I just bought a new tv, plugged in the mi box, and now audio cuts out in between sentences when characters talk.

It like cuts out the ambient noise. It’s very very annoying. It only happens on the Mi Box. This never happens when watching through antenna tv, or my asus chromebit.

Could this be a faulty hdmi cable? Or is it the newest update to the Mi Box?

I have an old XBox one that is out of warranty and the HDD failed. Before I attempt to reformat the drive and resurrect this Xbox I'm wondering if there is anyway to convert it into something similar to the Nvidia Shield.

Hey guys,

New here to the android tv box world. So I am trying to get a sideloaded app show on my main home screen of my launcher. I dont want to use apps like sideload launcher because I would love to just have the app icon show up on its own. I have already tried TV app repo and even this application doesnt find/recognize the app I am trying to make my shortcut for. I dont know how to use the online apk makers, so if anybody has a solution or instructions on how to use the online tool please let me know!

Thanks!!

Does anyone else view Twitch on their Android TV device? I'm using a shield and I'm having a consistent issue with it not starting streams from where I stopped watching it last, weirdly if I watch the stream on my shield and then switch to my Windows laptop it does work.

Hey. I'm new to the subreddit. I wondered if anyone knew if Sony intends to continue to update their old Andriod TVs or whether I'd need to hack it to get the latest update on it.

Anyone else with one of these Sony TVs find they are quite slow?

I bought my Sony XBR-49X830C Android TV in May 2016. It was working fine till last Sunday and it started restarting every 5-10mins. I thought it may be due to a software update or due to the streaming app. I tried to check solutions for it and tried to factory reset but it didn't worked because the TV was never going into Initial Setup mode after reset restart. I've contacted Sony support and they connected to my TV using remote support feature and it restarted multiple times while they were checking the issue. The gave me a Case number and told me to call the Sony support on Monday.

Monday morning I tried to call the support but surprisingly the TV is not even switching On now. I checked the outlet power and moved TV to different outlet, tried to switch it on using TV power button on the back but nothing works.

I contacted Sony again and explained them but they are saying since the TV only had 1 year warranty, I need to get it fixed from outside repair service as there is no Sony service center near to my city and the nearest was about 100 miles away.

I'm so confused about what will happen to a TV suddenly. Never ever in my life I have seen a TV gone bad suddenly without any issue.

Please help me how can I get it fixed?

My TV had Android TV so I downloaded Netflix from the Google Play Store. Everything else worked. The only thing with a problem when I tried to watch Netflix was it had an error saying "This account can not be used on this device" I searched the error code and it did not help.

Please help me. Everything else works even YouTube.

Also error code is tvq-pb-103 (1.10.5003)

While Netflix Help is reporting error 'Your account is on hold because of a problem with your last payment.' instead

My dad's Mi Box works perfectly for a Mi Box

I am considering buying an Nvidia Shield TV, but my question applies to Android TV in general: is it possible to install ordinary, i.e. non-Android-TV optimised apps through the google play store?

Let's say I want to install a VPN client; will google play show me the client only if there is a TV-optimised version? Will it let me download the app anyway, maybe telling me it's not optimised? Or do I have to download the apk and install it manually (which means no automatic updates)?

Thanks!

Is there any way to connect 2 Bluetooth headphones to MiBox S at same time?

I downloaded an android mobile app on Android tv and whenever I open it, it says you need to reinstall google play services for this app to work. I uninstalled updates and reinstalled the services but the issue is still there! Can anyone help please? I really need this app to work properly.

Hi, Does it work for you guys? I think it worked for me at the past... I'm playing around with the Google home application, and I'm able to turn on, off and volume control on my Android TV (Nvidia shield TV).

Weird thing is that the Google Assistant on my phone is saying "ok, playing on shield" but nothing happens

Sorry for what has probably been obvious to most of you for some time but I had to share.

Recently got a pair of noise cancelling Bluetooth headphones for Christmas. I have issues with noisy/stomping neighbors so these things actually cancel out sound extremely well and I can finally get some peace. It ruins my movie watching experience to the point I don't enjoy watching blockbusters and having the atmosphere ruined.

Anyways, I had a thought and paired my Bluetooth headphones to the mibox and Bam, amazing sound and no background noise to watch movies/tv. Also can use it if the wife is working and doesn't want noise. I know you can buy adapters for TV's but not everyone has these and can be clunky to set up. Amazes me now that most new TV's don't have Bluetooth built in for this reason.

Wanted to share. Hope this helps others. As far as performance, sound quality was good, didn't cut out and no lipsync issues

hdmi cec and related sections are enabled within android, but when i turn off mi box, my pc warns like 'no signal shutting down in 3 minutes' . i check all the settings in the tv, but could not find anywhere to disable (i disable any power saving things i found)

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are they any option within mibox/android ecosystem to prevent this?

I have an old philips tv model 37pfl4606. Some latest models have oreo firmware updates available. Anyone know if there are also unofficial firmwares for older models? This TV unfortunately support no NTFS only FAT32. I searched around but find no firmware for my model.

Apple is going to put iTunes on Samsung's TVs soon. I have a bunch of movies that don't transfer over with movies anywhere to my library that I can't really see now. Would be cool is they do it.

Hi,

I cannot make any remote app working with my android tv

any idea?

I was watching mkv movies, usually H264 via USB drive on my old Philips 37PFL4606 model without a problem. Because it doesn't have support for H265 I decided to buy Mecool M8S PRO W 2GB RAM 16GB ROM android tv box. I was dissapointed because no matter what I do, it gives me delays every few minutes.

The main difference is that whenever I watch the same movie over TV box or directly via TV I notice difference in picture and sound quality.

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Picture is always sharp, while on tv box, it is smooth rather than sharp.

Sound is perfect. Bass, deepness of all sounds and everything. TV box has more high tones and almost no bass, but overall volume is anoying, since it is very loud but no actual deepness and strongness.

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I can compare movies over TV BOX same as "used" while TV has "new". Well I would be happy to know if this is everywhere? For example I converted some youtube mp4 movies and put the on USB flash drive. When I tested them on TV, everything is perfect, over TV box 20% worse. Same issues as mentioned.

Do you notice the same difference with your TV Box? Is that normal? I've trind bunch of setting optimisation with no success.

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I have two Sony Bravias. Old very old, and a newish one with ATV. The newish one supports ARC and works beautifully with my soundbar. But I moved my soundbar to my old TV without ARC, and hooked it up with optical. Now the sound is delayed significantly from the picture. I googled this and found it is a common problem, with no solution.

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So I am looking for some kind of HDMI splitter that supports ARC in the same way my Bravia does. Something like 1 source input and 2 outputs, the ARC and the video. Does such a device exist? And has anybody had any luck with one?