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Third-Party Apps

Hey everybody, Good Evening,
I hope everyone is having a wonderful night. For those of you who took the time to read this post, I have a question about "Third Party Apps". How exactly do they work?
For instance, I have a TMobile Dash/HTC S620, I DO NOT have an internet plan.
Now let's say I decided to download and install a "weather app".
How exactly does the third party app work?
Does it need a connection to the internet for a third party app to work? So would it work on my phone?
If it does need an internet connection, would it "force" a connection to the internet to make it work? Therefore leading to an unwanted internet usage fee?
Thanks.

For some apps you will need internet access, specially for weather apps (have to update somehow) If you use T-mo, look around the forum for the t-zones ($5.99 internet plan) hack

Thanks driguez!

agreed if you're cheap like i am just use the 5.99 tzones hack. very simple to set up and works like a charm for every internet service that i use on my phone.

i got a question for you guys dun have the tzone plan just yet but am looking to get it if it will be the same to me than the 19.95 plan. can i use internet explorer with it? also email like my gmail and hotmail? and what limitations are there with it...ex. with internet explorer...only specific sites i can access?
thank you for your help.

Typically anything that can use a proxy will work.

But I would recommend using Opera Mini instead of Internet Explorer because Opera Mini is much nicer and faster then IE...

Opera mobile not working over wifi

I have T-mobile TP2 with 6.5 stock rom. I just add data plan to my phone recently. I notice that my opera mobile will not work any more if connect via wifi but it works with 3g connection. Skyfire, skype and all other programs work with both wifi and 3g connection.
I have opera mobile 9.7 and just install opera mobile 10. Both of them cannot load any page with wifi connection. I also uncheck everything under proxy setting in config menu.
Any suggestions to fix this problem?
Thank you

I have the same problem. If I find out something, I will post it here.

Make that three of us
Please post if you find anything.
Thanks

Yes, Please. Just discovered this today. IE isn't working either. Yes, I disabled the proxy. Other internet apps working fine, just not my browsers.

Use Skyfire It's Better Than PIE & Opera IMO!!!

One can only assume if none of the other browsers are working that skyfire would't work either haha
Worth a shot. Also.. I dont know if you've tried but back up all your info (contacts and whatever else) and do a hard reset. Then test and see if that fixes it.. I would say with 100% certainty that it will.
Then just load back on all your ap's.
Drastic but beats sitting around waiting for someone to happen stumble across the thread that has a fix.

Going to hard reset in the morning. Got some other broke stuff from trying out too many cabs, so might as well. Been getting a lot of error reports the past 2 days, too. Will report back.

Well Skyfire & PIE Work Perfectly Over Wifi For Me Opera On The Other Hand Works When It Wants 2 Over Wifi

OK, I hard reset and this is still not working. No Opera or PIE over Wifi. Any clues? I really don't want to install another browser if I don't have to. Alos, can't find the cab to make Opera exit on X instead of running in the background.

Miami_Son said:
OK, I hard reset and this is still not working. No Opera or PIE over Wifi. Any clues? I really don't want to install another browser if I don't have to. Alos, can't find the cab to make Opera exit on X instead of running in the background.
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Man Trust Me Just Use Skyfire You'll Never Turn Back To Another Browser Ever Again!!!

I had Skyfire on my Incite and didn't like it. Why do I need to login to an account to use a browser? The stuff that came on the phone that is taking up space on the ROM should be able to work with both Wifi and MediaNet. No reason for it not to.

Have you guys tried using any other builds of Opera 9.7? There are a lot of different builds available here on XDA. Just search up "Opera Thread" and you'll end up with a thread containing links to download most, if not all, releases of Opera 9.5, 9.7, and 10.

If it were just an Opera problem, I might try that. But it is a problem with PIE, as well. That leads me to believe it is a Tilt 2 issue.

Originally Posted by djwinn
I found this cab, installed it and found an increase in speed as I posted a couple weeks ago, but nothing over 600kbps. I was still disappointed in the speed and was researching issues with YouTube not running unless disabling the proxy. I wanted a permanent fix, I found a post with the following regedits.
I have done the changes, tested IE, Opera, Google, Bing on AT&T 3G network (H with the .cab) and wi-fi, and everything works great! My speeds have jumped over 1.5mpbs consistently with the outlined changes, and all internet data apps are extremely responsive now. Youtube downloads load in less than 10 seconds, and no jumpiness. MobileTV is the same now, before, kept buffering or got distorted every 15-20 seconds.
Credit goes to Vendetta in AT&T forum:
Here's what I learned while getting the HTC YouTube application included in the OEM AT&T ROM to work perfectly.
The value in the registry needs to be modified:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\HTC\YouTube
ProxyName = wireless.cingular.com:80 (default value) needs to be replaced with [BLANK].
This value is intermittently restored, so it is nececssary to change a few others to prevent that.
The value at
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\SUN\JVM\PRELOADAPP
proxy = wireless.cingular.com:80 (default value) needs to be replaced with [BLANK].
The value at
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Comm\ConnMgr\Providers\{EF097F4 C-DC4B-4c98-8FF6-AEF805DC0E8E}\HTTP-{436EF144-B4FB-4863-A041-8F905A62C572}
Proxy = wireless.cingular.com:80 (default value) needs to be replaced with [BLANK].
The value at
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Apps\Esmertec Java\Properties
com.sun.midp.io.http.proxy = wireless.cingular.com:80 (default value) needs to be replaced with [BLANK].
Changing these three values will prevent the YouTube proxy from being restored. However, this will prevent the Opera Browser from connecting when the phone is connected via Wi-Fi. In order to fix this, the value at
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Opera\Defaults
ByPassProxyForNonGPRS = 1 (default value) needs to be changed to 0
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I Had a similar problem. my opera mobile wouldn't work unless I opened internet explorer first. I saw this in another thread and it worked for me. Maybe it'll work for you too. (had to delete the link since I am still a "new" account)

browsers, flash etc.

Just a quick one - I am using a branded orange desire handset straight out the box (no modifications at all). I have downloaded a few different browsers and to give them a bit of a road test I have been trying to access anything on the iplayer through the url bbc.co.uk/iplayer.
A couple obviously just cannot handle it, but Skyfire for example appears willing to load the programmes but then they get blocked when it tells me 'not available in your area'. Just to confirm I'm bang in the middle of the UK and can access on my desktop pc which is on the same wifi network. I get the same message when trying to access through orange 3g.
I have seen old posts about the now disappeared beebplayer which clearly looks like the decent option if available, but I was just wondering if anyone is getting a feed of any kind through a browser (not worried about quality at this stage) or if the error message I'm getting is consistent with everyone else.
Live tv feeds through m.tvcatchup.com work through 3g but not my wifi for some reason (have tried all of the above with wep, wap and no security at all btw).
Although I've read in a few places that theres no way of getting the iplayer on desire right now, I thought the flash capabilities of skyfire would allow it, even if very poor quality, which has left me wondering if my router is actually the knackered piece of kit here?
Any ideas - sorry, I know it's a bit of a long one.

to maybe put this question a bit simpler now I've had some sleep - can anyone out there view, for example the bbc iplayer, through any browser installed on their desire? Or should I not be concerned by being told I am not in the UK because this is the error message its spewing out because it basically can't handle iplayer at the moment under any browser?

There is no way yet to watch on iPlayer through the browser on the Desire.
If you install android 2.2 froyo you can install flash 10.1 beta from the market, but still iPlayer is completely awful quality, and totally unwatchable.
Your best bet is beebplayer, which is pretty bad quality, just google beebplayer.apk and download it.

thanks samac

[Q] GPRS data consumption

Hello Guys,
I have an HTC Desire, and I am located in Lebanon, we don't have 3G networks yet and a 50MB data plan cost us $10/month. for a Desire, the 50MB on GPRS can be consumed in 6hours even if I keep killing running services using a "Task Manager Killer" application, to give an Idea, I have a nokia E72, I keep GPRS running continuously, I use Whatsapp all the time and I consume less than 10MB/month, while on the Desire if I use Whatsapp and I keep killing apps all the time I am online I consume 10MB in 3hrs.
is there a way to disable all the services from starting unless I request it to? like making the Android behave like a Symbian regarding online updates and running services.
Regards
NAB

Either you are use whatsapp really a lot or killing the apps is doing more harm then good. Have you ever tried installing a app to monitor data usage and see were the data goes? I would suggest 'Network TrafficStats Lite'.

can I move from Froyo to Win Mobile 7?? on my Desire
Hello,
I have just been told that I can reflash windows Mobile 7 to my Desire, and that would consume less Data than Android, a friend who had an Imate did the testing with windows mobile 6.5 and then Android 1.5 (I guess) and android consumed more data when it was connected online. so what do you guys think?

a stock mobile 7 (i didnt know anyone had ported it to desire.....) would use less data as there arent many things on it that use data, syncing, weather, emails etc.
but then you have defeated the purpose of having a desire in the forst place! believe me, windows 6.5 was awful, if 7 is a bit better it still wont be as good as android yet.
plus if it is possible to put windows 7 on android it will be very buggy and only for testing at the moment......so probably wont be very useable. this would prevent data use of course

Fake Gps is not working anymore - LG G4 H815

Hi guys, I've already tried to find a solution to my problem in other threads, but no one fits it.
Basically without no system updates (I'm using this https://forum.xda-developers.com/g4/development/rom-h-rom-v30-port-t3672567 rom with Android 7.0 on my G4) if I set my fake gps (it's set correctly in developer settings) to any place, Google Maps will show my fake location, but while making a double check with Opera browser on whereiamrightnow.com website I get my real location. That's really weird because since yesterday it was working fine.
So I thought to myself "Maybe it is caused by an update of Opera", so I took my old Galaxy S2 with Lineage Os on (running Android 7.1.2), I updated all the applications (Fake gps, Opera browser and Maps), I set the fake gps app in developer settings and then I turned on only the Gps (without network positioning, as I used to do on the G4 when it was working), then I set a random place in Fake gps and checking on Maps and Opera both of them show me the fake position.
So I found out it is not an app update problem.
Any clue?
Thanks in advance!