BOOX N96 SMART READING SERIES User Manual Copyright © 2014 Onyx International. All rights reserved.
www.onyx-international.com Table of Contents 1. About ONYX ............................................. 3 2. Standard Accessories .............................. 4 3. Safety Guide ............................................. 5 4. Product Views........................................... 7 5. Interface Introduction .......................... 10 6. FAQ .......................................................... 50 7. Warranty ................................................. 52 8. Specifications .............
www.onyx-international.com 1. About ONYX BOOX is presented by Onyx International, which has a group of professionals who dedicate themselves in designing state-of-the-art reading terminal. 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 2. Standard Accessories Included in the Box： 1. BOOX N96 Reader x1 2. Stylus Pen(Only for Electromagnetic) x1 3. USB Cable x1 4. Quick Start Guide x1 5. Warranty Sheet x1 N96 Series Model Definition: N96: Dual touch with stylus, without front-light N96ML: Electromagnetic touch with stylus, with front-light N96CML: Capacitive touch, with front-light Copyright © 2014 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 4008-860-830 . 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 Standard accessories Only the battery, adapter, and other accessories meeting our standard safety rules can be used for the device. For details, please refer to Product Specification. We will not be responsible for any damage caused by incompatible accessories; Stay away from liquids The device is not waterproof. Don’t expose the device to humid environment or use it in the rain.
www.onyx-international.com 4. Product Views Front View MEN PREV. NEXT BACK Copyright © 2014 Onyx International. All rights reserved.
www.onyx-international.com Back View Speaker Pen Hanger Bottom View Micro-SD Card Slot Power Micro USB Slot Audio Jack MIC Copyright © 2014 Onyx International. All rights reserved.
www.onyx-international.com Button Function Press the power button to turn on the device Press the power button and hold for 2 seconds to turn off the Power/ device. Or select “Power off”in the menu to turn off the device. Press the power button and release quickly to let the device go Standby Button standby or wake up. Press the power button for 8-10 seconds to reset your device , then press it quickly to restart . Menu Button Press the menu button to pop up the menu.
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 © 2014 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, Setting 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. When A2 mode is on, reading articles with images, graphics, texts mixed are not suggested because of blur image would occur.
www.onyx-international.com Recently Read/Recently Added The newly added books will be listed here chronologically. Slide the screen or press the prev/next button to turn pages. Users can switch into “Recently Added”through “system—user preferences—homepage options”, then it will display the book list added recently. Function Area This section displays some frequently used function icons, including Library, Storage, Apps, Setting, Browser.
www.onyx-international.com Storage It displays all files both from local storage and MicroSD card. Users can manage all files by customized folders to manage books, apps and other files. Apps Going to Apps lists page, users can manage or uninstall the apps. Firefly light Turn on/off the front light and adjust the brightness. Setting Going to setting interface, users can manage the settings for all items.
www.onyx-international.com 5.2 Notification Interface Tap battery usage site on the right of the Status Bar to pop up Notification board; Press Back button or tap Home icon can exit. Notification page contains: WiFi setting, date, volume control, setting, and other new msg notice etc; Copyright © 2014 Onyx International. All rights reserved.
www.onyx-international.com 5.3 Reading Interface Tap any book cover to go into reading interface. Only book content and page number are displayed here. Page number area includes page number, prev/next and current time. Tap the middle area of the screen or menu button to pop up reading menu and status bar; Reading menu contains: fonts, zoom, directory, rotation, TTS, dictionary, search, refreshment, pagination view, setting etc ; Copyright © 2014 Onyx International. All rights reserved.
www.onyx-international.com 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; Zoom User can zoom in/out the page freely; Other zoom shortcuts are available: To width, To page, Crop, Selection to zoom; Reflow mode is not supported.
www.onyx-international.com Dictionary Long press the content can pitch up words to pop up the dictionary. Stardict can be supported.
www.onyx-international.com 5.3.1 Scribbler Interface In Menu-notes-scribbler , user can use scribble annotation (only support PDF format), this interface including stroke thickness, color, eraser, pages move ,etc; Copyright © 2014 Onyx International. All rights reserved.
www.onyx-international.com 5.3.2 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 © 2014 Onyx International. All rights reserved.
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www.onyx-international.com More Setting：Manually select multiple trimming, different columns number and reading order ; More Setting include 2 taps : single page and scroll; The default is a single page mode without trimming、columns and reading order; Scroll mode only support one trimming option; Trimming: Cut four white border Cut two white border Single-sheet manual trimming Odd-even page manual trimming No trimming Copyright © 2014 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 © 2014 Onyx International. All rights reserved.
www.onyx-international.com Reading order： No reading order Upper left – upper right – 1 2 bottom left –bottom right 3 4 Upper right – upper left – 2 1 bottom right – bottom left 4 3 Upper left – bottom left – upper 1 3 right – bottom left 2 4 Upper right – bottom right – 3 1 upper left – bottom left 4 2 Copyright © 2014 Onyx International. All rights reserved.
www.onyx-international.com 5.3.4 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 © 2014 Onyx International. All rights reserved.
www.onyx-international.com 5.4 Browser Interface When WiFi is on, please tap Browser icon or choose in the apps management to start browsing online; At browsing page, tap text box can pop up virtue keyboards; Press the space key to switch English and Chinese mode. More input methods can be installed by users and switched through the input method options on the keyboard; Copyright © 2014 Onyx International. All rights reserved.
www.onyx-international.com 5.5 Library The library can only display supported-format books; The books will be displayed by thumbnail view chronologically; There is no files browsing mode; 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 © 2014 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 © 2014 Onyx International. All rights reserved.
www.onyx-international.com Sort by Users can sequence the book by names, types, sizes, created time; Copyright © 2014 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 © 2014 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 © 2014 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 © 2014 Onyx International. All rights reserved.
www.onyx-international.com 5.6 Storage Storage displays all files from both local storage and MicroSD cards and manage in file mode. Files will be displayed in alphabetical order by default. Users can change the listing mode by themselves; Copyright © 2014 Onyx International. All rights reserved.
www.onyx-international.com 5.7 Apps Here it will display all installed apps in alphabetical order. Users can change the listing mode by themselves; Long press on each app can popup menu to manage or delete the Apps setting. Applications that come with the system can not be deleted by users; Copyright © 2014 Onyx International. All rights reserved.
www.onyx-international.com 5.8 Settings Users can set up general settings for the device, including System, Language, Extension, Networks and About; Copyright © 2014 Onyx International. All rights reserved.
www.onyx-international.com Users can tap the top right corner of the status bar to popup notification bar and choose “settings”to enter settings interface; Copyright © 2014 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; Date Users can select auto setting or manual setting to set the time. Auto setting will set the time automatically which matches the time online. when the device is connected with wireless internet；Manual setting needs users to set date, time zone and time on their own.
www.onyx-international.com Display Users can set standby time here. It is 3 minutes by default; Copyright © 2014 Onyx International. All rights reserved.
www.onyx-international.com Storage Here it displays the total storage of device, including the usage of local storage, MicroSD card, built-in FLASH storage etc; Copyright © 2014 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 © 2014 Onyx International. All rights reserved.
www.onyx-international.com User preference Users can choose whether to open the last read book when starting the device; It will go directly to the main interface by default; Users can choose whether to scan the book cover or not; Users can select the path to scan books automatically; Users can choose to display “recently read books or recently added books” at the main interface; It will be recently added books by default; Copyright © 2014 Onyx International. All rights reserved.
www.onyx-international.com 5.8.2 Language Users can set system language, default fonts, TTS reading, dictionary on this page; Copyright © 2014 Onyx International. All rights reserved.
www.onyx-international.com Language Settings 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 and select in keyboard setting; Copyright © 2014 Onyx International. All rights reserved.
www.onyx-international.com Default front Users can set the system fonts on this page, but reading fonts can be only set on reading page; Copyright © 2014 Onyx International. All rights reserved.
www.onyx-international.com TTS Setting Users can set reading voice, speed and language by TTS (text-to-speech) setting; Users can install third-party TTS apps and set that as first choice. Copyright © 2014 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 © 2014 Onyx International. All rights reserved.
www.onyx-international.com Apps setting Users can check Downloaded, MicroSD card, Running apps and All apps here. Tapping any app can stop, unload, delete, and transfer it. Copyright © 2014 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 © 2014 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. Next time users can turn WiFi on and off by shortcuts on Notification board; Copyright © 2014 Onyx International.
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 © 2014 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 2-3 seconds to go into starting up interface and then into operating interface after the progess is finished. When the device is on, press power button for 2-3 seconds to turn the device off; When the device is on, pop up menu bar to select “Shutdown”; 6.
www.onyx-international.com 6.5 How to add fonts Users can download fonts online, then copy the fonts to the folder “/adobe/resources/fonts”on MicroSD card; Users can select the installed fonts when reading, but the fonts are only available for some book formats; 6.6 How to update Download firmware update.zip and insert MicroSD card into the device. Find the update.
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 7.2 Beyond the scope of warranty The following conditions are not covered by the warranty, even if in the applicable time period, the warranty will no 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.
www.onyx-international.com headphones, adapters and other accessories. If lost, our company is not liable for damages; 7.3.5 Please backup data before send it to repair. We are not liable for the data loss due to maintenance. This provision only applies to mainland China. It is protected by the Chinese consumer protection law; If the same model is purchased in other regions, it cannot enjoy the above terms.
www.onyx-international.com 8. Specifications Processor 1G Hz RAM 1GB LPDR OS Android 4.0 Storage Built-in 16G Screen E-ink display Screen Size 9.7 inch Resolution 1200x825 Touch N96\N96ML: Electromagnetic touch with stylus N96C\N96CML: Capacitive touch Front light Only ML support Wireless WIFI Battery 3000mAh USB Micro USB2.0 Audio Jack 3.5mm Copyright © 2014 Onyx International. All rights reserved.
www.onyx-international.com ExtCard MicroSD card (up to 32G) Size 258.2x177.3x9.5mm Weight ≤470 g(including the battery) Operating 0°C- 50°C temperature Supported book formats Supported PDF, EPUB , TXT, DJVU, HTML, FB2, DOC, MOBI, CHM, PDB PNG, JPG, GIF ,BMP image formats Supported WAV , MP3 audio formats Apps APKS installation is supported Browser Support Language Multi-language supported File Support directory Copyright © 2014 Onyx International. All rights reserved.
www.onyx-international.com Dictionary TTS Support Support Refreshment A2 quickly refresh, partly refresh and mode fully refresh DRM Support Firmware Locally update and OTA update are update available 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 © 2014 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.
This device complies with Part 15 of the FCC Rules. Operation is subject to the following two conditions: (1) This device may not cause harmful interference, and (2) this device must accept any interference received, including interference that may cause undesired operation. FCC Caution: Any changes or modifications not expressly approved by the party responsible for compliance could void the user’s authority to operate this equipment.
