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ue40D6100SW Youtube no longer works on 30.06.2017

Posted: Fri May 26, 2017 11:40 am
by georgel1971
Hello all.
I have been notified that youtube will no longer work on this device as of 30.06.2017.
What to do?
Can you help me with other solutions to keep watching youtube?
Thank you.
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Re: ue40D6100SW Youtube no longer works on 30.06.2017

Posted: Mon May 29, 2017 7:27 pm
by georgel1971
nobody answer?

Re: ue40D6100SW Youtube no longer works on 30.06.2017

Posted: Mon May 29, 2017 7:48 pm
by juusso
Here is nothing to add If they stop support of it.

Sure, consider to make copy of youtube widget and store the whole widget dir on your disk. Possible, they will simply force delete of widget without further possibility to install it. Same has happened with skype yars ago: adding it manulaly via ftp back to its place, allowed us to use it w/o any problems. Be prepared. If this does not work, then we will see...



Re: ue40D6100SW Youtube no longer works on 30.06.2017

Posted: Mon May 29, 2017 8:33 pm
by sectroyer
juusso wrote: Mon May 29, 2017 7:48 pm Here is nothing to add If they stop support of it.

Sure, consider to make copy of youtube widget and store the whole widget dir on your disk. Possible, they will simply force delete of widget without further possibility to install it. Same has happened with skype yars ago: adding it manulaly via ftp back to its place, allowed us to use it w/o any problems. Be prepared. If this does not work, then we will see...
I would also suggest making a copy of emps folder :)

Re: ue40D6100SW Youtube no longer works on 30.06.2017

Posted: Thu Jun 01, 2017 4:10 pm
by j243
They deleted youtube from my ue40d55 too and i didnt make the backup, what are the options available? I dont find any valid youtube widget download

Re: ue40D6100SW Youtube no longer works on 30.06.2017

Posted: Thu Jun 01, 2017 7:10 pm
by juusso
Extract archive dir to /mtd_down/widgets/user and check will it work or not.

Re: ue40D6100SW Youtube no longer works on 30.06.2017

Posted: Fri Jun 02, 2017 10:50 am
by j243
I uncompressed the archive first and then moved the folder to /mtd_down/widgets/user using filezilla, then switched off and on the tv, and i dont see the app yet, is the folder structure correct? /mtd_down/ is a actually a shortcut to /mtd_rwdata/ in filezilla. Snapshot attached. Or maybe my tv model ua40d5500rm cannot run this widget?

Regards,
j243

Re: ue40D6100SW Youtube no longer works on 30.06.2017

Posted: Fri Jun 02, 2017 11:40 am
by juusso
IIRC here is no difference between arm and mstar models infolink structure. And in theory widgets do not differ too. I just not sure if youtube requires any emp to be backuped to get it work properly or not. I haven' found any emp related to youtube on my tv. Either it does not exist, or i searched in wrong locations.

I have another version of youtube. I will post it later today.

Re: ue40D6100SW Youtube no longer works on 30.06.2017

Posted: Fri Jun 02, 2017 11:53 am
by j243
What is "emp"?

Regards,
j243

Re: ue40D6100SW Youtube no longer works on 30.06.2017

Posted: Fri Jun 02, 2017 3:07 pm
by j243
Well by some reason the app showed up in the menu, but I am still getting the Samsung message warning of the end of youtube support, I wonder if they can also remove user installed apps, I might need to downgrade the firmware.

This kind of things piss me off from a vendor, the only reason to remove Youtube is a stupid planned obsolescence to force the customers to buy a new TV, but if I buy a new one, it would not be Samsung obviously.

Regards,
Jose