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[Shield Android TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] guardiman:
Hello again :p

I just want to update my own post and at the same time again ask for some help.

So far nobody has stepped forward with a PUBLIC*.zip file download link for the Shield 2015 PRO model (codename foster just like the 2015 16GB model - +1 for confusion master to Nvidia on model release naming) but... I found a hosted file today (it has been freshly uploaded on the 12th/06)) on androidfilehost.com named PUBLIC604eab3c209a3f6146de7e1b8b1ff6c3_foster_e.zip posted by a user named linux4all.

It might be the one... or not. Is there a guru that could point to a file inside these OTA PUBLIC*.zip files that might have some more detailed info about the version that it was built for? The best I could get was this text inside the updater-script:

getprop("ro.product.device") == "foster" || abort("E3004: This package is for \"foster\" devices; this is a \"" + getprop("ro.product.device") + "\".");
ui_print("Target: NVIDIA/foster_e/foster:8.0.0/OPR6.170623.010/3019194_1155.5338:user/release-keys");

No doubt it's for a Foster device, but which one?

Anyone out there (that means you too "linux4all") that could add a bit more info to my already too long babble? :P

Thanks in advance!
[Shield Android TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] andersh:
If I understand you correctly you have access to fastboot.

Then why not just register with the Nvidia developer program and download from there:

https://developer.nvidia.com/gameworksdownload

There you can pick any version you'd like to install, they've even got the new 7.0.1 developer images. That would be pre-rooted developer images, but if you install something like 6.0 you can then just follow the normal OTA upgrade path after that.
[Shield Android TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dk1keith:
+1. You can just download a rooted image. Takes just a few minutes to register as a developer.
[Shield Android TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] guardiman:
Thanks for your help and suggestions.

As I had previously described, I already tried all of this before. I am registered as a developer, I downloaded all the images (recoveryOS and developerOS) for my model (Nvidia Shield 2015 Pro), I followed the restore procedure using fastboot method, the console outputs OKs all the way through the restore procedure and at the end (I understand that it means it has succeeded restoring) but when I reboot the unit nothing has changed (still green nvidia logo, still stuck).

So, as an alternative, I want to try and use the TWRP method that seems to have worked at unblocking units stuck like mine, check this post by pendragon666 https://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=72655717&postcount=3.

But this method requires the OTA zip (they are not available for download from nvidia - if I'm wrong, please, link me to my blindness :) )

Why is it that TWRP only works with OTA zips? I don't know. But from comparing the two zip files, recoveryOS zip and OTA PUBLIC*.zip, the former is like a small number of image files, plus some scripts but no subfolders (if you download the zip from nvidia and open it you can confirm this), whereas the latter his a zip with many subfolders and files than can be read and applied by TWRP as a zip install.

If I can get to confirm that this OTA PUBLIC.*zip file is for my unit (foster pro) I will try to install it with TWRP and see if it works.

I hope it is clearer now.
[Shield Android TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] guardiman:
Yes, I do. Already did download all images but the process produces zero effect, although it finishes successfully. I tried every single recoveryOS and developerOS image but nothing worked...
[Shield Android TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] guardiman:
Just to add a bit more info I digged from the recovery.log after flashbooting twrp on my Shield Pro 2015:

ro.build.fingerprint=NVIDIA/foster_e_hdd/foster:7.0/NRD90M/1915764_910.7870:user/release-keys
ro.product.name=foster_e_hdd
ro.product.brand=NVIDIA
ro.product.model=SHIELD Android TV
ro.product.device=foster
ro.product.manufacturer=NVIDIA
ro.hardware=foster_e_hdd

In the OTA zip I saw no reference to "foster_e_hdd" and this might proof of mismatch... or not :P
[Shield Android TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jionny:
I wanted to downgrade from 7.01 to 6.3. I flashed 6.3 developer image pro via flashfire, flash went well but then when rebooted stuck at splash screen. Plugged in laptop and went back to bootloader hit factory reset and 3 hours later all went well
[Shield Android TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] guardiman:
You mean factory reset inside TWRP or nvidia recovery?
[Shield Android TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jionny:
inside nvidia shield recovery
[Shield Android TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] guardiman:
you mean "force recovery" (last option at the bottom)? There is no factory reset in my nvidia recovery menus (chosing recovery gives a "no command" output and force recovery makes the screen go blank until you unplug it from power. :(
[Shield Android TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jionny:
no not force recovery.... follow these directions http://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answ...hen-you-are-unable-to-access-android-settings
[Shield Android TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] guardiman:
Unfortunately the "boot recovery" option after selected just ends with a black screen and a "no command" message written in white letters in the middle of the screen (no dead android robot)

I got here:

8. You may see the dead Android robot on screen. This is expected behavior.

But no robot :P
[Shield Android TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jionny:
that is normal just keep trying I had to go through it at last 3-4 times before it took, as long as it says no command follow the instructions
[Shield Android TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] guardiman:
Managed further to the menu (it was just of question of proper pressing and seconds) ;) let's see what comes now...

Wiping data...
[Shield Android TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jionny:
be patient it takes about 3 hours
[Shield Android TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] guardiman:
finally some progress after weeks of waiting... 3 hours is just around the corner :)

a certainly well deserved thanks for you, sir :cool:
[Shield Android TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jionny:
You are welcome, glad I could help.
[Shield Android TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] guardiman:
Well, wipe finished, reboot and.... nvidia logo (same ol' same)

I forgot to say that I had already performed the "fastboot oem unlock" which is said to factory reset the shield. Although the unlock finished successfully the Shield did not boot.

Back to the drawing board....

Any more suggestions? Anyone?
[Shield Android TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jionny:
What version are you on and did you flash anything and then get stuck on the logo screen?
[Shield Android TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] guardiman:
Nope, I got it the way it is. Have no ideia what version it was on. Is there anyway to see from fastboot or recovery?

Already tried flashing every other image that Nvidia distributes (including 7.0.1) Again boots straight to nvidia logo.

Recovery access is working, twrp can boot with fastboot "fastboot boot twrp.img" (have not tried flashing it)

"adb shell" access works after fastbooting with twrp

Getting to the point of trying to install LineageOS and then trying to restore to stock....

Some more (maybe helpful) info:

fastboot getvar all
(bootloader) version-bootloader: 1.0
(bootloader) version-baseband: 2.0
(bootloader) version-mts: NO SUPPORT YET!
(bootloader) version: 0.4
(bootloader) serialno: ***********************
(bootloader) mid: 001
(bootloader) product: foster
(bootloader) secure: No
(bootloader) unlocked: Yes
(bootloader) off-mode-charge: NOT SUPPORTED!
(bootloader) partition-size:bootloader: 0x200000
(bootloader) partition-type:bootloader: basic
(bootloader) partition-size:recovery: 0x1980000
(bootloader) partition-type:recovery: basic
(bootloader) partition-size:boot: 0x1980000
(bootloader) partition-type:boot: basic
(bootloader) partition-size:dtb: 0x400000
(bootloader) partition-type:dtb: basic
(bootloader) partition-size:system: 0x80000000
(bootloader) partition-type:system: ext4
(bootloader) partition-size:cache: 0x10000000
(bootloader) partition-type:cache: ext4
(bootloader) partition-size:userdata: 0x739e2ee200
(bootloader) partition-type:userdata: ext4
(bootloader) partition-size:rpb: No partition present with this name.
(bootloader) partition-type:rpb: No partition present with this name.
all:
finished. total time: 0.009s
[Shield Android TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jionny:
Sorry, wish I could help but all I can do is guess that either the os is corrupted or the hard drive is messed up
[Shield Android TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] guardiman:
No worries, thanks for all the great input. I guess I will try to root it, flash twrp and install LineageOS. If that works I guess hardware problems will be out of the list. And then back to stock...
[Shield Android TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jionny:
Good luck hope it works out for you
[Shield Android TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] guardiman:
odd enough twrp flashed without any problem and boots as recovery, but LineageOs after successful flashing still boots to nvidia logo and there it stays...
[Shield Android TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jionny:
Yeah I am thinking your hard drive is bad
[Shield Android TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] guardiman:
I can browse contents (harddrive), write to it and it reports free size in twrp, so it's strange that it's defective but I can't be sure of anything anymore
[Shield Android TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jionny:
That's the thing I can see you not being able to install shield experience software if the os was erased or previously messed up but you also tried installing Lineage and that didn't work.
[Xiaomi Redmi Note 4 Questions & Answers] koteshrv:
Unable to detect my Redmi note 4 in unlock tool...

Drivers installed,OEM debugging enabled...

Everything is done....pls help
[Xiaomi Redmi Note 4 Questions & Answers] SduosGt7562:
I need to wait 56 hours
[About XDA developers] gasparirob:
Hi all guys, sorry for the noob question, but how can I see all my subscribed threads? On XDA app for mobile is so simple... but here on the website? :confused:
[About XDA developers] Sachin:
This > https://xdaforums.com
[About XDA developers] gasparirob:
Ok, strange thing:

if I go to your link (forum homepage) I see a page ("before.jpg" attached on this page).

Then I click on "Subscribed" (I have only seen it now... It seems to me some ad-thing before...)

Now, if I go back to homepage I see another page ("after.jpg" attached)

Maybe something cache/cookie related thing...

Anyway, the first time is "hard" to find "Subscribed" button (IMHO)...
[About XDA developers] skybronco:
I see my subscribed forums but not subscribed threads. I can find them on tapatalk but not here
[About XDA developers] Oswald Boelcke:
You don't have the row as shown in my screenshot? (I apologise but when taking the shot I had no unread threads.)

Which style/theme are you using? Can you provide a screenshot?
[About XDA developers] skybronco:
that is correct, I don't have that row
[About XDA developers] sd_shadow:
Which theme is selected at the bottom of the page?
[About XDA developers] skybronco:
xda 2015,

I switched through the others but that doesn't seem to help, but thanks for the suggestion
[About XDA developers] sd_shadow:
Which browser? Pc?
[About XDA developers] Oswald Boelcke:
On that page you show in your screenshot I do not have the subscribed threads either (please refer to my first screenshot), and I've to admit I've never seen them there.

Actually, I normally using style XDA 2013 Beta, and I only switched to XDA 2015 in order to take the screenshots for you. But it doesn't matter, which style you use, consider to go to your "User Control Panel" (https://xdaforums.com/usercp.php) and the subscribed threads will be shown like on my screenshot (ok, on that page only the unread (called "new") ones will be shown). But when on that page in the "New Subscribed Threads" row you'll find "View all Subscribed Threads". A click there brings you to an overview of all your subscribed threads, which you can also bulk-manage from there.

You can also reach your User Control Panel by clicking on "Settings" (third screenshot, lower right).
[About XDA developers] sd_shadow:
Of course all this changes in a few days with the move to ZenForo.

https://www.xda-developers.com/big-changes-to-xda-forums-are-coming-soon/
[About XDA developers] Oswald Boelcke:
Affirmative. And just a few hours ago svetius provided this update: https://xdaforums.com/announcement.php?f=263
[About XDA developers] sd_shadow:
6 to 12 hour downtime, I might have a nervous breakdown jk
[About XDA developers] Oswald Boelcke:
:D I don't mind some vacation. And considering the time difference between the USA and Germany, maybe it occurs during my bedtime?;)
[About XDA developers] sd_shadow:
Seriously 6 to 12 hours doesn't sound bad for as much data that needs to be transferred.
[About XDA developers] skybronco:
thank you, now i see my subscribed threads
[Off-topic] Guilf:
About to purchase a new laptop. Not much of a programmer, but a bit of a "power user" (for a businessperson) - do everything from graphics in Corel and Adobe products to large, intensive presentations to basic/intermediate web design. Getting a relatively powerful system for a business notebook (Lenovo - 2.4 GHz, 3 GB memory, 250 MB hard drive, etc.), but struggling in the decision between XP and Vista (Business or Ultimate). Very comfortable with XP and happy with performance and capabilities. Read a lot about the two operating systems and feel relatively confident that I want to stick with XP, but I kind of hate to stick with "older" technology. Cooking my own ROMs now for the Tilt and it seems there are definitely issues (although perhaps minor) working with some of the tools on Vista. Any strong feelings on this issue from any of the experts that frequent XPA?

I'm my own boss, so no issues with corporate requirements or compatibility and software compatibility issues are minimal. It seems truly to be a personal preference issue - unless someone points out an issue I hadn't considered. Looked around the site for thoughts, but haven't come upon anything.

Thanks in advance for any opinions you have.
[Off-topic] TheBrit:
I'm currenty using XP skinned with the Vista appearance and a black theme. Looks great (no Fisher-Price colours) and it's stable and everything runs on it just fine.

It will be a while before I use Vista - it's just too flaky right now.
[Off-topic] Rudegar:
i have a laptop with vista and it's ok

but then it came with vista so i can get drivers for everything and it runs ok

but i would never put vista on my desktop as drivers would likely be

an issue

and i would prob find some incompatability with some software too

so by having both i can get by
[Off-topic] rorydaredkign:
I have both on my desktop. Vista home premium and xp home. I use vista and only vista. It is fine for me, the only problem is itunes load in a weird windows, until u restore or minimise it then its normal. oh and it wants to scan and fix anythin i plug in...

but apart frm that its fine.

Id rather use activesync than wmdc though

Rory
[Off-topic] mariner_heart:
as vista will be the common os in next few months, before buying a laptop go to the manufacturer's website and ensure that particular model is supplied with all drivers for vista.

many notebooks will come with linux.

btw vista business should be best for you.

acer has come up with some very good notebooks. although i have none of them but i will highly recommend an acer.
[Off-topic] mchapman007:
Vista on all computers at home, Xp pro at work, WM6 Pro on my PPC. Only problem I had with Vista was, I couldn't play BioShock..... :mad:
[Off-topic] Chutney:
If you have the processing power (Core2 minimum, 2gb plus of memory) Vista will be OK- personally I ran it for months and found that it reduced my older but still reasonable system to a very basic mess.. no gaming, terrrible power users performance for video editing, image manipulation; it was only good for browsing the web and email.

I was so sick of it that I went back to XP as a last resort before I bought some new kit.. turns out that was all I needed- I can do everything I want apart from play the latest games, but otherwsie its great to have my PC back.

XP SP3 will do pretty much everything you want it to, and if it doesn't you'll be able to find out quickly and easily whats going on.

Vista will look pretty but suck all the performance out of a perfectly good machine and cause you never ending frustrations with access restrictions and drivers not being available. I'd sit it out until Windows 7.
[Off-topic] The Owl:
XP or XP or even XP

I build and maintain computers for people and one or two small businesses and I would say I have stripped about fifteen machines all told of Vista and (IMHO ) Upgraded to XP go around the computer tech sites and you will find plenty of people bad mouthing Vista which is also why Dell has re started offering XP as a OS.

Its bad for working with older Peripherals and not so good if your networking with other OS's
[Off-topic] Mr. Zach:
I use vista at home and at work. i use 64 bit at work with SP1 and soon will be on 64 bit vista with SP1 at home. i prefer vista over xp, especially with the service pack. I reccomend using vista. xp was a great release though, that's for sure.
[Off-topic] Chutney:
What advantages do you find it gives you Zach? I haven't seen anything apart from very, very minor inerface tweaks that I've really missed since reverting back to XP; what about Vista makes it worth the upgrade over XP to you?
[Off-topic] ilovemytilt1:
i would say get xp pro and skin it with vista graphics and such with windows blinds i dont really see a big difference between the two except vista doesnt have drivers for some things and vista does kind of complicate things an that asking me for crap(yes i know you can take it off but wtf) and also oe time i couldnt delete something because i didnt have administrative rights im the only user on the pc who else would have it plus xp pro you would probably be more familiar with
[Off-topic] Rudegar:
xp dont have dx10 vista does

of cause my video card dont support dx10 and non of the games i play use dx10 so i dont care too much
[Off-topic] Chutney:
I know a couple of people who have worked around the dx10 issues with XP, so thats not really a deal breaker.
[Off-topic] OdeeanRDeathshead:
I am running both, and I am happy with each doing its own set of jobs. for my programming needs and video processing I stick with XP because it isn't bogged down with the overhead of the new stuff. I also think XP is more trustworthy in terms of knowing exactly what the os itself is trying to do over your internet connection.

Vista is very good at my leisure uses. I always use it for web surfing or web coding. It handles my various connections over wifi and bluetooth much better than my XP sp3(rc2) machines. The features in vista although small enhancements are still good to have. A good example of this is that explorer seems to be multithreaded now. In XP if I do so large copy and paste operation then that instance of explorer does not allow me to do other tasks fully on the open folder. In vista the file copying seems to be separate from the normal use of explorer. It also does multiple concurrent copy operations properly where XP would not.

I find all pcs today very overpowered for what the majority of users need, so the overhead of vista may not be noticed too much. Having said all that I must confess that I turn off UAC and all the other built in protections and run as an administrator in vista. Not doing that is really intolerable.
[Off-topic] b.mann:
Like Vista's looks, but its LastXP ver. 17.1.1 for me!
[Off-topic] mchapman007:
Windows Vista Service Pack 1 has been released.
[Off-topic] zcink:
2 cents:

With my Laptop you can slide out the Hard Drive from the side. I have two hard drives. One with XP Pro SP3 and the other with Vista Ultimate SP1.

I soo much Prefer XP Pro.
[Off-topic] mlalahoi:
Hi,

Seems like my user profile is really similar to OP's. I do some light graphic design with photoshop, some stuff in Flash, a little web design, a lot of powerpoint, excel, use outlook with business contacts manager to do project management, and keep three devices synced. I use vista for this and have had no problems with it. THe kind of specced out system he wants to buy will have no problems handling the reqs for vista's fancy graphics stuff. I also like the file exploring and control panel interface better in vista than I do in XP. My vote on OS is go for vista business, no problems with any of the CS3 suite and office 2007 is one of the best software packages I have ever come across. The constantly asking for permission to do stuff is really easily turned off guys...

I do want to advise against getting a lenovo though. I have one and I hate it. The rescue recovery stuff will steal about 30 ggigs of your hard drive (that is so not an exageration), the batteries suck and completely crap out after a year (google that), loaded with bloatware and other junk you can't get of, it gets hot as hell and it weighs a ton. IBM was great, Lenovo is junk. Go for an Acer, I have two of them and I love them. Better performance, lighter, nicer keyboards, etc.

Sorry for the long post!
[Off-topic] Johnston411:
I've got a vaio with the specs you suggest, 3gb-250gb-core duo t8100 speedstep and 2.10ghz (vgn-nr21z) with vista service pack 1.

It will do everything you want fine.

I would suggest you set up a dual boot with xp and keep that for all things WM (it's just easier).
[Off-topic] eagle 1:
I agree with having both XP and Vista on your laptop using dual boot. While I have both Vista Ultimate and Xp (Sp3); I rarely boot into XP. Have it just incase, but really haven't found any need to use XP. I also have Vista Ultimate on three or four of my desktops at home and they run without issue. Microsoft says many PC will not run Vista, but most will install and recently most drivers are available. Yes, Vista runs better with more ram and faster cpu, but memory is really cheap these days. Also, Vista can run in XP compatibilty mode if you happen to come across and app that won't install. yes, Vista will ask if you want to proceed, but just shut off UAC and no more questions.

I run the Adobe CS3 suite without issues, actually it runs faster in Vista, run Office 2007 pro, MS Project, MS Visual Studio, C++ and Several X windows apps and no issues.

The best thing about Vista is its ability to Multi-Thread. Can copy gigs of data, while still surfing the net or using MS office. CS3 is just so much faster.

But hey if XP is your thing, go for XP
[LG V30 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Developm] Moriatier:
http://pkg02.lime.gdms.lge.com/dn/d...=FW35MSSF92DBAAK89B7CBA3/AS99820b_00_0328.kdz

Have fun guys!
[LG V30 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Developm] Nine One One:
It is the latest for AS998, right?
[LG V30 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Developm] Moriatier:
yep ...
[LG V30 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Developm] Nine One One:
:crying:

Does have not firmware v20c or newer for AS998?
[LG V30 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Developm] Nine One One:
What is latest fw of AS998 bro?
[LG V30 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Developm] ChazzMatt:
US998 only has 20A. What are you complaining about? ;)

Sent via open market LG US998 V30/V30+
[LG V30 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Developm] Nine One One:
My AS998 device just has fw 20b, i want update my device to newer fw bro :(
[LG V30 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Developm] SGCMarkus:
The letter in the firmware after the V20 is model specific... also probably depends on how many internal builds they needed/made before publishing.

So... your V20b of the AS998 could be newer than the V20c of the US998. Or similar... (even though they most likely around the same age)