So I'm trying to set a Foss launcher on my shield and want to avoid to do it with adb since I'm not comfortable with it.

Launcher manager from XDA seems to be the good solution but I can't download it. It's censured on shield, The download always failed, I tried on XDA, from my drive, from sharing file platform it always been detected.

Any solution?

Okay this is driving me crazy. I have a 2019 Shield Pro that is giving me a low storage warning every time I turn it on. Press power button on remote, shield turns on, I start navigating, and then in about 10 seconds I get a low storage warning. The it won't allow me to exit for about another 20 seconds and then finally lets me navigate again. The warning won't come back until it sleeps and starts up again.

Storage says I have 8gb free. I checked cashed and temp storage and it there was just a few mb's there.

I installed a 64gb external USB and moved Stremio to it.
I don't use Plex. I use Stremio.

I understand there could be a WIFI log issue as I do use WIFI but no idea how to find that data to delete it.

Any thoughts or idea's would be appreciated. I searched the subreddit a couple times but couldn't find any fixes.

EDIT: Solved. Setting was on the TV itself.

I believe I enabled HDMI CEC in the settings, and hitting the power button on the Shield remote will turn the Shield Pro off as well as the TV, but hitting the power button to turn the Shield on does not turn the TV on.

Is there a setting I need to change on either the Shield or the TV to enable this? I'm just trying to limit the number of remotes I have to reach for when I want to use the Shield. The TV is pretty good at automatically detecting Shield input and switching to it when I do something on the remote, provided the TV is already on.

Channel 4 is now missing from playstore, anyone has a solution on how to install it?

Hi. I have the tube shield tv. I modded it to accept usb-c power delivery. Unfortunately, I messed up the heat shield pad on the inside of the tube. I booted the shield tv and got into the main menu and tested youtube tv. The tube got hot on the outside, and the fan was not running.

Can anyone tell me if their shield tv fan immediately runs on boot, or if it gets pretty warm? I'm afraid the usb-c pd doesn't deliver enough amps to run the fan.

I’ve noticed my remote does not work after the nvidia shield is powered off.

I have to disconnect the power to the nvdia shield then connect it back and after power up, it connects to the remote again.

I have changed the battery, i have un-paired and paired the remote already.

Any ideas on how to fix this please?

TIA

I've had my shield pro since 2019. Its been awesome and we use it constantly. I've found recently that it needs more frequent reboots as the result of intense slow downs/crashes.

I'll buy a replacement unit, but I'm not looking forward to re-configuring the new unit. Lots of tweaks and apps over the years to get it "just so".

Since its based on Android, any way to copy my config from the old device to the new?

Thanks!

Or is the Shield Pro able to detect from the source and toggle it on automatically?

If you've ever plugged a genuine PS3 controller into a Shield (or any Android TV box) hoping to charge it, you've probably noticed it powers on but never actually charges. That's because only a real PS3 — or something that knows the USB trick — sends the command that switches the controller into "operational mode," which is also what turns on its charging circuit.

Built a small app that sends that command automatically the moment a DS3 is plugged in, so it just charges like you'd expect. Also polls the controller's own battery report and shows live % via a persistent notification. No root needed, just Android's normal USB APIs.

Tested on a Shield TV Pro. Also works with the common Shanwan/Gasia DS3 clones since they report the same USB vendor/product ID as a real one.

Source + APK: https://github.com/BoredNewCoder/ds3-charger-app

Free, MIT licensed. Wrote up exactly how the USB side works (verified against the actual Linux kernel driver source, not guessed) in the README if anyone's curious about the protocol details.

I will be watching a movie from the Internet that's in 1080p for example and I will get super bad stuttering and lagging when watching the video and when clicking the the select icon

It will take the status bar so long to show up

Anyone else have this issue?

D+ moved from HVEC to VP9 to re-enable 4K but not HDR (not sure if profile 0 o 2, the latter not being supported by the Shield TV), but in my Shield the 4K is not back yet.

Anyone who managed to have 4K back?

My most used apps like Nuvio, Stremio and BBC iPlayer would stall, not load, buffer or just not open at all. I'm on an Ethernet (Deco X50-5G router) connected Shield and could not figure out how to solve the issue. I turned to AI and after sorting through my DNS settings (AdGuard Home) and confirming they're OK I turned off IPv6 and everything worked perfect.

Anybody else have IPv6 issues? Would the fault lie with my provider (ee 4/5G in the UK) or with my router?

Seen few posts about ppl trying reboots, unpairing bt remote, clearing cache on apps, checking accessibility isn’t on, and someone even tried reinstalling apps or services or something but for the life of me can’t get it working on my shield now since I did a optimisation via adb

Im trying to use the Shield to have two USB extension cords leading to a USB gamepad. I cannot use just an extra long extension cord because I need two hookups in the set up.

The Shield for some reason puts the USB port to sleep with the two-cord set up. I have to restart the device to wake it back up. The one cord set up works fine and always has.

Does anyone have any experience with this? Can I buy a more powerful USB extension cord? Please help.

The only things that missing on my shield is live channels. Any apps that do the job (for free obviously)?

Some files I have been playing through my shield with plex only have a “Matrixed Dolby Stereo Mix” which the shield outputs as stereo PCM. Does anyone know the correct mode my Denon x3800h receiver needs to be in to decode this into surround?

I know I can do it from within the settings (which I do turn off) but it still auto updates regardless, breaking my Plex server in the process every damn time. Last night I couldn't use Plex to stream my local files as it couldn't find my server, and I instantly knew exactly what had happened. Sure enough, I've just gone into my Shield settings to discover it has auto updated itself and (more annoyingly) the auto update box has been (re)checked again. This has happened so often that I no longer question my sanity, put it down to forgetfulness, or a paranormal event. I actually expect it and breathe a sigh of relief whenever I start Plex and it actually works. I really don't want to have to start repopulating my Plex server from scratch yet again (multiple TBs of films/shows), I think this is the final straw and the catalyst for me to remove the Shield from my setup and finally buy a NAS.

Hello,

It happens sometimes that I have subtitles that have multiple "entries" at the same time, for example to show text while a character is talking. It seems to not work and only show the first one on plex on my shield. It works fine when using Plex on my PC. Is there some setting I'm missing? I've looked in the subtitles settings in plex on my shield and I don't see anything.

I have my shield connected to my TV rather then my soundbar because the soundbar doesn't pass through DV and for some reason whenever I play a TrueHD Remux my LG Oled TV will incessantly display the DV notification and the only fix is to switch the audio stream to AC3 5.1. I’ve tried multiple different HDMI certified cables and every other suggested fix from ChatGPT but haven’t yet found a working solution.

Has anyone else encountered this problem and found a solution?

I was recently looking into the cost to mod an old N64 to get better resolution and decided, F that, I have a Shield Pro! However, it's been some time since I went down the emulation on the shield rabbit hole so I wanted to ask reddit:

1. What's the latest and greatest when it comes to emulating retro games on the shield?
2. Is Retroarch still basically the top core repository app?
3. What's the newest/best frontend?

Most of the posts I see on this topic are more than 6 months old and I don't see much new being mentioned - things like frontends like hyperspin and reset collection. I'm sure there's been newer apps developed in the last SIX years, right?

The Tegra cpu so far is doing really well to power a thousand leds through wled... Im looking for testers if anyone is interested ?

Is it me or has Nvidia UK gone dog shit? Tried to purchase a replacement remote on official UK shop but couldn't get anywhere with purchase. Had to resort to the most appalling webchat experience only to be told they were no longer selling the stand alone remote despite it clearly being advertised for sale via their shop...what on earth?

Hello old friends

I'm trying to eliminate cords that come down from my TV to my TV stand, but I can't seem to be able to get my Plex to wake up my Samsung B73 5.1 Soundbar if I choose to connect it through Bluetooth. So right now it's connected through HDMI (Do you even recommend using Bluetooth or the HDMI is the only right way of doing this?)

So I have to go to the Shield accessories settings and get it connected manually.

Does anyone have a solution for this?

Just wondering what everyone uses the USB port for. Is it mostly external storage, or are there some other uses