Turn on your Android TV box. Press and hold the Power button on your remote. When the power menu appears, press and hold “Power off.” A prompt should appear asking to Reboot to Safe Mode. Select OK.

“Android TV” has essentially two meanings on the market today. There’s the official Android TV OS by Google, which powers TV sets, streaming dongles, and set-top boxes, and then there’s Android, but ...

In a moment, your TV’s name should appear in a list of nearby devices to which the phone can connect. Tap on your TV’s name and the phone should connect to it within a few seconds. You will want to ...

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Smart TVs are much more compelling than their not-so-smart counterparts. They can be used to browse the internet, play games, video call, and more, and this experience is enriched further by apps, ...

Google’s Android TV platform has been around for nearly seven years, but it’s only taken on traction in the past two or three. The reason? Primarily, hardware has been hard to find and, more ...

Speaker-maker Sonos is reportedly working on its first streaming TV box, codenamed Pinewood Pinewood would run Android TV and offer an interface that attempts to unify content from all your streaming ...

Although Android technically runs on top of Linux, generally most Android devices abstract away the underlying Linux-ness of these machines. In theory this is a good thing; we wouldn’t necessarily ...

Marketplaces and e-waste recycling centers are practically overflowing with the things: ARM-based streaming TV boxes that run some — usually very outdated and compromised — version of Android. While ...

Matthew is the Apps and Games Editor at Android Police. He's been gaming since his first taste of a TI-99 at four years old. Matthew has been an Android user since the HTC Hero and has covered ...

I 've had a 75" LG Smart TV for roughly 10 years now, and its picture quality has yet to fail me. Instead, it's been the smart TV apps that have given more jeers than cheers. A few additions to the ...