Despite having 4g and a good connection up, lately Youtube in the past couple days has been running for the most part like crap. It takes forever to load a video, then has to buffer every 5 seconds to get another 5 seconds, which for where I live is odd. Now I've done the tricks, I tried using it through Chrome, uninstall updates, reset phone, etc. All for naught. Now, Pandora, Slacker, HBO/MAX Go, Crackle, etc, all stream fine. So what's going on with youtube?
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Anyone having Youtube issues?
- Thread starter JnEricsonx
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Google apps tend to be extremely hit and miss. Even chrome often stops loading pages unless I toggle WiFi on and off. For YouTube I have to load it in chrome instead of through the app due to the often 'network problem touch to retry'
Even Google search goes down forcing me to use Bing a lot.
Even Google search goes down forcing me to use Bing a lot.
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hell, I can't even get it to work properly in Chrome either lately. And I have a 30 download speed to boot where it wasn't working.
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You know what, I tried that. What makes no sense is that there's 1 stop on my way to work where I do wait a bit between buses, and the Youtube works there pretty well, but by my job, like crap. And I checked, I still have a good 30 mpbs download speed there according to speedtest, so, I dunno what the hell is the problem.
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YouTube works just fine through Dolphin browser but the app always does 'network problem touch to retry' off and on. Ironically the older app (prior to Google's new design guidelines, from Android 4.1) works fine, tested on a budget tablet with Android 4.1. Updated to most current version and 'network problem' again. It's almost like Google apps use some sort of proxy in the latest version that goes down often, as even Chrome kept losing the internet yet stock and Dolphin work perfectly fine.
Great 4G LTE here at home, can use Netflix and Chromecast all day just can't browse web with Chrome or play YouTube video through the app.
Great 4G LTE here at home, can use Netflix and Chromecast all day just can't browse web with Chrome or play YouTube video through the app.
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Huh, well, a couple guys at my job have Sprint, and its the same thing-youtube all week working for crap. So what the hell is going on?
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My theory is that they're doing a lot of changes due to the upcoming Android L release, so things will be increasingly problematic as they migrate all their apps over to the new design guidelines and tweak other features.
YouTube works fine in the browser, or on the app included with my Samsung Smart TV, but the apps for Android and iOS seem either unusable or extremely hit and miss lately.
YouTube works fine in the browser, or on the app included with my Samsung Smart TV, but the apps for Android and iOS seem either unusable or extremely hit and miss lately.
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