I've spent several hours trying to hack the original VideoView source code and Now I can confirm VideoView can be hacked to behavior what you want - retain buffering after surface destroyed. I've tested on my Samsung Galaxy S2, which works as expected, in my case, the video buffering (streaming m4v video from remote http server) is successfully retained when I open a new activity and go back.
Try by adding above twomethods in your activity.
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