DSTV now stopped working because U9 is not a Google certified device

Torgo

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Stuck with the U9 as DSTV now app updated and requires it to be Google certified device. Not sure if ATV has to also be a requirement. Colleagues Mi Box still working perfectly...:mad:
 
Please check if your device is certified with google
why not just answer the query when someone is trying to help ?
The u9-h is not google certified.

You could also have tried a search for DSTV in the forum...lots of info
 
for me l manage to install new version with Aptoide play store but now saying "please ensure that you are using a google certified device by going to google play store menu->settings->play protect certification" and now stuck can someone help on that too
 
I don't really have much experience with Android (only use it on a phone), but NEVER use the play store as I never log in to Google.

I just download the ".apk" from an alternate site and then "side load" the app using the adb program in the Android SDK.

Goggle is about as predatory as a corporation can get.
 
I'm very satified with my Neo U9-H.I really don't care is he google certified.As long as he working well i don't need new device.:)

For Google, it is all about CONTROL - which includes using only THEIR devices which you must sign away every right you ever might have in order to use the device. But it is free...............
 
For Google, it is all about CONTROL - which includes using only THEIR devices which you must sign away every right you ever might have in order to use the device. But it is free...............

One thing is for sure. Google doesn't hide how far they what to get into your skin, and you are right, they want it deep. However the Playstore is still very harmless comparing to what you can get outside from it. The ones that sneak into my skin without my knowledge are the ones that worry me the most.

I am always astonished when people using third party software can believe they are safer by trying to go through the less observed processes to reach the intended results, exactly because those methods, being uncommon, adding to the fact that no one really knows the breaches in the software they are picking up, are actually the least reliable as they can be.

I even hear so called software security experts claiming that not updating the systems leaves open breaches that can lead to the next world war! How can the so called experts believe that it won't be the next update to bring the exact tools to allow it?

Can anyone really tell what hides inside each single piece of software that we pull into our lives every single day? It takes just a small amount of tiny little bites to spread the most terrible viruses and malware!

You do better using what everybody uses if you want to quickly know what hits you the fastest.
 
One thing is for sure. Google doesn't hide how far they what to get into your skin, and you are right, they want it deep. However the Playstore is still very harmless comparing to what you can get outside from it. The ones that sneak into my skin without my knowledge are the ones that worry me the most.

I am always astonished when people using third party software can believe they are safer by trying to go through the less observed processes to reach the intended results, exactly because those methods, being uncommon, adding to the fact that no one really knows the breaches in the software they are picking up, are actually the least reliable as they can be.

I even hear so called software security experts claiming that not updating the systems leaves open breaches that can lead to the next world war! How can the so called experts believe that it won't be the next update to bring the exact tools to allow it?

Can anyone really tell what hides inside each single piece of software that we pull into our lives every single day? It takes just a small amount of tiny little bites to spread the most terrible viruses and malware!

You do better using what everybody uses if you want to quickly know what hits you the fastest.

A good perspective, though I might disagree a bit on the last point: e.g. ;

"You do better using what everybody uses if you want to quickly know what hits you the fastest"

"Everyone" pretty much uses Windows (desktop) or Android (phone) which are the MOST invasive because Windows has the most understood internals that can be hijacked and the Android versions most people get are those tailored by Google to burrow into one's every move for commercial and who knows what future purposes. As Android is open source to some extent and UNIX based it at least allows the savvy the ability to analyze what is going on.

Yet these are not the only goings on - as I found my QNAP NAS tries to connect to all sorts of Chinese websites (that don't seem to be update related) with no ability to turn that off short of using routing to keep it off the internet.

It's not that I'm paranoid - it's just that everyone is out to get me! :sneaky:
 
A good perspective, though I might disagree a bit on the last point: e.g. ;

"You do better using what everybody uses if you want to quickly know what hits you the fastest"

"Everyone" pretty much uses Windows (desktop) or Android (phone) which are the MOST invasive because Windows has the most understood internals that can be hijacked and the Android versions most people get are those tailored by Google to burrow into one's every move for commercial and who knows what future purposes. As Android is open source to some extent and UNIX based it at least allows the savvy the ability to analyze what is going on.

Yet these are not the only goings on - as I found my QNAP NAS tries to connect to all sorts of Chinese websites (that don't seem to be update related) with no ability to turn that off short of using routing to keep it off the internet.

It's not that I'm paranoid - it's just that everyone is out to get me! :sneaky:

Every single item is likely to invade your privacy since the moment someone created piles of software for you to grab. There are no better or worse. The one that picks what you intend to hide is the one you blame, there are no makes or models. You can disagree, but Windows and Android are the ones I use, simply because (and this is scientifically proved) when you are a small fish you'd better stay in the middle of a very large shoal so the shark might miss you. On the other hand if you are a big fish, then you'd better be the shark yourself! ;)

EDITED: Just think you are offering your entire data to someone by using a VPN, how well do you know them to trust them that much?
Yet don't misunderstand me I am not saying you shouldn't, I use VPN sometimes, just sometimes, you are not paranoid until you mistrust everybody. I do. I just got to the point of realising there is no place to shelter.
 
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I guess we did not get Google TV certification ?

What a waste for buying U9... Can't use it anymore
 
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