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Sky Go - has anyone managed to beat the rooted block yet?

heartburnron

heartburnron

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I was looking forward to sky go being launched for Android so was gutted that it doesn't work for rooted devices. Has anyone found a way around this yet?
 
steslatt said:
Only works with stock rooted kernels not with custom kernels like siyah, redpill etc
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It worked fine for me running the latest siyah. It won't work if you won't to temporarily unroot and then change firmware and reroot. But it does the job if you only want to hide root from certain apps.
 
Sorry I meant the sky go app. The rootkeeper seems to work but it doesn't make a difference on a custom kernel when trying to use the sky go app. Well for me anyway and others on XDA have reported the same thing. Apparently it only works for rooted stock kernels.
 
steslatt said:
Sorry I meant the sky go app. The rootkeeper seems to work but it doesn't make a difference on a custom kernel when trying to use the sky go app. Well for me anyway and others on XDA have reported the same thing. Apparently it only works for rooted stock kernels.
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Ah sorry, I get you now.
 
Thanks to all for your input. I can confirm that after flashing the Speedmod Kernal and then hiding the root using the Voodoo OTA app, Sky Go is now running perfecting on my rooted SGS2!! I WIN!!! Lol. Thank's to all for your guidance. Used Ironass's guide to flash my first kernal and used Hawkers GS2Wiper for the scripts. Love these forums!

One slight flaw I have after flashing this kernal is that I had the Android zaps apple boot animation before flashing, now when it boots the audio for the andriod zaps apple animation can be heard however the screen displays the stock boot. If I reflash the andriod zaps apple animation or indeed a different one from kitchen pro would this overwrite the current problem or am I asking for trouble? Alternatively has anyone any suggestions how I delete the audio?
 
heartburnron said:
Thanks to all for your input. I can confirm that after flashing the Speedmod Kernal and then hiding the root using the Voodoo OTA app, Sky Go is now running perfecting on my rooted SGS2!! I WIN!!! Lol. Thank's to all for your guidance. Used Ironass's guide to flash my first kernal and used Hawkers GS2Wiper for the scripts. Love these forums!

One slight flaw I have after flashing this kernal is that I had the Android zaps apple boot animation before flashing, now when it boots the audio for the andriod zaps apple animation can be heard however the screen displays the stock boot. If I reflash the andriod zaps apple animation or indeed a different one from kitchen pro would this overwrite the current problem or am I asking for trouble? Alternatively has anyone any suggestions how I delete the audio?
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Are you using check rom? If so, kitchen-mods-boot sound off. This mod gets rid of all boot audio.
 
I'm trying to get sky go working on checkrom. I'm getting a "file system error" when trying to install speedmod from the kitchen. Anyone help?
 
any ideas for any other roms? Currently on wanamlite and doesn't work with that, haven't find anything googling yet!
 
I downloaded Voodoo from Android Market (or Play or whatever it's called)but I still get the old error message when I try and run Sky Go about the app not running on rooted phones. Any suggestions? Am I missing something? I'm running CheckROM v6 and NEAK 1.4x...
 
turbohobbit said:
I downloaded Voodoo from Android Market (or Play or whatever it's called)but I still get the old error message when I try and run Sky Go about the app not running on rooted phones. Any suggestions? Am I missing something? I'm running CheckROM v6 and NEAK 1.4x...
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As mentioned earlier in this thread, sky go will work with the speedmod kernel and the voodoo app. It seems this or a stock kernel are the only options...
 
Arsegibbon.

I thought I saw Hawker say that it worked with NEAK. I must've misunderstood. Ah well. Annoying but not the end of the world. I just don't understand why Sky have done this in the first place.
 
I'm running Checkrom v6, 2.6.35.7 hardcore@speedmod-s2 #k2-21.

Installed voodoo and temporary unrooted but still getting the "not supported on rooted devices" error.

Any suggestions?
 
Im on CheckRom V6 , swopped kernal to Speedmod via the Kitchen and temp unrooted with the Voodoo app and hey presto ! Sky sports news on while the kid watches Mickey mouse -_-

Screw you Merdoch !!!
 
Yeah but the next problem is when you upgrade to ics sky go doesn't work. Nor does bbc iplayer or itv for me on vk rom.

Another thing to bare in mind is that on the speedmod kernal the option to create a nandroid back up in cwm is disabled. I've had to flash back to a siyah kernal to do a nandroid although that isn't a big deal in itself...
 
heartburnron said:
Yeah but the next problem is when you upgrade to ics sky go doesn't work. Nor does bbc iplayer or itv for me on vk rom.

Another thing to bare in mind is that on the speedmod kernal the option to create a nandroid back up in cwm is disabled. I've had to flash back to a siyah kernal to do a nandroid although that isn't a big deal in itself...
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Quite so :(
 
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