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* Once there, you have two choices
* Once there, you have two choices
** Copy or type in a useragent. It's best to use a real one; you can find one by going to http://whatsmyuseragent.com/ from a normal computer. Going there on your GTV will show the current user agent on the device.
** Copy or type in a useragent. It's best to use a real one; you can find one by going to http://whatsmyuseragent.com/ from a normal computer. Going there on your GTV will show the current user agent on the device.
** An alternative is to use the "Generic" user agent, instead of typing in a custom one. As of 3/5/2012, Hulu can be accessed when using the "Generic" user agent in combination with the GTVHacker root.
** An alternative is to use the "Generic" user agent, instead of typing in a custom one. As of 3/5/2012, Hulu can be accessed when using the "Generic" user agent in combination with the GTVHacker root.  Amazon Instant Video is known to not work with a useragent of "Mozilla/5.0" but will work with more complex useragent strings and has not been tested with the "Generic" useragent.


==Installing X86 Superuser.apk==
==Installing X86 Superuser.apk==

Revision as of 23:00, 7 March 2012

A list of apps and things to do

Make CBS, hulu, etc work

You will need to change your useragent in Chrome.

  • Bring up the browser menu, then go to “more”, and then “settings”. From there go to “advanced” and then “mode”, and finally change the user agent. (Thanks to GTVHub.)
  • Once there, you have two choices
    • Copy or type in a useragent. It's best to use a real one; you can find one by going to http://whatsmyuseragent.com/ from a normal computer. Going there on your GTV will show the current user agent on the device.
    • An alternative is to use the "Generic" user agent, instead of typing in a custom one. As of 3/5/2012, Hulu can be accessed when using the "Generic" user agent in combination with the GTVHacker root. Amazon Instant Video is known to not work with a useragent of "Mozilla/5.0" but will work with more complex useragent strings and has not been tested with the "Generic" useragent.

Installing X86 Superuser.apk

  1. Download the x86 version of Superuser.apk
  2. Extract the downloaded .zip file to a folder on your computer, making note of where you've extracted it for the following 2 steps.
  3. Upload Superuser.apk to the googletv /system/app/ directory with the following command substituting the first argument "system/app/Superuser.apk" with the correct location.
    adb push system/app/Superuser.apk /system/app/Superuser.apk
  4. Upload the su binary to the googletv /system/bin/ directory with the following command substituting the first arugment "system/bin/su" with the correct location.
    adb push system/bin/su /system/bin/su
  5. Use the following command to add the correct permissions to the su binary on the device
    adb shell chmod 6755 /system/bin/su
  6. Reboot the box
    adb shell reboot

Apps that are available now

free terminal emulator This app has other features, and not all of them work on GTV. Note that pressing enter in the emulator will not execute a line; in fact, doing so will confuse busybox. Press the button instead.

LauncherPro a few features don't work

Apps that need work before they are available on GTV

android terminal emulator - not available for GTV yet due to issue #46