Unboxing iRex 800 and first impressions

[mgmueller]

Originally Posted by ahawk

Hi
I just got my d800s
I tried this but still failed for the turn off
at 3s it just standby and longer it reset
sometimes the light turns blue and red, is there anything with it?
If I cannot turn off, do I have to remove the battery to change the dr.ini in SD card?

Thanks a lot.

Resetting after changing the dr.ini is okay as well.

Concerning turning off/going into standby:
Are you sure it's going into standby? You don't see any visual difference between standby or turning off. The only difference: Restarting from standby takes about 3 seconds, from having turned off about 50 seconds.
The tricky part for me is turning it on again. Sometimes I accidentally do a reset instead of just turning on.
2 guys can't turn off, 1 can't always turn on --> They should optimise this.

You can "train", turning off.
When holding the switch, after about 5 seconds the activity light (green) goes on. Anything BEFORE that signal will turn it off. Works flawlessly for me now, after 2 or 3 accidental resets I've got the feel for it now.

After having checked again (after you and Dereader have been asking), quite frankly I'm not sure anymore about turning off.
Instead of turning off/on, I might just have gotten into standby and then accidentally have done a reset, which did occur like turning on (of course the very same 50 seconds for reset or startup).
Because right now when trying again, it always went into standby.

Concerning the lights:
The red light I've only got for low battery.
The blue light I've got maybe 3 times, at least 1 time it was flickering instead of continuous. I'm not sure, but I think it's kind of a "busy" signal as the reader didn't react anymore while flickering.

[Gertjan]

Originally Posted by mgmueller

When holding the switch, after about 5 seconds the activity light (green) goes on. Any thing BEFORE that signal will turn it off. Works flawlessly for me now, after 2 or 3 accidental resets I've got the feel for it now.

Don't bother training as there is no "off" mode in DR800, nor do you need it.

A brief slide of the power switch puts the device in "standby", holding the switch longer than 3 seconds causes a hard reset. In "standby", the device consumes only a few mA, so you can have it around for weeks without charging.

[romanas]

Originally Posted by cmdahler

Odd, I didn't recall this forum including a creative writing class. In any case, I warmly invite you to not read any post of mine if you find my writing style not to your liking. There, happy?

I dont like your writing style too. You are just sreaming how good ipad is in all threads. You even dont have this ipad, and it seems that apple marketing affected you more than other people
I think about ipad and its influece to eink market you should talk in other threads like "what reader should i buy" or something like that.

Thanks

[cmdahler]

Originally Posted by romanas

I dont like your writing style too.

Good, then you, too, are welcome not to read. It's pretty simple, really. You just move on to the next post. It's called a slider bar, it's generally found over on the right hand side of your web browser. Now, take your mouse - no, no, not the furry thing that squeaks, it's that thing next to your keyboard, yes, that's it. Now, move it to the right, see how the pointer on the screen moves at the same time? Pretty cool, eh? Anyway, you just grab that slider bar by clicking the left button of the mouse (I know, left, right, it's hard), and drag it down. There, see, now you don't see my post anymore! Yippee!

[zerospinboson]

Originally Posted by cmdahler

Good, then you, too, are welcome not to read. It's pretty simple, really. You just move on to the next post. It's called a slider bar, it's generally found over on the right hand side of your web browser. Now, take your mouse - no, no, not the furry thing that squeaks, it's that thing next to your keyboard, yes, that's it. Now, move it to the right, see how the pointer on the screen moves at the same time? Pretty cool, eh? Anyway, you just grab that slider bar by clicking the left button of the mouse (I know, left, right, it's hard), and drag it down. There, see, now you don't see my post anymore! Yippee!

Kindly refrain from trying to derail other threads and turning them into Apple hate/lovefests. There horribly uninteresting to people who are trying to have a discussion about different devices, and there are more than enough topics on the Ipad already, no need for more concurrent discussions.

[zinj]

I can tell here in the US we're all getting a little frustrated by the lack of the DR800SG. Anyone seen any promising updates?

[mgmueller]

Just promptly have received response from iRex:

"The on/off switch is a multifunction button and so there is a considerable difference in how long you hold the switch to the left.
To turn the DR800 off please slide and hold the on/off switch to the left for 2-3 seconds. By sliding the switch to the left for 5 seconds you will reset the device."

That's exactly, what the manual says.
And I thought, I had figured it out.
But the last few times, I only made it to standby - or accidentally to reset.
My guess was, the first times when I thought I'd switched it off, I just went into standby. Then I accidentally did the reset and mistook this for booting from off.
Now I'm not sure, what to think. Anyway, I can't turn it off (anymore) and asked iRex again for confirmation.

[cmdahler]

Originally Posted by zerospinboson

Kindly refrain from trying to derail other threads and turning them into Apple hate/lovefests. There horribly uninteresting to people who are trying to have a discussion about different devices, and there are more than enough topics on the Ipad already, no need for more concurrent discussions.

Point taken.

[mgmueller]

Originally Posted by Gertjan

Don't bother training as there is no "off" mode in DR800, nor do you need it.

A brief slide of the power switch puts the device in "standby", holding the switch longer than 3 seconds causes a hard reset. In "standby", the device consumes only a few mA, so you can have it around for weeks without charging.

Are you an iRex employee and is this an official statement?
I've just received a response mail from iRex's support, stating differently. (see a few posts above). And the manual states differently as well. But on the other hand, you seem to be right. I can't turn it off (anymore). I guess I've mistaken accidental resets for starting from off before.

[badbob001]

Originally Posted by Gertjan

Don't bother training as there is no "off" mode in DR800, nor do you need it.

A brief slide of the power switch puts the device in "standby", holding the switch longer than 3 seconds causes a hard reset. In "standby", the device consumes only a few mA, so you can have it around for weeks without charging.

If you're saying that standby is good enough to keep the device going for weeks and there is no OFF function, then I can only assume that 'hibernation' is no longer a planned feature for the DR devices?

[ahawk]

Originally Posted by mgmueller

Just promptly have received response from iRex:

"The on/off switch is a multifunction button and so there is a considerable difference in how long you hold the switch to the left.
To turn the DR800 off please slide and hold the on/off switch to the left for 2-3 seconds. By sliding the switch to the left for 5 seconds you will reset the device."

That's exactly, what the manual says.
And I thought, I had figured it out.
But the last few times, I only made it to standby - or accidentally to reset.
My guess was, the first times when I thought I'd switched it off, I just went into standby. Then I accidentally did the reset and mistook this for booting from off.
Now I'm not sure, what to think. Anyway, I can't turn it off (anymore) and asked iRex again for confirmation.

Thanks so much for that and the only reason why I want to switch it off or powerdown is I want to change the .ini files for supporting of folders, but without power down, once you change it, the content will be recovered after reset. Do I have to take off the battery, using card reader for the mini-SD card to change that?
Thanks a lot.
Any way, though it does not support my mother tongue, it is a very nice ereader and I am hoping for the function of high-lighting in pdf and taking notes.....it is a waste of this wacom now.

[mgmueller]

Originally Posted by ahawk

Thanks so much for that and the only reason why I want to switch it off or powerdown is I want to change the .ini files for supporting of folders, but without power down, once you change it, the content will be recovered after reset. Do I have to take off the battery, using card reader for the mini-SD card to change that?
Thanks a lot.
Any way, though it does not support my mother tongue, it is a very nice ereader and I am hoping for the function of high-lighting in pdf and taking notes.....it is a waste of this wacom now.

No need to power off. I only did reset myself, to make the changes in the ini-file permanent.
After rebooting, there actually are additional informations in the ini-file, obviously added by the reader while booting. But your added line remains intact.

To be more precise:
I've backed up the original files before to PC.
I changed the ini-file on PC.
I copied that file to the reader.
I reboot the reader.
SD support was added.

[ahawk]

Originally Posted by mgmueller

No need to power off. I only did reset myself, to make the changes in the ini-file permanent.
After rebooting, there actually are additional informations in the ini-file, obviously added by the reader while booting. But you're added line remains intact.

To be more precise:
I've backed up the original files before to PC.
I changed the ini-file on PC.
I copied that file to the reader.
I reboot the reader.
SD support was added.

I am not sure what is wrong ,there is another file named dr.ini.old after reboot, this is the one with adding "/apps/er/sys/ctb/showdir=sdcard" at the end of file, the dr,ini remains the same.......

[mgmueller]

Originally Posted by ahawk

I am not sure what is wrong ,there is another file named dr.ini.old after reboot, this is the one with adding "/apps/er/sys/ctb/showdir=sdcard;" at the end of file, the dr,ini remains the same.......

In which application are you making the changes?
DO NOT use notepad. It may destroy the structure (i.e. linebreaks) of the document.
If the document is not readable or does have an incorrect structure, the reader obviously re-generates the original file.
Use Wordpad instead.

[ahawk]

Originally Posted by mgmueller

In which application are you making the changes?
DO NOT use notepad. It may destroy the structure (i.e. linebreaks) of the document.
If the document is not readable or does have an incorrect structure, the reader obviously re-generates the original file.
Use Wordpad instead.

I am so shamed for this stupid mistake.....
I connect it to a computer with suse and change using emcas, it works now.
Thanks again

By the way, is there any news about the function of taking notes using dr800s, will they add them finally?