What is the Shield TV's Micro USB used for? Loading content straight onto the device like a hard drive/flash drive?
Even the manual doesn't say: http://support-shield.nvidia.com/android-tv-user-guide/index.htm#t=Know_Your_SHIELD.htm
What is the Shield TV's Micro USB used for? Loading content straight onto the device like a hard drive/flash drive?
Even the manual doesn't say: http://support-shield.nvidia.com/android-tv-user-guide/index.htm#t=Know_Your_SHIELD.htm
It's really useful for devs/users to debug apps via ADB or flash new firmware with fastboot. Just look at the Forge TV which actually requires a USB A-to-A cable to do that (and no USB devices can be plugged in because there's just one port)...
Well its still an Android device. You can interact with it over USB just like you can an Android phone. Move files to or from the device, do stuff over ADB, flash firmware updates or things like that.
I was hoping ADB was enabled on that port. Thanks for confirmation.
Anything really, you can connect it to a computer to do adb commands/send files, you can use a micro usb storage device, you can connect a hard drive, and a lot of others I can't think of right now.