NVidia Shield is arriving today. Tips, tricks, suggestions?

by raadhey

I am currently a Nexus Player owner and have used it for about 3 years now. The device has been showing its age. Crashing apps, stuttering while streaming HD content over the local network and some streams as well. Extremely unreliable remote as well.

I finally pulled the trigger on Prime Day, but bought the ebay - Newegg offer with the controller instead. My device is expected to be delivered today and I am super stoked. I apologize for a pointless post, but I'm just excited to get back home from work and play with my new toy :D

Any tips, tricks or suggestions for a new user? I have a local NAS setup with a raspberry-pi that runs a samba server and Plex server. I plan to continue letting those stay as is. I am really hoping I will not have any more stuttering BR-rip videos off my network and hopefully also get to play some good games. (Not really a hardcore gamer though)

antonyourkeyboard

Since you already have another Android TV device then it won't be anything completely new it will just be so much snappier than you are used to. Not sure if Prime video got released on the Play Store yet but that's a good thing to take advantage of on the Shield, ui sucks though since Amazon refuses to listen to feedback.

NorthStar_7

Sit back and enjoy the buttery smooth experience and get ready to post "why didn't I buy one long ago?"

pjgowtham

Gift it to me.

mjr2015

You can set up a file share directly on the shield.

This helps for sideloading apps. I believe it's just settings - storage - mount

You can also mount your Nas here so when you install kodi it's easily accessible

Absinth92

If anyone is setting up their NVIDIA Shield as a Plex Media Server right now, be sure to go into the app settings on the device and roll back any updates. People are having issues where the update prevents the library from scanning video files. If possible, disable automatic updates.

Andrroid

Make sure to update your flair.