[solved] Change User Agent in Browser (for Swisscom TV air)

[Guest discokrueger]

I like to watch "Swisscom Mobile TV", wich is only accessable for branded phones, normally.

I heard, that, if I change the user agent to something like "(compatible; MSIE 6.0; Winows CE; IEMobile 6.12) /Swisscom/v1605", it's possible to watch it.

I know the trick with "about:debug" (http://androidforums.com/sprint-htc-hero/2...id-browser.html). But there, I can only choose between iPhone, Desktop and Android. I cannot edit the string.

Is there a way to edit the string in the default browser? Is it possible in Dolphin?

Edited March 26, 2010 by discokrueger

[Guest Bantumi]

hmm.. there probably is some text in one of the system folders you can change.. but most likely it still won't work. I tried a few websites that are iphone friendly and they basically try and stream in quicktime format... which of course doesn't work for us (not that i want it).

I would recommend trying the website using a desktop browser first, to make sure you're not wasting time.

[Guest discokrueger]

I found it, it's stored in /data/data/com.android.browser/shared_prefs/com.android.browser_preferences.xml

But, it didn't work at all. I tried also with firefox and faked User Agent --> also no page is shown (live.swisscom-mobile.ch)

Does anybody know, what else is to fake, that swisscom thinks I'm coming from a HTC Magic? (They have the Magic branded)

Edited January 22, 2010 by discokrueger

[Guest Bantumi]

Well they may also be able to identify you via something like the phone's mac address? Or more likely, the sim sends some kind of unique ID to these places?

I don't know how this works, but i do know that Orange UK can somehow tell who to charge to if i buy something via their website on my phone.

Last thing i can recommend is try and find someone with an HTC Magic and find what their user agent is.. try it on your home PC.

I'm sorry to say i don't think it will work though!

Alex

[Guest discokrueger]

Swisscom has a new Portal, calld "Swisscom TV air".

I changed the UA in the xml-file to:

<string name="default_ua_string">Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; U; Android 1.6; de-ch; HTC Magic Build/DRC92) AppleWebKit/528.5+ (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.1.2 Mobile Safari/525.20.1</string>

Now, Swisscom think's i'm comming with a HTC Magic and I can play the stream.

[Guest Gogol69]

Swisscom has a new Portal, calld "Swisscom TV air".

I changed the UA in the xml-file to:

Now, Swisscom think's i'm comming with a HTC Magic and I can play the stream.

Hi, i just try what you have done, but it doesn't work for me, i'm on a nexus one, and I change the line "<string name="web_user_agent">0</string>" and replace 0 to what you have... Do you have a solution for me ;) ?