So if you're like me you might have a lifetime membership to Sirius that comes with free internet listening. It pisses me off that Sirius wants me to pay an extra fee just because I choose to use that subscription on my android instead of my laptop, and when I had a windows mobile device I always used the 3rd party free app WM6 which worked great, however sadly there is no 3rd party app for Sirius on Android yet for people like us with the free lifetime online listening.
That being said, I've gotten Sirius working on my Android device (Thunderbolt).
Sirius threw up a number of roadblocks to prevent this, but I'll share what got it working.
First roadblock: Sirius checks your user agent and if it is android, it disables access to the web site to listen online. Solution: Use Dolphin browser or a browser that allows you to change your user agent to "Desktop" instead of Android.
Second roadblock: Sirius checks the actual version of flash and requires that you use a specific version only made for desktops....Solution: Find the apk here on XDA for flash 10.3 with hulu. This will allow you to trick several sites into thinking you're not on Android....
Next roadblock....If you don't have an android device with a hardware keyboard, the flash applet won't allow your software keyboard (SIP) to pop up to be able to enter your username & password to connect...This is the part that I haven't perfected and by that I mean I found a way, but I'm still working on a better one...When I get to this point, I use the free app Web Desktop Service with Remote Control Add-On to be able to RDP into my android device to be able to use the keybaord from my laptop to enter my login details. A couple of notes: If you have a lot goin on on the phone, and you minimize your browser, android might free up the memory so that when you go back to the browser it reloads the page, requiring you re-enter your login info again (which of course requires the computer). Also when your display suspends/times out, the audio stops by default on android so this isn't a realistic solution to listen for an extended period of time unless you have the android device plugged in with the display set to stay on and you're not using other apps.
If you don't find any value in this information, no harm no foul, but I'm very happy to have found this method to listen to Sirius with my lifetime subscription for free (and I'm still working on alternate solutions for the last part).
For those who may not believe this works I'm attaching a screenshot I took showing it working on my Thunderbolt.
P.S. for the audio to output on the android, you need to logoff the remote session on your computer first so that it outputs to the android.
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So if you're like me you might have a lifetime membership to Sirius that comes with free internet listening. It pisses me off that Sirius wants me to pay an extra fee just because I choose to use that subscription on my android instead of my laptop, and when I had a windows mobile device I always used the 3rd party free app WM6 which worked great, however sadly there is no 3rd party app for Sirius on Android yet for people like us with the free lifetime online listening.
That being said, I've gotten Sirius working on my Android device (Thunderbolt).
Sirius threw up a number of roadblocks to prevent this, but I'll share what got it working.
First roadblock: Sirius checks your user agent and if it is android, it disables access to the web site to listen online. Solution: Use Dolphin browser or a browser that allows you to change your user agent to "Desktop" instead of Android.
Second roadblock: Sirius checks the actual version of flash and requires that you use a specific version only made for desktops....Solution: Find the apk here on XDA for flash 10.3 with hulu. This will allow you to trick several sites into thinking you're not on Android....
Next roadblock....If you don't have an android device with a hardware keyboard, the flash applet won't allow your software keyboard (SIP) to pop up to be able to enter your username & password to connect...This is the part that I haven't perfected and by that I mean I found a way, but I'm still working on a better one...When I get to this point, I use the free app Web Desktop Service with Remote Control Add-On to be able to RDP into my android device to be able to use the keybaord from my laptop to enter my login details. A couple of notes: If you have a lot goin on on the phone, and you minimize your browser, android might free up the memory so that when you go back to the browser it reloads the page, requiring you re-enter your login info again (which of course requires the computer). Also when your display suspends/times out, the audio stops by default on android so this isn't a realistic solution to listen for an extended period of time unless you have the android device plugged in with the display set to stay on and you're not using other apps.
If you don't find any value in this information, no harm no foul, but I'm very happy to have found this method to listen to Sirius with my lifetime subscription for free (and I'm still working on alternate solutions for the last part).
For those who may not believe this works I'm attaching a screenshot I took showing it working on my Thunderbolt.
P.S. for the audio to output on the android, you need to logoff the remote session on your computer first so that it outputs to the android.
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Is this option still working for you? I'm currently using SiriusXMflash w/ Firefox and get random errors. Also I'm sure there are many others but I'm using Wakey to keep my screen alive while listening via Firefox.
My job requires company access to an intranet site that requires IE for access. Their solution for mobile needs is to haul an IE-equipped laptop around, but I obviously would rather connect in the field with my tablet via VPN.
All the solutions I've found via searching online have ranged from "you can't do that" to a virtual desktop that's way out of reach for in individual user. And due to the way the sites are built, only IE will work. This is not about choosing a different browser.
So does anybody know if any work is being done for those of us needing to use/emulate IE on our tablets? I know from my google searches that this is a common problem, so hopefully somebody is working on it.
I think that the only thing you can do is to have a laptop or a desktop at home with IE and access it through something like Splashtop.
You can also enable Wake-on-Lan on that PC so that it can stay off and it turns on only when you need it.
Check out Opera. I'm not sure about the Android version, but the desktop versions allow you to change the user agent (a string included with every page request that includes the OS you are using, browser, browser version, rendering engine, etc.) so that it looks to other websites like you're using IE. I'm pretty sure Dolphin also has this, and I know that there is an extension for Firefox that can do this, too. Whether or not it will work in your case, I can't guarantee, but it's worth a shot.
Solution!
The "desktop user agent" in the Dolphin browser app did the trick. Thanks to those who replied with suggestions.
I'm familiar with 'Chrome to Phone' and 'Chrome to Mobile' extensions for Chrome (and other browsers).
I'm also familiar with tabs that can sync on multiple Chrome sessions on multiple devices across multiple operating systems.
So, what I'm wondering is, if anyone knows a fun setup to send a webpage from android and force that webpage to open up on a tablet (either android or ios), via an NFC function?
This is basically the old function that webOS has a few years ago...tap the phone to the tablet to xfer the webpage.
This, can also happen when 2 NFC readers engage each other in Android, like Samsung's S-Beam funciton.
I'm just wondering if there's a way to set this up with Tasker, an NFC app (that I might not have tried), and/or an additional App, and an NFC tag placed on the receiving tablet, and some wizardry.
I know that the following will allow sending webpages from the phone to a desktop, but wondering if somehow an automated desktop tweak might be able to additionally then auto pass along the link from Chrome to somewhere else.
Android2Cloud
Phone 2 Chrome
Send to Computer
Send to Browse
Url2Cloud
Any ideas, I haven't seen anyone mention in any threads I've searched.
I have been wasting a lot of time when trying to install some parental control mechanism for my children.
The latest method I tested was to manually configure a proxy (inside Android's settings), but as this proxy is made for nurselings, it does not even allow Wikipedia.
Now I added Wikipedia to the bypass list, but this list is just ignored. I tried "wikipedia.org" and ".wikipedia.org" and "*.wikipedia.org" and even ".org", but: NOTHING.
Is this a bug? I also tried an old Android (not Cyanogen, I think it was Android 4.0), and: NOTHING.
This should be a basic function, did I miss something?
Is there a way to go past the website's UA checks and always load their desktop versions instead of mobile? Asking because I already set in the preferences of all my phone browsers to always load the full desktop version and still, many websites somehow know I'm using a mobile device and force the mobile version.
Anyone found solution for Dolphin or Boat browsers? I've read about "about:debug" and "about:useragent" showing extra UA menu elements which in my case does nothing (android 6). I was also unable to find an user agent switching app that could always force Desktop parameters to the websites.
Even if there's no immefiate solution, I would like to know the principle websites choose which version to load irrespective to browser settings. Is it network/data/service provider settings, or specific browser/resolution signature? Thanks a lot for any ideas.
Menergy said:
Is there a way to go past the website's UA checks and always load their desktop versions instead of mobile? Asking because I already set in the preferences of all my phone browsers to always load the full desktop version and still, many websites somehow know I'm using a mobile device and force the mobile version.
Anyone found solution for Dolphin or Boat browsers? I've read about "about:debug" and "about:useragent" showing extra UA menu elements which in my case does nothing (android 6). I was also unable to find an user agent switching app that could always force Desktop parameters to the websites.
Even if there's no immefiate solution, I would like to know the principle websites choose which version to load irrespective to browser settings. Is it network/data/service provider settings, or specific browser/resolution signature? Thanks a lot for any ideas.
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If the problem is website's UA check, often you can choose an AdWay or something similar, on my phone i'm surprised to see as "auto check" some pop up, check and box.
But for what never stop working, that's need update every day...
There isn't much you can do in this case.
Sometimes in some browsers you've an option with whitelist or other but I do believe they can be related to the mobile display or desktop of a particular site.
Maybe there is an add-on xposed or plugin that I don't know
My problem is that some websites force the mobile version no matter what, as well as lack on services that I need in there, and you couldn't circumvent that in any way.
Yesterday I had to verify an email address and tried with all the browsers I have on my phone (like 5 different). They were all set to display the desktop version and all were forced into the mobile. But on the mobile you couldn't verify the link, probably on purpose (security if on mobile device), and I would not have access to laptop/desktop browser by the evening. The same is with many other features/missing services on forced mobile websites so I want to find a way to have full functionality when on the go.
Does AdWay have options for influencing data the browser notifies to the websites? Anything similar to Mozilla-code based Random Agent Spoofer browser add-on where you can basically force the browser to inject any incorrect data and prevent other data leaking while browsing? Any special cookie mechanisms inherent to mobile browsers only?
Alternatively, can I access browser settings with something like about:config/debug or else? Dolphin, Boat, others? I am sure the browser notifies the correct desktop user agent, there's something else, probably very simple, that tells websites the connection is from a portable device...
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My problem is that some websites force the mobile version no matter what, as well as lack on services that I need in there, and you couldn't circumvent that in any way.
Yesterday I had to verify an email address and tried with all the browsers I have on my phone (like 5 different). They were all set to display the desktop version and all were forced into the mobile. But on the mobile you couldn't verify the link, probably on purpose (security if on mobile device), and I would not have access to laptop/desktop browser by the evening. The same is with many other features/missing services on forced mobile websites so I want to find a way to have full functionality when on the go.
Does AdWay have options for influencing data the browser notifies to the websites? Anything similar to Mozilla-code based Random Agent Spoofer browser add-on where you can basically force the browser to inject any incorrect data and prevent other data leaking while browsing? Any special cookie mechanisms inherent to mobile browsers only?
Alternatively, can I access browser settings with something like about:config/debug or else? Dolphin, Boat, others? I am sure the browser notifies the correct desktop user agent, there's something else, probably very simple, that tells websites the connection is from a portable device...
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I use "user agent switcher" for chrome and it always works. It requires root though.
Can you provide an example of a website that refuses to show the desktop version?
And additionally, your build.prop contains your device's information. The browser might be transmitting that information to the website.
Thank you, the build.prop info was very helpful. I am not rooted yet as I've got my new phone just less than a month ago so still exploring, but can't really find the file, even among the hidden files on the internal memory. I will explore more and see how it goes.
I am in the UK so for example one of the websites that always loads the limited mobile instead of desktop version is the one of my service provider, EE, ee. co. uk (apologies for the intervals, I'm otherwise not allowed to post it). This mobile version is too basic and 60% of what you could do on a desktop version is cut. I've been on Three Mobile and sometimes I could get their full website working, sometimes not. Other websites are let's say bbc. co. uk and other media/news/bank websites that know, no matter browser settings, you are accessing them from a portable device.
Unfortunately I do not trust Google and any of their products so avoid voluntarily and (un)intentionally handing any personal data over to them. I would have used Mozilla for Android if it was close to the functionality Boat and Dolphin browsers provide. I even contacted the Dolphin team having previously assisted them but have got no feedback whatsoever. There must be a way for editing these unusual browser settings, but as pointed out above, I suspect it has something to do will submitting device ID info from within system folders. Thus probably only browser developers could tell us how the problem could be circumvented (and hopefully at least for now, with no root).
Or the developers of addons such as the Random Agent Spoofer or the user agent switchers.
Menergy said:
Thank you, the build.prop info was very helpful. I am not rooted yet as I've got my new phone just less than a month ago so still exploring, but can't really find the file, even among the hidden files on the internal memory. I will explore more and see how it goes.
I am in the UK so for example one of the websites that always loads the limited mobile instead of desktop version is the one of my service provider, EE, ee. co. uk (apologies for the intervals, I'm otherwise not allowed to post it). This mobile version is too basic and 60% of what you could do on a desktop version is cut. I've been on Three Mobile and sometimes I could get their full website working, sometimes not. Other websites are let's say bbc. co. uk and other media/news/bank websites that know, no matter browser settings, you are accessing them from a portable device.
Unfortunately I do not trust Google and any of their products so avoid voluntarily and (un)intentionally handing any personal data over to them. I would have used Mozilla for Android if it was close to the functionality Boat and Dolphin browsers provide. I even contacted the Dolphin team having previously assisted them but have got no feedback whatsoever. There must be a way for editing these unusual browser settings, but as pointed out above, I suspect it has something to do will submitting device ID info from within system folders. Thus probably only browser developers could tell us how the problem could be circumvented (and hopefully at least for now, with no root).
Or the developers of addons such as the Random Agent Spoofer or the user agent switchers.
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The build.prop is a text file which should be located in system/ folder. And you usually can't view the contents of that folder without root, so that's why you haven't been able to find it.
I visited ee.co.uk using chrome, and I was able to switch between the mobile and desktop version of the site without any issues, even without using the UA changing app. All I did was select "request desktop site" from the side menu.
I tried using CM's stock browser though, and just like you experienced, the same website refused to load in desktop mode. I even went as far as changing the UA in its settings menu and even that didn't work.
So all that you wrote in the last two paragraphs have been confirmed.
Right now, it's either chrome or root until the devs fix/properly implement their UA changing feature.
I was testing other browsers the whole morning here and finally reluctantly tried Firefox. Somehow its Android version never impressed me or was too buggy for me when tested before. Probably because just before going for it I tried Pale Moon and have seen that I can readily edit just about everything via about:config. The Pale Moon's UI settings menu was however completely missing (probably a bug), along with no other controls, so I had to skip it.
So I am glad to report that using Firefox's "Request desktop website" option I finally was able to load desktop versions of websites that were forcing me to always have their mobile one instead. This means that Firefix for now becomes my main browser. As suggested by you, I tried first with Chrome but with no success (using its internal user agent options). There were a few Chrome user agent switchers in the market but although some of them did not explicitly require root, upon starting them they did so I had to uninstall them.
My question yet remains, what exactly tells websites not to load full version, even if browser's user agent reports the correct values. I will leave this to me as I go deeper into this. Glad to have got what I wanted
Thanks a lot for all your help.
Just to add for all having my problem and using Firefox for Android.
By default Firefox will always load the mobile website version and every time you will need to tick "Request desktop site" if you dislike it. As I do, there is an addon called "Desktop by Default" that will always keep the tick on for you. You may instead try creating a new string called "general.useragent.override" adding a desktop OS signature but it won't work (tested by me) for exactly the same websites I had issues with above, so do use the addon instead. It will however work for all other websites that don't have issues with Desktop mode on other browsers.
There is another string that I disabled also called general.useragent.site_specific_overrides.
Tweaking with the Chrome for Android settings seems to require root so Firefox in my case is a God bless. I hope this is helpful to all others with my issue...