I have a 58PUS7304 android tv. It came with backdrop installed. I went to Settings > Android Settings > Device Preferences > Screen saver and enabled backdrop and set the “When to start” to 5 min. After 5 minutes of idling nothing happens. Am I dumb or is there a catch to this?
I think the reason that it's working for some people but not for you is that you are using an OLED Philips TV and others here are using an LED/LCD Philips TV.
Philips screensaver (with a floating Philips logo) starts after two minutes inactivity to avoid burn-in effect and so overwrites the Android's screensaver settings.
This doesn't happen on LED/LCD TVs.
Currently it seems that there's no way to disable that Philips screensaver on Philips OLED TVs.
If someone has a work around I love to know more about it.
I use an app called photo galleries and screensaver. It works like ambient mode on chromecasts and the new CCwGTV https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.furnaghan.android.photoscreensaver&hl=en_US&gl=US
It works great! You can set it as default screensaver and it comes on in 5 minutes, turning your TV or projector/monitor into a google photos album! You can also choose other services for photo hosting, but i'm mostly interested in using it for Google Photos
I have the same exact question. I have a new 65PUS8505. Changing screensaver settings in the Android TV menu itself does nothing. Changing the setting through Google Home app, also does nothing... Is there no other fix than to install some third party apps?
Any reply from Philips?
install aerial dream from the play store. fyi it uses data if thats an issue.