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I wanted to pass on that I've had really good luck with a fix for the OOM issue. I've been able to browse through my twitter page and all of the icons on the side (brianlayman if you want to exchange follows) and then load my replies page and then do the acid test of scrolling around the not-logged-in my.yahoo.com page while it was loading before I got 1 out of memory error. I still need to do more testing and I did get more errors after that point. BUT that still is a VAST improvement over how it worked before.
You could do this through an INI edit, as was suggested on the opera forums, but I did it through browsing to opera:config.
Basically you create a directory on your SD card "\Storage Card\Cache" or something similar, and then change the "Cache directory 4" setting under User Prefs to use that directory instead of your phone memory. Additionally, you should radically increase the size of the cache directory.
I've changed some other things around to try and get improvements too. These include Moving downloads up to the card. I also changed a CachRAM setting and I;m not sure what does... I've even moved the rooot opera directory up to the SD card. It doesn't make the error go away completely, but it is possible to actually USE the browser now.
Any other thoughts on the matter are welcomed.
OOM Opera 9.5 Beta Issue
I'm having the same issue with this version of Opera, but I'm loving (trying) to use it, and it's great until I reproduce this error. Can you give a step by step as to how you changed the config file. I can't even find it on my phone. Thanks
yes please. a step by step walk-through would be greatly appreciated. i had given up on the opera mobile beta, but if you could explain exactly what you did, id love to give it a try. thank you. dschoenike
damionm said:
I'm having the same issue with this version of Opera, but I'm loving (trying) to use it, and it's great until I reproduce this error. Can you give a step by step as to how you changed the config file. I can't even find it on my phone. Thanks
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You have to navigate to "opera:config" in the 9.5 browser and it opens up a SLEW of settings. Very slick way to get into the config and change locally. I think once you have made the updates it'll save to the config file on the phone.
type in opera:config in address bar.
Scroll down to User Pref.
Change Cache Dir.
Correct.
To be clear, I am still getting out of memory errors. But less of them. It depends upon the site I am browsing. I mostly use twitter and brightkite from the phone. Bright kite seems to kick a lot of the errors.
I, too, am getting fewer out-of-memory errors, thanks to these two fixes. But won't our fixes be overwritten each time we load a new beta?
I doubt it, but hopefully with a new beta, this problem will go a away.
If you want to make sure that you keep your changes, backup the \Application Data\Opera 9.5\ folder and you can copy it back on when you want to.
People, get Skyfire and do away with all that confusion!
Have it. Prefer Opera.
opera #1
yea skyfire is alright but it does not support every website like it claims to. I too prefer opera.. when ever it begins to support flash I will remove skyfire.
omair2005 said:
type in opera:config in address bar.
Scroll down to User Pref.
Change Cache Dir.
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I made a folder for it on my storage card:
\Storage Card\Opera 9.5 Beta\cache\ it doesn't save it... or goes back to application data (rom)
I renamed it... it changes the directory but when you exit out. It goes back to Application Data..
How do you safe it? Or keep it from changing directories?
Nevermind, I found info here: http://www.wmexperts.com/articles/howto/how_to_move_the_cache_in_opera.html
I'd love to see a version of 9.5 that works with the Mogul, I tried some of the tweaks here with little improvement. Right now, I use mini for general browsing and 8.65 when I need to download something. Skyfire is close to being usable, but it uses too much mem compared to Opera, d/l is all but unusable and it has some interface quirks and slowdowns that make it frustrating to use. 9.5 and Skyfire are still beta's, so there's hope for the future.
i have used the opera beta and liked it i wish it supported flash,
and i have skyfire but i actually missing being able to have multiple tabs
Hello,
I'm user of elf (MDA Touch) and I use Onyx 3.0 ROM. When I launch Opera it's ok, but when I use it for about 15 minutes it shows a warning message, that says „the phone is low in storage memory“ or something (i think it means low RAM?). How to solve this issue?
Thanks
I too have opera 9.5. I use both the opera browser, as well as the IE browser (interchangeably). From what I see, whenever you surf web pages that has a lot of content (especially alot of images), the phone stores the data, even after closing the web pages. What I have to constantly keep doing is, delete the history, cookies & cache to free up the space, which eliminates the low memory messages, until the memory gets full again. It seems like after 4 to 5 large web pages, then I get the message of low memory. I sometimes get a critical low message (LOL).
For me, this is a big pain in the butt, and unfortunatly, I don't know any ways around it. Maybe there is a software that can monitor, and maintain a certain amount of space, to prevent this problem from happening; maybe we can start there.
Also maybe someone else could chime in with a solution.
i've seen opera running on both Elf and Elfin... it works without a glitch on the Elfin
but problems appear when i use it on Elf... same memory problems :S
we just need a good application that can free up (a loooott) of RAM...
As far as I have understood it's mainly the cache that eats up your memory. I found a way to store Opera cache on the storage card (well, I found a guide on the internet). It worked great untill I had a couple of tabs open (I guess tabs are stored in phone memory). But it helped a lot storing the cache on the storage card.
Instructions can be found here: http://www.wmexperts.com/articles/howto/how_to_move_the_cache_in_opera.html
AndyGizzle said:
Instructions can be found here: http://www.wmexperts.com/articles/howto/how_to_move_the_cache_in_opera.html
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naah... tried it... same Low memory problem...
Yes! We need something that could monitor, and delete (if selected) the cache files on the fly (automatically) to maintain a certain amount of memory.
EMoeHTC said:
Yes! We need something that could monitor, and delete (if selected) the cache files on the fly (automatically) to maintain a certain amount of memory.
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Moving cache to SD won't help much. Main problem is that Opera keeps thumbnail of page and it's full view in RAM. Wait for release of Fennec (Firefox Mobile), maybe it will work better.
Your total solution
I just found this on a thread.
www.skyfire.com
This thing even plays youtube videos directly.
I can play flash games on this browser too
DubThroatflex said:
Hello,
I'm user of elf (MDA Touch) and I use Onyx 3.0 ROM. When I launch Opera it's ok, but when I use it for about 15 minutes it shows a warning message, that says „the phone is low in storage memory“ or something (i think it means low RAM?). How to solve this issue?
Thanks
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try the Onyx Jr. you will get more memory...
dun use opera 9, use Esmertec Java with Opera Mini....
you will never turn back....lol..
got the same problem
When I try to download cabs or other files directly with Opera Mobile, and it seems especially when I'm changing the save location to my sd card instead of the internal memory "My Documents" default location, I really often get as a result corrupted files that have not the same size as the original files even if the opera download manager show the file green as successfully downloaded.
If I download the file again on the same location then eventually the file is ok.
If I download the files with another browser, or if I copy the file from my computer in SD card I have not the issue.
So I suppose this is a Opera Mobile bug ? Maybe in the save dialog window when changing the location to SD card some part of the file that was already downloaded on internal memory is lost ?
- Do you experience the same issue ?
- As a workaround, do you know a way to set a default download folder to the SD card ?
Thanks,
Nibbler.
it's opera, I have this bug on other phones.
Thank you for confirmation that it's opera related.
Can you also confirm it seems to happen when you change the location where you want to save the file ? Or does it also happens without changing the save location ?
Have you found a workaround ? It's really annoying not to be able to trust the downloaded files are ok and have to double check or re-download them again
I don't have a work around but this happened to me when saving to my phones built-in memory last night - but one I downloaded today worked perfectly. I guess the workaround would be "use PIE" but given that Opera runs so well on the Snapdragon processor (I hated it on my diamond, it was so slow and horrible to use) I don't want to leave it!
I've only ever had 1 file corrupted whilst downloading in Opera, but find it much more favourable to use than IE. IE seems to randomly rename files whilst downloading, giving them new file extensions so that you have to rename them manually (eg. cab files becoming tsk files!)
And incidentally...
Lord.Nibbler said:
So I suppose this is a Opera Mobile bug ? Maybe in the save dialog window when changing the location to SD card some part of the file that was already downloaded on internal memory is lost ?
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It does sound like the bug is in Opera, but downloads are done to a temporary area, not your selected download location, and then copied to your selected location when complete. Just don't want you chasing something that's not there, as changing the location during download will have no effect.
I agree with you ... I don't want to leave Opera it is far better than PIE !
Yet it is quite unpleasant to have to switch between Opera and PIE for downloads just because of this bug !
Maybe if we are enough people to bash HTC / Opera support to release a fix we could get an upgrade
Lord.Nibbler said:
I agree with you ... I don't want to leave Opera it is far better than PIE !
Yet it is quite unpleasant to have to switch between Opera and PIE for downloads just because of this bug !
Maybe if we are enough people to bash HTC / Opera support to release a fix we could get an upgrade
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Definitely an Opera issue, and not a HTC issue, or it would happen in other apps too.
Have you tried Opera 10? I know it's not a solution, but I'm just curious to see if the problem exists in that version also.
johncmolyneux said:
It does sound like the bug is in Opera, but downloads are done to a temporary area, not your selected download location, and then copied to your selected location when complete. Just don't want you chasing something that's not there, as changing the location during download will have no effect.
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Ok ... that was just an idea
Yet it definitely seems to happen often to me when I change location to sd card instead of letting the file download to its default internal memory location
johncmolyneux said:
Definitely an Opera issue, and not a HTC issue, or it would happen in other apps too.
Have you tried Opera 10? I know it's not a solution, but I'm just curious to see if the problem exists in that version also.
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Last time I tried it (it was beta 1 I think) it didn't had pinch to zoom, and the "text reflow" was awful without any way to configure it in opera:config "adaptative zoom" so I uninstalled waiting for a more mature release
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Last time I tried it (it was beta 1 I think) it didn't had pinch to zoom, and the "text reflow" was awful without any way to configure it in opera:config "adaptative zoom" so I uninstalled waiting for a more mature release
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Yeah, I totally agree. It was a step backward with the missing functionality.
I just wondered if you'd noticed this particular issue with it. Basically, if you approach Opera and tell them about an issue in 9.7 and their answer is "It's fixed in 10", you're stuck with it.
Also, worth mentioning, I always save to my storage card, so every single download I've ever done with Opera has had the location changed during download. Like I said, it's only happened to me once.
Strange
No I hadn't yet approached Opera / HTC ... was waiting for confirmation from our beloved XDA community first
And I continue to say Opera / HTC on purpose even if I know it is specifically an Opera bug ... because even if the developer is Opera, the specific installed pinch to zoom release is bought from Opera and sold to us by HTC.
So to avoid as you said to be stuck with a buggy 9.7 when the 10 will be fixed and mature enough I think we should send complaints to HTC to have a fixed pinch to zoom enabled 9.7 or a fixed pinch to zoom / text reflow enabled 10
Do you always save to storage card changing manually the location in save dialog ? Or have you found a trick to automatically set the SD card as the default download location ?
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Do you always save to storage card changing manually the location in save dialog ? Or have you found a trick to automatically set the SD card as the default download location ?
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Oh I wish I'd found a way to default to a folder location of my choice, but no, I manually change it every time. I also have the issue where I have CoPilot on my SD card, and it was the 1st thing on there, so my folder list in the save as dialog is simply a list of CoPilot folders and subfolders. I always save to the root of the storage card as I don't really have any other sensible option.
Where there isn't simply a treeview I'll never know!
I unfortunately totally agree with you, I'm also p*ssed of by this folder list which also force me to save to SD root !
I'm just puzzled how nice a software as opera can also mix inside such pathetic issues
When I'll contact support I will also mention this one
Any update of the folder/subfolder download location listing?
Other browsers, Skyfire and IE don't have this issue so why can't Opera fix it? Like others have said you have little choice but to use the root of the storage card if you prefer external downloads. It is not even in full alphabetical order, seem to choose folder/subfolders at random!
hi
I'm recently having a new issue and dont know what to do! when I close the Opera my HD2 slows down in about 4 minutes and then everything goes normal. I have updated to 1.66 rom...
I did some of the tweaks listed in front page of Tips and Tweaks... thread.
And there is another issue when browsing pages with opera when I double tap too zoom in or double tap too zoom out or when go to landscape mode it goes to upper side of the page and I have to search again and find the specific part of page which I was reading.
any tweaks or tricks for this issue?
thanks
You're not the only one, me too. The only way i could rectify it was to do a hard reset, which is a pain.
yes, mine's too with 1.66 ROM ehh waiting for HTC updates
I have also only recently experienced this.
Ending all tasks via Task Manager ends the lag thus avoiding soft reset.
just set cleanram to level 1 and run it every time you exit opera. snappy in 5 seconds..m
I had opera.exe staying running and using resources on exit . I had moved the cache to my (stock) 2mb sd card. I reset back to internal memory fixed it.
im not saying its specifically the cache being on the sd card, it could simply be the cache folder being rebuilt.
(I now have the cache on a ram disk and opera 9.7 flies.)
I had this problem, i had moved the opera cache to the SD card as had been suggested in the Tips & Tricks.
Once i moved it back to the phone it was fine again
I had to factory reset my Idol 3 due to some battery issues after having the phone for +3 months. With a stock phone the defaults weren't set and when I tried to download something from my RSS Feed it sent me to the old browser where it prompted me to choose where I wanted to save my download... something that Chrome for Android never does.
Just a heads up that if you have an SD Card and download a lot of programs online, you might want to use the Stock Browser. Personally, I am going to stick with Chrome, and use the Stock Browser whenever I need to download something. It'll save me the hassle of copying and pasting files every few weeks.
They don't ask because they are not supposed to do so. In Android you set your default download folder in settings - you can find how on Tom's Hardware (can't post links). Basically you go to "My Files", then settings and you can change this in the Select Directories category.