Guys,

Have managed to create a small video and show you how its done. Probably would help you even better..

You can see the text version of the instructions on my previous entry here.

** Note – The Windows media player gives error because I am connected to the PC and it has issues accessing the Contract WAP network while in active sync with PC.  Take the cable off and try again, it should work !

Device- HTC Touch HD
ROM – Miri’s Windows Mobile 6.5 (XDA-Developers forum here!)
Video taken using – MyMobiler

I posted earlier about how to access the Mobile TV on HTC Touch HD on my blog here. But later I found out that method as an inadequate one to continue in normal usage.  So I did some more R&D at home around this and found the perfect method of doing so !

So here you go now.

My HTC Touch HD has, L26 v9.0 WWE ROM and you need following software before proceeding further.

• AdvancedConfig – for doing the configuration changes on Internet Explorer User agent
• PHM registry editor – for making the changes to rtsp default player

Vodafone Live! runs primarily on S60 based devices and I had an excellent experience of it running on my earlier Nokia N95. So you need to try and ‘fool’ the system at Vodafone to assume your phone as a N95 instead of Internet Explorer running on a Windows Mobile phone. To do so, you need to change the ‘mobile’ user agent string of your Internet Explore browser to the one used for N95.  Use the following steps to change the user agent string.

1. Run AdvancedConfig
2. Expand Internet Explorer option
3. Click on User Agent custom base
4. Change the value as follows

   Mozilla/5.0 (SymbianOS/9.2; U; Series60/3.1 NokiaN95/11.0.026; Profile MIDP-2.0 Configuration/CLDC-1.1) AppleWebKit/413 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/413

Once you are done with this, to ensure that the change has worked, Open the internet explorer browser and go to the website http://www.useragentstring.com. Your browser should recognize your device as N95 using Mozilla Safari browser.

If this happens, then you have passed the first step!

Now go to Start –> Settings –> Connections –> Connections –> Advanced –> Select networks

Select “Contract WAP” as the default network and you are good to go.

Just to test if this works.. try accessing http://live.vodafone.co.uk via your Internet Explorer browser (in a Mobile mode, not Desktop mode) and see if it works for you.

It worked for me and I hope it would work for you.

However, I had one issue with HTC Streaming Media that the rtsp link would not play. Hence I had to go and change the default RTSP player to WMPlayer.exe by modifying the registry.

If you too are having similar issue, then open PHM registry editor and access the key HKCRrtspShellOpenCommand.  Change the default value from StreamingPlayer.exe to WMPlayer.exe “%1” and you should be able to view the streaming from your Windows Media player.

Try the above steps and let me know how it goes…

Thanks

This is a old document and the steps mentioned here may not work for everyone. For latest version of instructions to access Vodafone Live!, please visit the link here

Hey .. finally managed to get this working on my HTC Touch HD. Not sure if this solution will continue to work forever or not, but just wanted to try something and actually it worked.

So here is what I did,

1. Connected to Vodafone Live! using my Nokia N95 and browsed the Sky Sports News channel

2. Waited for it to load in my Real Player

3. Stopped the real player and checked the properties and copied the RTSP URL

4. Noted the URL on my laptop and shut down my N95, transferred my Vodafone SIM card to the HTC Touch HD

5. Started the Touch HD mobile

6. Opened the HTC streaming software

7. Change the default connection point to “Contract WAP”

8. Enter the URL you copied from N95 in there and CONNECT !

The URL will be something like below,

rtsp://stream.vodafone.co.uk/LV/LV01/live/vf-stream-t-<STREAMID>.sdp?opcoid=1&plan=P&msisdn=<YOURMOBILENUMBERSTARTINGWITH447>&transid=
1&serviceId=dummy&loginterval=60&iver=3&gtime=gtime=<XXXXXXXXXX>

It works, and you can see the photo below !

Try yourself and let me know your comments on this.

I have just tried this and it worked for me. Not sure if the same URL will work tomorrow or not but its worth trying.

Cheers !

DISCLAIMER – I AM NOT RESPONSIBLE IF YOUR MOBILE BILL OVERRUNS. ENSURE YOU HAVE THE MOBILE TV SUBSCRIPTION BEFORE YOU TRY THIS.