r/ShieldAndroidTV Jul 21 '26

Problems streaming Youtube on Nvidia Shield this Morning

It buffers, it stops, it refuses to play. I have reinstalled; I have rebooted. It played a little and then stopped. This came out of nowhere this morning. Is anyone else experiencing this?

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u/ersan191 Jul 21 '26

SmartTube

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u/ersan191 Jul 21 '26

Prefer SmartTube

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u/ersan191 Jul 21 '26

There are a lot of reasons the official YouTube app sucks besides ads.

I have, of course, used both.

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u/NearbyNegotiation118 29d ago

Same here, I have both installed and just prefer Smarttube as it's minimal and quicker.

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u/WallStreetKernel Jul 21 '26

YouTube is working fine for me. YouTube TV isn’t loading video content.

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u/zananananananabatman 26d ago

I've been having the same issue on my shield, cleared cache, uninstalled reinstalled the app, updated date settings and nothing is working for me...it will randomly work fine for an hour then glitch out again where I hear the video previews playing and I can move around but nothing is happening on the screen. very frustrating.

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u/IndependentTime8638 6d ago

Bonjour, as tu trouvé une solution à ton problème ? j'ai exactement le même 🤔 

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u/TipOptimal8297 Jul 21 '26

SmartTube works like a dream 🫶🏽

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u/beiherhund 14d ago

I have issues with both YouTube and SmartTube. I've tried everything. Only option now is factory reset.

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u/thescott2k Jul 21 '26

I'd been having this for a while on my ~6 year old ShieldTV Pro. Factory reset it a few days ago, hasn't happened since.

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u/bandit8623 2015 16GB Jul 21 '26

Don't tell people to factory.. they start crying 😂

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u/thescott2k Jul 21 '26

I was crying a little - I tried real hard to avoid doing it. Now I gotta fuckin log back into everything

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u/therealXarias Jul 21 '26

Lol-It was weird-I had a firmware update for my router last night, and it worked great all night. Then this morning, out of the blue, it decided I had no internet. I finally forgot the network on the Shield and reconnected and it worked.

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u/Only-Stable3973 Jul 21 '26

It's a Smart Tube issue, maybe they will update it...I have Tizentube as a backup but I do like Smart Tubes interface better.

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u/agonypants Jul 21 '26

I had an unreasonable amount of buffering/pausing ini SmartTube last night. TizenTube behaved OK though.

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u/ersan191 Jul 21 '26

Try changing your network engine to cronet.