The trick for changing useragent with about:debug doesnt work for me because I never see the UAString button in settings, although I see a lot of other new settings.
What to do? Alot of moronic sites send me to their mobile version, but does not give any link to the desktop version. CNN for example. And alot of flash sites too even though we have flash 10.1 now
Doesnt any feel to make a root hack that can change to any UA? It would make android a lot more open and better I think
Ok so I found on this forum that it is in froyo actually about:useragent
Not really digging the default android browser interface so what would you the xda-developers community (who know much more about phones than me lol) say is the best replacement browser. I have only tried Opera mobile so far and i think its brilliant but im sure their is something better. fyi Just wanting it for general browsing.
Dolphin Browser and Skyfire are very good alternatives.
Seem quite nice but cant download them atm , The market isnt letting me download anything :O
Opera mobile is my fav.
Likely since I got used to it on winmo, but I still think it is a good browser.
Note: Mobile, not mini...two different things even though they look similar.
I'm a huge xscope fan.
uZard, anyone?
I have not received my Defy yet (it is on its way), but I often run uZardWebP on my current WM6.1 phone. It can be found here. Not sure it it will work correctly, since the Defy' screen is 854x480 pixels, and uZard seems to be suitable for up to 800x480 only.
Anyone here to give it a try?
Cheers!
Carlos
Dolphin HD. I loves me it! I have a ton of bookmarks, and it's the only browser that remembers the last position when I go to the next bookmark after viewing a page. All the other ones go back to the top, and I have to scroll all the way back down the list.
Hello, hopefully someone can help me figure this out.
I would like to read comic books at the Marvel Digital Comics Unlimited site on my Desire running stock Froyo. The comics are accessed in a Flash viewer. An example free sample is marvel dot com /digitalcomics/view.htm?iid=5600
I have tried the stock browser, Dolphin HD, and Skyfire, all with pretty much the same result.
I can get comics to open and load in a flash viewer, and while I don't have great control over the interface, I can tap (or flick the scroll button) to turn pages. But after at most a page or two the viewer and the browser crash. I've tried similar sites such as Comixology (which now has an Android app, so less of an issue) and got the same result.
I'm not sure if this is down to RAM, cache, processor, or ??? - Can anyone help explain to me where the shortcoming is, and whether there are any suggested workarounds to get access to material like this?
Back when Froyo was announced and rolled out I was really excited that I would be able to access this site in particular, so have been sadly disappointed that Flash content other than video doesn't seem to work much on Android. Hopefully someone can help me get access on my Desire, and here's hoping stuff like this works on Gingerbread tablets in the future....
Thanks, John
It's a resource issue I would say. Desire isn't powerful enough to fully run it and so crashes. I tried it and it crashed for me. No idea about work arounds though other than use a PC.
Be aware that T-Mobile is now checking Browser User Agent strings and is apparently blocking those with various things in them -- "Cyanogen" being, apparently, one of them.
Guess how I found this out?
Opera and similar will still work (of course) but this is a particularly-evil thing for them to be doing, as it now means that if you develop up something you're going to have to take some care to EXACTLY match a stock browser ID or it's likely you'll get bounced.
They've used this trick for quite some time to detect tethering, but now it appears they're just denying PHONE strings that are perfectly legitimate and from actual PHONE firmware if it's not theirs.
I'm not sure what's happening but I was able to not only search for it but browse the cyanogenmod.com website. That's serious censorship stuff if TMO is actively blocking access selectively like that.
No no you're missing the point.
Your browser sends a "User Agent" string that the web server can use to customize for the sort of device you are. This is why some sites come up with a "mobile" interface optimized for a smaller screen.
Well, carriers can intercept that -- that's how they detect tethering if you go around their "tethering manager" garbage, incidentally. AT&T has done this for a long time and T-Mobile started doing it a few months ago.
As of this evening I got an error while testing a CM7 build on another device stating that my browser agent string was invalid. The only thing odd about it is that it identified as a T-Mobile device with a Cyanogen firmware build on it, and they refused to let it go through. Opera of course works as do other browsers, but the stock Android one was refused.
Very naughty, in my opinion, and this is going to make custom firmware a bit more fun as developers and such will have to "spoof" an official T-Mobile browser UA or they're likely to find it doesn't work at all.
download Miren browser, and move on.
Well yes, other browsers work fine. But this is just another kick in the nuts from the "T".
Genesis3 said:
Well yes, other browsers work fine. But this is just another kick in the nuts from the "T".
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Kick 'em right back in the nuts with the APN workaround.
Ok I dont understand your logic.
You can download Dolphin browser on a stock phone, and change the user agent to desktop, iphag, or custom...
This is a silly post because it dosnt mean youre rooted, tethering, or have a custom rom.
As for T-mobile governing you, its their equipment (switches, access points...) they can do what they want basically. We are here to find ways arround that.
Point being that it's just going to be another thing that people will have to deal with, and its pointless from a carrier perspective.
I can see them looking for the common laptop and desktop stuff and screaming "Tether!" if they find it, but barring an obvious mobile browser because it's not one of "theirs" is rather foolish -- and annoying.
tzbigworm said:
download Miren browser, and move on.
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Am I the only one who can't find Miren in the Android Market anymore? Weird.
fbueller said:
Am I the only one who can't find Miren in the Android Market anymore? Weird.
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It seems to be gone now. Search for black Miren browser on Google. That's what I did and the black version is awesome.
This does not happen for me I'm the self alpha cm rom. I can get to any website just fine. Using the stock cm browser. I even installed cm on another device. It still works.
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I just had an issue with this for the first time a day ago.
Using opera, I tried to visit my bank and kept getting blocked/redirected to a wifi tethering uosell page. Also, tethering stopped working.
Rebooted, opera is working again, but no wireless or usb tethering.
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No no you're missing the point.
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Actually I do understand the need to prevent unauthorized tethering. My comment was pointed directly at the censoring of specific websites which appears to be happening to the OP. TMO has the right to block unauthorized tethering but to wall off specific sites is an entirely different animal. Sorry I wasn't clear in my original reply.
Cheers
When doing about:debug in the stock browser on 2.3.6, I couldn't even find the setting to change the UA string. I think they removed it?
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When doing about:debug in the stock browser on 2.3.6, I couldn't even find the setting to change the UA string. I think they removed it?
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It is about:useragent in Samsung phones.
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Eh this is lame. T-Mobile is doing some really lame things now.
Can someone tell me how to replicate this? I am on a custom ROM and can browse Cyanogenmod.com website just fine.
I use Opera Mobile and Firefox Mobile with desktop user agent strings and have no problems. Then again I haven't tethered in months.
To those that think webpages are being censored you're misunderstanding; when you browse on a mobile device there is a little bit of code that tells the webpage what kind of device you're on and what software its running. This is called a user agent. Tmobile has started blocking devices on custom software (read roms) from accessing the web at all. This will only happen on roms that have had the user agent modified for example cyanogenmod.
It is not a censorship issue its a net neutrality issue.
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that doesn't sound likely at ALL.. it sounds more like a glitch than anything else.
Hi Guys
I've tried so many different browsers, in the hope i would find one as good as the stock samsung offering, only with the option of importing/syncing bookmarks, but every one seems to have a fatal flaw that means i always come back to Stock. I've also just tried the new Firefox Beta, but found the font really ugly, and so another challenger falls by the wayside.
Well it matters not anymore, for a splendid chap by the name of cb56 has developed a superb little app that lets you import .htm files. It works in the stock browser and even supports folders! I've just tested it and can confirm it works a treat. Here's a link to his thread here on xda:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1387858
I'm using the free version, but in order for it to work you need to change the permissions for /data/data/com.android.browser/databases/browser.db by checking all the 'Other' boxes.
Enjoy!
Just thought i'd post this in the hope it helps out others.