yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Nook Color General] woot1524:
To be honest, both CM7 and less so nookie froyo, are for power users. It may be easy to install, but maintaining and upgrading can be a hassel for people who don't keep up to date with this forum, or android central. However much of a clusterf*ck the stock rom is, atleast there is no maintaining it; if you can use an android phone the stock rom is manageable. Plus if it ever messes up it just reverts back to stock, and can just be re-rooted. If you do go with rooted-stock, remember to install CWM, as to block OTA updates. We still don't know how the two will interact.
[Nook Color General] john10101:
I agree that the stock rooted is a good way to go. but cm7 is stable enough for a standard user i dont think you have to worry about updating it constantly. And if you have to update it, its really quick. If you already have a nook, and your giving it to the inlaws, as long as you see them once and a while, you can quick update it when your there, takes less then 5 min.

in the end no matter which way you go theres shortcomings. it really depends on the user.
[Nook Color General] poofyhairguy:
Here is rundown for Nooks with normal people:

Stock Rooted

+Can use real Nook software

+Has less rough edges

-No Flash

-Is kinda laggy compared to others

Froyo

-No real plusses over CM7

CM7 + Tablet Tweaks

+Most usable version for normals

+Most responsive version

-Requires your extensive setup

-Lower battery life than stock

-No native Nook app if they care
[Nook Color General] Artood2s:
And what happens when the widgets all of the sudden don't want to load? I've had this happen at least 4-5 times. Since I set them up, I can get my folder links, etc. back up in no time. Minor inconvinience. But to the layman, it's a showstopper. Plus, when you customize something for a friend/relative YOU become the IT support. I believe I'm a pretty nice guy, but I can't say I enjoy troubleshooting on the phone with someone who has limited knowledge in computers/Android. So my advice is save yourself the trouble and leave it stock (maybe rooted).
[Nook Color General] miniaturepeddler:
If they want an android tablet then I would suggest that you place Cynomod 7 Release Candidate 1 on the tablet and leave it at that until Release Candidate 2 or later is available. It is a very stable version, equal or better than most of the android releases out there on commercial releases on other tablets (Visio, Xoom, etc).

You can set up the main screen with shortcuts to those programs he wants to utilize, and show him how to add more (lock the screen for him in the meantime).

If they only want an ereader and care not for the android functionality, then simply leave it stock.

Simple.
[Nook Color General] DizzyDen:
I personally would think... given their experience... definately root it... or better yet CM7 it (you'll have to update it frequently right now)... not sure of the feasibility of that for you right now... can update to that down the road when it is "officially released"

HOWEVER... if you decide to go nootered stock... remember that when B&N forces updates it will have to be done again... I would block OTA updates... then after the new OS is nootered or rootable update their nook...

just my opinion... nothing more.
[Nook Color General] lyam23:
The only problem with leaving it stock, is that you have the difficult prospect of explaining what that toolbar at the bottom is. And why are some apps there, and some in extras? And if you install a home replacement to ease things, well then, why are there two places for apps? Which is the right one? How do I make these toolbars disappear? How come I can't read some text next to checkboxes? Why do some of these settings not work? etc...

My point is, no matter what you do, unless you don't do a thing to their NC, you will be tech support. Might as well make it easy with a decent , stable, and simple user interface.

IMO, this can be accomplished better in CM7 with tab tweaks than any other ROM.
[HTC EVO 3D] proskateronnie:
So does anyone know if Sprint/Best Buy or any company is doing some kind of trade in your old Evo pay the difference. Not sure Sprint would do it. I know how they are. But if there's any info on this please post. Kinda disappointed just got my Evo in December.
[HTC EVO 3D] mattfmartin:
Just sell it on craigs list
[HTC EVO 3D] proskateronnie:
Yeah, but value will probably go down when the 3D comes out.
[HTC EVO 3D] superGOAT:
http://radioshack.cexchange.com/onl...tBDmYmQgv+G1hsJdKb5c/KOlpLGqZRlMaOCAOqKlzyQ==

Should be $184 in perfect condition. NO WATER DAMAGE if your water damage indicator is even slightly off color they won't take it.

Also, this is store credit, not cash, but you should be able to buy it at RS.
[HTC EVO 3D] Bp3dots:
Just fyi, those values do go down every so often. Monthly IIRC. So Keep checking.
[HTC EVO 3D] proskateronnie:
I know Best Buy is doing that buy back program. Too bad I didn't buy it at Best Buy.
[HTC EVO 3D] superGOAT:
Both company's buy back programs are jokes. Radio Shack will give you more money though. At least from what I've seen.
[HTC EVO 3D] jstalford:
Even if the value goes down, so will the buyback program. 184 is already less than what you would get on craigslist. If I trade in a 2010 Civic for a 2011, they're not going to give me more money than I could sell it for privately. Trade ins are for convenience, not value.
[Epic 4G General] ss4rob:
Using SystemPanel Lite, I noticed my phone only has 196KB out of 258.3MB free in /system. Yikes. I am running EC05 and rooted (one.click.root.exploitv2.5.5) but the only rooted app I've installed is wireless tether. This seems really bad to me but maybe its not as /data & /cache seem to have plenty of room. Suggestions would be appreciated, thanks.
[Epic 4G General] stir fry a lot:
Go to the market and download App 2 Sd Free
[Epic 4G General] ss4rob:
I think that app only affects /cache and /data - I have plenty of space free there as I move my larger apps to sd card already. /system is unaffected by moving apps to sd, and clearing cache did not change anything either.
[Epic 4G General] musclehead84:
Start deleting the bloateare that you don't want. The phone came preloaded with way to much junk. That will free up your system partition.

Sent From My Evo Killer!!!
[Epic 4G General] ydoucare:
Mine is the same way. /System is 99% full. This is pretty much stock-rooted EC05 with only a few apps installed.
[Epic 4G General] arashed31:
Your /system will NEVER run out of room because it's a read-only section of the device (aka where the OS runs off of). No apps, data, settings, etc are ever written to it. The average user will never personally edit the system files themselves.

If you want to free up pointless space flash a ROM that has bloatware removed.
[Epic 4G General] camarojones:
I ran into that problem while trying to update my hosts file. yoju can delete the asphalt demo program which is 5mb, and you'll have enough free space to do what you may need. Funny though, delete a 5mb program, and have a little over 4mb free. Lol
[Epic 4G General] chris41g:
like arashed said, it was designed to be full... you dont really need room unless you are modifying something on it.. if so remove something else. its a system partition, apps belong on the data partition, or the sdcard..
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cervantesjc:
Does anybody know if heimdall re-partitions? I got away from windows and I knew about heimdall but read in another post that heimdall doesn't re-partitions. Thanks in advance for the help.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] oka1:
short answer.... yes it odes check their website or my posting

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=944598
[Nook Color General] apxf8888:
Why do you buy nook color?

What are you doing with your nook color?

Play games? read ebook? watch movies? or other?
[Nook Color General] khaytsus:
Read pointless posts on XDA....
[Nook Color General] daemonfly:
Remote for XBMC/Media PC and general couch browsing.
[Nook Color General] apxf8888:
I'd like to do a survey of my article
[Nook Color General] EverythingNook:
tablet use. surf the web, play the games, watch some movies, and read a little.
[Nook Color General] Manya3084:
it replaced my net book for when I go on short trips.
[Nook Color General] themitchy:
Sits by my side while doing android dev - useful for browsing api docs, pdf versions of dev books.

Playing Spectral Souls(game rocks!)

Playing Worms until my gf gets mad :rolleyes:

Brainstorming stuff on Thinking Space - that one always make people around the office look :p

-themitchy
[Nook Color General] conlinlord:
I usually use Nook Color to play movies.
[Nook Color General] onclebob:
skateboarding, the 4 wheels roms is needed of course
[Nook Color General] rickrich:
1) Read (!!!) (working on 6th of 7 books of the Foundation series, Prelude to Foundation),

2) geocaching (c:geo, CacheMe, CacheDroid),

3) check in at lots of places (Latitude), and

4) an occasional game (AngryBirds, etc.).
[Nook Color General] tj!2k7:
... watchin' pr0n... lol
[Nook Color General] spikey911:
1) Watching HBO, Showtime, Syfy, TBS, CW, etc since I don't have cable.

2) Watch movies

3) Play emulator games such as Snes, Genesis, Atari, etc..

4) Read

5) Play with new roms
[Nook Color General] Main Target:
How do you want showtime hbo etc?
[Nook Color General] spikey911:
That's a good question as most of their movies are pretty old. I guess better than watching nothing.
[Nook Color General] capnblackleg:
I bought it and use it mostly to read. Reading on a netbook in bed sucks about as much as it sounds. However, having the ability to surf and play games has made the device better than I ever thought it could be. I don't think I'll ever buy another netbook again.
[Nook Color General] sog1971:
What I use it for (In relation to how I used to do these tasks)

1. Read my RSS feeds

* The bigger screen is much better for this (Has replaced my touch for news reading about 90% of the time)

2. Stream my tunez using Audiogalaxy

* The bigger battery makes this possible (More stream time in between recharges has me using the tablet in more cases...unless I need to be mobile around the house -- so about 75% of the streaming happens on the Tablet VS. the touch :)

3. Read books

* Bigger screen for sure...100% of my reading is done on the tablet

4. Play time wasting puzzle games (More and more it seems :)

* Basic puzzle games are great on the bigger screen....But I still find myself using the touch to play the more "complex" games since they are not available for Android...So only about 15% of my gaming time is on the tablet VS. the touch.

5. Light web browsing....(Anything more Is still a chore on either the touch or the tablet -- screen size on the touch and browser speed on the tablet still has me breaking out the laptop for anything more than basic browsing.)
[Nook Color General] lyam23:
Have you tried Opera Mobile? It takes advantage of hardware acceleration and is the fastest renderer I've seen in a mobile browser.
[Nook Color General] MajTom:
I've used my nook for books, no movies, but definitely video, and ever since adding both j4mm3r's Dual boot u-boot.bin (http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=962708) and racks11479 SD card updates (http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=998861), been running new roms ONLY on the SD so I'm not messing with my Stock (rooted) NC. The CM7 rom is awesome, and I've move it to eMMC, but some things haven't yet been moved to the roms, such as the ability to read my magazine subscriptions. Only time will tell, but I do love my NC! :)
[Nook Color General] tablo:
Angry birds arghhh
[Nook Color General] sog1971:
I need to give Mobile 11 a try (with Flash). I don't like flash -- but that does not seem to matter to the interweb content providers. :) Glad that Android supports it.
[Nook Color General] robedney:
Read. I read a lot on the thing. The upside is that the thing I'm reading also has a web browser (Opera mobile 11 is awesome), email checker, game player, music listener (on-line and off), text editor (with bluetooth and Freedom-pro keyboard), and on and on and on. I tether wirelessly to my Droid X whenever I'm not in a wifi area -- works great. I'm running CM7 off an SD card and will probably flash it soon because it really does work. I'm on a computer all day at the office and have a biggish laptop at home. I'm finding that I seldom use the laptop anymore unless I need to do something intensive. The tablet concept really does work for me.

I faced a choice recently. I live on a big boat and my only broadband access is 3G (and hopefully 4G soon). I could upgrade my broadband modem through Verizon to a new 3G/4G usb unit for $100 plus 2 years -- or I could for $200 more right now get the Galaxy Tab (and just use my Droid X to tether my laptop when needed).

I finally decided to stick with a usb 3/4G modem and the Nook. One reason is that when 4G finally hits my area I can plug the modem into a wifi router and have 4G speed on my Nook, laptop and Droid X. Can't wait!
[Nook Color General] migrax:
I would like to do the above but I can't figure out how to get video feeds from cable channels, what program enables you to watch these? I also use my Nook for a Subnet Calculator at work and school. Subnets are a real pain and carrying a laptop around gets old.

migrax
[Nook Color General] woot1524:
I mainly use mine for couch surfing (dolphin HD in desktop mode). Gunbros and Meteor blitz are nice distractions. Though it does seem I spend a lot of time maintaining the OS, CM7, updates and what not.
[Nook Color General] britoso:
Wifi Loops, sleep reboots, random reboots.

Actually use it for IM, Surfing, MP3 player, Videos while flying, Games. The above issues are temporary.
[Nook Color General] timmyjoe42:
Mine mostly collects dust as I don't have time to read on it and don't see the point of playing games on it that I can play on my phone which is already in my hands.

It is better for surfing the web / reading news, but it's easier to use my laptop for that.
[Nook Color General] khaytsus:
Good series, Foundation. :) I read it a few months ago.

But for geocaching, if you're serious about it, GeOrg. Nothing else touches it.
[Nook Color General] animatechnica:
Rofl
[Nook Color General] asselin:
Reading books, magazines. Email, web surfing (mostly reading- if it's something that needs interaction, laptop is better). Watching videos.
[Nook Color General] eozoon:
I mostly use it to read, PerfectViewer for Manga/Comics, RepliGo for scanned PDF and iBunko for Japanese books.

But the thing I enjoy doing most is flashing new roms and nightly updates on to it.
[Nook Color General] devis:
I use it for most everything I use a computer for. I play some games, Grave Defense lately since I finished all Angry Birds. Work and personal email, doc editing, surfing, online banking, tweeting, gtalk, news, soccer scores/standings, some reading, TV watching through Slingbox etc etc. It has pretty much replaced my laptop, unless of course it's something that the NC can't do. I'm roughly 1.74 hours on the train M-F so this little gadget is invaluable to my mental sanity since i loathe public transportation. Always on the lookout for a new ROM and whatever interesting apps I can get my hands on.
[Nook Color General] cutterjohn:
Right now while we await the LONG overdue froyo update it's making an excellent paperweight. :eek: :(

Otherwise like others I'm debating ditching it dependent upon what the update actually ends up being like, just sorry that I wasted my 50% discount on buying a 3y + accidental warranty coverage on it now... probably should go check and see if it's transferrable in the event of a sale...
[Nook Color General] NewZJ:
I hold mine up to my face like I'm talking on it in heavy traffic, should see the looks
[Nook Color General] lyam23:
Why wait for 2.2 when you can put 2.3 on it now? I didn't think going to CM7 with tablet tweaks would make much of a difference in the usability of my NC, but I was wrong. It's like I've got a brand new tablet, now.
[Nook Color General] khaytsus:
Yes, use this to install a CM7 ROM and Google Apps to an SD card. Doesn't touch the internal storage:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1000957

And use this ROM:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1002000

I've been using it full time for a few weeks, I haven't booted back into Eclair yet except to tinker with a few things. With a good Class 6 or Class 10 SD card, it's very fast and works great. If you want/need to go back to Eclair, just shut down, take out the SD card, and boot it.
[Nook Color General] skwalas:
Playing movies? How?

Only slightly off topic, but I'd love some direction on setting up the NC to play movies. it'd be so much better than the laptop for keeping the kids entertained on the plane this summer. Guess there's a couple things I gotta know:

how to get movies onto nook in the first place?

what kind of players? VLC.convert/stream, rockplayer, something-neon-something?

what the heck is handbrake?

Currently on 1.1 nootered, gonna go all-out with CM7 once it's stable (have played with the RC4 and love it, particularly with the tablet tweaks!).

Any directions would be greatly appreciated!

(Diverting back into regular traffic now)

Skwalas
[Nook Color General] britoso:
Froyo for the dsp drivers, then any good player (moboplayer is terrific), videos on your sd card. No conversion/recoding needed unless the video frame size is very large, larger than dvd.
[Nook Color General] Gin1212:
Anything over 480p is overkill... I should know, I'm a A/V enthusiast who calibrates his own tv's and has worked in the "scene" releasing encoded video files of shows and such. The only place 1080p is going to make a difference, is with a projector. Even 720p is only really seeable when you got a tv over 40" and are sitting close to it.

Most "Scene" avi files can be played easily and effectively on CM7 with Rockplayer or Moboplayer. Anything that is "HD" or 720p/1080p is pretty much pointless on the Nook color, and I laugh at the fact that people take 2gb 1080p movies (Don't be scared guys, get the 15-30gb ones, or the actual blu-ray) and compress them down to work on the nook color like it's making a major difference.

At that point, if you care that much about the quality, buy the bluray and encode from the very beginning, as you're just losing quality by recompressing and resizing it down.

Honestly, HW Acceleration is fine if you just want to play with it. But every scene encoded release I've gotten (avi container and xvid codec) have played fine in rockplayer with no stuttering or skips, nothing. Hell, if my wife wants to goto bed and a new [insert show that I legally own =D somehow] came out, I just grab the scene release and toss it on the nook without a hitch.
[Nook Color General] geekyradical:
I'm a visually impaired grad student, so I use my NC extensively to read textbooks, and record notes when I don't have my laptop with me. I also use it to stream Al Jazeera English.
[Nook Color General] d00med:
Thought the ideal condition was to encode video to the nook's resolution, so it isn't upscaling, which would happen with 480p. If people want a crisp picture and have an HD source, then more power to them. I don't see what is laughable about that.
[Nook Color General] w1bmw:
reading pdf reference material

keeping the kid busy in the car

gaming or surfing

remote access (rdp/vnc & ssh) to work machines

I haven't carried a laptop since I got my vibrant, but I haven't carried my reading glasses since I got my nook.
[Nook Color General] jwhited:
I bought it because I've become enamored with Android recently, and at $200 it seemed like too good a deal to pass up. Plus, it's an ideal Android platform due to how open the system is.

I mostly take mine to school, and use it for on-the-go Facebook, web browsing, Pandora, play NES games, etc. Things I would do with my Atrix, but the larger screen and longer battery life of the Nook really help out. To the same capacity, it also serves as a bedside computer.
[Nook Color General] play3r:
What am I doing with my NOOKcolor?

I got it for my wife, actually. :-)

- switching between internal rooted and external CM7

- Angry Birds

- Movie Streamer Lite

- Pulse

- Gmail

- Floating Images

- RockPlayer

- IP Cam Viewer

but we've only had it a few weeks.
[Nook Color General] HWBevin:
I think you can post a poll with this thread
[Nook Color General] Gin1212:
Very true, you never want to upscale(resize) a smaller image to the nook's resolution. However, my main point was that most things can be found already at 480p and fully supported in software mode on the nook color. That said, I don't really care to watch HQ films on this small of a screen and so I find myself watching films that are released in lower qualities. Or shows that I recorded.

And so they're already supported by software mode and look great/good(low quality source...)

If I want to watch a blu-ray, i'll put it on my 73" mitsubishi with onkyo surround system or watch it on the 46" lcd in the living room ;p.

But hey, more power to ya' if you want to sit there an encode movies/shows just so you can use HW acceleration on the nook. =D
[Nook Color General] Divine_Madcat:
A good question for me, would be what don't i do with my nook? Aside from web, gaming, email, multimedia, gps (thank you BT gods), the isn't much it can't do.

As for the video debate - the DSP accellerated video is easier on the CPU, saving battery, so i see no harm in encoding things to make use of the hardware..
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kevinlow:
I am using the SMS unread count widget and i like this app a lot. but i would prefer to launch either GO sms or handcent sms whenever i launch the app, instead of launching the stock SMS.

I've tried to clear default from stock SMS but there is still no option for me to select the program which i like to set as default.

any idea on this??
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] veritasaequita:
use go launcher ex and this get go launcher ex notifier, just seems like a very easy way to do what u want the way u say u would like it and it seems the 2 would compliment one another as well.
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kevinlow:
im using launcher pro now.. in fact i wanna put this on my widget locker lockscreen..

thanks
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kevinlow:
anyone can advise on this?

thanks
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wahur1:
i want to know as well... i tried to clear the default app but strange thing is for stock Messaging "default" is greyed. so i can't even clear it..but i would like to open GoSms through sms unread count :s
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ccctexas:
Anyone? Use SMS Count to open Go SMS so we can get an SMS counter on Widgetlocker screen, but use Go SMS as primary SMS.
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cloudspine:
Bump

Having the exact same problem... Also tried Missed it, but the same thing happens...
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Agoattamer:
Seems this widget has other issues if you read the reviews. I have handcent and it has its own widget that does basically the same thing I believe. Just shows the icon with a number of unread messages? I am betting Go SMS has its own widget too but wouldn't know as I don't use it.
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cloudspine:
True, I use Go SMS, and its widget, but I'd prefer SMS Unread Count for its ability to pick any icon... The Go SMS widget has a choice of three integrated icons which I'm not really fond of...
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] Magicka Hozuka:
Hello, I have HTC Desire, I just registered so far your site has bin helpful to me for rooting my HTC Desire and putting a MiUi Rom on it thanks.

But anyway my problem currently is that i run out of memory on my HTC, and like 80% of apps arent able to be moved onto sd.

Is their some sort of Manual way i move Them to the SD? Because i cant have much apps unless i move them sd.

Sorry if this is wrong section

-Magicka Hozuka