06-22-2020, 11:50 AM
The Onyx manual is a disappointment. It explains things badly and misses things out and the bad English doesn't help. I saw a webcast by the founder of the company who I think is Spanish and my guess is that he wrote the manual himself - the level of English seems to be about the same. It's even more surprising that they didn't have the English in the OS properly translated. In the settings there's a link for giving feedback (which is titled 'feedbacks') so I might send a message through that suggesting that they have the English versions of the OS and manual re-written. It would be great if they could do a more detailed version of the manual too (like Mike's full MSP manual). These would all cost the company money but I imagine it would be worthwhile for sales and reputation. Luckily for me I'm really just using the Max 3 for MSP so it's unlikely to affect me much. I ended up ordering three more. The Aussie dollar is a little stronger at the moment and they have a sale on and gave me a bit more of a discount for buying 3 but still a fair bit of outlay - hopefully it won't be too long before work starts coming back in post-pandemic.
I think the lack of scrolling through the library and the alphabet was a deliberate change on Mike's part - e-Ink is bad at scrolling and animations because of the extra time it takes to create images so we're possibly better off learning to do without them. I think that's the reason behind the slower response to the page turner as well - it just takes longer for the page to be generated. I had the Max 3 MSP linked to MSP on my laptop the other day (which worked like a charm) and when I changed the page on the Max 3 it would change instantly on the laptop and then a split second later on the Max 3 even though it was the Max 3 I was turning the page on. Apparently it can help to optimise the pdf's when you create them or save them but I haven't tried that yet. It might also help to optimise the app through the Onyx OS, maybe lowering the resolution? I'll let you know if I end up giving that a go but I haven't found it necessary yet. I'm used to turning physical pages in a display folder and it's still way faster than that.
You can change the auto-sleep timeout duration in the Boox OS (go to settings, then power, and it's at the top of the list of power options). I've got mine set to 30 minutes but it probably wouldn't make much difference to set it to 'never'. I have the Max 3 in the folio cover that came with it and I have it set to sleep when the cover is closed (which is an option in the same 'power' settings list) and that works well.
I think the lack of scrolling through the library and the alphabet was a deliberate change on Mike's part - e-Ink is bad at scrolling and animations because of the extra time it takes to create images so we're possibly better off learning to do without them. I think that's the reason behind the slower response to the page turner as well - it just takes longer for the page to be generated. I had the Max 3 MSP linked to MSP on my laptop the other day (which worked like a charm) and when I changed the page on the Max 3 it would change instantly on the laptop and then a split second later on the Max 3 even though it was the Max 3 I was turning the page on. Apparently it can help to optimise the pdf's when you create them or save them but I haven't tried that yet. It might also help to optimise the app through the Onyx OS, maybe lowering the resolution? I'll let you know if I end up giving that a go but I haven't found it necessary yet. I'm used to turning physical pages in a display folder and it's still way faster than that.
You can change the auto-sleep timeout duration in the Boox OS (go to settings, then power, and it's at the top of the list of power options). I've got mine set to 30 minutes but it probably wouldn't make much difference to set it to 'never'. I have the Max 3 in the folio cover that came with it and I have it set to sleep when the cover is closed (which is an option in the same 'power' settings list) and that works well.