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Opera8.5 beta2 released!New tab-browsing feature

Pretty cool tabs!No annoying expiring-promption any more.And faster.but you still need some hack to opera.ini to move the cache files to your card.
:? Just wonder why opera still insistes on allocating the cache in the rom.
Check website:http://www.opera.com/products/mobile/products/winmobileppc/
Some pics on my wizard.
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"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}

sweet! lokking goode m8!

I just really like to know how to reduce the top address bar to QVGA :? and set the Display a lower % (example 90% or 75%) as default.

Been waiting for this. I may even purchase it at the expiry date!!! From first impressions and usage, this is the best 3rd party browser yet... I just wish there were more options like the ability to 'save as' a picture, like you can in PIE. Or background loading of tabs (as in firefox) and options for where to store downloaded files and cache.. i.e. I want to store them all on the storage card..
SORT IT OUT PLEASE.. Lets not make a opera out of it!!!

Hi
I'm trying to use Opera without a GPRS connection, ie using the usb cable connected to my pc. The problem is that it fails to connect.
Does anyone have any idea's?
Thanks in advance
Nick

Slippy Nick said:
Hi
I'm trying to use Opera without a GPRS connection, ie using the usb cable connected to my pc. The problem is that it fails to connect.
Does anyone have any idea's?
Thanks in advance
Nick
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Mine seems to be working when connected through Activesync. Great program so far. So much faster to load than Netfront and more full featured than PIE.

MiniMo will be better (it already works with Google Maps) but there's still a lot to be done. Opera follows suit with Explorer by taking columns of data and presenting them in a single column. For sites like this one, that means a LOT of scrolling up & down. You can choose not to fit to the screen, but then you have a lot of left/right scrolling too.
We really just need some 800x600 Universal-style devices with accelerated 2D chips...

I tried this on my wizard but it seems that the font on the address bar is not properly displayed. It looks like some weird language when i write on the address bar. Anybody experience this?

I'm experiencing the strange text as well, reminds me of the old "Dingbats" system font, just a bunch of symbols. Maybe we can find our common factor here, I'm running the new AKU2 rom without the ext rom installed (I tried mucking with it, which deleted it, and then did a hard reset).
EDIT: Mysteriously switched to a usable font, unfortunately I have no idea why

it so much better then then IE its not even funny

Yes i am using the new Aku2 Imate Rom without extended rom. How could you make yours working.

I'd like to try it but don;t want a full Vario. What is the ini hack to put cache on sd? Is there maybe a thread discussing Opera an tweaks somewherer?

I'd like to try it but don;t want a full Vario. What is the ini hack to put cache on sd? Is there maybe a thread discussing Opera an tweaks somewherer?

Obnoxious Little Problem Caused By Opera 9.5 Beta...

Opera 9.5 Beta has caused A LOT of small problems on my Titan/Mogul. It's logo has replaced many of my other application's logos, and has also changed many of the file associations to Opera. Most of which make no sense... [Ex.) .mp3, .avi & .doc are now associated with Opera] The most annoying thing is that, until I deleted it, my Video Sties (FlashVideoBundle) icon changed to the Opera Icon as well, and would only open in Opera.
Okay, so I found the FINAL Opera 9.5 Beta file and got rid of it. However, my FlashVideoBundle is still not working correctly. As you can see, it is repped as just a file, when it should have the PIE Logo in the corner of the little page icon. You can see in the 2nd picture the message I get when I tap on Video Sites... Any ideas AT ALL?! I would really like my Video SItes to open using PIE again. It's just so much easier, ya know?!
Thanks in advance...
-W&P
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"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}

in the hacking section there is a program by schapps tht will allow you to redo file associations. give it a try see if that helps. also where di youfid the final version of opera, as i only found 9.33

How the hell do I even uninstall the application --
It's getting me frustrated because theres no uninstall option and I know for a fact I installed it onto the memory card but I see folders that were installed onto the devices memory.

just goto the properties of .html .xml and all other files that you see th O in and change the association to PIE in the \windows directory....
thats all i did for mine and all is well again...

Looks like we may be sticking with Opera Mini 4 & NetFront 3.5 for a bit longer...

Schaps Advanced Configurator
scoobdude said:
in the hacking section there is a program by schapps tht will allow you to redo file associations. give it a try see if that helps. also where di youfid the final version of opera, as i only found 9.33
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Try this out.

Opera 9.5 really screwed me up too. File Asspciations
Same issue, I'm trying to revert my default browser to Pocket IE so I can use the FlashVideo cab after the Opera 9.5 beta took association.
I used the File Association tool and that worked to revert the Video Sites Icon to a Internet explorer icon from an Opera Icon and it launches PIE now, but now when I launch the Video Sites Icon the address bar reads:
http://"/Storage%20Card/Program%20Files/TCPMP/sites/videosites.htm"
And PIE shows:
Bad Request
Your browser sent a request that this server could not understand.
Client sent a malformed Host header
I know this is because the file association now wants to open this as a web site and not a local file, but I don't know where to go to set it back the way it was.
Help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance all

Reason why I'm ditching Froyo and returning to r22 alpha of Modaco's desire port.

1) The browser doesn't have a way to force desktop versions of sites. Even with about:debug some sites will not allow it to view the desktop versions. This renders flash useless for me because the reason I wanted flash so bad was because I wanted to watch the Daily Show on my phone. And that website doesn't fall for about:debug while hulu does.
2) can't stand the one blink per 15 seconds notification light rate. (i know this will be remedied soon by some app)
3) can't install HTC_ime keyboard (im sure this will be fixed soon)
4) no pinch to zoom on mobile websites.
5) protected apps like documents to go are not working right. I paid good money for that app and I need it to work. I don't need just a document viewer but an editor. I'm sure that will be fixed soon but its not fun having an app that you paid 15 bucks for not working.
6) the very nice text selection method in the desire port.
7) Sense UI and all the great HTC widgets of course but I can't really fault Froyo for that.
I'll wait for Paul's next desire port with Froyo's additions. Until then I'll stick with r22 of the desire port.

try rotating the phone and then refreshing the page to make it load as desktop view..it worked for me

HTC Sense Keyboard is already working (except the voice to text bit).
Well I just moved from r22 to froyo and I think i will stick to froyo. I really miss the nice large contact photo's, favorites widget and a few other sense stuff, but FLASH 10.1 is a dealbreaker for me. My own website finally looks great on the phone, made it using Flash ofcourse.

my car charger stopped working when i updated to froyo.
i did a nandroid restore to my CM 5.0.6 and it worked just fine.
i dont understand...haha.

Um... I had NO problem watching Daily Show on CC's website. I'm stock.
You just go to the bottom of the "mobile" page and click on "desktop" page, then scroll down the left side and click on full episode under Daily Show.

1) The browser doesn't have a way to force desktop versions of sites. Even with about:debug some sites will not allow it to view the desktop versions. This renders flash useless for me because the reason I wanted flash so bad was because I wanted to watch the Daily Show on my phone. And that website doesn't fall for about:debug while hulu does.
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You sure about that?
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"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
3) can't install HTC_ime keyboard (im sure this will be fixed soon)
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Soon?
How about already done
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=624416
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.p...;postcount=1884
4) no pinch to zoom on mobile websites.
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I don't think pinch to zoom ever worked on mobile sites. That's the whole point of a mobile site! (No zooming needed!)

paul gets a cookie for that owning

If he gets a cookie every time that happens, he's getting fat.

I am unable to get the desktop site to show and I have turned the phone horizontally. Is there something else I need to do?

TheRealEdwin said:
I am unable to get the desktop site to show and I have turned the phone horizontally. Is there something else I need to do?
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If it's comedy central, just scroll to the bottom and click on the link for the full desktop site.

TheRealEdwin said:
I am unable to get the desktop site to show and I have turned the phone horizontally. Is there something else I need to do?
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Did you change your UAString?
If not, check it out! http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=686765

Paul22000 said:
Did you change your UAString?
If not, check it out! http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=686765
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That's one way to do it... but it's totally not necessary on CC's site... at least not to watch Daily Show or the Colbert Report. I tested both earlier and no problem. You just need to select the full desktop site from the bottom of the mobile page because the links to those shows doesn't show up on the mobile version.

uansari1 said:
That's one way to do it... but it's totally not necessary on CC's site... at least not to watch Daily Show or the Colbert Report. I tested both earlier and no problem. You just need to select the full desktop site from the bottom of the mobile page because the links to those shows doesn't show up on the mobile version.
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Yup. The only site I know of requiring that is Hulu.

I'm happy to be corrected and note the corrections, no need to say "owning" and all that..
Anyways, when I did the UAS string fix and went to comedy central, and yes I went to the bottom of the screen to click dektop site or whatever, it worked but it still told me I needed to download flash player even though I already had it and it worked on other sites like dailymotion, and hulu. Maybe I need to try the rotate the screen idea, and I'll be glad if that works. That's good news if it does.
Pinch to zoom on mobile sites like m.facebook.com was helpful, it didn't zoom the whole thing, just made the font bigger, while keeping the same column format. It was useful to me. If it works in this then that's great.
And if the HTC_IME keyboard is having problems with voice to text input, then it's not fully working. I use that feature and find it very handy.
I still feel the text selection method is important as I am often copying and pasting stuff between emails and browser and chats. Its very nicely implemented in the desire port.
And yes I did reinstall docs 2 go multiple times. I know it will be fixed soon if not already, it was just a pain in the ass to first not see any of the apps I have downloaded in my "Downloads" on the market, and then to not have my most expensive app not work right.
And I love the native widgets of the sense UI.
I'm glad to hear that the flash is working and the keyboard are working, this is good news. I still feel that until there is a desire port with froyo capability, I'll wait.

If you need to either documents. You should get a winmo phone. Its why all of mine were winmo before.
But I rarely edited docs.

I went back to 2.1 (Cy's latest 5.0.8) because of:
- speed is really not all that different - at least not in the apps i'm running and the way the unit operates.
- battery life is a bit better
- trackball wake up - c'mon froyo....
- latest 720p video
- picture resize - they are locked in 1.2 mb in froyo...and I can get them as small as 130kb in 2.1
- always liked Cy's roms, anyway. WAiting for his froyo, I'm sure all tweaks will have been worked out - soon

how do you turn off mobile view with native browser?

I may just be missing this, but how do you turn off mobile view for websites using the native browser?
thanks in advance

I am looking for the answer to this too. I have searched high and low to no avail. Anyone have any luck with this?
Sent from my SGH-T959 using XDA App

dcam1075 said:
I am looking for the answer to this too. I have searched high and low to no avail. Anyone have any luck with this?
Sent from my SGH-T959 using XDA App
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Same here and no luck myself.....love the browser but can't stand the default mobile view...
The answer? Download skyfire browser from market....on the Vibrant it appears that Skyfire just layers over regular browser (both run simutaneously) and you can still use the regular "Web" icon, but with the skyfire settings.....i'm using it and loving it right now

The phone's default user agent is set to "mobile device" or something like that. Someone needs to either mod the browser to allow different user agents, like desktop browser, or needs to port over Loccy's browser.
Or you can use Steel, Dolphin, etc...

I posted this reply in a thread on the T-Mobile.com forums, so just in case it helps someone here, I'm copying and pasting...
Caution: We tried googling for a solution to enable desktop mode by default on the browser and found instructions on a few sites that had you enter "about:debug" in the browser address field, then hitting go, then going into Menu > More > Settings and scrolling to the bottom where you'd see another set of options under "Debug." From there, you would change UAString to "Desktop", however, this resulted in the browser crashing every time it was loaded.
We had to Hard Reset to get browser functionality back.
Note, I had heard a guy mention having the same experience in a Youtube video a while back when trying to change this setting on the unlocked Galaxy, but I was kinda hoping I'd get lucky with the Vibrant.​

cashless said:
The phone's default user agent is set to "mobile device" or something like that. Someone needs to either mod the browser to allow different user agents, like desktop browser, or needs to port over Loccy's browser.
Or you can use Steel, Dolphin, etc...
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The Phone's User Agent is :
Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; U; Android 2.1-update1; en-us; SGH-T959 Build/ECLAIR) AppleWebKit/530.17 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Mobile Safari/530.17
So basically the websites simply look for Android in that and say oh that's a phone, give them the mobile site.

try entering "about:debug" in the address field. Then go to browser settings. You should see an option where you can change the user agent to "desktop".

about:debug will make your browser crash all the time and then you have to clear the data for the browser in manage application to get it to work again. It doesn't work.

lpaddikt said:
about:debug will make your browser crash all the time and then you have to clear the data for the browser in manage application to get it to work again. It doesn't work.
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How do i clear the browser data. It doesn't show up in the list of apps when I go to manage applications
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dublued said:
How do i clear the browser data. It doesn't show up in the list of apps when I go to manage applications
Sent from my Samsung Vibrant using XDA App
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in manage applications press menu again and you will see running apps, 3rd party apps and all apps... select all apps and you will be able to see all apps on phone to manage data, clear caches, and restore defaults and such

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in manage applications press menu again and you will see running apps, 3rd party apps and all apps... select all apps and you will be able to see all apps on phone to manage data, clear caches, and restore defaults and such
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OR you can go the easy route and click the menu button while the browser is open, click on more and settings..

Tairen said:
OR you can go the easy route and click the menu button while the browser is open, click on more and settings..
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"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}

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In other news, if you lock your keys in the car the solution is simple: just unlock the door! Haha reading comprehension fail.

any luck on this?

Consider Dolphin Browser HD
I can see no drawback at all in using Dolphin Browser HD on this phone. It didn't perform too well on the G1. But works great on the Vibrant. Gestures, tabbed browsing, mobile view/desktop view, plugins etc.
http://www.appbrain.com/app/mobi.mgeek.TunnyBrowser

Some of us prefer stock

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Some of us prefer stock
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Agreed, dolphin runs like poo compared to stock.
Sent from my SGH-T959 using XDA App

does anyone knows how to port the cm6 browser ?

Is there anyway to do this from a command line if you have it rooted?

ohmyggg said:
I posted this reply in a thread on the T-Mobile.com forums, so just in case it helps someone here, I'm copying and pasting...
Caution: We tried googling for a solution to enable desktop mode by default on the browser and found instructions on a few sites that had you enter "about:debug" in the browser address field, then hitting go, then going into Menu > More > Settings and scrolling to the bottom where you'd see another set of options under "Debug." From there, you would change UAString to "Desktop", however, this resulted in the browser crashing every time it was loaded.
We had to Hard Reset to get browser functionality back.
Note, I had heard a guy mention having the same experience in a Youtube video a while back when trying to change this setting on the unlocked Galaxy, but I was kinda hoping I'd get lucky with the Vibrant.​
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Tried that myself last week, easy solution is go to manage applications, filter ALL apps and look for the browser app and just hit reset/clear or something like that. Didn't have to reset device.

Movie/TV Stream sites that work with Froyo

I thought it would be a good idea to get together a list of sites that offer stream of TV and or movies that since the Froyo update with flash support now bring this content to our phone. If we could also confirm if it can be used with
Working
http://www.tvcatchup.com
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"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
- live TV streams for many fti channels, available UK only
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer
- offers ondemand BBC TV and Radio blue various BBC live TV UK Only
http://www.lovefilm.com
- all ondemand paid and free items (subscription dependant) work fine
http://www.youtube.com
- Though the youtube app works fine you don't normally have access to the BBC, Channel 4 etc programs which are now accessable via the site.
http://www.five.tv/watch -
- Works but sometimes I find video streams can be "sluggish"
http://www.channel4.com/programmes/4od
- Plays all content like many best performance in full screen.
http://video.uk.msn.com/ -
- You must set your user Agent to Desktop to be able to use this site
Not Working
http://www.itv.com/itvplayer/ on 3G & WIFI directs you to a WAP version where you can just download video segments of previous programs, the page looks hardly supported.
http://www.virginmedia.com/player - Detects youre on a mobile and states not availble, their are rumours android support is coming??
Unable to test Sky Player but I presume that works maybe subscription based like iphone?
In some instances there are "APPs" available to allow connection to some of the above sites. BBC for example their is a 3rd part app called mplayer which does work on wifi and 3g but the streams are lower quality then the bbc site direct.
Also if you find a brower that works properly with User agents you maybe able to use some of the listed sites as not working though each browser I have tested with user agent support when selecting "desktop" some sites like virginmedia still default to a mobile version.
So there you go please feel free to add your own, im sure there are things like appltv, zune, etc that may work I just don't use any of these :d

Doing some testing and you can get http://video.uk.msn.com/ working if you change the User Agent to Desktop. Tested this in Dolphin HD and it works fine. Sadly though Virginmedia still detects the brower as a mobile version and shows a mobile view. Weirdly so do google.

Emexrulsier said:
Doing some testing and you can get http://video.uk.msn.com/ working if you change the User Agent to Desktop. Tested this in Dolphin HD and it works fine. Sadly though Virginmedia still detects the brower as a mobile version and shows a mobile view. Weirdly so do google.
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I tested this using Steel (browser available via the android market). Set it to Desktop user agent and it works just fine. I'm using JK3 Froyo on the Bell network (Canada).