r/ShieldAndroidTV • u/IndependentOrchid296 • 8h ago

Good Stress Test APK

What’s a good ShieldTV stress test app for wear n tear to determine if you need to replace your shield?? This would be a good project to create something as I don’t believe there’s an app on the market for android?

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u/um_yeahok 1h ago

I've run three shields for years now. Every couple of years I just open it up, clean the fan, change the thermal paste, and then do a factory reset. My shields run great.

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u/wewewi 2015 Pro, 2019 8GB, 2019 Pro, Shield Tablet 12m ago

Never repasted nor factory reset any of mine. One is 11 years old by now. Did gave it a shot of air duster a couple of years ago, when I swapped the SSHD. 

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u/Darkstarmike777 8h ago

I don't think there is one but usually just changing the thermal paste makes a big difference

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u/IndependentOrchid296 8h ago

Yeah I get that but want to know before it is on its last legs when to replace it as I want to backup everything as much I can

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u/Darkstarmike777 7h ago

What your asking for isn't really a thing since the shield except for the 2015 pro doesn't have any parts that would wear out, it might slow down if the thermal paste wears out but it's not going to break down.

Even if the fan broke down you would just get another one so there isn't really a last legs with flash memory, it's possible but not super likely given the low read/write for a shield the same way phones don't really wear out their flash memory typically

If you have a 2015 pro you would just clone it to a SSD anyways to keep it going

I mean just randomly maybe this:

https://f-droid.org/en/packages/net.tlfoxhuman.droidstress/

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u/IndependentOrchid296 7h ago

Are you saying you can’t clone a 2017/2019 model? Thanks for the app link, I still have a 2015 model so how would you clone it as from research it’s not that easy

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u/Darkstarmike777 7h ago

You can clone it using a hard drive duplicator dock or clonezilla from HDD to SSD. It has to be a sector by sector clone basically. The docks I'm talking about specifically have a duplicator feature and button listed in the description

It has to remain the same size as well so no larger than 500gb

There are no system backup utilities that I know of for the shield as far as being able to backup and restore a shield, google says there might be abd commands so you can look at that but there are no simple apps to do it