M96 + T68. Updates and more ...

[Purple Lady]

Originally Posted by Booxtor

it uses more than two year old 6" capacitive screen, which has been produced by EINK millions of times and is already really polished. T68 uses very new 6.8" capacitive screen, currently produced by EINK in very small amount and seem to need polishing in this regard.

So you are saying that the screen may be defective?

[Booxtor]

Originally Posted by Purple Lady

So you are saying that the screen may be defective?

No, I am just saying my opinion, that the touch screen accuracy of current stock of 6.8" capacitive EINK screens is not perfect. For big amount of customers it is acceptable though.

[darryl]

The T68 is a very good ereader. But it is not acceptable that a premium product cannot match the touch screen accuracy of a "more than two year old 6" capacitive screen" on a device half the price. New technology is no advantage when the results are inferior. I had anticipated the problems would be resolved in later firmware releases, which is acceptable. Hardware issues which will never be resolved are not.

[HarryT]

Originally Posted by Booxtor

No, I am just saying my opinion, that the touch screen accuracy of current stock of 6.8" capacitive EINK screens is not perfect. For big amount of customers it is acceptable though.

So it's basically just random chance whether a customer gets a touchscreen with good accuracy or not? Mine is absolutely fine, but there seem to be a lot which are not.

[PremaEbooks]

I'm not going to say that T68 is perfect, but neither are AURA HD or PW2, which I own and I've using for the last year.

With the last updates (in my case) the screen accuracy is almost perfect. And I say almost because it has the same issues that my AURA HD has.
Sometimes I click on an item and does nothing. The same thing happens in my AURA HD.

I've been reading in my T68 for the last three months. Sometimes using Coolreader, sometimes OnyxNeo Reader, and even the Kindle app.
What I've notice when selecting a word is that if I do it a little below the word the selection fails, but if you do it a little above it never fails.
Taking this behaviour on account, I always select the word "from above". The result is that the selection never fails.
Page turn is quicker.
OnyxNeo starts quicker.

No, is not perfect but in my case I don't have most of the problems that you guys are having...

I've never had any issues with the eReader restarting on low battery.
To increase the battery life I tried removing Phone.apk and TelephonyProvider.apk and now the battery seems to last more than two weeks based on 1 hour reading dayly.

Booxtor, maybe you should get rid of those apps the next time you compile the ROM.
I haven't notice anything going wrong since I got rid of them...

[HarryT]

Sounds like you have a "good" T68, as I have. Some people here have unfortunately not been as lucky as we have been.

[Purple Lady]

Originally Posted by PremaEbooks

...What I've notice when selecting a word is that if I do it a little below the word the selection fails, but if you do it a little above it never fails.
Taking this behaviour on account, I always select the word "from above". The result is that the selection never fails....

If you have to always select from above, it is still defective touch. You have adapted to the problem, but it is still inaccurate. Not everyone has the patience to adapt to a defect. I had noticed on mine that if I touched from above it was better, but also had problems with it taking 3 or 4 touches when what I needed was at the edge of a screen which I could not find a way to adapt to - you can't touch a little to the outside of the screen.

[Purple Lady]

Originally Posted by darryl

The T68 is a very good ereader. But it is not acceptable that a premium product cannot match the touch screen accuracy of a "more than two year old 6" capacitive screen" on a device half the price. New technology is no advantage when the results are inferior. I had anticipated the problems would be resolved in later firmware releases, which is acceptable. Hardware issues which will never be resolved are not.

It does seem a little odd that a newer screen is less capable than an old one.

[drozer]

Thanks for the new update, I will upload it as soon as possible.

I hope you, you had taken into the consideration my comments in another thread (Onyx Boox M96)!..

[karlnapf]

ok, I surrender asking here

[japinder]

Originally Posted by PremaEbooks

To increase the battery life I tried removing Phone.apk and TelephonyProvider.apk and now the battery seems to last more than two weeks based on 1 hour reading dayly.

Booxtor, maybe you should get rid of those apps the next time you compile the ROM.
I haven't notice anything going wrong since I got rid of them...

Its not really required to remove the two APKs. Since we know that our Booxes aren't phones, we just need to disable mobile data:

Default Launcher -> Apps -> Settings -> Wireless & Networks -> Data Usage -> Mobile Data -> Off

This alone is sufficient.


Jp

[cmavr8]

Guys, I used the T68 pretty heavily through the weekend. Even with the latest update, I still get 1 out of 5 to 1 out of 10 taps wrong. This is 10-20% which - in my book - is unacceptable for a premium product.

I don't care if it misses taps on small buttons, but trying to hit battery and hitting home is VERY annoying. Given that I'm using the device to highlight pdfs, this makes my life difficult. I have also noticed that tapping over the item you want to tap usually works, but still, using that method I have 10-20% inaccuracy because the tap is sometimes registered OVER my tap position.

I have to note that I don't have any low-battery-boot loop issues. I ran it down to 7%, then restarted with wifi and light on, and it still booted fine!

Originally Posted by PremaEbooks

I'm not going to say that T68 is perfect, but neither are AURA HD or PW2, which I own and I've using for the last year.

With the last updates (in my case) the screen accuracy is almost perfect.

Could I please ask, which version do you have? International?

If yes, then I can conclude that my device has a hardware issue. I'll probably keep returning it until I get a good one :P


@Booxtor, I do NOT expect accuracy anywhere near a galaxy s5. I merely need usable accuracy for highlighting and not accidentally pressing the wrong buttons!

[cmavr8]

Originally Posted by japinder

Its not really required to remove the two APKs. Since we know that our Booxes aren't phones, we just need to disable mobile data:

Default Launcher -> Apps -> Settings -> Wireless & Networks -> Data Usage -> Mobile Data -> Off

This alone is sufficient.


Jp

Mine was like that by default.
Under battery usage I get
Cell stand-by 67%
Device idle 29%
Screen 2%
Wifi 2%

That's after an hour on battery, with screen off.
But I think cell standby is always there....

[gumalcan]

i just received the T68 from ebook-reader.de. I am old owner of a M92 and wanted to continue with Onyx. I originally didn't check but now i realize there is no chance to export notes and highlights. I would have thought there should have been a progress on this point: with android, i figured even my highlights could have been posted on Facebook, for example or on Twitter (i intend to use these accounts to collect my highlights, not so much for a social use).
So my question is:
am i missing some functionalities? I don't see any chance to export notes/highlights.
Second question: if any, there is any chance to post automatically on Facebook?
Thank you for any help

[cmavr8]

Originally Posted by gumalcan

i just received the T68 from ebook-reader.de. I am old owner of a M92 and wanted to continue with Onyx. I originally didn't check but now i realize there is no chance to export notes and highlights. I would have thought there should have been a progress on this point: with android, i figured even my highlights could have been posted on Facebook, for example or on Twitter (i intend to use these accounts to collect my highlights, not so much for a social use).
So my question is:
am i missing some functionalities? I don't see any chance to export notes/highlights.
Second question: if any, there is any chance to post automatically on Facebook?
Thank you for any help

If you highlight PDFs using Moon+, and then transfer the files to your pc, the highlights are visible. I don't know about notes yet.

Unfortunately I dropped Moon+ and went back to Neo reader, because Moon+ can't highlight PDFs while reflowing. Neo can, but I don't know if its highlights are exported.