Freezing HBO Go App

by almosttan

Hi,

I have a shieldTV and my WAF is going down daily when she encounters issues with the HBO Go App. If it is left idle paused, or exited and later re-entered...it will just hang when you try to resume playback or fast forward. Because the app doesn't exhibit this behavior she is convinced she'd rather ditch to an Apple TV. Ugh.

Curious if this happens to other people. On my Nexus 6p the app was utter shit too, so I'm convinced HBO has bad coders.

Also, is there a way to force stop an app without having to reboot the whole damn shield?

Mard0g

I have this issue too. Having to reboot delays Westworld.

fudsak

I have the same issue with HBO Now on other platforms (namely, Samsung Smart TV). I honestly think it's a failure of their dev team to handle the normal loss of internet connectivity and then functioning properly when it's restored. At least on Android TV, you can force close the app through the app manager. It's been so bad on my Samsung TV once that I actually had to hard reset (unplug) the TV to fix it.