Congratulations to Funkey and Voja for this support and awesome content! Now it's obvious that the reMarkable development team MUST provide a similar smoothing function built-in as an official release. No excuses. Great job guys!
Yeaaaaaah... Remarkable compromising their latency, which was obviously the reason why they compromised the writing quality, intentionally? I don't think it's going to happen.
Hey Remarkable 2, see that tiny positive notch on your sales graph? Thank this guy for helping to bring back a small portion of your customers' faith for your product... on his own!!
An excellent fix for a deal-breaking problem. It seems many have cancelled their orders due to this issue. I would hope this fix is rolled into an official Remarkable update and that it's creator can be renumerated accordingly. A massive ongoing thank you to you for all your videos. Your level of detail, calm, precise, professional and carefully considered approach is eminently watchable. Keep it up!
Its hard to know exactly how many people have actually returned their units due to the issue, unfortunately. A handful of comments on reddit isn't a really good sample size. Nonetheless, I do hope they seriously take note, and stop acting like a startup that's high on their own koolaid.
@@RamLaska I was taking the evidence of returns and comments based on the Remarkable User Group on Facebook (which is primarily remarkable users/those that have orders placed. When this issue first came to light, there was quite a sharp response.
amazing! I cancelled my batch 8 pre-order and went w a regular tablet (and I did fail in love with my iPad Air 4). might get an RM 2 next year for that "handwriting feel" now that someone found a fix. Shoutout to Funkey!
Thanks for this. It's wonderful to hear that the fix actually does work, and to see the impact of the fix on latency. I think it's clear that it was a design decision taken by reMarkable in order to be able to show "the best" latency. The official solution by reMarkable should, therefore, offer it as a configuration option, allowing the user to select the amount of smoothing desired, so that the user can make the latency tradeoff (and their solution "should not" require rebooting or restarting the xochitl service) ... Let's see how long it takes.... I'm not going to bother holding my breath... :)
You do not need to reboot the device at all for this fix. All you need to do is restart xochitl by running these two commands inside Remarkable. systemctl daemon-reload; systemctl restart xochitl . However, the way done here in the video you have to restart as you only copy files and do not ssh into your Remarkable.
That's a shame for Remarkable company. Somebody made a fix for their product while they send silly letters about compromises they made and such bullshit
There is actually a compromise, they clearly removed those so they can have better response times. I think this was all marketing options, although it does not remove the fact hey did not gave s*** and gave options to every owner. This type of things should be built in and every user setup based on their usage.
Having the device now, I can say those imperfections are not noticeable. Its easy to see them when zoomed in but on your daily usage it does not make a difference. I won't bother patching this for now.
Thanks for you and Funkey for this tip. I feel the difference. The overall effect is brilliant. I set my rM to use the fix at level 8. It influences strongly the calligraphy pen, more than other brushes, so instead of the medium, I had to start using a thin one.
Thank you, Voja! Your tutorial convinced me to try the hack. I was hesitating at first, because my handwriting looked "okay" on the reMarkable. But whenever I had to export something to send to colleagues, I really noticed the jagged lines very much. I tried many different settings and settled with grade 7. The jagged lines issue is much better now. But my handwriting and sketches still don't look great. Another thing. Apart from my rM2 I own a Supernote A6X and a Boox Note 2. But none of those is perfect. I like the form factor of the A6X very much. But I don't like note taking on it. The handwriting just doesn't look nice. And the pen-on-paper-feel is not up to the rM2. The writing experience on the Boox is much better, but I don't like the build quality. It just looks like a generic tablet from several years ago. And I don't like it's UI, the pen-on-glass-feeling and the cheap looking stylus. With the rM2 I am overwhelmed by how beautiful it looks and feels. And UI is so nice and clean. But the many unaddressed software problems are a pain. And the exported PDFs just don't look great. It is better with the hack, but still not what I would like to see. You wrote that the Boox Air is your daily driver. Do you think it would be worth selling my three devices and go for the Air, too? Is it really this good?
It's going to be the same as Note 2, just much better build quality and design than Note 2. Also, you'll need a different pen (you can see my video on that as well) to have an optimal experience.
@@MyDeepGuideThank you so much for your answer and for your recent video about the best e-ink note taking devices of 2020. That was really helpful. I think I'll keep my three devices for now to see how the UIs evolve over time. Who knows, maybe there will be a Boox Air 2 in 2021. And maybe it will come with a colour e-ink screen. Then I'll definitely go for it. ; ) And thanks for the time and effort you put in your awesome TH-cam Channel. My Deep Guide is one of my favourite channels!!!
Off topic, but as myself and both of my son's have been using our ReMarkabble it would be more then useful if we were able to switch between one or more open documents. For example having a D&D rulebook open and a character sheet open at the same time and being able to switch between the two instead of having to close one document to open the other. Other than this the Remarkable has been greatly useful in most use cases. Thanx for the well made and thought out vids. :)
Hi there! For transferring files on the MAC use Filezilla (it's free) - it's also available on the lesser-known Windows 10 platform. I can confirm that this all works very well from a MAC using FileZilla. Many thanks for this video - and all the other Remarkable videos as well. I watched all your ReMarkable videos while waiting for my Batch 8 RM2 to arrive. Your videos are very comprehensive and you present very well! I copied down the command to include in the file - replace 16 with whatever file you decide to use - 16 looks absolutely great for me.
@Voja, I suppose the intended use of FUNKEY'S fix is to have the user execute a shell script (install.sh), as per the 4 steps mentioned in the GitHub repo for installation. Though, thank you for thoroughly testing the smooth-options.
He did it that way so that he could do it from within windows, without having to mess with cygwin or the linux subsystem. If you read the install shell script, all it does is ask the user which smoothing level to use, scp the selected file other (without the number at the end), and modify the systemd config file.
Voja, this is a very interesting video and also very helpful for the ones that want to instal the hack but are not familiar with such processes. Great video once again! So, in order to have smooth lines, the user has to have latency more or less comparable to the reMarkable competition (note air, etc.). Also, the handwriting seems to be not jaggedy but obviously pixelated, regardlessthe the smoothing.
Yes, since there is no antialiasing on the reMarkable. I think all of the competition at this stage has it, Papyr, Quadreno, Boox and Supernote. And none of them have the jagged lines issue to begin with. Something that the reMarkable leadership should think about.
It good (or even great) that someone has fixed the jagged line issue. However we should be aware of the fact that this is a sort of quick'n'dirty solution. Yet still, probably the only one available without access to the source code of rM software. The *real* solution, that the rM team really should implement, must work a bit differently. Namely they should either correct the threshold of the input so the position of the pen is already registered with lower noise (however this may be impossible due to some hardware constrains). Or they should post-process the data. So the lines are jagged when draw but after some time (e.g. when the pen is raised from the surface) they are being smoothed. This will not only have *much* lower impact on the latency but the smoothing may use a smarter algorithm than the crude moving average used in this fix. Nevertheless, thanks for the video. It is nice to have a clear and objective measure of the impact of this fix on the latency. I wish however that you add samples of how different values of the smoothing radius impact the jaggedness.
The approach is not a dirty fix, it is what one can do when one do not have source code for the wacom driver. At any rate this deals with the noise floor in a non obtrusive way. Other more advanced filters do not work better. Now as to do post work on the drawn lines by reducing number of nodes and straighting lines is not something I want. If they can just reduce the noise, by giving us a menu to choose level of noise filtering, that would be sufficient.
@Prezmyslaw You are welcome to do the examples of all of the smoothing levels yourself. I have shown examples of 8, 16 and 31, and tested the latency of 2, 8, 16, 24, and 31. So if all of that is still not enough for you, then install it and go nuts :)
☝️☝️☝️ this. At best this a demo of what's possible, but which should be implemented as a clean up process on a separate thread. Remarkable will never implement the process here, which takes latency back to the RM1 and all their competitors. But perhaps the separate thread cleanup. But this whole situation is a clusterf*.
Thanks for the video! Do you think that the Remarkable staff (software department) will have some effort about this problem? I think that the device is spectacular and I am very happy with it, but as a sw developer I think that Remarkable have to get better the user experience of their product. I hope they do it soon. Thanks for your channel! 😊
Thank you for watching :) From the past experience from Remarkable 1, if they decide that something isn't a priority in their minds, then they won't do it, regardless of how much their users are sending requests or asking them to add a functionality (Bookmarking pages in books, documents or notebooks, for example). Having heard from them that they consider this to be a non-issue, i don't think it's likely that they'll do anything about it. It looks like they simply don't care about what's important to their customers and are focusing only on what they want, which is fine for an overall product vision, i don't have a problem with that at all, but it is a problem if it means ignoring an issue that is turning away your customers.
Well, I decided to keep one of the rm2 I had on order, and I've been using it for a few days. I must say that I don't see any jaggedness, maybe a slight fuzzy edge with straight lines. For what the device is I'm surprised by how much I like it, it's really growing on me. But, reMarkable does need to pull up it's skirts and offer a solid software refresh, and improved customer access, support and feed back.... or else!
Thanks again Voya for a great video, I was curious to compare how the levels of fix related to the other devices that you have D.E.S.T.A. tested and from what I can see from the first touch results it looks like a Funkey Fix level 20 would have the Remarkable 2 inline with the Boox Note Air, and a level 28 would have it inline with Remarkable 1. I would be very curious if you could compare the Jagged lines at these two levels against the respective devices, I know that this would be a substantial time investment on your part but I think that it would also be invaluable as it helps get away from the "religion" associated with each of the devices and keeps us rooted in factual evaluation. Regardless thanks again for a great video, great depth, and as always top notch quality.
Thanks Voja, super useful! I've used your guide and it worked out nicely. The straight lines are definitely less jagged, but I've noticed my writing is now MORE jagged? It might be just me but from your video it looks like you have a similar issue?
Kind of interesting how writing degrades when the lines improve. Thanks all, must have missed the bit about the smoothing level... Now settled on no.12!
@@chunychiu Yes, the filtering more or less just averages the last few points. That means that it rejects very sharp changes in the stroke, including ones you make on purpose, like when drawing a "t" or "h" in cursive.
Thanks so much for the tutorial. Looks like an awesome fix. Does anyone know how to do this with Terminal on Mac? I can't access my rM2 with Filezilla (it times out). Thanks in advance for any help.
Thank U Voja. Just for U... the cable is only necessary if U use the usb ip (10.11.99.1). If U use the other one, U r on Ur WiFi and therefore, U need no cable. Still, it is a good suggestion to be safely connected with a power cable... so that the device doesn’t shut off at the wrong time.
I know that, thanks for the heads up info :) But since this is a guide for people with different levels of technical proficiency, the best practice is to just hook it up and be on the safe side of things, because then any of the IPs will work and the device will be hooked up to the power, as you said :)
Great work Voja,although I’m not going to change something on my remarkable 2 at least for now.I purchased the remarkable 2 to use it mostly for drawing and study PDFs and less for writing.The jagged lines are more noticeable if you zoom bigger your drawing or writing.Most serious problem I found is that when I exported my drawing as a pdf or npg to my tablet,it looks of much lower quality and the background of course is clear white in comparison with the screen of remarkable which is much darker.I’m thinking to scan my remarkable on the scanner to see if I can take the actual quality of my drawing but I’m afraid not to make any problem on remarkable.Also I will take a photo of the drawing with my iPad Pro and compare the results.Do you have any better suggestion what I can do?I haven’t seen yet all your deep guides about remarkable so i don’t know if you already mention that problem.I like the simplicity of the device,the build quality and I find it good for drawing but it could be much better.I would like to see more grey tones for drawing to use with the pens,marker and brush,more different brushes and different transparencies for grey tones and for the eraser.Especially for the eraser it would be very nice.Do you think it’s possible for the company to update remarkable 2 with such new features for drawing?
I'm curious, how satisfied are you guys with your device? While I REALLY love the writing experience, I'm struggling with myself if I shall send it back because of some very annoying bugs and the obvious lack of features
Hi Mathias! If you really love the writing experience then that's what matters. That connection and fun of writing. That's the big magic. (Side note: great book by Elizbeth Gilbert called Big Magic). Being able to sit, write and enjoy that screen and pen, if you found that with the Remarkable 2, then all the other stuff is clutter. The most important thing to these devices (I feel), is what do we want of them. If it's that quiet place to write, then sounds like you found it.
Amazing how one guy can do it while reMarkable will refuse. But too bad I have several other bugs... Oh, this is a different way, easier. I followed instructions to pick just one file and rename it and have it be the same in the line. I thought it had to be named that specifically, not just the same as the file you're using. Glad you made this video but thought you'd go over the footage a bit more. It was shown so brief and very little in actual use too. I tried 8 and I think I noticed a latency. This is a good way to try out the latency of rM1 on your rM2 though. Which is around level 8, 40 ms.
Do you think there's any chance that reMarkable might implement something like this in a future update? Their software limitations are just heavily playing against them at this point.
This shows once more the reMarkable company's unfortunate neglect on the software side of the reMarkable, which is its Achilles' heel. It also shows that the better writing latency on the reMarkable 2 came at a price and that they are not willing to work on a fix or at least put in the settings a latency vs smoothness parameter that the user can control to fix this issue. This new settings parameter would then not go over 16, as otherwise the shinning new reMarkable 2 with its "improved" screen will have the same or even poorer writing latency than its previous model, the remarkable 1. It also seems that this is the compromise they mentioned in that email to you.
I ordered mine in September and received mine a week ago, too. LOVE it - feels like paper. One problem. DON'T use the quick sheets. They cannot be deleted! If anyone figures out how to "delete quick sheets" a hack, if you will. Please tell me. (If I could drag them into a folder, I would, but alas. the quick sheets just sit on the front page. Love Remarkable 2. Despise quick sheets.
Level 16 seems to work great for me. It has made a great improvement in the strokes and lines thank you! I just have one question. It seems like my battery is draining faster since I made the change. Does this change use more battery power? Thanks.
Hi My Deep Guide, I use eReaders for reading scientific papers. Based on your review, I returned my reMarkable 2. Now that they have updated the software, do you see any reading functionality updates and improvements? Since your video are long, I am not able to view all of it. Secondly, in your reckoning which are good eReaders? I need to buy a new one.
With the rollout of 2.6 I want to uninstall funkeys fix prior to updating just to be on the safe side. Is this a simple process. I can see many resources on installation but am yet to find anything on uninstalling
Quite interested into how Funkey got there. What OS is Rm running ? Any similarity to a regular Linux distribution ? That statement he came up with in the config file must have related to something he knew. I'm quite interested into the internals of the rM.
I wanted to know how to email remarkable. There is no clear way on their website to contact them, maybe they don’t want input from the customers. I wanted to bring to their attention that Funkey as you clearly demonstrated on your video has a fix, why can’t they get on the ball and give an universal fix as they should. I also have a suggestion to improve or even enhance the experience for the user if I can get an email to them. My suggestion is to link two notebooks, for example I created a bullet journal in remarkable one task is to create a Christmas list , in another notebook I create the Christmas list I would like to link the task to the list. Thanks for listening.
PLEASE write down your password before doing this so you can access it in case you do something wrong. I found that smoothing at 9 - 12 was the best. There are also other implementations of this fix using IIR and EWMA, but they do not make it better. The straight forward average filtering seems to be the best approach.
You need to only connect to usb if you are connecting to the first IP address starting with 10. The other address is accessible via your local wireless network (no usb connection needed)
Slightly unrelated, but isn't it strange that the review units did not have the jagged lines issue und also a latency of 21ms according to your test. And now the actually production unit has 27ms latency and jagged lines? Great video btw. I installed the fix some time ago and settled with level 4. Works really great.
What is the uncertainty in the way the latency was measured? If filming at 120 fps then one frame is 8.3ms. At any rate human eye can perceive about 24 fps, meaning 41ms. So when you test this you do not notice any lag before you go above that.
It's filmed at 480fps, so 1 frame is 2ms, human eyesight is at around 30fps. @Marco Hufnagel The pre-production unit result is 27ms, sam as the production unit. The 21ms initially reported was my mistake (miscalculation) which i also addressed in one of the following videos. As for the jagged lines, at the time I didn't know that it should be something to look out for, but I have noticed something that I perceived at the time as a bit messier handwriting. So that perception might as well have been the jagged edges issue.
@@MyDeepGuide Please don't spread this myth about human eyesight having frames per second. Human eyes don't work like that and perception can't be reduced to a single number.
Why then there is a significant difference between motion picture viewed at 24 vs 60 FPS? Why now 120Hz screen refreshing is becoming industry standard? Because 24 is a minimum to keep the feeling of the smoothness. A MINIMUM.
This is fairly simplified article about the topic, but no, it's not a myth (!?) and it's not a simple number, since it depends on the distance from the eyes, eye movement, obejct movement relative to the eye, light conditions, age of the eye and vision persistency. But for general case scenarios, of course that it can be placed in a rough ballpark number. It's completely silly to say otherwise :) www.healthline.com/health/human-eye-fps#how-vision-works
Great guide, only thing that is missing is: Please make a photo or otherwise save the ssh password!! If you make a mistake and cant access the PW on the device itself there is NO WAY to rectify your mistake besides ssh, so keep it safe somewhere!
I use this fix by update 2.5. By starting the RM2 the screen get stuck at starting. It scared the hell out of me, but the RM2 is still accessible via WinSCP. So I restore the original file Xochitl, and the RM2 is restored and correctly starting. Are there more people with this problem?
Help! So this did work perfectly but then after changing the smoothness and restarting it's now stuck on the "Remarkable is starting" screen... Force restart doesn't work, force shutdown doesn't work... Any ideas? (pretty please)
Sorry, but I don't know about that. As I said, these are hacks, and that is the reason why I warn against them. I have read another user that had such a problem on the FB user group, but I don't remember if and how they solved it. Hope you fix it.
Check the FB group, hopefully someone can help there. Also check the redit remarkable channel, lot's of awesome folks there too and a much friendlier community than the FB group.
If it was just down to the jagged lines, yes. But as I said in my Note Air review, it's all of the limitations of the rM device that simply don't make it a device i can use normally at this point. So, no. Note Air is my main driver now, and i couldn't be happier with it. As i always said, i do a lot of reading and document marking (not scribbling). Recently i discovered yet another limitation with the reMarkable, which makes it physically impossible for me to get the documents I need onto it (very large documents never successfully sync and thus never get transferred into the device, they keep failing). So no, I'm fed up with the inadequacies of the remarkable's software platform and the company's unwillingness to take their product seriously. I mean c'mon, a new brush and a new font and a slowdown optimization are the updates we've gotten in the past 3 months without a single issue being acknowledged, addressed or solved. While my Note Air has gotten 4-5 updates in November alone, with 99% of the content being fixes and improvements. It's a very easy choice for me.
@@MyDeepGuide Thanks for your honest reply. I sold my RM1 without regrets and am loving my Note Air more and more. Some say the learning curve is a “con” but I don’t feel that way. It’s a fact of life, no pain no gain. The more time you invest into learning the device’s features and capabilities, the more use and value you’d get out of it.
@@Snow3573 Thank you for the reply. I was under the impression that in order to have the paper like feel the screen protector was necessary. Thank you for the solid information.
Remarkable is a joke! Due to there behaviour they lost a lot of customers and that's what they deserve. They should pay or hire the hackers. Without them they would loose even more.
I liked 16 best, but i disabled and removed it, because it is a hack solution, and as such, it can and for some users does bring instability in the device. This was simply to test it out and see what do we get.
In my original review I used the marker plus. I personally use the regular marker. Pens or tips make no difference if the jagged lines will be there, as it is a conscious design decision on their part to achieve that 27ms latency speed and is linked to the device, not the pen.
@@MyDeepGuide one last thing. When considering build quality and ereader use do you think the A5X are ok? I just don't seem to care for Onyx. I like simple purest approach. That's just me. Or do you think there is another unit I have missed for build quality and ereader use?
There's a chance that any OS update would overwrite that systemd config file, but you could always re-edit it. There's another chance that an OS update would make it incompatible. I dunno.
@@RamLaska That the OS update would render it unusable is very very unlikely given it is a Linux OS as long as you have the config file set up. But that it would be obsolete is a possibility if Remarkable actually gets around fixing this
Who filled out the survey? Of course I want the option for less lag or smooth linestrokes. And support for other cloud storage solutions. And more stuff.
Someone asked in the comments if the OS update deletes the fix: the answer is YES, the update to 2.5.0.27 has deleted the fix, I needed to reinstall it
Such a clever hack!! And the knowledge of internals (e.g. github.com/funkey/recept/blob/main/recept.cpp#L91-L104) is unbelievable. I bet with a little bit of DSP (instead of a moving average) one can avoid the increased lag (maybe) - but other than this, wow wow!!
My guess is that reMarkable could've easily done this fix too, but decided it wasn't worth it so they could brag about their incredibly low latency. Very poor choice as it was one of the reasons I went for the Note Air instead.
Imagine a car that has 800 BHP and no traction control. That's rM2. 4096 pressure sensitivity levels and zero filtering so that it could be the fastest of them all. Quite a high price to pay for that speed.
Thank you very much this is very helpful. But, and taking nothing away from the super contribution by Flunkey, should not be necessary. For me it just highlights the poor product delivery, and lack lustre support and interest from reMarkable. I think it's an example of snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. RM2 should have been wonderful, but isn't. It doesn't matter how good the hardware is if the software fails to impress. The selling point of low latency comes at the expense of fuzzy and wobbly lines, and a fix puts rm2 latency on par with the competition. This and the lack of all round features, compared to the competition, leaves me wondering the point of buying a reMarkable? I think I'll be returning my two rm2 orders when they eventually arrive and be buying from Onyx.
Since I've first reviewed it and received my unit in September, my impression of the device is just sinking and now it seems to be in free fall, simply because they do nothing of substance to it. It seems that they simply do not care about the users and only care about the marketing of it and name dropping of celebrity users in order to further boost their marketing and that the actual users and customers are used to further finance the marketing machine. It's the biggest waste of what could have been and should have been one of the most amazing devices of 2020. Sadly, it's extremely far from it.
11:19 I'm disappointed that you didn't try pronouncing it. LOL From what I can gather, it's pronounced SoCheel, or marginally (and perhaps more traditionally, ShoCheel) But you should really ask someone from mexico. It means flower.
Actually, xochitl “flower(s)” is a word in Nahuatl, which is widely spoken today in Central Mexico and was the language of the Aztecs. The word is pronounced SHOchitl, with the emphasis on the SHO. The tl at the end is not tul or the like, as most non-speakers (including most Mexicans) tend to pronounce it, but is a single sound more akin to an l. You’d need to hear it to be able to imitate it! Unless you’re Welsh or Icelandic, in which case it’s like your ll.
How embarrassing for Remarkable. I think they would do well to consider investing in some decent coders rather than spending money on sending excuse filled literature to users. The more I see of how this company operates the happier I am with my decision to get the Note Air.
With or without the fix, handwriting just doesn't look as good on the remarkable as any of the boox products, or the papyr, or the super note I've watched the reviews for. So not only do you get bad looking handwriting, you have a company ignoring the wants of its users and making the community come up with a fix. Not sure why people would support this product at this point.
So it's not just me? I keep noticing that the handwriting is a bit messier, and i have no idea why or what is going on. Sometimes I think it's just my subjective impression, then again, I keep having that same impression over and over again... But I have no idea what it is, or why i get that impression.
Pixelation I understand, it's because there's no antialiasing (which all of the competitors have at this stage, btw), but there just something I can't put my finger on that makes the end result messier than on other devices. However, as I said, i was thinking that it was a subjective impression only.
It's because rM doesn't use antialiasing, which I would only want if it was instant. No way I wanna see my text transform in front of me like on Boox. (I know you can turn it off)
This is why I am using only the mechanical pencil with my Remarkable 1. By construction the mechanical pencil hides this problem and you do not noticing this pixelation, it is not that is fixed but that it is cleverly hided. It is the first thing I noticed when I received my remarkable six months ago. Everyone was praising the remarkable’s hand writing but to me it was hugely lacking in smoothness in comparison to my iPad Pro. It was a mystery to me because I had in the past the first Samsung note 10.1 based on the same wakom technology and I was very happy with the writing experience although that device was lacking considerably in other aspects. The last years I fell in love with my iPad Pro using a mate screen protector but nothing is so good as an e-ink screen. I fell instantly in love with the eink screen although initially I was disappointed with the smoothness of the handwriting given the hype on the Facebook. I thought my signature in iPad Pro is exported in papers like a proper scanned handwritten paper and in remarkable it seems so digital I wonder why there this hype about remarkable’s handwriting quality out there? I came to realise that the best and only solution for me is to use the mechanical pencil and now I am in love also with the handwriting experience of my remarkable. Is instant, quiet with no correction in front of my eyes and the feel of writing on plastic is unparalleled, I do not want to write on glass any more. There are inherent limitations with eink technology, with obviously the elephant in the room being the lack of colour, but as an analogy is like living in the black and white TV era. The technology is not there yet given also the fact that a giant player like Apple seems to not backing this technology yet. My dream device would be hardware wise a lightweight 13.3 colour eink with a plastic flush screen exactly like PAPYR but with Onyx pdf annotation/e-reader software capabilities and the ability to use many different wakom pens like remarkable and onyx. Seems that Max LUMI is the best device so far for me. Does onyx has a similar mechanical pencil that hides this smoothness issue which I guess is an inherit limitation of the current state of eink technology?
I can't even conceive how smart this Funkey guy is for coming up with this fix...
With only 127 lines of code!!
Congratulations to Funkey and Voja for this support and awesome content! Now it's obvious that the reMarkable development team MUST provide a similar smoothing function built-in as an official release. No excuses. Great job guys!
Maybe they could put it in with a switch?
Better latency Smoother lines
Yeaaaaaah... Remarkable compromising their latency, which was obviously the reason why they compromised the writing quality, intentionally? I don't think it's going to happen.
Finally ! We are never better served than by yourself. Thanks for this video !
Hey Remarkable 2, see that tiny positive notch on your sales graph? Thank this guy for helping to bring back a small portion of your customers' faith for your product... on his own!!
Hi, I tried this solution and it is very good.
OCR works well. I also noticed that the rubber is even more precise.
Right in time for my Remarkable 2 which is showing up any minute now, Tanks so much for this great journey!
An excellent fix for a deal-breaking problem. It seems many have cancelled their orders due to this issue. I would hope this fix is rolled into an official Remarkable update and that it's creator can be renumerated accordingly. A massive ongoing thank you to you for all your videos. Your level of detail, calm, precise, professional and carefully considered approach is eminently watchable. Keep it up!
Its hard to know exactly how many people have actually returned their units due to the issue, unfortunately. A handful of comments on reddit isn't a really good sample size. Nonetheless, I do hope they seriously take note, and stop acting like a startup that's high on their own koolaid.
@@RamLaska I was taking the evidence of returns and comments based on the Remarkable User Group on Facebook (which is primarily remarkable users/those that have orders placed. When this issue first came to light, there was quite a sharp response.
@@martin_green
Ah, I'm not in the facebook group. I sure hope *someone* at reMarkable took notice
WHERE CAN WE PAY THIS GUY?????
Still waiting for my rM2 to arrive, but preinformed the best way possible! Thank you very much Voja, for all of your videos, testings and advices!
amazing! I cancelled my batch 8 pre-order and went w a regular tablet (and I did fail in love with my iPad Air 4). might get an RM 2 next year for that "handwriting feel" now that someone found a fix. Shoutout to Funkey!
Thanks for sharing this. I just deployed it very smoothly with great result.
Thanks for this. It's wonderful to hear that the fix actually does work, and to see the impact of the fix on latency. I think it's clear that it was a design decision taken by reMarkable in order to be able to show "the best" latency.
The official solution by reMarkable should, therefore, offer it as a configuration option, allowing the user to select the amount of smoothing desired, so that the user can make the latency tradeoff (and their solution "should not" require rebooting or restarting the xochitl service)
... Let's see how long it takes.... I'm not going to bother holding my breath... :)
You do not need to reboot the device at all for this fix. All you need to do is restart xochitl by running these two commands inside Remarkable. systemctl daemon-reload; systemctl restart xochitl . However, the way done here in the video you have to restart as you only copy files and do not ssh into your Remarkable.
That's a shame for Remarkable company. Somebody made a fix for their product while they send silly letters about compromises they made and such bullshit
And people will defend rM no matter what defects and bugs it has.
There is actually a compromise, they clearly removed those so they can have better response times. I think this was all marketing options, although it does not remove the fact hey did not gave s*** and gave options to every owner. This type of things should be built in and every user setup based on their usage.
Having the device now, I can say those imperfections are not noticeable. Its easy to see them when zoomed in but on your daily usage it does not make a difference. I won't bother patching this for now.
@@Nekotaku_TV i.e. the guy below you haha
Thanks for you and Funkey for this tip. I feel the difference. The overall effect is brilliant. I set my rM to use the fix at level 8. It influences strongly the calligraphy pen, more than other brushes, so instead of the medium, I had to start using a thin one.
Hi Voja, Great work, really! Thanks a lot for your work! I am a fan of your channel!
Thanks a lot!
Thanks for sharing this with us. Please stay tuned on this topic...
Amazing! I'll have to figure out how to do it on Mac but the actual coding seems simple.
Any luck on a Mac version?
Haven't tried it yet as I'm still waiting for my device.
@@heidibriones search on google for a guide which uses ssh connection
Thank you, Voja! Your tutorial convinced me to try the hack. I was hesitating at first, because my handwriting looked "okay" on the reMarkable. But whenever I had to export something to send to colleagues, I really noticed the jagged lines very much. I tried many different settings and settled with grade 7. The jagged lines issue is much better now. But my handwriting and sketches still don't look great.
Another thing. Apart from my rM2 I own a Supernote A6X and a Boox Note 2. But none of those is perfect. I like the form factor of the A6X very much. But I don't like note taking on it. The handwriting just doesn't look nice. And the pen-on-paper-feel is not up to the rM2. The writing experience on the Boox is much better, but I don't like the build quality. It just looks like a generic tablet from several years ago. And I don't like it's UI, the pen-on-glass-feeling and the cheap looking stylus. With the rM2 I am overwhelmed by how beautiful it looks and feels. And UI is so nice and clean. But the many unaddressed software problems are a pain. And the exported PDFs just don't look great. It is better with the hack, but still not what I would like to see.
You wrote that the Boox Air is your daily driver. Do you think it would be worth selling my three devices and go for the Air, too? Is it really this good?
It's going to be the same as Note 2, just much better build quality and design than Note 2. Also, you'll need a different pen (you can see my video on that as well) to have an optimal experience.
@@MyDeepGuideThank you so much for your answer and for your recent video about the best e-ink note taking devices of 2020. That was really helpful. I think I'll keep my three devices for now to see how the UIs evolve over time. Who knows, maybe there will be a Boox Air 2 in 2021. And maybe it will come with a colour e-ink screen. Then I'll definitely go for it. ; )
And thanks for the time and effort you put in your awesome TH-cam Channel. My Deep Guide is one of my favourite channels!!!
I expect (hope) someone from the Remarkable team will watch this video and implement the solution in a very soon firmware update.
I seriously doubt that.
Off topic, but as myself and both of my son's have been using our ReMarkabble it would be more then useful if we were able to switch between one or more open documents. For example having a D&D rulebook open and a character sheet open at the same time and being able to switch between the two instead of having to close one document to open the other. Other than this the Remarkable has been greatly useful in most use cases. Thanx for the well made and thought out vids. :)
Hi there! For transferring files on the MAC use Filezilla (it's free) - it's also available on the lesser-known Windows 10 platform. I can confirm that this all works very well from a MAC using FileZilla.
Many thanks for this video - and all the other Remarkable videos as well. I watched all your ReMarkable videos while waiting for my Batch 8 RM2 to arrive. Your videos are very comprehensive and you present very well!
I copied down the command to include in the file - replace 16 with whatever file you decide to use - 16 looks absolutely great for me.
@Voja, I suppose the intended use of FUNKEY'S fix is to have the user execute a shell script (install.sh), as per the 4 steps mentioned in the GitHub repo for installation. Though, thank you for thoroughly testing the smooth-options.
That didn't work for me through the WinSCP.
He did it that way so that he could do it from within windows, without having to mess with cygwin or the linux subsystem.
If you read the install shell script, all it does is ask the user which smoothing level to use, scp the selected file other (without the number at the end), and modify the systemd config file.
Voja, this is a very interesting video and also very helpful for the ones that want to instal the hack but are not familiar with such processes. Great video once again!
So, in order to have smooth lines, the user has to have latency more or less comparable to the reMarkable competition (note air, etc.). Also, the handwriting seems to be not jaggedy but obviously pixelated, regardlessthe the smoothing.
Yes, since there is no antialiasing on the reMarkable. I think all of the competition at this stage has it, Papyr, Quadreno, Boox and Supernote. And none of them have the jagged lines issue to begin with. Something that the reMarkable leadership should think about.
@@MyDeepGuide , you have a point here. I agree.
It good (or even great) that someone has fixed the jagged line issue. However we should be aware of the fact that this is a sort of quick'n'dirty solution. Yet still, probably the only one available without access to the source code of rM software.
The *real* solution, that the rM team really should implement, must work a bit differently. Namely they should either correct the threshold of the input so the position of the pen is already registered with lower noise (however this may be impossible due to some hardware constrains). Or they should post-process the data. So the lines are jagged when draw but after some time (e.g. when the pen is raised from the surface) they are being smoothed. This will not only have *much* lower impact on the latency but the smoothing may use a smarter algorithm than the crude moving average used in this fix.
Nevertheless, thanks for the video. It is nice to have a clear and objective measure of the impact of this fix on the latency. I wish however that you add samples of how different values of the smoothing radius impact the jaggedness.
The approach is not a dirty fix, it is what one can do when one do not have source code for the wacom driver. At any rate this deals with the noise floor in a non obtrusive way. Other more advanced filters do not work better. Now as to do post work on the drawn lines by reducing number of nodes and straighting lines is not something I want. If they can just reduce the noise, by giving us a menu to choose level of noise filtering, that would be sufficient.
@Prezmyslaw You are welcome to do the examples of all of the smoothing levels yourself. I have shown examples of 8, 16 and 31, and tested the latency of 2, 8, 16, 24, and 31. So if all of that is still not enough for you, then install it and go nuts :)
☝️☝️☝️ this. At best this a demo of what's possible, but which should be implemented as a clean up process on a separate thread. Remarkable will never implement the process here, which takes latency back to the RM1 and all their competitors. But perhaps the separate thread cleanup. But this whole situation is a clusterf*.
Thanks for the video! Do you think that the Remarkable staff (software department) will have some effort about this problem? I think that the device is spectacular and I am very happy with it, but as a sw developer I think that Remarkable have to get better the user experience of their product. I hope they do it soon.
Thanks for your channel! 😊
Thank you for watching :) From the past experience from Remarkable 1, if they decide that something isn't a priority in their minds, then they won't do it, regardless of how much their users are sending requests or asking them to add a functionality (Bookmarking pages in books, documents or notebooks, for example).
Having heard from them that they consider this to be a non-issue, i don't think it's likely that they'll do anything about it. It looks like they simply don't care about what's important to their customers and are focusing only on what they want, which is fine for an overall product vision, i don't have a problem with that at all, but it is a problem if it means ignoring an issue that is turning away your customers.
It wooorks ! Many thanks for that tutorial !
Great video, Voja!
Thank you :)
Well, I decided to keep one of the rm2 I had on order, and I've been using it for a few days. I must say that I don't see any jaggedness, maybe a slight fuzzy edge with straight lines.
For what the device is I'm surprised by how much I like it, it's really growing on me. But, reMarkable does need to pull up it's skirts and offer a solid software refresh, and improved customer access, support and feed back.... or else!
Thanks again Voya for a great video, I was curious to compare how the levels of fix related to the other devices that you have D.E.S.T.A. tested and from what I can see from the first touch results it looks like a Funkey Fix level 20 would have the Remarkable 2 inline with the Boox Note Air, and a level 28 would have it inline with Remarkable 1.
I would be very curious if you could compare the Jagged lines at these two levels against the respective devices, I know that this would be a substantial time investment on your part but I think that it would also be invaluable as it helps get away from the "religion" associated with each of the devices and keeps us rooted in factual evaluation.
Regardless thanks again for a great video, great depth, and as always top notch quality.
Thanks Voja, super useful! I've used your guide and it worked out nicely. The straight lines are definitely less jagged, but I've noticed my writing is now MORE jagged? It might be just me but from your video it looks like you have a similar issue?
Exactly, noticed the same in the video. Written text after the hack seems to be more jagged.
It depends on the smoothing level as i have mentioned.
If the smoothing level is too high, it changes the shape of the lines. Try a lower smoothing level.
Kind of interesting how writing degrades when the lines improve. Thanks all, must have missed the bit about the smoothing level... Now settled on no.12!
@@chunychiu Yes, the filtering more or less just averages the last few points. That means that it rejects very sharp changes in the stroke, including ones you make on purpose, like when drawing a "t" or "h" in cursive.
Thanks so much for the tutorial. Looks like an awesome fix.
Does anyone know how to do this with Terminal on Mac? I can't access my rM2 with Filezilla (it times out). Thanks in advance for any help.
Thank U Voja. Just for U... the cable is only necessary if U use the usb ip (10.11.99.1). If U use the other one, U r on Ur WiFi and therefore, U need no cable. Still, it is a good suggestion to be safely connected with a power cable... so that the device doesn’t shut off at the wrong time.
I know that, thanks for the heads up info :) But since this is a guide for people with different levels of technical proficiency, the best practice is to just hook it up and be on the safe side of things, because then any of the IPs will work and the device will be hooked up to the power, as you said :)
Great work Voja,although I’m not going to change something on my remarkable 2 at least for now.I purchased the remarkable 2 to use it mostly for drawing and study PDFs and less for writing.The jagged lines are more noticeable if you zoom bigger your drawing or writing.Most serious problem I found is that when I exported my drawing as a pdf or npg to my tablet,it looks of much lower quality and the background of course is clear white in comparison with the screen of remarkable which is much darker.I’m thinking to scan my remarkable on the scanner to see if I can take the actual quality of my drawing but I’m afraid not to make any problem on remarkable.Also I will take a photo of the drawing with my iPad Pro and compare the results.Do you have any better suggestion what I can do?I haven’t seen yet all your deep guides about remarkable so i don’t know if you already mention that problem.I like the simplicity of the device,the build quality and I find it good for drawing but it could be much better.I would like to see more grey tones for drawing to use with the pens,marker and brush,more different brushes and different transparencies for grey tones and for the eraser.Especially for the eraser it would be very nice.Do you think it’s possible for the company to update remarkable 2 with such new features for drawing?
I'm curious, how satisfied are you guys with your device? While I REALLY love the writing experience, I'm struggling with myself if I shall send it back because of some very annoying bugs and the obvious lack of features
Hi Mathias! If you really love the writing experience then that's what matters. That connection and fun of writing. That's the big magic. (Side note: great book by Elizbeth Gilbert called Big Magic). Being able to sit, write and enjoy that screen and pen, if you found that with the Remarkable 2, then all the other stuff is clutter. The most important thing to these devices (I feel), is what do we want of them. If it's that quiet place to write, then sounds like you found it.
It would be very easy for Remarkable just to allow the user to set the level om smoothing in the settings....strange that they don't offer this...
They are very anti-options. But, rM1 doesnt have it yet looks way better.
Yea but I guess they want to stress the low latency which is probably one of the biggest changes from RM1
Amazing how one guy can do it while reMarkable will refuse. But too bad I have several other bugs...
Oh, this is a different way, easier. I followed instructions to pick just one file and rename it and have it be the same in the line. I thought it had to be named that specifically, not just the same as the file you're using.
Glad you made this video but thought you'd go over the footage a bit more. It was shown so brief and very little in actual use too. I tried 8 and I think I noticed a latency. This is a good way to try out the latency of rM1 on your rM2 though. Which is around level 8, 40 ms.
Let's hope this will accelerate an official fix.
Might do the opposite.
Don't think so
Do you think there's any chance that reMarkable might implement something like this in a future update? Their software limitations are just heavily playing against them at this point.
This shows once more the reMarkable company's unfortunate neglect on the software side of the reMarkable, which is its Achilles' heel. It also shows that the better writing latency on the reMarkable 2 came at a price and that they are not willing to work on a fix or at least put in the settings a latency vs smoothness parameter that the user can control to fix this issue. This new settings parameter would then not go over 16, as otherwise the shinning new reMarkable 2 with its "improved" screen will have the same or even poorer writing latency than its previous model, the remarkable 1. It also seems that this is the compromise they mentioned in that email to you.
I ordered mine in September and received mine a week ago, too. LOVE it - feels like paper. One problem. DON'T use the quick sheets. They cannot be deleted! If anyone figures out how to "delete quick sheets" a hack, if you will. Please tell me. (If I could drag them into a folder, I would, but alas. the quick sheets just sit on the front page. Love Remarkable 2. Despise quick sheets.
Go to Page Overview and you can select whichever sheet in Quick Sheets to delete, duplicate, move, etc. Functionality is already there.
Level 16 seems to work great for me. It has made a great improvement in the strokes and lines thank you! I just have one question. It seems like my battery is draining faster since I made the change. Does this change use more battery power? Thanks.
Interesting point! I haven't check that, but I might at some time in the future. Thanks for raising it :)
Hi My Deep Guide,
I use eReaders for reading scientific papers. Based on your review, I returned my reMarkable 2. Now that they have updated the software, do you see any reading functionality updates and improvements? Since your video are long, I am not able to view all of it. Secondly, in your reckoning which are good eReaders? I need to buy a new one.
onyx boox note or max series
Tell me dear M. Vojislav, is there a way to get Caps Lock on the RM2 (2.5). I can’t find how and I don’t see any documentation on this. Thank you.
With the rollout of 2.6 I want to uninstall funkeys fix prior to updating just to be on the safe side.
Is this a simple process. I can see many resources on installation but am yet to find anything on uninstalling
Any chance that this can be implemented within MacOS?
Hi,
It seems that the Funkey library is not available for download anymore. Can someone please confirm? Thanks
Quite interested into how Funkey got there. What OS is Rm running ? Any similarity to a regular Linux distribution ? That statement he came up with in the config file must have related to something he knew. I'm quite interested into the internals of the rM.
I wanted to know how to email remarkable. There is no clear way on their website to contact them, maybe they don’t want input from the customers. I wanted to bring to their attention that Funkey as you clearly demonstrated on your video has a fix, why can’t they get on the ball and give an universal fix as they should. I also have a suggestion to improve or even enhance the experience for the user if I can get an email to them. My suggestion is to link two notebooks, for example I created a bullet journal in remarkable one task is to create a Christmas list , in another notebook I create the Christmas list I would like to link the task to the list. Thanks for listening.
PLEASE write down your password before doing this so you can access it in case you do something wrong. I found that smoothing at 9 - 12 was the best. There are also other implementations of this fix using IIR and EWMA, but they do not make it better. The straight forward average filtering seems to be the best approach.
You need to only connect to usb if you are connecting to the first IP address starting with 10.
The other address is accessible via your local wireless network (no usb connection needed)
I was wondering about that! :)
Slightly unrelated, but isn't it strange that the review units did not have the jagged lines issue und also a latency of 21ms according to your test. And now the actually production unit has 27ms latency and jagged lines?
Great video btw. I installed the fix some time ago and settled with level 4. Works really great.
What is the uncertainty in the way the latency was measured? If filming at 120 fps then one frame is 8.3ms. At any rate human eye can perceive about 24 fps, meaning 41ms. So when you test this you do not notice any lag before you go above that.
It's filmed at 480fps, so 1 frame is 2ms, human eyesight is at around 30fps.
@Marco Hufnagel
The pre-production unit result is 27ms, sam as the production unit. The 21ms initially reported was my mistake (miscalculation) which i also addressed in one of the following videos. As for the jagged lines, at the time I didn't know that it should be something to look out for, but I have noticed something that I perceived at the time as a bit messier handwriting. So that perception might as well have been the jagged edges issue.
@@MyDeepGuide Please don't spread this myth about human eyesight having frames per second. Human eyes don't work like that and perception can't be reduced to a single number.
Why then there is a significant difference between motion picture viewed at 24 vs 60 FPS? Why now 120Hz screen refreshing is becoming industry standard? Because 24 is a minimum to keep the feeling of the smoothness. A MINIMUM.
This is fairly simplified article about the topic, but no, it's not a myth (!?) and it's not a simple number, since it depends on the distance from the eyes, eye movement, obejct movement relative to the eye, light conditions, age of the eye and vision persistency. But for general case scenarios, of course that it can be placed in a rough ballpark number. It's completely silly to say otherwise :)
www.healthline.com/health/human-eye-fps#how-vision-works
Finally!! You are awesome 👏 👏👏👏
Great guide, only thing that is missing is: Please make a photo or otherwise save the ssh password!! If you make a mistake and cant access the PW on the device itself there is NO WAY to rectify your mistake besides ssh, so keep it safe somewhere!
Thanks, but I do clearly say that you need to make a note of the login information.
@@MyDeepGuide sorry must have missed that somehow! great guides! :)
I use this fix by update 2.5. By starting the RM2 the screen get stuck at starting. It scared the hell out of me, but the RM2 is still
accessible via WinSCP. So I restore the original file Xochitl, and the RM2 is restored and correctly starting.
Are there more people with this problem?
Hence, why I avoid hacks.
Just tried this with my new RM2, worked great, no problems. I have the latest software version 2.5.x.
Help! So this did work perfectly but then after changing the smoothness and restarting it's now stuck on the "Remarkable is starting" screen... Force restart doesn't work, force shutdown doesn't work... Any ideas? (pretty please)
Sorry, but I don't know about that. As I said, these are hacks, and that is the reason why I warn against them.
I have read another user that had such a problem on the FB user group, but I don't remember if and how they solved it. Hope you fix it.
@@MyDeepGuide Thanks for the reply (and a great hack apart from this) I hope it's fixable too!
Check the FB group, hopefully someone can help there. Also check the redit remarkable channel, lot's of awesome folks there too and a much friendlier community than the FB group.
@@MyDeepGuide Thanks so much!
Hi. I would recommend to obfuscate sensitive information such as password or IP address.
I never keep the device online except for updates, but yes, sound advice for those that are online.
12:30 Let's please add that this line has to be in the right place, is CaSe sEnSiTiVe, and probably shouldn't have any spa ces
This has already been said, quite clearly in the video.
@@MyDeepGuide
Ok, then I missed it. XD
Awesome community!!!
Voja, is this fix sufficient for you to return to using the RM2 for your work like before?
If it was just down to the jagged lines, yes. But as I said in my Note Air review, it's all of the limitations of the rM device that simply don't make it a device i can use normally at this point.
So, no. Note Air is my main driver now, and i couldn't be happier with it. As i always said, i do a lot of reading and document marking (not scribbling). Recently i discovered yet another limitation with the reMarkable, which makes it physically impossible for me to get the documents I need onto it (very large documents never successfully sync and thus never get transferred into the device, they keep failing). So no, I'm fed up with the inadequacies of the remarkable's software platform and the company's unwillingness to take their product seriously. I mean c'mon, a new brush and a new font and a slowdown optimization are the updates we've gotten in the past 3 months without a single issue being acknowledged, addressed or solved. While my Note Air has gotten 4-5 updates in November alone, with 99% of the content being fixes and improvements. It's a very easy choice for me.
@@MyDeepGuide Hello, The one thing that stops me from getting into the Note Air or Note 3 is the screen protector.
@@MyDeepGuide Thanks for your honest reply. I sold my RM1 without regrets and am loving my Note Air more and more. Some say the learning curve is a “con” but I don’t feel that way. It’s a fact of life, no pain no gain. The more time you invest into learning the device’s features and capabilities, the more use and value you’d get out of it.
@@dkin5661 I don’t use any screen protector on any of my Boox devices.
@@Snow3573 Thank you for the reply. I was under the impression that in order to have the paper like feel the screen protector was necessary. Thank you for the solid information.
Hey Voya, has the latest remarkable update solved this problem? Or is it still a useful download? Thank you
This has been resolved about a year ago.
@@MyDeepGuide Thank you
This may have happend already - but if there is a fix to jagged lines - why cant reMarkable do this for us?
Because they don't consider it a priority, according to their responses to users who brought up the issue.
Remarkable is a joke! Due to there behaviour they lost a lot of customers and that's what they deserve.
They should pay or hire the hackers. Without them they would loose even more.
What number did you settle on for the smoothness hack?
I liked 16 best, but i disabled and removed it, because it is a hack solution, and as such, it can and for some users does bring instability in the device. This was simply to test it out and see what do we get.
@@MyDeepGuide Just a thought. Did you try the Marker Plus as it looked like you were using the basic Marker.
In my original review I used the marker plus. I personally use the regular marker. Pens or tips make no difference if the jagged lines will be there, as it is a conscious design decision on their part to achieve that 27ms latency speed and is linked to the device, not the pen.
@@MyDeepGuide one last thing. When considering build quality and ereader use do you think the A5X are ok? I just don't seem to care for Onyx. I like simple purest approach. That's just me. Or do you think there is another unit I have missed for build quality and ereader use?
You can watch my A5X review and the first chapter is the Build Quality and Design.
Does every Remarkable unit have this issue? I don't see any jagged lines on mind, should I still try this hack?
Haha no you shouldn't if you can't even tell.
Nice one!
Great! Would this be cancelled in case of whatsoever software update?
Probably yes, I'm not sure.
Possibly, depending on what Remarkable does with the /lib/systemd/system/xochitl.service when the new version is installed
@@MyDeepGuide Only probably if they actually fix the issue.
There's a chance that any OS update would overwrite that systemd config file, but you could always re-edit it.
There's another chance that an OS update would make it incompatible. I dunno.
@@RamLaska That the OS update would render it unusable is very very unlikely given it is a Linux OS as long as you have the config file set up. But that it would be obsolete is a possibility if Remarkable actually gets around fixing this
Who filled out the survey? Of course I want the option for less lag or smooth linestrokes. And support for other cloud storage solutions. And more stuff.
YEEEEEEEESSSSHHHHH
Is anyone have trouble copying and pasting the 32 files over to remarkable? It does not let me drag either.
I initially encountered a similar problem, and then I found out that if I drag/drop files one by one - it worked out :-)
Someone asked in the comments if the OS update deletes the fix: the answer is YES, the update to 2.5.0.27 has deleted the fix, I needed to reinstall it
Such a clever hack!! And the knowledge of internals (e.g. github.com/funkey/recept/blob/main/recept.cpp#L91-L104) is unbelievable. I bet with a little bit of DSP (instead of a moving average) one can avoid the increased lag (maybe) - but other than this, wow wow!!
My guess is that reMarkable could've easily done this fix too, but decided it wasn't worth it so they could brag about their incredibly low latency. Very poor choice as it was one of the reasons I went for the Note Air instead.
Why the hell does it look so much better on rM1? They really messed up with the design or whatever that made this happen.
Imagine a car that has 800 BHP and no traction control. That's rM2. 4096 pressure sensitivity levels and zero filtering so that it could be the fastest of them all. Quite a high price to pay for that speed.
Maybe the latency is the thing rM traded for the jagged line.
Wow! Fxxking Jagged Line issues is gone.
Thank you very much this is very helpful. But, and taking nothing away from the super contribution by Flunkey, should not be necessary. For me it just highlights the poor product delivery, and lack lustre support and interest from reMarkable.
I think it's an example of snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. RM2 should have been wonderful, but isn't. It doesn't matter how good the hardware is if the software fails to impress.
The selling point of low latency comes at the expense of fuzzy and wobbly lines, and a fix puts rm2 latency on par with the competition. This and the lack of all round features, compared to the competition, leaves me wondering the point of buying a reMarkable? I think I'll be returning my two rm2 orders when they eventually arrive and be buying from Onyx.
Since I've first reviewed it and received my unit in September, my impression of the device is just sinking and now it seems to be in free fall, simply because they do nothing of substance to it. It seems that they simply do not care about the users and only care about the marketing of it and name dropping of celebrity users in order to further boost their marketing and that the actual users and customers are used to further finance the marketing machine. It's the biggest waste of what could have been and should have been one of the most amazing devices of 2020. Sadly, it's extremely far from it.
i dont have Jagged lines in rem2 (batch 7)
11:19 I'm disappointed that you didn't try pronouncing it. LOL
From what I can gather, it's pronounced SoCheel, or marginally (and perhaps more traditionally, ShoCheel)
But you should really ask someone from mexico.
It means flower.
Actually, xochitl “flower(s)” is a word in Nahuatl, which is widely spoken today in Central Mexico and was the language of the Aztecs. The word is pronounced SHOchitl, with the emphasis on the SHO. The tl at the end is not tul or the like, as most non-speakers (including most Mexicans) tend to pronounce it, but is a single sound more akin to an l. You’d need to hear it to be able to imitate it! Unless you’re Welsh or Icelandic, in which case it’s like your ll.
How embarrassing for Remarkable. I think they would do well to consider investing in some decent coders rather than spending money on sending excuse filled literature to users.
The more I see of how this company operates the happier I am with my decision to get the Note Air.
With or without the fix, handwriting just doesn't look as good on the remarkable as any of the boox products, or the papyr, or the super note I've watched the reviews for. So not only do you get bad looking handwriting, you have a company ignoring the wants of its users and making the community come up with a fix. Not sure why people would support this product at this point.
So it's not just me? I keep noticing that the handwriting is a bit messier, and i have no idea why or what is going on. Sometimes I think it's just my subjective impression, then again, I keep having that same impression over and over again... But I have no idea what it is, or why i get that impression.
@@MyDeepGuide , that makes three of us. In the video it is clear that the handwriring (with and without smoothing) is, let me say, "pixely".
Pixelation I understand, it's because there's no antialiasing (which all of the competitors have at this stage, btw), but there just something I can't put my finger on that makes the end result messier than on other devices. However, as I said, i was thinking that it was a subjective impression only.
It's because rM doesn't use antialiasing, which I would only want if it was instant. No way I wanna see my text transform in front of me like on Boox. (I know you can turn it off)
This is why I am using only the mechanical pencil with my Remarkable 1. By construction the mechanical pencil hides this problem and you do not noticing this pixelation, it is not that is fixed but that it is cleverly hided. It is the first thing I noticed when I received my remarkable six months ago. Everyone was praising the remarkable’s hand writing but to me it was hugely lacking in smoothness in comparison to my iPad Pro. It was a mystery to me because I had in the past the first Samsung note 10.1 based on the same wakom technology and I was very happy with the writing experience although that device was lacking considerably in other aspects. The last years I fell in love with my iPad Pro using a mate screen protector but nothing is so good as an e-ink screen. I fell instantly in love with the eink screen although initially I was disappointed with the smoothness of the handwriting given the hype on the Facebook. I thought my signature in iPad Pro is exported in papers like a proper scanned handwritten paper and in remarkable it seems so digital I wonder why there this hype about remarkable’s handwriting quality out there? I came to realise that the best and only solution for me is to use the mechanical pencil and now I am in love also with the handwriting experience of my remarkable. Is instant, quiet with no correction in front of my eyes and the feel of writing on plastic is unparalleled, I do not want to write on glass any more. There are inherent limitations with eink technology, with obviously the elephant in the room being the lack of colour, but as an analogy is like living in the black and white TV era. The technology is not there yet given also the fact that a giant player like Apple seems to not backing this technology yet. My dream device would be hardware wise a lightweight 13.3 colour eink with a plastic flush screen exactly like PAPYR but with Onyx pdf annotation/e-reader software capabilities and the ability to use many different wakom pens like remarkable and onyx. Seems that Max LUMI is the best device so far for me. Does onyx has a similar mechanical pencil that hides this smoothness issue which I guess is an inherit limitation of the current state of eink technology?
It’s about money. They will probably come up with a fix and have y’all buy a program in order to fix it! Just saying!
This has already been significantly remedied now in the update 2.6. Not eliminated, but much improved.
2x speed