[Shield Tablet General] Scavenger87:
Hi Everyone

Like everyone here im still stick to this nice little device. I also a big fan of the whole Shield Program by Nvidia as i started to be when i bought my first Shield TV back in 2015. Especially GeForce Now is in my opinion still the best Gamestreaming Service which was the perfect solution for me who likes to play sometimes newer and also older Games but doesnt wanted to buy a expensive computer or console. Which also made me buy a used Shield K1 after i found out they where just some months before discontinued. I really Happy with the Tablet in general i like the size of it,its still suprisingly fast when it works right and Geforce Now still working great which is nice on vacations like when i was in a hotel in the afternoons at my old job. But now i think we start to feel the age of the tablet which is noticable on the small Amount of Ram and the fact the Batteries are getting weaker with no possibilty on a direct replacement that gives back real 100% of the design Capacity of 5100mah. Also the last update from Nvidia 5.4 is really a nightmare to use until it get modified and debloated. Then its barely useable but still not perfect.

Of course i tryed out some of the actual Custom Roms where my favorite is at the moment The Unofficial LineageOS 14.1 from Saint2K and AOSPExtended 6.7 from Triodexe. The first is really stable and snappy but the Nvidia Games App doesnt work.

The second one is based on Android 9 and Nvidia Games is working after i was able to install the update by turning off the apk signature check because there was something wrong with the signature of the installed version of NvGames. But in both cases the console mode was buggy theres something wrong with the screen rotation. In my opinion its a bit of unused potential when you not able to use those great oem Apps.

I mean dont get me wrong i have deep respect for the big effort and work on those custom roms especially let me say thank you to Steel01, Saint2k and Triodexe that keeping this Tablet alive. Its just i would love to have a CustomRom based on Androud 7.1.2 like LineageOS 14.1 with a working Nvidia Games App,working Consolemode and at least the great Controller Connection and Mapper App. I tried to install those apks on both mentioned Roms which also needed apk signature check turned off and after they installed they appear in the dropdown menu but crash if you start them. In case of the AOSPExtended Rom i could pull this error message maybe its helpful :

time: 1601138980057

msg: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Service not available

stacktrace: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Service not available

at com.nvidia.shieldtech.input.NvInputService.getInputDetails(NvInputService.java:126)

at com.nvidia.blakepairing.BtFactory.getDetails(BtFactory.java:108)

at com.nvidia.blakepairing.BtFactory$1.onInputDeviceAdded(BtFactory.java:234)

at com.nvidia.blakepairing.BtFactory.enumerateInputIds(BtFactory.java:215)

at com.nvidia.blakepairing.BtFactory.initializeListener(BtFactory.java:164)

at com.nvidia.blakepairing.BtFactory.setOnDeviceAddedListener(BtFactory.java:59)

at com.nvidia.blakepairing.ControllerManager.initializeFactories(ControllerManager.java:369)

at com.nvidia.blakepairing.ControllerManager.initialize(ControllerManager.java:44)

at com.nvidia.blakepairing.CoreService.fireUp(CoreService.java:112)

at com.nvidia.blakepairing.CoreService.-wrap0(Unknown Source:0)

at com.nvidia.blakepairing.CoreService$ServiceLooperThread.run(CoreService.java:86)

Ok enough complaining here is what i can offer to get might some solutions:

For the Batteryproblem i working at the moment on a solution by finding a good battery that offers the full capacity of the oem one and it doesnt look too bad at the moment but more on that when i actually made enough progress to reveal it.

I'm not able to work on my own custom rom for this device because i'm dont have the knowledge and the time to build a rom from scratch but i have at the moment 4 different Shield Tablets here where TWRP is installed and i like to offer every builder the possibility to send me his in progress roms to test those out and help on tracking errors with sending detailed error descritions and logfiles of course. I have 3 K1 and one OG Tablet at the moment but i try to get a LTE Modell as Well. I also learn everyday more about the technicaly background of android and i was also trying to decompile the apks of the nvidia apps to found out what might wrong with them but i had no luck so far.

I really like to help to give these neat devices a another lease of life because the oem software apart from being buggy and slow has really a lot of nice apps and tools and made this device really special.