New to Google Player ... - Nexus Player Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Greetings!
Just got Google Player and psyched. Was wondering if someone can point me to good threads already on the forum that talks/educates about making this box more useful?
Thank you!

Just got one myself. Seems good although I thought there would be more apps available on the playstore. I've installed Kodi(playstore) and set it up after watching various vids on YouTube. Kodi is a must. You can watch or listen to practically anything. Enjoy.
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Thank you. That was my next stop. I also have to peruse this forum too. Seems like rooting it may enable me to install more(?) apps from Google Play ... too much to learn!
wards5150 said:
Just got one myself. Seems good although I thought there would be more apps available on the playstore. I've installed Kodi(playstore) and set it up after watching various vids on YouTube. Kodi is a must. You can watch or listen to practically anything. Enjoy.
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ur2punk said:
Thank you. That was my next stop. I also have to peruse this forum too. Seems like rooting it may enable me to install more(?) apps from Google Play ... too much to learn!
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There's apps that you won't see on the Play Store within the NP, but if you go on your computer browser you will see that they are compatible with the NP so you could install them through there. You could also side load apps.
FYI....you could buy an OTG cable along with a USB hub and attach additional storage or keyboard and mouse to it as well.

I bought the Startech Micro USB to USB OTG Host Adapter on amazon for $5 and it works perfect.

ur2punk said:
Thank you. That was my next stop. I also have to peruse this forum too. Seems like rooting it may enable me to install more(?) apps from Google Play ... too much to learn!
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You can sideload apps without rooting it. Just look up how to sideload (super easy) and just download the .apk files. Your mind will be blown by what this small device can do.

Any apks you can recommend. Any with nexus player support. I bought a USB mouse but can get frustrating at times.

wards5150 said:
Any apks you can recommend. Any with nexus player support. I bought a USB mouse but can get frustrating at times.
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Depends what you want to do. I know there's a list of apps and what not in the general thread I believe. Basically just about every app gets moved over at some point.

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Xoom sixaxis apk

Does any body have the apk or have a link to it?
First off, it's against forum rules to ask for/post paid apps.
Secondly, can you seriously not do a Google search for it? It was rediculously easy to find.
Thirdly, PAY THE DEVELOPER THE $1.65!
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Does any body have the apk or have a link to it?
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This makes me sad, just pay the developer rather than undermine his work. Developers are the reason we are continually able to do brand new exciting things with our Tablets and practices like this would encourage me to take my work elsewhere...
$1.65, you could go beg on a corner and make more than that in 5 minutes.
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Does any body have the apk or have a link to it?
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Ugh! You are what's wrong with the Internet. Honestly, do you find it so hard to pay for something someone has worked hard to make?
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Does any body have the apk or have a link to it?
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First, go read the forum rules. I would say re-read them, but chances are they weren't read at all.
Second, Here is the link I found, it's in something called the Android Market...not too sure what that is, but it's $1.65.
Third, it's $1.65. I know, hella expensive. I wish the internet had this thing, it would let you search for things on the internet... Does anyone know where I can Google this idea of a website to search for things on the interwebs???
Its worth paying for dont go warez and support our devs! Btw I just got done playing altered beast with my ps3 remote on my Xoom via Gensoid rom ;D
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its not $5 or $10, not even worth pirating at that price lol
lol, this guy.
so it works I take it?
i hadnt got around to downloading the tester app yet...
Lets have a whip round try an get him the pro version lol
HTC wildfire cyanogenmod nightly
hboot -1.01 s-off xtc clip
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so it works I take it?
i hadnt got around to downloading the tester app yet...
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Indeed it works. It's an extremely easy setup to change the PS3 controller's MAC address to point to the Xoom. It works quite well, but I do not see much use for it really. There aren't many major games that I would use it on. Possibly the Zenonia series, but I've been done with them for awhile now since I beat them so many times.
Word of advice though. It's a good idea if you have a spare PS3 controller that you don't ever use. Reason being: This setup changes your controller's MAC address, and it will need to be re-synced with the PS3 through the USB cable if you ever want to use it there again. Just a useful heads up if you are a frequent PS3 gamer as myself.
i have a ps3 controller and no ps3
use it connected with USB HOST connection and with fpse for playing resident evil - was fairly impressed with that - but wireless connection would be better obviously

After Dexter Mod, Google Play doesn't allow purchase

Just completed the Dexter Mod to allow Google Play on my A7.
All appears working fine, except that Google play will not allow me to purchase any apps. I get an Error ("An error occurred, please try again"), everytime I touch the price button on any app or music.
I've rebooted the device without clearing the issue.
Any ideas?
Oh yeah, this device is not on Googles list of supported devices.
Thanks
Update - Still no joy. Free aps download, but cannot buy
I decided to try to re-do the mod.
I first went to Google and deleted all my accounts.
I did the Dexter mod again from scratch and set up a new Google Acct after the reboot.
Going to Google Play updated the Android Marketplace to Play Store on the tablet.
Using Google Play I still cannot buy an app, but I can download a free one. There are only two apps listed anyway. Missle Command which I cannot buy for $0.99 and 8Track, a music app which is free and downloaded fine.
The first time I did this there were a bizillion apps available, although I could get to none of them.
Any ideas here?
***** Another Update: I discovered I can buy apps using Play Store through my PC for the A7 which upload fine, but still not directly thru the A7
Another Update: Success
Seems like after waiting a while and not using the tablet's Play Store, when finally returning, I have a full list of games and apps.
I also just successfully downloaded a free game (Angry Birds Space) directly from the A7.
This is good news!
I had read elsewhere that on another tablet (Samsung, I believe), ignoring the Play Store app on the tablet for a while would eventually alloe it to work properly.
Seems like that's the case here.
Wow, quiet group here! Lots of views on both of my current threads and not a single comment. I know everyone was just waiting for me to figure it out myself ;<)
Dexter has more than a dozen Mods for at least 3 OS on at least 6 platforms. Probably that is the reason that no one replied ??
Dan
rockethead26 said:
Wow, quiet group here! Lots of views on both of my current threads and not a single comment. I know everyone was just waiting for me to figure it out myself ;<)
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I haven't been in this forum in a while just pop in once in a while, might find better help for the a7 at tabketroms.com, but any ways have you tried clearing the cache and data of the google play store in your settings?
Thanks for the recommendation on the other site. Everything works fine, but the device is listed as not supported by a great majority of the apps. It's kind of a worthless tablet, at least it was free.
rockethead26 said:
Thanks for the recommendation on the other site. Everything works fine, but the device is listed as not supported by a great majority of the apps. It's kind of a worthless tablet, at least it was free.
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I been using the cm7 which uses a modified build.prop for the xoom, or you could easily find a modified market here on xda
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smallba said:
I been using the cm7 which uses a modified build.prop for the xoom, or you could easily find a modified market here on xda
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Thanks for the suggestion. I think I'll just let this one die a quiet death.

Help|First day with the nexus 7

well,i can call it my first android device but not really.
anyway im and iOS guy and i donno **** on here!
How do I transfer apps from my Pc to the tablet?
Why not just use Google Play?
using USB cable?
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Netbloe said:
well,i can call it my first android device but not really.
anyway im and iOS guy and i donno **** on here!
How do I transfer apps from my Pc to the tablet?
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Why do you need to transfer apps? There is no itunes here on Android, all apps loading is done through the app stores. You can however use your computer browser to remotely install apps to your device where ever you are. That's a cool feature.
The only reason to transfer apps would be to install apks you get from the Internet, but you wouldn't be doing that would you?
Welcome to the light side. You can transfer apps (.apk.) files as they are known on android as others have suggested. Personally I have
never found the need. The play store is your best friend. There are tonnes of free/trial apps and games you can dload instantly.
Not to mention the 5 day 25c 25p Google sale. They will change each day for the next few days. I recommend office suite pro on sale at the moment if you want the best office app on android. Usually $15 £10, you can grab it if you are quick for 25 pennies. A few gamers and other apps.
For less than 2quid I managed to grab 7 different apps and games. Looking forward to see whats next on offer in a few hours time.
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The only reason to transfer apps would be to install apks you get from the Internet, but you wouldn't be doing that would you?
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*sigh* There are perfectly legit reasons to be transferring apks; thank God they actually let you rather than just blanketing all unofficial activity as piracy.
Anyways, that's basically the answer for the OP. Apps get remotely installed from the play store with no need for transfer, whereas apks can just be sent and installed if necessary.
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[Q] [Razer Forge] Anyone tried Rooting it yet?

So the Razer Forge is a nice little Android TV Device, but we can't use Netflix on it. But that's not the question here. My question is if anyone has gotten the bootloader unlocked and device Rooted? Has anyone been working on it? I also noticed when enabling developer options, that there were special "Razer Tools", which I don't quite know what they do.
Kingroot. But what is benefit of rooting it which apps are good for android tv with root.
patt2k said:
Kingroot. But what is benefit of rooting it which apps are good for android tv with root.
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Well, see if you can modify the build.prop to allow for Netflix Chromecasting or use of the Android TV Netflix app.
Sgt.JimmyRustles said:
Well, see if you can modify the build.prop to allow for Netflix Chromecasting or use of the Android TV Netflix app.
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I dont have the skill for it but I hears kingroot will root it.
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I dont have the skill for it but I hears kingroot will root it.
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I've heard that as well, but I don't have any time to test it or not. Was hoping there was someone who had the free time to try it out.
Sgt.JimmyRustles said:
I've heard that as well, but I don't have any time to test it or not. Was hoping there was someone who had the free time to try it out.
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I do have some time just dont know where to find razer firmware to restore if something goes wrong.
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Kingroot. But what is benefit of rooting it which apps are good for android tv with root.
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Not sure if it required to root the device. I bought one 3 days ago and spent many hours trying to get it working the way I want. I tried all different factory roms etc., but still no Google Apps etc. Finally I found the post about using Air-Share. Air-Share shows as available for the NP in Google Play. Once installed, a web server runs on the device to which once can browse. You can then upload your apk file. Once upload is completed the installed appears on the NP screen / TV. I installed Kodi, Netflix, Speedtest and many other apps this way over the last few days.
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Not sure if it required to root the device. I bought one 3 days ago and spent many hours trying to get it working the way I want. I tried all different factory roms etc., but still no Google Apps etc. Finally I found the post about using Air-Share. Air-Share shows as available for the NP in Google Play. Once installed, a web server runs on the device to which once can browse. You can then upload your apk file. Once upload is completed the installed appears on the NP screen / TV. I installed Kodi, Netflix, Speedtest and many other apps this way over the last few days.
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O yea of course when I first got it took me 2 hours to find that Air-Share will do one time job that I needed lol.
But I have no idea what are good Root apps for Android TV.
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O yea of course when I first got it took me 2 hours to find that Air-Share will do one time job that I needed lol.
But I have no idea what are good Root apps for Android TV.
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I just bought the NP so I can use Kodi & Netflix. The rest is optional. I like some of the stuff that shows on the home screen sometimes that is recommended by Youtube. The only thing I dont like about the BP is that there is no power off. In other words Google wants 24/7 access to the thing.
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I just bought the NP so I can use Kodi & Netflix. The rest is optional. I like some of the stuff that shows on the home screen sometimes that is recommended by Youtube. The only thing I dont like about the BP is that there is no power off. In other words Google wants 24/7 access to the thing.
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Same with Fire TV I really don't understand how hard is it to make power off button lol
Yea. Hope it gets sorted.
Kingroot V4.0 crashes the playstore. Kingroot V3.5 fails to achieve root. Ideas? Give me a direction and I shall run with it.
I was able to root my Forge TV using kingroot. I made a video tutorial on the whole process and the files used are linked in the videos description.
alwaysbless said:
I was able to root my Forge TV using kingroot. I made a video tutorial on the whole process and the files used are linked in the videos description.
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Teamviewer doesnt work for everyone i couldnt transfer filea had to use airshare couple days ago.
What root apps are worth using on this anyway?
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Teamviewer doesnt work for everyone i couldnt transfer filea had to use airshare couple days ago.
What root apps are worth using on this anyway?
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Ill be using root with Proxy Droid and TWC TV so I can stream TWC from a family members house. Also, stickmount should work now so external USB drives can be manually mounted to increase storage space. I imagine for the most part that root will offer many the same benefits as it did for fire tv users plus its good just to future proof yourself I guess because the exploit wont last forever.
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Ill be using root with Proxy Droid and TWC TV so I can stream TWC from a family members house. Also, stickmount should work now so external USB drives can be manually mounted to increase storage space. I imagine for the most part that root will offer many the same benefits as it did for fire tv users plus its good just to future proof yourself I guess because the exploit wont last forever.
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Could you try modifying your Build.prop to see if it would allow Netflix to work?
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Could you try modifying your Build.prop to see if it would allow Netflix to work?
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Yea ill give it a shot later - any particular device you want me to try spoofing?
Also, for those saying KingRoot isnt working make sure your device is connected with Wifi ONLY, do NOT change the file name from its original and install via a file explorer and not directly from within team viewer.
alwaysbless said:
Yea ill give it a shot later - any particular device you want me to try spoofing?
Also, for those saying KingRoot isnt working make sure your device is connected with Wifi ONLY, do NOT change the file name from its original and install via a file explorer and not directly from within team viewer.
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Well, the ADT-1 or the Nexus Player. The reason being, I wanted to see if either Netflix Casting or the netflix app work.
Something was mentioned here: https://plus.google.com/+IsraelOliverJr414515/posts/JJRT7GXZvvp
But it was for the ADT I believe. Not 100% sure.
alwaysbless said:
Ill be using root with Proxy Droid and TWC TV so I can stream TWC from a family members house. Also, stickmount should work now so external USB drives can be manually mounted to increase storage space. I imagine for the most part that root will offer many the same benefits as it did for fire tv users plus its good just to future proof yourself I guess because the exploit wont last forever.
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Could link2sd work with usb drive?
Also i wonder how to preserve root preserve root with otas
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Could link2sd work with usb drive?
Also i wonder how to preserve root preserve root with otas
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Im gonna give the external storage mounting stuff a try later tonight ill post results soon as I know for sure. To maintain root though we will def need to figure out the info for razers ota servers that way we can block them at the router / dns / host file level.

How is everyone watching the 2016 Rio Olympics on the Nvidia Shield?

How is everyone watching the 2016 Rio Olympics on the Nvidia Shield? Is it possible to watch the whole thing in 1080p?
NBC sports has an app for the olympics that i have on my Amazon firestick....i managed to find an apk that installs/works on the shield. Trouble is controlling the app, none of my remotes work, neither does the controller....lucky for me, my trusty old logitech k400 keyboard works just fine with it! Great app....TONS of coverage to choose from.
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NBC sports has an app for the olympics that i have on my Amazon firestick....i managed to find an apk that installs/works on the shield. Trouble is controlling the app, none of my remotes work, neither does the controller....lucky for me, my trusty old logitech k400 keyboard works just fine with it! Great app....TONS of coverage to choose from.
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Could you upload apk plz!? I tried side loading regular android apk but it would just force close
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slothdabski said:
Could you upload apk plz!? I tried side loading regular android apk but it would just force close
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tried, but says file too large (34.5mb)
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tried, but says file too large (34.5mb)
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Can you share via Dropbox or google drive please.
Ladies/Gents, figured I'd check XDA to see if anyone had success finding a reputable NBC Sports Live Extra APK. I found many, but saw this one here (https://appraw.com/apk/nbc-sports-live-extra-apk-download-2dkxb). Is that the one you're using? If not, can you please provide a link to the one you are using or PM me? Gracias!
I am using SlingTv works great
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Ladies/Gents, figured I'd check XDA to see if anyone had success finding a reputable NBC Sports Live Extra APK. I found many, but saw this one here (https://appraw.com/apk/nbc-sports-live-extra-apk-download-2dkxb). Is that the one you're using? If not, can you please provide a link to the one you are using or PM me? Gracias!
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sorry....wasn't sure if posting links was allowed, so thats why i did not provide one.
yes that is the same version i am using. not the site that i got it from, but thats the app! i was able to sideload it and install without a problem. it has crashed/fc a few times on me, but for the most part it works just fine. the app opens in portrait mode most of the time...but once you click on an event to view it, it switches to landscape and plays in fullscreen. not sure if its 1080p, but looks good to me (720p maybe?).
as i stated earlier....only thing that works to control it for me is a wireless keyboard w/trackpad. to scroll up/down through the list of events, i have to use two-finger swipe on the trackpad....arrows don't seem to work.
I thought I had notification setup for this subscribed thread, but apparently I did not! Thanks for replying as I have been using that same app and experiencing the same thing. So far so good!
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Kodi + Phoenix gives me some good streams from my country + Tvheadend DVB-T on my shield with HDHomerun.

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