Comments on: YouTube Mobile Now Works Great with BlackBerry Browser

By: Kelly Carter

Kelly Carter — Fri, 08 May 2009 01:56:56 +0000

brandon,
Are you viewing YouTube on the regular YT site or on the mobile YT site?
Kelly

By: brandon

brandon — Thu, 07 May 2009 02:41:37 +0000

hi, i have a blackberry curve 8330. every time i go on youtube and watch a video. the videos are extremely small, so then i click menu and click full screen, and doesnt even do anything. i just got this phone a couple of days ago

By: Kelly Carter

Kelly Carter — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 01:54:36 +0000

kat,
There’s no guarantee that it will work perfectly. If you read the entire article, you’ll see that sometimes it doesn’t work well. This article is several months old, and performance of YouTube on a BlackBerry may be better now. I believe it works better in areas where you have a strong signal. The Curve is a fantastic phone, and I highly recommend it.
Kelly

By: kat

kat — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 23:36:12 +0000

So if I am to go buy a 8130 blackberry curve. I can get youtube to work?

By: Kelly Carter

Kelly Carter — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 10:58:03 +0000

Lauren,
Thanks for the clarification.
Kelly

By: Kelly Carter

Kelly Carter — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 10:57:24 +0000

Lauren,
Thanks for sharing that info. Back when I was messing with YouTube Mobile, I’d change a setting and think it was working better only to find that problems came back days or weeks later. I hope your fix “sticks.”
Kelly

By: Lauren

Lauren — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 07:19:07 +0000

Oh and I checked off all the boxes above but that didnt seem to affect anything by itself. The exact heading is Emulation Mode under the Browser Configuration/ inside the browser option menu after pressing the menu button on the keypad.

By: Lauren

Lauren — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 07:06:19 +0000

8130 Pearl version 4.5.0.77 (Platform 3.2.0.51)
In hopes this helps others and/or to get closer to a solution I thought I would share.. I am sorry I did not read through all the reply’s so if I have repeated anyone I am sorry. I have had my phone for some time now and did upgrade the OS to the listed one above. Once I had done this you tube was working flawlessly then I had that error again. I found in my options menu while in the web browser that you can change the rendering engine. Since I have changed it to the Internet Explorer engine I have not come across this message. Not sure if this will help all of you out there but it is working for me so far. I changed the engine to IE and have been happily watching you tube since. FYI this is not the mobile version either this is www. youtube .com not sure if I can put those together or not
In a nutshell try using the other rendering engines this may solve the unsupported error.

By: Kelly Carter

Kelly Carter — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 23:10:29 +0000

Donna,
Thanks for the details. I think your signal strength is on the low side, just like where I live (a rural Georgia area). Try it sometime when you have a much stronger signal and see if it doesn’t work a lot better.
Kelly

By: Donna

Donna — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 23:02:28 +0000

Hi Kelly,

I have been reading through the threads about the youtube videos. I, too, have not been able to play any videos from youtube mobile – not one! Even though you said the audio boost may not be a reliable fix, I even turned it off to see if it would work, if only for a short time – with no luck. The only difference that I noticed is that the media player would open and a green message in the upper right corner said that the video was loading. However, I received the same error message when trying to play the file.

Here’s my info if you are keeping the stats:

Provider: Cellular South
Current Signal: -102 dBm (fluctuates from -110 to -97)

I’ll try playing them again when I have a stronger signal but from my experience lately, this doesn’t affect playback either.

Thanks for all of your great advice!

Donna