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I've been emailing with someone at Google's Movie support and am being told that the reason my XOOM can't download or stream movies from their new service is because it's rooted.
Is anyone else out there having similar issues? IMO, this sucks. Hoping for a swift resolution.
I think I may have the same issue. My xoom is unlocked and rooted and I get a license error (error 49) whenever I try to download a movie.
tr3v1n said:
I think I may have the same issue. My xoom is unlocked and rooted and I get a license error (error 49) whenever I try to download a movie.
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Not surprising. The first thing that I'd try to do if I had "pinned" a movie for offline viewing and I had root would be to look for the decryption key and the encrypted local file. HD movies on the cheap. Root and DRM just aren't compatible.
jdclucidly said:
Not surprising. The first thing that I'd try to do if I had "pinned" a movie for offline viewing and I had root would be to look for the decryption key and the encrypted local file. HD movies on the cheap. Root and DRM just aren't compatible.
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My HTC Incredible is rooted and I just installed the new Netflix streaming app and it works. So I don't think that rooting and DRM must be mutually exclusive.
What if you have a movie pinned for offline viewing, then root I wonder?
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davidsos said:
My HTC Incredible is rooted and I just installed the new Netflix streaming app and it works. So I don't think that rooting and DRM must be mutually exclusive.
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Netflix doesn't let you download movies like Google Movies does. Netflix also isn't doing HD. The DRM requirements for HD are a *lot* tighter and more restrictive than they are for SD content.
RadDudeTommy said:
What if you have a movie pinned for offline viewing, then root I wonder?
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"fastboot oem unlock" (aka, rooting the Xoom) wipes your device.
kllrnohj said:
"fastboot oem unlock" (aka, rooting the Xoom) wipes your device.
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No, unlocking isn't the same as rooting. You can unlock and not root. (Unlocking only enables fastboot's ability to flash unsigned partition images)
I wonder what happens in that case, where you unlock and not root? It might be an interesting -- and potentially expensive -- exercise to see under what conditions exactly does this error trigger.
Rooted users are actually seeing the movies listed in the market, but just can't play them right?
I got 3.1 on my non-rooted wifi version this morning and the market has no movies tab at all.
I just tried, I can rent and its in my rentals but won't play.
Edit: I'm rooted
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Found the answer to my question.
Google said:
Hi horatiopositronic,
Sorry for the confusion. An update bringing the Videos app and Movies tab
in Android Market is currently being rolled out to Verizon XOOM customers.
Wi-Fi Xoom devices will begin receiving this update (separate from 3.1
update) in the coming weeks. When the update becomes available for Wi-Fi
Xoom users like yourself, your Xoom will automatically receive the Videos
application, and your Android Market will display the Movies tab. Look
out for notifications updates in the coming weeks (bottom right corner
near your time).
Regards,
Kevin
The Android Market Support Team
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I read from Droid Life that if you delete Superuser.apk and su that Movies will start working. Hence root is the issue.
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I have a UK wifi xoom which I unlocked, and played around with a while back, including rooting it and installing Tiamat. I've since returned it to stock US software (just so i can get updates more quickly), and no longer have root access. However, I still get the error 49 if i try to play a movie from the market. Surely they don't block movies from devices that were rooted once upon a time!?
I have a rooted Thunderbolt and receive the same error. It has to do with su and root. I don't think this exclusive to the xoom.
(I'm posting here because i just bought a xoom and will be rooting as soon as i do the knowledge on it.)
Thanks
Hi,
I'm not sure if possible, is there a way to sideload the Amazon video app on the Xoom? Or is it possible? I have Amazon Prime and would like to watch the free movies/tv shows with the same app the Fire uses.
Thanks,
Good idea, since the Fire was just rooted there's probably a system dump over on the Fire forums.
EDIT: And here you go http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1348782
As a workaround, the browser works very well to view Amazon Prime videos as long you have Flash installed. On my stock 4G 3.2.2 system, the video was prone to the occasional stutter. But after rooting and overclocking, The video is flawlessly smooth in full screen HD.
akshunj said:
As a workaround, the browser works very well to view Amazon Prime videos as long you have Flash installed. On my stock 4G 3.2.2 system, the video was prone to the occasional stutter. But after rooting and overclocking, The video is flawlessly smooth in full screen HD.
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^ this. Also appears that people who are rooting their devices are breaking the app, same with us and the ability to rent movies in the market apparently. Amazon won't let devices that are rooted stream from Amazon Prime.
But I guess we just wait and see. I have Amazon Prime also and would love to just have an App directly for Amazon to utilize it.
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^ this. Also appears that people who are rooting their devices are breaking the app, same with us and the ability to rent movies in the market apparently. Amazon won't let devices that are rooted stream from Amazon Prime.
But I guess we just wait and see. I have Amazon Prime also and would love to just have an App directly for Amazon to utilize it.
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The apk has been posted here, it is working on some devices:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1347745
No luck...
Tried on my root'ed Xoom, just get a Force Close every time I try to do anything. I did try on my root'ed Galaxy S2, and I just get the error message about it not being able to play on a device "configured" like that (aka root'ed).
I am curious if anyone with a non-rooted Xoom has had any success.
Matt112211 said:
Tried on my root'ed Xoom, just get a Force Close every time I try to do anything. I did try on my root'ed Galaxy S2, and I just get the error message about it not being able to play on a device "configured" like that (aka root'ed).
I am curious if anyone with a non-rooted Xoom has had any success.
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Just constant FC on my Xoom when I try and select anything as well. Was able to load it on the G2 but says same thing about the configuration.
The Kindle Fire OS is based off of gingerbread so maybe that's the reason for the constant FC on Honeycomb? I don't know.
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Just constant FC on my Xoom when I try and select anything as well. Was able to load it on the G2 but says same thing about the configuration.
The Kindle Fire OS is based off of gingerbread so maybe that's the reason for the constant FC on Honeycomb? I don't know.
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Works just fine on my non-rooted 4g xoom
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sirius b said:
Works just fine on my non-rooted 4g xoom
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Then maybe it's a root thing, You're not able to stream over 4g though are you?
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Then maybe it's a root thing, You're not able to stream over 4g though are you?
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I unfortunately do not have Verizon service on my Xoom as I travel too much for it to really be useful, since most countries don't really use CDMA so I'm sorry I can't answer that question. Funny since I've restarted the damn thing force closes when I select something to watch.
Also on a side not I'be read that KindleFire users are losing streaming capabilities when they root.
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I have a Galaxy Tab 7 Plus not rooted and it FC's as well.
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Works just fine on my non-rooted 4g xoom
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I had the opposite experience when I tried it on my LTE-upgraded, non-rooted Xoom. I can browse the app, but selecting anything results in a force close.
same here on a rooted x00m4g just need a way to login and not force close when i try to access something. Hopefully someone can hack this apk like they did for the netflix app.
Unrooted stock Xoom WiFi. Installs and operates, but FCs whenever I try to watch or buy anything. Needs some tweaking to make it work on the Xoom, evidently.
I have a non-rooted xoom Wi-Fi and it FC's every time.
Has anyone been able to get Amazon Video to play on the Xoom w/out FC?
I have had my nexus 7 since Friday. I hadn't planned on rooting it because jelly bean is extremely nice and I wanted to be able to watch Play Store movies without being denied for DRM issues as i had been before on rooted devices.
After setting up my tablet, I began download the Transformers move to my device. Just for giggles I decided to try the same on my rooted GNex with Razors Jelly 2.6 on it. The movie streamed with no issues and downloaded as well. Playback worked with both methods. I have not tried this with any other play store video content as of yet.
I guess my question(s) is/are, what has changed? Is this a jelly bean phenomenon? Does the Play Store no longer look for root? Has anyone with a rooted nexus 7 tablet been able to do the same with any other video content from Play? I know, that's a lot of questions and I'm sure that I'll get blasted for not searching, but after a dozen failed searches I could not find the answers that I was looking for.
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a few weeks ago google enabled the play store movies to now work with root.
So you can now be rooted and have full access to the play store. I'm assuming it was partly due to the Nexus 7's pending release.
Now many other services such as Ultraviolet with Flixster still do look for root and you'll have to use a temp unroot to use them.
neok44 said:
a few weeks ago google enabled the play store movies to now work with root.
So you can now be rooted and have full access to the play store. I'm assuming it was partly due to the Nexus 7's pending release.
Now many other services such as Ultraviolet with Flixster still do look for root and you'll have to use a temp unroot to use them.
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Thanks for that. I want to read up on the subject. Interestingly enough my TWC TV app is listed as incompatible with the 7. It worked with the tab 2 7.0. Now all I need to do is head over to the Galaxy Nexus thread and find out which temp unroot to use that doesn't totally bork my phone!
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i use Voodoo OTA RootKeeper app from the play store. don't know if it works with the N7 though.
On my galaxy nexus it's perfect. disable root, ultraviolet works, re-enable and back to root like nothing happened.
neok44 said:
i use Voodoo OTA RootKeeper app from the play store. don't know if it works with the N7 though.
On my galaxy nexus it's perfect. disable root, ultraviolet works, re-enable and back to root like nothing happened.
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I'm running Razors Jelly. I don't remember if I tried that one or not. I tried two or three and decided that I never wanted to try again.
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Temp unroot isn't guaranteed, the Barclays banking apps for instance still refuse to work even with temporary unrooting.
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My issue was that root never came back. One question, will I still be able to boot into cwm to restore a backup if things go wrong? I want smart enough to think of that last time around.
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tsruggles said:
I have had my nexus 7 since Friday. I hadn't planned on rooting it because jelly bean is extremely nice and I wanted to be able to watch Play Store movies without being denied for DRM issues as i had been before on rooted devices.
After setting up my tablet, I began download the Transformers move to my device. Just for giggles I decided to try the same on my rooted GNex with Razors Jelly 2.6 on it. The movie streamed with no issues and downloaded as well. Playback worked with both methods. I have not tried this with any other play store video content as of yet.
I guess my question(s) is/are, what has changed? Is this a jelly bean phenomenon? Does the Play Store no longer look for root? Has anyone with a rooted nexus 7 tablet been able to do the same with any other video content from Play? I know, that's a lot of questions and I'm sure that I'll get blasted for not searching, but after a dozen failed searches I could not find the answers that I was looking for.
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I had Transformers on my N7. I rooted which wiped everything and when I went to try to redownload it there was no way to do so.
94SupraTT said:
I had Transformers on my N7. I rooted which wiped everything and when I went to try to redownload it there was no way to do so.
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thats strange, Ive rooted and wiped over and over again the last few days and all of my freebies are still available to me
The Verge has reported that a "narrow" release of the next software update has started today. I know everyone here probably has it blocked, but let us know if you get any indication of the update.
More info here.
UPDATE: Amazon is now saying the update will be released next week.
Wonder if this update blocks root... guess we will find out soon enough...
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Anyone that does not want root needs to tell us the changelog for the update when they get it.
retroben said:
Anyone that does not want root needs to tell us the changelog for the update when they get it.
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I unrooted my FTV and will wait for the update.
Yeah, I'd like to know this as well. My Fire TV is out for delivery. Can't wait to mess with it.
The Verge has updated their article. Amazon is now saying the update will begin rolling out next week.
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The Verge has updated their article. Amazon is now saying the update will begin rolling out next week.
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A weeks time to close a root exploit that just came out over the weekend? I doubt their devs will be able to squeeze that in but maybe.
alwaysbless said:
A weeks time to close a root exploit that just came out over the weekend? I doubt their devs will be able to squeeze that in but maybe.
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I hope you're right! As a Prime user, the video filter would be a cool feature. It'd be nice to be able to update and re-root.
Also has the music baked in, and free time. Can apparently search by price.
As long as sideloading still works I may just go for it.
I bought the box was to be able to view Prime video content as well as local media and Netflix. Root is nice to have, but for me losing access to Prime video means the box is not doing what I bought it for. Of course, so is losing XBMC, so if sideloading breaks the box goes back and I probably pick up a TV that I can stream to via Bubble as well as use for NF and Prime - or I reconnect my WDTVLIVE and hope my bluray player eventually gets Prime. It just got the Digital Concert Hall from the Berlin Philharmonic, and that's a great, if expensive, service.
I had paid google apps working without root after sideloading enough of the google stuff to get login working.
If the update's mandatory for Prime viewing, I update. If it breaks xbmc, I return.
I imagine Prime video will still work...right?
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A weeks time to close a root exploit that just came out over the weekend? I doubt their devs will be able to squeeze that in but maybe.
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If it is even the same exploit. This update has been coming for awhile so maybe it will just be the update they have been working on.
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If it is even the same exploit. This update has been coming for awhile so maybe it will just be the update they have been working on.
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Yea thats wht im saying this is almost certainly an update they have had on their road map for a while. Only potential problem I can see if towelroot use the same exploits that jcase already submitted to amazon / qualcomm for patching (he mentioned a few weeks back that a security update was coming very soon).
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A weeks time to close a root exploit that just came out over the weekend? I doubt their devs will be able to squeeze that in but maybe.
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Isn't this exploit the same as the root exploit for the Samsung S5? If so, this would make it an Android/ASOP issue, no? This could impact the time it takes for a fix to be made and trickled down to different implementations.
The towelroot exploit was a kernel bug that was disclosed at the beginning of the month and has been fixed in the kernel since the disclosure.
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The towelroot exploit was a kernel bug that was disclosed at the beginning of the month and has been fixed in the kernel since the disclosure.
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Sure, but did Amazon have time to get that fix tested / do they have time to get that fix tested if they're releasing an update this week? Very hard to say - depends on them realizing that the Linux kernel vulnerability to a local privilege escalation meant their device was trivially rootable and having the development team chops to patch the bug themselves rather than waiting for the kernel maintainers to address it and release the source code for the fix.
I suspect that Amazon's not at the top of Google's list for private code releases
As far as the update goes: it's possible that Amazon will, at some point, stop permitting access to their content from devices running code at or below release X.
I don't know their history on this sort of thing - do the Kindle Fire devices stop having access to reading material if they get too far behind in updates?
fire tv prime broken with root
deanemj said:
I imagine Prime video will still work...right?
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It's broken for me.
I rooted and lost amazon video right away. get player error.
Trying to find anybody that claims to have prime video working with rooted box, no luck.
I am thinking about unrooting now as xbmc is good, but I have been using plex for years and it is the cleanest interface for my purposes.
Anyone have prime working with root?
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It's broken for me.
I rooted and lost amazon video right away. get player error.
Trying to find anybody that claims to have prime video working with rooted box, no luck.
I am thinking about unrooting now as xbmc is good, but I have been using plex for years and it is the cleanest interface for my purposes.
Anyone have prime working with root?
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Just watched Mad Max from prime... Launched KFTV Launcher from XBMC set as my default launcher on a rooted AFTV... I'm on the latest root able firmware.
Madmox2000 said:
It's broken for me.
I rooted and lost amazon video right away. get player error.
Trying to find anybody that claims to have prime video working with rooted box, no luck.
I am thinking about unrooting now as xbmc is good, but I have been using plex for years and it is the cleanest interface for my purposes.
Anyone have prime working with root?
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2 FTV with working Prime video on the original installed firmware and the last rootable update. Just got done watching 1st season of Stargate.
Been watching The Wire/Prime on a rooted aftv. NP here.
Try shutting down XBMC/Netflix and try the prime video. Or do a full shutdown and try it first up before doing anything else. I have a movie paused on XBMC and tried a prime video and I got that error. Shut down XBMC and it started working fine again.
Not sure if the XBMC launcher messes up prime streaming due to the problem I listed above.
I can still see it via browser on my desktop and my Moto X but it seems to be gone from the Play Store on the Nexus Player. If I try to install it to the Nexus Player from my browser, it just hangs.
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I'm running into the same problem. I just set up my nexus player yesterday, so I haven't been able to get Kodi on it at all yet. Hoping that it pops back up on the store.
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I'm running into the same problem. I just set up my nexus player yesterday, so I haven't been able to get Kodi on it at all yet. Hoping that it pops back up on the store.
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You can still sideload it.
Yea. I noticed that yesterday. Just got this on Friday and trying different roms. I can say it WAS in playstore on Friday but gone by yesterday afternoon.
Still available for the Razer Forge TV, hopefully temporary.
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clankfu said:
I can still see it via browser on my desktop and my Moto X but it seems to be gone from the Play Store on the Nexus Player. If I try to install it to the Nexus Player from my browser, it just hangs.
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I loaded Kodi on Thursday and then removed to start a fresh build late Saturday night and when I went to the Play Store to load it, I couldn't find it. I screwed around for hours and subsequently beat my Nexus Player with my fists until it popped apart and bloodied my right hand, as assumed it was the device and then maybe a Google account issue. I eventually found the number for Google service and after about 20 minutes on the phone, they discovered there was an issue. The rep said he believed it was an issue with the developer and that it must've just happened because somebody else had called in to another rep about the issue while I was on the phone with him. Think the player is going to go back to the store, regardless of whether or not I damaged it permanently from beating it. By the way, Kodi IS still available on my Android tablet via the Play Store just not the Nexus Player. I might just take this as my red flag that the Nexus is going to be quirky in the future and be done with it.
use voice search. if not then sideload
Side load it....
This vid helped me
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6fQKBPk-EM
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Side load it....
This vid helped me
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6fQKBPk-EM
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Weird that the x86 version of Kodi has issues on the Nexus Player.
clankfu said:
Weird that the x86 version of Kodi has issues on the Nexus Player.
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Well That video is months old but it worked for me... i downloaded the x86 version haven't had a issue. The version in that vid is like 14.0 helix were now on 15.2
odd I still see it on the play store.. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.xbmc.kodi&hl=en
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odd I still see it on the play store.. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.xbmc.kodi&hl=en
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Yea, it came back today.
Mine never came back and I am having a problem on the x86 version (cannot connect to pvr that is on my network), gonna try the ARM version to see if that fixes it
EDIT: After uninstalling the x86 version that I loaded the other day but wasn't working with my PVR, I checked the play store and it was available on there and I installed it and it works perfectly again with my pvr
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Weird that the x86 version of Kodi has issues on the Nexus Player.
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The one on the play store works fine for me!
Search, "XBMC"
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Theaxe said:
I loaded Kodi on Thursday and then removed to start a fresh build late Saturday night and when I went to the Play Store to load it, I couldn't find it. I screwed around for hours and subsequently beat my Nexus Player with my fists until it popped apart and bloodied my right hand, as assumed it was the device and then maybe a Google account issue. I eventually found the number for Google service and after about 20 minutes on the phone, they discovered there was an issue. The rep said he believed it was an issue with the developer and that it must've just happened because somebody else had called in to another rep about the issue while I was on the phone with him. Think the player is going to go back to the store, regardless of whether or not I damaged it permanently from beating it. By the way, Kodi IS still available on my Android tablet via the Play Store just not the Nexus Player. I might just take this as my red flag that the Nexus is going to be quirky in the future and be done with it.
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LOL! What is with people and having to have kodi? It's like, crack for media junkies! I have never used this Kodi (XBMC). What is so great about it?
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I was going to say, I checked and it is on the playstore. It says "Updated 10/27/2015". Kodi goes off the playstore for a day, this guy notices, and all hell breaks lose! LOL
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Weird that the x86 version of Kodi has issues on the Nexus Player.
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It doesn't, that bug only existed for a couple weeks. It was fixed in 15.0 beta 1 back in the early spring. You're better off using the x86 version now.
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You need to opt in for testing to install Kodi on Nexus Player - https://play.google.com/apps/testing/org.xbmc.kodi follow this link and opt in and all will install fine
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You need to opt in for testing to install Kodi on Nexus Player - https://play.google.com/apps/testing/org.xbmc.kodi follow this link and opt in and all will install fine
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No, you don't. It's back in the Play Store now.