M96 + T68. Updates and more ...

[kuskro]

Originally Posted by pehuenco

no he podido instalar la nueva actualización, porque no me reconoce el archivo, en cambio la actualización de Enero la realice sin problemas , ¿que pasa con la actualización última? ayuda por favor
gracias

Did you bought your M96 on www.ereader-store.de? If you bought your M96 there also you can still install the update through the recovery.

You can update your device easily through the recovery bootloader (with the e-reader turned off, if you press simultaneously back button and power, you enter in recovery mode, then apply a "wipe data/factory reset" and afterwards "apply update from external storage, be patient because it takes time).

[EldRick]

One bug in at least three version of M96 SW so far, now including my new M96C:

If you are reading a book, and then add a new book (using Calibre or just copying the files with Android File Transfer) when you return to the book you were reading, you will lose your place, and it will re-open at the page one.

[CoronarJunkee]

Hi everyone,

Another bug I've come across (with M96 version 4.2.2015):

I would like to use NeoReader as a notepad. So I created a blank PDF (with lines) to scribble on.

First try: I copy the blank PDF on the M96, rename the copy and scribble in it. The scribbles appear in the original document as well. When I erase the scribbles, it erases them in both documents. I therefore have no blank document left. It doesn't make a difference btw if both documents are located in completely different folders.

Second try: I export the scribbles from my blank document (without scribbles), thus creating a new document in a sub-folder. When writing on that new document, the scribbles don't appear in the original which remains blank. But when I want to create a second document to scribble on in the same manner, the same scribbles as on the first export also appear on my new export. And when I erase the scribbles in one of these two exports, it erases the scribbles in the other document as well. Both documents have different file names, for information's sake.

Unfortunately, I don't see how this leaves me with a possible acceptable workflow... Unless creating a stack of empty documents on my pc that I transfer on my M96 in advance for whenever I may need them.

Any thoughts?

Cheers,

CJ

[fuli42]

Did you know that there's the OnyxScribbler app to take notes already installed on the M96?
If I understood correctly isn't this what you are looking for?

[pehuenco]

Hola Kuskro: gracias por tu respuesta efectivamante este M96 esta comprado en ereader-store reader, y el problema es que no se como proceder para colocarlo en recuperación, por favor exactamente que botones debo apretar de forma simultanea, porque no queda claro en tu explicación un saludo

[kuskro]

Originally Posted by pehuenco

Hola Kuskro: gracias por tu respuesta efectivamante este M96 esta comprado en ereader-store reader, y el problema es que no se como proceder para colocarlo en recuperación, por favor exactamente que botones debo apretar de forma simultanea, porque no queda clinstalar u explicación un saludo

Primero colocas en la raíz de la SD el update.zip que quieres instalar. Apagas la tableta y dejas presionado en botón de hacia atrás y pulsas simultáneamente el botón de power, entonce esperas unos segundos antes de soltar y la tableta entra en el recovery, haces un factory reset e instalas el update.zip desde SD, se paciente porque tarda en instalarse.

[CoronarJunkee]

Originally Posted by fuli42

Did you know that there's the OnyxScribbler app to take notes already installed on the M96?
If I understood correctly isn't this what you are looking for?

I'll try to give it another try... As far as I've noticed, scribbling works a lot better on Neo Reader than on the Scribbler. Can't check right now but I'm unsure about archiving and exporting the documents created on scribbler, too.

But thanks! I'll try again and report back.

Cheers

[japinder]

For the people who are having the scribble function appear suddenly on the new M96 release...

It happens when you click multiple times on the page, only in the default reader. Not on Moon+ or ezPDF. The first click leads to the menu being displayed. If you click again, the menu disappears. When you click the third time, the application 'thinks' you're trying to scribble & provides you with the scribble function.

I think this is a very good move for those who need to use scribble. No more need to select the option. Very intuitive.

However if you don't need it, then, when you've mistakenly scribbled, just select the eraser & remove the fresh scribbles. And the press X to close the scribble bar.

I'm not sure how to disable this feature though. Maybe Booxstor can advise.

Jp

[CoronarJunkee]

Originally Posted by fuli42

Did you know that there's the OnyxScribbler app to take notes already installed on the M96?
If I understood correctly isn't this what you are looking for?

So I just performed a writing app contest. LectureNotes (trial version), Write (stylus labs), Onyx Scribbler and Neo Reader (with a self-made notebook-style pdf) had entered the competition.

LectureNotes is quite okay in terms of the writing experience. there's a noticeable lag which is annoying but if you're comfortable in note taking while not looking at what you're writing, that lag is quite manageable. There's an incredible bunch of options to personalise just about everything in this app. I use the "big stylus" with the button and the eraser tip but unfortunately didn't manage to get these two to work. I guess that makes me unwilling to put up with the lag. Nice things about the app: everything is organised in notebooks which appearance you can customise. I thought it would be gimmicky but I guess it could be kind of helpful after all. Of course, on the b/w eInk-screen, setting a notebook cover colour doesn't make much sense at all.

Write has lots of fun functionalities. It considers itself a text processing software for handwriting. So you can select your text and move it around. You can insert blank lines between your handwritten ones etc. You can also scale the text you've already written. The rendition of the handwriting is very smooth and seems to rely on vector graphics. So even when your text is blown up a lot, you still don't see pixels. But the lag is immense. Meaning you can look at the screen once you're finished writing and see the text slowly appear (like in LectureNotes, every stroke you make appears at once. So if you write an entire word in one stroke, there'll be no word at all first, then an entire word at once, after a bit of processing time). This makes it very useless for everyday note taking, as far as I'm concerned. It probably needs a better processor to really shine.

Onyx Scribbler is really basic compared to the previous two apps. There isn't much you can customise, really. Blank page, a few options for your pencil line and that's it. The scribble bar is always in the way so you never get to scribble at the lowest part of the page. The scribbling itself is a lot smoother (more responsive) than on LectureNotes or Write but you can see that the smoothness of the text's appearance is compromised by this (I suppose). You can see it's very pixelated right away. It's okay to use for note taking, I guess, but the result is quite unpleasant (and looks like you clearly have a horrible hand writing).

Neo Reader has the most responsive writing experience of all (it's almost immediate and I'm a quick writer). For me, in terms of responsiveness, it's behaving in a nice balance with the resistance of the stylus on the screen surface. Fells "right", somehow. The look of the writing is much smoother than in Scribbler, but much less so than in LectureNotes or Write. It's acceptable for me. At least, my handwriting in the app looks like my analog handwriting does. So I'd really go for this one if I found a way to work around the aforementioned problems (how to create empty note taking-pdfs from an existing file without all of them having the same scribbles on them, and without loosing the scribbles either). So if anyone has an idea, I'd gladly hear it. I guess it has to do with how NeoReader identifies a document to assign it the scribbles. So maybe that could be adapted somehow... Booxter...?

Oh and another info: Erasers. On Scribbler and Neo Reader the eraser tip of my "big stylus" is recognised. But besides that: LectureNotes (and Write as well? not sure about this one and I have already deleted the app) erases only those parts of the text which have actually been crossed by the eraser tool. You can, thus, erase only parts of a stroke. On the other hand, if you want to erase an entire word, you need to stroke away like crazy until you've crossed all parts of the word out (like on paper). But: LectureNotes has an "undo"-feature that lacks on the Onyx apps (this wouldn't be helpful, however, if it's a word somewhere in the middle of your writing you need to erase). Both Onyx apps erase an entire stroke if you touch it with the eraser. So if you wrote an entire word in one stroke and only want to erase the last letter, the entire word will be gone. While that might sound inconvenient at times, it makes for "speed erasing" entire sentences quite quickly and accurately.

I guess, for a start, that's it. If anyone has more hints on scribble apps and/or workarounds, please share!

Cheers,

CJ

[Pooh_]

Originally Posted by CoronarJunkee

(how to create empty note taking-pdfs from an existing file without all of them having the same scribbles on them, and without loosing the scribbles either). So if anyone has an idea, I'd gladly hear it. I guess it has to do with how NeoReader identifies a document to assign it the scribbles. So maybe that could be adapted somehow...

If I'm not mistaken NeoReader identifies a document by MD5 checksum.. So different documents should differ not by file name and path, but by the content.
Based on this, you can:
-open blank document
-make scribbles
-export it
-rename exported file
-move it into parent folder (optional)
-delete all scribbles in the source (originaly blank) document
-repeat five previous steps as much as you want

Or: -Create many blank one- or multi-paged documents at once on the PC which will differs by something (title, header, footer, etc.) and use them as you like.

There are also other PDF-readers which allow to make scribbles in PDF files and even add/remove pages from it and save changes into the source file. For example ezPDF reader...

[CoronarJunkee]

Originally Posted by Pooh_

If I'm not mistaken NeoReader identifies a document by MD5 checksum.. So different documents should differ not by file name and path, but by the content.
Based on this, you can:
-open blank document
-make scribbles
-export it
-rename exported file
-move it into parent folder (optional)
-delete all scribbles in the source (originaly blank) document
-repeat five previous steps as much as you want

Or: -Create many blank one- or multi-paged documents at once on the PC which will differs by something (title, header, footer, etc.) and use them as you like.

There are also other PDF-readers which allow to make scribbles in PDF files and even add/remove pages from it and save changes into the source file. For example ezPDF reader...

You're a doll

My problem with the first method is:

5 steps?!? especially: removing all scribbles after exporting in order to clean up my document again and: losing the possibility to edit my scribbles once they are exported. Also: when using that method, whatever new scribbles I might add to any of the exported documents would appear on all documents I've exported from the same original blank pdf.

Oh well... I'll probably be stuck with the "create many blank documents"-method. Ive tried other apps to write in but the writing experience is just exhaustingly tedious especially since I'm considering using the device to jot down fieldnotes quite quickly.

Just to be sure: You're saying that it's enough to create 20 pdfs on my pc that only differ by filename and they would be treated as different documents? That's great news.

Cheers, Pooh

David

[pehuenco]

hola después de instalar la nueva actualización, he notado una mayor velocidad en el procesamiento de datos, pero he notado dos problemas 1º la traducción al español es muy parcial, y lo peor 2º que el menu ajustes cuando se intenta configurar el wi-fi se bloquea no permite el acceso a internet y hay que apagarla, ¿solución? volver a instalar el anterior firmware? de donde puedo encontrarlo? ayuda please gracias!!

[kuskro]

Originally Posted by pehuenco

hola después de instalar la nueva actualización, he notado una mayor velocidad en el procesamiento de datos, pero he notado dos problemas 1º la traducción al español es muy parcial, y lo peor 2º que el menu ajustes cuando se intenta configurar el wi-fi se bloquea no permite el acceso a internet y hay que apagarla, ¿solución? volver a instalar el anterior firmware? de donde puedo encontrarlo? ayuda please gracias!!

On this thread: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=256283

[Alf77]

I have found in these days that papyrus is quite good and fast.

Whena you go multitasking, it becomes slower.

In the enad, I use it for scribbling.

alf

[Pooh_]

Originally Posted by CoronarJunkee

Just to be sure: You're saying that it's enough to create 20 pdfs on my pc that only differ by filename and they would be treated as different documents? That's great news.

Apparently, my English is very bad ...)))

I said, that if you want that your document does not interfered its own scribbles with other documents, it should differ from others by content! All your 20 pdfs should have different content! For example, on first page of all your PDFs you can place different titles: "Notes A", "Notes B", etc... This will produce 20 PDFs with different checksums.

Scribbles are stored (I think) in "\data\data\com.onyx.android.data\databases\on yx.s cribble.xxxxxxx.db" files and are not a part of your source document (and do not change its checksum) until you exported it. After the export you will get new PDF (exported) with new checksum. Checksum of the initial document remain unchanged, because its scribbles are stored separately.

Originally Posted by CoronarJunkee

My problem with the first method is:
5 steps?!? especially: removing all scribbles after exporting in order to clean up my document again

You haven't specified how many pages in your blank PDF.)) If your PDF have many pages, it is possible to Root your device and erase blank_pdf's scribbles manually (for example by copying empty scribble .db file into \data\data\com.onyx.android.data\databases\).

Originally Posted by CoronarJunkee

and: losing the possibility to edit my scribbles once they are exported.

That's almost true. I think, you can edit your scribbles using other pdf readers.

Originally Posted by CoronarJunkee

Also: when using that method, whatever new scribbles I might add to any of the exported documents would appear on all documents I've exported from the same original blank pdf.

That's not true. You tried to export few times the same blank document without scribbles. In my method, you will export the same blank document with different scribbles, so this will produce different PDFs.