I notice that a lot of ROMS come with Opera Mobile, but for some reason, I am continually receiving an out of memory error or sluggish performance with this app. Is this to be expected? This is even true on some of the LITE ROMS I've tried. I'm pretty much forced to use Opera Mini with its drawbacks (which I don't really mind), but I was curious if this was my issue or something else.
i am guessing that you receive the out of memory error once you have installed your own apps, so maybe something else is causing the memory issue. Have you tried on a fresh install with nothing installed? Have you got the latest opera installed?
yes it is pretty common...or at least was, I stopped using it awhile ago because of it. Is it still Beta?
Personally I really like Skyfire for a browser.
It is very common in Hermes devices because we have so relatively little RAM available. I have overcome the problem by invoking Opera (15233) from a mortscript that disables the Today plugins, kill activesync, etc. before launching the program and restarts everything when I exit the program. It takes longer to start the program, but it works fine for using the Opera browser.
It's too bad
It's too bad no one has set-up a micro sd chip to run as a ramdrive for programs like Opera 9.5 and such. The memory possibilities would be endless.
I post this here and not in the General section, because I'm interested specifically about best configuration for the X1.
What is your configuration in opera:config? Any secrets or tips? How to achieve best performance? Fast, responsive and lag free Opera? How to fix the annoying crashes? Etc, etc, etc.
Anything that comes to mind peeps. Post it for the win!
Just curious - is there a reason you're using 9.5 versus 9.7?
Anyways, I changed the adaptive zoom to 480 to make verticle reading much nicer.
Under performance, I increased "the Max Connections Server" to 12-16, "Max Connections Total" to 32, and disabled "Reduce Max Persistent HTTP Connections"
Turning on "Automatic memory cache" under user prefs made Opera non responsive and crash happy.
Other than that - it runs well; hasn't crashed on me yet.
Yeah I actually use Opera 9.7 which is much superior,
besides it has a screwed upload.
In 9.7 increased possible tabs open to 5,
plus changed:
Go to "User prefs"
3) Uncheck "UAProf URL enabled" to disable mobile view
user agent
spoof user agent "2" for smalller font....
TofuJoe said:
Just curious - is there a reason you're using 9.5 versus 9.7?
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Because 9.7 sucks at the moment IMHO. It is not user friendly at all. I am not going to be a beta tester lol.
Thanks for the tips .
P.S. MORE TIPS NEEDED!!!!!!!!!
TofuJoe said:
Just curious - is there a reason you're using 9.5 versus 9.7?
Anyways, I changed the adaptive zoom to 480 to make verticle reading much nicer.
Under performance, I increased "the Max Connections Server" to 12-16, "Max Connections Total" to 32, and disabled "Reduce Max Persistent HTTP Connections"
Turning on "Automatic memory cache" under user prefs made Opera non responsive and crash happy.
Other than that - it runs well; hasn't crashed on me yet.
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Sorry to go off topic, but to you guys using 9.7b, what bugs are introduced, and what features do we lose that we had before? I'm guessing volume button zooming, and smooth touchpad scrolling are two features that get lost...unless you hack them back in.
I've always had issues when changing from the oem Opera version on past HTC devices, so that's why I'm asking, and that's why I haven't bothered to upgrade, and maybe whey orelsei hasn't either.
Back on topic, how do you get the scrolling rate to be go further/faster in Opera with each finger flick?
The biggest difference was the hardware button scrolling, but i found the overall hw acellerated scrolling more preferable. Just a personal preference.
The only bug I've noticed repeatedly is sometimes when clicking that star button for your favorites, it opens up with a scroll bar on the right. When that happens, I am unable to scroll down the list via finger - dpad only. This seems to happen when Opera is still loading a page and I suddenly click the menu tab and click favorites. (or so I've noticed)
Odd bug, if I use the HW keyboard to type in something at the address or search bars, pressing the enter key just dismisses the bar and opera switches back to full screen reading. I need to actually press the graphical button on the screen to get Opera to open the address/search I typed in. I'm not sure if that's how it's supposed to work though.
doministry's tips are cool though - I hate it when some websites insist they show you the mobile version regardless of your prefereces.
Off topic, but Opera Mini 5 is MUCH fasterif you use that turbo mode setting. It's on average +2x faster on my X1 than Opera 97b1 with Turbo mode on. I with 97b was that fast... can't have everything I guess.
So to you guys using OperaMobile 9.7:
how to set the browser to store downloads to Card?
Lately everything is stored to internal memory, even when I choose a memory card!
@orelsi
Well, you must admit with 9.5 we were also beta testers!
As for 9.5 vs 9.7, I appreciate much faster menus and less crashes
(however the flash support is still a pain...)
By using UserScript you can hide the adverts in 9.7 (and I'm guessing 9.5)
http://blog.artesea.co.uk/2009/08/ad-free-mobile-browsing.html
doministry said:
So to you guys using OperaMobile 9.7:
how to set the browser to store downloads to Card?
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When you are talking about downloads .... I was trying to setup default download folder to storage card\downloads, but with no success. Every time I have to change from internal memory to storage card, then change folder for downloads. It makes me crazy Any idea how to make it automatically choose specified folder for all downloads?
Great tips and info guys! That's exactly what I meant for this thread. I guess it should be about all Opera version not 9.5 only. The more, the better .
@ doministry
I mean that 9.7 is still in beta, while 9.5 is a finished product. I have no doubt that I will change to 9.7 when the final product arrives.
@ sonus
I have noticed that the stock Opera build is the most stable one as well.
MORE!!!!!!!!!!!!
doministry said:
Yeah I actually use Opera 9.7 which is much superior,
besides it has a screwed upload.
In 9.7 increased possible tabs open to 5,
plus changed:
Go to "User prefs"
3) Uncheck "UAProf URL enabled" to disable mobile view
user agent
spoof user agent "2" for smalller font....
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Can i use my hw-keyboard everywhere with 9.7?
Can you scroll with the optical button?
btw, you can set the max number of tabs with the :config (mentioned in the first post) easily (in every version).
doministry said:
Yeah I actually use Opera 9.7 which is much superior,
besides it has a screwed upload.
In 9.7 increased possible tabs open to 5,
plus changed:
Go to "User prefs"
3) Uncheck "UAProf URL enabled" to disable mobile view
user agent
spoof user agent "2" for smalller font....
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How did you get 5 tabs available on Opera 9.7? I still can only open 3.
Looks like I found it.
Opera:Config > User Pref > Maximum Allowed Tabs > 10
I can open 10 tabs now! Not that I will need it though, but cool nonetheless.
sopdogg said:
How did you get 5 tabs available on Opera 9.7? I still can only open 3.
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In any and every version of Opera (even the desktop version) type Opera:config in the address bar, and you'll get the option to edit just about anything you could ever desire, including the max tab number. Do a search for tabs in the Quick Find that comes up, and you'll see what you can edit as far as tabs go. FYI, a restart of Opera might be required to have changes go into effect (I don't recall, since its been a while since I toyed with the config setting).
Anyone tried Opera 9.7 build 35432 or 35443?
AndiCP said:
Can i use my hw-keyboard everywhere with 9.7?
Can you scroll with the optical button?
btw, you can set the max number of tabs with the :config (mentioned in the first post) easily (in every version).
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You can use hw-keyboard everywhere.
Scrolling - I don't know, never tried it really,
but as I remember it scrolls through links...
Edit:
Yep, the srolling goes through links..
@orelsi
LOL, Opera Mobile 9.5 was never a finished product!
It was also always beta!
doministry said:
You can use hw-keyboard everywhere.
Scrolling - I don't know, never tried it really,
but as I remember it scrolls through links...
Edit:
Yep, the srolling goes through links..
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Thanks doministry,
so i'll give it another shot.
Although I like the "normal" scrolling with the O-Button.
Is the D-Pad doing a "normal" scroll then or is it jumping from link to link as well?
I'm asking because I customized my 9.5 build a lot and now (sort of) migrating to 9.7 is just a pure hassle if it doesn't work the way I like it in the end.
AndiCP said:
Thanks doministry,
so i'll give it another shot.
Although I like the "normal" scrolling with the O-Button.
Is the D-Pad doing a "normal" scroll then or is it jumping from link to link as well?
I'm asking because I customized my 9.5 build a lot and now (sort of) migrating to 9.7 is just a pure hassle if it doesn't work the way I like it in the end.
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No there's no "normal" scroll here.
I use 9.7 'cos it's waaaay faster in UI/menus.
And less crashing than 9.5.
The ony single reason why I still use 9.5 sometimes
is the upload photos on my blog.....
Honestly can't wait to see a final
with hopefuly Flash 10.1 there.
victor4o said:
Anyone tried Opera 9.7 build 35432 or 35443?
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I did, I cooked them in my rom but both are giving problems with the hardware keyboard.
doministry said:
No there's no "normal" scroll here.
I use 9.7 'cos it's waaaay faster in UI/menus.
And less crashing than 9.5.
The ony single reason why I still use 9.5 sometimes
is the upload photos on my blog.....
Honestly can't wait to see a final
with hopefuly Flash 10.1 there.
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My 9.5 (16702) stopped crashing after I ran the "fixOperaFlash.exe".
And can display all webpages PIE can, but much faster.
Only thing is hw-keyborad is not working in forms (in opera ui it does, dunno why).
But no "normal" and therefor fast scrolling (9.7) s*cks as well IMHO.
I'm not using the opera UI/menus very often.
Hey guys,
The Opera browser on my device produces a strange graphics error (see screenshot below; its a rather mild example, sometimes the marked entry is completely undistinguishable). The errors range from mild distortion but still readable to complete mess - but always only where the marked entry in the menu/favorits/tabs is; everything else is fine. Once the erroreous pixels formed an only mildly distorted digital timestamp so I guess some other application is messing in there somewhere. But I have no idea which it could be scince this problem seems to occur randomly. It seems to be pure chance if it's there when I launch Opera or not. It even might disappear between two Opera launches without a softreset in between. And softresets themself don't seem to make a difference scince the problem might still be there after the device was newly resetted.
Any ideas? (I use the stock german 1.43 ROM, Opera version is 9.7 build 35541 (the one that came preinstalled))
I've got the same problem.
I've try 1.43 and 1.48 Roms and it's still there.
The french and the WWE Roms.
I also try with and without the Drivers from ChainFire, no way too.
It seems that this affect only Opera 9.7.
This happened to me
Yesterday, with the regular - outlook calendar.
Once - For one briefe moment,
but did not occur since.
I have the same problem, but it has no affect to the functionality. This issue is sometimes present, and sometimes not.
Is there anyway to have Opera 10 use the Tilt 2 (Stock ATT ROM) use the Zoom bar to zoom?
Also, Opera 9.5 (Stock ROM) is always loaded in the background so it loads fast, I like this. Is there an easy way to make it always load Opera 10 in the background instead of stock 9.5?
There's no way in Opera 10 to zoom using the zoom bar, 10's not built to use it, and that functionality may never be available. I would sugggest checking out the zoom bar multi-function software listed in the "software worth having on tp2" thread in this forum. Maybe a later update of this software will be able to provide this functionality, but its worth having it the way it is now. As for keeping Opera 10 loaded in memory all the time, honestly I dont know. Gotta feeling it'd use up alot of ram all the time when ur not using it though. I guess the load time never really bothered me, and I use Sense 2.5 and a lotta other crap too, so I wouldnt be able to afford that much memory for something I wasnt using
maybe try putting the opera startup or whatever that thing is in the the startup folder in windows. maybe? idk if i'm not good with all the technical lingo.
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Is there anyway to have Opera 10 use the Tilt 2 (Stock ATT ROM) use the Zoom bar to zoom?
Also, Opera 9.5 (Stock ROM) is always loaded in the background so it loads fast, I like this. Is there an easy way to make it always load Opera 10 in the background instead of stock 9.5?
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You might check out, read through, post in the "All Opera Mobile/Mini versions: Official thread"
i wish the zoom bar would work again. i hate the 2 level zoom. the back button no longer works either in 10 like it did in 10 beta. i think ill post in that thread to see if anyone can get it to.
Thanks McBrain. While that thread did not help with Zoom, it taught me how to enable auto rotate which is nice.