New m.youtube.com not working on Droid

[Stang68]

Hey everyone,

So I'm trying to use the "amazing" and new m.YouTube.com with it's HQ button and HTML 5 web player and for some reason I cannot. Whenever I click on a video, it asks me if I want to use Skyfire or the YouTube app. I am not given an HQ button either. It plays like a standard YouTube video would in the app.

Have any of you Droid users gotten to use the new mobile site successfully? If so, how?

I'm running a stock Droid 2.1

 

[azjerry]

Doesn't work fr me either.

 

[pstinger]

Works fine for me.

 

[Stang68]

Works fine for me.

What browser are you using? Are you rooted? Etc...

 

[Stang68]

Anyone else have luck?

 

[Menno]

Works fine for me. running rooted 2.2 though, default browser. I'll have to try it on a friends (non-rooted) phone tomorrow.

 

[Stang68]

Works fine for me. running rooted 2.2 though, default browser. I'll have to try it on a friends (non-rooted) phone tomorrow.

Ok, thanks

Maybe it's only on Froyo phones?

 

[azjerry]

Doesn't work fr me either.

My mistake. It does work on my stock Droid 2.1 using Dolphin HD. I didn't realize The icon I needed to press to get all the other icons.

The Fennec alpha version I have, OTOH, not so much. Don't see that initial icon and could never get a video to play. But that's an alpha version for you.

 

[specularius]

This is true, the HQ button does not show up on my stock Droid 1 with 2.1 update 1 ESE81, but does show up on my stock Nexus One with 2.2 FRF91. To get HQ on the Droid 1, I have to press play, then go to menu, more, watch in high quality.

 

[dwe28]

Just tried it and it works for me.

 

[Stang68]

Just tried it and it works for me.

What are you running?

 

[Stang68]

This is true, the HQ button does not show up on my stock Droid 1 with 2.1 update 1 ESE81, but does show up on my stock Nexus One with 2.2 FRF91. To get HQ on the Droid 1, I have to press play, then go to menu, more, watch in high quality.

I'm pretty sure it's playing in the YouTube app on your Droid because that's how it works in the app: hitting menu and then more to get the HQ.

 

[specularius]

I'm pretty sure it's playing in the YouTube app on your Droid because that's how it works in the app: hitting menu and then more to get the HQ.

I agree with you. I was just pointing out that the HQ button shows up on the Nexus one with Froyo, but does not on the Droid with Eclair on the m.youtube.com page.

 

[azjerry]

This is true, the HQ button does not show up on my stock Droid 1 with 2.1 update 1 ESE81, but does show up on my stock Nexus One with 2.2 FRF91. To get HQ on the Droid 1, I have to press play, then go to menu, more, watch in high quality.

That's true. I don't get the HQ button either.

 

[dwe28]

What are you running?

2.2 custom ROM (Bugless Beast v04)

 

[Stang68]

Yeah, so it looks like this only works on 2.2 devices. Can anyone confirm otherwise?

 

[specularius]

I noticed also that in 2.2, in the youtube app, there is a HQ button at the bottom right when a video starts to play.

 

[pstinger]

What browser are you using? Are you rooted? Etc...

Using the stock browser, rooted. BuglessBeast .4

 

[Bushido Brown]

Stock browser. 2.2 runs flawlessly. HQ button in tact, videos open with the HTML5 player

 

[Stang68]

Stock browser. 2.2 runs flawlessly. HQ button in tact, videos open with the HTML5 player

Yeah, it looks like only 2.2 can access the new mobile site. Sucks.