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Angrybirds!

This is under the dev part of the forum because I was going to see if someone could unpack the angrybirds.apk and remove the ad's from the game or if someone could post a early release download before the ad's were implemented. I love this game and I don't want to wait for Rovio to produce a non ad version...anyone?
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AdFree, one of the best apps for a rooted phone.

That is stealing!!! Ads are there to supports the developers hard work! They deserve to make money and honestly they are even letting you download it for free, so either you wait until there is a paid version or just dont play at all.

You can just put your phone in airplane mode and the ads won't pop up.

miketoasty said:
AdFree, one of the best apps for a rooted phone.
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Thanks that works great
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julidelara said:
That is stealing!!! Ads are there to supports the developers hard work! They deserve to make money and honestly they are even letting you download it for free, so either you wait until there is a paid version or just dont play at all.
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You consider that stealing?....not really since they released the game without ads and then made ads for people to click on which I will never do and if you wanted to really think about "stealing" consider yourself a thief since you hacked your phone and are using apps that aren't approved from the manufacturer and running "illegal apps"...so w/e dude..I've been downloading music and apps off sharing websites like rapidshare since I was like 12 dude...they are stealing from us. These things shouldn't cost as much as they do ie: windows os and microsoft office its just ridiculous and everything else in the world and if that's what you think, like I already said you shouldn't root your phone.
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Regardless, I dont think its legal for this forum.

JonandRoid said:
You consider that stealing?....not really since they released the game without ads and then made ads for people to click on which I will never do and if you wanted to really think about "stealing" consider yourself a thief since you hacked your phone and are using apps that aren't approved from the manufacturer and running "illegal apps"...so w/e dude..I've been downloading music and apps off sharing websites like rapidshare since I was like 12 dude...they are stealing from us. These things shouldn't cost as much as they do ie: windows os and microsoft office its just ridiculous and everything else in the world and if that's what you think, like I already said you shouldn't root your phone.
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You're not furthering any cause by being cheap. Also rooting one's phone is not piracy. Voiding your warranty won't land you in jail.

Didn't mean to cause such an uproar. The only reason I mention adfree is because you can download it straight from the market. And no you are not stealing the game is free. Period. Like someone said putting your phone into airplane mode gives you the same effect. I am not taking anything from the devs if there is no paid version alternate.
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Pandora..

Can someone please pm me the link to the add free unlimited skip pandora
Edit.. Got it.. Thanks
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Pm sent. Fyi, I'm pretty sure this should've been in the app section.
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Me too, please!
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This exists?!
I'd uh, like to investigate this further, if you know what I mean...
(Wink wink)
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tripacer99 said:
This exists?!
I'd uh, like to investigate this further, if you know what I mean...
(Wink wink)
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shh lol
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Sorry, just trying to point in right direction. I searched online and found something at droidforums.net.
How's that?

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Gracias, señor.
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Dont post links, they will close the thread AGAIN.

Open up the Pandora you download from market, then hit the menu key and choose preferences. From there, choose Upgrade to Pandora one.
Unless you guys are children who are not legally allowed to work, you should be ashamed of yourselves.
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TheHobbyist said:
Open up the Pandora you download from market, then hit the menu key and choose preferences. From there, choose Upgrade to Pandora one.
Unless you guys are children who are not legally allowed to work, you should be ashamed of yourselves.
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I prefer to have mine themed..
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And besides.. The subscription don't pay any developers.. Its a yearly thing that goes to gready corps.. So what's me not hearing an add hurting? Sense I don't buy things from adds anyway..
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TheHobbyist said:
Open up the Pandora you download from market, then hit the menu key and choose preferences. From there, choose Upgrade to Pandora one.
Unless you guys are children who are not legally allowed to work, you should be ashamed of yourselves.
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Ashamed of yourselves for what?

Everyone that sent me a pm please have some patience. I'm double checking as to whether or not I can post a public link. I have already been blasted with requests for it and it is not even my mod. I received it from someone else as well.
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Guys, just Google it. It's not that hard to find.

neh4pres said:
And besides.. The subscription don't pay any developers.. Its a yearly thing that goes to gready corps.. So what's me not hearing an add hurting? Sense I don't buy things from adds anyway..
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Nice uneducated response... First off, those things in the market version are "ads" not "adds" and the word you are trying to use is "Since" not "Sense" Second, take some time and read the wiki on "Pandora radio" because you clearly don't understand what's what. Pandora was developed by an Indie programmer to use the Indie developed music genome project. The annual fee does everything the hack does, except it also increases the music quality AND pays the Indie developers and allows them to keep the service running.
The Pandora service costs money to run, and as a matter of fact it nearly shut down a few years ago because of that cost. The ads and fees keep the service running and I'm sure you want that. You do enjoy Pandora as much as the millions of others who rely on it for entertainment daily?
The fees that this Indie developer founded service asks for are entirely reasonable and you are circumventing them. That is something to be ashamed of.
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neh4pres said:
And besides.. The subscription don't pay any developers.. Its a yearly thing that goes to gready corps..
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Who pay actual musicians.
Oh, them!

I have never noticed any quality changes w the subscription Plus, with this app the biggest catch for me is unlimited skips, I could deal w an add every now and then, just so happens I don't have to anymore. Definetly one of my most used apps.
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TheHobbyist said:
Open up the Pandora you download from market, then hit the menu key and choose preferences. From there, choose Upgrade to Pandora one.
Unless you guys are children who are not legally allowed to work, you should be ashamed of yourselves.
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I assume then you are not rooted? I assume you do not use wireless or wired tether? Both would be against your user agreement, which is a contract. The second would be stealing data when you should be using the built in 3g hotspot and paying $9.99 a month. For shame!!!

neh4pres said:
And besides.. The subscription don't pay any developers.. Its a yearly thing that goes to gready corps.. So what's me not hearing an add hurting? Sense I don't buy things from adds anyway..
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This is a very naive response, and reflects zero understanding of the software business.
It costs money to bring you Pandora. They have 250 employees who don't work for free. 50% of their revenue goes to pay royalties. Not many companies would survive with 50% siphoned off the top.
Pandora doesn't care what you do or don't buy, it's the advertising royalties from companies who want to put Ads in front of you that matters to Pandora.
Pandora is already free with Ads (just like many of our apps) and the 40hrs/month limit can be exceeded for the princely sum of 0.99/month. Unlimited streaming media at home, in your pocket, or in your car for $1 a month. That's your definition of 'gready'?
Ad free Pandora One costs a grand total of $3 a month. That's 0.10 cents a day. They are not exactly emptying anyone's pockets for what they provide.
Six skips an hour? That is per station so having multiple stations makes it easy enough to keep the skip limit being much of an issue. The 'skip limit' is not to piss people off, it's one of the reasons they can continue to stream music the way they do.
It's not like Pandora is one of the 'evil empires'.
They struggled financially for years and had to fight the music industry to prevent ruinous royalty fees. As it is they pay the highest royalty rate of any other music stream (radio/satellite). It's only in 2009 that they knew they would be able to stay in business and not be put out of business by the traditional music industry.
And its not like they don't care about their customers. Last year they did a 50 city road show to get input from anyone who wanted to show up.
No for profit company runs on 'fumes' and no full-time developers work for free.

ezas said:
No for profit company runs on 'fumes' and no full-time developers work for free.
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Totally agree.

Google's starting to cave to the carriers

http://thisismynext.com/2011/05/02/...ring-apps-android-market-shame-fcc-violation/
Looks like some of the carriers have asked Google to block tethering apps in the market and Google is caving to pressure.
As a developer, there are a few "undocumented features" that have started to slip away from us lately as well (ex: permissions to kill data use, etc.)... beginning of the end?

Google has to make some compromises with the carriers to keep them happy, I get that. The better question is will the new Amazon app store care?
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teamgreen02 said:
Google has to make some compromises with the carriers...
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No they don't
Why?

mattykinsx said:
No they don't
Why?
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Because if they don't they won't buy their product and sell them.
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DirtyShroomz said:
Because if they don't they won't buy their product and sell them.
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Check...and mate. lol
Also who cares if the are blocked? side load them, use the native tethering.

your acting if net neutrality was imposed on wireless telco's. This is the way it will be

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Because if they don't they won't buy their product and sell them.
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Unless every single carrier (the ENTIRE INDUSTRY AND ANY COMPANY THAT MIGHT CONSIDER JOINING) agrees, no...they don't.
Android sells.
Att wants to stop carrying an android phone?
Okay... (please, really)...goodbye att.
Same for anyone else.
Lets let capitalism work itself out...stop bending over.

I agree, but even if the market removes the apps pretty sure the app can be found and used. Its anything to charge joe consumer more for less.
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It's sad to say, but the way Google is letting Android go, it's going to be the best MS/Windows Mobile mess before too long! I'm going back to the iPhone.

mattykinsx said:
Unless every single carrier (the ENTIRE INDUSTRY AND ANY COMPANY THAT MIGHT CONSIDER JOINING) agrees, no...they don't.
Android sells.
Att wants to stop carrying an android phone?
Okay... (please, really)...goodbye att.
Same for anyone else.
Lets let capitalism work itself out...stop bending over.
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Right now it is that way... Every carrier is against it except Sprint so.....
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DirtyShroomz said:
Right now it is that way... Every carrier is against it except Sprint so.....
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So.....let the market work itself out.

Whoever said they're going back to the iPhone...you're an idiot. iPhones got cracked down for this very problem long before Android did. Do you google search homework.
Seeing as how you are supposed to pay for tethering and you're not, this isn't all that different from posting warez here on xda. Just because xda takes down your link to the free spb shell doesn't mean xda is caving to developers. just because carriers want Google to take down, what, 4 or 5 apps that are giving people free things that they should be paying for doesn't mean that Google is caving.
I think it's overpriced, but tethering is a paid service on ALL carriers that provide it. That means if you're using it for free, you are stealing. It isn't caving if the carriers ask Google to prevent us hacked users from stealing from them.
People who aren't rooted aren't even affected. Now, if they ever start taking down Titanium Backup, kernel manager, rom manager, hdmwin, etc...then you might have a case. backing up your info, roms, kernels and hdmi mirroring are all FREE. Tether is NOT FREE. see the difference?
Who cares, the stock tethering app is hacked (for however much longer) so just use that. There'll be apks you can search for. Someone is gonna catch you doing it eventually.
Relax, they aren't pulling a Motorola and locking our bootloaders. THAT'S actually google caving.

mattykinsx said:
So.....let the market work itself out.
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This is fine and well in theory but bottom line, if Google wants to remain on top, they need to compromise with providers. I don't see 25 million subscribers jumping from vzw or att to Sprint for free tethering and android. From the point of view if a consumer letting the market work itself out is fine but from the perspective of the business who wants to turn large profits, its necessary make compromises to continue to do so.
Tapa tapa tapa

Actually it isn't because bootloaders are entirely in the manufacturer's hands.

Fadakar said:
Actually it isn't because bootloaders are entirely in the manufacturer's hands.
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True.
Tapa tapa tapa

mlin said:
This is fine and well in theory but bottom line, if Google wants to remain on top, they need to compromise with providers. I don't see 25 million subscribers jumping from vzw or att to Sprint for free tethering and android. From the point of view if a consumer you can say let it work itself out buy from the perspective of the business who wants to turn large profits, you make compromises to continue to do so.
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You can't predict what people will do.
Christ, no one predicted android to do what it did as fast as it did.
Google doesn't have to do anything in regards to the carriers Wishes.
They have the lead.
They need to focus on things like full hardware acceleration (make android feel more "finished" ) and competetion with apple in regards to quality (and the selling of) apps.
Carriers aren't going to drop Android over this.
Maybe att or something...but again....please.

mattykinsx said:
You can't predict what people will do.
Christ, no one predicted android to do what it did as fast as it did.
Google doesn't have to do anything in regards to the carriers Wishes.
They have the lead.
They need to focus on things like full hardware acceleration (make android feel more "finished" ) and competetion with apple in regards to quality (and the selling of) apps.
Carriers aren't going to drop Android over this.
Maybe att or something...but again....please.
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Lets remember that Google made the decision here. By all means they could've said no but, they didn't, they compromised. I think they knew what was best in the interest of the company and that doesn't seem to coincide with your views.
Tapa tapa tapa

AbsolutZeroGI said:
I think it's overpriced, but tethering is a paid service on ALL carriers that provide it. That means if you're using it for free, you are stealing. It isn't caving if the carriers ask Google to prevent us hacked users from stealing from them.
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No, tethering is not a SERVICE carriers provide, it is an APP carriers sell. The SERVICE I pay for is "unlimited voice" and "unlimited data".
If a tethering app is "stealing", Open Office is "stealing" from Microsoft Office.

mlin said:
Lets remember that Google made the decision here. By all means they could've said no but, they didn't, they compromised. I think they knew what was best in the interest of the company and that doesn't seem to coincide with your views.
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I don't see how that was in the best interest of anyone.
It makes them look like anyone else...willing to bend over just for the sake of not wanting to stir up trouble.
Screw that.
Force the carriers to improve their network and not rob their customers.
Let capitalism work.

well if they didnt gouge us to death.....

Google's new movie rental service is blocked if your device is rooted

"Google announced their service at Google I/O earlier this month, along with their music streaming service. The service allows users to rent movies to their android devices straight from the Android market. As it transpires, Google specifically locks out users of rooted devices for copy protection reasons."
Here's the link if you want to read the rest.
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siirus09 said:
"Google announced their service at Google I/O earlier this month, along with their music streaming service. The service allows users to rent movies to their android devices straight from the Android market. As it transpires, Google specifically locks out users of rooted devices for copy protection reasons."
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thanks for posting this... but this was like yesterday... literally... im pretty sure most people here see other sites like engadget and saw this already... thanks anyway

sounds like they want people to get movies somewhere else...

steviee7 said:
thanks for posting this... but this was like yesterday... literally... im pretty sure most people here see other sites like engadget and saw this already... thanks anyway
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Umm..i didnt. Please dont speak for me. Thank you OP.
This is retarded. Freakin intellectual property. Pirates ruin it for everyone.
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Who cares? Why would you want to watch a movie on a phone when you can watch it on a 42" HDTV? The only reason I would watch a movie on my Epic is if I was cooling my heels in an airport.
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squshy 7 said:
This is retarded. Freakin intellectual property. Movie companies ruin it for everyone.
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FTFY
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muyoso said:
FTFY
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this.
I'm sure there's a way to 'block' the google movie rental service from obtaining root rights (or at least checking)... no ?

neowin.net said:
This is a bit of an unusual move from Google, who normally promote the open nature of Android; many rooted users are likely to feel somewhat irked by this. There's a likely possibility that the movie studios are the ones behind the decision, unwilling to let Google license anything without some form of copy protection in place. Because of this, many legitimate users will feel they're being punished for the sake of preventing something from leaking on the Internet, which in all likelihood will already be there anyway.
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See.. if I were going to pirate a movie and leak it on the internet, I certainly wouldn't pay money to rent it on my android phone, then try and make it watchable on a 60" TV.. bastards... they're so ignorant (the movie companies)... people will sit in a theater w/ a small camera attached to a pocket sized DVR to make bootlegs.. there's also telesync and telecine 'copies' as well.. w/ those, the 'pirate' is attached directly to the projector to grab the video signal but uses a microphone for the audio. These telesync/telecine 'copies' are usually the most desirable in the bootleg world because of the 'improved' video quality vs the camera in a pocket bootlegs. The next best quality is an 'R5' which is DVD quality video because the movie was released overseas (russia or somewhere?) and since the audio isn't in english, someone takes the 'bootleg' audio from a theater and overlays is onto the video... Then there are 'work prints' (stuff that's still WIP ) and DVDrip (that one should be obvious).. there are also 'pirates' that will just get a netflix subscription to mail the DVD's back and forth, ripping them as they receive them, or blockbuster (you can turn those back into your local store if there are any still open)... What I'm getting at is there are MANY ways for pirates to 'steal' movies and I can assure you that making a rip from a phone would be stupid.. it wouldn't net a tolerable viewing experience. The RIAA needs to go see a doctor and have their heads removed from their collective 'puckered starfishes'
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I could not care less about this topic.
1. I would never pay to rent a movie on my cell phone. Free? Sure. Pay ? no way.
2. The second any movie is released on blueray it's already up for download in FULL quality.

muyoso said:
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Lol. Youre half right. I still put the other half on pirates for inciting the movie companies and record labels, thus causing irrational decisions. Hence google music not being debuted in the manner it should have been. But you are right. They do deserve a lot of the blame for not coming up with more creative solutions to their problems compared to all the brute force tactics they've deployed.
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Who cares.. if I really needed to watch a movie on my phone (probably never will), there are a lot of other options
Tapatalkin' it from my Epic 3g

Well you can connect if u have evo to your 42" with HDMI and very u go.
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Devs will edit the apk and remove checks. Or you can deny rights via superuser and it wont see the su binary.
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marcusant said:
Devs will edit the apk and remove checks. Or you can deny rights via superuser and it wont see the su binary.
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That is what I was thinking about.
Couldn't you just deny it in SU, and it would think you don't have root rights?

I promise I will use this about as much as I've been using the Samsung Media Hub.
/That's "not at all"

Top Nurse said:
Who cares? Why would you want to watch a movie on a phone when you can watch it on a 42" HDTV? The only reason I would watch a movie on my Epic is if I was cooling my heels in an airport.
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Exactly. Just watch Netflix or buy a google TV then its a much better experience. Music streaming I can understand. But renting movies? Blah.
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Google anti-rooted devises wtf!!!

people today i rented an movie on the new market and guess what? i got an error 49 that says: this content if not available on rooted devices. this is unbelievable after they take our money they come with this crap like if they were in they getting they feelings. i'm piss off man this is an outrage people.

edit: like if they were getting theirs feelings hurt.

You realize you can edit the actual post?

lolocabra said:
people today i rented an movie on the new market and guess what? i got an error 49 that says: this content if not available on rooted devices. this is unbelievable after they take our money they come with this crap like if they were in they getting they feelings. i'm piss off man this is an outrage people.
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Well, you can contact them and get a refund. And I don't think you'll make the same mistake twice.
But I can pretty much 99% guarantee in order to get deals to allow renting of movies on the Market, Google had to tell the studios that they wouldn't allow playback on rooted devices. Google is fine with rooted devices, they clearly allow many rooted apps (even apps that root your phone) on the Market. Its the studios that think there's piracy problem and want no playback on rooted phones, even though that's absolutely retarded, but that's how they feel (look at netflix, they were going to require hardware chips for DRM in android phones to get netflix playback at first).
Cool your jets. It'll be a small matter of time before we have the market cracked open and this root check removed so we can use it. If you're rooted you should have no problem waiting for this, you should understand it. The root community won't rage on this, they'll just fix it for themselves as they always do.

Well think of it this way. Either only nonrooted devices get to rent movies, or no android phones get to rent movies. It's not google, but the studios demanding protection from rooted devices copying their films.
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The content providers are thinking ENTIRELY too hard about this. Ok, so they could have took his money and he could have somehow pirated it off the phone. First off, there are millions of copies of whatever said media floating around anyways. Second of all, by them NOT letting him get it, he is probably just gonna go pirate it. F-in idiots! They should just take everyone's money and be thankful anyone even WANTS to actually pay for it. On a sidenote, it's been highly publicized that rooted phones were not gonna be aloud to access this new paid content on the market. Unfortunately looks like you missed all those articles lol. And i'm pretty sure i remember reading that it will take your money and then tell you that you can't have it.

WHAT! YOU MEAN TO TELL ME I CAN'T WATCH MOVIES FROM THE NEW GOOGLE MARKET FROM MY ROOTED PHONE!?!?!
WHEN DID THIS COME ABOUT?!?!?
(all caps rage is for effect)
Edit: just kidding with the post, but really I think it total BS that it wont work on rooted devises. This will pretty much exclude every android user from XDA. I mean, do you know any XDA member that's not rooted?
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Its been like that since way before the new market ever came out!
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TheRomMistress said:
You realize you can edit the actual post?
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yes but the edit button did was not able wen i post again that's why i did another post.
lawalty said:
WHAT! YOU MEAN TO TELL ME I CAN'T WATCH MOVIES FROM THE NEW GOOGLE MARKET FROM MY ROOTED PHONE!?!?!
WHEN DID THIS COME ABOUT?!?!?
(all caps rage is for effect)
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ok i check on my library on the market and i can see the movie on my laptop so at least i'm happy for that. now i could even do other things with it lol.

lolocabra said:
yes but the edit button did was not able wen i post again that's why i did another post.
ok i check on my library on the market and i can see the movie on my laptop so at least i'm happy for that. now i could even do other things with it lol.
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LMFAO that's hilarious! I have a feeling this no-rooted crap is not gonna last long. You can stream it to your laptop which has a thousand and one tools to rip that **** straight to piratebay, but you cant watch it on a rooted phone with its limited aspect ratio, quality, and somewhat harder process of ripping. What dumb asses seriously.
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xsteven77x said:
LMFAO that's hilarious! I have a feeling this no-rooted crap is not gonna last long. You can stream it to your laptop which has a thousand and one tools to rip that **** straight to piratebay, but you cant watch it on a rooted phone with its limited aspect ratio, quality, and somewhat harder process of ripping. What dumb asses seriously.
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I could press this here button and rent your movie, hollywood... oh, I. can't ? you won't allow... it ?
piratebay ... success ! faster, cheaper, and better quality. ha HAAAAAA !

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I could press this here button and rent your movie, hollywood... oh, I. can't ? you won't allow... it ?
piratebay ... success ! faster, cheaper, and better quality. ha HAAAAAA !
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Ya really. It drives me nuts that they think they are still in a position to be making such demands. If I were the ceo of one of those company, I would be doing everything humanly possible to make it as EASY as possible to obtain their stuff legit. Instead they still want to candy coat it in drm and put restrictions all over the place. Its not like ten years ago where your average person really only knew how to get music. In this day and age even grandma moses knows how to download a movie. And with xbox, ps3 etc., you don't even have to go through the trouble of converting and burning it anymore! I mean seriously. The movie industry is its own worst enemy. The music industry imo has gotten slightly better, but the movie industry is its own worst enemy. At least with music they allow things like pandora, and now spotify. It really has curtailed a lot of my piracy. But the movie industry is still trying to run with this old model that's just not working. 10 dollars a TICKET? Twenty to buy it? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. I LOVE how the price of everything in the world has went up, but the average wage has not went up barely at all. Don't get me started! In america music and movies are creature comforts, and they gotta realize were gonna get them one way or the other. Do u want to sell one movie for 20 dollars to one out of five people? Or sell a movie for 10 dollars to 4 out of 5.
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Its pretty clear whats going on here. And anyone on XDA understands that there is 100000% more piracy on computers where they offer this also than there are on phones.
But the studios don't care. They know piracy happens on computers and they're fighting that battle. They know that they can demand Google remove functionality from rooted devices, so they do. They can't stop it on computers, but they can (in their minds) stop it on Android phones.
You guys are expecting the studios to act rationally on this, since when do you expect them to do that? Like I said before 1) Did you really expect the studios to not block this? and 2) The community will crack this in no time, cool your jets.

martonikaj said:
Its pretty clear whats going on here. And anyone on XDA understands that there is 100000% more piracy on computers where they offer this also than there are on phones.
But the studios don't care. They know piracy happens on computers and they're fighting that battle. They know that they can demand Google remove functionality from rooted devices, so they do. They can't stop it on computers, but they can (in their minds) stop it on Android phones.
You guys are expecting the studios to act rationally on this, since when do you expect them to do that? Like I said before 1) Did you really expect the studios to not block this? and 2) The community will crack this in no time, cool your jets.
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I apologize to the Mistress in advance for being slightly off topic, but Hulu has gotten just as bad. More and more studios are pulling their day after air streaming and making it exclusive to Hulu+. What they don't understand is after I missed a show I would much rather give them ad revenue by watching on Hulu than by torrenting something. Yet they take that away? Greedy idiots.
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You people realize that there has to be something on a phone WITH root compared to a phone withOUT root in order for them to DETECT IT, don't you? What do you suppose that thing is? Probably a command somewhere in the PATH called "su". Want them to not detect that you have root? "mv /path/to/su /path/to/fuisuANYWAY"

will that affect any of the functions of the root?

I don't understand why you're so surprised. This was said would happen when they announced Google Movies in May. Read up.

Why anyone would pay to rent a movie on they're smartphone is beyond me.
Torrent or xdcc that **** and put it on yur sdcard.....voila
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As posted, the devs will get around this. I don't have any devs skills but I'm thinking some type terminal app. Something that retains su permissions to take advantage of the currentwork around.
su
mount -o remount, rw /system
mv /system/xbin/su /system/xbin/mu
Hit home than watch your movie or other paid stuff is done, than reload the same terminal session, which still has su permissions
mv /system/xbin/mu /system/xbin/su
Either the videos or youtube app looks for the su binary. Simply renaming or removing it will yield results.
Perhaps the devs will modify the apps to not check. I only found one instance of su in the videos apk, but I really have no idea what I'm doing , just tinkering and exploring. About to check the youtube apk.
Well that works for me for now...just annoying as ****
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Truth be told anything that is rent-able in the Android Market is already available on torrents anyway! So to put that restriction on rooted phones is almost laughable, considering anyone who went through the process of rooting is almost assuredly a wiz at torrents!