- Anyone else here use Opera Mini?
I find that it has little to no trackpad functionality (fine, I use the touchscreen; kind of annoying but whatever) & the thing that is really irksome is that it cannot be closed!
Once it's running that's it! It's running whether I use it or not, until I reboot the 9900. There is no other way to close it down.
That can't be normal. Going to try a delete & reinstall.
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Navigating Opera's interface itself is too frequently touch oriented. I've configured & programmed countless industrial touch HMIs over 1/4 century. Greatly convenient for the developer. Not so for the user on the floor, imo. Really important things like "Emergency Stop", etc still demand hard wire failsafe. My communications device is really important, to me. No one despises being coerced to use capacitive touch more than myself. That's just life in our virtual universe we think we're creating, tho. Lol.
I generally just leave OM running and my devices seem to tolerate its memory footprint. Fwiw. You should be able to exit & shut down OM by first pressing bb key. Then touching (I know, lol) the big orange "O" in the center, bottom of screen. Touch "exit" on the right bottom of that screen then confirm the nag: "I really do want to exit the phreaking program... Really!!!". Or what ever it is. Lol. Trackpad works fine on the "exit?" Nag. Go figure.Ursus Rufus likes this.09-15-16 08:02 AMLike 1 -
One crew member transfered back to his home town near Mumbai about year ago. 99 is still his primary carry, last I heard.
Length of post is pretty indicative of device I'm using, also. As you can probably tell, the KB on this 9930 is particularly sweet.09-15-16 08:42 AMLike 0 - BTW, Opera Mini can also be set to mimic BB keyboard shortcuts. I use I & O zoom, Y for history, R for refresh, T for top, B fir bottom, etc quite a lot. Fwiw.Ursus Rufus likes this.09-15-16 09:43 AMLike 1
- Opera mini was quite good on my 9900 but the only problem I had with it is about every two months it would revert back to Spanish and I had to remove the app and reinstall it even though it was set to English.09-15-16 04:13 PMLike 0
- Anyone else here use Opera Mini?
I find that it has little to no trackpad functionality (fine, I use the touchscreen; kind of annoying but whatever) & the thing that is really irksome is that it cannot be closed!
Once it's running that's it! It's running whether I use it or not, until I reboot the 9900. There is no other way to close it down.
That can't be normal. Going to try a delete & reinstall.
Sent from my BlackBerry 9900 using Tapatalk
I have a love - hate relationship with Opera Mini. It's fast, but limited in functionality, and it's usually responsible for every finger smudge on my screen.Ursus Rufus likes this.09-15-16 08:54 PMLike 1 - Search around in the settings. There is -- or at least used to be -- a setting to enable an exit option when you press the red "O" button directly on the touchscreen. As Steve mentioned, there's also an option to enable BlackBerry shortcuts. Otherwise, you're correct: some things cannot be done with the trackpad, and must be done with the touchscreen.
I have a love - hate relationship with Opera Mini. It's fast, but limited in functionality, and it's usually responsible for every finger smudge on my screen.
Long day. So will do as you & Steve have suggested & check in here after I've learned some more.
You and Steve, Ralph, David and mushroom_daddy (sorry if I've forgotten anyone, I'm knackered) have been so helpful. Thanks for helping this newb along.
I do understand why the first & most widely recognised nickname of the mobile era was named after an addictive cocaine derivative mixed with a bramble fruit.
I was jonesing for this keyboard all day. I think I might buy a couple more of these. But first things first. Need fresh batteries for swapping & a charger.
it's all about the perfect experience of utility, beauty, size, response... And oh ya, the clickyness.
Sent from my BlackBerry 9900 using Tapatalk09-15-16 09:36 PMLike 0 - Get a spare 9900 that is a little banged up, pop the sim into that one for when you are on the job
Perhaps a white KB would be better in your situation...
Sent from my BlackBerry 9900 using Tapatalk09-16-16 12:38 AMLike 0 - My iphone is really burning through the data. I never even thought about trying Opera Mini on the iphone to save some data, (if it is as good on ios) I usually just pop the sim into the 9900 when I need to save that prescious remaining data allowed near the end of the billing period.
Sent from my BlackBerry 9900 using Tapatalk09-16-16 12:41 AMLike 0 - My iphone is really burning through the data. I never even thought about trying Opera Mini on the iphone to save some data, (if it is as good on ios) I usually just pop the sim into the 9900 when I need to save that prescious remaining data allowed near the end of the billing period.
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Watching my vzw data usage out here on a jobsite over the past month clearly validates BIS data efficiency. My vzw 9930 does the heavy lifting for 90% of my use including quite a lot of Tunein Radio. Yet my BB10 devices, I use mostly for banking etc, eat up 80-90% of data. Go figure.
Personnel of some other contractors out here seem to suspect their iOS & Droid stuff are eating data surreptitiously. They seem unable to locate & stop the "data leaks". ??? These seem to be pretty tech savvy folks. Idk. My crew is VERY glad to have our 99s out here.Ursus Rufus likes this.09-16-16 06:42 AMLike 1 -
- My iphone is really burning through the data. I never even thought about trying Opera Mini on the iphone to save some data, (if it is as good on ios) I usually just pop the sim into the 9900 when I need to save that prescious remaining data allowed near the end of the billing period.
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A few years ago, I had an iPhone 4 from my employer, and Opera Mini worked quite well on it. It was faster, rendered some sites better, and did have data compression.
I guess things to consider when going with Opera Mini are that your data is all directed through Opera servers, the browser part of the business has been sold to Chinese investors (I don't know the laws around government access over there, but I suspect they're different from here), and Opera sync was hacked recently.idssteve likes this.09-16-16 11:53 AMLike 1 -
I've historically found replacement to be 5 minute easy and $5 cheap to simply replace the whole trackpad/keyboard assembly BUT I've luckily had access to a proven batch of OEM keyboards purchased in bulk quantities by my company. A few others on this site have suffered "not-so-easy" experience with non-oem replacements.
Verifying quality replacement parts has gotten to be a gamble, it seems. Ralph finally found a good keyboard and might shed light on a good source??
Otherwise, I'd suggest searching out or starting a troubleshooting thread?Ursus Rufus likes this.09-16-16 01:27 PMLike 1 - Ok here's one that's probably easy & I thought I would ask it here as well as doing a search in other fora as well as the whirled wild web, in order to add to the continuing encyclopedic-ification of this thread:
1. How do I change the dollar sign key back to typing a dollar? Somehow it switched to �.
2. Further to that: How does one enable accented characters? (Beyond switching kb (alt + return) or using sym & the onscreen choices?)
I'm talking about like e accent grave, o with an umlaut, etc. -Is there a way to do this? Perhaps an alt + numeric code as with Windows?
Sent from my BlackBerry 9900 using Tapatalk09-16-16 04:36 PMLike 0 - My crew has had trackpads misbehave for lots of reasons. Including contamination by soaked in water, oil, sunscreen, diesel fuel, beer, wine, etc... Observe fingerprints on your fingers thru the side of a drinking glass and then fill the glass and see the difference. That's what a contaminated trackpad is dealing with. Also, we've experienced "sun crazy" theoretically attributable to "fresnel-spectral" effects of micro-scratches on the surface. The only real fix will probably wind up being replacement, afaik.
I've historically found replacement to be 5 minute easy and $5 cheap to simply replace the whole trackpad/keyboard assembly BUT I've luckily had access to a proven batch of OEM keyboards purchased in bulk quantities by my company. A few others on this site have suffered "not-so-easy" experience with non-oem replacements.
Verifying quality replacement parts has gotten to be a gamble, it seems. Ralph finally found a good keyboard and might shed light on a good source??
Otherwise, I'd suggest searching out or starting a troubleshooting thread?
https://www.amazon.ca/gp/aw/d/B008D2...UvbUpU12590747
Sent from my BlackBerry 9900 using Tapatalk09-16-16 10:22 PMLike 0 - Ok here's one that's probably easy & I thought I would ask it here as well as doing a search in other fora as well as the whirled wild web, in order to add to the continuing encyclopedic-ification of this thread:
1. How do I change the dollar sign key back to typing a dollar? Somehow it switched to �.
Sent from my BlackBerry 9900 using TapatalkUrsus Rufus likes this.09-16-16 10:25 PMLike 1 - 09-17-16 01:11 AMLike 0
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Maybe someone can clarify if the ios BBM app uses BIS? But I think it uses its own system on ios.....
Sent from my BlackBerry 9900 using TapatalkUrsus Rufus likes this.09-17-16 01:46 AMLike 1 - I am not able to. But what is funny is my BBM iphone app can still use BBM and everything except Phone calls and text even with no Sim card installed.
Maybe someone can clarify if the ios BBM app uses BIS? But I think it uses its own system on ios.....
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Sent from my BlackBerry 9900 using Tapatalk09-17-16 04:47 AMLike 0 -
So any word on getting accented characters etc?
I'm using Fancy Keys for now. Forgot about it but works well aside from some pesky pushy marketing that pops up.
Sent from my BlackBerry 9900 using Tapatalk09-17-16 04:52 AMLike 0 - Thanks. How interesting there's a dedicated fiddly bit, well inside the options & settings, for one little tiny key! Guess that reveals the original business intention & origins of these phones eh?
So any word on getting accented characters etc?
I'm using Fancy Keys for now. Forgot about it but works well aside from some pesky pushy marketing that pops up.
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For not-so-often use, just press and hold letter with one thumb and scroll around with trackpad till the character you want shows up. Certainly not single handed friendly but gets the job done sometimes.09-17-16 08:27 AMLike 0 -
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... And other vowels... Just hold the letter & scroll the track...
I'm far, far, from multilingual but the sun never sets on my global client base. Lol. Other platforms like BB10 provide something analogous but 99 is still a communications beast!Ursus Rufus and tinytyke like this.09-17-16 02:11 PMLike 2 -
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Passport SE: All the snooty prestige of a device with a precious metal in the name at less than half the price!Ursus Rufus likes this.09-17-16 03:27 PMLike 1 -
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