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Quick fix for us UK guys unable to view BBC iplayer properly!

Thanks to ryude and others for this:
Go to google.com and in the URL bar, type; about:debug then hit go.
Not much happens but press menu button/more scroll to bottom, hit settings and scroll to bottom, you should have some extra settings, tick the box at Normal Rendering and click on UAString ,choose Desktop. Exit and that's it. BBC Iplayer will now play without a green screen. Enjoy..

sporran said:
Thanks to ryude and others for this:
Go to google.com and in the URL bar, type; about:debug then hit go.
Not much happens but press menu button/more scroll to bottom, hit settings and scroll to bottom, you should have some extra settings, tick the box at Normal Rendering and click on UAString ,choose Desktop. Exit and that's it. BBC Iplayer will now play without a green screen. Enjoy..
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Thank you for this.
Can you have a look at this site I posted on my thread www.koollondon.com
I cant get it to play either. Any ideas why? It still wont play the video even using your settings above

Doesn’t work. I now get your phone is not supported or green screen and browser freeze.

Prototypeuk said:
Thank you for this.
Can you have a look at this site I posted on my thread www.koollondon.com
I cant get it to play either. Any ideas why? It still wont play the video even using your settings above
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Weird this one,I get the green screen on this too,yet Iplayer is fine,back to drawing board

cosimoss said:
Doesn’t work. I now get your phone is not supported or green screen and browser freeze.
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It works on mine,try changing the settings again, in UAString, Desktop must be ticked!

Fix works, all of iPlayer plays just fine. Gonna try it on a few other vids and see if the issue pops up again.

sporran said:
It works on mine,try changing the settings again, in UAString, Desktop must be ticked!
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Got it to work but it is random with those settings. It’s worked with normal rendering unchecked and sometimes still says phone is not recognised. Too much fiddling around and I will wait for a fix.

It's working fine now. The new flash update resolves the issue.

yep it's fixed, not just koollondon.com but also other websites where I had the green screen (like nesn.com)

Do you try skyfire which you can change the string easily and stay this way after you exited?

Still got green screen, have followed instructions 3 times, any suggestions.
Thanks Got it working after updating flash!!!

If you just want BBC radios, TuneIn player is a great choice.
You have to go to setup account (free) at radiotime.com then you can memorize your favorite stations.

Belynda said:
Still got green screen, have followed instructions 3 times, any suggestions.
Thanks Got it working after updating flash!!!
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Yes, forgot to mention.
There's a Flash update available this morning (UK morning, anyway) and that fixed the green screen issue.
I've only tested it on the BBC iPlayer mobile site so far, but that's the main thing I'm going to be using it on, so happy bunny here

[R] De-Binged browser for DL30

In DL09 I had a debinged browser I used and I loved it, however I am not sure if I can use the same one in DL30. I know that the browser in Froyo uses the V8 Javascript engine and I do not want to lose these improvements. Is this in the kernel or in the APK? If it is the APK then I cannot use the same one I was using before correct?

Is a de-binged browser necessary with DL30? The browser settings now have an option for the default search, and mine was on Google by default. Is there any other forced Bing stuff in the browser that this option doesn't effect?

This is the browser from Adrenalyn's cleaned rom. When in the browser, the dedicated search button searches with Google and all the bookmarks are removable (through the old method of visiting each one, and then going into the history, clicking each and selecting "remove from bookmarks"). I didn't try the stock browser for too long, but I do know it wouldn't let you remove the Verizon bookmarks at all, through any method.
Best part is that this doesn't suffer from the grayed out address bar that the old 2.1 DeBinged browser did.

beeblebrux said:
Is a de-binged browser necessary with DL30? The browser settings now have an option for the default search, and mine was on Google by default. Is there any other forced Bing stuff in the browser that this option doesn't effect?
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I have google selected but it still goes to bing everytime, no matter what.

ChrisDDD said:
This is the browser from Adrenalyn's cleaned rom. When in the browser, the dedicated search button searches with Google and all the bookmarks are removable (through the old method of visiting each one, and then going into the history, clicking each and selecting "remove from bookmarks"). I didn't try the stock browser for too long, but I do know it wouldn't let you remove the Verizon bookmarks at all, through any method.
Best part is that this doesn't suffer from the grayed out address bar that the old 2.1 DeBinged browser did.
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Thanks a lot man, def use it.

EDIT: I'm apparently a slow typist. Everything I had to say here was said earlier mid-posting. Mods, please remove.

Edit nvm, I forgot I have my homepage set to igoogle. Searching in the url box does only use bing. However the softkey uses Google as does the voice search.

JoeDat said:
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I get the exact same.
Out of curiosity does long pressing the search key work for you? it does NOTHING for me.

Cali3350 said:
I get the exact same.
Out of curiosity does long pressing the search key work for you? it does NOTHING for me.
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Nope. Does nothing.

Here you go ...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=939098
-Doug

beeblebrux said:
Is a de-binged browser necessary with DL30? The browser settings now have an option for the default search, and mine was on Google by default. Is there any other forced Bing stuff in the browser that this option doesn't effect?
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Yes .... 1) keywords entered in the URL go to Bing and 2) you can't delete the Verizon bookmarks
See my post above for a DL30 based Browser.apk that has been fully debinged.
-Doug

About to give up on the browser

The browser is driving me nuts. Even the simplest of tasks are so frustrating. For instance if I do a google search, then click a link in the search, look at the page, then press back, google loads back up as far as the logo but none of the search results display until I refresh. Seems to only be google as other sites load ok when pressing back. This is ridiculous if you ask me. Then there is the keyboard lag when typing, like right now, I can type 3 or 4 words before any of it shows up. Trying out the latest dolphin hd browser now to see if it's any better. Keyboard lag is still there but at least google loads properly when pressing back.
Another annoyance is now there is no highlighting of a link when you tap it leaving you guessing and hoping you tapped in the right spot.
Not sure why it's so hard to get these little things right. Seems as if we've gone 1 step forward, 2 steps back.
Trying to keep the faith that these issues will be hammered out.
edit: And how could I forget that the damn browser can't even paint the screen fast enough when you scroll. My nook color blows this thing away in the browser department.
edit2: Text randomly fails to display when typing into text boxes.On the bright side though, I seem to have good luck with browser 720p on youtube.

Im having the same issues as you lol, i have opera and dolphinhd but i like the feel of the stock browser for some reason. I hope theyfix it soon.......and can i get a homepage button on the toolbar and not under the bookmark page lol.

I am on 3.1 and have the issue and it been driving me nuts as well. Having to refresh each time is a pain. I hope there is a fix for this soon.
Sent from my Transformer TF101 using Tapatalk

I agree that the stock browser is the one of choice for me too but are having similar issues, although not major, still needs to be addressed.
I have tried the Dolphin browser and thought that I found the perfect browser until I tried to use citrix, this caused the browser to freeze and required a restart to get the browser working again
Also the browser seems to work great when its working but does tend to stop working if you use for approximately 10-15mins, well it did for me anyway. In this regard, the stock browser is far more reliable.
I am however optimistic and feel that the issues will be ironed out. So far I am very happy with the tablet in general.

I know what you mean about the google search problem. I found that disabling the Google Instant seeing in Settings/Labs helped.
the main annoyance for me is the dreadful keyboard lag - writing this response was painful!

you're right google shows up blank. Usually i dont go back and fourth like that. I just press and hold the search result and choose 'open in new tab', then close tab when im done.
I just keep the search results on one tab and view pages in new tabs.

Temp fix for blank page after back button in google search.
1. go to Google.com
2. select settings from upper right and click on search settings
3. Disable Google instant
I have tried this with Google instant on and I get the blank page when the back button is pressed.
With Google instant off I get my search results.
I hope this work for all
Also seem to eliminate most of the keyboard lag.
Sent from my Transformer TF101 using Tapatalk

danielsjam said:
Temp fix for blank page after back button in google search.
1. go to Google.com
2. select settings from upper right and click on search settings
3. Disable Google instant
I have tried this with Google instant on and I get the blank page when the back button is pressed.
With Google instant off I get my search results.
I hope this work for all
Also seem to eliminate most of the keyboard lag.
Sent from my Transformer TF101 using Tapatalk
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Thanks. This helped me. I also switched from the Asus keyboard to the standard Honeycomb keyboard. Even when docked this seems to make typing more responsive.

Typing in the opera mobile browser is much more responsive. It has its quirks, like always displaying mobile sites and having only flash lite but keyboard lag is reduced.

The newest dolphin that I just downloaded this morning is flying! Well, compared to what I'm used to with the stock browser. I believe it is version 5.0.1.
Anyone else having good luck with it?
Google issue is gone, typing seems fast etc.

I don't know if this is the proper thread, but I'll try since it recites various browser issues. I use Google Chrome on my desktop. I am extremely frustrated in my inability to duplicate the most rudimentary of reply functions found therein in the Android browser. These functions include the various Bold, Italic, Underline, Color, Font, etc., symbols shown in the reply boxes on this site, coupled with a total inability to cut and paste to get rid of the message at the bottom, or alternatively, to conveniently respond to various sentences or paragraphs in the original message. I am quite willing to concede that I simply missed how to do this. If anyone reading this can advise what I am not doing correctly, I would appreciate it. I tried the GMail browser this morning, but tried the stock browser yesterday. I recall the same problem with each. Thanks in advance.

BigSidfromLaramie said:
coupled with a total inability to cut and paste to get rid of the message at the bottom, or alternatively, to conveniently respond to various sentences or paragraphs in the original message.
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yep you missed it
what you need its an ipad, its all done for you there.

Found it somewhere but it fix the lagging:
Instructions:
■Open the browser and type the following in the address
about:debug
■Nothing will appear to have happened; go to the menu button in the top right though and you will notice some extra menu items have been added.
Select Settings
■In the Settings menu select Debug on the left and uncheck Enable OpenGL Rendering to turn it off.
■You’re done.

that made things for worse for me...
things i tried that made it better..
don't use the asus keyboard, disable google instant search, plugins on demand, but still, the overall responsiveness of the device is not good. even loading a phone app like tapatalk it struggles to scroll smoothly, let alone rendering a web page.
Again, it's a real shame. I think they probably should have spent 3-6 more months getting things right as those of us seeking to exit the ios world are not going to be left with good impressions of android. I personally realize things will improve, but many will just try once and move on when they can't even type a basic response in the web browser. I would just about consider typing lag to make the device unusable.. it's that bad.
Sent from my Transformer TF101 using Tapatalk

randy_c said:
Found it somewhere but it fix the lagging:
Instructions:
■Open the browser and type the following in the address
about:debug
■Nothing will appear to have happened; go to the menu button in the top right though and you will notice some extra menu items have been added.
Select Settings
■In the Settings menu select Debug on the left and uncheck Enable OpenGL Rendering to turn it off.
■You’re done.
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Disabling OpenGL slows down loading of webpages though.

[Q] ICS Browser lost its 'Home' button

Anyone know what happened to the 'Home' button that used to be available from within the Bookmarks section of the Honeycomb stock browser? It's not even available in the Quick Controls. I just want a quick way of getting to my homepage.

Not sure about that. Simple solution -> open a new tab

wolverine423 said:
Not sure about that. Simple solution -> open a new tab
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Yes, there are any number of workarounds I could use and I could try different browsers but I don't want to! I just want the same simple functionality that was previously available in the stock browser and would now appear to be lost.
Am I expecting too much?

tonyblack said:
Yes, there are any number of workarounds I could use and I could try different browsers but I don't want to! I just want the same simple functionality that was previously available in the stock browser and would now appear to be lost.
Am I expecting too much?
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No.
Although, hitting the new tab "+" sign is one step less than opening the bookmarks then hitting home making it slightly more simple.

Try ICS browser + on google play, lots of customization.

yeah i noticed that too about the home button
also using drive with ics somehow when my browser
synced bookmarks they are all gone even wiped out chrome
on laptop, had to restore on laptop but all i can do is add
one by one on tablet............

lowsum said:
Try ICS browser + on google play, lots of customization.
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Thanks for that. ICS Browser + does the job.

Nexus 7 search result not clickable!

Does anyone notice this or it is just me?
When your search from the search bar or voice search, the web results pop up, but actually clicking at the titles or the links won't direct you to the browser until you hit a little bit lower, at the brief description area. MORE SERIOUSLY, is that, when you filter the results by choosing more->shopping, or video, or whatever, the results are not clickable for me. No new tabs will show up.
Could anyone please try the following, type or speak "wallet", go to shopping results, tap on any one of the image item. Anything happens?
Thank you so much

HKReeves said:
Could anyone please try the following, type or speak "wallet", go to shopping results, tap on any one of the image item. Anything happens?
Thank you so much
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worked here first time. I am currently viewing a quite attractive Oakely Square O Perf Wallet after it linking through Chrome. But, it's $50 and I am in the UK!
PS I spoke 'wallet' using Google Now

Meaning that mine is screwed. But does it have anything to do with the OTA update in US, causing some unknown search issue?
Any more people to try this out? Especially who is in US
Thank you!

Worked for me.

kboya said:
worked here first time. I am currently viewing a quite attractive Oakely Square O Perf Wallet after it linking through Chrome. But, it's $50 and I am in the UK!
PS I spoke 'wallet' using Google Now
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I seemed to find something. So have you turned on the Now service? not the voice search feature, but the privacy-controversial service.
Seems like if never enrolled in Now, your search is working fine.

Google now is activated on my n7
Sent from my Nexus 7 using xda app-developers app

It's working for me as well but it opens up 2 identical webpages in chrome.

The search opening up 2 identical webpages is really bugging me now.....

janedoesmith said:
The search opening up 2 identical webpages is really bugging me now.....
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That is also what happens to me, either opening two tabs or no tab at all. Drives me crazy. I hope people join me to report this to Google. It is definitely not me alone.

I'm having a far worse issue. I cannot open search results in any way on my Nexus 7. I've seen posts like this were you open 2 tabs in Chrome. I can't open anything!! Even clicking the description of the link doesn't work.

Similar issue here...
I have noticed pretty much the same issue on my Nexus 7. Sometimes clicking just below the title of the search result works. Sometimes clicking on the actual title works. Sometimes NOTHING is clickable. Very frustrating - especially when trying to show someone how cool Google Now is!!! My Nexus 7 is totally stock too..
Hopefully they will have a fix for this soon!

Nexus 7 going back to Asus for repair
pjniez said:
I have noticed pretty much the same issue on my Nexus 7. Sometimes clicking just below the title of the search result works. Sometimes clicking on the actual title works. Sometimes NOTHING is clickable. Very frustrating - especially when trying to show someone how cool Google Now is!!! My Nexus 7 is totally stock too..
Hopefully they will have a fix for this soon!
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Well, this problem has gone from sporadic to consistent for me. Whenever I use the Google Now Widget to search for something and results are returned, I can't click on the results at all. I called Google Support and we tried clearing the cache and data the Google Search and Chrome apps and then did a Factory Data Reset. Nothing has been able to fix this for me. It totally seems like a software bug since generally everything else seems to function alright. Given this, I'm really surprised the Factory Data Reset didn't fix it for me.
Since I bought the Nexus 7 at Staples and I'm outside of the 14 day return policy (by just 1 darn day!!!), they said that they can't even exchange it for me. So now, I have to send it into Asus to have it "repaired".
Is anyone else having this issue?
For the record, I'm never buying anything electronic or of any significant value from Staples again!

pjniez said:
Well, this problem has gone from sporadic to consistent for me. Whenever I use the Google Now Widget to search for something and results are returned, I can't click on the results at all. I called Google Support and we tried clearing the cache and data the Google Search and Chrome apps and then did a Factory Data Reset. Nothing has been able to fix this for me. It totally seems like a software bug since generally everything else seems to function alright. Given this, I'm really surprised the Factory Data Reset didn't fix it for me.
Since I bought the Nexus 7 at Staples and I'm outside of the 14 day return policy (by just 1 darn day!!!), they said that they can't even exchange it for me. So now, I have to send it into Asus to have it "repaired".
Is anyone else having this issue?
For the record, I'm never buying anything electronic or of any significant value from Staples again!
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I recently stumbled across this bug as well and chalked it up to being software related too. But whereas some people seem to have sporadic results, I can NEVER click my Google Now search results. I'm quite baffled that a factory reset didn't work and was actually about to do it myself, but if there's no guarantee that it'll solve the problem then it wouldn't be worth it. Honestly, I wouldn't send it to Asus to get it repaired because the issue might simply pop up again. I'm wondering if only a small minority is experiencing this problem though or if people just don't realize it yet (as I haven't really used much of Google Now). In any case, I hope this issue gets resolved soon.
EDIT: This must definitely be a software bug because I might have found a way to possibly resolve the issue. I activated Google Now, hit the menu button on the bottom right, went to "settings" then "privacy and accounts." Here, there should be an option for "Search on google.com." Mine was initially unchecked, but I simply checked the option again. Doing this, Google Now seems to now allow me to touch/click results. I should add that when I went back and unchecked the option, the issue did not return. So, regardless of what the option is set at for you guys, I would simply check or uncheck and try it seeing if that resolves the issue. I hope this works for others!

Sorry to bump this thread up again, but did this happen to work for anyone else?

Oublieux said:
Sorry to bump this thread up again, but did this happen to work for anyone else?
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I'm experiencing the same problems (can't click on standard web search results in Google Now, but can in Chrome). The above fix doesn't work for me (I don't have that showing up in my privacy settings on my Google Account, but then again I don't even have "search plus your world" available in my apps account yet).
Here's an interesting twist though: If I perform the following search in Google Now:
xda nexus 7 google now can't click on results​
I can't click the results. However the first result will include "More results from forum.xda-developers.com". If I click that link, it's not only clickable, but the results on the next page are all clickable.
Again, I'm on a Google Apps account, fwiw.
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One other interesting point: navigating through the Google Now results using an external keyboard (just cursoring up and down), I can select and enter any result without problems.

I think I may have figured out how to get search results clickable again...
1) Go into Settings->Privacy and accounts
2) Uncheck "Show recent searches"
3) Back out to the home screen
4) Try your search again and you should be able to click on the search results
This seems to do the trick for me. Give it a try and let us know if it works for you guys.
Sent from my HTC One X using Tapatalk 2

pjniez said:
I think I may have figured out how to get search results clickable again...
1) Go into Settings->Privacy and accounts
2) Uncheck "Show recent searches"
3) Back out to the home screen
4) Try your search again and you should be able to click on the search results
This seems to do the trick for me. Give it a try and let us know if it works for you guys.
Sent from my HTC One X using Tapatalk 2
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Mate, that solves it for me. Well done! Silly that I didn't try unchecking that before. I quite like having my search history, actually, but happier to have Now working.

Altercation said:
Mate, that solves it for me. Well done! Silly that I didn't try unchecking that before. I quite like having my search history, actually, but happier to have Now working.
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Okay cool! I'll call Google tomorrow and report the issue.
Thanks for letting me know...
Sent from my HTC One X using Tapatalk 2

Fix Does not work for me
Still can't click on results.
I'm wondering if it has something to do with having a second browser (Dophin) installed.
Maybe tablet does not know which to use?
When clicking on OTHER links tablet asks whether to complete the action with Chrome or Dolphin. Obviously when pressing on a Google now result that question does not pop up and the results are not clickable.
Maybe I will uninstall Dolphin and see if that helps

Thank you for the fix
pjniez said:
I think I may have figured out how to get search results clickable again...
1) Go into Settings->Privacy and accounts
2) Uncheck "Show recent searches"
3) Back out to the home screen
4) Try your search again and you should be able to click on the search results
This seems to do the trick for me. Give it a try and let us know if it works for you guys.
Sent from my HTC One X using Tapatalk 2
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It works but I was confused by your directions. From settings, go to Accounts Google, then Search, which then takes you to Privacy & Accounts.
This was very frustrating problem. I called Google Nexus Tech Support and talk about a useless rep. I can't believe others aren't complaining about the same problem.