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Angry Birds beta for Android

I read a couple of days back that the wildly popular game on iOS - Angry Birds has been released for android...however I'm not able to find the application on the market.
Could it be an android 1.6 limitation or a region restriction?
Also if someone has the .apk file for it...could you please upload it...i would be really grateful to you! Thanks !

you have a PM

I was just a little late also. I guess they pulled it pretty quick. I signed up for their distribution emails, so hopefully they will open it back up and let me in!

There is an other thread with an mediafire link where you can download the demo
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PoTi_96 said:
There is an other thread with an mediafire link where you can download the demo
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I tried it... installs fine and everything, but then force closes once the game starts
anyone else with the same problem?

pngface said:
I tried it... installs fine and everything, but then force closes once the game starts
anyone else with the same problem?
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Yes, I have the same problem.

just keep relaunching it. it eventually works.
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you can either keep launching it until it eventually works, or if you have a task killer kill all running apps then launch the game and it will boot instantly.

pngface said:
I tried it... installs fine and everything, but then force closes once the game starts
anyone else with the same problem?
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Yes, start the game again for 2-4 times
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Yea, I have the same problem too but it seems to die of after a couple of days of playing the game lol. It force closes once in a while but it starts again if I relaunch it. You should report for bugs too cuz this is only the beta version

If you tap the screen while it's loading, the game loads up just fine.
It also runs incredibly smoothly, and for the moment, has better graphics than the iPhone version.
And look at that, it's not a 1.6 problem. Yay.

How come I can't find this game in the marketplace?
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harlz said:
How come I can't find this game in the marketplace?
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It's not on the marketplace for x10. You may wanna google for it. I'd like to post a link to the apk file, but I'm not sure if I'm allowed to.

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How come I can't find this game in the marketplace?
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Google, my friend, google.

I will post a link, if i am not allowed then please mod just delete it. As its only a beta i'll assume its ok.
http://rapidshare.com/files/416912061/com.rovio.angrybirds_lite.rar.html

Never have any problem with angry bird on X10.
It just ran and start when every time i launched it.
However, I do have FC problem on my HTC Hero Froyo, and I have to continue tapping the screen to get the game work.

It's on the market for me...i just downloaded it then.
EDIT: after opening it, it's a different app.
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iead1 said:
If you tap the screen while it's loading, the game loads up just fine.
It also runs incredibly smoothly, and for the moment, has better graphics than the iPhone version.
And look at that, it's not a 1.6 problem. Yay.
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Second That!

Install Error...
Hi Team,
I downloaded the APK file thru Mediafile listing.
I am having problems installing this.
First, I downloaded the APK, uploaded to the phone via Bluetooth, then used Astro to browse to the APK file, and launched the application installer,
As with any application installer, it warns what specific android functions this app is going to access, I moved forward,keep clicking on install..and it keeps bringing me back to the same page, telling me about what specific android functions this app is going to access, I keep clicking on install, is not doing it!
Why?
My phone is rooted with a R2BA026 firmware & allowed unsigned installations (thru applications settings)
Any help?
Also, its confirmed to work on 1.6 as per: http://androidandme.com/2010/09/game...ndroid-market/
Also, wanted to know: I googled the mediashare file link, the official file name is: com.rovio.angrybirds_lite.apk (11.41M)
Now, what am I doing wrong?

There's no reason for an App not to work on Android 1.6 anyway, the Android SDK makes it really easy for a developer to develop a single apk for basically all versions of the OS starting from 1.6 by just setting one line in a XML file. (1.5 is different since it has too much limitations)
The only reason for an app to skip 1.6 would be OpenGL ES 2.0 (most app only use OGL ES 1.1 or use a fallback renderer) or the absolute need of multitouch (applications generally catch the error and fallback to singletouch events in that case tough.)
Really applications that don't work on Android 1.6 are badly written (*cough* Twitter) and even those using NDK shouldn't need android 2.x. (*cough* Mozilla)

DRM service in Froyo

I noticed that the drm service (omadrmserviceconfig to be exact) is automatically turned on at booting on Froyo just like it did on Eclair.
Has anyone figured out if they fixed the battery draining issue for DRM in Froyo?
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I just uninstalled it with SDX Stock App Remover. I noticed there are only two files to remove now instead of three.

stir fry a lot said:
I just uninstalled it with SDX Stock App Remover. I noticed there are only two files to remove now instead of three.
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I wouldn't uninstall it. it turned out to be the root of some crazy problems I was having. But I do kill the process pretty much every time I boot.
for reference.. here was the loneliest thread on xda with 'said' problem.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=844343

I noticed I only had to delete two files this time as well. I always delete it and it doesn't cause me any problems, but I don't play ay drm music.
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It looks like the DRM service is draining the battery in Froyo like in Eclair.
I'm getting better battery life after disabling the service.
I'm surprised that nobody brought this up in a separate thread.
EDIT: I guess the thread mentioned above by decalex IS about this exact issue... sorry, missed that.
I've also heard from someone that deleting those apk's related to DRM will cause problemsin Froyo,
so I think it's better off just preventing the service from starting.
So I tried using the Startup Cleaner 2.0 app from the Market to disable the DRM service.
At first it seems to be working well, but after a while the omadrmserviceconfig starts up again.
Deleted the Startup Cleaner 2.0 app as soon as I found that out.
For the moment, I'm just disabling the DRM service manually (Settings -> Applications -> Running Services)
every time I do a reboot.
Anyone have any suggestion on automatically preventing the DRM service from starting?
BTW, thanks for your replies guys.

tonysohn said:
It looks like the DRM service is draining the battery in Froyo like in Eclair.
I'm getting better battery life after disabling the service.
I'm surprised that nobody brought this up in a separate thread.
I've also heard from someone that deleting those apk's related to DRM will cause problemsin Froyo,
so I think it's better off just preventing the service from starting.
So I tried using the Startup Cleaner 2.0 app from the Market to disable the DRM service.
At first it seems to be working well, but after a while the omadrmserviceconfig starts up again.
Deleted the Startup Cleaner 2.0 app as soon as I found that out.
For the moment, I'm just disabling the DRM service manually (Settings -> Applications -> Running Services)
every time I do a reboot.
Anyone have any suggestion on automatically preventing the DRM service from starting?
BTW, thanks for your replies guys.
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I'm on 2.1 still but I've been using startup auditor free from the market to stop this process at startup. It only allows you to block 5 apps with the free version but it has been working for me ever since I installed it.

I used to disable the DRM service every time I rebooted but eventually I stopped because I got sick of doing it and my battery performance did not seem to take a hit. I am leaving it enabled on Froyo as well and get good battery life. Maybe the DRM bug only effects some phones.

optimiss said:
I used to disable the DRM service every time I rebooted but eventually I stopped because I got sick of doing it and my battery performance did not seem to take a hit. I am leaving it enabled on Froyo as well and get good battery life. Maybe the DRM bug only effects some phones.
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This seems to be the case. There was no noticeable decrease in battery performance on my phone in DI18 and Froyo.

(I've posted this reply before on a similar thread, but I thought I'd share my 2 cents with you here...)
You're not the only one running into this issue.
I ended up rooting my Epic to get rid of all the sprint bloatware and what-not. Everything seemed to be going smooth from the stock standpoint. I removed Samsung Media hub first. Rebooted the phone and noticed nothing bad. Played around with the setup like that for a few days with no problems.
I next got rid of both the DRM service .apk's that were still running even after I got rid of the media hub... and then the problems started. For the first couple days I noticed DRAMATICALLY IMPROVED battery life and EXTRAORDINARY performance so I imagined what I did was a good thing: WRONG! A few days later, I noticed that if I assigned a sound to a notification or a ringtone *from the SD card*, that it would not work. I couldn't play sounds anymore and instead whenever I went to adjust the volume with said notes/tones selected, the Sound_service would crash.
However, I'm the only person I knew before now who has reported this issue so I'm sure there's not a lot of hubob to fix it. Every Epic is built different. Same parts or not. It's a mass-manufactured phone and each one will have its own quirks. There's my 2 cents.

I font delete it but I freeze it with titanium
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Is there a free program that will freeze it?
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musclehead84 said:
I font delete it but I freeze it with titanium
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Are you saying you don't run into any problems or force closes in system apps when frozen instead of uninstalled?

I wouldn't delete those apks due to malfunctions with the app market and force closing of the vending app
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Whosdaman said:
I wouldn't delete those apks due to malfunctions with the app market and force closing of the vending app
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And freezes in anything that plays audio or video.

Now everytime I boot I just go to the running services menu and disable the drm, alarm, and google messaging services.

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And freezes in anything that plays audio or video.
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I've noticed the freezing in the built-in apps, but when I use third party apps to mix and crossfade tracks (PartyMixer) or just play music and videos (MixZing), they don't freeze.
It still makes me wonder though, why a system service that's not running doesn't crash the system, but uninstalling it does. Why should it make a difference if the service isn't being accessed? Stupid...
Whatever. I've just been disabling it on every reboot. Batt life is a little better, but still batt. life is *max* when I uninstalled all DRM crap.

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And freezes in anything that plays audio or video.
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Yes that too, totally slipped my mind.
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Oooops. I deleted mine last week. I have not had any audio problems using power amp or pandora but tried a video after reading this and sometimes it works but mostly freezes. I did a backup with titanium but it doesn't give me the option to restore. Could someone post them up for me please?
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So instead of deleteing the APK, if I just take it out of autostart, I assume that is OK???
ALSO, What the hell does it do??? lol

Milkman00 said:
So instead of deleteing the APK, if I just take it out of autostart, I assume that is OK???
ALSO, What the hell does it do??? lol
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I think DRM = Digital Rights Management. It is some kind of security service that is tied to the Market and anything Media related (on the Epic). You should get Titanium or Bloat Freezer from the Market and just freeze it. Don't delete or uninstall it.

Anyone getting that drm notification occasionally?

I don't receive it too often but often enough to want to do something about it. I thought I had seen something relating to drm in the system/app folder. Anyone successful in getting it to stop showing up?

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I don't receive it too often but often enough to want to do something about it. I thought I had seen something relating to drm in the system/app folder. Anyone successful in getting it to stop showing up?
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So far I've got it twice.
It looks like a damn e-mail notification with envelope icon and the "@"
I was wondering wt eff was that about lol.
Cause after clicking on it, it just dissapears.

DRM=Digital Rights Movement...its supposed to deter you from piracy
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Edit: Digital Rights Management...after I wiki searched

Yeah, I get it sometimes. It's definitely annoying.

It is definitely not piracy related. I can force the DRM notification to occur. If I load up the youtube app, as the video is buffering, if I turn off the screen the audio will play for a second and then stop. When I turn the screen back on, youtube will say it has encountered an error with streaming and I'll have the DRM notification.

stuff on card
I have gotten that once or twice. I assumed it was referring to a couple pieces of music I transfered to my SD Card.

I got it once after I installed the Dungeon Hunter apk. I did not pirate the game either. They were giving it away one day in December for 24 hours.

Revverok said:
It is definitely not piracy related. I can force the DRM notification to occur. If I load up the youtube app, as the video is buffering, if I turn off the screen the audio will play for a second and then stop. When I turn the screen back on, youtube will say it has encountered an error with streaming and I'll have the DRM notification.
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en.wikipedia .org/wiki/Digital_rights_management
Maybe a bug in android but DRM is about copyright protection and piracy
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I get it while watching youtube videos.
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I guess the copyright apk haa something to do with it.. just a guess i don't know. It's just weird to have that apk since I have never seen one before in the 2 phones I had before the shift

JKILO said:
en.wikipedia .org/wiki/Digital_rights_management
Maybe a bug in android but DRM is about copyright protection and piracy
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Yeah, we know what DRM is. The question is why's it come up when it does? Why would watching a YouTube video through the official app trigger a DRM notice?
^ Shift Faced

I just got this while listening to Pandora, after the current song stopped when it switched to the next song it played for a half second and the message came up, then it proceeded to go to the next song and continue playing. Has anyone been able to tell what this issue is?

I wonder if it's possible to rip that damned drm app outta the phone.

Honeycomb music sync Works! -Kind of! Maybe?

Looks like googles music sync is up and running for the honeycomb music app. It installs and runs on the epic, but I am passing in and out of a codine/nyquil induced acoma. Someone want to look further into this and see if we can get sync working? It appears to do something for me, but I'm no sure where the music syncs too to prove it works...and I'm not getting out of bed to get my laptop...not sure id make it to my desk...
A jumpertest app gets installed with it, and appears to impot and export...it also logs debug info...kthxbai *passes out*
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=980018
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Audio policy manager keeps erroring with unknown stream type errors on logcat...Interesting.... Need more cough syrup to sleep on it
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Pretty interesting. I'd love to do this. The more my phone can sync with Google...well, aside of the potential security risk, the better!

Here's a link to a tutorial, I haven't tried it yet. But I'm about to
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=11916958#post11916958

gonna try this too

The only issue I have ATM is knowing where the music is at. I can't tell if it is playing locally from the SD Card or if it is playing from the cloud I have no idea how to tell....

Ok so over night I let it sync, uploaded around 50 seconds to the cloud. This morning I deleted them all from my phone, went into Music > Options > Checked Stream Music and get Error "Sorry the player does not support this type of Audio file"
This is where LogCat goes nuts with Unknown Stream Type errors, in Audio Policy Manager...
I wonder if we can edit E/AudioPolicyManager to accept this new stream type, assuming that is where the issue is, and we knew what the stream type was...

Yea I also ran into that problem, so far nobody knows how to get around it. Some say it might be because the version of Android you're running or the ROM
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Out of the 50 songs I received this error on all but 2 of them. Maybe it just hasn't finished syncing? I don't know.....
I guess the good news is I was able to stream 2 of them.

Yeah if you got 2 of them to stream, then its only a matter of code to fix.
We're on our way to honeycomb! Baby steps..
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Waiting for my 6gigs of music to upload lol might be awhile
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Under Accounts and Sync, my music has beem going on pretty much all day, but I still can only play 2 tracks....
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Watching logcat, two servers get hit. music.google.com/jumper and clients4.google.com/chrome-sync. So Id guess google will be opening a new gdata api soon...just wish I could get a hold of it to see whats in the cloud.
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Youtube Cannot play video

Since last week whenever I try to play a youtube video either through the internet or the youtube app on my phone I get a message saying
Cannot play video
Sorry this video cannot be played.
Anyone have any ideas how I can solve it?
Almost all youtube videos would play on the phone before.

Hi.
Ive had the same problem. Try on wifi. If it works that mean your network operator has some issues (o2 ireland has some technical probs with all data plans for last 5 weeks for example)
Tomas
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I had the same thing a few weeks ago after playing with my hosts file and some other system files (trying to install swype beta)..but I also couldn't play mp3s or most other audio file formats (which seemed to have a flow on effect to not letting youtube work).
I gave up trying to fault find (logcat wasn't giving much away) and factory reset didn't fix, so restored an earlier full backup in clockwork.
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installed flash player?
Or/and
Some videos cannot be played on a mobile yet...that's another example...
Dunno...lol

I am having a similar problem..only slightly complicated. Not only doesn't youtube work, even my video files can't be viewed. Ringer doesn't work either. However a reboot temporarily solves this problem before it strikes back again. Been doing this for more than the last 10 days..
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having a similar problem, cant search any video on youtube. says network problem??

That sound like what it says,a network prob...
Try going to airplane mode and back, or even just hitting retry a few times works for me.

srini09 said:
I am having a similar problem..only slightly complicated. Not only doesn't youtube work, even my video files can't be viewed. Ringer doesn't work either. However a reboot temporarily solves this problem before it strikes back again. Been doing this for more than the last 10 days..
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same problem here,sometimes can't play my video files and youtube videos,a reboot solves the problem 4 a while...
It's embarrassing trying to show a video to someone,and my relatively expensive phone doesnt work.
stock jpy rooted,tried fast boot,app cache cleaner,but nothing helps..

uninstall the official twitter app, i read this solution in this forum. this solve my problem

CaRLiTRoS85 said:
uninstall the official twitter app, i read this solution in this forum. this solve my problem
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Ihad the problem too and its solved it.

Yep. Twitter app is the culprit. Quite a few of the latest reviews for it mention the problem.
Don't know if Twitter is aware of the issue but hopefully it'll get fixed.
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I also had the issue with not being able to play videos (or mp3s). I have flashed the 2.3.4 JVP rom and the problem has not reoccured even with the twitter app.