Opera Mini 5.1
A new version of Opera Mini was released today that is supposed to work better on phones with small screens (less than 200 px wide) and/or low memory (less than 4 MB free Java Heap). If Opera Mini 5.1 detects that it is running on a phone with low resources it uses a simplified user interface with a text rather than icon based start screen to reduce memory usage. There’s also a new *+0 shortcut to quickly switch between desktop and mobile view
I had high hopes that this would work on my i776 but it doesn’t. Just like with 5.0, the app installs and starts up displaying a “loading” progress bar that takes over 10 minutes to reach 90%, at which point the app hangs! I’m posting it for those of you who have a model like the i856, i9 and possibly the i465 that 5.0 worked on. This version of Opera Mini 5.1has been modified to install alongside of Opera Mini 4.1 and 5.0 rather than replacing them.
Type: Freeware
Vendor: Opera Software – Product Page,Online Help, Forum
Data Connection Required: Yes
Supported iDEN phones: confirmed working on i9 and i856, possibly others.
File Size: 267 KB
Downloading uses paid data. Downloads are for Java ME phones only.
To download and install click here: DOWNLOAD (jad)
the way they see it, less problems = less need to get paid for “new developments”.
still writing this on i465 opera 4.2 btw 😉
havent you heard? its the new trend with big buisnesses to get worse as time goes by 😉
After installing on my i465g, it took about a century (over 10 minutes) to load a blank white home screen with only the time displayed and Exit option (which didn’t even work). Tried several times with the same results.
I have since removed the app, and back using the stable Opera Mini 4.2 (get it together, Opera, you’re suppose to IMPROVE your apps, not DIGRESS!)
I think that did the trick dennis..so far no more crashes on my i856. 1 comment an 1 question> at first i thought it was lagging when scrolling w the arrows but using keypad numbers 2,4,6,and 8 scrolls alot faster..like u describedskins?
2, 4, 6, 8 scroll a page at a time, the arrows scroll a line at a time. Even with 4.2 on my i776 scrolling with the arrows fells a little laggy.
There are no skins in 5.0 or 5.1, only 4.2.
i465 = v4.2