So this has been a problem since a week or two before the android N update, so that isn't the cause. I had es file explorer pro sideloaded from my tablet to my shield tv, mainly because it comes with the send option, and they both were able to send from one to the other flawlessly. Then all of a sudden during a file transfer one day, the message "sender disconnected" instantly popped up, and I haven't been able to get it to work ever since.
I tried pretty much every combination of the older versions of the app on both the shield and my tablet, I tried other devices with the shield (my phone and tablet worked fine with each other, but neither can send to the shield), and I even tried the old, non-bloated android tv version that /u/sircod posted in here and still get sender disconnected every time I try to send a file from my tablet to my shield, while sending files in the opposite direction, from my shield to my tablet, works fine. Only the bloated android tv version is able to receive the file and that app sucks ass.
Has anyone else come across this problem, and does anybody know any fixes for it? I don't want to switch to another file manager either.
Thanks in advance for the help!
It sounds like the older / less bloaty version of ES was buggy. I don't think you're going to be able to make this work. I think you're going to have to reconsider using a different file explorer app, or use a different paradigm entirely for your use case. Would you be willing to explain your use case better to see if we could try to help you find a different/better solution?