Hello all. I recently got a dna, i am coming from a thunderbolt. This phone is 100 percent stock. When on pages like facebook and i click on a video, it will only play it really small in the browser, i get no option of what program to use to watch the video in. There is no way to make it full screen and i cant rewind or ff most the time. Whay do i need to change to make videos open in a video app by default and not in the browser. It does it on the stock browser as well as dolphin. Any help would be appreciated.
snakebyt said:
Hello all. I recently got a dna, i am coming from a thunderbolt. This phone is 100 percent stock. When on pages like facebook and i click on a video, it will only play it really small in the browser, i get no option of what program to use to watch the video in. There is no way to make it full screen and i cant rewind or ff most the time. Whay do i need to change to make videos open in a video app by default and not in the browser. It does it on the stock browser as well as dolphin. Any help would be appreciated.
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This may or may not solve your specific problem with Facebook, but lets say you wanted Youtube videos to play in the Youtube app instead of in the browser, all you have to do is go to settings>application associations (i think that's the name, it should be right under applications) and change the video player from browser to Youtube, or whichever app you would prefer videos be played in, you can do that with any of the options available in that section. Though certain apps like facebook where its a video uploaded to their service will probably still only play there.
I hope this helps!
Did you try in another browser like Chrome ??
I tried the settings in app associations, still no go. Also tried this in firefox and got the same result. Any othet suggestions
Hey just install mxplayer then set browser to mobile in browser settings. Think that should.
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Jayedamina said:
Hey just install mxplayer then set browser to mobile in browser settings. Think that should.
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I have mx installed, but it still wont work. I looked in the factory browser as well as dolphin and see no setting to set to mobile.
snakebyt said:
I have mx installed, but it still wont work. I looked in the factory browser as well as dolphin and see no setting to set to mobile.
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you have to associate mx player with videos. I think it is under app associations. I had to do the same thing.
First sidyour
Tried posting a screenshot of my app associations, but i guess i am too new to post pics.
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"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
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Notice where I changed them to mx player.
Exact same settings i have on mine..thanks for the pic ill try to post a pic of mine as soon as i can
snakebyt said:
Exact same settings i have on mine..thanks for the pic ill try to post a pic of mine as soon as i can
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Hmm, yours should work if you have the settings since mine does. I'm using stock browser.
I took some screens and will post them as soon as i am able
The ladt pic is how it plays my videos..quite annoying
You can also touch that box in the bottom right corner of the video to do full screen. That is the built in HTML5 player
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foolishly crossing my fingers that this app associations menu gets patched out now that the legal stuff between HTC and Apple is over. The implementation is so bad
Something..i still cant get it to open videos in a player...
i don't get why the HTCLinkify stuff doesn't wokr on here like it did ICS? i guess it's coded diff in JB?
Try downloading Chrome and setting it to your default for web links. On mine when I used the stock browser everything opened in there no matter what my app associations were, but when I had Chrome set all of them worked.
It's all integrated pretty deep into the OS in Sense 4 iirc. Hoping it's removed in 5
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1- Guys I can't change the video resolution of Youtube videos in the web browser. It stays on 360p and 480p when landscaped but I can't change it to any other settings like 720p/1080p. If I click the Up icon the other settings are just flashing for a moment but not staying there, so I am not able to select them. Tried in Dolphin HD too, same . I am sure that GS II can play 1080p videos on browser, so what's happening with mine? I am on XWKE8 btw.
2- I don't know if it is a default bug or not, but while playing a movie (.mkv's) if I take a screenshot by pressing Menu+Power key it's saving as a dark black picture! Any idea what the cause might be?
Thanks in advance.
quite strange
youtube
works normally for others
qwerty warrior said:
quite strange
youtube
works normally for others
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What should I do then?
u got the latest version of flash ?
qwerty warrior said:
u got the latest version of flash ?
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How to check mine and how to update?
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.adobe.flashplayer
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https://market.android.com/details?id=com.adobe.flashplayer
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You saved me , it was the outdated flash player. Now can you tell me something about my 2nd problem? or Is it not a problem at all?
The problem I am having is this,
try using different video players i have a theory
CLICK HERE
i think its possible if u use different media players
qwerty warrior said:
try using different video players i have a theory
CLICK HERE
i think its possible if u use different media players
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Oops, that link isn't opening. Some Maintenance error is popping up. Buddy can you please check that can you take screenshot in default video player in yours? Actually what is more wondering me that if it is a common bug or only me!
ithehappy said:
Oops, that link isn't opening. Some Maintenance error is popping up. Buddy can you please check that can you take screenshot in default video player in yours? Actually what is more wondering me that if it is a common bug or only me!
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i dont own a android device
just google this mVideoPlayer and download it
try it
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"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
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if it dosnt work just keep bumping this thread and some one will eventually respond
qwerty warrior said:
i dont own a android device
just google this mVideoPlayer and download it
try it
if it dosnt work just keep bumping this thread and some one will eventually respond
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OK, Thanks. Will download it.
But my question remains, Is it possible to take a screenshot (Menu+Power) while playing a movie in the Default Video player?
No, it's the same as pressing printscreen on a PC while a video is playing. It won't capture the video.
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ithehappy said:
OK, Thanks. Will download it.
But my question remains, Is it possible to take a screenshot (Menu+Power) while playing a movie in the Default Video player?
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mplayer
first try that media player i linked u earlier if it didnt work try this
Can’t change YouTube video quality on android phone when update YouTube app. Sometimes after update, you can see YouTube app video quality option not seen and YouTube streaming issue generated. Let see the 5 possible solutions from my side to fix YouTube video quality not changing on android phone or tablet. I hope above given possible solution resolve your issue.
hey friends, just want to share one cool app for SGS2:
Dolphin Browser HD - Works great on SGS2
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"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
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https://market.android.com/details?...wsMSwxLDEsIm1vYmkubWdlZWsuVHVubnlCcm93c2VyIl0.
WHAT DOES IT DO!!
browser app to replace built-in browser, has tabs, gesture, etc..
apexi350z said:
browser app to replace built-in browser, has tabs, gesture, etc..
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Think samvillian was being sarcastic. Dolphin browser HD has been out for a while and pretty sure almost everybody knows about it. I was using it on my captivate long time ago. Probably why this thread isn't full of "oh this is cool" or "this is an awesome browser" replies from people. There are multiple browsers for android devices in the market. Firefox, opera, opera mini, just to name a few. Just depends on your preference.
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spbluffmaster said:
hey friends, just want to share one cool app for SGS2:
Dolphin Browser HD - Works great on SGS2
https://market.android.com/details?...wsMSwxLDEsIm1vYmkubWdlZWsuVHVubnlCcm93c2VyIl0.
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Dolphin Browser is the best and most complete mobile web browser I've ever used on a mobile device. Thanks for spreading the word of this great little app.
i noticed that on my s2 before and even after rooting (unnamed) that dolphin HD runs slow.. its noticeable when i scroll up and down on pages and just seems overall sluggish compared to the stock browser... i love the stock browser because its so smooth just wish it had tabs - anyone know a fix or reason why it might run slow on my phone? I tried clearing rams, made sure no others apps were running, and even tried rebooting the phone and messing with the dolphin settings to bare minimum
Canious said:
i noticed that on my s2 before and even after rooting (unnamed) that dolphin HD runs slow.. its noticeable when i scroll up and down on pages and just seems overall sluggish compared to the stock browser... i love the stock browser because its so smooth just wish it had tabs - anyone know a fix or reason why it might run slow on my phone? I tried clearing rams, made sure no others apps were running, and even tried rebooting the phone and messing with the dolphin settings to bare minimum
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It runs like silk on mine. Even with pages that are full of graphics and flash. One thing I would try is go a day or trip without killing anything in ram - don't use any task killers or managers including the one that comes installed, just let the kernel handle memory itself and run dolphin all that day, don't even look at the ram usage and see if after a day of that if it is running any better.
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I like Dolphin HD, but on my GS2, it held a wakelock (I don't know if it was going to be consistent behavior, but one time is enough for me to uninstall - if it happened once, it'll happen again). Not only that, it was ramping up the CPU and drained my battery significantly within a few minutes. I ended up uninstalling. I'm currently using Miren (and Opera).
samvillian said:
WHAT DOES IT DO!!
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Lmmfao!
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There is some sort of privacy issue that is being mentioned about dolphin browser. Should check it out guys. Its in Android apps and games thread.
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nuwayman said:
There is some sort of privacy issue that is being mentioned about dolphin browser. Should check it out guys. Its in Android apps and games thread.
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Yup apparently the latest version collects all sorts of personal including all urls visited -
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1319529
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I am a bigger fan of Opera Mobile, since it uses the GPU for acceleration. Smooth as can be.
poofyhairguy said:
I am a bigger fan of Opera Mobile, since it uses the GPU for acceleration. Smooth as can be.
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I didn't know that. Cool.
karth500 said:
Yup apparently the latest version collects all sorts of personal including all urls visited -
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1319529
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I like dolphin mini, but sticking with opera until dolphin responds to this.
Their official reply is that the URL transmission was to check to see if a webzine version of that page existed on their servers, in which case, it would give you the option of viewing the webzine. This does correspond with how the webzine actually works, so i'm inclined to believe them. They have temporarily removed the functionality so they can add an opt in to make the program's operation clearer to the user.
never used the default browser because of this
On my Galaxy Nexus, both the Facebook app and m.facebook.com present the full "Timeline" view with cover photo and links to About, Photos, Friends, Likes.
On my Springboard (running ICS and "high resolution" mode), I get a pared-down view with only cover photo, buttons for friending and messaging, write post and share photo. I am not able to browse any other aspects of one's profile unless I load the desktop page.
Any idea why Facebook has LESS features on a tablet than on a phone? Has anyone managed to force the full mobile Timeline view to work?
Don't know what would make the difference. They both come up the same on my phone and springboard. Have you tried Friendcaster though? Way better then thee actual Facebook app.
Okay screenshots. Here is the public profile of a local politician who I haven't friended, but her permissions allow lots to be shown on her profile so she makes a good example.
Galaxy Nexus: (cut off part of the cover photo to show the important parts)
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"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
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MediaPad ICS high resolution mode:
Note how the GNex version has About, Photos, Friends, Likes. The MediaPad version is missing the entire Timeline layout, and has only her About page - no links to see her wall, photos or likes. When I do the same for people who *are* my friends, I get the wall with no links to About, Photos or Friends.
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that is touch.facebook.com
441Excelsior said:
that is touch.facebook.com
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Both screenshots are from the Facebook app, same version, latest from Google Play. Neither is a browser shot.
Notice in both shots there is a three-dot menu button on the taskbar. That would not be there if I were viewing it from the browser.
but touch.facebook.com looks the same like your screens....so fb app only display touch fb site
Nonetheless, the problem is that on one device it's displaying all the correct links/buttons and on the other it isn't.
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I have same problem. Anoying :-(
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It's fixed in the latest version.
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It's fixed in the latest version.
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No it isn't, at least not on mine. Pages are still missing links to see all parts of the profile. I loaded up the Hedy Fry page again just now and it looks the same.
cmstlist said:
No it isn't, at least not on mine. Pages are still missing links to see all parts of the profile. I loaded up the Hedy Fry page again just now and it looks the same.
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Maybe it's because you're using high res? I'm on standard.
It turns out that I had spoofed my device (as a galaxy note). Going back to mediapad and the Facebook app is broken again. Basically the Facebook app developer is incompetent.
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rurou said:
It turns out that I had spoofed my device (as a galaxy note). Going back to mediapad and the Facebook app is broken again. Basically the Facebook app developer is incompetent.
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There we go, that's more like it.
The thing is, our devices are the same dimensions as the Nexus 7. Chances are any app broken on ours will be broken on Nexus 7, no? Hopefully that gets the devs' asses in gear. Although if the fixes only work on JB, we're still out of luck.
Due to an unrelated matter I had to change my Facebook password. Upon signing back into Facebook, all the Timeline elements started showing up again. Strange, but happy that I finally have the full feature set again!
I have a problem with logging in to facebook with any app. It works from the browser, but friendcaster, the official facebook app, and any other application that gets news from facebook crashes when i want to login. I use cm10 rom, does anybody else have this problem?
Stock is fine. Maybe someone broke an important API in CM10?
cmstlist said:
Stock is fine. Maybe someone broke an important API in CM10?
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I tried it with previous releases of cm10, didn't work. I'm not sure when did this issue start. It was okay, i think somewhere at the alpha3 release.
Balls. I opened the app today and all Timeline elements are once again gone.
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Ok so what app do I need to get that will allow me to play you-tube in full screen portait ? A big missing feature coming from IOS
I am not having any luck finding out where my favorites are in Chrome, I just see mobile bookmarks and no other option to navigate to favorites. What I am missing ?
Vimeo not working in Chrome but works in native browser, seriously ?
The cleansing of the full phone search feature is really sad, the wifi reception is pretty weak but otherwise this phone is awesome coming from 4 plus years of iphones.
Flipboard on a 4.8 inch screen is incredible.
Thanks in advance
Srgsx said:
Ok so what app do I need to get that will allow me to play you-tube in full screen portait ? A big missing feature coming from IOS
I am not having any luck finding out where my favorites are in Chrome, I just see mobile bookmarks and no other option to navigate to favorites. What I am missing ?
Vimeo not working in Chrome but works in native browser, seriously ?
The cleansing of the full phone search feature is really sad, the wifi reception is pretty weak but otherwise this phone is awesome coming from 4 plus years of iphones.
Flipboard on a 4.8 inch screen is incredible.
Thanks in advance
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For the full screen youtube, have you tried turning the phone sideways? with the screen rotation on from the notification bar? :good:
unleashed12 said:
For the full screen youtube, have you tried turning the phone sideways? with the screen rotation on from the notification bar? :good:
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Yes I know I can get full screen support in landscape mode but thats not what I am after.
I want full -screen portait mode, would be awesome with this screen. This is a native feature in IOS, just saying -
Srgsx said:
Yes I know I can get full screen support in landscape mode but thats not what I am after.
I want full -screen portait mode, would be awesome with this screen. This is a native feature in IOS, just saying -
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I'm not sure I get the point of full screen portrait when video is landscape. Do you mean like how it will be black around the video with no other information in portrait?
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Srgsx said:
Ok so what app do I need to get that will allow me to play you-tube in full screen portait ? A big missing feature coming from IOS
I am not having any luck finding out where my favorites are in Chrome, I just see mobile bookmarks and no other option to navigate to favorites. What I am missing ?
Vimeo not working in Chrome but works in native browser, seriously ?
The cleansing of the full phone search feature is really sad, the wifi reception is pretty weak but otherwise this phone is awesome coming from 4 plus years of iphones.
Flipboard on a 4.8 inch screen is incredible.
Thanks in advance
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For Chrome, click on "Boommarks" to the left of where it says "Mobile Bookmarks" and it will take you up a level where you'll see a folder of your desktop bookmarks. See attached screen grab. Love this feature, btw.
As for the weak wifi, I agree. Doesn't do as well as my iPhone 4 did. But, the iPhone 4 and 4s sure can't do what this phone can.
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How exactly does full screen portrait mode work?
Can we get a screenshot from iOS?
p0rkguy said:
How exactly does full screen portrait mode work?
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I was wondering the same thing. After all, if the Video is fully from side to side, the only difference would be full black over the top and bottom section rather than additional info.
the vimeo thing works in stock because it uses flash player. it will never work in chrome because it will never have flash player.
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I was wondering the same thing. After all, if the Video is fully from side to side, the only difference would be full black over the top and bottom section rather than additional info.
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I really think this is what he means, but I could be wrong.
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Good to know about Chrome not supporting flash - What confuses me is that Vimeo works fine on IOS devices which of course do NOT support flash. And to add to that I am not seeing many flash sites mostly news sites work on this phone. The Adobe flash app thats native to this device seems to do nothing...
As far as youtube, IOS 4 or newer renders a full screen portrait mode, that somewhat compresses the content on the sides and magnifies the image. Its basically doing a zoom function which is pretty sweet. I thought for sure there would be some Android app that could do the same. I find it silly to have this giant screen and when I play in portrait I get a 1.5X1.5 video with the rest of the screen filled with useless text.
I can easily find my mobile bookmarks in Chrome, what I dont see is the bookmarks I have been saving in favorites. How does one get to the actual saved favorites folder ? It should not be this difficult. The bookmarks in the stock browser are much easier to navigate -
I have a i9100 with
cm-13.0-20161105-NIGHTLY-i9100
and all the updated apps for facebook and youtube form the playstore. The problem is that, when clicking a video from youtube, but inside a facebook page, the video is launched with the html5 player, the sound is correct, I can see the position bar of the video, I can pause the video, but the video has plenty of artifacts. The same video inside facebook is fine infull screen. Inside the youtube app, when I choose open this link in youtube (from facebook), the video is fine in both small and full screen.
Is there a fix for this ?
good news, I installed the application ''android webview'' and now the artifacts have disappeared on facebook.
I still have the bug, within facebook, when I watch videos from news sites.
to recapitulate on CM14:
-example of videos failing http://edition.cnn.com/videos
-webview from the play store is installed
-the youtube app : all works
-the cm browser : videos from news sites do not work [only audio and scrambled video (showing the text of the page)]
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"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
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"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
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-chromium : no video, no audio, just a black rectangle with ''BLOP'' on it
-chrome : all works, like firefox
-firefox : all works
-facebook : ''native'' videos work with webview, youtube videos works, videos from news sites do not work [only audio and scrambled video (showing the text of the page)]
-webview browser, from the play store https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.snc.test.webview2&hl=en
youtube works, videos from news sites do not work [only audio and scrambled video (showing the text of the page)]
I tried the various settings here, and it is always the same bug,
Hi @blue whale
@marcimix made the linked fix for cm11
I wonder if it works somewhere else .....
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=70266718
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I will save my system and them try it
blue whale said:
I will save my system and them try it
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Please post the outcome.
Thanks!
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TriboDoP said:
Please post the outcome.
Thanks!
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THere is no problem during the installation, but the bug is still here. I also wiped the cache, just in case.
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THere is no problem during the installation, but the bug is still here. I also wiped the cache, just in case.
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Seems there is no way to get rid of this bug which exists in many cm versions.
Thanks and Regards!
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A few days ago, I recorded the logcat when I tried to read videos within facebook. I am always over wifi and never on mobile data.
this when I go, within the newsfeed of facebook, to a radio and try to play the recording of an episode of some show, which fails, then I try to play the live radio, which fails too.
http://pastebin.com/2yZPuQdJ
this is a bit later, when within FB, I try to load a buggy video from a news site, I stopped at 52:11. THis was before I installed chrome dev.
http://pastebin.com/PntAqmV8
I do not know if the bug and the solution are apparent in these log..