Hi,
I haven't rooted my Nexus 7 yet, but I have had this device for couple of months and it has been great for me.
Before I make a decision to root, I wanted to make sure if Google Video or Google Wallet will still work after rooting. I vaguely remember reading that these two features might not work on the rooted device. If this is true, is there any way to get these features to work after rooting?
Also, is there any way to root the device without wiping the device? I have spend quite some time setting my device up and if there is any way to root without deleting the current set up and apps, it would be great. Thank you in advance for the help.
Hello,
I believe wallet works but it warns u at first startup that it's not supported anymore.
Google video will not play DRM protected stuff but still works.
Hope this helps...
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Google wallet works fine i never even had the message about unsupported because of root, but when i open it now says ive gotta update wallet. Meh no free credit left and to much Hassel to update in the uk
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On stock-rooted Nexus 7, Google Wallet definitely works after updating it. Got my $10 credit. I can play the Transformer movie that came with the N7, but haven't tried any other movies. I have read some from books and magazines, but don't know if they are drm'd.
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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.
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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.
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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
I'm loving my n7 at the moment and don't want to root it like I have with my other androids. I just want to know if anyone has information on when gwallet comes to the UK.
Google first said it will be in Q1 of 2012 which soon changed to in time before the Olympics. Now we're half way though the Olympics and Google hasn't said or done anything.
Its come to look like Google are terrible at release dates, as I had problems with Google giving dates when getting my n7, and now this. They also had big problems with the Q.
I also want to get the tablet home screen in landscape whilst keeping the softkeys as they are, any recommendations ?
I've tried apex but it wastes too much space and nova and stock are just the phone ui landscape.
Once again I'm trying to hold back from rooting.
Thanks.
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Google have never given any such dates for the release of Google Wallet; you can't complain about them not meeting deadlines that they did not provide. The only passing comment that Google have made about Google Wallet's European release is that they want to have it in a European city before the end of 2012.
There was unofficial hints about Google Wallet being out for the Olympics but that obviously never happened. Its looking like the Visa NFC app will launch before Google Wallet does.
But as the guy above this post said, Google never officially said anything.
it saddens me to read how its stillnot available...hopefully we will get google wallet here in the uk soon...mean only been waiting for google play music app for uk only been like years plus 3d maps lol
I've managed to get Google music using a proxy, you should, its only to sign up, once you have you can use cloud music as much as you want, you cant buy songs though.
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i.amtom said:
I've managed to get Google music using a proxy, you should, its only to sign up, once you have you can use cloud music as much as you want, you cant buy songs though.
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no news on the wallet front?
Does anyone have this issue with Google Play Books working then after 2 days the app is missing? When ever it happens I have to uninstall updates then update it again for it to show up. I think part of it is that I live in Guam, part of U.S. at the same time not really. Same situation as Puerto Rico. Anyone have any suggestions for this problem. Besides going back to the mainland.
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I was able to download the app back from the Play store after it disappeared and now it stays. Go look through the list of apps you own / have downloaded.
It disappeared again from the home screen and app drawer, widget disappeared too, so I decided to check settings>apps> all and its there but unusable, have to uninstall then install. Sigh, it's such a hassle to check if it disappeared when going to places without Wi-Fi.Just purchased 3 books, and would be a waste of money to switch to another app.
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If you are rooted, you can convert it to a user app instead of system and it'll stay. That's what I did and I've never actually been to the us
I see, thanks, just going to stay stock for a month. I've always rooted my phones on day one and never experienced pure stock before, plus its different with a nexus, there's no sd card, so all my content would get wiped, nearly filled my 16 gb, and could imagine how long everything would take to put back.
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sol_671 said:
Does anyone have this issue with Google Play Books working then after 2 days the app is missing? When ever it happens I have to uninstall updates then update it again for it to show up. I think part of it is that I live in Guam, part of U.S. at the same time not really. Same situation as Puerto Rico. Anyone have any suggestions for this problem. Besides going back to the mainland.
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Little Tip mate, stop uninstalling and re-downloading etc.
Try downloading a File Explorer e.g. - ES File Explorer.
Find the App in the File Explorer, long press it and click "Create Shortcut" BAM!
Hope this helps !
sol_671 said:
I see, thanks, just going to stay stock for a month. I've always rooted my phones on day one and never experienced pure stock before, plus its different with a nexus, there's no sd card, so all my content would get wiped, nearly filled my 16 gb, and could imagine how long everything would take to put back.
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I'm still on stock too, I just unlocked and flashed su and bb for the little extra functionality.
Sadly, unlocking will do a complete wipe. But I picked up something about rooting without unlocking, using a method from the galaxy. Not sure it'll work tho, at least one person here suggested that it should. Might be worth looking up if you feel books is worth the trouble
Has anyone elses movies box in the play store dissappeared? mine has. but i can still access it on my phone.
in fact books has gone too
I still have movies in Google play actually everything is there. Is your nexus rooted?
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-PiLoT- said:
Has anyone elses movies box in the play store dissappeared? mine has. but i can still access it on my phone.
in fact books has gone too
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Are you abroad at the moment? If you have a wifi only nexus 7 device, market is tailored to each specific country you are accessing the play store through. That could be the reason why you can access it on your phone because you are using a provider from a country that has access to those google features. Not all countries have access to movies or books from the google market.
I am in the UK. i havent changed anything afaik. and the fact that certain things are one phone but not tablet. im rooted and bootloader unlocked using the latest stock build
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I am in the UK. i havent changed anything afaik. and the fact that certain things are one phone but not tablet. im rooted and bootloader unlocked using the latest stock build
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Odd then. Well if you are up for it, a possible solution to dance around the problem (although it doesn't necessarily solve it...) would be to follow this guide to gain access to those services again: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=28259205#post28259205
Your device is already rooted so that saves you one big step. It's simply a way to get around Play store blocks on its features, so it will *maybe* fix your problem since its the Play store that is preventing your device from accessing google movies and books.
Is anyone aware of VZW Note 3 solution that allow Google Wallet's tap and pay to work? Searched high and low and came up empty.
Do not want to go the Isis.
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as of now, no. Ive' tried the workarounds given in the Galaxy S4 forums to no avail
Does isis work? I tried searching for it in the play store but couldn't find it.
ISIS does work, and the 2.0 update has made the app a lot more usable. If you pair it with an AMEX Serve card, and set the Serve card up so that it's funded directly from another credit card, it can work almost as well as Google Wallet. Plus, the Jamba Juice million smoothie promo is worth the price of entry by itself. If the app's not showing up on the Play Store, this thread has it (you can ignore the Xposed stuff if you're not rooted, but it's also a nice guide on how to get ISIS working if you are rooted): http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2482708
However, I second the OP's question, as I would much prefer to use Google Wallet over ISIS. As I understand it, there's a snag in fixing the NFC Libs, and this thread details the current state of the attempts to get tap-to-pay working on the phone: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2476093
Hopefully we'll see some progress soon. Meanwhile, ISIS isn't a...terrible alternative, in its current iteration. It's just not as good as Wallet by any stretch of the imagination.
I don't believe there is anyway to get it to work right now because of a secure element in the sim, but from what I understand if/when we get 4.4 it should be good to go.
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