Cleanyourtv App v0.4.8 — Clean Your TV
Clean Your TV app 0.4.8 fixes the new home screen's install on Google TVs, brings the new home screen to four more TVs, and makes Check for updates work again. Thank you to everyone who tested the 0.4.8 test builds, sent reports and told us what happened after…
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Clean Your TV app 0.4.8 fixes the new home screen's install on Google TVs, brings the new home screen to four more TVs, and makes Check for updates work again.
Thank you to everyone who tested the 0.4.8 test builds, sent reports and told us what happened after a restart. Your answers decided which TVs get the new home screen in this release, and you're on our testers page. To see what the app does on your TV, search the TV list.
What's new
The new home screen installs again on Google TVs. On Google TVs with Android 11 and 12 (Sony BRAVIA, TCL, Xiaomi, Hisense, the TiVo Stream 4K and others), the switch could stop at "Install com.gathin.tvhome" with "got no readable apk", run after run. The new home screen was on the TV but not installed for the TV's main user. The app now installs it for that user (#2743, #1918, #1510 and many more). If the check still can't read the app, the report says why.
The new home screen on four more TVs, with the setup wizard left on:
- the Xiaomi MiTV-MOEU1 on Android 14
- the MI MiProjM05 projector on Android 9
- the Strong LEAP-S1 box on Android 14
- the Toshiba Smart TV (hamamatsucho) on Android 11
Each one was confirmed by two testers whose new home screen was still there after a restart, and nobody said it didn't hold. Only these models: other models of these brands keep their own home screen until their own testers confirm it.
Clearer stops.
- When the TV ends the install part way ("the TV closed the stream"), the app reads the TV's free storage and says when there isn't enough space (#2851, #3221).
- When Android shows its "which home screen?" chooser, the card names the other home screen apps on the TV, so you know which to remove (#3301).
- On Google TVs other than TCL, the app says before the switch that the remote's Settings button may stop opening the TV's own settings panel (#3059). Use the TV's own home screen in Manage brings it back.
Connecting. Enter the TV's address on the waiting screen works. When the TV turns the connection away, the card says debugging is off on the TV instead of blaming the phone. Manage finds a TV again that it last saw with debugging off.
Smaller fixes: "Check for updates" works again (#818, #2486); Undo everything plans from a fresh read of the TV (#2825); Live TV gets a dock tile on more TVs (#1902); Manage's dock list offers the apps the TV can open, Play Store included (#2742); a failed install no longer also reports "look not sent".
The Home button helper from the test builds isn't in this release yet. It stays in the test builds while we finish it.
Install
Download cleanyourtv-0.4.8.apk below and open it on your phone (Android 9 or newer, on the same Wi-Fi as the TV). It installs over 0.4.7 and the 0.4.8 test builds and keeps everything. On 0.4.7 or older, Check for updates can't find this version by itself (that was the bug fixed here), so download it from this page. If your TV kept its own home screen before, open it in the app and tap Run Setup again.
If anything goes wrong, tap Report a problem in the app. Undo everything in Manage puts the TV back the way it was.
Verify
- SHA-256:
ea1bfc8febc69205f8f75e2146481167a18065159d710ba4d69d4ecc95113053 - Signer certificate SHA-256:
eaf7af3867bb29ff4bb038854842c93f42ffe4198a087e611cb18f925201cd65(the same key as every release)
A community-built phone app for Clean Your TV by Gathin, used with his permission.
