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Single scan mode is newly added to Point Mobile devices. There are three modes as below.

Read this article to find out the differences and how to use each decode mode.

One Shot decoding / Normal decode

Depending on the OS version, the name of One Shot decoding may be displayed as Normal decode.

APPLIES TO

Android 7
- PM550: 55.X2 (Apr 27 2021) or above
Android 8
- PM85: 85.09 (Jun 23 2021) or above
Android 9
- PM85: 85.21 (Nove 18 2021) or above
- PM90: 90.05 (Oct 30 2021) or above
- PM451: 41.03 (May 28 2021) or above
And other Android 10 or higher models

Single scan mode setting controls the way of on/off the scan trigger. Look at the comparison table below.

	Trigger on	Trigger off
One Shot decoding	Press scan button	Release scan button
Press decoding	Press scan button	Press and release scan button again
Release decoding	Press and release scan button	Press and release scan button again

If you just press (not release) the scan button in release decoding mode, only the aimer is turned on.

In this state, the scanner cannot decode the barcode even if you aim the barcode properly.

But, it is useful when you have to target an exact barcode you want to decode among the barcode book.

The TouchScan (Scan button on the screen) behaves the same as hardware scan button, but when the TouchScan moves, trigger turns off.

You can setup the single scan mode from the device or Scan2Stage.

To setup the mode using device,

To setup using Scan2Stage, (Supports Scan2Stage v10.0.12 and above)