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How to change the user agent in stock browser???

I know there is a setting that says request desktop site but it want save the setting, is there a permanent way to change the user agent to desktop mode?
Thanks
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I dont know know how to do it in stock browser but in Dolphin you can change to any user agent including iPhone.

Gunner86 said:
I know there is a setting that says request desktop site but it want save the setting, is there a permanent way to change the user agent to desktop mode?
Thanks
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Looked through the stock browser and I don't see any settings allowing the user agent to be adjusted. Might have to make the adjustment thru smali/reversing the apk or in source code and compiling from AOSP.
Otherwise, as suggested above, 3rd party browsers might be more likely to allow this information to be changed.

Gunner86 said:
I know there is a setting that says request desktop site but it want save the setting, is there a permanent way to change the user agent to desktop mode?
Thanks
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In the broswer search field type in about:debug, hit enter. Go to settings>debug>UAString and choose Desktop
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That's strange. In all the blurb leading up to the release it was said multiple times that there was an option to select Desktop view for sites, albeit without the ability to remember your preference.

DirkGently said:
That's strange. In all the blurb leading up to the release it was said multiple times that there was an option to select Desktop view for sites, albeit without the ability to remember your preference.
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There is an option. The OP wanted it to always request the desktop version for all websites instead of having to select it for each one.

about:debug isn't permanent, as said above. Whenever you're redirected to a mobile website hit the settings icon and there will be a request the full website option. Isn't the same as setting the UA string but gets you there.

So anybody find a *permanent* fix for this yet? With all due respect to devs, not really sure why all the time and effort is being put into ROMs, etc, when simple things like permanent UA string mods haven't been sorted out yet...

There's an app in the market based on the ics browser called "ics browser+" that has the option. Its the stock browser with more features
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I sorted it two weeks ago.
I make no guarantee it works on:
OEM anything.
Pre 4.0.3 roms.
non Team BAMF roms. (That can be fixed by re-signing)

adrynalyne said:
I sorted it two weeks ago.
I make no guarantee it works on:
OEM anything.
Pre 4.0.3 roms.
non Team BAMF roms. (That can be fixed by re-signing)
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Will check it out now...FWIW I'm running 4.0.3 CM9 kang, so we'll see what happens....

Set permanent user agent in browser?

Is there a way to set the user agent to desktop *permanently* on the stock browser? Or do I have to use maxthon or some other browser? Thx
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Type "about:debug" in the browser's top bar(URL bar)
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platinumandroid said:
Type "about:debug" in the browser's top bar(URL bar)
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Actually thats why i created this thread b/c its not persistent. its only active per session. once you close the browser you have to do it again and again....... why can't we just disable "mobile view" permanently? so lame.

he want permanent desktop view.

enkrypt3d said:
Actually thats why i created this thread b/c its not persistent. its only active per session. once you close the browser you have to do it again and again....... why can't we just disable "mobile view" permanently? so lame.
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Your OP didn't specify that you wanted it permanent,all you asked was if it was possible to change it.I haven't had any issues with Dolphin Browser HD freezing up at all & I have Desktop as my UA String & I use Dolphin Browser as my primary browser and use it quite heavily.
Your right about it being lame,I think it should be a option in the default settings.
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platinumandroid said:
Your OP didn't specify that you wanted it permanent,all you asked was if it was possible to change it.I haven't had any issues with Dolphin Browser HD freezing up at all & I have Desktop as my UA String & I use Dolphin Browser as my primary browser and use it quite heavily.
Your right about it being lame,I think it should be a option in the default settings.
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Um what does the subject of this topic say exactly? Derp
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enkrypt3d said:
Um what does the subject of this topic say exactly? Derp
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I guess no one wants to take advantage of this high res screen and see web pages like they are meant to be? Who wants to view web pages in mobile view on a phone like this?

enkrypt3d said:
I guess no one wants to take advantage of this high res screen and see web pages like they are meant to be? Who wants to view web pages in mobile view on a phone like this?
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I also would love a permanent solution as its annoying to always have to change to desktop
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There is a way. It requires editing the strings xml. I have tried, but apktool will not successfully compile anything I mod
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Gotta throw in a bump on this one...really shocked this hasn't been one of the first mods to have been sorted out for this device.

I modded the browser source and compiled it if anyone is interested in it. Persistent ua string and a whole slew of options not normally visible. Require root and 4.0.3.

adrynalyne said:
I modded the browser source and compiled it if anyone is interested in it. Persistent ua string and a whole slew of options not normally visible. Require root and 4.0.3.
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That's phenomenal...where might I try out this mod?
EDIT: nevermind, found your post in the other thread! Will check it out, cheers! (btw hopefully some more folks will take notice of your work, and ideally it would be great if your mod would get a sticky on this forum, given that it should be one of the very first mods that a GN owner would want!)

Xda forum issue

Ok I keep getting this weird blank white screen when I try to access xda forums on my win 7 PC, it says on the bottom left :Read ads.pubmatic.com.
This doesnt happen on my phone and I just formatted my PC with a clean install. So what is going on, I need xda on my computer NAO!!
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d12unk13astard said:
Ok I keep getting this weird blank white screen when I try to access xda forums on my win 7 PC, it says on the bottom left :Read ads.pubmatic.com.
This doesnt happen on my phone and I just formatted my PC with a clean install. So what is going on, I need xda on my computer NAO!!
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Try a different browser....when it loads it goes to a add and it must
Be screwed try chrome
Reformat again and get rid of windows .... Linux ftw
But seriously you can easily dual boot now and never use windows again I keep windows only because of my bluray player in my laptop...for some reason Linux doesn't like bluray
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d12unk13astard said:
Ok I keep getting this weird blank white screen when I try to access xda forums on my win 7 PC, it says on the bottom left :Read ads.pubmatic.com.
This doesnt happen on my phone and I just formatted my PC with a clean install. So what is going on, I need xda on my computer NAO!!
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Same thing here (in Firefox). I Google'd it and found that other people having the same problem on other sites too. I checked one of those sites and the same thing happened, page loads a little-bit and then get the blank page when ads.pubmatic.com is being accessed.
The funny thing is I blocked pubmatic.com and ads.pubmatic.com in my hosts file and it's still happening. It doesn't seem to happen in Chrome, though.

For me, I notice when I try to go back in internet explorer it takes like 15 clicks, so I actually use the mouse and click the tab on the top of the xda webpage. If I right click the back arrow for the browser it lists a bunch of ads, which explains why it takes so many clicks to get back. It is like this on every computer I have used xda on recently. Xda is the only site that I have this issue.

d12unk13astard said:
Ok I keep getting this weird blank white screen when I try to access xda forums on my win 7 PC, it says on the bottom left :Read ads.pubmatic.com.
This doesnt happen on my phone and I just formatted my PC with a clean install. So what is going on, I need xda on my computer NAO!!
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Having the same problem accessing this site from my laptop as well ..... arrrrrgh, its also affecting transformer forums. Anyone found a way to fix this problem yet

Blocking via hosts file doesn't appear to work, nor does blocking "ads.pubmatic.com" in Adblock Plus. After configuring the latter, the page still hangs, only this time on google-analytics.com, so now I'm not sure if it's pubmatic.com or something else.
I came across older (2008, 2009) results in Google reporting the same problem with pubmatic.com, so I really have no idea what's going on.

d12unk13astard said:
Ok I keep getting this weird blank white screen when I try to access xda forums on my win 7 PC, it says on the bottom left :Read ads.pubmatic.com.
This doesnt happen on my phone and I just formatted my PC with a clean install. So what is going on, I need xda on my computer NAO!!
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Ok .... I found the solution to this problem with the help of a member on another forum. What I had done wrong was I was not using the latest version of Firefox. Once I updated it both this forum and the other one now work brilliantly again on my laptop.
Hope this resolves your issue with logging into this great forum on your PC / Laptop

bimgirl said:
Ok .... I found the solution to this problem with the help of a member on another forum. What I had done wrong was I was not using the latest version of Firefox. Once I updated it both this forum and the other one now work brilliantly again on my laptop.
Hope this resolves your issue with logging into this great forum on your PC / Laptop
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Thanks for letting us know, that's good to know there's one way to fix it.
That's not an option for me, unfortunately. There are still add-ons that I can't use outside of FF 3.6x. I'd rather know what exactly is going on and fix it without updating to the FF-Version-of-the-Month.

.Arkham said:
Thanks for letting us know, that's good to know there's one way to fix it.
That's not an option for me, unfortunately. There are still add-ons that I can't use outside of FF 3.6x. I'd rather know what exactly is going on and fix it without updating to the FF-Version-of-the-Month.
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No problem, will continue to check back to see if you or someone else comes up with another option. I cleared caches, checked add-ons, firewalls rebooted routers and machines and had no luck. It works fine with Chrome as well.
Good luck

Glad I wasn't the only one having this issue, also thanks bimgirl for finding a work around even though I too hate newer versions of Firefox past 3.6.1.6 I will try chrome out.
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d12unk13astard said:
Glad I wasn't the only one having this issue, also thanks bimgirl for finding a work around even though I too hate newer versions of Firefox past 3.6.1.6 I will try chrome out.
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No, it's definitely not you. I've come across several posts today from various other sites from people who have been experiencing this issue over the past 3-4 days.
I'm not sure if it's a coincidence, but many of them are running vBulletin. The issue seems to be restricted to Firefox.
Even after blocking a bunch of pubmatic.com sites in my hosts file, the issue is still happening, only the blank page hangs on www.google-analytics.com. I didn't want to go as far as blocking that, but I did anyway in my Hosts file with no success.
I came across this plug-in that I'm going to try out. This is an official Google addon that allows you to opt-out of google-analytics.com tracking.
http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en
Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on (BETA)
To provide website visitors more choice on how their data is collected by Google Analytics, we have developed the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on. The add-on communicates with the Google Analytics JavaScript (ga.js) to indicate that information about the website visit should not be sent to Google Analytics.
If you want to opt-out, download and install the add-on for your current web browser. The Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on is available for Microsoft Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari and Opera.
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EDIT: No dice. I installed the addon and now the hanging blank page stops loading. It still jumps to the blank page.
One other comment I read suggested that the sites themselves should verify that they've put the Google Analytics code at the very bottom of their page templates where it belongs. But I would assume that the GA code was put in place a long time ago, and doubt that would be the issue here.
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Success!
I added "www.google-analytics.com" to my hosts file, in addition to "google-analytics.com" and everything is fine now.
One thing I didn't try was to only use the Google opt-out addon, without adding any "google-analytics" entries to my hosts file.
If someone who prefers not to alter their hosts file wants to try it the addon-only way, please let us know if it works for you.
Thanks, folks!

d12unk13astard said:
Glad I wasn't the only one having this issue, also thanks bimgirl for finding a work around even though I too hate newer versions of Firefox past 3.6.1.6 I will try chrome out.
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When they had the hackers conference in Vegas the one that held out the longest was chrome but in the end they all got hacked ...chrome has been alot better than Firefox lately..... But it's a pain to install on Linux
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So far chrome is working fine for my xda fix. Everything else I use FF.
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Links won't open in browser

So when I go to this Site. http://m.nfl.com/ I can't open any links. Unless I hold on a link and hit open in new tab. Same goes with the nfl fantasy app. My buddies evo lte opens them up just fine.
I tried numerous browsers and they are all the same.
Anyone know of a way to fix this?
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Anyone else have this issue
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Can someone else please try and open up that link and see if you have the same issues?
Thank you.
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Anyone willing to help here? All I need is someone to open the website and see if you have the same issues.
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JuggZaPoppiN said:
Anyone willing to help here? All I need is someone to open the website and see if you have the same issues.
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I am experiencing the same problem on nfl.com. All of the other sites I tried worked fine. I was able to jump from site to site as long as it was not the nfl site. I don't know if this helps or not, but that was my experience.

Neil Fruit said:
I am experiencing the same problem on nfl.com. All of the other sites I tried worked fine. I was able to jump from site to site as long as it was not the nfl site. I don't know if this helps or not, but that was my experience.
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Hmm. Same issue I'm experiencing. I only have the issues on the mobile nfl. Com Site and their fantasy app. I tried it on other phones like the I phone and evo lte and they have no issues.
I wonder what is causing this?
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That is really odd. Let me know if you manage to figure anything out.

I've tried everything. Can't figure out what is causing the issue.
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Dont know if this is of any help but I was having issues clicking on the links within the fantasy app(NFL) turned out it was my ad blocker(adfree) I reverted and whala! the NFL fantasy app links worked however app was very laggy. Hopefully this helps if not then disregard I guess!

Exactly the same issue here (found this thread via searching on Google), links won't work on nfl.com unless i long press and select open in a new tab. The only solution that I've found is to disable java script in the browser settings on my S2 and then it works fine.
I'd be interested to know if I can set it just so that java script is disabled on just nfl.com if anyone knows how

I have tried both and came up with the same problem. I've tried messing around with the settings to try and get it working correctly with no results
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flashing4fun said:
I have tried both and came up with the same problem. I've tried messing around with the settings to try and get it working correctly with no results
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eah ive come up with this issue to but it happens to every page that i go too, i cant seem to open up the links at all....who as a link to fixing this problem?

Nevermind, found the source of the problem. Revert all file hosts from AdFree. Java works again *uninstalls*

skingg said:
Nevermind, found the source of the problem. Revert all file hosts from AdFree. Java works again *uninstalls*
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That's what it was?! Damn! That's been driving me nuts! I'm using AdAway but the effect was the same in Dolphin.
Thanks for posting your solution! :highfive:

Duplicate Apps

Hey. Is there a way to create a duplicate game app so I can manage two profiles? I used to do it on my iPhone all the time, but I haven't figured out how to do it on Android yet. Any help is appreciated.
Btw, rooted and I have a good file Explorer and TiBu. Thanks.

Rokonacdc said:
Hey. Is there a way to create a duplicate game app so I can manage two profiles? I used to do it on my iPhone all the time, but I haven't figured out how to do it on Android yet. Any help is appreciated.
Btw, rooted and I have a good file Explorer and TiBu. Thanks.
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There might be a way for experienced modders and the like. You could edit the package name and it's manifest prevent it from overwriting the current app. I have no clue how to do this though. Another option is to find another device and just install it there. I think the latter would be a lot simpler and easier. Hope I helped!
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I may try to look through some things to do it. Whenever I unzip an apk, edit what I want, rezip it, change it to. Apk, and try to install it I get a parse error, though. It's extremely frustrating. And I only have the one device, unfortunately.

That parse error is because you edited the apk and didn't recompile and resign it. Look in Software Development for a tool to do those for you. Hope I helped!
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So after some serious research, I found that in TiBu, I could just turn the app into a multi user app and setup different data profiles for it and switch between them as I so desire.

You should have just checked your duplicate thread. I posted it in there yesterday. Lol.
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Oh. Sorry. Lol. I actually have been doing it for a couple days now but just got around to posting.

Rokonacdc said:
Oh. Sorry. Lol. I actually have been doing it for a couple days now but just got around to posting.
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Can u also tell me where it is?
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myaslioglu said:
Can u also tell me where it is?
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I certainly can. First, near the bottom on the main TiBu page it says active days profile, tap to switch. Tap that and create Two profiles. One for each account.
Then go to the backup/restore tab. Scroll down to the app you want to dup and tap it, swipe right, and click enable multiple profiles. Viola.
Now you can either go into TiBu and switch data profiles every time you want to switch accounts or simply create the TiBu data profile widget.
Let me know if you have any more problems.