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Hello All,
So, I have been away from Android for a bit (not my choice ), and it seems that I am unable to play movies and tv show from Google Play if I am rooted, or even using a permissive kernel. I just get the try again later, restart, blah blah error. Is this the norm nowadays? I googled/searched XDA and only found a thread about the HTC M8 where this was discussed (with no solution other than rootcloaker). I thought Google had had stopped that a while back?
Any informed input appreciated, as I like to use my own ROMs/kernels. I will logcat/dive deeper if no-one knows, and see how far that gets me...
Thanks!
Steve
I have never used Google Play for music or movies but I was wondering if you could still install apps or use gmail. Curious if its related to account. I'm sure it would be mentioned more often if it was a common problem , so very possible a setup issue!?
Bubba Fett said:
I have never used Google Play for music or movies but I was wondering if you could still install apps or use gmail. Curious if its related to account. I'm sure it would be mentioned more often if it was a common problem , so very possible a setup issue!?
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I am thinking along the same lines, as a search turned up basically nada, but I just wanted to rule out the obvious. Thanks!
Steve
Sure. You could always try a kernel or rom from the development section as a test and narrow it down. Wish I knew more of the inner workings, but still learning. hope you get it back on track. Its a very nice device.
sk806 said:
Hello All,
So, I have been away from Android for a bit (not my choice ), and it seems that I am unable to play movies and tv show from Google Play if I am rooted, or even using a permissive kernel. I just get the try again later, restart, blah blah error. Is this the norm nowadays? I googled/searched XDA and only found a thread about the HTC M8 where this was discussed (with no solution other than rootcloaker). I thought Google had had stopped that a while back?
Any informed input appreciated, as I like to use my own ROMs/kernels. I will logcat/dive deeper if no-one knows, and see how far that gets me...
Thanks!
Steve
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Same problem on the S2. However, play books and music work great. Let us know if you discover anything, please?
graysooner said:
Same problem on the S2. However, play books and music work great. Let us know if you discover anything, please?
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Okay. Just restored this tab to stock. Google play movies worked fine. Then redid the root process and Google play movies don't work. Did some searching and apparently root breaks google play movies. Anyone?
I'm having the same issue... also couldn't get hulu to play anything. Twitch and Netflix work fine.. google play and hulu, no bueno. My Nexus 6p is rooted though and it plays hulu and google play movies just fine... so it's not necessarily root.. it's something with this tablet and root.
Suggested in the T917T Root thread: if you're running Xposed, give root cloaking a shot.
jazzmachine said:
Suggested in the T917T Root thread: if you're running Xposed, give root cloaking a shot.
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I think you're correct. I have a rooted LG G4 and play movies works fine on it. I'll see if I can get exposed and root cloak going.
Edit: no luck with root cloak.
Just an idea, no idea if it will work, but has anyone tried downloading a movie from google play movies while the device is rooted, and seeing if it plays? I'd do it myself, but my device currently isn't rooted, so could someone test that for me?
NeutronBomb said:
I'm having the same issue... also couldn't get hulu to play anything. Twitch and Netflix work fine.. google play and hulu, no bueno. My Nexus 6p is rooted though and it plays hulu and google play movies just fine... so it's not necessarily root.. it's something with this tablet and root.
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Yes. It seems to be this tablet, and perhaps Samsung generally...
I have been busy, but will root my tablet and try to figure it out.
Steve
Nbay64 said:
Just an idea, no idea if it will work, but has anyone tried downloading a movie from google play movies while the device is rooted, and seeing if it plays? I'd do it myself, but my device currently isn't rooted, so could someone test that for me?
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does not work, unfortunately. Its a Samsung security and DRM issue. I'm working on it.
Steve
sk806 said:
does not work, unfortunately. Its a Samsung security and DRM issue. I'm working on it.
Steve
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Alright, let me know if you come up with a solution.
Nbay64 said:
Alright, let me know if you come up with a solution.
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Which android build 5.0.2 or 5.1.1?
ashyx said:
Which android build 5.0.2 or 5.1.1?
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I'm on 5.1.1 OJ1
Nbay64 said:
I'm on 5.1.1 OJ1
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You may be in luck. Try Chainfire's new v2.60 systemless root.
It may work as android pay also apparently works.
ashyx said:
You may be in luck. Try Chainfire's new v2.60 systemless root.
It may work as android pay also apparently works.
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Do I have to be rooted already before I use the systemless root? Or will that root my device on its own? I'm a little bit confused on how to go about installing this.
Nbay64 said:
Do I have to be rooted already before I use the systemless root? Or will that root my device on its own? I'm a little bit confused on how to go about installing this.
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System partition needs to be complete stock so no previous root.
Just install as you would any other supersu zip.
It will unpack and patch the boot.img on the fly and install systemless root.
Have a backup ready.
ashyx said:
System partition needs to be complete stock so no previous root.
Just install as you would any other supersu zip.
It will unpack and patch the boot.img on the fly and install systemless root.
Have a backup ready.
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I was on stock firmware, installed TWRP (I did NOT use CF-autoroot before hand!) and then flashed the 2.60 beta, and it threw my device into a bootloop. Did I do something wrong?
Nbay64 said:
I was on stock firmware, installed TWRP (I did NOT use CF-autoroot before hand!) and then flashed the 2.60 beta, and it threw my device into a bootloop. Did I do something wrong?
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It should work on 5.1.1. Are you sure you didn't have root before? The system needs to be clean. When supersu installed did it say systemless root?
If everything was as it should be then you need to make a bug report in the supersu thread to Chainfire.
I thought i blocked it when I used the tool to unlock the google playstore and everything, obviously i was wrong.
Is there anyway to set it back to 5.0.1 or even 5.0.0, also is there any way to do that without losing all of my apps/information.
Or can i simple run that google playstore tool again. Thats all i really want on my tablet right now, dont reallly want to root kit it at the moment, and i dont wanna brick it, messing around myself. So if there is anyway to get the play store working on 5.1.2 again or resetting it to 5.0.1 or 5.0.0 with or without losing my data can anyone please let me know and help me out if possible. Thanks guys
Edit: Ok the original install google play tool still works with 5.1.2 without any problems and it still lets you reblock updates (as far as i know, it said it worked) and now my playstore works again.
What exactly did you do? Uninstall all the google framework etc? Just reflash the bat script?
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What exactly did you do? Uninstall all the google framework etc? Just reflash the bat script?
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Yeah i uninstalled all the google framework, the playstore any google related stuff. Re ran the the update blocking and re-ran the playstore install from the batch file
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I have 2 tablets, and both were patched with Glytchy's script. One of the tablet never updated to 5.1.2 from 5.1.1, but the other tablet did, and it removed root.
I try running the script again on the 5.1.2 tablet, but it doesn't work (see picture).
How did you get it to work? Maybe your never really installed 5.1.2, and only downloaded it?
This doesn't work for me anymore. My fire updated and wouldn't sign in after that. I uninstalled all the google stuff. Reflashed the bat file posted by shadow. Now when I try to add my google account it says can't establish connection with the server.
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This doesn't work for me anymore. My fire updated and wouldn't sign in after that. I uninstalled all the google stuff. Reflashed the bat file posted by shadow. Now when I try to add my google account it says can't establish connection with the server.
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which tool r u guys using, im using the one for 5.0.1 not the supertool or anything its just a basic batch file, i know it blocks updates and will install the playstore, thats all it does, it doesnt root or anything or give an option too. That is the one i used, its by rootjunkie also, i believe its still on his site too. Later ill find a link, im sick, i just woke up
I made a new account for google also just encase, didnt use the same one.
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which tool r u guys using, im using the one for 5.0.1 not the supertool or anything its just a basic batch file, i know it blocks updates and will install the playstore, thats all it does, it doesnt root or anything or give an option too. That is the one i used, its by rootjunkie also, i believe its still on his site too. Later ill find a link, im sick, i just woke up
I made a new account for google also just encase, didnt use the same one.
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I'm using this method. It didn't block updates or remove ads. It had worked just fine on the last 2 previous system os updates. http://forum.xda-developers.com/amazon-fire/general/installing-google-framework-playstore-t3216122
donm76 said:
I'm using this method. It didn't block updates or remove ads. It had worked just fine on the last 2 previous system os updates. http://forum.xda-developers.com/amazon-fire/general/installing-google-framework-playstore-t3216122
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Not sure which method you used as the linked post contains references to many other articles. If you used 'adb shell pm hide' then I'm not surprised it didn't work. Preferred method is to rename components responsible for providing OTA functionality.
Davey126 said:
Not sure which method you used as the linked post contains references to many other articles. If you used 'adb shell pm hide' then I'm not surprised it didn't work. Preferred method is to rename components responsible for providing OTA functionality.
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Right - guessing it didn't work. Hidden components are easily exposed.
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yes i used that method. After i uninstalled all the google stuff, i did that. made a new account for google and its fine with 5.1.2, yes it fully patched.
Astaldoath said:
yes i used that method. After i uninstalled all the google stuff, i did that. made a new account for google and its fine with 5.1.2, yes it fully patched.
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Damn I've restored it too, still no dice. My other 2 kindle fires are ok so far on 5.1.2
I bought them all at the same time.
I messed up and had my kindle automatically updated to 5.1.2
Same here, update to 5.1.2 and now rooting not possible. Therefore no FlashFire, therefore no custom rom, therefore lots of time wasted...
It is new guys, give it some time... I am sure people are working on it... Just keep an eye for it...
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I have 2 tablets, and both were patched with Glytchy's script. One of the tablet never updated to 5.1.2 from 5.1.1, but the other tablet did, and it removed root.
I try running the script again on the 5.1.2 tablet, but it doesn't work (see picture).
How did you get it to work? Maybe your never really installed 5.1.2, and only downloaded it?
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Google play installed successfully. Root failed because 5.1.2 was yet another d*ck move by Amazon to patch root.
glitch3yf0x said:
Google play installed successfully. Root failed because 5.1.2 was yet another d*ck move by Amazon to patch root.
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Supertool was updated, 5.1.2 should be working now... http://forum.xda-developers.com/amazon-fire/development/amazon-fire-5th-gen-supertool-root-t3272695
I can't install the netflix app from the google play store any more. I'm sure this worked before but after I rooted my phone the device is marked as incompatible. I unrooted it and flashed the stock rom (did not look the boot loader), but still can't install the netflix app. I can’t tell if this was really caused by rooting the phone or something else because I did not checked immediately after rooting my phone.
Is this normal? Was this even caused by rooting the phone? Can I fix the isseue with or without root?
Not sure if this is relevant but I also have issues with the google pay app since I rooted the phone. I Found some instruction to fix that but was not able to test it.
swer21 said:
I can't install the netflix app from the google play store any more. I'm sure this worked before but after I rooted my phone the device is marked as incompatible. I unrooted it and flashed the stock rom (did not look the boot loader), but still can't install the netflix app. I can’t tell if this was really caused by rooting the phone or something else because I did not checked immediately after rooting my phone.
Is this normal? Was this even caused by rooting the phone? Can I fix the isseue with or without root?
Not sure if this is relevant but I also have issues with the google pay app since I rooted the phone. I Found some instruction to fix that but was not able to test it.
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You can download the latest Netflix APK from the apkmirror website. Apparently you need to have a locked bootloader to get it listed back on playstore
I already assumed this but did not try, because this was not a issue on my old phone.
Loading it from apk mirror is fine for me. So I belive I will not check if locking the bootloder will actually fix the issue.
swer21 said:
I already assumed this but did not try, because this was not a issue on my old phone.
Loading it from apk mirror is fine for me. So I belive I will not check if locking the bootloder will actually fix the issue.
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It works but you cant watch it in FHD or even 720p. I want to know if there's any permanent solution to this.
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You can download the latest Netflix APK from the apkmirror website. Apparently you need to have a locked bootloader to get it listed back on playstore
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this does not work.
SO I guess I will try to lock the bootloader.
Is it easy to lock it? Will it be possible to unlock it later?
swer21 said:
I can't install the netflix app from the google play store any more. I'm sure this worked before but after I rooted my phone the device is marked as incompatible. I unrooted it and flashed the stock rom (did not look the boot loader), but still can't install the netflix app. I can’t tell if this was really caused by rooting the phone or something else because I did not checked immediately after rooting my phone.
Is this normal? Was this even caused by rooting the phone? Can I fix the isseue with or without root?
Not sure if this is relevant but I also have issues with the google pay app since I rooted the phone. I Found some instruction to fix that but was not able to test it.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCU6Bn1rsL0
And if you are rooted you have to set magisk hide for netflix app banking etc
https://android.gadgethacks.com/how-to/completely-hide-root-using-magisk-0201243/
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Sanketg2112 said:
It works but you cant watch it in FHD or even 720p. I want to know if there's any permanent solution to this.
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With my rom don't lose l1 certification netflix have to work at max quality, but if you are rooted you have to set netflix on magisk app and then have to clear data app of netflix see previous links
I have installed both recent version of microG and YT Vanced (non-root versions). YouTube Vanced just gets stuck at the boot page (the YouTube Logo) forever. I tried reinstalling several times. The exact same version and procedure worked on my previous OnePlus 6 perfectly.
Edit: I did a factory reset and reinstalled without changing any settings and yet it didn't work.
Is anyone else facing this too, and are there any fixes?
Especially ROG 2 Indian variant users, please comment if it works for y'all.
Edit: It actually takes forever to load the app the first time. Wasn't this way on my other phones but I just had to wait a couple of minutes. It works now!
Thanks to the awesome XDA community anyways. Y'all very supportive.
vygneys_vyg said:
I have installed both recent version of microG and YT Vanced. YouTube Vanced just gets stuck at the boot page (the YouTube Logo) forever. I tried reinstalling several times. The exact same version and procedure worked on my previous OnePlus 6 perfectly.
Is anyone else facing this too, or are there any fixes?
This might do something with battery saving and background restrictions maybe? Although I tried removing all battery and memory optimisations for those two apps alone.
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I do not have any issue on YouTube Vance and microG. I have them installed and works fine
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I do not have any issue on YouTube Vance and microG. I have them installed and works fine
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Oh okay and thank you. Looks like it's some battery and memory optimisation of other apps messing up with YT Vanced. I probably need to reset some things.
Working fine here.
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Working fine here.
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I did a complete factory reset and installed YT Vanced without changing anything, yet still gets stuck. You guys are using the non-rooted version right? Can you please share the procedure to install it? I just directly installed both APKs without disabling YouTube or anything and this worked fine on my OnePlus 6.
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I did a complete factory reset and installed YT Vanced without changing anything, yet still gets stuck. You guys are using the non-rooted version right? Can you please share the procedure to install it? I just directly installed both APKs without disabling YouTube or anything and this worked fine on my OnePlus 6.
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Make sure to install microG first and then YouTube Vanced.... installing YouTube Vanced first crashes it...
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I did a complete factory reset and installed YT Vanced without changing anything, yet still gets stuck. You guys are using the non-rooted version right? Can you please share the procedure to install it? I just directly installed both APKs without disabling YouTube or anything and this worked fine on my OnePlus 6.
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Be sure to install the latest micro. Also try after resetting your device and then install first the micro and youtubevanced, check if its working. If yes then maybe conflict with other apps you installed
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Be sure to install the latest micro. Also try after resetting your device and then install first the micro and youtubevanced, check if its working. If yes then maybe conflict with other apps you installed
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Thank you guys, and yes, I did install microG first then YouTube Vanced next. I did that right after factory reset, so there were no other extra apps installed. I also removed all memory and battery optimisations for both of the apps, tried disabling YouTube and Chrome, yet no difference.
Can't live without Vanced lol
Re download micro and vanced
My phone is running Vance well after i uninstalled micro.
All working fine here, vanced 14.21.54 and micro g 0.2.6.17455
Note, 0.2.6 was needed instead of 0.2.4 versions
I used the 0.2.6 version only. Redownloaded and Reinstalled many times. Tried installing only Vanced without microG. Still no luck.
Is there any specific YT Vanced version for this phone?
I just got the common one in the XDA site.
I've got the Indian ROG 2 variant. Maybe something got to do with that?
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I used the 0.2.6 version only. Redownloaded and Reinstalled many times. Tried installing only Vanced without microG. Still no luck.
Is there any specific YT Vanced version for this phone?
I just got the common one in the XDA site.
I've got the Indian ROG 2 variant. Maybe something got to do with that?
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Working fine here
You mentioned you didn't disable the original YouTube app.
Try deleting Vanced and MicroG and make sure you clear data before deleting them
Then open original YouTube app , then close it and then disable the app entirely. Then try installing Vanced and MicroG
still_living said:
Working fine here
You mentioned you didn't disable the original YouTube app.
Try deleting Vanced and MicroG and make sure you clear data before deleting them
Then open original YouTube app , then close it and then disable the app entirely. Then try installing Vanced and MicroG
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Thank you. I tried this and yet no luck. I tried several combos and still the same result. Tried all these right after factory reset too. I'm starting to feel this has something to do with the ROG Indian ROM or something.
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I used the 0.2.6 version only. Redownloaded and Reinstalled many times. Tried installing only Vanced without microG. Still no luck.
Is there any specific YT Vanced version for this phone?
I just got the common one in the XDA site.
I've got the Indian ROG 2 variant. Maybe something got to do with that?
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I didn't do anything special using imported tencent version from China. Just the regular app from xda. Haven't disabled the standard version either.. Not sure what to suggest
still_living said:
Working fine here
You mentioned you didn't disable the original YouTube app.
Try deleting Vanced and MicroG and make sure you clear data before deleting them
Then open original YouTube app , then close it and then disable the app entirely. Then try installing Vanced and MicroG
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I am on ROG Indian version as well and no issues...
Well thanks a lot to all of you guys. I finally got it to work!
The boot screen actually took a couple of minutes to get through. I just left it on the Vanced boot screen unknowingly for a long time and was opened the time I came back xD.
IDK what caused the delay but anyways now I can have a peace of mind. Thank you all!
vygneys_vyg said:
Well thanks a lot to all of you guys. I finally got it to work!
The boot screen actually took a couple of minutes to get through. I just left it on the Vanced boot screen unknowingly for a long time and was opened the time I came back xD.
IDK what caused the delay but anyways now I can have a peace of mind. Thank you all!
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Glad you got it working
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Glad you got it working
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Glad y'all helped me
Without hijacking this thread, could someone point me into the general direction of how to microG this phone ?
I'm used to nanodroid, but I haven't figured how I am supposed to deal with pre installed gapps' roms.
I'm new to this so I hope this is where this post goes apologise in advance. So I rooted my note 9 and everything works well apart from netflix intact I'm not getting the usual errors I installed netflix from apkmirror and updated to current version from the play store. I can login to netflix and scroll for the movies and series but when I click to play one it is just stuck on "loading" no error is given. I tried hiding root ect and found no help. Anyone any ideas?
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I'm new to this so I hope this is where this post goes apologise in advance. So I rooted my note 9 and everything works well apart from netflix intact I'm not getting the usual errors I installed netflix from apkmirror and updated to current version from the play store. I can login to netflix and scroll for the movies and series but when I click to play one it is just stuck on "loading" no error is given. I tried hiding root ect and found no help. Anyone any ideas?
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Also following as I have the same problem
Crooksy said:
I'm new to this so I hope this is where this post goes apologise in advance. So I rooted my note 9 and everything works well apart from netflix intact I'm not getting the usual errors I installed netflix from apkmirror and updated to current version from the play store. I can login to netflix and scroll for the movies and series but when I click to play one it is just stuck on "loading" no error is given. I tried hiding root ect and found no help. Anyone any ideas?
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https://forum.xda-developers.com/an...le-netflix-v7-10-0-2019-05-24-t3934574/page34
Seriously I don't know what is the thread about but perhaps you could find something there.
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https://forum.xda-developers.com/an...le-netflix-v7-10-0-2019-05-24-t3934574/page34
Seriously I don't know what is the thread about but perhaps you could find something there.
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thanks for the reply i tried the option in that link but no help. If i can make it clear for you so i rooted my phone and after rooting netflix is having problems playing anything. I do not get any error's like other people instead i can login and see everything but when i try to play something it just gets stuck on "loading" and never actually loads
for anyone having the same problems as me i found a fix. Go into Magisk and go to downloads and scroll to the bottom and download Liboemcrypto disabler and reboot phone
Another way is using a root explorer go to system/vendor/lib then find liboemcrypto.so and change it to .bak at the end and save. The magisk module probably does the same thing.
Don't those root privileges get lost after each power cycle?