Updated: UCWEB 6.7 With English Server
Update: I’ve managed to modify this app to use the same US based English server as UCWEB’s official English releases. This means that Facebook, Twitter, My Opera and all the other sites that were blocked by China’s “Great Firewall” are no longer blocked. In addition the start page is in English instead of Chinese (which appeared as a bunch of little boxes because iDEN phones don’t have Chinese fonts).
This is an unofficial translation of the UCWEB Browser’s version 6.7.0.32 for “low memory” phones. Only these rare low memory versions work on iDEN phones. The full versions all fail to install, even the just released 7.0 version. You don’t really give much up though, the main difference is that the low memory releases omit the download manager, SMS sending and calling features, none of which would work on iDEN phones anyway because Motorola’s “security” blocks 3rd party apps from accessing the file system, microphone and messaging.
Compared with the earlier UCWEB 6.0 and 6.3 versions I’ve posted on BoostApps this one has a couple of very nice enhancements. It has a new “small” bit mapped font that looks looks great on my i776 and it does word wrap instead of splitting lines in the middle of words. Scrolling is much faster than with Opera Mini 4.2 or Bolt and images and text are fit to screen width so horizontal scrolling is never needed.
The only thing I haven’t been able to change is that the browser still sends “zn-ch” in the HTTP accept-language header. This causes some sites including Google to serve their Chinese version. It’s usually possible to switch to the English one. With Google click the “Google in English” link at the bottom of most pages.
I really like this browser. Although pages don’t look as nice as they do in Opera Mini and Bolt, the user interface is much less “laggy” and it has tabbed browsing and copy/paste.
Some tips for getting the most out of UCWEB:
- Go into Menu -> Set -> System Settings and change the following:
- Set Text section to “Do not use sub -” To keep the browser from splitting pages which isn’t needed on iDEN phones.
- Change Picture Quality to “Standard” (“Low Color” is faster but pretty ugly, “Full Color” is slow and doesn’t look much better than Standard
- Change User-Agent to “Safari” if you like to see the full versions of sites or to “Openwave” if you prefer sites to server their mobile web version.
Type: Freeware
Vendor: UC.cn, translated by Sergyu – Product Page, Forum, Manual
Data Connection Required: Yes
Minimum Java ME profile: MIDP 2.0
Screen Size: All
Touch support: Yes
Reported Working On: Motorola i776, LG Rumor Reflex
Reported Not Working On: Sanyo Incognito
Downloading uses paid data. Downloads are for Java ME phones only.
To download and install click here: DOWNLOAD (jad)
as i said, i entered my number correctly. i checked and rechecked.
Are you on Boost or Nextel USA? Which app are you trying to download?
i cant download crap on my i465. keep getting error msg not valid # when entered correctly! i HATE my phone! had nothing but problems n bad svc!
When entering your number, don’t enter the leading “1”. The number should be 10 digits, no spaces, dashes or dots.
i have the boost mobile incognito and the problems i am running into are it will say its loading but then it says checking device fonts. Any thoughts
If it doesn’t start up after checking fonts then it’s probably incompatible with the Incognito. Opera Mini 5.1 is a much better browser anyway and works great on the Incognito.
I prefer this over Opera so much, clean, great ui, fast, features make more sense, day night mode. And then cant get cookies to work so cant log into anything and no settiings for it, damn. Any help?
UCWEB has problems with cookies. There is no known fix.
there is a updated ucweb browser on getjar 7.2. i try to put it on my phone i think it work. maybe you ccan get it to work(dennis) on your i776 and post it on here for other ppl/ just saying
I get an error Loading Classes with UC Web 7.2 on my i776. Can you confirm that it works on your i856?
i got a vm class loading error as wel