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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?
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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.
got my hp touchpad earlier this week, like webos a lot tbh, but decided to dual boot with alpha 3, being new to android on a tablet i dont know what apps are worth downloading and what works?
any tips on some good apps to make me use the android side of the dual boot?
sadly cm7 is android 2.3 which is a phone os and everything that i would want the tablet version of just runs a high pixel density version of the phone app. unlike honeycomb, ics is open sauce so maybe theres hope for a true android tablet yet.
Oh, there are plenty of apps that are tuned for a tablet display even under 2.3. Here's a list of some of the ones I have installed:
Browsers
Dolphin HD
Opera Mobile
Apps
Evernote
Kaiten (tablet-friendly SMTP/POP/IMAP client)
Business Calendar
Nook (offers two-page reading view in landscape orientation)
Zinio
Netflix
News Readers
Pulse
Taptu
gReader
feedly
YourVersion Tablet
News Republic
Additionally lots of games either have tablet-specific layouts or take advantage of the extra real-estate:
250+ Solitaire
Angry Birds HD/Seasons/Rio (pinch zoom to see the full level)
Cut the Rope
Peggle
Stupid Zombies
Dabble HD
Pocket Legends
Random Mahjong
Majesty
Pinball Ride
There are a few launchers that give a better tablet experience as well, in particular VTL and ADW EX. Both offer dock bars that rotate with the orientation to the bottom of the screen and can be fitted with more than just four or five icons.
Even though they don't have tablet-specific UIs, many other apps do scale up to the larger screen very nicely:
Facebook/Twitter/Google+
Quickoffice/Documents to Go/OfficeSuite
Kindle/Google Books (unlike Nook, landscape view is single page but still very crisp)
WebEx
Anyway, you get the idea. While there are many apps that use the new Android 3.0+ APIs and therefore won't be available to us until ICS, there are plenty of other apps that give the full tablet experience even on 2.3.
tragictramp said:
got my hp touchpad earlier this week, like webos a lot tbh, but decided to dual boot with alpha 3, being new to android on a tablet i dont know what apps are worth downloading and what works?
any tips on some good apps to make me use the android side of the dual boot?
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Muffin knight and officesuite.
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unlike honeycomb, ics is open sauce so maybe theres hope for a true android tablet yet.
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but u do know, that HC sources were released along with ICS sources..?
Hi. Do any of you have the Facebook version with the slide out left pane like iOS devices?
- Sent from my HP TouchPad
nomadman said:
Hi. Do any of you have the Facebook version with the slide out left pane like iOS devices?
- Sent from my HP TouchPad
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AFAIK there's not a tablet-specific version of Facebook for Android yet, even for 3.0+. There are alternative Facebook clients for Android that may offer a more tablet-like experience, but I think that webOS was the first to get a tablet Facebook app, and then recently they released one for iOS. Nothing for Android yet...
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AFAIK there's not a tablet-specific version of Facebook for Android yet, even for 3.0+. There are alternative Facebook clients for Android that may offer a more tablet-like experience, but I think that webOS was the first to get a tablet Facebook app, and then recently they released one for iOS. Nothing for Android yet...
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That's what I thought also. Until I got out my old china made hundred dollar tablet with Facebook installed. Sure enough it does have the sliding navigation pane on the left side just like the ios version. I copied the apk on the touchpad and I lost the left pane navigation. I think fb app see the touchpad as a phone, so it doesn't show the left nav pane.
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Puenos said:
but u do know, that HC sources were released along with ICS sources..?
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no i didnt. i thought it was still closed source.
i still want alot of tablet versions of apps that dont appear. such as swype and googles apps. honeycomb and ics also give better understanding to a tablet without home menus and back buttons.
Don't use facebook app, it's fat. Friend caster for facebook has a tablet view!
i did install netflix and evernote and both are running tablet versions different from the phone. the tablet version of evernote is actually quite impressive. its amazing that netflix is plays video so smooth compared to the strange laggyness of everything else.
Just got CM on my Touchpad and noticed Netflix has a tablet UI on the Touchpad different from the UI I get on my phone with the same version. The Touchpad has a nice working tablet UI. Pretty nice considering there is no Netflix support in WebOS.
Also Firefox just released an update with a new tablet UI. By default it goes to a phone UI, but any Firefox user knows its easy to change settings. Simply go to "about:config" in the address bar and change "browser.ui.layout.tablet" from "-1" (Auto) to 1 (Enabled). This will force Firefox to use the tablet UI even though it auto-detected a phone. Also useful is adding the string "general.useragent.override" with value "User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:9.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/9.0.1" to spoof a desktop user agent.
Like the title says Does android in desktop mode on Dolphin, Or any other browser show up on the logging tools of websites as a desktop? I think that is the reason that you often see that ios has more People surfing the web than Android. Do any of the bigbrains in hear Know the answer? Thanks
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Like the title says Does android in desktop mode on Dolphin, Or any other browser show up on the logging tools of websites as a desktop? I think that is the reason that you often see that ios has more People surfing the web than Android. Do any of the bigbrains in hear Know the answer? Thanks
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I use it and it doesnt show up in desktop mode automatically, however if you put your user agent in Dolphin to desktop it will give you desktop mode sites
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I use it and it doesnt show up in desktop mode automatically, however if you put your user agent in Dolphin to desktop it will give you desktop mode sites
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I think what he's getting at is does it show up in the website stats of who has visited that you are using a desktop (pc) or an Android phone. If it doesn't show Android phone he thinks that's what's accounting for people saying that more people surf the web with iphones than with Android phones.
So he's not asking about using desktop mode on the phone, just how it looks to the website logs/stats when you use desktop mode on your phone to access them.
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I think what he's getting at is does it show up in the website stats of who has visited that you are using a desktop (pc) or an Android phone. If it doesn't show Android phone he thinks that's what's accounting for people saying that more people surf the web with iphones than with Android phones.
So he's not asking about using desktop mode on the phone, just how it looks to the website logs/stats when you use desktop mode on your phone to access them.
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^^^^^^^THIS^^^^^^, sorry my english is so bad, I am american...
Eh, I just fera's post and the OP and im still confused.
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Eh, I just fera's post and the OP and im still confused.
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What he's trying to say:
Most statistics show that more people are surfing the net with iOS devices than with Android. Android has the ability to surf the web as if it were a desktop client. Are websites able to tell the difference between a desktop and an Android device running as a desktop client? If they aren't able to, then their numbers are wrong and Android is the clear winner.
Been watching this thread like a hawk. Some chick is trolling on a news sight, and arguing that it isn't possible. I say it isn't possible on an iPhone.
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It is possible to fake user agent on iPhone if it's jailbroken and UserAgentFaker is installed from Cydia. JSYK.
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It is possible to fake user agent on iPhone if it's jailbroken and UserAgentFaker is installed from Cydia. JSYK.
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And with that said, we will never know the true stats.
Thanks for letting me know it is possible on iOS. I am not starting a pissing match. I am just trying to show that a lot of people use 3rd party browsers on Android,and they have the ability out of the box. By the way, I really like the iPad mini. Damn nice little tablet. Not enough to buy it, but find it to a very nice experience.
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What he's trying to say:
Most statistics show that more people are surfing the net with iOS devices than with Android. Android has the ability to surf the web as if it were a desktop client. Are websites able to tell the difference between a desktop and an Android device running as a desktop client? If they aren't able to, then their numbers are wrong and Android is the clear winner.
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i had a mytouch 4g and tried going to Hulu on regular browser settings but none of the videos would play because Mobile was not supported. when i did some research i found out you can install a modded Flashplayer app and then Customize the browser settings by typing in the URL about:config and then the menu key and setting the USER AGENT to Desktop. after doing all that, i finally went to Hulu's website and was now able to view every video they had. So if Hulu still read my phone as a phone, i wouldnt of been able to view their videos. but i was. so maybe it is possible that sites dont recognize if youre on your phone.
That is what I thought. Hbogo, and Maxgo also allow watching videos from desktop mode in the browser with that mod. I just wanted someone with coding experience that could explain it better. Googling it doesn't seem to get anywhere.
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nolimit78 said:
What he's trying to say:
Most statistics show that more people are surfing the net with iOS devices than with Android. Android has the ability to surf the web as if it were a desktop client. Are websites able to tell the difference between a desktop and an Android device running as a desktop client? If they aren't able to, then their numbers are wrong and Android is the clear winner.
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Oh, ok im not sure why it was so hard for me to understand that. :silly:
OK I have a strange problem.
I own 2 acer a100's
The newest one won't allow me to go to gameloft.com wap site but the old one will allow me to do this they both have both are on android version 4.03 the only difference I can see is the older tablet image version is different
Older tablet image version is Acer_A100_AV041.RV16RC02_WW_GEN1
Newer tablet imager version is Acer_AV041_A100_RV01RC01_WW_GEN1
Could this be the issue why I can't view wap sites on my new acer a100?
I got to adobe on the old site and I can see the mobile version of the flash player but on the new on it says the device is not supported.
This is the message I get from gameloft
Sorry, but there are no available games for your mobile. If you are using a web browser, please try to connect with your WAP browser
I have been search on here and the net for over 6 hrs but cant find the answer why one works and the other doesn't
Please help and thanks in advance
AcerA100Nnoob said:
OK I have a strange problem.
I own 2 acer a100's
The newest one won't allow me to go to gameloft.com wap site but the old one will allow me to do this they both have both are on android version 4.03 the only difference I can see is the older tablet image version is different
Older tablet image version is Acer_A100_AV041.RV16RC02_WW_GEN1
Newer tablet imager version is Acer_AV041_A100_RV01RC01_WW_GEN1
Could this be the issue why I can't view wap sites on my new acer a100?
I got to adobe on the old site and I can see the mobile version of the flash player but on the new on it says the device is not supported.
This is the message I get from gameloft
Sorry, but there are no available games for your mobile. If you are using a web browser, please try to connect with your WAP browser
I have been search on here and the net for over 6 hrs but cant find the answer why one works and the other doesn't
Please help and thanks in advance
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Depending on what browser you are using, have you tried changing the user agent?
how do you change the user agent. Using the default browser that came with the os.
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Depending on what browser you are using, have you tried changing the user agent?
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AcerA100Nnoob said:
how do you change the user agent. Using the default browser that came with the os.
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not sure what browser comes with acer tablets. i am guessing it is the ICS browser. as i remember. that browser does not have the option to set user agent. try to get something like dolphin browser from the play store. go into settings and look for user agent settings. if your browser is set to desktop, ipad or something like that, a lot of sites will not redirect you to a wap version.
it is worth the try
Hi,
I like working on the website Codeacademy.com, and would love to do so on my android tablet (kindle HD), or even my phone (razr HD). However, every browser I've tried has had a terrible time with this website: browsers love to zoom in too closely when I start typing, they have trouble scolling in a text window within the main window, etc. (just try it, you'll see what I mean).
Does anyone have any suggestions for a browser that would fare better? Or perhaps dolphin has an add-on that would mitigate the problems? I have trouble believing that I'm the only one who likes to use this popular website on an android device.
Any help is appreciated.
EDIT: The kindle is restricted in its browsers by default, but I haven't had any trouble downloading apks and sideloading, so that's not a limitation to worry about.
Me too
I am looking for it too. It would be awesome if codecademy made an android app for its exercises
jwdink said:
Hi,
I like working on the website Codeacademy.com, and would love to do so on my android tablet (kindle HD), or even my phone (razr HD). However, every browser I've tried has had a terrible time with this website: browsers love to zoom in too closely when I start typing, they have trouble scolling in a text window within the main window, etc. (just try it, you'll see what I mean).
Does anyone have any suggestions for a browser that would fare better? Or perhaps dolphin has an add-on that would mitigate the problems? I have trouble believing that I'm the only one who likes to use this popular website on an android device.
Any help is appreciated.
EDIT: The kindle is restricted in its browsers by default, but I haven't had any trouble downloading apks and sideloading, so that's not a limitation to worry about.
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I've tried it too and it's very frustrating. Thanks for mentioning CodeAcademy since I only knew about it since I read your post
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dncjor said:
I am looking for it too. It would be awesome if codecademy made an android app for its exercises
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Agreed-- though I feel like they shouldn't have to! This website isn't doing anything particularly advanced--it's just a text box to type in--and I feel like one of the myriad android browsers should be able to handle it. Especially since each one has a different unique problem with the website.
Okay, looks like Maxthon browser works tolerably well. Good browser overall, actually.
Jwdink,
Good to know Maxthon worked for you. I tested many, including Maxthon, and I always get the same problem.
When I click on the box to type, and try to move it up or down, everything goes white and I have to find the box again...
I tested with chrome, opera, firefox, dolphin, dolphin beta, and others less known browsers, and always the same problem happens
Now I'm gonna test with firefox beta..
I emailed codecademy some days ago concerning this matter but got no answer
Did you notice the site doesn't have a mobile version? Maybe if they can create one, it could fix the problem
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Okay, looks like Maxthon browser works tolerably well. Good browser overall, actually.
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Maxthon didn't fare to well for this task on my rooted Kindle Fire running Gingerbread .......I sometimes have success with the latest release of Firefox (not the nightly edition) but many times will have to refresh the page to get the coding input box to respond "halfway" normal.
Even on my Windows 7 laptop the site has issues and I've tried IE9 and the latest Chrome. Maybe I'll try Firefox on the laptop today. On the tablet I find myself reading the tutorial from the website on whatever browser I'm using but will not try to implement the code there. I'll just open up my good old text editor and code there using what I learned on the site and then run the code on "x" interpreter (in my case the Python) and it's much easier to do it that way.
When I have the lesson running correctly I will return to the website and "attempt" to complete it on there either possibly with Android Firefox or on the PC so it will keep track of my progress. Otherwise I would get WAY to frustrated trying to get every little step to run in the browser's input box!
And yes, a dedicated app for this website would be ideal
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Huh, sounds like this site just isn't designed to work on anything but a traditional PC... I wonder what the big difference is?
Codecademy answered my email. Here it is:
"Original message
DEC 31, 2012 | 07:17AM EST
Please, I am a codecademy student and want to ask if you have any recomendation for a good way of using the site on android devices, because it is very difficult to do the exercises on the browsers for android.
For me, and others users, like this guy:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2073107
and, I believe, many others students, it would be very very useful if you could make a codecademy app for android, where we could do the exercises.
Thanks for reading...
Douglas
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JAN 02, 2013 | 03:26AM EST
Linda replied:
Thanks for the nice feedback! Unfortunately we're at the moment focusing on the learning experience with desktops and laptops and support for mobile phones and tablets comes only later.
Linda
Customer Support
Codecademy"
I took the liberty of showing this xda topic to reinforce the importance of this matter for more than one student. And, as the topic had only a few comments when I wrote the email, "This guy", is you 'jwdink'
You could try Naked Browser, which till now has given me a cohesive desktop like interface,
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.fevdev.nakedbrowser&hl=en
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I don't think its very effective to work on codeacademy from your tablet especially if you aren't using a real keyboard. Codecademy has problems with browsers in osx and windows and I can't imagine how it would work on a tablet which browsers that do much less. Codecademy gives me issues everytime I use it, some courses are sometimes impossible to complete unless codecademy themselves fixes them. Python last summer was uncompletable due to weird errors which tooks weeks to fix.
Also, something you should be doing is after you complete courses, go make something with your newly gained knowledge. I can go through every single course in there and might not have a full understanding without actually making something, plus, you have to get used to dealing with the unexpected because everytime you code, theres going to be some problem. You can't code much things comfortably in Android either, at least I haven't been able to.
Try using ucbrowser.
I've tried Firefox, dolphin, boat and maxthon but for me uc browser works best. I'm talking about web browsing in general, uc browser is my pick for mobile web browsing. I've never visited code academy on ucbrowser though. Give it a shot
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Foxfire & disable autocorrect/autocomplete
To use codecademy on my rooted Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 (n8013) tablet I used Foxfire (stable or beta) browser and I disabled the keyboard's autocorrection/autofill/autocapitalization functionalities.
Tested but couldn't use stock browser, Chrome, Dolphin and Opera. Tested but couldn't use Swype keyboard and Google downloadable keyboard. Something weird happens connected to the shift key.
Should say my Samsung's running stock (Cyanagenmod) Android 4.2.2, no bloatware. Don't know if that matters or not.
Espier Browser
Have you tried Espier Browser? I just tried it and I could resolve 2 python exercices successfully
thetearer said:
Try using ucbrowser.
I've tried Firefox, dolphin, boat and maxthon but for me uc browser works best. I'm talking about web browsing in general, uc browser is my pick for mobile web browsing. I've never visited code academy on ucbrowser though. Give it a shot
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Thanks, uc browser seems to be the best for codecademy, I have tried almost all the browsers named in this thread an with uc browser on android 2.1 all works fine to me.
luisfmp said:
Thanks, uc browser seems to be the best for codecademy, I have tried almost all the browsers named in this thread an with uc browser on android 2.1 all works fine to me.
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Hey,
Im trying to use codecademy and khanacademy.org but im using a Sony Xperia Z2 Tablet (stock rom). Ive tried UC browser as well as many others (chrome, naked, firefox, dolphin, maxthon, boat, maybe more) with no luck. Code isnt selectable or pastable, and sometimes i cant even delete.
I dont have access to a computer at the moment and would really like to take advantage of the interactive tutorials on those sites. I even bought a mouse thinking it would make text selection easy but i now realise android mouse support is lame and just emulates a finger.
If anyone has any solution for this, please let me know.
jwdink said:
Hi,
I like working on the website Codeacademy.com, and would love to do so on my android tablet (kindle HD), or even my phone (razr HD). However, every browser I've tried has had a terrible time with this website: browsers love to zoom in too closely when I start typing, they have trouble scolling in a text window within the main window, etc. (just try it, you'll see what I mean).
Does anyone have any suggestions for a browser that would fare better? Or perhaps dolphin has an add-on that would mitigate the problems? I have trouble believing that I'm the only one who likes to use this popular website on an android device.
Any help is appreciated.
EDIT: The kindle is restricted in its browsers by default, but I haven't had any trouble downloading apks and sideloading, so that's not a limitation to worry about.
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Hello jwdink,
Thank you for asking this question almost two years ago. Like you, I recently stumbled across the delimma of learning to code at codeacademy.com with my nextbook tablet device.
The solution that works perfectly for me is to request the desktop version of the web browser.
A quick review of the steps involved (Recent Google chrome at time of writing):
Click the menu button
Select "Request desktop site"
The page will reload automatically to a closer version of codeacademy that you are familiar with on the desktop site.
Yuki
Yhurp
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Yuki Tow SvC App said:
Hello jwdink,
Thank you for asking this question almost two years ago. Like you, I recently stumbled across the delimma of learning to code at codeacademy.com with my nextbook tablet device.
The solution that works perfectly for me is to request the desktop version of the web browser.
A quick review of the steps involved (Recent Google chrome at time of writing):
Click the menu button
Select "Request desktop site"
The page will reload automatically to a closer version of codeacademy that you are familiar with on the desktop site.
Yuki
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Thanks so much, currently on my Samsung Tab S 10.5 with a logitech keyboard, and works extremely well with codecademy now