[ROM][Full Android Marshmallow for Shield TV][v.1.5]

[zulu99]

I have installed Full Android Marshmallow for Shield TV v1.4 and have also rooted. I am unable to find a version of Google Play Store that works. I have tried 6.4.13 and a few versions prior. I have also tried the latest version but have had no success with either. Can somebody shed a little light on a fix please? I am able to push apks via adb and install through Solid Explorer.

edit... 6.4.13 worked for about 10 minutes after i first flashed and i was able to install a few apps but failed afterwards.

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[mriver71]

Hi sullu 99 I'm new What you mean when you say- The sideload not solve your problems on Android TV, the sideloaded app have bad resolution on Android TV and the lack of many components inside Android TV create problems on standard android apps. This is a problem that occurs in the original rom?

[sfg]

I have installed Full Android Marshmallow for Shield TV v1.4 and have also rooted. I am unable to find a version of Google Play Store that works. I have tried 6.4.13 and a few versions prior. I have also tried the latest version but have had no success with either. Can somebody shed a little light on a fix please? I am able to push apks via adb and install through Solid Explorer.

edit... 6.4.13 worked for about 10 minutes after i first flashed and i was able to install a few apps but failed afterwards.

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Maybe I'm not understanding exactly what you instructed.

Google Play Store Bad TV version:
Not very often can happen that the Google Play Store for TV have a version number greater than the Normal Google Play Store app. In this condition you can have a bad auromatic update of Google Play Store. To solve, edit the build.prop and change each occurrence of the word foster_e in full_foster_e, uninstall the last Google Play automatic update, restart. You can download the last version of Google Play from apkmirror.com and when the normal version have version number greater than tv version you don't have problems, the app update automatically to the last version. My suggestion is to restore the original build.prop when you can.

i changed all instances of "foster_e" to "full_foster_e", uninstalled google play store, rebooted, installed latest version of google play store but i still get the message "unfortunately, google play store has stopped" when i try and open it. What am i doing wrong?

[zulu99]

I have installed Full Android Marshmallow for Shield TV v1.4 and have also rooted. I am unable to find a version of Google Play Store that works. I have tried 6.4.13 and a few versions prior. I have also tried the latest version but have had no success with either. Can somebody shed a little light on a fix please? I am able to push apks via adb and install through Solid Explorer.

edit... 6.4.13 worked for about 10 minutes after i first flashed and i was able to install a few apps but failed afterwards.

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Maybe I'm not understanding exactly what you instructed.

Google Play Store Bad TV version:
Not very often can happen that the Google Play Store for TV have a version number greater than the Normal Google Play Store app. In this condition you can have a bad auromatic update of Google Play Store. To solve, edit the build.prop and change each occurrence of the word foster_e in full_foster_e, uninstall the last Google Play automatic update, restart. You can download the last version of Google Play from apkmirror.com and when the normal version have version number greater than tv version you don't have problems, the app update automatically to the last version. My suggestion is to restore the original build.prop when you can.

i changed all instances of "foster_e" to "full_foster_e", uninstalled google play store, rebooted, installed latest version of google play store but i still get the message "unfortunately, google play store has stopped" when i try and open it. What am i doing wrong?

Maybe the previous attempts.

Clear your data with a factory reset from Android Settings or with fastboot -w

In extreme case reinstall the firmware and don't forget fastboot -w

[jinx89502]

How can I make it so apps don't close when going to home screen? Like on my MINIX box if I go home and and click on app it resumes not reopens

[zulu99]

Returned from vacation.

I installed the last google play store app 6.9.15.G-all from apkmirror.com

all ok as always.

Now i fix a bug in DroidMote about Google Keyboard and after we can start again also with the forum.

[Otisrhw]

If coming from 1.2 can I just flashed the system image to go to 1.4?

[zulu99]

If coming from 1.2 can I just flashed the system image to go to 1.4?

NO, you need new kernel / boot.img and bootloader of the last stock firmware.

Therefore, install the last stock firmware and after follow the procedure in first post.

[boyjmn1]

so, i am back and alive with 3.2 stock fw on SATV. My goal now is install Full Android on external USB 3.0 HDD. I did steps as guide says:
The step by step procedure from Windows

1) Format an USB HD or USB 3 Flash Drive Ext4 with MiniTool Partition Wizard: https://www.partitionwizard.com/
2) Mount the USB drive with Paragon extFS: https://www.paragon-software.com/home/extfs-windows/
3) Download stock recovery firmware from Nvidia: https://developer.nvidia.com/shield-open-source or Full Android: viewtopic.php?f=25&t=1580#p3030
4) Extract system.img and vendor.img from stock recovery firmware or from full Android archive
5) Convert system.img and vendor.img to ext4 using simg2img.exe tool: https://github.com/KinglyWayne/simg2img_win
6) Download su.img from here: https://goo.gl/Jo8mus
7) Copy system.img, vendor.img and su.img to mounted usb drive
8) Attach USB drive to Nvidia Shield TV



(9) Download the boot / recovery image satv_boot_from_usb_1.1.img from here: https://goo.gl/vGosks
10) Reboot Shield TV to Fastboot mode
11) Flash the satv_boot_from_usb_1.1.img as recovery with the command: fastboot flash recovery satv_boot_from_usb_1.1.img
12) Switch from PC screen to Shield TV screen and with the Shield TV power button long press on Boot Recovery Kernel
13) Shield TV will stuck on Nvidia Logo
14) After short time, if you don't see the Android boot logo, remove the power cable
15) Reboot Shield TV to Fastboot mode
16) Flash the satv_boot_from_usb_1.1.img as recovery with the command: fastboot flash recovery satv_boot_from_usb_1.1.img
17) Switch from PC screen to Shield TV screen and with the Shield TV power button long press on Boot Recovery Kernel
18) Now the Shield TV will boot well from USB and the disk will be initialized in the right way

From now on, every time you reboot in recovery mode from the main OS you will go to the second OS that is installed on the USB drive)






I am already at step 8 and i think next steps are not needed for me as i want to use the option choose boot from Flashify. But as long as i am new and lame with Android, i need sometimes rly detailed instructions of what to do. So, if i am correct, i have to install Flashify first on SATV (as i dont have full android on ext USBHDD yet).Done, But it says i dont have root acces. OK, so i have to root SATV, right ? After that, there is need to put the boot system image somewhere into backup folder created by Flashify. This means those 2 files i created by simg2img ? Copy them into backup folder of Flashify app ? Or am i wrong ? if so, please tell me what do i have to copy there. And after success, and boot into full android from extHDD i will install Flashify there also, and what to copy there ? Just try to explain all needed operations with all needed downloads for i can make it works, please.

[zulu99]

so, i am back and alive with 3.2 stock fw on SATV. My goal now is install Full Android on external USB 3.0 HDD. I did steps as guide says:
The step by step procedure from Windows

1) Format an USB HD or USB 3 Flash Drive Ext4 with MiniTool Partition Wizard: https://www.partitionwizard.com/
2) Mount the USB drive with Paragon extFS: https://www.paragon-software.com/home/extfs-windows/
3) Download stock recovery firmware from Nvidia: https://developer.nvidia.com/shield-open-source or Full Android: viewtopic.php?f=25&t=1580#p3030
4) Extract system.img and vendor.img from stock recovery firmware or from full Android archive
5) Convert system.img and vendor.img to ext4 using simg2img.exe tool: https://github.com/KinglyWayne/simg2img_win
6) Download su.img from here: https://goo.gl/Jo8mus
7) Copy system.img, vendor.img and su.img to mounted usb drive
8) Attach USB drive to Nvidia Shield TV



(9) Download the boot / recovery image satv_boot_from_usb_1.1.img from here: https://goo.gl/vGosks
10) Reboot Shield TV to Fastboot mode
11) Flash the satv_boot_from_usb_1.1.img as recovery with the command: fastboot flash recovery satv_boot_from_usb_1.1.img
12) Switch from PC screen to Shield TV screen and with the Shield TV power button long press on Boot Recovery Kernel
13) Shield TV will stuck on Nvidia Logo
14) After short time, if you don't see the Android boot logo, remove the power cable
15) Reboot Shield TV to Fastboot mode
16) Flash the satv_boot_from_usb_1.1.img as recovery with the command: fastboot flash recovery satv_boot_from_usb_1.1.img
17) Switch from PC screen to Shield TV screen and with the Shield TV power button long press on Boot Recovery Kernel
18) Now the Shield TV will boot well from USB and the disk will be initialized in the right way

From now on, every time you reboot in recovery mode from the main OS you will go to the second OS that is installed on the USB drive)






I am already at step 8 and i think next steps are not needed for me as i want to use the option choose boot from Flashify. But as long as i am new and lame with Android, i need sometimes rly detailed instructions of what to do. So, if i am correct, i have to install Flashify first on SATV (as i dont have full android on ext USBHDD yet).Done, But it says i dont have root acces. OK, so i have to root SATV, right ? After that, there is need to put the boot system image somewhere into backup folder created by Flashify. This means those 2 files i created by simg2img ? Copy them into backup folder of Flashify app ? Or am i wrong ? if so, please tell me what do i have to copy there. And after success, and boot into full android from extHDD i will install Flashify there also, and what to copy there ? Just try to explain all needed operations with all needed downloads for i can make it works, please.

Before you MUST follow all the steps to inizialize the usb disk.

After you can do what you want.

The only problematic thing in this very simple procedure, is inizialize the disk the first time, after the usb disk boot always well.

For this reason i wrote the precise steps to inizialize the disk.

Therefore follow the 9 to 18 steps to inizialixe the usb disk and after you can also restore the original recovery image and use only Flashify to change boot image on fly when you want.