It went through the installed packages, figured out which ones were ads, analytics, or tracking, and disabled or removed them. It left the system stuff the TV needs to run alone.
Result:
No more ads or sponsored content on the home screen
Background stats and tracking calls are gone
The UI feels noticeably snappier
The whole thing took around 20mins, and I didn't have to look up a single package name myself.
If you want to try it:
Turn on Developer Options, then enable wireless/network debugging on the TV
Check the cleanmytv repo for the list of safe-to-remove packages
Removing packages with --user 0 is reversible, so you can reinstall anything that breaks
Happy to share the prompt if anyone's interested.

Hi all,

Was curious to know what the community thinks about the new Rocktek device.

If everything looks good would probably get this over Homatics Box R 4k Plus

Hopefully the CoreELEC comes to this soon since the hardware looks to be promising 🤞

We have Google TV and it's fine except my wife almost daily has WiFi issues and can't figure out how to access the settings. I know, it's ridiculous that she struggles with something so simple, but she does. It's to where she can't get it to work unless I'm there to do it for her.

Is there a way to put a shortcut to the WiFi settings as an icon on the home page, or map it to a hot button? Not settings mind you, but Wi-Fi settings only. I've tried to show her how to navigate to it, but she acts like it's NASA level of complicated to do, which of course is ridiculous, but what can I tell you.

Yes, I'm this close to telling her to just go back to DVDs on occasions when I'm not home.

Hi everyone,

I am using a TCL 65Q6CS Google TV, and I'm facing a frustrating issue with Bluetooth audio. Whenever I connect my Bluetooth headphones or earphones, the output sound is extremely low. I have to push the volume level all the way up to 80-90% just to get a reasonably audible and decent sound level.

Has anyone else experienced this issue on this model? What is typically causing this volume mismatch between the TV and Bluetooth audio devices, and is there any way to fix or increase the volume output?

Any advice, hidden menu settings, or workarounds would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance!

I'm not sure how but one pair of earbuds (status between pro) allows me to keep tv speakers on while using the earbuds and volume on the remote lists both output devices independently on screen when adjusting volume. No other Bluetooth headphones or earbuds so far have done this.

I'm not sure what feature that would be listed out as. It's not dual connection because Sony xm1000 and nothing buds have dual connection yet the won't share audio with the TV speakers.

It is really cool though.

It feels like every time I want to switch from watching local TV to streaming a show, I have to open three different menus and wait for apps to load. Navigating between input channels,Has anyone found a way to streamline this? Are you using a specific universal remote, a streaming stick (like Apple TV, Roku, or Fire Stick) that puts everything in one place, or just a better setup? I'd love to hear how you simplified your TV setup to stop wrestling with menus every night

Hi everyone,

I'm experiencing recurring stability issues with my Xiaomi Mi Box S 2nd Gen running Android TV 14. YouTube and Turkcell TV+ can freeze or crash during video playback. Sometimes the screen goes black, and on some occasions the device appears to shut down and restart on its own.

Device information

• Device: Xiaomi Mi Box S 2nd Gen
• SoC: Amlogic S905X4
• RAM: Approximately 2 GB
• Android version: Android TV 14
• Build: V816.0.26.4.17.UZFAABX
• Kernel: 5.15.192-android14-11-maybe-dirty

What I've observed

I checked the device using ADB and examined logcat, dumpsys activity exit-info, dumpsys meminfo and free -h.

Some findings stood out:

• YouTube has an exit record with LOW_MEMORY.
• Another YouTube process exit was attributed to TOO MANY EMPTY PROCS.
• Available RAM reportedly dropped to approximately 12–144 MB during some observations.
• Around 953 MB of swap was available, and it appeared to be heavily used or exhausted during some observations.
• Several Android system and background processes were terminated or frozen in the logs.

These findings suggest significant memory pressure may be contributing to at least some of the app crashes. However, I haven't captured enough evidence to confirm that memory pressure is also responsible for the apparent device-wide restarts.

Troubleshooting so far

• Performed a factory reset.
• Checked for OTA updates; none are currently available.
• Collected ADB logs and process exit information.
• Observed the issue again while using YouTube.

The problem persists despite the factory reset.

Questions

1. Has anyone experienced similar issues on the Mi Box S 2nd Gen with this Android TV 14 build?
2. Could this be related to memory management, swap exhaustion, video decoding, or a firmware/driver issue?
3. Is there a reliable way to identify the actual reboot cause without root access or unlocking the bootloader?
4. Are there any known firmware fixes or recommended diagnostic steps for this model?

I'm interested in identifying the root cause rather than jumping to conclusions based on the memory-related logs alone.

Any help or similar experiences would be appreciated. Thanks!

Relevant ADB command:

adb shell dumpsys activity exit-info com.google.android.youtube.tv

I can provide additional logs if needed.

Hola hoy estuve buscando para ver la champions Pero la app que uso varios canales son en inglés

Me ayudan con un Espn en español?

Gracias 🫂

Hi! I have a relatively new PEAQ TV running Android TV. I want my screensaver to display only Fine Art, but whenever I deselect all the other categories in Art Gallery and go back, my changes aren't saved. When I reopen the settings, all categories are selected again. There's no error

message.

Strangely, I also never see any Fine Art images in the slideshow, even when Fine Art is selected. I've already tried restarting, clearing the cache, reinstalling the app and removing updates, but nothing works. Has anyone experienced this? Is there a fix? I just want my screensaver to show paintings and artworks. Thanks!

I recently downloaded Projectivity Launcher and I think I pressed something that disabled the off function for power button of my remote? Both my physical remote and Google TV remote (using phone) doesn't work for the power button only. The rest of the buttons including power on are working just fine. Just issue with turning off the TV.

Can anyone help me figure this out? Only the power button (turning off) is not responding...

Hi, i am using TCL with google tv for my specific usage ( for information display ) using hdmi. The problem is i need it to be on and off on specific hour, i tried google home automation but it really didnt reliable at all. The most reliable is using plug timer, but tv nowadays always go to standby after power loss. Can i “hack” the tv to auto on after power loss?

Is there a fix for the Google Launcher to stop jumping up and down when scrolling across different rows in the App Only Mode? Thanks

Example 1

Example 2

When I ask it to open the play store, she says "Opening Google Play Store", if I ask it about Back to the Future, she has to narrate a synopsis of the movie. how can I disable this?

Here are things I've tried:

1. in my google app on my phone, going into voice settings, and disabling Spoken results. She still talks.

2. Disable TalkBack. She still talks.

3. Disabled Speech recognition and synthesis from Google

4. Asking Gemini to mute the voice, stop voice responses, set volume of results to zero... still talks.

This is driving me insane.

I've got Jellyfin and AdGuard Home running on 192.168.1.10 and the AdGuard has DNS rewrites to forward jellyfin.server.home to 192.168.1.10. My home router provides primary DNS as 192.168.1.10 as DHCP and 1.1.1.1 as the secondary. With this setup, I'm not able to access Jellyfin server as it says IP not found.

All of this work on all my other devices.

What could be the problem?

I am not familiar with either of them, they both look good, coming from Apple TV, I want something simple and customizable, ideally I can map the remote buttons, also, I need an App switcher, thanks

Hey everyone,

My RIVA Festival smart speaker lost Google Cast after a factory reset. AirPlay and Spotify Connect still worked, but Cast was completely dead — not visible in Chrome, YouTube, or any mobile app.

After weeks of SSH debugging, log analysis, and binary comparison with a working unit, I found **three independent root causes**:

1. **Stuck setup state** — `.eureka.conf` had `setup_state=63` and `tos_accepted=false`, blocking Cast initialization
   
2. **V8 snapshot mismatch** — factory firmware ships a 2017 `snapshot_blob.bin` (V8 6.2) but `cast_shell` is from 2020 (V8 8.6). Mobile Cast crashes with "Version mismatch between V8 binary and snapshot". PC Cast works because it uses a simpler audio pipeline.
   
3. **mDNS isolation** — my router blocks multicast between 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz bands
   

All three fixed. Speaker is fully restored. I wrote a complete guide and published it on GitHub:

🔗 https://github.com/mishaumc/riva-festival-recovery

**What's in the repo:**
- 15-stage recovery guide with exact SSH commands
- OTA download script (legal, from public server)
- 5.5 MB delta patch (5 critical files)
- Full 75 MB system image in Releases
- Troubleshooting decision tree

RIVA Audio's engineer Dylan acknowledged the analysis and forwarded it to their engineering team.

Hope this helps anyone with a bricked RIVA Festival. Happy to answer questions!

So we have a Chronecast with Google TV that prior to this weekend had no trouble connecting to our TP Link Deco Mesh network. Suddenly this weekend it refuses to connect, citing “Wrong Password.”

It does however connect to a Guest WiFi based of the mesh that I can set up no problem. Anyone else discover this and find a solution?

Hi everyone,

After being fed up with all of the ads for streaming services I'm not even subscribed to I was done with the default experience.

I went down the rabbit hole of alternative launchers and while there are several very nice options (shout out Projectivy and Arc Launcher) I personally didn't feel any of these were fully right for me. I encourage everyone to take a look at those though to see if they might be right for you, they're good projects.

I decided to create BSfreeTV, a simple high performant, easy to use and above all beautifully clean launcher with basic but focused customizability where it matters. It doesn't have all the bells and whistles some of the alternatives might have but I feel the feature set is quite focused and practical

Features

• Nice and clean looking (pretty is a feature right? :P)
• OLED care: static UI elements drift ever so slightly to prevent burn-in and disappear completely after a timeout.
• A differentiation between app categories (Media and tools for now).
• Dedicated trays for each category (tools show as smaller icons, media apps are large and visual).
• Easy one-click "default home" override. Google TV constantly makes it harder and harder to replace the default launcher. BSfreeTV uses local executed ADB commands to override the default launcher or alternatively allows you to send these yourself through ADB connect.

AI Disclaimer
Being a software developer with 20+ years experience I know a thing or two about software development. The only thing I lack is time and motivation to also code in my free time. Getting a Claude Code subscription changed this for me completely and I've been solving all kinds of (first world) problems with custom software solutions.

So yes, this project was basically completely vibe coded (hate that term though) and you can choose to not use it and ignore it if this is something you're bothered by. This is not a low-effort slop creation, real work (reviewing, testing, refining) went into this. Use it if you like it, leave it if you hate it.

Where to get it
The full code and prebuilt APK's are available through Github:
https://github.com/xblackbytesx/bsfreetv

All code is released under GPL-3.0.

Attribution
The included beautiful wallpapers were taken from another awesome Open Source project Impasto by andreumassanet

Project scope
While this project was built for myself specifically I figured it would be nice if the community had some more options. So feel free to use it, contribute to it, request features and/or changes. I will be keeping the scope of this project very focused so there will never be a TON of features in this app.

I really hope you guys enjoy it!

I have a Google TV, the one that looks like a oval puck and can do 4K. Recently when I launch Netflix, I get a notice that netflix is not optimized for my device. This is a surprise since I would expect google TV to be certified for use with Netflix. Anyone encountered this issue and know if it's something I can just ignore?

Clarification

It's a Chromecast with Google TV.

Is there an app i can download on my google tv that allows me to have custom live screensavers? Kind of like wallpaper engine on steam. Any support would be appreciated!

Hey everyone,

I've been fighting with this for a while: on my Samsung TV, Nuvio wouldn't let me skip forward or back. The progress bar would just jump back to where it was and the movie kept playing. Resume was broken too, every movie started from 0, and sometimes the loading spinner never went away. Other apps on the same TV played the same streams and seeked fine, which drove me crazy.

Long story short, I dug into it and found out why. For some links Nuvio plays the video through a small local proxy on the TV, and on my firmware the Samsung player refuses any seek on streams coming from that proxy. The fix gives the Samsung player the direct link instead, and also fixes a couple of smaller timing issues with resume and the spinner.

I reported it on GitHub and the devs were really nice about it and asked for a PR, so it's now waiting for review:

- Issue: https://github.com/NuvioMedia/NuvioTVSmart/issues/1092

- PR: https://github.com/NuvioMedia/NuvioTVSmart/pull/1114

If you have the same problem, it would help a lot to leave your TV model and firmware in the issue (Settings → Support → About This TV → Software version), so the devs can see how many models are affected. Tested on my Samsung 2020 TV (firmware T-NKLDEUC-2743.0).

Full honesty: I'm not a developer (i am) but not on this project, and I worked through the whole thing with Claude (the AI). It helped me read the logs, figure out what was going on and write the fix. I hope that's not a problem for anyone. I tested every version on my own TV until it actually worked, and at least now it's fixed. Now I'm just waiting for the Nuvio team to accept the PR 🤞

Big thanks to the Nuvio devs for the app and for being so responsive.

**EDIT:** That was fast, the PR has already been merged into the official code. The fix will be included in the next official Nuvio TV release for Samsung, so just keep an eye out for the update. Thanks to the Nuvio team for being so quick!

**EDIT 2:** Fixed in the official 1.2.7 release, thanks again to the team.

Hey guys

Does anyone use a sofabaton remote with there google streamer? And if so when switching to the device from another device does the google streamer either stop what you were watching or reload the stream?

im confused since both have google tv OS but recently at a showroom i saw that tcl version of googletv had film maker mode.

whereas the vu mini glo led did not have film maker mode.

i was tilting towards buying the VU (i already have a smaller VU tv 2023 model which has film maker mode)

so wanted to know about this.

also does anyone know if VU gets regular os updates of google and has it started lagging?