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[Galaxy Tab Themes and Apps] IRIE4IPIER:
How do you put yourself through the stress and pain of using the stock browser.
[Galaxy Tab Themes and Apps] hartyshow:
Dolphin HD but I will try Miren too ;-)
[Galaxy Tab Themes and Apps] TheGrammarFreak:
Miren has just won me over... User agent control is awesome, flash is a useful feature when it's set to only show when you want it to. I also love the "always there" back and forward buttons. Bye bye opera.

Sent from my GT-P1000
[Galaxy Tab Themes and Apps] alias_neo:
+1 to Miren

Im a Firefox man myself but I can't believe how this browser has come out of nowhere and just blown the competition out of the water.

Once Firefox is more stable and gets flash it'll be between the two.

Dolphin HD is a mess. Opera is ok.

Just try Miren, I did after reading this thread and am not disappointed (its free too)
[Galaxy Tab Themes and Apps] girlymissjulie:
I am so glad I read this thread! The stock browser kept causing my tab to reboot or just shut my tab off all together, so I tried Dolphin and, although it hadn't crashed my tab, I hated it and couldn't understand all the raves about it. I tried out Miren under the suggestion of this thread and I love it! Much faster, much better interface - I love everything about it so far! Bye bye Dolphin!
[Galaxy Tab Themes and Apps] schmolch:
Miren is my default browser but its not fast, opera mobile is easily 5 times faster and also is the only one handling html5 well.
[Galaxy Tab Themes and Apps] paulshields:
Another vote for Miren from me. So much better than the stock browser. New release candidate as of today here: http://miren.cn/clientaccess/v1-testing/download/browser-testing.apk
[Galaxy Tab Themes and Apps] jstigall:
I only use xscope, it's fast and has tabs.

Sent from my galaxy tab
[Galaxy Tab Themes and Apps] Azhad:
Install miren, try it, and come back to apologize :D

Sent from my Galaxy Tab
[Galaxy Tab Themes and Apps] quinckekorotkoffqk:
I have used them all for a good amount of time but Xscope browser blows them all.

for me

1.Xscope( fast ,PIN zoom,Easy tab Switch,Very Light,Destop setting under user agent etc etc)

2.Dolphin HD

3.Skyfire

4.Miren (evrything is good but Bit slow)

5.Opera

6.Firefox

7.Stock:)
[Galaxy Tab Themes and Apps] suree_n:
not sure if the performance of the browser may vary country by country. For me, in Thailand, xscope seems to be the best follow by opera, dolphine and Miren....with default setting
[Galaxy Tab Themes and Apps] hawkye:
Miren is cool but too dog slow! Trying out Xscope now and it seems like a winner so far!!
[Galaxy Tab Themes and Apps] Zubene:
as for browsing speed

Xscope is fastest for sure...At least in korea. can feel the difference especially in heavy flash loading sites

But I dont mind speed. All are fast enough so no matters to this problem.....all are fast enough except opera in east asia - no opera server in aisa so no opera turbo just hells of loading

Looking great is the best.... that's what I think
[Galaxy Tab Themes and Apps] raqball:
Xscope rocks!
[Galaxy Tab Themes and Apps] kwoodall:
There are a few things to note:

Xscope speed isn't faster than Miren (or at least in my time trials) but they do open pages differently. Xscope shows you things as they load - Miren waits for most of the page elements to load before displaying. Makes Miren seem slower.

As for Xscope - there's a lot I'm not really fond of in it. I don't like the bookmarks system, the menu system, and worst for me is that I find it's zooming fails to reflow to the different zoom levels consistently.

But the great thing overall is that we have so many excellent choices!

K
[Galaxy Tab Themes and Apps] ftgg99:
I can't see how... all flash works just fine for me in dolphin.
[Galaxy Tab Themes and Apps] quinckekorotkoffqk:
No . Not only me but many of us here find Xsope to be faster n nicer.

when i say faster i meant complete loading time n not just display in both Miren and xscope.:) try once more mate.
[Galaxy Tab Themes and Apps] rockky:
Yeah..Scope for me two.. Skyline second in straight speed-to-readable-text.

Recent Xscope fixed text flow issue.... AND installed a very cool copypaste system.

Do like Mirens UI tho.
[Galaxy Tab Themes and Apps] evlado:
I am another xscope fan. Very quick, and I love being able to hold links to open them in a new tab, and then swipe left and right to change tabs
[Galaxy Tab Themes and Apps] olyloh6696:
hi i use opera mini when i have a data connection running, then i use dolphin hd when i have wifi!
[Galaxy Tab Themes and Apps] Oby_1:
Hi,

I tried a lot of browser and no one can load streming video on www.megavideo.com site.

I tried :

Dolphind HD

Miren

Skifire

Stock browser

xscope

If someone can help me, thanks!

When i go to the siten it always go to an another site (AD) i tried Adblocker from Dolphin but no sucess!
[Galaxy Tab Themes and Apps] tekomni:
I've tried all the popular ones on the market + Firefox beta and I really like Miren. It's simple, fast, clean
[Galaxy Tab Themes and Apps] whoisariston:
I usually go between:

Opera Mobile

Skyfire

Dolphin Mini

Stock

Miren

I prefer Mire above them all. Looking at all of the +1s for xscope I may have to give that a shot.
[Galaxy Tab Themes and Apps] djsystem:
Xscope 6.36 firt
[Galaxy Tab Themes and Apps] madsquabbles:
I prefer xscope also. but v 6 is slower than v5. scrolling is a bit stuttery unless you hide the menu/nav bars. still, it has every feature I'd want in a browser except plug ins.

...and the bookmark menu does suck. I'd really love to see a way to manually organize bookmarks and create folders.
[Galaxy Tab Themes and Apps] cuter:
firefox the best
[Galaxy Tab Themes and Apps] BuzzFuzz:
Skyfire 3.1.0

works like a charm!
[Galaxy Tab Themes and Apps] natious:
mirem is the best
[Galaxy Tab Themes and Apps] beestee:
I have most of the browsers mentioned in this thread installed. I turn to miren the most.
[Galaxy Tab Themes and Apps] MohammedYassin:
Opera is going to reveal an Android tablet browser in CES, let's see how will it be
[Galaxy Tab Themes and Apps] futuregerald:
yep when I saw the teaser video for opera browser I got so psyched; I can't wait for that to come out and also for firefox mobile to come out of beta. the crazy thing is I prefer using the regular browser in cyanogenmod 6 over the stock browser on my tab. i wish CM7 would come out for the tab, if it did I would have zero complaints.
[Galaxy Tab Themes and Apps] Coolsaber57:
Does anyone else find that all the browsers sort of choke on XDA forums?

There's something about this website that the mobile browsers do not like.
[Galaxy Tab Themes and Apps] olyloh6696:
no, i dont face these problems... what browser are you using?
[Galaxy Tab Themes and Apps] mario23:
I'm using Firefox now. Seems pretty smooth.

Big plus is I can sync my bookmarks and passwords with my Firefox at home!!!
[Galaxy Tab Themes and Apps] pda_crazy:
I have been using dolphin hd in my tab and i am very satisfied. Today i got to know that there is new version dolphin mini has been released. Does any one know what's the difference between these versions and is it good for SGT
[Galaxy Tab Themes and Apps] Alcibiade:
Stock browser on JME is fast and smooth... I like it best so far
[Galaxy Tab Themes and Apps] raaleck:
Im with you, it is very smooth and fast, and I like dialpad feature, very useful!
[Galaxy Tab Themes and Apps] Lucky_Charms:
I would like to know this also.
[Galaxy Tab Themes and Apps] foxmeister:
Given that Dolphin HD and Mini are both free, why not just try them! ;)

Regards,

Dave
[Galaxy Tab Themes and Apps] delovelady:
Did it occur to you to look at the Dolphin website to find out? Maybe a link would help? http://blog.dolphin-browser.com/201...is-now-officially-launched-in-android-market/
[Galaxy Tab Themes and Apps] le3ky:
Miren is fantastic :)
[Galaxy Tab Themes and Apps] AlexTheStampede:
I'm honestly amazed by Miren. It might even be the iCab equivalent for Android(and it's free)!

So far the greatest feature it has, is not crashing in case of animated gifs. I think the gif code is a Samsung "bonus" because that's the only explanation i can find. Basically now i have a WebKit based browser that can handle forums, yay! Many thanks for naming it, it really was a surprise. Now if only they got rid of those silly "real tabs"...

Just a question: while everybody is different and tastes do vary from one person to another, how can you call good the interface in Xscope? I think the only thing that looks worse is Infinity web browser.
[Galaxy Tab Themes and Apps] kernel>panic:
I have to agree with everyone on that the Dolphin HD browser is the way to go!

Tab support is excellent, and it has many features to offer including Ad-blocking.

Another thought: Dolphin HD Mini seems to run faster using less cpu cycles.
[Galaxy Tab Themes and Apps] kangfu84:
Dolphin HD now that its updated to have pinch working on Roto JME.

Miren is also very good, its usually one of these 2. :)
[Galaxy Tab Themes and Apps] kernelravi:
Dolphin hd is a great browser
[Galaxy Tab Themes and Apps] Coolsaber57:
Sorry, Miren browser is what I use, but it also happens with the Stock browser.
[Galaxy Tab Themes and Apps] knightnz:
Or the direct link to the differences at http://blog.dolphin-browser.com/201...r-mini-preview2-for-android-faster-than-ever/

Dolphin Browser HD is most powerful one among this three, which is only compatible with Android 2.0+ device. You can customize your own browser since Dolphin Browser HD is the first Android Browser supports add-ons. And there are many other minor but useful features to help you get better user experience.

Dolphin Browser Mini is aiming at providing a faster user experience for you, which is built on Android 1.6 engine. Dolphin Browser Mini will win all the other browsers with its High speed responsibility. You can treat it as the mini version of Dolphin Browser HD and the upgrade version of Dolphin Browser.

Dolphin Browser ( original/ regular) is the earliest version developed by us, which is also built on Android 1.6 engine. It is the first product which build the reputation of Dolphin Browser and win the favor of our users.
[Galaxy Tab Themes and Apps] knightnz:
Pity the Opera guys do such god-awful interfaces for their browsers.

I just had another play with Miren, seems to be much better now than it was initially.

Of Firefox, Miren and DolphinHD, Firefox seems to handle scaling of wierd pages (Rapidshare) the best, but it's a bit of a memory hog and takes a while to load. The sync function is good though. Miren seems the fastest. DolphinHD seems like a good in-between and I prefer the UI.
[Galaxy Tab Themes and Apps] BuglessFan:
I switch around, and used to use Dolphin HD most often, but lately I've been using xScope most of the time, and some Miren.
[Galaxy Tab Themes and Apps] le3ky:
make sure you have a play with the miren settings, some changes are needed to optimise it.

The smart full screen feature is just quality :)
[Galaxy Tab Themes and Apps] olyloh6696:
Dolphin HD - For WiFi/3G

Opera Mini - Edge/GPRS

= Great
[Galaxy Tab Themes and Apps] ResonanceZero:
I tried Miren, but abandoned it since it appears to have either missing or broken SSL certificate management. Dolphin HD's double-tap-to-zoom seems to have slightly better results for me than Miren's as well. I did prefer Miren's bookmark management, but not at the cost of constant SSL warnings that I can't disable.

Firefox had consistently the best rendering, but was also the slowest, both to load and to render pages (particularly large images). Actually, no browser so far has had acceptable quality zooming in on large images, but Firefox has been slow on top of that. It also didn't have the ability to disable geolocation. I'm hoping when the full release of Firefox 4 is out, some of the problems will be resolved, but I'm not encouraged by the point-blank statement that JIT compilation is broken on Galaxy S hardware.
[7 Mozart General] JEEtoP:
I am torn between the HD7 and the Mozart for my WP7 device and a big factor is the ability to upgrade storage.

I know the HD7 has a card slot within the phone now thanks to some xda users testing over the last few days but I think I would prefer the Mozart if I was able to do the same.

Has anyone been able to confirm the presence of the slot if they have a device? Either visually or by booting into bootloader mode which I think would tell you the manufacturer of any installed card?

I'm more than happy taking on the disassembly as long as I know for sure there is a card in there when I take out a new contract.

Thanks!
[7 Mozart General] Omega Point:
There probably is one in there somewhere but given the construction of the Mozart is would be very difficult to get at. I don't know how to get the Mozart into bootloader mode otherwise I would check that for you. The closest I got was a screen which seemed to be some form of recovery mode asking me to connect to a computer.
[7 Mozart General] JEEtoP:
Yeah the body is a bit daunting but I'm sure it can be done.

From memory bootloader mode is done by pressing power & volume down while the phone is connected to a PC - would be hugely appreciated if you could give it a shot.

Thanks
[7 Mozart General] Omega Point:
Just tried that and got:
[7 Mozart General] JEEtoP:
So there IS an 8GB Sandisk card in there.

Awesome, thanks for doing that mate - greatly appreciated!
[7 Mozart General] chex13:
I don't get why they didn't just charge us £20 more and give us 16GB
[7 Mozart General] Michael_W_L:
I really hope somebody figures out a way to get at the card : /
[7 Mozart General] JEEtoP:
It won't be me unfortunately, after trying out both devices on a Sharepoint/Exchange setup the HD7's screen won out for me in the end.
[7 Mozart General] pipolas:
Waoo, so we could change our sd card?

And put 16gb class 6?

Because, if this is a class 0 sd card...I understand why loading game take so much time on the Mozart...:( Why the hell did the put a class 0?

I hope to be able to swap it soon!
[7 Mozart General] Hirnteri:
My htc mozart (tmobile germany) has 16gb :)
[7 Mozart General] Michael_W_L:
Is there really such a thing as class 0, or could that just mean unknown?

The omnia 7 uses normal flash memory and it also shows up as class 0.
[7 Mozart General] Omega Point:
Class 0 is used to refer to unrated cards, which could mean below class 1 or just unknown.
[7 Mozart General] pipolas:
It's true!

In fact, class 0 just means we don't know what it is...

However, I hope we will be able to swap this 8go card...soon!!
[7 Mozart General] phil_rouge:
yes me too, but for the moment I can't find how do disassembly my mozart to find if I can change sd card.
[7 Mozart General] AngryNil:
I can see it being next to impossible. The aluminium unibody encases the entire front and continues around the major part of the back. I highly doubt you will just be able to "slip" it off.
[7 Mozart General] andyrham:
Mozart has an SD Card and is upgradeable

I upgraded my Mozart today to a 16GB card I had lying around. Not too complicated but involves a fair bit of dismantling and going through a void sticker.

I posted an "how to" article here on my blog.

Cheers

Andy

Here are the links you need:

h ttp://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=831579

h ttp://lifeinthefastlaneok.wordpress.com/2010/11/07/new-htc-7-mozart-sd-card-memory-upgrade/

(just remove the spaces after 1st h to get the propper links)
[7 Mozart General] alleyezondisromo:
http://www.engadget.com/2010/11/08/htc-7-mozart-gets-its-microsd-card-swapped-but-only-after-an-in/
[General Questions and Answers] asifisbest:
Hello friends. I own a HTC Legend. I am tired of waiting for the Android 2.2 Froyo update for the phone. I want to root the phone but I want the HTC Sense UI. I like the HTC Sense whatever you say. All the added functionalities I want after the root are,

-Install apps to SD

-Flash Player 10.1

-Live Wallpapers

-Froyo (of-course)

-HTC Sense (with all the HTC widgets)

-Continuous Autofocus (if possible)

Is there any ROM that satisfies my needs? Please suggest.
[General Questions and Answers] asifisbest:
Why isn't anyone replying to this post?
[General Questions and Answers] bsnyder217:
Because theres a specific section for the legend.
[Legend Android Development] JonasDroid:
This was created when we didn't have S-OFF yet.

If you have S-OFF or /system overlay script you won't need to go through all the steps simply download adfree android.

I know most of you will be able to do this. But I believe that it might not be as easy for the beginners. So here is a little walk through.

!NEEDs ROOT!

1. Download Adfree Android

2. Wait for it to determine local hosts then click on download and install hosts.

Now it will try to replace /system/etc/hosts but fail (it should reboot the phone but it didn't reboot mine)

4. go to adb and reboot your phone into recovery (with power on+volume down OR the command: "adb reboot recovery")

5. Open up the recovery-windows (start recovery-windows (make sure your in the right directory))

6. mount your system and sdcard you might be able to just use mount and mount everything but I've mounted them serperatly.

Here's how: "adb shell mount /system" next "adb shell mount /sdcard"

7. Now we're going to put it in the etc directory where it should be: "adb shell cp /sdcard/hosts /system/etc"

8. reboot the phone ("adb reboot")

That should remove most of the adds. :D

I know it's explained on a really low level of knowledge but I wanted to make it accessible for all of you.

Only the needed codes:

1. adb reboot recovery
2. start recovery-windows
3. adb shell mount /system
4. adb shell mount /sdcard
5. adb shell cp /sdcard/hosts /system/etc
6. adb reboot
[Legend Android Development] deimdos:
has it the option to only block browser ads? when I tried it time ago it couldn't. I don't like to block the app ads
[Legend Android Development] JonasDroid:
No it removes the adds everywhere. It simply blocks the links to adds. it doesn't actually remove them. they are still being called but they just don't show up.
[Legend Android Development] PirateNL:
Hi,

I have this very same problem for a long time now, with the constant reboots etc.

Followed your steps, but after the reboot, as soon as I press the button to update the hostfile, it reboots my phone :(

Thanks anyway...
[Legend Android Development] JonasDroid:
Do you have root access?

Have you checked if the hosts file is at the root of your SD?
[Legend Android Development] TheGrammarFreak:
A good guide, if a little misplaced, but another option is the /system overlay. :D
[Legend Android Development] PirateNL:
Yes and yes
[Legend Android Development] loogielv:
where is the most recent hosts file? I'm using a vibrant and it says it worked, but of course, it doesn't. And it doesn't copy the hosts file to my sdcard either ? odd
[Legend Android Development] mrle9:
Hello ,

Finally I got Adfree working ;)

Ok it's not perfect because app continue to reboot the phone after updating the hosts file ,

and we need to copy it manually in recovery mode but it better than nothing ;)

Thank you very much JonasDroid for this little How to .

PS:

For me step 5

was

adb shell cp /sdcard/hosts /system/etc

Bye.
[Legend Android Development] JonasDroid:
Yeah indeed its adb shell cp thx for letting me know
[Legend Android Development] unknhawk:
Can you link me the apk of adfree? I can't download the app from my phone :(
[Legend Android Development] chansthename:
BTW it's 'ADs" single d

short for advertisment (notice the single d?)
[Legend Android Development] JonasDroid:
Fixed that :p English is not my main language
[Legend Android Development] GroovyGeek:
Can't get "start recovery-windows" to work. What is the "right directory"?

Things seems to have worked for me without that portion. Many thanks, I will now change my review in the market for that app from one star to three stars. If they include a note describing this problem upfront I may bump it up further.
[Legend Android Development] JonasDroid:
It could simply be called start recovery (depending on where you got your rooting tools)(if you've got the from The Unlockr you'll need the -windows)

If you have S-OFF or if you use an /system overlay script these steps aren't needed. (It was created when we didn't have S-OFF for our legends yet.)
[Legend Android Development] CrazyPeter:
Anyone having problems with adfree scripts on Legend since Froyo update? Neve had a problem witha rooted 2.1, but have lots of problems since rooted Froyo 2.2

It seems HTC may have some service which is checking for modifications to symlinks etc.
[Legend Android Development] frullewulle:
When I run adfree in my S-off CM7, i get an java.io.EOFException.

Someone else having this?
[Legend Android Development] oysteivi:
I had some problems at first, but reinstalling adfree android from market seemed to help. No problem now with CM7 (01/03 from ali ba) and s-off.
[Legend Android Development] xwolfn:
adfree no block ads!

Hi,

i install the adfree on my legend with 2.2 with sense.

i did download the host from the app all work ok got a message say it was success install and need to restart the phone.

i did it but still get all the ad like before on all apps.

pls help!
[Legend Android Development] JonasDroid:
Have you followed the steps? (explained in first post)

Note that you should have a rooted legend (if you don't know what that is then you don't have one)
[Legend Android Development] xwolfn:
Thanks for the fast reply.

i do have rooted phone.

i didnt do the step as above because the program look like it work ok. i did download the host file (from the app) and it say it was success. so what is the why i need the above for?

what it do? its not to get a host file?
[Legend Android Development] JonasDroid:
If you don't have S-OFF then it won't work without those steps.

Adfree only works with phones that have root access while booted (S-OFF). If you only rooted you only have root access in the recovery. Therefore the prog will successfully get the host files but it will place it on the SD as it doesn't have access to the /system/etc.

Those steps are the steps to place the host file into the /system/etc (where it needs to be to block the ads)

Without the host file at the right place it simply won't work
[Legend Android Development] xwolfn:
well i did root the phone and also have a new room on it so i believe i did root ok. but let think i didnt do it ok and the "host" file is going into SD crad. can i copy it with root explorer app to the /system/etc?

if so were is the location of the last host file on sd?
[Legend Android Development] JonasDroid:
The root will be ok, S-OFF is something totally different, not going to explain the whole thing, there is a topic about S-OFF that you can read if you're interested.

You can't use root explorer cause you DON'T have access to the system WHILE BOOTED, that's why I made this guide on how to copy it.

I'm not going to explain it once more, use the guide it will work, and read before you do something, you've rooted your phone but you have no idea what it does.

I like to help people but I'm not going to help if you don't put any effort in it yourself.
[Legend Android Development] Ironsigh:
Adds force closing...

Hi, I went through all the steps listed on the first post and all were successful but something went wrong. Certain apps that had adds running now close instantly when the add is supposed to load. Also a few basic websites like Google load in my browser, but others that have adds force close as well. Does anyone understand why this has caused the apps/browser to force close? Thanks.
[Legend Android Development] HpX:
I have used adfree, quite a long time now. I have not had any FC because of this.

You can try my hosts file http://www.megaupload.com/?d=ICBABIJR

*Extract to root on sdcard

*Reboot recovery

*Mount /system and /sdcard

* copy /sdcard/hosts => /system/etc/hosts
[Legend Android Development] haha123:
Why is it that when I "download and install hosts" it reboots my phone but nothing gets downloaded to my sdcard? I searched the whole card for "hosts" but it couldn't find anything
[Legend Android Development] waterpolo:
Install attached hosts, from BlaY0 B0.7, in recovery mode.

This is working for the CM7 nightly built, for other Roms I don't know.