05-27-2010, 04:54 PM | #1 |
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New Opus
Well, the new Opus arrived today - after being delayed a day in customs.
I chose the "orange" one. It looks more copper than orange. The finish is metallic-looking. I backed it up, then copied over my current Opus eBooks. I deleted all the .bin and .thn files. I can say that the metadata bug has been fixed in this version. It seemed to have picked up all the metadata from my eBooks. I don't notice any speed difference, though. Both old and new report a ARM920T 400Mhz processor. Boo reader: old = v 2.0 build 1094, new = v 2.0 build 1166 Adobe Reader Mobile: old = version 2.0 build 26696, new = v 9.1 build 28890 I attached a picture of the old next to the new one. |
05-27-2010, 05:12 PM | #2 |
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The new Opus is currently powered off and charging. So I notice that Bookeen has added a "shutdown" page that displays when the device shuts off. It's kinda neat, showing off the fact that eInk doesn't need power to maintain the screen image.
The page says: 1000 books in the palm of your hand <the above line repeated in many different languages> I am concerned about taking this on a plane, though, since something displaying on the screen may make the mental midgets "securing" the airport/airplane think that the device is still on. |
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05-27-2010, 07:31 PM | #3 |
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Nice color!
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05-28-2010, 04:08 AM | #5 |
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05-28-2010, 04:12 AM | #6 |
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Ah, i though that this page was only for "sleep mode". That would be anoying (nice to be able to make a differance between "sleep mode" or "off" in one glance.
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05-28-2010, 05:00 AM | #7 |
a pthread?? where? where?
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It is fully switch off when it display a white screen. If not you are in the "instant read" as they called deepsleep
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05-28-2010, 05:18 AM | #8 | |
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Which now begs the question of "how to I turn it completely off?" I see the option now to do the shutdown - which does shut it completely down, blanking the screen. It would have been nice it they updated their documentation to show this I'm assuming that the auto-power-off option puts the device in deep sleep instead of completely powering it off. |
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05-28-2010, 05:39 AM | #9 |
a pthread?? where? where?
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If I'm correct, there should either an option in the menu, or long press the power button
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05-28-2010, 06:02 AM | #10 |
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05-28-2010, 09:41 AM | #11 |
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You don't have a "shutdown" function into the menu ? (may be advanced, I can't remember) I pretty sure this was present on the Paris Bookfair version I saw.
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05-28-2010, 09:50 AM | #12 |
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Yes, it's there. But I expected it to be fairly high up in the menus instead of inside the "Advanced..." options. Where they put it makes sence, but the whole on/off vs. deep sleep is sort of confusing - especially when there's nothing in their documentation about "deep sleep" or about the shutdown.
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05-28-2010, 09:53 AM | #13 |
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So, to power on, a quick press to the power button.
To go into deep sleep mode, hold the power button down for a moment (like you want to shut down the old Opus). To completely shut down, hold the power button for a long press. Or Menu, Advanced..., Shutdown. In either case, a message box will pop up asking if you want it to really shut down. |
05-28-2010, 05:24 PM | #14 |
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I deleted a couple of eBooks on my new Opus. When I went to back it up this afternoon, I discovered that the residual files that the Opus creates (.thn, .bin, .dat) had also been deleted.
Another old bug fixed in the new firmware. |
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Interesting. My new one is build 1170...https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...&postcount=554
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