Fix BBC IPlayer to play over 3G instead of wifi

Posted on October 23rd, 2008 by Dave.
Categories: News.

I’ve tinkered with the code for the original 1.0 of the bbc iplayer software so it no longer insists on player shows over wifi. Find yourself a copy of the original (here: http://gerrymoth.googlepages.com/iplayer.wgz).

Rename it to a “.zip” file extract the content and edit the file called “app-min.js” in the iplayer/js/ folder using notepad.

Search for this string: data.response.IP_CONNTYPE===”wifi”&&data.response.IP_IS_UK_COMBINED===”yes”

and delete this part:
data.response.IP_CONNTYPE===”wifi”&&

Save the file.

Go up the folders and zip up the “iplayer” folder again. Rename it to a .wgz file and install it on to your phone.

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