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Android 6 (Marshmallow) on 2015/2016 TV's?

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djmickey83
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Android 6 (Marshmallow) on 2015/2016 TV's?

Hello.

 

During CES I heard a news that Sony will bring Android 6 (Marshmallow) to the 2015 TV lineup.

Link with Video

General News about Marshmallow on Android TV's

These news are from January.

Had anyone heard something new about this?

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Risc0n
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Tarpii
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I'm waiting for the automatic download to reach me, but appreciate you guys feeding back so soon.

 

Front and centre of the email from Sony was a 'revamped Home Screen'. How are you finding that? Do I still have to use 'Featured Apps' to launch iPlayer?

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kinggo01
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it's worthless because it's not exactly what it should be. API23 supports DTS passthrough and that clerly does not work here.

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Risc0n
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@Soundizer wrote:

Has Sony Support advised we should do a factory reset after installing new firmware?

 

 


Nobody is forcing you to reset, but if you don't there is a 99% chance you will run in to issues such as crashes, lockups and apps and features not working as they should.

 

 

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Soundizer
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To do a factory reset should we select FACTORY DATA RESET in STORAGE & RESET?

Holiergrail
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Boot loop also here with KDL-55W809C

 

Is there a key combination to perform the factory reset when android is not booting up?

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chrisc383
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@kinggo01 wrote:

it's worthless because it's not exactly what it should be. API23 supports DTS passthrough and that clerly does not work here.


I'm not sure what are you on about. I have XD93 with Android 5.1 and DTS passthrough works perfectly ok when playing through SPMC, via HDMI ARC to external Denon amplifier.

If you mean DTS HD - it will not work because of ARC limitations, not because of API level.

Anonymous
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@Holiergrail wrote:

Boot loop also here with KDL-55W809C

 

Is there a key combination to perform the factory reset when android is not booting up?


@Holiergrail - please describe with more info?

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@sirteuk wrote:

 After my android 6 update my TV is now stuck in bootloop for the last 2 hours. Any help would be appreciated.


@sirteuk - please describe?

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sirteuk
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Updated via the Internet downloaded the file ok, the selected update, now bootloop