DIRECTV Hack 5.0.56 + Redeem Codes

First off, the majority off these complaints are due to user error, and not knowing how to use the App. Before giving a bad rating how about understanding how the App works first!

Huge improvement overall from where the App was when AT&T had it. Now that DIRECTV has spun off from AT&T I have got to say, DIRECTV is hands down the BEST when it comes to Video, from quality of service, customer service, cost, programming, the choice of STREAM or SATELLITE and user interface on both set top box and streaming interface. Also, say goodbye to “my tv goes out when it rains” not anymore thanks to Signal Saver, one of the BEST fixes DIRECTV has implemented for Satellite customers, EVER. Also, huge kudos to DIRECTV for fighting back with these greedy networks who wants to charge billions of dollars to provide content to us customers when the overall viewer base has dropped and streaming base has increased. These local networks can be picked up from off air signals but yet still ask for billions of dollars to carry there content. THANKS DIRECTV and keep up the good fight as we know DIRECTV could pay the extra billions and pass the cost down to the customers to compensate but yet DIRECTV does the right thing and goes to fight for us customers. THANKS DIRECTV! Lifetime subscriber here!

AT&T knows nothing about honoring their promises, they just know milking their customers. Greed is how they operate. I hope everyone cancels over this short sighted nickel and dime tactic they’re doing every few months now. When I signed up it said we wouldn’t have prices raised at all, you were locked in with your phone plan. Now every few months they keep changing the terms and bumping up the price. It’s time to cancel this garbage. Unchecked Greed is how you lose everything. Now instead of quietly making the money I was paying monthly for the service, a service I wasn’t even using more than 2-5 days a month, now you guys will make NOTHING. Congratulations ATT! I hope the numbers hurt your bottom line. Might go ahead and end my relationship with ATT altogether, find a new provider that operates with integrity and respect for their customers. Without customers your company is nothing. $0 coming in from this account once the new price hits. Hope regulators get involved and break this monopoly up. This is why they’re needed, to keep greedy companies like this from taking advantage of customers.

This app WAS amazing when it was direct tv. However since the switch to at&t, I cannot get more than 2 minutes, if I’m lucky, through my recordings or live shows without an error message. Extremely frustrating. All of the things posted by at&t about deleting the app and restarting your device then redownloading said app and the like are crap. I guess they want to sound like they have a solution. Well, no. Just no. Yes my computer is turned on. Thanks tech support. Although the app was amazing for my use, there were some bugs anyway. Like if u pause live tv then come back 5 minutes later and play, it will restart live. What’s the point of pausing again? Oh yeah: so u don’t miss anything. A couple of months ago I would’ve rated high but now, I’m upset that I can’t rate lower than 1 star. I hope u read this at&t. I really hope u do. Aren’t you like the biggest telecommunications company on the planet? Had your internet once. Had being the keyword. Never had the advertised speed and if a door was shut between the modem and the chosen device in use, the signal dropped like a lead balloon. Do u just have so much money that u don’t care about the consumer anymore? I’ve been paying for your cel service for 15 years (from before u took away unlimited data like greedy pigs) and paid the exorbitant amount for your internet and cable for 6 years so the least u could do is make your only free thing work again before u had to throw your logo all over it.

I feel like there should be more improvements to this app, and out of all the reviews I bet people have made the suggestions already. But one huge and main complaint is that this app crashes far too often and when I go back to the middle of the show I was watching it starts over! So frustrating. I also don’t know why after I’ve watched a show from a series it doesn’t indicate anywhere that it’s already been viewed like most other media apps like Netflix, it shows the bar at the bottom showing you watched it until the end. This app only shows it when you’re in the middle of a show, but then you have to hold it doesn’t crash or it just starts over anyway. Also when you minimize the screen it keeps playing which is an awesome upgrade with the iPhone software too but if you go back and forth a few times from maximum to minimum the app crashes. So some definite things need to be fixed!

Now a couple positives- it is nice that you can favorite channel, much better looking home screen than other apps, and pretty user friendly, except for the things mentioned above. It does record all my shows without any hiccups, knock on wood, but again even after I watch them they stay in my recorded shows and no indication whether they’ve been watched by a status bar or check mark.

I enjoy Direct TV but when it censored One America news it was wrong and disappointed me. What makes Direct tv think it’s customers can’t view and judge news in a free and open market place. We are adults and censorship is the death of a free democratic society. It’s difficult to believe in this age news would be censored merely because Direct tv did not like or agree with the reports of One America news. As it turned out, one American news was correct in its reporting. Censored news and opinions stifle a free marketplace of thought and ideas and are dangerous to culture and free thinking persons.
I ask that Direct tv reconsider its decision and provide a free and open platform for news and entertainment purveyors and allow its viewers to decide what they like, how they may disagree with news or opinions and not interfere with such thought process. None of us can always agree on every aspect of others opinions and thoughts nor should we expect such monotonous thinking. Variety keeps life interesting and promotes healthy discussion of a multitude of opinions.

Thank you

I get it, you’re short staffed. Small companies like this typically have a tiny staff, the CEO is also the Marketing Director. The IT director is also the janitor. I get it. But, when this tiny team of people finally get around to addressing the ability for your customers to enjoy your service, can you possibly look into why this app is such a horrible disaster of a product? It’s pretty much about a coin flip of a chance for this app to show a blank screen when I turn on Apple TV. It starts with a “Keep Watching?” Question, then when you select “Yes”, the screen goes blank and you cannot move forward. Huh? This is crazy how you all with your 243,350 employees, NOT ONE of them can figure out how to address and fix this. This is your business, delivering television and communication services. How is that possible when one of your primary mechanisms for doing so is so whacked out that I can’t use it? Believe me, if you all weren’t the only company offering streaming services for Fox Sports regional channels, you’d be dropped faster than a cracked out ex-girlfriend. Unfortunately, the only crackhouse available is AT&T, so here I am, looking for another hit. Moral of the story: Do Better. Sincerely, one of your 75 million customers who is simply asking for you to fix your mess.

The change from DirecTV Now to AT&T TV Now brought with it several annoying bugs. The most annoying is the “Keep Watching” message. Chances are, if I changed the channel just 2 minutes ago, I am probably “Still Here”. So, checking the guide or changing channels or really any activity at all should reset the timer for this warning. Also, if I put my device to sleep (especially TV), please feel free to end my stream then. I can’t see any advantage for the app to stay connected if the device has been put to sleep or turned off.

Also, the same loop of super-annoying commercials (some of them at speaker and ear bursting volume is really annoying). I get that you have ad space, but the repetition of a single (or even two) 30 second ads for 3 minutes is ridiculous. I shouldn’t see the same ad more than a single time each ad break.

If you can fix these few small things, which I think are where most people’s dissatisfaction comes from, you should have a winner. The only thing I can think of for real improvement to content is true a la carte packages. I don’t watch a single Viacom channel, but pay for them all. I would, however, like my local PBS station (OETA) and would gladly trade 10 channels for 1. These are the things of cord-cutters dreams!

I don’t have a problem with upgrading or even trying something new. I would have mirrored all the options on the old app, then add the enhancements to make it better. I think this new app needed more time in the lab for testing before it was pushed out to the public. One of the issues was a network or a password problem. I had to reset, and resubmit my password five times or more before it was excepted just to login to the app. When it comes up, it goes directly into landscape mode when it starts playing. It would be nice if an option was provided in the settings where we can select if we want it to go directly to landscape mode. Me personally, I don’t want it to do that. And, it would be nice for us who don’t like to watch it in landscape mode, if a dark mode option was available on the Home Screen so that bright white background wouldn’t be so distracting. Plus, the old app had a volume control when your touch the screen. This one only let you mute it, could you change this please.

I understand that the old DIRECTV app is going away after May 31, 2023. I have avoided using the new app because of the egregious agreements we have to sign concerning personal information, viewing habits, advertising, and all the other stuff that we have to agree to before the new app will work. I absolutely refuse to agree to many of these things, as they are terribly too invasive. For a reference point, if anybody has bought a new LG smart TV recently, you’ll understand what I’m talking about. They force you to do the same thing. I’ve also refused to agree to those. And they will force us to suffer from advertising not just from AT&T and DIRECTV, but from all their third-party vendors as well. Give me an app that does not require such an egregious agreement to sign, and I will use it. If you refuse to do that, I will absolutely end my DIRECTV account. AT&T, if you respond by telling me that advertising from my use of this app is one way that you stay in business, I respectfully dis agree. I already pay you lots of money every month not just her DIRECTV but for other things. If you can’t make a profit from me from that, and you’re gonna force me to suffer from advertising everywhere else, that’s just one more reason to quit AT&T and DIRECTV.

Now you have no choice… old app won’t work at all, so you’re forced into this app, and it’s terrible! It crashes, drops signal, drops audio, design layout requires more scrolling and more steps to do basic things, everything about this is a cumbersome, clunky, shadow of the previous DTV app… even the guide is a cumbersome space-wasting, frustratingly primitive echo of the previous app. Fewer things you can do, more steps and buffering for the few things you can still do. This used to be an instant plug-and-play app. Not anymore. And after you jump through all the hoops, more annoying built-ins require attention just to do the basics… even playing the audio track with the video requires extra steps now! Whoever heard of turning ON the TV and having the default position for every little thing be “off” and “silent,” so you have to tend to a flight list of nit-picky tasks just to simply watch the news?! It’s just one final push out the door… the old app crashed too often, but this one can’t even get through all the start-up steps without locking up. And in the end, more times than not, you’ll go thru all that only to be stuck watching the screen buffer and then revert to its favorite mode: no audio.