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[Nook Color General] pwlorraine:
I have ubuntu running on an older laptop and love it - I have a macbook air for my own use, wife and I each have dell windows laptops for work, son has a high end windows system for gaming - I'm very agnostic about computers.

I took one of my step-daughter's old windows laptops and repurposed it to ubuntu. Prior to the macbook air, this was my machine for personal use - android development, etc. Ubuntu is fiddlier than windows to get set up - finding the right driver's can take some effort - but I've found the performance you get from your hardware to be exceptional. There are a lot of good software solutions available on ubuntu now - open office has free software that largely replaces word, ppt, excel. Graphics are nice, chrome and firefox are both available and are very stable, and updating and maintenance aren't a big issue. My wife uses it now as her primary non-work computer - does all her options trading on it. I'd definitely look at ubuntu on an older machine if you don't require windows compatibility for work reasons. Unix was an amazing concept and its children have been very successful - linux, ubuntu (variation of linux), mac osX, iOS, android.

My macbook air though is by *far* the best computer I've ever owned, followed by the ubuntu laptop which shames my work dell laptop running windows XP. The macbook is incredibly stable and *fast* compared to my work laptop which is severely bogged down by corporate software. Office 2011 on my macbook is far faster than office 2010 on my windows laptop which has the faster processor. Windows doesn't have to be slow but gets severely clogged up very quickly.

The nook color is not a substitute for any of these. It really is suited for content consumption rather than creation - I wouldn't want to write a report on this. If I were strapped for money, I'd look for an inexpensive or used pc laptop. On the used one, I'd put on ubuntu.

Peter
[Nook Color General] muqali:
I'm assuming the Nook Color is a little less powerful than my g tablet. That being said, I'd opt for a netbook, maybe one of the convertible ones if I needed to type anything but needed small size.
[Nook Color General] dsf3g:
From what I've read, CM7 is still running nightly builds. No release version yet (or even release candidate).
[Nook Color General] topikamew:
Yea i've done all of that, and everything works fine except msoffice capabilites and how good the bluetooth keyboard is thru wifi. Im typing thru slideit right now, and although the best keyboard so far for the nook, its function is limited by the screen which can register things one at a time not very fast.

I am not looking for another tablet, but something that can run win7 relatively fast. My computer died after me spilling hot water on it, nothing turns on so im thinking that the hdd isn't affected, only the power supply. My usb coincidentally has win7 on it but for installing. Ive heard of ubuntu bootable drives, anything for windows?
[Nook Color General] topikamew:
yea, I already have this usb installation disk, since I didnt have cds I could use. I am looking for an actual system I can just run off of an external drive. Anyone know about this kind of solution?

Running phiremod nook, which is the most comprehensive rom with cm7 also.

Can anyone share their ubuntu nook experience?
[Nook Color General] poofyhairguy:
Ubuntu is unusable for what you want, but CM7 + A Bluetooth keyboard + Quick Office HD from this thread will do what you want:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=934916&highlight=ink

I use it almost daily.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] frandavid100:
Hey guys,

I just bought my NS and I'm curious about the NFC technology, but there really isn't anything to try it with here in Spain. So far I've only been able to tag my subway card, and even that gives me just an "unidentified tag" message. So I'm having a hard time figuring what use you can give it.

Do you guys give it any actual use in your daily lives? If so, can you share your experiences?
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] frandavid100:
So I guess there aren't a lot of uses yet... :-(
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] navlem:
Google will partner with MasterCard and Citigroup to allow its consumers to use their phones to make payments. :)
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] krohnjw:
I didn't use it with anything until I decided to try to make it useful. Now I use it daily (as well as quite a few others) and don't think I'd want a phone without it given the convenience.

Take a look here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=980741 (development thread) or here https://sites.google.com/site/nfctasklauncher/
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ScotchtapeLoser:
It seems that instead of using gps location variables to set your phone settings like Locale, it would be easy to have an RFID/NFC tag on your desk, car, home that you would place your phone near to configure settings for that location. Ringtones, screen brightness, wifi, etc could all be set.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] frandavid100:
krohnjw,

That seems like the kind of thing that could be really, really useful for the GTD app we're working on. Would you be interested in giving us a hand?
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] krohnjw:
Essentially this is exactly how it's being used by most, myself included. Rcently I've added support for "profiles" so that a single tag can toggle between 2 defined profiles. So one car tag could be hit when entering to go into car mode, and the same tag hit when leaving to return to Home mode or something else.

Sure - what are you looking to do with it? Feel free to PM me.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] m3llon:
I use NFC to trigger different profiles on my phone. Such as my car profile where I enable bluetooth and start up my navigation app.
[Streak 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mesiah:
I have installed streakdroid 1.9 to my streak and it is crashing to the boot when dj steve blinking under streakdroid logo. Any idea ? What may i have done wrong during the flashing ?
[Streak 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Shvetaketu:
Can you give more information please? Does it crash at boot without actually going into the lock screen? Does it go into an endless loop?
[Streak 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rsfinsrq:
Hold the volume up & volume down buttons while powering up, select factory reset from menu options. This typically sorts most issues.
[Streak 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] watermelun:
Using the method mentioned above, wipe (using the default recovery) and reinstall the rom by selecting the pkg from the recovery. It should now work fine.

The wipe options on the streakmod/clockwork recovery do not work
[Streak 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lufc:
All questions to do with streakdroid should be posted in the streakdroid thread thanks

Post closed
[Android Apps and Games] storm717:
I've created a simple app to display the time the CPU spends in each frequency state and the current kernel build. May be useful to some... especially people running OC'ed kernels.

Also useful to confirm which kernel you're currently running.

** DOWNLOAD **

Android Market Link

Error complaining about states file not found? See this post.

*** Thanks to Rainerd for the patch to help with the negative state percentages.

source: https://github.com/bvalosek/cpuspy

previous versions (source only): https://github.com/bvalosek/cpuspy/tags
[Android Apps and Games] lactardjosh:
Works great on my rooted stock KB1 with CogKernel 4.

Since I'm running stock KB1, the full kernel name doesn't show up under About Phone and I've been looking for an easy way to confirm which kernel I've got installed at the moment, especially when I'm jumping from kernel to kernel. This works well.

If you made a (transparent) widget that showed the kernel name, I'd be all over it.
[Android Apps and Games] Hondo209:
This is nice, now you can see what MHz use less of the cpu and you can undervolt more on those specific speeds.
[Android Apps and Games] Johnny Paranoid:
Works on setup in my sig. Useful tool! Thanks!
[Android Apps and Games] iXNyNe:
just out of curiosity this displays total time in state since bootup correct? not like since last unplugged or since last magic trick

*edit

btw bravo, gave ya 5 stars in market
[Android Apps and Games] goodolsen:
Just installed, I'll try it out through out the day and see how things look.
[Android Apps and Games] stinkynoon:
This is incredibly useful, thanks!
[Android Apps and Games] diablo009:
[Request]

Very useful. Thanks mate.

Working on dilligaf's 7.x with dilli pickle kernel, glitterball's kernel and xcaliburinhand's 2.3.5 kernel.

Request:

Could u please add a "reset" feature, if possible, so it would be easier to get the time spent on each state when playing with maximum CPU speeds. Like I might set my max speed to 1000 from 1280 n want to check the time spent at 1000. Right now only a reboot is resetting the data.

Or, like my gut feeling says, is this app reading for this data from anywhere forcing a reboot if the data has to be reset.
[Android Apps and Games] rajendra82:
It's reading the data from:

/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/stats/time_in_state

Which only gets set to zero at each reboot.
[Android Apps and Games] ccdoggy:
Great app!

works perfect on the setup in my sig.

Thanks!
[Android Apps and Games] zacharias.maladroit:
what I had expected

thanks for the info ! :)

so it basically does the same for Android & a really nice GUI

like the console-app cpufreq-info on linux

thanks a lot for coding that app, storm717 ! :)

for me it probably will show 100 MHz for most of the time (due to powersave set in screen-off state) - it's however nice to know what frequency the CPU will spend most of its time in while it's on (the 2nd and 3rd most-used frequency) & dedicating some more UV-stability testing towards that frequency

others that don't use the powersave governor will surely find it even more useful
[Android Apps and Games] Liv33viL:
Handy Tool

Definitely a handy tool to have.

Quick, easy info without with command line for those who really want to know what's going on under the hood quickly and easily.

I did a fly by here this morning and it looks as though word is getting out about this.

Good show..

Peace-
[Android Apps and Games] lospulpo:
LOL at those people saying "Works with setup in my sig!"... like you don't change that setup in your sig 5 times a month... You're gonna confuse all of the people that find this thread next week/month/year/decade/century.

Thanks for the cool app tho. Really do 'preciate it bra, should help UV'ing this sucker.
[Android Apps and Games] kodos96:
Awesome, this is exactly what I was looking for. Thanks!
[Android Apps and Games] Exel:
Great job, man.

Working great on the Vibrant CM7 kernel.

Thanks again!
[Android Apps and Games] storm717:
Glad you guys like it!

Updated to v0.2.0 in the Market -- added the reset timers features a few of yall requested. "reset timers" does what you'd think and "restore timers" returns them to show the time in each state since boot.
[Android Apps and Games] Jemack:
Now that is what I call above and beyond.....thank you. Leaving app now and going to web site just to hit your button.
[Android Apps and Games] rajendra82:
The time readouts in 0.2.0 are getting wrong after I keep the phone running for a long time. Here is the output from the file:

File:

1600 0

1500 0

1400 17001

1300 0

1200 8537

1120 0

1000 27348

900 0

800 434348

600 212601

400 149584

200 152861

100 561535

By the time I took this reading my phone has been up about 13 hours. The sum of all the values is 1563815, which seems to indicate that the values in each state are in terms of 1/33.33 seconds. This appears to be different than when the phone runs for a short time, when the values in the file seem to be in terms of 1/100 of a second. At some point the system must be making a switch to how it records, unless I am interpreting the numbers wrong, and the older times are getting discarded, and the sum has nothing to do with up time. CPU Spy still thinks that the values are in 1/100 of a second, and gives time in 1400 state as 0:2:50, and total of all states as 4:20:38. This can be avoided if the sum of the states values is checked against up time to come up with what the current unit of measurement is.
[Android Apps and Games] storm717:
I'll look into this tonight, but I think this is the correct behavior. The CPU goes into a deep sleep mode after a while and effectively shuts off waiting for external input or something interesting to happen. If this is the case I may add a "deep sleep" row to clarify.
[Android Apps and Games] SeanHacker:
app works as its states. i'm running phoenix ultimate, speedMod K13D, great job man
[Android Apps and Games] hawkerpaul:
Looking pretty good so far mate. Thanks a million! :)

Do you think its better to:

1. Start the timer only if battery on 100% when charger disconnected

2. Start timer+log battery % start comparing battery % drop when you disconnect charger regardless of current battery %age.

Thinking about it, i think (2.) may be the better option. What do you think?
[Android Apps and Games] realgpp:
That's a good news :D :D

Can you explain it in another way because I don't get what you want to say, sorry
[Android Apps and Games] hawkerpaul:
Sorry for the confusion mate.

You mentioned:

- if a cable is puggled out and the battery level is 100% the timer is automatically set.

Do you think its better to reset your values (initial level/juice lost/time spent) when you pull out the charger at any time, and not just when the battery is at 100%

Perhaps "Battery level info since reset/charged" should be "Battery level info since reset/unplugged" instead?
[Android Apps and Games] realgpp:
Well I think it's a matter of personal taste. But I can add a menu option to select the min threshold to activate/set the timer :D

This would be in the next changelog ;)

Thanks for the advice :rolleyes:
[Android Apps and Games] hawkerpaul:
Sounds good. Thanks mate! :)

Or even just an tick box option to "reset data when charger unplugged" perhaps?

But when you think about it, if for example the battery is at 50% and you charge it for 10 mins and its now at 60% and you unplug the charger, the Juice Lost and Time Spent since charged values are pretty much false values as theoretically, Time Spent would just keep on growing if repeatedly charged this way unless they are reset after each unplug or reset manually.

So on this example, when unplugged, I think initial level should then be set to 60% and Juice Lost and Time Spent reset to zero. (ie. on disconnect event, call reset timers menu function)

Great work tho mate. Well done. :D
[Android Apps and Games] realgpp:
Changelog

It's now possible to choose the min value to activate the timer when a cable is unplugged. If the threshold is 0% (see attachemnt) the timer is restored anytime the cable is unplugged.

when cable is plugged-in the timer is deleted

If there is any kind of problem, or a suggestion/advise, let me know :)
[Android Apps and Games] hawkerpaul:
Thanks for that mate. Looking great so far. Good work! :D

I'll have a think for some more suggestions if that's ok.

:)
[Android Apps and Games] realgpp:
Ok, let me know :D
[Android Apps and Games] hawkerpaul:
I've always wondered, but what does the "Restart" function actually do? It never seems to do anything for me.

Ok, here's one :D

When hiding stats that are 1% or under, how about including an "other" graph along with the other reported states which combines all these low %age states and calculate their combined times and overall percentage? Currently, about 6 minutes and 5% of my CPU time is made up of these figures which does not get shown on the graphs.
[Android Apps and Games] realgpp:
Changelog

Removed "Restart" menu option because it's not useful anymore

Added the total state time and relative %age of the "less than 1%" freqs

Here you are :D

Something else? :)
[Android Apps and Games] hawkerpaul:
Cheers mate, you're on a roll now! :)

Trouble is, I'm going to have to think of something else now! :D

Thanks tho mate, great work indeed. :cool:
[Android Apps and Games] ironia.:
unable to install it on crespo..why?
[Android Apps and Games] realgpp:
can you give me some more details? :confused: What's error message(s)?
[Android Apps and Games] ironia.:
I hit 'install' but nothing happen, tried from browser, with usb, and with tapatalk..is the same
[Android Apps and Games] cdmackay:
Do you have a screen filter turned on?

APK installs are disabled when an app already has a full-screen overlay, like a screen filter, for security reasons.
[Android Apps and Games] morganmf:
I'm using this app since I got rooted my EVO, but now when i'm on stock ICS kernel unfortunately i'm not .. :(
[Android Apps and Games] ironia.:
Very strange nothig wad logged..can tohch cancel but no install
[Android Apps and Games] ironia.:
yes i have screen filter, yeah resolved!

"listening for battery changes" means that when i plugged the ac reset the timers??

tnx mate for the great app!
[Android Apps and Games] pcmapas37:
This is one of the standard apps in my phone now. Thanks a lot!
[Android Apps and Games] realgpp:
Yes, and through the setting you can choose the behavior when unplug the cable. :)

You're welcome :)

If you have some additional feature you'd like to have in the app tell me and I'll try to implement it :)
[Android Apps and Games] hawkerpaul:
I never get any data coming through for CPU1, only CPU0, even though I am set for dynamically hotplugging.

Are the figures on the front screen just for CPU0, or are they combined CPU0+CPU1 figures?

Thanks again mate.
[Android Apps and Games] realgpp:
I don't use the stats in the second file because, if any, they are the same of the first file. I've talked with some guy implementing kernel and that's the standard behavior. To have the stats for each core instead of each cpu you must rewrite the kernel driver cpufreq, and it's a difficult operation, they said me. So until the the new driver implementation
[Android Apps and Games] realgpp:
In these days I've added a few things. Let me know what you think about them.

As usual apk and screenshots in the attachments.

Changelog

added connection usage stats, both "total" and "since reset" ones

it's possibile to hide this stats by clicking in the relative black header bar ( for example where it says "Total Statistics" )

added 3 more option in the settings menu:

- Disable Cable Events: if checked (un)plugging the cable doesn't affect the timer

- Disable Connection Events: if checked the app doesn't store the connection usage

- Delete Conn Vars: if clicked connection usage stats will be erased

removed the "On/Off Listen Batt Events" option menu

edit:

Changelog

when phone shutdown/restart timer and connection datas are deleted

added confirmation alertbox to the "Delete Connection Datas" preference
[Android Apps and Games] avidmovies:
Thanks realgpp, you have some quite useful additions to CPUspy.
[Android Apps and Games] realgpp:
you're welcome, my pleasure :D
[Android Apps and Games] ironia.:
plug and unplug the ac but the timers does not reset

i'm using your latest posted version
[Android Apps and Games] realgpp:
check the settings and try this one.

Changelog

Added a warning near connection usage in case of inconsistent values (pic1)

Added a "Show informations" in the settings (pic2)

Added a layout "informations" (pic3)
[Android Apps and Games] mohamedhassan002010:
work

:):laugh: thanx
[Android Apps and Games] ironia.:
ok mate, t latest version posted is fine and timer reset works as expected when unplug the ac

thank you!
[Android Apps and Games] leezhang:
Useful & Convenient

have downloaded,love its capability~~ maybe can improve a little bit about UI~:)
[Android Apps and Games] realgpp:
Glad it works now :)

I can try something. Any suggestion?
[Android Apps and Games] hawkerpaul:
Its getting better that's for sure

As for UI:

1. Show a drop-down arrow on the expandable line headers

2. "Show informations" should read "Show Information", and the screen it opens should read "Information"

3. May be an idea to start putting in a version number to the app and show this on the top of the screen.

4. I know the unused states are being reported but is it possible to also show this information in the bar graphs by creating a new "Other" bar graph perhaps?

I often get huge percentage figures coming through on the wifi usage.

What exactly is the mobile and wifi usage reporting? How is this relating to battery?

Thanks again mate. Great work as usual! :)
[Android Apps and Games] TheCreat:
+1 to having an actual version number, that would be helpful :)
[Android Apps and Games] ironia.:
i have an app crash, but i think was due to first time run after kernel change (from stock to _thalamus)
[Android Apps and Games] realgpp:
ok, I got the message :D

:confused: well, if it happens again let me know it
[Android Apps and Games] realgpp:
Changelog

drop-down arrow on the expandable line headers

corrected the "information" strings

inserted the version app number in the top of the screen (0.5.00)

bugfix about wifi connection timer usage (at least I hope so)

maybe I'm missing something. what should this "other" bar graph represent ? I mean, those freqs are unused so their values are equal to zero.

Those are the time the phone has been connected to wifi or mobile. I think it's releted to battery drain. If I switch off all the connection my phone goes to deep sleep and it last forver, kind of ;). I can't say the same for the phone connected to internet. So I was curious to know which is the difference between the to condition and I thought it'd be usefull to have this info in the app. However you can disable the connection listener and hide the relative stats if you don't like them ;)
[Android Apps and Games] hawkerpaul:
Not entirely sure what the new buttons on the bottom do. Can you give an explanation please mate.

On the top of the screen I get a warning triangle saying "Log file present". What does this mean?

Thanks again

:)

---------- Post added at 04:31 PM ---------- Previous post was at 04:28 PM ----------

I just thought it may be nice to combine these <1% states together to form a new bar graph so you can quickly see how much these combined states have taken up. So create a new bar graph with all the other frequencies called "Other" for example.
[Android Apps and Games] realgpp:
this is a version I'm working on but it's pretty a mess with few random bugs and crash. Just say it's the development branch of the app I'm going to release when it's stable. I uploaded it by mistake. ;)

Ah ok. it's pretty simple to implement, it will be in the next release.
[Android Apps and Games] hawkerpaul:
I have my timer threshold to 0%, and listen for cable events set to ON, but my timers do not reset after I disconnect the charger.

This only seems to work when the battery is at 100%
[Android Apps and Games] realgpp:
Have you uninstalled the buggy version? I'I've changed the apk. I'm using the stable app now and it's working.

Let me know about it
[Android Apps and Games] Smacchio:
The app doesn't work on HTC EVO 3D with ICS rom stock.

Could you fix it?

---------- Post added at 12:38 PM ---------- Previous post was at 12:21 PM ----------

EDIT:

There is the error:

No states file found. Are you sure your phone is compatible?

And this is the error in cpu files:

CPU0

File affected_cpus:

0

File time_in_state:

file doesn't exist:

/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/stats/time_in_state

CPU1

File affected_cpus:

file doesn't exist:

/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu1/cpufreq/affected_cpus

File time_in_state:

file doesn't exist:

/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu1/cpufreq/stats/time_in_state
[Android Apps and Games] realgpp:
Hi, It seems the time_in_state file it isn't in the usual directory, so you can't use the app.

Do me a favor, search the file and tell me the directory where it is so I can add it in the search path.
[Android Apps and Games] Smacchio:
The file doesn't exist.

I think this file is missing in the new kernel.
[Android Apps and Games] realgpp:
bummer. there is nothing I can do. sorry