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endemion06463 · 09-19-2021, 02:21 PM

What do you mean by "have set Alreader accordingly"?

Anyway I might give it another go, I just found a bunch of setting under 'screen' which I would have expected under 'statusbar'. I can't say that it's more flexible though.

And how do you add fonts to it. It doesn't have all the fonts OReader had. And the problem is that non of the modern fonts available differentiate between I and l (take the random fictional name Ilgrand for instance would look like llgrand).

By the way the use of MTP really sucks. I had things set up to do easy mirror backup my SD card trough syncbackfree. That's impossible now. Manually copy pasting it in my backup folder also sucks. It just keeps calculating and calculating, some more calculating, not sure it it's ever gonna really start doing anything. With my phone moving large files to the phone's SD also often crashes so there's that to potentially "look forward to". MTP Sucks so much. Anyone know how to contact boyue, I could at least throw them a complaint or two. I also tried to run a samba/smb server on the device but that was also problematic. It could only work with really cumbersome workarounds. Unless the device was rooted. Ugh I really hate this lockdown on proper ownership of our own devices. If it was rooted it wouldn't even be an issue as there are plenty of apps that enable UMS on rooted devices. Sure hope someone figures out how to do it for this device. Guess I'm left taking the device out of it's case, fiddling with that 'needle' thingy to pop open SD-card slot, take out the SD-card put it in (basically another) card reader to get a proper drive letter to mirror it. I wonder if there's windows side tool to turn MTP into virtual drives or something although I bet something like that would be just as buggy as manually copy pasting more than a few files (edit well there is MTP Drive but is 50$ and I can't find anything similar that is cheaper or rather freeware).

09-19-2021, 02:21 PM	#15
endemion06463 Enthusiast Posts: 32 Karma: 2137662 Join Date: Apr 2019 Device: Likebook P78	What do you mean by "have set Alreader accordingly"? Anyway I might give it another go, I just found a bunch of setting under 'screen' which I would have expected under 'statusbar'. I can't say that it's more flexible though. And how do you add fonts to it. It doesn't have all the fonts OReader had. And the problem is that non of the modern fonts available differentiate between I and l (take the random fictional name Ilgrand for instance would look like llgrand). By the way the use of MTP really sucks. I had things set up to do easy mirror backup my SD card trough syncbackfree. That's impossible now. Manually copy pasting it in my backup folder also sucks. It just keeps calculating and calculating, some more calculating, not sure it it's ever gonna really start doing anything. With my phone moving large files to the phone's SD also often crashes so there's that to potentially "look forward to". MTP Sucks so much. Anyone know how to contact boyue, I could at least throw them a complaint or two. I also tried to run a samba/smb server on the device but that was also problematic. It could only work with really cumbersome workarounds. Unless the device was rooted. Ugh I really hate this lockdown on proper ownership of our own devices. If it was rooted it wouldn't even be an issue as there are plenty of apps that enable UMS on rooted devices. Sure hope someone figures out how to do it for this device. Guess I'm left taking the device out of it's case, fiddling with that 'needle' thingy to pop open SD-card slot, take out the SD-card put it in (basically another) card reader to get a proper drive letter to mirror it. I wonder if there's windows side tool to turn MTP into virtual drives or something although I bet something like that would be just as buggy as manually copy pasting more than a few files (edit well there is MTP Drive but is 50$ and I can't find anything similar that is cheaper or rather freeware). Last edited by endemion06463; 09-29-2021 at 05:16 PM.