[Q] SGS2 and 'mobile' websites - Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hi Guys,
So, I've been Googling and forum-browsing for about two weeks now trying to find a solution to my problem but haven't been able to find, specifically, what I wanted so I thought I'd try my luck here to see if anyone else has experienced this:
For about a month, give or take, my SGS2 no longer uses 'mobile' versions of websites and I can't work out why (as in, what's changed) – because it used to before.
In case there's any confusion, what I mean is when I go to www[dot]google[dot]com for example, it loads the normal google homepage, not the smaller, optimised mobile google home page. This applies to Facebook, Wikipedia and a bunch of other, unrelated, websites that I browse on my phone that no longer auto-detect my phone and switch me to the mobile site. Which is what I want it to do (switch me to the mobile version of the site, that is).
Anyone else experiencing this and know of a solution?
My SGS2 is unlocked/unbadged, and I am running a custom ROM (Litening 2.2) although I was on 2.2, and previous versions of Litening, without this happening - so I don't think it's the ROM (plus I've searched it's thread).
I've also tried other, non-stock browsers (such as opera and FF) and they have the same issue. I've also tried clearing caches.
I've checked just about every damn setting on the phone that I can find, and Ive even removed almost every non-stock app but nothing seems to fix the issue.
Any help would be appreciated.

they probably forced the useragent of the internet app.
try to tape : about:useragent in the adress bar.
for opera and FF , if i remember, you can manage this in the settings.

Ok it was set to Custom and the code was:
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_5_7; en-us)
AppleWebKit/530.17 (KHTML, like Gecko)
Version/4.0
Safari/530.17
No idea what that is or what it means, but it seams odd to have so many references to Mac. Anyways I changed it to 'Galaxy S' and now it's working again! Thank you so much!

if i remember, there is a thread in the "theme and apps" section, about managing the useragent to be sure it won't revert to the "default" useragent(the mac one in your custom rom case ^^ ) after closing the app or rebooting the phone .
just in case it reverts again to the Mac one after a reboot
[edit] my bad it was in the android original dev section
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1126826&highlight=browser
that's probably how he modifies it, so it will revert to the mac one after a boot :/ (modified framework-res.apk, so you will need to learn to use apk manager if you want a "stock" behaviour).

Or just never reboot! (jokes )
Thanks for your diligence mate, very much appreciated

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http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/250907151743?ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1439.l2649
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That's what the 'if' was for
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