yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Honor 9 Lite Questions & Answers] XePeleato:
Yeah, why not, ODM is important for some services like the camera.
[Honor 9 Lite Questions & Answers] VigneshS007:
Will upload it tonight or tomorrow bro... I am using limited data.. 1GB per day
[Honor 9 Lite Questions & Answers] aragon12:
seems like u can't copy it without root access

folders are still visible due to shell group

but read is only allowed to root owner

adb pull not working.. neither is shell copy
[Honor 9 Lite Questions & Answers] VigneshS007:
Here it is bro https://androidfilehost.com/?fid=746010030569952479
[Honor 9 Lite Questions & Answers] 4RK4N:
[MENTION=7354786]XePeleato[/MENTION] any progress on the twrp ?
[Shield Android TV General] jionny:
:) The wait begins for the developer image
[Shield Android TV General] DanteXXL:
OK, please don't kill me since I'm new to this.

I just got a Shield and rooted it. How do I upgrade to 6.3 without bricking it or losing my data?
[Shield Android TV General] xavierh:
i would say to wait for the developer images to be available before upgrading.
[Shield Android TV General] jionny:
yes wait for the developer image that way you can just flash it over current build without data loss
[Shield Android TV General] vn800art:
Well, installed the update on my unrooted Shield , showing in the changelog that finally Tidal can stream music in hi-fi res. Nevertheless nothing has changed, in the Tidal app (Android Tv, obtained from the Play Store and registered with my payied account ) in the settings it shows Hi-fi quality, but I get Pcm 48kbps, 2 channel music. Nothing more.

At the contrary in my Marantz Avr, the same service active through the Heos App, gives me 320kbps AAC 2channels, at least.

What is the reason for this? Is there a setting I should adapt, to have the same quality as in my Avr on the Shield?

Thanks for your interest

Alessandro
[Shield Android TV General] DanteXXL:
And how do I flash the dev image once it is out? ?
[Shield Android TV General] jionny:
flashfire
[Shield Android TV General] F3NDER:
I am curious to know if there was any performance hits from the Meltdown and Spectre exploit mitigation outlined in 6.3.
[Shield Android TV General] MysteryIII:
There is no need for a "Meltdown" fix, just "Spectre" has been fixed.

Source

According to this 2 Users answered:

Source

Source

So it seems there shouldn't be any noticeable performance issues. But didn't update myself yet.
[Shield Android TV General] sammarbella:
Here we go again...

It seems to be the last time because this new firmware implement an option for rooted (dev) firmware to perform a FULL upgrade from now on via OTA.
[Shield Android TV General] jionny:
and keep all settings? that would be great
[Shield Android TV General] sammarbella:
It should but IDK we will see...:

https://forums.geforce.com/default/...-tv-released-1-31-2018-/post/5283150/#5283150
[Shield Android TV General] ghostyroasty:
How long is the wait usually for the dev images to appear?
[Shield Android TV General] jionny:
Depends on Nvidia if I remember right 6,2 was post in like 3-5 days but 6.1 took 2-3 weeks
[Shield Android TV General] lordhardware:
Interestingly, updating my non-rooted 16GB Shield to 6.3 resulted in a weird bug.

Now if I use Gamestream, my second xbox 360 controller is no longer recognised as a controller, instead it's recognised as a keyboard and mouse.

This is when using multiple 360 controllers via the wireless dongle.
[Shield Android TV General] GuyInDogSuit:
If I downgrade/flash the 6.2 developer image, will it update to the 6.3 dev image, or will it be the consumer version?
[Shield Android TV General] DJarkIV:
I can confirm that I guinea pigged the 6.3 update from a rooted 2017 Darcy expecting it to fail. To my surprise, it validated and installed without a problem. Lost root but you only have to temp boot into TWRP to flash SuperSU or Magisk and you're back in business. Hope this helps people.
[Shield Android TV General] markdb77:
Rooted 16gb 2017.

Inadvertently clicked to apply the 6.3 update.

update installed and rebooted.

Now on 6.3, lost root.

I thought that the OTA would not install on a rooted device ??
[Shield Android TV General] jionny:
read post 11&12
[Shield Android TV General] DJarkIV:
Perhaps I'm reading post 11&12 incorrectly but I wasn't running a developer image of 6.2 when I updated to 6.3. It did however, download and install a full system image due to the size being over a gigabyte. There is now an option in developer options entitled "provide full system upgrades" (always install full system images instead of incremental images). That option really has nothing to do with rooted devices specifically but perhaps that's how this was possible. Anyhow, glad it worked. Lost root but that was easily flashed back and it was a simpler method of updating rather than flashing the factory image then flashing root.
[Shield Android TV General] jionny:
as long as you got things right thats all that matters, from reading my understanding is this update and all updates going forward will be able to install with rooted devices
[Shield Android TV General] ldeveraux:
This is crazy, glad you found it out. I went through the whole unrooting process to take the OTA. Now that we can take OTA immediately then reroot, so much easier!
[Shield Android TV General] DJarkIV:
I'm so glad Nvidia is allowing it to be so simple. They are making it easier to update than my Pixel 2 and that is a developer's phone so it's basically meant to be rooted and modified. But every OTA I have to uninstall Magisk, fastboot flash back stock kernel and dtbo. Sideload the OTA or factory image. Then reinstall Magisk manager, patch my custom kernel then fastboot flash my patched kernel and dtbo. It's a lot of work just to get an update on a dev phone.
[Shield Android TV General] GuyInDogSuit:
Any update on that dev image?
[Shield Android TV General] f30R:
None yet. I'm eagerly waiting for it, hoping it arrives by Friday. Eurosport are the only provider of the Olympics in Norway and my shield is my only viable option to watch TV. Havent had any success in getting the sideloaded Eurosport app to work so 6.3 seems to be the way to go.
[Shield Android TV General] GuyInDogSuit:
What are our options for live TV? Besides Hulu Premium? A TV tuner?
[Shield Android TV General] f30R:
Hulu Premium is unfortunately not allowed in Norway. I could use DNS or a VPN and get a hold of giftcards to activate on Hulu. Or I could get a prepaid or a virtual debit card.

As for a tuner, most of the subscription plans are way to high for my liking. If I go with tv from my ISP it will be an extra 63$ a month.

Eurosport with the Eurosport app offer a sub that only cost 12$ a month.

I really only need it for the next few weeks with the Olympics on, so going for a TV package would most likely have me sign a 1-year deal were I get lots of stuff I don't really watch anyway, so hopefully everything works out with the introduction of Eurosport in 6.3
[Shield Android TV General] johim:
anyone having the OTA 6.3 ? I tried to flash the one in /data/data/com.nvidia.ota/ but FlashFire didnt flash it due to "unexpected contents"
[Shield Android TV General] jionny:
I believe that i s because its encrypted, have to wait for the developer image if you want to flash with flashfire
[Shield Android TV General] gsparx:
How did you flash back root? Just follow the original guide for 6.2? I'm very new to rooting. Shield TV is the only Android device I own.
[Shield Android TV General] jionny:
Yes just boot into twrp and sideload supersu
[Shield Android TV General] gsparx:
Ok sorry for the noob question, and I know this isn't really the thread to ask this in, but hopefully others who do what I am trying can get help if they get stuck like I did.

I installed the 6.3 update and lost my root (as expected). Now, I've connected my shield to my PC and run 'adb devices'. (I had to unplug and plug back into my PC to get ADB to recognize it). After confirming the device, I ran 'adb reboot bootloader' to boot into the fastboot menu.

I can now see a Fastboot device in my device manager, and it has the ! next to it. 'fastboot devices' doesn't return any results however, and when I go look at the Fastboot menu on my Shield, it's unresponsive to input with the shield controller. I've tried putting it into Fastboot mode with 'adb reboot bootloader' and by holding down ab on the controller while starting, and in both cases it's an unresponsive fastboot menu and no devices recognized by fastboot on my PC.

Any ideas for how to boot TWRP so I can reinstall supersu? Thanks!
[Shield Android TV General] jionny:
I believe you need to update your drivers in device manager where it shows !
[Shield Android TV General] GuyInDogSuit:
Yep!
[Shield Android TV General] f30R:
Developer image seems to be out now, but getting 404 when I try to download.

Anyone able to get it?
[Shield Android TV General] jionny:
Just downloaded for pro version with no problem, currently flashing with flashfire,,,downloads are here...https://developer.nvidia.com/gameworksdownload You have to join to download

Successfully flashed experience 6.3 for Pro version via flashfire 0.73 with no problems
[Shield Android TV General] f30R:
I can download the Pro and 2017 versions fine, but the 2015 16gb image I get 404 when I start it. Could you test it out?
[Shield Android TV General] jionny:
Developer image 6.3 for Nvidia shield Pro https://mega.nz/#!QXgghagB
[Shield Android TV General] f30R:
Thanks, but as stated above, I need the 2015 16gb image :)

And I cant for the life of me get it to download, but the pro and 2017 works.
[Shield Android TV General] jionny:
Correct I also get a 404 error for 2015 16gb
[Shield Android TV General] f30R:
Bah, too bad. Thanks for testing it out! :o Guess I will have to wait.
[Shield Android TV General] jionny:
Hopefully they will have it fixed soon, I also checked softpedia because they usually post the downloads when they come out but they are not on their site yet
[Shield Android TV General] GuyInDogSuit:
Still a 404 for me, too.
[Shield Android TV General] dk1keith:
Can I just boot twrp and flash this. I have an unlocked bootloader and I can fastboot twrp.
[Shield Android TV General] sammarbella:
Their computers can't be so slow uploading the 2015 16 gb 6.3 dev firm! LOL

Still waiting. 404 is not a solution...
[Shield Android TV General] f30R:
Flash it with FlashFire

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=eu.chainfire.flash&hl=en

I contacted Nvidia live chat earlier, they escalated the problem to the appropriate team. Hopefully we will see a fix soon.
[Shield Android TV General] sammarbella:
Thanks.

I hope they find someone able to upload a file and check afterwards there... LOL
[Shield Android TV General] jionny:
yes you can, the reason I use flashfire is becaause its so easy, no hooking up to pc just open app choose file and flash took me about 5 min last night to do it that way
[Shield Android TV General] dk1keith:
Good point.

thanks for the reply.
[Shield Android TV General] jionny:
yeah definitely a mess up even softpedia has every option except 2015 16gb http://drivers.softpedia.com/get/gaming-consoles/NVIDIA/
[Shield Android TV General] Jeff146:
I tried it and didn't work, just goes black screen, reboots and then it doesn't give any message in Flashfire. Anyone have issues?
[Shield Android TV General] jionny:
flashfire 0.73 did you click flash firmware? is the zip on your internal?
[Shield Android TV General] GuyInDogSuit:
STILL an error 404. I'm leery of downloading it from Softpedia because their downloads are laden with malware.
[Shield Android TV General] jionny:
I downloaded 5 and 6 from softpedia and never had a problem
[Shield Android TV General] Jeff146:
Yes Flashfire 0.73 and Flash Firmware and made sure all 4 checkmarks are checked and clicked flash at the bottom. Yes it's internal and I actually put it in the com.nvidia.ota folder if that makes a difference. The first time I did have it in the adoptable storage but then I moved it using xplor file manager.
[Shield Android TV General] jionny:
This the developer image? just put it on the internal like download folder not ota
[Shield Android TV General] Jeff146:
Yes developer recovery image, problem is the download folder is in the expanded storage, anywhere else you would recommend I put it
[Shield Android TV General] Sivabalan:
Hi,

I want to root my nvidia shield TV 2017 model and have only usb 2.0 male to male cable. Also my laptop's ports are not usb 3.0 enabled. Is that fine?? shall go ahead with the rooting procedure??
[Shield Android TV General] jionny:
put it anywhere on the internal drive not in the root section just somewhere its easy for you to find
[Shield Android TV General] jionny:
should be fine usb 3.0 and 2.0 are backwards compatible, sometimes even some usb 3.0 cables dont work so you wont know until you try, it will either let you or it wont
[Shield Android TV General] Jeff146:
I will try and report back, I guess no one has seen this issue, does it have to be connected to a 1080P TV or was that just for TWRP?
[Shield Android TV General] jionny:
You are the first that I have heard of that put the developer image in the ota folder, you need twrp to root so yes 1080. If it was me and I was not rooted yet I would unlock bootloader than root then flash developer image with flashfire, of course it is not going to flash if your bootloader is locked and you are not rooted yet, or take the normal ota then unlock bootloader and root
[Shield Android TV General] Jeff146:
But I’m already rooted and the bootloader is already unlocked. I’m on 6.2 and just want to update without rerooting and I thought flashfire with developer image would do that
[Shield Android TV General] jionny:
my apologies for misunderstanding,,,,,,, you do have flashfire 0.73 right?
[Shield Android TV General] Jeff146:
No problem, Yes that’s correct I do have 0.73 but i do have also adoptable storage and moved my Plex to it as well so I don’t really want it to mess up or have to reroot
[Shield Android TV General] jionny:
all data will be saved as long as you have the right developer image and flash with the first four boxes checked and the last unchecked in flashfire, only box should be unchecked is data. also from my experience if you are clicking ota update it wont work you have to click firmware update and then flash the developer image
[Shield Android TV General] Jeff146:
Yup that's correct, yeah only worked for me for flash firmware, and there was no data box, only the first four. The problem is, I don't get any indication or anything, screen goes black for a few minutes then reboots. I still have root but it's not upgraded. Is there a log file somewhere that I can check?
[Shield Android TV General] jionny:
not right what should happen is the screen goes black and you see alot of data scrolling by then at the bottom you see each of the four checked boxes one by one installing. eactly where did you put the developer image? You downloaded from nvidia, how big is the zip file? are you sure you are not flashing 6.2?
[Shield Android TV General] Jeff146:
Yup for sure it’s 6.3, well the file is named that and it’s about 1.7GB. Yup downloaded from Nvidia. Just so wierd, I put it in the download folder first but realized it was in the adoptable storage so moved to the ota folder and did the same thing
[Shield Android TV General] jionny:
mine is 1.2gb which did you download
[Shield Android TV General] Jeff146:
Sorry yes it was 1.25gb, was on my phone.

This is the file I downloaded.

nv-recovery-image-shield-atv-6.3.0-dev_rooted.zip

---------- Post added at 11:30 AM ---------- Previous post was at 11:29 AM ----------

Sorry yes it was 1.25gb, was on my phone.

This is the file I downloaded.

nv-recovery-image-shield-atv-6.3.0-dev_rooted.zip

I have magisk on and not SuperSU if that makes a difference.
[Shield Android TV General] GuyInDogSuit:
6.3 for the 2017 16 GB model is giving me an error 404 on Softpedia.
[Shield Android TV General] jionny:
sorry not familiar with magisk, I do suggest downloading the file again on your pc and transfer to usb then to shield or you can just download it on your shield, I would try that
[Shield Android TV General] jionny:
uploading now will post in about 45 min
[Shield Android TV General] jionny:
This is a developer only version of the Software Upgrade 6.3.0 OS image for the NVIDIA SHIELD TV (2017, 16GB version)

https://mega.nz/#!xKA21D7C!5VjWw-5bclPYSd2hL2sq-t0_Kq7YFJ2DIcIzfNwnoQU
[Shield Android TV General] theprall44:
So I'm flashing the 6.3 developer image for root over 6.2 stock.

I see in the README from the Nvidia Open Source page I should run:

fastboot oem dtbname

and

fastboot flash dtb <DTB file name>

But the bat in the download runs

fastboot flash staging blob

What's the difference?
[Shield Android TV General] jionny:
how are you going to flash without unlocking the bootloader first?
[Shield Android TV General] GuyInDogSuit:
It's asking for a decryption key. That isn't the full link.
[Shield Android TV General] jionny:
Apologies, here you go...https://mega.nz/#!xKA21D7C!5VjWw-5bclPYSd2hL2sq-t0_Kq7YFJ2DIcIzfNwnoQU
[Shield Android TV General] Jeff146:
So I was reading the FlashFire thread and it's because of Magisk that I can flash, oh man, only 14.2 will work with Flashfire, so either I have to downgrade or use SuperSU
[Shield Android TV General] jionny:
Good that you found out what the problem was
[Shield Android TV General] ghostyroasty:
What is up with the 2015 version? Still had a 404 error.
[Shield Android TV General] tirges:
I can reach this link <http://developer.download.nvidia.com/mobile/shield/ROM/SHIELD_ATV/6.3.0/nv-recovery-image-shield-atv-6.3.0.zip>

but the zip file is corrupt it seems
[Shield Android TV General] f30R:
I contacted Nvidia a couple of days ago regarding the 2015 image.

The first tech escalated it to Level 2 Technical Support and and Level 2 contacted me with the following:
[Shield Android TV General] theprall44:
Not sure you answered my question
[Shield Android TV General] jionny:
Probaly easier if you unlock bootloader and root while you are on 6.2 then get flashfire 0.73 and flash developer image 6.3
[Shield Android TV General] Silenus21:
Hi can you please upload or link the 2015 dev version.

Thanks.
[Shield Android TV General] jionny:
its still not available yet(404 error)
[Shield Android TV General] Silenus21:
I see it here

https://developer.nvidia.com/gameworksdownload

but it ask me for a dev account. Is it still corrupt you put your account?
[Shield Android TV General] jionny:
yes you see it I have a account and I as well as everyone else that clicks download gets a 404 error, it was like that day one and Nvidia has not fixed it yet
[Shield Android TV General] copticwalad:
Yes I can confirm this too. Quite annoying cause the 2017 versions are working, I'm actually wondering if anyone attempted the 2017 ROM 16GB on their 2015 16GB even though most people won't dare to try that. I believe it is almost same hardware, just miniaturized and probably biggest difference is maybe lack of microsd drivers and support for 2015 controllers/remotes? but even t then I imagine those are still in it.

-On a random note would anyone else Love it if Nvidia Shield made another new version with VP9 Youtube HDR decoder, it's the only HDR that doesn't work on this beautiful Shield. But if they do that they might as well support Dolby Vision/Atmos/LDAC too.
[Shield Android TV General] sammarbella:
Bold:

100% chances of brick cause you flash a firmware for a (slightly) different hardware.

You can read about bricks on Shield TV flashed with wrong firmware file in here and all over the net.
[Shield Android TV General] jionny:
I agree, to take that kind of chance is like saying "I don't really need my shield"
[Shield Android TV General] copticwalad:
Yea, I wouldn't dare try it, was just wondering if anyone has. I've soft bricked phones like 6 - 7 years ago, but never hard-bricked it thankfully. It is somewhat entertaining to read all the time about people who do brick their phones, for example for applying a tmobile s6 rom on a sprint s6 phone.

On another note and I'm not up to date on this, but is anyone else convinced that because nvidia does provide these developer images which are rooted for developing purposes, that there's a lack of interest in creating unique ROMs or rooting/recovery methods? especially because they're mostly Android with AndroidTV elements rather than stock smooth experience. Personally, my interest in this rom is for Titanium Backup, Adblocking and ability to pair certain controllers that need root, along with learning a bit about Android tv apps/interface in which I may try making apps for soon.
[Shield Android TV General] jionny:
II for one love the stock rom with bootloader unlocked and rooted, its silky smooth as I use background permission setter to stop all apps running in the background, adblink works flawless when I want to send any apk to my shield, nothing but love for this device, who else updates a android tv box like Nvidia does no one, what's not to love, when you know what you are doing
[Shield Android TV General] jionny:
I use xplore file manager works flawlessly with the remote, and firefox apk which you can find in the search of the Nvidia tc thread is great only need remote to use it
[Shield Android TV General] Sivabalan:
Bought a usb 2.0 cable and it worked fine for rooting the shield TV. Thanks.
[Shield Android TV General] copticwalad:
Nice, I'll check out xplore file manager, I did try firefox and while it's icon looks sweet since quantum version, it was a little too simple for me, lol. I still have it installed so will try it out more.

I'm still surprised Nvidia hasn't fixed the link yet. I just checked 10 minutes ago and same Server Error. Anyone know if we can root easily if we flash Stock 6.3.0 image? it's been a while since I've done that.
[Shield Android TV General] jionny:
Yes there are people on the Nvidia Shield Tv forum that unrooted then flashed then updated the OTA and rerooted, even people were saying that the OTA took while they were rooted but once it flashed they lost root
[Shield Android TV General] Silenus21:
Guys at the end I kinda messed my shield when I tried to flash with flashfire and it didn't boot.

Had to fastboot install 6.1 but works with 6.2 too.

Now with a stock recovery I updated my shield to 6.3 from the upgrade option in settings.

Now I haven't bothered to root again because adguard works great and I don't really have many root apps.

Didn't lose any data or apps.

So at the end I can tell you these steps to upgrade to 6.3

1- Flash stock recovery from 6.2 with fastboot.

fastboot flash recovery

2- Remove root from supersu or if you want to flash stock system on fastboot again.

3- upgrade from settings with your stock shield to 6.3

4- Root and flash twrp again.
[Shield Android TV General] segur71:
The 2015 6.3 Developer image is FINALLY available. Just downloaded it.
[Shield Android TV General] copticwalad:
Awesomeee... only took a month but well worth it.
[Shield Android TV General] sammarbella:
Finally!

Flashed 6.3.0 DEV for my 2015 16 GB with FlashFire flawless.

MEGA direct links...

I uploaded Shield TV 2015 16 GB 6.3.0 DEV firmware just in case Nvidia broke the thing again...:

nv-recovery-image-shield-atv-6.3.0-dev_rooted_2.zip

I also uploaded the 6.3.0 non DEV firmware for 2015 16 GB model:

nv-recovery-image-shield-atv-6.3.0.zip
[Shield Android TV General] jionny:
Lol you always beat me to it, but just in case here is another mega link for 2015 16gb .......https://mega.nz/#!ADBTgRyC!ZBvgj_tIhhLjZhWU35MowIULaKHen3YkMWeo5YhRPqk
[Shield Android TV General] copticwalad:
I was going to do a factory wipe but I'm actually reconsidering because I really dont' feel like copying over 100GB from my adopted 128gb microsdxc card.. I remember correctly I was on dev marshmallow rooted, then would get the beta updates thus losing root. Think i can just 'dirty flash' this in flashfire or download mode? or you think I should still wipe. I know how I'm just lazy cause between that and about 4 other modded android phones I'm doing too much lol.