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Crossbow User Agent String

Does anyone know how to change the IE user agent string in crossbow? It seems the old way of doing it no longer works. This is how i used to do it in WM5 http://www.hpcfactor.com/support/cesd/s/0122.asp
I perfer to set my browser to look like IE6 running on Win2000 or XP so certan sites like www.google.com dont detect browser version and redirect you do their "lite" version of the site. PocketIE is perfectly capable of rendering the full site, and thats what i want to load.

I am currently on a search for getting access to wells fargo w/ WM6 and ran across this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=300378&highlight=USER+AGENT
Don't know if that will help you or not.

Turning Pocket Internet Explorer 7 into a PC based browser

This tweak: http://www.pocketpctweaks.com/pocketpc_tweaks/change_pocket_internet_explorer_6
... worked perfectly in PIE6 and I was wondering if an equivalent tweak existed for PIE7.
The tweak for PIE6 above does not work for PIE7.
The pure reason for such a tweak is to allow more sites to be usable/accessible from the Universal. In its current form, PIE7 does not function well with a lot of sites.
I know I could just install another browser, but I want to work with what is already there and not use up the Universal's precious free space.

Sorry for misleading the name.
Its not called "Pocket Internet Explorer 7" but instead it is officially called "Internet Explorer Mobile 6.9".
I did some tests with http://web-sniffer.net and found out that the User-Agent string IEM6.9 gives out is:
Mozilla/4.0 (compatibale; MSIE 6.0; Windows CE; IEMobile 6.9)
To make IEM 6.9 look like a desktop IE intead of a Pocket/Mobile IE, all that is needed to be done is to change the User-Agent string iexplorer.exe broadcasts from the one defined above to the following:
Mozilla/4.0 (compatibale; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; IEMobile 6.9)
I have gone through the registery to find out where "Windows CE" is defined as far as IE is concerned and could not find any.
I wanted to transfer iexplorer.exe from the Universal to the PC so that I can try a binary string search on it, but trying to make a copy of iexplorer.exe anywhere produces an error. Does anybody know how to get around this?

FYI, the reason why I intend to probe into iexplore.exe is because of:
http://blogs.msdn.com/iemobile/archive/2006/08/03/Detecting-IE-Mobile.aspx

nvatvani said:
FYI, the reason why I intend to probe into iexplore.exe is because of:
http://blogs.msdn.com/iemobile/archive/2006/08/03/Detecting-IE-Mobile.aspx
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hi nvatvani
tweaks2k2net gives you the free choice of changing your user agent as you wish. you can even "disguise" your PIE as Internet Explorer 7 if you like to do that.
for more info gor to http://www.tweaks2k2.com/
see ya
bel

Beltemps said:
hi nvatvani
tweaks2k2net gives you the free choice of changing your user agent as you wish. you can even "disguise" your PIE as Internet Explorer 7 if you like to do that.
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Err, only IE 6 actually and it doesn't work on WM6 anyway

captainsensible2002 said:
Err, only IE 6 actually and it doesn't work on WM6 anyway
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I've searched and searched and would love the answer as well.
I tried using Advanced Config but no matter what I put in for User Agent, my Tilt adds info about Windows CE and web sites give me their mobile version (not their desktop version, what I'd really like).
I've tried Registry changes as discussed above and they don't work either.
Somehow, Opera is able to pull this off but I can't use it because of display purposes.
Help, please??

The regisrty Key you are looking for...
Hello,
Was just browsing and read your questions about where to find the registry settings for PIE... The key you guys are looking for is located in the following:
[HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\5.0\User Agent]
The values are strored in the follwing:
@="Mozilla/4.0"
Compatible="compatible"
Desc="Default (Windows CE)"
Platform="Windows CE"
UA-Language="JavaScript"
Version="MSIE 6.0"
Just change the value for "Platform" to the following and it should work:
"Windows NT 5.1"
I hope that helps,
-Jwrightmcps

^^worked in wm5

Jwrightmcps said:
Hello,
Was just browsing and read your questions about where to find the registry settings for PIE... The key you guys are looking for is located in the following:
[HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\5.0\User Agent]
The values are strored in the follwing:
@="Mozilla/4.0"
Compatible="compatible"
Desc="Default (Windows CE)"
Platform="Windows CE"
UA-Language="JavaScript"
Version="MSIE 6.0"
Just change the value for "Platform" to the following and it should work:
"Windows NT 5.1"
I hope that helps,
-Jwrightmcps
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Hi Jwrightmcps,
First of all congratulations are in order for being one of the best ROM builders ever!
The free software from ANB Software called Web Viewer (28 kb) not only put the above registry entries into the PPC registry. But it also gives tab browsing too.
Basically, it turns the PIE into Firefox, as Firefox for PPC is dearly missed.
Link for download:
http://www.anbsoftware.co.uk/download.php?id=8
Once again, thank you for all you do for us at this beautiful site!
Best Regards,
KOR!

Jwrightmcps said:
Hello,
Was just browsing and read your questions about where to find the registry settings for PIE... The key you guys are looking for is located in the following:
[HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\5.0\User Agent]
The values are strored in the follwing:
@="Mozilla/4.0"
Compatible="compatible"
Desc="Default (Windows CE)"
Platform="Windows CE"
UA-Language="JavaScript"
Version="MSIE 6.0"
Just change the value for "Platform" to the following and it should work:
"Windows NT 5.1"
I hope that helps,
-Jwrightmcps
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Thanks for the suggestion. Unfortunately, when I went to change this registry value, I found it didn't help.
Based on some prior research, the User Agent seems to be preserved in a browser.dll file. See:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=305008&highlight=browser.dll+user+agent
Now, I did some comparisons by going to www.useragentstring.com. I found that no matter what registry settings I changed, my Tilt was adding in user agent data to indicate I am on a Windows CE device; I am sure that this is why I keep getting shunted to Mobile versions of web sites.
Here's what I got from PIE:
"HTC-8900/1.2 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows CE; IE Mobile 7.6) UP.Link/6.3.1.17.0"
But interestingly, when I use Opera with the setting checked to emulate a desktop machine, I get:
"Mozilla/4.0 (Compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1) Opera 8.65 [en]"
Clearly, Opera is able to modify the data that browser.dll is sending out. If only Opera met my needs, I would be golden; unfortunately, it takes forever to load a page, and it throws screen after screen of empty space in the middle of some pages.
I'd love to use PIE enhanced with PIEPlus, but I just have to figure out how to spoof a desktop machine.
Perhaps with this extra background someone will have a suggestion??
Thanks -

King of Rapture™ said:
Hi Jwrightmcps,
First of all congratulations are in order for being one of the best ROM builders ever!
The free software from ANB Software called Web Viewer (28 kb) not only put the above registry entries into the PPC registry. But it also gives tab browsing too.
Basically, it turns the PIE into Firefox, as Firefox for PPC is dearly missed.
Link for download:
http://www.anbsoftware.co.uk/download.php?id=8
Once again, thank you for all you do for us at this beautiful site!
Best Regards,
KOR!
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Thanks for this suggestion. I tried this software, but it did not work well for me. Some problems I have:
• It is unable to be the "default browser" despite the check box in Prefs. Thus, clicking on a link in an email sends the link to PIE.
• I can't even cut/copy a link and paste it into the address bar - pasting doesn't work.
• Even when I type a link directly, it goes to the mobile version.
I would gladly try another browser if it worked as I need, but so far no luck.

Accessing Hutchison 3 3G portal

After I updated my Universal to WM6, I cannot access Hutchison 3 3G portal (Hong Kong) by Internet Explorer.
When I was using WM5, I just needed to modify the "User Agent" in the registry and then I could access to the 3G portal. But the same method doesn't work after upgrading to WM6.
Please help.

I'm not sure if this is a similar problem to a problem I had, but on my new Samsung SGH-i600 WM5 smartphone (the BackJack) I had to search through the registry and change at least two strings before I had it recongnising my phone as a Three-approved model.
Do a search for the original user agent device name and see what you get. May be a totally different problem (in fact it probably is) but can't hurt to try!
I only did it to access X-Series menus though, everything else worked perfectly with the standard user agent.

mitchello said:
I'm not sure if this is a similar problem to a problem I had, but on my new Samsung SGH-i600 WM5 smartphone (the BackJack) I had to search through the registry and change at least two strings before I had it recongnising my phone as a Three-approved model.
Do a search for the original user agent device name and see what you get. May be a totally different problem (in fact it probably is) but can't hurt to try!
I only did it to access X-Series menus though, everything else worked perfectly with the standard user agent.
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HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\5.0\User Agent
I think you need to change the "Default" or "Platform" key...

Phone call a number displayed in a browser

Hi folks,
searching my favourite Google-Oracle and this forum didn't brought me anything about my question (except my search parameters are stupid choosen)
Is there a way to call a phone-number which is displayed in your browser (PocketIE,Opera-Mini) with your PDA (e.g. htc artemis)?
Just like - selecting the phone-number and hit the call button. But I don't want to copy paste the number, which are some clicks too much!
The web page can be modified by me, I don't necessarily want to take public pages, but my own designed ones.
Thanks in advance.

Here we go again.
Hope this will raise some attention to this thread again. (The "General" Thread is very frequently used, but I guess that's the problem. Difficult problems like mine aren't answered)

So there are no ideas?
What a mess.

only such plugin i even seen on pc was the skype plugin for IE which ended up pretty much seeing all 6 and 8 diget nr's as phone numbers
as browsers on pda are much less mature
i suspect your best bet would be to manualy copy paste the number

Meanwhile in a German Forum i got this:
With Opera Mini 4 you can click on a phone number an will be asked if you want to dial or not.
Since Opera Mini 4 ist not my choice (no local adresses browseable and all Websites are first "prepared" over an Opera Server) I will be waiting for Opera Mobile 9.5.
Opera Mobile 9.5 will let you dial a phone number on a website.
However I hoped, that there was some HTML-Tags or anything else which can tell you on PocketIE to dial a number.

That is shame really, even Blackberry browser and Iphone's Nautilus let you dial number displayed on the web page...

Need Registry Entries from original O2 ROM (MMS settings)

Hey guys,
basically i have upgraded to gullum's ROM and found that my MMS settings are wrong, meaning that pictures i send get resized by o2. My mms pictures are tiny and i need a registry entery from the original orbit 2 rom to help.
The links to this are:
http://forum.o2.co.uk/viewtopic.php?t=11821
and
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=441428&page=2
could someone with the original o2 rom installed please tell me the registry entries at location:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE - Software - Arcsoft MMS UA - Config - mm1 - WspHeader
for
User-Agent string
and
x-wap-profile string
thanks
Fergus

As a temporary measure i decided to use the info from this thread,
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=2648519
but i still need the orbit 2 settings. If anyone can spare 5 min to check those registry strings that would be great, thanks!

just for my own records what the gullum ROM has is:
(http://www.htcmms.com.tw/gen/Polaris-1.0.xml)
and
(HTC_P3650/arcsoft-mmsua-4.0.0.xx)

User-Agent string
HTC-8900/MR2
and
x-wap-profile string
http://www.htcmms.com.tw/ATT/Pilgrim-1.0.xml

thanks for replying, but are you sure you are using o2? Those headers would appear to be for another service provider and model.
Surely the user agent profile would have orbit2 in it somewhere?

I have the 02 XDA Orbit 2 running O2's official wm6.1 update:
RUU_Polaris_O2_UK_3.13.206.0_radio_sign_25.85.30.07_1.59.42.15_Ship.exe
But, I am in the USA and use a cab file to install AT&T's settings. Guess that's a problem as far as the settings you're seeking.
Sorry.

this makes perfect sense then. The cabinet file has likely altered your mms applications software, arcsoft to think that the phone is the pilgrim. Likely this is a phone that At&T sells with its network, so it knows exactly how to handles picture messages from this phone.
The ignito fix works for me in the same way, however i would prefer the original o2 settings.

Had occasion to do a hard reset so I let it install the O2 UK Post Pay settings. Hopefully this is what you need:
User-Agent
Xda_Orbit_2/arcsoft-mmsua-4.0.0.xx
x-wap-profile string
http://www.htcmms.com.tw/gen/Polaris-1.0.xml

thank you very much this is exactly what i was needing! Your help is much appreciated.
However it is just my luck, i need to reflash since i appear to have a touch screen/button fault. If this doesn't clear then i will be sending the device back. So i will have the opportunity to get the settings anyway!