Netflix?

joeybcdt · May 14, 2011

noname4me said:
You have to mount /system read write. If you are rooted, ES file explorer can do it. Look under options.

I have both Root Explorer and Mount File System checked under Root Options.

kyle.essman · May 14, 2011

YouTube - How to get Netflix to Work on the Nook Color and Other Non-Supported Android Devices

video explanation on how to get Netflix streaming on NC. Extremely easy and works great!

xltbob · May 15, 2011

xltbob said:
I'm in the same boat.

I tried using the HTC settings and it does work now.

Sent from my DROIDX using Tapatalk

cornholio#AC · May 16, 2011

tried both HTC and samsung. Using HTC Inspire 4G with Latest CoreDroid Gingerbread still no love. Any ideas? could it be GingerBread?

roberto · May 16, 2011

HTC worked for me with CM7 (Gingerbread).

The resolution seems a bit low. I wonder if it is intended for the smaller screen size of phones.

kibblenbits · May 16, 2011

I used Vision and HTC on my CM-7 nightly. I can get to netflix and choose a movie to watch. It loads but nothing happens, I get the pause button, time slider etc, and a black screen..

Any thoughts??

kibblenbits · May 16, 2011

I figured out what the issue was, I had cm-7 nightly 75 on my nook. I redid it with cm-7 nightly 72 (found info on another forum) and used Vision and HTC. It is streaming perfectly and no chipmunks!!!

ricci427 · May 16, 2011

Qoheleth said:
I am trying to do this on my rooted Nook Color. It's stock 1.2 after using manual Rooter. The problem is that apparently my File System is set to Read Only for some reason so I can't edit the build.prop file.

Update: OK. Absolute System Root Tools does the trick for me. I can successfully edit the build.prop file. However, after rebooting, NetFlix still says it's not enabled for my device.
I've edited both ro.product.model=Nexus S and ro.product.manufacturer=samsung to no avail.

Just tried ro.product.model=HTC Vision and ro.product.manufacturer=HTC. Success!!

Update: Well, sort of. I get a black screen that appears to be playing the video, but no actual video.

Update: <Chagrin> Helps if you have Adobe Flash Player 10.3 (or and 10.x) installed Full success. Now watching "A Bit of Fry and Laurie"

How do i check which adobe flash i hhve installed, could this have anything to do with the chipmunk issue?

Qoheleth · May 17, 2011

@ricci427: Call up Application Manager and scan down the list. (You might have to list All applications for the full list.) You should see Adobe Flash Player 10.something listed.

grasstrout · May 17, 2011

Works great on my nook

roberto · May 17, 2011

kibblenbits said:
I figured out what the issue was, I had cm-7 nightly 75 on my nook. I redid it with cm-7 nightly 72 (found info on another forum) and used Vision and HTC. It is streaming perfectly and no chipmunks!!!

I upgraded to nightly 75 and it overwrote build.prop. After I edited it again, Network worked fine again.

Edit; I meant Netflix, not Network

robertjm · May 17, 2011

can't find ro.product.manufacturer

UPDATE: I found ro.product.manufacturer. It was several lines below the brand entry. Changed that, rebooted and the Netflix app seems to think it's streaming. However, all I get is a black screen and the running time stays at 0:00 at the very bottom.

Yes, I have Flash 10.3 already installed. Any other ideas? I've waited for several minutes thinking it was a problem buffering, but that's not the case.

As a side note, what are the ramifications of changing the info in the build.prop file? How does that effect other programs?

Robert
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Orig. Msg:

Ran across this thread recently and tried following the instructions. At first I was excited because the app actually loaded and it let me choose something to stream. HOWEVER, a message popped up that told me this was not supported on my device.

One possible problem I see. When editing the build.prop file I saw "ro.product.brand" which was set to bn but I didn't see a "ro.product.manufacturer" anywhere in the file. Did I just miss it, or did you guys add it in? I tried changing brand to samsung, but it didn't work.

Robert

chazglenn3 said:
Edit the build.prop. Change ro.product.model to Nexus S, and change ro.product.manufacturer to samsung. Note the small "s" in samsung. This works great on my Nook Color running CM7 from the SD card. Courtesy of XDA.

kibblenbits · May 17, 2011

@Robert, I had the black screen too. I reverted back to nightly 72 and now I have Netflix and YouTube streaming perfectly. Also, I used Vision and HTC. It did not effect any other programs.

robertjm · May 17, 2011

Thanks! I am probably running a much older Nightly so that would probably edplain it. I assume it's not updating automatically.

kibblenbits said:
@Robert, I had the black screen too. I reverted back to nightly 72 and now I have Netflix and YouTube streaming perfectly. Also, I used Vision and HTC. It did not effect any other programs.

robertjm · May 18, 2011

Updating my CM7 to a newer nightly fixed it. First I tried build 76, but all that did was lock up just prior to the Android animation splash screen. Ended up having to pull the microSD card and manually load build 75 on it via my desktop computer. Once I booted the Nook into the Recovery Console I was able to install Build 75 and Netflix is working pretty good now!

Kind of flies in the face of the statements that only certain chips with built-in DRM were going to be able to stream Netflix, eh? Was happy as I was even able to get Bluetooth and YouTube working too. Haven't tried tethering by USB yet, but that'll be next.

Thanks again!!

Robert

kibblenbits said:
@Robert, I had the black screen too. I reverted back to nightly 72 and now I have Netflix and YouTube streaming perfectly. Also, I used Vision and HTC. It did not effect any other programs.

kibblenbits · May 18, 2011

Great!! I guess playing around with the different nightly's is the answer to the Netflix problem.

rowe33 · May 18, 2011

I was able to get Netflix streaming on my NC (nightly build 73 I believe, installed on SD) with this (the second modified apk):

Stream Netflix on your Android devices with this modified APK | DroidMatters.com

netflix-mod-2.apk

By the way, this requires NO editing or anything extra. Just install the .apk and you're good to go!

bb_girl · May 18, 2011

I got mine to work last night, and the quality was very good--much, much better than I had expected. I am running CM7 (the most recent stable build) on a class 4 SD card. I had to use the not-free root manager app instead of the freebie ES file explorer to change the build.prop settings (and I just changed the 2 lines to Nexus S and samung). After that--awesome! I still can't believe it worked so easily and so well.

ribby18 · May 19, 2011

I am having issues with es file explorer. I can't save the changes I made in build.prop (I get an error message when I try to save/exit). also, when I try to check the mount file system box in the root options, a message pops up saying that it failed to mount. are these issues related? And is there a way to fix this??? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

ribby18 · May 19, 2011

ribby18 said:
I am having issues with es file explorer. I can't save the changes I made in build.prop (I get an error message when I try to save/exit). also, when I try to check the mount file system box in the root options, a message pops up saying that it failed to mount. are these issues related? And is there a way to fix this??? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

forgot to mention this, I'm running the latest stable build of cm7

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