Has anyone else found that the Dolphin browser hangs on v4.3? I'm finding that it works for about a minute and then just stops responding. Android notices and asks if I want to stop it or not.
I haven't contacted Dolphin yet.
Alan
BTW - Firefox works OK (but feels clunky). Chrome works OK but doesn't support flash.
No problems here.
Up for 16 hours so far either foreground or background...
yup for youtube
for some reason all flash enabled browsers will load youtube vids as flash instead of html5
flash version will crash it 100%, while html5 will crash when you try to ff.
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All this hype around Android made me buy a SGS. Having flash on the browser was one big reason for acquisition. Soon I discovered that flash isn't what is promised, a desktop experience on my mobile device. I say this because most of the time (like 95%) the flash works so bad in my browser, that is barely usable. When trying to watch streams, mostly on news sites I get a message with "The video is not optimized for mobile" and the playback is choppy, sometimes when seeking, takes 10-15 seconds until the choppy playback starts again. If I try to watch something in low quality it works fine, but most of the sites offer good quality video. I expect more from a 1Ghz cpu...
Is this a problem of my device or is it general ? I have the latest Adobe Flash available on the market.
What firmware and kernel are you using?
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Do some research... if you are using the Default browser, open it and in the address bar type:
about:debug
and hit go...
Now go into your browser settings and at the bottom there should be an option to set the UA String, select Desktop....
Downside:
some sites will still see your device as mobile.
you have to re do the fix Every time you load the browser...
Alternative:
try Dolphin HD broswer, it has a US string setting in the options already and only needs set once.
Downside:
Is a little slower to load pages than the default browser.
some sites will still see your device as mobile.
An another point, if you are using 3g... don't expect miracles!
sadly he's right ;( its not even working properly over wifi so i cant really say the net is the problem.
id say the problem lies in flash itself and/or its something in the memory management since ive seen stock roms delivering way better flashperformance than any custom so far, so possibility is that the stream freezes and has to rebuffer every time the memmngt cuts the memory, else you could just try to flash ubuntu and see if it works any magic ;P what do it know for all its worth it could be tha b0mb
good luck anyways !
alinescoo said:
All this hype around Android made me buy a SGS. Having flash on the browser was one big reason for acquisition. Soon I discovered that flash isn't what is promised, a desktop experience on my mobile device. I say this because most of the time (like 95%) the flash works so bad in my browser, that is barely usable. When trying to watch streams, mostly on news sites I get a message with "The video is not optimized for mobile" and the playback is choppy, sometimes when seeking, takes 10-15 seconds until the choppy playback starts again. If I try to watch something in low quality it works fine, but most of the sites offer good quality video. I expect more from a 1Ghz cpu...
Is this a problem of my device or is it general ? I have the latest Adobe Flash available on the market.
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Solution: Flash a custom JVK Gingerbread rom and DO NOT install the flash player from the market, but use the one that comes preinstalled! This way you'll have 720p flash videos playing smoothly.
alinescoo said:
I get a message with "The video is not optimized for mobile" .
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I guess its rather a problem with some websites.
I never had problem with Flash player 10.1 or 10.2 (i am MIUI rom but i had previously JVK)
No problem with my SGS but i dont use flash that often so it could be as said some sites .
Use Dolphin HD browser mostly .
The video is not optimized for mobile" >> could that be the clue ???
jje
I have stock JS4 ROM, sorry forgot to mention this in the main thread. Also I am using flash only via Wifi. Actually I am using Opera Mobile and I've set the UA to Firefox Desktop one. Gonna try the idea with stock browser, maybe Opera has messed up something.
Hi guys, the new flash player is available on market. What are your impressions?
I am on Topogigi v1.7SP1 and cannot notice any difference in flash playback (tried both stock and Opera browser). Anything over 480p is choppy as hell...
Find also nothing new...
I cant even play 480p anymore!? Not smooth at all !
What the hell?
I'm on Topogigi's 1.8.
Balano, try to restart the phone after installing flash, that seem to have helped me.
Worked, but still choppy at times it should not
But... I cant choose at what resolution youtube should play. The 240/360/480/720/1080p menu is gone I use Opera Mobile, since i cant choose useragent on stock browser.
Another problem, after playing a video, the screen turns off.
Testet with CNET news and youtube.
Impression:
Yeah, resolution menu problem is present in Opera for me as well. Actually it's still there and you can change the res, but it is invisible on the player bar???
In the default browser it is working properly (you don't have to change useragent, at the bottom of the page m.youtube.com, there is a link to show desktop version of YT).
And I agree, Flash 11 went downhill
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I use Opera Mobile, since i cant choose useragent on stock browser.
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You can change the user agent of the stock browser: Type in about:debug (like an adress), then you have more settings.
Anyone else having issues with the new flash 11.0.1.152 . I'm on GTabComb 3.3. When using both the stock browser & Opera Mobile flash is acting weird. Some sites I get not video, some it keeps reloading the page over & over, others refuse to play at all & these are sites ones that previously worked on Opera Mobile.
I'm having a different issue. my webpages load correctly using opera and dolphin HD. my issue is lets say youtubes site for example the video is garbled like a broken NES game sound plays fine. but another site works perfect with no issues. its hit or miss. I tried brilliant corners, C&C, beasty, FB, and Vegantab all same issue. I recently tried Pershoots latest kernel with Vegantab (GB) and same issue is still present.
Running CM9 Alpha 2, been running for months with no problems. Today I was trying to watch a flash video from a site that worked perfectly for me for months, but it was giving me a wierd aspect ratio. So I decided to download Chrome and see how that worked. I did, but it said that flash was not installed. So I went to the Market, but found out that adobe is not letting anyone download flash anymore. So I found an apk of the flash player, installed that, and now flash does not work in ANY app, all I get is the little blue lego box. I went to Titanium and restored a backup of Flash Player, but that still won't work. I have since tried two different apk's of the latest Flash player I found, and none of them are working at all. I have tried every browser I can think of, Chrome, Opera, Dolphin, ICS+, Skyfire, none of them work at all now.
Any suggestions?
Quick update: Flash IS working for things like ads and banners, just not for video. I also saw online that Adobe AIR might be the problem, so I uninstalled that, but with no help.
Another update: I tried my MLB app, which uses Flash player for video, and it plays video just fine. So it seems that Flash video is just not working in ALL browsers....
Flash doesn't work well in the stock or Chrome browsers. I found that if I'm tryin' to watch something to do with Flash, I need to use either Firefox or Dolphin for Tab - I use the latter at the moment, cuz it seems to work pretty well.
Granted, I have an older version of Flash (one that the Market never updated anyway, so it must be as new as it can be). Might be something to consider - install Dolphin or Firefox, THEN install the Flash APK, and you should be able to have it work from there. At least, that's what I did.
I had a problem with BBC I player but when I went into ics browser and changed the settings from Android to desktop it worked, might be worth a try .
Checkout the PUFFIN web browser... turn of force gpu though here's a good site to use it on
http://www.free-tv-video-online.me/internet/index_last.html
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I feel like I should know the answer to this question/problem, and that it's a simple answer, but I'm stumped.
My HD+ previously allowed me to view embedded videos in facebook and other flash content but it updated to the 2.1.1 software last week. Now when using the stock browser, I get "flash player upgrade needed"; when using Firefox or Dolphin, an embedded video looks as though it starts (I may even hear a second or so of sound) and then freezes or goes black and that browser app quits working. I installed the "Browser plugin" from the Nook store with no fix. I installed the flash apk from leapinlar's thread, after having enabled external sources through his thread, with no fix. I am not rooted.
However, when I boot into my N2A SD card, I have no browser issues whatsoever. I can view embedded videos to my heart's content.
Why? What can I do to fix this other than move back and forth from the Android side if I want to see something in facebook? (Or is that the answer at this point?)
Thanks in advance for any help.
I'm running stock and Flash content work well in Firefox. It sort of works in Dolphin as well, but it hangs quite frequently in Dolphin, so I've switched to Firefox for Flash content.