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Help! Tmobile Video issues

Hi,
I have seen the problem mentioned on many forums but I still havent found an answer. I recently have bought an HD2 on TMobile and cannot get any videos playing on it as it always says that I need the latest version of flash, yet when I try to donwload it doesnt work. I spoke to Tmobile and they seemed unsure as to why it wasnt working and suggested I download Flash lite, but the link they gave me doesnt work.
Does any one know how I can get round this, ideally without doing anything that will invalidate the warranty. I have managed to get Iplayer working though.

How are you trying to watch the videos? Full flash support isn't available on Windows Mobile devices to date. I currently have the HD2 on WinMo as well. The best solutions (I believe) to date are;
1) Skyfire Browser.
Skyfire have just released a version of their browser for VGA devices which looks fantastic. This includes full flash and silverlight support. The only downside is that as the website is loaded on a seperate server and condensed the image quality isn't as good as it could be. Also there isn't a landscape mode. Which is a pain for watching video!
You can get Skyfire Browser here.
2) Youtube app.
The VGA app designed for the HD2 is absolutely beautiful. Unfortunately, Tmobile, in all their wisdom took the application off the HD2 before shipping. Fortunately you can install the program manually here. You will need to extract the CAB file from the RAR file before running on your phone.
3) Myplayer.
I know you have said you have Iplayer working but for others...
If you have the fantastic Coreplayer installed you can use the Myplayer app to stream BBC Iplayer. You can also stream from ITV Player and Five on Demand but you would need to pay Myplayer for the server fees. The quality is reasonable and watchable but not crisp and clear. You can download Myplayer here.
Hope this helped.
Dan.

Opera doesn't support flash but IE on HD2 does support flash. With IE, the flash experience depends on the complexity of the site.

ahaaee said:
Opera doesn't support flash but IE on HD2 does support flash. With IE, the flash experience depends on the complexity of the site.
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Thanks but when ive tried this it still asks me to install flash as I cannot view it
stokedanuk, I will try try your ideas when I get a chance, thanks!

stevem1982 said:
Thanks but when ive tried this it still asks me to install flash as I cannot view it
stokedanuk, I will try try your ideas when I get a chance, thanks!
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in my experience some sites work, some don't. euro gamer tv didn't work even on ie. I had assumed this was down to the fact that flash lite isn't full desktop flash. am I wrong to assume this? should pretty much all embedded video work? im also on t mobile but I have the you tube ap, and I got the phone from mobiles.co.uk so I think my handset is unlocked...
oh and I typed all this on my phone using the swype keyboard

i installed the youtube app on my tmobile phone and it conflicts with my recorded videos i'v shot, as in they dont play, i uninstalled youtube and they play fine. anyone else had this problem? if so is there a fix? thanks.

installed the youtube app on my tmobile phone and it conflicts with my recorded videos i'v shot, as in they dont play, i uninstalled youtube and they play fine. anyone else had this problem? if so is there a fix? thanks.
I had the same problem and as far as I know there isn't a fix.
I got round it by flashing ROM 1.48 on to my T Mobile via the goldcard method and so now have a "clean" sim free HD2 and able to flash new ROM's when they become available.
The you tube app is there and also jetcet printer which T Mobile removed along with the trial of co-pilot

I had the same problem and as far as I know there isn't a fix.
I got round it by flashing ROM 1.48 on to my T Mobile via the goldcard method and so now have a "clean" sim free HD2 and able to flash new ROM's when they become available.
The you tube app is there and also jetcet printer which T Mobile removed along with the trial of co-pilot[/QUOTE]
didnt really want to flash my phone, read a lot of threads with people having issues with roms. mine doesnt seem to have none of the issues or problems wot i read on xda with my stock tmobile rom, apart from the slight pinkiness on photos, must of got that 1 in a 1000 what seems to be running fine lol, so i`m a bit cautious whether to flash my phone or not, i really miss the youtube app though, i used to use it quite a lot on my diamond2. might just sit it out a bit longer an see if anyone comes up with a fix, fingers crossed lol

Does anyone have solution for this problem? My HTC HD2 from T-Mobile isn't playing youtube videos usign Internet Explorer application. I want to know if there is any solution to be able to watch youtube videos on Internet Explorer!
PS: I'm using another operator at the momen, not T-Mobile(I unlocked my phone)

the people here always have a solution...
fix opera flash:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=544770
as for youtube/t-mobile - flash a different rom. as long as you get a copy of your stock rom as a precaution it would seem highly unlikely that you can brick the phone

stokedanuk said:
1) Skyfire Browser.
Skyfire have just released a version of their browser for VGA devices which looks fantastic. This includes full flash and silverlight support. The only downside is that as the website is loaded on a seperate server and condensed the image quality isn't as good as it could be. Also there isn't a landscape mode. Which is a pain for watching video!
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If you have installed BSB tweaks 1.6 (which you should ) you can set Skyfire to rotate to landscape mode.

Tmobile always have to make their phones ****ter somehow! they either put on **** themes or remove apps and features!
I can say however, my tmobile hd2 has been working pretty well, apart from it not playing videos because of me installing youtube!
I'm just wondering if there is anyone who does not have a tmobile hd2 who also has an issue with their video playback from installing youtube?
Which Rom is recommended? how is htc's rom on their website? Will it restrict me loading it being a tmob customer?

ghats83 said:
Tmobile always have to make their phones ****ter somehow! they either put on **** themes or remove apps and features!
I can say however, my tmobile hd2 has been working pretty well, apart from it not playing videos because of me installing youtube!
I'm just wondering if there is anyone who does not have a tmobile hd2 who also has an issue with their video playback from installing youtube?
Which Rom is recommended? how is htc's rom on their website? Will it restrict me loading it being a tmob customer?
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I don't think this issue will apply to non tmobile users as its only tmobile who've removed the YouTube app. god knows why!!! I really don't understand it at all!!! I really miss the YouTube app but don't want to flash my phone. come on guys someone must know how to figure this out?? please...... pretty please!! lol

Hello all. just got my hd2 a few days ago from t mobile, and as a lot of you found out the you tube app has been removed so have been looking for a fix.
have downloaded the you tube app from here but it killed my outher videos as well
so then on a random idea while googleing i found the page telling me download from (edit cant post urls wwwDOTmDOTgoogleDOTcoDOTuk/youtube) and then it told me it was un suported.
but when i went into internet explorer and put the same url in. it downloaded a totaly diffrent app for you tube. is a bit more basic then the outher one but it plays vids and i am still able to play the vids on my phone
I hope this will help some outhers out as a short term till t-mobile gives back the full app

have u called tmobile to check your content lock is off? the content lock prevents sites loading that tmobile consider adult sites. this includes facebook and youtube! sometimes its removed at sign up if you speak to a person, but if you do it online (or over the phone sometimes) its set to be on and has to be removed. im not quite sure why tmobile force contract users (who have to be over 18 in the UK) to have a content lock.

What is the easiest way to enable flash player to opera browser

HI GUYS
I JUST FACED A PROBLEM WITH MY FRIEND'S FACEBOOK PAGE IN OPENING A VIDEO HE UPLOADED IT
AND WHEN I TRY TO OPEN IT IT ASKS ME FOR FLASH PLAYER AND I DOWNLOADED THE ADOBE FLASH PLAYER AND CHECK THE VIEO AGAIN BUT NOTHING CHANGED THE VIDEO CANT BE OPENED
NEEED UR HELP GUYS

Easiest way would be to find the caps lock and press it once and then use internet explorer or skyfire instead.

LOL, nice, I know there is a way to get it running in opera 9.7 but I don't wanna mess up my opera. Having flash on the opera already installed would be the best because it's the fastest browser and has the best pinch to zoom. Ohwell, I would love to just get the opera on the device to see the youtube page as the mobile version so when someone sends me a youtube video link, It will open the youtube app instead of nothing from opera. Sure, you can make IE the default browser and get this but there is no pinch zooming with IE. Ohwell.

Thank u friend so much for ur help
but
is there another way to enable flash to opera

because the topic is all the way on top anyways....where is the fix for opera browser?

Is there any solution

borgqueenx said:
because the topic is all the way on top anyways....where is the fix for opera browser?
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As far as I remember, it's in the Windows Applications forum. Use the search function.

found it
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=544770

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=544770
Try here and let me know if it works

I used it but it doesnt fixed my problem

Does this kill the pinch zoom on the HD2 browser? Anyone get it to work with the HD2?

very interesting, might try this myself. anyone got this working on hd2 yet?

I also tried it several days ago and I disabled it after installing.
The problem is (after disabling it is o.k. again) that for example none of the youtube movies worked for me. And also the has been some flickering in the upper third of the screen while zooming and scrolling. That has been the worst issue!

the patch does not work well at all.... is a waste of time patching....
just live with it for the time being i guess....

it does work
it worked fine for me on 3 different roms so it is probably worth a try for any of you people who are undecided on it. (and it is really easy to do too)
youtube and loads of other flash sites work, however facebook videos do not work for me.

how to play flash 9 on opera

needs help..... how to play flash9 on opera...
only found flash player7, no flash player9...
i am using browser - skyfire, it can play some flash9, but very slow, and easy to hang...
anyone knows how to play flash9
thanks....

shadowsky said:
needs help..... how to play flash9 on opera...
only found flash player7, no flash player9...
i am using browser - skyfire, it can play some flash9, but very slow, and easy to hang...
anyone knows how to play flash9
thanks....
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Not possible. Opera does not support flash (yet).

there's been a fix for flash for opera for ages now:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=544770

That's only for Flash 8 (Actionscript 2) - the plugin lies about being Flash 9 in the hope websites will still bother to load, but it can't display the content.
The "desktop version" of Flash Player 10.1 will be released for mobiles in a couple of months (as an OEM bundle, not a user-install). Palm and Android users will get it as an OTA update, but as of yet no sign of anything for WinMo.
Svegetto said:
there's been a fix for flash for opera for ages now:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=544770
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Yes, I have installed it, but still can not play the flash 9...
but i am wonder why another browser "Skyfire" can play flash 9...
so i think there should be some ways to solve it...

shadowsky said:
Yes, I have installed it, but still can not play the flash 9...
but i am wonder why another browser "Skyfire" can play flash 9...
so i think there should be some ways to solve it...
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Skyfire uses server side rendering instead of rendering everything on the phone. So the flash is actually rendered in their servers and then sent to you and not actually rendered on your phone. This is like the turbo feature of the new Opera, however that doesn't render flash for now. Also, I'm pretty sure the new IE renders flash on the phone..... that's been working since the HD2 came out in like Oct/Nov.

YouTube links to open YouTube app..?

Thinking of getting the HD2 for T-Mobile. I had the unlocked GSM version in the past and put custom ROM's on it. I played with the HD2 at my local T-Mobile store the other day and I noticed that if you get a link sent to you for a youtube link, the opera will not re-direct it to the youtube app like it did in my custom ROM. In short, is there a way to make this happen on the stock T-Mobile ROM? Reg edit or something? I get youtube links sent to me all the time and as of now, opera just tells me that I'm missing something to play it rather than re-direct to the youtube app. I know that IE will do it but I don't use IE as my default browser. It's slower and no pinch & zoom.

Raspster said:
Thinking of getting the HD2 for T-Mobile. I had the unlocked GSM version in the past and put custom ROM's on it. I played with the HD2 at my local T-Mobile store the other day and I noticed that if you get a link sent to you for a youtube link, the opera will not re-direct it to the youtube app like it did in my custom ROM. In short, is there a way to make this happen on the stock T-Mobile ROM? Reg edit or something? I get youtube links sent to me all the time and as of now, opera just tells me that I'm missing something to play it rather than re-direct to the youtube app. I know that IE will do it but I don't use IE as my default browser. It's slower and no pinch & zoom.
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what was your cooked ROM that did this?

Zenkinz'S rom DOES it. His ROM's are very good with some minor adjusting. I would normally slap his ROM onto a t-mobile HD2 but I wanted to give the t-mobile ROM a chance. Here is the link to his ROM. His is the ONLY one that does this properly.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=621699
Again, you can use opera and click on any youtube link video and it will launch the youtube app to play it. Very nice!

Can anyone figure this out? Any chefs know the recipe?

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Can anyone figure this out? Any chefs know the recipe?
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Why not ask zenkinz how it's done? I doubt it comes under the heading of national security, so he may tell you
Personally, I use Opera 10 (no pinch-to-zoom, but no text reflow either). Once plugins are enabled you can watch youtube vids in the browser, or click the fullscreen button. It's just as good as the app for viewing.

I use m.youtube, which when tap "watch video" opens htc youtube app

curious if there's a solution to this too
The only reason i ask is because if im browsing around Facebook and someone posts a youtube link, clicking it goes to Youtube.com in Opera where flash doesnt work.
So having a way to click a youtube link and for the Youtube app to open up would be useful

ekksman said:
I use m.youtube, which when tap "watch video" opens htc youtube app
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I notice that some ROMS and even stock ROMS will do it and some will not. I tried it on 3 different stock T-Mobile HD2's and none loaded the youtube app from the opera browser. Even if it was from m.youtube.com.

johncmolyneux said:
Why not ask zenkinz how it's done? I doubt it comes under the heading of national security, so he may tell you
Personally, I use Opera 10 (no pinch-to-zoom, but no text reflow either). Once plugins are enabled you can watch youtube vids in the browser, or click the fullscreen button. It's just as good as the app for viewing.
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Does opera 10 replace the built in opera 9.7 on the HD2? Or can you use both.

I guess no one has found a solution?

Zenkin's rom does open it in the Youtube app, but it doesn't seem to open the same quality video as it would if you tried it directly via the app itself.

Kumar's rom doesn't have this function, the Touch Xtream does. However the Kumar rom runs circles around the Touch rom regarding both speed and stability. I would try Zenkin's rom, but it's running the older version of WM with the buttons x button on the top. Anyone know of a rom that is both fast, stable, on WM 25559 and does youtube links???

How about if you do not want to change the rom on phone ? can you get a direct link to youtube to pull up the app instead of the website ? that would be ideal. I currently am using a US tmobile hd2. its kind of annoying to not be able to watch videos that were texted to me. any help would be greatly appreciated !

After asking this question in a number of times, I figured it out to a point.
Make this change to the registry. It's the same tweak for the BBC iPlayer.
HLKM/Software/Opera/Prefs/User Prefs/Custom User-Agent
Change from HTC_HD2_T8585 Opera/9.7 (Windows NT 5.1; U; en) to HTC_Touch_HD_T8282
Embedded links on webpages such as Engadget still don't show. Links do show up on google and will play from the app. So not a complete fix, but better then nothing for now.

Using Stock Browser.app instead of samsung crappyone?

Hi everyone..
we all know that the our tab it's wonderful and speedy..except for the only thing it make the difference today..the browser(someone told about dolphin hd? )..so my question is..it's possible to mount froyo's stock browser instead of default modified by samsung?
I miss something?
Thanks to everyone who help me..

Download DolphinHD or xScope from the Market.

orr Miren (awesome)

yes..I know both these browser but my question is about changing the browser.app with adb and mount stock froyo browser..
too easy download an app

daniel.weck said:
Download DolphinHD or xScope from the Market.
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dolphinHD is based on the same webkit..so it is a little slow..as the samsung crappy one..we need to change the entire app!!

qulo said:
dolphinHD is based on the same webkit..so it is a little slow..as the samsung crappy one..we need to change the entire app!!
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The stock Froyo browser would still use the same Webkit as well!
Regards,
Dave

I cant use anything but the Dolphin browser... as all my bookmarked pgs are gesture opened... until someone comes up with the same thing for other browsers, I can't use anything else Too easy to go "flick flick" and open the exact pages I want...
However, I admit, pinch to zoom could be a little smoother on Dolphin HD....
I also have nice add ons which allow me to shake/flick to jump from tab to tab

just an FYI, the newest firmware (euro) fixes the lag of the stock browser. i was looking for the same thing too, pushing the stock browswer from my nexus didnt work. but now i dont need to do it.