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problem with dolphin browser

Hello guys, i have a problem with dolphin browser. Everything worked fine until few days ago, now however then i enter a website it wont display it normal way like on pc, it splits website in to pieces, and if i wanna read for example an older article wich is on the end of a page, i have to go like to 25th part of it. it sucks this way. i also tried opera mini browser, it shoes everything normal way, but i cant go to some websites, cause its identified as mobile, not as desktop computer. Hope you understood me and srry for my english.

a little confused.. could you by any chance take a screenshot? and out of curiosity did ya press any option by accident that resulted in this incident?
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Yeah its hard to explain, could you tell me any software to make a screenshot ?

If ya rooted you can simply download shootme and use that.. the latter is a little more complicated.. u would have to look it up using search!
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[Q] xda-developers forum extremely slow on transfo

Has anyone else noticed how xtremely slow this forum is on the transformer? Navigating the pages and even typing this out is very frustrating. I thought it was flash but I uninstalled it and it is still very bad. Any help or info is appreciated. The default keyboard helps a little bit, but typing is very laggy as well.
Y2J

I'm not experiencing this via the browser. Also, you may want to buy Tapatalk
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So far this website really seems to be the only one I have problems with using the stock browser, or even some of the other browsers.
I did find that Opera Mobile seems to work very well with XDA though.

y2jdmbfan said:
Has anyone else noticed how xtremely slow this forum is on the transformer? Navigating the pages and even typing this out is very frustrating. I thought it was flash but I uninstalled it and it is still very bad. Any help or info is appreciated. The default keyboard helps a little bit, but typing is very laggy as well.
Y2J
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I'm having the EXACT same problem and only with XDA Dev's site. I got so frustrated that I wiped my Transformer thinking it might have been an issue with the ROM. Still same issue. Really don't want to use Tapatalk on a damn tablet but what can I do... At least I know I'm not alone.
Also, I did update Flas to 10.2 not sure it is related.

Yeah the app is so slow. I think its the app tho, whats tapatalk
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Surfing this site on TF101 browser is slow for me also. Tapatalk is much faster though.

jinsoku3g said:
whats tapatalk
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THE best app ever!!! https://market.android.com/details?id=app-com.quoord.tapatalkpro.activity
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It IS really rotten using the default browser. Firefox is a bit better. The worst part is getting that ">" new postings link large enough to click on it. In Firefox, there is an additional new postings link that is still hard to click but larger. Hopefully as tablets become more common, sites will make some accommodation.

brachiopod said:
It IS really rotten using the default browser. Firefox is a bit better. The worst part is getting that ">" new postings link large enough to click on it. In Firefox, there is an additional new postings link that is still hard to click but larger. Hopefully as tablets become more common, sites will make some accommodation.
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y2jdmbfan said:
Has anyone else noticed how xtremely slow this forum is on the transformer? Navigating the pages and even typing this out is very frustrating. I thought it was flash but I uninstalled it and it is still very bad. Any help or info is appreciated. The default keyboard helps a little bit, but typing is very laggy as well.
Y2J
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Ravynmagi said:
So far this website really seems to be the only one I have problems with using the stock browser, or even some of the other browsers.
I did find that Opera Mobile seems to work very well with XDA though.
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spokenwordd said:
I'm having the EXACT same problem and only with XDA Dev's site. I got so frustrated that I wiped my Transformer thinking it might have been an issue with the ROM. Still same issue. Really don't want to use Tapatalk on a damn tablet but what can I do... At least I know I'm not alone.
Also, I did update Flas to 10.2 not sure it is related.
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This forum always gives people issues..
But it has a relatively easy fix.
Scroll all the way to the bottom right and then change XDA 2010 to XDA classic. All your problems should vanish!

I'm having the same issue on my Acer a500. I was getting ready to return it and wait for a transformer. I guess its just xda developers site. Thanks.
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May changing the forum style to the xda classic helps?

N23 said:
May changing the forum style to the xda classic helps?
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Classic colors are hard to take?
Strange this site works fine on the iPad it seems rather basic?

Vigneshd said:
This forum always gives people issues..
But it has a relatively easy fix.
Scroll all the way to the bottom right and then change XDA 2010 to XDA classic. All your problems should vanish!
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You sir, are an absolute star.
As indicated, all my laggy problems have indeed vanished

SonicTab said:
Classic colors are hard to take?
Strange this site works fine on the iPad it seems rather basic?
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It appears to be the Flash ads that are driving it crazy, so no problem with those on the iPad heh. The TF tries to render all of them, and although they do work they are very slow.

You would think that without flash installed, it wouldn't try to render them, but it appears to get stuck on them for some reason. It doesn't make a difference with or without flash, still unbearably slow. Can we pay $5 a month to get the flash ads turned off? LOL...

y2jdmbfan said:
You would think that without flash installed, it wouldn't try to render them, but it appears to get stuck on them for some reason. It doesn't make a difference with or without flash, still unbearably slow. Can we pay $5 a month to get the flash ads turned off? LOL...
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I love this site & I would pay to get rid of all ads to make my browsing faster on my TF101. I'll have to try the classic mode which was mentioned in a few post earlier when I get home from work.

The xoom had the same issue and switching to classic worked for a while until they updated the xda premium app. Not sure if the xda premium app will work for the tf but I would try that.
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Not sure it's the Flash ads. I have the browser set to only load Flash on demand, so the Flash ads are not shown. And it it's still extremely laggy.
I just tried switching to "XDA Classic", that fixed it. Ugly as hell, but it works now.

Browser Problems

About twice a day, when browsing with the default browser, it will lock up, give the one vibrate followed by two...stay locked up, do the vibration pattern again and then present a black screen. About two minutes later, it appears it rebooted but never showed the Samsung or AT&T logos...
Anyone else having this issue?
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Has not happen to me.
It could have been the site you visited. Try Dolphin HD, much better than stock browser.

garak0410 said:
About twice a day, when browsing with the default browser, it will lock up, give the one vibrate followed by two...stay locked up, do the vibration pattern again and then present a black screen. About two minutes later, it appears it rebooted but never showed the Samsung or AT&T logos...
Anyone else having this issue?
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All of the Galaxy S phones experience this occasionally when viewing certain heavy websites like the pocketnow.com desktop site, especially if you get a few tabs going. Nice to see Samsung still hasn't fixed that. I suggest Opera Mobile.

I can vouch for the browser crapping out on any large website, this was one of reasons I switched from the captivate to the inspire. Used an infuse today and noticed the browser froze right away on anything with flash content.

I like the stock browser but I will try Opera Mobile for a while to see if it helps...it was my browser of choice on WM 6.5
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If I remember correctly on my captivate there were a few development who had tweaked the browser.apk to fix rendering issues and freezing. Will have to go back and read changelogs on some of the custom roms
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slappyjoker said:
If I remember correctly on my captivate there were a few development who had tweaked the browser.apk to fix rendering issues and freezing. Will have to go back and read changelogs on some of the custom roms
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Yes...please let me know what you find out...this has been the only real complaint I have with this great phone...
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This happened again today...on both of our phones...anyone else encounter this lately? It is starting to become a show stopper for us on this otherwise awesome phone!

I had the same problem. The stock browser is a RAM hog. Use opera mobile, much much better and faster!
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Just use Dolphin browser, when out of ram it will not load new tab on the background unless you open the background tab,
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Well here's my quandry... I like the stock browser and I didn't have this problem with my Captivate... I am just really hoping that we can find a solution for this. I did reset the browser back to default settings and so far in the past couple days this is not happened... I'm not saying it fixed it but I will monitor it for a few days.
Side note however..
How can I make one of the other browsers the default browser and also where do I go to reset that back to the stock browser?
Thanks...
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If you're having problems with the stock browser just switch to an alternative like dolphin or firefox etc. Many improvements over the simple UI and limited functionality of the stock browser anyway.
Sent from my Infuse

I'm trying something different now... I think I was on wi-fi each and every time that the browser locked up the phone and rebooted... I am going to try to keep it off of wifi for a few days and do regular browsing see what happens
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I have had this problem as well. It is really annoying.

jsntrenkler said:
I have had this problem as well. It is really annoying.
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It is quite annoying and honestly unacceptable... using another browser is only a bandaid... this needs to be made loud and clear to at&t and samsung... there is a problem here...
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Happens to me as well...
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garak0410 said:
About twice a day, when browsing with the default browser, it will lock up, give the one vibrate followed by two...stay locked up, do the vibration pattern again and then present a black screen. About two minutes later, it appears it rebooted but never showed the Samsung or AT&T logos...
Anyone else having this issue?
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I have never used the stock browser....especially when Dolphin HD or Skyfire offer a far more superb browsing experience...
Sent from my Samsung Infuse 4G

ok.. i cant zoom with stock browser??? wtf??? i just noticed yesterday.. any answers .. i thought maybe it was a setting but i couldnt see anything i could change to fix it..

Question about Opera Browser

I love Opera, but there's one big issue that I have with it. I'm a big sports junkie and I go to ESPN.com dozens of times daily, and they recently re-designed their mobile site like 6 months ago or so. Anyways, I love the re-design and is much more useful and quicker to get the info I want/need. The problem with Opera is that it still goes to ESPN's OLD mobile site which I didn't really like. Its been over 6 months now since the re-design and other 3rd party browsers access the new one. But why can't Opera go to it? And why does it use the old one? Anyways, anything would be of great help!

Just a suggestion but the ESPN app is real good, it's what I use.
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e4e5nf3nc6 said:
Just a suggestion but the ESPN app is real good, it's what I use.
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Thanks for the response. Are you talking about the ScoreCenter app?

Yeah I like it better than the website. Anyway have you tried any page specific settings? I know in dolphin HD browser there is a useful addon that lets you quickly switch between desktop and mobile modes. I've never used opera but maybe something similar can be found in settings somewhere.
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You have made two threads lol. One for each mobile. I am also trying to fix google page for the opera mobile.
forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1187913
Post no. 8 seems to help to some extent but it doesn't fix google page for Galaxy S II. Try what he instructed and who knows you might end up lucky because it worked for facebook page for me.
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e4e5nf3nc6 said:
Yeah I like it better than the website. Anyway have you tried any page specific settings? I know in dolphin HD browser there is a useful addon that lets you quickly switch between desktop and mobile modes. I've never used opera but maybe something similar can be found in settings somewhere.
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Yeah I've thought of something similar, but what I don't understand is why Opera can't access ESPN's new mobile site. It only accesses the old mobile site before the re-design.

"Seems like Google Page has been crossed referenced / optimized with Google Android Browser to look and work flawlessly while others browsers dont "have the source codes" to make the page appear and function in optimized state."
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Possible explaination?
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Go to opera mobile then settings> advanced, then change user agent from mobile to desktop. That should fix it.
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zoppp said:
Go to opera mobile then settings> advanced, then change user agent from mobile to desktop. That should fix it.
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But that would take away the mobile site for ESPN, which I like. It's just that with Opera I get the old mobile site, whereas any other Browser app I get the new one with is much better.

Check post no. 8 in the link I have given before. It might help you..
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Video playback issues on all Web browsers, help.....

No matter what browser I try to use it keep getting this message
Can anyone suggest a possible solution, thanks.
Running stock ICS.
Edit: it seems that this issue is only with ESPN.com, I played a video on yahoo and no issues.
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you don't have flash player
even if you already installed it, it won't work because of ics.
there is one browser who support flash by rendering something on their servers, i don't remember the name but it has a bird on it icon.
best regards
Sifou
Galaxy Tab 7.7

Test skyfire browser

saeedscorpion said:
Test skyfire browser
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This also could be a location problem.

sos_sifou said:
you don't have flash player
even if you already installed it, it won't work because of ics.
there is one browser who support flash by rendering something on their servers, i don't remember the name but it has a bird on it icon.
best regards
Sifou
Galaxy Tab 7.7
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As stated i did get to play a video on yahoo and I am running a flash version that is compatible with ICS
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kaimyns said:
This also could be a location problem.
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I live in the USA, I didn't have issues before. It all of a sudden stopped working on that site
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saeedscorpion said:
Test skyfire browser
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I get the same error
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I have my device set in the USA in the build.prop as well
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flash_11.1.115.17 works on i815 with ics

I have flash and it works on there websites with video, on ESPN is not working and keep getting that message
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If video playback is working on other websites, and reading that error message, then common sense would tell me that ESPN.com has made the conscious decision not to allow their videos to playback on an Android device for whatever reason. Citing that it worked in the past doesn't mean anything because things change.
HULU does the same thing and blocks video content playback on Android.

because some web sites aren't using only flash to broadcast their videos, they are also using html5 with mp4 (i think) the player isn't cool like flash. but it has the basic fonctions.
best regards
Sifou
Galaxy Tab 7.7

unremarked said:
If video playback is working on other websites, and reading that error message, then common sense would tell me that ESPN.com has made the conscious decision not to allow their videos to playback on an Android device for whatever reason. Citing that it worked in the past doesn't mean anything because things change.
HULU does the same thing and blocks video content playback on Android.
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Sorry nothing we can do then.
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