twolfowl
Newbie
Heres my little advice on this cheapo device
That has actually made this device reasonably bearable 'especially now that I can play most gameloft games like modern combat on it' I still very much recommend getting a better one but if 25$ is all you can afford why not try to pimp it out and make the best of it?
Heres the things I've done and why and I hope it helps someone
Step 1
FACTORY RESET
For some reason my experience with this device was horrid day 1 of getting it but factory resetting it helped ALOT but still had issues so let's proceed
Step2
Developer options
Go to settings
Go to about media box
Keep tapping build number till developer options is enabled
Then change these settings like I did
Windows animation scale
Transition scale
Duratuin scale
All off
Force gpu rendering
Force 4x msaa
Disable hw overlays
->Don't keep activities
Background process limit
No background processes<- 'you will be using your android TV like a console basically anyways and this helps alot!'
But it still isn't enough apps once in a blue moon will still lock up and you need an easy way to kill them automatically for real and having these settings still keeps the app intact
So the last thing you will need is
Advanced task killer
Step 3
Final step
Install advanced task killer
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=mobi.infolife.taskmanager
Open it
Go to ignore list
Lock the apps YOU TRULY NEED 'overlay digital clock is mine
' only the apps you need running in the background for whatever reason just know that the more you let go the less results imo
Click the 3 dots on the top right
Go to settings
Make sure automatically start up is checked
Turn regular kill on and click the settings by it
Turn regular kill notice on 'optional I like to know it's still running'
Go to regular kill frequency
Do every one minute 'so you can close an app fast if it is acting up without having to go through any other trouble while it is freezing due to it so you can't'
Click okay and then turn startup kill on for effect
Go back to home and your done
I suggest getting a better launcher aswell I use Square Home 3
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ss.squarehome2
I also suggest getting a good usb tb hdd so you can get all the games you could ever want to play and an app called octopus to set it
I've also discovered you can't add games to octopus while don't keep activities is enabled disable it add the games to the list then reenable
Octopus gamepad:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.chaozhuo.gameassistant
'You'r going to have to Google octopus apk to get it'
Lastly I believe that updating Google play services seems to make everything go downhill so maybe try to stay away from updating that as long as you can 🤷
Also unfortunately octopus seems to aswell I don't know a decent fix
Apk mirror seems to be the best place to install apks if you cannot find them in the play store
I don't claim to know everything I just know what worked good for me
That has actually made this device reasonably bearable 'especially now that I can play most gameloft games like modern combat on it' I still very much recommend getting a better one but if 25$ is all you can afford why not try to pimp it out and make the best of it?
Heres the things I've done and why and I hope it helps someone
Step 1
FACTORY RESET
For some reason my experience with this device was horrid day 1 of getting it but factory resetting it helped ALOT but still had issues so let's proceed
Step2
Developer options
Go to settings
Go to about media box
Keep tapping build number till developer options is enabled
Then change these settings like I did
Windows animation scale
Transition scale
Duratuin scale
All off
Force gpu rendering
Force 4x msaa
Disable hw overlays
->Don't keep activities
Background process limit
No background processes<- 'you will be using your android TV like a console basically anyways and this helps alot!'
But it still isn't enough apps once in a blue moon will still lock up and you need an easy way to kill them automatically for real and having these settings still keeps the app intact
So the last thing you will need is
Advanced task killer
Step 3
Final step
Install advanced task killer
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=mobi.infolife.taskmanager
Open it
Go to ignore list
Lock the apps YOU TRULY NEED 'overlay digital clock is mine
' only the apps you need running in the background for whatever reason just know that the more you let go the less results imoClick the 3 dots on the top right
Go to settings
Make sure automatically start up is checked
Turn regular kill on and click the settings by it
Turn regular kill notice on 'optional I like to know it's still running'
Go to regular kill frequency
Do every one minute 'so you can close an app fast if it is acting up without having to go through any other trouble while it is freezing due to it so you can't'
Click okay and then turn startup kill on for effect
Go back to home and your done
I suggest getting a better launcher aswell I use Square Home 3
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ss.squarehome2
I also suggest getting a good usb tb hdd so you can get all the games you could ever want to play and an app called octopus to set it
I've also discovered you can't add games to octopus while don't keep activities is enabled disable it add the games to the list then reenable
Octopus gamepad:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.chaozhuo.gameassistant
'You'r going to have to Google octopus apk to get it'
Lastly I believe that updating Google play services seems to make everything go downhill so maybe try to stay away from updating that as long as you can 🤷
Also unfortunately octopus seems to aswell I don't know a decent fix
Apk mirror seems to be the best place to install apks if you cannot find them in the play store
I don't claim to know everything I just know what worked good for me
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