Google TV hack!
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Chill out Debbie Downer. If you don't like it, sell it. Google didn't screw anyone. I agree that the current software situation isn't what we all dreamed of, but it's better than anything else on the market... and I promise it will get better soon. Good things come to those who wait.
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Its not just the software, its the hardware too. It cannot pass 3d, it cannot pass dolby digital properly, it cant do macros. Its been out for 6mos now, how long are we supposed to wait?
Please no flame wars, but...
You know I really have to agree. Not with the hardware thing (gimme a break...most people wish 3D would die, Dolby 7.1 surround works perfectly fine for me, and not all of us want macros) but, I know that the devs that are working on this have been breaking there backs to try and find a software exploit. The problem that I have is with Google. Google, I love you and everything that you do for us, BUT...How freaking hard is it to upload the D**M SDK?!? I really cannot fathom why they have not gotten this to developers yet.
You know I really have to agree. Not with the hardware thing (gimme a break...most people wish 3D would die, Dolby 7.1 surround works perfectly fine for me, and not all of us want macros) but, I know that the devs that are working on this have been breaking there backs to try and find a software exploit. The problem that I have is with Google. Google, I love you and everything that you do for us, BUT...How freaking hard is it to upload the D**M SDK?!? I really cannot fathom why they have not gotten this to developers yet.
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My Revue was delivered today. I think I'm skipping over rooting for now in hopes of a software based tool once the market is opened.
Tonight's Test: Tracking down and watching the first episode of Spartacus and trying to find and watch the Nuggets v Suns game. If I succeed, GoogleTV Wins!
Tonight's Test: Tracking down and watching the first episode of Spartacus and trying to find and watch the Nuggets v Suns game. If I succeed, GoogleTV Wins!
All aboard the FailBoat... I was able to view the game, but all in all, this device is extremely limited without root.
To be fair, I'm not disappointed in Google, as they are up against the networks and it's still a work in progress, however.... I purchased it through Dish Network. I was under the impression that I could use DishOnline, their OnDemand service, via this unit.. and guess what.. not supported... Awesome, right? I can watch all this content on my TV through the DVR, but Dish's OnDemand service via the DVR must be downloaded before it can be viewed .. it's not streamed.. therefor, you need to demand to watch something 40 minutes to an hour and a half (or more) before you want to watch, but you can watch it instantly on a browser .. except for the browser used with GoogleTV. Makes sense to me that Dish would not support this feature for Dish Subscribers on Dish equipment.
also.. The HBOGO app that comes stock?? not supported by Dish.
I'm giving this thing a chance .. I'll continue to play with it and see if I can muster the $180.00 plus $4.00 per month value out of it, but at this point it's looking bleak.
Moral of the story: ROOT it if you got it.
My Sony NSZ-GT1 player received yet another (1.3) OTA upgrade this morning. Nothing notable in the changelog, but good to know that Sony and Google aren't abandoning the platform altogether.
Is the update any good? When you search does it look in netflix now? I will have to check for update when I get home took revue off network last week
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3Google tv rooted!
We finally got root on the revue box and have released a package to manual update the box to the most recent revision, the current hack requires an un-updated box but we have already made a lot of progress on a unofficial sdk and toolchain.
Here are some videos of it all:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6wOqV0UzMo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wvw4K0az2hU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWaA6VRP0v0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ysG0SF2m5Q
Here is the README for the hack and a little bit about all the files and the process.
http://www.gtvhacker.com/index.php/Steps_to_get_root
Toolchain and SDK Info can be found at:
http://www.gtvhacker.com/index.php/GTv-OS_(AndroidTV)
You can also find a link for the install package above, I didn't want to post it on here in case it violates any xda rules.
We all idle on IRC at irc.freenode.net #gtvhacker . If you have any questions, comments, or ideas to better the package please stop by and chat.
Thanks
Zenofex
GTVHacker Team2NSZ-GS7 can now be rooted with custom recovery: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Qe6pPiJFV5k
Don't know about the release date though...1
Old thread all right. I still have my GT1 in a closet somewhere. I might try to root it eventually and if I do I'll upload that.1I'm starting to think the easiest way to make this platform open (apps, root, etc) is to make a bootable USB stick, and boot it using the bootloader, not even disturbing the on-board FLASH.Searching the web shows that this bootloader has been used on other Atom CExxxx platforms, anyone know of other platforms that use it, or have any experience with it?
Looking at the boot.img and recovery.img in the update.zip, they don't seem to follow the same pattern as the Android .img files. It would be great if someone can decipher them as they appear to be compressed (and not gzip as far as I can tell.) The boot.img is around 18MB, so we definitely need to figure out how to extract the contents. Extracting the recovery may shed some clues on what can be done with the recovery.
It will be great to get the Sony update.zip as well to compare with the Logitech.
