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Old 05-03-2012, 05:52 PM   #1
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Question Browser disappeared or is stuck?

Hi,

I just unboxed my new eXceL (=M92 v1.70). I managed to connect it to my wifi and I also managed to download one ebook from the internet. Since then, I have been unable to open the browser, even after resetting the device.

If I click on the homescreen on the 'Webbrowser' icon, I am presented with a screen as per the following description:

- Top left corner: Recent Reader + the name of the ebook I just downloaded
- Top right corner: Analogue clock
- Center area: One arrow icon (Up)
- Bottom bar: menu icon, page scroll bar 1/1, battery status

If I press the 'Up' icon or the physical 'back' button, I return to the home screen.
If I press the 'home' button I am presented with a menu with only 1 option on the 'Websites' Tab: "Add"

If I try to 'add' a website, I enter Name: 'Google' and Url: 'http://www.google.com' and press OK, then I am returned to the screen I first described, with the single 'Up' icon. I was expecting to either go to google or to see a new 'Google' icon next to the 'Add' icon in the menu. This is not happening.

I don't know what to do to get the browser back. Can you help me?

Best regards,

Peter
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Old 05-03-2012, 07:06 PM   #2
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I am not sure I understand what you want to do. What is your desired task.

Is it that you want to run Google (or any other www address) or you want to create a shorcut to Google (or any other www address)?
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Old 05-03-2012, 07:52 PM   #3
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I'm sorry I wasn't more clear. Simpler put:

I would like to start the web browser program, but the 'shortcut' to it seems to have been disabled, i.e. if I click the 'web browser' icon in the main screen, the web browser does not start. Instead, I am presented something that looks like 'an empty directory', i.e. with only an 'up arrow' icon.

I would like to stress that this happened *before* I started tinkering with the reader. I do not know *how* it happened.

In the mean time, I have been able to
1) connect via usb-serial from my laptop and get terminal access to the M92
2) get root access via the same
3) manually start 'web_browser' from the terminal, and then the web browser actually appears on the screen on the M92

So I conclude now that the web browser is not broken, but that the shortcut is malfunctioning. I have yet to figure out how the system_manager normally starts the web_browser; any ideas?
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Old 05-04-2012, 09:41 AM   #4
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I'm sorry I wasn't more clear. Simpler put:

I would like to start the web browser program, but the 'shortcut' to it seems to have been disabled, i.e. if I click the 'web browser' icon in the main screen, the web browser does not start. Instead, I am presented something that looks like 'an empty directory', i.e. with only an 'up arrow' icon.

I would like to stress that this happened *before* I started tinkering with the reader. I do not know *how* it happened.

In the mean time, I have been able to
1) connect via usb-serial from my laptop and get terminal access to the M92
2) get root access via the same
3) manually start 'web_browser' from the terminal, and then the web browser actually appears on the screen on the M92

So I conclude now that the web browser is not broken, but that the shortcut is malfunctioning. I have yet to figure out how the system_manager normally starts the web_browser; any ideas?
Hi,
Just update the firmware - it is the simplest way to fix that issue.
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=164162
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Old 05-05-2012, 08:28 PM   #5
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Hi Booxtor,

Thanks for your suggestion. Unfortunately that didn't work out very well. After updating the firmware, the device no longer succesfully boots; it flashes half [only the right half of the screen] of a Boox startup-logo about a dozen times or so and then the whole screen flashes a few times in varying shades of grey, and at the end I am left with a completely white screen. The blue led is on.

I have tried inserting an sd card with older firmware (update-20120309.zip) that I read had previously resurrected another device (https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...=171640&page=2), but that doesn't seem to make any difference. Nothing happens after 15 minutes so I don't think it is re-flashing.

Can you think of anything else I can do other than repackaging it and sending it back to the store?
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Hi Booxtor,

Thanks for your suggestion. Unfortunately that didn't work out very well. After updating the firmware, the device no longer succesfully boots; it flashes half [only the right half of the screen] of a Boox startup-logo about a dozen times or so and then the whole screen flashes a few times in varying shades of grey, and at the end I am left with a completely white screen. The blue led is on.

I have tried inserting an sd card with older firmware (update-20120309.zip) that I read had previously resurrected another device (https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...=171640&page=2), but that doesn't seem to make any difference. Nothing happens after 15 minutes so I don't think it is re-flashing.

Can you think of anything else I can do other than repackaging it and sending it back to the store?
I would try to flash update-20120309.zip twice.
This firmware formats the hidden system partition during installation and fixes in most cases problems like yours.
Please contact me if it does not work - we will find another solution.
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Thanks for your support!

Yesterday, I left it on (blue led on) and the battery completely drained.

Today, I again tried to flash update-20120309.zip, and now at least I get a message on the screen "No update found, booting device...", after which there is no activity (I left it alone for 20 minutes).
(This message occurs a few minutes after boot; first the screen flashes half of the logo, then I see a few random flashes of the entire screen, and then several minutes of no screen activity).

To rule out a bad sd-card, I tried it with another card; same result. The cards read fine in two other computers.
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Thanks for your support!

Yesterday, I left it on (blue led on) and the battery completely drained.

Today, I again tried to flash update-20120309.zip, and now at least I get a message on the screen "No update found, booting device...", after which there is no activity (I left it alone for 20 minutes).
(This message occurs a few minutes after boot; first the screen flashes half of the logo, then I see a few random flashes of the entire screen, and then several minutes of no screen activity).

To rule out a bad sd-card, I tried it with another card; same result. The cards read fine in two other computers.
To be honest I have no Idea now, what else to do. It is definitely something wrong with your device
I would suggest you to contact your vendor and ask for service or replacement.
In such a case we would replace a device with problems like yours, since the internal memory seems to be corrupted.
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Old 05-07-2012, 09:05 AM   #9
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I tried it a few more times; always same result.

BTW When I start the device *without* pressing the joystick - so normal mode - I also get the flashing half logo, but then eventually I get the 'progress bar' at the bottom of the screen, which gets stuck showing only the first block.

I guess I'll be sending it back to the store. Thanks for your help nonetheless!
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