Comments on: Downloading Opera Mini Bricked my phone (Samsung i330 Palm)

By: TJ

TJ — Fri, 10 Mar 2006 01:52:49 +0000

How do I download the applications to my phone because I want to the an update for the text messaging, Thanks

By: Dossy Shiobara

Dossy Shiobara — Sat, 25 Feb 2006 20:11:22 +0000

What are you still doing with a i330? (I upgraded to a Treo 650 back in August 2005 … after 3 long years of using that piece of crap i330.)

Would you want to buy a replacement i330? I had Sprint PCS service with mine … I guess I should sell it and all the batteries/cradles I’ve got on eBay, one of these days, before they’re completely worthless.

By: Gabriel

Gabriel — Mon, 20 Feb 2006 00:01:59 +0000

Brian,

I think that that may be the only way to get it connected. Personally, I’ve been still using a windows laptop for my syncing (which is a pain in the butt) since the software seems to be a little bit better there and that’s what I was doing before I got my Powerbook.

When I had researched how to get it working w/ OS X, the Missing Sync software seemed to be the one that came up most often. Maybe you can get in touch with Palm customer support and see if they have a recommended or supported solution, or if the Missing Sync software is the recommended solution.

By: Brian

Brian — Sat, 18 Feb 2006 23:38:12 +0000

I’m simply trying to connect my i330 to my iBook running Mac OS 10.3.9.

I bought the serial to USB cable, but I want to know if “Missing Sync” is the only way to connect to my computer. You seem to know a lot and I figured you may be able to help.

By: Christoffer Ã…rstrand

Christoffer Ã…rstrand — Thu, 26 Jan 2006 10:07:04 +0000

Oh, I thought the i330 was a modern Palm and not based on PalmOS 3.5. It looks kinda modern on the images…

What JVM is your phone running by the way?

Glad to hear you got it unbricked!

By: Shanti

Shanti — Wed, 25 Jan 2006 23:43:48 +0000

Ouch, dude!

By: Gabriel

Gabriel — Wed, 25 Jan 2006 19:05:42 +0000

Christoffer,
I just clicked the download button from the website, and I think it said it was downloading the JAD. I looked for a PRC installer for Palm but didn’t see one.

I agree with you that it wasn’t the Opera code that bricked the phone, more the act of trying to download it / use it as supplied on the Opera site. The problem was definitely Palm-related and probably has a lot to do with the phone I was trying to use.

P.S. The phone is now un-bricked thanks to a restore of from the desktop. I would still like to try the Opera Mini software but I can understand if they don’t take the time to release a version for an old Palm OS 3.1 phone.

By: Christoffer Ã…rstrand

Christoffer Ã…rstrand — Wed, 25 Jan 2006 13:45:15 +0000

Well, Opera Mini is an J2ME MIDlet, and runs in a sandbox enviroment so I can hardly see how Opera Mini bricked your phone.

I can also promise you that TapiClientGlue.c sure isn’t part of the Opera Mini source code.

Did you download the PRC or JAD/JAR by the way?