For a few days now, my touchpad is redirecting to mobile-sites.
For example: when I want to visit: www.hln.be , I get redirected to m.hln.be.
This is very anoying because the screen is perfect for non-mobile sites.
How can I change the settings so I always go to the non-mobile sites?
Just scroll to bottom of page and choose to view the normal site?
Nburnes said:
Just scroll to bottom of page and choose to view the normal site?
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What part of "always" don't you understand?
He wants to change the user-agent, so that the Touchpad always goes to the desktop version, like on Android, where you can chose desktop or tablet.
Would love to know as well, as occasionally I come across a mobile website, which is annoying (and they often don't have a view full version button...)
Even on Android that doesn't always work though, I do dislike websites that think they know better than I do what I want
The worst abuse of it is sites that user agent sniff and think Opera is only a mobile browser and give you the mobile site when you're on a desktop PC
McDonalds used to have this problem and runnersworld.com
Maybe if you install the Hulu Fix from preware it will fix the problem since it changes the user agent to Linux.
Not sure if it will work but you can try.
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i just put the new rom of Team Whiskey Bionix-v 1.2.1 and its work great
the only thing is that i see web pages special made for mobile!
why i cant see regular pages like i see in my pc or as i see in other samsung vibrant phones ?
there is a way to fix it? i already install adobe flash player 10.1
but still nothing the web pages look sucks !
please help me i am new for all of this
uh.. look for a tiny link that says... "full website view / view full website"?
as you are using a mobile browser.. some sites default to mobile view.
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there is a way to fix it? i already install adobe flash player 10.1 but still nothing the web pages look sucks !
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OMG! LOL. Great title, etc.
Anyway...this is quite a common issue not really specific to any one phone or rom. Flash has very little to do with whether a site is displayed as a mobile site or not. If you don't like having to to hunt for the "full site" link, here's a some options:
1) For stock browser (the one that's pre-installed), type "about: useragent" into the address bar, tap enter, go or whatever appears on your keyboard to execute it. Then, select "Desktop". Many (but not all) sites will display the non-mobile sites now. However, you may have to repeat this every time you run the browser since the setting doesn't persist across sessions.
2) Install a different browser from the market, run that browser, hit menu -> settings -> Change User Agent -> Desktop. The advantage here is that it will stay this way and not make you set it more than once.
If you want browser recommendations, the android market has reviews and this has been discussed often here so a search would probably yield much.
the previous android phones i'd been using on t-mobile all provided real, desktop/laptop-like web browsing experiences on the phone. not the constrained and formatted for mobile web http://[B]m[/B].espn.com type browsing. so i was a little disappointed when i activated my optimus v on virgin for the first time today and started browsing to notice that the mobile web always loads websites in the constrained format.
is this a limitation of the handset? is there a setting in the mobile browser that you can perhaps change to view it in real html? or is it a limitation of the network even (virgin/sprint)?
Every serious webpage has somewhere at the end of page an optiom to change to desktop version. For example when you go on Google it gives you desktop/html onl/mobile options.
By defult the site is responsible to decide which version to bring you. It does that by reading you device type, which saiz android.
For example facebook forwards you to touch.facebook.com on smarthphone and m.facebook.com for featurephones.
Any yes browser has a setting to "fool" site what you are using. You can chance user agent in setting all browsers can do this, the options are android/iphone/desktop.....
But i leave this to android, if you chance to desktop you will see desktop facebook, which is much worse than touch version. It is easier to just find at the bottom the link to change to desktop version for sites that think android should be viewing mobile optimized, sily them.
Change your browser's user agent to Desktop or something like that. Skyfire, Dolphin HD, etc lets you do that easily.
For the default browser, check this link.
Many websites recognize when a connection is being made from a mobile device; some give an option to view their mobile site, others automatically load it.
I want to be able to access the internet from my phone, but have all websites think I am a PC, NOT a mobile device. How can I accomplish this?
I have encountered several websites that offer mobile versions of their site for a price $$. These sites will not display correctly on my phone if I go to the normal site vs the mobile site. I believe that they are purposely blocking website functionality to mobile devices because they want people to pay for access to their mobile site.
Flash CM7 or the latest trigger...
browser settings, changes user agent to IE6. boom desktop.
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Flash CM7 or the latest trigger...
browser settings, changes user agent to IE6. boom desktop.
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Thank you for pointing out the "user agent" key word, this helped me find the information I was seeking.
For non-CM7:
http://android.stackexchange.com/qu...i-change-the-user-agent-for-the-stock-browser
http://lifehacker.com/5547037/change-the-user-agent-on-an-android-phone
Get Dolphin Browser HD and change user agent in Settings.
Thanks to the awesome power of Google, I found the path to the "UAString" setting.
Many posts on XDA are a little more advanced than NOOB that refer to this setting.
Why would you want to have the browser default to desktop view? Because we have big screens and most mobile sites are HUGE on this screen. This post is not about auto zoom.
Open the Default Browser, type about:debug in the address bar.
Open the menu in the upper right hand corner.
Open settings.
Bottom left panel, open debug.
Third down on the right, open UAString.
Choose desktop from the popup menu.
"What did I just do?" You set the browser to identify the tablet as a desktop. The internet is so smart that it displays pages according to the type of device requesting the page. But internet thinks Android is a mobile platform and sends you a mobile view by default. Pretty cool, huh? So now you've outsmarted the internet. Sit back and enjoy.
PS: I did search the forum. I couldn't find out how to "set the UAString", thus, the new thread.
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Thanks to the awesome power of Google, I found the path to the "UAString" setting.
Many posts on XDA are a little more advanced than NOOB that refer to this setting.
Why would you want to have the browser default to desktop view? Because we have big screens and most mobile sites are HUGE on this screen. This post is not about auto zoom.
Open the Default Browser, type about:debug in the address bar.
Open the menu in the upper right hand corner.
Open settings.
Bottom left panel, open debug.
Third down on the right, open UAString.
Choose desktop from the popup menu.
"What did I just do?" You set the browser to identify the tablet as a desktop. The internet is so smart that it displays pages according to the type of device requesting the page. But internet thinks Android is a mobile platform and sends you a mobile view by default. Pretty cool, huh? So now you've outsmarted the internet. Sit back and enjoy.
PS: I did search the forum. I couldn't find out how to "set the UAString", thus, the new thread.
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Well documented. Props! Btw this should work for all if not most android devices and the stock browser. People may choose to do this if they don't want to have several different browsers.
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cool find but why can't you just select "request desktop site" from the menu? I already had that selected and desktop was already enabled in the debug settings.
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cool find but why can't you just select "request desktop site" from the menu? I already had that selected and desktop was already enabled in the debug settings.
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Seems like that box is website dependant. If you go to another site, you have to check it again, like it's cookie or cache dependant.
So this method sticks after browser is shutdown or device reboots? Or will these need to be applied every time?
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Seems like that box is website dependant. If you go to another site, you have to check it again, like it's cookie or cache dependant.
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ok.. yhea I do see that.. maybe it stays by website .. have not played with enough to see when it does stick or not.. hopefully this will.
I'll just stick to ICS browser +.They got it right the 1st time.
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ok.. yhea I do see that.. maybe it stays by website .. have not played with enough to see when it does stick or not.. hopefully this will.
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I believe you have to request desktop site every time you open a new tab in the ICS browser, which is quite annoying if you always want to open websites in 'desktop' mode.
even with the ua string set to desktop it would still bring up mobile versions of sites for me all the time. quite annoying.
I was trying to insert a Pic as an attachment to a post, using the Prime.
When I clicked on "Manage Attachments", it brought up a popup window where I should have been able to select the location of the pic I wanted.
However, when click on "choose file", nothing happens. The file explorer does not open to allow me to locate the file.
Am I missing something/ are popups blocked/ or is this not a capability of the prime.
Thanks for the help
Bob
use opera mobile. only browser that lets you upload files or pics from your prime to a website. I use it all the time here to do what you said. its a free app. IMO, the best and fastest browser around. remwber fits opera mobile and NOT opera mini.
set the user agent to desktop also in opera mobile settings.
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use opera mobile. only browser that lets you upload files or pics from your prime to a website. I use it all the time here to do what you said. its a free app. IMO, the best and fastest browser around. remwber fits opera mobile and NOT opera mini.
set the user agent to desktop also in opera mobile settings.
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Thanks....It works as described.....however, I have issues
Probably me....because of so many positive reviews/comments....and I've used it before on my PC...but this one:
Crashed twice when trying to open XDA
Crashed the Prime....caused reboot twice
One auction site I frequent....constantly reloads site....never enough time to enter log-in data....
I was just amazed at the problems....BUT....like I said, probably user error someplace.
I'll keep it for XDA, but probably use the stock browser for everything else.
One, quick, final question....why does my bank's "test browser" function identify this as Safari
Since it's Google, I'm pretty sure it's a Chrome, although I've seen no place identifying it as such.
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One, quick, final question....why does my bank's "test browser" function identify this as Safari
Since it's Google, I'm pretty sure it's a Chrome, although I've seen no place identifying it as such.
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It sees the webkit engine and just assumes you're on Safari. At least that would be my opinion, I have also noticed this on sites in the past both on my phone and my Prime.