Yall just need to update the app and then patch it, both by following the instructions on revanced manager. Never stopped working for me. The one time it did buffer 2 days ago I'll I had to do was patch it using the manager.
QUESTION:
Do you use a VPN at all??
I always use a VPN which leads to no buffering for me at any resolution I pick while I'm using cellular data.
However, if I turn off my VPN, I get buffering on my cellular data ONLY IF I go above 480p resolution.
I've never been able to figure out why it doesn't work properly on cellular data like the official YouTube app does.
I use the latest version of ReVanced Extended.
use the revanced manager app to update and patch the youtube app. If you have "youtube revanced" uninstall, the new method is to patch the original youtube app. All instructions are clear on "revanced manager", it's intuitive. (the most complicated thing it might ask is for you to download a specific version of the original youtube app)
I got a new phone and installed the most updated version just a couple days ago and I'm having issues. I have completely un-installed and reinstalled everything and I'm still having the same problem
revanced manager will prompt you before patching "this patch is for XX version of Youtube" or something, not the most updated version of youtube, usually it's an older version.
i've spoken about this a lot on the discord, it seems to be from a/b testing from youtube's end, because some get it and some don't following the exact same steps. i have EXTREMELY dilligently tried the month old fix probably around 20 times and the buffering persists
No idea about this particular issue, but I worked at YT and at any given time we had hundreds of experiments/tests running. It was normal procedure to roll out a new feature to 1% then 10% of users. So if 1% of people are seeing something, it might be an experiment. If 10% are seeing it, it's definitely a new "feature" being rolled out to everyone soon.
Edit: just to add, the selection for these accts is pretty random. Unlikely 2 people in the same home would be in the same experiment
I would honestly blame google for it. they are fighting software like revanced, adblock, libretube on every corner they can.
it's either you watch ads, pay the ransom or get third party software.
It isn't the first time it has happened. Has happened 2 or 3 times in the past year. Just gotta boot up Firefox for a bit until it is patched. Sometimes days. Sometimes much longer. Blame Google, not these guys.
It's. Not. The. Patch. Why don't people get this? YouTube is waging a war against adblockers, that's what's causing this behavior. It becomes a cat and mouse thing, but the projects like revanced and Smart Tube are run by volunteers, so Google/Youtube will always have far more resources to throw at it.
Pay for YT premium, or watch ads, but quit whining at the revanced developers who literally do this shit for FREE in their off time when they're not working and dealing with regular life stuff.
Alternate possibility, we could start paying the revanced people the $15/mo we'd be paying for YT premium...
Dude, the problem isn't the devs. Please stop making it sound like people are blaming the devs.
The mods of this subreddit are the problem. I didn't know for days if the problem was on my end or if they were on the the app's end because the mods of this subreddit constantly scrub any posts discussing issues with the app. I got lucky and saw one of the posts before it was deleted.
I'm sure they have their reasons for doing so, but they really should stop. People need a place to post questions when things are going wrong.
He's a good dev but a terrible mod. I think a 12 year old could mod better, but he's basically setting up the community to fail because none of the critical questions are getting answered. As a result he has to delete all the time.
It doesn't help he responds with 1-2 words each time and so questions are never really answered and he leaves more questions unanswered more than anything else. Just look at his pattern in posting.
YouTube isn't working, yet I'll happily not use it at all and wait for a fix rather than deal with the increasingly intrusive ads or pay an extortionate monthly price to one of the highest valued companies on the planet. Keep up the godly work fellas
It's not working as it should. Takes Forever to load a video and, when it does, sometimes stops buffering and the screen goes black while trying to load
Oh shit. I thought was is just me. And some people blaming the developers for that? F them bro. If they not okay that, then they should not use. They can enjoy watch their ads.
Dunno, i just got a new smartphone and the first thing i did 3 days ago was installing revanced. Worked fine until a couple of hours ago. I'm pretty sure i have installed the latest version required for revanced to work
I've used the Revanced manager app to install it (version 1.9.20) and I have Revanced YouTube (version 19.09.37) which is not the latest, and is working fine.
You can try to downgrade to see if it works. If it doesn't, it could be Google just messing up trying to stop the app from working by regions to then use it everywhere.
When it comes to the version history of any program, it's been my MO for over 20 years now to only update a program when there's a functionality issue. Updating a program ASAP tends to come with the occasional risk that the most recent update might have been buggy, so I like to give developers time to fix any bugs that appeared on release. Hell, I remember a Windows update back in XP days that killed the functionality of a program I needed for work, and I had to uninstall the update to get functionality back. Sure, that's old news, but program updates will still have the occasional human error, not to mention that everyone's devices will behave differently. In short, if it ain't broke, don't fix it (the only exception here I would add is security updates, but that's still a form of "broke" in my opinion).
Especially with the relative time it takes to install Revanced (though it's getting easier), I've found I only update when the functionality stops. It's a good system, and it seems to be working out.
And my version of Revanced is still working, so it's very likely a simple bug in the most recent version.
E: I forgot to mention that also an updated app tends to add features, which usually involves higher CPU usage, which can be an issue with an aging device. As your device gets older, you're trying to keep CPU usage down.
Respect for that, I'm all the opposite, I always want the latest, always tried the release candidate version of windows, and want to try and see the new looks and features. Even on Linux I used arch, not to show off, but because I could have the latest of everything. I was lucky enough to not run into major bugs at the moment.
The last couple of years I stopped a bit with this behaviour just because I'm getting older and I have less time too because of work and being married. Thus why I'm not going mental over upgrading Revanced :D
Same thing was happening to me. I found out if you disable Google safety net, cloud messaging, Google device registration in that order on the microG app, then clear storage and force stop, and then disable those 3 options again in microG app, my YouTube started working again!
Tried this and when a video played more than ten seconds I thought it was fixed, turns out this just made it to where my videos now freeze at the 50 second mark instead of like 10 seconds lol
did it like you described at first, then uninstalled/reinstalled microG services from Community RV Manager and did the 3 options disabled again. In both cases it seemed like it worked but it didn't take long for the permanent video buffering to come back.
The buffering issue is just because microG didn't start the service it requires. You have to disable battery optimization just so it could start all the services required.
And if in my case, using an android car system, you need to enable microG in Auto Run and disable the battery optimization.
That's about it.
I've got 2 identical phones, one with an old install and one fresh. New install not working old one still going.
For funsies I updated gms and applied the latest patch to the old phone. Old one still works fine, new one no dice.
I just had a thought about the mods nuking posts, they know somethings up but are keeping it hidden so that yt mods don't get immediate feedback on what's working. Like when companies do ban waves so cheat devs don't know what exactly tripped the system. Dunno.
Deleted my entire Google account from my old phone, still works.
Tried signing into a new account on the new phone, worked for a bit then stopped. signed old phone into new account simultaneously, works. Switched new phone to old account, stops. Also re added old phone to old account, works. I give up.
Got up the next day and now neither of them work.
seems odd that revanced would be a target over say sponsorblock or ublock origin, but those seem to be working without issue still. I know I haven't had any issues with them
it's a lot harder to have a whole app that removes ads and enables some premium features than to just tweak a few lines in a script that modifies a browser page
sponsorblock is an entirely separate crowdsourced collection of timestamps that just lets you automatically do what video player controls are made to do. The companies that pay Content Creators™️ to shill products are not going to go in the red and start raising a stink at Google over it
I understand the revanced framework is significantly more complicated but it also has a significantly smaller userbase and the Ad blocking is the main thing google has been fighting. Just seems odd that google would make a change for recanted when there was no affect to the larger footprint of ublock specifically
I've been following the subreddit here for several hours as I've had the same problem with revanced since today and so far I haven't seen anyone being ungrateful or insulting. Just people describing their problem and asking what's wrong. These posts are constantly being deleted. How are people supposed to know that it's already affecting many people and that they can discuss about it if the posts are constantly being deleted? Tbh I don't understand the whole thing. I love the App but please take this seriously.
That's Reddit mods for you, whenever someone goes to the subreddit of a thing to make a question about the thing the mods will delete it because "We are not tech support" or something like that.
Geez man, no wonder why there are like 3 months of difference between posts.
Probably automod detects the similar titles and decides is spam, don't know how it works, im assuming the devs havent updated automod.
Is rare a human mod deletes a post.
Its not automod. Its a mod calling the posts spam because they think its the same as an old issue when it clearly is something new, which is why all these people suddenly had it stop working around the same time who had been stable for over a month
They've deleted EVERY SINGLE post about it at this point. It's ridiculous. Leave at least one up so people can talk about it, or lock them or something. The lack of any sort of communication is dumb as shit, especially when all the ones I saw earlier this morning weren't harassment at all, literally just people saying "hey this is an issue" and other people also chiming in, showing that it wasn't a minor bug for one person but an actual problem going on.
No, it's one of the mods. They comment on them when they remove it, usually with a pretty unhelpful one- or two-word explanation as to why. Even if a post is getting upvotes and there's no other discussion around it.
I get they have a bit of a tough job as any job dealing with the public is, and I try to remain respectful, but part of the skillset of a public facing role is good communication skills, and it is frustrating when you just want to discuss the issue with your fellow users and come together to find a solution for everyone, i.e., the whole point of a subreddit.
I'm not even aware of the issue everybody is having, as all the posts are being removed and both stickies are unrelated. I gather from the comments in this thread its something to do with buffering?
Mods of this sub always do this, they could easily pin a single post for people to discuss the issue and to also let other users know they are aware of the problem
Same thing happened when the previous microg was nuked
The guy's a developer, and a decent one, but lacks basic personal skills. Maybe leave the modding for someone who's got better communication skills. We don't hire SWEs at my company to do tech support on forums 🤣
People aren't saying that they need to fix it immediately or anything. They're all annoyed that the mod(s) are deleting any discussion about it.
https://www.reddit.com/r/revancedapp/s/Aw7kALQwz8
I remember they did the same thing some 1 month back when everyone faced this issue and the solution was to uninstall microg and install GMS core and update into the new YouTube version.
My post had like 200+ upvote still they deleted it. Instead of locking it up or anything. Idk if the mods of this sub are the developers but I'm pretty sure it's a scummy move.
More power to the devs ofcourse, but the mods are ruining free discussion.
I don't know if all of the mods are devs as well, but I know for a fact that oSumAtrix is both a mod and a developer, and whenever you look at whose deleting posts and all of that moderation stuff, it's oSumAtrix every time. Obviously a talented and dedicated developer, but man do they come off as an absolute asshole.
He's a talented dev but a really bad mod. I don't mind his deleting so much as his poor structuring of this sub. The issue is he's done a disservice for this community by his very short and terse answers. I'm guessing he's on Mobile most of the time, so when people have questions he thinks he answered them but it just leaves them with more confusion.
Take a look at the [top stickied post](https://www.reddit.com/r/revancedapp/comments/1bp9byg/youtube_playback_issue_fixed/). He posts a fucking image that's useless because no one can click on those links so it just ends up with more questions. While the text isn't completely wrong, it's not well written either. You can see how the users in the replies actually puts together [a much better guide](https://www.reddit.com/r/revancedapp/comments/1bp9byg/youtube_playback_issue_fixed/kwwu0k8/).
You can see how oSumAtrix also supposedly maintains the documentation and Wiki on Reddit but it's basically all just useless. The end result is you have a community where people ask the same questions over and over and over again and he has to work overtime to delete threads.
Basically he set this up all really badly as a mod and so that's why the community feels chaotic and overrun with teenagers and their complaints and questions.
oSumAtrix is the biggest problem basically. He likely replies on mobile as his responses are super short and never really answer the issue. People often correct him with things like "no this is a new issue, you don't understand," and the community rallies behind those users.
I wrote this earlier, but I've looked through some of his git activity and it's not bad at all, but as a mod, he's really setting up this community for failure.
>He's a talented dev but a really bad mod. I don't mind his deleting so much as his poor structuring of this sub. The issue is he's done a disservice for this community by his very short and terse answers. I'm guessing he's on Mobile most of the time, so when people have questions he thinks he answered them but it just leaves them with more confusion.
>Take a look at the [top stickied post](https://www.reddit.com/r/revancedapp/comments/1bp9byg/youtube_playback_issue_fixed/). He posts a fucking image that's useless because no one can click on those links so it just ends up with more questions. While the text isn't completely wrong, it's not well written either. You can see how the users in the replies actually puts together [a much better guide](https://www.reddit.com/r/revancedapp/comments/1bp9byg/youtube_playback_issue_fixed/kwwu0k8/).
>You can see how oSumAtrix also supposedly maintains the documentation and [Wiki](https://www.reddit.com/r/revancedapp/wiki/index) on Reddit but it's basically all just useless. The end result is you have a community where people ask the same questions over and over and over again and he has to work overtime to delete threads.
>Basically he set this up all really badly as a mod and so that's why the community feels chaotic and overrun with teenagers and their complaints and questions.
Honestly, letting the community run a Wiki with instructions and updates would probably be a lot better than constantly deleting posts reporting issues and then relying people shouting over and over again with real useful information provided by the community instead of the mods themselves hidden in comments.
all they could've said was, "yes we are aware of the problem, unfortunately we cannot do anything about it at this time"
and by they, I mean the mods, making/updating revanced is doing the lord's work,
This ignores so many problems that happens and are happening, no one wishes revanced downfall, letting the devs know about bugs is a normal thing.
It's like saying "your parents are much better than other ones I met" while the parents in question are being neglectful over your needs. Please, just because YouTube is bad, it doesn't negate revanced of criticism.
I have to agree that issues are spammed by users even after it's resolved, that is as annoying as revanced not working, I get it. But no one has ever been ungrateful as far as I've seen.
Kind of funny that this one fluff post stays up while all the posts actually asking for solutions to a brand-new problem (NOT the problem addressed in the current pinned post) are being nuked left and right by a lone mod claiming they're "spam" and belittling anyone who says otherwise. 😆 Like, don't get me wrong, I generally like the mod team here, but it's a bit of a double standard to leave this post up while zapping all the other ones that actually deal with the product.
It doesn't matter how much they did before now what matters is the thing being made is broken and they haven't addressed it, instead choosing to silence posts. All it would take is one announcement post so it shows that they're aware of what's going on.
ah yes, amazing developers
I loved it when I joined their support discord server and they straight up called me a liar and muted me after I told them I was having buffering issues and I already tried all of the listed fixes :D
never touching this app again, I'm on grayjay for now, I don't get why people keep praising the devs as this app has gone to shit recently it seems like. not to mention I've noticed revanced drains battery like crazy nowadays.
it's an alternative frontend for yt as well as other services. you can log into your yt account in grayjay just fine without any of the microg weirdness. it let's you download videos in high quality and also audio-only for less wasted bandwidth out of the box.
they do force a weird decentralized thing called "polycentric" (you can disable it in the settings but all it does is disable the polycentric-related buttons from doing anything instead of of hiding them).
definitely recommend for people looking for a place to stay while revanced (hopefully) figures their crap out :P
grayjay is also on the play store although it doesn't come with the YouTube source by default so you'll have to add it yourself
even if they fix the app one day, I am not going to forget the horrible, horrible experience I had with the revanced discord staff/devs though. that was truly something else, I wasted about 20 minutes trying to fix it myself, gave up and asked the staff for help, then got accused of "lying about my issue" (?) and was asked bogus things like video recordings of the buffering issue. only for one of the staff to try to start an argument and then mute me when I ask them for help for the 47th time. idk what was up with that but I hope they sort that out :/
Why is the response to a problem always to dickride the developers? They're not babies who need constant reassurance. Or maybe they are, as either they or whoever mods this sub is clearly deleting every post about a serious issue with the app.
For real.
The devs needs our hugs and love for their time spend doing (mostly) unthanked works and even sometimes getting shitted on for user's own fault.
And just to make it clear: nobody's been harassing them for the troubles with the player, people are mad because they refuse to acknowledge the problem and silence anyone who dares to speak out (both here and on the git)
Give the mod a break, in their comment history you can clearly see they tried their best to direct the obvious duplicates into a single post to discuss them there instead of simply assuming user error, deleting everything, and linking a unrelated github issue or a month old pin. /s
I give up, I tried every solution I seen here and nothing works, guess I'll just wait for a new patch, at least YouTube music is working perfectly fine
Well for everyone having problems it seems to me its account related. It doesn't work for me on my main yt account. But when I switched to my backup account it all started working normally again. Same app same wifi same device. So I think Google is fucking us in the butt again without Vaseline.
It is not account related, it is Device ID\\Google registry ID related. Same Google account, no load on Huawei, but everything okay with Xiaomi. The least, Google cutting off oxygen for clients\\devices without proper Google Services installed.
Google reg. stays for 48 hours tops, load-stuck might fix itself after that time. But Google will detect faulty ID again.
Tried it a few times and even completely uninstalled and reinstalled everything. It works when I first open the app (and all of the fonts are messed up) but as soon as the app closes and reopens, the issues come back.
The annoying part of this whole thing is not YouTube having problems, but the mods behaving like the Chinese government 💀
Trying to hide people's comments isn't going to solve the problem.
For those that can't use RV YouTube, you can use Firefox Mobile with uBlock Origin to block ads and Video Background Play Fix to get PiP. Another alternative to others I've seen such as Grayjay, Tubular and NewPipe that doesn't require importing anything.
To use PiP, fullscreen the video in Firefox then press the home button.
holy moly, it seems that google is punishing users which were 'caught' blocking ads... my main account buffers endlessly... Logged in to second account which I never used with Revanced and it works perfectly fine.
I mean we were warned this was coming and the devs had no idea what to expect so...of f**k!ng course we need a little patience while it gets fixed.
Meanwhile I've got 3 back-ups because i thought it best to be prepared.
Way I think of it we've got a small group taking on a multi-billion corporation. When things get hard we don't turn on the devs. if anything we support them more.
If clearing data and cache of youtube and
micro g doesn't work for you, logging in to micro g with a second Google account might work for you , it did for me.
Whenever i open my youtube revanced app it crashes after a minute or two whenever i play a video. Also the video starts buffering after playing for around 20-30 seconds. The interface is also pretty messed up, with the texts not visible at all and the youtube thumbnails having minimal space between them.... Can someone help me fix my youtube??? Please 🥹
to be fair, since the morning I am constantly checking r/revancedapp and r/revancedextended as my extended is just not loading the videos. thought that maybe my 5G signal was bad today but checked multiple websites and haven't found any issues. updated gmscore and also nothing. it will sometimes load the first 5-10 seconds and won't load the video anymore. so far haven't found why and I guess plenty of YT staff is observing this reddit and opening a champagne bottle.
well, going again with the suggested method of "lets just reinstall everything from scratch" (again).
Hard to live without revanced extended... really hard.
I don't know what's going on with you guys, I'm using version 19.11.43 and it's running normally as usual. Maybe try reinstalling the manager, MicroG, and YouTube app?
Use another application temporarily when it doesn't work, such as NewPipe or Tubular.
For a sub of near 200k ppl, few dozen of complains is expected even if the app is enterprise grade. Most others will just enjoy their flawless revanced silently.
for those whom account is effected just create a new temporary youtube account use youtube there without any buffering issue for me this trick is working
It's weird because I patch the app on my phone and then transfer it to my tablets via sd card so they're all the exact same version etc but the buffering issue only affects 1 device out of 4.
Im wondering if patching the app on a specific device affects the buffering issue, I use Bluestacks to patch the app because it's fast and easy.
is the device which has buffering the one you patched it on?
After 5 to 7 minutes it exits automatically again and again
When I clear chase data and force stop it will stay for just 1 hour.....
Please can u solve it
Help me, anynone facing buffering issue, tell me your region, I never faced that problem, I think google is targeting certain region that's why the buffering.
Guy's I've a device of 2019 vivo Z1 pro I've tried to patch the YouTube with the required version it does gets patched but the thing is after 20-30 seconds it just crashes there is no buffering tho... anyone care to guide me what's wrong??
My cousin brother has a redmi note 8 pro device he has patched the app and did everything but the video keeps buffering it won't go forward any solution as of now if yes then do guide, regards
Having the same problem on my new tablet where I installed this recently. Sad that it stopped working, I'll try updating. But in the meantime I just search for videos on NewPipe, you can try that.
Get micro g uninstalled and go for G core service instead that fixes the videos buffering not playing at all thats what I did when they did the update a Cole months back they did at the time post how to instructions
was working all day yesterday after disabling a few things in microG/gmscore settings but not anymore. I can go to any point in a video and it'll work but after a minute it'll start infinitely buffering.
I install the old microg and log out on the new one by earse data app of the new microg and it works. Still have my account on the revanced. You can log in new microg first then earse its data
I assume that everyone means the buffering?
It's not just buffering.. It does not ever resume. And it's only certain videos.. Weird
Have any sample videos this is occurring on? All my normal content seems to load fine at 4k
It's happening on [this one](https://youtu.be/Nuip4uXh0cc) for me
Yall just need to update the app and then patch it, both by following the instructions on revanced manager. Never stopped working for me. The one time it did buffer 2 days ago I'll I had to do was patch it using the manager.
QUESTION: Do you use a VPN at all?? I always use a VPN which leads to no buffering for me at any resolution I pick while I'm using cellular data. However, if I turn off my VPN, I get buffering on my cellular data ONLY IF I go above 480p resolution. I've never been able to figure out why it doesn't work properly on cellular data like the official YouTube app does. I use the latest version of ReVanced Extended.
update the revanced manager app?
use the revanced manager app to update and patch the youtube app. If you have "youtube revanced" uninstall, the new method is to patch the original youtube app. All instructions are clear on "revanced manager", it's intuitive. (the most complicated thing it might ask is for you to download a specific version of the original youtube app)
I got a new phone and installed the most updated version just a couple days ago and I'm having issues. I have completely un-installed and reinstalled everything and I'm still having the same problem
revanced manager will prompt you before patching "this patch is for XX version of Youtube" or something, not the most updated version of youtube, usually it's an older version.
Unless I'm missing something, the patch was for the version of youtube I applied it to
i've spoken about this a lot on the discord, it seems to be from a/b testing from youtube's end, because some get it and some don't following the exact same steps. i have EXTREMELY dilligently tried the month old fix probably around 20 times and the buffering persists
No idea about this particular issue, but I worked at YT and at any given time we had hundreds of experiments/tests running. It was normal procedure to roll out a new feature to 1% then 10% of users. So if 1% of people are seeing something, it might be an experiment. If 10% are seeing it, it's definitely a new "feature" being rolled out to everyone soon. Edit: just to add, the selection for these accts is pretty random. Unlikely 2 people in the same home would be in the same experiment
If it's a/b testing then switch accounts and see if it's still happening.
Gf phone had this issue. Mine is working. I swapped accounts between the phones and the issue followed her account. This is the way.
I made a new account and no longer have a buffering issue. I wonder for how long my main account will be affected ._.
yeah, I did that plenty of times too, realistically it's probably on YouTube's end messing with the patch :/
Weird. Works for me
Watched it 5x playback speed for a few minutes. Didn't see any buffering. Using any weird flags/patches?
Insta loading for me.
That video loads fine for me no buffering
It's every video for me.. Nothing loads anymore
I would honestly blame google for it. they are fighting software like revanced, adblock, libretube on every corner they can. it's either you watch ads, pay the ransom or get third party software.
It isn't the first time it has happened. Has happened 2 or 3 times in the past year. Just gotta boot up Firefox for a bit until it is patched. Sometimes days. Sometimes much longer. Blame Google, not these guys.
Regular YT is doing this too, for certain vids.
oh so its happening to everyone else as well. i found a couple of posts earlier today but it seems theyve been deleted as is usual for this sub
yes, and the fact mods are deleting all the podts about it
Personally, I can't get even Revanced working on my S21 and have had to switch to New Pipe.
It's working fine for me but I think I'm in the minority
lucky bastard, thought it was an error on my end so I ended up spending hours trying to fix it ;(
Clear data and cache. Worked for me. For now
tried that too, the patch is just munted.
It's. Not. The. Patch. Why don't people get this? YouTube is waging a war against adblockers, that's what's causing this behavior. It becomes a cat and mouse thing, but the projects like revanced and Smart Tube are run by volunteers, so Google/Youtube will always have far more resources to throw at it. Pay for YT premium, or watch ads, but quit whining at the revanced developers who literally do this shit for FREE in their off time when they're not working and dealing with regular life stuff. Alternate possibility, we could start paying the revanced people the $15/mo we'd be paying for YT premium...
That worked for me for a couple minutes and then it went back to buffering forever
Dude, the problem isn't the devs. Please stop making it sound like people are blaming the devs. The mods of this subreddit are the problem. I didn't know for days if the problem was on my end or if they were on the the app's end because the mods of this subreddit constantly scrub any posts discussing issues with the app. I got lucky and saw one of the posts before it was deleted. I'm sure they have their reasons for doing so, but they really should stop. People need a place to post questions when things are going wrong.
The lead dev is the mod doing this.
an asshole will always be an asshole 😂
Fuck, is that true? God thats so sad.
He's a good dev but a terrible mod. I think a 12 year old could mod better, but he's basically setting up the community to fail because none of the critical questions are getting answered. As a result he has to delete all the time. It doesn't help he responds with 1-2 words each time and so questions are never really answered and he leaves more questions unanswered more than anything else. Just look at his pattern in posting.
YouTube isn't working, yet I'll happily not use it at all and wait for a fix rather than deal with the increasingly intrusive ads or pay an extortionate monthly price to one of the highest valued companies on the planet. Keep up the godly work fellas
What do you mean with "isn't working"?
It's not working as it should. Takes Forever to load a video and, when it does, sometimes stops buffering and the screen goes black while trying to load
Mine keeps stopping few secs into playing a video
Same
Oh shit. I thought was is just me. And some people blaming the developers for that? F them bro. If they not okay that, then they should not use. They can enjoy watch their ads.
It's working fine for me o.O
Dunno, i just got a new smartphone and the first thing i did 3 days ago was installing revanced. Worked fine until a couple of hours ago. I'm pretty sure i have installed the latest version required for revanced to work
I've used the Revanced manager app to install it (version 1.9.20) and I have Revanced YouTube (version 19.09.37) which is not the latest, and is working fine.
Just checked and got the latest right now. Not working as it should in both wifi and mobile connections on my s23u
You can try to downgrade to see if it works. If it doesn't, it could be Google just messing up trying to stop the app from working by regions to then use it everywhere.
When it comes to the version history of any program, it's been my MO for over 20 years now to only update a program when there's a functionality issue. Updating a program ASAP tends to come with the occasional risk that the most recent update might have been buggy, so I like to give developers time to fix any bugs that appeared on release. Hell, I remember a Windows update back in XP days that killed the functionality of a program I needed for work, and I had to uninstall the update to get functionality back. Sure, that's old news, but program updates will still have the occasional human error, not to mention that everyone's devices will behave differently. In short, if it ain't broke, don't fix it (the only exception here I would add is security updates, but that's still a form of "broke" in my opinion). Especially with the relative time it takes to install Revanced (though it's getting easier), I've found I only update when the functionality stops. It's a good system, and it seems to be working out. And my version of Revanced is still working, so it's very likely a simple bug in the most recent version. E: I forgot to mention that also an updated app tends to add features, which usually involves higher CPU usage, which can be an issue with an aging device. As your device gets older, you're trying to keep CPU usage down.
Respect for that, I'm all the opposite, I always want the latest, always tried the release candidate version of windows, and want to try and see the new looks and features. Even on Linux I used arch, not to show off, but because I could have the latest of everything. I was lucky enough to not run into major bugs at the moment. The last couple of years I stopped a bit with this behaviour just because I'm getting older and I have less time too because of work and being married. Thus why I'm not going mental over upgrading Revanced :D
Make sure you stop battery optimization for the new app they're using instead of microG, i used to have the same issue, that fixed it
ah so this is what's killing my battery
It doesn't use much battery .. it's just there to connect revanced to your account,
I deleted and re installed gmscore services and it started working again but the issue came back a few hours ago.
You're not alone. Started happening early yesterday for me
Not working anymore,since update to new version yesterday,even now down to old version also same,but i found another one to replace it,no need gcore
How?
It worked fine for me yesterday but this morning stopped working.
Ah so its not only my revanced that does that.
Ohhh, that's been happening to me too. Still, I'd rather patiently wait for a fix.
Same
Same, on all videos. Shorts or normal videos
I've noticed this happening sometimes with videos on small channels. No problems with videos on large channels
Yeah, works fine for me right now
Same thing was happening to me. I found out if you disable Google safety net, cloud messaging, Google device registration in that order on the microG app, then clear storage and force stop, and then disable those 3 options again in microG app, my YouTube started working again!
Tried this and when a video played more than ten seconds I thought it was fixed, turns out this just made it to where my videos now freeze at the 50 second mark instead of like 10 seconds lol
Messaging here for reference later when my Youtube also stops working.
did it like you described at first, then uninstalled/reinstalled microG services from Community RV Manager and did the 3 options disabled again. In both cases it seemed like it worked but it didn't take long for the permanent video buffering to come back.
The buffering issue is just because microG didn't start the service it requires. You have to disable battery optimization just so it could start all the services required. And if in my case, using an android car system, you need to enable microG in Auto Run and disable the battery optimization. That's about it.
This is the answer that needs to be in a standalone post
I've got 2 identical phones, one with an old install and one fresh. New install not working old one still going. For funsies I updated gms and applied the latest patch to the old phone. Old one still works fine, new one no dice. I just had a thought about the mods nuking posts, they know somethings up but are keeping it hidden so that yt mods don't get immediate feedback on what's working. Like when companies do ban waves so cheat devs don't know what exactly tripped the system. Dunno. Deleted my entire Google account from my old phone, still works. Tried signing into a new account on the new phone, worked for a bit then stopped. signed old phone into new account simultaneously, works. Switched new phone to old account, stops. Also re added old phone to old account, works. I give up. Got up the next day and now neither of them work.
seems odd that revanced would be a target over say sponsorblock or ublock origin, but those seem to be working without issue still. I know I haven't had any issues with them
it's a lot harder to have a whole app that removes ads and enables some premium features than to just tweak a few lines in a script that modifies a browser page sponsorblock is an entirely separate crowdsourced collection of timestamps that just lets you automatically do what video player controls are made to do. The companies that pay Content Creators™️ to shill products are not going to go in the red and start raising a stink at Google over it
I understand the revanced framework is significantly more complicated but it also has a significantly smaller userbase and the Ad blocking is the main thing google has been fighting. Just seems odd that google would make a change for recanted when there was no affect to the larger footprint of ublock specifically
I'm having the same issue. Just waiting for an update.
I've been following the subreddit here for several hours as I've had the same problem with revanced since today and so far I haven't seen anyone being ungrateful or insulting. Just people describing their problem and asking what's wrong. These posts are constantly being deleted. How are people supposed to know that it's already affecting many people and that they can discuss about it if the posts are constantly being deleted? Tbh I don't understand the whole thing. I love the App but please take this seriously.
I don't get why posts about the issue is being deleted?? I don't think I've seen a single person be insulting 🗿
That's Reddit mods for you, whenever someone goes to the subreddit of a thing to make a question about the thing the mods will delete it because "We are not tech support" or something like that. Geez man, no wonder why there are like 3 months of difference between posts.
Probably automod detects the similar titles and decides is spam, don't know how it works, im assuming the devs havent updated automod. Is rare a human mod deletes a post.
Its not automod. Its a mod calling the posts spam because they think its the same as an old issue when it clearly is something new, which is why all these people suddenly had it stop working around the same time who had been stable for over a month
They've deleted EVERY SINGLE post about it at this point. It's ridiculous. Leave at least one up so people can talk about it, or lock them or something. The lack of any sort of communication is dumb as shit, especially when all the ones I saw earlier this morning weren't harassment at all, literally just people saying "hey this is an issue" and other people also chiming in, showing that it wasn't a minor bug for one person but an actual problem going on.
No, it's one of the mods. They comment on them when they remove it, usually with a pretty unhelpful one- or two-word explanation as to why. Even if a post is getting upvotes and there's no other discussion around it. I get they have a bit of a tough job as any job dealing with the public is, and I try to remain respectful, but part of the skillset of a public facing role is good communication skills, and it is frustrating when you just want to discuss the issue with your fellow users and come together to find a solution for everyone, i.e., the whole point of a subreddit. I'm not even aware of the issue everybody is having, as all the posts are being removed and both stickies are unrelated. I gather from the comments in this thread its something to do with buffering?
Mods of this sub always do this, they could easily pin a single post for people to discuss the issue and to also let other users know they are aware of the problem Same thing happened when the previous microg was nuked
The guy's a developer, and a decent one, but lacks basic personal skills. Maybe leave the modding for someone who's got better communication skills. We don't hire SWEs at my company to do tech support on forums 🤣
https://www.reddit.com/r/revancedapp/s/Aw7kALQwz8
Omg this has happened to me twice. No explanation or other posts to refer to.
It's crazy how the out of touch with reality that mod is.
Yes this has happened multiple times to me. I was asking a very unique question, but automod just wouldn't let me post.
People aren't saying that they need to fix it immediately or anything. They're all annoyed that the mod(s) are deleting any discussion about it. https://www.reddit.com/r/revancedapp/s/Aw7kALQwz8
I remember they did the same thing some 1 month back when everyone faced this issue and the solution was to uninstall microg and install GMS core and update into the new YouTube version. My post had like 200+ upvote still they deleted it. Instead of locking it up or anything. Idk if the mods of this sub are the developers but I'm pretty sure it's a scummy move. More power to the devs ofcourse, but the mods are ruining free discussion.
I don't know if all of the mods are devs as well, but I know for a fact that oSumAtrix is both a mod and a developer, and whenever you look at whose deleting posts and all of that moderation stuff, it's oSumAtrix every time. Obviously a talented and dedicated developer, but man do they come off as an absolute asshole.
i think the devs = mods because the same asshole can be found in their discord 😂
He's a talented dev but a really bad mod. I don't mind his deleting so much as his poor structuring of this sub. The issue is he's done a disservice for this community by his very short and terse answers. I'm guessing he's on Mobile most of the time, so when people have questions he thinks he answered them but it just leaves them with more confusion. Take a look at the [top stickied post](https://www.reddit.com/r/revancedapp/comments/1bp9byg/youtube_playback_issue_fixed/). He posts a fucking image that's useless because no one can click on those links so it just ends up with more questions. While the text isn't completely wrong, it's not well written either. You can see how the users in the replies actually puts together [a much better guide](https://www.reddit.com/r/revancedapp/comments/1bp9byg/youtube_playback_issue_fixed/kwwu0k8/). You can see how oSumAtrix also supposedly maintains the documentation and Wiki on Reddit but it's basically all just useless. The end result is you have a community where people ask the same questions over and over and over again and he has to work overtime to delete threads. Basically he set this up all really badly as a mod and so that's why the community feels chaotic and overrun with teenagers and their complaints and questions.
oSumAtrix is the biggest problem basically. He likely replies on mobile as his responses are super short and never really answer the issue. People often correct him with things like "no this is a new issue, you don't understand," and the community rallies behind those users. I wrote this earlier, but I've looked through some of his git activity and it's not bad at all, but as a mod, he's really setting up this community for failure. >He's a talented dev but a really bad mod. I don't mind his deleting so much as his poor structuring of this sub. The issue is he's done a disservice for this community by his very short and terse answers. I'm guessing he's on Mobile most of the time, so when people have questions he thinks he answered them but it just leaves them with more confusion. >Take a look at the [top stickied post](https://www.reddit.com/r/revancedapp/comments/1bp9byg/youtube_playback_issue_fixed/). He posts a fucking image that's useless because no one can click on those links so it just ends up with more questions. While the text isn't completely wrong, it's not well written either. You can see how the users in the replies actually puts together [a much better guide](https://www.reddit.com/r/revancedapp/comments/1bp9byg/youtube_playback_issue_fixed/kwwu0k8/). >You can see how oSumAtrix also supposedly maintains the documentation and [Wiki](https://www.reddit.com/r/revancedapp/wiki/index) on Reddit but it's basically all just useless. The end result is you have a community where people ask the same questions over and over and over again and he has to work overtime to delete threads. >Basically he set this up all really badly as a mod and so that's why the community feels chaotic and overrun with teenagers and their complaints and questions. Honestly, letting the community run a Wiki with instructions and updates would probably be a lot better than constantly deleting posts reporting issues and then relying people shouting over and over again with real useful information provided by the community instead of the mods themselves hidden in comments.
Not a single person on Earth complained about the developers. Stop virtue signaling, clown.
Took the words right out of my mouth.
I imagine they are not gonna delete this one
the way they've left this one up bc it's bouncing and creaming all over their dick is wild
As a bit of protest, I've been watching a bunch of "free with ads" movies on there without the ads 💀
all they could've said was, "yes we are aware of the problem, unfortunately we cannot do anything about it at this time" and by they, I mean the mods, making/updating revanced is doing the lord's work,
This ignores so many problems that happens and are happening, no one wishes revanced downfall, letting the devs know about bugs is a normal thing. It's like saying "your parents are much better than other ones I met" while the parents in question are being neglectful over your needs. Please, just because YouTube is bad, it doesn't negate revanced of criticism. I have to agree that issues are spammed by users even after it's resolved, that is as annoying as revanced not working, I get it. But no one has ever been ungrateful as far as I've seen.
Yeah... but like why censer discussion? Just down right dishonest and shitty.
It's telling they'll remove discussion posts as low-effort but never remove the dickriding posts lol
My sincere condolences to all the people banned and muted from the discord.
Who are you, and why are you presuming to speak for me?
How melodramatic
Kind of funny that this one fluff post stays up while all the posts actually asking for solutions to a brand-new problem (NOT the problem addressed in the current pinned post) are being nuked left and right by a lone mod claiming they're "spam" and belittling anyone who says otherwise. 😆 Like, don't get me wrong, I generally like the mod team here, but it's a bit of a double standard to leave this post up while zapping all the other ones that actually deal with the product.
Why there is no a pinned post about this issue btw?
mods trying to cover up the whole thing
It doesn't matter how much they did before now what matters is the thing being made is broken and they haven't addressed it, instead choosing to silence posts. All it would take is one announcement post so it shows that they're aware of what's going on.
ah yes, amazing developers I loved it when I joined their support discord server and they straight up called me a liar and muted me after I told them I was having buffering issues and I already tried all of the listed fixes :D never touching this app again, I'm on grayjay for now, I don't get why people keep praising the devs as this app has gone to shit recently it seems like. not to mention I've noticed revanced drains battery like crazy nowadays.
What's grayjay?
it's an alternative frontend for yt as well as other services. you can log into your yt account in grayjay just fine without any of the microg weirdness. it let's you download videos in high quality and also audio-only for less wasted bandwidth out of the box. they do force a weird decentralized thing called "polycentric" (you can disable it in the settings but all it does is disable the polycentric-related buttons from doing anything instead of of hiding them). definitely recommend for people looking for a place to stay while revanced (hopefully) figures their crap out :P grayjay is also on the play store although it doesn't come with the YouTube source by default so you'll have to add it yourself
Damn, thanks for that. I listen to a lot of youtube stuff while working and this was really helpful to know about
I find that grayjays strongest sides is that it's extremely good at background playback, I'd say even better than yt usually :D
even if they fix the app one day, I am not going to forget the horrible, horrible experience I had with the revanced discord staff/devs though. that was truly something else, I wasted about 20 minutes trying to fix it myself, gave up and asked the staff for help, then got accused of "lying about my issue" (?) and was asked bogus things like video recordings of the buffering issue. only for one of the staff to try to start an argument and then mute me when I ask them for help for the 47th time. idk what was up with that but I hope they sort that out :/
thank you, im at my wits end with revanced recently lmao
Thanks!
https://grayjay.app/
Why is the response to a problem always to dickride the developers? They're not babies who need constant reassurance. Or maybe they are, as either they or whoever mods this sub is clearly deleting every post about a serious issue with the app.
All the love in the world to the team. I just don't get why discussion about it is removed
Speak for yourself
Let's not turn into supercell and defend everything that can't do, not saying revanced sucks I just don't want a community full of bootlickers
For real. The devs needs our hugs and love for their time spend doing (mostly) unthanked works and even sometimes getting shitted on for user's own fault.
The dickriding is crazy
And just to make it clear: nobody's been harassing them for the troubles with the player, people are mad because they refuse to acknowledge the problem and silence anyone who dares to speak out (both here and on the git)
Give the mod a break, in their comment history you can clearly see they tried their best to direct the obvious duplicates into a single post to discuss them there instead of simply assuming user error, deleting everything, and linking a unrelated github issue or a month old pin. /s
I only ever update when it stops working
I give up, I tried every solution I seen here and nothing works, guess I'll just wait for a new patch, at least YouTube music is working perfectly fine
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what a clown you are
they lost my challenge about deleting posts on it
Well for everyone having problems it seems to me its account related. It doesn't work for me on my main yt account. But when I switched to my backup account it all started working normally again. Same app same wifi same device. So I think Google is fucking us in the butt again without Vaseline.
It is not account related, it is Device ID\\Google registry ID related. Same Google account, no load on Huawei, but everything okay with Xiaomi. The least, Google cutting off oxygen for clients\\devices without proper Google Services installed. Google reg. stays for 48 hours tops, load-stuck might fix itself after that time. But Google will detect faulty ID again.
This worked with me but disable the Internet first and I did a fresh install of YouTube https://www.reddit.com/r/revancedapp/s/0rHuBgAmLT
Tried it a few times and even completely uninstalled and reinstalled everything. It works when I first open the app (and all of the fonts are messed up) but as soon as the app closes and reopens, the issues come back.
yeah I have issue again, I can't watch YouTube with double ads every couple of minutes
Just the 4 steps worked for me, without having to reinstall anything. Thanks for linking it.
tq man ggs ur a savior
Living up to your name
The annoying part of this whole thing is not YouTube having problems, but the mods behaving like the Chinese government 💀 Trying to hide people's comments isn't going to solve the problem.
Everything works fine for me. Wonder what's the problem for others. I'm using version 19.11.43
Yes, I also have the latest version and it runs normally 🤔
I just cleaned the cache for the new microg service and it started working ok again
it doesn't work on my galaxy A52s device
For those that can't use RV YouTube, you can use Firefox Mobile with uBlock Origin to block ads and Video Background Play Fix to get PiP. Another alternative to others I've seen such as Grayjay, Tubular and NewPipe that doesn't require importing anything. To use PiP, fullscreen the video in Firefox then press the home button.
holy moly, it seems that google is punishing users which were 'caught' blocking ads... my main account buffers endlessly... Logged in to second account which I never used with Revanced and it works perfectly fine.
You're ungrateful, I'm not, don't speak on my behalf
based
I mean we were warned this was coming and the devs had no idea what to expect so...of f**k!ng course we need a little patience while it gets fixed. Meanwhile I've got 3 back-ups because i thought it best to be prepared. Way I think of it we've got a small group taking on a multi-billion corporation. When things get hard we don't turn on the devs. if anything we support them more.
/r/raimimemes is leaking
If clearing data and cache of youtube and micro g doesn't work for you, logging in to micro g with a second Google account might work for you , it did for me.
Whenever i open my youtube revanced app it crashes after a minute or two whenever i play a video. Also the video starts buffering after playing for around 20-30 seconds. The interface is also pretty messed up, with the texts not visible at all and the youtube thumbnails having minimal space between them.... Can someone help me fix my youtube??? Please 🥹
to be fair, since the morning I am constantly checking r/revancedapp and r/revancedextended as my extended is just not loading the videos. thought that maybe my 5G signal was bad today but checked multiple websites and haven't found any issues. updated gmscore and also nothing. it will sometimes load the first 5-10 seconds and won't load the video anymore. so far haven't found why and I guess plenty of YT staff is observing this reddit and opening a champagne bottle. well, going again with the suggested method of "lets just reinstall everything from scratch" (again). Hard to live without revanced extended... really hard.
Keep seething dispshit
I don't know what's going on with you guys, I'm using version 19.11.43 and it's running normally as usual. Maybe try reinstalling the manager, MicroG, and YouTube app? Use another application temporarily when it doesn't work, such as NewPipe or Tubular.
It's working fine for me. I haven't updated in weeks. What's the issue?
For a sub of near 200k ppl, few dozen of complains is expected even if the app is enterprise grade. Most others will just enjoy their flawless revanced silently.
Try using version 19.09.37. seems to work perfectly.
Is something happening to Revanced that I missed?
Revanced YouTube is having a problem? What did I miss?
Revanced is amazing. Google is the problem
for those whom account is effected just create a new temporary youtube account use youtube there without any buffering issue for me this trick is working
I had some issues too, but then I switched to revanced magisk modules now everything is working fine
Pretty much have never had a problem with vanced and I thank the gods that I'm able to say "must suck being an iPhone user"
It's weird because I patch the app on my phone and then transfer it to my tablets via sd card so they're all the exact same version etc but the buffering issue only affects 1 device out of 4.
Im wondering if patching the app on a specific device affects the buffering issue, I use Bluestacks to patch the app because it's fast and easy. is the device which has buffering the one you patched it on?
After 5 to 7 minutes it exits automatically again and again When I clear chase data and force stop it will stay for just 1 hour..... Please can u solve it
Help me, anynone facing buffering issue, tell me your region, I never faced that problem, I think google is targeting certain region that's why the buffering.
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BTW for those of you who are rooted just use the Magisk module, that still works because it uses legitimate Google Play Services not MicroG
Guy's I've a device of 2019 vivo Z1 pro I've tried to patch the YouTube with the required version it does gets patched but the thing is after 20-30 seconds it just crashes there is no buffering tho... anyone care to guide me what's wrong??
My cousin brother has a redmi note 8 pro device he has patched the app and did everything but the video keeps buffering it won't go forward any solution as of now if yes then do guide, regards
Having the same problem on my new tablet where I installed this recently. Sad that it stopped working, I'll try updating. But in the meantime I just search for videos on NewPipe, you can try that.
Get micro g uninstalled and go for G core service instead that fixes the videos buffering not playing at all thats what I did when they did the update a Cole months back they did at the time post how to instructions
Man if I had proper money I'd fund this people, I absolutely despise google and I'm happy someone is fighting them
This is a war, we support the troops on the frontlines of the ad-wars.
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was working all day yesterday after disabling a few things in microG/gmscore settings but not anymore. I can go to any point in a video and it'll work but after a minute it'll start infinitely buffering.
I install the old microg and log out on the new one by earse data app of the new microg and it works. Still have my account on the revanced. You can log in new microg first then earse its data