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Old 01-01-2012, 11:41 AM   #271
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I will try later on or so with the reinstall. And thanks in advance for the firmware link :-).



That is a good question indeed - maybe I will my thoughts together on some form of requirements page. I guess its less new features that are missing - the good ones are just spread on two devices, and should be combined into one. E.g. the new zoom functionality of the m92 is great, and so is the listing of annotations on the 903. I really would like to have both. And so on and so on....


Further above in the thread lunohod answered the question about open sourceness - I am following his answer there.

On kernel etc. I am probably the wrong person to ask. I am just playing around here. Having said that, I used lonetechs qemu image to compile my python for 903/m92. It seems that the binaries run easily on both. "Of course" this is only for command line scripts - from what I understand the screen drivers are incompatible.

Hence I thought about maybe building (or porting) a web based pdfviewer. The idea is to have a local python based webserver that parses the pdf, generates an image and serves that out to the browser. One could probably add little functions like zoom and embolden. But I don't see an easy way for annotations (I would guess that the pan by pen on the m92 would interfere with scribbling).

Just my 2 cents.
Great ...I see that they have the sources here...
The PDF reader is based on http://podofo.sourceforge.net/
Probably a closer look at these libraries and at Onyx's sources will tell us what sort of format they use for the highlighting so we can export that decently. I believe that that is the only thing missing right now.

There is something that really intrigued me... on that github page at the bottom you can see code grouped under some "android" categories... I wonder what could that be? Does this mean that this has underlaying android code? I would love to see ezPDf reader ported on this e-reader! Actually not ported but installed :-), I don't thing the sources are available. We need a programmer in this group !
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Old 01-01-2012, 12:03 PM   #272
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I'm taking back my complains about the web browser; I had a chance to connect to another wifi network, and the browser worked well (though I miss https a lot).

A question: does anybody else have a problem with the precision of the pen input? For me it is off by ~3mm (in some parts of the screen) and the stylus calibration setting doesn't help
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Old 01-01-2012, 02:03 PM   #273
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A question: does anybody else have a problem with the precision of the pen input? For me it is off by ~3mm (in some parts of the screen) and the stylus calibration setting doesn't help
I have the same Problem!
In the middle of the screen the precision of the Stylus is very good. The further away from the center, the worse is the precision. Calibration doesn't help.
It bothers me when I try to write or to draw.

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Old 01-01-2012, 02:21 PM   #274
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Write a contact message on the website (your order #), I will replace your stylus... We have ordered some styluses as replacements..
It is done. Once again, thank you for your help.

Please, if you know any other stylus a little bit bigger to be used with the M92, let me know.

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Old 01-01-2012, 03:16 PM   #275
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Hello to everybody,

is it right, that I can only use "underlining" and writing in a document in pdf? Or is it possible to underline in "epub" too??
Thaks a lot
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Old 01-01-2012, 06:48 PM   #276
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Further above in the thread lunohod answered the question about open sourceness - I am following his answer there.

On kernel etc. I am probably the wrong person to ask. I am just playing around here. Having said that, I used lonetechs qemu image to compile my python for 903/m92. It seems that the binaries run easily on both. "Of course" this is only for command line scripts - from what I understand the screen drivers are incompatible.

Hence I thought about maybe building (or porting) a web based pdfviewer. The idea is to have a local python based webserver that parses the pdf, generates an image and serves that out to the browser. One could probably add little functions like zoom and embolden. But I don't see an easy way for annotations (I would guess that the pan by pen on the m92 would interfere with scribbling).

Just my 2 cents.
I just bought my M92 and I am actually quite frustrated about the openness of the device. One can find some traces of a community and an SDK on the web, but it looks as if the community is dead.

The readme file on https://github.com/onyx-intl/booxsdk contains various dead links. They mention the sites booxusers.com and onyxcommunity.com. Both do not exist anymore, as it seems.

lunohod said that you can flash a custom firmware, but it is not documented anywhere how this should be done.

Does anybody know if onyx plans to eventually release an SDK for the M92?

I really like the M92 a lot, but I think I will send it back if I am not able to run custom applications on it.
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Old 01-01-2012, 08:40 PM   #277
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Does anybody know if onyx plans to eventually release an SDK for the M92?
Here you can find toolchain and prebuilt SDK for M92.
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Old 01-01-2012, 08:42 PM   #278
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Great ...I see that they have the sources here...
The PDF reader is based on http://podofo.sourceforge.net/
There is something that really intrigued me... on that github page at the bottom you can see code grouped under some "android" categories... I wonder what could that be?
It could be that they also working on some Android based devices or planning to switch to Android (for their new devices) or ... Current software is based on QT.

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Old 01-01-2012, 09:25 PM   #279
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From what you are saying I understand that they do not have any ereader running Android. I am the happy owner of a Nook Touch and I am more than happy with it. The screen size is the only reason why I am currently looking for another ereader.

I only hope that they plan to maintain backward compatibility with old hardware like M90/M92. that would probably solve many problems although I understand that their profits will be diminished since they will have to pay some fees for using Android, right?
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Old 01-02-2012, 12:45 AM   #280
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Here you can find toolchain and prebuilt SDK for M92.
Ah, good to know, thanks. For those who have troubles compiling the SDK, it seems you have to change some paths in the Rakefile (and do not forget to "git submodule update --init"):

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diff --git a/Rakefile b/Rakefile
index f887837..4a2f83b 100644
--- a/Rakefile
+++ b/Rakefile
@@ -25,8 +25,8 @@ end
 def cmake_cmd(arch)
   marvell_cc = "/usr/local/arm/arm-marvell-linux-gnueabi/bin/arm-linux-gcc"
   marvell_cxx = "/usr/local/arm/arm-marvell-linux-gnueabi/bin/arm-linux-g++"
-  arm_cc = "/opt/freescale/usr/local/gcc-4.1.2-glibc-2.5-nptl-3/arm-none-linux-gnueabi/bin/arm-linux-gcc"
-  arm_cxx = "/opt/freescale/usr/local/gcc-4.1.2-glibc-2.5-nptl-3/arm-none-linux-gnueabi/bin/arm-linux-g++"
+  arm_cc = "/opt/freescale/usr/local/gcc-4.4.4-glibc-2.11.1-multilib-1.0/arm-fsl-linux-gnueabi/bin/arm-linux-gcc"
+  arm_cxx = "/opt/freescale/usr/local/gcc-4.4.4-glibc-2.11.1-multilib-1.0/arm-fsl-linux-gnueabi/bin/arm-linux-g++"
   if arch == :arm
     "CC='#{compiler_prefix}#{arm_cc}' CXX='#{compiler_prefix}#{arm_cxx}' cmake "
   elsif arch == :marvell
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ directory "build/x86"
 
 task :arm_env do
   path = ENV['PATH']
-  ENV['PATH'] = "/opt/onyx/arm/bin:/opt/freescale/usr/local/gcc-4.1.2-glibc-2.5-nptl-3/arm-none-linux-gnueabi/bin/:#{path}"
+  ENV['PATH'] = "/opt/onyx/arm/bin:/opt/freescale/usr/local/gcc-4.4.4-glibc-2.11.1-multilib-1.0/arm-fsl-linux-gnueabi/bin/:#{path}"
   ENV['ONYX_SDK_ROOT'] = '/opt/onyx/arm'
   ENV['PKG_CONFIG_PATH'] = '/opt/onyx/arm/lib/pkgconfig/'
   ENV['QMAKESPEC'] = '/opt/onyx/arm/mkspecs/qws/linux-arm-g++/'
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M92 firmware update process

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lunohod said that you can flash a custom firmware, but it is not documented anywhere how this should be done.
This is a bit off-topic, but...
The firmware update for M92 is similar to the one for previous devices (e.g. M90) but since it has an internal SD card instead of a plain flash, there are differences; it uses ext4 as a filesystem for the internal partition instead of YAFFS2, and the upgrade file is a password protected zip (Google doesn't know the password, but it can be recovered with some effort... zip files aren't that good) instead of a aes-encrypted image of the root filesystem. The initramdisk checks if there is any update-XXXXXXXX.zip (X=digit) on the external sd card, if so it erases the root file system and extracts the zip file there. If there are files in the /boot directory they are flashed accordingly (they are: boot/boot-splash, boot/uImage, boot/uImage-initramfs); the whole boot directory is erased and the device is rebooted.
What happens now depends on the new firmware, usually /etc/appstart.sh is executed and if /etc/firstboot.sh exists it is executed and removed. Hope this clears things up a bit.

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Old 01-02-2012, 12:16 PM   #282
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I just bought my M92 and I am actually quite frustrated about the openness of the device. One can find some traces of a community and an SDK on the web, but it looks as if the community is dead.
As a former Boox 60 user and part of the booxusers community I have an explanation why the community is dead.
Because Onyx policies are so detrimental to any form of community participation that sadly, everyone except for a few geeks doing nothing reading related at all are still messing with their devices.
Onyx have shown disregard for the community and the open-source world so many times already, I wouldn't use their stuff if I got it for free...
They are really, and sadly, a cheap Chinese copycat company of the worst kind.
(and originally I came here because I was interested in their M92, it only seems that they haven't invested any effort at all in usability, judging from the comments on problems here)...
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Old 01-02-2012, 03:33 PM   #283
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As a former Boox 60 user and part of the booxusers community I have an explanation why the community is dead.
Because Onyx policies are so detrimental to any form of community participation that sadly, everyone except for a few geeks doing nothing reading related at all are still messing with their devices.
Onyx have shown disregard for the community and the open-source world so many times already, I wouldn't use their stuff if I got it for free...
They are really, and sadly, a cheap Chinese copycat company of the worst kind.
(and originally I came here because I was interested in their M92, it only seems that they haven't invested any effort at all in usability, judging from the comments on problems here)...
I am not sure that I understand your frustration (if any) or comments. I do agree that Onyx could have been more open to the community but on the other side if the SDK and the sources are there you do not need their blessing to hack the device. As long as is it open to hacking you can not seriously ask for more. In the end being the only source of software might be a good tactic for increasing profits.
You are right in one respect, they are a small company and I guess hardware production itself might be a problem. Scaling up might be a problem for such a company on both fronts software and hardware. Having to deal with community requests might also be a challenge when you are short of staff.
At this monent other that PB903 this is the only decent reader for PDF reading and annotating...
I see that you own a kindle, I don't think that your kindle is better in any of the above mentioned respects. I would dare to say, on the contrary....
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Old 01-02-2012, 04:28 PM   #284
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Hi guys,
I can not open (google reader) page in the web browser?
any suggestion?
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Old 01-02-2012, 04:58 PM   #285
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Briss

Hi guys!

I have found this program Briss (http://www.freewaregenius.com/2011/0...ual-interface/). You can cut a scientific article in 4 pieces, so you can read it really big (like the option of zooming of 903).

I attach the original file, the final file and a screenshot of how i put the boxes to obtain the file with the program. Hope it helps !

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