TCL's Android TV (55S434) comes with a default TCL TV app installed. It sucks in my opinion for a variety of reasons, one of which is that the TV EPG is buried in the default Android TV menu (you have to bring up the Android TV OS menu, go two options deep just to get an option called "EPG" and click it to display it). Also TCL's default app does NOT allow you to add other streaming sources to the EPG like Pluto TV, Xumo, etc. and I'd like to use the categories of the Android TV "Live TV" app to see ALL movies or ALL sports, etc. across Live TV and Streaming Sources.
So long story short, I have installed through the Google Play Store the "Live TV" app. However, it only PARTIALLY works.
Problems:
- The EPG never fills in the OTA channel info.
- The "Live TV" app does load and track correctly the Pluto TV channels but always shows Xumo as "not setup" even after selecting it as a channel source and it saying it loads 170+ channels or whatever.
- Whenever I turn the TV on first and load the Android TV "Live TV" app TCL hijacks the selection and loads the default TCL crappy "TV" app. Meaning even if I click the blue Android TV "Live TV" app, it loads the red TCL TV app.
I don't see a way to uninstall the red TCL "TV" app.
If I did uninstall it, will the default Android TV "Live TV" app start working properly (full EPG including live OTA channels, Pluto TV and Xumo and other sources being included?)
If there are other better solutions, I'd love to hear them.
Can you uninstall it in App settings (where you see permissions etc)? Some system apps on Android can be disabled.
You can also use a computer to run adb commands to disable or uninstall the app (it's a way to get rid of some system apps on unrootable phones, not too hard)