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Does anyone happen to have a beta for skyfire?
Thanks, let me know
icewhitenewyear said:
Does anyone happen to have a beta for skyfire?
Thanks, let me know
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Even if the cab was released, I'm pretty sure it checks your phone number anyway, considering the way the browser works is completely server side.
Here is your cab and all I did was use the search function... You should try it!!!! 10th tab from the left and 3rd from the right!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=378549
As mentioned above, you need to be registered for the beta and they are the ones that allow you to use it.
i'm near fed up with the skyfire beta.
i signed up January 28 (day ONE!) at about 3pm, and still have not receieved an invitation to the beta. They claim to be going first-come, first-serve, but if that's the case, a hell-of-a-lot of people signed up within hours of hearing about it.
They just sent me an update email, saying they'll try to get everyone in Beta 1 by the end of April.
Also, I see no reason to be fed up, considering they're providing you this service. They don't actually owe you anything, let's remember.
met3ora said:
They just sent me an update email, saying they'll try to get everyone in Beta 1 by the end of April.
Also, I see no reason to be fed up, considering they're providing you this service. They don't actually owe you anything, let's remember.
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ummmm...... yea what he say
he really does have a point tho
Ive had the software for a little over 2 weeks now and unfortunetely im extremely unimpressed. The software is incredibly slow on my mogul. The only plus side I have to using this software is to watch you tube videos which Core Player already does in a much easier to usse interface. I'll get back to it once Beta 2 rolls around.
i also signed up on the first day and just got invited to use it a few days ago. i wouldn't worry too much, as mentioned before its really not that good. picture this... remote desktop on someone elses server, with sound, thats it. Its no opera mini, but its coming along slowly. Honestly its really not worth waiting for until version 1.0, and their on .5 still.
I got my invite about a week ago. And btw, i am from Finland. So they now allow non-us people too.
I love it. It's slow to browse but:
- Internet map-services work! A local one has sharper satellite pictures
- I can wach CNETTV.com! Picture isnt that good but audio comes always clear. (it also saves the zoom location on bookmarks. So i just click the bookmark and watch)
- Internet radio stations work! The ones that are flash. (like http://www.finetune.com/wii/ )
- I noticed that it also has atleast .wmv plugin installed on the server-side. So you can play direct-video links too.
I've had it for about 2 weeks, and I think it definitely will be the best browser when all the bugs are worked out. It can render basically any page on the internet perfectly. If you go to Youtube, for instance, it looks as if you went there in IE or Firefox on your regular computer. All of the flash stuff works. Google maps? Yes, you can use street view mode, and it's pretty snappy too.
It has two modes for touch input, which I will call cursor mode and hand mode (that's what the icons look like). This way, you can decide if you want to pan the entire webpage with hand mode or if you want to interact directly with a zoomed in flash applet with the cursor mode.
I signed up for the beta a few months back.
Tyman07 said:
**** skyfire!!
and i knew that there was a camera..
i just knew he wanted to ski on the pony
wtf!
take the sim card out..
plz
it works wonders
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wat?
phd48 said:
wat?
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dont break ur head over it mate , i am sure he dosent know what he tried to say back there..
More ranting about Skyfire found here; http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=378549
Over at this 31 page thread, you can gauge your sign up times with other users, and guess where you are on the list. Skyfire is just going in order of people who signed up, and it looks like they are still sending out invites to people who signed up on the first day still, jan 28th!
There is more info throughout
http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=19336&highlight=skyfire&page=31
yes i have it and you cant get it ...j/k.....its a good browser but I have some reservations..one security....logging into sites that require passwds is not recommeneded with the browser as it is not secure....and the whole video thing is cool but its like logging into my pc using logmein and watching video...choppy....but I think the will improve on it...my 2 cents
my new iconset is out: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=378260
Hi Guys, just thought id post my thoughts on the Leo.
Ive been using mine now for over 2 weeks having come from an N95(and several failed attempts at finding something I liked inbetween including various iphones, N97 etc etc) so to the thoughts.,
The screen for me was a bit tricky as many have said before, I have huge hands, but decided to persevere.
Has to be said that after about a 10 day period typing messages etc became much easier, after 2 weeks it was brilliant, but then came the eureka moment, which it has to be said was'nt good for me, but telling all the same.
After flashing the ROM, the typing experience became similar to a fair proportion of others on here, infuriating!
Now thinking logicly about it, I decided it couldn't be the screen as was fine before, only thing changed was the ROM, so was software, tried a screen align, hmmm, worse still, did it again, slightly better, but still no cigar, went and checked settings and set to how id had it before, no vibrate(seems to fubar typing), keyboard click on, screen click on, correct as you type on, complete words in both XT9 and ABC both on and did screen align again, now zoila, its better than before(after another screen align) no more false inputs although xt9 has to learn my vocab again(annoying) but it really is a revelation.
Now the only thing annoying me is the long sms list issue (although partialy sorted by selecting all messages and going in through WM)
Can I just add, absolutely epic site guys and thanks to all those that spend there own time making the WM experience better for all!!
Noooo! you've got it all wrong. You're supposed to try typing for 5 minutes, throw your toys out the pram and go buy an iPhone.. *then* come on to xda developers and post a nice long rant about how poor the entire phone / windows mobile is (bonus points for expletives and spelling mistakes).
Fixing problems in an intelligent, logical manner? whatever next?!
I just got my HTC HD2 from Royal Mail. Everything seems to be working flawlessly. The screen is just gorgeous and the navigation is really smooth and snappy. The videos online really do not do it justice.
I've just got a few of questions. I heard that Opera does not support flash, is this true? and will this change in the future?
I tried using IE to open youtube but it doesn't seem to play anything. It has the flash 9 logo and that's it. How do I play videos via the web browser?
Also, when I open up IE it says that it connects using my data plan and I may get charged. Does it not work over WiFi?
I'm just uploading files onto it right now but yes, this device has had my jaw on the floor since I opened the packaging. By far the best phone I have ever owned.
StrangeReality said:
I just got my HTC HD2 from Royal Mail. Everything seems to be working flawlessly. The screen is just gorgeous and the navigation is really smooth and snappy. The videos online really do not do it justice.
I've just got a few of questions. I heard that Opera does not support flash, is this true? and will this change in the future?
I tried using IE to open youtube but it doesn't seem to play anything. It has the flash 9 logo and that's it. How do I play videos via the web browser?
Also, when I open up IE it says that it connects using my data plan and I may get charged. Does it not work over WiFi?
I'm just uploading files onto it right now but yes, this device has had my jaw on the floor since I opened the packaging. By far the best phone I have ever owned.
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Opera doesn't support flash.
Use the You Tube app already on your handset, it works perfectly.
For playing videos within your browser, download the Skyfire browser for free. I don't like the interface and therefore only use it when I have to but it supports flash and you can play videos and surf for porn on it lol.
gamma500. looks like you still need to find the return key (aka as enter key) as this is the only thing missing in your message. Or did you type it on a PC keyboard, and is the return key (aka as enter key) broken?
sunking101 said:
Opera doesn't support flash.
Use the You Tube app already on your handset, it works perfectly.
For playing videos within your browser, download the Skyfire browser for free. I don't like the interface and therefore only use it when I have to but it supports flash and you can play videos and surf for porn on it lol.
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I don't have the youtube app, where can I find it? I got my phone from T-Mobile UK if that helps. And I thought IE did support flash?
StrangeReality said:
I don't have the youtube app, where can I find it? I got my phone from T-Mobile UK if that helps. And I thought IE did support flash?
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Opera doesn't support flash and IE only has 'flashlite' which isn't suitable for playing video. You will need to download Skyfire but the You Tube app will be in your start menu - press the icon at the top left of the screen or the windows button in the middle at the bottom - then scroll through the icons.
sunking101 said:
Opera doesn't support flash and IE only has 'flashlite' which isn't suitable for playing video. You will need to download Skyfire but the You Tube app will be in your start menu - press the icon at the top left of the screen or the windows button in the middle at the bottom - then scroll through the icons.
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I don't have it pre-installed, is there somewhere I can get it? It's wierd that they didn't include it. Is anybody here on T-Mobile UK who has it pre-installed?
Dont have a HD2 ...yet! But from what I have read Youtube is not included on the T-Mobile handset.
Thanks Christonabike, personally don't see the merit in ranting, seldom effective in sorting issues and htc-hd2, in an effort to be cloggy friendly have inserted a few returns just for you!
StrangeReality said:
I don't have it pre-installed, is there somewhere I can get it? It's wierd that they didn't include it. Is anybody here on T-Mobile UK who has it pre-installed?
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http://rapidshare.com/files/309160325/YouTube_Player_-_WVGA_-_800x480.cab
Fantastic! Disabling the vibrate response was one of the best things I could do! I can actually type for long periods of time with little errors and the XT9 and ABC is working great now, I didn't realise it could learn... so have been typing in all of my Northern Irish phrases that we use over here!
I'm happy once again, I'm really starting to love this phone; was a bit doubtful at the start and was thinking my N95 8gb looked like a good option to go back to but my faith is growing in this device by the day!
Once again to OP, thanks!
It Just gets better with time Rossimac, which only became apparent after having flashed the ROM and thereby losing two weeks of it.
I just found someone that was able to find a bandaid for the youtube issue...
My CDMA Hero is one of the many phones that will not play more than 90% of the videos on youtube...
I have tested it and it does work!
http://androidforums.com/sprint-htc-hero/37733-youtube-workaround-fix.html
I hope it helps you all out!!!!
PS... sorry if this have be said before!
The reason that Youtube-videos doesn't work on the Hero is that HTC have used Flash Lite 3.x which isn't compatible with Flash 10... and Youtube uses only Flash 10...
i have a gsm hero and when a video doesnt work i just click it over n over until it works, and it does work after 2-4 tries
I am new to this issue with the youtube app. But when people say it doesn't work do they mean they get the error message saying "Cannot play video: Sorry, the video cannot be played."?
Because I have found that if I press and hold on the video then click view it works 100% of the time for me.
If that isn't the case then just ignore this.
I used to have issues when i bought my phone but since i updated the firmware to the latest version the phone runs faster and is happy to play all youtube items.
dr_lovejoy said:
I am new to this issue with the youtube app. But when people say it doesn't work do they mean they get the error message saying "Cannot play video: Sorry, the video cannot be played."?
Because I have found that if I press and hold on the video then click view it works 100% of the time for me.
If that isn't the case then just ignore this.
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Wow, thanks man!
It works about 99% of the time for me now.
NordicZz said:
Wow, thanks man!
It works about 99% of the time for me now.
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Glad it worked. I hope they fix it with the new update and of course the landscape Google search.
get.skyfire.com/dl_android.php
I can't get/find it on the market (in UK) and the apk download link on their site does not work.
Anyone manage to download it, can you please post the apk on here.
tried buddy not working when you go to the market or website it doesn't bring up nothing. They must have pulled it.
tried hard but not getting it in Germany also
even the download page is not working on my computer also
they have put up a barcode also
I'm going to hope this was an indication of it coming later today or tomorrow.. Windows Mobile people seem to really enjoy this browser, and Im hoping it can be enjoyed all the same on Android.
Anyone in the US tried getting it from the market?
Skyfire was the best browser for WM. It had flash before flash even came to windows mobile. I'm in the US and couldn't find Skyfire in the market.
Eclair~ said:
I'm going to hope this was an indication of it coming later today or tomorrow.. Windows Mobile people seem to really enjoy this browser, and Im hoping it can be enjoyed all the same on Android.
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That's because of the abomination that is the stock browser on winmo.
Again, i am from new york and i tried its not up on their servers.
Skyfire is the ****! Full flash support on my old wm phone with skyfire. Im sure it will have full flash support just like the wm version. Cant wait to test this out.
Edit: It does support flash
Supports Flash web video with patent-pending adaptive streaming technology for smooth playback
Pinch to zoom (on Android 2.0 and above)
Multi-tab browsing - open up to eight windows and browse simultaneously using visual tabs
Choose to load full desktop webpages or mobile optimized versions
Clear session history easily upon exit to maintain anonymous browsing
well it kinda does, according to the video the new skybar feature allows you to view vids on a great number of sites, the one they mentioned in the vid was espn.com.
Still very promising and looks great! Hope their download server will be able to handle everyong trying to grab the file at once as word is spreading about the page being up.
shep211 said:
Skyfire is the ****! Full flash support on my old wm phone with skyfire. Im sure it will have full flash support just like the wm version. Cant wait to test this out.
Edit: It does support flash
Supports Flash web video with patent-pending adaptive streaming technology for smooth playback
Pinch to zoom (on Android 2.0 and above)
Multi-tab browsing - open up to eight windows and browse simultaneously using visual tabs
Choose to load full desktop webpages or mobile optimized versions
Clear session history easily upon exit to maintain anonymous browsing
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It supports Flash video, as they seem to wont say "Flash" without saying "video" after it. I'm hoping though I'm not just thinking too critically, full blown Flash would be nice.
y2whisper said:
well it kinda does, according to the video the new skybar feature allows you to view vids on a great number of sites, the one they mentioned in the vid was espn.com.
Still very promising and looks great! Hope their download server will be able to handle everyong trying to grab the file at once as word is spreading about the page being up.
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On the wm version I watched hulu, break & casttv with no issues.
shep211 said:
On the wm version I watched hulu, break & casttv with no issues.
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Yeah it seems to run differently then on the wm version
I don't know how reputable it is, but midsofts dot com has some links for skyfire up. The site seems a little shady to me.
skyfire has replied asking to check back in an hour and they are in process of building latest version
Installed ok and testing now.
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=51A6LL3B
Edit: Not full flash support like wm version
i got it! It works and works well!
It is Beta tho
chowdarygm said:
skyfire has replied asking to check back in an hour and they are in process of building latest version
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Thanks for the update, if its newer than whatever that is thats floating around, they might shut those down and force you to update
shep211 said:
Installed ok and testing now.
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=51A6LL3B
Edit: Not full flash support like wm version
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For some reason I knew that..
Thanks for the APK!!!
Have not been able to get Hulu videos to load, may wait for the version from their site and update to see if this is something that can work.
Regardless, works great!
Is ANyone NOticing the lag in Browsers.
I have tried Miren, Dolphin HD, Opera and STock Browser and neither of these browsers was ale to open even www.streaksmart.com and few other websites.
There is something wrong with the radio signals may be.
I have successfully applied D_Steves Performance tweaks and others mentioned here, Yes, the phone is getting a Quadrant of 1600+ but being not able to Browse some websites sucks big time.
It has nothing to do with the tweaks, Dell ****ed up again, Not to mention there no App with Front Facing Camera usage for Video Chat.....
Why the Hell is this happening???
Anyone else having sluggish browsing, Fards or DJ_Steve coould you Please look into that since you are the only Genius Chaps I know of....
I've noticed this too, I'm on T-mobile 2g and even though that may seem slow, it worked like a charm with 2.1. Then I switched to the 00 baseband with steve's build, and google seems to be the only site that works half the time. I was about to switch to the official 2.2, but hearing that you're having trouble as well is discomforting..
Its an identified bug.
Apparently opera and firefox work fine.
Dell are aware of this problem.
Sent from my Dell Streak - Optus® Australia
But both Opera and FireFox don't support Flash, Correct me if I am right???
THanks for answering mate!!!
Devil Aus said:
Its an identified bug.
Apparently opera and firefox work fine.
Dell are aware of this problem.
Sent from my Dell Streak - Optus® Australia
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You are talking about these "too many web redirects"?
bigelvis said:
You are talking about these "too many web redirects"?
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yes, that'ss exactly what i am talking about, any solutions mate???
umair239 said:
yes, that'ss exactly what i am talking about, any solutions mate???
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I can't find what's causing the error admittedly I'm no longer on stock so stopped working on it si much) I. Suspect its an error in the dell webkit Source code, and is likely to need a fix from them. they have stopped the roll out to fix it
As I know from dell facebook page, dell is working on this "too many redirects" problem, but I have worse case and I don't know if it's just me or everyone on 12332 build with smokku performance fix, on 3G very often some random websites can't be open (web page not available) even when I start default browser on which google.co.uk is default, it can't be open - it's loading and loading and after a while a web page not available error appears, and just a bit later it works again, so I visit another website and it's loaded stright away but after a while the same problem. I don't have it on 2G or via wifi, the same behaviour is on dolphin hd browser, so it does not depend on the browser, could you check that for me, please?
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As I know from dell facebook page, dell is working on this "too many redirects" problem, but I have worse case and I don't know if it's just me or everyone on 12332 build with smokku performance fix, on 3G very often some random websites can't be open (web page not available) even when I start default browser on which google.co.uk is default, it can't be open - it's loading and loading and after a while a web page not available error appears, and just a bit later it works again, so I visit another website and it's loaded stright away but after a while the same problem. I don't have it on 2G or via wifi, the same behaviour is on dolphin hd browser, so it does not depend on the browser, could you check that for me, please?
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Yeah, I have the same problem too mate, don't worry you are not the only one suffering here, dell screwed us up again, Dolphin hd didn't work at all for me, i was unable to open a single webpage especially in desktop mode, right now i am using skyfire v3.0 and it is working very efficiently, give that a try and let me know how it works out for you, we can only wait for dell to fix this...
Bbtw I hour the same issue but it only started today, everything worked fine before I've been on stock 2.2 for a week now and til today browser, stock and dolphin worked fine
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ok, so I'm not alone yes, I'll try skyfire then,
do you think that dell can fix that issueing just kind of patch or it has to be complete new froyo build?
cheers
Just checked now I only can't get the default browser and dolphin to work on 3g but on wifi its fine, btw it worked on 3g 2 days ago really weird that it stopped now
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As they were mid roll out when we highlighted this, im presuming they will push new complete builds out.hopefully they are looking to fix other bugs in there as well
RE: Slow Browser
my pc's internet connection is very slow too, which always drive me crazy, I want a program to solve my slow computer, several days ago my friend recommend me a software tuneup360, now I'm waiting for the result. i wonder do you guys have any good recommendation?