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[Q] Fancast.com working?

Not for me. Just sits on starting video. Using Dolphin HD.

rayden25 said:
Not for me. Just sits on starting video. Using Dolphin HD.
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Bump. I'm curious if fancast can be used on the gtab. That might seal the deal for me.

Once I did the Adobe Flash Player hack (see below), Fancast.com videos started working for me. They are the same instructions for the Hulu flash player hack. After the change I still wasn't able to get Hulu working, but I read that others have.
These instructions assume you are using a Windows PC
The flash hack requires you to download a HEX editor. I used XVI32.
1. Using Root Explorer, copy your libflashplayer.so file from the gtab to your PC. The libflashplayer.so file is found in /data/data/com.adobe.flashplayer/lib
2. Use a hex editor to search and locate the word AND (in UPPER case). AND will be by itself in the file. Skip when AND is included as part of a phrase (e.g. XXX_AND_XXX). It's found fairly far down the file. You'll know when you are there because AND will be listed right before the version of the Adobe Flash Player you are using (in my case, I'm using version 10.1.120.5). Once found, change AND to WIN for Windows. Then, save the change.
3. Copy the updated libflashplayer.so to your gtab in a temporary location.
4. Use Root Explorer to backup (copy) the original libflashplayer.so file to libflashplayer.bak You can do this in the same directory.
5. Replace the original libflashplayer.so (/data/data/com.adobe.flashplayer/lib) with the edited file. Update the permissions to the updated libflashplayer.so file to rwxr-xr-x
6. Reboot gtab.

[Q] Can you watch HULU from the G tab?

I tried and I got the unsupported platform message.

I could never get it to work but look here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=856318

Hulu Tips
The trick for getting Hulu working is to do these things:
1) Use Either Dolphin Browser or SkyFire
2) In the browser, Settings...set User Agent to "Desktop"
3) In Advanced Settings set Plugins to "Always On"(Default is "on demand"))
4) Install either the Adobe flash player hacked apk or hexedit the libflashplayer.so file yourself. I had issues using the hacked apk, I just hexedited my own on the PC and moved it over. Instruction and hacked apk in first post of this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=856318&highlight=hulu
5) Install AdFree from the marketplace
6) Delete/Rename the Host file in /system/etc (TNT Lite Builds)
7) Start AdFree, it will want to create the Host file. If it exists when you run it, it will hang and not complete the installation.
8) When AdFree comes up there is an option to "Revert" click this button to allow ads, Hulu needs this to work.
9) Reboot to clear the host cache.
10) Turn back on AdFree Host file restrictions if you like after you're done with the Hulu Goodness! Enjoy!

rooted?
Is there anything special that needs to be done in order to delete "system/etc/hosts" file? I am running TNT lite 2.4 with Cwm, and/\ have had superuser capabilities for everything else, I'm assuming it's not root related?

I did it - I can see the video but when clicked after waiting for a while to run I'm getting the "unfortunately Hulu is not supported on your platform...

Well it works, sort of. It played real nice until it reached a commercial. Then it paused for a few seconds and Dolphin crashed. Tried again and had no sound. Re-booted, tried again and it worked again. Haven't watched long enough to see if it crashes at the commercials again.
Full screen sort of worked. Had to disable the popup blocker in Dolphin. Then it played for a few seconds until the video froze. Still had sound, but frozen video.
I wish there was something not as touchy as flash too...
Update.. Made it past the commercials this time. Seems pretty touchy but it works...

thaigai - you can use root explorer to delete the hosts file. All the firmware distros get you to root. You will need root in order to access the /system/etc and the /data/data/com.adobe.flashplayer/lib directories.
jcarlospr - Unfortunately.... message is usually caused by either the User Agent is not set to "Desktop" or your libflashplayer.so is not set correctly.
Download this file, unzip it, and use Root Explorer to copy it into the /data/data/com.adobe.flashplayer/lib directory
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=K4C7N34D
You can use this with both the Folio 100 Adobe Flash apk and the GLES Optimized Flash apk. The GLES Optimized is linked in Roebeet's TNT Lite Thread - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=842004
Copy the libflashplayer.so file after installing the Adobe Flash Player apk.

dkhilo said:
thaigai - you can use root explorer to delete the hosts file
jcarlospr - Unfortunately.... message is usually caused by either the User Agent is not set to "Desktop" or your libflashplayer.so is not set correctly.
Download this file, unzip it, and use Root Explorer to copy it into the /data/data/com.adobe.flashplayer/lib directory
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=K4C7N34D
You can use this with both the Folio 100 Adobe Flash apk and the GLES Optimized Flash apk. The GLES Optimized is linked in Roebeet's TNT Lite Thread - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=842004
Copy the libflashplayer.so file after installing the Adobe Flash Player apk.
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No luck!!!
But I also notice that I didn't have the /data/data/com.adobe.flashplayer/lib directory - so I create it myself - is that right??

jcarlospr said:
No luck!!!
But I also notice that I didn't have the /data/data/com.adobe.flashplayer/lib directory - so I create it myself - is that right??
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That doesn't sound right. Try uninstalling your flash player and reinstalling with the new GLES optimized Flash apk, then copy the libflashplayer.so file. Like I mentioned I had issues with the hacked apk.

dkhilo said:
That doesn't sound right. Try uninstalling your flash player and reinstalling with the new GLES optimized Flash apk, then copy the libflashplayer.so file. Like I mentioned I had issues with the hacked apk.
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Ok, This is what I did
1. Re-downloaded Adobe Flash Player 10.1.12.1 from http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=842004
2. Went to settings/Applications/downloaded applications and uninstall the Adobe Flash Palyer 10.1
3. Using ES File Explorer I put the adobe flash player 10.1.120.1.apk
4. Went to the data/data/com.adobe.flashplayer/lib/ I renamed the libflashplayer.so that I got from http://www.megaupload.com/?d=K4C7N34D
5. Using the app App Installer I install the apk from step 3
6. Turn off the table after reboot I went back to the data/data/com.adobe.flashplayer/lib/ and rename back the file.
7. Went to hulu using skyfire (first, I verified that the option selected by default is desktop).
8. I selected a video from hulu and after 30 seconds I got the unsupported message.
Something else, I created data/data/com.adobe.flashplayer/lib/ directory because it was not there.
I am using TnT Lite V2.2.0

jcarlospr said:
Ok, This is what I did
1. Re-downloaded Adobe Flash Player 10.1.12.1 from http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=842004
2. Went to settings/Applications/downloaded applications and uninstall the Adobe Flash Palyer 10.1
3. Using ES File Explorer I put the adobe flash player 10.1.120.1.apk
4. Went to the data/data/com.adobe.flashplayer/lib/ I renamed the libflashplayer.so that I got from http://www.megaupload.com/?d=K4C7N34D
5. Using the app App Installer I install the apk from step 3
6. Turn off the table after reboot I went back to the data/data/com.adobe.flashplayer/lib/ and rename back the file.
7. Went to hulu using skyfire (first, I verified that the option selected by default is desktop).
8. I selected a video from hulu and after 30 seconds I got the unsupported message.
Something else, I created data/data/com.adobe.flashplayer/lib/ directory because it was not there.
I am using TnT Lite V2.2.0
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I don't see where you are doing the adfree part. I got it to work using the Flash apk that was already modded without having to play with the lib file.

My bad - for some reason is not letting me to delete the host file or even rename it and I don't have anything else open - I tried right after turning on the tablet

jcarlospr said:
My bad - for some reason is not letting me to delete the host file or even rename it and I don't have anything else open - I tried right after turning on the tablet
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Are you trying to delete the host file with something like androot, or root explorer? The folder has to be set to read/write or it won't let you change it.

thaigai said:
Is there anything special that needs to be done in order to delete "system/etc/hosts" file? I am running TNT lite 2.4 with Cwm, and/\ have had superuser capabilities for everything else, I'm assuming it's not root related?
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Folder has to be set to read/write with something like root explorer.

dkhilo said:
The trick for getting Hulu working is to do these things:
1) Use Either Dolphin Browser or SkyFire
2) In the browser, Settings...set User Agent to "Desktop"
3) In Advanced Settings set Plugins to "Always On"(Default is "on demand"))
4) Install either the Adobe flash player hacked apk or hexedit the libflashplayer.so file yourself. I had issues using the hacked apk, I just hexedited my own on the PC and moved it over. Instruction and hacked apk in first post of this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=856318&highlight=hulu
5) Install AdFree from the marketplace
6) Delete/Rename the Host file in /system/etc (TNT Lite Builds)
7) Start AdFree, it will want to create the Host file. If it exists when you run it, it will hang and not complete the installation.
8) When AdFree comes up there is an option to "Revert" click this button to allow ads, Hulu needs this to work.
9) Reboot to clear the host cache.
10) Turn back on AdFree Host file restrictions if you like after you're done with the Hulu Goodness! Enjoy!
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Is this in general for most devices?
Sent from my HTC HD2 using XDA App

ceo4eva said:
Is this in general for most devices?
Sent from my HTC HD2 using XDA App
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The hack original came form those that discovered it on the Nexus One Phones(rcgabriel thx for correction). It just edits what Adobe Flash Reports to the website the client using it, in this case it reports WIN instead of AND. So, I believe it would work for all mobile devices as long as they use a libflashplayer.so file as well. You might want to hexedit your particular libflashplayer.so file since it may be different from the one posted here. This apk is specific to the tegra2 devices.

jcarlospr said:
My bad - for some reason is not letting me to delete the host file or even rename it and I don't have anything else open - I tried right after turning on the tablet
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Also make sure your firewall is not doing some kind of ad blocking either. Some firewalls like Untangle have a ad blocker or if you use OpenDNS, you might have problems also if you have the restrictions to block the ad sites. Anything that blocks ads might prevent hulu from showing you the video.
Strangely enough, I needed to delete the host in order to have the AdFree even get to the point where it gives me the option to "revert" or load the updated hosts file. I'm not sure if the hosts file itself was blocking things, or the hosts file had some permissions preventing AdFree from modifying it. Either way, using Root Explorer after making sure the directory is R/W and not R/O is probably the easiest route for deleting this file.

dkhilo said:
Also make sure your firewall is not doing some kind of ad blocking either. Some firewalls like Untangle have a ad blocker or if you use OpenDNS, you might have problems also if you have the restrictions to block the ad sites. Anything that blocks ads might prevent hulu from showing you the video.
Strangely enough, I needed to delete the host in order to have the AdFree even get to the point where it gives me the option to "revert" or load the updated hosts file. I'm not sure if the hosts file itself was blocking things, or the hosts file had some permissions preventing AdFree from modifying it. Either way, using Root Explorer after making sure the directory is R/W and not R/O is probably the easiest route for deleting this file.
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How I switch from r/o to r/w?

dkhilo said:
The hack original came form those that discovered it on the Galaxy S Phones. It just edits what Adobe Flash Reports to the website the client using it, in this case it reports WIN instead of AND. So, I believe it would work for all mobile devices as long as they use a libflashplayer.so file as well. You might want to hexedit your particular libflashplayer.so file since it may be different from the one posted here. This apk is specific to the tegra2 devices.
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Minor historical correction - the hack originally came from the Nexus One forums. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=687842&page=3

Fancast works great without all the BS, hulu is a waste of time.

Hulu

So re editing original post to better serve our forums. absolutely none of this is my work and hardly and of this is my research. I just wanted to have it loclally avaiable to our forums.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1010606 <~~ is from the thunderbolt forums
Thanks to these people for all this usefull info.
s197 From incredibleforum.com
imneveral0ne who did the foot work in gathering all the info.
KhasMek and Adrynalyne
Provided by tigerman1979 are the instructions he used to get hulu working on our g2x. thanks to nraudigy2 for posting the proper file.
This method works.
Get libflashplayer.so file here http://www.megaupload.com/?d=A670SIXH
Using Root Explorer, copy libflashplayer.so from sdcard to /data/data/com.adobe.flashplayer/lib/
Set permissions for libflashplayer.so to (rwxr-xr-x) or below
User: Read\Write\Execute
Group: Read\Execute
Others: Read\Execute
Last but not least. Change the user agent to desktop or if custom then Win.
Im not very good at this kinda thing but I hope it keeps us from having to run around looking for stuff.

Please post mirrors to the files so that registration is not required to download. This is against xda-developers forum rules. Thank you.

Ill just edit the first post. I wasnt hosting or do I host files. I Was just trying to show people How its done or that it can be done.

I am reading up on this...it looks like we have to remove the built-in Flash and push this to the /system/app folder and install from there?

I did this last night and all I had to do was uninstall flash updates, copy the libflashplayer.so file to the adobe flash player lib folder that I found in the forum about Hulu, reinstall the flash update from the market, and copy the .so file over again. I booted up dolphin browser HD and made sure it was set to display like a desktop computer, and Hulu works flawlessly!
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It does work pretty fantasticly. I am happy I can watch hulu on the go! Now to get it to work on my nook.

Can't get it to work
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why cant you get it to work

hazard99 said:
why cant you get it to work
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i using eb 1.04 froyo i used root uninstaller to remove the orginal adobe apk, i got the modded apk pushed to my system app and installed it, when i go to hulu it tells me that abobe needs to be updated.. i found a new updated adobe apk in the htc thunder bolt fourm, and still no dice, maybe its the rom

It won't remove Flash 10.1 (default). So I can't really install the modded 10.3. Missing a few steps.

tigerman1979 said:
I did this last night and all I had to do was uninstall flash updates, copy the libflashplayer.so file to the adobe flash player lib folder that I found in the forum about Hulu, reinstall the flash update from the market, and copy the .so file over again. I booted up dolphin browser HD and made sure it was set to display like a desktop computer, and Hulu works flawlessly!
Sent from my LG-P999 using XDA App
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This method works.
Get libflashplayer.so file here http://www.megaupload.com/?d=A670SIXH
Using Root Explorer, copy libflashplayer.so from sdcard to /data/data/com.adobe.flashplayer/lib/
Set permissions for libflashplayer.so to (rwxr-xr-x) or below
User: Read\Write\Execute
Group: Read\Execute
Others: Read\Execute
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1010606

nraudigy2 said:
This method works.
Get libflashplayer.so file here http://www.megaupload.com/?d=A670SIXH
Using Root Explorer, copy libflashplayer.so from sdcard to /data/data/com.adobe.flashplayer/lib/
Set permissions for libflashplayer.so to (rwxr-xr-x) or below
User: Read\Write\Execute
Group: Read\Execute
Others: Read\Execute
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1010606
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I will update op with this info to help out others.

This is amazing! Tigerman1979's instructions worked, I did not even use the flash apk that was provided. I just downloaded it from the market.

hazard99 said:
I will update op with this info to help out others.
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tigerman1979's method works. I only provided the file.
tigerman1979 said:
I did this last night and all I had to do was uninstall flash updates, copy the libflashplayer.so file to the adobe flash player lib folder that I found in the forum about Hulu, reinstall the flash update from the market, and copy the .so file over again. I booted up dolphin browser HD and made sure it was set to display like a desktop computer, and Hulu works flawlessly!
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This is how you do it
Thanks for the great instrctions. It works well

This worked great. One issue that I ran into is that after you complete these steps and before you go to Hulu, you need to go into your Dolphin HD settings and change the user agent to "Desktop" or it won't work (I'm a noob and didn't know this, so maybe there are some other noobs out there.)
Thanks for the tip!

Works great. Nice Work.
Is everyone's video's on hulu a bit choppy?

Working awesome without having to uninstall the flash updates from the market
Sent from my LG-P999 using XDA App

Strange. Went to watch a show on hulu today and it says my device is not supported. Anyone started getting the same issue?

maciek82 said:
Strange. Went to watch a show on hulu today and it says my device is not supported. Anyone started getting the same issue?
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Seems the .so file keeps getting replaced by the old one everytime I reboot. Any idea what I'm doing wrong? I'm using Super Manager to move the file and set perm

Streaming help on my Infuse 4G with a MacBook Pro/Lion OS

Trying for dear life to get my new phone to run hulu.com, I've followed every ones instructions (about 4 or 5 people's) can't get it. Got the superoneclick "superuser" installed along with the "root explorer" and did the first 2 steps in http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1119530
got hulu mobile on the phone
did this step---> StageFright removal (One time install only):
This is from Adrynalyne. Thanks so much for this fix! Took me all day to track this file that is phone neutral and test!
1.Extract all files from StageFright.zip attached to this post
2.Copy all files extracted to /system/lib
3.Reboot and you are set forever.
Note: Confirmed to work with m.youtube.com app and hulu and movies. YAY!
now this is the killer for me, I can't find the "/data/data/com.adobe.flashplayer/lib" file anywhere? I really am screwing this up with my idiotic n006 head. I was stuck in iphone world too long.
Also I have a macbook pro running Lion OS if that mades it even harder (seems to) any help would be so so so great, I think I did it all right, but I need to find that file so I can copy the hacked flash into it!!
this is the step I have problems with!
Component 3: Hacked flash to work with Infuse 4G
Excerpt instructions for Infuse (Needs to be redone everytime you reboot):
1.Update Flash to current Market version (10.3.185.23)
2.Extract libflashplayer.so from libflashplayer.zip attached to this post
3.Copy libflashplayer.so to /sdcard
4.Copy libflashplayer.so from /sdcard to /data/data/com.adobe.flashplayer/lib using root explorer, adb, or a terminal. I recommend making an extra copy of the modified libflashplayer.so in case it's replaced on reboot.
5.Make sure the permissions for libflashplayer.so are rwxr-xr-x (chmod 755).
Did I not install my superuser or root explorer right? Is there anyone who could help me trouble shoot my seemingly simple problem?
Thank you alll so much I have been reading this forum for about 8-10 hours since last night and learned alot, but feel lost down the rabbit hole

How to install Google Currents (and other apps requiring the maps framework)

I was able to install Google Currents by manually adding the framework from the gapps zip normally used by CM7 and other roms.
I've included a View attachment maps-framework-kfire.zip modified zip (maps-framework-kfire) file with only the files you need. The files are in the folders necessary inside the zip. As we can't flash zips from recovery like other devices yet (that I know of) you'll have to put the files in manually. As this uses google services you probably need to have View attachment GoogleServicesFramework.apk installed already in your /system/apps directory (to do this if you haven't either install the market which will include this step or transfer the GoogleServicesFramework.apk there and chmod to 644 like the others below [do this before you reboot as it will be required])
1. Extract the zip file on your computer
2. Copy the extracted files to your device
3. Copy com.google.android.maps.jar into /system/framework via ADB or Root Explorer
4. Chmod (long hold select file in Root Explorer and select permissions) to 644 (owner read/write, group read, others read)
5. Copy com.google.android.maps.xml to /system/etc/permissions the same way
6. Chmod that file to the same permissions
7. Restart your Fire to allow it to recognize the new framework
8. Install this APK View attachment Google_Currents_1.0.apk
9. Open the app and select your Google account to continue
This should also allow any other apps to install that require this framework.

Works like a charm, thx a lot.

Good write up. Thanks.

works very well. Good instructions.
thanks

Worked perfectly, you rock rooobbbbb, thanks a million!!

Excellent find and easy to follow instructions. Thank you!

excellent, and now OpenTable installs too! thank you!

Glasairmell said:
Excellent find and easy to follow instructions. Thank you!
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Ditto from me!

Happy I could help guys and gals.
Sent from my Kindle Fire using xda premium

You rock dude!

done, thanks very much!!

did not work for me :-(
Followed the instructions the files are in the correct locations and the permissions are 644
When I try and install it just says not installed. Rebooted a couple times. The instructions did not seem to mention anything about the features.xml so I also tried adding that to /system/etc/ as well with 644 still no go :-( anyone else not get this to work or run into this then figure out the solution?

kernelsandirs said:
Followed the instructions the files are in the correct locations and the permissions are 644
When I try and install it just says not installed. Rebooted a couple times. The instructions did not seem to mention anything about the features.xml so I also tried adding that to /system/etc/ as well with 644 still no go :-( anyone else not get this to work or run into this then figure out the solution?
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I accidentally included that file, I didn't need to use it myself. You could try connecting your Fire to your computer and run logcat to live view the console of the device. That's how I saw that this was needed in the first place.

Sorry, got it working, when I read the path /system/etc/permissions it wrapped in my browser and I only put the xml in system/etc so I had placed the file a level lower. So it was my bad. thanks for the info. So far I really like the app, had been using news360 but this seems a bit nicer even though its still early.

kernelsandirs said:
Sorry, got it working, when I read the path /system/etc/permissions it wrapped in my browser and I only put the xml in system/etc so I had placed the file a level lower. So it was my bad. thanks for the info. So far I really like the app, had been using news360 but this seems a bit nicer even though its still early.
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I did this exact same thing. Thanks for posting so that I realized my error.
BONUS: Tweetdeck now installs and works!! (A couple of other apps now working via sideload: Redbox & Speedtest.net)

Great directions. Thank you for the great work!
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Thank you so much!

works for me!!

xdalaw said:
I did this exact same thing. Thanks for posting so that I realized my error.
BONUS: Tweetdeck now installs and works!! (A couple of other apps now working via sideload: Redbox & Speedtest.net)
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Oh, this is perfect. I was going to ask about this app, explicitly.
//Tapatalk.EVO3D//

thanks
it makes KF worthwhile now ...