User’s Guide ver. 1.
+ COPYRIGHT NOTICE Thank you for purchasing a COWON product. We do our utmost to deliver DIGITAL PRIDE to our customers. This manual contains information on how to use the product and the precautions to take during use. If you familiarize yourself with this manual, you will have a more enjoyable digital experience. Introduction to website + The address of the product-related website is http://www.COWON.com.
+ COPYRIGHT NOTICE General + COWON is a registered trademark of COWON SYSTEMS, INC. + COWON SYSTEMS, INC. owns the copyright to this manual, and any unauthorized distribution of its contents, whether in part or in its entirety, is strictly prohibited. + COWON SYSTEMS, INC. complies with laws and regulations related to records, disks, videos and games. Users are also encouraged to comply with the relevant laws and regulations. + As soon as you purchase the product, visit the website (http://www.COWON.
+ CONTENTS Before you start! 6 Precautions Package Components Names of Parts and Functions Charging Connecting and Disconnecting the PC Firmware Upgrade Basic Use Buttons Display Media Videos 12 13 Connecting HDMI and AV cables Music Flash Utility Calculator Unit Converter Recorder World Clock Windows Explorer Windows 22
+ CONTENTS Office Documents Pictures Browser Notepad Game Solitaire Freecell Settings 23 32 33 Device Settings Control Panel Icon Reset Power Off Additional 38 Product Specification Converting Video Files Using COWON Media Center - JetAudio Troubleshooting 44
Before you start + Precaution As these precautions are provided for the correct use of the product as well as user safety, be sure to familiarize yourself with them. The company will not be held responsible for any accident that may occur due to the failure to heed these precautions. The following information applies commonly to all products manufactured and produced by COWON SYSTEMS, INC. + Do not use this product for other purposes than those described in this manual.
Before you start + Precaution + Listening at high volume (85 dB and above) for an extended period of time may harm your hearing. + For your protection, use the player in a well lit area where LCD screen will not overly strain your eyes. + Using the player in places with high occurrences of static electricity may cause malfunctions. + In case of using this device primarily for a storage device, it is recommended to back up all data before use. COWON SYSTEMS Inc.
Before you start + Package Components RESET COWON V5 Manual CD, Quickguide Earphones HDMI Cable (Optional) USB 2.0 Cable AV Cable (Composite, S/PDIF) (Optional) AC Adaptor Touch hand strap * Actual package contents may differ from the picture.
Before you start + Names of Parts and Functions POWER and HOLD Switch LED Microphone Volume Control Button Speaker Earphone Jack USB / HDMI Port SD CARD Slot RESET * RESET DC Adaptor Jack Touchscreen Strap Hole * In the event of product malfunction, RESET just cuts off the power without any impact on the product.
Before you start + Charging + Connecting & Disconnecting the PC 1. Connect the adaptor. 1 2 PC 3 2. (When turned off) The charging indicator (LED) is: Red - Charging Green - Charging Completed Turned off – Display off Violet light blinking with red lamp on – Display off during charging 3. (When turned on) The charging icon appears. - I t will be charged quicker through a AC adaptor if the product is turned off. Display will remain blank in this case.
Before you start + Connecting & Disconnecting the PC -D isconnect the product after performing “Safely remove hardware” function. - The following message may appear randomly, but it does not indicate that the product is malfunctioning. Please try again. - I f your operating system does not display the ‘Safe To Remove Hardware’ window, disconnect the player after all transfer operations are completed. -F iles of 4GB or bigger can be transferred when using exFAT.
Basic Use + Buttons 1 + Display Moving and deleting icons on the main user interface screen 2 1. Long - Power ON/OFF 2. Short - Display ON/OFF Recycle Bin 3 4 Hold/Release Icon 3. Hold ON Volume DOWN (-) Volume Date and Time Locked State Battery Capacity Indicator Volume UP (+) - Touchscreen and key operations are disabled in Hold state. - Setting the product in Hold can prevent unwanted operations.
+ Basic Use Media_Videos File Name Move to Main Menu Function Button File Information COWON V5 Playlist Exit Select 13 Display
+ Basic Use Media_Videos Small Playback in the small screen. The function buttons on the right of the Small mode and Full mode are mostly the same. See the description of Full mode below. Some buttons are disabled depending on the mode and status. Playback in full screen. Play Pause Play/Pause the selected file. Prev Next Touch the button shortly during playback to skip by the specified value. Touch the button long to fast forward/rewind.
+ Basic Use Media_Videos Play Repeat All File Once Off Play all video files in the current folder repeatedly. Play the selected video file repeatedly. Play the selected video file just once. Disable repeated playback. Playback Speed 70%~150% Set the playback speed. Skip interval 10sec~5min Set the skip interval. Tap fast forward / rewind button shortly to skip by the specified interval. Seek Speed 10sec~5min Set seek speed.
+ Basic Use Media_Videos Sound Select Audio Select an audio track. *This function only supports AVI, MKV files. 3D Stereo Set 3D stereo effect On/Off when playing a video file. Subtitle 16 Enable Enable/Disable Enable / Disable subtitle display on the screen. Font Arial/Courier New/Times New Roman Set fonts type of the subtitles. Size (Full Screen) Very Small/Small/Medium/Large/Very Large Set subtitle font size displayed on the screen. The set value is applied only in full screen.
+ Basic Use Media_Videos _Connecting HDMI and AV cables + Connecting HDMI cable * HDMI/AV cables are Optional. + Connecting AV cable COWON V5 supports high definition output by HDMI. 1. Connect the HDMI cable to the USB port of COWON V5 and the TV HDMI port. Red 2. Set external TV input to HDMI mode. TV White 3. Play a video file in the video player and click the “TV-Out” Yellow button. (See p14, Video player Orange button description) 4. Check if the HDMI output is normal.
+ Basic Use Media_Music File Name Track Information Move to Main Menu Playlist Set List Size Exit Album Art Function Button Select Mode Repeat 18 COWON V5 Playback Sequence Playback Boundary
+ Basic Use Media_Music Music play menu. A sectional repeat or favorites can be set. Play Pause Play/Pause the selected file. Prev Next Tap the button shortly to move to the previous / next file. Tap and hold the button to fast forward/rewind. Set a sectional repeat. - Touch a start position to repeat, and A will be marked on the function button at the center below the play progress bar. - Touch an end position to set the sectional repeat, and AB will be marked on the function button at the center.
+ Basic Use Media_Music Settings 20 Playback speed 70% ~ 150% Playback speed can be set. Repeat All One Off Play all music files in current folder repeatedly. Play currently playing music file repeatedly. Disable repeated playback. Random On/Off Set random playback of music files in the library. Boundary Folder Sub Folder Favorites Play the music files in the selected folder only. Include music files in subfolders for playback. Play the music files added to Favorites only.
+ Basic Use Media_Flash Menu Minimize File Name Exit Direction Button Function Button *This mode executes Flash (.
+ Basic Use Utility The Utility menu of COWON V5 includes Calculator, Unit Converter, Recorder, World Clock, Windows Explorer, and Windows. 22 Calculator Support general functions for the four fundamental arithmetic operations or engineering functions for formula calculations. Unit Converter Conveniently convert units such as length, area, volume, weight, etc. Recorder Record simple voice memos with the built-in microphone.
+ Basic Use Office_Documents The Office menu of COWON V5 includes Documents, Pictures, Browser, and Notepad.
+ Basic Use Office_Documents Auto scroll and Bookmark settings can be configured in Documents view mode. Up Documents Down Scroll text by set value. Save the current position as a bookmark. View the registered bookmarks in bookmark mode Add BMK Autoscroll Stop Set the auto scroll option. Search and delete stored files and folders. * As multi-selection is not supported, use the Office - Browser mode to delete multiple files. Page Up Files Page Down Move text file list page up/down.
+ Basic Use Office_Documents Settings 25 Scroll by Line/Page Set value for text file scroll. Auto Scroll Delay 1-60sec Set auto skip interval for auto scroll. LCD Brightness 1-10 Set LCD brightness. Font Size 12/14/16 Set text size. Dot Line Show/Hide Show/hide dot line on the screen. Next Page Punctuation Mark/White space Set line break for text files. Color Settings Set documents wallpaper colors.
+ Basic Use Office_Pictures File Name Move to Main Menu Function Button Image Information COWON V5 File List Exit Select Mode 26 Picture Screen
+ Basic Use Office_Pictures Picture menu with zoom in/out. Prev Zoom in Next Show the previous/next image. Zoom out Zoom in/out. Display image files to fit the screen horizontally/vertically. Pictures Fit Rotate Height Vertically display images to fit the screen. *The original image may be enlarged or reduced. Width Horizontally display images to fit the screen. *The original image may be enlarged or reduced. Rotate images. CW 90 CCW 90 Click to rotate images by 90° CW or CCW.
+ Basic Use Office_Pictures View consecutive images such as cartoons by draging the screen. Cartoon Prev Display the previous image by draging left or downward. Next Display the next image by draging right or upward. Quit Exit the cartoon menu by double-tapping on the screen. Display the preview thumbnails of the stored images. Up Thumbnail Right Down Left Move to the image above/below the selected thumbnail. Move to the image on the right/left of the selected thumbnail.
+ Basic Use Office_Pictures Settings for Pictures mode. Up Settings Increase Down Move the menu selection cursor up/down. Decrease Reset Adjust values in the Settings menu. Set to default values. Settings 29 Slide show delay 1sec~1min Set delay time for the slide show. Auto Rotate(Height) On/Off Automatically set the executed image file to show vertically. Fill Screen On/Off Display the image file in full screen regardless of the original width/length.
+ Basic Use Office_Browser Folder and File List Folder Tree Move to Main Menu Selection Mode Exit Adjust Window Size Function Button 30 COWON V5
+ Basic Use Office_Browser Switch the browser to multi-selection mode by tap the button on right top of the screen. Switch the browser to normal selection mode by tap the button on the top of screen. Select all files and folders in the current folder by tap the button on the top of screen. Unselect all files and folders in the current folder by tap the button on the top of screen. Normal Browser which allows you to copy/move/delete multiple files and folders more conveniently.
+ Basic Use Office Notepad is a program to create a brief memo or to read a stored memo file. Directly write letters or make a rough sketch on the screen. Notepad + Game The Game menu of COWON V5 provides games that you can enjoy conveniently.
Settings + Device Settings Display LCD Brightness 1-10 Set LCD brightness. Calibrate Touch Panel Start Calibrate coordinates of the touch screen. Launcher Setting DEFAULT DEFAULT BLUE Set theme to DEFAULT. Set theme to DEFAULT BLUE. Language English Set the menu language. TV Settings NTSC/PAL Set TV-out standard. TV Brightness 1-10 Set TV-out brightness. TV Contrast 1-10 Set TV-out contrast.
Settings + Device Settings Sound Beep Sound Water drop/Balloon/Bell 1/Bell 2/Off Set beep sound for button click. Speaker Mute at rejecting earphone On/Off Set speaker mute when earphone is ejected. SPDIF Out On/Off Set S/PDIF output. Date/Time Date Y/M/D Set date. Time H/M/AM,PM Set time. Recurring Disable/Once/Daily Set alarm cycle. Time H/M/AM,PM Set alarm time. Alarm Option Disable/AUDIO Set a program to run at the specified alarm time.
Settings + Device Settings Power Management Sleep Timer Disable/30min~2hrs later Set a sleep timer. Power automatically turns off at the specified time. (Turns off even during operation) Auto LCD Off (Battery) Disable/15sec~5min later Set auto LCD off when the device runs with built-in batteries. Auto LCD Off (Adaptor) Disable/15sec~5min later Set auto LCD off when the device runs with a wall charger.
Settings + Device Settings Information 36 Product Name Device model name. Product Number View the product number. Program Version Firmware version. OS information OS information. Language of OS Language of OS. NAND Usage Internal memory usage.
Settings + Control Panel + Icon Reset - Reset the icons on the main user interface screen to original factory settings. - You can restore the icons changed or deleted while using the COWON V5 product. User-defined icon settings will be deleted. - Execute Control Panel for WinCE settings after exiting the COWON V5 main menu. You can configure various settings required for using the WinCE OS. - Execute “Start –COWON Launcher (C)” on the WinCE screen to return to the COWON V5 main menu.
Additional + Product Specification Hardware Video Audio Software Power Playback Time (Note 1) 38 COWON V5 Display 4.8” TFT LCD 800x480, WVGA (16.7 Million Color) Remark Touchscreen Channel Stereo Frequency Range 20Hz ~ 20KHz Max Output Stereo, 30mW + 30mW (16 Ω earphones) S/N Ratio 95dB OS Windows CE 6.
Additional + Product Specification Capacity Flash Memory 8GB / 16GB / 32GB, FAT32 / exFAT (Note 2) USB Interface USB Device USB 2.0 High Speed Method Video : HDMI, Composite Video Format NTSC / PAL TV Out Button POWER/HOLD, VOL+, VOL- General System Requirements Size 128.0(W) x 82.0(H) x 15.7(T) mm Weight 197g (Battery Included) Operating Temperature 0 ˚C~ 40 ˚C CPU Pentium III 500MHz or higher OS USB Port Windows 7 / Vista / XP / 2000 / ME MAC OS 10.X / Linux v2.
Additional + Product Specification Specification & Applications are subject to change without notice by firmware upgrades. Movie Player Music Player 40 COWON V5 File Format AVI, WMV, ASF, MP4, MKV, MPG/MPEG, DAT, TS, TP, TRP, M2TS, 3GP Video Codec Xvid, H.
Additional + Product Specification EQ 5 Band Equalizer (EQ Filter) BBE+ BBE, Mach3Bass, 3D Surround, MP Enhance Special Effect Stereo Enhance, Reverb Visualization Album Image Lyrics LDB File Format JPG, BMP, PNG, TIF, RAW (Note 4) Resolution Max 6 Mega Pixel Document Viewer Text Viewer TXT (ANSI, UNICODE, UTF-8) * Max 10MB Recording Voice Recorder Recording Function With Built-in Microphone Others Alarm Music playback Music Player Photo Viewer (Note 1) The max resolution differs a
Additional + Converting Video Files Using COWON MediaCenter - JetAudio 1. Install and run the COWON MediaCenter - JetAudio. 2. Click “Convert” button on the top right hand side. From drop-down menu, select “Convert Video”. 3. From the Convert Video window, click “Add File” to select the files to convert. 4. Check the selected video files in the list. .
Additional + Converting Video Files Using COWON MediaCenter - JetAudio 5. After checking the target folder location to save the converted files and other settings, click on “Start” to start the video conversion process. - You can play movie files that do not play properly by converting them using converting process at the COWON MediaCenter.- Movie files that do not play properly on the product may need to be converted by COWON MediaCenter - JetAudio.
+ Troubleshooting + I am still confused even after reading the manual. COWON website(www.COWON.com) provides support for users of COWON products with FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions). Users are strongly encouraged to check out the website for further information regarding product usages and firmware upgrades. For individual inquiries, please contact us on-line as we will try to help you as best as we can. + The player does not turn on.
+ Troubleshooting + Characters on the display are corrupted. Set your preferred language again in Settings > Display > Language. If the problem persists, set the current font to the system font. COWON products are developed based on the Korean Windows OS, and this may cause corruption of some special fonts or languages on the display. + Computer cannot recognize the player when connected. Try the RESET button in the back.
+ FCC Information to User This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class B digital device, pursuant to Part 15 of the FCC Rules. These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference in a residential installation. This equipment generates, uses and can radiate radio frequency energy and, if not installed and used in accordance with the instructions, may cause harmful interference to radio communications.
+ Battery Replacement + Product Disposal The rechargeable batteries have limited number of charge cycles, and it will require a replacement as capacity to hold power will eventually diminish.The rechargeable batteries in COWON products should be replaced only by official COWON service centers. Please contact batteryreplace@cowon.com for more information on official COWON service centers. COWON products contain built-in rechargeable batteries, and must be separately disposed from household wastes.
+ Battery Replacement + Product Disposal The rechargeable batteries have limited number of charge cycles, and it will require a replacement as capacity to hold power will eventually diminish.The rechargeable batteries in COWON products should be replaced only by official COWON service centers. Please contact batteryreplace@cowon.com for more information on official COWON service centers. COWON products contain built-in rechargeable batteries, and must be separately disposed from household wastes.
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