Hi, I bought an android tv from TCL and I noticed a strange behavior. The tv is an entry model (model 40S615 in my country). It is a full hd model. When viewing videos, the TV appears to be at 1080p, but when viewing the android UI, the resolution drops to 720p. The image stay blurred and the apps icons have a low definition. Is there any setting that changes this? I already used the command "adb shell wm size 1920x1080", but the result didn't seem to improve.

I have a Dolby Vision certified TV but the processing on the TV is mediocre and I think it might be contributing to stutters. If I want to get an androidTV box that is a little beefier, does it need to be Dolby Vision certified or is the TV being certified enough?

Just curious! I downloaded APKS on my MECOOL KM2.

Hi all,

I recently purchased a google TV box and when setting it up, it asked what brand of tv i had and mapped the volume rocker and power switch with the googleTV remote. Since then it seems to be broken.

I have tried every CEC setting with no luck. My only other option is to redo the setup.

I do want to do this without deleting everything.

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Is this possible?

Does anyone facing issue that stick do not boot when powered on. After some reinserts in hdmi port and switching on and off again make it working.

If anybody could provide any guidance in the right direction, it would be very helpful. Thanks

Are there any Android TV boxes that support wifi AX?

I have a SABA Android TV - please don't tell me it's cheap and don't expect much. I know that! The question I have is why, when turning up and down volume with the original remote, there is so much lag, but when I use the remote control of Sky Q, the TV has no lag in showing the volume bar and increasing the volume?

I was looking at getting a TV with Google TV builtin (currently looking at the TCL either series 4 or Series 5). My goal is to bring it out on our deck to use from time to time. Do you know if it's possible with the TCL or any others to connect multiple bluetooth speakers to it at once for simultaneous audio? I own 2 Logitech Megaboom bluetooth speakers I was hoping to use and spread out over the deck to use.

I know it should have no issues connecting to 1 speaker, but was hoping to be able to connect to 2. I tried a bluetooth transmitter (used the Trondand connect to audio out with my current TV, but I had very inconsistent results connecting both, so I was hoping to get a Google TV with it built in if possible.

Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated!

-J

I’m sure many of us have multiple boxes to accomplish what we need. Right now I have owned multiple Shields (since 2015), a couple of 4k Fire Sticks, an Odroid N2 (coreelec), and my most recent purchase, a Zidoo Z9X. None of them can do it all, and even with all these streamers and boxes there are certain things I can’t do (like stream AV1).

I’m hoping someone will take the initiative and put out the perfect ATV box that does it all- 4k, HDR, HDR10+, DV, lossless audio support, auto-refresh rate, all the latest codec support including AV1. Excellent PQ with image processing features like the 1619DR chipset offers in the Z9X with the Dolby VS10 engine.

I’m not sure who will produce such a box, perhaps Nvidia with a new Shield, but there really is a need for such a product. The Shield served a purpose at one time, but it is dated now and really needs a refresh.

Hey, I’m currently using mibox s and wanted change to better box, With better wifi performance and stronger processor, i searched little bit and saw the mecool km2 but I heard that software updates are very rare with this company, on the other hand i really liked the remote and the price of it. Any experience on the box? Or other options? Ty. 🙏🏼

Looking for simple streamer for my office TV, at the moment not even 4K (But will be one day I guess)

No AV system, just TV speakers. I need Netflix/Tivimate/Kodi.

I've read about those:

1. FireStick 4K (Max not required I guess) - Ads and Amazon stuff
2. CCwGTV - less preferred then Firestick ?
3. ONN - Great, but inaccessible for non-US (Such myself)
4. H96 Max - Looks nice, Android 11. Not sure if netflix certified

What Should I go with ? option 1 seems reasonable.

Any addition that I've missed ?

After 3 years of owning two Philips TVs I was finally able to turn it off just with the voice. No update, no apps update. It just worked.. for a week or so.
It stopped working once again. Do you have any idea how should I make it work again?
Thank you.

Do all Android TV's support LDAC Bluetooth or do you have to buy a specific device to use it?

What CPU/GPU combo should I look for, and which browser should I use for best browsing performance?

It's got to have a couple of USB ports so I can use external hard drives.

Currently have an Android 9 X88 PRO X3 Amlogic S905X3 with 4GB RAM and 64GB ROM I got off Banggood, and the web browsing is almost unusable, very slow. It's capable of playing 4k video just fine, so the poor browser performance puzzles me, no matter which browser I try - Brave, Chrome, Kiwi, Firefox.

Thanks for any advice!

I bought this tv recently and wanted to cast my windows 10 laptop to it wirelessly. I haven't found a way to do it after some digging, anyone have an answer.

TL:dr Google hardware should be easier to set up

I was setting up a new Google TV dongle and couldn't figure out why it wasn't showing up on my phone to use the phone as a remote. I checked to see if there were any updates available but it was up to date.

I found a few articles talking about how you have to check the version of the TV Remote app on the dongle (hidden in system apps) and if it's lower than 5.x version you need to update. My device, even though it said it was up to date, was on 4.x. I had to go into the play store on my phone, find the app, and install it on the device that way.

If Google wants "regular" people to buy their hardware, they REALLY need to concentrate on making things work without having to do so much troubleshooting and jumping through hoops

If I sideload the APK file it is displaying like on a phone. Any Help would be appreciated.

It was working perfectly fine yesterday and is only a year old or so, I have no idea what could've happened?

It's connected through Optical Out to a Vizio sound bar, which was also working fine. We use it as the main audio output and keep the TV itself muted.

I went to watch YouTube on the TV itself and no sound was coming out. I checked the settings, tried changing a couple, even tried the actual TVs speakers and there's no sound at all!!?

EDIT: SOLVED! A full power cycle fixed it.

Hey again!

Do you think a external SSD and Nvidia Shield Pro in a combo would be the way to go if I want to watch heavy 4K movies?

Do you think that I will be able to watch heavier 4K HDR and SDR movies on it if I attach the external SSD into the Nvidia shield?