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Old 13-12-2013, 08:58
oilman
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There are many websites that show you how to download and side load an archived version of flash player on to android 4.3.

I have just bought on of the new motorola moto g phones , and when I tried it I got

'There was a problem while parsing the package' when installing the flash player'

I found a fix on the web for this buried deep in a forum chain so I cannot take credit for this fix (regrettably I cannot find article again so I cannot credit orginal poster).

The fix was very simple - upload the apk file to the google cloud drive (may work with other cloud drives?). The moto g comes with 50 GB of free drive (2 years I think).

Simply click on app from the cloud drive and it installs flash player.

You have to find an alternative browser from the default Google Chrome which does not support flash. Dolphin, Boat, Puffin all work- don't know about Opera or Firefox.
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Old 13-12-2013, 09:47
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firefox does too.

i lost flash when i upgraded to 4.4 (as i suspect the moto g will be doing soon,) and i can't say i have missed it.
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Old 13-12-2013, 10:11
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Hi,

Following shows a way of doing it with 4.4. I don't know if it works with all phones.

http://www.phonearena.com/news/Here-...KitKat_id49851


I would be interested if this did work though ......
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Old 13-12-2013, 10:34
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yeah i read about that.

it's more complicated because may of the android components used by flash have been removed, so the guy on xda has like fudged them in to flash itself.

the guy that did it writes about it here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=2548001

what i have found since removing flash is that more sites than i remember from a couple of years ago can detect it's absence and work around it.

it hasn't been a problem.
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Old 13-12-2013, 12:42
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The XDA fudged Flash player worked on my Nexus 5 with Dolphin. In fact, with Dolphin Jetpack installed, I have not had Flash crash on me once so far, which is refreshing.
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Old 13-12-2013, 13:55
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I've got Flash with my Dolphin Web browser.

This should also work on your phone I guess?
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Old 13-12-2013, 14:14
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I have a Nexus 7 and use Boat Browser.

I installed a Flash.apk about 6 months ago but this disapeared
when I updated to 4.4.

Just downloaded the flash.apk mentioned by oilman, installed and fired up Boat Browser and the videos on the BBC News site now work.

Cheers.
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Old 14-12-2013, 18:08
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I've got Flash with my Dolphin Web browser.

This should also work on your phone I guess?
I have just downloaded the "stock android browser" which was not included on the moto g, as I was used to the way it works and settings etc. Although there are no settings to enable flash as far as I can find, it still works fine.
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