[DoctorWkt]

Here's my "first impressions" of the T68 Lynx after having it for about 3 weeks. So far I've rooted it, installed a new launcher, fiddled with the sleep images, bricked the device a few times and managed to recover!

I'm still on Lynx firmware 675c088, dated 10th Jan 2015, mainly as there are no changelogs for the newer Booxtor firmware versions.

I'm using the device as a tablet more than an e-reader, with ADW Launcher. So far the device is rock solid, with no reboots. The screen calibration also seems fine. Here are the apps I've installed:

E-readers: AlReader, ezPDF and Foxit PDF. I'm using the standard AlReader for e-books and Foxit PDF for PDFs. I tried ezPDF but the line of icons at the top of the screen was intimidating!

Web browsers: Opera Mini and Dolphin. I haven't settled on a clear winner here. I use Dolphin on my phone, but Opera Mini seems to be a bit more responsive on the T68. Edit: I'm now trying Lightning Browser, which seems even faster than Dolphin and Opera Mini.

Utilities: Battery Monitor Widget, BusyBox Free, DiskUsage, Market Helper, No-frills CPU Control, OS Monitor, Root Explorer, Rotation Control Lite, SuperSU, Titanium backup, VNC server, VX ConnectBot. The colours in Titanium backup make it near impossible to use. No-frills CPU Control is easy to set up. I've been using most of the others for years on my phone.

RSS: Feed+. Nice and simple and has a clean interface.

Games: Five Hundred and Klondike Solitaire.

E-mail: K-9 Mail.

Maps: Goodle Maps, and OruxMaps for offline use.

Keyboard: SlideIT Keyboard with SlideIT Classic Skin. You can disable the button animations, thin down the slide trail and make it shorter, and this makes the keyboard more usable.

On the tweaking side, I've rooted the T68 with Cydia Impactor. I've changed the sleep screen image by replacing the images in framework-res.apk. I've modified the boot.img file to fix the init.freescale.rc file to remove the line that says setprop ro.ONYX_DISABLE_KEYGUARD 1, so that I have to enter a PIN number when I wake up the device. And I've modified the keylayout/gpio-keys.kl file to say key 28 HOME WAKE so that the front screen is now the Home key.

Now the device does what I want, it's very usable and stable.

Cheers, Warren