YouTube HQ Hack

[MilkPudding]

I know it may be a stupid qn but does anyone know if this works on other android phones too? Like MT3G?

Thanks

 

[timothydonohue]

i tried to pull the old youtube.apk, no dice for me. i was just gonna swap 'em. instead, i did

adb shell
cd /system/app
rm YouTube.apk
^C (to get out of shell)
adb remount
adb push YouTube.apk /system/app/YouTube.apk

seems to have done it just fine

 

[ibegary]

Anyone know if cyan is going to include this in his next release?

 

[williamthrilliam]

Anyone know if cyan is going to include this in his next release?

Most likely will not. Including Google's proprietary apps is what got him a cease and desist letter from Google. Not Google apps are included in cyanogenmod.

 

[ibegary]

True. Forgot all about that.

 

[kaiser_tytnii]

Here is how you hack YouTube to default into HQ:

1. Put the youtube.apk on your sdcard.
2. Get Root Explorer from the Market.
3. Using Root Explorer, navigate to the sdcard folder and long press on the youtube.apk and click "Move"
4. Navigate to the /system/app folder
5. Click the button up top that says "Remount as R/W"
6. Click the button on the bottom that says "Paste" then confirm overwrite.
7. Now you need to set the permissions on that file: Long press on the youtube.apk and click Permissions. Check User Read and Write, Group Read, and Others Read. Uncheck everything else and click Ok.
7. Click the button up top that says "Remount as R/O"
8. Reboot, you're done

thanks! It works like a charm!

 

[bachviet]

It works great for me.

I used adb command instead of "Root Explorer".

1. Download the modified YouTube.apk to my computer.
2. Connect my N1 to the computer, start "Command Promp" (Windows XP), and change to the directory where I download the apk.
3. "adb remount"
4. "adb shell"
5. "cp /system/app/YouTube.apk /system/app/YouTube.apk.bak"
6. Exit
7. "adb push YouTube.apk /system/app/"

I didn't even reboot and it still worked.

 

[arjay88]

I tryed to push but now the Youtube icon has gone?

 

[walliester]

it's version 1.5 and i try it but i didn't like it ,any ways the stock1.5.2 has the option to watch it in high quality, had a hard time removing it and putting the stock one back so i had to do a default recovery in order to have it back again lol i am new to this phone just got it a couple of weeks ago ..and its a bad a$$ pnone.....

 

[arjay88]

anyone else get a error when opening youtube.

connection problem - org.apache.harmony.xml/expatparser parser exception at line 17 no element found.

 

[wsrider]

It works great for me.

I used adb command instead of "Root Explorer".

1. Download the modified YouTube.apk to my computer.
2. Connect my N1 to the computer, start "Command Promp" (Windows XP), and change to the directory where I download the apk.
3. "adb remount"
4. "adb shell"
5. "cp /system/app/YouTube.apk /system/app/YouTube.apk.bak"
6. Exit
7. "adb push YouTube.apk /system/app/"

I didn't even reboot and it still worked.

This worked for me aswell on my nexus. Thanks all

 

[jonasl]

anyone else get a error when opening youtube.

connection problem - org.apache.harmony.xml/expatparser parser exception at line 17 no element found.

I've been getting this more and more myself both prior to applying my HQ mod and afterward. It's not related, not if you are using my mod anyway. What's changed in my mod is described in detail here:

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=676545
I assume all mods of this type is done in a similar way but I haven't studied any other when I made mine.

Several users of stock firmware have this issue as well, here are some examples:

http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/android/thread?tid=7520c38a6e2e4ce3&hl=en

http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/android/thread?tid=44b225740841f9d4&hl=en

http://www.droidforums.net/forum/te...ggestions/20880-connection-error-youtube.html

The solution seems to be to clear the YouTube data and cache in Manage Applications.

 

[arjay88]

yeah i been using your mod, been working fine ever since. thanks!

 

[disflipissofresh]

This only works if your nexus one is rooted am i correct? if so, is there anyway to get this hack to work for unrooted devices?

 

[mcg]

Great! Thanks!

 

[romano76]

works on mytouch3g "cannon202eclair v2.1" thanks the only thing that i need now is to replace the android video player i don't wannt people to start with their act1 and mvideo players iknow they are very good but they won't play youtube videos, unless you download the videos. those video players wont even play videos in the browser from any site unless u can completely replace the android video player with either one of them.

 

[D200P13]

im on froyo and just watched a video on 3g with hq. the app has a hq button on the actual menu. laggy though. no tweaks on app or anything just rooted but everything else stock.