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[TIP] Slow web scrolling FIXED! Update Flash Player!

I tried to install the updated flash .apk but I get an error:

Failure [INSTALL_FAILED_ALREADY_EXISTS]

so it sounds like I cannot overwrite the flash player that is on the Incredible now. The uninstall button is greyed out for Flash Player 10.1 in the application settings page.

Anyone have any ideas??

That is exactly what we are all doing.
Check to see what version you currently have and let us know.
 
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That is exactly what we are all doing.
Check to see what version you currently have and let us know.


Ok. Figured it out. Was running the 72 version prior to the update. I put the .apk on my SD card...then opened it using Astro File Manager. It asked if I wanted to update, clicked yes and it installed the new version fine.

So lesson learned for this .apk...cannot install from the computer using ADB/SDK.

P.s. the browser scrolling is now very quick and some of the flash sites I had checked before seem to load even a little bit faster now with the update.
 
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Anyone using Appbrain my have noticed an update for Flash, but haven't been able to download it...well after installing the above apk I see that the update is gone...looks like this is the same update.

Edit: please consider moving this back to the main page and sticky it. I think this may turn out to be very helpful and it might get missed in the "All Things Root"
 
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Ok. Figured it out. Was running the 72 version prior to the update. I put the .apk on my SD card...then opened it using Astro File Manager. It asked if I wanted to update, clicked yes and it installed the new version fine.

So lesson learned for this .apk...cannot install from the computer using ADB/SDK.

P.s. the browser scrolling is now very quick and some of the flash sites I had checked before seem to load even a little bit faster now with the update.

Awesome Justin!
Glad it worked out.
 
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I just did the update and tried the cnet video... I thought it was joke, sounds like it's slowed down by 800%. Rebooting phone now to see if it makes a difference.

Nope, same thing. Also checking out other parts of m.flash.com same thing.

I was on engadget's site and tried to watch a video. It started to do the slow audio again but in the middle of me watching it I "tabbed out" to reply to a text message. When I "tabbed" back over the audio was fine! I am baffled. :thinking:
 
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How exactly do you download and update this?

There are a few ways of doing it,

downloading: click on the link provided earlier in this thread, posted by warwick.
2nd. after downloading to your computer, ON YOUR PHONE, click Menu>Settings>Applications>Development>USB Debugging
plug your phone in to your computer, Mount as a disk drive and drag and drop the apk in to your SD Card folder.
after that, safely eject your phone from the computer, then open a File Manager (Astro works great) and click on the apk, it will install from there.

OR
if you have an application such as HomePipe (i use this constantly), you can just download it on to your computer, open the homepipe app up on your phone, and download it to your phone from your computer, click on the apk and it will install.

as stated earlier in this thread, MAKE SURE YOU ALLOW FOR UNKNOWN SOURCES TO INSTALL, or you wont get the install to work. for that option Menu>Settings>Applications>Unknown Sources (make sure it is checked.)


hope that helps, and if you need any further help feel free to post it in here or PM one of us guides or the mods directly.
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