When I tried Google Play Movies on my rooted HTC Rezound, it wouldn't work, because it was rooted. But voodoo rootkeeper fixed that with a one click temporary unroot.
So when I rooted the tab 7.7 I figured I'd have to do the same thing. Funnily enough, it just worked anyways. That is until about a month ago. I had rented multiple movies over August and September. i bought Prometheus the day it came out and watched it fine. but something happened and starting two weeks ago, Google Play let's me buy or rent movies but only plays the audio. voodoo rootkeeper didn't fix it (the app says it does not work with samsung stuff anyway) but it must be something else since it was working fine while rooted for months.
something must have updated, and it wasn't the google play app as that just updated this week, but hasn't as far as i know in the last months.
anybody else encounter something similar?
Rooted running flashed stock ICS ROM.
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Hey!
I was checking my tablet today and realized that I lost access to Films and Books, which I previously had.
I'm confident that I haven't done anything to my tablet in the last weeks and I remember having access to both, just a few days ago.
I'm in Canada, running Tiamat 2.1.0
Any ideas?
ivansf said:
Hey!
I was checking my tablet today and realized that I lost access to Films and Books, which I previously had.
I'm confident that I haven't done anything to my tablet in the last weeks and I remember having access to both, just a few days ago.
I'm in Canada, running Tiamat 2.1.0
Any ideas?
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When you're rooted, on a different ROM, there's an issue with DRM. It may or may not give you access to the books/movies and even if you manage to rent a movie, it won't play and you will have to get a refund. What a pain.
ivansf said:
Hey!
I was checking my tablet today and realized that I lost access to Films and Books, which I previously had.
I'm confident that I haven't done anything to my tablet in the last weeks and I remember having access to both, just a few days ago.
I'm in Canada, running Tiamat 2.1.0
Any ideas?
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Same thing happened to me not long ago, but currently I have Books back. No Movies though, ever, but then I'm on the latest Canadian ROM (3.1) and unrooted. I bet it came back after a reboot; currently I need to do that at least every couple of days or system stability goes to hell.
In other words, DRM sucks, even (especially) for those who don't root/unlock. Likewise for system stability.
That sucks. But its weird that it is just fine on my Galaxy S2.
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okantomi said:
When you're rooted, on a different ROM, there's an issue with DRM. It may or may not give you access to the books/movies and even if you manage to rent a movie, it won't play and you will have to get a refund. What a pain.
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I've lost it as well on my Xoom, but my SGS still has them. Anyone know how to get it back on the Xoom? I actually used to download the free books
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
Did a search but didn't come up with anything recent. Has something changed recently with the play store and renting/buying movies when rooted?
I know in the past, Google has taken the 'privilege' of renting movies away if you were rooted, but then I thought they eventually changed that and were allowing rooted users to rent/buy again.
I rented some movies while stock, recently unlocked boot loader and flashed my own custom kernel and rooted. Stock ROM, just rooted with custom kernel. Suddenly I can't rent movies, and could of sworn I did rent one right after rooting and testing the kernel, but now movies don't even show up in the store, and play movies app just opens the market, where there is now no movies section?
Edit-weird, about 25 minutes after posting this I opened up play store and there's movies back. Odd, but at least there is no issue.
I can still see it via browser on my desktop and my Moto X but it seems to be gone from the Play Store on the Nexus Player. If I try to install it to the Nexus Player from my browser, it just hangs.
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I'm running into the same problem. I just set up my nexus player yesterday, so I haven't been able to get Kodi on it at all yet. Hoping that it pops back up on the store.
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I'm running into the same problem. I just set up my nexus player yesterday, so I haven't been able to get Kodi on it at all yet. Hoping that it pops back up on the store.
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You can still sideload it.
Yea. I noticed that yesterday. Just got this on Friday and trying different roms. I can say it WAS in playstore on Friday but gone by yesterday afternoon.
Still available for the Razer Forge TV, hopefully temporary.
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clankfu said:
I can still see it via browser on my desktop and my Moto X but it seems to be gone from the Play Store on the Nexus Player. If I try to install it to the Nexus Player from my browser, it just hangs.
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I loaded Kodi on Thursday and then removed to start a fresh build late Saturday night and when I went to the Play Store to load it, I couldn't find it. I screwed around for hours and subsequently beat my Nexus Player with my fists until it popped apart and bloodied my right hand, as assumed it was the device and then maybe a Google account issue. I eventually found the number for Google service and after about 20 minutes on the phone, they discovered there was an issue. The rep said he believed it was an issue with the developer and that it must've just happened because somebody else had called in to another rep about the issue while I was on the phone with him. Think the player is going to go back to the store, regardless of whether or not I damaged it permanently from beating it. By the way, Kodi IS still available on my Android tablet via the Play Store just not the Nexus Player. I might just take this as my red flag that the Nexus is going to be quirky in the future and be done with it.
use voice search. if not then sideload
Side load it....
This vid helped me
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6fQKBPk-EM
itzmotto said:
Side load it....
This vid helped me
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6fQKBPk-EM
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Weird that the x86 version of Kodi has issues on the Nexus Player.
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Weird that the x86 version of Kodi has issues on the Nexus Player.
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Well That video is months old but it worked for me... i downloaded the x86 version haven't had a issue. The version in that vid is like 14.0 helix were now on 15.2
odd I still see it on the play store.. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.xbmc.kodi&hl=en
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odd I still see it on the play store.. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.xbmc.kodi&hl=en
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Yea, it came back today.
Mine never came back and I am having a problem on the x86 version (cannot connect to pvr that is on my network), gonna try the ARM version to see if that fixes it
EDIT: After uninstalling the x86 version that I loaded the other day but wasn't working with my PVR, I checked the play store and it was available on there and I installed it and it works perfectly again with my pvr
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Weird that the x86 version of Kodi has issues on the Nexus Player.
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The one on the play store works fine for me!
Search, "XBMC"
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Theaxe said:
I loaded Kodi on Thursday and then removed to start a fresh build late Saturday night and when I went to the Play Store to load it, I couldn't find it. I screwed around for hours and subsequently beat my Nexus Player with my fists until it popped apart and bloodied my right hand, as assumed it was the device and then maybe a Google account issue. I eventually found the number for Google service and after about 20 minutes on the phone, they discovered there was an issue. The rep said he believed it was an issue with the developer and that it must've just happened because somebody else had called in to another rep about the issue while I was on the phone with him. Think the player is going to go back to the store, regardless of whether or not I damaged it permanently from beating it. By the way, Kodi IS still available on my Android tablet via the Play Store just not the Nexus Player. I might just take this as my red flag that the Nexus is going to be quirky in the future and be done with it.
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LOL! What is with people and having to have kodi? It's like, crack for media junkies! I have never used this Kodi (XBMC). What is so great about it?
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I was going to say, I checked and it is on the playstore. It says "Updated 10/27/2015". Kodi goes off the playstore for a day, this guy notices, and all hell breaks lose! LOL
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Weird that the x86 version of Kodi has issues on the Nexus Player.
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It doesn't, that bug only existed for a couple weeks. It was fixed in 15.0 beta 1 back in the early spring. You're better off using the x86 version now.
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You need to opt in for testing to install Kodi on Nexus Player - https://play.google.com/apps/testing/org.xbmc.kodi follow this link and opt in and all will install fine
mjgr33n said:
You need to opt in for testing to install Kodi on Nexus Player - https://play.google.com/apps/testing/org.xbmc.kodi follow this link and opt in and all will install fine
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No, you don't. It's back in the Play Store now.
I rooted my NP and put Pure Nexus on it. Looks great..but I can't get Netflix to work. I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling and reflashing GAPPS to no avail. It opens and immediately "Sorry, we could not reach the Netflix service. Please try to restart the application (-116) . I restart it, only for the same thing to happen again. This is really very frustrating. Hoping someone can shed some light on why it's happening. Thanks.
Anyone? One of the reasons I bought a Nexus Player was for Netflix. I have it on my blu-ray player, but I can't really stand the way it looks on there.
agntskywalke said:
Anyone? One of the reasons I bought a Nexus Player was for Netflix. I have it on my blu-ray player, but I can't really stand the way it looks on there.
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I have the same issue on a tablet. I tried team blackouts latest Netflix and that one will install
Netflix just came out blocking it from the Google Play Store if they notice your device is rooted or bootloader unlocked. Currently you should be able to play, they did announce that it will BLOCK playing going forward on rooted unlocked devices. I can't believe it!
xconwayx said:
Netflix just came out blocking it from the Google Play Store if they notice your device is rooted or bootloader unlocked. Currently you should be able to play, they did announce that it will BLOCK playing going forward on rooted unlocked devices. I can't believe it!
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Where did they announce they will block playing ? Hopefully magisk hide will fix this issue. I love watching Netflix on my tablets. I'm not going to unroot them for anything.
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tensux said:
Where did they announce they will block playing ? Hopefully magisk hide will fix this issue. I love watching Netflix on my tablets. I'm not going to unroot them for anything.
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Mainly heard it on All About Android. It's all over the tech news. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.en...o-longer-available-for-rooted-android-phones/