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Fixing YouTube app?

I'm just wondering whether anyone else is as frustrated as I am with the YouTube app included on the captivate. I always click on "more" and change it to "watch in high quality" whenever I pull up a video.
Is there some sort of workaround that could fix this? And by fix of course I mean change the app to always pull videos down in high quality.
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thebigbluecheez said:
I'm just wondering whether anyone else is as frustrated as I am with the YouTube app included on the captivate. I always click on "more" and change it to "watch in high quality" whenever I pull up a video.
Is there some sort of workaround that could fix this? And by fix of course I mean change the app to always pull videos down in high quality.
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I897 using XDA App
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You can flash the JH2 or JH3 ROM and it has a HQ button right on the front so it is an easy 1 click to load the HQ video, Or you can connect to a wireless connection and it will always load the HQ version..

I installed the default Youtube app from the Droid X or something that allows for you to set the high quality setting as default and includes the HQ button on the screen as well. Been working fine for me; but as always, buyer beware.

question, did you delete the original youtube app before installing this?

I'm leaning toward this option of installing another version of youtube. I'm rooted, and running Titanium backup and have used droid explorer and all. I would also like to know whether I need to uninstall the default youtube, because I've backed up and deleted the AT&T apps as recommended in another thread, but I haven't seen or tried reinstalling something once uninstalling using titanium backup. (Is that a paid version benefit?)
I don't really like the idea of flashing my rom just yet. I've had the phone about a month now, and am still a little jumpy with my new toy. Maybe in 6 months I'll be running cyanogenmod or something, but not just yet.
As far as connecting to a wireless network or just telling it every time to download in HQ, my problem is this: I'm not always near wi-fi, and it seems really hypocritical of the nation's fastest 3g network purveyors to make us watch underwater vaseline-glasses youtube videos when their network speeds support HQ viewing.
Thanks for the quick replies! XDA's great!

nammyczc said:
question, did you delete the original youtube app before installing this?
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I just installed it right without removing the original since I figured it was just like updating the application. I think it prompts you that the older version will be removed and replaced by that one anyways.

thebigbluecheez said:
I'm just wondering whether anyone else is as frustrated as I am with the YouTube app included on the captivate. I always click on "more" and change it to "watch in high quality" whenever I pull up a video.
Is there some sort of workaround that could fix this? And by fix of course I mean change the app to always pull videos down in high quality.
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I897 using XDA App
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Interesting, I just have the stock Youtube app and whenever I pull up a video and go to Menu, it shows "Watch in Normal Quality," which I assume means I'm already watching in HQ. I don't remember changing anything though...

wildkarrde21 said:
Interesting, I just have the stock Youtube app and whenever I pull up a video and go to Menu, it shows "Watch in Normal Quality," which I assume means I'm already watching in HQ. I don't remember changing anything though...
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When you are connected to wifi, it will default to the high quality setting. When you are connected to 3g, however, it will switch to normal/low quality mode. I'm assuming this is the case right now.

sometimes the buttons on the widget don't work properly :T.. and i have JH3 @[email protected]

thebigbluecheez said:
I'm leaning toward this option of installing another version of youtube. I'm rooted, and running Titanium backup and have used droid explorer and all. I would also like to know whether I need to uninstall the default youtube, because I've backed up and deleted the AT&T apps as recommended in another thread, but I haven't seen or tried reinstalling something once uninstalling using titanium backup. (Is that a paid version benefit?)
I don't really like the idea of flashing my rom just yet. I've had the phone about a month now, and am still a little jumpy with my new toy. Maybe in 6 months I'll be running cyanogenmod or something, but not just yet.
As far as connecting to a wireless network or just telling it every time to download in HQ, my problem is this: I'm not always near wi-fi, and it seems really hypocritical of the nation's fastest 3g network purveyors to make us watch underwater vaseline-glasses youtube videos when their network speeds support HQ viewing.
Thanks for the quick replies! XDA's great!
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Regarding restoring an app after uninstalling it, I have been trying to do the same thing. It seems as if it wont restore simply from a backup. I am running the free version also so maybe it is a paid benefit.

tysj said:
I installed the default Youtube app from the Droid X or something that allows for you to set the high quality setting as default and includes the HQ button on the screen as well. Been working fine for me; but as always, buyer beware.
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Thanks so much for the download, it's soo nice to have the hq button in plain sight
Thanks

[Q] Youtube HQ vids

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.

ithildir78 said:
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.

mateorod said:
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?
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bornagainpenguin said:
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?
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Go to settings in market/play store and tell it to not notify you of any updates.

jgaf said:
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.

mateorod said:
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.

mateorod said:
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.
JP

[Q] YouTube HD not sticking?

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.

clauss2004 said:
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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clauss2004 said:
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

NOOB Question: Hulu app crashes after advertisements

So I have been though multiple ROMs on my HD 7" and all of them behave exactly the same way when it comes to Hulu. Basically the Hulu app works just great until you play a video. The ads play with no issue, but right when it is going to play the main video, the app just crashes. I have searched this forum and the googles for answers but I can't find anybody that appears to be having this issue.
Right now I am running omni-4.4.4-20151106-tate-HOMEMADE. I have tried CM11 M12, CM12.1 Nightly, CARBON-KK-UNOFFICIAL-20151105-2317-tate, candy5-release.v4.0-20151015-UNOFFICIAL-tate, Slim-tate-5.1.1.beta.0.14-UNOFFICIAL-20160116-1135 and the app behaves exactly the same way on all of them.
Any ideas what is going on and how to fix it?
Joe

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JoeyG1973 said:
So I have been though multiple ROMs on my HD 7" and all of them behave exactly the same way when it comes to Hulu. Basically the Hulu app works just great until you play a video. The ads play with no issue, but right when it is going to play the main video, the app just crashes. I have searched this forum and the googles for answers but I can't find anybody that appears to be having this issue.
Right now I am running omni-4.4.4-20151106-tate-HOMEMADE. I have tried CM11 M12, CM12.1 Nightly, CARBON-KK-UNOFFICIAL-20151105-2317-tate, candy5-release.v4.0-20151015-UNOFFICIAL-tate, Slim-tate-5.1.1.beta.0.14-UNOFFICIAL-20160116-1135 and the app behaves exactly the same way on all of them.
Any ideas what is going on and how to fix it?
Joe
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Do the roms have adaway baked into them, or some other ad block app? I know you said that the ad will play, but then crash at the video, but that's the only thing I can think of. This was happening on my wife's tablet and I put an exclusion for hulu in adaway and it fixed the issue. Just a thought to get the ball rolling.

vasolini said:
Do the roms have adaway baked into them, or some other ad block app? I know you said that the ad will play, but then crash at the video, but that's the only thing I can think of. This was happening on my wife's tablet and I put an exclusion for hulu in adaway and it fixed the issue. Just a thought to get the ball rolling.
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I don't think so. Well at least I cannot find anything to indicate that there is an ad block app built in to the omnirom that I am using. Hmmm...

Global Equalizer

I am looking for a global equalizer for my N6 running stock 6.0.1.
I want an app that would process any audio destined for output (speakers, headphones).
It seems like right now music EQ is handled on a case by case basis within the music apps themselves.
The problem is that not many of the streaming apps include this functionality.
Any suggestions?
Thanks!

Viper4Android

+1 for viper4android.. i dnt see anything else..

Working on 6.0.1 Systemless?
Thanks, yeah V4A looks great but I am struggling to get it working.
I am running systemless root on my N6 on 6.0.1 AOSP - anyone else get V4A to work on a platform like this?

djjangelo said:
Thanks, yeah V4A looks great but I am struggling to get it working.
I am running systemless root on my N6 on 6.0.1 AOSP - anyone else get V4A to work on a platform like this?
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Should be able to help you in this thread.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2952137