A note of thanks as this post dug me out of a very deep hole with my BV14-40. Like others I use it with an AppleTV rather than as a smart tv and enjoy it’s architectural values (rather than the software that it runs…)
Over the weekend I made what turned out to be a rash decision to rebuild it – in an attempt to see if it would clear some processing lumpiness. Despite checking that I had all the settings, and that I could log in to google – I had not factored in that it would drop back to such an old set of software it would not be able to log in. Cue a VERY late night, new google accounts, app passwords – all of which did not work.
Using the ADB and Fastboot MSI on my PC and the APK Mirror archive there was then ALOT of attempts to sideload a working version of the software on to the machine. On the BV14 the suggested version here of 22.26.15 caused it to crash repeatedly. The Horizon might be more tolerant of it. Also this might be a lot less command line with an Android phone and the APK mirror app…
For the command: adb install -r yourApp.apk
The additional ‘-r’ was very important as often it would fail saying it was already installed.
Eventually (and I mean hours and hours..) later I had success with an older version – 12.8.74 – of the Google Play Services which was enough to allow me to log in to Google store – the system then began to update itself and is now fully functional again. This file: 12.8.74_(020300-204998136) for armeabi-v7a (page 26 at the time of writing!)
I have not updated Youtube manually.
It has automatically updated to 24.28.35 (080306-657754416)
One issue (possibly seperate) remains that the main B&O Privacy notice which now appears every time the TV is switched on and will not accept me clicking ‘Accept’, nor can it display the web page with either the Terms or the Privacy notices.. more to follow. My workaround is likely to be to block internet (but not local) traffic as it then doesn’t ‘try’.
I may have another go at this now that I know what to do..
Given B&O’s Cradle to Cradle philosophy – I really do think they need to address this sort of issue with a formal solution, I will attempt to raise it via the dealer.
As a final note – once I had figured out all of the nuances it WAS straightforward to do this.
