worked for me right out of the box. It's not the greatest quality in the world, but is it ever?

i'm on vodafone UK do i need wap.voicestream or the APN settings for vodafone

See my reply #37 above.

Had to set browser to Tmobile to get it to work.
APN enabled w/ wap.voicestream.com
OS is .168. Javascript enabled.

Mine, out of the box, with the .199 OS doesn't play any videos. What did you do specifically? How can I change the APN?

just tried it now and it doesnt work

not working at all for me keep getting error message. 4.6.1.114 APN settings enabled wap.voicestream.com support javascript enabled

thank you OXENEERS ive been searching for a while to find out how to make the videos work but what is being changed by setting the broser options to tmobile rather then internet browser??? sorry if thats a common sense question

not working here either no matter what i try, UMA or Edge i get nada. Is it maybe an issue with BES users only? I have BES does anyone with BES have it working?

"Wireless network connection has been disconnected. Please try again." is the message I get every time I try under .206. I upgraded directly from T-Mo's .114 to .206. I've tried changing the wap from epc.tmobile.com to wap.voicestream.com, I've made sure javascript in the browser is turned on everywhere. No luck! I also noticed a checkbox in the browser that says: "Switch to WAP for streaming media"

Just tried again this afternoon, with a wifi/UMA connection. I started by firing up the T-Mobile (WAP) browser, and going to m.youtube.com, and I watched 4 different videos -- all worked perfectly. I'm running .206 on my 8900 since the day it became available.

@vinmontRD: You said you used the T-Mo (WAP) Browser? What about the regular Internet Browser? I was also successful getting the WAP Browser to play YouTube, but have you had the same success with the Internet Browser, and if so what did you do? I guess editing my YouTube bookmark to use only the WAP browser is a good work around for now.

:( I'm not sure *what's* going on right now. At home now, so I'm connected via WiFi/UMA again. I can browse m.youtube.com via both browsers (T-Mobile WAP and regular web browser), but now when I select a video to play, the media player is simply hanging with a "Loading..." message in the upper right. Same results in both browsers, and on attempting several different videos.

Don't have time now, but I suspect I should try rebooting the phone and possibly the router as well. Strange after everything worked so well just a couple of nights ago!

Will report back once/if I figure this out.

- Jon

exact same error here are you on BES? i am if your not we can eliminate a setting there as the cause.

@sleeper55 and vinmontRD: I am on BIS. I was able to get my YouTube videos to play over UMA by editing my YouTube bookmark to be associated with the WAP browser. I didn't have this problem at home, but at work with their routers I did have that problem. Now I don't.

Just upgraded to .206 from .114 so many settings were reset. I my APN is back to epc.tmobile.com and youtube is working fine.

Should I leave it the way it is (if it isn't broke don't fix it), or is wap.voicestream.com a wiser APN?

I'm on Vodafone, I'm running .206.

I tried entering these settings

But they don't improve it at all. It just keeps breaking up every few seconds, the video blacks out or goes blocky so you can barely see anything.

Anyone on Vodafone got Youtube working on the Curve properly?

EDIT - Actually, it works alright through Wifi. But GPRS is crap.

Does anyone have it running smoothly through GPRS? Or do you need 3G to get YouTube playing smoothly through a mobile network?

Jon,

Any news yet, as I have been checking this thread daily. I can watch You Tube on the EDGE network on my 8900, but no go on WIFI, TMO is no help as they say they cant fully support it on WIFI, I hate the TMO phone drones. They finally transfered me to RIM, and they have had some calls on it and are looking into the issue

@toast:

Still no joy. I really don't know what's going on. Only difference here from 4/25 when it worked for me with .206 is the following:

I had Verizon come in and install FIOS in place of my old Comcast connection (triple play).

Prior to 4/25: I had Comcast for Internet and TV. Home phone is T-Mobile@Home (UMA), and my mobile is, of course, an 8900. Router at the time was a Linksys WRTU54G-TM directly hooked to Comcast.

Since 4/25: Verizon installed FIOS, which seems very well behaved after I had comcast for so long. Verizon ActionTec router faces out to Verizon fiber. All my PC's (home LAN) hooked to it. Also have WRTU54G-TM (Linksys) downline from the ActionTec, using it to support T-Mobile@Home home phone system.

Also: both ActionTec and Linksys have WiFi going, and I've made sure the WiFi channels they're using are pretty far apart (as in 1 and 11).

WiFi works beautifully on either WLAN. UMA calls from my 8900 work when it's connected to either WLAN. I can use the 8900 to browse the web, use Viigo, BerryWeather, etc -- all works fine. Except YouTube.

It loads the web page, opens the media player, and sticks on "Loading...". This happens whether I'm connected via UMA to either the ActionTec or the Linksys. (used to work perfectly via the Linksys alone). Even tried connecting to the ActionTec (bypassing Linksys) and adding the 8900 to the DMZ on the ActionTec. Still no joy.

Also tried changing APN back and forth between new "epc" one and old voicestream APN. No difference in results.

Battery pull -- no difference.

ideas???

Wirelessly posted (8900)

Update:

At work now, connected via UMA/WiFi again. But YouTube works just fine from here.

Apparently there's something in my Verizon router config at home that is blocking my use of youtube there.

- Jon

Revelation! I probably should have caught on sooner, when others noted that they had to use the "T-Mobile" (WAP) browser instead of the "Internet Browser".... Turns out the real fix is a bit more subtle than that.

I had this working once, and then for some reason, it seemed to stop working. I would get the media player open and see "Loading..." and the video would never start. I even made sure that I was trying via the "T-Mobile browser", and that I was surfing to "m.youtube.com". Still no joy...

Then I got curious and edited my bookmarks from within the "T-Mobile browser". Specifically, I looked at my "youtube-mobile" bookmark, and found that the bookmark definition itself called for use of the "Internet browser", even though I started the "T-Mobile browser" in the first place. Seems that individual bookmarks can "request" the services of one version of the browser or the other, regardless of the browser you were in when selecting the bookmark.

It also appears that both versions of the browser share the same set of bookmark definitions.

So -- I changed the browser setting on my "m.youtube.com" bookmark to specify the "T-Mobile" (WAP) browser, and lo and behold, it works beautifully once again, regardless of the browser I'm in when I select the bookmark (since the bookmark itself forces use of the T-Mobile/WAP browser).

Subtle, but it seems to have fixed my issue with mobile youtube on my 8900 (and, btw, I'm running 4.6.1.231 at the moment).

Jon,

AWESOME news, I am gonna follow your steps tonight...Sounds like it should work for me

I'll probably be online most of the night and into the morning --- I have a proposal to finish, print, bind, etc and submit to a client by tomorrow afternoon, so I don't expect much sleep tonight. I'll be curious to hear how you make out with this.

Good luck!

I just got my Blackberry 8900 running os version 4.6.1.114 and changed apn to wap.voicestream.com with java enable, still when attempting to play youtube video on WIFI and result in same error, error attempting to play media etc. helppppppppppppppppppppppp =[

Took me a while to get it to work but I had to change my browser settings to enable java and allow java popups. It switches over to WAP browser to play it but it finally plays. I also downloaded the Bolt browser.

quick question i dont have a AT&T data plan on my Curve 8900 but want to use the WIFI without worrying about going on the internet can i delete these settings and my bb 8900 wont go on their internet?

but can it viewed without connecting to wap and paying $$$ for it?

I can only play YouTube videos over EDGE, not wi-fi, and the connection is so slow, it's constantly buffering. When I'm connected to wi-fi, I get an error message that the network connection has timed out. I've tried refreshing and enabling JavaScript to no avail.

I'm on AT&T, does anyone know the correct apn setting to resolve this? Very frustrating not being able to use the wi-fi functionality.

Hello guys.

I'm in TMN PORTUGAL, and when i try to play youtube i get "Cannot find web address. Verify that this web address is valid" on any video i try to play. Any help with this? :S

there are many apps around that would do the work..
ie. Minitube, Youtube app, or go to blueapple.mobi Vuclip web video search (search in here is pretty bad, but does the job..

it does but quality sucks bigtime

Hello I am currently having troubles watching videos on youtube on d curve 8900. I am an orange customer so I dnt think I could switch to d t.mob one. Wherever I want to watch a video, it would say'error loading' plz plz can someone help. It would be much appreciated if u could tell me step by step. Thank u very much and God bless xxx
Hope to hear from u lot soon xxxxxxx

Am orange and I need help on hw to watch youtube on my curve 8900

@anita -

What worked for me was to make sure that I was using the WAP connection to reach m.youtube.com. I did this by creating a bookmark in my Blackberry browser with the URL m.youtube.com. I then edited the bookmark (open the browser, press the menu button and select "bookmarks", then scroll down till you find the youtube bookmark you saved, highlight it, press the menu button and select "edit bookmark").

In the properties page for the bookmark you have an option to select the browser you will use to go to the URL stored in that bookmark. You should click open the drop-down menu and select your WAP browser. Mine is the "T-Mobile browser", you probably have an "Orange browser". After selecting that, save the bookmark. Then try surfing to the site by clicking on the bookmark in your list of bookmarks in the browser. Doing this made all the difference for me -- youtube mobile works fine now on my 8900 with T-Mobile.

Hello,

Using bb 8900, OS 4.6.1.250, Rogers, no data, only wifi, changed apn settings to enabled and internet.com, changed the bookmark to make sure youtube was m.youtube.com, still I get the error that media will not play. Am I missing something here people?! Please help... youtube worked great on my cure 8320.