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Great hardware hindered by terrible software. The Nvidia shield is by far the best stream box I've used, yet it's plagued by an app that half-works. Disconnecting from the shield after MAYBE 5 minutes of inactivity, causing you to restart the app and wait for it to reconnect. It has lackluster Google home support, which also sometimes just doesn't work and you end up having to reconnect to the service. Can't launch app on power on either.
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It works, at first. But I have to close it and reopen the app constantly if I do anything else on my phone other than use the app. Three stars may even be generous So I'm changing it to two since it really doesn't work correctly. I had given it three stars because you could tell it has potential always has, but it's always been glitchy with many Samsung phones. I'm just tired of backing out of the app just to reboot it to hit pause. Screw that, switched over to Google TV app which works better.
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Frances Liu
Horrible app. I wish I wasn't forced to use this app to control the shield. If I navigate away from the app, the app will need to be restarted every single time I want to control the TV. For example, if I open the app, turn on something, decide to Google something before I go back to the app, the app has stopped working and requires a restart. I also hate that the screen defaults to the tv apps screen and I need to press an extra button to get to the remote, the main thing I use.
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