Boyue T61/T62 / Icarus Illumina E653 review and Onyx T68 comparison

[dnastase]

Does anybody know how can I access the full Android Settings ?
I installed Nova Launcher but they don't show up there.

Indeed the battery life on T62 is absymal. Worse than my T68. At least there if I turned off the wifi it would preserve the battery on standby. On T62 that doesn't matter, it churns through the battery anyway.

Thanks.

[downeaster59]

Originally Posted by dnastase

Does anybody know how can I access the full Android Settings ?
I installed Nova Launcher but they don't show up there.

Indeed the battery life on T62 is absymal. Worse than my T68. At least there if I turned off the wifi it would preserve the battery on standby. On T62 that doesn't matter, it churns through the battery anyway.

Thanks.

For better battery life, try this. I rooted my T62 and installed SetCPU. I used its recommended settings. The app allows you to set the governor and/or choose maximum and minimum CPU speeds, but I left it at recommended settings. I find that it has given me a definite improvement in battery life.

[dnastase]

I notice that the text is fuzzier after non-full refreshes than on my T68.
If I do a full refresh via the button then text is crisp.
Thus I set in the settings to do a full refresh on each page turn. This helped w/ the two builtin readers: Adobe and FBReader.
However all the other readers that I install from Play Store it seems like they are never able to have non-fuzzy text.

Anybody else experiencing that ?

[Purple Lady]

Originally Posted by dnastase

I notice that the text is fuzzier after non-full refreshes than on my T68.
If I do a full refresh via the button then text is crisp.
Thus I set in the settings to do a full refresh on each page turn. This helped w/ the two builtin readers: Adobe and FBReader.
However all the other readers that I install from Play Store it seems like they are never able to have non-fuzzy text.

Anybody else experiencing that ?

I tried to use AlReader which has eink settings, but it didn't refresh. I didn't know FBReader was builtin - is it called something different?

Edit: I can't even figure out in the Boyue launcher how to specify what reader to use for a book.

[dnastase]

If you go in Settings/User defined, the "Set the EPUB book reader" allows you to choose between the two built-in readers: Adober or FB2.

[Purple Lady]

Originally Posted by dnastase

If you go in Settings/User defined, the "Set the EPUB book reader" allows you to choose between the two built-in readers: Adober or FB2.

I don't have that setting on the E653 rom. The reader it opens up on automatically has almost no settings, and I have the line spacing set to the lowest possible and books still look double spaced to me. Anytime I've seen one of the Google play readers set up as a built-in reader they take away most of the settings so I doubt I would want to use it anyway.

[dnastase]

So you're using the other ROM. Which reader do you use then (it seems to me that you're having the same issue of fuzzy font w/ external readers) ?

[Purple Lady]

Originally Posted by dnastase

So you're using the other ROM. Which reader do you use then (it seems to me that you're having the same issue of fuzzy font w/ external readers) ?

I have Moon+, AlReader, FBReader, Kindle, Mantano, Nook, and Play Books installed. I usually use Moon+ or AlReader. I hadn't noticed much fuzziness til you mentioned it. I have tons of floaters so letters tend to look fuzzy no matter what to me.

Moon+ with Verdana isn't too bad and the T62 does have a refresh button. I was trying to use AlReader's eink settings but refresh doesn't seem to work for me. I would be interested to know if anyone else can get it to work.

[downeaster59]

Originally Posted by Purple Lady

I don't have that setting on the E653 rom. The reader it opens up on automatically has almost no settings, and I have the line spacing set to the lowest possible and books still look double spaced to me. Anytime I've seen one of the Google play readers set up as a built-in reader they take away most of the settings so I doubt I would want to use it anyway.

Do you have the latest E653 rom? There's a new one out, dated November 11. The new one has this setting. It also seems a bit better with settings in the default reader.

As for fuzziness, I haven't noticed fuzzy text. Generally, I've been pleased with text quality. What I do see, every now and then, is a little E-Ink debris around a word or two on a given page. A refresh fixes that. It's not common, happening on the odd page. I saw something similar with the T68.

[Purple Lady]

Originally Posted by downeaster59

Do you have the latest E653 rom? There's a new one out, dated November 11. The new one has this setting. It also seems a bit better with settings in the default reader.

As for fuzziness, I haven't noticed fuzzy text. Generally, I've been pleased with text quality. What I do see, every now and then, is a little E-Ink debris around a word or two on a given page. A refresh fixes that. It's not common, happening on the odd page. I saw something similar with the T68.

Thanks, I'll have to try the latest update - I guess you're using it with no problem?

[downeaster59]

Originally Posted by Purple Lady

Thanks, I'll have to try the latest update - I guess you're using it with no problem?

The only problem I have seen - and it was true before the update - is that the E653 firmware is slow to "wake up" out of sleep mode. I'll see the home screen, but it will be frozen for a minute or two. Then it will refresh once or twice, and then it is truly "awake". Everything else seems fine so far. I haven't seen the "fuzzy text" problem. But, like you, I have my share of floaters!

[downeaster59]

Oh yes - nightboy's post is updated with the new E653 rom.

[dnastase]

Originally Posted by downeaster59

The only problem I have seen - and it was true before the update - is that the E653 firmware is slow to "wake up" out of sleep mode. I'll see the home screen, but it will be frozen for a minute or two. Then it will refresh once or twice, and then it is truly "awake". Everything else seems fine so far. I haven't seen the "fuzzy text" problem. But, like you, I have my share of floaters!

Funny that you mentioned that. That was going to be my next question.
I too have problems trying to wake up the T62. (only I'm on the Boyue ROM).
I seem to need a couple of button presses to get it to wake up, and it's more like a delay than how many times I press...

I was wondering if instead of regular standby the device is getting into some deeper sleep mode and thus it's taking more time to wake up.

On the other hand my battery life seems to have improved considerably.
With moderate use it consumed only 8% in 2 days. With wifi being on all the time.
At this rate I'm happy.

[dnastase]

Originally Posted by Purple Lady

I have Moon+, AlReader, FBReader, Kindle, Mantano, Nook, and Play Books installed. I usually use Moon+ or AlReader. I hadn't noticed much fuzziness til you mentioned it. I have tons of floaters so letters tend to look fuzzy no matter what to me.

Moon+ with Verdana isn't too bad and the T62 does have a refresh button. I was trying to use AlReader's eink settings but refresh doesn't seem to work for me. I would be interested to know if anyone else can get it to work.

Refresh button works for me in all the external e-readers I installed.
But it's annoying to have to press the refresh button every page I turn.
I would have wanted the auto-refresh to work (take into the consideration the setting on how many page turns to auto-refresh).

[Purple Lady]

Originally Posted by downeaster59

The only problem I have seen - and it was true before the update - is that the E653 firmware is slow to "wake up" out of sleep mode. I'll see the home screen, but it will be frozen for a minute or two. Then it will refresh once or twice, and then it is truly "awake". Everything else seems fine so far. I haven't seen the "fuzzy text" problem. But, like you, I have my share of floaters!

Originally Posted by dnastase

Funny that you mentioned that. That was going to be my next question.
I too have problems trying to wake up the T62. (only I'm on the Boyue ROM).
I seem to need a couple of button presses to get it to wake up, and it's more like a delay than how many times I press...

I was wondering if instead of regular standby the device is getting into some deeper sleep mode and thus it's taking more time to wake up.

On the other hand my battery life seems to have improved considerably.
With moderate use it consumed only 8% in 2 days. With wifi being on all the time.
At this rate I'm happy.

Mine comes out of sleep easily. It's actually held awake most of the time by a kernel process
so I can't do anything about it.


8% in two days! Was it on the whole time or did you shut it off? Mine uses 1.5% per hour overnight with wifi off. What rom are you on with that?