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)
Hey Melvin. While the i335 is not what I would call a old phone, it is a lower end model. You can run and install it however you may come across issues with speed and it hanging when it loads. I loaded Opera Mini 5 onto a i335, it ran however it did run slowly. Personally if 4.2 works for you I would stay with it. However if you are willing to put up with longer load times and the possibility of your phone crashing and doing a reboot once in a while then go for it. Personally I would stay with 4.2
should i download for my i335 or is it best i keep 4.2 please let me know so i won’t waste time and get angry
I don’t know if you have had any experience with the i680 (brute) or the i856 (Debut). If you haven’t those phones have either the same processor (i856)or a faster one (i680). Every single program that I have downloaded from here has ran without a hitch one.
Good to know about the i680 Brute. It sounds like the apps that require an i9 or i856 (MeBoy, NesCube, Opera Mini 5.1) should also work on the i680.
this will load on the i465 but it takes 10 mins to load and when it does you can’t even do anything even scroll up or down
I have an i465 as well and had similar problem. It took about 10 minutes to install and then it froze. So I restarted it and after about 6 minutes it finally loaded the Accept/Decline terms of use page, but I couldn’t select anything or scroll thru it. But I thought, Hey maybe it JUST froze again. So I restarted the app and after about 6 minutes it started showing me a menu with the window to enter a web address, google search, bookmarks, etc. Unfortuantely, none of the buttons worked, scrolling didn’t work and at that point I got so frustrated that I just uninstalled the app alltogether.
All the opera’s have crash bug. Either it crashes n end button works n you can power off, or end button doesn’t work n you have to open phone, remove and re-insert battery. Probably a fatal error from memory overflowing, they missed at least one Exception.