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2017-09-03, 15:05
(This post was last modified: 2017-09-03, 15:09 by HolgerKuehn.)
I've been using Kodi 17 singe early beta on my Shield, watching at least 1 or 2 hours a day. Shield never rebooted here.
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Thanks, I don't have any 4K video that I play via Kodi but I am interested in watching 4K video via Netflix.
Would you suggest I set the Shield to 4K but Kodi to 1080p?
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Yes if you want to try and fix your overheating and random reboot problems.
Netflix does not have much 4K Ultra HD content anyway.
Switch your Android Screen Resolution settings manually to 4K when you only watch 4K video content, leave it at 1080p60hz for the majority of the time.
Its why if Android Firmware and App developers ever properly implemented Auto Resolution App switching users would have none of these problems.
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2017-09-05, 12:16
(This post was last modified: 2017-09-05, 12:18 by Nickelig.)
I also believe that the shutdown problem with my shield&kodi is gpu related. Since making my last post, I have switched resolution from 4k to 1080p (I have no 4k content anyway) and also I have turned off hardware acceleration and use software decoding now.
The shields cpu is fast enough for software decoding (even 1080p hevc), so all of my content is covered. I have had not a single shutdown since. I will continue to monitor the situation but my gut feeling is that either the gpu is faulty or it is overheating. The cpu seems to do the job just fine, cpu load is between 10% and 40% depending on the content.
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While heat will definitely cause the issue, unless you have the Shield setting on top of a heat source I highly doubt that's the cause, at least not under normal circumstances. There are many things that could be the cause, including having a bad unit, bad power source, another app, etc.
Easiest thing to do is to first try a factory reset. If it's still doing after that, then dump a logcat and see if anything gets reported when the Shield shutdown.
Also, are these "shutdowns" or reboots? A shutdown would be the Shield completely turns off and doesn't turn back on.
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2017-09-16, 22:09
(This post was last modified: 2017-09-17, 21:52 by maxtherabbit.)
I've been testing a recent Leia nightly build on my Shield for a couple of days and it seems to work surprisingly well. It's definitely better than Krypton was during the first few Beta builds. Live tv deinterlacing works now when channel surfing with Tvheadend and the Leanback launcher recommendations is a really cool feature.
Keep up the good work, Team Kodi!
Edit:
It looks like I was celebrating too early about the playback quality. Initially deinterlacing works, but after about 10 minutes playback the framerate gets halved and playback becomes less smooth. This happens with both live tv and recordings. A channel switch or rewind/ffd/time skip makes the video smooth again for a while.
Kodi @ NVidia Shield Android TV, Asrock J3455-ITX (LibreELEC Server), Windows 10, and Nexus 7 (2013)
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How do I turn the Shield off from inside Kodi?
At the moment I'm turning it off by closing Kodi, then going to the shield settings and clicking sleep. Its about 15 clicks sometimes!! very frustrating.
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You can't and it shouldn't take 15 clicks. Just press the Home button and then long press the back button.
Or if you haven't turned the sleep timer off just let it stay idle and it will go to sleep by itself.