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Been a lurker for a while now. This is worthy of my first post. I found a flash 10.1 apk and it works. Not incredibly fast for flash games but it does work. I cant post links but I think you can figure it out.
getandroidstuff.com/2010/06/adobe-flash-101-full-support-for.html
Now I did not make this and don't know who did so use at your own risk. I have only been playing with it for a day and haven't seen any ill effects yet. All I know is it works.
" Android 2.2 comes with the new feature for full flash support. Here how it's work google just integrated a plugin called com.google.android.feature.GOOGLE_PLUGIN. And Flash uses it to embed itself inside browser. So browser in android 2.1 mobile phones does not see plugin. Now if you are owner of Android 2.1 or 2.0 smartphone then download the Adobe Flash 10.1 apk application below and get full flash support for your Android 2.1 or 2.0 mobiles.
BUT!There's another thing inside - a permission called android.webkit.permission.PLUGIN. It is already used by Flash Lite on HTC devices. So this app will replace the lite version of flash and will work with full feature.
Or get it here:
forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=6569529&postcount=16
razr315 said:
This totally broke my browser using CM6 RC1
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Same here. I have since uninstalled, and I'm back.
The website speaks of this being for 2.1.
No wonder it doesn't work for a froyo rom.
The real question is when can we get flash on cm6 rc1???
I installed flash 10.1 from 4shared and after I tried it, i couldnt stay in the browser for long without it closing right back out.
I uninstalled it and it was fine.
apollostees said:
Same here. I have since uninstalled, and I'm back.
The website speaks of this being for 2.1.
No wonder it doesn't work for a froyo rom.
The real question is when can we get flash on cm6 rc1???
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currently the working adobe flash 10.1 release is primarily working only on devices bearing the "snapdragon" ARM processors... so when we're trying to force install this onto our devices it is either crashing, or not even allowing the install.
The flash 10.1 currently doesn't even allow the 1ghz hummingbird... its all a matter of time before a "general" release is going to be available. (i'm assuming)
I believe i've seen it said before and i quote;
"Adobe and Google working together to bring Flash player to a mobile device needs to be considered a "sensitive" port, unwelcome criticism on whether or not it will be necessary or whether this will start a revolution for future devices to follow depends on the ability to have Flash functioning flawlessly on the Android platform"
This means that all those Apple boys & gals who say "flash is pointless" yada yada... can't say "SEE THATS WHY FLASH IS USELESS" (implying that it will not work)
just my 2 pennies worth.
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currently the working adobe flash 10.1 release is primarily working only on devices bearing the "snapdragon" ARM processors... so when we're trying to force install this onto our devices it is either crashing, or not even allowing the install.
The flash 10.1 currently doesn't even allow the 1ghz hummingbird... its all a matter of time before a "general" release is going to be available. (i'm assuming)
I believe i've seen it said before and i quote;
"Adobe and Google working together to bring Flash player to a mobile device needs to be considered a "sensitive" port, unwelcome criticism on whether or not it will be necessary or whether this will start a revolution for future devices to follow depends on the ability to have Flash functioning flawlessly on the Android platform"
This means that all those Apple boys & gals who say "flash is pointless" yada yada... can't say "SEE THATS WHY FLASH IS USELESS" (implying that it will not work)
just my 2 pennies worth.
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I didn't bother reading that whole post, primarily because I saw that you said that Flash wasn't pointless, but you are slightly incorrect.
The Slide's processor = ARM6
Requirement for Flash 10.1 = ARM7
IQ drop associated with mobile Flash = 72
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I didn't bother reading that whole post, primarily because I saw that you said that Flash wasn't pointless, but you are slightly incorrect.
The Slide's processor = ARM6
Requirement for Flash 10.1 = ARM7
IQ drop associated with mobile Flash = 72
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Notice I said "snapdragon" and not just ARM, also flash in mobile is more of preference rather than necessity... hence the reason it can, or cannot be downloaded even with devices that are able to install it.
(and yes I do understand another reason for 3rd party install is to push updates without the need for a full firmware update)
Myself I personally like the idea of flash operating on a mobile device due to having my work email, which is primarily flash driven being able to access it with my personal phone. Using stock sense 2.1, I was able to do so, with Froyo on slide I'm unable to do so. (so back to the PC for me now)
So, as far as an IQ drop with the association of flash... if you have a mobile piece of software effecting your physical abilities then you really have a true issue, that needs immediate medical attention.
I just want to have the damn option of being able to use it.
is there any way to get the flash from the stock rom onto cm6
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is there any way to get the flash from the stock rom onto cm6
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I'm pretty sure Flash lite only works for sense
I think the only reason I would ever need full Flash support would be for Robot Unicorn Attack and maybe some physicsgames.net.
I still agree with the number one reason for people to have flash is for them to watch porn. Do not argue about the statment i just said, you and i both know its true.
But with the new info about higher-end phones soon to have divx support in the flash well thats just amazing. Of course without great service your pretty much screwed but say we had great service as well as the opportunity to use this feature wouldn't you take advantage of this at work on break and watch some movies and what not? I sure would.
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I still agree with the number one reason for people to have flash is for them to watch porn. Do not argue about the statment i just said, you and i both know its true.
But with the new info about higher-end phones soon to have divx support in the flash well thats just amazing. Of course without great service your pretty much screwed but say we had great service as well as the opportunity to use this feature wouldn't you take advantage of this at work on break and watch some movies and what not? I sure would.
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Most porn sites have MP4 streaming LOL
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Most porn sites have MP4 streaming LOL
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The ones that don't are the the ones they want flash for.
I still agree with the number one reason for people to have flash is for them to watch porn. Do not argue about the statment i just said, you and i both know its true.
But with the new info about higher-end phones soon to have divx support in the flash well thats just amazing. Of course without great service your pretty much screwed but say we had great service as well as the opportunity to use this feature wouldn't you take advantage of this at work on break and watch some movies and what not? I sure would.
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what about shockwave games and embeded videos other than porn. HULU! I personally dont use my desktop except for running large programs like adobe and for large downloads
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Buddatearz said:
what about shockwave games and embeded videos other than porn. HULU! I personally dont use my desktop except for running large programs like adobe and for large downloads
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Hulu will work if we can get 10.1 Froyo, but as of right now idk if we'll see that.
Doesn't Hulu block mobile phones anyway?
I thought they set it up so you have to buy Hulu+ like on the PS3.
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Doesn't Hulu block mobile phones anyway?
I thought they set it up so you have to buy Hulu+ like on the PS3.
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They have an android app out thats works on the high end phones, was told it works but never tried it (seeing as i dont have highend phone)
You pervs stop the porn thing, that's probably the reason we don't get full flash!
And flash games?? Are you kidding!!! Don't waste time on those crappy-ass games!
There are many other reasongs why would we want full flash,
Has anyone thought of the streaming tv viewing channels ability! Or streams of radio stations, which some work over flash player 10.1
One could watch Live TV!!!
Think of the real benefits of flash.
Well, stock flash on 2.1 works with many sites with medium/small flash videos, but not Live Streams...
One of the reasongs why I won't flash a Froyo rom, I want Sense and Flash!
Just my opinion
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A good temporary solution, anyone ever try Skyfire browser?
It works great with most streaming websites.
Hi, have tried the stock 2.2.1 ROM, it wont play flash videos properly, i mean the audio stream is perfect however the video is very clunky..... at tyms frame changes after 2-3 seconds..... Please help me with the ROM which plays flash content on the browser perfectly......
Thanx
It should be no surprise that Flash runs poorly on mobile devices. Even duo-core laptops are stressed with Flash, especially on OS X.
skyfire .... lool
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skyfire .... lool
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does skyfire work to you on playing flash videos? i dont think so
no problems with flash-videos under CM6.1 here...
try overclocking at 1000Mhz / vsel 60
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It should be no surprise that Flash runs poorly on mobile devices. Even duo-core laptops are stressed with Flash, especially on OS X.
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HW Accelerated Flash 10.1 running on Cortex A8 devices runs great as evident from devices already running with this configuration.
I'm just waiting for official 2.2 for my flash fix.. (hopefully not in vain)
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does skyfire work to you on playing flash videos? i dont think so
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i was kind of joking there, but to me the truth is there is no real rom available that plays flash videos properly, because you need to overclock to very high frequencies and the phone playing flash is like a toaster and the battery drain is absurd.
skyfire may not be the perfect solution but it works really well it gets the job done
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i was kind of joking there, but to me the truth is there is no real rom available that plays flash videos properly, because you need to overclock to very high frequencies and the phone playing flash is like a toaster and the battery drain is absurd.
skyfire may not be the perfect solution but it works really well it gets the job done
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does skyfire work to you on 2.1 roms when choosing "desktop" as user agent? because to me it doesnt!
or are you saying you're using this browser in 2.2.1 and it plays properly flash files?
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does skyfire work to you on 2.1 roms when choosing "desktop" as user agent? because to me it doesnt!
or are you saying you're using this browser in 2.2.1 and it plays properly flash files?
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Uh? Have you tried Skyfire? If you did, you know how it works, right? It plays flash videos quite fine.
Thnx for the replies..... i m using Skyfire at the moment however it does not play all the videos apart from that some videos for game reviews specially ask you for a dob which cannot be entered on skyfire......
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no problems with flash-videos under CM6.1 here...
try overclocking at 1000Mhz / vsel 60
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Thought of trying dat however as per reviews it drains the battery so dnt wana try it.... m gonna try the cronos rom... thnxxx
No...skyfire does not play most of the flash videos on 2.1 roms. If you want to check this on 2.1 rom go to skifire and use the desktop as user agent and go to miniclip.com. nothing will work. or go to youtube and search for a video that is not available in mobile version. ex: eminem and rihanna love the way you lie official video from.
so dont tell me that skyfire works perfectly
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I've seen (If my memory serves me correctly) Flash running extremely well on the Droid (first gen) which has identical HW to Milestone so I think official Froyo will be pretty good in this regard.
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It should be no surprise that Flash runs poorly on mobile devices. Even duo-core laptops are stressed with Flash, especially on OS X.
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OS X yeah, Mac's tend to bake while running Flash. But I think the latest "Square" beta adds HW acceleration to fix this.
My Galaxy S runs flash fine on a good ROM, and Nexus/Desire/Incredible/EVO/DesireZ/Desire HD & Droid2/DroidX all handle it fine.
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OS X yeah, Mac's tend to bake while running Flash. But I think the latest "Square" beta adds HW acceleration to fix this.
My Galaxy S runs flash fine on a good ROM, and Nexus/Desire/Incredible/EVO/DesireZ/Desire HD & Droid2/DroidX all handle it fine.
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Even the milestone and cdma counterpart play flash videos flawlessly.... M using Cronos Rom as of now and some flash videos work on it however others are still bad.... Maybe will get to enjoy dat only wid the official 2.2 which will be out in Q1 2011 in India... m sure it wont come before April or May in India
Will a rooted NC ever be able to play real Flash movies and games ( Flash 10.x ) Will it be doable whith Froyo ?? Flash and Java are the only 2 things that I still really crave for my NC.
Not with that attitude.
Real answer: ive little doubt that nookie froyo or cyanogen will make it happen and very soon.
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Will a rooted NC ever be able to play real Flash movies or games ( Flash 10.x ) Will it be workable when Froyo ?? Flash and Java are the only 2 things that we really need.
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Of course it will.
It's only been out for two months, and look at how far it has come.
The thing will be making me coffee by summer.
How do you define working? I can go to the about flash page from Dolphin HD on Nookie Froyo and it shows a valid version (10,1,61,68). UPDATE: Make that 1,1,106,15 from the Market update.
Homer
am I missing something?
are you asking weather or not the nook color can play flash videos in the browser like from Youtube or Ebaums world or sites like that? or do mean something else. because I got flash on my nook color. not flash lite but the full version. flash 10
I've had some success with Skyfire playing videos.
Yep, I never cared much for skyfire either and just wait until you go to a page/site just LOADED with videos...
I expect that flash will make it to the NC, but I'm not expecting it to be lag free with some things given the Galaxy Tab performance... my gTablet actually nearly runs flash almost as well as my notebook (P8600/4850 mobility(same as desktop @ lower clock))
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Real answer: ive little doubt that nookie froyo or cyanogen will make it happen and very soon.
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^ This.
I anxiously await news on the cyanogen front.
trentmaynard said:
are you asking weather or not the nook color can play flash videos in the browser like from Youtube or Ebaums world or sites like that? or do mean something else. because I got flash on my nook color. not flash lite but the full version. flash 10
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I was talking more about getting my NC to play flash game's via flash site's on the web. I Know about skyfire working with flash vidieo's....but I want to play flash games
I just picked up the Nook Color and after rooting, installing Clockwork, and then Phiredroid, I have everything working the way I want it except youtube. I've tried this thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=925671
and many others from google searches. This is really frustrating as I love this as a tablet, but without having youtube on it makes it a lot less entertaining. I can play embedded videos, go to youtube.com and play just fine, but the app won't install. Any help is appreciated!
I dunno what the thread said, but on my nc, it was just clear market ap data, set led density to 160, (don't forget latest possible market app), reboot and yt installs fine officially for me
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I can get youtube to install without any problems, but whenever I try to run it, it force closes. Most annoying thing right now haha
roundeye1987 said:
I can get youtube to install without any problems, but whenever I try to run it, it force closes. Most annoying thing right now haha
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I made my NC work just fine with Flash/YouTube by downgrading to working apps, as described in my blog http://fineoils.blogspot.com.
Enjoy and don't forget to thank me.
aludal said:
I made my NC work just fine with Flash/YouTube by downgrading to working apps, as described in my blog http://fineoils.blogspot.com.
Enjoy and don't forget to thank me.
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Cockyness aside, thanks are in order; umm, thanks!
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Cockyness aside, thanks are in order; umm, thanks!
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Perceived "Cockiness" stemmed out of fact that I suggested the solution for Nookcolor back in January. It was almost ignored here, and I was consequently ostracized because of my firm belief CM7 on Nookcolor has NO hardware acceleration of 2D/3D/video rendering. Older Flash and YouTube allow fallback to "software" rendering, newer versions deny it.
Did you try newer versions of YouTube/Flash?
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Perceived "Cockiness" stemmed out of fact that I suggested the solution for Nookcolor back in January. It was almost ignored here, and I was consequently ostracized because of my firm belief CM7 on Nookcolor has NO hardware acceleration of 2D/3D/video rendering. Older Flash and YouTube allow fallback to "software" rendering, newer versions deny it.
Did you try newer versions of YouTube/Flash?
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No offense intended, didn't know the back story. And no, once I got it working, I was so happy my headaches were gone I didn't try any newer versions. I may later on tonight, though. And thanks again. Youtube is spectacular on here heh Just need to find something that will let me play 720p .mkv files now.
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No offense intended, didn't know the back story. And no, once I got it working, I was so happy my headaches were gone I didn't try any newer versions. I may later on tonight, though. And thanks again. Youtube is spectacular on here heh Just need to find something that will let me play 720p .mkv files now.
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Mobo Player? Rock Player? Though these might be good only for up to 480p in NC -- when there's no HW acceleration. 1350 MHz overclock may help a little.
If you really want to find something to play 720p .mkv files (and 1080p full 59.94 FPS files) you might want to try $99 HP TouchPad (and almost equally priced Jaguar 3 tablet in October) instead of NookColor. I'm done with CM7 on NookColor, you can sense it from my blog. The whole Android project is looking quite exhausted for our 4-year old chip with 8-year old SGX530 GPU.
You may want to share my find with other people who are struggling with YouTube/Flash on NC here at XDA Devs, that would be the better "Thank-You", LOL. Even if I don't get a single penny from visitors to my blog (banned at AdSense for critisizing Google).
It's hard to find much discussion about ICS and flash player. Basically, from what I've found, there is no hardware acceleration. For me, it's important that it function at least as well as Gingerbread allowed.
I had LPY flashed for a day, but didn't have time to test the following. LPY was silky smooth, and I was getting amazing battery life, but choppy flash video on some sites killed it for me. However, I am safely and successfully back on GB, LC1, Darky. Originally flashed back to stock-rootable GB through ODIN, rooted, then applied Darky in CWM..for anyone that cares. Rocking 240 density, LauncherEX, DialerEX, loving all the extra real-estate. Too bad NoteCore0.1 refused to allow density changes!
Has anyone had any improvement forcing HW acceleration?
How about 2D GPU Rendering in Dev Options?
Maxthon Browser for 10" Tab? (Transformer Prime forums indicated this particular release of this particular browser has some magic property that runs flash correctly)
Does anyone care enough? Work-arounds? Where would the central ICS Flash Player discussion be?
YBLEGAL1605 said:
It's hard to find much discussion about ICS and flash player. Basically, from what I've found, there is no hardware acceleration. For me, it's important that it function at least as well as Gingerbread allowed.
I had LPY flashed for a day, but didn't have time to test the following. LPY was silky smooth, and I was getting amazing battery life, but choppy flash video on some sites killed it for me. However, I am safely and successfully back on GB, LC1, Darky. Originally flashed back to stock-rootable GB through ODIN, rooted, then applied Darky in CWM..for anyone that cares. Rocking 240 density, LauncherEX, DialerEX, loving all the extra real-estate. Too bad NoteCore0.1 refused to allow density changes!
Has anyone had any improvement forcing HW acceleration?
How about 2D GPU Rendering in Dev Options?
Maxthon Browser for 10" Tab? (Transformer Prime forums indicated this particular release of this particular browser has some magic property that runs flash correctly)
Does anyone care enough? Work-arounds? Where would the central ICS Flash Player discussion be?
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same problem here, and there are a lot of comments in the market regarding this! also the 2d hardware acceleration does not change this "flash-desaster"...
Out of interest why do you need flash so bad? Its support sucks because its a dieing platform you can do everything in html5 that flash can do and ota far lead resource hungry making it much better for mobile devices
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zacthespack said:
Out of interest why do you need flash so bad? Its support sucks because its a dieing platform you can do everything in html5 that flash can do and ota far lead resource hungry making it much better for mobile devices
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First of all, you simply cannot do everything in HTML5 that you can do in Flash! Whilst the functionality gap is getting smaller all the time, it isn't currently zero.
Secondly, there are several very popular websites across the globe that still rely on Flash. For example, BBC iPlayer, which is used extensively in the UK, uses Flash to deliver content.
Flash may well be dying, but it isn't dead yet!
Regards,
Dave
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Out of interest why do you need flash so bad? Its support sucks because its a dieing platform you can do everything in html5 that flash can do and ota far lead resource hungry making it much better for mobile devices
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Many sites with funny videos are using flash video players. And almost all other news portals are using flash videos too. Social network (vk.com) uses it too. This is a very common web component.
By the way, I noticed that there 2 versions of adobe flash. YBLEGAL1605, what is your adobe flash version?
11.1.111.9 - is for Android 2.3.x and Android 3.x.x
11.1.115.8 - is for Android 4.x.x
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First of all, you simply cannot do everything in HTML5 that you can do in Flash! Whilst the functionality gap is getting smaller all the time, it isn't currently zero.
Secondly, there are several very popular websites across the globe that still rely on Flash. For example, BBC iPlayer, which is used extensively in the UK, uses Flash to deliver content.
Flash may well be dying, but it isn't dead yet!
Regards,
Dave
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Many sites with funny videos are using flash video players. And almost all other news portals are using flash videos too. Social network (vk.com) uses it too. This is a very common web component.
By the way, I noticed that there 2 versions of adobe flash. YBLEGAL1605, what is your adobe flash version?
11.1.111.9 - is for Android 2.3.x and Android 3.x.x
11.1.115.8 - is for Android 4.x.x
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In both cases I would recommend using skyfire web browser as it compresses flash video to a more support format https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.skyfire.browser
And from what I know about the only things html5 cant do is interact with a web cam and dosnt have DRM support
I don't know where I've read but Samsung or android // Google wants to move on to html5 (aka to drop flash support), like Apple did a long time ago.
Yes, html5 is better from resorce-consuming point of view, but still a lot of websites use flash.
We only hope that more websites will move to html5-based animations in future.
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Especially Korean drama streaming sites.
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Many sites with funny videos are using flash video players. And almost all other news portals are using flash videos too. Social network (vk.com) uses it too. This is a very common web component.
By the way, I noticed that there 2 versions of adobe flash. YBLEGAL1605, what is your adobe flash version?
11.1.111.9 - is for Android 2.3.x and Android 3.x.x
11.1.115.8 - is for Android 4.x.x
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Yes, I want it for the random site I'm bound to come across.
How lame is it when you say you have the latest technology, then when a friend or family asks you to check out some website on it, then it doesn't work, because it doesn't support flash, a technology so old....well, ya it's old! My old windows mobile phone played some of theses ICS problem sites just fine! That's not cool.
I'm back on GB, 11.1.111.9. I'm pretty sure when I was on LPY, it was version 11.1.115.8. I know I uninstalled it, and re-installed it from the market. This fixed the original blue box missing plugin scenario, but now we have the chop. Also, a few articles saying Adobe is stealthy releasing 11.2 seems to be a lie because I can't find any apk's OR market review with 11.2.
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In both cases I would recommend using skyfire web browser as it compresses flash video to a more support format https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.skyfire.browser
And from what I know about the only things html5 cant do is interact with a web cam and dosnt have DRM support
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Nice! I didn't think of skyfire but actually that's what it took to make my WM phone play back in the day. Is been a while.
As soon as this ICS bug is squashed, I will probably flash it and give skyfire a go. For the most part I can live without some video, but it looks really tacky when you want to show it off if it's broken.
Here is a read:
http://thenextweb.com/dd/2012/05/22...nds-of-times-slower-on-mobile-devices-report/
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In both cases I would recommend using skyfire web browser as it compresses flash video to a more support format https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.skyfire.browser
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Personally, I don't think much of Skyfire as a browser, and its "Flash" video support is flakey at best in my experience - with iPlayer, I more often than not get a "media error".
Skyfire is a great solution if you don't have native Flash, but when you do it just doesn't cut it IMO.
I wish that the BBC hadn't used Flash for their Android iPlayer implementation, especially when they could've just tweaked the containers for their iOS streams to support both Android and iOS simultaneously. It certainly looks like a remarkably short sighted decision given that Adobe is dropping Flash support for mobile.
Regards,
Dave
Personally I'll be glad when Flash dies, for lots of reasons, but understand why it's a pain right now.
As for the BBC iPlayer comments; I've no problem at all on LPY with the app. Am I just not fussy enough?
foxmeister said:
Personally, I don't think much of Skyfire as a browser, and its "Flash" video support is flakey at best in my experience - with iPlayer, I more often than not get a "media error".
Skyfire is a great solution if you don't have native Flash, but when you do it just doesn't cut it IMO.
I wish that the BBC hadn't used Flash for their Android iPlayer implementation, especially when they could've just tweaked the containers for their iOS streams to support both Android and iOS simultaneously. It certainly looks like a remarkably short sighted decision given that Adobe is dropping Flash support for mobile.
Regards,
Dave
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+1
skyfire suck balls
Well I doubt it will be to much longer until the iplayer has native html5 video (after all it already uses this for iOS) and as flash support gets killed for mobile by adobe other formats will take its place, I would say less and less sites are souly use flash, but of cause for years to come there will be random sites that still only uses it, its the case with all new formats.
Personally I have always found streaming and using flash within the browser to just be a bit of a pig and most of the time just wait till I can get to a computer
Literally just got my note today, and was just about to update to ICS but though I'd better check if there were any drawbacks before I plunged right in, and luckily enough I saw that flash has been dropped (Actually in a blog post about 10 reasons why ICS is better than gingerbread, it was casually dropped in whilst saying the new browser is better)
Soo... Am I right in thinking I have to decide whether I'd rather have flash and put up with cut down mobile versions of websites OR full websites but no flash?
I've spent happy years with an N900, and so I'm quite accustomed to the internet on my phone being the same as on my desktop...
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Literally just got my note today, and was just about to update to ICS but though I'd better check if there were any drawbacks before I plunged right in, and luckily enough I saw that flash has been dropped (Actually in a blog post about 10 reasons why ICS is better than gingerbread, it was casually dropped in whilst saying the new browser is better)
Soo... Am I right in thinking I have to decide whether I'd rather have flash and put up with cut down mobile versions of websites OR full websites but no flash?
I've spent happy years with an N900, and so I'm quite accustomed to the internet on my phone being the same as on my desktop...
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From my experience flash is not not unsupported it just is a bit pants on ICS. I recently debated with myself about this as I'm a fan of the Escapist website but their HTML5 media only comes with a paid subscription.
Running their site on Dolphin with a Desktop UI works okay until you try and maximise the video content. Then everything falls over and you have to begin again and just zoom in on the video as best you can.
This is okay I guess but a bit of a pain when I know their Flash stuff would work a lot better on GB.
I can't let go of Paranoid Android tho, it's just too sweet.
I'm on CM9 and have no problems with flash on ics+ browser.
Skyfire is a horrid browser, caused me nothing but issues trying to watch 'flash' videos or even goto everyday websites like facebook.
cryptid said:
Skyfire is a horrid browser, caused me nothing but issues trying to watch 'flash' videos or even goto everyday websites like facebook.
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Forget Skyfire. It used to work but nowadays it's useless. It does not play most of the videos I frequently come across.
Sent from my revived Galaxy Note