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[misleading headline?] Nvidia Shield is getting Auro 3D audio support, full-screen ads (www.flatpanelshd.com)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by otter@lemmy.ca to c/technology@lemmy.world

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EDIT:

So according to this thread, this is a Google related change and not Nvidia?

In which case, similar to the banner issue from a previous update, you can get a different launcher (see comments for FLauncher) to avoid it

https://www.reddit.com/r/ShieldAndroidTV/comments/181vh4t/ads_at_full_screen/

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[–] looping@jlai.lu 23 points 1 year ago (2 children)

🙄 https://gitlab.com/flauncher/flauncher

[–] robolemmy@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is what I’m using. It’s kinda ugly but totally ad-free and does what I want but not one bit more. I installed flauncher, connected to the shield with network adb, disabled the leanback launcher, then hit the home button on the remote. Easy peasy, and much better than remapping buttons IMO

[–] admin@lemmy.my-box.dev 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Same for me.

In the current version it was already advertising / recommending shows and movies too me I have no interest in. I just want my plex content and that's it. A custom launcher is great for that.

[–] starfennec@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Same here, one other improvement I would recommend is remapping the Netflix button to something less annoying/more useful in case you press it accidentally. If you have Hue lights, you could make it toggle your lights with this app for example.

[–] admin@lemmy.my-box.dev 1 points 1 year ago

Nice find!

I'll probably remap it to plex though, since my TVs ambilight already takes care of hue.

[–] Lemonparty@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Would I need to side load this on shield?

[–] looping@jlai.lu 1 points 1 year ago

You can follow the documentation on the git repo, where both methods are described.

https://gitlab.com/flauncher/flauncher#set-flauncher-as-default-launcher