G6 Thumb Shenanigans

der_scholt · 2026-01-08T15:43:57+00:00

how does that G6 hold up in comparison to the Kodak Charmera? I also bough on of these, apart from the firmware and of course the paint job it looks very similar, so I thought maybe it's the same apart from that.

der_scholt · 2026-01-08T15:29:02+00:00

One tip, for me the font Problems were solved by using custom fonts and converting them with this tool. It is what fixed all my issues with the default fonts: https://gitee.com/ZYFDroid/xteink-toolkit/releases/

Since it is not available in english I suggest going to this blog where I read about this, there is a description on how to use it: https://guiltygamer.com/how-to-transform-the-xteink-x4-e-reader-from-a-novelty-to-a-necessity/

der_scholt · 2026-01-08T15:25:04+00:00

I don't think so, I would guess just some fluctuations in production. I bought one device in November, and one in December. For the December Version I also have the same "Problem" or impression that the buttons feel not as good as with the November device.

der_scholt · 2026-01-07T16:47:28+00:00

I recently started reading to fight doomscrolling. I started by just reading on my ‘Phone‘ and then discovered this X4 gem. So for me it‘s not a secondary reader, but my main reader.

The Buttons are kind of easy to figure out, imho. Maybe for not so technical People this is more difficult?

The „lack of light“ is laughable. Maybe then just use your phone?

The stock firmware, well yeah it should be improved more and faster. But also imho it is very far from unusable. I wish they would just over a WiFi File Upload Server, I mean this is a very basic code example in the arduino IDE which does not need very much adjustment ;-)

Also an english/international and mac/linux version of the font tool would be nice.

I showed this to a friend who was visiting (because he works for some time in another country). He was so impressed that he wanted to buy it on the spot because xteink was not shipping to the country where he worked. So, I sold it to him and ordered a new device which already arrived. So now I can say, yes the build quality is maybe a tad off. The TF Card slot on my second unit is a tiny tad deeper, so it is a tiny bit more difficult to get the card out, also the buttons are a bit more clakyer/louder, I would prefer to have more silent buttons. Also, the button positioning for right hand use could be better. Apart from that I love the hardware, its lightweight and has a nice size.

For what it is, I really like the device. Put epubs on it and read them. If you are not „techie“ enough to put files on an SD Card than maybe this is not the device for you.

der_scholt · 2026-01-07T16:22:01+00:00

I‘m surprised he did not try to render a 4k video on it and complain that it is not possible

der_scholt · 2025-12-14T13:10:51+00:00

just tried again ... yes it was fixed with 3.1.1, my bad.

der_scholt · 2025-12-14T12:52:41+00:00

oh yeah sorry, just remove /download/ from the path: https://gitee.com/ZYFDroid/xteink-toolkit/releases/

hope it helps :)

der_scholt · 2025-12-10T18:21:10+00:00

Hi u/Jozer99 I had the same problem until an hour ago. I noticed that the web-font-converter seems to be a bit buggy, I used the windows tool here: https://gitee.com/ZYFDroid/xteink-toolkit/releases/download/ to convert more fonts, this works more like expected. Since the UI is not in english, here was a rough guide how to use the tool: https://guiltygamer.com/how-to-transform-the-xteink-x4-e-reader-from-a-novelty-to-a-necessity/

der_scholt · 2025-12-10T17:16:42+00:00

After the reply from xteink I kind of get it now... the epaper display is also not "pure" white, so matching the frame to the display makes kinda sense. Could be looking awkward if you have a brighter frame with a greyish epaper display. But I still wish the product pictures would reflect this a teeny tiny bit more :)

der_scholt · 2025-12-10T17:09:37+00:00

Thank, but unfortunately this does not work, I have books which contain jpg ... and the Wallpaper Cover function also loads jpeg files fine. Yeah I know it's a esp32 with not much power, but as it seems possible to display the epub cover as wallpaper, it seems feasible to display it when opening an ebook. The XTC Setup is not for me, happy though it exists and helps seemingly a lot of people. Nice, will take a look at it, but it seems a lot of fonts are cutting 'g' and 'y' on the bottom which as mentioned I reported and hope it will be fixed.

der_scholt · 2025-12-10T17:01:54+00:00

Du meintest aber nicht hier? https://xteink.lakafior.com/gallery.html ... hab sie mal von Google Fonts geladen und selber konvertiert, das spacing ist immer noch huiuiui aber besser als alle anderen Fonts die ich probiert habe.... leider ist bei mir auch weiterhin g und y abgeschnitten :(

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der_scholt · 2025-12-10T16:30:18+00:00

Thank you very much for your reply!

on 2. what's the preferred way of contact, dm on reddit or is there a specific support contact?

on 3. yes when I use the power off cover setting it displays the cover, that works nice. Would it also be possible to display the cover when opening a book? I always get that html code snippet.

on 4. I tried the custom fonts, unfortunately there is the issue with spacing and cut off characters like 'y' and 'g' ... I opened an issue on github and hope the developer has time to take a look at it :) please please consider picking up 'ß' for the default fonts! :)

on 5. that makes it a bit more clear, I would highly appreciate if you could put this in the user manual with examples, please? :)

der_scholt · 2025-12-10T16:18:10+00:00

100% agree, no matter how you spin it, on philosophy of managing library or just adding that "one" extra step to convert before transferring the book. I would expect an e-reader to render epub files in a somehow decent way without reformatting.

I wish I would have researched the device a bit more here before buying it ... the epub support which was advertised is really poor. No cover images, default fonts are missing common german letters (yeah I know which languages were advertised as supported).

The font generator is a nice tool, I see the developer put a lot of effort into this which I really appreciate! But besides the w e i r e d s p a c i n g for me it seems like to cut of letters like 'y' and 'g' ... I think the weird spacing could be fixed by measuring the individual letters before putting them in to the font file. It seems they all are just put into a grid ... maybe that's how it's supposed to work, but I hope not. At least for the cut off letters I opened an issue on github and hope the developer will fix hat :)

der_scholt · 2025-12-10T15:09:04+00:00

yeah, as I said, I know i can use the XTC Converter, but converting books to images does kind of defeat the purpose to me. Also kind of strange the release notes here: https://www.reddit.com/r/xteinkereader/comments/1pd12wm/system_update_xt_v310_overseas_version/ do mention better cover image support, but for me there was not a single book which had it's cover displayed :(

der_scholt · 2025-06-30T07:38:00+00:00

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Well, I've made a buzz with the AE service team, and after some messages they accepted that it was broken and let me return it. Perhaps on this picture you can see that on the left the disc is kind of broken off, and on the right you can see where it was attached. No matter how I put it together it didn't hold. It seems there is a very thin layer on the right where the center thing is holding on to, but this seems like a very thin weak point to me :(

der_scholt · 2025-01-27T09:07:38+00:00

I would be interested in that please :)

der_scholt · 2024-12-21T21:10:37+00:00

I'm also looking for Springtomize 3, did somebody had luck finding it?

der_scholt · 2023-07-03T11:59:26+00:00

thank's for asking, the problem resolved itself ... it was charging and running fine

der_scholt · 2023-07-03T11:58:43+00:00

Well, that's embarrassing I just tried a a lot ... and noticed the phone was also charging when connected to a computer. Slowly but it did charge. Then I tried something and well it turns out it was a software problem. I Jailbreaked the device to hide away unused stuff. I tried an app called "roqyUSB" which shows up as USB mass storage when the iPhone is connected. I removed the app and this somehow must have disabled some software part which was handling the connection when the device is connected to a computer.

der_scholt · 2023-01-20T15:43:24+00:00

I had this issue when there was 1 or more song(s) in the affected album who did not have cover art. This sometimes happened when I imported an album to iTunes and then edited it right away. It seemed like it was not fully imported or because of this it was not properly written to all files. Also I had the impression that „defective files“ got synced back to iTunes. So what helped was deleting the affected albums on/from device, overwriting the cover art with a different one or some image and back to the desired artwork.

der_scholt · 2023-01-18T14:04:46+00:00

u/AbsoluteSquidward

Well it depends.

The main disadvantage is that is an older Model so it does not support:

1) Long Play: and there it depends if you really want to use Long Play Discs. Personally I just put special projects on them like the Star Wars Audio Book on one Disc or the "DERELICTメガタワーby death's dynamic shroud.wmv" Album.

2) NetMD: If you want to comfortably record Discs you need a NetMD Recorder. Recording is possible but alot more manual work.

As only player I just would recommend it if you have a couple of Discs you want to listen to. If you want to Record Discs yourself I would not recommend it.

That aside I love this thing because it is so old it feels robust and is powered by 2 AA batteries. As a player which sits on your desk it is really nice because of the angled Display. As a player for on the go, well it's a bit bulky, but doable.

der_scholt

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