Lenovo Screen Reading Optimizer for X120e (and X100e)

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Colonel O'Neill · #1 Post by **Colonel O'Neill** » Sun Mar 13, 2011 1:34 pm

http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site. ... MIGR-76682

Interesting app, but 9:16 is way to narrow and the not-too-great (not bad either) vertical viewing angles make the screen shimmer parallax-style in portrait mode. Rotation detection is absolutely superb (probably twenty times better than on an iPhone) and works on the X100e.

Also, using a touchpad is really bizarre in portrait mode.

#2 Post by **dorronto** » Sun Mar 13, 2011 1:44 pm

Sounds interesting, but I don't much reading of books, etc. on my x100e.

Any comments from people who download this app and use it would be appreciated..

Thanks,
Ron

Colonel O'Neill · #3 Post by **Colonel O'Neill** » Sun Mar 13, 2011 2:39 pm

I don't either. Especially considering that Windows doesn't support Cleartype with vertical subpixels, there's a weird color fringing to the text.

It also detects any flat position as normal landscape, which is a bit weird.

JaimitoBond · #4 Post by **JaimitoBond** » Sat Mar 19, 2011 12:28 am

installed it on a x100e, doesnt seem to work. where are the settings located? nothing in the thinkvantage toolbox

Colonel O'Neill · #5 Post by **Colonel O'Neill** » Sat Mar 19, 2011 11:01 am

It should have put something in the system tray. Alternatively, look in Task Manager's processes list for a SROrest.exe

JaimitoBond · #6 Post by **JaimitoBond** » Tue Mar 22, 2011 7:05 pm

Colonel O'Neill wrote:It should have put something in the system tray. Alternatively, look in Task Manager's processes list for a SROrest.exe

ok, so the SROest.exe is running. how to test it or customize the settings?

JaimitoBond · #7 Post by **JaimitoBond** » Sun Mar 27, 2011 4:08 pm

never mind, i found it in control panel/appearances.

gear · #8 Post by **gear** » Sun Mar 27, 2011 5:18 pm

i played a bit with this tool, nice auto rotate feature. Not quite practical for content that needs more than 768 px horizontal, but for a ebook seems fine.
what's nice, is the arrow keys are remapped for the new orientation, and the touchpad also, but not the trackpoint, which is 90 degrees off.

Despite the fact that it's weird/unstable to keep a laptop on it's side, I was happy to see a 10C drop in temp. (idle) , compared to regular use (x100e L335).

yak · #9 Post by **yak** » Sun Mar 27, 2011 5:51 pm

Just tried it on an X200. Although X200 isn't listed as supported, it worked without a hitch. And the AFFS mod made this so much better. The only problem -- TrackPoint isn't rotated and because X200 doesn't have a TouchPad, pointing is difficult.

howto · #10 Post by **howto** » Sat Apr 02, 2011 3:30 pm

Just installed this on my x100e and it almost killed my Windows 7 Ultimate x64.
Would not start anymore, had to use the recovery from DVD.

hmmwv · #11 Post by **hmmwv** » Sat Apr 02, 2011 11:09 pm

It got installed successfully on my x100e, however the automatic screen rotation option is grayed out, does it require any additional hardware to detect screen orientation? Mine doesn't have the 3G WAN card. When I rotate the laptop the feature doesn't kick in automatically, I can enable or disable the feature using Ctrl+Alt+R, but it only controls screen brightness, the screen doesn't rotate.

howto · #12 Post by **howto** » Sun Apr 03, 2011 12:18 am

Ctrl+Alt+R?

Where did you get that hotkey from?
Are there more hotkeys, not just for the optimizer?

Colonel O'Neill · #13 Post by **Colonel O'Neill** » Sun Apr 03, 2011 12:47 am

@howto: Lolwut? How'd it kill your Windows? It's a fairly simple program... Also, what class of hotkeys are you talking about? Lenovoware? Windows itself?

@hmmwv: It uses the built in HDD accelerometer (I think you might need ThinkVantage APS installed).
Try going to C:\Program Files\Lenovo\Screen Reading Optimizer and launching the SROCfg.exe

howto · #14 Post by **howto** » Sun Apr 03, 2011 5:18 am

Installation > Restart > first usage.
After first usage I shut down the machine, next start, the screen was black.
Passwordinput was possible but no Desktop.

After Repair, the program was gone and so was the black Desktop.

Colonel O'Neill · #15 Post by **Colonel O'Neill** » Sun Apr 03, 2011 10:31 am

Did you have ThinkVantage Active Protection System installed? From your sig, the 160GB suggests an SSD. It could be that it doesn't expect to not be able to find ThinkVantage APS and gets stuck.

howto · #16 Post by **howto** » Mon Apr 04, 2011 12:06 pm

Ähhh...

No. APS is not installed and I don't have a SSD.

hmmwv · #17 Post by **hmmwv** » Wed Apr 13, 2011 1:48 am

Aha, there is my problem, I have SSD and don't have APS installed, I assume that APS can still be installed even though the SSD will not take command from it to park the reading head? Will give a try on my x120e.

Colonel O'Neill · #18 Post by **Colonel O'Neill** » Wed Apr 13, 2011 6:56 am

Probably; there's no mechanism for the SSD to park anyway.

yak · #19 Post by **yak** » Wed Apr 13, 2011 9:21 pm

You can turn APS off in the control panel and the Screen Reading Optimizer will still be able to sense the accelerometer. This means that auto-rotation will keep working but the system won't try to park the HDD -- perfect for SSD owners.

angel_tere · #20 Post by **angel_tere** » Mon May 16, 2011 12:32 am

Guyz, you can also associate ereader application with Screen Reading Optimizer. So, each time you launch the ereader application
it will be automatically enabled...

Colonel O'Neill · #21 Post by **Colonel O'Neill** » Mon May 16, 2011 7:53 am

You can include which applications you want to enable Screen Reading Optimizer for.

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