I tried to flash my Shield TV, I followed the steps on the instructions on the official website,but I found the instructions is wrong , it's for Shield TV 2015 not for 2017. There's no power button on my controller at all.where is the right instructions for Shield TV 2017? How to unlock the bootloader ?- fastboot oem unlock?
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This says that it's for the Shield Tablet, but there is not specific version on twrp.me for the Shield TV?
https://dl.twrp.me/shieldtablet/
Shield has Android TV 2017
I am following this process and the shield is not working.
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fastboot oem unlock
twrp boot (fail)
Infinite reboot
(controller a,b key pushing
power cable in)
hw mode bootloader connect to pc
(pc recovery img “fastboot-all.bat” Execution)
error devices not connect after install 2 things finished
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shield tv Does not wake from sleep mode
pc to connect (pc devices manager display others-apx)
hw mode is not working
How can I recover it?
If your shield TV doesn't boot correctly, fastboot-all.bat won't work because you need to have adb working.
You should indeed rather follow the instructions given on Nvidia website, i.e. for Shield TV 2015 16GB with Marshmallow or newer installed:
fastboot flash staging blob
fastboot flash boot boot.img
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
fastboot flash system system.img
fastboot flash vendor vendor.img
fastboot reboot
Before that, be sure you use a good quality USB OTG cable.
Sounds like you can't boot into fastboot or bootloader mode.
If you can't, it means that you are hard bricked.
If you already had latest Nvidia experience version 5.1, there was no need to reflash the whole recovery image, PLUS you don't mention what recovery image you flashed.
To sum up your error was eather a bad usb cable (this a very known issue now, shield is picky) AND/OR wrong blob (which is the bootloader and it comes in all nvidia recovery image packages) flash.
What makes the device brick is a corrupted bootloader.
If bad USB and fail while flashing blob (which again is the bootloader), it gets corrupted.
If wrong blob flash (by using one that is not for you device model OR when attempting to downgrade to MM or lower bootloader), it gets corrupted.
Moral of the story:
Never mess with the bootloader a.k.a blob if you dont know what you're doing.
I know there are many hard bricked users around so better start reading. Take your time and make sure you understand all the instructions and also the pros and cons of the restore/unbrick method.
NOTE: just so you know next time for Shield TV 2017 , when you unlock bootloader and flash TWRP recovery or custom firmware you must root, because root with SuperSU disables some checks Nvidia run at boot. If you don't root, then your Shield will be stuck at boot.
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(For the full story, check this thread over at nVidia support forums: https://forums.geforce.com/default/.../shield-pro-2015-can-t-get-it-up-and-running/)
Long story short, I'm trying to flash my nVidia Shield TV Pro 2015 with v7.0.2 recovery image, because I could not get past the initial nVidia "looking for experience upgrade", and thus not use the device at all.
I unlocked bootloader by fastboot, rebooted, flashed staging and boot.img, reboot (like flash-all.bat and nVidia Instructions says), but after the reboot neither of my two Windows 10 computers can recognize the Shield in fastboot mode as a USB device.
I've tried:
* Uninstall/ reinstall drivers through Device Manager
* Registry "hack" for disabling a check performed by Windows for USB devices (https://forum.xda-developers.com/android/general/fix-unknown-usb-device-device-t3375320)
Any ideas on how to successfully connect to it through fastboot, in order to finish the flashing process?
Are there other ways of restoring it, like putting a image to a USB stick, go to recovery?
I checked out nvidia shield TV 2017's open source code and followed the instruction to build images and flash them to my nvidia shield TV 2017. But now I stuck at the loading page flashing "android" logo.
I ran adb devices, but no device is listed. But I can still back to fastboot mode, and if flash the the recovery image downloaded from nvidia website, everything is still fine.
How could I build correct images from open source codes and flash it to my shield TV?
As title asked is it possible to root the latest shield tv?
thanks
pcwizard7 said:
As title asked is it possible to root the latest shield tv?
thanks
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Sadly I was not able to, there is a somewhat working twrp but getting root to work is not yet possible. Also when you unlock the bootloader you lose Dolby vision. When Dolby vision is disabled you probably have some issues with Netflix. You could get Netflix running by disabling something else.
Hope someone will succeeded soon
powercommy said:
Sadly I was not able to, there is a somewhat working twrp but getting root to work is not yet possible. Also when you unlock the bootloader you lose Dolby vision. When Dolby vision is disabled you probably have some issues with Netflix. You could get Netflix running by disabling something else.
Hope someone will succeed soon
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is this the main reason why it been held up? or is the firmware still needs to be fully dumped also?
also, can you use 2019 remote with the 2017 model?
pcwizard7 said:
is this the main reason why it been held up? or is the firmware still needs to be fully dumped also?
also, can you use 2019 remote with the 2017 model?
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It's seems like Nvidia released the developers image for the shield 2019 pro. There is no description at links only some dots see images. I used the developers images on my other shields, but I'm not 100% sure if this new images are for our devices.
https://developer.nvidia.com/search/site/Shield 2019
NVIDIA SHIELD ANDROID TV 2019 Pro Developer Only OS Image
https://developer.nvidia.com/nvidia-shield-android-tv-pro-developer-only-os-image
NVIDIA SHIELD ANDROID TV 2019 Pro Recovery OS Image
https://developer.nvidia.com/nvidia-shield-android-tv-pro-recovery-os-image
powercommy said:
It's seems like Nvidia released the developers image for the shield 2019 pro. There is no description at links only some dots see images. I used the developers images on my other shields, but I'm not 100% sure if this new images are for our devices.
https://developer.nvidia.com/search/site/Shield 2019
NVIDIA SHIELD ANDROID TV 2019 Pro Developer Only OS Image
https://developer.nvidia.com/nvidia-shield-android-tv-pro-developer-only-os-image
NVIDIA SHIELD ANDROID TV 2019 Pro Recovery OS Image
https://developer.nvidia.com/nvidia-shield-android-tv-pro-recovery-os-image
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well, the Recovery Image is the retail img and the dev only is the dev img?
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well, the Recovery Image is the retail img and the dev only is the dev img?
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That is correct currently i'm flashing the dev img which I also used on other shield's let see how it's goes. Steps in the flash-all are:
fastboot oem unlock
:: Confirm the prompt on the screen
fastboot flash staging blob
fastboot flash boot boot.img
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
fastboot flash system system.img
fastboot flash vendor vendor.img
fastboot flash dtb mdarcy.dtb.img
fastboot flash vbmeta vbmeta.img
fastboot oem lock
:: Confirm the prompt on the screen
fastboot reboot
until the issues in the root are resolved I ll wait until more develops
thanks
Root steps in
https://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=81200005&postcount=380
Any Update?
Has there been any update to this method? Also is it possible to flash lineage os onto the nvidia tv shield pro 2019?
I'm waiting for Lineage OS on Nvidia tv shield pro 2019