2.2, Modded Flash version and Hulu

dnoyeb

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UPDATE: It seems that this only works on the 2.2 roms that are de-odexed... It doesn't work on the plain one that first hit. It is confirmed to work in the following roms:

Sky Raider 2.2 You can just use his flash installer app on the SD card
Sky Raider 2.1
Sky Raider 2.0
Sky Raider 1.9b
Desensitize Sky Raider 2.2 by jitajt

Not sure how many of you follow the other areas of the site or not... anyways, the guys over on the nexus one area have been enjoying Hulu on their Froyo roms for a while now. I've only seen a couple HTC Inc folks in the original thread so maybe people just don't know about it...

Big thanks goes out to rcxquake as he's the one that created the modified version of flash.

Original instructions for Nexus one are here

Modified Directions (i'll expand these out after I do it again tomorrow):
1) (this step is not needed on Skyraider 2.2 as the author has already removed the installer file for you, he has also included the correct version of flash on the SD card) remove flash from your install... most likely it is in the /system/app folder, I hadn't run any flash sites yet so I simply renamed the install_flash_player.apk to install_flash_player.apkb Here's a quick set of instructions for you:
1) Connect phone and enable debuging mode.
2) open a command prompt and go into your sdk/tools folder. run "adb reboot recovery"
3) in the cmd prompt type in "adb shell"
4) On the phone once its loaded up recovery in to partitions menu and mount /system
5) in the adb shell type in "cd /system/app"
5) to rename the flash installer type in "mv install_flash_player.apk install_flash_player.apkb"
7) in ADB tell it "exit"
8) on the phone unmount system and data (not sure if this is necessary or not)​
Exit out of recovery and verify you don't have flash installed anymore under settings \ applications \ Manage Applications \ All applications.

2) Download the fixed flash version via rcxquake's thread to your pc and move it to your sd card(direct link to file)
3) Install the downloaded APK file via your favorite file browser (astro for example)
4) If you want to look at the full version of the website, you'll need to enable a special mode in the browser, here's the directions care of the original thread:
1. In the search/address bar of the android browser type "about:debug" without the double quotes.
2. Press Menu
3. Tap More>Settings
4. Go to UAString and change it to desktop.
5) If you want to access the site without setting up the debug mode listed above, Adam B was awesome enough to utilize the Hulu widget page to create a premodded app that you can simply click and watch. Here's his original post and here's a direct link to his APK.
SIDE NOTE If you run his Hulu.apk app, your lock screen will not come up after using it... to remedy this you have to kill it with a task killer... I have emailed him to see if this is something that could be remedied.

Anyways, I hope this helps some others get this going...
 
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I tried this, and read through all of the Nexus One thread, and I still get "Hulu requires Flash Player 10.0.22 or higher. Please download and install the latest version of Flash Player before continuing".

Tried it in recovery (adb install), Astro, and AppInstaller. It shows up as installed in Application Management but doesn't load on any website. The only thing that there was to install (that I could find) was "install_flash_player.apk" in /system/app/.
 

djkms

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Hulu and 2.2, its Christmas in July!

Having to manually kill the app sucks but it's hulu on my Droid!

Only other issue really is the border in fullscreen mode.

Btw the app works great, if you can't get it to work try a reboot.

Sent from my ADR6300 using Tapatalk
 

Mach3te

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I tried this, and read through all of the Nexus One thread, and I still get "Hulu requires Flash Player 10.0.22 or higher. Please download and install the latest version of Flash Player before continuing".

Tried it in recovery (adb install), Astro, and AppInstaller. It shows up as installed in Application Management but doesn't load on any website. The only thing that there was to install (that I could find) was "install_flash_player.apk" in /system/app/.

Tried everything as well. Seems this version of flash doesn't play well on the HTC Incredible. Any chance someone can tweak this to get it working?
 

Linux4me28

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I tried this, and read through all of the Nexus One thread, and I still get "Hulu requires Flash Player 10.0.22 or higher. Please download and install the latest version of Flash Player before continuing".

Tried it in recovery (adb install), Astro, and AppInstaller. It shows up as installed in Application Management but doesn't load on any website. The only thing that there was to install (that I could find) was "install_flash_player.apk" in /system/app/.
Yea thats the file you need to rename "mv install_flash_player.apk install_flash_player.apkb" then your all good.
 

dnoyeb

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so far i've only tested on the sky raider one... at the end of the day yesterday we tried the same steps on the regular 2.2 rom on an additional inc someone had at the office (the original full leak) and were unsuccessful. I'm going to flash my phone over to regular as I have an issue with sky raider and syncing, I'll see what I can come up with on getting to work on that one as well.
 

dnoyeb

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I am running my own Sense free de-odexed ROM.
for the life of me, I cannot get this to work with the plain 2.2.... so, what all is changed in sky raider and your rom that's enabling it....

I tried applying adrynalyne's market fix thinking maybe it just needed to think it was on a nexus... no go.

So, what else is changed in the modded roms?
 

jitajt

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for the life of me, I cannot get this to work with the plain 2.2.... so, what all is changed in sky raider and your rom that's enabling it....

I tried applying adrynalyne's market fix thinking maybe it just needed to think it was on a nexus... no go.

So, what else is changed in the modded roms?
they are de-odexed, that may be one reason
 

computerchad

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No sucess yet

Im running Skyrider 2.0.1 and not having luck. I tried hdialchemy's method and the app too, both to no avail :( Ill keep watching / trying and let you know.
 

dnoyeb

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weird, did like 8 posts (or more) disappear from this thread?

WTF? I just noticed that all kinds of changes I had made to the original post a few days back are all gone now too... what in the world.
 

deficitism

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Well, I'm able to get it working but the video quality is extremely choppy, even over wifi. Any idea how to fix this?

I'm using the 8/1 leaked OTA by the way.
Asteroid, how did you get it working on the 8/1 leak? Did you simply remove install_flash_player.apk and install the modded flash player? I attempted to do so, and got the blue plugin icon on flash content.
 

Asterdroid

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I actually had a flash player installation backed up in Titanium that I had restored. I uninstalled that, just using regular old Uninstaller, and when I checked /system/app in root explorer, I didn't see any evidence of a flash install.

Then installed the modified version from Astro, made the "about:debug" changes mentioned, and we're up and running.

I'm not sure why, but maybe if you install the standard flash beta, uninstall it, then install the modified version that will work?