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Google Videos apk here! It Works!

Since Google is stupid and block installs from official Android Market for the new Google Videos service from Google: https://market.android.com/details?id=com.google.android.videos
Someone posted the apk: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=13769278&postcount=8
Works perfectly on my Asus Transformer 3.1

It really work. Haven't rented a movie yet though.
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I was just going to say that. Has anyone actually rented a movie. Successfully? Please let us know.

Who's gonna be the first?
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david279 said:
Who's gonna be the first?
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I guess I will. It does not work. I tried. It won't allow you to purchase to the device...

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I guess I will. It does not work. I tried. It won't allow you to purchase to the device...
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Edit the build.prop as a xoom might work then

Great thread title.
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Everything seems to work till you go to watch the movie then it will only play for 8sec thru the app. At least I can finish watching the movie thru the TF's browser.

So you can watch the movie in the browser? 720p?
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Yes sir. I launched the app, clicked on the video which launched the browser to make the purchase. I ordered the movie, clicked play and it asked me to play back thru the app or the browser. I tried the app and it would only play 8sec then stop. I went back to the browser and this time when it asked me to choose I picked the browser and it worked fine. Yes, in 720p
EDIT: Forgot to mention I was getting an message in the app player something about my rental had expired.

Also, it gives you the ability to display personal videos on a youtube style video wall. Now just gotta figure out how to make cover art show up, instead of the video snippet it uses. This is what I was coming on the boards tonight to actually inquire about - How to show movies with cover art from a screen I could choose from. Problem solved!

I am10 minutes into Hall Pass, playing right out of the app, tethered to my iPhone while in the car. This is super sweet.
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so does it work or what can someone else please test the apps ability to play.

Ok I rented "The rite". I was able to play it in the browser and in the video app. Only at 480p though.
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Ok it only played for a minute in the app. But it still going in the browser. Also I'm able to watch the movie on google tv.
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meatlocker said:
I am10 minutes into Hall Pass, playing right out of the app, tethered to my iPhone while in the car. This is super sweet.
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How did you set up you iPhone to tether?...I can't get my 3G iPhone to connect to my TF...It saw the TF once trying to use BlueTooth tether but no joy getting it connected......
Dave.........

Dave in Orlando said:
How did you set up you iPhone to tether?...I can't get my 3G iPhone to connect to my TF...It saw the TF once trying to use BlueTooth tether but no joy getting it connected......
Dave.........
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What's up, neighbor in Orlando? I am in Vero Beach...
Super simple...for your 3G (NOT a 3GS, right?) you'll need to jailbreak it and find an app in Cydia called 'MyWi' or 'PDANet'. Both of these will allow you to both tether with the USB cable as well as via wifi and bluetooth. If you have a 3GS, and you happen to be running iOS 4.x, you can download a tweak called 'TetherMe' which enables the native hotspot tethering in iOS4. Good luck...PM me with any questions.
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david279 said:
Ok I rented "The rite". I was able to play it in the browser and in the video app. Only at 480p though.
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OK so were you on home wifi or 3g when you did this. And how come you were only able to play the movie in 480p. Were you playing it in 480p in the browser or in the app?
Thanks for trying to out

I was at home on my wifi. I played it thru the browser. Paying it thru the app only played it for about a minute. Don't know why it only allowed 480p but it only allow that on my google tv too.
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hmmm the rite is a fairly new movie. Maybe it has something to do with the fact it was playing on the web and not on the app. Although that's odd because on YouTube when a video is HD it plays 720. Oh well thanks for answering the posts. Hopefully Google will release the in app video update soon.

Clear fi and hoxl

So I was at someone's house and we was browsing pics on hoxl and I discovered in choose player settings in gallery an option to connect to clear.fi . Be inquisitive I connected and soon discovered I was streaming my pics to a pc in the house over WiFi. Kinda cool. I'm gonna study up on it as it is basically a streaming program on the pc. My question is has anyone used this , thoughts on it, and I'm curious how my phone detected clear fi and is this a security issue. Almost seems like a remote desktop media program. I'm just trying to protect my media on my device from being streamed unintendedly....I'm running latest viperxl which I love.
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Didn't know it existed.. gonna check it out now
I just streamed pics to my tv its cool.
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Amazon Instant Video app from Google TV

I have extracted the Amazon Instant Video app from my Google TV device. It opens on the Note 8, you can select videos, but on trying to actually stream the video you selected, it crashes. If there are any talented people on this forum who want to try playing with the .apk file to see if they can fix it, or if there's someone willing to host this file, let me know and I will email it to you.
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kisrita said:
I have extracted the Amazon Instant Video app from my Google TV device. It opens on the Note 8, you can select videos, but on trying to actually stream the video you selected, it crashes. If there are any talented people on this forum who want to try playing with the .apk file to see if they can fix it, or if there's someone willing to host this file, let me know and I will email it to you.
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You would also need to get the Flash enabled version of GTV Chrome working, since that is really what the app relies on.
EDIT: At least that is the case on the Sony NSZ-GT1. If it is different for your device, I'll have a look, but from what research I have done, it is not an easy task & it will involve a few modifications that will not sit well with other apps or the Play Store.
Post it up though, I just got my dev environment setup on my new machine & the missus will be out of town this weekend.

Unfortunately you're right. The Google TV Chrome app will not install on the Note.
There doesn't seem to be a way to post files through the XDA app, but I can email them to whoever wants them.
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kisrita said:
Unfortunately you're right. The Google TV Chrome app will not install on the Note.
There doesn't seem to be a way to post files through the XDA app, but I can email them to whoever wants them.
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Well, I have to report that I have had little luck getting this to work on any non-GTV device. I even built an AOSP build with using a GTC boardconfig. No luck.
I am very pissed with Amazon though, so I went & bought a LTE KF HD 8.9 & I am going to play with getting it working on other tablets. Man I hate the Kindle stock experience. Thank goodness for root. I'll let you know if I find a simple way to get it running, but it will take some time as business is wicked crazy right now.

Any luck?
-- Android: It's a UNIX thing. You wouldn't understand.

SCFirefighter said:
Any luck?
-- Android: It's a UNIX thing. You wouldn't understand.
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Yes & no. I have firstly been playing with the Nexus 10 & the KF HD 8.9. I was able to finally get AVOD to work on the Nexus 10, BUT, *BUT*, I essentially had toport the entire KF rom to the Nexus 10. It is buggy & there are some graphical & resolution issues, but it worked.
The only other instance I have found was also similar. A guy got it working on a Galaxy Tab, essentially doing the same thing, porting the whole KF rom.
You could of course use a different launcher, but it is still ICS, 4.0.3, & aside from losing a lot of the N10 cool features, it really is far from stable. I don't have a lot of time for this stuff at the moment, work is crazy busy these days. At any rate, I am going to see if I can try to go about it the other way & try to port some of the KF framework & core apps to JB when I get some time. Right now though, it is a no go.

Amazon Prime Video

Does anyone know how to get Amazon videos to play on the 10.1?
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Flash 11.1.115.12 plays amazon vidoes for me.
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dlongstreth said:
Flash 11.1.115.12 plays amazon vidoes for me.
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Screenshot or it didn't happen.
Amazon has instituted the Adobe DRM & also added Silverlight as a requirement for streaming. This is to prevent work-arounds & currently (for the last several months) Amazon Videos will NOT work on Android phones or tablets period. There are a few browsers the do server-side rendering & it will sort-of work on those, but the quality is crap & the lag/stutter is unbearable.
Amazon's stance is that you either need to buy a crappy Kindle, or wait for them to finish extorting licensing fees from Google, the OEM's & your carrier. There have been numerous threads about this issue, which affects many platforms, all over the web.

Amazon instant video is working on my S3. I have Adobe Flash Version 11.1.115.20. It is working through my stock browser.
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Amazon video on 10.1
Ok, here's a screenshot. It wont play movies marked HD, but has played everything I've wanted to watch. I'm not that concerned about hd. As long as I can watch the video, I'm good.
The video looks better than the snap shot I took. I saved it in a lower resolution.
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I posted a screenshot per your request re the Amazon video.
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Works for me on the Note 10.1 with Flash Player installed and Dolphin Browser. It seems a bit smoother than using the stock browser.

I'm able to watch Buffy the Vampire Slayer on the stock browser, but as you can see, the quality isn't all that good. I don't mind though because it's not that bad, either. I attached my own screenshot in case you wanted another example of the video quality.

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Screenshot or it didn't happen.
Amazon has instituted the Adobe DRM & also added Silverlight as a requirement for streaming. This is to prevent work-arounds & currently (for the last several months) Amazon Videos will NOT work on Android phones or tablets period. There are a few browsers the do server-side rendering & it will sort-of work on those, but the quality is crap & the lag/stutter is unbearable.
Amazon's stance is that you either need to buy a crappy Kindle, or wait for them to finish extorting licensing fees from Google, the OEM's & your carrier. There have been numerous threads about this issue, which affects many platforms, all over the web.
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ITs werid how you say that, a couple months ago I had no prob watching Amazon Instant videos on android. I just tried again before reading this post with no success. Wondow why some people arnt having issue. Yes flash installed.

trevor7428 said:
ITs werid how you say that, a couple months ago I had no prob watching Amazon Instant videos on android. I just tried again before reading this post with no success. Wondow why some people arnt having issue. Yes flash installed.
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Install the .63 flash from the Adobe Android Flash Archive. They fixed the DRM issue several weeks ago. With AOSP browser, you can even watch HD in desktop mode.
Or install from here.

Working just fine on stock browser in full screen mode.
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Browser Recommendations?

So many choices but havent found "the one" yet. Which one do you find to be the best performer?
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I recommend boat browser. Flash working, gestures, full screen.

I was using the stock one until recently.
Installed firefox and synced it with my desktop. Has a few quirks but overall its my main browser now.
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I'm working with Dolphins Browser. It's fast and fully support flash. For me is this the best browser for Android
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Next browser is really good too.
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Yes next is very good its my No2 atm, 1st is chrome because I need tabs on top for quick change.

After testing a number of browsers I have to say that the newer versions of Chrome is hard to beat. I love the "swipe between tabs" feature and that it syncs so good with the phone as well as the desktop and laptop.
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My choice is firefox.. really smooth surfing on note 10.1
have used chrome much since i use firefox on desktop as well..
It also depends what browser you use most on desktop

The new Chrome v28 works very well.

Chrome for sure. Logged in to the same account on my phone, and my other 3 computers. So where ever I go, or what ever device I'm on, I have all the same tabs open and ready to go. Works flowless.

I'm with Maxthon for years....
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Thanks for all the ideas. I've tried most of them, each seems to have its pluses and minuses or one key feature that doesn't work for me. E.g. Chrome works on my banking site but the copy/paste function doesn't work. Firefox won't pinch/zoom for me. Thought Boat browser was going to be the one, thought it was working on my band site bill pay but at the very end it wouldn't submit the payments. Probably all of these problems are User Error.

zagleft1 said:
Thanks for all the ideas. I've tried most of them, each seems to have its pluses and minuses or one key feature that doesn't work for me. E.g. Chrome works on my banking site but the copy/paste function doesn't work. Firefox won't pinch/zoom for me. Thought Boat browser was going to be the one, thought it was working on my band site bill pay but at the very end it wouldn't submit the payments. Probably all of these problems are User Error.
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It's a toss-up between Maxthon HD and the latest Chrome for me... Chrome was terrible originally (despite how bizarre that is), but recent versions have been pretty awesome. Maxthon has always been rock solid. My 2 cents.
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chrome is the only browser you need, it syncs your bookmarks between desktop and tablet/mobiles so you never have to save them manually, all the other browsers on the android market don't even do that, i think firefox has this feature too, i have firefox installed for websites that use flash as chrome won't work with them properly.

I may have to try chrome. It has been awhile. Dolphin is good since it plays flash and supports multi window/dual view.
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zagleft1 said:
I've tried most of them, each seems to have its pluses and minuses or one key feature that doesn't work for me.
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Another thing you may want to try is the stock browser with a different user agent. I've found some sites function better when using the iPad user agent (web designers favor Apple, big shock).
I'm not sure if this works on non-rooted ROMs, but the UAstring option appears under settings after typing about:debug in the stock browser's address bar.
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HUYI said:
chrome is the only browser you need, it syncs your bookmarks between desktop and tablet/mobiles so you never have to save them manually, all the other browsers on the android market don't even do that, i think firefox has this feature too, i have firefox installed for websites that use flash as chrome won't work with them properly.
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So chrome isnt the only browser you need? really firefox is the only one you need...
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I use the stock browser. Over the years I have tried various browsers, learned the gestures and so on. Each one was quirky. The stock browser just works. I shouldn't have to fiddle with user agents, or gestures or jumoing through rings of fire to read web pages.
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