Forum Display Enhancements - Mobile Phone / iPhone / PDA Detection and Style Assignment

This add-on will detect most mobile phones, iPhones, PDAs and other mobile browsing devices and automatically for the user to a specific vBulletin style.

What can it do?
Detects most mobile phones and force the user to a specific style (users will not be able to select other styles from a mobile device with this add-on installed). If you have multiple styles installed which are optimized for small screen mobile devices, iPhones, WIndows Mobile devices you can assign a specific style to each of these groups.

Whilst designed with mobile device users in mind, you could also assign styles to self defined browsers. For example you can assign an alternative style to Internet Explorer users whilst Firefox users get the default style. You could also assign an alternative style to Google or Yahoo spiders.

Instructions:
0. Install styles which you wish to assign to Mobile/PDA/iPhone users - some links will appear at the bottom of this post
1. Download the product file
2. Install via Product Manager
3. Configure options via vBulletin Options, Mobile Device Detection (should appear at end)
4. Start browsing from your mobile device!
5. Click "Mark as Installed"

If upgrading from a previous 3.5 or 3.6 version, you will need to uninstall that and the install this one.

To uninstall simply uninstall the product - there are no database changes or additional files.

Styles released on vBulletin which you can use:
Dartho's Mobile, Cell, Phone, PDA, iPhone Style for vBulletin 3.7 (<-- yep, that's mine)
ElForro's iPhone / iPod Touch Optimized Style
Zachery's vB Lite Style
vBMechanics Mobile Alabama Style

Due to the stripped down nature of these mobile styles, you will find that most for 3.5 and 3.6 will work quite happily on 3.5, 3.6 & 3.7 although additional features introduced in vBulletin in recent years such as Social Groups, Blogs and Photo Galleries will not show well on a small screen. All should display your actual forums well.

3.6 Version can be found here

Marked as Beta until I get some feedback, and 3.7 goes Gold

Release Information
1.0.0 Initial release for 3.7 ported over from 3.6.8 version

[MissKalunji]

yeah mine working on 3.8 too

[jbeam]

Originally Posted by dartho

@jbeam - I doubt it would be related to this addon. Certainly sounds like a caching issue to me. Do they get new PM notification but no PM's showing, or not even notified?

I really didn't think it would be this mod either but I figure it was worth asking.

As for the notification / actually getting the PM's, it's been a mixed answer.

Some people say that they get the notification, but then they look they have no new PM's and others are saying that they don't even get notified (however, they might have pop-up notification turned off).

I am going to try and swing by a cell store and play with a Curve and see if I can get it to happen.

[Chevy II]

Is there a way to hide this style from the drop down menu for users to select the mobile style while logged in regulary from your computer? Because if users select it, there is no way for them to select another style to go back

Thanks

[dartho]

see here https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=183185

[harlita]

YOU ROCK!!

Running 3.8.1 and testing my site from my HTC Touch Diamond using IEMobile, Skyfire and Opera Mobile.

LOOKS OUTSTANDING!! Redirect is perfect - it autodetects and loads the forums in the mobile style without fail.

Damn fine job there sir.

5 stars.

[Kevlar]

Some users who automatically get pushed to your mobile style would like the ability to turn it off and go back to the regular default style. Is there an option for this?

Works great otherwise...

[Dewaniya]

Is it stable?

[Chevy II]

I am running VB 3.7.4 and have this mod installed as well as Dartho's mobile style and it's working very well. However, yesterday and today I have had reports from 2 different users that have BB Bold's and they are unable to login and it eventually locks up their device.

What could be wrong, has anyone else had this problem with users? Can this be fixed?

[Biker_GA]

I've run into a slight issue with this and I'll be dipped if I can figure it out. Seems some devices aren't being detected when hitting the site. For example, I have 4 users who all have iPhones. 3 of them continue to see the normal style and only one is being redirected to the mobile style. Getting the same issue with a user who has a Tilt. We're running 3.8 and the detect Windows CE and iPhone have been checked. I even went so far as to include CE, iPhone and Safari in the custom list. Same issue. Not sure if it's an issue with the individual phone, or with the installation. Any ideas?

Edit ---

I think we've fixed it. I added your modification to the portal template for the style and all my users are now seeing the forum in the mobile style. Don't know why that would have affected it, but my mobile users are a happy bunch now.

[testbot]

this seems to work on my pda/smart phone but not my verizon flip phone.

-in before why i have so many phones. hah