Boox Nova Pro?

[MMJ]

Did anyone try nova pro with a large pdf file? (over 50 or 60+mb)
Please share your inputs if possible.
Thanks

[Question Mark]

Originally Posted by MMJ

Did anyone try nova pro with a large pdf file? (over 50 or 60+mb)
Please share your inputs if possible.
Thanks

Just opened a 237.1 MB sized PDF, Planes, Gliders and Paper Rockets by Rick Schertle. Plenty of text and plenty of photos in this PDF.

Wow, I'm impressed. It opened very quickly (seconds) and I was able to navigate around it with ease. Jumps right to a chapter from the table of contents. Zoom is pretty fast as well. And can select words to look up in the dictionary. Very clear.

[bit101]

I got the 2.1 firmware. As someone mentioned, if you change the language to Chinese and then check for update, it will download and install. Takes a pretty long time, maybe 15+ minutes. Then change back to English and you're good. The new firmware is definitely worth it. The whole system seems much more polished now.

[Question Mark]

Originally Posted by bit101

I got the 2.1 firmware. As someone mentioned, if you change the language to Chinese and then check for update, it will download and install. Takes a pretty long time, maybe 15+ minutes. Then change back to English and you're good. The new firmware is definitely worth it. The whole system seems much more polished now.

I'm curious to know if the Play Store still works after getting the Chinese update and then switching back to English.

I have heard some reports that you might lose access to the Play Store if you do this which is why I have been waiting for the international update to rollout to my Onyx devices rather than updating them in this way.

What is your experience?

[Question Mark]

Originally Posted by Question Mark

I'm curious to know if the Play Store still works after getting the Chinese update and then switching back to English.

I have heard some reports that you might lose access to the Play Store if you do this which is why I have been waiting for the international update to rollout to my Onyx devices rather than updating them in this way.

What is your experience?

As it happens, I decided to test it out myself. Since I don't have a lot of information stored on my Nova Pro at the moment, I figured, in a worst case scenario, being forced to do a factory reset to recover my previous setup would lose me nothing but a bit of time...

Fortunately, it did not come to that. My current apps from the Play Store will still update if I allow them, and I can still install new apps from the Play Store.

Now to explore the new firmware...

[bit101]

Yes, Play store works just fine for me after the update. Just downloaded and ran an app to be sure.

[helen19770707]

Originally Posted by Question Mark

As it happens, I decided to test it out myself. Since I don't have a lot of information stored on my Nova Pro at the moment, I figured, in a worst case scenario, being forced to do a factory reset to recover my previous setup would lose me nothing but a bit of time...

Fortunately, it did not come to that. My current apps from the Play Store will still update if I allow them, and I can still install new apps from the Play Store.

Now to explore the new firmware...

Thank you for your sharing. I also had the same fear as you before. I would try to update to the latest firmware later.

[jscris]

They're taking orders. Again.

[snowbooks]

Hi, I'm new and I have a question for those who already on a Nova pro, I saw in a video that one of the other onyx boox devices can disable the shop I was wondering if the Nova pro can do that too. Thank you

[Question Mark]

Originally Posted by snowbooks

Hi, I'm new and I have a question for those who already on a Nova pro, I saw in a video that one of the other onyx boox devices can disable the shop I was wondering if the Nova pro can do that too. Thank you

Yup, you can disable the shop, but that doesn't remove it from the sidebar and, unfortunately, you can't currently uninstall it.

So, although you can disable it, the icon will sit there on the sidebar taking up space which could be more effectively used by an icon for a different app.

Hopefully, Onyx will eventually get around to allowing users to remove the shop icon from the sidebar.

[badtux]

I updated to the 2.1 firmware using the switch-to-Chinese method (and having a Chinese speaker handy to switch it back to English afterwards, LOL). Completely painless. All my info is still there. I don't notice any big differences. I do notice that WiFi now turns on automatically when I boot, rather than me have to manually turn it back on every time I boot. That's nice.

[bit101]

The only odd thing I've noticed since upgrading is that every once in a while when I start up, it has reverted back to Chinese. It's happened twice. Not a huge deal, easy enough to switch back.

Have any of you guys using the Note/Note Pro, or Nova/Nova pro--anything that is running their latest OS version--tried to run Microsoft's Onenote app from the Android app store? I got to play with a Likebook Mars recently, it's similar in that it's also running an OS based on Android 6. OneNote would not work very well there if you wanted to use for drawing or handwriting recognition, with a stylus. And I've seen a couple online reviews of Onyx products, as well as Amazon user reviews, that confirmed that being the case of Onyx products too. However, Onenote would work just fine on the Likebook if using it to either "share" data to it from other apps (e.g., browser) where you'd select text, or to enter content directly by pasting or via the screen keyboard.

Just curious if Nova Pro can handle that more basic Onenote usage scenario as Likebook would. Would be good to find out, because a lot of folks are getting these at least partly for note-taking, and a growing number of mobile users that own Android devices are using OneNote as their note-taking platform. If you could use OneNote for at least basic input as above, that would be a win for Android users who'd like to get a Nova Pro.

ETA: Another app question. Have folks been able to get the android Kindle and Google Play Books apps to run without issues on the Nova devices? Both ran pretty well on Likebook I tested, although both on that device appeared to be versions tweaked by Boyue to optimize for their device. I've heard a few mixed reports around using Kindle app on Onyx, haven't heard much about Google Books, so interested to hear the latest feedback on both apps for reading.

[snowbooks]

Originally Posted by Question Mark

Yup, you can disable the shop, but that doesn't remove it from the sidebar and, unfortunately, you can't currently uninstall it.

So, although you can disable it, the icon will sit there on the sidebar taking up space which could be more effectively used by an icon for a different app.

Hopefully, Onyx will eventually get around to allowing users to remove the shop icon from the sidebar.

Thank you!

I have another question can you adjust the contrast on specific apps like you can on the likebook ereaders.

[bit101]

Originally Posted by maximus83

Have any of you guys using the Note/Note Pro, or Nova/Nova pro--anything that is running their latest OS version--tried to run Microsoft's Onenote app from the Android app store? I got to play with a Likebook Mars recently, it's similar in that it's also running an OS based on Android 6. OneNote would not work very well there if you wanted to use for drawing or handwriting recognition, with a stylus.

I was able to install and run OneNote on a Nova Pro and the stylus does work for drawing in the OneNote app. However the lag is pretty horrible. I would not say it is anywhere near usable.