One of my fav things from the new Opera Mobile 9.5 is the Widgets app. However, the ones pre-installed miss some of the things we saw on Phoner´s Beibei prototype, namely Youtube, Google Search and CNN.
Fortunately gabika figured how make them run on UIQ 3.0 phones with opera 9.5. Download them here.
35 Comments Received
October 20th, 2008 @10:42 pm
Am I missing something? Is Opera 9.5 available for download, in order for me to use these widgets?
October 20th, 2008 @10:44 pm
Great find gabika, keep up the good work !!
October 20th, 2008 @10:49 pm
701, where have you been??? what kind of question is that
October 20th, 2008 @10:53 pm
Do youtube videos play fine using the widget?
October 20th, 2008 @11:18 pm
I’m slightly confused about how to import these… do i move the zip files to the import folder, or extract the contents into the import folder? or something third?
October 20th, 2008 @11:27 pm
How nice!
Ps. datagubben, NOT dattaguben, Ha ha ha..
October 20th, 2008 @11:31 pm
it uses the mobile youtube site…core player is still better
October 20th, 2008 @11:34 pm
darkfox, copy youtube.zip, cnn.zip, etc, to the import folder
October 20th, 2008 @11:35 pm
I have tried. But nothing happen when I open Opera Widgets. Do I need to unzip the *.zip files?
October 21st, 2008 @12:05 am
Walter, no, thats not on the readme is it??? J
ust copy all the *.zip files to the mentioned folder and restart opera widgets
October 21st, 2008 @12:08 am
ares, Ok.. i did that… but they still don’t show up in Opera Widgets, even after a restart of the phone.. do i need to do it while Opera Widgets is running?
October 21st, 2008 @12:24 am
Sorry guys! wrong post! My apology!
October 21st, 2008 @12:29 am
Ah! thanks AOD27
October 21st, 2008 @12:36 am
I’m also not able to launch the new widgets.
Copied the zip files to the folder named in the readme, on the drive where I also installed Opera, restarted etc. but no new widgets are being shown ;-(
October 21st, 2008 @1:36 am
warning! names of new widgets CANT be wrote with capitals.
So change YOUTUBE.ZIP to youtube.zip and it will be OK
sorry my bad english
October 21st, 2008 @2:31 am
Right folks, I have found a way to use the Facebook and Youtube Widget with Opera. If you have Opera 9.5/9.6 installed on your desktop PC, run it. From the Widget menu, select Add Widget. That will take you to the widget website. Simply search for the facebook and the youtube widget and launch them both. They will be installed on your computer and immediately available for Opera to use.
Now since Opera Mobile only downloads wgd files, we need to locate these widgets on our desktop pcs. So which ever system you are using, simply open up windows explorer, and navigate to C:\Documents and Settings\[Username]\Application Data\Opera\Opera\profile\widgets
You will find 2 wdg files there. Simply copy these files to you phone and try accessing them. Opera Widgets on your phone will detect the files and install the widgets for ya.
Hope this help… Just it and it works with facebook… Not had a go with YouTube yet.
If you are having trouble with finding the files, here they are for you.
Facebook Widget: http://www.mediafire.com/?uixrlmytzjj
YouTube Widget: http://www.mediafire.com/?9byt3mgfkng
This is the facebook widget working on my phone…
Hope this helps…
October 21st, 2008 @2:34 am
sorry the last link did not get picked up…
My P1i with Facebook Widget working:
October 21st, 2008 @2:36 am
sorry the last link did not get picked up…
My P1i with Facebook Widget working:
Facebook Widget working on my P1i
October 21st, 2008 @2:53 am
Emmanuel, Thanks a million for the tips. It is indeed really useful. Here is the image from your screenshot :
Woohoo!!!!
October 21st, 2008 @9:08 am
dudes, you just have to rename the widgets from .zip to .wgt !
copy them to your memory card and you can start them with your filemanager.
I have to correct Emmanuel, the widget files are normally called .wgt not .wdg
I’ve played a little bit with the widgets, and i found an ip-adress widget for the desktop version of opera.
Tested it on my W960i but its to wide.
But I think i could edit it, because it works actually and you can easily extract the zip/wgt file.
Let’s see what i could do in the next days.
Opere Widget - Ip-Adress
October 21st, 2008 @1:34 pm
I use Opera 9.5 in Omnia and wasn’t impressed,so maybe that’s why i stopped following Opera 9.5 dev.Good news for who’s interested,though.
October 21st, 2008 @3:50 pm
thaks for the correction screen.acrobat. kinda makes me wonder where i got the wdg from…. must have pretty tired last nite.
October 21st, 2008 @5:03 pm
Emmanuel, great tip!!!
October 21st, 2008 @6:32 pm
Just another tip, if you wish to find out where all the widgets are actually installed, simply browse to d:\System\data\Opera95\opwidget\widgets (assuming you have OP 9.5 installed on your memory card).
October 21st, 2008 @6:44 pm
Now, if someone figure a way to get widgets data inside gdesk it would be so cool
October 21st, 2008 @6:45 pm
mmm…the widgets dashboard on uiq 3.3 is a bit different
http://developer.uiq.com/news_1277.html
if someone could backport it…
October 21st, 2008 @8:28 pm
Hi ares,
This is the solution I have found to that issue. Follow the instructions that I set out in my earlier post. Use Windows Explorer to navigate to d:\System\data\Opera95\opwidget\widgets (if you have Opera Mobile installed on the memory card). Extract the files from the original archive that was posted here to d:\System\data\Opera95\opwidget\widgets.
At the same location, use a text editor, locate the file called widgets.dat and open it. This is an XML file that holds the details of all the widgets that have been installed. Locate the Facebook and Youtube ones, and rename the “path to widget data” values.
i.e. The facebook widget becomes:
d:\system\data\opera95\opwidget\widgets\facebook widget_6696_1.7.zip to d:\system\data\opera95\opwidget\widgets\facebook.zip
and the YouTube becomes:
d:\system\data\opera95\opwidget\widgets\youtube_4545_1.1.zip to d:\system\data\opera95\opwidget\widgets\youtube.zip
Hope this helps.
Any problems, let me know.
October 21st, 2008 @9:15 pm
great widgets …
however, i get a timeout error every time i try to connect to facebook … any idea what the prob could be? (all the other widgets work smoothly, connection via wifi is stable)
glad for any help
T
October 21st, 2008 @9:25 pm
Sorry emamanuel, that is for???
BumpT, use the facebook widget from opera´s desktop instead (using emmanuel instructions)…i also could not make beibei´s facebook widget to work
October 21st, 2008 @9:54 pm
Hi ares,
The second set of instructions was to get the beibei facebook widget to work.
As you can see from the images, I got them both working on my p1i.
October 22nd, 2008 @12:21 am
youtube always worked for me…however beibei´s facebook always gave me connection error…the desktop version works fine though
so…tell me, that facebook widget you are showing is beibei´s or the same has me???
October 22nd, 2008 @12:26 am
I am using Beibei facebook widget. The desktop one also works for me.
November 4th, 2008 @2:28 pm
Hi everyone here, I got a solution to run the all beibei widgets successfully on my P1i. Simply download and install the ‘File Associate 1.0′ from this forum. Extract the beibei widgets using X-Plore to D:/system/data/opera95/opwidget/widgets. Now using File Associate to assign ‘Compressed File’ by ‘Opere Widget’. Now just browse to the same folder again and launch the youtube.zip and enjoy it.
May 2nd, 2009 @4:22 am
Just rename them (if necessary), 4 example: youtube.wgt and put them in the 2001D798/import, folder and restart opera widgets and opera auto configs the widgets.
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