Hi I've been constantly using YouTube a lot and I'm not sure if I'm the only one seeing this issue but it's very very annoying. The issue with YouTube is that for every video I play no matter what I always have to click on either 720p, 1080p, or 1440p if available HD option for every you tube video I play no matter what. I remembered before all you had to do is pick 1080p and that's it it sticks for every video even when you exit the app and launch it the next day it's still was on 1080p so I'm wondering why am I going through this? Did you YouTube change it up? Are any of you guys experiencing this?
I think it auto changes based on what it "thinks" your network can handle.
gorei23 said:
I think it auto changes based on what it "thinks" your network can handle.
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Well I can understand that but today I was in my house all day on WiFi and my WiFi speeds average is in the 40mbps and I was having this issue with YouTube all day. I just wish there where some kind of hacked YouTube apk like before when you was able to force 1080p to stick no matter what.
Yea it never does
Hey there. I have an issue with YouTube. When I select the video quality / resolution I no longer select 1440p. It doesn't show in the menu. I was previously on NOS 7.1.2 and updated two days ago to NOS 8.1.0 and the app behaviour didn't change.
I tried also with YouTube Vance magisk module and forced the resolution to 1440p but to no avail.
Has Google changed something ? Is anyone facing this issue or it is just me ?
Apparently the problem occurred after 1st of April. I mean if I go to see a YouTube clip uploaded before this moment I can select 1440p, but after this date it doesn't allow to go further than 1080p.
I guess Google did something. Maybe the option to select higher resolution above 1080p are restricted to YouTube Red only ?
If someone could check this and report back to me. I would really appreciate it. Thank you...and thanks to nittin for his amazing work with NitrogenOS.
from what I noticed it's something related to adblocking, at least in my case. Updating to latest yt apk often fixes this "auto downgrade" too for some time (I'm using AdAway and Youtube AdAway - the xposed module - without those, no quality downgrades, but bloated with ads: /). Not sure about 1440p, since I changed my screen res to 1080p
Edit: both 1440p and 4k showing up on my pc, even on latest videos, not sure how that compares to a phone tho.
Thanks for the reply but this doesn't apply in my situation. As I said, clips older than 01.04.2018 ate running at 1440p anything after this are capped to 1080p.
I believe there something broke by Google. I would like to know if someone else with a Nexus 6 is experiencing the same thing.
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Thanks for the reply but this doesn't apply in my situation. As I said, clips older than 01.04.2018 ate running at 1440p anything after this are capped to 1080p.
I believe there something broke by Google. I would like to know if someone else with a Nexus 6 is experiencing the same thing.
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Same issue here. No option to play 1440p. I've read that it has to do with using an ad blocker ( adaway, etc). Sucks because I pay for YouTube Red through GPM.... Might have to figure out how to modify my host file to filter out Youtube now.
Ok. But I don't use adblocker. I have NOS 8.1.0 installed with gapps and magisk. I tried the youtube official version, i tried the youtube vanced (magisk module) whici by the way it allows youtube to play in the background even with your screen off (same as youtube red). You'd better check it out.
What I don't get it is why some clips are played in 1440p (the ones uploaded before 01.04.2018).
Maybe other Nexus 6 users will join us and will enlighten us.
wavedashdoc said:
Same issue here. No option to play 1440p. I've read that it has to do with using an ad blocker ( adaway, etc). Sucks because I pay for YouTube Red through GPM.... Might have to figure out how to modify my host file to filter out Youtube now.
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Ok. But I don't use adblocker. I have NOS 8.1.0 installed with gapps and magisk. I tried the youtube official version, i tried the youtube vanced (magisk module) whici by the way it allows youtube to play in the background even with your screen off (same as youtube red). You'd better check it out.
What I don't get it is why some clips are played in 1440p (the ones uploaded before 01.04.2018).
Maybe other Nexus 6 users will join us and will enlighten us.
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I installed the youtube vanced mod, and after forcing the vp9 codec or whatever its name is 1440p came back for me
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Looks like something have changed att youtube because it's like the built in youtube application is suddenly struggling to play the high res videos. It's not a buffering issue, I've checked that already. Videos get short pauses now and then, almost like the hardware acceleration is disabled. I doubt I'm the only one experiencing this...
Could you link me to this youtube app, please? I went directly to the youtube site yesterday and streamed a couple of short vids which played ok but with buffering. It played in the stream app on the phone and I couldn't zoom it or do full screen. What does the youtube app do differently? Does it allow better streaming or full screen or something?
I mean the original youtube app thats pre-installed in the Diamond. It uses hardware acceleration to play videos with nice quality and smooth framerate, now it's not that good anymore so I'm guessing something have changed at youtube... It's strange though...
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I mean the original youtube app thats pre-installed in the Diamond. It uses hardware acceleration to play videos with nice quality and smooth framerate, now it's not that good anymore so I'm guessing something have changed at youtube... It's strange though...
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That app doesn't appear to be on my phone, the t-mobile compact 4.
Maybe your operator removed it from your Diamond rom??? You can install it separately, check here for info and the download: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=472940
Just make sure you install the VGA one... But you probably already knew that of course...
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Maybe your operator removed it from your Diamond rom??? You can install it separately, check here for info and the download: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=472940
Just make sure you install the VGA one... But you probably already knew that of course...
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Yep, I suspect t-mobile did indeed remove it. Thanks for the link!
Your welcome If for some reason the app refuses to play the videos on your Diamond you might need to install the youtube fix aswell...: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=2657501&postcount=164
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Your welcome If for some reason the app refuses to play the videos on your Diamond you might need to install the youtube fix aswell...: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=2657501&postcount=164
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Okey dokey, thanks. It's installed now and rebooting. I'll try the fix if it doesn't work. And no, I didn't know I needed the VGA version so thanks for pointing that out.
Ok, I installed the fix because the screen looked a bit messed up and the text is tiny and I can't seem to zoom in. Stil the same with the fix however the video runs very well. But, the capture area is a small square on the left bottom corner in landscape mode. I'll take some pictures of my screen for you.
Ok, here's 2 screenshots. It defaults to playing in landscape but only the small area you can see. Where I type to search, the letters are cut off (see 'CATS AND DOGS') and the text is microscopically small. Any adjustments I can make? Is it possible for the seartch to bring up more than 5 results?
At least it works though, very smooth playback.
That looks very strange... Videos should play fullscreen in landscape...
I suggest you to uninstall that version & the fix and get this version instead: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=481495
It's a newer version of the HTC youtube player, download the second link, the full version: http://www.uploadjockey.com/download/4336552/Youtube_v1.6.1820.4128_FULL.zip
I really hope this will solve your problems and make it work as it should, if not I'm out of ideas since I'm not an expert in this area...
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That looks very strange... Videos should play fullscreen in landscape...
I suggest you to uninstall that version & the fix and get this version instead: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=481495
It's a newer version of the HTC youtube player, download the second link, the full version: http://www.uploadjockey.com/download/4336552/Youtube_v1.6.1820.4128_FULL.zip
I really hope this will solve your problems and make it work as it should, if not I'm out of ideas since I'm not an expert in this area...
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Thanks man, I'll give it a try.
This is odd. I've installed it successfully and it shows up in 'remove programs' but it doesn't show up anywhere else, nowhere to be found in program files, (the other version did), so I can't start the app. This happened when installing to the internal storage, uninstalling it, and reinstalling to the device.
I'll reinstall the earlier version and then do the upgrade version, see if that helps.
Yes that worked! Thanks for the links owziee
I notice that I can scroll up and down the list of videos with the centre button, but it doesn't respond to screen touch with finger, is it meant to be like that? Anyway, not bothered, just wondering. I'm happy now, the quality is great, it's full screen and the text is normal size now.
No thats not normal, I can use my finger to scroll but at least you can watch the videos now. Maybe you'll find a fix for the scrolling issue.
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No thats not normal, I can use my finger to scroll but at least you can watch the videos now. Maybe you'll find a fix for the scrolling issue.
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I suppose it may be that because your Diamond came pre fitted with a youtube app that perhaps it was optimised to work with touch screen? Whereas mine is a t mobile phone which didn't come with youtube on it.
Hi,
I was checking the forum, but found no similar topic, so I opened a new one(bit surprised, that nobody noticed this).
So the problem is, that whenever I play a youtube video, it's bad quality! Or at least not as good as 720p. Of course connected to wifi(high quality automatically chosen).
What I did is, I searched on "Crysis HD", and played the "ultra hd" video. It looked okay.
After that I downloaded JetVD, and downloaded the actual video in 720p.
What a difference!!!
So my question is: whenever I'm on wifi, is it possible to play the youtube video in proper quality?
seach youtube hq
I'm not 100% sure what you mean, I searched youtube HQ on google, on market, and on XDA, but found nothing related.
If you mean turn on the "high quality" in the options while playing, it's done. My question is different.
http://blog.laptopmag.com/htc-evo-4g-offers-youtube-hq-makes-droid-cry
I had been looking for this too, where can I can such an app
All youtube videos that i play look like the worst quality stretched to fullscreen, it's just horrible, when i select menu-> play high quality. it just keeps loading and never starts playing, not on wifi, not on 3G.
abhishek.vij said:
http://blog.laptopmag.com/htc-evo-4g-offers-youtube-hq-makes-droid-cry
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Aye. This is it! So somebody knows how to get around this? Obviously it's not hardware restriction, we just need a proper app for this! Maybe somehow use the youtube player that EVO uses?
Many of the custom roms have the YouTube app swaped for the HD version. You should have a look.
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Many of the custom roms have the YouTube app swaped for the HD version. You should have a look.
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Is there any way to somehow get it without a custom rom?
I have no idea sorry.
kwukduck said:
All youtube videos that i play look like the worst quality stretched to fullscreen, it's just horrible, when i select menu-> play high quality. it just keeps loading and never starts playing, not on wifi, not on 3G.
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PM your email address, I'll send you the apk, hope I can help.
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Do you have the HQ option in your youtube player? PM me your email, I'll email you the APK for installation.
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Before I updated to new firmware always had to select "play in high quality" after starting a video but now it does it automatically. Have always had the box ticked.
video set to high quality, the problem is not this.
Roy: sent pm with my email!
Look here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=729453
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Look here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=729453
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No, unfortunately it's still not doing the thing I want.
You might not notice, but there is a big difference between youtube 720p(downloaded to PC, and copied to phone), and youtube HD.
I installed the app, but it does nothing, but moves the HD button from the menu to the onscreen interface. HD quality videos are still not even close to 720p.
I was curious if anyone has problems playing the vids on youtube that are HQ. If I turn off the HQ for the the vid then it plays no problem.
When I leave it on, a msg from the app displays just saying there was a problem playing your video please retry.
I've experienced this only in one other app recently released by funimation.
Hulu and netflix work fine for me. I have tried a multitude of roms to see if its linked to specific ones.
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I was curious if anyone has problems playing the vids on youtube that are HQ. If I turn off the HQ for the the vid then it plays no problem.
When I leave it on, a msg from the app displays just saying there was a problem playing your video please retry.
I've experienced this only in one other app recently released by funimation.
Hulu and netflix work fine for me. I have tried a multitude of roms to see if its linked to specific ones.
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Question has been asked a million times . Anyways here's your answer, you need to use an older version of the youtube app for HQ to work. AFAIK the last working version is 2.1.6. Happy youtubing!
I have seen this a million times as well. But I never really paid any attention because I didn't care.
But yesterday I was testing some system app mods, so I ended up downloading YouTube from the market. HQ videos were playing for me.
I guess that's unusual or whatever. Maybe they weren't really HQ quality, I don't know. But they were playing.
Me and the kid watched funny cat videos for over an hour.
Non-opengl, no system mods that would matter.
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I have seen this a million times as well. But I never really paid any attention because I didn't care.
But yesterday I was testing some system app mods, so I ended up downloading YouTube from the market. HQ videos were playing for me.
I guess that's unusual or whatever. Maybe they weren't really HQ quality, I don't know. But they were playing.
Me and the kid watched funny cat videos for over an hour.
Non-opengl, no system mods that would matter.
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That's interesting, what rom are you using?
Could you try it out again and report back?
I was afraid it was something app related. Its not a big deal. Was mostly curious as well as seeing if I could do some tweak to get the funimation app to work as well. Thanks for the help!
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For those of us who want to use the older version until things get fixed or worked around in the roms, how can I hide the older apk from the market so I don't get spammed all the time to update?
Sent from my NookColor using Tapatalk
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For those of us who want to use the older version until things get fixed or worked around in the roms, how can I hide the older apk from the market so I don't get spammed all the time to update?
Sent from my NookColor using Tapatalk
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Go to settings in market/play store and tell it to not notify you of any updates.
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That's interesting, what rom are you using?
Could you try it out again and report back?
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Okay, well I had flashed a couple of times since I posted that, and when I went to try it again, it didn't work. I knew I wasn't wrong the other day, so I reflashed what I thought I had been running before, and now the HQ videos are working with the current market YouTube.
The change between working and not working was I didn't flash the "take1" kernel like I had before.
So this is the setup. I am running a straight build from source, without opengl. I built it myself, but that shouldn't matter. It was built on April 8th, and comes with the standard kernel (no NAT filter or any of the new commits.)
The only difference between mine and the eyeballers (not counting any cherry-picking he may be doing) is that I compiled in a port of PDroid. There are some changes to some system apps, but I don't think that would matter.
Basically, anyone running a straight flash of eyeballer's April 8 build should have the same ability to run the videos with the HQ button on or off. I will not swear they are true HQ videos, I don't know that for certain. But the videos run either way.
EDIT: Let me know if anyone else has this working. I don't know much about YouTube or the whole HQ/HD thing and may be losing my mind.
I thought I had isolated the problem to a gapp, but now am not so sure. I will test again if no one else can get these working. I have uninstalled and reinstalled a bunch of stuff, and don't want to keep doing it if everyone can see HQ with the above setup.
Maybe everyone can in any setup and only the few people on this thread haven't realized it yet. idk.
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Okay, well I had flashed a couple of times since I posted that, and when I went to try it again, it didn't work. I knew I wasn't wrong the other day,....
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Ah I see you are using a CM9 build. There might be something to that. I'm on CM7.2 . Maybe in CM9 it got fixed somehow.
I thought it was working in cm7 as well. Maybe it was just a modded app though, which is no better than an older apk.
Well, unless someone with cm9 tells me it's unique, I will just assume everyone has it working. They probably do, I have never looked at it before I saw this thread the other day.
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Basically, anyone running a straight flash of eyeballer's April 8 build should have the same ability to run the videos with the HQ button on or off. I will not swear they are true HQ videos, I don't know that for certain. But the videos run either way.
EDIT: Let me know if anyone else has this working. I don't know much about YouTube or the whole HQ/HD thing and may be losing my mind.
I thought I had isolated the problem to a gapp, but now am not so sure. I will test again if no one else can get these working. I have uninstalled and reinstalled a bunch of stuff, and don't want to keep doing it if everyone can see HQ with the above setup.
Maybe everyone can in any setup and only the few people on this thread haven't realized it yet. idk.
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My experience has been that HQ sometimes works and sometimes doesn't. I believe it is due to the actual quality of the video being played. For non-HD videos the HQ is lit up and the movie loads and plays fine. For HD videos that are actually HD you get the error message and have to uncheck HQ to get the video to play.
I have had this experience in several different configurations:
eyeballer's opengl builds, original kernel
eyeballer's opengl builds, updated kernel
eyeballer's opengl 4.9, updated kernel take 2 (current setup)
I would like to know if others have the same experience with "HQ" working for what seem to be non-HD videos and not working when the video actually appears to be HD.
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Hello !
Has anyone been able to watch 1440p videos on YouTube with the phone ?
From what I know we should be able to do it since the declared rez is 1080x2160 which means 1440p ..
I've already tried to clear YouTube cache and I've also tired to find any related setting in the Settings menu.
The video I' using as reference is this and I'm connected on WI-FI) : https://youtu.be/Bey4XXJAqS8
I also noticed this problem...have u find a solution?
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I also noticed this problem...have u find a solution?
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Not yet .. I've tried several things but to no avail.. Maybe one of those moded YouTube apps can help but I won't take that risk ...
Maybe a YouTube will add support for our phone or something ...
Btw I'm using a H8266 XZ2 which I assume is the European version since I live on the Old Continent
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Not yet .. I've tried several things but to no avail.. Maybe one of those moded YouTube apps can help but I won't take that risk ...
Maybe a YouTube will add support for our phone or something ...
Btw I'm using a H8266 XZ2 which I assume is the European version since I live on the Old Continent
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I try and using vanced youtube with microg...uninstall official youtube, install vanced and microg apk (you can find here on xda) and on settings you can choose the resoution option override, restart the app and enjoy
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I try and using vanced youtube with microg...uninstall official youtube, install vanced and microg apk (you can find here on xda) and on settings you can choose the resoution option override, restart the app and enjoy
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Hi did it work was you able to override the resolution
Thanks
This screen is full HD 1080p, you will never have option of 1440p in YouTube. You can try anything it will not work.
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Yep, screen is FHD, or as they like it called, FHD+ which means that shorter edge is still 1080px so it's still 1080p. There's no way to watch 1440p in YouTube because you need a screen with higher resolution for that.
Hi All,
I have used my red magic 3 phone for about 9 months. Since then I have watched youtube videos, netflix, other torrent videos and mostly playing pubg mobile every night and I never come across to this experience (screen flicker).
This screen flicker only happens to one of the scene in youtube.
I am asking you guys, owner of red magic 3 to test this for me too, I am afraid this issue only happen to my screen and not yours. My phone is on Global ROM V2.18.
Here is part 1 and part 2 of my screen issue, some explanation is provided on the video description:
Part 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Emt9-pcNAlA
Part 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaiHSd2qqnQ
How to test this:
1. Watch the original youtube video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sQCmgCmN7U
2. Fast forward between 0:14 - 0:19
3. The flicker only happens at scene 0:16 - 0:18
Please let me know if this issue/flicker also happen on your phone too.
Any feedback is very much appreciated, thank you.
UPDATE FOR A FIX WORKING SOLUTION:
Do not use Youtube App but use Youtube Vanced instead, now any videos that previously has that screen glitch/flickering issue on Youtube, is gone while watching with Youtube Vanced.
Hi, has anyone faced this issue too ?
I have tried to Factory Reset my phone and the problem still persist. But if I download the video from youtube and copy to internal storage and play the video using local player or MX Player, the issue does not happen, kinda weird though.
This issue only happens with Youtube App, m.youtube but not with Netflix app and local video playback (MX Player)
It persists no matter what you do i have same issue
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It persists no matter what you do i have same issue
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some users on facebook and youtube told me to switch to CN ROM and it will fixed the issue as the CN ROM has DC Dimming, im not sure about it.
I m on cn rom also this problem is with the refresh rate it happens if u set ur screen to 90hz but in 60hz it works fine
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I m on cn rom also this problem is with the refresh rate it happens if u set ur screen to 90hz but in 60hz it works fine
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but how do I set the screen refresh rate to 60Hz ?
default refresh rate is 90Hz on home screen, only in game space I can set which app to 90 or 60.
do you have that same issue too ? (my first post youtube link)
Go to settings >display >refresh rate.
This option is only available in cn rom
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Go to settings >display >refresh rate.
This option is only available in cn rom
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I see. Alright I will note this for future reference.
In the meantime, I have just found the solution for the Youtube App glitch/flickering, which is to use Youtube Vanced instead.
You tube vance will cause flicker soon as i never used the official version of you tube
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You tube vance will cause flicker soon as i never used the official version of you tube
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I'll let you know once I encounter screen flicker with youtube vanced, so far, I have not faced it yet.
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You tube vance will cause flicker soon as i never used the official version of you tube
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hello, it's been 3 days and i've watched lots of videos using vanced and i've not encountered any flicker issue on my red magic 3 so far