I am having the same exact issue. I hold my microphone button, or try to search, and it loops back to the “Meet Gemini for TV, your upgraded AI voice assistant” screen. I Bought my Google TV streamer 2 days ago.
I tried going into the setting and uninstalling updates to Google TV, in an attempt to revert it to factory settings. I even ended up turning off auto-updates for apps, to try to stop gemini from coming back and hijacking google assistant.
Your mic and search features should work as expected, but with Google assistant, instead of Gemini. Unfortunately, after some time (an hour or 2 on my side) Google TV gets silently updated, gemini comes back, and we’re back to the same problem again.
I am honestly considering returning this thing. I understand this is likely server issue on Google’s end, but customers should not have to be troubleshooting and debugging a relatively expensive new device for hours, just to get basic functions to temporarily work. Especially when we have competing brands without this big of a stability problem right out the box. I don’t even know if Google is fully aware of this issue.
