Thanks for this ! Have been bummed about not being able to do much with Google TV, has been an excellent Blu Ray box but there's so much more potential.

Anyone have any idea if granted root access there'd be a possibility of removing region restrictions? I'd imagine so, if no one knows I'll have to play around when I get home

can you just use 1 USB thumb drive and copy the files each time? FAT32 or exFAT file format?

Hello

i was very happy about the root, thanks for everyone who was part of it.. the thing is that i started getting some problems after the root, blueray eject button lamp hang after removing a dvd, also couldnt control comcast dvr with sonys remote, so i reverted back to official 3.2 by installing it from recovery, but the splash screen still gtvhacker, is there any other way to remove it???

Thank you

After I started the downgrade, in step 5, I did not get an error but proceeded as if I did and followed the instructions and it all worked out. Once All was completed, I notices that the wireless network would not come up (kept searching) even after 12 minutes. I decided to hard-wire just to test and when I went to set up wireless later, my wifi signal was there. Also, the menu from the GTV did not show on my 1080p tv, so i connected it to another tv that had 480 and 720 so i could do the downgrade. ***VERY important!*** I did not see this in the instructions anywhere, I may have missed them, but when all was done, and I went to hulu, it STILL said it would not work on Google TV. I figured out that if you go into the chrome settings and change the window to "generic", it all worked perfect. I checked ABC, NBC, HULU, Epix, etc. All work great. Thanks. I'm donating now.

First of all, thanks for this!!! Great work!

I am also seeing some minor issues with the unsigned kernel (I am assuming it's the kernel). Can't control dish dvr from remote etc.

Rather than everyone reverting back to the factory build, can't you switch between signed (sda1) and unsigned (sda8) kernels using another script payload from USB in recovery that swaps out the e2fsck script with the original binary? and vice versa to get back to unsigned when/if needed.

cp /tmp/mnt/diskb1/copy/busybox /tmp/busybox
chmod 777 /tmp/busybox
# for original kernel
/tmp/busybox cp -f /tmp/mnt/sda1/sbin/e2fsck-bak /tmp/mnt/sda1/sbin/e2fsck
# for unsigned kernel
/tmp/busybox cp -f /tmp/mnt/diskb1/copy/e2fsck /tmp/mnt/sda1/sbin/e2fsck

I guess the unasked question is, will you be doing this for the Logitech Revue? I'm sure we are ALL looking forward to this!

Much thanks if so!

Can someone make 2 how to videos
1) show us how to hack/root
2) show us how to revert back to factory

Question: after gtvhaker root is done is the gtv look like android build or chrome build
What is the actual firmware/ui ? Thanks

A video by gtvhacker YouTube channel would be great!

I won't comment on my opinion of instructional videos vs read instructions.

As for what the device looks like after rooted... it looks just like it did before you rooted except for the splash screen. This is just root, the software is still the same except for the chrome/hulu hack.

I will probably hold out on this until the bugs get worked out

Some things to note on this root:

1) We don't have SU so it looks like we can't do system mods from with in the GTV, and they must be done with ADB.
2) If you have ADB you can now "freeze" any system apps you don't want running. For instance I noticed the Dish app that I don't use because I have DirecTV, hooks up to many system events and is always running. No idea if this will actually improve performance or not, but locking out uneeded apps can't be a bad idea