I've noticed that, especially in Twitter and Facebook, when I try to watch a video on my 5T, it takes the phone 18-22 seconds to switch to HD. The first 20 or so seconds, the videos play in pixelated Standard Def. This happens on wifi as well as 4G, whereas my old LG G3 plays the same videos in HD right from the start. Anyone have an idea why the 5T can't do that or what I can do about it?
The problem seems to be gone in YouTube or when playing embedded video in the browser.
Thanks!
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I've been having this issue since OP3. Hasn't figured out how to fix it.
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Hi, I tried to search but couldn't find anything about this problem.
The other day I was trying to record video at a kid's birthday party, and the video was somewhat long, around 6-7 minutes. Without any warning, the video stopped recording and went straight to the home screen. I tried to play the video file, but it shows up as a gray box on the phone and doesn't play on either my phone or my computer. I tried various video players.
This happened to me again, I went up to wine country and was taking a video from my car mount of the scenery as I drove down the windy roads. I stopped one video at around 5-6 minutes, the second one I didn't stop it that soon and the phone went to home screen again. Video was unplayable, same as last time.
I tried to replicate the issue recording videos, tried to push the home screen or any other buttons to replicate the issue - all times the video saved if you stopped the recording one way or another. I even tried to send myself an email to see if notifications could stop the video, didn't do anything. I recorded till around 7 minutes, and the phone went to home screen around 6:52. Same result as before.
All the files that were unplayable weren't unusually large, around 300-355 megs I believe. I'm running the stock 8gb card, and I'm rooted with baked snack 9.6. Free space on card was around 3-4 gigs each time, free space on phone roughly 80 mb. I'm using mpeg-4, all other videos I record are fine.
So is there anyways to fix this problem? It's kind of hard to always stop the phone at the right time to avoid this, and I'm wondering what's causing it in the first place. Could it be that the phone's ram is reaching capacity?
Hello, this is my dad's phone and I'm used to Samsung so everything is a bit different. I've been searching for a fix for hours but nothing seems to work, I have the latest version of YouTube and I simply can't play YouTube videos from both the app and browser. It will play for around 4 seconds, stop and start over like 3 seconds later to do the exact same thing. I had this issue with other videos as well but fixed that by using a different video player. I hope someone can help me.
Thanks, Johan.
Fixed it using a bit of common sense, can't believe I didn't see that earlier.
Mods can close this now if they want to.
It came back for some reason, can anyone help?
Hello! I am having a really annoying problem with youtube (the website m.youtube.com not the app) on my Nexus 7 2013. Basically, the problem is that it takes FOREVER to load a video. Now, I may not have the fastest internet connection in the world (far from it actually), but I can easily load a 720p video on my laptop in 5 - 7 seconds. Now on my nexus 7, the EXACT same video at 720p takes 23 - 24 seconds to load! I could turn off hd and cut about half off of that time, but then it looks like a mosaic of pixels -_- I really don't get this, as mobile youtube was always way faster than on the desktop for me. However, ever since they updated the UI (to look more like the desktop) it is so slow. I love youtube and watch it every day, so this is a big problem for me. If someone could help me, I would be really grateful! Thanks!
JakeReis said:
Hello! I am having a really annoying problem with youtube (the website m.youtube.com not the app) on my Nexus 7 2013. Basically, the problem is that it takes FOREVER to load a video. Now, I may not have the fastest internet connection in the world (far from it actually), but I can easily load a 720p video on my laptop in 5 - 7 seconds. Now on my nexus 7, the EXACT same video at 720p takes 23 - 24 seconds to load! I could turn off hd and cut about half off of that time, but then it looks like a mosaic of pixels -_- I really don't get this, as mobile youtube was always way faster than on the desktop for me. However, ever since they updated the UI (to look more like the desktop) it is so slow. I love youtube and watch it every day, so this is a big problem for me. If someone could help me, I would be really grateful! Thanks!
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Same, happens on my Nexus 7 but not on my Note 3 even though they run on the same WiFi network.
I am not sure what is causing this
I'm lucky if I can watch a video that doesn't 1: stutter or buffer 2: lockup part way through the video and 3: lockup my N7.
Sometimes clearing the cache in the app helps but most of the time it doesn't.
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fasthair said:
I'm lucky if I can watch a video that doesn't 1: stutter or buffer 2: lockup part way through the video and 3: lockup my N7.
Sometimes clearing the cache in the app helps but most of the time it doesn't.
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I know right? Don't even get me started on trying to rewind or fast forward...it sometimes crashes my tablet so bad I have to hard reset. I wonder if it has something to do with flash? On my old kindle fire with a custom ROM and flash I have no problems. N7 doesn't have flash. Wonder if there is a relationship.
Just use the Viral app instead if YouTube! It loads real 720p faster than the sub par HD option in the original app. It also has allot of other improvements like background playback and popup play.
It never crashes for me, but buffers a lot. None of the other devices (Asus tablet, laptop, mobile) have this problem.
Is anyone else experiencing video playback in Facebook?
It seems to only happen in the Facebook app and it's extremely annoying.
What's happening is every few seconds video pauses and I have to hit play again to start video, so it's not a buffering issue.
Also sometimes it will skip ahead a few seconds and then back.
My S8 does this. I think it's some sort of glitch in the new Facebook update , or it could be a buffering issue
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Is anyone else experiencing video playback in Facebook?
It seems to only happen in the Facebook app and it's extremely annoying.
What's happening is every few seconds video pauses and I have to hit play again to start video, so it's not a buffering issue.
Also sometimes it will skip ahead a few seconds and then back.
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That happens to me as well on my axon 7
Ok, that makes me feel a little better that it's happening across other devices, because it didn't start for me until I got my 2 xl.
I've got the same issue
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Facebook always has issues
happens with me also on my oneplus 3t. its a facebook issue.
Pretty sure this is a Facebook bug. You should inform Facebook about it. Btw i have it on my note 4
Same here
Also happening to me. I should have figured that it was a Facebook issue. But I also have an issue where youtube kept minimizing the video. I ultimately just disabled the functionality for youtube to minimize videos to stop it.
Its been a long time since I have posted something on this site. Got myself a RM 5G, its been great so far. Noticed as of late when I am gaming or watching a video of any type youtube, netflix, facebook etc it will freeze for anywhere up to 3 seconds then continue playing.
It might not sound like its a big deal or anything, more annoying if anything. I have replicated this on lte and wifi in multiple locations. First i thought it may of been the android system viewer thing that was happening recently but I dont think it is now. Considering a factory reset to see if this works out.
Non rooted device, just seeing if anyone else has experienced this with there RM's? If so what did you do to fix the issue?
I have a section in this video that I was recording start the video from minute 18:40 and you will notice the lag to illustrate what I am explaining. This would happen while watching videos.
Cheers in advance.