When Nvidia introduced the rollout of the Defend Expertise 9.0 (Android 11) replace for its Android TV units, we have been impressed by the easy undeniable fact that it might embrace Defend TV fashions relationship again to 2015 — however the buzz was short-lived as many homeowners are reporting main bugs on even the most recent fashions.
As 9to5Google stories, people who ran the replace on their Defend TVs misplaced entry to their Plex media servers — a well-liked use case for the units because of their highly effective processor and a USB port that helps storage units.
Properly upgraded my protect to 9.0 want I hadn’t now not very comfortable!!! pic.twitter.com/WejE0v1ebk
— Justin Greatrix (@Hotwire147) January 14, 2022
Nvidia is taking motion on the matter: it posted a assist web page explaining find out how to give apps (like Plex) permission to make use of storage units in Android 11, and a minimum of one Reddit consumer wrote that it fastened their Plex server. The corporate additionally posted on its assist discussion board a proof for customers shocked that Nvidia let slip a damaged launch — inserting among the blame on Plex. Nvidia shared that Plex was concerned within the improvement of Defend Expertise 9.0 and all was okay till Plex pushed a brand new replace on Jan 4th that made an API change and broke it.
There are a number of questions on how SHIELD Expertise could possibly be launched with Plex Media server not working accurately. The foundation of the problem with Plex Media Server on launch day of 9.0 is said to the adjustments in Android 11 for Storage. We labored carefully with Plex throughout SHIELD Expertise 9.0 improvement to verify PMS was working and through all of our inside and exterior beta testing it was working. Plex wasn’t 100% prepared for Android 11’s adjustments however we had it working. Sadly although on January 4th a brand new model of PMS was launched which modified the reported API degree and that broke PMS on SHIELD Expertise 9. All of our testing had been full and the change went unnoticed till launch day.
We’re working carefully with Plex now to get a brand new PMS that has full Android 11 storage assist and cleans up this expertise. Within the meantime, one can usually nonetheless get PMS working by utilizing a mix of the HotFix picture and the 1.24 model of PMS and enabling the entire storage privleges per the primary merchandise within the Recognized points record.
Right this moment 9to5Google obtained a press release from Nvidia saying it’s working immediately with Google on this matter, with a spokesperson stating that they’ve discovered that the drive permission difficulty affected by Plex is because of Android 11 the software program treating “Permit solely whereas utilizing the app” permissions as if they’re set to “Don’t Permit”. The repair is to manually change the permissions to “All the time Permit” or “Permit” based mostly on what is obtainable to the app.
The corporate additionally opened a assist discussion board to gather bug stories on its Android 11 merchandise immediately from customers and developed a listing of about 27 recognized and reported bugs.
One other common use case for the Defend TV is operating Kodi for dwell TV and different media — however there are stories it additionally reveals efficiency points, stuttering, and outputting clean screens. Even common streaming apps like YouTube and Hulu have exhibited all the things from delayed loading to clean screens, in response to posts on the Defend subreddit.
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— IncredibleJohn (@IncredibleJohnY) January 12, 2022
Nvidia’s HotFix program is obtainable for testing bug fixes as they arrive out, however keep in mind that these are untested releases that break some DRM-d companies like Disney Plus and don’t embrace an choice to roll again.
Replace January nineteenth, 6:43PM ET: Up to date with new particulars about Nvidia working immediately with Google and Plex on the problems.
