Error: Network timeout from History

[AnkurBambhrolia]

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Affected version

0.28.4

Steps to reproduce the bug

1. Go to history
2. Click on video
3. Play video
4. Recieve timeout error

Expected behavior

To play the video

Actual behavior

The video does not play and I recieve a timeout error. This does not happen if I play a video from a Playlist or a new video from suggested videos. Only when I try to play a video from my history section

Screenshots/Screen recordings

No response

Logs

Exception

• User Action: play stream
• Request: Player error[type=ERROR_CODE_IO_NETWORK_CONNECTION_TIMEOUT] occurred while playing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74acAfkM8Wo
• Content Country: US
• Content Language: en-US
• App Language: en_US
• Service: YouTube
• Timestamp: 2026-03-19T09:20:31.334-04:00
• Package: org.schabi.newpipe
• Service: YouTube
• Version: 0.28.4
• OS: Linux samsung/pa3qsqw/pa3q:16/BP2A.250605.031.A3/S938USQU5BYI3_OYN5BYI3:user/release-keys 16 - 36

Crash log

com.google.android.exoplayer2.ExoPlaybackException: Source error
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.ExoPlayerImplInternal.handleIoException(r8-map-id-ce0307bac2c3f16e8dc2f832773b0599f307ee51c82b5550b73911d8a6d3ce37:17)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.ExoPlayerImplInternal.handleMessage(r8-map-id-ce0307bac2c3f16e8dc2f832773b0599f307ee51c82b5550b73911d8a6d3ce37:317)
	at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:106)
	at android.os.Looper.loopOnce(Looper.java:273)
	at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:363)
	at android.os.HandlerThread.run(HandlerThread.java:85)
Caused by: com.google.android.exoplayer2.upstream.HttpDataSource$HttpDataSourceException: java.net.SocketTimeoutException: Read timed out
	at org.schabi.newpipe.player.datasource.YoutubeHttpDataSource.open(r8-map-id-ce0307bac2c3f16e8dc2f832773b0599f307ee51c82b5550b73911d8a6d3ce37:303)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.upstream.DefaultDataSource.open(r8-map-id-ce0307bac2c3f16e8dc2f832773b0599f307ee51c82b5550b73911d8a6d3ce37:161)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.upstream.TeeDataSource.open(r8-map-id-ce0307bac2c3f16e8dc2f832773b0599f307ee51c82b5550b73911d8a6d3ce37:3)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.upstream.cache.CacheDataSource.openNextSource(r8-map-id-ce0307bac2c3f16e8dc2f832773b0599f307ee51c82b5550b73911d8a6d3ce37:277)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.upstream.cache.CacheDataSource.open(r8-map-id-ce0307bac2c3f16e8dc2f832773b0599f307ee51c82b5550b73911d8a6d3ce37:130)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.upstream.StatsDataSource.open(r8-map-id-ce0307bac2c3f16e8dc2f832773b0599f307ee51c82b5550b73911d8a6d3ce37:11)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.source.chunk.InitializationChunk.load(r8-map-id-ce0307bac2c3f16e8dc2f832773b0599f307ee51c82b5550b73911d8a6d3ce37:40)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.upstream.Loader$LoadTask.run(r8-map-id-ce0307bac2c3f16e8dc2f832773b0599f307ee51c82b5550b73911d8a6d3ce37:35)
	at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1156)
	at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:651)
	at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:1119)
Caused by: java.net.SocketTimeoutException: Read timed out
	at java.net.SocketInputStream.socketRead0(Native Method)
	at java.net.SocketInputStream.socketRead(SocketInputStream.java:118)
	at java.net.SocketInputStream.read(SocketInputStream.java:173)
	at java.net.SocketInputStream.read(SocketInputStream.java:143)
	at com.android.org.conscrypt.ConscryptEngineSocket$SSLInputStream.readFromSocket(ConscryptEngineSocket.java:994)
	at com.android.org.conscrypt.ConscryptEngineSocket$SSLInputStream.processDataFromSocket(ConscryptEngineSocket.java:958)
	at com.android.org.conscrypt.ConscryptEngineSocket$SSLInputStream.-$$Nest$mprocessDataFromSocket(Unknown Source:0)
	at com.android.org.conscrypt.ConscryptEngineSocket.doHandshake(ConscryptEngineSocket.java:242)
	at com.android.org.conscrypt.ConscryptEngineSocket.startHandshake(ConscryptEngineSocket.java:224)
	at com.android.okhttp.internal.io.RealConnection.connectTls(RealConnection.java:196)
	at com.android.okhttp.internal.io.RealConnection.connectSocket(RealConnection.java:153)
	at com.android.okhttp.internal.io.RealConnection.connect(RealConnection.java:116)
	at com.android.okhttp.internal.http.StreamAllocation.findConnection(StreamAllocation.java:186)
	at com.android.okhttp.internal.http.StreamAllocation.findHealthyConnection(StreamAllocation.java:128)
	at com.android.okhttp.internal.http.StreamAllocation.newStream(StreamAllocation.java:97)
	at com.android.okhttp.internal.http.HttpEngine.connect(HttpEngine.java:289)
	at com.android.okhttp.internal.http.HttpEngine.sendRequest(HttpEngine.java:232)
	at com.android.okhttp.internal.huc.HttpURLConnectionImpl.execute(HttpURLConnectionImpl.java:465)
	at com.android.okhttp.internal.huc.HttpURLConnectionImpl.getResponse(HttpURLConnectionImpl.java:411)
	at com.android.okhttp.internal.huc.HttpURLConnectionImpl.getResponseCode(HttpURLConnectionImpl.java:542)
	at com.android.okhttp.internal.huc.DelegatingHttpsURLConnection.getResponseCode(DelegatingHttpsURLConnection.java:106)
	at com.android.okhttp.internal.huc.HttpsURLConnectionImpl.getResponseCode(HttpsURLConnectionImpl.java:30)
	at org.schabi.newpipe.player.datasource.YoutubeHttpDataSource.open(r8-map-id-ce0307bac2c3f16e8dc2f832773b0599f307ee51c82b5550b73911d8a6d3ce37:51)
	... 10 more

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Affected Android/Custom ROM version

One UI 8.0

Affected device model

Samsung Galaxy 25 Ultra

Additional information

I've tried using 2 different internet sources: my wifi and my ATT phone data. Both yield the same outcome