Question: I tried about a month ago to get this going and it seemed like it wouldn't work for YouTube unless my phone was rooted. Am I missing something?

[–] Alby003@lemmings.world 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Microg services

[–] db2@sopuli.xyz 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

*vanced microg services, fdroid has it

[–] walden@sub.wetshaving.social 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

I have F-Droid, but don't see vanced microg. https://search.f-droid.org/?q=microg

Edit: I added the repository and it says the microg stuff is already installed: https://microg.org/download.html
Edit2: as @scottmeme@sh.itjust.works said here, I had to download the YouTube apk.
Edit3: I can patch the downloaded apk, but still working on installing it.
Edit4: Getting the error "App not installed as package conflicts with an existing package."
Edit5: I think I'm going to have to get ADB going on my computer in order to uninstall the original YouTube from my phone.

[–] db2@sopuli.xyz 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

You have to enable the patch to give revanced a different name

[–] walden@sub.wetshaving.social 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

So far I've been able to patch a downloaded .apk, but I can't install the patched .apk. Are you saying I should be renaming something?

[–] db2@sopuli.xyz 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

It's in the manager, "custom branding" i think it is. It's one of the patches.

Alternately if you can uninstall actual YouTube that solves it too.

[–] walden@sub.wetshaving.social 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Ok, thanks for the additional guidance. I don't see anything like that, so I remain stuck haha.

[–] db2@sopuli.xyz 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I promise you it's there.

[–] walden@sub.wetshaving.social 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Aha. I figured out I was trying to patch a too-new version. The option you're taking about is default, but there's another MicroG option that wasn't automatically selected. Thanks for the help, I wouldn't have known where to look otherwise.

[–] Ascend-910@kbin.social 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

have you turned on micro-g while building?

[–] walden@sub.wetshaving.social 1 points 11 months ago

Yes, I've figured it out now. I explain here where I went wrong.

[–] olicvb@lemmy.ca 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

you probably get more features with root, but i've been running it rootless since vanced

[–] walden@sub.wetshaving.social 2 points 11 months ago

Yeah Vanced worked for me rootless. I'll try again and see what happens.

[–] scottmeme@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 months ago

I had to download the APK from apkmirror, and build it from local storage. Worked perfectly fine after that.

[–] wolfshadowheart@kbin.social 1 points 11 months ago

I was tired of using MicroG services so I switched to LibreTube