here is how you can activate it and what functions it has

If you like to tinker with your devices to get the most out of them, and you have a smart TV with Android TV and Google TV, recovery mode is a little-known menu that, like me, can get you out of more than one fix. Recovery mode is an old familiarity in the Android phone ecosystem, but you can also access it on your TV: We’ll tell you what Recovery Mode is, how to get into it, and what you can do with this menu on your Android TV..

If you know the recovery mode of your phone, the main thing is the same: with the recovery mode of your TV, you can perform recovery tasks. maintenance, troubleshooting, installing updates and even factory reset. If you didn’t know it and therefore never got into it, it’s not strange: it’s not intuitive to do it and it’s not accidental, because it is intended for people with certain technical knowledge .

At home, we use our TV a lot beyond watching content: we install lots of apps both to get the most out of it and just to try new things. Between the fact that sometimes we install certain apps that are not as stable as they should be or that simply do not work correctly and that it is an entry-level model that does not stand out not by its speed, it is essential keep it ready and for that recovery mode is great.

How to Access Recovery Mode on a TV with Android TV

For this example I used my living room TV, a TCL 55EP660 with Android TV which is already three years old and has the power button quite hidden, especially under the white LED which is always on when the TV is on. alight. Why am I commenting out the button? Because it is essential to access the recovery mode for this brand.

Power button on my TCLEP660 TV

• The first thing to do is turn off the TV and unplug it from the power supply.
• With the TV unplugged, press the power button and don’t let go.
• Now plug in the TV while the button is still pressed. On my TV, the LED light starts flashing. Continue without releasing the button.
• The TV should start its power-on process, but instead of eventually displaying a channel’s content, you’ll end up in recovery mode. However, when the Android logo appears, you can release the button.

The path to access recovery mode of any other smart TV with Android TV or Google TV may differ slightly depending on the manufacturer. If in doubt, in addition to trying our instructions, you can consult the manual or googling “recovery mode + make and model of your TV”. This is how you can access recovery mode.

The Best Features of Your TV’s Recovery Mode

In these lines, you can see the interface of Android TV recovery mode and as you can see, its appearance is very similar to other recovery modes. To scroll through the menu, use your TV remote control. here are the main functions offered by the recovery mode and its usefulness:

• Reboot system now to restart the system.
• Reboot with bootloader For reboot with bootloader. If your TV is not working properly, this function runs the necessary checks before starting the system, ensuring that everything is correct.
• Apply update (ADB/SD card) to install updates from different drives, such as USB or SD card. If network updates don’t work or you can’t perform them (for example, if you don’t have internet), with this alternative you can keep your TV up to date
• Wipe data / factory reset to clear factory data. This option resets the TV to its initial state, which means that you will lose applications, data and the settings that we have defined.
• Wipe cache partition to clear the cache of the partition. Clear system cache, a solution to try in case you detect that your TV is slow.
• Frame / system to mount the system.
• Viego Recovery Logs displays recovery logs.
• Run a graphics test to run graphical tests.
• Run the locale test to run local diagnostic tests.

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