nvidia Shield - Tips & tricks [Read post #1]

Anyone have a spare games controller that they are not using? (Or a link to a cheaper online one!)

Mine is no longer charging, bought a new battery and still no good so no idea whats wrong, might have been dropped by one of the kids and broken a connection somewhere on the PCB.

Have you tried setting a manual IP address instead of using DHCP or if you were using manual, switching to DHCP?

Have you tried a hard reboot of the Shield to see if that fixes it.

Maybe try disabling IPv6 on the eir router to see if that helps

i think that has somethin to do with date and time settings. Happens me if i plug mine out. Dont know why it happens. Did a bit of diggin on line and people were sayin if it happens turn on or off your automatic date and time, cant remember which but that fixes is it without hard reset. Think it happens actual android tvs

Ive a Xiaomi note 13 running on hyper OS and a new shield pro

My phone won't cast to the TV . It worked perfectly with the old shield

Has anyone any suggestions on a fix please?

Thats an odd one....

Seems to have been a known issue with a faulty update documented on Reddit. It's on the shield side rather than Xiaomi

Must check my old one. Seems like there's been a lot of TVs (including mine) getting an updated player that has the "live" option. I don't really use my Shield for streaming very often.

Yeah can't use latest rte player from play store on nvidia shield

Worse app ever... please just check BBC app and mirror that if rte can

Rarely use RTE Player as the experience in the past was far from stellar.

Reinstalled it due to previous posts mentioning Live support - Shield 2015

3.120.0 - 10th September

Tried Live TV on it and it worked for the 10 minutes i had it running

@moonboy52 @Flinty997 any of you able to copy the apk and share it?

I found it using explorer but can't copy it anywhere. I assume because it's needs to be rooted maybe?

Wouldn't watch it at gunpoint

100 pc

@batistuta9

Managed to copy it as a zip using X-Plore File Manager and send it to PC using LocalSend.

However it is a split APK and the 3 seperate APK's total 6MB, whereas an older version of the app on APKMirror is 30MB, so i doubt it will work sadly :(

APKMirror has the 3.117.0 version (August), so the latest might appear there soon. Or it might just be a staged rollout and will appear soon on your device.

Without looking into it further, cannot send you the latest APK :(

thanks. wanted it for firesticks as they still haven't an app for them, vm & tg4 are there though but rte gona rte i suppose. the old version 2.0 was working fine until recently. I'll see if you can install splik apks on them.

that one on apkmirror is the regular android version don't think they've the tv one

Adds were enough for me to know that I'll never ever put it on again

just updated rte player on nvidia shield thru playstore and its got live option

In simple terms, the Firestick is a lightweight, cheap option not suitable for full time use and prone to buffering issues due to being connected via WiFI. The Shield is the top of the range, high spec and future proof option that is worth every penny and will last you years! There's plenty who still have their 2015 or 2017 version running fine. That should tell you it's durability, value for money and easiness of use.

3.120.1 is the version i have

No way I would put firestick and shield in the same bracket. Any firesticks ive had I have been driven demented by the slowness and unresponsiveness of the OS. There grand but the Shield is just quality in my opinion. Would not go back to a firestick although dont know if the latest versions have changed much.

4K Max Firesticks are not sluggish at all. They work really well. I use one on my 2nd television and never have a problem with it.

I do prefer the Shield though.