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[Nook Color Android Development] busyworked:
Eric Wervo,

Yes it becomes a very competent Android tablet. Racks and the developers credited in the original post have done something marvelous here in combination with a very well made device. The size, 7" screen is very convenient fitting inside the coat pocket of two of my coats. No telephone, camera or microphone. If you do not need those things you have a $500 tablet for $250 cost. Plus whatever extended warranty, case, memory cards & apps you choose. I am going with a SquareTrade 3 year drop warranty. With everything I see I am in for about $500 total where I would of been in $750.

Everything else is up for grabs, GPS works, even Blue Tooth but only at very close ranges. I have installed dozens of apps from the Android Market Place and the Amazon App Store, business and entertainment. Even nVidia Tegra 2 Games after a hack app you can find searching the forums. All but one or two ran and only a few were locked to a small screen format. The rest worked just fine. Even the higher powered games run smooth for me. I have yet to throttle up the CPU at all. The screen appears to be LG and it is very good indeed. With a clear screen protector I installed I found the touch even more responsive.

With 6.3 the battery life is about 5 hours for me, with no Juice defender etc. Where B&N Nook booting gets about 8 hours. I still boot into it occasionally because the wifi at some locals likes that software better than Phiremod, for instance Starbucks at Safeway. And of course the ability to read the entire B&N library for an hour when visiting the retail store. Other than that, well I don't even call it a Nook anymore I call it the Android. My 56 year old friend is even requesting I bring it when I see her. She likes Pinball and odd little games and live wallpapers. This is two way interaction she is not getting from TV.

Hope this helps ya.
[Nook Color Android Development] busyworked:
Longer battery life.

Wondering if it is much of a bump in battery life from v6.3? Is it very noticeable?

Update 5/31-Phiremod Nook 6.3 Dualboot SD Flashable Update:

VERSUS

Update 6/22-Phiremod Nook v7-Test Dualboot SD Package Update:
[Nook Color Android Development] lschroeder:
I am on the single version of this software by the same person. Yesterday at 9:00 am I took my nook with me. Today at 4:04 am it was 89%. I did not look at what it was yesterday. The bump in battery life is the big feature for Nook v7-Test.
[Nook Color Android Development] erikwervo:
this is what i need.

thanks for your review mate, well apearently my thought about nook getting better after reading this. as i said before... im having nook today ;)
[Nook Color Android Development] busyworked:
Eric Wervo,

Your welcome. Have fun with it.

L. Schroeder,

Good deal. I was going to skip this update. But that is quite an improvement, I'll give it a whirl in the next day or two. Thanks.
[Nook Color Android Development] fbueller:
I dunno...under PM 6.3 if I keep my unit plugged in to the wall (stock charger and cable) with the screen and wifi running the battery actually drains, even not OC'd. Plus wifi dropouts too. Not too happy with the CM derivatives because of it. Rooting 1.2 emmc and installing over that yields stable battery and wifi.

I wish I could get the damn thing to not drain battery while plugged in (not OC!) but alas CM isn't doing the job.
[Nook Color Android Development] fbueller:
Even better...the 7.1 update .zip won't fit in the boot partition. Any ideas?

Update: Had to remove the wallpaper apk's from the ZIP file to make it fit...
[Nook Color Android Development] coliny59:
I'm running the dual boot with phiremod 6.2 on SD. I tried to update the kernel to the 04242011 version and after setting OC to 1200 or 1300, it immediately freezes. I did the update from recovery and wiped cache and dalvik. Am I sol with a bum CPU?

Update: I updated to the test build and 0618 kernel and now I can OC to 1200...weird
[Nook Color Android Development] master_guapo:
Sorry, I need to ask this cause I haven't found the exact wordings that would tell me clearly what I need to know. If I use the SD card to boot, I know it will not touch my internal OS. Do you mean to say that if I reboot my nook without the SD, it will show my stock nook os? And If I use the, SD card with images then it will use the OS from SD, similar to Linux Live CD? Is my assumption correct?

Thanks.
[Nook Color Android Development] racks11479:
I must say, my grammar there was not very clear! lol :D

And yes, you are correct in your assumptions. :)

-Racks
[Nook Color Android Development] frankfan:
beginner, Please help

Hi, I am new to Noor color, and I just got one from craigslist. I have spent 2 days in reading this thread, and I am still not able to flash correctly. Please help with my Questions.

1)how to flash the zip file into the SD card. I download the zip, but how do I copy the zip file to the SD card using my windows PC. I have a 8g card.

2)How can I install the OS into the internal memory rather than booting from the SD card

I have use try to prepare a bootable SD card, but I dont know how to load the zip file into the bootable SD.

Please help and thank in advance
[Nook Color Android Development] kwyrt:
1. Your first problem is you do not flash the zip file to the MicroSD card. You need to burn the ISO file that is contained WITHIN the zip file. So first you need to use a program like 7zip to extract the ISO from the zip file. Then you use a program like Win32DiskImage to burn the image to your MicroSD card.

2. If you want to install the OS to the internal memory you will need to find a different thread. There are all kinds of threads about installing to the EMMC.

Good luck!
[Nook Color Android Development] chocolatet:
Hey racks would it be possible for you to make a dualboot iso with the 6.3 mod because when I tried to update it caused a bricked nook it never loaded to the 6.3 forcing me to have to locate a nook stock rom to repair it
[Nook Color Android Development] rydo88:
Thanks for your work racks.

I've been playing around with the test for 7, figured I'd report back with my findings. The first time I put it on, it ran fine for the first 2 boots or so. Then it would boot to the main screen, show that it was mounting the sd, decide it needed to check the card, then freezes (i assume it dismounts the card at that point, which would kill the system running from it). After about 2 more times wiping the card and reinstalling (and 1 time with my other card [both my cards have worked fine with cm7]), I got the same response. I noticed that when I boot to stcok, it's mounting boot rather than the sd partition, not sure if that may be part of the issue or not. Was running the Dalingrin kernel, but that was the only change I made (having seen others say it worked).

In the meantime I'm back to 6.3 which is running fine. However, stock is still mounting boot rather than sd (which would discredit that being a cause of the other issue). Is there a way to change that or does stock always mount the 1st partition? (Just a thought if that's the case- could one adjust rooted stock to mount the sdcard partition) [however you make these 2 do that, could it be applied to root stock]?

Thanks again.
[Nook Color Android Development] deadwolfbones:
So I've been using and really enjoying this setup, but I have one major issue that is making me consider returning the Nook (got a week left in my 14-day refund period)... namely, the battery drain when the Nook is idle, presumably due to a lack of proper "deep sleep" with this kernel. I'm losing about 1% of battery per hour that the Nook is sitting idle, which is mightily annoying. If the bootup time were quicker I'd just power it down, but I really like having one-touch waking with it.

Anyone know if any progress has been made recently to prevent this power loss when "sleeping"?
[Nook Color Android Development] racks11479:
Update to the V7-Test build in the OP. It is based off one of the later nightlies that has deep sleep. Any previous versions by phiremod doesn't have deep sleep.

-Racks
[Nook Color Android Development] deadwolfbones:
Appreciate it. I'll give that a try tonight. :)
[Nook Color Android Development] Ryukou:
Just missed!!!

I been using the dualboot perfectly, but each time I make a rom update I lost my HC alternate rom. It's just stock in ANDROID _. Any idea why?! Any help, will be appreciated.
[Nook Color Android Development] busyworked:
Deleted as I was too tired to make any sense.
[Nook Color Android Development] deadwolfbones:
Upgraded to the latest version of Phiremod and didn't lose any battery % while it was sleeping overnight. Fantastic! :cool:

Thanks so much, Racks.
[Nook Color Android Development] racks11479:
Some have reported the same issue, although I've never come across it myself. I've even tried flashing multiple times to see if it will break my HC install. Still no issues. Only thing I could suggest is to backup your apps with TB and reflash a honeycomb update.

Sorry for the troubles you are running into..

-Racks
[Nook Color Android Development] racks11479:
Glad it worked out for ya! Don't forget to also thank the Dev's that made these roms as wonderful as they are! :D

-Racks
[Nook Color Android Development] Ryukou:
Thanx for the response, you're a very nice guy. I will try again, to see what happen?!
[Nook Color Android Development] paleh0rse:
woops, wrong thread.
[Nook Color Android Development] busyworked:
All went well with my,

6/22-Phiremod Nook v7-Test Dualboot SD Package Update.

No drain over night and no problem with charging while on for me. So now there is no need to ever turn my Nook-Droid off. Most excellent.

Loaded ChainFire 3D driver and Samurai Vengeance II Tegra game and smooth with no overclocking.

Thanks Racks, may PayPal rain thanks down on all of you.
[Nook Color Android Development] racks11479:
You sir rock! :D

Gonna try and not sound like a lush and thank you for the burger instead of a beer! :p

Thanks again. Much appreciated. :D

-Racks
[Nook Color Android Development] busyworked:
My pleasure Racks.

I have had a ball with this thing. It is kind of like LEGO, an ever evolving toy.

I have yet to dig into evaluating the project management software and read the business books I wanted the gizmo for in the first place. Hopefully in the next couple weeks.

The update came in handy as I had locked my self out of most functions by setting the DPI (Display Pixels per Inch) to 50; BIG silly mistake. I actually had to use a 5 power magnifying loupe to read the font before I applied the update. Surprisingly each letter was very clear.

Anyhow for anyone with low vision or just older eyes like mine, you might like my solution.

Install Blade Buddy (Pro to keep settings after reboots.) Choose advanced and set qemu.sf.lcd_density to 250. You must press the menu button, save and then save+Reboot. Works great for me. It automaticaly reset Spare Parts+ Pro Font Size to normal which is fine since the Blade Buddy setting covers everything for me at least so far.

There is another DPI setting in Blade Buddy before that one actually ro.sf.lcd_density I just set it to 250 as well but saw no difference right off. So the first setting alone might of done all I needed.

Anyhow I will throw down some keywords in case some one else searches the forums for a solution to small fonts like I did.

keywords dpi, lcd display pixel size, pixels per inch, change font fonts size, words, icon size.
[Nook Color Android Development] bmar08:
Hello all,

I just recently purchased a NC because of reading on the site here about using it as a tablet. There is one thing that is kind of stumping me.. On the NookColor Dev site it says to load the full Android and Market on the NC you need to Root it first. Is this true with loading this ROM and running it from the SD Card? I have been modding WinMo phones for years and from what i read it seems just basically the same where everything runs from the SD card as far as the Android and everything else on the NC stays the same. Im really wanting a Honeycomb ROM going on it because its the latest version and would still like to be able to utilize the warranty if needed and something was to happen to the NC. Any answers would be greatly appreciated..
[Nook Color Android Development] busyworked:
What Racks and the others has put together gives you a brief boot screen that gives you the option to load the Nook software or android stable or the still weaker Honeycomb as it is not complete as they do not have the source code yet.

If you take the SD card out, it is as if you never changed a thing. The Nook software isn't bad its just limited. As for warranty you have through Barnes for 2 years or Squaretrade for 3 and I imagine there are other options.
[Nook Color Android Development] bmar08:
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Thanks alot for the reply.. I was reading and it was kinda confusing so thought id ask. Looking on ebay i was seeing TONS of people posting that they were selling SD cards and they were just saying to put in the SD card and it would load without problem and saw this ROM listed while people were saying it was DUal/Tri bootable with the stock rom, the honeycomb, and the Gingerbread 2.3

version. Is it easy to update as the ROM gets updated? or is it not real often the ROM gets updated? Can either of the versions be overclocked? Is battery life as good as if it was loaded on the main memory?
[Nook Color Android Development] bmar08:
when you decide to change versions how to you reboot to the home menu? is there a QuickBoot app or do you hold the power button till it turns off? its burning the img file to my sd card now but wanted to make sure how it all works..
[Nook Color Android Development] phez:
Guys,

Can anyone upload a .img file of v7 test? I am having a ***** of a time trying to get the freakin 7th partition seen by the nook to update from phiremod 6.22. I have tried ESAS and all it keeps doing is creating the 7th partition as FAT32 then I can't mount it in phiremod nor can windows xp see it. Am I missing something simple? I know im a nook noob, but what seems like a simple task has become over complicated.
[Nook Color Android Development] phez:
Thanks for that busyworked, but I have already visited all bar 1 of your links. As stipulated before, its not that I cannot burn the image, it has to do with mounting the sdcard after the image is run on the NC. I have read through this thread and people seem to be having the same issue but nobody as documented it well enough to have a concrete solution that I have found to work. I am not doubting there are skilled folk in this community.

I had originally purchased a 16GB sandisk only to find it was fake. I have now purchased another 16G sandisk class 2 so lets hope I have better luck with this one.
[Nook Color Android Development] busyworked:
Phez, I think I see what you are getting at. I can be dense at times.

You are trying to make use of the whole SD-CARD by adding a 7th partition. There is the rub. What you should do is resize the 6th "sdcard" partition. I have drawn up a diagram that might be useful. Left click on the image below, then right click and save the file if you want to view it in a higher resolution. Tell us if this does the trick for you. Some of this is FAR from obvious.
[Nook Color Android Development] phez:
Thanks very much busyworked, I can now see what is going on. The 6th partition on my sd card is not FAT32. It is another "other" partition. Now I am using win32diskimager with the correct ph-hc-dualboot-sd-v0.2.img file. I have tried on 3 different machines, Win XP, Win 7 and Mac OSX using dd-gui and each time the sdcard is created the same. i.e. 6 partitions, first 1 = boot (FAT32) and the rest "other". I have tried to manually create a 7th partition as FAT32 using ESAS and it still fails. I have tried to also resize the 6th partition and that fails with ESAS.

I have attached an image of a freshly re-written SD card using ph-hc-dualboot-sd-v0.2.img.

Can you confirm it is infact wrong? i.e. the partition structure (volume types) is not as per your default card (ignore the fact that my card is 16GB vs your 8GB).

To my, it seems as though my 6th partition should be FAT32 by default? And I cannot resize it with ESAS. No option.

UPDATE: I have opened the sdcard using "MiniTool partition Wizard home edition" and it reports all the partitions 2-6 are EXT3.
[Nook Color Android Development] phez:
Ok I managed to create a FAT32 6th partition named "sdcard" with partition wizard. Booted into phiremod and still it cannot be mounted. I go to setting -> storage -> mount SD card. Get the error. SD card damaged.

Would love to get to the bottom of this.
[Nook Color Android Development] busyworked:
Ok I had just posted a length (as usual) reply and then say you'r longer post 282. I respond in just a few minutes. Along with the lengthy verbiage I stared in a text file on my desktop. Be right back....
[Nook Color Android Development] phez:
Thanks for all your time busyworked, its very much appreciated.

I think the whole problem is the actual .img file being written to the SD Card. I had a look at the actual image file in there are infact 2 FAT32 partitions, the 2nd one being the "sdcard" partition where data can be written to (see the attached image).

I will try and re-write the image using another imaging program.
[Nook Color Android Development] les02jen17:
Since this installs in the microSD, does that mean that I can have 3 ROMS? Say for example, I have cm7 nightly installed in the eMMC and now I'll get this running off the SD... is it possible? Please confirm?
[Nook Color Android Development] racks11479:
Meant to quote. :)

But yes, two roms on SD and 1 on EMMC. So 3 in all. I'll be prepping a flashable zip for the MIUI rom soon. Once I get an OK from Andmer of course. :)

-Racks
[Nook Color Android Development] les02jen17:
I was about to reply on my nook, but then I realized that the tapatalk app didn't have a 'thanks' option. too bad. I logged into my pc instead. :)

Just wanted to shout out: THANK YOU, ALL OF YOU DEVS OUT THERE, of course that incudes you, racks11479 :D Just wanted to let you guys know that we're truly grateful, because without you, the NC would have been reaaalllyyy boring. :D

Now I'm planning to do this set up now. I'm just wondering though...

What would happen to the 'internal' partition (sometimes dubbed as 'phone memory' when I move apps from it to microSD)? What would happen to it once I have all 3 roms? Does the cm7 nightly (on eMMC) share this partition to the other 2 roms? Will they run okay?

My microSD is 16GB so I suppose I've got plenty of room...
[Nook Color Android Development] busyworked:
Good deal Phez, Win32DiskImager is what I used.

Would you please say:

What PC OS are you working from, Win XP, MAC etc?

What brand-class-size & if possible model# micro sd-card?

What brand, in- or ex-ternal card read-writer are you using?

Post an EASEUS image of your card after your fresh install, with no changes?

And you are welcome for my efforts. Others are reading our post and will chime in if they can see what your snag is or if I miss-inform. Keep at it and kindly answer the questions above, this will help.
[Nook Color Android Development] phez:
Well the time has come and it was the damn memory card!

I purchased an 8GB Sandisk Class4 and it worked first go. I have attached an image what it should look like for those who might have the same problems and can't understand why they can't see the the 6th FAT32 partition. After writing the image to the sdcard, i used partition wizard 6 and expanded it. And upon first boot I saw the sdcard already mounted in phiremod and working perfectly.

Thanks for all your time busyworked. For those that are interested, the micro sdcard that was faulty would not work even after formating the sdcard mbr, doing a full format of the sdcard. The faulty card is infact a fake sandisk 16GB! Lesson learned from purchasing from dodgey ebayers!
[Nook Color Android Development] RPK925:
Hi I downloaded the phiremod/ honeycomb.zip file and wrote the .img to my 8g card. Booting up phiremod works fine, but when I try to boot honeycomb by holding down the "n" button until the android comes up, but it just stays on the black screen with android in the lower left corner. Any suggestions?
[Nook Color Android Development] busyworked:
Phez,

That is super-duper. Nothing like success, especially when we have to struggle for it. I will throw down the listing for 16 GB I bought.

Pay note you want it "Sold by eTech." The link can change over time. Currently $23 bucks out the door.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001F7AJKI

8GB is plenty for most folks. Now you have one heck of a new toy.

Keep in mind many of the developers here at XDA have a PayPal donate link if you click on their profile. Even public domain nerds need pizza to survive, or at least it helps. A few buck beats a kick in the arse, and life deals us all plenty of those.

Here is a link to a series of the CNET folks favorite apps.

http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-19736_...favorite-android-apps-cnet-100/?tag=mncol;txt

I'll throw down a few of my own most used. Keep in mind you want the Amazon App store too, these links below are just from Google. SHop back and forth and you will save doe. And Amazons Free App Of The Day is sometimes very useful. Almost all of these below have free versions, just click on the developers name and you will always see all versions of their software. I liked the following enough to buy them. I am a care giver by nature and one of the ladies I look after loves that particular pinball game with its I think five tables.

Have fun and pop me a PM me if you have a need. BusyWorked.

http://www.amazon.com/mobile-apps/b/ref=sa_menu_adr_app4?ie=UTF8&node=2350149011

https://market.android.com/details?id=com.keramidas.TitaniumBackupPro&feature=search_result

https://market.android.com/details?id=com.droidgram.bladebuddypro

https://market.android.com/details?id=browser.dolphin.firefox.opera.chrome.fennec.license

https://market.android.com/details?id=com.dropbox.android

https://market.android.com/details?id=xcxin.filexpert

https://market.android.com/details?id=com.huffingtonpost.android

https://market.android.com/details?id=com.alphonso.pulse&feature=related_apps

https://market.android.com/details?id=com.tiny.hexslide1kandroid

https://market.android.com/details?id=com.flyersoft.moonreader

https://market.android.com/details?id=bn.ereader

https://market.android.com/details?id=com.pandora.android

https://market.android.com/details?id=com.nix.game.pinball.free

https://market.android.com/details?id=com.rhapsody

https://market.android.com/details?id=com.svox.classic.langpack.eng_gbr_male

https://market.android.com/details?id=com.svox.classic.langpack.eng_usa_male

https://market.android.com/details?id=com.maxmpz.audioplayer

https://market.android.com/details?id=nextapp.websharing.r1

https://market.android.com/details?id=nextapp.systempanel.r1
[Nook Color Android Development] kwyrt:
If I remember correctly you can no longer boot into honeycomb by holding down the "n" button. You have to hit the "n" button when booting to go into the boot menu and select "SD Card" and "Alternate" to boot into Honeycomb. I don't have my NC with me but I believe that is right. Can someone else confirm?