bro I would be delighted if someone would point me to it
[Android Apps and Games] apfo:
Any way to fix this?
[Android Apps and Games] Hjuler:
Very good TV-Browser, would be nice if it had a channel on Android TV Start page, could show book marks or history or both (2 Channels).
[Android Apps and Games] commander1874:
Great browser for watching movies videos and all video content in whole internet, I installed it on Sony bravia and Hisense U7G bedroom tv, and it works perfectly but there would be one more function great, It stores all browsing history and becomes bigger takes larger space, I have to reset data and remove all bookmarks and other needed data regularly. I would be very happy if it had incognito mode where browsing data wouldn't be remembered, So I won't have to reset app and configure favorite bookmarks, again and again, Thanks, all stars from me to this app.
[Android Apps and Games] TAMIZHANE:
Hello. Your web browser on android tv has all web page zooms too high. It would be nice if there was a facility to reduce it to less. Thank you.

The video player does not work on sfr tv's web pages. Why?

Awesome web browser. But, there is no one to answer anything !.
[Android Apps and Games] shoaibiqbal123:
Very good browser, Run fine with Remote.

Nice addition to my app collection on TV
[Android Apps and Games] Peat1980:
Just recently discovered this browser for tv. Tried a few others and they all are a little overloaded with features that are not really needed. This one is nice and clean. Hopefully this thing will keep developed. 🤔 Have already created an german translation and commited to the github page. Hopefully it can be included. 😀
[Android Apps and Games] pjcamp:
I went to a web site that loaded up in full screen mode. I have yet to discover a way to get out of it. Back just exits the browser entirely.. Interesting gray semicircles appear at the top and bottom of the screen when I push the cursor all the way there, but they don't appear to do anything. Going to be hard to make bookmarks if I can't see the command bar. Also going to be hard to go to any other site except the one I'm stuck on. Right now, my best idea is to uninstall the app and reinstall it, just start over. But that can't be right.
[Android Apps and Games] snoopac19:
Hi. Nice app. Works quite well on my shield.

Any plans to add support for configuring and connecting through a socks proxy?

Thanks
[Android Apps and Games] oldie#1:
Using Firestick Lite TVBRO won't play videos full screen on many sites, just plays them the same small size when you click on full screen. A workaround on some sites is to press the mic button on the Firestick remote after playing the vitdeo, then selecting full screen, which sometimes works, but not really good enough..
[Android Apps and Games] Retrial:
Hello @trueFedeX,

Thanks for your awesome work and browser.

I would like to suggest you to add two things:

Is it possible to add "Clear All" button at History tab?

Is it possible to add a "Home" button and set it to your prefer site in Main menu?

Thanks.
[Android Apps and Games] trueFedeX:
1. Not problem, will add it in next version (1.8.6 will out soon)

2. There is is already Home button in bottom right :) I know it is a bit unexpected place for it. This is because I still dont finally decided how to arrange different sets of buttons - general (settings, downloads, history etc..), navigation related (home, back, forward, search etc...) and tab/host related (zoom, adblocking etc...). There should be some compromize in how fast user can access some frequently or rare used button and place where user expect to see this button. This is hard due to D-Pad-only navigation...

Also currently there no possibility to set custom home page URL (only ability to set it to selected search engine home) but it is planned in future versions.
[Android Apps and Games] Retrial:
1. Thank you 👍

2. Oh yeah there is the button down there but as you said the position of buttons may need some rearrange. Nice to know the "set URL for Homepage" it's on your plans.

Thanks a lot for your work, your Browser is must have for Android TVs!

Keep it up👍
[Android Apps and Games] Robrag:
Hey good people . First time commentor and user of the app. Thanks for the good work first of all. Unfortunately there is an issue that seems to have persisted since last year according to my research. When expanding videos to full screen, it rarely renders to the actual full size and when it does the top of the vid is cut off. Any chance there would be a fix for this in the near future?
[Android Apps and Games] trueFedeX:
@Robrag if you experience this on some Amazon FireTV devices then it is old known bug (seems in WebView implementation for FireOS TV) with no solution currently. If you encounter this on another device - please indicate the device model and version of android. You can try uninstalling system webview updates (trought system applications settings) - sometimes it helps.
[Android Apps and Games] Robrag:
Thanks. It is a firestick. I'll try your suggestion.
[Android Apps and Games] Chirtan:
Hey there great app! I was wondering if anyone is aware of a way to send a URL to this app via ADB commands?

I'm trying to setup some automation that leverages this browser on Android TV
[Android Apps and Games] vixhex:
Hi all and thank you devs for a great app!

I have a unique situation where I use a sofabaton remote to control 3 different Chromecast with Google TV devices and an Nvidia shield. The sofabaton connects to each device and controls them great. When it connects to device 2, device 1 will disconnect and so on. I go back and forth between the devices as they are hooked up to a 4 input hdmi matrix.

TVbro works great except for when that Bluetooth device disconnect happens, it causes TVbro to apparently refresh or restart. It's hard to say exactly what it's doing but whatever page I was looking at or video I was watching just goes away, the yellow progress bar fills up at the top of the screen and the page reloads. Once the page reloads, the video I was watching will no longer play for more than a few seconds. It just stops, hit play and it stops again after a few seconds. I have to force stop the app and start over again. No other apps do this when disconnecting the remote. My Bluetooth keyboard/track pad device causes the same thing to happen, again only on TVbro, it doesn't happen with other apps.

Thoughts? I've flipped every single switch in the chromecast and Nvidia shield settings, all the way down to the developer settings.

Thanks !
[Android Apps and Games] KrisDeluca:
I love this app as this is the only app I have encountered so far with multi tabs support.

Although just today I am facing problem when trying to go full screen while watching some anime. The app won't go full screen, instead it moves to the top half of the page. Can this be fixed as its definitely not the upadate causing this as I tried reinstalling the older version but it was giving the same issue?

Also second issue I would like to know if there is a solution is that sometimes the videos would start to skip frames on ad block mode and I need to kill the app and open it to fix the issue

2nd one is then to bearable, but could you please check the 1st problems issue?
[Android Apps and Games] niftytechster101:
Great app, thank you for your work here!

One issue I have been facing recently (within a couple of weeks perhaps) is that when I attempt to expand any browser videos to fullscreen, I can only hear the audio but the video is nowhere to be seen. I try to achieve this by either A. double-clicking the video for fullscreen B. using the fullscreen button in the video itself. Prior to the issue popping up, I had no issues going fullscreen here.

Device: Chromecast with Google TV (1080p)

I did attempt to update the app (blue/yellow app icon) and that did not resolve the issue. I also attempted to clear cache as well as uninstall/reinstall the app but that didn't resolve the issue. Media playback works perfectly within the smaller video on the webpage, the issue is only present when attempting to go fullscreen. Hoping there is something that can be done here.

Thanks in advance!
[Android Apps and Games] trueFedeX:
Regarding latest fullscreen issues - seems this bug relates to WebView system component. This can be reproduced in other WebView based browsers and even on phones.

Temporary fix for users: disable applications auto-update in android settings and remove updates for "Android System WebView" system application.

Already posted issue to google's issue tracker:

Google Issue Tracker

issuetracker.google.com
[Android Apps and Games] lorrdvader:
Have an android TV with the brand name Eko (in Australia) and the latest version 1.8.6 works fine in full screen with my favourite (free) streaming website and the most up-to-date Webview. Just thought I'd share.
[Android Apps and Games] niftytechster101:
Ahh a pesky bug confirmed! Appreciate you looking into this

I attempted to uninstall the updates to the Webview system and disable auto-update, however, that led to a blank white screen on TV Bro initial load (on latest blue/yellow icon update) and then force closed on its own. Unfortunately, you also cannot disable the Webview app entirely as the browser needs it to function. I went ahead and uninstalled and reinstalled the latest TV Bro and kept the webview updates uninstalled, and fullscreen videos on webpages are now up and running.

Thanks for the workaround for the time being @trueFedeX!
[Android Apps and Games] tz-user:
TV Bro is the best browser for Android TV that I've found.

Can anyone help with video issues:

1. Cannot play a video in full screen. This worked until recently but stopped working in version 1.8.6

2. Other videos cannot play because of "Remove sandbox attributes on the iframe tag".

Any advice with either problem will be appreciated.
[Android Apps and Games] tz-user:
I used TV App Repo to create a shortcut to a URL.

I then used Button Mapper to assign this shortcut to a button on the TV remote.

By pressing the tv remote button, it now opens the URL directly in TV Bro.
[Android Apps and Games] hohoxz0:
I love love love TVBro browser. I had installed and searched for many browsers for my tv before but they didn't suit me. And this TVbro is the best and satisfy me the most. I love the work good work.

Just a small problem, for the fullscreen in player, it won't go full screen. But it is okay as I didn't realise that until I accidently scrolled down then it appears it wasn't on fullscreen mode lol. But it would be much better to be on a real full screen as the black edge won't appear as my TV is slim.

Love ♡
[Android Apps and Games] Angeluz28:
Tvbro the best web browser , Cannot play a video in full screen , please fix it .
[Android Apps and Games] KrisDeluca:
I checked the app on my android phone too for the full-screen issue and can confirm that its not an issue from Android webview but specific to TV bro
[Android Apps and Games] M1LL3R:
Cleaning data of TVBro and uninstalling updates of WebView worked for me to solve the full screen bug
[Android Apps and Games] Kbm96:
Removing the webview update already works, but now I have lost the dark theme, any ideas?
[Android Apps and Games] KrisDeluca:
When I uninstalled the Webview updates, the browser wouldn't even open for me
[Android Apps and Games] iAmMrAwesome:
Hi all,

First off, I'm a big fan of the browser, so thanks for the great work =)

I was just wondering if there is some way to remove cookies?

I've searched the options tabs, tried clearing the tv-bro data, uninstalling the app and restarted my tv before reinstalling.

But it remembers my choice for allowing cookies regardless.

Only reason it is an issue is because I accepted all cookies on a website that now placed a chatbox below the video's, which now prevents me from putting the video in fullscreen.

I've reproduced the issue on my android phone on Chrome, and was able to fix it by not accepting all cookies so the chatbox is blocked. So I believe it's not related to the old issues with Android Webview.
[Android Apps and Games] essorb:
I would like the following features to be added.

1. When playing media, if the screen is full, I want it to work with the arrow buttons on the keyboard, not the mouse.

2. I want to adjust the screen size of the webpage.

thank you
[Android Apps and Games] michaelotkk:
Hello, I have a problem with full screen mode, the content is simply not visible in that mode, I already tried on several devices and it is the same

Video explicativo
[Android Apps and Games] hellfish:
Is there a way to backup bookmarks?
[Android Apps and Games] rntbarbosa:
On fire tv lite (sheldon), i can't download .apk files.

I can download other extensions like: exe and zip.

I tried it on tv bro github.
[Android Apps and Games] trueFedeX:
>michaelotkk

is known problem introduced with system webview update. Currently no workaround except removing webview updates from system apps settings. I currently investigating option to porting TV Bro to GeckoView. This can help with many other issues with WebView.

>hellfish

Sorry, currently no, but this feature in future planns

>rntbarbosa

This is also problem with WebView and its independent update process. Also seems Amazon making changes to WebView to prevent downloading. Some time ago I already implemented workaround for this, but seems there some another restriction applied in some other WebView update. This will also be fixed if the TV BRo switches to GecoView API.
[Android Apps and Games] LePoeTe:
Hi, thank you for the best browser I tested for TVs, especially for simplicity and full screen content.

Did the browser cache video files that the size is up to 100Mb?

Can you add the option to start automatically when device is switched on?

Thanks in advance.
[Android Apps and Games] NIGHTMARE-:
Its best browser for android tv I used almost everything including jio browser but it works great. Thanks.
[Android Apps and Games] ricketyclik:
Has anyone checked to see if the April 18 webview update works for full screen?
[Android Apps and Games] trueFedeX:
I think it still doesn't work well enough. The last WebView update I've tried allows you to open the video in full screen only once - and all subsequent attempts again lead to strange problems. There have been other problems with WebView before, so I'm currently trying to convert TV Bro to the GecoView engine. Alpha version is already available:

Release v2.0.0-alpha: Fixed several problems during WebView/GeckoView switch; · truefedex/tv-bro

Version update: v2.0.0

github.com

Not recommended for use yet, but if the fullscreen video is critical for you, then you may find it useful.
[Android Apps and Games] timmiho:
Good job dude love your software !! Yea I'm the dude always complaining about the full screen in browsing !!

So excited for 2.0 however I keep getting parsing errors on a android tv install both versions . Works great on. My tablet but not my cc4k .

Tried a clean install and recognizes the update but won't install from 1.8.6

UPDATE : got it installed via 1.8.6 update option.

Apk off GitHub would not install ! Good job 👍

Update 2.

Got a red screen with cert errors. Some sites works but cert cites just flash white . Had to downgrade go back to 1.8.6

Little I played with it the gecko was faster than WebView a for sure update
[Android Apps and Games] trueFedeX:
Thanks for the feedback! The auto-update mechanism also downloads builds from the github release page. I think you just chose the build for the wrong processor architecture. It is strange that you have problems with certificates. What version of Android is on your TV? And is the system time exactly set on it?
[Android Apps and Games] timmiho:
Yea got it to work . Cctv 4k is android 12 . Trying to stream websites just gives me red screen with certs. Only way to install was to update via the browser . Sideload wouldn't work on Android tv but fine on my android 10 tablet .

Very nice improvem

I am still going threw the client identifier still in 1.8.6 seems to fix the full video issue of certain sites if you have ipad identifier enabled .

The little i played with MASSIVE improvement . Yes you have one of the best Google tv browsers .
[Android Apps and Games] Gix:
@trueFedeX Hi, please look at the issue here https://github.com/truefedex/tv-bro/issues/97, I cannot reopen it. Thanks!
[Android Apps and Games] dextereczek:
Why browser doesnt save password. I must write all the time username and password
[Android Apps and Games] trueFedeX:
It's in the plans. WebView didn't have any API for this. But GecoView has a corresponding API, so I think this feature will appear soon.
[Android Apps and Games] timmiho:
Have a issue with the video . When you load a stream and go full screen plays for about 10 secs , crashes . After that any video will play 10 secs and stutter requring a reboot to fix it for a fluid video stream .

Cc4k , tv bro 2.0 webview
[Android Apps and Games] n0s4r2:
Having the same issue as tim, "Any video will play for 10 secs and stutter" my fix is to select a different stream. I am also getting a problem when using Gecko, it would not scroll down some web pages the only fix is to switch to Web view.