Opera Mobile Text Corruption What the heck - Android Apps and Games

After a little while of browsing TheVerge.com, the text becomes all corrupted. Check out the screenshots attached.
Does this happen to anyone else? What the heck is going on??
This is on a Galaxy Nexus with Jelly Bean, stock, rooted.

Does it only occur when you visit that site specifically, or using opera as an entirety?
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gridironbear said:
Does it only occur when you visit that site specifically, or using opera as an entirety?
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JUST the verge. Any other website is fine.
But this doesn't happen with the stock ICS browser.
Seems to be purely specific to The Verge and Opera Mobile (unless there are other websites that this occurs on, but I haven't run across any yet)

Sounds like it is just opera then.
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gridironbear said:
Sounds like it is just opera then.
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Right. I'm wondering if anyone else has ever seen this issue? Or know what could be the cause/fix?
I like using Opera because of some of its features (convenient tab bar on the bottom, the great start page, among others) which I like.

Was gonna try, but my opera keeps force closing XD
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This happens on my HTC Evo View 4G (stock Honeycomb) tablet as well, which makes this less of a coincidence...

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[Q] xda-developers forum extremely slow on transfo

Has anyone else noticed how xtremely slow this forum is on the transformer? Navigating the pages and even typing this out is very frustrating. I thought it was flash but I uninstalled it and it is still very bad. Any help or info is appreciated. The default keyboard helps a little bit, but typing is very laggy as well.
Y2J
I'm not experiencing this via the browser. Also, you may want to buy Tapatalk
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So far this website really seems to be the only one I have problems with using the stock browser, or even some of the other browsers.
I did find that Opera Mobile seems to work very well with XDA though.
y2jdmbfan said:
Has anyone else noticed how xtremely slow this forum is on the transformer? Navigating the pages and even typing this out is very frustrating. I thought it was flash but I uninstalled it and it is still very bad. Any help or info is appreciated. The default keyboard helps a little bit, but typing is very laggy as well.
Y2J
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I'm having the EXACT same problem and only with XDA Dev's site. I got so frustrated that I wiped my Transformer thinking it might have been an issue with the ROM. Still same issue. Really don't want to use Tapatalk on a damn tablet but what can I do... At least I know I'm not alone.
Also, I did update Flas to 10.2 not sure it is related.
Yeah the app is so slow. I think its the app tho, whats tapatalk
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Surfing this site on TF101 browser is slow for me also. Tapatalk is much faster though.
jinsoku3g said:
whats tapatalk
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THE best app ever!!! https://market.android.com/details?id=app-com.quoord.tapatalkpro.activity
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It IS really rotten using the default browser. Firefox is a bit better. The worst part is getting that ">" new postings link large enough to click on it. In Firefox, there is an additional new postings link that is still hard to click but larger. Hopefully as tablets become more common, sites will make some accommodation.
brachiopod said:
It IS really rotten using the default browser. Firefox is a bit better. The worst part is getting that ">" new postings link large enough to click on it. In Firefox, there is an additional new postings link that is still hard to click but larger. Hopefully as tablets become more common, sites will make some accommodation.
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y2jdmbfan said:
Has anyone else noticed how xtremely slow this forum is on the transformer? Navigating the pages and even typing this out is very frustrating. I thought it was flash but I uninstalled it and it is still very bad. Any help or info is appreciated. The default keyboard helps a little bit, but typing is very laggy as well.
Y2J
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Ravynmagi said:
So far this website really seems to be the only one I have problems with using the stock browser, or even some of the other browsers.
I did find that Opera Mobile seems to work very well with XDA though.
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spokenwordd said:
I'm having the EXACT same problem and only with XDA Dev's site. I got so frustrated that I wiped my Transformer thinking it might have been an issue with the ROM. Still same issue. Really don't want to use Tapatalk on a damn tablet but what can I do... At least I know I'm not alone.
Also, I did update Flas to 10.2 not sure it is related.
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This forum always gives people issues..
But it has a relatively easy fix.
Scroll all the way to the bottom right and then change XDA 2010 to XDA classic. All your problems should vanish!
I'm having the same issue on my Acer a500. I was getting ready to return it and wait for a transformer. I guess its just xda developers site. Thanks.
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May changing the forum style to the xda classic helps?
N23 said:
May changing the forum style to the xda classic helps?
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Classic colors are hard to take?
Strange this site works fine on the iPad it seems rather basic?
Vigneshd said:
This forum always gives people issues..
But it has a relatively easy fix.
Scroll all the way to the bottom right and then change XDA 2010 to XDA classic. All your problems should vanish!
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You sir, are an absolute star.
As indicated, all my laggy problems have indeed vanished
SonicTab said:
Classic colors are hard to take?
Strange this site works fine on the iPad it seems rather basic?
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It appears to be the Flash ads that are driving it crazy, so no problem with those on the iPad heh. The TF tries to render all of them, and although they do work they are very slow.
You would think that without flash installed, it wouldn't try to render them, but it appears to get stuck on them for some reason. It doesn't make a difference with or without flash, still unbearably slow. Can we pay $5 a month to get the flash ads turned off? LOL...
y2jdmbfan said:
You would think that without flash installed, it wouldn't try to render them, but it appears to get stuck on them for some reason. It doesn't make a difference with or without flash, still unbearably slow. Can we pay $5 a month to get the flash ads turned off? LOL...
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I love this site & I would pay to get rid of all ads to make my browsing faster on my TF101. I'll have to try the classic mode which was mentioned in a few post earlier when I get home from work.
The xoom had the same issue and switching to classic worked for a while until they updated the xda premium app. Not sure if the xda premium app will work for the tf but I would try that.
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Not sure it's the Flash ads. I have the browser set to only load Flash on demand, so the Flash ads are not shown. And it it's still extremely laggy.
I just tried switching to "XDA Classic", that fixed it. Ugly as hell, but it works now.

Browser Problems

About twice a day, when browsing with the default browser, it will lock up, give the one vibrate followed by two...stay locked up, do the vibration pattern again and then present a black screen. About two minutes later, it appears it rebooted but never showed the Samsung or AT&T logos...
Anyone else having this issue?
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Has not happen to me.
It could have been the site you visited. Try Dolphin HD, much better than stock browser.
garak0410 said:
About twice a day, when browsing with the default browser, it will lock up, give the one vibrate followed by two...stay locked up, do the vibration pattern again and then present a black screen. About two minutes later, it appears it rebooted but never showed the Samsung or AT&T logos...
Anyone else having this issue?
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All of the Galaxy S phones experience this occasionally when viewing certain heavy websites like the pocketnow.com desktop site, especially if you get a few tabs going. Nice to see Samsung still hasn't fixed that. I suggest Opera Mobile.
I can vouch for the browser crapping out on any large website, this was one of reasons I switched from the captivate to the inspire. Used an infuse today and noticed the browser froze right away on anything with flash content.
I like the stock browser but I will try Opera Mobile for a while to see if it helps...it was my browser of choice on WM 6.5
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If I remember correctly on my captivate there were a few development who had tweaked the browser.apk to fix rendering issues and freezing. Will have to go back and read changelogs on some of the custom roms
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slappyjoker said:
If I remember correctly on my captivate there were a few development who had tweaked the browser.apk to fix rendering issues and freezing. Will have to go back and read changelogs on some of the custom roms
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Yes...please let me know what you find out...this has been the only real complaint I have with this great phone...
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This happened again today...on both of our phones...anyone else encounter this lately? It is starting to become a show stopper for us on this otherwise awesome phone!
I had the same problem. The stock browser is a RAM hog. Use opera mobile, much much better and faster!
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Just use Dolphin browser, when out of ram it will not load new tab on the background unless you open the background tab,
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Well here's my quandry... I like the stock browser and I didn't have this problem with my Captivate... I am just really hoping that we can find a solution for this. I did reset the browser back to default settings and so far in the past couple days this is not happened... I'm not saying it fixed it but I will monitor it for a few days.
Side note however..
How can I make one of the other browsers the default browser and also where do I go to reset that back to the stock browser?
Thanks...
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If you're having problems with the stock browser just switch to an alternative like dolphin or firefox etc. Many improvements over the simple UI and limited functionality of the stock browser anyway.
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I'm trying something different now... I think I was on wi-fi each and every time that the browser locked up the phone and rebooted... I am going to try to keep it off of wifi for a few days and do regular browsing see what happens
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I have had this problem as well. It is really annoying.
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I have had this problem as well. It is really annoying.
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It is quite annoying and honestly unacceptable... using another browser is only a bandaid... this needs to be made loud and clear to at&t and samsung... there is a problem here...
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Happens to me as well...
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garak0410 said:
About twice a day, when browsing with the default browser, it will lock up, give the one vibrate followed by two...stay locked up, do the vibration pattern again and then present a black screen. About two minutes later, it appears it rebooted but never showed the Samsung or AT&T logos...
Anyone else having this issue?
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I have never used the stock browser....especially when Dolphin HD or Skyfire offer a far more superb browsing experience...
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ok.. i cant zoom with stock browser??? wtf??? i just noticed yesterday.. any answers .. i thought maybe it was a setting but i couldnt see anything i could change to fix it..

Checkerboarding in browser

Does anyone else notice a lot of checkerboarding when scrolling down a web page? Why is this, the captivate never did it and was less powerful spec wise....
infuse 4g "a lot a screen real estate"
I'm noticing that, as well as the page jumping from zoomed in to out then in again when I'm scrolling (even slowly) along a page. Clearing data helps for a bit but this is frustrating. Running Infused/infusion combo clocked at 1.7ghz.
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I have this too, perhaps RAM isn't being used efficiently in the stock browser?
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The stock browser's suckiness is well documented. Use Opera
Its because of the page loading. let it load all of the way and then try to scroll.
Hope this helps!!!
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Yea but the captivate could scroll before the page loaded
Hare4 said:
Its because of the page loading. let it load all of the way and then try to scroll.
Hope this helps!!!
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infuse 4g "a lot a screen real estate"
The Samsung browser in 2.2.1+ does this.
The Captivate is still officially on 2.2.
Sent from my Infuse 4G
Try Opera Mobile. It kept me from returning my infuse.
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Its because of the page loading.
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Not in my case, fully loaded pages. This is the first time I've had an issue with the stock browser.
This is the worse browser ever, I miss the stock browser of my htc desire hd. Now I'm using dolphin hd, try any other browser in the market and u'll be happier!
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Skyfire and opera (tho opera does this at times as well)
Mine rarely does it after the page has fully loaded.
I am using a hacked 2.2.1 browser I found in a thread and found it to almost eliminate this problem...
I just don't remember where I got the APK but I do have it. It also allows 8 windows opened. Want to give the hacked browser a shot?
I've only had it installed for a day...
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brooketjt said:
I am using a hacked 2.2.1 browser I found in a thread and found it to almost eliminate this problem...
I just don't remember where I got the APK but I do have it. It also allows 8 windows opened. Want to give the hacked browser a shot?
I've only had it installed for a day...
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Ill take it.
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brooketjt said:
I am using a hacked 2.2.1 browser I found in a thread and found it to almost eliminate this problem...
I just don't remember where I got the APK but I do have it. It also allows 8 windows opened. Want to give the hacked browser a shot?
I've only had it installed for a day...
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Post the apk for us
infuse 4g "a lot a screen real estate"
dajeoo said:
Post the apk for us
infuse 4g "a lot a screen real estate"
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forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1105122&page=2
From slappyjoker
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I installed the hacked browser and it does load much faster, the only problem is I get a force close everytime I go to browser settings...
infuse 4g "a lot a screen real estate"
dajeoo said:
I installed the hacked browser and it does load much faster, the only problem is I get a force close everytime I go to browser settings...
infuse 4g "a lot a screen real estate"
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Really? I just tried it, it works fine to me
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jayson94538 said:
Really? I just tried it, it works fine to me
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When you open a page then hit menu then settings , does it force close?
Update: deleted browser.odex and no more fc! !!!!
infuse 4g "a lot a screen real estate"
jayson94538 said:
forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1105122&page=2
From slappyjoker
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Thank you jayson94538 for posting the link to the hacked browser. I hadn't had a chance to post it yet.

Question about Opera Browser

I love Opera, but there's one big issue that I have with it. I'm a big sports junkie and I go to ESPN.com dozens of times daily, and they recently re-designed their mobile site like 6 months ago or so. Anyways, I love the re-design and is much more useful and quicker to get the info I want/need. The problem with Opera is that it still goes to ESPN's OLD mobile site which I didn't really like. Its been over 6 months now since the re-design and other 3rd party browsers access the new one. But why can't Opera go to it? And why does it use the old one? Anyways, anything would be of great help!
Just a suggestion but the ESPN app is real good, it's what I use.
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e4e5nf3nc6 said:
Just a suggestion but the ESPN app is real good, it's what I use.
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Thanks for the response. Are you talking about the ScoreCenter app?
Yeah I like it better than the website. Anyway have you tried any page specific settings? I know in dolphin HD browser there is a useful addon that lets you quickly switch between desktop and mobile modes. I've never used opera but maybe something similar can be found in settings somewhere.
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You have made two threads lol. One for each mobile. I am also trying to fix google page for the opera mobile.
forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1187913
Post no. 8 seems to help to some extent but it doesn't fix google page for Galaxy S II. Try what he instructed and who knows you might end up lucky because it worked for facebook page for me.
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e4e5nf3nc6 said:
Yeah I like it better than the website. Anyway have you tried any page specific settings? I know in dolphin HD browser there is a useful addon that lets you quickly switch between desktop and mobile modes. I've never used opera but maybe something similar can be found in settings somewhere.
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Yeah I've thought of something similar, but what I don't understand is why Opera can't access ESPN's new mobile site. It only accesses the old mobile site before the re-design.
"Seems like Google Page has been crossed referenced / optimized with Google Android Browser to look and work flawlessly while others browsers dont "have the source codes" to make the page appear and function in optimized state."
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Possible explaination?
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Go to opera mobile then settings> advanced, then change user agent from mobile to desktop. That should fix it.
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zoppp said:
Go to opera mobile then settings> advanced, then change user agent from mobile to desktop. That should fix it.
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But that would take away the mobile site for ESPN, which I like. It's just that with Opera I get the old mobile site, whereas any other Browser app I get the new one with is much better.
Check post no. 8 in the link I have given before. It might help you..
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Browser Poll

Hey all!
What is your preferred browser?
I am a continuous user of Opera Mini for several reasons. The top of which being the data usage savings thanks to the compression from Opera servers. My second reason, it's simple to use and fast as all get out even when on 2G.
Being open to change though, I'm curious to see what others use regularly. Thanks guys n Gals, let me know. Any input is appreciated.
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I use chrome because that's what I'm using on my pc as well. I'm not saying it's the best though
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Boat browser...
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Dual Thumbs-Up Stud!
Rude and rather on the condescending side as you seem to be assuming I didn't already look for a post like this but I'll give you your upper-hand and admit that I must have missed it, so I'll bite the rest of my tongue and apologize anyway. Have a super day. :good: :good:
Thanks to the other replies.
***disregard this post, it seems the post it was directed at has been removed.
stock browser.
its light-weight and therefore fast, all websites run on it no problem and it syncs with my chrome because my chrome is synced with my google account.
but also im on nexus s, so cant really handle the chrome browser optimally.
perhaps for s3 or galaxy nexus it would be worthwhile using the chrome browser.
For me its opera mini just for the fact it loads pages quicker and its snappier than stock or any other browser I've came across.
But when YouTube app decides to start hiccupping I go to stock for YouTube.
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I Just Recently got the new Firefox browser, Its a beta but ill tell what, its hella fast
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Stock one, firefox isnt there yet. Though when they do ill switch because i use it on my pc (ecosystem and stuff)
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Yeah I tried Firefox for a while. Was pretty impressive but it seemed like a bit of a memory/storage hog. Other than that, no gripes with it. I have used Firefox on my laptop for I don't know how long and love it.
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For fast connections Dolphin is the best but for 2G none other than Opera.
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Dolphin HD is a really nice fluid browser. Maybe switch to Chrome when I get ICS because its such a great computer browser

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