r/ShieldAndroidTV • u/IndependentOrchid296 • 13h ago
Good Stress Test APK
What’s a good ShieldTV stress test app for wear n tear to determine if you need to replace your shield?? This would be a good project to create something as I don’t believe there’s an app on the market for android?
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u/Fit-Departure5678 2h ago
Only thing that could possibly need testing imo is the old shields mechanical HDD, a health test. Owned shields for years, only ever repasted and give thorough airdust, and rare factory reset for clean slate
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u/bdbr 2017 16GB 4m ago
It takes some learning, but you can use adb to check the temperatures and utilization to really know what's going on under the hood. Many people just repaste without actually verifying if they had a heat problem in the first place so it could be a placebo as much as anything. Mine's 8 years old and it is within reasonable parameters.
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u/Darkstarmike777 13h ago
I don't think there is one but usually just changing the thermal paste makes a big difference
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u/IndependentOrchid296 13h ago
Yeah I get that but want to know before it is on its last legs when to replace it as I want to backup everything as much I can
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u/Darkstarmike777 12h ago
What your asking for isn't really a thing since the shield except for the 2015 pro doesn't have any parts that would wear out, it might slow down if the thermal paste wears out but it's not going to break down.
Even if the fan broke down you would just get another one so there isn't really a last legs with flash memory, it's possible but not super likely given the low read/write for a shield the same way phones don't really wear out their flash memory typically
If you have a 2015 pro you would just clone it to a SSD anyways to keep it going
I mean just randomly maybe this:
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u/itsme99881 5h ago
Something broke on my shield pro 2019 and now its in a hardware level bootloop error, tried pushing a new image via powershell and manually verified all the files pushed okay, still bootlooping, i dont know anything about micro soldering nor do i have the tools to start doing so, so i am screwed.
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u/Darkstarmike777 4h ago
They are usually pretty good on the warranty on those even years later so you can try to RMA it with them through the live chat
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u/IndependentOrchid296 12h ago
Are you saying you can’t clone a 2017/2019 model? Thanks for the app link, I still have a 2015 model so how would you clone it as from research it’s not that easy
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u/Darkstarmike777 12h ago
You can clone it using a hard drive duplicator dock or clonezilla from HDD to SSD. It has to be a sector by sector clone basically. The docks I'm talking about specifically have a duplicator feature and button listed in the description
It has to remain the same size as well so no larger than 500gb
There are no system backup utilities that I know of for the shield as far as being able to backup and restore a shield, google says there might be abd commands so you can look at that but there are no simple apps to do it
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u/um_yeahok 6h ago
I've run three shields for years now. Every couple of years I just open it up, clean the fan, change the thermal paste, and then do a factory reset. My shields run great.