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jian1 · 07-07-2011, 04:13 PM

Ok, I will elaborate the problems a bit more, for it's critical to have Onyx update the buggy firmware.

I got the device yesterday and initial firmware was almost unusable, it barely flips page when I asked it to, and failed to browse WWW to the slightest.

After I upgraded firmware 1.5.1, then I can read PDFs without much struggles, but large PDF files can not be displayed properly. One more thing to correct, it's not the device can't browse Chinese PDFs, it was the Chinese PDF I had is too large (over 30M) to be displayed.... any large PDFs (larger than 15M I assumed) will be displayed with total blank pages after pages.

The dictionary is always joke..and I am NOT blaming the dictionary itself, but the way it grabs words. It never grab the word properly by missing one last letter which sometimes threw the dictionary into confusion. The dictionary itself is ok.

Annotation doesn't work always, sometimes there's nothing poping up after I have selected the word. and clicking some letters never got displayed properly, and the response is wayyyyy tooooo slow... I understand e-ink is slow by it's nature, but 10 seconds delay isn't acceptable.

The scribbling feature is a joke, I spent 1 hour to erase something I scribbled... I had calibrated it to the best precision.

Web browser has terrible interactive problem. you click a link it doesn't work and you thought yourself might not clicking it properly, and tried again, suddenly, the device seems waking up and accepted all the clicks you've made, jumping the web page back and forth... I tried gmail, doesn't work, and tried some forum I went on a lot, the log-in is a pain in the ass as the soft keyboards doesn't work as intended. The web browsing overally is the worst I have experienced so far on M90.

Doc, chm, txt files aren't supported too well.. punctuation shown at wrong place in txt. Can barely read some sophisticated office doc files.

But I am patient enough to wait for improvements. The first priority Onyx should put into is supporting for large PDF files as I got tons of academic books to read which lots of over 30Megabytes. then, the scribbling/annotation feature of that, and maybe responding time... The rest can be made lower priorities.

ETA: music score PDFs ain't supported very well, some part of it isn't legible.

07-07-2011, 04:13 PM	#384
jian1 Banned Posts: 140 Karma: 5766 Join Date: Jan 2011 Device: Onyx Boox M92	Ok, I will elaborate the problems a bit more, for it's critical to have Onyx update the buggy firmware. I got the device yesterday and initial firmware was almost unusable, it barely flips page when I asked it to, and failed to browse WWW to the slightest. After I upgraded firmware 1.5.1, then I can read PDFs without much struggles, but large PDF files can not be displayed properly. One more thing to correct, it's not the device can't browse Chinese PDFs, it was the Chinese PDF I had is too large (over 30M) to be displayed.... any large PDFs (larger than 15M I assumed) will be displayed with total blank pages after pages. The dictionary is always joke..and I am NOT blaming the dictionary itself, but the way it grabs words. It never grab the word properly by missing one last letter which sometimes threw the dictionary into confusion. The dictionary itself is ok. Annotation doesn't work always, sometimes there's nothing poping up after I have selected the word. and clicking some letters never got displayed properly, and the response is wayyyyy tooooo slow... I understand e-ink is slow by it's nature, but 10 seconds delay isn't acceptable. The scribbling feature is a joke, I spent 1 hour to erase something I scribbled... I had calibrated it to the best precision. Web browser has terrible interactive problem. you click a link it doesn't work and you thought yourself might not clicking it properly, and tried again, suddenly, the device seems waking up and accepted all the clicks you've made, jumping the web page back and forth... I tried gmail, doesn't work, and tried some forum I went on a lot, the log-in is a pain in the ass as the soft keyboards doesn't work as intended. The web browsing overally is the worst I have experienced so far on M90. Doc, chm, txt files aren't supported too well.. punctuation shown at wrong place in txt. Can barely read some sophisticated office doc files. But I am patient enough to wait for improvements. The first priority Onyx should put into is supporting for large PDF files as I got tons of academic books to read which lots of over 30Megabytes. then, the scribbling/annotation feature of that, and maybe responding time... The rest can be made lower priorities. ETA: music score PDFs ain't supported very well, some part of it isn't legible. Last edited by jian1; 07-07-2011 at 04:18 PM.