ONYX BOOX Faust 2 E Reader :: ONYX BOOX electronic books

ONYX BOOX Faust 2 is a device for reading electronic books with a modern "electronic paper" E Ink Carta screen and a built-in flicker-free MOON light 2 system with color temperature control and the SNOW Field function. The device has enough for high productivity technical specifications: a high-performance 4-core processor, 512 MB of RAM and 8 GB of internal memory. A Wi-Fi module and a built-in browser allows the user to surf on the Internet. The software of this E Reader allows you to configure almost any text parameters at the will. The Android operating system allows you to install third-party programs for reading. ^*.

What is E Ink Carta

E Ink Carta is the newest development of E Ink Company. This is a display made on the "electronic paper" technology. Reading on such a screen is as comfortable as on ordinary paper. Compared to previous generations of ePaper, this screen has a lighter base and higher contrast.

What is SNOW Field?

SNOW Field is an operating mode of the screen, allowing to reduce the number of artifacts on the screen within partial refresh. If this function is on, full refresh of the screen is not needed.

Screen frontlight system

The MOON Light 2 technology enables one to use the device in the dark or under poor lighting conditions. When this function is in use, soft luminescence of the screen comfortable for reading in dark rooms is being generated. It also has a color temperature control and, thanks to the use of Flicker-Free technology, the front-light system is perfectly smooth.

Capacitive Multi-touch screen

The 6" E Ink Carta display has a lighter base and higher contrast than any other scrrens of this type. It makes the text readable in bright sunlight and has a high rate of a screen refresh. The absence of shimmering light and the principle of image formation with the E Ink method makes reading comfortable for your eyes. A capacitive Multi-touch screen enables easy controlling while reading a document: scrolling, zooming, making notes in the text and using additional functions.

What is MOON Light 2

The latest researches have shown that blue light prevents the production of melatonin (daily rhythms regulator), which is necessary for a person to sleep. Therefore, after reading on a glowing screen of an ordinary tablet or smartphone, it is often difficult to fall asleep. MOON Light 2 allows you to adjust the brightness of cold and warm LED lights independently, choosing at will white light for reading during the daytime, and more yellow for reading before sleeping. The Flicker-Free technology completely eliminates shimmering of the LEDs used in this screen frontlight system. This is due to the use of a DC power supply.The Flicker-Free technology significantly reduces discomfort for sight and eye fatigue and decreases the chances of headache, caused by long use of the eReader.

High performance

A quad-core processor with 1,2 GHz clock rate and 512 MB of RAM ensures comfortable work with difficult documents. And 8 GB of nonvolatile memory and a microSD-slot supporting memory cards up to 32 GB allows the user to store a whole library.

Format support

The BOOX software allows the user to open files of various text and graphic formats. When reading you can change font style and size, disposition of pages, insert bookmarks, add your own fonts and zoom documents at your will.

Built-in dictionaries

ONYX BOOX Faust 2 has pre-installed English-Russian and Russian-English dictionaries. Want to translate an unknown word? Just touch it!

Smart cover

The kit comes with a smart cover which not only provides effective protection of the screen, but when closed turns automatically the device to sleep mode.

New library

The library sorts ebooks by author, title and series. Convenient search and filters allow you to find quickly any needed book by genre, language, date of publication etc. In addition, standard folders, created on PCs, are supported.

Handy recording of ebooks into the memory

In addition to the standard way of copying ebooks with the help of a USB cable, you can transfer them via a Wi-Fi channel when connected to the Internet. Also a new cloud PUSH service "Send2boox" is available.

Reprogramming option

ONYX BOOX Faust 2 allows the user to write personal software using the potentials of the Android 4.4 platform.

Continuous work

Low power consumption of E-Ink displays and battery capacity of 3000 mAh provides long-term autonomous work.

Language support

The BOOX allows the user to read documents in different world languages. Amongst them there are such languages as Russian, English, German, French, Spanish, Arabic, Swedish, Chinese, Japanese and many others.

^* The applications, requiring the Google Service Framework (such as Google Books), will not work.

Display	6", E Ink Carta, 16 levels of grey, 758 × 1024 dots, capacitive Multi-touch screen eith the SNOW Field function
Front light	MOON Light 2
Processor	4-core, 1,2 GHz
RAM	512 MB
Internal memory	8 GB
Expansion slot	For micro SD/microSDHC cards
USB interface	microUSB
Supported file formats	Text: TXT, HTML, RTF, FB2, FB2.zip, FB3, MOBI, CHM, PDB, DOC, DOCX, PRC, EPUB, PDF, DjVu Graphic: JPG, PNG, GIF, BMP Others: CBR, CBZ
Wireless interface	Wi-Fi IEEE 802.11 b/g/n
Battery	Li-on 3000 mAh
Operating system	Android 4.4
Size	170 × 117 × 8,7 mm
Color	Black
Weight	182 gr
Complete set	ONYX BOOX Faust 2 E Reader User manual Smart cover USB cable Warranty card
Warranty period	1 year

Note: Since a part of the Flash memory size is system software, the portion available to the user is less than the total size of the memory chip.

The device is designed primarily for reading electronic books, but has some additional features which are defined by the installed software. For example, the current firmware has functions such as calendar, dictionary, access to the Internet, and others.
The device is freely reprogrammable on request of the user who can install, delete and create programs.
The device has a battery that provides long, autonomous usage.

^* The applications, requiring the Google Service Framework (such as Google Books), will not work.

Current firmware version Jan 20, 2022

Version: 2022-01-20_21-44_2.1.2_5b90d57
MD5 checking sum: dbfa4cd52af1e484468a9155b8188bbf
Download: firmware update file (321.765 MB, UPX-file)

Revisions

Updated version of Alreader X Pro.
Fixed a bug in the operation of the PUSH service and Wi-Fi Transfer.
Removed battery percentage indicator from the system.
Fixed interface translation.
Fixed other known bugs.

Setup

Download the update.upx firmware file to your desktop PC.
Charge the device battery to at least 50%.
Connect the e-book to your computer with a USB cable.
Copy the update.upx file to the root directory of the device's internal memory, that is, simply to the ONYX disk, as it is defined in the system, next to other folders and files.
Go to Settings > System Updates > Check for Updates in Memory.
There will be a question about confirming the desire to update the system. Click "Update".
The firmware will start. Lasts about 8 minutes.
Wait for the user interface to load.
After installing the firmware, you need to calibrate the battery. Before calibrating, you must reset the device to factory settings (Settings> Right arrow (top right of the screen)> Reset to factory settings). During the reset process, uncheck the "Clear internal memory" box, otherwise all files will be deleted. The procedure consists of four stages:
- Write down the books that you will read soon.
- Charge the book to the maximum without removing it from the charge until the orange LED turns off.
- After that, disconnect from charging and use the device in normal mode until the battery is completely discharged (the cable icon appears with a request to charge), regardless of the rate of battery discharge. In the process of discharging, the reader cannot be connected to a computer or charger. Also, before the process is complete, you cannot do a factory reset.
- Then recharge the book with continuous charge up to 100 percent.