Anyone got a vid of the boot time, i currently have a Firestick 4k but its slow, but worried that the Shield is 5 years old, is the interface smooth, does it take long to boot up?

Just as the title says. I've had this shield since before it went pro. The remote now almost fails to function. It's so software busted. I got a new remote and it didn't help. It loses wifi often. Its..... dying.

HOWEVER! To regain interactivity on it, the iphone nvidia shield app has provided a fabulous super low latency solution to my busted interactivity.

Was updated, and that error message appears when trying to play something.

On or off? Even though I have googled what it is, I still don’t know what it is.

I made a similar post yesterday already.

I am still confused about how to properly get Dolby Vision (especially the correct profile) to work.

I have a LG C2, 2019 Shield Pro with a HDD with my movie library hooked up and I'm using Kodi as I was having issues setting up Plex while Kodi was working right out of the box.

I tested a few files and the ones that have HDR correctly displayed HDR and the ones with DV correct ly displayed Dolby Vision in the top right corner. So that is great!

The reason I'm making this post is because I'm wondering if there are better ways than the Kodi/Plex + Shield setup in 2024. It's after all a 5 year old product.

I read some people use firesticks, appletv and some use some other home entertainment players I've never heard of.

What is your setup? How do you get HDR10/10+/DV to play correctly when streaming/locally streaming your library

I want to use my Shield as my plex server and not my PC anymore.

So, I got a 2019 Shield Pro, hooked up an external HDD, shared the drive to my windows PC, I have 1gbps fibre line and the whole network is 1gbps connected with Ethernet.

This is my problem if I copy files from my PC to the Shield HDD it copies at full line speed (100MBps), but if I use something like Free Download Manager to download a file directly on the PC to the Shields HDD it only gets about 20MBps, what is causing this problem? I don't know if it's the download process that maybe save the file locally in pieces 1st then try to copy it to the shield while downloading the rest.

My question is there a way to download at full 1Gbps from a PC using a download manager to the shields external HDD?

This is HTML downloads if that makes a difference.

Hi All! Quick context I'm using my Shield Pro with a Samsung Q90T and a JBL Cinema SB120 Soundbar.

In a few years of ownership I've never had an issue like this with audio before. Anything I try to play on the Shield presents a ton of audio artifacting. It'll dip out momentarily, then sound like it's quickly catching up to itself, even when the video is playing back smoothly. It sounds robotic at times, or crackly. It doesn't sound like the soundbar has blown, and it still works perfectly fine with everything else on the TV so I know that's not it. It's purely the Shield.

When I try turning the soundbar off, to just listen through the TV's built-in speakers, I get pure silence. TV Speakers still work perfectly fine with other things as well. It's just the Shield.

I've tried disconnect and reconnecting everything, rebooting the Shield, etc. Can't seem to get it to make a difference. Did an update fry something? Anyone else experiencing this?

Guys i gave in and bought the Shield Pro today.

I watched my first movie. A DV Remux played on Kodi since i was not able to put any files into the NVIDA_SHIELD folder. The folder was just corrupted for some reason.

I noticed some issue where there were random red color occurring but otherwise it seemed fine.

Is the standard version of Kodi capable of playing back Dolby Vision properly? Without issues simply correctly playing back DV?

I'm slowly going insane with HDR/DV it's just such a pain in the ass i just want it to work

Have tried all of the tricks found here. Please help!

Hi, I bought a shield with retro arch installed and a Samsung 256 gb flash drive with all roms and bios files. Thing worked great until it didn’t, maybe an update or something but everything was disappearing, or no cores. So I factory reset the shield and I am trying to install everything as before

I got retroarch up, but I can’t get it to recognize my roms files. Everything was like it was before, I tried file explorer to get retroarch to transfer, but I don’t know what I am doing. Can anyone explain this to me, I feel like it is simple and there isn’t much for me to do

why there's no option to connect our Pixel phones to a TV via USB-C to HDMI to get an Android TV-like experience, similar to how Android Auto works with car displays. It seems like a convenient way to use our phones as a media center without needing a separate device.Does anyone know if there are technical limitations or other reasons why this isn't available? Would love to hear your thoughts and insights on this!

PS:

Just imagine the possibility of our used old phones as Android TV. Do you think Chromecast is as powerful as our phones?

Today my 2015 P2571 shield had lineage os 20 on it. I wanted the stock os though. Mind you, I know barely anything about android flashing. I used this guide, https://developer.download.nvidia.com/mobile/shield/ROM/SHIELD_ATV/Upgrade-2.1/HowTo-Flash-Recovery-Image.txt, I also had it on the stock recovery btw. I downloaded the image from nvidia's website for 2015 shield version 9.0.0. I did everything except for the userdata part because I did not know what that was. And for the DTB file, I googled the one in the guide, and found it on github, so I flashed it. I tried rebooting, no signal, I haven't tested much yet, other than unplugging and replugging a few times, and coming to no avail, pc doesn't detect it in fastboot either. I do not what to do. I heard of somebody bricking theirs from an incorrect DTB, what do I do?

I plan to follow this guide https://florisse.nl/shield-downgrade/ to restore my shield to android 9, i tried my wireless usb logitech KB and it didnt respond

I was planning on getting a TLK at some point for gaming so i guess now is the time, from the pics of the KBs they show a removable usb c cable, would that have any affect on it compatibility wise with the shield?

I dont think so but doesnt hurt to confirm

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Thanks

Today I have measured my internal LAN network load when streaming Forza Horizon 5 from my PC with GameStream as a host to my TV connected to MiniPC with Moonlight client. Stream parameters were set to 4K 120 fps HDR with 150 Mbps bitrate set in the Moonlight settings. What I have measured was a constant load of 12.00-12.50 MB/s when dynamic scene was going on during gaming. The problem is that 12.50 MB/s is 100 Mbps so I think that despite setting on my Moonlight client bitrate equal 150 Mbps the stream was on 100 Mbps. So my question is, whether Nvidia GameStream host software is limited to 100 Mbps? Stream was done on a cable connection and LAN network is capable of doing ~160-170 Mbps according to my readings. How to get higher than 100 Mbps bitrate when using GameStream on a host PC?

Hi

Possible to back up Reolink via FTP to Google drive with the Nvidia Shield?

So I've been using steam link on my shield TV for years now and about a year ago, I decided to replace the shield controllers with Xbox controllers for a few reasons that I won't go in to.

I then realised that there was no way to access the steam overlay during gameplay because whenever I pressed the Xbox button, Shield TV would interpret it as a "go home" Android action and take me out of steam link and drop me on the shield TV home screen.

This was infuriating. I tried different button mapping apps (button mapper, button remapper, tvQuickActions) but none could solve the problem. I eventually ended up disabling the Xbox button during steam link sessions using tvQuickActions. Even though I still couldn't use the steam overlay with this approach, at least I wouldn't accidentally press it and kill my running gaming session.

However I've found a solution but it does require some spending....

8bitdo wireless usb adaptor 2 allows me to pair my Xbox controller with it and then it mimicks an Xbox 360 controller for shield TV and that seems to trigger the old Xbox keyboard layout files on shield TV making the Xbox button actually work like an Xbox button in games that use that button (like steam link). I assume it will work with xbxplay as well. The dongle can also be used to switch interpretation mode so that shield TV sees the Xbox controller as a PlayStation or Nintendo controller instead of an Xbox 360 controller.

This is the only solution I've found to date and thought I'd share

hello guys, I have a problem, with my nvidia shield. I am using a custom launcher, the google tv launcher on version 1.0.5…. It works fine but yet there is a new version 1.0.6….. since February. But when I try to update the launcher the interface shows the error message content failed to load. I saw another post about this topic but there wasn’t any answer for this problem. Hope you can help me and would be great anyone could help me if he is running any version 1.0.6 on his shield

My setup : Laptop/PC connected with Storage devices with all media. Samsung TV connected to Shield Pro. Laptop/PC and Shield pro connected to gigabit router via LAN and TV also connected to WiFI on same router.
What I want: To play videos stored in PC/Laptop Storage on TV or shield pro directly using LAN connection WITHOUT internet or transcoding. Basically network streaming.
What I have tried: VLC has this feature but I m unable to get it work around as i constantly get some error. Also it asks login I'd and password.
Help Needed : For detail Guides on above related matter.
Thanks In Advance

I've burned through 2 sets of batteries before I realised the backlight was constantly switched on. The remote is fine otherwise. Anyone else experienced this? Would be good to know if there's a known fix before I consider purchasing a replacement. Thank you.

I'm less than 3 years I've gone through two remotes. The first one just stopped working randomly. Tried taking it apart to fix but no joy. Bought a new one (not cheap) and the find my remote beep stopped working. Not the worst, but since then also now the microphone for voice search does not work and it is sometimes unresponsive. Probably soon to die completely.

Both were more than 1 year old, but do you think there's any comeback with nvidia? I've never had any other remote stop working on my life and only this two in 3 years. Thoughts?

I've got plenty of bandwith, and my 2019 shield hardwired in and Youtube constantly drops from 4k, or 1080P all the way down to 360p. and while I can change it back, it's annoying that it continues to happen.

I've cleared the cache and data, but it still keeps happening. Is it possible to lock the quality?

Recently the long press on the should remote stopped prompting voice input within Kodi, anyone else have this issue?

I have given permission to the app to access the microphone in the shield settings and still when I long press the button I no longer get the prompt for voice input in Kodi searches. It was working fine just a few days ago. It's strange because if I take the permission away, the error pops up on screen that it doesn't have permission to access that, but when I grant the permission in settings it doesn't work.

I have San Andrea ony phone but shield is telling me it isn't available on this device.

I know one of u smart people will know how to fix this.

I'm in ireland

I have a Shield Pro and I'm curious about the audio quality with my set up.

I have an older Samsung 4K smart tv and an Onkyo Stereo Receiver (TX-8150).

My audio chain is as follows...

HDMI cable to connect Shield to TV.

TOSlink cable from tv (Digital Audio Out /Optical) into optical input of receiver.

If I'm using Tidal on my Shield, will max quality audio get downsampled by the TV or will it the original quality from Tidal make it to the receiver?

Hello. I have an Nvidia Shield Pro connected to my old(ish) AVR. My AVR can't handle DD+, only DD. So on order to get 5.1 sound from Netflix and Disney+ I have to enable "Dolby audio processing".

However when that is enabled, movies with ACC 6ch sound play with stereo sound. If I disable it ACC will play fine but Netflix and Disney will turn to stereo sound (as expected due to my AVR).

Any help to get both Netflix and my other movies to play multichannel sound except turning Dolby audio processing on and off depending the source?

The president of Nintendo just announced that a new Nintendo switch 2 will be announced before April 2025. Nvidia supplies the chips to Nintendo. Historically speaking, whenever there has been a new switch, or even a refresh of the existing models, Nvidia has announced a new shield. Any thoughts?

Hi, I live in a very dusty city and I have to constantly take apart the shield to clean.

Does anyone have any suggests for an enclosure I can use to protect the shield from dust?

Thanks in advance.

I used to use a Steam deck and dock for streaming games via Moonlight to my TV, but the dock has been so unreliable and inconsistent when it comes to things such as setting the resolution and the controller connection going through that I've given up.

After getting annoyed with the issues with the dock, I recently picked up a Shield Pro. I've been able to set up Moonlight for game streaming, but now I find that I can't get any rumble on my PS5 controller when using the Shield Pro - I remember it did work back when I used my Steam deck via Moonlight. I also noticed that the touchpad on the PS5 controller doesn't work either. Also, pressing the PS button would load back to the home screen instead of doing something like accessing a Steam menu.

So now I'm wondering - what do I need to do to stream my PC to my TV with minimal latency, where I can connect multiple controllers that work via rumble with the least amount of hassle? From what I understand I can use something called VirtualHere, but that's only one controller per dongle, so I'd need multiple dongles if I wanted to use multiple controllers, correct? Is there a better solution? Is the Shield Pro not the right device for me?

I'm willing to do any advanced configurations such as rooting devices if needed, but would prefer if it was a one-time set and forget it type thing.

Thanks in advance for any time and help.

I recently got a used HTR560 and set it up with my Bravia KD-55X720E and Nvidia Shield 2018.

I now have connected the Shield - AVR - TV via HDMI.

(Initially I had the Shield directly connected to the TV via HDMI and then the TV connected to the AVR via optical, as HTR560 does not have ARC; it has only HDMI passthrough)

When I set it up, everything was fine, and I was able to enjoy the surround sound.

Then I noticed that some videos I play via Plex or VLC were coming as Stereo (TV overlay was showing the audio mode as Stereo) and I decided to mess with some settings.

Now my surround sound is completely messed up and I seem to get sound only from front left or center channels.

The TV is now showing the audio from Shield as Main, whereas earlier it used to show Dolby for some videos.

When test the AVR or put the radio on, I am getting sound from all the speakers.

Any suggestion on how to fix the issue and get surround sound back?

My Shield is model P2897, Android 11.

TIA.