Hello,
I have an unlocked and rooted TF201. I don't really need to be rooted - I liked having control over my device, but can live without it.
Questions:
1) Is there a way to "trick" Google Movies app to thinking I'm not rooted?
(I've tried unrooting with ViperMod, didn't work. I've also tried using the recompiled movies app someone else posted -- FC'd each time I tried to run it)
2) Is there a way to revert back to an unrooted ROM?
(Several similar posts warn that trying to do so will result in a hard brick)
Thank you!
Yes and no. You can download ota root keeper and select temp uninstall root which will temporarily unroot your device but Google movies will still not work. You can use an app called mspot to rent movies. I believe they're in HD too! Hope this helps!
Just to be clear being rooted does NOT stop one from using Google movies. Only unlocked bootloader.
josho133 said:
Hello,
I have an unlocked and rooted TF201. I don't really need to be rooted - I liked having control over my device, but can live without it.
Questions:
1) Is there a way to "trick" Google Movies app to thinking I'm not rooted?
(I've tried unrooting with ViperMod, didn't work. I've also tried using the recompiled movies app someone else posted -- FC'd each time I tried to run it)
2) Is there a way to revert back to an unrooted ROM?
(Several similar posts warn that trying to do so will result in a hard brick)
Thank you!
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Thanks for the clarification, Lock-N-Load.
So, as far as you know, once someone unlocks their device (Asus Transformer Prime), no more downloaded Google Movies. Correct?
google should get a move on and release their services in europe! GOGO NOW!
josho133 said:
Thanks for the clarification, Lock-N-Load.
So, as far as you know, once someone unlocks their device (Asus Transformer Prime), no more downloaded Google Movies. Correct?
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Yes..
Root no problem (I've rented numerous times with root)
Unlocked bootloader... your done bye bye movie rental
"For root users who want to rent Google movies, watch Blockbuster movies, or use other apps that don't work on rooted devices, you can use an app called OTA Rootkeeper. It temporarily moves the su binary so Google doesn't see you're root."
(http://lifehacker.com/5896595/7+zip-icons-long-conversations-and-anti+root-android-apps/gallery/4)
OTA Rootkeeper: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.projectvoodoo.otarootkeeper
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Sadly, this isn't true if you've unlocked your Asus TF201. Once unlocked, no more Google Movies for you. Period.
barisko said:
"For root users who want to rent Google movies, watch Blockbuster movies, or use other apps that don't work on rooted devices, you can use an app called OTA Rootkeeper. It temporarily moves the su binary so Google doesn't see you're root."
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OTA Rootkeeper: url removed
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barisko said:
"For root users who want to rent Google movies, watch Blockbuster movies, or use other apps that don't work on rooted devices, you can use an app called OTA Rootkeeper. It temporarily moves the su binary so Google doesn't see you're root."
(http://lifehacker.com/5896595/7+zip-icons-long-conversations-and-anti+root-android-apps/gallery/4)
OTA Rootkeeper: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.projectvoodoo.otarootkeeper
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your not reading the thread above you... this is already known and established info look up there ^^
You're right, I didn't read it thoroughly enough.
So, if I understand correctly, rooting will still allow me to use Google Movies, but unlocking will not?
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Correct. Unlocked = no google movies.
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mick3444 said:
Yes and no. You can download ota root keeper and select temp uninstall root which will temporarily unroot your device but Google movies will still not work. You can use an app called mspot to rent movies. I believe they're in HD too! Hope this helps!
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Wow, thanks for the pointer to mspot. It looks just as good as Google Movies. Have you tried it via HDMI?
hacked apk or relock tool
Developers please come up with something
robvaldy said:
Developers please come up with something
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I disagree, take your business somewhere else. The best way to fix the problem is to give your money to some competitor like mSpot, Amazon or the like.
dalingrin said:
I disagree, take your business somewhere else. The best way to fix the problem is to give your money to some competitor like mSpot, Amazon or the like.
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I agree with this disagreement.
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It's been a while, and this issue still exists (and sucks). Has anyone found a workaround?
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I agree with this disagreement.
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josho133 said:
It's been a while, and this issue still exists (and sucks). Has anyone found a workaround?
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Yes, I have this fixed.
It will be included in Hairybean 1.5 when it is released soon.
Awesome! I'm currently running CM10. Am assuming upgrade to Hairybean 1.5 will be painless.
If so, and you've solved the movie issue, then you can definitely put me down for a donation when it's out.
Thanks in advance for the great work!
flumpster said:
Yes, I have this fixed.
It will be included in Hairybean 1.5 when it is released soon.
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josho133 said:
Awesome! I'm currently running CM10. Am assuming upgrade to Hairybean 1.5 will be painless.
If so, and you've solved the movie issue, then you can definitely put me down for a donation when it's out.
Thanks in advance for the great work!
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Confirmed - upgraded to Hairybean 1.5, and I can watch movies! Great job guys! Donated to Red Cross per instructions on your post. Thanks again!
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Hey everyone.
Is there any way to watch green hornet without doing the updates? I heard the ota breaks a few things so I would rather avoid it...maybe if we had the updated player apk?
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I too want to know. I just watched like 2 mins then next thing I know I go back and it says update available. Im scared to update too lol.
Same here, does anyone know the answer to this?
I heard if you update, there's no way you will be able to root.
There is a thread in regards to this...
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Neo3D said:
Same here, does anyone know the answer to this?
I heard if you update, there's no way you will be able to root.
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The updates fix more than they break.
There's no way you can root now, even without updates. The devs working on the root think that taking the update could remove some of the exploits they might be able to use to gain access. Then again, HTC has reiterated that they will decrypt/unlock, so it may be a moot point in the (near?) future.
Neo3D said:
Same here, does anyone know the answer to this?
I heard if you update, there's no way you will be able to root.
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Put the HTC "Watch" widget on one of your screens and launch the movie from there. When youre done watching it just remove the widget. It doesnt ask you to update when you use the widget.
like someone said earlier the updates do fix more than they break, and once root is official they will be able to root the rest of the ruu updates as well, so just update you're device
umbra6 said:
Put the HTC "Watch" widget on one of your screens and launch the movie from there. When youre done watching it just remove the widget. It doesnt ask you to update when you use the widget.
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nice tip.
thanks
umbra6 said:
Put the HTC "Watch" widget on one of your screens and launch the movie from there. When youre done watching it just remove the widget. It doesnt ask you to update when you use the widget.
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It got stuck on the "buffering" screen. I just updated it and it works now. Man, it looks a lot more clear than my own 3D videos made from the on board cameras.
HTC has been pretty good so far about making its customers happy. After all, the Evo got Gingerbread. Hopefully, tho, they won't take SOOOO LONG to give us root.
guyver2077 said:
nice tip.
thanks
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I actually got that tip from the other Green Hornet movie thread thats in this forum so its not mine .
I can't even get my phone to find any of the application updates... the only one it found was the OTA for 1.13.651.7.
I finally decided to try out Watching a movie via the market, excuse me, via play ;-) and I noticed that it wasn't working so I decideed to look it up and saw what I had assumed was true: I can't watch it because I'm rooted. Just now I decided to try it on my rooted Asus Transformer and to my surprise it worked perfectly!
I'm running a GB rom on my TF whereas I'm running an ICS rom on my Rezound, could it be some new protection in ICS?
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there are temporary root hiders I think.
I suggest Temp Root Remover... by Zachsandroidapps
It should work for what your looking to do,>
Oddly enough, I can still watch movies on my rooted rezound running ICS, AND on my rooted tf101 running honeycomb. However on my other rooted tf101 running Team EOS ICS, not allowed....
king.james said:
I suggest Temp Root Remover... by Zachsandroidapps
It should work for what your looking to do,>
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Heres the market link
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.zachspong.temprootremover&hl=en
I also am blocked but I'm on a GB rom.
I saw the hiders, just curious why it worked on one rooted device and not another.
Could be that the other devices don't look rooted to the app for some reason.
I've used OTA Rootkeeper to use it and Amazon Prime Video with success.
brando56894 said:
I saw the hiders, just curious why it worked on one rooted device and not another.
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Me too. It means there I obviously one way around it.. at least for now. I just have to figure out what it is...
why would they care if you/we are rooted?
RoryHe said:
why would they care if you/we are rooted?
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People who distribute the media do, because they think that if you are rooted, you can break the stream protection and "steal" the content.
Is it possible to rent google movies or mspot movies on unlocked prime?
No. When you unlock your Prime it disables your DRM license (a program put in place to prevent theft of movies rented/bought through the Google Play Store).
(Not sure about mspot, not sure what it is)
Do u think something like a hacked apk or a relock hack will be or can be developed
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As far as I know the DRM license can't be reforged :/
(Plus it's virtually impossible to relock, because it changes the structure of your system)
Was it a mistake to unlock my prime .Thanks
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well, have you done anything to your tablet that required the unlocking (flashing kernals, roms, etc)?
If yes, then it wasn't a mistake and you didn't consider the repercussions, like google movies no longer working
If no, then you just unlocked it because it was available and yes, it was a serious mistake and there is nothing you can do.
Yes you can rent movies
robvaldy said:
Is it possible to rent google movies or mspot movies on unlocked prime?
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Yes it is possible, get the ota rootkeeper app by supercurio. Its free n the Play Store. With the app you can follow directions to unroot watch a movie and the reroot when needed.
I believe what the play movie app checks for is root access.
It worked for me.
apascual89 said:
Yes it is possible, get the ota rootkeeper app by supercurio. Its free n the Play Store. With the app you can follow directions to unroot watch a movie and the reroot when needed.
I believe what the play movie app checks for is root access.
It worked for me.
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He unlocked his bootloader permanently removing the DRM (Digital Rights Management) license, he didn't just root it.
Nolam20 said:
He unlocked his bootloader permanently removing the DRM (Digital Rights Management) license, he didn't just root it.
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I did the same, I rooted, unlocked and flashed AOKP. The process I described worked for me.
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That doesn't make sense, it checks for DRM not root....
Nolam20 said:
That doesn't make sense, it checks for DRM not root....
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Not sure if it still does but it definitely used to check for root.
apascual89 said:
I did the same, I rooted, unlocked and flashed AOKP. The process I described worked for me.
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Awesomeness forming...
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So just to be clear, you temp unrooted on aokp and actually watched a google play movie??? I have tried that on virtuous but have had no success...can anyone else confirm that this works?
dalingrin said:
Not sure if it still does but it definitely used to check for root.
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Well if it asks for superuser permissions that's not necessarily it checking for root but more or less could be checking your file structure and integrity to see if you have the DRM...still, interesting...
I tried that with primelicious and also tried hacked apk google videos for honey comb for **** and giggles and no luck theres got to be a way.
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mick3444 said:
So just to be clear, you temp unrooted on aokp and actually watched a google play movie??? I have tried that on virtuous but have had no success...can anyone else confirm that this works?
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Yes I did it again today. First time it gives me a message saying your device seems to be rooted... and it denies me access. I then go to ota root keeper temp unroot. Go back to play movies and it grants me access.
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Well if it asks for superuser permissions that's not necessarily it checking for root but more or less could be checking your file structure and integrity to see if you have the DRM...still, interesting...
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Again, I'm not sure this is still true but the google movies app definitely used to explicitly check for su. It was visible in smali. It would check $PATH then also check a couple of hard coded paths. I'm guessing it does more than this now but this used to be the case.
dalingrin said:
Again, I'm not sure this is still true but the google movies app definitely used to explicitly check for su. It was visible in smali. It would check $PATH then also check a couple of hard coded paths. I'm guessing it does more than this now but this used to be the case.
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I don't know about code and those details, all I know is that I can rent movies even though I'm unlocked rooted and on AOKP build 29 4.04 by Jermaine. I was just explaining how I did it in case it would help someone.
What device are u using?
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Yes, those hardcoded paths are DRM checks.
Don't know if anyone has posted this yet. I just checked for it a couple days ago and it is now supported on the Prime. Enjoy!
Is your prime unlocked and rooted?
Still not working for my rooted and unlocked prime. Just wondering.
I'm having the same problem. I too am rooted and unlocked, very frustrating.
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on the latest stock ota seems to be working without a hitch and i am rooted
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Hulu plus worked like a charm until I rooted my Prime :beer:
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Yes I'm rooted but not unlocked. And the latest firmware update won't install on mine. It says it failed and is going back to last configuration.
NastroGlide said:
Yes I'm rooted but not unlocked. And the latest firmware update won't install on mine. It says it failed and is going back to last configuration.
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You probably installed or un installed something from the system folder. Ota usually check that all the correct Components are available before an updated can be installdd .
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Works fine on my rooted Prime.
I can get in to hulu just fine but when i press play i get this message.
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chefdave12118 said:
I can get in to hulu just fine but when i press play i get this message.
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I get the same thing on mine. Haven't figured out why this happens to some of us, and not others. Could it have to do with being boot loader unlocked? I don't really see how, but it's very annoying.
hollywould said:
I get the same thing on mine. Haven't figured out why this happens to some of us, and not others. Could it have to do with being boot loader unlocked? I don't really see how, but it's very annoying.
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Bootloader may be the culprit...
Anyone with an unlocked bootloader able to get hulu running? :beer:
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no I get the same error message with unlocked bootloader. One thing to try woulkd maybe be this: On aokp, if you use ota keeper to temp unroot, you are able to watch movies from google for an unknown reason. Maybe this works for hulu. I would try it but I am happily running virtous right now...
mick3444 said:
no I get the same error message with unlocked bootloader. One thing to try woulkd maybe be this: On aokp, if you use ota keeper to temp unroot, you are able to watch movies from google for an unknown reason. Maybe this works for hulu. I would try it but I am happily running virtous right now...
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My bad. I meant locked.
I also am very happy with virtuous atm.
Anyone with a locked bootloader and root able to view or anyone with an unlocked able to view hulu?
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You probably installed or un installed something from the system folder. Ota usually check that all the correct Components are available before an updated can be installdd .
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Yeah, I modifed to be able to connect to ad hoc. Other than that I don't think I've done anything else.
No issues streaming Hulu plus. Rooted and locked.
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On .21 rooted only. I get device not supported. Even tried to temp unroot with OTA rootkeeper but no go.
Maybe try turning of "Force GPU rendering?"
Also have you tried completely uninstalling the apk through TB? I hear it's suppose to delete everything and not leave a trace of the app. Then reinstall. Maybe also make sure your Flash is up to date.
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Thanks for the suggestions but didnt make a difference. Are you on .21 stock rooted?
My coworker has .21 not rooted and his works fine.
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aznmode said:
Thanks for the suggestions but didnt make a difference. Are you on .21 stock rooted?
My coworker has .21 not rooted and his works fine.
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Yes I am. .21 stock rooted.
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I did not root my Prime and is working just fine
This is link where you can lear about this: www.xray.io
I think this tool is really great but Im little afraid to install and use! My english is not enough good to learn about all things for XRAY!
Please post good comment about this and if you use it! I was reading somewhere the DARPA have some finger in it.
[Im not reponse for any resulting damage on your device]
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Pegaz-7 said:
This is link where you can lear about this: www.xray.io
I think this tool is really great but Im little afraid to install and use! My english is not enough good to learn about all things for XRAY!
Please post good comment about this and if you use it! I was reading somewhere the DARPA have some finger in it.
[Im not reponse for any resulting damage on your device]
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u think it's great but u didnt install.... >.< makes sense
Mmm, this simply shows you what kind of exploits you can use to gain root access on your device. Tried on my phone, gingerbreak is the vulnerability, on prime, the same thing. Maybe we can gain root with gingerbreak even if we are on ICS?
Lord_Possum said:
Mmm, this simply shows you what kind of exploits you can use to gain root access on your device. Tried on my phone, gingerbreak is the vulnerability, on prime, the same thing. Maybe we can gain root with gingerbreak even if we are on ICS?
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No. Gingerbreak only worked on Gingerbread below 2.3.4 I think. There was an exploit in Android itself that allowed anyone to get root and it was patched.
st33med said:
No. Gingerbreak only worked on Gingerbread below 2.3.4 I think. There was an exploit in Android itself that allowed anyone to get root and it was patched.
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ok, but my Prime is *still* vulnerable for this app, so, the app shows a false positive, or the exploit is still there.