Nexus Player to Shield user here: controller questions

by KiloD2

Hi all, I finally bought an Nvidia Shield TV to replace our Nexus Player... much more powerful, plus looking forward to checking out some of the gaming functionality! :)

Beside performance, the only real difference coming from the Nexus Player seems to be the remote. I love the sleek design of the Shield's basic remote! But I have a few questions...

  • Window swap/task manager? (to quick swap or close programs) - on the NP, long press the home button did this, but on Shield long pressing the home button wants to record and broadcast stuff, which I will likely never use. Is there a way to remap this on the Shield remote?
  • Turn on TV? - minor gripe, but I used to be able to hit the home button on my NP remote, and my tv would automatically turn on and auto tune-in to the correct source on my tv. I've tried this on the Shield remote but it doesn't seem to work. Sure, I can turn on the TV by other remotes, but I liked having the functionality rolled in with just the one remote.
  • Long press select to rearrange apps on home screen? - long pressing select here doesn't seem to do anything on the main screen. If not this way, is there another way to rearrange the apps?

Thanks all!

Edit: checking out the Shield's faq site , it states that "SHIELD supports HDMI-CEC" (TIL that's what it was called) but it doesn't say how. Anyone had success with this?

yourm0m1

Go into settings and then HDMI, inside there is the enable CEC functions. Sorry can't help on the long press, the task manager comes up when long pressing back but it functions poorly so I just go back home and navigate to where I need.

Andrroid

Recent apps will be coming with the 7.0 update, just like it did for the Nexus player.

Jeffro_2700

Long press for moving icons should work. Are you updated to marshmallow?