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[Nook Color General] iDidItAll4theNookie:
Seems to be about what people expected--froyo, but very locked down. I may upgrade for giggles, but I've had way too good of a time on CM7 stable on the SD. I suppose battery life isn't as great, but realistically, I will probably get a full blown tablet in a year when prices and performance are within reach of the common man. Then the NC can be the eReader it was destined to be. ;)

On a side note, I wonder how hard/expensive it is to replace the NC battery. The back cover comes off, as the display unit at best buy suffered that fate thanks to the security sticky. Looked like the battery was right in back. If I could keep this thing alive for 3-4 years, that would be nice.
[Nook Color General] petey00:
The same thing was happening to me. I had to follow the steps outline here

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1050177

for it to work. It's a bit tedious and I'm sure there's a better way out there but this worked for me.

Cheers
[Nook Color General] BETA.:
How do I install 1.2 without compromising cm7?
[Nook Color General] j4jim:
The question probably won't be CAN I CHANGE the battery - it will probably be WHERE WILL I FIND a NEW battery.
[Nook Color General] A. Nonymous:
This is my problem. I listed the damn thing and demo'd it as having tabletty features. I found someone willing to buy it. Now that this update will break root, I can't sell it. I don't expect BN to support my NC that's rooted, but it's very Applely of them to break root with an update.
[Nook Color General] boborone:
I'm having these issues too. I'm still stock. Bout to take it in to the store.

Sent from a super smooth captivate running andromeda
[Nook Color General] lyam23:
They are installing a brand new OS onto the device. Of course they don't want their OS to be rooted for a ll users. I don't think any android device has ever been supplied with a completely rooted OS. What BN is doing is not unusual, in fact, it's typical.
[Nook Color General] ADude:
The following information is from another Forum:

If the MD5 does not match the one in your downloaded file, then your downloaded file is corrupt and you need to download again.

Free MD5 checker at getmd5checker.com
[Nook Color General] SCWells72:
You do know that even with 1.2 installed on the internal storage, you can have Froyo, CM7, or Honeycomb installed with full "tabletty features" on an SD card, right? Because the SD card gets boot priority, you can then either set it up as dual-boot or just say that when the SD card is inserted, it's a tablet, and when it's not inserted, it's a stock NOOKcolor. I don't consider that broken at all! If anything, it's extremely surprising that B&N still allows it to happen.
[Nook Color General] BethyM:
I downloaded the file, copied to the Nook while it was booted into stock (took the SD out). After a minute or so it appeared to be rebooting -- I saw touch the future of reading. Next was an open box with a status bar and now I'm stuck on a screen. The android bot is in the middle with a white triangle with orange exclamation point over his head. It's been this way for a couple minutes. What now?

I've never rooted it though I've been happily running CM7 on the SDcard.

Edit: I think it has to do with Clockword Mod... Guess I didn't realize it was installed on the emmc and not the sdcard. Will try again.
[Nook Color General] GorillaPimp:
I have the same issues and md5 is correct.

I had Phiremod and CWM installed and used CWM to format and install 1.0.0 from zip. Reboot loop and factory restore process started. 1.2 won't load and gets deleted. Tried renaming the file to Sideload_update.zip and still no go.

I'm about to try to load 1.0.1 via CWM and see if 1.2 or 1.1 will update after that.
[Nook Color General] nigebj:
And reasonable - how are they supposed to support the device properly. If you root a device, you take responsibility for future updates/upgrades - that came with the added capability you enabled.
[Nook Color General] Divine_Madcat:
Btw guys, this isn't so much that they are blocking root... Moving to a whole new means starting the whole system from scratch, and that means no root. That, and froyo does not have the same vulnerabilities that eclair did, making it require a new root method anyway..
[Nook Color General] John Redcorn:
Hi all, my wife has a nook color that was running the bn v 1.0.1. we rooted it with the auto-nooter 2.12.25. all has been going good since.

She told me today she got an email saying an update would be pushed. I had her turn off the wifi on the NC and I don't think anything's happened on it.

Something I'm wondering about I didn't see mentioned, Anyone know dns names or ip addresses I could block on my router to not allow the update through until we are prepared for it? (prepared as in a new auto-nooter being available and us possibly wiping to stock before the bn froyo update)
[Nook Color General] mutant13:
video of update 1.2

http://www.viddler.com/explore/engadget/videos/2713/
[Nook Color General] joogle:
1.2 looks real nice.

So if I restore my auto-nooter and upgrade to 1.2, at some point will I be able to boot like Android Full OS through a sd card.

I have auto-nooter now, but i prefer to just update to 1.2 and have Android Full OS on a SD Card boot
[Nook Color General] jsmith8858:
It was really ****ty of B&N to release this update without first checking with you personally to make sure it doesn't mess up any of your plans.
[Nook Color General] xxiworld:
Be careful, though. If you don't get the right SD card, it doesn't work at all. I looked on XDA forums for recomendations before I bought a Transcend 8GB SD, but neither NookieFroyo nor CM7 stable will run reliably off of it. It runs for a while, and then all the apps start force-closing left and right.
[Nook Color General] ScottyNuttz:
If it's on your SD card the don't worry. I popped the SD card out, did a factory restore, dragged the update over, it ran, 2.2's up and running. Then after about 5 minutesai popped the SD card back in and I'm back on CM7.
[Nook Color General] joogle:
So I'm on auto-nooter nook right now, if I do a restore and reset, then update to 1.2 official.

Will I be able to just plug in the right SD card with CM7/etc. to get it running, any rooting needs to be done there? Or does it boot straight from the SD Card.

Any guide you guys can point towards.

Thanks
[Nook Color General] buellwinkle:
You guys are funny, panicking about the forced 2.2 upgrade. Went though this on my DroidX about 6-8 months ago and had it hacked in a couple of hours. There's no special vunerability to one release over another. Then Verzion decided to put out an upgrade to 2.2.1 and it kept asking me for months but I kept saying no until two weeks ago, I accidently said yes and now it's not rooted anymore but I've been out of town and haven't time to play with and root it again and I'm sure rooting the NC would not be much different. Initually you have to do it the old fasioned way with ADB and some hacked module from another android device to give you superuser access. It's not like Android is a secret, it's all open source.
[Nook Color General] jzibit17:
I would also like to get pointed into a guide.

Also what memory card am I suppose to use I just order a 16gb patriot class 4....
[Nook Color General] BJohnM:
B&N didn't drop the ball. They are selling an ebook reader...NOT a tablet computer. People here just learned to root it and turn it into a tablet computer.

B&N is selling what they want to sell and support...if you want to mod it, that's fine.
[Nook Color General] davidfig:
Yipee! We get apps now. Oh wait, only paid apps. Seems the free ones don't show up. waiting more.....
[Nook Color General] Divine_Madcat:
Just curious -

Can somebody with the new update go here:

http://www.hd-trailers.net/movie/pirates-of-the-caribbean-on-stranger-tides/

and download the trailer #3 720p file (2nd row, middle file), and see if the nook can play it with the stock player? Just a curiosity I am having...
[Nook Color General] chandlerw88:
Johnny depp spamming xda?
[Nook Color General] lafester:
why aren't you rocking 1.2? :p
[Nook Color General] A. Nonymous:
That is fine. No problem with that. Just don't break root on my device and give me an unrooted device that's all. I'm frustrated as I had a buyer all lined up and now I've got nothing that's all.
[Nook Color General] chandlerw88:
That sucks badly but one of the first things I learned on xda was never ota upgrade if you're expecting to keep root. I thought all updates broke them
[Nook Color General] Divine_Madcat:
haha... never been called Johnny Depp before... :P

Actually, i am curious about a 720Decode.so file i found in the /lib/ portion of the update, and am curious just how "720" it really is... :P
[Nook Color General] Divine_Madcat:
Not to be rude, but i challenge you to find ANY maker the released a MAJOR OS update, and did NOT break root (even if they were trying not to). This isn't a simple little patch.. this is a whole new OS people...
[Nook Color General] Paul22000:
Correct. As far as I know, root has been broken for every single OTA update that changes the Android version for whatever device it may be.
[Nook Color General] Cuhulin:
There are free apps there -- I downloaded a couple this morning.

The problem is that there are not many apps in their store yet.
[Nook Color General] iDidItAll4theNookie:
Just to say I tried:

Last night I restored my NC to factory on the emmc in anticipation of the launch. Just downloaded 1.2 and installed it by following B&N's directions (copy to root of drive visible in USB mode). Sure enough, it restarts and installs it, no issues. I pulled my CM7 card through the whole process, and it works fine, too.

Impressions? Unimpressed. Apps are limited, no email app, and the browser is basically the old browser with flash. I didn't see an option to disable flash, which makes normal websites with flash ads a pain. If you are using stock Nook, then this is a helpful upgrade. If, like me, you used CM7 this whole time, then it's probably not going to win you over.

I totally get why B&N run the Nook this way. Full android just isn't what they are trying to do.
[Nook Color General] Cuhulin:
It still boots first to the SD card, unless you set up a multi-boot to the contrary. I have CM7 7.01 on an SD card and 1.2 stock on the internal. Works just fine. (I am still trying to figure out how to get 7.02 working on the sd, but that's a different story.)
[Nook Color General] thoth_19:
Mines Cm7 / Honeycomb Emmc Dual boot but a co worker that has a stock Nook had me load the update on her sd. She loved it... I thought it was a epic fail in comparison...maybe a little harsh but barely any free apps and first flash video force closed...But hey hope standard users make em rich cause i love the Nook hardware!

Impressions on my part, About as useful as a midget in a foot race!
[Nook Color General] sec6:
Tried it in 1.2. Says unsupported file format. It's a .mov extension.
[Nook Color General] searius:
guys I upgrady my NC to 1.2.

and after i tried the factory reset option with the 8 reboots.

after this my NC is back to 1.0.1

So if anyone want to try 1.2 and after revert back to the stock rom 1.0.1 can use the methode with the 8 reboots.and root again the Nook.;)
[Nook Color General] imjimmy:
Hi Everyone -

Anyone knows whether it's possible to replace the battery of the Nook color (NC)?

I have Phiremod 6.1/CM7 installed on the emmc of my NC. My battery is probably fried. The sleep issue is killing me.

I keep the Wifi OFF everytime I put it to sleep. Still it takes around 2.5-3% every hour. So even if I don't use the NC for a whole day the battery almost gets empty. Also my battery isn't doing that well in general. It goes empty after a few hours of continuous use. I mean, my Samsung Epic lasts more than my Nook :(

That's why I wondered whether my NC or battery is defective. I am ready to spend some $$ to get a new battery if I can.

I'm thinking of uninstalling Phiremod. Any suggestions on what to get instead? I mainly use Nook for web browsing/ LOTS of emailing and reading/editing docs.

1) Is there a froyo based ROM that does NOT suffer from battery issues?

2) If I go stock and update to 1.2, can I install stuff like Dolphin HD browser, mobile apps for banking etc?

Thanks in advance and sorry for the long post.
[Nook Color General] Rusdude:
What do you mean by "no email app"? B&N announcement references "full-featured free email to check and send web-based email."
[Nook Color General] boborone:
Back from store with 1.2 nook in hand. Gotta say, really underwhelmed. 167 apps, bout 20 free. Not much in the way of anything really. Only thing I liked were the graphic novel apps. Been test driving stock to make sure all hardware fictions ok. Waiting for the update. Man, I think now it's time I get to flashing the nook.

Sent from a super smooth captivate running andromeda
[Nook Color General] boborone:
It's one of the stock apps. Go to extras and email. It loads it on the nc as part of the os. It works with many email servers, not just google.

Sent from a super smooth captivate running andromeda
[Nook Color General] thoth_19:
Are you using the orignal charger? i wouldnt advise tackling the battery since its internal.

1.) Not sure about 2.2 but i use Cyanogenmod 7. Here is the battery stats: (hadnt used it much lately lol)

2.) I don't think its rooted but i could be wrong. Stock is very limited to apps
[Nook Color General] fpga_guy:
xxiworld said sqlite mod did not block the update. Can someone else confirm? I am wondering (hoping) if it could be something specific to that NC.
[Nook Color General] lanwarrior:
I have the SAME exact problem. I have CM7 running on the SDCard and AFAIK, CM7 did NOT touch the Nook eMMC.

Before the update, I took out my SD Card and let the Nook go to its default OS and everything went just normal. THEN I downloaded the upgrade file from B&N website and following their instruction, copied the file to the Nook while it's connected to the computer (I have a Mac).

Now I got the dreaded Android with triangle exclamation. Pressing the button brings up the CLockworkMod Recovery.

BethyM, how do you fix it?
[Nook Color General] japzone:
Go into Browser settings and change Plug-Ins to On Demand or Off. Don't know why you missed this, it's the same on Froyo and Gingerbread.

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[Nook Color General] japzone:
Just follow steps here:

http://nookdevs.com/Flash_back_to_clean_stock_ROM

This will restore you to the Stock your Nook came with, for me it was v1.0.0. Should work unless you have CWM installed. If you check the Dev forum there are CWM images now available for updating your Nook to 1.2.

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[Nook Color General] japzone:
Get the Original Froyo ROM v0.6.8 I still have it on my spare SD and sleep works fine.

Pop on over to Nookdevs to get it setup.

http://nookdevs.com/Portal:NookColor

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[Nook Color General] androidnc:
If you have CWM installed, I think the nookdevs link above might not work. The best way to do it is put the CWM on the SD card, and book it from SD card to CWM, and flash the 1.0.1 stock image into it. That will bring the NC back to the "fresh" condition.

There is a thread talking about it. But I don't remember the link.
[Nook Color General] glaeken:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=914690
[Nook Color General] anurbanlegend:
Even easier, flash 1.2 straight from CWM from here http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1050520
[Nook Color General] kathyo:
I didn't have much luck with this trailer... asked me for quicktime! LOL
[Nook Color General] davehegel:
im having the same thing .. i thought it is the nook color .. so its not ? *thinking ..*
[Nook Color General] jsthrower:
sdcards

I've tried Kingston, Toshiba, cards and they will not run cm7 reliably for some reason. My pny class 4 works pretty good but seems a little slow at times....BUT my sans disc class 4 ...4gb and 8gb work perfect. I put an image on a second 8gb for backup..and all 3 sans cards work flawlessly and the speed is fast. I will simply buy that brand always in the future.
[Nook Color General] 911jason:
It may be a curated market, but it won't be anything like B&N's meager market. It would undercut their existing Android Appstore market if they launched a device that couldn't take full advantage of it.
[Nook Color General] cheezer38:
I think the new update is great. I d/l pulse and ezpdf. I have flash. I don't think I need much for a ereader. If I can get fb and YouTube apps, that would be great. I can always use the browser.

I don't understand what people are expecting honeycomb? It is not a zoom. It is a ereader+. This is what 80% of the population used most anyways.

I only need a easy way to convert and load moves, and I am set.
[Nook Color General] grampy38:
Blocking OTA?

Does anyone know if setting the fota.mode from "auto" to "manual" in the registry actually prevents automatic updates?

I've been booting off the SD card since yesterday to avoid an automatic update on my rooted over clocked nook.

Thanks
[Nook Color General] jtnave23:
Ad Hoc?

Does anyone who's updated seen if the NC will recognize Ad Hoc networks? Definite feature that I miss on my NC... Thanks!
[Nook Color General] A. Nonymous:
Then they should do like the phone companies (or at least what HTC/VZW do) and give you the option. I could sit there all day with a rooted or unrooted phone and say that I didn't want the update. Now, if I showed up in a store with a broken phone, they may tell me I need the update to get my phone serviced and that's fine, but it's not a mandatory over the air thing that they're going to give you whether you want it or not. I pretty much loathe anything that is forced on me and I don't even have a chance to opt out.

From what I've seen of the market apps, they have apps in there that are completely free on the Android Marketplace, but cost $3-4 on B&N's store. Is that anyone else's experience?
[Nook Color General] cheapestpersonalive:
The stock 1.2 doesn't recognize the Ad Hoc networks whereas Phiremod saw and connected without issues.
[Nook Color General] BigBadger:
Seems some are free and some cost $$. Specifically, some that are free in Android Marketplace are also free in B&N store. Pulse was freee in both. Angry Birds cost $$ at B&N Store.
[Nook Color General] jpeg42:
Is it just me or is the touch screen way more responsive in 1.2 compared to 1.1? On the crossword for example, I could hardly every get a word on the right side of the screen without a few presses. And the 'p' key was always trouble on the keyboard. Now it is seems to be flawless.

Not sure if it was because my 1.1 was rooted, or they made the fixes in 1.2. But I am very happy with this!
[Nook Color General] DarkShim:
NC Update

I have to say this was a ridiculously painless update. I'd thought about rooting my NC for some time, but kept putting it off. I'm kinda glad I didn't root it. Manual update was a breeze. I was sort of like "wtf" when it rebooted because the home screen hadn't changed. But I quickly noticed all the additions. Cheers to B&N for this device.

I think my only issue is that the apps are a lot more costly than on the Android Market. Thinking about it, I'm sure they are optimized to run properly on the NC (it's not exactly the fastest tablet around), so the added cost is probably justified. Either way, Angry Birds ftw! :p
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] thommy5583:
Hey,

I'm using various Sense Roms. In some of them there are a few Sense Apps or Widgets missing. Is it possible to install them manually?

Or to put them into a ROM afterwards?

Does somebody know where to get/download the Sense-APKs?

Hope somebody can help...

greetz TOM
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] mkayik:
I am looking them too.

An example: I like Location widget but rom makers deletes this widget.

How can i find/install sense widgets as this.

And

I am looking for a gingerbread rom with sense. There are a few roms (imilka's, boyppc etc.) but they have lots of missing widgets/features.

Is there a FULLY WORKING GINGERBREAD with SENSE 3.0.

Thanks.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] thesniffer:
Gingerbread Sense 3.0 ROM is still under development and it's in a very alpha stage atm.

Imilka's GB ROM has Sense 2.1 and some issues like camcorder not working and some minor visual glitches.

Here it is what you're looking for mate ;)
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] mkayik:
You are great thesniffer.

Thanks for location widget.

I'm looking and waiting for a rom that has ginger and all sense features. Imilka's sensation sense has sense 3 but there are lots of problems as camera and resulotion problems. So i will wait a stable ginger sense release. Therefore i continue to use boyppc desire rom.

Thanks for reply.

but location apps didn't work. (froya, boyppc). anyway thanks thesniffer..
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] thommy5583:
Hey, could you upload the HTC fav-widget and the Newsreader and widget (greader) too?
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] thesniffer:
For the first perhaps you mean the Contact one?

And here it is the News ;)
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] thommy5583:
Thank u so much... no, i mean the Internet favorites widget...
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] bteljuice:
This might sound stupid, but these widgets will not work on CM7, am I correct. Only roms with sense.
[LG Optimus 2x] temasek:
I plunged into custom ROM in my 1st day of having O2X. Everything was smooth but only one issue.

I can send SMS but I cannot receive SMS

. I am by far not new to Android but seems like something I'm missing over here.

For now I reverted to Stock ROM and all is ok. I could use some help here to point me in the right direction. Possibly any Singtel users can enlighten me?

PS: I tried calling Singtel Customer Service (full of ****).

Appreciate.

Thanks :)
[LG Optimus 2x] chong81:
On singtel and non-vanilla MCR Fr12+0405 baseband. Send and receive SMS no problem. Did not setup or change anything SMS specific either.

Can you try sending an SMS to yourself?
[LG Optimus 2x] temasek:
I can send out SMS but I cannot receive. That's my issue :(

I tried sending SMS to myself, but I just don't get to receive it. I looked everywhere, bugs me to find where is the missing link. Btw I was all the while with Starhub. This my 1st time with Singtel.............damn it.

Ideas?

EDIT: Ah Ha.....Stock and Non-Vanilla MCR Fr12 I tried w/o issues. Only the Vanilla MCR Fr12 I have this problem receiving SMS.
[LG Optimus 2x] chong81:
Glad it worked out! :)
[LG Optimus 2x] temasek:
No it doesn't. I wanna try the vanilla version of the rom but it broke my SMS receiving.

I will sleep over whether to flash back stock rooted or stock fr12.

Unless there is someone who can

...............latest me know why I can't receive SMS on vanilla MCR FR12.