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changing Useragent string

Hi
I have an HTC wizard branded by Vodafone.
And this little beast has a stupid Useragent which driects me to full blown websites on many occassions.
It is:
Vodafone/1.0/HTC_wizard/2.21.3.102/Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 4.01; Windows C
And I would like to change it to the Standard one:
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 4.01; Windows CE; PPC; 240x320)
Searching the Registry was no Success. Anybody Ideas?
BR
Daniel

User Agent
Use PIEPlus...
you can change it in there.
Charlie Grillo

Hi
Thank you for the advice.
I'm using MultiIE and it can do it aswell..
But I'm posting here because I want to know where I can configure it.
Sometimes I also want my Pocket PC to play a Series60 device ....
BR
Daniel

New mobile Gmail experience on Touch HD

For those who don't know google updated the gmail experience for iphone and Android phones and left us!!!
see http://googlemobile.blogspot.com/2009/04/gmail-gets-new-engine-for-iphone-and.html
They are probably working on a version for windows mobile devices. They better be!
But in the mean time, I wanted to get a slice of the action on my touch HD device, and I was thinking of changing the user agent for the browser so that gmail thinks opera mobile is safari.
If found this settings on the forum
Originally Posted by jeanne8fr View Post
"user prefs / custom user agent". Just copy / paste this string:
Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU like Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/420+ (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.0 Mobile/1A543 Safari/419.3
But it's not tailored for the touch hd screen.
Can someone with more experience, tell me how we could get this to work best.
Thanks.

Opera shows mobile view only on some sites

i got a problem with the preinstalled opera 9.5. on some sites it show only the mobile view and can`t be convinced to show the full desktop site. in the adress line there is then mobile.....com writen and i can`t change the mobile. youtube or google for example. is there a way to change this? (i unchecked the mobile view box in the settings). i also tried 9.7 beta. this one shows full desktop view but crash very often.

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for TP2 (sprint)

did u try to change your settings? in the address field type "about:config" and scroll down to user agent. change it to 2 or 3 (firefox or ie respectively). this should make websites recognize your browser differently. it should work for most sites.

first off, thank you for replying. I changed my user agent settings to both 2 and 3. no luck with either. I have to admit I don't which number coincides with which browser (firefox or ie). Any other suggestions??

nothing has worked for me either. I'm using Opera 9.5

You need to change your "custom user agent" string to something like this:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.3)
It's under "user preferences" in opera's "about:config".

Ok, thanks.
1st here is my string under that exact setting:
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible;MSIE 6.0; windows CE; IEMobile 8.12 MSIEmobile6.0) Sprint T7380.
I'm not sure what to edit.
i changed Mozilla/4.0 to 5.0 but wasnt sure what to leave or take away. thanks for helping.

meccadon123 said:
Ok, thanks.
1st here is my string under that exact setting:
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible;MSIE 6.0; windows CE; IEMobile 8.12 MSIEmobile6.0) Sprint T7380.
I'm not sure what to edit.
i changed Mozilla/4.0 to 5.0 but wasnt sure what to leave or take away. thanks for helping.
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The part in bold identifies your browser as being a "mobile" browser. See what I mean? There are sites that tell you how to "break down" the agent string.
http://www.zytrax.com/tech/web/browser_ids.htm
Go to this site in your mobile phone and see what it returns (it will show you your agent string):
http://webmaster.info.aol.com/browserjs.html
Then, go to the same site with your desktop and see what it returns (mine is below):
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.3) Gecko/20090824 Firefox/3.5.3
The trick is to "spoof" a desktop computer. So, you will want to research "user agent string" for Browsers.

Thanks again, used your string, worked like a charm. However i need flash for some websites. Any suggestions? Sprint TP2
Thanks again man, this was bugging me like crazy.

adobe flash lite
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=4397173&highlight=flash#post4397173

Thanks for link

its far from perfect, but its the best opera can do right now. if u still cant view the flash on the site u want, then i suggest u try the app skyfire. it is a browser that can handle most anything.
www.skyfire.com

haha, I was just about to chime back in. I unzipped into opera folder but no luck. I also found some generic flash cab install, no luck. Funny, i beta tested Skyfire on my 6800. I like opera better, i cant view NFL websites. They are still saying "need flash"...Grrr...thanks for the skyfire link and all the help. Some folks usually ignore threads like this, you all have been very helpful.

meccadon123 said:
haha, I was just about to chime back in. I unzipped into opera folder but no luck. I also found some generic flash cab install, no luck. Funny, i beta tested Skyfire on my 6800. I like opera better, i cant view NFL websites. They are still saying "need flash"...Grrr...thanks for the skyfire link and all the help. Some folks usually ignore threads like this, you all have been very helpful.
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the desktop youtube works for me with this.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=544770

Opera: How to view non mobile versions of the web!

I can't seem to find a way to make opera 9.7 automatically open web content as full desktop version instead of mobile versions.
For instance NYtime.com and cnn.com: How do I get opera to open these webpages as full desktop versions instead of the mobile versions?
I know opera 10 can do this right off the bat, but please don't mention opera 10. There is so many things I dislike about it (lets not talk about them in this thread).

use a custom user agent.
when you access a site your browser tells the site what browser it is. you can fake this, so your phone reports itself as (for example) firefox.
in opera go to
opera:config
scroll down to user prefs
scroll to custom user agent
poor your user agent of choice in there.

samsamuel said:
use a custom user agent.
when you access a site your browser tells the site what browser it is. you can fake this, so your phone reports itself as (for example) firefox.
in opera go to
opera:config
scroll down to user prefs
scroll to custom user agent
poor your user agent of choice in there.
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okay, under cust. user gent, this is my default settings:
HTC_Touch_HD2_T8585 Opera/9.70 (Windows NT 5.1; U; en)
I have tried to google up some other things but I cannot find anything that can change webpages such as nytimes.com and cnn.com into desktop versions.
The sad part is that those webpages dont have any link that say "view desktop version". This is ridiculous because the iphone can view these webpages normally in desktop version.
Can anyone confirm how they do theirs?

I too would love to know what exactly to replace that value with.
Thanks!

lemonspeakers said:
okay, under cust. user gent, this is my default settings:
HTC_Touch_HD2_T8585 Opera/9.70 (Windows NT 5.1; U; en)
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I think those default identify exactly that it's an HD2 and running Opera Mobile.
(I THINK..) Using this page and going down to the Opera section, you can change it to be anything as long as it's not the mobile agent id.
http://www.zytrax.com/tech/web/browser_ids.htm

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=601951&page=2
Have a look at Post 15, it's works for me, displays the full desktop sites using Opera 9.7

Opera seen as IPhone's Safari

Hi colleagues,
I would very much like to have the Safari browsing experience using my HD2 with Opera 9.7 installed.
The question is: is there any way to trick Opera in thinking it's Safari so that the IPhone optimized sites display the content as seen from Safari?
Thank you in advance for your help and I hope I made myself understood with my poor english.

ciolan said:
Hi colleagues,
I would very much like to have the Safari browsing experience using my HD2 with Opera 9.7 installed.
The question is: is there any way to trick Opera in thinking it's Safari so that the IPhone optimized sites display the content as seen from Safari?
Thank you in advance for your help and I hope I made myself understood with my poor english.
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Look up the user agent for the Safari browser and put that in the advanced options part of Opera.

You make it sound easy, I'm not saying it's not, I found Safari IPhone user agent : Mobile Safari 1.1.3 – iPhone but in opera:config under User agent I can only find Spoof User ID with a numeric option. What am I missing ?

no ideas ?

BLAST3RR said:
Look up the user agent for the Safari browser and put that in the advanced options part of Opera.
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this is a bad idea, iphone versions of webpages often take advantages of features only found on safari fro iphone. since oepra wont support those features you will just see badly format pages with links that your phone wont understand to video content and similar.
but if you really want to do it use opera 10 instead of opera as installed on the hd2 as it supports user agent changing.

Put this under custom user agent:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; es-US) AppleWebKit/531.22.7 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0.5 Safari/531.22.7
If you want a better one,use this one; safarri sucks.
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.3) Gecko/20100401 Firefox/3.6.3

lemonspeakers said:
Put this under custom user agent:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; es-US) AppleWebKit/531.22.7 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0.5 Safari/531.22.7
If you want a better one,use this one; safarri sucks.
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.3) Gecko/20100401 Firefox/3.6.3
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thank you very much. It worked like a charm !