I purchased my SHIELD 500GB waay back when it came out. Unfortunately, just recently I went to use it, no picture. Reboot, no image, and just a buzzing sound from the case almost like a beep... I open the case, listen to the hard drive, and it buzzes like its trying to spin up but it won't spin up.
Tried taking it out and connecting it to my PC to recover the Widevine keys so I can use a public image on a new SSD, no luck, PC won't recognize the drive.
Does anyone know if its possible to get a working SHIELD back (starting from a new blank SSD, without the original Widevine key)? I doubt they'll RMA the unit since it is so old, and I don't have any receipt for it anymore.
I have the same exact model and the same problem. Just recently bricked out of nowhere! I get that faint beeping sound from inside the unit and it won't go past the boot logo. Tried everything from holding down the power button and releasing and also hooked up to both mac and pc but neither will recognize the shield. So frustrating.
If you dont end up figuring it out, I'll buy it off you. Ill probably just use it as a dedicated plex server.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/shield-tv/development/nvidia-shield-tv-ssd-t3402580
There's a torrent with all the files you need to reimage a new SSD.
An update to close my thread:
I was able to use the torrent with the files to flash the new SSD, but without my Widevine key (so no Netflix on the SHIELD). The booting process after flashing and updating was very weird, and the SHIELD now has a habit of constantly turning on itself and the TV. But, it worked.
As a preventative measure I mirrored my other 500GB SHIELD's drive to a 500GB SATA disk, and backed up the Widevine key so I can recover from a drive failure on that board at least.
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Hello, I'm new to the Nexus 7 and I recently bought an OTG cable for connecting an external hard drive, particularly because I'm travelling in a few more days.
I've tried every HDD I have and none work, there is always a clicking sound for most of them and only my USB flash drive has worked thus far. The guy at the store said to change my HDDs to FAT 32, which didn't work but then I tried it on a 1 TB external HDD that I bought at the store, and after finding out that the HDD was too big for conversion to FAT 32 after like 7 hours, I tested it anyway and the HDD seems like it wants to work. The Nexus Media Importer pops up instantly like on the USB flash drive, however it takes an unusually long period of time to connect (waited for roughly 5 minutes before giving up) , and I have yet to be able to access the external hard drive. It seems like it is compatible with the Nexus 7 as there is no spinning and clicking sound so there seems to be enough power going through it, but for some odd reason I just can't access the files on the HDD.
Is it because I formatted it? Wiping out everything on the HDD?
Is there a power issue? Even though it seems like it doesn't?
Can someone please help? I might have possibly lost $140
No replies? *bump*
I use this app on my N7 and have varying luck with HDDs and it appears that the issue is sufficient power, which varies by device. I can access both FAT and NFS drives in cases where the drive ahs external power available so formatting is most likely not your issue.
Dave
sparksd said:
I use this app on my N7 and have varying luck with HDDs and it appears that the issue is sufficient power, which varies by device. I can access both FAT and NFS drives in cases where the drive ahs external power available so formatting is most likely not your issue.
Dave
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Yeah I think it's a power issue, even though it seems like it isn't. Funnily enough my dad's 1 TB external HDD seems to work so I'm swapping with his.
yeah some HDD's need external power. or simply cannot pull enough power from the nexy, ive heard some people have success with a powered usb hub
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Trust-Port-Usb-2-0-Power/dp/B001UE6OC8/ref=tag_stp_s2_edpp_url
example--^
also what android version are you running? stickmount and nexus media imp' really only recently got updated to work on 4.2 so i you are running 4.2 expect some speed and stability issues for a little while.:good:
I recently purchased a new Sony Vaio notebook that came with windows 8 preinstalled. It cam with a 1 tb HDD that was replaced with a 180 gb SSD and windows was reloaded using a recovery usb. I then wanted to mount the 1 tb HDD into dvd drive spot so I bought a caddy for it off of amazon. It was really easy to pull out the dvd drive and pop in the HDD in it's caddy and it fit perfectly. I turned on the notebook and it booted up and the drive was now recognized at D drive. I could see the windows os was still on there so I did the quick format option and then proceeded to transfer my music folder over from my external. I noticed through the whole process that the fan seemed to be running really high and I thought it was just because I was messing the new HDD but it never went away even when I was done with the transfer. The HDD seemed to always be spinning too even when I wasn't accessing files on it which didn't seem right if it's not being used. The fan is usually running but this was a full blast like I was playing a high end game. Windows gave me a blue error message about a kernel and rebooted. The fan immediately kicked in once it restarted so I turned it off and put the dvd drive back.
So my question is just if anybody has any experience doing something like this and has some suggestions? I want to try it again and figured it wouldn't hurt so ask for advice on here before I do. I figured I would try doing a different type of format as maybe there are still os traces on there that's messing things up. Thanks for reading.
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I recently purchased a new Sony Vaio notebook that came with windows 8 preinstalled. It cam with a 1 tb HDD that was replaced with a 180 gb SSD and windows was reloaded using a recovery usb. I then wanted to mount the 1 tb HDD into dvd drive spot so I bought a caddy for it off of amazon. It was really easy to pull out the dvd drive and pop in the HDD in it's caddy and it fit perfectly. I turned on the notebook and it booted up and the drive was now recognized at D drive. I could see the windows os was still on there so I did the quick format option and then proceeded to transfer my music folder over from my external. I noticed through the whole process that the fan seemed to be running really high and I thought it was just because I was messing the new HDD but it never went away even when I was done with the transfer. The HDD seemed to always be spinning too even when I wasn't accessing files on it which didn't seem right if it's not being used. The fan is usually running but this was a full blast like I was playing a high end game. Windows gave me a blue error message about a kernel and rebooted. The fan immediately kicked in once it restarted so I turned it off and put the dvd drive back.
So my question is just if anybody has any experience doing something like this and has some suggestions? I want to try it again and figured it wouldn't hurt so ask for advice on here before I do. I figured I would try doing a different type of format as maybe there are still os traces on there that's messing things up. Thanks for reading.
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Perhaps the new caddy is blocking airflow? Also, the drive may be pulling more power than the DVD drive would and causing something to get overloaded.
I did this with a Lenovo Ideapad y550p and I never noticed any issues like this.
I'd try checking if your manufacturer has a public support forum you can post on, this seems like it may be a device specific issue.
HDDs generate a lot of heat (for more than most SSDs, incidentally) and your laptop's cooling may not have been designed for this source of heat.
You also bought a Sony device, which makes it difficult for me to even speculate what other problems might be occurring.
Thanks for the replies. I tried looking around the sony website but can't find much. I'll give it another go and check for some airflow and if that doesn't work then I'll just live with the ssd because I'm not giving that speed up.
You could try swapping the SSD and HDD. The SSD should generate less heat, which may help out.
So I reinstalled and did a full format which took over two hours but I noticed there were still hidden partitions on this drive so I got rid of those and expanded the drive all the way. Then I unchecked the box to allow random indexing on this drive and changed the power options shut off disk to 1 min per someone's instructions from a google link and it seems to working now. Figured I would post in case someone else ever runs into this issue.
I picked up the NP yesterday from Walmart for $50. Couldn't find any at the Best Buys in my area. So I got home and discovered what I purchased was a return item. Someone's account was already on it and the remote was really clicky(loud clicks) and there was a ton of apps on it. After returning the device and making sure I picked up something in shrink wrap this time. I got home installed and setup Kodi and watched a movie.
So getting ready for bed and i'm shutting everything down and I can't turn this thing off. I held the button on the bottom which only seams good for Bluetooth pairing. Held buttons on the remote, nothing seemed to work. So I ended up just unplugging it. I know there has to be a better solution, something simple I'm missing.
Any help, how do I turn it off properly?
Also I hooked an external drive through and OTG(on the go) adapter and nothing, do I need to be rooted to watch movies from an external HD?
The nexus player doesnt have an off switch. its meant to constantly run because it uses so little power (i assume since its got an atom chip).
I sideloaded an app called stick mount. im not sure if it requires root, as i already had rooted for another purpose, but with stick mount i was able to mount a flash drive with the nexus player. I assume it would need root to do this, however, google just released android M today, and i read somewhere that it supposedly is support to support external storage devices natively. So crossing my fingers for that.
There is a program that works for rebooting if you have root. The shutdown option does not work.
TV Boot.
I'm rooted and staying on 5.0, so this app comes in handy for rebooting.
Summary is this, I have the 2017 model (changed from the 2015 which had gotten the green flash of death), I had to rebuild all the data I had available from the SD card on my 2015. I had backed up the encryption key and was able to save all my app settings.
Both that one and this one were/are rooted.
Everything was good until the usb enclosure, not the drive, just the plain, generic enclosure that I had for an external 1tb 2.5" drive had given up. USB port has a torn trace. I could probably repair it, but it would be tedious and time consuming.
I took the drive out, threw it into another enclosure, the shield powers it up, but pretends it's not there, then after about 5 minutes at the home screen, with none of my adopted apps showing, it turns the drive off or puts it into sleep mode.
There were both completely generic enclosures, definitely no encryption chips or any other muckery that the OEMS like WD does.
Since I know the drive is perfectly intact, and AFAIK the uuid couldn't have possilby changed, is there any way to replace whatever it is, flag, config file, whatever that makes the shield think that only the other enclosure will work?
Also, the odds of finding another "exact" same of the original generic enclosure is less than finding Ezios in haystacks.
Edit: if it matters, this is the latest version of the system from nvidia, then rooted.
TIA
So, long history "short", I was a happy owner of a 2015 pro satv with a 500GB samsung evo ssd inside of it, not rooted, no full android, just koodi made me a happy camper altho the ssd read/write speeds in the satv did always left an undesired flavor to me.
Then last december while I was doing a professional course, my laptop ssd decided to die in the middle of the exams, so, as I was not using the satv that much and I did not have anything stored in it that I didnt want to lose (I have all my media on a nas), I just opened it up and took the ssd, formatted it in my desktop computer and put it on my laptop because I just needed it for the course as the laptop had no other hdd.
I did not think I would have a problem by doing so because I had the backups of the firstpart.bin and lastpart.bin from back when I decided to swap the original sshdd for the ssd.
A few days ago I end up the course and decide to get my satv back up and running again, but this time I will not throw my money by putting a ssd into it again, so I buy a sshdd and follow the steps to restore my backups into it (hex editing and so on)... no video. Ok, I will leave it powered 20 minutes then restart, but again no video. Try fastboot by using the OTG cable to the PC. Can not enter fastboot no matter how many times I try (it actually power offs REAL QUICK) and all I get in the computer is "apx device" (google search is all I needed to start to get frightened by this point).
So I take the hdd out again and see If I did everything correctly (I used windows dd), everything looks good in the hex part, but this time I will try writing it from linux. I use ubuntu this time to write it and the tool from the forum member to generate lastpart.bin (I even compare afterwards to my lastpart.bin and both are identical, so it was not the problem). but.... no video again and no fastboot... only apx.
To this point, and being sure my lastpart.bin its not the problem, I have tried with my firstpart.bin (3.29GB), the one from the torrent in this site (3,29GB), the other one (7,39GB), and even with all of them with the SATV_rescue files that hallydamaster uploaded here applied over them.
Same result with everyone, no video, can not enter fastboot, no adb device, no device in device manager except for apx...
The final culprit of all of this load of shet was that I broke the sata cord/flex by trying to force it deeper into the plug. I learnt that mistake of not letting too many work hours make a problem become a new one, but I guess I became too frustrated with it and finally made it worse. So now I think the sata flex was in bad condition and the initial problem for the console to not show image and not boot into fastboot. I might buy a compatible flex sata cable to try and rescue it from the deads, anyone had any experience with these? I have seem people with 16GB version have successfully soldered these compatible sata flex cables to their motherboards (no need to solder here as to I have the pro version) so I guess its totally compatible) so there should be no trouble I think.
any help would be appreciated
I'm in the same boat
Excuse me guys ...did you find to buy the sata cable?
Thanks in advance