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[Nook Color General] tfotos:
Thanks to all for the great info. If I wanted to..could I run CM 7 from the sd card like they do for Honeycomb, thus keeping my NC stock for when I do want to use it for reading? I read a lot and love the original stock interface for my reading and shopping. I am headed out the door now and I am coming back with either the Sammy Tab or the Nook. I'm leaning heavily towards the Nook though.
[Nook Color General] Gin1212:
Yes you can. However if you have no use for Nook Kids or Nook magazines, you can just install the nook android app and read books from it. Or you can use a bunch of other pdf, epub, doc readers.

The only benefit to stock is those two features. So up to you.
[Nook Color General] madman390:
Yes. You can run CM7 from the sd card and even run a rooted BN version on the internal memory for the best of both worlds.
[Nook Color General] furius:
I agree with previous posts...

in addition, I could say that the only things I really miss on my Nook (more then gps and camera) are the aptik feedback (vibrations, specially on the keyboard) and a microphone for voice recognition... instead I think that both things are on Galaxy tab (but I'm not sure)...

more then galaxy, you can have on Nook Color a great devs community here at xda! other then save 100$ ... ;)
[Nook Color General] indagroove:
Better yet, you can split the internal drive partition, and allow for dual booting partitions on internal. That way, you can run stock on one partition, and CM7 on the other and not have to worry about carrying around a bootable sd card all the time. You can boot from CM7 into stock and vice/vs in literally 45 seconds, pnce you take the 30 minutes to get it all set up.

Check me here: http://www.mobileunderground.info/showthread.php?t=51217&p=84794
[Nook Color General] tfotos:
Well, I thank all of you for your input. I literally spent an hour just messing with both the SGT and the NC. The SGT was a little faster and more responsive but I think that was due to the differences in the UI's themselves. There is only a 200 mhz difference in the processors. I did like the fact that the SGT had front and rear facing cameras, as well as the android market already rocking. BUT..I picked up the Nook Color for two big reasons. The first being that I am an avid book reader, and love the fact that you can boot from SD so I can still have the stock Nook reading experience as well as Gingerbread. The second reason is the modding community here on XDA; you guys pretty much talked me into it. So thanks for all the responses. I am a new Nook Color owner.
[Nook Color General] stormjumper:
Am a happy user of a dual-booting Nook Color running CM 7.0.2 off sd-card, with little need for a camera.

However, being someone who appreciates how much lighter the Nook is compared to the iPad, I'd like to point out that the Nook is ~30% heavier than the Galaxy Tab.
[Nook Color General] tfotos:
The SGT was a lot thicker. I did not notice a huge difference in weight though.

I am surfing the forums from my NC right now and loving it. Can't wait to load up Gingerbread! Unfortunately I have to work in about an hour, so I will be reading all I can on flashing a new rom onto this. Thanks again guys and gals.
[Nook Color General] ExploreMN:
Yeah...if the NC had a microphone it would be doubly awesome. That is a limiting thing that made me think twice, but for the price vs features, I still couldn't find better. I'm only OCed to the CM7 default 925Mhz and I haven't had any video playback issues. Watched a few episodes of the Big Bang Theory just yesterday.
[Nook Color General] tfotos:
Since the Nook's froyo update can you still over clock it? Also, how is battery life after you flash gingerbread or honeycomb?
[Nook Color General] hockeyfamily737:
I haven't run Honeycomb, but running CM7 from EMMC overclocked to 1.3 GHz, my battery life is about 2 days between charges with moderate use....facebook, email, streaming videos and reading the news. My wife's Nook with rooted stock firmware is definately easier on the power consumption, but not nearly as capable of a machine.
[Nook Color General] Iucas:
Running CM7 with 1.3 GHz kernel, I think the only missing thing is the camera for me...
[Nook Color General] ExploreMN:
Just curious and truly not trying to be a smartass or anything, but why would you use a camera on a tablet? I mean cell phones are near dedicated digital camera quality and easier to use. I guess I just don't get the desire for a tablet with a camera unless its front facing for video calling...but honestly, if you called me on the phone and I was home you probably wouldn't want the camera turned on anyway...trust me on that one.
[Nook Color General] tfotos:
I would agree about the camera thing on a tablet. It seems like it would be awkward snapping photos with it. It may be cool for skyping maybe. Usually if I'm going to use the webcam I'm at home so the kids can talk to everyone too.
[Nook Color General] dung8604:
Here's my experience with the NC: I bought it for 200 used because I was kind of getting bored hacking my hd2 and figured wth, may as well see what this can do and if I didn't like it I could sell it back around the same price. Its since replaced my laptop whenever I'm watching TV, browsing, watching movies online, reading comics, books, checking e mails and pretty much everything that does not require a lot of power or extended typing. I've fallen in love with the form factor (perfect IMO. Any thicker or bigger and I don't know if I would like it as much). I can honestly say this is the best 200 I've spent in the last year with the exception of my laptop (600 for a beastly Acer machine that is beautiful as well). I think if you get it, and install cm7 or phiremod, you will not be disappointed. I have very few problems (Xda app fcs almost everytjme after logging in and trying to view a thread. That happen to anyone else?) And very few complaints. I would recommend this purchase to anyone.

One caveat, I haven't tried other tablets, so I can't tell you how they compare. But for 200, you wont find a better deal if you don't think you'll miss cameras, mics or Bluetooth.
[Nook Color General] ErroneousBosch:
I love my nook running Phiremod 6.2 (CM7) and it does pretty much everything I could possibly want. My breakdown is this (vs GalTab):

The Nook is cheaper initially and no monthly fee for 3g, and since I am around Wifi just about 24/7, I don't care about the lack of 3g. A camera and mic would be nice for skyping, but since I don't really use skype, this is not an issue, and really I would want a headset mic for that anyway. The OC'd processor is running at 1.3 ghz stably (props to dalingrin), and zips along with just about everything I throw at it. Dungeon Defenders FW runs pretty smooth, even if its load times are pretty long, and all my video has been perfect.

On the Cons-they-are-working-on, bluetooth range is probably going to be an issue, since I am getting a BT keyboard. The big one is the lack of deep sleep in the CM7 kernel, which I know they are working on and would really help with battery life (reducing the screen off battery usage to effectively 0). I am really hopeful they will get this working, but as it stands I get about 2 days out of a charge and that's not bad. I am also really hopeful they will get USB hosting to work, since that will let me use jumpdrives/wired keyboards. Gps would also be nice, and you can do it via wifi/BT, and maybe once they get usb host working, so that is pretty cool and I will be playing around with it in the future.

Personally I love the 7" form factor. 10" would be nice, but unwieldy I think. I know the ipad always seems a bit huge to me. I think the Nook Color is such a great platform and people have stretched it so far that it is amazing and really has become a very powerful tablet. The community is friendly and helpful, and I am overall extremely happy I bought one.

Just my $.02
[Nook Color General] UCSB:
The GPS in the TAB is worth the extra $100 ... if you use Google MAPS and take your tablet with you when you leave home.
[Nook Color General] ylixir:
No it isn't.
[Nook Color General] indagroove:
Not for me, since I can tether gps via WiFi from my Evo.
[Nook Color General] aypanthony:
May I ask how you do that?
[Nook Color General] Moxie3000:
Yep. Exactly the same issue here. Hence I'm on my laptop now. I Googled a bit to see if I could find a fix to no avail.

My Samsung Captivate (w/ custom Froyo ROM) doesn't do this. Maybe it's a Gingerbread thing?
[Nook Color General] Moxie3000:
I had your same dilemma. My overriding factor, though, was screen quality and cost as I had limited funds (paid in cold, hard cash). With the exception of the cameras, every other Galaxy Tab advantage can be made up for in some way. You can tether GPS from your phone, for example. The MHz difference can be made up for through overclocking. Also, it's interesting to note that a NC running CM7 at stock clocks will out-perform a stock Galaxy Tab in Quadrant. There's an interesting debate going on about their relative performance scores if you read around these forums. As for the cameras...well...if you Skype it could be an issue. You said you were interested more in reading, so there you go. I felt the same way. I focused on what I NEEDED, which was a book-reading with a good browser experience. Everything else is gravy.

I think you'll be really happy with your NC, especially as you start modding it.
[Nook Color General] indagroove:
http://market.android.com/search?q=pname:com.comptonsoft.tgps_lite
[Nook Color General] dung8604:
No, I have gingerbread cm7 on my hd2 and I've never had this problem. It could be a scaling issue though. My hd2 is set at 200, whereas the nook is at 160. "Normal" resolution is 240 I think.
[Nook Color General] Rhegaana:
At this stage in the nook color's life there are a lot of competition that are within $150 or lower such as the Asus transformer. I got my nook in Jan. and having a blast configuring it, but if I were to buy now I would pony up the extra 100 and get the transformer.
[Nook Color General] innosia:
agree, i really regret buying nook.

the worse thing about nook is that it can't play many video files, AVI, MKV, can be played but poorly rendered like out of sync, frame rate missing, etc. really not a tablet to buy which often used for playing video when at outside.

Nook is not recommended to buy, better you buy other tablet but make sure it can play most video files.
[Nook Color General] tfotos:
So far I am running my Nook completely stock (1.1.0) and it has been nice. I have a 16gb memory card in my old D1 that I am going to use to throw Gingerbread on. I bought the Nook first and foremost for Barnes and Noble stuff like books. The fact that I can Gingerbread it makes the Nook Color that much more bad ass! I am an extremely happy purchaser. Just using it stock it's nice to lie around on the couch and surf the internet while watching whatever is on TV. So far this has been a great purchase!
[Nook Color General] seth.i.simmons:
I had the same issue with the XDA app, it would always FC when I tried to view a thread. Turns out from some reason it only works for most people if you have the tapatalk app installed (which I have now and love!) I use Tapatalk every day, since I can check almost all the forums I frequent with one app. One of the apps I think is a must have on the NC.

And more on topic, I decided to go with the NC even though I had the cash for the SGT, since for me, i'm just waiting for the big influx of HC tabs, and some in a more reasonable cost range. Really tempted by the Asus Transformer, lol! And the GPS and cameras just weren't worth $150 extra to me. The NC is perfect for me right now, and a steal for $200!!
[Nook Color General] ExploreMN:
I'm so confused. Why would you regret your purchase? The Transformer is a larger form factor and more expensive. I mean yes, it would be nice if you are going to take advantage of such things, but for most apps you won't.

As for video (yeah, I'm looking at you innosia) what on earth are you guys doing? I've watch many movies and TV shows without any issue. I've used Mobo to view so many movies that were encoded in many different formats and qualities. I mean yeah, you probably won't get 1080 blueray quality, but come on...

For $200, I am exceedingly happy! Half the cost of the next best tablet available.
[Nook Color General] VillainousVivi:
I've had my nook since Christmas and recently picked up an Acer A500 (much nicer than the Xoom imo). I put the nc back to stock so I could use it as a daily reader and have the A500 setup to be an actual tablet.

Some of the points others brought up are quite true. First, I doubt I will ever use the cameras on the Acer, unless it's for something like Skype. Even that will be down the road when I decide to break my unlimited data plan to enable tethering on my phone (or get a new phone that I can use without having to register it as a tethering device).

The 10" form is nice, and actually makes it a lot easier to read some of the PDFs I need for work, but the NC handles them just fine, even at stock 1.2.

I doubt I would purchase anything else from the B&N market. The stuff they have is way overpriced compared to the standard market and even the amazon appstore (though I haven't used that much, either).
[Nook Color General] olm3ca:
Wow, I've had that problem since day one and just now you finally gave me the answer to it. I thought it was funny that with all the hacking going on, the one app supposedly from the hackers themselves (XDA app) was / is broken.

Thanks for the tip! Will install tapatalk now.
[Nook Color General] stormjumper:
My own experience with the Nook Color running CM7 and using mobo player was good, rendering well 480p H264 videos or the typical 350mb per 43 min episode XVID for popular TV shows well. No visible dropped frames or out-of-sync audio.

At such resolutions the videos look good on the 1024x600 screen res of the Nook.

That said, if you're trying to play the ultra high-res multi-Gb BR rips, then it's beyond the capabilities of the Nook. (It's also overkill given the screen res.)
[Nook Color General] bundee1:
http://www.engadget.com/2011/05/04/wifi-galaxy-tab-running-on-an-older-cpu-than-its-3g-siblings/

Dont be so fast to dismiss the NC processor as the WIFI Tab doesnt have the latest and greatest processors either.
[Nook Color General] stormjumper:
That is good to know. And surprising.

Unless the reduced processing power doesn't matter due to no 3G processing, which is not the case AFAIK, Samsung is being somewhat unethical in portraying the 3G and non-3G as being otherwise equivalent.
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dominican2589:
If I have an app installed to sd does that mean that I could backup the contents of the sd card, reset my Xoom, copy back the information, and still have my data such as game progress and settings set?
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jrezin:
no, won't work.

the best thing you can do is to root you device and backup your program data woth titanium backup or something similar. in xoom's case, /sdcard/ is internal memory too, so you have to manually copy titanium's folder to the card, a network share, or some other safe place.
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dominican2589:
Thanks for the info. Once the Wi-Fi only Xoom can be unrooted, I'll root mine.

Just out of curiosity, for those phones that cannot be rooted, what do people do when an update, for example from 2.1 to 2.2, is released for their device? They just have the live with the fact that they will lose most of their settings?
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mr Bland:
Just as a fyi, the wifi version can be rooted. In fact mine is a wifi only, unlocked, rooted, and overclocked. All the info you need is here in the forum. You should do a lot of reading before you do it though. I read the guides for wifi and 3g, took note of common errors and solutions then went through the process myself without a hitch, well no major hitch anyway. The biggest problem I had was setting up my PC. One word of advice when you go to root, don't take any short cuts. Getting you PC set up right and doing all the steps yourself (not the one click method) will really help you in the long run when you try to do other updates and mods.
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mr Bland:
Stupid me I read that as "can be rooted" not as "can be unrooted" lol oh well the advice is still good:)
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dominican2589:
lol thanks for the info anyway Mr. Bland
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LITHALE:
You don't lose your settings when you upgrade versions. Some apps might break but then you have the same problem if you backed everything up.
[G2 and Desire Z General] itm:
I've registered my phone with HTCSense.com, but when I login to www.htcsense.com I get the message that the site cannot locate my phone. Could this be anything to do with the fact that I run Launcher Pro as my shell instead of the standard Sense shell?

I also don't get a Dashboard option when I login to htcsense.com - only the following options:

- Forward calls/messages

- Make phone ring loud

- Secure my device

Has anyone else had this problem?
[G2 and Desire Z General] robmobz:
Im afraid i don't know why it is but it is not your launcher.

Did you flash a different Rom because that would do it or in the settings there is a tickbox about locating it. Hope this helps.
[G2 and Desire Z General] itm:
I'm using the stock ROM, and have "Phone finder" checked in Location settings

???
[G2 and Desire Z General] burtcom:
htcsence.com is notably flakey -- though it has worked for me the last few times I've tried it. I think it's very much a "work in progress"
[G2 and Desire Z General] itm:
I just received this reply from HTC support:

"We are aware of this issue that you reported. It is being investigated as a priority.

Over the past few months HTC has been undertaking an upgrade to HTCSense.com in order to enhance the web experience for our customers, extend service availability and increase service quality and up time. Features of Footprints, People, Messages and HTC Hub are turned off for performance tuning at the same time. Currently, new registered accounts could only see these main features: find my phone, call and message forwarding and lock and erase my phone. Over the next few months as we complete the upgrade, more features will be added into accounts. We appreciate your patience and support as we work to make the HTCSense.com experience even better."
[G2 and Desire Z General] robmobz:
Translation: htcsense.com is broken

It is there problem not yours.
[G2 and Desire Z General] somewhastock:
any updates here?

The official reply said :Currently, new registered accounts could only see these main features: find my phone, call and message forwarding and lock and erase my phone."

I cant locate my phone with the dashboard using Revolution HD 5.2.1.

This is todays project.
[G2 and Desire Z General] TheJayyWilliams:
Don't worry about it, HTC will find your phone somewhere off the coast of Africa, or Costa Rica, lol
[HD2 Android NAND Development] jriv:
Here is the latest Mytouch4g Rom that leaked today. DO NOT FLASH THIS.i put it up here for devs to get it to try to port it to our device. Its mysense v2.1 running on Android2.3.3. one again this will probably brick your device if you try to flash so don't only here for developers to access.

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=1UD1S7VQ

Sent from a guy living in a van down by the river
[HD2 Android NAND Development] gottley:
this is great news hope mytouch devs like motoman and imika take this on:D
[HD2 Android NAND Development] jriv:
I know I can't wait to see it in action I actually like mysense

Sent from a guy living in a van down by the river
[HD2 Android NAND Development] jriv:
Op updated with pics of what it looks like on the mytouch4g

Sent from a guy living in a van down by the river
[HD2 Android NAND Development] TheGeorgiaSwagger:
Is he a writer? Well whooptie ****en doo.
[HD2 Android NAND Development] bmar08:
this is awesome.. i have known for a few months now of the plan for the Glacier Rom to be getting an update to Gingerbread on the MyTouch 4G but it was suppose to be released in the 3rd quarter... this is definatly awesome and i cant wait for Motoman or Imilka to get this port on one of thier Glacier roms... Great find jriv!!!
[HD2 Android NAND Development] gottley:
motoman where are u to make a excellent rom out of this
[HD2 Android NAND Development] dungphp:
everyting same old version but Ginger ! data ok, wifi :mad: and some problems hehe
[HD2 Android NAND Development] gottley:
thats promising with more development it could turn out better and fix wat bugs it has
[HD2 Android NAND Development] jriv:
Yeah they said in the mytouch section that it's the same as old version except it's ginger. and on there phones out now says 4g instead of h. Which it won't do for us obviously

Sent from a guy living in a van down by the river
[HD2 Android NAND Development] gottley:
well it cant all the same some difference has to be in this rom hopefully the devs can start developing it :D
[HD2 Android NAND Development] jriv:
Yeah it's basically all the sense 2.1 add ons but routh the mysense skin.

Sent from a guy living in a van down by the river
[HD2 Android NAND Development] gottley:
is anyone working on build for this would be great to know:D
[HD2 Android NAND Development] jriv:
Bump...

Sent from a guy living in a van down by the river
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Blakestr:
I've had my epic since september...recently I decided to root it, and, thanks to the wiki and a few lucky searches, I successfully rooted my phone using clockwork recovery mod 3.0...I'm using latest version of ACS and just recently installed erebos 4.0... so far so good...questions are as follows:

1. I've tried creating nandbackups but it doesnt seem to enable journaling...

2. Is there any way, when I make a backup, to save the positions of shortcuts and widgets?...essentially I want the restore to occur so that I wouldn't be able to tell anything had changed...but once I figure this out, I would be able to switch between different roms so I can try out all the roms active here...reinstalling and reconfiguring is becoming very...tedious.

3. while my battery life IS improved, it is inconsistent...i have read the various battery faqs and tried calibrating but I have six batteries, those ones we all got from ebay. Before I rooted, my battery would, get HOT...so much that I am pretty sure that is, what killed my sdcard...is there any app recommend to assess the "health" of a battery...or did I "burn" my batteries because of their constant hightemps? (at least they were cheap)...
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KennyG123:
You have to do a Nand backup then restore it to enable journaling. When you flash the ROM it disables it again.

As for the widgets and positions, I too would like to know about that. Other than Nand which backs up the ROM, I haven't been able to do it.

I don't even use the cheap ebay batteries anymore. I got the cheap extended battery instead. Other than monitoring battery temp, I haven't seen a battery testing app yet.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Blakestr:
Nand backup also backs up apps and app data correct?
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KennyG123:
Yes. But you can't use it when changing ROMs since it restores the ROM but not the kernel. So if you just want a backup to go back to in case your phone craps out or you need to get a replacement this works great.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Blakestr:
But that DOES mean if I try the new rom and don't like it, I CAN switch back, restoring to other ROM and get everything (minus icon placement/widgets) back, correct?
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KennyG123:
You will get everything back including widgets and shortcuts. If you don't like your new ROM flash your old ROM back to get its kernel then restore your nand backup and everything will be exactly as it was.

Do you BONSAI?
[About XDA developers] Purple Drama Llama:
I keep getting the "XDA is overcapacity" page like at least 2-5 times a day and I have to wait maybe 10-15 minutes before its not "overcapacity" what's this about?