nvidia Shield - Tips & tricks [Read post #1]

OmegaGene wrote: »

What app are you using ?
Perfect player and stb emu are very good


If it’s the device locking up then it’s hardly related to iptv, could just factory reset it and see

Smarters app.

I used that as an example as it's what I'd use the most, so it's where I'd notice it the most.
Might try the factory reset and see what happens.

Tazzimus wrote: »

Coke and a smile buddy.

The entire device will lock up at times, I was more wondering if maybe the app was causing performance issues, I've heard of some shields needing to be rma'd because of things like that, hence the question.

I wasn't about to start discussing IPTV itself, just used as an example.

Any useful diagnostic type apps that can be ran to see how it's using resources or that?

I wasn't jumping down your throat or anything:)... Usually what you described and gave IPTV as a example is bad servers causing streams to lock up and freeze out apps or OS's. Usually a sign of network issues. I see it's smarters your using, which works well for most. What player are you using within Smarters?
Have you tried with other IPTV apps...GSE? Also how are you connected to the net and what kind of speeds are you on.

bazzz wrote: »

I wasn't jumping down your throat or anything:)... Usually what you described and gave IPTV as a example is bad servers causing streams to lock up and freeze out apps or OS's. Usually a sign of network issues. I see it's smarters your using, which works well for most. What player are you using within Smarters?
Have you tried with other IPTV apps...GSE? Also how are you connected to the net and what kind of speeds are you on.

All good
Standard player, might give VLC a try, think that's an option in it.

I'll try a few apps see how I get on, just said I'd check if other people had noticed performance issues with them as the reason I got it was because of the decent spec.
Had read online about a few turkeys that froze up etc constantly.

Connected via Lan cable to the router, which being a virgin media hub is a pile of ****e anyway, and 360MB broadband so speed shouldn't be an issue.


I need to start playing around with it a bit more and see what it can really do, also if I can integrate it with Alexa somehow

I have been having a few problems as well, mainly I cannot get the Shield to show up on the network anymore.

gerrybbadd wrote: »

I've nothing but issues since the Shield updated last week.

Plex media server no longer works.

My 128gb USB stick I had adopted as internal storage won't work. I've tried formatting it with no joy.

Loads of downloaded apps have disappeared

I keep getting a critical storage warning despite having about 7gb free.

And the shield itself is buggy and very laggy

No major issues yet . But the last update messed up my adoptive storage . Unmount that and see how the shield goes. Fixed everything for me .

Anyone have TG4 player app running successfully on shield? Can’t seem to get it to run?

I've resorted to using the app on my phone because my controller goes to sleep randomly and will not wake - it then queues commands and goes haywire.

Is there any way of rolling back to an earlier version of Netflix on the shield?

funnyname wrote: »

Is there any way of rolling back to an earlier version of Netflix on the shield?

I think you can uninstall and it will resort to the factory version that came on the Shield.
Have you an issue with it ?

Also anyone know how to get the remote friendly version of All4 that's on the Amazon fire stick onto the shield.

I have the fire stick and I made a back up of the All4 app however it's only a few hundred kb in size and when I tried to install it on the shield it did nothing.

I tried this method also with the my5 app (sensible size APK file) and it crashes telling me I need the Amazon app store added to the shield as well, I'll try that tomorrow night.

Guy:Incognito wrote: »

My controller is constantly at critically low battery. It was fully charged going to bed last night when I knocked it off. Now I went to turn it on again and took a few goes for the controller to wake up and straight away critically low battery again.

Mine seems to be doing this lately, also the right analogue stick input seems to be drifting upwards a good bit.

savemejebus wrote: »

I installed the android tv my5 app from the apk listed here https://old.reddit.com/r/ShieldAndroidTV/comments/b0x66k/my5_finally_supports_android_tv_uk_streaming_app/ and it works perfectly.

Is that the remote friendly version?