The Nvidia Shield TV remains one of the best Android TV OS devices on the market even though it hasn’t gotten a major update in a while, but a fresh update is rolling out now to users.
On Nvidia’s forums, the company has confirmed a new update is now rolling out to Shield TV. The update is a “second hotfix” on top of the Shield Experience 9.1.1 upgrade that first started rolling out in November 2022. A first hotfix was released in July 2023, and the Shield hasn’t received any other updates since.
This latest update, v33.2.0.252, primarily fixes some issues and squashes some bugs. For example, there’s a fix for GeForce Now crashing after launch, for storage drives not showing up after an update, and “enhancements” for the Match Frame Rate beta.
The changelog as Nvidia shared it follows:
- Match Frame Rate (beta) enhancement
- Resolves issue with SHIELD drive filling up
- Fixes the issue of No audio heard when headset is connected to controller and DAP is on
- Resolves issue of Geforce now crash after launch
- Ability to clear HDMI 1.4 flag via factory reset
- Fixed video distortion on “RGB 8-bit Rec.709” display mode
- Resolved USB HDD/Flash drive showing corrupted after hotplug
- NAS folder info shows 0 B and not the actual capacity
- Mounted storages aren’t listed after upgrade
- Fixes occasional crashes in DRM apps
The update first started rolling out a couple of days ago, and is still built on top of Android 11. There’s no sign of further major upgrades for the Shield at this point, but Nvidia is certainly to be commended for its continued support.
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