Hey everyone,
Does anyone know of an .apk for the DX2 that can change the UAstring within the default browser permanently? I know about the 'about:useragent' or 'about:debug' methods but these are not permanent. It gets pretty annoying to have to type everytime I open the browser.
If you don't know what I'm talking about, whenever our browser goes to a website by default it always displays mobile mode. When you set the UAstring you can set the user agent as android, iphone, desktop, whatever.
The stock browser is fast and I really like using it. I just hate that it always goes to mobile view.
I found this hack for the motorola xoom that does this, I don't know how applicable it would be for us since the xoom runs honeycomb. framework-res-uastring.apk is the APK that xoom owners apply to make the UAString change permanent on their device. Perhaps something similar can be done on our phone.
Xoom hack website
framework-res-uastring.apk
I'd recommend Boat Browser. It's a fast, lightweight web browser but it also allows user agent settings. You can find some of the details in the below link.
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.boatbrowser.free&hl=en
Another good one that I found the other day is Dolphin browser. It is also on the marketplace.
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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.
Out of curiosity what is the optimal settings to use in Dolphin Browser HD on a Rooted NT?
I ask because when i first opened it, it asked which User Agent to use, choices being Android, Desktop, iPhone and iPad, not sure what to choose, i went iPad it was closest in size, but i figured Android would be better so i changed it in the settings.
The thing is, i noticed no difference so can someone explain them a little, or just tell me which setting to use? Also is their any other notable settings to use?
Thanks to all who took the time to read and more thanks to those who answer.
It's what the browser tells the website it is. Some pages redirect you to a mobile site if you pick android.
I usually like ipad as that seems to be the best for the 7" form factor. Sometimes though that still redirects you to the crap mobile site.
Same with desktop, usually good, but sometimes a site is just a mess, especially if they are loaded with a million adds or have mouseover menus.
Android usually redirects to the crappiest but slimmest version of the site. Usually appreciated on my phone, but not so great on my tablet. Usually.
Pick whatever and if there is a site that annoys you then just switch.
Relevant settings on mine:
Dolphin settings
. User Agent = Desktop
Page content settings
. Text size = large
. Default zoom = medium
. Open pages in overview = disabled
These allow me to browse mostly in portrait, which is my preferred orientation.
IME, Dolphin HD is the best of a bad lot. Some pages still don't render correctly. And it does statistics collection which I detest.
Am looking forward to trying the native Firefox once it gets a bit more polish.
Gestures can be turned off via the setup wizard.
I have both a Galaxy Nexus and a Galaxy Tab 10.1, both of which have ICS. For a while now my main android web browser of choice has been ICS Browser +, which is built on top of the stock browser, with a few additions such as being able to permanently change the user agent string to "desktop". I know that the latest version of the Chrome browser has the ability to view web pages in desktop mode, but to my knowledge you must select the "Desktop Mode" checkbox in the settings every time you want the current web page to be rendered in desktop mode. Is there a way to make that desktop mode checkbox persistent or permanently checked? I really want to start using Chrome as my main android browser, but I need to know that I can permanently have Desktop Mode. I hate mobile sites!
I am also interested.
Also interested.
+1 Wont use Chrome without this option
solution
i got fed up with this tonight and found it. sorry no link cuz new account
Basically, if you have a rooted device you can do this easily. Go to root/data/local/ and make a file called "chrome-command-line"
inside you just put something like this:
chrome --user-agent=" Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/535.19 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/18.0.1025.45 Safari/535.19"
Kill/restart chrome to apply changes
Instead of copying the useragent from my PC's chrome, I went to whatsmyuseragent.com, switched to desktop mode, and copied that. What I got is for my tf300 so yours may differ.
Apologies for any errors, I'm not a technical person, just thought I would make my first post count
you can use this app
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.appo2.ua
Big thanks rumspringa9. :good:
Hi!
New to Android and to Dolphin Browser HD. I've Googled for days, however, I have come up with squat.
1) When I open a new tab, can it automatically go to my homepage and not the "Speed Dial" sort of page it does now? Any add-ons that might enable this?
2) Does Dolphin Browser HD do automatic text reflow? And, if not, any other browsers that can do this? It is pretty tedious now trying to read pages that aren't re-sized for mobile.
Thanks.
Friendly bump.
I am more curious about text reflow. Are there *any* browsers that does on the GS3?
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EDIT: Figured it out: Neither Dolphin nor the stock browser can do this in regular viewing mode. If you use "Reading Mode" on stock or download the "Reading" add-on for Dolphin, in those modes, you can.
If you want automatic text reflow in regular viewing mode, Opera Mobile and Boat Browser (both free) can do it very well, even on the Samsung Galaxy S III.
For your first question, yes, you are able to set your homepage of choice. See here: http://dolphin-browser.com/2011/03/dolphinmail-your-questions-answered-in-this-week-march-8-2011/ (it's answered in #1).
Theonew said:
For your first question, yes, you are able to set your homepage of choice. See here: http://dolphin-browser.com/2011/03/dolphinmail-your-questions-answered-in-this-week-march-8-2011/ (it's answered in #1).
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Right, Dolphin can definitely set a home page (and, if you enable the home icon, it will go to that site). What I was looking for is that, when I open a new tab, go automatically to my home page. That, I don't think, Dolphin can do.
Unfortunately, because text reflow is more important, I dropped Dolphin. I'm on Boat Browser now and, actually, it has the same homepage problem. So, now, every single of my "speed dial" icons goes to the home page in Boat Browser, which would be the easiest solution for anyone using Dolphin, too, it seems, haha. Two taps is far more efficient than incessantly Google'ing.
~Ibrahim~
Hello everybody,
I'm a huge fan of the S7+ and use it every day.
I use Firefox as a browser.
I'm trying to find a way to force desktop mode on web browsing without having to do it manually in the menu for each website.
Can't find a way ...
Thanks for your help.
+1 on that! It's really frustrating - all major web browsers don't offer desktop mode by default. You have to choose this per tab option every time you start the browser. I ended up using Samsung Internet as it was the only browser loading default desktop site versions.
Edit: Opera has this option in settings
There isn't an add on but I believe you can do custom useragent settings using about:config, general.useragent.override if you are running Firefox Beta/Nightly. I have been running this since Tab S4 but have to update the string regularly so it doesn't go out of date on browser version. I am not sure about:config is supported on stable Firefox though.
general.useragent.override not working
i try nightly version,
Any solution? Is there some modded version of firefox?