Here's How to De-Tivo Your Stream + Speed It Up

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I do the speed up animations change on every Android device, it's a good one for sure

 

If you want remove some of the other preinstalled apps then here's a list. These are the ones I don't use right now so I removed them for now.

pm uninstall -k --user 0 com.google.android.youtube.tv
pm uninstall -k --user 0 com.sling
pm uninstall -k --user 0 com.amazon.amazonvideo.livingroom
pm uninstall -k --user 0 com.netflix.ninja
pm uninstall -k --user 0 com.google.android.tv
pm uninstall -k --user 0 com.google.android.music
pm uninstall -k --user 0 com.google.android.videos
pm uninstall -k --user 0 com.google.android.play.games

 

Theres still stuff that Tivo tinkered with thats not removed with these commands, like enabling third pty apps to fully use the mpeg 2 decoder and excellent deinterlacing this hardware is capable of doing..This this is Do Do compared to the AirTV 4k Mini

 

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Yes, they took great hardware and crapped it up. I hope the upcoming Googles Android TV stick does not do all this carp. The thrill is gone with this stick.

 

Excellent work ptcfast2!

 

Amazon Prime doesn't support 1 button skip in either direction for both browser and Android versions. In fact doesn't support skip at all, let alone 1 button. If there is a platform that does I'd like to know!

 

OK thanks. Just checked on my Android phone Amazon Prime app and it has skip back and forwards 10 seconds. And I was wrong about web version as it also has the same. So must be an Android TV limitation.

 

Just checked. The Button Mapper media doesn't even have skip back/forwards, just ff/rew. And ff/rew media actions do nothing during Amazon Prime playback.

 

You guys are awesome!

 

If I jack up my stick during any of this stuff, is there a way to wipe and restore it to factory default, just like it was when fresh out of the box?


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No chance of bricking? I guess that means it’s not rooted, so the file system can’t get screwed up where it shouldn’t get. User level permissions only it sounds like. That’s good.


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And...followed. Very interested in tinkering with this thing (not as a dev, I don't have that kind of experience) and excited to see what you come up with.

In the meantime, have you figured out where firmware updates come from, so we can block the domain to prevent any updates from locking us out?

And agreed about this thing being left in the dust in terms of support. I can see TiVo packing it up before they really even try, simply because the bugs are too many to be worth the work of fixing them.

It's so close to being the best bang-for-your-buck device right now.

 

How do you delete different apps from Tivo 4k stream? I want to delete specifically Pluto TV..

 

Android tv home > settings gear upper right > apps > see all apps > choose app > Uninstall

 

Fire TV of course !

THe Prime app in ANdriod TV is old and decrepit.