BOOX Kepler SMART READING SERIES User Manual ————————————————————————————————————————————————————————— Copyright © 2013 Onyx International. All rights reserved.
www.onyx-international.com Content 1. About ONYX .............................................................3 2. Standard Accessories ...............................................5 3. Safety Guide.............................................................6 4. Product View ...........................................................8 5. Interface Introduction........................................... 11 6. FAQ ....................................................................... 52 7. Warranty ....
www.onyx-international.com 1. About ONYX BOOX is presented by Onyx International Inc., which has a group of professionals who are dedicated themselves to developing state-of-the-art reading devices. The beauty of the BOOX is embodied in both its simplicity and its power. As we are going to show you, BOOX is an open and flexible platform for both consumers and content providers. BOOX is powered by a 16-level grayscale e-ink screen that looks and feels like paper.
www.onyx-international.com without sacrificing convenience or life style. BOOX comes with viewers for most popular ebook and image formats, including PDF/HTML/DJVU/DJV/CHM/EPUP/TXT/FB2/RTF and MobiPocket (NON-DRM). For content partners, we also provide support for custom formats and digital rights management solutions. All of our users enjoy the standard features of our devices such as layout management, font adjustment, search, zooming, and reflow, annotation, scribble etc.
www.onyx-international.com 2. Standard Accessories The package contains the following components: 1. BOOX Kepler Device x1 2. USB cable x1 3. Quick Start Guide x1 4. Warranty Card x1 Optional Accessories (Purchased separately) 1. Adapter 2. Protective cover __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Copyright © 2013 Onyx International. All rights reserved.
www.onyx-international.com 3. Safety Guide Please read the Safety Guide carefully before you start to use the device. Contact your BOOX retailer if you have any technical problem; or you can dial our official service line at 4008-869-830 . Screen protection The device is equipped with Eink screen, which is very fragile. Please have no shocking, squeezing, pressing against the screen, or dropping the device from higher place.
www.onyx-international.com Stay away from liquids The device is not waterproof. Don’t expose the device to humid environment or use it in the rain. Please keep it away from any corrosive liquids; Don’t dismantle the device Please don’t dismantle the device in case of any damage ; Using environment The using environment of the device is 0°C-50°C ; __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Copyright © 2013 Onyx International.
www.onyx-international.com 4. Product View Front view Prev. Next LOGO __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Copyright © 2013 Onyx International. All rights reserved.
www.onyx-international.com Back View Model info. __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Copyright © 2013 Onyx International. All rights reserved.
www.onyx-international.com Bottom View Micro SD slot Power Button Micro USB Button Function Power button Press the power button and hold it for few seconds to turn the device on/off; Press the power button and release quickly to let the device go standby or wake up *Next button *Prev. button Turn to next page when reading or viewing files Turn to previous page when reading or viewing file Tips: only Kepler Pros support Next \ Prev. button.
www.onyx-international.com 5. Interface Introduction 5.1 Main interface The main interface contains “Status Bar”, “Now Reading”, “Recently Added”and “Function Area” Status bar Now Reading Recently Added Function Area __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Copyright © 2013 Onyx International. All rights reserved.
www.onyx-international.com Status bar This section displays the current state of the device, including: home icon, battery usage, notification, time, A2 mode on/off, Menu etc. ; A2 mode refreshment Two-grey level refreshment mode is good for fast refreshment of text page. It enables fast pageturn, no screen flashing and less ghost background.
www.onyx-international.com Now Reading The recently read books information is displayed in this section, including book cover, book title, author, page number, last read time, reading progress etc.
www.onyx-international.com Recently Added The newly added four books will be listed here chronologically. There are total 8 pages of the list. Slide to left/right is for turning pages; Function Area This section displays some frequently used function icons, including Library, Storage, Apps, Setting, Browser; Library All books copied/downloaded to the device will be displayed here, including books from local storage and MicroSD card.
www.onyx-international.com APPS management Going to Apps lists page, users can manage or uninstall the apps; Setting Going to Setting page, users can select their preferred setting for the whole system; Storage It displays all files both from local storage and MicroSD card. Users can manage all files by customized folders; Light Turn on/off the front light and adjust the brightness. Browser When WiFi is on, users can browse webs or download files from internet via Browser.
www.onyx-international.com 5.2 Notification board Tap middle part of the Status Bar can drop down Notification board ; Press Back button or tap Home icon can exit Notification board; Notification page contains: WiFi setting, date, volume control, front light control, and other new msg notice etc.; __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Copyright © 2013 Onyx International. All rights reserved.
www.onyx-international.com WIFI Setting If WiFi is first used, users need to choose to go to WiFi setting page; Users can also go to WiFi setting page by Setting page; When WiFi configuration is done, the WiFi will be saved automatically.
www.onyx-international.com 5.3 Reading page Select any book to go to reading page, which only displays book content, page number, prev./next page icon ; __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Copyright © 2013 Onyx International. All rights reserved.
www.onyx-international.com Tap middle column of the book content to pop up reading menu and status bar ; Status bar contains: back , light, rotation, refreshment, dictionary, search,setting etc. ; Reading menu contains: fonts, zoom, directory, TTS, pagination view etc. ; Font Fonts can be adjustable (reflow mode is supported): font size, bold type, font change(only some formats supported), spacing(only some formats supported) etc.
www.onyx-international.com TOC, Bookmark, Annotation can be checked here and export Annotation ; Rotation Users can select the direction of the screen display ; Dictionary Stardict can be supported. Users can download Stardict dictionary and put it into folder“dictionary” on MicroSD card, then the dictionary can be used when reading ; Search User can search the targeting texts ; Refreshment Users can select screen refreshment rate by their preference. Six refreshment rates are available to choose.
www.onyx-international.com 5.3.1 Reflow Interface In Menu-Font-Reflow , scanned PDF documents can be rearranged， include Defect size 、Page margins、Line spacing 、 Word spacing 、 Render size 、 Straighten 、 Justification、Columns、Contrast and Rotation etc; __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Copyright © 2013 Onyx International. All rights reserved.
www.onyx-international.com 5.3.2 Navigation Interface In Menu-Navigation, user can choose Comic Mode、Article Mode、Reset and more Setting to operate trimming ，choose different columns number and reading order ； __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Copyright © 2013 Onyx International. All rights reserved.
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www.onyx-international.com Trimming: Cut four white border Cut two white border Single-sheet manual trimming Odd-even page manual trimming No trimming __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Copyright © 2013 Onyx International. All rights reserved.
www.onyx-international.com columns： 2 rows x 2 columns 1 rows x 2 columns 2 rows x 1 columns 3 rows x 2 columns 3 rows x 1 columns 2 rows x 3 columns 3 rows x 3 columns No columns __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Copyright © 2013 Onyx International. All rights reserved.
www.onyx-international.com Reading order： No reading order Upper left – upper right – bottom left – bottom right Upper right – upper left – bottom right – bottom left Upper left – bottom left – upper right – bottom left Upper right – bottom right – upper left – bottom left 1 3 2 4 2 4 1 3 1 2 3 4 3 4 1 2 __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Copyright © 2013 Onyx International. All rights reserved.
www.onyx-international.com 5.3.3 Export Interface In Menu – notes – export , user can choose export annotation、highlight、scribble; the default save xxx.export.pdf (containing text and scribbler) /xxx.export.txt (containing only text) format in the same folder with original document; __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Copyright © 2013 Onyx International. All rights reserved.
www.onyx-international.com 5.4 Browser interface When WiFi is on, please tap Browser icon to start browsing online ; __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Copyright © 2013 Onyx International. All rights reserved.
www.onyx-international.com At browsing page, tap text box can pop up virtue keyboards More input methods can be installed by users; __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Copyright © 2013 Onyx International. All rights reserved.
www.onyx-international.com 5.5 Library interface The library can only display supported-format books; The books will be displayed by thumbnail view chronologically; Users can change the display mode through the icon on top right corner( including breviary, listing mode, particular list) and users also can search books; __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Copyright © 2013 Onyx International. All rights reserved.
www.onyx-international.com Tap the menu key on the top right to pop up library menu, including open pattern, sequencing, attribute, filter, skipping, rename, delete, history, note etc; __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Copyright © 2013 Onyx International. All rights reserved.
www.onyx-international.com Sort by Users can sequence the book by names, types, sizes, created time; __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Copyright © 2013 Onyx International. All rights reserved.
www.onyx-international.com Filter The books in the library can be filtered in reading mode, including all, unread，now reading, read，label etc; . __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Copyright © 2013 Onyx International. All rights reserved.
www.onyx-international.com History Users can find all reading history record of books that have been read, including reading progress, time, open times, total reading time etc; __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Copyright © 2013 Onyx International. All rights reserved.
www.onyx-international.com All Notes Users can extract all the notes, highlights, annotations and other books record list, which can be referred directly without open the books; __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Copyright © 2013 Onyx International. All rights reserved.
www.onyx-international.com 5.6 Storage Storage displays all files from both local storage and MiscroSD cards; Files will be displayed in alphabetical order by default; __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Copyright © 2013 Onyx International. All rights reserved.
www.onyx-international.com 5.7 Apps Here it will display all installed apps in alphabetical order. Long press on each app can pop up menu to manage the Apps setting; __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Copyright © 2013 Onyx International. All rights reserved.
www.onyx-international.com 5.8 Setting page Users can set up general settings for the device, including System, Language, Extension, Networks and About; __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Copyright © 2013 Onyx International. All rights reserved.
www.onyx-international.com 5.8.1 System Users can set date, display option, storage, privacy, startup options of the device.
www.onyx-international.com Display Users can adjust the brightness of front light, turn the light on(only applied to C67ML), and set full-screen refreshment timeout, screen timeout, shutdown delay etc.; __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Copyright © 2013 Onyx International. All rights reserved.
www.onyx-international.com Privacy This contains settings of data backup, data recovery and factory resetting etc.; Factory resetting will erase all user data. Please back up all user data before performing factory resetting; __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Copyright © 2013 Onyx International. All rights reserved.
www.onyx-international.com Storage This displays usage of MicroSD card, local storage, RAM etc.; User preference 1. Users can choose whether to open the last read book when starting the device; It will go directly to the main interface by default; 2. Users can select the path to scan books automatically; 3.
www.onyx-international.com or recently added books” at the main interface; Recently added books is default setting of the device; __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Copyright © 2013 Onyx International. All rights reserved.
www.onyx-international.com 5.8.2 Language setting Users can set system language, default fonts, TTS reading, dictionary on this page; __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Copyright © 2013 Onyx International. All rights reserved.
www.onyx-international.com Language setting Users can set languages of the system and virtue keyboard. The system has Android keyboard by default. Users can install third-party apps for more input methods ; __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Copyright © 2013 Onyx International. All rights reserved.
www.onyx-international.com Default fonts Users can set the system fonts on this page, but reading fonts can be only set on reading page; __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Copyright © 2013 Onyx International. All rights reserved.
www.onyx-international.com Dictionary User can select the installed dictionary apps here; 5.8.3 Extension This contains Apps setting and DRM setting; __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Copyright © 2013 Onyx International. All rights reserved.
www.onyx-international.com Apps setting Users can select whether to allow installing unknown source Apks and debugging, manage and delete Apps, check the running apps and storage usage, battery usage, and preferred Apps; __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Copyright © 2013 Onyx International. All rights reserved.
www.onyx-international.com 5.8.4 Networks This is for WiFi setting. When WiFi is connected, users can browse webs and download books via internet on the device; __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Copyright © 2013 Onyx International. All rights reserved.
www.onyx-international.com When“turn WiFi on”is selected, the device will search WiFi hotspot. When all available WLAN are listed, users can choose a network, input password to connect with internet. WiFi signal will be displayed at “Status bar” when WiFi is connected; After WiFi is connected successfully at the first time, the device will save WiFi information automatically. Users only need to turn WiFi on and off if using same WiFi next time.
www.onyx-international.com 5.8.5 About More information about the devices are listed here, including system update, notification, battery usage, legal info, model, firmware version etc. ; __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Copyright © 2013 Onyx International. All rights reserved.
www.onyx-international.com 6. FAQ 6.1 How to turn the device on/off When the device is off, press power button for 3-5 seconds to turn the device on; When the device is on, press power button for 3-5 seconds to turn the device off; 6.2 How to charge Recharge the device by connecting it with PC by USB cable; Recharge the device by connecting with power adapter(5V=1A, optional accessories); Orange light is on when the device is charging.
www.onyx-international.com Transfer data by third-party sync apps between PC and the device via WiFi; Download data or read online by browsing via WiFi; Download data or read online by log-in of reading apps from third party via WiFi; 6.4 How to install dictionary The device supports stardict dictionary. Users can download the language package of stardict, copy it to folder “dictionary”on MicroSD card. Dictionary is available to use after that when users are reading; 6.
www.onyx-international.com 6.6 How to update 6.6.1 Update locally a. Download firmware update.zip from our official web b. Copy the firmware to MicroSD card. The device will detect the firmware automatically after MicroSD card is inserted into the device c. Follow the instruction to update the device d. When update is successful, the device will restart automatically e. Remove MicroSD card Note: Please connect the device with power source or PC to make sure of enough power for update ; 6.6.
www.onyx-international.com 6.7 How to change screen saver/power off Press PNG format images, in the menu, select "Set as screen saver", choose to replace the original standby or shutdown ; 6.
www.onyx-international.com 7. Warranty 7.1 Scope of Warranty 7.1.1 The device：One-year warranty； 7.1.2 If in 15 days from the date of purchase, any faults caused by quality problem of the product itself under normal operation and without overhaul, you can replace the same type of product or enjoy maintenance services for free； 7.1.
www.onyx-international.com longer works for it, but still can enjoy the fee-based services. 7.2.1 Faulted device without ONYX BOOX brand； 7.2.2 Faulted device caused by dismantling and repairing without permission. 7.2.3 The serial number of the faulted device has been changed or lost.； 7.2.4 The device is damaged due to personal factors or not being used under specific environment.
www.onyx-international.com 7.3 Precautions for repair 7.3.1 Users need to contact our after-sales department to confirm whether it is in the scope of warranty, whether it is fault and the fault cause. 7.3.2 Users need to provide proof of purchase (invoice or receipt) , warranty card consistent with the original barcode. Fill out the repair request form (download from official website) and then send to our maintaining department together with the device. 7.3.
www.onyx-international.com protected by the Chinese consumer protection law; If the same model is purchased in other regions, it cannot enjoy the above terms. Please consult related consumer protection law and dealers of the country where you purchase the device. ONYX International Inc. reserves the right of final interpretation of this warranty. __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Copyright © 2013 Onyx International.
www.onyx-international.com 8. Product Specification Kepler Pro Kepler Kepler Lite FSL 6 RK 3026 RK 3026 Cortex-A9 Dual cortex Dual cortex 1G Hz A9 , 1.2G A9 , 1.2G RAM LPDDR2 1G DDR3 512MB DDR3 512MB O.S Android 4.0 Android 4.2.2 Android 4.2.2 Processor Storage 16G Screen E-ink Carta display Screen size 6 inch Resolution 1448x1072 Touch Capacitive touch Front light Support Wireless WIFI + Bluetooth Battery 3000 mAh USB Micro usb 2.
www.onyx-international.com Audio Jack Nonsupport SD Card slot Expandable up to 32GB Product Size 158.9x114x7.
www.onyx-international.com DRM Support Firmware Locally update and OTA update are available update Certification CE、Rohs 9. Declaration Onyx International Inc. reserves the right to modify the content of the Quick Start Guide and User Manual without further notice . For more information, please visit our website at www.onyx-international.com __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Copyright © 2013 Onyx International.
Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Interference Statement This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class B digital device, pursuant to Part 15 of the FCC Rules. These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference in a residential installation. This equipment generate, uses and can radiate radio frequency energy and, if not installed and used in accordance with the instructions, may cause harmful interference to radio communications.
