Rant -Nvidia Shield Home screen vandalised

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gbwelly

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#291874 10-Dec-2021 19:25

FYI to others. I appear to have received an update to my Nvidia Shield (2017) today to version 8.2 of Android TV. This has resulted in 85% of my home screen being turned into adverts for Disney+ (app not even installed) and a big turd button demanding that I customise channels.

It appears that this has been coming for a while, I have been blissfully ignorant of it until today:

https://www.reddit.com/r/ShieldAndroidTV/comments/nn8s8p/disambiguation_on_the_different_android_tv_uis/

So this is a just a bit of a rant really, going to have to re-evaluate things. I feel this is egregious and something that I am happy to expend a lot of effort to rid myself off, might have to replace the launcher. I am outraged.

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#2830097 10-Dec-2021 19:53

I don't really care about the home screen since I spend most of my time in the actual apps. doesn't bother me that it's aligned with google tv now.

gbwelly

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#2830105 10-Dec-2021 20:11

gehenna:

I don't really care about the home screen since I spend most of my time in the actual apps. doesn't bother me that it's aligned with google tv now.

Thank you fellow human, I too now do not really care about adverts for Cruella appearing when I turn on my television to consume TV like a totally normal human being. It makes me happy to know I now am fully aligned with Google TV now.

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#2830160 10-Dec-2021 20:50

After repeated instances of updates ruining my user experience and forcing me to spend long and frustrating hours trying to get things working the way they were before the update, I long ago decided to treat them with extreme caution. I keep auto-updates turned off on all software that matters to me and I tend to only allow an occasional update when I am fairly certain it won't do something I don't like, and there is a good reason for it. Most updates seem completely unnecessary and do more harm than good. In the case of the 2017 Shield, I spent a lot of time and effort getting it the way I wanted, which wasn't easy, when I first bought it. The first update scrambled most of that and caused me no end of trouble. Since then, several years now, I have kept updates turned off and I have heard some sorry stories from those who didn't. I know I am swimming against the tide here, but if something ain't broke and works exactly the way I want it to, why should I change it? In any case, I rarely see the home screen. I have it set to autostart Kodi and I use that to navigate to other apps. This works well for my needs.

Edit: I said 2017 Shield but I think it was actually earlier, maybe 2015. I can't look at it right now as I am elsewhere.

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#2830195 10-Dec-2021 22:20

gbwelly:

Thank you fellow human, I too now do not really care about adverts for Cruella appearing when I turn on my television to consume TV like a totally normal human being. It makes me happy to know I now am fully aligned with Google TV now.

Sounds like you've been spoiled. Have you forgotten what normal TV is? It's 22 hours of advertisements with 2 hours of programming sprinkled in between. I'm not facing that problem on my Shield, so I can deal with Cruella coming and going from the background of my home screen.