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Netflix on Froyo!

I was streaming Star Trek: The Next Generation on my Droid Charge over my home WiFi connection and it works great. Yep, I imagine I'm going to be using quite a bit of data with this little app. Glad I locked in under the Unlimited Data. :)
 
How exactly do you get an entire movie or show to download before you do something like say get onto a plane and need to put it in plane mode? Is there a way to download a movie, get out of the phone and put it in airplane mode, then go back in and watch it? Seems like most stuff just buffers without much else saved.
 
addictedtocars said:
Downlaoded and tried a few vidoes and on 4G with 12-18M down and 1-3< up I get constant stuttering,no buffering, just stuttering, seems the DC may be a tad under powered for Netflix?
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I don't know what the problem is but the phone is capable of streaming flawlessly when on wifi.

I also tried connecting on lte and your right... Streaming is very choppy! ! my lte connection at the lowest 8mbps down at highest 30 mbps down... So not sure what the issue is, when i used the hopspot connection (just to try it, ,my home connection is 50mbps) to download a torrent file, it never increased 700 kbps even though at that moment speedtest confirmed 18 mbps down.
 
zeldaboy101 said:
How exactly do you get an entire movie or show to download before you do something like say get onto a plane and need to put it in plane mode? Is there a way to download a movie, get out of the phone and put it in airplane mode, then go back in and watch it? Seems like most stuff just buffers without much else saved.
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I don't think so....
 
juanito157 said:
I don't know what the problem is but the phone is capable of streaming flawlessly when on wifi.

I also tried connecting on lte and your right... Streaming is very choppy! ! my lte connection at the lowest 8mbps down at highest 30 mbps down... So not sure what the issue is, when i used the hopspot connection (just to try it, ,my home connection is 50mbps) to download a torrent file, it never increased 700 kbps even though at that moment speedtest confirmed 18 mbps down.
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Your 4g connection is about like mine. I haven't tried hotspot though. I got about 30 minutes into "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" before my wife found a reason to tear me away from it. It was streaming fine with only a small skip occasionally. Actually it was no worse than it is on my PC using Comcast Cable.
 
Streaming has been quite smooth for me, no skipping or choppiness. LTE in DFW area, I'm not running touch wiz though, maybe that takes up just enough background memory to make it run choppy?
 
Downloaded it and it ran fine. However, I just don't see the point of having netflix on my phone. *shrugs* I just don't have the time, and when I do, I'm at home and can watch the same movies on my TV. *shrugs*
 
I have a Droid Charge and a Galaxy S 4G. I installed the official Netflix App (v 1.3) on both phones last night and BOTH of them have the same behavior:

I start watching a show, and about 5 minutes into it, the picture freezes and the phone reboots.

I tried uninstalling and reinstalling Netflix on the Charge and I get the same thing.

Anyone else experience this?

UPDATE: Moving the App from the internal memory to the SD card seems to have done the trick. Works fine now.
 
zeira said:
I just activated the hot spot feature on my phone. Since I have the unlimited data plan, and the hot spot cost $30 with no options, I'm guessing this is the unlimited plan. Is it possible to check this anywhere online? The guy at the store was quite clueless...
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I don't believe tethering or Hot Spotting is included in your $30.00 unlimited plan..............better check it , before your next bill !
 
So I downloaded Netflix last night and signed into my acct, but I couldn't close out of it. Now it stays "open" on my phone. Is that how it is on Android phones? I am new to this. I am used to closing apps on my computer. It doesn't seem right to leave my acct open like that..Also about Netflix...if I click on a movie to watch, does that automatically charge the account I have been using at home? If I just get one DVD at a time (the pkg I am signed up for at home), and then watch one on the Charge, do they charge me again?
 
sparks3229 said:
So I downloaded Netflix last night and signed into my acct, but I couldn't close out of it. Now it stays "open" on my phone. Is that how it is on Android phones? I am new to this. I am used to closing apps on my computer. It doesn't seem right to leave my acct open like that..Also about Netflix...if I click on a movie to watch, does that automatically charge the account I have been using at home? If I just get one DVD at a time (the pkg I am signed up for at home), and then watch one on the Charge, do they charge me again?
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Android apps stay loaded into memory when closed, in case you would want to use them again. If at any point the phone needs more RAM, it will flush applications out of memory as needed.

As far as being charged, the app would use your streaming account. Since Netflix is splitting DVDs and streaming into two separate plans, you would now need a streaming account to use the app. There's no per-movie charges, just the $7.99 monthly fee. This would be the same plan that you might use on your computer to stream a Netflix movie.
 
Cilraaz...thank you very much!!! Clear and understandable! YAY. Oh wait...so my acct just stays "open"...I guess nobody hacks into that stuff?
 
My Netflix seems to work pretty good... watched about 3 mins of a movie. Don't see myself using it much but may be nice for roadtrips or layovers while travelling.
 
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