Fix For Opera Mini 4.2 Crashing On Motorola i9 and i856
Motorola has discovered an issue with the Java Virtual Machine on Zeus Series phones (currently the i9 and i856) that affects Opera mini. It causes these phones to reboot while browsing with both Opera Mini 3.1 and 4.2. The rebooting can be prevented by adding the following line to the application’s .jad file:
iDEN-MIDlet-miniJIT: off
If you want a slightly longer technical explanation it’s here.
If you have an i9 or i856 you should use this version of Opera Mini 4.2. Users of other models should use the generic version as the iDEN-MIDlet-miniJIT: off directive will cause a performance degradation on anything except the i9 and i856.
If you already have Opera Mini 4.2 on your phone, Download Apps will not automatically prompt you to install the new version after downloading it. You need to go to Java Apps, highlight Opera Mini, press the menu key and choose “Update”. Say yes to the prompt “Keep existing application data” so you don’t lose your bookmarks.
Type: Freeware
Vendor: Opera Software – Product Page,Online Help, Forum
Data Connection Required: Yes
Supported iDEN phones: All Zeus Series (i9, i856) only
I have downloaded the Opera 5.2 version and I’ve run into the same problem I had with 4.2 prior to adding the fix (phone re-booting)…Is there a similar fix to the 5.2 version?
Ian,
Opera Mini 4.2 and 3.1 work on the i9 and are reasonably stable. All features work except saving pages and upload/download.
You can load Opera Mini 5.2 on the i9 and it runs but isn’t really usable. Images don’t display except on very small pages, parts of the main menu are missing and opening a second tab clears the first one.
Text entry is limited to 252 characters in all apps on all Motorola iDEN phones.
The iDEN network is much slower (19.2 kbs) than Virgin’s (100 kbs) so pages take a lot longer to load.
The only Email app I’ve found that works on the i9 is Gmail v 1.51 or earlier which is great if you use Gmail
Texts are often delayed on Boost phones and IM’ing while possible and free is clunky. The IM apps are all slow and have key mapping issues.
The main advantages of Boost over Virgin are lower cost for most users, many more apps and task switching. You can run Opera Mini, Gmail and a Notepad app all at once and switch instantly between them without loosing text that you have entered.
On Opera saving pages doesn’t work, but I discovered that in BOLT 2.1 that feature does work, after you change the permissions in JAVA settings to Always for all of the settings. It even lets you download images, but there’s no way to open them so that part is useless. However I have saved pages, and as long as you have enough memory on your phone, it’s NO problem. I have thested this with a few different pages, turned phone off (to make sure it’s not just loaded into the memory while running), turned back on and my saved pages are still there! 🙂 Hope this helps anyone that wanted to save a page for future refference. (And YES, it saves ALL images that were loaded on that page as well)
I dont mean to butt in on your boost mobile talk here but i’m on Virgin Mobile and i was very curious about how opera mini worked on your guys boost phones. Opera Mini works wonderful on my Kyocera x-tc, 5524 char max when i type on opera mini. i been eye balling the i9 phone and it seems that opera mini dont work all that great on that phone. anyone confirm that? hows the web browsing on the boost phones? what about texting and IMing? and one more question, hows the email program? sorry for hijacking your forum, thanks for listening.
My i776 rarely crashes. When I had a i855 it would crash fairly often. Turning the phone off and back on daily helped somewhat.
Still crashes sometimes, despite the “FIX”… I have an i856, any ideas?