yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Nook Color Android Development] jewnersey:
YES! im looking forward to this as well. i wish i could contribute to getting this working, but im limited to testing since i dont know the first thing about coding.

anyways. Thanks a mil for going ahead and getting the ball rolling on HC woo!
[Nook Color Android Development] Zorkman:
a way to test this from SD card

does anyone know of a(n easy) way to test it by installing it to the SD-card instead of the internal memory?
[Nook Color Android Development] demonofsteel:
Awesome, I've downloaded and I'm going to test it when I get home. I'll see if there's anything I can do to help this build, but with deeper-blue offering to help, I think you will be able to make a very nice HC build.
[Nook Color Android Development] jewnersey:
dunno if any of this will be helpful but...

loaded this up. flashed latest gapps and im seeing the market. i can also search and browse, but when i click download, it immediately comes back with download unsuccessful.

touchscreen is not responsive sometimes

there are 2 google services frameworks in settings > apps > all apps

i am having trouble mounting my sdcard in settings/storage

it recognizes that it is in the nook, but hitting "Mount" does nothing.

adb is working fine though, so ive been able to load some apps

i tried spoofing as nexus S which did nothing as far as downloading on market.

im gonna keep bullshitting around so if anything exciting happens ill post again.
[Nook Color Android Development] Divine_Madcat:
Main post updated with your info, thank you much!

Flashed which Gapps? From CM7? I tried that, but things didn't jive on my Nook.

As it is, i think i will wait for Deeper-blues input, since it sounds like he has a fix in the works, and i am really eager to try the full HC apps, rather than the old Gapps.
[Nook Color Android Development] iolinux333:
I'm just watching this thread in awe and with great reverence.
[Nook Color Android Development] jewnersey:
yeah from cm7 20110307 i think..

p.s. i updated my post above with more things i tried
[Nook Color Android Development] Divine_Madcat:
racks11479 - I juse pushed su as described, but SetCPU still does not see root when it requests it. Could you perhaps give more detail on what you did to make it work?
[Nook Color Android Development] jewnersey:
this is a newbie Q as i am not great with adb

how do i mount system as RW so i can push su to /system

:)

edit: weirdly enough, it just decided to work all of a sudden.
[Nook Color Android Development] LarcenQ:
Hrm..

adb shell mount -o remount,rw /dev/block/mmcblk0p5 /system

If I remember correctly. (CONFIRM CORRECT PARTITION!)
[Nook Color Android Development] Divine_Madcat:
That, or just

adb remount

has been working well for me.

SU update - i had to push mine to /system/bin, but it is now working. We have root!
[Nook Color Android Development] Nburnes:
Why didn't you just read how to install root on HC.... Would have saved you some "trial and error". You basically did what I posted a couple pages back.
[Nook Color Android Development] LarcenQ:
Did you do anything special, or just use one of the various 'install to sd' guides floating about. If so, would you share? Much obliged.

You just pushed the su_fixed.zip or whatever from the jamm4r thread right? No need to recompile?
[Nook Color Android Development] fzr-r4:
you can extract it from the installation .zip. then you'll know it's the same one you had before.
[Nook Color Android Development] Sincidius:
Ok, I'm getting use to Android (last dev stuff was with Windows 6.1), would it be possible to create a Rom based off of the Xoom's Wifi SDK and what people have come up with for this device? I'm guessing no since no one has done it yet, but I was more curious why it couldn't be done. Any info on this would be great, as I would like to help out any way I can.
[Nook Color Android Development] tony1208:
i tried this coming from cm7 and it was really unresponsive. i mean bad...

all i did was wipe cache and installed it over cm7 via rom manager...
[Nook Color Android Development] bdcrim:


If you flashed version 3, my opinion is you need to format data along with cache and dalvik cache. The rom formats system only.(read OP). You may try that to give it an honest test drive.
[Nook Color Android Development] tony1208:
Thank for the info...I will try it now and see how it goes...ty again...
[Nook Color Android Development] ScottyNuttz:
I noticed that the homescreen pages are bigger than the display. For example, if I move an icon over to the side, it is half off the page. Is this normal? If not, how can I fix it?
[Nook Color Android Development] Divine_Madcat:
I believe that will be due to the DPI setting. The system is built for a DPI of 120, which is a bit tiny on our screens. Setting it to 140 is a good compromise, but it means that some visual anomalies may occur.. You can fix it by setting the DPI to 120, but be prepared for everything to be very tiny.
[Nook Color Android Development] tony1208:
reinstall and for the most part its ok....home screen locks up still...any work around for that ?

also is this over clocked ?? if not what speed is it ? im guessing 800-900mhz?
[Nook Color Android Development] Divine_Madcat:
The best work around for the home screen is to change launchers (ADW or Launcher pro).

And yes, the kernel is overclocked, up to 1100Mhz.

BTW - For those curious, work has NOT stopped on this; i am still doing what i can. But fixes from here are very technical, and I am not sure how much i can do. Hopefully, DB will grace us again with another amazing fix in the future. ;)
[Nook Color Android Development] fzr-r4:
Much appreciated, Madcat!

FWIW, I prefer using the stock launcher even with the occasional freeze ups. I go with the shift to/from landscape/portrait and hope that it unfreezes. Usually (but not always) works.
[Nook Color Android Development] ebubar:
I'm running from racks' dualboot SD image and I've used LCD Density to change to 130 and find that's a good compromise between size and usability.
[Nook Color Android Development] kookahdoo:
So I finally got Google Body loaded up and it opens fine, but whenever I touch a body part it force closes. Anyone experience this or have a possible fix? I know there are people who have installed this fine. I seem to be having bad luck.
[Nook Color Android Development] bigwilly90210:
hey guys, still using this as a daily driver, haven't had hardly any lockups in a while. which is pretty sweet. just wanted to let you guys know in the long run it's still holding up as a daily driver.

Anyways, I just wanted to post something here that I found on another xda thread. This was bugging the crap out of my gf using it that the browser kept redirecting to mobile websites instead of the desktop ones. apparently google change the user agent to "android mobile" for smartphones and "android" for tablets but most websites don't differentiate the two yet. as such, you can change your default UA by enabling debugging in the browser. I'm just gonna paraphrase here, this isn't my work, someone else found it and I thought newcomers would be interested.

1. In the address bar, type "about:debug" and press enter.

2. Then go to your browser settings (top right)

3. Debugging is now an option. Select it (left side)

4. Then tap "UA String" and "Desktop"

5. Tada! Desktop website now load by default! Type "about:debug" to disable debugging settings again.

That takes care of one issue, but is there any work being done on Flash for our little tablet? I know the reason it didn't work before was because of the older SDK version, but should it work now? I know we're not 3.0.1 but will the SDK be updated for that too??? ANOTHER build??? Hope you guys are up for it! :P Thanks for all the awesome work again!
[Nook Color Android Development] tony1208:
does youtube work? wont on mine...
[Nook Color Android Development] bigwilly90210:
Somebody posted a little ways back about some kind of weird work around that played a lot (not all) videos in SD (not HD). i can't remember if it was the tablet app or the regular youtube, but it involved like searching for the video on the desktop site and then loading it? I don't really remember, sorry. Once again, another problem that could be solved with working Flash in the browser... lol. I just really want Flash back. It feels so lame that my phone can but my tablet can't. Ha. Flash and Bluetooth support would be glorious. I assume those are on the roadmap? Bluetooth in CM7 almost makes me wanna jump ship. Just for a portable NES. Ha. Any idea on if Flash will eventually work?
[Nook Color Android Development] Divine_Madcat:
On thing to remember - bluetooth support came about because the CM7 team had source code they could work with. Right now, we have nothing more than compiled code that we have to modify/replace, and cannot build new code from scratch. Right now, without source, i would not put a huge bet on Bluetooth. Flash maybe.. still working on it.
[Nook Color Android Development] bigwilly90210:
Awesome! I didn't really expect bluetooth, does the SDK emulator even support more than mock connections? I've dabbled with the SDK and emulator myself. Hearing that any work on Flash is being tried is great. Thanks for the update. Do you think Flash would run ok? I know the latest update is specialized for the Tegra 2 chip (which makes sense) so would hardware acceleration even work? Sounds like a major pain to be honest. And considering the rest of the ROM isn't totally 100% (although it is fantastic) I would totally understand this being on the back burner. We'll just have to wait and see! If Google EVER releases the source... grr... ha
[Nook Color Android Development] Techienana:
Ditto! :o
[Nook Color Android Development] chaval:
2 options here:

1: Remove/Rename Youtubetablet.apk in System/app. Then install regular youtube in Market. Plays SD.

2: Check your youtube account in the webpage, in playback settings choose that you have a slow connection. (Dont play in HD)

After that you should be able to play SD clips through Youtubetablet.

It works best if you choose a clip from the browser och the when it asks you to choose either Youtube or Browser, choose Youtube. Its buggy and a lot of clips that are default in HD do not play. It may be the same problem CM had before, not able to play over 360p or something.

Something strange is that some HD clips did play OK.
[Nook Color Android Development] ADude:
Hmm... that sounds like a problem.

I'm not the only one who runs CM7 on the NC at 200. (Galaxy Tab default is 240)

(when racks makes an SD version of RC3, I'll report back on this aspect)
[Nook Color Android Development] tony1208:
anyone get flash player to work ?

also why is it tweetcomb will not let me sign in?? nor plume...only the stock anroid app lets me..anyone else having this issue ?
[Nook Color Android Development] chaval:
Dont know if it will make a diff but the "Browser.apk" from the Adam HC port works on our build.

It has the Ver: "3.0.1-WW_epad-8.2.3.6-20110414"

I think its from the Asus.

BTW, still no flash.

EDIT: The browser from the Iconia A500 works aswell
[Nook Color Android Development] bigwilly90210:
Good to know either way. Thanks for the info.

And to the post above, I haven't had any problems with Plume at all. Widgets runs awesome too. So sweet to see a 4x6 scrollable twitter feed. lol. Only "problem" I've had is I wish there was a way to have two feeds on two separate widgets. One for me and one for my gf since we share it. Unless you know a better scrolling widget feed? ha.

I'm gonna upgrade to v3 from here. I've been running xboxexpert's build for a day or two and I'd like to see how this compares. I've had a decent amount of app FC and incompatability. The thing that sucks is I can't tell if these are issues with our ROM or issues with app compatibility with Honeycomb. Grr. My friend says its annoying on his Xoom too. It'll get better with time. It's still new, ya know?
[Nook Color Android Development] ADude:
Yes, is there any way to stop Android from changing from "tablet" to "phone" if you raise the LCD density ?

Thanks in advance.

UPDATE: I tried commenting out the added density line at the end of build.prop and that worked really well. :) I looks to me that it just uses the original NOOKcolor 169.333 density, so it ends up looking the same font and icon sizes as in the stock NOOkcolor - but it leaves the Honeycomb features and does not switch to the phone features.

BTW, For anyone who wants to run this on SD, go to:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=998861

and follow the instructions in the OP to install the special CWM version on your SD, and then you can install any of the special modfied SD versions of ROMs on your SD that are linked in the OP. The current version of this Honeycomp port available isl the RC2 version, so it will help to know that the language is "Catalan" and when you get through setup (using translate.google.com on another device), you can click on Apps in the upper right corner, and run "Custom Locale" to change the language. Wifi and Market work, and then you can install a free File Explorer from the Market to install any apk files on your SD card.
[Nook Color Android Development] altimax98:
Yeah just use the widget and click a video then search from there. It seems the home screen on youtube doesn't work well

Sent from one of those missing Droids
[Nook Color Android Development] Divine_Madcat:
So, i have updated the OP, but want to make a post here explain what is happening. Right now, i still haven't really made any new technical advances.. DSP still isn't there, and the UI could be smoother. So, what have i done?

Well, borrowing dc13's work (to whom i cannot give enough credit), i was able to import some of his work into this rom. This means that some things should now be more stable, and we also have a newer framework base for everything.

Users will find the UI looks alot nicer (IMO), but that is just me. However, this comes at a cost; at least for me, i can no longer mount my SD card. I am not sure if it is a formatting issue or what, but it not showing up for ME. Most things still run, but make note if you need it critically. The old build still works if you need it. I am still trying to figure it out, but i really wanted to share this with you. Because of the difference, i am giving this a new name, and calling it "hybrid". This first release is update-HC-hybrid-rc1.zip.

BTW - If you go through the setup, yes, i know, Voice Search will force close on you. No biggie, keep going.
[Nook Color Android Development] skgtheblij:
First off, Divine_Madcat and all else who made this possible, thank you so much for all your work. You guys are awesome.

I've flashed this twice now, RC2 and RC3, and I can't get the market working. I can set up my google account fine, search the market, see all the apps i've paid for in My Apps, but not download anything; neither apps I own nor new ones nor updates. It just stays at the rotating progress bar indefinitely (and i've let it run a long time)

Also, just curious, how is the swiping between homescreens for everyone else compared to the honeycomb preview? it seems about half the speed for me; not trying to ***** about it just curious how the performance is for others.

Thanks again everyone for all your work!
[Nook Color Android Development] fzr-r4:
Thanks, Madcat! I was wondering if this is "really" HRI66 now? (Forgive me if that's a stupid question.) Or, as your naming suggests, is this a mix of HRI39 and HRI66?

I'll give it a try today and tomorrow.

Also, just throwing in my vote, I prefer the DPI set as you have it now, to 120.

Thanks again for sharing all your efforts!

I found home screen swiping and app drawer loading about the same. I found many other UI and browser behaviors to be much improved, though.
[Nook Color Android Development] Divine_Madcat:
Totally a mix. The /lib portion of the OS is the SDK, while the /framework and /app portion is the HRI66. I tried modding the /lib as well, but could not get it to boot (it really is too rooted with the Tegra framework). I dislike hybrid builds, but it actually works well, so i figured i would run with it. Now, i might be able to do more if the SDK gets updated to 3.0.1 (or if google got of their keister and posted the bleeping source!!!!!)

The SD card issue is now the really annoying bug...
[Nook Color Android Development] fzr-r4:
Gave hybrid RC1 a try:

(1) sdcard does not mount for me, either. bummer.

(2) because of that (i think), ROM manager force closes!

(3) not sure if it's related, but i can't connect to my wifi with its unbroadcast SSID. i was going to see if more apps from the market work, but i can't without wifi.

(4) i actually prefer the non transformer UI elements (soft keys), but i'm sure a big part of that is being used to the stock look.
[Nook Color Android Development] RileyGrant:
Actually found hybrid really usable. I used no frills CPU to put on performance governor, took out most of the Widgets and turned off window animations and lag was minimal. If lag can be smoothed out, SD fixed and YouTube this could become my DD very soon.
[Nook Color Android Development] DEADover:
Can't download any market app ;( and many FC's with gapps...
[Nook Color Android Development] chaval:
Wifi fixed, but signal strength is bad.
[Nook Color Android Development] Anon87:
I'm still using V3.. is the Asus Weather Widget working for anyone else? I seem to remember it working for a while but now it won't let me set a location.
[Nook Color Android Development] syraz:
once that sd card mount issue gets fixed I could be really happy using this...

keep up the good work
[Nook Color Android Development] bigwilly90210:
That's the main thing holding me back right now... I watch a lot of locally stored movies and music. Maybe Google Music and Movies will change all that for me? Anyone watching Google I/O? Ha. Also a lot of apps cache or run off SD card so that could be some issues with FC's I guess. If gapps and Market apps aren't working, I'm kind of confused as to why Divine_Madcatz considers this closer to a daily driver... better framework? Idk, but if he says it is, I trust him. Ha. I'm gonna give it a shot either way, even without the SD card support just to see how well it runs. I got SetCPU to work on the last build, and ondemand got me just about 9 hours of heavy use. Who needs an iPad? :P
[Nook Color Android Development] Divine_Madcat:
Hey.. Im not sure why people keep calling me Madcatz, but hey, what do i know? :P

And the problems with GAPPS and Market confuse me, since i had been using it just fine last night, including installs and updates.
[Nook Color Android Development] bigwilly90210:
LOL. Sorry, I think that's just me. Ha. It's a brand of third party video game controllers, generally of cheaper quality. My old PS2 wireless controllers could be thrown at a brick wall and hurt the wall. To apply here, your name makes your builds... indestructible? :p

I haven't actually had a chance to flash it yet (damn you CableOne) but I'll test the GApps a lot. My browser usually FC the first time I started it up on v3, but that was it. Also, for reasons I cannot pinpoint or reproduce the unlock halo would disappear without warning. With no way to unlock, my only choice was to reboot. Anyone else have this problem?

4 minutes left till download is done... gah.
[Nook Color Android Development] ADude:
Gapps and Market apps do work in RC2, but I don't consider this a daily driver.

Instead, it is a positive step towards Future Honeycomb.

And it is fun to see what that would be like.

But CM7 has a much bigger development effort, so it is much more practical for daily use.

By the end of the week, the CM7 team should have a stable version of the new BN kernel, with all major problems solved.
[Nook Color Android Development] bigwilly90210:
Regardless of the development effort, this is an entirely different OS version designed for larger screens and without an open source to work on. Of course CM7 is gonna have more working for it, but you really can't compare it to a Honeycomb build. I haven't found that much to complain about really in v3 and I'm addicted to using this interface on my larger screen device. CM7 still feels like a larger phone, Honeycomb makes me feel like I'm using a tablet. I'm not discrediting CM7 either, it's fantastic on my gf's Droid 1 and I'd love it on my Droid 2, but it's not a tablet OS either. Sure it runs awesome and fast and has Flash (seriously, I'm super jealous of that) but at the end of the day its not a tablet OS. I'm still debating if I want to take the time to try one of those dual boot solutions. CM7 and this Honeycomb build off of the eMMC? *MIND BLOWN* haha. I'm sure some one will, especially once this build becomes stable. Hopefully that will happen before Ice Cream Sandwich source code comes out??? :P haha. It's always exciting being an Android user... :cool:
[Nook Color Android Development] ADude:
The concept there is that you use the Operating System.

I have used various computers for many years, and I don't use Operating Systems, I use Applications.

When Firefox or Youtube is full screen with the NC in landscape orientation, you cannot tell which Operating System is running. You are just reading an article or watching the video.

(Note again, that I am not knocking this positive development effort.)
[Nook Color Android Development] bigwilly90210:
Right development on both is awesome, even more so on CM7 cause of the larger device support behind it. But depending on your OS, applications behave differently for different platforms. Windows 7 tablets have failed epically because the OS doesn't tailor the applications to the device's needs. That's what Honeycomb does to apps that support it. I know there's not much out there, but have you used the tablet Google Apps? They make phenomenally better use of the extra screen size and are truly more useful in my opinion. The YouTube application for tablets is fundamentally different because of the newer OS. Reading articles in a tablet optimized application like Taptu or Tweets like on Tweetcomb is just an awesome experience. More organized information and easier to use UI based on the larger screen size is such a huge boon for me I'm not sure I can use CM7 on here again. I guess I'm just spoiled by the whole "tablet experience". :P ha. CM7 runs amazing and the fact that it has Bluetooth for Wii controllers is so tempting its not even funny. lol. If only this thing had a camera and HDMI out... anyone know of an app that could let us use the camera from our phones as the camera for the tablet? Since the GTalk for Honeycomb supports video chat that would be AWESOME!!! ha. A man can dream, can't he? ;)
[Nook Color Android Development] jaysckap:
This is honeycomb if you think cm is better then use it and discuss it on the cm thread. Not trying to start anything CM is cool, but come on every thing always has to be compaired to it.
[Nook Color Android Development] Rockwig:
SDCard Problems?

Could SDCard issue be because the epad Transformer doesn't have a SDCard port?
[Nook Color Android Development] bigwilly90210:
it doesn't? really? wow. that could do it i guess... why not? I have v4 downloaded but haven't installed it...v3 is running great. how did you guys get google body installed at all? i'd like to see it, but it's still not in my market... :S
[Nook Color Android Development] ADude:
I was only referring to the so-called "daily driver" aspect. I think that if you rely on your NC to do some task on a daily basis, Honeycomb is not there yet.

Nothing ever gets to be a stable "daily driver" without a lot of development and testing for many weeks, and it is great that this is happening for Honeycomb.

But due to the lack of a source code release for Honeycomb, it is farther back in the process.

I am helping people to get this build and try it, so I am certainly in favor of doing this.