Dolphin HD - No Flash for JB

[Necrocis]

I seen dave1812dave's post here http://forums.androidcentral.com/showthread.php?t=191811

I'm now getting aggravated to the point of returning this thing.

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[kaao]

Well, don't blame Google or the Nexus 7, this is something Adobe decided to do for reasons unknown. Yeah, it definitely sucks.

No Flash for Android 4.1, Jelly Bean, users | ZDNet

 

[music_man185]

x2. This was adobe's decision. Before long, there will probably be no flash support at all.

Over on Nexustablets.net, a member posted a download for the last version of dolphin hd before they ended flash support. If you can find it, you can go back to it and have flash support again

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[1812dave]

I went ahead and copied Dolphin 8.5.1 to my dropbox shared folder along with flash 11.1 apk. Install Flash first and then dolphin. Got my flash back! Fixed my wifes n7 in one minute

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[tntdroid]

Flash is dead. Hopefully everyone gets on board so its just gone and not a issue. It does stink when you can use one device on a site and then not another.

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[1812dave]

Tell that to all the sites that use it!

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[markyoung04]

If u don't like the device for legit reasons (although after 20 hours of use without charging and only 5 hours of sleep I can find no reason) that is one thing but to say u are going to return hardware for a software reason is silly, as others have pointed out...place blame on the right people (adobe) don't blame the hardware.

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[Necrocis]

I was under the impression Dolphin had its own version of Flash.

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[Necrocis]

If u don't like the device for legit reasons (although after 20 hours of use without charging and only 5 hours of sleep I can find no reason) that is one thing but to say u are going to return hardware for a software reason is silly, as others have pointed out...place blame on the right people (adobe) don't blame the hardware.

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My original post referenced another thread w/ that subject line.

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[shafferb]

This combination of the "old" version of Dolphin HD and Flash is awesome. Not only does it play Flash flawlessly, Dolphin is a superb browser as well, now my full-time browser.

Do make sure that you go to the Play Store though and turn off autoupdate for Dolphin HD though, or it will update to the version with Flash support disabled.

Thanks much for these posts and for the links to the APK's.

I just emailed them to myself and installed directly from Gmail, no need for a file manager.

PS: It'll still bug you to update it, you can go into settings/apps and click on Dolphin HD and just uncheck the little box about notifications, then it will leave you alone.

 

[fireplug]

Not certain if this is the only way to get the latest versions of Dolphin Browser, Adobe Flash Player and Jellybean to play nice together, but this is a method that worked for me.

With this method I believe that you must choose between Always On or On Demand in Dolphin, because I think the software only limits your ability to make changes to the Flash setting, and since the default is normally Off when one downloads from the play store, normally one can't activate Flash without getting the slap on the hand "you can't do that" from Dolphin. The trick here is to save a copy of the Dolphin ICS settings which allow Flash use and then restore those on JB.

This is how it worked for me.

You need:

1. A device running ICS which probably needs to be rooted.
2. Your device running Jellybean which probably needs to be rooted.
3. Titanium backup on both device
4. A version of the Flash Player apk to side load which you can download (they are still available if you Google search) or a Titanium backed up version that you already made.

Turn off automatic backup from your Google account on your JB device.

On your ICS device install Titanium backup and Dolphin from the market. Open Dolphin, go to settings and turn on Flash content. Exit Dolphin. Open Titanium backup and make a backup of Dolphin and Flash player if that is how you will be getting Flash. Now you need to copy those backup files to your Jellybean device. There are several ways to do so which I won't cover here.

On your Jellybean device uninstall any copies of Dolphin and Flash you may already have on there. You can backup your bookmarks first if you wish but can't do a full backup and restore of all your settings because they will overwrite what we are going to do. Now, with a clean Jellybean, install titanium backup from the market if you don't already have it. Open titanium backup and find that dolphin backup you moved from the ICS device. Restore the app and data. Open Dolphin and go to settings and see that Flash is enabled but don't touch the toggle. Close Dolphin. Now either restore the Flash app in Titanium, or install it from an apk you found on the net

That's it.

Open Dolphin and you should now be able to use Flash, and pinch zoom.

Never touch the flash toggle in Dolphin, and I wouldn't let Dolphin update either.

Your milage may vary, but this worked for me. "Thanks" are appreciated if this works for you.

Good luck and please excuse any typos or mistakes as I was typing this in the car as my daughter was driving (scary)


UPDATE: This method works for Dolphin Beta Browser as well which has improved HTML5 compatibility.

 

[jd914]

Flash is dead and we should just accept it. I have the flash apk and firefox on my Nexus 7 but will not be annoyed in anyway if Google breaks it all together. To even think returning my device for a dead application like Flash is kind of silly. Don't be mad at Google, it's just that Adobe also realizes there no future in mobile Flash and they are just moving on.

 

[asherking]

if you want to watch flash videos on Dolphin Browser, you can try to change the User Agent to iPhone mode. The format of the video will be converted from Flash into HTML5, and then you could try if you could watch videos. that's what i've heard from their support.