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[Nook Color Android Development] MaliceOmega:
does size matter when making a bootable sd? i only have the 16gb from when i moved to my nexus s. id rather not buy a new one if i dont have to but i dont wanna screw up an install either. thanx in advance
[Nook Color Android Development] Toys Samurai:
Well, I fixed the problem using a stupid way ... I replaced the ramdisk in the Honeycomb Hybrid - RC1 zip file. Here's the file:

File name: DroidSamurai-Honeycomb-SDCardFix.zip File size: 219.33 MB

So, if you are like me, and don't mind re-flashing your Nook Color from scratch, you can try flashing the file above. But before you do that, here are the disclaimers:

No credits go to me. I simply took Divine_Madcat's zip, and replaced its ramdisk with the one made by Racks11479. Anyone can do that, in fact, I might be the only one in this thread who needs help :-(

The only thing I've tested it on is my Nook Color. If anything happens to you, your Nook Color, your house, etc, I took no responsibilities. If you don't like the risk, don't try it.

Anyway, after you flash your Nook Color with my zip, your SD card should be mounted after boot.
[Nook Color Android Development] Toys Samurai:
Music App

The Music app that came with this Honeycomb zip did not work for me (it force closes every time I launch it), so I removed it and replaced it with the one I have on my Droid. Here's my problem now -- it sort of works. I can launch it. It can also sync with my songs on Google's new music streaming service. But only the "Songs" screen shows any content (ie, the songs). All the other screens (Singer, Album, Playlist, etc) are all blank. I can search. For example, I can search for a play list, and play it. But whenever I click to one of the main screens (except for the "Songs"), no content is rendered.

Does anyone know of a fix for this problem?
[Nook Color Android Development] gamefreakgcb:
I cant seem to get my wifi to connect. I tried to do a wipe from CWM but wifi still keeps looping. It gets to "obtaining IP......." and then goes back to scanning.

I got it. I did the n button+Power button to reset the device (I don't have CWM on emmc) and it went through the process and it booted HC. I was given the setup screen now and it connected. Previously I got straight to Unlock screen without any setup or anything.

Edit: It seems I also did not have the soft-keys. Have them now. THIS ROCKS. Thank You.
[Nook Color Android Development] jzierten:
Hey, I haven't read through the entire thread, but I have been using the rom on my NC for a few days now. Seems to work fine minus the flash. I tried the new 10.3 flash apk with no luck but I was able to get youtube working just fine by taking the apk backed up on my thunderbolt (YouTube_2.1.6.apk). Also not sure if other people know this but if the screen locks, as mentioned in the OP, if you open up settings and then close it, it will fix the issue for the moment, every time, you don't need a reboot. The one annoying thing is that the settings mini menu under the clock is invisible most of the time. On lucky occasion it will be there but then every other time it will flake and be invisible until I click off, then it appears for a moment. Not sure if any one else is having that same issue, I wonder if a reflash would help? Also how does one go about uninstalling the stock programs that don't work?

Thanks for the works!
[Nook Color Android Development] hockeyfamily737:
You can use Titanium backup, or root uninstaller, or ant tek (may have spelled this one wrong) app manager, but my preferred method is to do it on the pc before flashing, to reduce flash / boot time....Use 7zip to open the archive (don't extract). Open system/app within the archive and remove the unwanted apk's. I copy them to a folder berfore deleting, in case I break something and have to put a .apk back into the rom.
[Nook Color Android Development] fattymcdirty:
that trick doesn't seem to work for me somehow... :/ sd-card is NOT mounted in HC after booting... i tried to flash the ramdisk manually but i also received the installation abort... is the sdcard actually working for anyone?

and btw - does any1 have a working youtube app?
[Nook Color Android Development] Toys Samurai:
I don't think you can just flash the ramdisk. If you unzip the file, the only thing you will find is the ramdisk file. That's why I created my own HoneyComb zip. I am sorry to hear that it doesn't work for you. It worked on my Nook Color, though. SD is now mounted after startup.
[Nook Color Android Development] screech:
I also never saw the SD card mount with Rack's ramdisk, and have rolled my own ramdisk .. which is really Divine's image with the init.rc mashed to add an SDcard mount from where I know it works for me.

If you want I can post it and you can give that a shot .. or better still for the right answer if people who have this working and a couple of people for whom this does not work can do the following I would be grateful.

1. Download Terminal from market

2. In terminal, type su

3. then on the prompt type ls /dev/block/mmc*

and then post the results. If you have adb working you can do the same via adb shell and then do steps 2 and 3.
[Nook Color Android Development] jzierten:
ok, thanks, I'll try one of those.
[Nook Color Android Development] samuelhalff:
This is very nice work.

Although CM7 has become a solid piece of art, it's nice to have such an alternative.

Thanks Divine, deeperblue and others.
[Nook Color Android Development] pchoi94:
Create SD Bootable Image

Hi there, I haven't seen clear instructions on how to do this. How do I take this zip file and create a SD bootable image? I know there's a dual boot phiremod image floating around, but I'd rather have just this version of honeycomb if possible since i already have another card with cm7 on it that works well...

thanks!
[Nook Color Android Development] bdcrim:
Burning an SD version is another thread. Here it is.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1074471
[Nook Color Android Development] rami98:
i would really love to use this but wifi gets stuck at obtaining ip address, the sd card doesnt mount and when i try flashing the ramdisk on my cwm sd card, it says install aborted. And thirdly, almost every app force closes at boot instantly. I have tried wiping, reflashing and everything but nothing works. Please fix these problems or tell me about a fix if there is any
[Nook Color Android Development] takethebox:
I'm having problems with the kindle app unfortunately. When I try to swipe or tap to the next page of a book i get graphical errors and the pages don't line up or the screen turns back. Otherwise it works great. Anyone else having that problem or know a fix?
[Nook Color Android Development] artcwolf:
You are not the only one, different board i'm on has a long thread going. Only suggestion is going to the older version.
[Nook Color Android Development] riceboyler:
I believe the issue has been determined to be related to the 7" screen size of the NC, as the Kindle tablet app is written for the 10" tablets.

If you can find the older version, it still works fine.
[Nook Color Android Development] artcwolf:
the new version works on my LG ally without a problem though.
[Nook Color Android Development] E_man5112:
What he's saying is the honeycomb kindle app may have a problem with 7" displays. YOur LG Ally isn't using the honeycomb version.
[Nook Color Android Development] takethebox:
I'm pretty sure they will release an update to the Kindle app addressing that issue. There are tons of Honeycomb tablets coming that have <10 inch screens. We shall see. Seems to work fine on the Nook with CM7.
[Nook Color Android Development] artcwolf:
That's what i get for trying to think before coffee on sunday. :)
[Nook Color Android Development] nandryshak:
i have this exact problem but i'm not sure how you fixed it. should i hold n+power while it's on? or when it's off? What does having clockwork on emmc mean? thanks in advance.
[Nook Color Android Development] xdp:
Okay, so I flashed this today coming from CM7, works surprisingly well but I'm ready to go back due to some of the bugs. Can't use ROM Manager because of the SD card mounting issue. When I choose reboot into recovery from ROM Manager or do 'reboot recovery' from the terminal it just reboots back into Honeycomb. When I power it down and hold the Power and Home buttons for 4 seconds it also just boots back into Honeycomb instead of going to recovery. How can I restore my CM7 backup at this point?
[Nook Color Android Development] Divine_Madcat:
The rom has no effect on CWM; keep trying it,and it should work.
[Nook Color Android Development] xdp:
Thanks. After enough trying I finally got it to boot into recovery with home + power. I think I had to hold them down for about 7 seconds.
[Nook Color Android Development] searius:
hi guys

I just installed the honeycomb version and my nook is getting hot below th "N" button .

Any suggestion why is this happening ?
[Nook Color Android Development] poofyhairguy:
Due to a little overclocking.
[Nook Color Android Development] searius:
I tried today and with freq 800Mhz. the same result but with phiremod 6.3 test ROM.

Anyway thx for the reply.
[Nook Color Android Development] chortya:
How can I copy uRamdisk without reflashing and on the device itself? Managed to copy it from my samba share using ES File Explorer :D

I managed to copy it to /, but it is replaced on reboot...

What I did:

Installed Terminl, su, remounted / with rw, busybox cp uRamdisk.

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks!
[Nook Color Android Development] screech:
you want to mount /boot, which is typically /dev/block/mmcblk0p1
[Nook Color Android Development] chortya:
thanks! successfully mounted and replaced the file but still no luck with the sdcard. Is there something else gthat needs to be done?
[Nook Color Android Development] bdcrim:
Did you check to see if you can access the card with a file manager. It will not show to be available in system settings.
[Nook Color Android Development] screech:
Look back in this thread that was discussed.

Basically the Ramdisk you have is not mounting mmcblk1 which is where my SDCard ends up being at.

If you partition the SDcard it should work, or ..

1. you could manually mount it from the terminal

2. You can unpack the ramdisk and I can tell what I did to get mine to mount automatically at boot.
[Nook Color Android Development] chortya:
manual mount worked! please explain the option 2.
[Nook Color Android Development] nordemoniac:
Wow! This is very exciting!

I'm currently running the latest stable Cyanogenmod (no overclocks etc. as I'm aware of).

Devine_Madcat: Will you post some videos on youtube? Maybe some of you others can post some videos? Please add "Honeycomb - The Return" so it is easier to look it up. I would love to see some videos of the performance etc.
[Nook Color Android Development] fzr-r4:
I renamed the voice search in /system/app to .bake, and the stock launcher seems to run a little better.

also not 100%, on this, but cut the rope didn't work right before, and now it runs. it would launch before, but upon selecting "start game"or whatever that button is, it would simply crash, with no force close notification or anything.

sent from my honeycomb nook color
[Nook Color Android Development] HaiKaiDo:
So from reading the last couple most recent pages, it sounds like you guys have found fixes for a few things that were broken in the Original Post. Is this correct? or did i mis read? because if sd mounting is working....i might jump ship to honeycomb :O
[Nook Color Android Development] archangelz:
Hm... 3.2 source is being pushed out now apparently. This should solve a lot of problems no?

http://www.androidcentral.com/android-32-gpl-code-pushed-aosp

EDIT: Nvm... seems its just the GPL bits.
[Nook Color Android Development] :
Give up on Honeycomb Source, they have no plans to release it.

You'll get the bits when they push out ICS source.
[Nook Color Android Development] chortya:
Let me get back to the SD card mounting. I still can't get it mountend on boot... How should it be partitioned?

Thanks.
[Nook Color Android Development] Sjflowerhorn:
alternate download?

edit: nevermind dumb question. . . really dumb question.
[Nook Color Android Development] Luckydog666:
To solve the SD mounting on my nook, I took the rom file that I downloaded from the first post on my laptop running Ubuntu and double clicked it. This opens it in file roller and lets you browse the files with out unzipping/extracting it. I then took the new uRamdisk file and dropped it into the boot directory of the zip I just opened. It replaces the one you don't want with the new one, keeping the archive intact. I then flashed it from clockworkmod recovery. I did a full wipe and just started over. On a side note, if you don't have at least one computer running Ubuntu your missing out on a great tool and a learning opportunity in a similar OS. Anyway, that worked for me. It still doesn't show up in the storage settings though.
[Nook Color Android Development] douginoz:
Just to clarify the issue with the SD card issue:

For some devices even if you use the modified uRamdisk, you still can't mount the SD card.

Even if you insert the modified uRamdisk into the HC zip file and re-flash your device, you still can't see the SD card.

Even when you have kept the SD card in the device and haven't removed it.

You still can't see the SD card.

Hope that clears things up.

From what I can tell, the reason that some SD cards won't mount is because they have been formatted/partitioned in Windows, which only puts one partition on it. Honeycomb is trying to mount a specific device (i.e. a partition) as the SD card, and fails if the SD card doesn't have that partition.

I suspect the reason some people don't have a problem is because they have previously imaged their SD card with one of the many bootable images in the forums, as part of trying out CWM or CM7 or dual-boot, or a bunch of other stuff, and those images have the additional partitions.

So the solution is either to manually mount the SD card's device via ADB, but that requires knowing the device name. On my machine, with a Windows-formatted SD card inserted, the devices are:

/dev/block/mmcblk0

/dev/block/mmcblk0p1

/dev/block/mmcblk0p2

/dev/block/mmcblk0p3

/dev/block/mmcblk0p4

/dev/block/mmcblk0p5

/dev/block/mmcblk0p6

/dev/block/mmcblk0p7

/dev/block/mmcblk0p8

/dev/block/mmcblk1

If I manually mount this last one via ADB, then the SD card appears (until the next reboot):

mount -t vfat -o rw,dirsync,nodev,noexec /dev/block/mmcblk1 /sdcard

That only works until you reboot the device.

Alternatively, I have imaged an SD card with the "ph-hc-dualboot-sd.img" file (you can probably use any of the bootable images that has ext3 partitions on them) and it mounts and is seen normally as an SD card. Note that the Nook might only boot into CwM Recovery using one of these images, so you'll need to do a format of the SD card from within CwM

So the fix would be to have the boot scripts (?) mount the right dev, depending on what kind of SD card is installed. But the workaround is probably good enough for most.

Note that nothing else changes - you still can't remove the SD card and re-insert it without HC dropping it and requiring a reboot.
[Nook Color Android Development] racks11479:
I see that some are still having issues with the SD-Mount work around. This being due to the fact that the one I originally made mounted an SDcard that had partitions created on it already as stated in the above post.

So I've prepped 2 CWM flashable versions for everyone:

Madcat-HC-Hybrid-EMMC-SDmount-v0.1a: This one will mount SDcards with partitions on it (mmcblk1p1)

Madcat-HC-Hybrid-EMMC-SDmount-v0.1b: This one will mount SDcards with no partitions created (mmcblk1)

Let me know if it worked or not. :)

Thanks,

Racks
[Nook Color Android Development] dalingrin:
Divine_Madcat:

Whats the latest news on this?

I'm considering trying to get my kernel to work on Honeycomb.
[Nook Color Android Development] syraz:
I am wondering if this has anything of use for all you HC builders http://android-developers.blogspot.com/search/label/SDK updates
[Nook Color Android Development] Darkdeity9194:
Honeycomb 3.2 SDK has hit the internet and now all devs can really get serious with porting honycomb to the nook color.
[Nook Color Android Development] dalingrin:
It won't get serious till source is released =)

I doubt the 3.2 sdk is going to make any real difference.
[Nook Color Android Development] douginoz:
Well, uh, no, not actually.

The issue with the Nook is that nobody has access to the source code for some of the Nook-specific hardware, i.e. the graphics chip. Without that, nothing can be done to address the lack of hardware support for graphics, which means that video players will be stuck in software mode only (slow, eats battery, and likely won't work), Flash 10.3 and above won't work (requires h/w accelleration), and apps that depend on h/w accellerated video and/or Flash won't work (newer versions of Youtube etc.).

Most devs are waiting for Google to release Ice Cream Sundae (scheduled for Q4, 2011) to gain access to the complete source code. That will allow customisation and tweaking for the Nook that isn't available on any Honeycomb releases (since Google is only releasing GPL components and not the complete source code, although there's some mentions that Google >will< release HC source at some point, but by then IC will be out so it'll be a moot point).

But on a positive note, I just bought a NC and spent a couple of days working through the issues and have got HC running on it fairly stably. It's a bit slow and there are issues that you have to know to avoid or work around, but it's pretty cool and most apps I've tried work. What's also cool is that you can search for "tablet" in the Market and find heaps of apps written for tablets. Check out News360 and AccuWeather (tablet versions). They really show off the Nook Color.
[Nook Color Android Development] DigitalMD:
The comments I've seen from the developers indicate that the 3.2 SDK is the same bits and pieces as for 3.0 and 3.1 , not the full source and not very useful.
[Nook Color Android Development] Divine_Madcat:
DAl - Sorry about the delay; I can't say there has been much news recently. I was pretty much at wits end before my vacation, and now at work i don't have the same kind of time to work on it like i did before.

For what its worth, DB may be working on putting something together from the 3.2 Moto dumps or SDk, so there may yet be hope for the project in general.
[Nook Color Android Development] Ellerbestyle:
Everything works really well. I was reading through all the post and no one seems to have the same problem I have. Wifi works good and I can download apps from the market and stuff but everything else gives me errors saying I dont have a connection to the internet.

Rom Manager and apps like Kindle and Nook give me the errors. Any ideas would help. Thanks
[Nook Color Android Development] AidenM:
Well, i was bored, so I compiled a flashable zip that installs @rack11479's sd mounting ramdisk. Link:

http://www.mediafire.com/?d65y45whawcwtc6
[Nook Color Android Development] Ceger:
SD Card

Having had a true Honeycomb tablet now, it seems that HC might simply be setting the internal 8GB as SD Card (or not, probably needs to be fixed to do so) and you need to access the actual SD Card as external_sd under /mnt root directory. Basically, seems to me that HC is possibly enabling both the internal memory and the SD Card. This is how all HC tablets work.

Can someone verify this? Please ignore if this was already know.

EDIT: Got around to installing this on a spare NC. Oh well, there goes that theory.

Ceger
[Nook Color Android Development] iDidItAll4theNookie:
Yeah, I saw the 3.2 SDK announcement and got excited--till it said no source yet. :(

By the time Google gets the source out, we will have little reason not to buy a dual core HC tablet, because they are showing up all over now. Maybe that's Google's plan anyway. :/
[Nook Color Android Development] ShotSkydiver:
I just got the latest Honeycomb build up and running, and I tried flashing the SD card fix that was just posted a few posts up, but after flashing it the SD card still isn't read at all. How do you replace the uRamdisk manually if there's no way to access the device via ADB, and no way to move the file from the SD card? Help, please, I'm stuck here.
[Nook Color Android Development] racks11479:
Take a look here...

-Racks
[Nook Color Android Development] douginoz:
I accidentally posted this in another ROM thread that I thought I used for my final configuration, but I've just realised that it was in fact THIS rom that I used.

So apologies for reposting, but here are the screenshots of my finished Nook after using this ROM and adding a few other apps.

All widgets work and page between images dynamically. Youtube works in SD only (when using this widget, I use the "Copy URL" function then view it in the web browser in SD).

Since I bought the NC to be used mainly in the living room as a home theatre accessory+remote control, I don't mind the slight sluggishness and workarounds and lack of accelerated video.

Here's my 'Home' screen. Other images are available in links below.

Work/Office

Social Networking/Music

Play/Tools
[Nook Color Android Development] AidenM:
Love your wallpaper, can you upload it?
[Nook Color Android Development] nicatronTg:
Wow, this is a lot better than deeper blue's outdated ports, but here are a few issues I've had:

SD card support is still being a pain, after flashing the "no partitions" ramdisk, it didn't work, nor did I have any luck with the other two that were posted throughout the thread. - Scratch that. Running mount manually revealed that it was mounted, but storage didn't see it and I saw no preparing SD card on boot time.

Google Books crashes on startup.

Other than that, everything else appears to be working well, which is quite nice. To a certain extent it slows down, but I feel like the value provided outweighs the minor problems. I'm thinking Google books is just an issue with an incomplete SDK port, so I'll try sideloading the apk from 2.3 and seeing what happens.

Edit:

Looks like it.

android.view.InflateException: Binary XML file line #8: Error inflating class com.google.android.apps.books.widget.BooksCarouselView

Happens in YouTube too.
[Nook Color Android Development] douginoz:
Here's the wallpaper from a few posts back (the green forest thing). It's 1920x1200. I haven't been able to figure out how to set wallpapers properly via HC - if you use the correct method (selecting a wallpaper from the screen customisation thingie) then it forces you to crop the image and ends up displaying the cropped image really badly - pixelated etc. The only way I get it to display properly is via the web browser - if I surf to the image, I can set it as wallpaper. So if you're having problems, save the image to a website that you can surf to.

http://i955.photobucket.com/albums/ae36/dirinoz/image120.jpg

I don't bother cropping or reducing the image.
[Nook Color Android Development] douginoz:
I don't use Google Books - I use Aldiko.

The fact that you can mount your SD card manually tells me that you have the same problem that I had - you just need to format it in a way that your ROM expects. Try reading this post and the post immediately after that.
[Nook Color Android Development] nicatronTg:
I fixed the SD card issue, and Google Books doesn't offer books you've already bought in any format other than via the app, so Aldiko won't help there. That and I use sync.
[Nook Color Android Development] AidenM:
Thanks. A lot. :D
[Nook Color Android Development] wakeboarder8156:
I flashed this rom yesterday to my NC and it wouldn't boot. I formatted system, data and boot before flashing. Any ideas or do I just need to hold the power button for a while.
[Nook Color Android Development] z3rods:
Your problem is that you formatted boot. NEVER EVER format /boot, no matter what a guide may say (unless that guide has you replacing the boot partition).
[Nook Color Android Development] nordemoniac:
Is there any point in going from CM7 to this rom? I would like HC, and better responsiveness.

Is audio working now?