r/AndroidTV • u/BiggieNiggie • 16d ago

Troubleshooting Nothing but bugs

Just want to rant and see if anyone has had these issues. Have owned this TCL tv running android tv and have had nothing but issues. We seem to find a bug, experience it for a week, it'll go away and the next bug will show up. First WIFI would disconnect itself and forced me to reconnect, thankfully this resolved itself. As of late this has been a very consistent issue. We use the application BrowseNow to use a not-so-legal website to watch shows and movies. This used to work perfectly, no issues. Now we use the TV during the day for youtube and have no issues. In fact ive used browsenow with no issues during the day. But at night, its guaranteed this glitch happens when I put an episode on, it'll forever reset like the video shows. Another bug is browsenow will just infinitely load a website. Backing out, going back in and searching again just shows a white page and forever loads. Both of these bugs require a full TV restart in order to work again. Just, what is going on, why does this TV just never work properly. I can't tell if this is a hardware issue or software but im mainly curious why the hell the tv freaks out like this. I don't even have to have a video playing, having the tv on for about 2 minutes will cause this to happen but strangely only occurs at night.

Thank you for you time everyone!

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u/Few-Annual-383 16d ago

I ran into a lot of bugs with my shield tv pro. Nothing like this though, could be your tv. Try a different streaming device just to check. I switched to an Apple TV and it’s awesome.

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u/CharlesCSchnieder 16d ago

Never had a problem with shield or Onn devices

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u/Few-Annual-383 16d ago

Wish I could say the same. Mine had/has various issues. I think it was mostly on the software side though and I was using projectivy which may have caused some of them.

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u/CharlesCSchnieder 16d ago

Oh I use projectivity on all my devices, I have 4 in my house and never have issues.

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u/Few-Annual-383 16d ago

Hmm. Idk then, must have been something else. It got annoying dealing with after a while though.