So the official Netflix app just rolled out, and it works on our fellow HTC phones, the Incredible and Evo. For some reason, the Thunderbolt is not one of the initially supported devices. Any chance some devs can get this to work on our Bolts?
Edit: Here is the APK, thank the fine people over in the EVO forums.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=13730645&postcount=11
This is confirmed to not be working as is, due to a DRM notification. There may be nothing that can be done at the time being, but we shall see.
Someone post the APK
Currently browsing the Evo/Inc forums looking for an APK.
Added APK to OP.
doesnt work here on CM... seems to start playback but the video doesnt work then it just quits altogether
Anyone get this working?
Good post! Hope someone can get it working on the thunderbolt.
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Yeah, I am assuming it won't work as is. Hoping the devs have some sort of magic up their sleeves that can fix it.
kejar31 said:
doesnt work here on CM... seems to start playback but the video doesnt work then it just quits altogether
Anyone get this working?
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Getting the same thing on the stock TB.
Also getting a notification about a License required for DRM.
sounds good to me! can't wait to test it
I would love to see some Netflix on my TB. I don't know if the apk will be any good to modify since Netflix servers may just be checking the client's device info.
Can anyone confirm that the apk posted is different than the leak? The leaked version I have is 1.01 build 740558.
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Getting the same thing on the stock TB.
Also getting a notification about a License required for DRM.
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Stock TB rooted? Did you remove any files? There are some drm files on mine.
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Here is the one for the newer apk. Is different
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not working here on das bamf
got the DRM notification.
Mind you my tech/coding know how on Android is limited, but if the drm files can be put on our devices can we trick it into thinking its a different phone al.la the htcsense.com mod?
Of course that all depends on what it check to see if its a compatible device.
here is the apk
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/15431760/com.netflix.mediaclient-2.apk (pulled from my inc)
i get this message
Netflix is not supported on this device. Please check the Netflix website for a list of supported devices
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Here is the one for the newer apk. Is different
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Thanks!
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I modified my build.prop to make my phone look like an EVO, and still no luck. Something about DRM popped up in the notification bar, but when I clicked it, it just disappeared.
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Thanks!
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No problem. Good luck peeps!!
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Has anybody tried to get the T-Mobile TV app to work?
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I was just looking for this as well...
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I tried did not work .. I don't know why nit though I used old apk also tried download from media share also a no go
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I thought this app was discontinued. it was removed from the market place some time ago. If it works, can you guys PM me the apk? Thanks
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I have an .apk file and successfully installed on my NS, but I am not ready to sign up.
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I have an .apk file and successfully installed on my NS, but I am not ready to sign up.
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so you have to sign up/pay for the service after the app is installed, even if they've discontinued it?
The app does not work. I got the APK from my Vibrant; it installed fine but when running it I was told my model is not supported. Major disappointment.
Thanks I got it to run but when I tried to view anything it says content can not be downloaded
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The "on-demand" content seems to work but none of the "free" live content works.
interesting, i wonder if someone here can tweak it to work. Unless the free live content is the part of the service they killed...
http://www.engadget.com/2011/05/12/netflix-releases-android-app-for-select-htc-phones-samsung-nexu/
I hope the Xoom is not far behind.
I hope they start rolling this out on different devices.
The leaked netflix app a while back now has a different error message saying that the device is not supported
I wonder if we can trick the new app into thinking we are on one of those devices to try it out for the time being.
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Why would they not release this on tablets at the same time? That's retarded. I hope someone can port it to the xoom.
Surprising when I hit the Android Market web site and select install.. Not only does my Incredible show as a selection on the list, but so does my Nook Color!! The Thunderbolt, X and Xoom are grayed out.
I wonder if this app is built like the HBO2Go app (which complains about compatibility with the device on start up), or if we can pull the APK and side load it? (I'll have to test when I get home and power on my old Incredible)
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I wonder if we can trick the new app into thinking we are on one of those devices to try it out for the time being.
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Yea I was thinking the same thing (and the Thunderbolt too). Hopefully someone can try it out.
none of the device listed are multicore... fortunately the nexus s is not a qualcom chip based device so at least we know its not locked into a single manufacturer... i suspect that we will get it as soon as they roll out tegra support
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Yea I was thinking the same thing (and the Thunderbolt too). Hopefully someone can try it out.
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Unless someone here beats me to it, I'll try it on my Xoom and TB as soon as I get home (probably 3 hrs from now)...
Installed it on my A500 (got it off my Nexus One), "Netflix is not supported on this device.." Can manage my watch now queue, but that is it.
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Installed it on my A500 (got it off my Nexus One), "Netflix is not supported on this device.." Can manage my watch now queue, but that is it.
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that is kind of what I expected.. just like the APK pulled from the LG rom a while ago... and kind of like what the HBO2Go apk does when loaded onto other devices...
D/l and installed Netflix apk. Everything works except streaming. Tells you your device is not supported. I wonder if its a simple fix. I'm going to look into it.
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You can get the apk at multiupload. com/ NPZ062QIZB (stupid post limit, sorry)
I sideloaded it on my X and my Xoom. It works on my X, but the Xoom gets an 'unsupported device' error.
Cracked apk open. In the lib/armeabi file it lists 5 supported devices. They are in .so format however, not sure how to edit those. I'll keep everyone updated
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I wonder if we can trick the new app into thinking we are on one of those devices to try it out for the time being.
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This is trivial, but pointless. Playback will error out because we do not have the DRM it is looking for
Like so:
05-12 16:50:24.317: ERROR/CNetflixOMXILClient(1576): OMX enumerator found no names matching drm.play
05-12 16:50:24.317: ERROR/CNetflixOMXILClient(1576): Failed to identify and instantiate DRM play
05-12 16:50:24.317: ERROR/PlaybackDeviceNative(1576): Failed initializing Netflix OMX IL client
05-12 16:50:24.387: ERROR/nf_player(1576): MediaControl Listener: error = NFErr_MC_OpenDeviceFailure
05-12 16:50:24.387: ERROR/nf_player(1576): NetflixPlayer::sendEvent: msg: 100, ext1: 2, ext2: 4026597381, msg:
05-12 16:50:24.387: ERROR/nf-player(1576): MP Error PlayError
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Other people claim to have gotten it to work on the Nook Color by changing the build.prop to g2 though, so who knows
Can't edit .so without source. Thought about swapping build.props but sounds risky
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idkwhothatis123 said:
Can't edit .so without source. Thought about swapping build.props but sounds risky
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I attempted changing the items in build.prop that got things going for the Nook devices but had no luck. Device is not supported error when opening app. Changing build.prop did allow me to download the app from the market though.
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idkwhothatis123 said:
Can't edit .so without source. Thought about swapping build.props but sounds risky
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There is an 'isdevicesupported()' function in the androidutils source file that they use to check compatibility, however my attempts to edit the SMALI code has ended in failure on my part I just get an app that crashes, and I'm too lazy to build the app in debug and find out why.
Genius in progress
I do say, indeed, it was no trouble getting the APK file from my EVO to my Xoom. Should any of you, Dear Sirs, figure out a non-destructive way of getting this to play on a Xoom, I shall ask the Gods to bestow upon you: the Sword of Light.
I installed on my EVO earlier and it works beautifully! Wish it would come to the xoom
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iim right with ya buddy, can't wait.I'm surprised netflix already got as far as it did lol it was kinda out of the blue ..
Pulled this from the evo. Hope it works for you guys!! If not atleast get it ported!!
Thanks Jay! Just quoted you and posted it in my thread. Hopefully we can get this to work for us.
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Pulled this from the evo. Hope it works for you guys!! If not atleast get it ported!!
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Just pulled the apk and can confirm it's not working for us YET!! Hopefully that'll change soon!!!
App installs fine. But it doesn't seem to stream the movies. It gets a little farther than previous apk files. It shows like the movie wants to play but then it goes back to main menu. Then something came up on my notification bar saying drm license required. I tried it both in 4G and wifi.
Hopefully it gets ported to the thunderbolt soon.
I know ya'll got some great dev's over here I've been keeping an eye! Lol
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Thanks Jay! Just quoted you and posted it in my thread. Hopefully we can get this to work for us.
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I hope so. Looks like they did a nice job on it.
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Same here, it was about to play, then stopped,drm license, closest I've seen it to actually streaming something though
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Same here... actually started playing the starting movie intro sound then.... DRM...DAMMIT... hope something comes about soon
i can play about 5 seconds of audio (no video) then it goes back to the queue. it doesn't quit. it doesn't give me any error message about DRM.
Don't kill me over the piracy in technical terms of what i'm about to say but can we pull the DRM file from a Evo if it's a file, somehow merge it with the Apk like a Patch? or can we put it on our phone in the Drm location?
Those of you guys that have tried this on the T-bolt... what ROM are you on?
I know for Das Bamf they removed the DRM APK's that may be required to run this app. I think some other ROM dev's did this as well.
Are any of you on a stock ROM no de-bloat or anything? Maybe the DRM APK's that were taken out are all we need to get this running.
im on Das Bamf and get the DRM message
Same here... somebody from one of the other posts is supposedly stock rooted so it's not looking good without some dev work... only time will tell
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Those of you guys that have tried this on the T-bolt... what ROM are you on?
I know for Das Bamf they removed the DRM APK's that may be required to run this app. I think some other ROM dev's did this as well.
Are any of you on a stock ROM no de-bloat or anything? Maybe the DRM APK's that were taken out are all we need to get this running.
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[16:21] <@Adrynalyne> I have removed no drm from bamf 1.6
[16:21] <@Adrynalyne> or 1.5
Wicked the apk is working fine on my HD2 flashed with MDJ's 2.3.2 Gingerbread rom!!! Good looks on the apk file!
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Same here... somebody from one of the other posts is supposedly stock rooted so it's not looking good without some dev work... only time will tell
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No luck on VirusROM either. I don't get the DRM error, but it does start briefly then go back to the menu
T-Bolt Rooted Stock Sense, bloat removed with root explorer, same DRM issue. Something using Root explorer i noticed. In the Manifest there is a line of code saying Debuggable = false, if we change that to true, maybe we can have the app Debugg for us and it would help us find out what it's looking for?
i was running thunderrom and i had no streaming, I changed to CM7 and it would actually look like its gonna play. I did get sound but nothing played and it went back to the main menu after 5 sec
Tested on the Motorola xoom wifi and Motorola atrix but it says its incompatible.
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Tested on the Motorola xoom wifi and Motorola atrix but it says its incompatible.
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It's a HTC based app, doubt Moto would be supported on any device.
Hulu plus just added official support for the thunderbolt but upon running it I was immediatly hit with a device not supported error
I'm running Cm7 rc 1.2 any suggestions?
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I'm in the same boat. Any input would be appreciated.
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Ditto
Same as well. Latest CM7 on latest OTA radio.
I can't provide much help here... Running CM7 RC 1.2, latest radio. I'm not having any issue.
Same issue here
I am having the same issue, Hulu plus says the device is not supported. I found a different flash.apk from another forum that said it would get hulu to work, but no dice.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
it probably doesnt detect CM7 as being a thunderbolt. sorta like we had to trick the netflix app also. it runs on mine running BAMF sense 3.0 RC5 but force closes. I am thinking some hack will be needed to run netflix and hulu+ both.
Wow what BS! I want to try it out to see if I can just ditch Netflix since they are screwing everyone!!!
Idea: What about modifying the build.prop to make the device name match what it says stock?
Mustang302LX said:
Wow what BS! I want to try it out to see if I can just ditch Netflix since they are screwing everyone!!!
Idea: What about modifying the build.prop to make the device name match what it says stock?
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i think that is what will have to be done. i havent tried it yet though
howarmat said:
i think that is what will have to be done. i havent tried it yet though
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I will try it and let you guys know I just don't know what the device name is out of the box. Was it Thunderbolt without the capital B or was it the AD600blahblah lol?
now sure lol
It's ADR6400L I'm going to try now.
Nope still says unsupported device.
Anybody know what had to be done to allow the netflix app to work on CM7?
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Anybody know what had to be done to allow the netflix app to work on CM7?
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The Netflix app works on CM7. However this is for the new Hulu Plus app.
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Hopefully someone gets it working!
Mustang302LX said:
The Netflix app works on CM7. However this is for the new Hulu Plus app.
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I know this is hulu. Just seemed like its having the same problems running as netflix did at first. Thought it might be the same kind of device check feature that had to be bypassed.
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I know this is hulu. Just seemed like its having the same problems running as netflix did at first. Thought it might be the same kind of device check feature that had to be bypassed.
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I think it does have a device check as people with stock unrooted roms say it works for them
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I think it does have a device check as people with stock unrooted roms say it works for them
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Which doesn't make sense. I even named my device like it is stock and nada.
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Which doesn't make sense. I even named my device like it is stock and nada.
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im sure there are other ways it can check to see what "phone" you have. liking missing libraries or something.
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im sure there are other ways it can check to see what "phone" you have. liking missing libraries or something.
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Yeah hopefully someone can figure it out so we can rock some Hulu!
Its because we are blocking ad and modifying the hosts file.
you need to have adfree installed and hit revert to repair the hosts file.
Working now for me!
I'm getting tired of the slow scrolling and choppy behavior of apps that shouldn't be. Here is the Netflix app, latest, I think, that I modified to be optimized for Honeycomb. Basically just improves overall app performance.
Enjoy. (attached)
* (You will probably have to uninstall your current Netflix app to try this)
* Updated to Netflix version (360) from the market, released for Honeycomb officially on 10/19/11.
cant install...but I can download it...
You might have to uninstall the old version first.
Works great! (Yes, I did need to uninstall the previous version.)
Thanks!
app works, is very smooth on my Xoom. Thanks
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Can someone confirm
I tend to trust the members of XDA quite a lot, however, I'm not going to blindly install this apk. Can anyone confirm that it works?
I'm scared to login as well. The login bars arent misaligned like the account stealing Netflix APk reported to be floating around but I'm still nervous. Has anyone tried this? I'm sorry I'm questioning your work, it probably is fine and a great job done, you just can't be too cautious these days.
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you guys must smoke too much. dont be paranoid. mrschmitz is trying to help, and help he did! netflix is running much smoother for me now! loads ages faster as well. thanks mrschmitz!
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you guys must smoke too much. dont be paranoid. mrschmitz is trying to help, and help he did! netflix is running much smoother for me now! loads ages faster as well. thanks mrschmitz!
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No worries... mrschmitz is thanking you in return by saving your CC info and what not.
is this legit or what. Someone confirm....
SlapYoSelf said:
is this legit or what. Someone confirm....
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You know what's legit? The actual market provided app. It's easy enough to get the APK from a backup on a device that supports it.
If you installed any netfix apk on the xoom then let me make you just a little more paranoid! Did you get the other from the market? I didn't think so.......hmmmmm wonder who got you login from that version? Lol!
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If you installed any netfix apk on the xoom then let me make you just a little more paranoid! Did you get the other from the market? I didn't think so.......hmmmmm wonder who got you login from that version? Lol!
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Actually I did get it from the Market. Came off my Droid X2.
Not you! The people that got from XDA thread! Like me! OMG someone may be watching Netflix with my info!! No j/k. The app is fine. Don't know why everyone is so scared these days. I locked my CC with Netflix so you can't just go in and change it with the app or online. Have to have more info to make any changes.
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This does not work on the xoom family edition, throws 12001 error
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If you look through all of mrschmitz's posts on xda you will see he also optimized a nasa app for honeycomb and has contributed some dev work on multiple other things.
Always good to be paranoid with this sort of thing, but I would say it is probably safe.
I am surprised he hasn't chimed in and defended himself yet though.
Confirmed working. i just uninstalled, didn't bother trying without uninstall. Thanks!
Installed it. Video quality seemed to be better. Cam on here to read the comments and got paranoid at removed the app. Waiting for confirmation that this is ok, although i already logged on with the new app so if it was fake it would be too late right?
Doesn't work in Canada just like every other apk out there. Prompts me to update and says visit there bull**** website. A tablet and no Netflix...
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If you look through all of mrschmitz's posts on xda you will see he also optimized a nasa app for honeycomb and has contributed some dev work on multiple other things.
Always good to be paranoid with this sort of thing, but I would say it is probably safe.
I am surprised he hasn't chimed in and defended himself yet though.
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He is probably head slapping himself and saying "Why did I even bother?"
App works great for me, Netflix is much smoother now.