Gen2 shield frustrating setup experience

by not_a_creative_alias

I bought a brand new gen 2 shield, and I keep running into roadblocks during setup.

First time - I tried setting it up using my phone. It said, something went wrong after my phone connected. OK sure, but the box froze and I have to unplug it and start again.

Second time - after manual setup, the setup wizard crashes when it asks me to turn on location services. Box frozen again. Cool. Time to restart again.

Third time - finally get to the Shield experience update download. 1.07 GB to download. After I see the progress bar get to 1.07 GB, it says "download failed" and has to restart again from scratch.

Are you fucking kidding me?

Did anyone else have these problems?

chimichangaXL

No problems here.

shieldtvfan

phone setup didn't work... heard same issues on all Android TV devices (Google issue)... otherwise went smoothly for me.