Cleaning up a Nokia or Thomson StreamView TV
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The televisions sold as Nokia and as Thomson in Europe are built by StreamView, an Austrian company licensing both brands. That is why they look so alike inside.
The good news
Of all the manufacturers we see, StreamView adds among the least of its own software. Their sets come close to a reference Android TV, and that means two things:
- There is less to remove.
- What little there is tends to be easy to identify.
What to look for
adb shell pm list packages | grep -iE "nokia|thomson|streamview|vestel"
vestel appears because part of the hardware and base software comes from
there: Vestel is a Turkish manufacturer producing for much of Europe under other
brands.
What is usually there
- A proprietary setup wizard.
- Preinstalled streaming apps, the usual ones.
- On some models, a lightweight recommendation service.
Where the real bottleneck is
On these televisions the problem is rarely the manufacturer's software: it is the hardware. Many entry-level models carry 1 GB of RAM, and at that figure Android TV is tight whatever you do.
There, removing apps helps, but what you notice most is switching to a lightweight launcher and not having several heavy apps installed at once.
To check how much memory you have:
adb shell cat /proc/meminfo | head -2
If MemTotal is below 1,500,000 kB, that is your situation.
Common models
Nokia Smart TV 4300A / 5000A, the Thomson UG series, and Vestel-built Android TVs sold under other brands. Send us yours.