I consider NewPipe one of the top ten mandatory Android apps:
<https://archive.newpipe.net/fdroid/repo/NewPipe_v0.27.4.apk>
<https://f-droid.org/repo/org.schabi.newpipe_1001.apk>

Lately, even with the latest release (0.27.4) I've been getting consistent recoverable errors on Wi-Fi of "Sorry, something went wrong.", "Retry"?

Happened on someone else's Wi-Fi also so I don't think it's my LAN network. Luckily, a few presses of the "Retry" button seems to eventually connect.

Usually, anomalies happen when/if Google changes their API on NewPipe.
So I'm just wondering if this is just me - or if everyone is getting it.

Given NewPipe is one of the ten mandatory Android apps, I wonder aloud...
Q: Has anyone else seen this particular NewPipe Retry anomaly recently?

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On 20.01.25 20:27, Marion wrote:

I consider NewPipe one of the top ten mandatory Android apps:
<https://archive.newpipe.net/fdroid/repo/NewPipe_v0.27.4.apk>
<https://f-droid.org/repo/org.schabi.newpipe_1001.apk>

Lately, even with the latest release (0.27.4) I've been getting consistent recoverable errors on Wi-Fi of "Sorry, something went wrong.", "Retry"?

Happened on someone else's Wi-Fi also so I don't think it's my LAN network. Luckily, a few presses of the "Retry" button seems to eventually connect.

Usually, anomalies happen when/if Google changes their API on NewPipe.
So I'm just wondering if this is just me - or if everyone is getting it.

Given NewPipe is one of the ten mandatory Android apps, I wonder aloud...
Q: Has anyone else seen this particular NewPipe Retry anomaly recently?

No.

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Marion <marion@facts.com> ha scritto:

...
Lately, even with the latest release (0.27.4) I've been getting consistent recoverable errors on Wi-Fi of "Sorry, something went wrong.", "Retry"?

So do I.

Happened on someone else's Wi-Fi also so I don't think it's my LAN network.

Here it happens on my 5G mobile data connection.

So I'm just wondering if this is just me - or if everyone is getting it.

You are not alone.

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On Tue, 21 Jan 2025 22:00:19 +0100 (GMT+01:00), Qihe wrote :

So I'm just wondering if this is just me - or if everyone is getting it.

You are not alone.

Thanks for the confirmation, where it happens for me for this subscription, which requires adult accounts - which NewPipe anonymized long ago.
<https://www.youtube.com/@DenysDavydov>

This is a similar issue reported three days ago, which concurs with us:
*High chance of giving an error when entering a video*
*where you have to click retry for an amount of times #11939*
<https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipe/issues/11939>
Opened 3 days ago

From that report, which was declared a duplicate, we find the main issue:
*[YouTube] IOS player response is not valid error*
*when loading some videos #11934*
<https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipe/issues/11934>
Opened 5 days ago

Which happens on the latest NewPipe release (Nov 30, 2024):
<https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipe/releases/tag/v0.27.4>

For me, for a few days, NewPipe has required a few retries, but up until
today I could finally get NewPipe to play the YouTube videos.

Now, today, I can't get the videos to play, although clearing the cache &
data allowed a single video to play but even that stopped working today.

I noticed 3 hours ago there was a debug version released by Stypox:
https://github.com/user-attachments/files/18496526/app-debug.zip
Name: app-debug.zip
Size: 16227774 bytes (15 MiB)
SHA256: 7599552F6BA551FE0BE050EA64808229FB9788356929D1CD702F8824DD562C81

That app-debug.zip unzips to a single APK file:
Name: app-debug.apk
Size: 20754104 bytes (19 MiB)
SHA256: 9694B02E5C6B042076B0C8D434995162ABA0B53EDED089EF0FCC5F3EE6388FD7

That NewPipe debug version 0.27.2 worked just now in my first test:
<https://i.postimg.cc/vT2wZhxf/20250122-newpipe-debug.jpg>

Let me know if that new debug version works for you also please,
as together we are far more knowledgeable than any one of us is all alone.

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I noticed 3 hours ago there was a debug version released by Stypox: https://github.com/user-attachments/files/18496526/app-debug.zip
Name: app-debug.zip
Size: 16227774 bytes (15 MiB)
SHA256: 7599552F6BA551FE0BE050EA64808229FB9788356929D1CD702F8824DD562C81

That app-debug.zip unzips to a single APK file:
Name: app-debug.apk
Size: 20754104 bytes (19 MiB)
SHA256: 9694B02E5C6B042076B0C8D434995162ABA0B53EDED089EF0FCC5F3EE6388FD7

That NewPipe debug version 0.27.2 worked just now in my first test: <https://i.postimg.cc/vT2wZhxf/20250122-newpipe-debug.jpg>

litextex posted the debug version under this comment: https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipe/issues/11934#issuecomment-2605756655

Nothing flagged as malicious: https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/9694b02e5c6b042076b0c8d434995162aba0b53eded089ef0fcc5f3ee6388fd7

But I'm not comfortable installing a debug version - will wait for a
release.

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On Wed, 22 Jan 2025 17:14:41 +0800, Edward.C wrote :

That NewPipe debug version 0.27.2 worked just now in my first test:
<https://i.postimg.cc/vT2wZhxf/20250122-newpipe-debug.jpg>

litextex posted the debug version under this comment: https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipe/issues/11934#issuecomment-2605756655

Nothing flagged as malicious: https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/9694b02e5c6b042076b0c8d434995162aba0b53eded089ef0fcc5f3ee6388fd7

But I'm not comfortable installing a debug version - will wait for a
release.

To always strive to kindheartedly add additional value in every post...

Thanks for the data as together we can help each other much better than any
one of us, all alone, can figure out what works versus what doesn't work.

Whenever this happens again, it's worthwhile to test the similar YouTube replacements, which are, to my knowledge, at least some of the following:
FreeTube
<https://github.com/MarmadileManteater/FreeTubeAndroid>
<https://freetubeapp.io>

PipePipe
<https://github.com/InfinityLoop1308/PipePipe>
<https://f-droid.org/en/packages/InfinityLoop1309.NewPipeEnhanced/>

SkyTube
<https://github.com/SkyTubeTeam/SkyTube/releases>
<https://f-droid.org/en/packages/free.rm.skytube.oss/>

YouTube Vanced/Revanced
<https://revanced.net>

Invidious/Clipious
<https://invidious.io>
<https://github.com/iv-org/invidious/releases>
<https://sourceforge.net/projects/invidious.mirror/>

<https://github.com/lamarios/clipious>
<https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.github.lamarios.clipious/>


For Android TV, which I know little about, there seems to be these???
SmartTube
<https://smarttubeapp.github.io>
<https://github.com/yuliskov/SmartTube>
<https://smarttube.app>

SmartTubeNext???
<https://smarttubenext.com> ???
<https://smarttubenext.org> ???

See also other options such as GrayJay & PeerTube, which I don't know much about, as they're not strictly a one-to-one YouTube APK replacement:
GrayJay
<https://grayjay.app>
<https://github.com/futo-org/Grayjay.Desktop>

PeerTube
<https://joinpeertube.org>
<https://peertube.tv>

But for downloading YouTube videos, these use yt-dlp clipgrab code:
Seal
<https://github.com/JunkFood02/Seal>
<https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.junkfood.seal/>

I'm striving to add additional value so please help me & everyone here!
Any other Android privacy-aware YouTube replacements that folks know of?

Back to the debug version, there seems to be an official fix for you,
which I found in that link you kindly provided to the litextex post on the 11934 bug report which was opened 5 days ago (when I started seeing random recoverable errors - but then about yesterday my errors were no longer recoverable).

From reading that report, others reported similar randomness in the errors.

There is internal code, which (unfortunately) is termed the IOS client (although it has nothing that I know of to do with Apple's similarly named
OS) which seems to be faulting recently, which is causing the problems.

Apparently 7 hours ago they released v0.27.5 with the fix to this issue:
<https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipe/releases/tag/v0.27.5>
<https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipe/releases/download/v0.27.5/NewPipe_v0.27.5.apk>
Name: NewPipe_v0.27.5.apk
Size: 11833333 bytes (11 MiB)
SHA256: BE4DE6C74E197396013E28647F0C52ED6D996945B6C51595B34476CCC6AB7C07

EDITORIAL on PRIVACY:

Most people don't know anything about Android and yet most of them errantly complain to the tune of "there is no privacy on Android". There is privacy
on Android (paradoxically it's actually iOS that has no hope of privacy).

It's my humble opinion that those who complain there is no privacy on
Android, and who deprecate those of us who do have privacy, are simply
whining that the real problem is that they are afraid to have privacy.

These two steps, for example, on unrooted Android, provide some privacy:
1. Install any one of the many privacy-aware FOSS YouTube clients
(for example: <https://newpipe.net>)
2. Delete the Google YouTube client the instant you get your phone
C:\> adb shell pm uninstall -k --user 0 com.google.android.youtube
(keeps youtube's data/cache)
C:\> adb shell pm uninstall --user 0 com.google.android.youtube
(deletes youtube's data/cache)
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Apparently 7 hours ago they released v0.27.5 with the fix to this issue: <https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipe/releases/tag/v0.27.5> <https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipe/releases/download/v0.27.5/ NewPipe_v0.27.5.apk>
Name: NewPipe_v0.27.5.apk
Size: 11833333 bytes (11 MiB)
SHA256: BE4DE6C74E197396013E28647F0C52ED6D996945B6C51595B34476CCC6AB7C07

Thanks. Installed and tested, all good now.

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On Thu, 23 Jan 2025 16:46:48 +0800, Edward.C wrote :

Apparently 7 hours ago they released v0.27.5 with the fix to this issue:
<https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipe/releases/tag/v0.27.5>
<https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipe/releases/download/v0.27.5/
NewPipe_v0.27.5.apk>
Name: NewPipe_v0.27.5.apk
Size: 11833333 bytes (11 MiB)
SHA256: BE4DE6C74E197396013E28647F0C52ED6D996945B6C51595B34476CCC6AB7C07

Thanks. Installed and tested, all good now.

Thanks for testing it for the team. I was using the debug version, but I installed the 0.27.5 fix also, & both are working for me too, side by side.
<https://i.postimg.cc/9QrVmJv7/newpipe-debug-solved.jpg>

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