Starting ProMode and Permission Prompts

• Starting ProModeTool
• Extras

Starting ProModeTool

Launching ProModeTool

Now when you go back to your TV, if it's not on your home screen in the "Apps" section then go to  your Settings -> Apps -> See all apps

 Then look for the tool we just installed. It should be named "Pro settings" (com.sony.dtv.b2b.promodetool) under the name on the right. You can open it from there or your home screen if you have it there.

 

On your Home screen:

 

When you launch it you are met with some options but to start we need to go into "Pro settings mode".

 

When you click on that mode and click ok to start that mode, you will see some permission prompts show up on your TV (For me it was 3 - 4 of them), you need to make sure you accept them all for it to work. For me it had a default app icon for the permission prompt, could be different for you, somewhat like this:

It may also show up with another thing asking "what do you want to open this app with" with the TV app in the list. Don't click any of them and just click on your back button on your remote once. Example:

 

It may look like it's frozen or it's stuck loading or just a black screen. For me the first time I launched it, it took 30 seconds to 1 minute for it to say that it's "Restarting the TV". So I would wait at least up to 5 - 10 minutes at most before trying it again (If you do need to do that, make sure you close the app fully in settings).

Then you should be in the "Pro settings mode" and you can now do whatever you want with it, and if you want the full "Pro Mode", then go back in the app and click "Pro Mode" and let the TV restart again. 

 

There's a new settings menu in the settings app as well.

 

ProSettings Home menu Example:

 

ProSettings Settings Menu Example:

To access this, it's in your settings app at the very top.

 

Warning

This is a good time to say that you really should go to the menu in the settings app for the "Pro settings mode" and go to the allowed apps in "ProMode" and allow the "ProModeTool" so you can go back to the other modes since I'm not sure if you can without doing that.

 

Make sure you enable it here:

 

Go back to the other modes:

You can go back to the other modes if you want to change settings, etc, by going back into the Pro Settings app and selecting the mode you want.

 

Example Image:

Here's an example image I got on the TV that I used in this guide for the stuff working.

 

Extras

This is also a good time to mention this is also how you can side-load apps on your TV without signing into a google account and using the play store.

If you're into foss, like me, I would recommend F-Droid.

If you see other people with the same question to get ProMode working on their TV, you should share this with them and help them out.

I don't know how long this will work for, but for now it does and works quite well. When you're in "Pro Mode", you might notice that the settings app no longer opens. That's to be expected and will not until you go back into the "Pro settings mode" or the "Normal mode".

You also might notice from time to time that there's two ProModeTool apps when switching from "Pro Mode" to "Pro mode settings" and that's also to be expected when we're side-loading it over. Both apps do work though

Now I did say you could use MacOS with this guide at the start and you can but you will have to install for example, python for MacOS, install ADB tools for MacOS instead of the windows versions and use 7zip for MacOS which is a console version instead of a gui version link here: https://7-zip.org/a/7z2408-mac.tar.xz

Or you can try and use this: https://www.keka.io/en/ Which is what the 7zip team recommended using for MacOS.

BRAVIA 8 series zip location:

I hope you enjoyed the guide.