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FIXED BY 5.0.1- Did the Dolphin update break your browsing experience on Iconia Tab?

UPDATED: Release 5.0.1 fixed the problem. Back to being my favorite browser!
If the update to version 5 of Dolphin HD refuses to load pages or won't load them at all on your A500, please go to our blog and comment with specifics so we can refer them to Dolphin in the next day or two.
I had the same problems with the beta version and uninstalled it immedietly. We want to keep this A500 specific, but are interested to know if other devices are having the same issues.
Please comment here:
http://everythingiconia.blogspot.com/2011/06/dolphin-browser-50-broken-on-iconia-tab.html
We are not doing this to make money, so don't click any ad links while on our site unless you see something you just have to click on. (We only make a penny per click anyway).
Let's make sure Dolphin pays attention to this quickly.
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works fine for me. i just dont like using it because it doesnt seem to be able to download any file over 1mb. it just saves the html if its over. so im using opera. seems to be a better browser anyway.

n1nj4dude said:
works fine for me. i just dont like using it because it doesnt seem to be able to download any file over 1mb. it just saves the html if its over. so im using opera. seems to be a better browser anyway.
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Agree i too using Opera Mobile since it can download anything.
Only negative is no Flash in Opera yet.

It's because that Google hasn't open the Android 3.0 source code.
but it seems that Opera Mobile support HTML5.

Yeah, the update gave me problems, it is sporadic and hard to track down. When it occurs the pages fail to load properly, and I have to force the program stopped (application manager or task manager) to restore it to a functional state.
But, when it is working, it is a very nice update...

Same for me...I tried the Dolphin beta and had all sorts of issues where the pages wouldn't load any more. I uninstalled it and went back to the stock browser, which is working pretty well since the update. The previous Dolphin HD version was awesome.
Yesterday I installed the newest released version of Dolphin HD and am sharing it's use with the stock browser. It seems to be working okay, but I haven't done much surfing in the last day or so.

Update
Go the Dolphin home page and under the goole search bar you will see "page loading disturbing you now?". It appears this issue may have been addressed with a new beta. It has worked for me but I have only been using it for a short while.

firstflyer said:
Go the Dolphin home page and under the goole search bar you will see "page loading disturbing you now?". It appears this issue may have been addressed with a new beta. It has worked for me but I have only been using it for a short while.
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Solved it for me. I was having problems with both my HTC Evo 4G and my Acer A500 with v5.0.0.

Is there a patch for the "in browser" typing delay?

3.1 didn't help resolve the annoying typing delay on this pad. I played with a Xoom and the small Samsung and it didn't have this problem.
Have there been any patches or fixes released? I was really hoping 3.1 would do it, but it didn't.

I also would love to get this. It's literally the ONLY issue I have with this device.

Didn't someone say turning off some option will help or switch to generic keyboard? I'm not really sure what the issue is, I don't think I've had it.

I noticed this problem pretty quickly and was very bothered by it. I tried out a couple different browsers and found that Opera was the only one with good keyboard responsiveness. While it may not be the best browser in other respects, it trumps all other browsers for this reason.
Now I wish there were an easy option to turn off tap-to-click. Damn thing throws me off everytime I type.

is this with the dock or the onscreen keyboard as well?

cyberchuck9000 said:
I also would love to get this. It's literally the ONLY issue I have with this device.
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Yea, me too. It's pushing me to reconsider the Samsung 10.1.

I've only experienced typing lag on vBulletin based forums sites with the stock browser - and for example here on XDA if you choose the classic skin things improve quite a bit.
Its been mentioned many times before, that the "lag" isn't a "Transformer issue" per-se but a stock browser problem on certain sites. I've tried XDA with Firefox and Dolphin Mini and the there's no real lag that i can see, which further points to the stock browser..
Or are you guys experiencing lag on any web page with the stock browser?? (in which case I'll get my coat)

Try switching to the Honeycomb keyboard instead of the Asus keyboard.

jerrykur said:
Try switching to the Honeycomb keyboard instead of the Asus keyboard.
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That's worse for me.

jms_uk said:
I've only experienced typing lag on vBulletin based forums sites with the stock browser - and for example here on XDA if you choose the classic skin things improve quite a bit.
Its been mentioned many times before, that the "lag" isn't a "Transformer issue" per-se but a stock browser problem on certain sites. I've tried XDA with Firefox and Dolphin Mini and the there's no real lag that i can see, which further points to the stock browser..
Or are you guys experiencing lag on any web page with the stock browser?? (in which case I'll get my coat)
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Yes. The amount of lag may vary slightly between sites but it is still there and annoying. Dolphin made no difference for me. I've tested both the Xoom, Samsung and Acer in stores and they don't seem to have the problem.
The best test for A/B comparing purposes is to just type the numbers 1 thru 9 quickly and see what's left when you are done. For me when I'm done "7" is usually on the screen.

Try this temp fix
1. go to google.com
2. select settings in the upper right and click on search settings
3. disable google instant
This seems much better for me. Others may vary.
Sent from my Transformer TF101 using Tapatalk

I've figured it out. It's a text box issue. Go into XDA forum settings. Change the text box to "simple "and skin to classic and enjoy lag free typing on this forum.

I'm pretty sure ASUS will post an update for this typing lag... althought typing lag has improved only slightly by changing user agent to Tablet (or to Android on dolphin browser)... will just have to be patient on the update

transceiver said:
I've figured it out. It's a text box issue. Go into XDA forum settings. Change the text box to "simple "and skin to classic and enjoy lag free typing on this forum.
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Makes no difference here (and of course it wouldn't help when using any other website that requires a typed response).
danielsjam said:
Try this temp fix
1. go to google.com
2. select settings in the upper right and click on search settings
3. disable google instant
This seems much better for me. Others may vary.
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Been there, done that, no help.

I hate the responsiveness of the Asus keyboard, but the stock keyboard does a nice job. I wish the layout was better, but I will take the responsiveness of the stock keyboard over the layout of the Asus one with crappy responsiveness.

nebrando said:
I hate the responsiveness of the Asus keyboard, but the stock keyboard does a nice job. I wish the layout was better, but I will take the responsiveness of the stock keyboard over the layout of the Asus one with crappy responsiveness.
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Both keyboards are the same for me. I just came back from the mall where I tested a Xoom, Samsung Galaxy Tab , T-Mobile G-Slate and iPad and none of them had any delay anywhere. I simply go to the forum, log in and type 123456789 in an empty reply to a message and see what's left when I am finished typing. The only problematic one seems to be the Asus.

U know what , out of the typing delay frustration i went on to try my most trusted browser for my froyo phone, miren and walla no lag in typing. But since miren is not build for honeycomb there are some fc here n there as expected. But the feature i love most, the smart full screen still works in honeycomb yay !!!
Part from that, it also doesnt have the image tearing issue when u scroll the browser quickly most probably related to hardware acceleration that is implemented on honeycomb browser.
Conclusion,the typing lag is definitely caused by the browser itself or even the webkit itself :-(
Too bad miren's developement stopped :-(

I think there's more than one "typing delay" issue here.
The one that I'm having 1) does not depend on which keyboard is used, and 2) is just as bad on Xoom. Just go to http://slashdot.org, open any story, and try to post a comment there - and watch characters you type being entered at like 1 per second...

I am typing this on the dolphin browser HD which has just been updated today. I am using Smart keyboard pro and cannot notice any lag. This reply is on the XDA 2010 theme.

HasC said:
I am typing this on the dolphin browser HD which has just been updated today. I am using Smart keyboard pro and cannot notice any lag. This reply is on the XDA 2010 theme.
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I just tried downloading the free trial of Smart Keyboard Pro and keep getting "Purchase Cancelled, error processing purchase."
Hmmm, seems I can't download anything from the Market ... get the same error with Dolphin.

Browser Crashes

I have experienced some browser crashes in the past week, on multiple sites, and especially when visiting IGN.com. Its sort of a flash heavy site, but it still happens when I have Flash turned off.
Anyone else having problems with browser crashes? It has happened with both the stock Android Browser as well as Dolphin HD Browser.

yeah lot's of random crashing with default browser, I have installed every browser available but none offer the same as desktop experience. Browsing is (for me) the most disappointing thing about the tablet.

Happens to me quite often. Well happened. If you can live without JavaScript turn it off. Just enable it on sites that you really need. For me the sudden browser closures (not FCs) happend mainly on sites with JavaScripts.

Yes lots of crashes for me as well. I tend to have a lot of tabs open, and it is particularly annoying that there seems to be no way to automatically open up the same set of tabs (anyone know if there is a way to do this)...

same here, getting very tired of having to turn flash and java off to make browswer stable, hell if wanted this i would have bought a ipad2!
Much of the content on good sites is java & flash, for me its only been really bad the last 7 days. Come on android/ Asus, sort it please!

Diodato said:
Happens to me quite often. Well happened. If you can live without JavaScript turn it off. Just enable it on sites that you really need. For me the sudden browser closures (not FCs) happend mainly on sites with JavaScripts.
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Just did that and both the stock browser and Dolphin HD work MUCH faster and no more FCs. Question--is the Java engine part of android, or is it in the browser? If it is in android, then I guess there is no point in trying other browsers.
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holy, I've experience about 10 force closes. My browser doesn't even show the pop up force close notification, it just closes and returns me to my launcher -.-

same here ,really annoying..my nook colors stock browser on cm7 was alot better as well as flash support on it...hopefully soon it ll be adressed...

i just experienced this during the weekend. anyone contact ASUS about this?
this is surely a software issue which can easily be fixed (i hope)

Wow - glad I am not the only one. I really hope this issue gets fixed, its annoying to say the least!

+1
Me too, hope they sort it soon.

I found that clearing my cache through the manage app settings helps me to load a page after a crash. It usually happens if I have over 25 MB worth of cache from previous browsing cessions.

I must be lucky... I've had no problems with my browser at all, I'm very pleased with it.

I Use Dolphin HD. Only Time my Browser Crashes is when My girl uses it and she gets on Tumblr. Weird..
Edit: Oh and it only happens after a While of use on that web Site.

Guys, I just turned off the fast scrolling in the advanced menu and it's stopped crashing. Can anyone else test?

so far so good. Crossing my fingers.

dunetails said:
Guys, I just turned off the fast scrolling in the advanced menu and it's stopped crashing. Can anyone else test?
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I've always had this turned off and still get crashes..

same here (firmware "ww") but only when visit "hwupgrade" so i open this site with dolphin without java. Today i try a new kernel...asus help us (sorry for my poor english)

This is a google issue. Guys over at the xoom forum are having the same issue.

I find that rebooting the tf every other day helps cut down crashing and app fc's
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Disappointed with ICS (mainly Browser)

Ok, i upgraded from Roach Prime to ICS and now i have these complains:
ICS Browser doesn't have an option to define that i want desktop sites forcing me every time i visit a site to ask for the desktop version in the options, wtf is that??
In Facebook, even if i ask for the desktop version the chat doesn't get docked to the right like in a normal desktop browser, and the options of the chat don't work
Is there any way to solve this, where is the Chrome apk because from market i can't install chrome either.
All this ranting is not because of me, it's my wife's tablet and she is just complaining about all this and telling me that i shouldn't have upgraded and driving me crazy.
Chrome is not the solution because she watches lots of flash videos

I'm quite unimpressed also.
Sometimes I can click "request desktop site" and it sometimes works, sometimes doesn't.
I've typed about:debug and changed the user string to Desktop but it doesn't always work.
Also about:debug doesn't always work.
I'm having the same problems with chrome.
Maxthon for tab and Doliphin for Pad are currently my alternatives

Get ICS Browser + from market this adds user agent string option.

I went back to Revolver 3.11 for now.
I had a couple of random reboots on ICS when launching apps, and i notice this occasional annoying screen tear at the top left corner of the display.
Kind of like graphic anomalies you would get from overclocking a graphics card.
Never had that problem on Honeycomb.
I like the new features of ICS, but those annoyances will keep me on HC until they're ironed out.

People actually still use the stock browser? (and it's lame skins like Dolphin)???
Have they not heard of Opera Mobile?
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.opera.browser&hl=en

CrazyPeter said:
People actually still use the stock browser? (and it's lame skins like Dolphin)???
Have they not heard of Opera Mobile?
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.opera.browser&hl=en
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Maybe they are fed up of Opera's inability to display most websites in a normal way?
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I find the browser to be good. Opera is crap and can't display website properly. My only complaint is that MyNet is now unusable. Videos stutter and hardly play now where they worked perfectly before.

Me playing with Google Chrome. So farcso good. It is beta still though
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habylab said:
Maybe they are fed up of Opera's inability to display most websites in a normal way?
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I have no problems, and out of all the Android browser, Opera is by far the best at formattaing and reflowing them for mobile and tablets.
Did you set it to Mobile, Tablet or Desktop UserAgent?
or perhaps you are visiting websites written by 14yr bedroom coders that still think IE is the only browser on the planet, and as long as it displays in IE, they can get their money and run...
Either way, your comment stinks of ignorance. Clearly websites written to Webstandards will work in ALL browsers, and the piss-poor browser sniffing that badly coded websites use cause more problems than they fix.

Type about:debug into address bar
Press enter
Hit settings.
At the bottom...hit debug
See UAstring? Touch it.
Select your preferred viewing preference.

SiNJiN76 said:
Type about:debug into address bar
Press enter
Hit settings.
At the bottom...hit debug
See UAstring? Touch it.
Select your preferred viewing preference.
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Hmmm about:debug does nothing in stock, and in Chrome, it tries to take me to chrome://debug and says webpage is not available. Any suggestions?

Hi to all, ice cream is very very great, thank you asus, but browser is not very good, is better then honeycomb, but i have some problem with download from file hosting site, download often don't work, browser say "download complete" but it has downloaded some kb of file not all, and if it work download is very slow, with honeycomb, i never had this problem, i've tried other browser, like dolphin, chrome, opera, same problem there also. There is some good download manager let me download everything with it? Sorry for my english, it's not so good
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If your disappointed with ICS just go back to honeycomb. Especially if its your wifes tablet. Not worth the aggro, in my experience anyway. Lol
Sent from my XT910 using Tapatalk

wow

I have been using ice cream sandwich 8 hours now and I am very impressed. I am using flexreaper and am blown away. The speed of the stock browser is kick ass. The pages flip or scrolls almost to fast and too smooth. I was not expecting this much , dam good job to all that made it happen. Now I have a kick ass tab.

Yeah, I'm running Taboonay 3.0.1 and love how smooth it is. was using it in the McDonald's at the truckstop I'm parked at for the night and the browser was super smooth (loving the little tab on the side when scrolling up and down). not using the stock launcher (am using ADW) but for the short time I did it was nearly flawless. I can't get over how quick and smooth it runs in general, if the "leak" or ROMs based on it are this smooth I can't wait for the official release (and hopefully Acer doesn't screw the pooch between now and then)

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Yeah, I'm running Taboonay 3.0.1 and love how smooth it is. was using it in the McDonald's at the truckstop I'm parked at for the night and the browser was super smooth (loving the little tab on the side when scrolling up and down). not using the stock launcher (am using ADW) but for the short time I did it was nearly flawless. I can't get over how quick and smooth it runs in general, if the "leak" or ROMs based on it are this smooth I can't wait for the official release (and hopefully Acer doesn't screw the pooch between now and then)
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Is it laggy when you move through system settings?

For me there is no lag anywhere at first Tabooney installed here as well. After all day using the web browsers I noticed it was getting slow. I went to settings apps browser and cleared cache and it helped. the browser experience to me is like the browser cant exactly keep up with the OS it sometimes seems to be a bit shaky and text artifacts .Typical for a new release of say firefox would often do on a super fast computer. But its a very small issue for Such improved speed. Chrome browser will STOP and end at a black screen for me quite often . i would say avoid it until they give another update or 6.
I have tried some of the other roms as well and they all seem very similar. AWESOME WORK FROM THESE GUYS ON SUCH A SHORT TIME.

Yes. I agree. It's like I have new tablet, speed is amazign and stock browser is great too.
I have one question. I installed chrome for android (beta) and every websites load in "mobile version". Is there any option to get classic desktop version of website? I didn't find anything in settings

I am using Taboonay and it is working great!! ICS is going to make the A500 even that much better!!

Belda said:
Yes. I agree. It's like I have new tablet, speed is amazign and stock browser is great too.
I have one question. I installed chrome for android (beta) and every websites load in "mobile version". Is there any option to get classic desktop version of website? I didn't find anything in settings
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Yes.. open chrome.. click the settings icon in the far top right corner. down near bottom of list you will see Desktop mode. check mark that..

erica_renee said:
Yes.. open chrome.. click the settings icon in the far top right corner. down near bottom of list you will see Desktop mode. check mark that..
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That is weird. I don't see anything like that. (check my screenshot)
Anyway thank you for your answer

Belda said:
That is weird. I don't see anything like that. (check my screenshot)
Anyway thank you for your answer
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Do the same thing again, and when you get the drop-down list, select Settings. See if the option is there.

Moscow Desire said:
Do the same thing again, and when you get the drop-down list, select Settings. See if the option is there.
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I already did that, but there isn't any "desktop option".

Belda said:
I already did that, but there isn't any "desktop option".
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Ok. I just checked mine, and I use Dolphin HD from the market.
On my status bar (with dolphin HD open and on a page, say Cnn, I select the settings in the taskbar, More, and select MobileView) You can toggle this between mobile and desktop by selecting it. Note that it will always say MobileView. Just press it, and Select Dolphin HD for doing the action. Page should change.
This should work for you. But you have to be on a web page.

Moscow Desire said:
Ok. I just checked mine, and I use Dolphin HD from the market.
On my status bar (with dolphin HD open and on a page, say Cnn, I select the settings in the taskbar, More, and select MobileView) You can toggle this between mobile and desktop by selecting it. Note that it will always say MobileView. Just press it, and Select Dolphin HD for doing the action. Page should change.
This should work for you. But you have to be on a web page.
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I know how to do it in Doplhin, but I have problem with Chrome.
Now I use ICS Browser + and it's great. It's like stock browser but with some upgrades.

omg i so told you very wrong.. You are correct that setting is not there in Chrome.. ITs the new stock ics browser. OOPS.
sorry op dingy moment i guess..

It's okay .. I hope it will be available in final version