Netflix and (Original) Droid w only WIFI - error?

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Hi,

I just got an old (original) Motorola Droid from my son. It was was taken out of service, so it's got no phone service, just WIFI. He flashed it to 2.2 before he gave it to me.

Almost everything seems to work ok on it: I can connect to my WIFI network, browse, etc. Market works, Flash works after I installed from Market.

I installed Netflix from the Market, and it starts up ok, but then I get a popup error that says:

"Please make sure that your device has network connectivity and the Date and Time settings are accurate."

and it kind of just hangs the Netflix app at that point.

Does anyone know what the problem might be, and how to get Netflix working in this case?

I'm guessing that it might be looking for a phone network connection or something?

Thanks,
Jim

Hi,

My son has a friend with a same (original) Droid, with the same firmware, but his phone is still active on Verizon, and he's able to get Netflix app to work on it.

He (my son) said that he thinks that he has another friend that also has a Droid that's deactivated, and he's going to ask him to try to see if Netflix will work on that.

If that latter doesn't work and get that same error message, I'm guessing that it's, as I mentioned above, trying to connect to Netflix via the 3G, rather than over the WIFI.

Anyone know if it's possible to get the Netflix app to use only WIFI?

I had a similar problem with Sipdroid this weekend when I tried to get that to work. It actually, at one point, connected me to a Verizon operator, presumably over the Verizon wireless network. Sipdroid has a configuration setting that allows you to tell it to use only WIFI, and once I set that, Sipdroid worked ok over WIFI. I think that I need to find some kind of setting in the Netflix app to do something similar.

Jim

Hi,

I just got off the phone with Netflix support. I don't know if the person that I spoke to actually knew what he was saying, but he said that the Droid is not "on their list of supported phones", so according to him, it would then try to "connect to their website".


I didn't think that I needed the build.prop changes, because I'm not getting an "unsupported device" message, plus, like I said, my son's friend has it working on his identical (except it's still on Verizon) phone, but I'm going to try some of those build.prop hacks, to see if that makes a difference.

Jim

Hi,

For the record, no joy with changing the build.prop. That seems to be ineffective.

So, I'm still stuck on this...

Anyone?

Thanks,
Jim

Hi,


I had left the phone on the Netflix error screen and it went to sleep last night, and when I woke up this a.m., and woke it, there was a different msg saying that it couldn't access some web site.

So, I started thinking that it was a firewall problem, and I put the phone's IP address in my router's DMZ, and VOILA!!

Got Netflix !!

Jim