Rooting Generic Android TV

by ShitCoder

Hey all,

So I have a generic Android TV OS (it's branded JVC but really someone bought the brand and tossed a basic OS on the TV) it's served me well over the last few months but I'm looking to root it to get rid of ads device wide as well as use it as a development target over Wi-Fi.

I know your first question will be do I really need root, and why not go for a network wide blocking solution? I want to develop on it over wifi without connecting a USB into it first and secondly as a personal preference I rather on device ad blocking as it's more flexible and customisable than an indiscriminant network blocker.

With that out of the way, my question is if anyone has been able to root their generic Android TV? I know that one click root solutions exist but they are mostly malware and can't be trusted.

XDA forums has nothing really to offer either relating to this.

Thanks.

thefanum

If there's nothing on XDA, you're probably out of luck

bennyhillthebest

You know that before rooting you need to be able to unlock that thing right?

As of right now your best bet is something like AdGuard (or Blokada), plus you enable developer settings and adb through wifi.

Unfortunately if you want to do these kind of things you are supposed to check for the existence of the tools before buying the device.

BraianV12

The only android tv I know It can be rooted is the nexus player. On xda there are tips to do that (and do whatever you want from root like installing custom roms, using twrp to flash or backup, etc).