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)
Hey Dennis! Ucweb 6 beta 2 with eng language is released with download manager and other updated features. Can u just upload that? Please? I can’t find the right file. Hope you will upload. When uploaded, reply me the link please!
UCWEB 6 has got to be at least 3 years old. I don’t know where I would find such an old version or why anyone would want it. New versions, even the Lite versions for low memory phones, are almost certainly better than some ancient Beta.
Every time i open a web page the language always chinese, can you help me?
Dennis said: 2013.05.26 13:12
That’s a problem with this version of UC. If one of the new UC versions works on your phone use it. Otherwise, there’s usually a link somewhere on the Chinese page that lets you change the language.
Okay, Thank you sir.
i didnt know there was ucweb for iden but i tried this one on my i465 works very good not perfect but it has more fetures than opera mini, only problem i found every time wanna search on the Google bar it always comes back with error 405 not allowed nginx dont know if there is a fix for it, dont know why it does that
Believe me … You need to make a version that doesnt have facebook or twitter… We just need a version that will load an application. If you should come out with one that will work on boostmobile .. CdMA … type… Let me know and i’Ll tell you something you would really like to know… Thanks again. all i really need is an app loader… I guess boostmobile doesnt care about their customers… My phone has room for 16gig memory so i wouldmt think memory would be a problem… It uses NetFront Browser.. But I have Bolt and Mini Opera on it also… I would still like to have a universal app loader… Without having to connect a cable to the mini USB interface…
unfortunately im a boost customer with a useless i465 phone. Wont let me dwnld any apps. Error msg evrytme. Cant reach human @boostapps.comcstmr svc for help. Right now using straight talk samsung to post.
Is your account new? Downloading typically doesn’t work until three working days after an account is activated.
If your account isn’t new please help me troubleshoot the issue by answering the following questios:
1. Are you trying to download UCWeb 6.7 to your Boost i465 by pressing the “Send To Phone” button and entering your 10 digit Boost phone number when prompted? If not what are you trying to do?
2. Are sending the app from this page with a PC browser or with the phone’s built in browser?
3. Do you get a message that says “Something went wrong while sending the file to your phone. Usually this means that you did not enter a valid 10 digit Boost or Sprint/Nextel phone number…” or some other message?
4. If you are using a PC. Try it again and if you get the error please look at the address bar and tell me what the last part of the URL is after “http://boostapps.com/error/?” (the “err=&msg=” part). If you are using the phone browser, save the error page as a bookmark and edit the bookmark so you can see the URL and tell me what the last part is (the “err=&msg=” part).
Boost CS is not going to help you with a BoostApps problem as it’s not their site and they don’t support it. If you have some other reason to call boost, the easiest way to reach a human is by choosing the “Activate a new phone…” option