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Obnoxious browser issue "Problem with file"

I'm having only one serious problem with my Vibrant, and while it's a little problem, it's frequent enough that it is driving me nuts, and also doesn't allow me to use (at least) one of the apps I use every day.
The issue is, when I go to some web sites, whether in the stock browser, or in another browser, like Skyfire, or whether it's in the browser within an app (for example NewsRob articles) I get a psuedo-crash where it opens the stock browser and says:
In a pop up box: "Problem with file The requested file was not found. webkit/"
In the browser window itself: The Web page at file://android asset/webkit/ could not be loaded as: The requested file was not found. webkit/
In the address bar: the same url as above.
If I hit back a couple times, it will take me back to whatever content I am looking at. But this is incredibly annoying when it's half the articles I'm trying to go through on NewsRob, or when I click certain links and it comes up and I have to hit back a few times before I can look at the page.
I have noticed the following:
- it seems to happen on pages that use Flash, it might be javascript as well, but I'm not sure. HOWEVER, disable plug-ins and javascript in the browser setting does not change the error from happening.
- thinking that it has to do with Flash, I looked into it more on the device. I noticed in Applications, it shows Flash listed, as well as Pineone Flash lite" so I don't understand what level of flash the phone has.
- I also noticed that (coming from a Nexus One and myTouch Slide) I don't see thumbnails for a lot of flash video content like on those devices. If I got to sites with Flash content that is not a video, it's just not there.
Anyway, if anyone knows how to fix this, I'd be much obliged.
I searched google and found almost NOTHING, which is shocking and makes me think perhaps a hard reset would fix it, but I'd really rather not have to re-set up my phone if it's not going to help.
The only thing I found online was that apparently some Droid X owners are having the same issue.
Anyway, any help would be great.

I have the same issue and just assume that samsung modified the browser so it broke whatever plugin its trying to access. The problem is any articles in newsrob that have an embedded video.
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youneek said:
I have the same issue and just assume that samsung modified the browser so it broke whatever plugin its trying to access. The problem is any articles in newsrob that have an embedded video.
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But I've found that it's any link from anywhere that leads to a page that has a video. Which is immensely annoying.

any other ideas? does anyone else have this issue?

Captivate too
My Captivate has same issue. Thought I had broken the phone rooting, enabling sideloading,or hiding the bloatware.

My guess is it's probably related to flash lite 3 which is a plugin preinstalled on the vibrant. I'm going to assume that this problem will disappear once froyo rolls out.
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I'm getting the same problem as well on my Samsung Captivate. Very annoying since more than half my articles have links to videos in them.

XfooYen said:
My guess is it's probably related to flash lite 3 which is a plugin preinstalled on the vibrant. I'm going to assume that this problem will disappear once froyo rolls out.
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I tried removing the flash files from /system/app and rebooting. It still happened. Disabling plugins in the browser doesn't help either. Irritating as hell, I sure hope CM6 or the official 2.2 release come out soon and fix this. And the GPS, compass, etc..

I had the same issue with Dolphin Browser HD, but I haven't had the issue yet with the stock Vibrant browser.

Does anybody have any insight on this? It's still plaguing my newsrob whenever there is an embedded video in the feed.

It's a problem with flash lite files. The vibrant has trouble with its implementation.
Not sent from my Vibrant using XDA App 'cause I returned it.

I hate to make froyo this holy messiah but will froyo fix that as well?
I'm actually hoping froyo literally cures cancer.
Btw, I'm on a Captivate, but this topic wasn't in that forum. I thought it would be relatively universal though.

Pandora killed by google nav audio?

I've recently noticed a problem with my 2.2 evo. Back when I had 2.1, I would stream pandora while Google Nav was running in the background. Whenever Google Nav had to issue an instruction, it would pause pandora's playback and then resume it after the instruction is given.
Now that I have 2.2, I've noticed that when google nav gives an instruction, pandora is killed. Or at least suspended in a way that I have to manually restart playback.
Does anyone know how to fix this issue? its kind of annoying to have to tap the play button to get pandora started up again...

This a known issue and was told it was on pandoras end.
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Noticed this a few days ago. Really annoying.

novanosis85 said:
This a known issue and was told it was on pandoras end.
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Told by whom?
Is there a fix in the works?
the reason i ask is that there is no mention of this issue on pandora's website =/

There are a bunch of threads on this already, and they all look the same - OP states the issue, someone mentiones that its a known issue, there's no known fix, and that it's being worked on (although it's actually not specific to pandora, apparently it happens with a few other streaming music apps), a few "me too's", and then someone like me comes in and tells the op that he should have searched first. then the thread slowly moves off the main page, and we wait for the next one.
edit - a dissenter, that's new! lol - it's listed on the google code bug list here;
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=9569
feel free to star it up!

What's new with Froyo on DX

The DX specific changes with the Froyo update that I've noticed:
• Better text zoom bubble for cursor placement and text selection. Faster. Nicely shifted up, so not as covered by finger.
• Swype looks nicer, also seems quicker/smoother.
• Clock in notif bar now shows AM/PM (seems a waste of space).
Anything else that's not general to Froyo?
e.g.

A couple of more that I noticed....
- Lock screen is different.
- Some minor changes to gmail(even before the new 2.2 version of gmail). You can now click to the next message without going back to the inbox first.

In addition to what you guys mentioned... the gallery has changed, they added a file explorer program, and the phone seems to run quite a bit faster (I'm using LauncherPro Plus, not the stock launcher). They said they were going to improve the weather and calendar widgets, but I didn't notice any change.

New camera app that was in the leaked build?

Don't notice any difference in Files program, using LauncherPro but not plus. Phone seems to respond faster. Quadrant up from 1290's to 1400+ however stopping services seems slower?

How are you guys getting 1400+ in Quadrant? My highest run was 1375. So far FroYo has been good except I'm not sure if I like the removal of the .com button in the browser keyboard.

m2thedeep said:
How are you guys getting 1400+ in Quadrant? My highest run was 1375. So far FroYo has been good except I'm not sure if I like the removal of the .com button in the browser keyboard.
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Reran Quadrant now 1445,seems to getting faster, previous run was 1403.

Quadrant up to 1513 then , when pressing menu button settings was unresponsive so rebooted , now working ,will monitor , quadrant now high 1390's FWIW

Now back up to high 1400's , phone is stable and everything's appears to be working. Youtube is great.

Holding down "Home" button gives you a Recent App window. Somewhat same as before but I think it looks nicer.

Long hold on Magnify glass button gives you a speak-to-search tutorial. Was this available on 2.1?

Voice Actions is only available in 2.2
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Long hold on Magnify glass button gives you a speak-to-search tutorial. Was this available on 2.1?
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They changed the way the period and comma work. Before you could double tap that button to switch between period and comma, now its period by default and you have to long press for other punctuation. Overall I find it a little annoying and makes it take longer for me to text because I have to wait for a comma.
Also they changed something with the autocorrect/predictive text but I'm not exactly sure how. All I know is,sometimes after I'm done typing a text, I hit done, go to hit send (muscle memory, without looking at the screen) and somehow accidentally end up changing a word in the text message based off of a predictive text list that is still active underneath the text window. I'm not sure why it stays afterwards.

Has anyone else had any trouble playing media like pandora and mp3's? It will play for awhile and then it says media type not recognized and I have to reboot. Once I reboot my mp3 plays just fine then does it again.
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skraapz27 said:
Has anyone else had any trouble playing media like pandora and mp3's? It will play for awhile and then it says media type not recognized and I have to reboot. Once I reboot my mp3 plays just fine then does it again.
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Pandora works fine for me, although lately I've gotten a lot of error messages in the beginning when I First open it, but they don't seem to affect playback. I haven't really tried many MP3s, but I have noticed videos, specifically videos that I actually took with the camera, are giving me that exact same behavior. It says it's unsupported, and then if I reboot it works for a little while, then stops working again.

Have any of you gone from the 2.2 leak to 2.2 OTA? The OTA will have a newer kernel and baseband and I am curious to know if a performance increase is noticeable going from the Leak to OTA.

I have this problem. Had to reset the phone to get it to stop. Very annoying issue.
skraapz27 said:
Has anyone else had any trouble playing media like pandora and mp3's? It will play for awhile and then it says media type not recognized and I have to reboot. Once I reboot my mp3 plays just fine then does it again.
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There is now a HDMI option in the media player. I haven't tested it but I don't remember seeing it in Eclair.

TheFuzz said:
I have this problem. Had to reset the phone to get it to stop. Very annoying issue.
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I'm glad its not just me its.really frustrating.
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[Q] Speak caller ID

Dunno if I'm just crazy. I could have sworn at some point I saw an option on my Epic 4G to speak the incoming caller ID out loud. Am I not looking enough? Was it Cyanogenmod I saw it on? Or am I just delirious? If so, could you please help me find an app good enough at doing this, no battery drain, and possible to listen to through bluetooth? I'd love it (not need it) if it also spoke incoming message sender.

There was an option in 2.1 stock rom to enable vocal caller id, but it has been removed in 2.2. So far I haven't seen it in any roms that I've tried, including the unofficial leak. It really irks me that it was removed. I posted about it a while back and didn't get any response.

Caller I'd reader on the market reads the names and numbers out aloud. Hope it helps
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I prefer "SayMyName" found on the market. Can read incoming calls, texts, emails and tweets as well as their contents if you so choose. Has a text replacer too for those hard (or poorly) pronounced words/names so you can specify how they are supposed to sound. Been using it happily for a bit on various phones and various android versions and rom builds.

Tasker, IMO. That app does everything.

I'll put in a vote for drive safe.ly, look it up...

Unfortunately, I tried all your apps, and they are all great (especially SayMyName), but none of them will speak through my bluetooth headset! That's the whole point, actually. I have yet to try Tasker, which I will now.
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regarding SayMyName.. did you enable Bluetooth/Headset-support in the Advanced Settings? (very bottom of the options)

Saymyname is an awesome app. I actually use it now. Thanks
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I am extremely annoyed by this "stock google" limitation!!!!

How on earth can I make a "calls only" profile on my phone? I have tried half a dozen apps and its laughable how such an open phone is unable to achieve what should be a basic feature.
As you would know google merged the notification and ringtone volume as one in ICS which is the most dumb **** move google could have made. Now most of the profile apps on the playstore can do nothing about this.
I tried profile scheduler and it can only handle the sms app notification volume. I tried elixir 2 and even though it says that it can unlink notification and ring volume but it does not work for me. Then I finally found an app that actually managed to do it! But guess what? It has a horrible bug of randomly deactivating my data connection and I have to restart my phone. I really dont know what its doing to cause that.
Now I could just manually set the notification tone to silent but actually that doesnt work either since many apps and services have their own notification tone settings which cannot be overrided by the system setting.
So does ANYONE have a workable solution for me? My phone is rooted but I aint installing a custom rom just for this. Samsung touchwiz phones still have separate volumes guess samsung wasnt as stupid as google.
I dont think I'll be buying a nexus phone next if I cant find a solution to this soon. Really sad such a petty issue has to ruin it.

Gambler_3 said:
How on earth can I make a "calls only" profile on my phone? I have tried half a dozen apps and its laughable how such an open phone is unable to achieve what should be a basic feature.
As you would know google merged the notification and ringtone volume as one in ICS which is the most dumb **** move google could have made. Now most of the profile apps on the playstore can do nothing about this.
I tried profile scheduler and it can only handle the sms app notification volume. I tried elixir 2 and even though it says that it can unlink notification and ring volume but it does not work for me. Then I finally found an app that actually managed to do it! But guess what? It has a horrible bug of randomly deactivating my data connection and I have to restart my phone. I really dont know what its doing to cause that.
Now I could just manually set the notification tone to silent but actually that doesnt work either since many apps and services have their own notification tone settings which cannot be overrided by the system setting.
So does ANYONE have a workable solution for me? My phone is rooted but I aint installing a custom rom just for this. Samsung touchwiz phones still have separate volumes guess samsung wasnt as stupid as google.
I dont think I'll be buying a nexus phone next if I cant find a solution to this soon. Really sad such a petty issue has to ruin it.
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Hmm you're out of luck if the apps don't cut it for you. If you're rooted then flash a ROM....you are missing out on truly useful features not present on stock. If you're not into flashing on principle, get over it if you don't flash due to uncertainty then read up on it, super simple.
Some top ROMS are Slim Bean, Rascarlo, plus many others.
Good luck

Gambler_3 said:
How on earth can I make a "calls only" profile on my phone? I have tried half a dozen apps and its laughable how such an open phone is unable to achieve what should be a basic feature.
As you would know google merged the notification and ringtone volume as one in ICS which is the most dumb **** move google could have made. Now most of the profile apps on the playstore can do nothing about this.
I tried profile scheduler and it can only handle the sms app notification volume. I tried elixir 2 and even though it says that it can unlink notification and ring volume but it does not work for me. Then I finally found an app that actually managed to do it! But guess what? It has a horrible bug of randomly deactivating my data connection and I have to restart my phone. I really dont know what its doing to cause that.
Now I could just manually set the notification tone to silent but actually that doesnt work either since many apps and services have their own notification tone settings which cannot be overrided by the system setting.
So does ANYONE have a workable solution for me? My phone is rooted but I aint installing a custom rom just for this. Samsung touchwiz phones still have separate volumes guess samsung wasnt as stupid as google.
I dont think I'll be buying a nexus phone next if I cant find a solution to this soon. Really sad such a petty issue has to ruin it.
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Have you tried this?
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=Orion.Soft
Custom roms got you covered though, don't know of any without unlinked volumes.

Why not flash a custom rom, you have a nexus, I don't think it gets any easier to flash a rom on phone. People make these roms and make features that don't and won't exist on a stock rom.

I am using baked black bean 6. It has the option to unlink call and notification volumes. Also it supports profiles. I think it's worth trying a custom ROM when you need additional features.
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polobunny said:
Have you tried this?
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=Orion.Soft
Custom roms got you covered though, don't know of any without unlinked volumes.
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Yes thats actually the one that worked but had the data connection bug. I have emailed the dev and he has no idea why that would happen.
On the nexus S I will install custom rom if I am unable to find a decent solution. However I dont know if I'll want to buy the nexus 4 knowing that I would need custom rom for basic functionality so I am gonna try to make this work out without custom rom.

I agree this is dumbest thing Google has done in Android recently. On gingerbread, i had always rocked stock rooted, or something close like pete's bugless beast. On a fundamental level they need to change this, but I think that it's probably motivated from their desire to unify the tablet and phone platforms.
I'm on CM10 now, and have been since ics linked the volumes. It irritates me to no end that every month or so, my phone slows to a crawl and i have to do a full wipe and re-flash. Never had to do this on stock gb. But that's a whole different issue.
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yup, android is very flexible in regards to flashing
you truly are missing out on a lot of other features. and you necessarily have to give up a lot of space/speed for it, some roms are dedicated to keeping things as much stock as possible, just because of that, they mostly contain the "stock" rom with exactly those features you want and in other cases you can just go with a rooted/deodexed rom and flash just those mods that you need. in most cases, the latter has almost no effect on performance

Why don't you go flash a custom rom? Sorry but Google has millions of customers and it can't please everyone. There's a very fast way to fix all of this, and that is just simply flashing a custom rom. These roms are very stable and nothing is going to happen. Since you're already rooted why don't you give it a shot and then come back here and complain if it doesn't work?