Identifying your TV's exact model

"A 43-inch TCL" is no use for searching anything. TCL has sold dozens of 43-inch models with completely different chipsets, Android versions and preinstalled packages. What you need is the model code.

Where it is#

On the sticker at the back. The most reliable source. Look for a line reading "Model" or "Model No." followed by something like 43P8M or H50B7100. It usually sits next to the serial number and the barcode.

In the menu. Settings → Device preferences → About → Model. Careful: some manufacturers show an internal name here that does not match the commercial one.

Over ADB, which is the most precise route:

adb shell getprop ro.product.model
adb shell getprop ro.product.device
adb shell getprop ro.product.name

All three usually give different answers and all three are useful. ro.product.model is normally the one matching the sticker.

Regional suffixes matter#

The same television is sold with different suffixes by country, and that changes the software:

• 43P8M vs 43P8US — same panel, different region, different set of preinstalled apps.
• Samsung uses suffixes like UE (Europe) and UN (North America).
• Sony adds series letters: KD-43XG8096.

When you send us your model, copy it whole, suffixes and all. A 43P8M and a 43P8US do not necessarily share a package list, and publishing an entry that conflated them would be worse than publishing nothing.

Year of manufacture#

If the model does not tell you the year, the serial number usually does, and failing that:

adb shell getprop ro.build.date

That gives the firmware build date. Not the manufacturing date, but close, and a good indicator of when the manufacturer stopped updating it. If that date reads 2019, you have gone seven years without a security patch.

And now what#

With the model in hand, look it up in the directory. If it is not there yet — and as of today most are not — send it to us from the home page. We are building the catalogue in the order of what people actually own.