Wednesday, April 06, 2011

LG Rumor Touch plays YouTube about 5 minutes then fails

My LG Rumor Touch won't play YouTube steaming videos for longer than about 5 minutes before it fails with an error. When it fails it says "Loading 6%" and hangs and later an error message says "There is a problem playing the clip".

I never played youtube much until now so I guess this is the first I noticed the problem. If I only play short videos I would never see the problem.

- Most videos that I have problems with are about 9 to 11 minutes long.
- Videos about 5 minutes or less play normally.
- Most videos play around 4 to 6 minutes but I had one run 9 minutes before getting the error.
- Sometimes it will stop playing and shows it loading successfully and continues to play several times; however, later it still says "Loading 6%" and hangs and fails.
- I get the same problem with the youtube HQ or normal setting.
- I get the same problem if using the netfront or opera mini browser and they both run the same media player.

If it can play the first 5 minutes without a problem I don't see how this would be a network problem.

I suspect a software problem on the rumor touch. There seems to be no way I can update the media player software on the rumor touch like I can upgrade opera mini.

Also it could be that different Rumor Touch have different versions of software from the factory so it is possible that not all Rumor Touch have this problem.

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