Develop Bugs

[Q] m.xda-developers.com (mobile site) ??

How come one of the largest phone-related sites for android users and more, doesn't have their own Mobile site?
It's no fun viewing xda-developers.com on the phone atm. It gets to big and have to zoom all the time..
And I know about the XDA app. But you only get 'boring' text there..
No images/videos etc.
I know alot of people would appreciate a more simple site to view the news on our phones...
So, how come?
Can it be fixed?
Im not talking about the forum now, only news page- and other pages.

Yes! that'd be great!

We have XDA app and Taptalk for the Forum.
And there are Wordpress readers.
I do want a mobile version layout for the portal though.

If you are a member on XDA, it's likely that you have android or WP7 - they both have apps which make the XDA layout suitable for mobile browsing.

madnish30 said:
If you are a member on XDA, it's likely that you have android or WP7 - they both have apps which make the XDA layout suitable for mobile browsing.
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Even the iPhone users have tapatalk.
Herp derp Captivate XDA app.

Forum Runner is also compatible with xda

Maybe you guys should read again?
Im not talking about the forum, I'm using the xda app..
Im talking about the Portal/News site.. And as i said, I know you can read the news in xda-app but you only get boring text.

We're looking into doing a mobile-formatted Portal. The forums with a mobile view isn't as user-friendly as the XDA Apps, so we're not likely to do that soon.

Yeah the mobile forum app. See there's a problem with that. Its search function can't find anything! Doesn't work. Completely broken. Useless.
Try searching for "launcher 7" I got not one relevant result and I know there's plenty of threads with that in title. No option for in post or title only. No choosing which sub forums. Quotes don't work. Its tapatalk based right? It looks and feels like it. I never get searches to work in that app either. That needs fixing. I can't believe no one for all the Google it, and use the search, responses has noticed SEARCH DOESN'T WORK.

Maybe connecting with xda-developer app can be a good idea too.
but without considering about that, it would be a great idea to make a mobile web, too!

mobile-formated portal.
svetius said:
We're looking into doing a mobile-formatted Portal.
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Yes please! I've really come to enjoy the portal over the last few years and the information it provides to the extent that is is one of my bookmarked news sites. However, I've gone to 100% mobile for getting news and as a result, I mostly ignore the portal these days.
I may be wrong, but isn't there a simple plugin for generating a generic mobile view with image thumbnails/headers on top level and image and post text w/ comments on second click? It seems like most of the CMs I've looked at have something like that available... But I don't actually recall what is being used here...
There is also the downside of some plugins in that they do not give you any control over how a user selects which site version. The host server just looks at a user agent etc. and forces mobile content at them, even if they are using a tablet or larger screen. That never goes over very well...

YES ,this is good .
Then, I want to known if this site can be sufring by the mobile phone?

bump! lots of times the tapatalk app fails.. and the full view from mobile is a PITA

can keep track of every thing at any place at any time....

They should update the premium app for ics roms,

Now I know this can't be news....
https://www.vbulletin.com/docs/html/main/styles_mobile

Yes, that would be great.
I don't like to install apps in order to visit sites in mobile view.

the portal news can be read and viewed with GOOGLE READER and the xda RSS feed.
http://feeds.feedburner.com/xda-developers/ShsH

TRusselo said:
the portal news can be read and viewed with GOOGLE READER and the xda RSS feed.
http://feeds.feedburner.com/xda-developers/ShsH
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Who cares about the portal? I can watch the "news" sometime later when I get on a pc. What we need is the forums
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That's why there are mobile forum apps. XDA app and Forum Runner.
I think we have too many customised scripts etc that would make the mobile version difficult to implement.

[Suggestion] - Premium version with no ads

Is there any thought going on to have a premium membership without ads for xda.
I know majority wont agree but would love to browse the forum without ads and help the community with a premium version

Use the aPP
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Thats correct, we have an XDA Premium app on the Android Market which allows you to browse the Forum on Android phones and tablets ad free!
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.quoord.tapatalkxdapre.activity

svetius said:
Thats correct, we have an XDA Premium app on the Android Market which allows you to browse the Forum on Android phones and tablets ad free!
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.quoord.tapatalkxdapre.activity
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thanks. But i am aware of the app. But how about when using my computer ?
Currently i prefer using the app all the time becoz i can have 50 posts per page , viewing pics is better and so on.
I wish some of these features were included in the web version, atleast as a premimum feature.

You can set 50 posts-per-page in the browser, it's in the User CP somewhere. I love it, all those 100+ page threads magically turns into 20-pagers.

Ads.. They are on everything.

juzz86 said:
You can set 50 posts-per-page in the browser, it's in the User CP somewhere. I love it, all those 100+ page threads magically turns into 20-pagers.
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Thanks. I was looking for that but could not locate it.
Wow and today its there.

juzz86 said:
You can set 50 posts-per-page in the browser, it's in the User CP somewhere. I love it, all those 100+ page threads magically turns into 20-pagers.
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Thanks! Great suggestion

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!!
Sent from my SPH-D710 using xda premium
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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!!
Sent from my SPH-D710 using xda premium
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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!!
Sent from my SPH-D710 using xda premium
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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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Adfree Android not blocking ads within Dolphin HD

I'm not sure if it's a problem with my phone or the apps themselves. Does anyone know what I can do to remedy this problem?
Also sorry if I'm posting this in the wrong forum.
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my experience with adfree is, that this app filters not all ad´s. but a lot of. I think it is important what information is inside the host files which you must download. Maybe it is a good idea that you renew this file every day. Try it.

Jezrick said:
I'm not sure if it's a problem with my phone or the apps themselves. Does anyone know what I can do to remedy this problem?
Also sorry if I'm posting this in the wrong forum.
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If you want Ad-free app to block apps, then you must be download n installing the host files regularly...
Everyday, new adds are posted and Ad-free doesn't recognize that automatically...
So, open the app, select BOOT NORMALLY and select "DOWNLOAD & INSTALL HOSTS"
That shud keep those pestering ads away...

I found when using it that it also blocked web sites from loading like mediafire... Think because it its ad heavy.so you may find it causes other issues.
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Actually I do update it everyday. It filters everything else except for Dolphin HD.
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You might also want to consider AdAway from one of the Dev here on XDA. Available off the market Great host file collection. I usually update once a week.

fluxgfx said:
You might also want to consider AdAway from one of the Dev here on XDA. Available off the market Great host file collection. I usually update once a week.
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I love this app, totally recommend it!
iR¡[email protected]!* via Tapatalk 2

I've been using it for quite a while as well. Best one I've seen to far and even speedup some of my apps as they don't have to load ads from other sources. LOVE IT.

I've switched to Adaway. This is much better! I have one complaint, but it's a minute one. The ads are gone but the banners where they were are still there. Instead of an ad it just shows a message saying something about "not able to load." does anyone know how to get rid of that? It's not a huge issue but it'd be nice if it was gone.
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Jezrick said:
I've switched to Adaway. This is much better! I have one complaint, but it's a minute one. The ads are gone but the banners where they were are still there. Instead of an ad it just shows a message saying something about "not able to load." does anyone know how to get rid of that? It's not a huge issue but it'd be nice if it was gone.
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That depends entirely on the app.
If there's a placeholder for banners, nothing can remove it, but the developer himself.
iR¡[email protected]!* via Tapatalk 2

In Dolphin HD?? Damn I was hoping it'd be similar to Adblock Plus for GC and FF for the computer.
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maybe u can try lucky patcher
or LBE privacy guard available in market

Ice Stream app - "Wha Happened?"

Since yesterday, every link I click says the following:
"An error occurred while downloading information from IceFilms"
Using newest version. Uninstalled and reinstalled. Same
Anybody else?

I had a problem once with links saying not found. I was told to install a ad blocker which I did and it fixed it. You could try that
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No go. Adaway was installed and up to date already. Uninstalled and had same issue. Installed Adfree and same issue.

Same problem here. Since yesterday, same error message

ok. sorry you have this issue, but glad I'm not alone. I can't believe there isnt anything about this that I can find.

Have you emailed the developer? Could be server issues...could be copyright issues
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It's not on the market.. not sure who developer is. The normal site seems to be working fine. I thought it just used that for the app
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The app developer now has megastream pro I believe. He is probably not going to develop the icestream anymore as it would cut into any profit he could make. I hope im wrong as I love icestream
from my note 2

Yeah, what happened?
Is IceFilms down or is it the app?
Hope it's temporary, this app was my life!
Try asking Dev on ice films forum.
Edit:
Dev, 20 Oct
Hey Everyone, just wanted to apologize to everyone who's grown to love this app. Unfortunately my day job has been keeping me too busy to devote any real time to updating this app. However, I am still looking for any seasoned Java/Android developers who are willing to help out. If that's you, please drop me a line. In case I don't find anyone willing/able to help out or commit, I am hoping to release parts of this app's code. I'd love to release all the code to this app, however, large parts of it is commercial code that I can't make public. But I am planning on releasing the parts that seem to change constantly (ie: the parts that handle parsing the various file hosts' websites) so that anyone will be able to help out. It's gonna take a bit of time to change the project around to make that possible, but at least there's light at the end of the tunnel
Thanks,
Harry
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Link: http://forum.icefilms.info/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=58350&p=212211#p212211
Link: http://forum.icefilms.info/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=80927&sid=de6d826f180a143398199a3fbb8c1f2e
We need an app Dev to help with the project, quick!

Giving me an error also. Am I supposed to create a megaupload account?
truth is subjective, honesty is not

Megastream pro.. What is the process? Anybody know
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Could anyone give me a link to XDA thread or official website for MegaStream

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Could anyone give me a link to XDA thread or official website for MegaStream
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Try XBMC
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1813089
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BDR456 said:
Try XBMC
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1813089
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Haha, thought it was a paid streaming service like Netflix only in the US, will try.
So, could you tell me how to get IceFilms on it, I'm not very familiar with this stuff.

Oscar-Mark said:
Haha, thought it was a paid streaming service like Netflix only in the US, will try.
So, could you tell me how to get IceFilms on it, I'm not very familiar with this stuff.
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In the second post of that thread there is a link to a list of XBMC repos. One of them is for icefilms. The one you really want is 1channel, way better than icefilms.
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BDR456 said:
In the second post of that thread there is a link to a list of XBMC repos. One of them is for icefilms. The one you really want is 1channel, way better than icefilms.
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I agree 1 channel seems to work better than ice films usually. In addition, there are some android apps that come and go that access the sites 1channel index's. Recently there was one called tv portal that was just pulled and currently there is one called TV Stream
XMBC works well but last time i used it which was about month ago it absolutely kills batteries and loading plugins like 1 channel can take quite a while.
Also here is a good place to get ice stream although as others have said it is not currently working
http://slideme.org/application/ice-stream

XBMC is too advanced for me, and not optimized for touch.
But i found mega stream on 1Mobile Market (great app btw) and it's almost as simple as Ice Stream.

Any fix
same thing happening for me, I think it's a problem server-wise from icefilms, anybody have a fix yet for it though?

planarbox said:
same thing happening for me, I think it's a problem server-wise from icefilms, anybody have a fix yet for it though?
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Dev has shut down server for app, try Mega Stream (download from 1Mobile Market), XBMC or other website.
Or if you're a dev you could help the dev with the app.

Yeah, using icefilms.info and getting the rapidshare links..then posting them into megastream pro..that's the way i'm doing it.. it takes about 15 seconds longer than the old ice stream app way