Smartpen Settings

The smartpen has several settings that you can configure. Following is a list of settings.

You can access settings by tapping the center of the Menu button. Then tap down to Settings and tap right to select. Next tap down to the setting you want and tap right to select.

Alternatively, many settings have a paper button that you can tap.

Setting Name	Allowed Values	Description
Audio Compression	High, Medium, Low	Amount of compression to apply to new audio recordings. Recording with a higher compression produces smaller audio files, but reduced audio quality. See Setting Audio Compression
Auto-off time	30 minutes, 1 hr, 2hrs, 4 hrs	Amount of time with no smartpen activity after which smartpen automatically turns itself off. See Setting the Smartpen Auto-Off Time
Date format	mm.dd.yy, dd.mm.yy, yy.mm.dd	Display format for components of the smartpen date. See Setting the Date Format
Display brightness	100%, 90%, 75%, 50%, 10%	Brightness of the smartpen screen. See Setting Screen Brightness
Display orientation	Right-handed, Left-handed	Orientation of the smartpen screen to accommodate the handedness of users. See Setting Screen Orientation
Erase all content and settings	(none)	Erases all notes, audio, and settings from the smartpen. Important: Before using this feature, read Erase All Content and Settings and make sure you understand it!
Launch line	On, Off	Availability of the Launch Line feature. See Launching Apps with Launch Line
Locale	Several major languages	Current locale (language) of the smartpen. See Changing Smartpen Locale
Menu voice	On, Off	Control of the voice that accompanies menu navigation on the smartpen and announces questions and results in some apps. See Enabling or Disabling Menu Voice
Microphone sensitivity	Automatic, Lecture hall, Conference room	Recording environment for which the smartpen microphone is currently optimized. See Setting Microphone Sensitivity
Playback latency	On, Off.	Smartpen can briefly delay the start of audio playback. This compensates for the normal pause between listening to the speaker and writing a note. See Enabling or Disabling Playback Latency
Scroll speed	1 to 10. The 10 setting produces the fastest scroll speed. The 1 setting, the slowest.	Speed at which the smartpen screen horizontally scrolls text that is too long for static display. See Setting Scroll Speed
Shortcut Buttons	By default, Shortcut Button 1 is assigned to Sync. The others have no defaults. Once set, each button is assigned to whatever app name or Quick Command you wrote.	Settings for the 3 Shortcut Buttons printed at the top of pages in many Livescribe notebooks. Also the setting for changing the double-tap action of the Home button. See Shortcut Buttons
Smartpen name	(Depends)	Displays the name you specified during smartpen setup.
Time format	12-hour, 24-hour	Clock format in which the smartpen time is displayed. See Setting the Time Format
WiFi Settings	A submenu	Displays WiFi Settings menu. See Controlling Connections with the WiFi Settings Menu For an alphabetical list, see WiFi Settings.