Hairy_Scot Posted August 4, 2011 Report Share Posted August 4, 2011 I have a brand new Samsung Galaxy SL (GT-I9003). Comes with Froyo and has Flash Player 10.1. Using the default browser (which I think is Google Chrome) I can get the client php login page but cannot enter any data.Tried installing Firefox for mobile, but it moans about needing Flash and won't even display the login box.Would welcome any info or advice.:rolleyes: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rain Posted August 14, 2011 Report Share Posted August 14, 2011 Jay 5, when you say "install BBO", do you mean the old version that you had to download?The new version you access by coming here http://www.bridgebase.com/index.php , and clicking "play bridge now".There is nothing to install from your point of view.It is a web, flash based version. Macaw has a Samsung tab 10.1, running honeycomb 3.1. She says she could not get it to run BBO.Maybe Froyo Samsung also can't?While the other android tablets can enter BBO, when the login screen comes up, we can only see the "username" field entered. The password field looks invisible when we type stuff in. But when we just type stuff anyway there and then click login it works. Maybe it will work for you too? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TactAnita Posted September 1, 2011 Report Share Posted September 1, 2011 I just got the toshiba thrive. I've tried Xoom but returned it. So far, very very pleased with the thrive. 1) It has usb port!! (Also SD, mini usb, hdmi). The USB port enabled me to plug in a mouse and use that to click around at times.It was not playing my USB thumbdrive - apparently there will be an over the air update that will allow other file formats to be read. 2) Not much bloatware. The few apps included by Toshiba were pretty useful. I quite like the news reader they have. 3) It can play BBO with no problems. The login password problem has been noted by others earlier, but typing it in and ignoring what looks like blank space works well. "Save" your password for future logins. Everything in BBO works well except trying to read news pop up, trying to click to read alerts, or trying to type to others because typing is still a pain. (Less so with a mouse) Probably a pen would work as well as a mouse and is more mobile, but I didn't want to buy one of those special styluses. 4) Seem to use battery well. Lasts about as expected. 5) Honeycomb 3.1 is probably better than 3.0. The xoom used to freeze and crash a lot more. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TactAnita Posted September 1, 2011 Report Share Posted September 1, 2011 Can you play as declarer from dummy? That seemed to be a problem noted by some Android users. I wish to buy a tablet, but I won't buyone unless I can play on BBO. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gable Posted September 17, 2011 Report Share Posted September 17, 2011 Can you play as declarer from dummy? That seemed to be a problem noted by some Android users. I wish to buy a tablet, but I won't buyone unless I can play on BBO. Today I tried to use Samsung tablet with flash 10.3 and it works. The graphics interface is not the best but I would like to know if anyone of you have contacted the bbo support to know if they are deploying a software release for tablet ?Let me know thx G. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shuswap Posted November 13, 2011 Report Share Posted November 13, 2011 I figured out the password, First hit the backspace key a half dozen times. Then type you password one letter at a time. When the letter disappears, type the next letter and wait until it disappears. Repeat until you have typed all the letters. For some reason my tablet does not display symbols for letters already typed. The password window always shows blank no matter how many letters I have typed. Thank you for this advice!!! Amazing that you find it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lcy Posted December 4, 2011 Report Share Posted December 4, 2011 i just tried playing bbo today on a handphone! it works on samsung galaxy s2 :) but yea the screen is a bit small for me to click on the cards accurately Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeffr70 Posted December 29, 2011 Report Share Posted December 29, 2011 Jay 5, when you say "install BBO", do you mean the old version that you had to download?The new version you access by coming here http://www.bridgebase.com/index.php , and clicking "play bridge now".There is nothing to install from your point of view.It is a web, flash based version. Macaw has a Samsung tab 10.1, running honeycomb 3.1. She says she could not get it to run BBO.Maybe Froyo Samsung also can't?While the other android tablets can enter BBO, when the login screen comes up, we can only see the "username" field entered. The password field looks invisible when we type stuff in. But when we just type stuff anyway there and then click login it works. Maybe it will work for you too? Hi, I also have a Samsung tab 10.1 with honeycomb 3.1. I am using the Dolphin browser. Initially the problem I had was that I couldn't get the keyboard to come up on the login screen. I had to change the flash settings from "On demand" to "Always On" and now it works :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the_dude Posted December 30, 2011 Report Share Posted December 30, 2011 I bought an Asus slider with Android 3.2 and flash 10.1. BBO works great - right out of the box. As with others here, the password box does not display the characters that you type - but you only have to type your password once so long as you hit the "remember password" checkbox. (it saves the pwd even though the box appears blank). Other than that anomaly though, BBO works fine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrdct Posted January 9, 2012 Report Share Posted January 9, 2012 I have a Geniatech Enjoy TV ATV1000 running Android 2.3.4 (build 20111102)) with Flash 10.2 installed. The box is hooked-up to a 50" HD Plasma TV in my living room via an HDMI cable and has recently replaced an old Windows XP machine that I had sitting behind the cabinet for any web browsing or BBO vugraph watching that I wanted to do. The box itself is quite cool for web browsing, youtube, android games, media streaming, etc. and BBO sort of works OK but with a few quirks: - when kibitzing a table, in the "Who's Online" pane, the "friends", "stars" and "kibitzers" tabs all don't work so you can only see friends who are online.- when watching vugraph, if there is no keyboard or mouse input for a few minutes (haven't timed it but it's around 5-10 minutes I think) the screen goes white with a "play" icon in the middle and when you click it you are back at the login screen.- with video output set at 720p the cards are a bit blocky, but I haven't tried other screen resolutions yet. As far as I can see there no user-manageable settings for Flash 10.2 that can address the timeout issue. I was wondering if there was something that could be done at the BBO end to keep it alive for a two hour vugraph session. If any BBOers have "Android-TV" boxes running BBO I'd be keen to hear of your experiences as particualry when voice commentary is on, my family of bridge players quite like sitting around on the couch watching vugraph on the television. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike777 Posted January 9, 2012 Report Share Posted January 9, 2012 Btw can BBO be played on the Kindle Fire? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barmar Posted January 10, 2012 Report Share Posted January 10, 2012 Btw can BBO be played on the Kindle Fire?I put "kindle fire" into the Search box above and found this thread: http://www.bridgebase.com/forums/topic/49421-bbo-password-problem-on-kindle-fire/page__view__findpost__p__590728__hl__%2Bkindle+%2Bfire__fromsearch__1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike777 Posted January 10, 2012 Report Share Posted January 10, 2012 Thanks! so to play bbo mobile I need 1) a mobile computer. what ever that is kindle fire? 2) something called flash software 3) something called android software anything else? ???? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwnn Posted January 10, 2012 Report Share Posted January 10, 2012 No you don't need android on Kindle Fire. Its operating system either supports flash or it doesn't. However, I think on that screen you'll have some serious difficulties playing on BBO. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KERetc Posted February 2, 2012 Report Share Posted February 2, 2012 Comment jouer sur BBO avec un Apple IPAD 2 16 GO ( WIFI) ?? MERCI Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwnn Posted February 2, 2012 Report Share Posted February 2, 2012 Comment jouer sur BBO avec un Apple IPAD 2 16 GO ( WIFI) ?? MERCIApple est traditionellement (et religieusement) anti-Flash. BBO est pas possible sans Flash! Desolee. J'ai un Galaxy Tab. BBO is jolli on elle mais de cards son petit. C'est pas possible sans un stylus (ou une souris). Et pardon pour mon terrible Francais. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barmar Posted February 2, 2012 Report Share Posted February 2, 2012 Comment jouer sur BBO avec un Apple IPAD 2 16 GO ( WIFI) ?? MERCIhttp://www.bridgebase.com/forums/topic/41934-bbo-on-iphone-or-ipad/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hansop Posted February 14, 2012 Report Share Posted February 14, 2012 I have a tablet Qware Pro3 and tried to play bridge on BBO, but I can't sign in. My Id wordks but each time I try to write dowm my passwordd, all letters vanisch . Does somebody knows a solution, because I like also to play elswhere BBO. Han Rutten The Netherlands Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sherryll1 Posted February 26, 2012 Report Share Posted February 26, 2012 Can someone tell me how to load BBO on a Kindle Fire. It requires Adobe flash. Dale Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
12calzetta Posted April 15, 2012 Report Share Posted April 15, 2012 I have a tablet Qware Pro3 and tried to play bridge on BBO, but I can't sign in. My Id wordks but each time I try to write dowm my passwordd, all letters vanisch . Does somebody knows a solution, because I like also to play elswhere BBO. Han Rutten The NetherlandsI figured out the password, First hit the backspace key a half dozen times. Then type you password one letter at a time. When the letter disappears, type the next letter and wait until it disappears. Repeat until you have typed all the letters. For some reason my tablet does not display symbols for letters already typed. The password window always shows blank no matter how many letters I have typed.Try the above... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jacki Posted April 16, 2012 Report Share Posted April 16, 2012 12Calzetta is quite right. When you enter your password, you will not see the normal *****. Instead you will see nothing. However, the system is recording your keystrokes and if you have entered your password correctly, you will be able to log on. When you enter a keystroke if you watch carefully, you may be able to see it briefly and then it will disappear. So what you have to do is very carefully enter your password. If it doesn't work, backspace several times to be sure that there's nothing left in the password box because if you have a character left over from the last failed attempt, then your password will be wrong. I suggest clicking the 'remember' box once you're successful so you don't have to go through this agony every time you want to log on. But this is normal, at least it's the way mine is and others I have spoken to. Just remember, the software is recording your keystrokes, so you will be able to log on even though you're not going to see the 'normal' box when you enter your password. Jacki :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jacki Posted April 16, 2012 Report Share Posted April 16, 2012 Can someone tell me how to load BBO on a Kindle Fire. It requires Adobe flash. Dale Click the "Web" option, type www.bridgebase.com, click Play Bridge Now, then log on as usual. See the post below for the password problem you'll run into. Jacki :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sister37 Posted May 6, 2012 Report Share Posted May 6, 2012 Hi, My mom is a dedicated BBOphile. She also travels to a lot of tournaments, and I've been thinking of buying her an iPad. But since my neighbors in Cupertino have refused to support Flash on the iPad, I'm wondering if anyone has tried using BBO on an Android tablet. If so, how's the experience? Seems to me it could be very cool (like holding the cards in your hand) or very clunky... I'm also wondering about BBO's dedication to Flash. Or maybe developing a BBO App for iOS? In general, does the presence of 15 million non-BBO compatible iPads and X million iPhones provide any motivation to consider an App, or a port to HTML 5? Arguably, your target demographic has lots of money to spend on flashy devices... Robert I just tried it today on a Sony Android with Honeycomb. It worked fine. The screen was about 9-10 inches and it weighed only 1.9 lbs. Check it out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aucygames Posted May 10, 2012 Report Share Posted May 10, 2012 For those who are interested, you will soon be able to play on BBO with your android PHONE and tablet in a NATIVE way! Check out the following video Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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