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So i have never gotten flash to work on my NC. I am running phiremod 6.1, and have tried Miren browser, stock, and Opera. None of them will display flashing animation or work with many of the restaurant webpages (many use flash based menus).
Reinstalling, changing settings, etc has not changed anything that I can discern.
Has anyone else encountered this issue? Is there a remedy?
also, a basic website to test it would be helpful in determining if it is the webpage's fault, or something wrong with my NC.
Embarrassing when I give my GF my tablet, and it fails in front of all her friends
Thanks in advanced!!
- Waffles
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A good test website to go test out, is www.cnn.com; have you tried using skyfire or dolphin HD? Skyfire is pretty quick when it loada flash based web pages.
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investinwaffles said:
So i have never gotten flash to work on my NC. I am running phiremod 6.1, and have tried Miren browser, stock, and Opera. None of them will display flashing animation or work with many of the restaurant webpages (many use flash based menus).
Reinstalling, changing settings, etc has not changed anything that I can discern.
Has anyone else encountered this issue? Is there a remedy?
also, a basic website to test it would be helpful in determining if it is the webpage's fault, or something wrong with my NC.
Embarrassing when I give my GF my tablet, and it fails in front of all her friends
Thanks in advanced!!
- Waffles
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Have you tried all the opera options? Opera Mobile has worked for me for awhile on the cm7 builds. If you have tried it, don't know what to say.
Would just like to update:
Got it working by uninstalling flash + all extra browsers.
Installed flash first, then opera but it still wouldn't work. Repeated the process with a cache/dalvik wipe but still no worky
Finally, I installed skyfire to test it and viola! Opera now has working flash!
No idea what it did but I have since uninstalled skyfire and used the NC quite a bit and it is still working flawlessly. Thanks for the help guys (and I hope this helps someone else out as well)!
Struggled with this for like a month now LOL
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Wondering why I can't download any roms to my phone, goto mega upload to get the new rom and it says download unsuccessful.could do it with my infuse, am I missing something, sure I'm being dumb...on unnamed 1.03
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I always download to my pc, then transfer to the phone with usb cable, or dropbox.
blaker13 said:
Wondering why I can't download any roms to my phone, goto mega upload to get the new rom and it says download unsuccessful.could do it with my infuse, am I missing something, sure I'm being dumb...on unnamed 1.03
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No problem here downloading the rom using megaupload or any other
file sharing site using my phone.
There is a folder on the root directory of the internal sdcard called
".downloadTemp" thats where the file gets downloaded to.
The default browser works best for me not only in downloads but in general.
I am using gtg's unNamed v1.0.3 rom right now.
I have downloaded many files from Internet since getting this new phone.
Good luck!
blaker13 said:
Wondering why I can't download any roms to my phone, goto mega upload to get the new rom and it says download unsuccessful.could do it with my infuse, am I missing something, sure I'm being dumb...on unnamed 1.03
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Sometimes the stock browser can be flakey when it comes to downloads. You can try clearing cache and user data, and anything else to reset the browser and that might fix it for you.
But the easiest fix is to just use a different browser, dolphin its the one I use.
Not that the stock browser is not a good one, but I could never get it to consistently download everything either. It would seem like I would toy with it for days to get it to work, then a day later it would be picky about what file types it would download again.
And last little note if your interested in this stuff, it seems the dolphin browser is the fastest browser at rendering java script we have available on Android (although the speed is not way better, it is a little better)
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blaker13 said:
Wondering why I can't download any roms to my phone, goto mega upload to get the new rom and it says download unsuccessful.could do it with my infuse, am I missing something, sure I'm being dumb...on unnamed 1.03
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Don't use the default browser, download using opera always works. Look fire opera in market. It's a wonderful substitute for the stock browser with better interface as well.
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I've used a few browsers beginning back in January and I have to agree that Opera is by far my favorite. I've used Miren, Dolphin, xScope and I think a few others and have found Opera to be the best for what I do. I don't need all of the customization options that some of the browsers provide and Opera loads quickly and easily; as well as allowing me to download the files I want to download.
If you want to download using the stock browser go to the market and download a small app called, download all files. Once installed, it allows the stock browser to save any file. Works great for me
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I had some issues earlier today where Megaupload wouldn't let me download the complete file. Even to my desktop. It kept getting stuck between 80 and 90%. I had to give it a couple of hours then it worked. You may try to download a download manager from the Market as well.
stock browser seems flaky to me. usually it works, but every now and then it wont let me dl a program/app/file. like others have suggested maybe try another browser. sometimes if i restart the phone i can grab the file that failed the 1st time
Just like the title says, but everytime I load a flash site, it crashes and goes right to my home screen. Can someone else try it out to verify its not just me??
Confirmed, same here.
flash works perfectly on ICS browser....and its fast too..why need opera?
viny2cool said:
flash works perfectly on ICS browser....and its fast too..why need opera?
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Agreed, ics browser does work great, I guess I just got used to opera on cm7 and was looking forward to trying it again. I've noticed on some sites that opera does a better job of formatting the page. Guess I'll have wait til opera comes with another fix......
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Agreed, ics browser does work great, I guess I just got used to opera on cm7 and was looking forward to trying it again. I've noticed on some sites that opera does a better job of formatting the page. Guess I'll have wait til opera comes with another fix......
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That's why I have Dolphin, Opera and ics browser + installed. I find that each one does something best.
What version are you on, they just put out an update to version 12 and one of the fixes in the changelog is "Added Flash support on Android 4.0.3", or are you already talking about version 12?
Yes, already talking about V12.
But it seems not to be a Touchpad specific issue. I just tested on my HTC Desire and had the same behavior there. When activating the Flash video, Opera immediately crashes.
That's why I have Dolphin, Opera and ics browser + installed. I find that each one does something best.
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Same here
Tried it and was able to see a flash applet but then it crashed.
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Same here.. Back to 11.5.3... Even though flash does not work, it is way faster than 12 (or any other browser I've used).
The new Dolphin HD is a lot faster than the stock browser and closer to Opera Mobile 11.5.3, but Flash won't go full screen for me (it just shows a white screen) but otherwise Flash seems to work.
That's weird. I've been using Opera on my Touchpad (CM7 & CM9), my old Droid Incredible (Froyo & GB), my Transformer (HC & ICS), and my fiance's Triumph. Never had a single issue with flash.
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Really??!?! Are you using a modified version of flash??? Can you post a screenshot of it running YouTube?
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Really??!?! Are you using a modified version of flash??? Can you post a screenshot of it running YouTube?
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I stand corrected. I hadn't tried it since I last flashed. Works fine on both my Transformer and Rezound (both on ICS). Touchpad resulted in instant closure of the browser. Odd. It's clearly not an ICS issue, it must be either a CM9 issue or a Touchpad driver issue.
Out of curiosity, what ROM/Kernel is everyone running? This was on CherryKang with Bricked Kernel (not the new version, my Frankenstein version lol)
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Really??!?! Are you using a modified version of flash??? Can you post a screenshot of it running YouTube?
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Opera 12 on CM9 HP TP, Awesome for me
jhayton said:
Opera 12 on CM9 HP TP, Awesome for me
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That's the mobile YouTube site on opera in the first screenshot, and the youtube app on the other 2 screenshots. The mobile version doesn't use the adobe flash plugin, which appears t be the issue. Can you change your UA agent in opera settings to desktop and see if the desktop version of YouTube works? I'm sure it'll crash like the rest of us.....
She is not rooted and doesn't want to be...She needs a browser that has flash compatibility and the ability to use the desktop user agent . she is currently using boat browser but the last few updates have made it almost unusable..Thanks in advance
angelino0919 said:
She is not rooted and doesn't want to be...She needs a browser that has flash compatibility and the ability to use the desktop user agent . she is currently using boat browser but the last few updates have made it almost unusable..Thanks in advance
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Firefox has flash support and desktop user agent. I use it when I need flash and works well, though I use chrome (when I don't need flash) most of the time.
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Try out Dolphin Browser. If you use the jet pack as well it's really fast but slightly unstable (getting better though) it's still nice without jet pack.
She could sideload the flash APK without being rooted and use the stock browser. Just make sure unknown sources is checked in dev settings.
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Without a doubt... Maxthon Browser.
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What browsers are you guys using. I've tried to give the stock browser a go but it sucks. I have a zagg screen protector so maybe thats it. Just seems hard to press links.
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What browsers are you guys using. I've tried to give the stock browser a go but it sucks. I have a zagg screen protector so maybe thats it. Just seems hard to press links.
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The stock browser does not suck at all. I think it's faster/smoother than all other browsers.
You could give Google Chrome a try. It's a bit slow/choppy for me though.
There are a bunch of browsers in the Play Store to try too (Dolphin, etc.). Give them all a try and see what you prefer.
I've used dolohin browser before and like it. I just wanted to give the stick browser a far shot one more time.
I use Opera mini. It's very fast and I love it!
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Chrome
Stock Browser is awesome in itself.
But I use Chrome for the link between phone and computer. Luckily dont experience this clunkiness you are referring to.
I'm using Chrome Beta. I'd like to use something else but the syncing of all tabs/history between mobile and desktop has me hooked. Otherwise I really like Dolphin and another one called Xscope
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I just tried out the stock browser and it's fast as hell. I'm going to use it from now on.
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Stock browser with flash installed. If it aint broke, dont fix it.
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Stock browser does not sync with chrome bookmarks...an absolute requirement for me. I have never been able to get any of the bookmark sync across platform things work anywhere near as well as Google's built in solution, and I am not going to f%$$ around doing manual syncing. So I use the AOSP browser. Fast and light.
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Stock browser does not sync with chrome bookmarks...an absolute requirement for me. I have never been able to get any of the bookmark sync across platform things work anywhere near as well as Google's built in solution, and I am not going to f%$$ around doing manual syncing. So I use the AOSP browser. Fast and light.
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Find Chrome to Phone in the App Store, it's never not worked for me (as it is, in fact, built by Google).
edit: This doesn't support bookmarks anymore apparently... weaksauce. I always click the button to send to my phone what I need to read later, anyway.
I think it may be the thickness of my zagg screen protector. After using both browersers back to back the stock browser loads pages faster than dolphin but it just seems hard to click or tap anything. Sometimes I have to tap 3 times.
How do you install flash on the stock browser?
Chrome
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