Can anyone help me with finding a suitable Internet browser for my HTC HD2 running Windows Mobile 6.5?
The chief consideration is flash support. The device comes with Opera Mobile and Windows Mobile Internet Explorer, both of which can play some online video content but not nearly all.
I used to use Skyfire for viewing online video content and then, when they stopped supporting Windows Mobile, moved to uZard. This, like Skyfire before it, was brilliant but has now stopped working. I don't know why; I contacted the company and posted details of the problem on this forum (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1377265) but I have had no replies.
So I am trying (and so far failing) to find another mobile browser that can be used on Windows Mobile 6x devices and can view, at least, the majority of online video content.
Any ideas, anyone?
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Hi,
I am trying to get the ActiveX plugin for the Windows Media Player to work in PocketIE, or rather Internet Explorer Mobile on an O2 XDA Orbit 2 (Windows Mobile 6). The objective is to play a wma file from a URL, but using javascript to control the player, which will sit in a display:none; styled div.
I dont want to post walls of code, so I have setup this simple page to illustrate and test it:
http://lukas.xcomms.ie/cblproof/Default.aspx
I am able to display this fine in PocketIE, and I am able to play the audio file, just as in the desktop browser. However, with the new version of this plugin (i.e. using classid "clsid:6BF52A52-394A-11D3-B153-00C04F79FAA6" instead of the old "CLSID:22D6F312-B0F6-11D0-94AB-0080C74C7E95"), I am no longer able to use the javascript calls for .Play() and .Stop() on the player object.
When I switch the code back to use the old plugin, I can successfully use javascript to control the player in the desktop version of IE, but since the plugin is not installed on the WinMo6 device, I cannot bring the page to load the player in PocketIE.
Has anyone come across this before, or is there any reference documentation for the new ActiveX plugin, similar to the old Windows Media Player for PocketPC SDK that Microsoft had for PocketPC 2002 way back when?
Any input here would be much appreciated, I have trawled this forum and the internet for two days now, but unfortunately information is very sparse. I am stuck with PocketIE because of other requirements for the project, so switching to Opera or SkiFire is not an option I am afraid.
Thank you very much in advance for any pointers!
Mike
Other options
Hi again,
since no-one seem to have an idea to circumvent this particular challenge, can anyone suggest an alternative? I would be willing to skin the plugin, or use any other means of controlling audio in a web page through JavaScript.
I hate the fact that we have to work with Pocket IE on this, but at least it means that whatever solution we go for will need to work only on this platform and not across a variety of handsets / browsers.
Very grateful for any thoughts, opinions, advice,
Thanks again!
Mike
Hi,
I got this phone to watch skysports on the bigger screen, currently sky have a mobile app but only for Iphone.
I have tried watching it via the browser but the opera does not support flash or silverlight, IE for windows mobile supports flash but not silverlight.
So I downloaded and installed skyfire that supports flash and silverlight, but still does not work because it does not support application storage.
So anyone have any ideas how I could watch it, or know a browser with this support?
HTC HD2 on O2 in the UK
Cheers
No one can help or suggest anything?
Not on O2. Only way to get it is the iPhone app.
All other networks provide it via 3G, but O2 have an iPhone contract to fulfil
HD2_Mav said:
Hi,
I got this phone to watch skysports on the bigger screen, currently sky have a mobile app but only for Iphone.
I have tried watching it via the browser but the opera does not support flash or silverlight, IE for windows mobile supports flash but not silverlight.
So I downloaded and installed skyfire that supports flash and silverlight, but still does not work because it does not support application storage.
So anyone have any ideas how I could watch it, or know a browser with this support?
HTC HD2 on O2 in the UKG
Cheers
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Have you tried skyfire might work on that.
cheers
Dean
DT39 said:
Have you tried skyfire might work on that.
cheers
Dean
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Did you actually bother to read the post you are supposed to have answered, Dean?
No solution for the Android OS yet, but one is in the pipeline for early 2011.
Anybody have it yet ?.
Hey everyone,
Here's the deal. I install security cameras for a living and it's getting to the point were business owners expect to be able to view these cameras from their phone, be it Windows, Android, or Blackberry. I am mainly interested in viewing cameras from a Geovision DVR, if that makes any difference. I had this working on my TP2 and on a Droid once, but I can't get it working on my Evo.
The DVR has a built-in webserver. If you visit the DVR with a desktop machine on, say, Internet Explorer, it will display the full blown site. If you visit the DVR from a mobile phone, you are supposed to see the mobile version of the site. The thing is, the default internet browser on the Evo and Opera Mini try to display the full blown site. I assume the browsers are passing some information to the server that tells it if it is mobile or desktop, and it's emulating desktop.
I've tried enabling the "Mobile View" on the browsers but still get the full site. I'm not sure why the stock browser does it but I think Opera does it because of that Opera Turbo feature. I downloaded a browser from the Market call "Mobile Broswer" but when I try to view a camera it gives me "Page Cannot Be Displayed" and I have to paste the camera link into the stock browser and it will open it in the streaming media viewer.
Any ideas? This is giving me a headache because everyone seems to think it's my fault that their phones won't view the cameras anymore.
Thanks!
try different mobile html,sitr browser,a buch of them are available but the top one are
1.skyfire,which is region limited,good one,google it and install it on ur mobile
2.opera mobile 10,or other version compatablt to ur phone,google it and install it on phone and browse,
before browsing install adobe 7 for windows ce, or any flash plugin available,google it
Dear all,
I have an HTC HD2 (a.k.a. HTC Leo), running Windows Mobile 6.5 Professional, and it may have a problem.
I tried to install Flash Player on my mobile device in order to watch online videos in Internet Explorer Mobile. I found, however, that this only stopped the one website that I could play videos in, YouTube, from playing. I uninstalled the player and found that I still could not play even YouTube videos.
What can I do? As I understand it, a mobile browser needs to include Flash in order to play online videos. I have heard conflicting accounts as to whether Internet Explorer Mobile is or is not a Flash browser. I only knew of the one site that I could play videos on and now I cannot even use that one. Any suggestions would really be appreciated.
Many thanks,
Karim434
P.S. My reason for doing this is that the famous substitute for the absence of a flash browser on Windows phones, Skyfire, has recently decided to abandon Windows Mobile users. If anyone knows of any decent alternatives then that would be good too. Thanks!
Hi everyone,
I have a problem. I have a Palm Treo Pro 850w phone, which is quite old. It runs with Windows Mobile Professional 6.1.0. The problem that I have is that I can't find any web browser that can fully support adobe flash.
I have Opera Mobile 10 which has a flash plug-in called flash lite. It works partially and is only able to play Youtube videos. I have tried other programs such Skyfire 1.5, Bolt 1.5, Mach 5, but none of which work. I read online that Adobe has actually stopped producing adobe flash programs for smart phones.
I would like to know if there any ways that I can actually stream flash files online without using adobe flash. I also read that smartphones are now moving towards using HTML5. How does this work?
Please help.
Thanks.