Web pages recognise my n900 as an n97!
 

Hi guys

A while back I wanted to access vodafone live services using my n900, so after a bit of research, I found that you could amend the internet settings to replicate a n97, i.e. all web pages recognise the n900 as a normal mobile, so it can access wap pages etc.

Anyway, now i want to let the n900 access as normal, but I can find the original thread that had the original settings, or indeed info on how to restore them.

If anybody has some useful info, I'd be very grateful.

Thanks!

Jack.

Re: Web pages recognise my n900 as an n97!
 

Something like this to change the user agent string in MicroB? http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=14259

Re: Web pages recognise my n900 as an n97!
 

Also, try Phony with Fennec, which lets you pose as using variuos pre-configured browsers, including desktop firefox, iphone and android. That might help?
Hide UA, without customisation, prevents use of Ovi - probably just needs extending to have a selection of UA strings. On the other hand I seem to remember HUA could be customised to anything so it might be able to pose as any, including a symbian browser.
Sorry to say, no idea what the symbian UA string is but shouldn't be that hard to find.

Re: Web pages recognise my n900 as an n97!
 

There's the Hide User Agent app on Extras-Devel, I think. It sets the user agent for web browsing to any page you want to, or removes it, so that the original one is set again. I think that's how it works. I use it to see Facebook, etc, on their mobile version. You could give it a try.

Re: Web pages recognise my n900 as an n97!
 

I think he wants to restore the original profile, but can't find the original settings anywhere. What did you use for changing the agent?

Re: Web pages recognise my n900 as an n97!
 

hi guys, thanks for the comments. i think i used some xterminal commands to change it to the n97 agent. i'm not bothered with keepng the n97 agent anymore, so if anyone can tell me how to change it back to the original permanently, i'll be a well happy chappy. :)

Re: Web pages recognise my n900 as an n97!
 

Not sure if it can help you, but try this method:

1. Open browser (MicroB)
2. Type into address field "about:config" (without quotes)
3. You will see information that you should know what you are doing, just accept it
4. Put into search box (on the top of that "page", it should be labeled something like "Filter") "general.useragent.vendor" (without quotes), no need to hit Enter
5. You should get one result, the one that is interesting for you: general.useragent.vendor (should be written in bold, at least on my phone it is)
6. Mine says "Firefox/3.5 Maemo Browser 1.7.4.8 RX-51 N900" so if you are on PR 1.3 you should have the same value. If not:
7. Note (write down maybe on piece of paper) your current value (if something goes wrong you can restore your current value manually)
8. Swipe on top of the screen to see cursor (you know... the white arrow, I guess you know how to do that)
9. Hit the line "general.useragent.vendor" in bold with the cursor, a window should open where you can change the text
10. Accept new text, close browser, re-open and check if it worked, if not (and text in general.useragent.vendor shows value which you just entered) maybe restart the phone. If that doesn't help - I don't know what else can you do.

Good luck :)

Re: Web pages recognise my n900 as an n97!
 

hello mate, just checked my "general.useragent.vendor" and it is the same as yours. So that is good. However, i also noticed that I have a "general.useragent.override" which says "Mozilla/5.0 (SymbianOS/9.4; Series60/5.0 NokiaN97-1/12.0.024; Profile/MIDP-2.1 Configuration/CLDC-1.1; en-us) AppleWebKit/525 (KTHML, like Gecko) BrowserNG/7.1.12344"

So, i suppose the question is, how do I get rid of the override? Can I just delete it??

Re: Web pages recognise my n900 as an n97!
 

Hello, I don't have item named "general.useragent.override" on my device, so I guess it should be ok to delete that. But if you want to be sure you can just write there the same as in "general.useragent.vendor", so "Firefox/3.5 Maemo Browser 1.7.4.8 RX-51 N900" will be overriden by "Firefox/3.5 Maemo Browser 1.7.4.8 RX-51 N900" and if any software depends on "general.useragent.override" (which i doubt but cannot 100% be sure) it will not break anything... So safest way is just to have the same value written in both I guess, shouldn't do any harm ;)

And by your current value you can obviously see why your device is recognized as Nokia N97: "Mozilla/5.0 (SymbianOS/9.4; Series60/5.0 NokiaN97-1/12.0.024; Profile/MIDP-2.1 Configuration/CLDC-1.1; en-us) AppleWebKit/525 (KTHML, like Gecko) BrowserNG/7.1.12344"

Re: Web pages recognise my n900 as an n97!
 

Well tried changing the override text, but whenever I exit about:config it just changes back to the symbian code. :(

There must be a way to change it through xterminal commands.