Boyue Likebook Mimas (T103D) 10.3 inch''

[rvcjew]

Originally Posted by DaleDe

A low current can fail to charge enough and the device can continue to discharge, which may upset the balance. I doubt it would damage the device but may wear out the battery earlier than usual. But 500 mA is a special number in that many computers can only output this amount and devices are expected to cleanly handle this number since they could be plugged into the device for other purposes than charging.

Dale

Good way of putting it Dale. Above 350ma steady is normally a pretty safe number.
Malcolm

[blue_skies]

My Likebook Mimas arrived this afternoon. I still haven't been able to use it or even check out the light though, because right after I chose English, I got a page to Update the device.

I am wishing I chose to download and install it later, because it's been stuck on "Checking Update Package" for a long time. I tried tapping "install Later", but nothing happened.

Has anybody her installed the FW update?

[rvcjew]

Originally Posted by blue_skies

My Likebook Mimas arrived this afternoon. I still haven't been able to use it or even check out the light though, because right after I chose English, I got a page to Update the device.

I am wishing I chose to download and install it later, because it's been stuck on "Checking Update Package" for a long time. I tried tapping "install Later", but nothing happened.

Has anybody her installed the FW update?

Try to Hold your power button in till it reboots itself and see what it does.
Malcolm

[blue_skies]

Originally Posted by Maginus

So I just recieved mine as well - Have you tried connecting it to a PC? - Mine doesn't seem to react at all when I connect via USB. It does charge though. EDIT - It works with another UCB C cable I have - The cable that comes with it doesn't seem to go as far into the port. Very weird but not a dealbreaker

Hello Maginus. I received the Mimas and I can charge it by connecting the USB C on the device to my USB 3.0 port on my Windows 7 laptop computer, using the included cable.

I am unable to transfer any data though. Windows doesn't see anything at all when I have it plugged in.

Is there anything more you can tell me about how you got it to work? What type of USB ports do you have on your PC and what brand/type of cable ended up working?

Thank you!

[rvcjew]

Originally Posted by blue_skies

Hello Maginus. I received the Mimas and I can charge it by connecting the USB C on the device to my USB 3.0 port on my Windows 7 laptop computer, using the included cable.

I am unable to transfer any data though. Windows doesn't see anything at all when I have it plugged in.

Is there anything more you can tell me about how you got it to work? What type of USB ports do you have on your PC and what brand/type of cable ended up working?

Thank you!

When its plugged in look at your notification bar and it should have a option to turn on MTP. Try that first.
Malcolm

[jask]

Originally Posted by blue_skies

My Likebook Mimas arrived this afternoon. I still haven't been able to use it or even check out the light though, because right after I chose English, I got a page to Update the device.

I am wishing I chose to download and install it later, because it's been stuck on "Checking Update Package" for a long time. I tried tapping "install Later", but nothing happened.

Has anybody her installed the FW update?

Try rebooting or factory reset the device and maybe don't allow wifi until fully set up
I updated mine yesterday and update went ok.

[blue_skies]

Originally Posted by rvcjew

When its plugged in look at your notification bar and it should have a option to turn on MTP. Try that first.
Malcolm

Interesting. I never saw any notification like that.

However, I just drove over to Best Buy and bought this cable - https://www.bestbuy.com/site/insigni...?skuId=5859441 - and it not only fits much better than the one that came with the device, it also allows full access for file transfers. (Without changing any settings on the device.)

I'm so relieved. It took me about twenty minutes to transfer and organize all my files, versus the 20+ hours I spent fooling around with trying to figure out what the problem was, work around it and ultimately get it working.

Originally Posted by jask

Try rebooting or factory reset the device and maybe don't allow wifi until fully set up
I updated mine yesterday and update went ok.

Thank you. I was distracted by all the other issues last night and didn't get a chance to update my post.

After being stuck on checking the package for about an hour or so and not responding to any attempt to cancel the install or get to the home page or anything else... it just suddenly went to the home screen.

I spent some frustrating time trying fooling around with the USB cable that never worked and tried out a few things before I decided to try updating again.

This time it worked very quickly and didn't get stuck or anything.

The screen lighting looks fine, but I think the pressure sensitivity aspect for the pen input is defective. In the built-in note app, when I use the ink pen with a line density of 6 or 8, it barely registers at all, even when I press harder than I would ever normally press with a pen. Even when I set it too the greatest thickness, high pressure doesn't get the line thickness anywhere near what it should be.

I also really hate the software of this thing. It is incredibly annoying. I just transferred all of my books in folders for fiction and nonfiction with a layer of subfolders in each of those - which is how I like to browse my books... but the Boyue software messes it all up under "Books". (I tried to change the scan path to see if that would help, but I get a warning that it's not recommended and it just changes it back.)

I'm also frustrated by the lack of settings options.

The Boyue T62+ software was so much more straight-forward at least. I expected something like that, with faster speed and the added note-taking ability. I don't like the way they changed the UI at all. The quote widget is too small for me to read, so it just wastes space, and I have no idea what the purpose of that graph is. Is it battery usage? I have no idea... it's too small for me to read. (Which is the reason I like eReaders - too make the font large.)

Another annoyance is that the same applications that display fine on my T62+ do not display correctly at all on the Mimas, even though they are the same APKs in most cases. -- Whole menus and app UIs that are visible on my old T62+ are completely invisible on the Mimas... I dont' get understand why although it must be either the firmware, the different version of Android, or some setting I'm not aware of. Setting options are so paltry though, that I doubt that's the issue.

[rvcjew]

Originally Posted by blue_skies

Interesting. I never saw any notification like that.

However, I just drove over to Best Buy and bought this cable - https://www.bestbuy.com/site/insigni...?skuId=5859441 - and it not only fits much better than the one that came with the device, it also allows full access for file transfers. (Without changing any settings on the device.)

I'm so relieved. It took me about twenty minutes to transfer and organize all my files, versus the 20+ hours I spent fooling around with trying to figure out what the problem was, work around it and ultimately get it working.


Thank you. I was distracted by all the other issues last night and didn't get a chance to update my post.

After being stuck on checking the package for about an hour or so and not responding to any attempt to cancel the install or get to the home page or anything else... it just suddenly went to the home screen.

I spent some frustrating time trying fooling around with the USB cable that never worked and tried out a few things before I decided to try updating again.

This time it worked very quickly and didn't get stuck or anything.

The screen lighting looks fine, but I think the pressure sensitivity aspect for the pen input is defective. In the built-in note app, when I use the ink pen with a line density of 6 or 8, it barely registers at all, even when I press harder than I would ever normally press with a pen. Even when I set it too the greatest thickness, high pressure doesn't get the line thickness anywhere near what it should be.

I also really hate the software of this thing. It is incredibly annoying. I just transferred all of my books in folders for fiction and nonfiction with a layer of subfolders in each of those - which is how I like to browse my books... but the Boyue software messes it all up under "Books". (I tried to change the scan path to see if that would help, but I get a warning that it's not recommended and it just changes it back.)

I'm also frustrated by the lack of settings options.

The Boyue T62+ software was so much more straight-forward at least. I expected something like that, with faster speed and the added note-taking ability. I don't like the way they changed the UI at all. The quote widget is too small for me to read, so it just wastes space, and I have no idea what the purpose of that graph is. Is it battery usage? I have no idea... it's too small for me to read. (Which is the reason I like eReaders - too make the font large.)

Another annoyance is that the same applications that display fine on my T62+ do not display correctly at all on the Mimas, even though they are the same APKs in most cases. -- Whole menus and app UIs that are visible on my old T62+ are completely invisible on the Mimas... I dont' get understand why although it must be either the firmware, the different version of Android, or some setting I'm not aware of. Setting options are so paltry though, that I doubt that's the issue.

Do you have an option to go into the raw android settings? The invisible stuff might be due to the contrast setting being to low or high, if you hold down on an app icon you should get advanced options and on my mars the first thing I do when I add an app is go there and disable any enhancements it's trying to do to it till I know it will benefit the app. You can also use a totally different launcher as well if you want instead of the Boyue one. The graph I think is reading statistics after you click on it, I personally don't use any of the stock apps on the mars so stay only in the app section and it's worked okay for me. Can you also give an example of an app that is invisible with menus?
Malcolm

[Pink Floyd]

I found the way you can install your own dictionary. You can follow this thread
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...13&postcount=5

I didn't install the stardict, I just downloaded some dicts from http://download.huzheng.org/dict.org/ and unpacked them and moved them to "Internal storage\Dict" . Feel free to delete those original files located in "Internal storage\Dict" since they are just English to Chinese dicts.

PS. Make sure you back up those files before you delete them. You may need them in future just in case.

[simple]

Originally Posted by rvcjew

You can also use a totally different launcher as well if you want instead of the Boyue one.
Malcolm

Hi Malcolm - can you please let me know how this would be achieved??
Simple

[rvcjew]

Originally Posted by simple

Hi Malcolm - can you please let me know how this would be achieved??
Simple

Go to the play store and get something like nova launcher. Or use ones made for eink like these: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...66&postcount=2 personally I use the app section of the stock launcher and then just launch my apps from there. If I had a lot of apps I might use nova like on my phone, also once you add one it will show up asking you which to use when you hit the home button on software or physical. The stock launcher will always sit in ram as well as the new one since disabling the stock one without root is probably not possible and can cause issues anyway.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/d...ncher&hl=en_US

Malcolm

[blue_skies]

Originally Posted by rvcjew

Do you have an option to go into the raw android settings? The invisible stuff might be due to the contrast setting being to low or high, if you hold down on an app icon you should get advanced options and on my mars the first thing I do when I add an app is go there and disable any enhancements it's trying to do to it till I know it will benefit the app. You can also use a totally different launcher as well if you want instead of the Boyue one. The graph I think is reading statistics after you click on it, I personally don't use any of the stock apps on the mars so stay only in the app section and it's worked okay for me. Can you also give an example of an app that is invisible with menus?
Malcolm

I don't see an option to go into the raw android settings. I will try your suggestions later, thank you very much!

Originally Posted by Pink Floyd

I found the way you can install your own dictionary. You can follow this thread
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...13&postcount=5

I didn't install the stardict, I just downloaded some dicts from http://download.huzheng.org/dict.org/ and unpacked them and moved them to "Internal storage\Dict" . Feel free to delete those original files located in "Internal storage\Dict" since they are just English to Chinese dicts.

PS. Make sure you back up those files before you delete them. You may need them in future just in case.

Ah, I forgot to mention the dictionary as another frustration. That was a huge one for me a few years back and there are quite a few posts from me on this forum about that whole ordeal. I got them working very well on my old device, and expected the same procedure to work with the Mimas, but it hasn't.

I placed the same dictionary files in the 'dict' folder on the Mimas, but no definitions pop up in the default reading app. If I open the dictionary app, the dictionaries are checked, but no definitions.

So... I went to clear the cache because I remember that helped last time... but under user settings--apps--dictionary is nowhere on the list of apps. (So I can't clear the cache.) I don't understand why it's not listed. Does anybody else have this problem?

I feel like I keep going around in circles with all these problems.

Edited to Add: I don't know if it's because I just installed ForaDict, or because I unchecked "stystem" in the list of dictionaries and got it to stick (I kept getting an error when I did that and it kept being automatically rechecked)... but I finally have definitions popping up when I press a word in a book. Maybe because ForaDict is installed, and probably the system dictionary app isn't working still.

[rvcjew]

Originally Posted by blue_skies

I don't see an option to go into the raw android settings. I will try your suggestions later, thank you very much!


Ah, I forgot to mention the dictionary as another frustration. That was a huge one for me a few years back and there are quite a few posts from me on this forum about that whole ordeal. I got them working very well on my old device, and expected the same procedure to work with the Mimas, but it hasn't.

I placed the same dictionary files in the 'dict' folder on the Mimas, but no definitions pop up in the default reading app. If I open the dictionary app, the dictionaries are checked, but no definitions.

So... I went to clear the cache because I remember that helped last time... but under user settings--apps--dictionary is nowhere on the list of apps. (So I can't clear the cache.) I don't understand why it's not listed. Does anybody else have this problem?

I feel like I keep going around in circles with all these problems.

Not home atm but in the apps tab of the home screen top right does it have 3 dots that open the app Manger then 3 dots again and show system apps,dictionary might be in there if it's an app.
Malcolm

[Pink Floyd]

Originally Posted by blue_skies

I don't see an option to go into the raw android settings. I will try your suggestions later, thank you very much!


Ah, I forgot to mention the dictionary as another frustration. That was a huge one for me a few years back and there are quite a few posts from me on this forum about that whole ordeal. I got them working very well on my old device, and expected the same procedure to work with the Mimas, but it hasn't.

I placed the same dictionary files in the 'dict' folder on the Mimas, but no definitions pop up in the default reading app. If I open the dictionary app, the dictionaries are checked, but no definitions.

So... I went to clear the cache because I remember that helped last time... but under user settings--apps--dictionary is nowhere on the list of apps. (So I can't clear the cache.) I don't understand why it's not listed. Does anybody else have this problem?

I feel like I keep going around in circles with all these problems.

Edited to Add: I don't know if it's because I just installed ForaDict, or because I unchecked "stystem" in the list of dictionaries and got it to stick (I kept getting an error when I did that and it kept being automatically rechecked)... but I finally have definitions popping up when I press a word in a book. Maybe because ForaDict is installed, and probably the system dictionary app isn't working still.

Sorry for what's going on with your device. Mine works perfectly. I installed four dictionaries and also disabled the default glossary.

[mihail_bc]

howdy folkes

i have a Mimas delivered to me a few days ago.

working well, no problem as listed above, except one: It isnt recognized by the OS. I thought I was the only one, but see there are many. I have Linux btw, MX.

Other than that, I like how it behaves. Pretty straight forward, I have all the options I need, I like how it spreads the pdf, "cropping" out the margins. Not much dpi resolution, but still works well.

Was wondering what you think about the dpi's and may suggest some other fonts?

And how a bout a good screen protector?

PS! I have no use for the pen so if anyone is interested in buying one...