yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Nook Color General] Michael.Rose:
William1853 wrote:

The stock PDF handling also has a bit of a problem re-flowing various documents I have thrown at it. Some work fine, others are missing sections, or jump incorrectly. It seems you can set it to show the whole page perfectly without any re-flow if you set the text size to the second magnification size. But, unless the PDF was originally meant for the vision impaired, most normal size print documents are just unreadable at this level! The e-ink is sharp as hell, but you need a magnifying glass in order to view non-mangled page!

I love the device, but I really wish there were a better selection of larger format e-ink screen sizes and devices. I don't want to go into Kindle DX territory; I think it is too expensive for what it is. But, the Nook Simple Touch needs to be at least double the size to handle PDFs properly.
[Nook Color General] ph0n33z:
I really want to buy one, but I don't want to risk not being able to put the Kindle app on it. Decisions, decisions...
[Nook Color General] Nburnes:
Kindle App works.

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=14608494&postcount=16
[Nook Color General] jocala:
Mine's on the way, can't wait to root it and start to tinker. My most-wanted app is FBReader. It has a file browser built in for easy folder navigation, which is how I prefer to manage books.
[Nook Color General] ItsBobLoblaw:
A little help with the rooting steps please?

Hello. I was wondering if someone could help me out a little bit with the rooting process. I'm on a Mac and got the files on my SD card using Terminal just fine. (I don't have much experience with Terminal though.) I'm just a little confused about steps 14-16.

Could someone explain how the wifi portion of the process works?

I tried looking up how to find the IP addresses of devices on my network, but had no luck. How do I find my Nook's IP?

The last two commands (adb connect <nook's ip> and adb shell)... do I just enter them in terminal like they are?

Thanks so much for the help!
[Nook Color General] tjupille:
To get the ip address, look under "settings . . . wireless", then click on the neteork to which you are connected.

The adb commands are entered *almost* as written. My Win7 system insists on the ip and the port (5555) for connect. I enter "adb connect 192.168.1.999:5555 (obviously, substitute your own ip address in there, but keep the 5555 part.
[Nook Color General] ItsBobLoblaw:
Alright, thanks for the help. I have another problem now though. I powered down the Nook, inserted the SD card, and plugged it into my computer, but before I could hit the power button, it booted and said "Rooted Forever," and only two drives showed up in Finder. I waited a while for the other 5 and they never showed up so I ejected the two and was going to try it again (and this time hit power quicker), but now nothing appears in the Finder and the screen still says "Rooted Forever." Please help!

Edit: Was able to get back to the regular Nook home screen, but I'm still open to advice.
[Nook Color General] Masterface7:
(1)hmm yes you can sideload a pdf reader with more functionality.

i tapped a pdf and it opened in the nook reader, it reads great but there is no zooming.

(2) yes i am sure you have seen the adw video i also got it working

(3) I haven't tried installing google apps, i don't think it is very easy I do have superuser working as well as button savior

(4) havne't tried this yet but wireless adb was really easy

(5) I have seen someone with kindle working i myself have all my stuff through BN however I am having problems accessing my BN books through the stock library, hopefully it is not ditecting a root and blocking access.

(6) seems good so far i havn't really charged it yet so i am not really prepared to comment on it besides it seems epic.

I am pretty sure i didn't have 7 show up i did have the boot drive show up so i just pushed ahead and it worked.
[Nook Color General] slmillman:
Never Mind: z4root solved these problems.

How did you get superuser and softkeys to work. I've installed both of them but they clearly do not have superuse status (Softkeys "home" works but nothing else). Same with Button Savior

FYI: I installed K-9 Mail and it works fine. The Contacts app is already on the Nook.

Other working apps: FBReader, Dropbox, Alkido, Kindle.

AND: NookColor Tools works as well. If you install it in system/app you can permit loading apks from the sd card and other memory.
[Nook Color General] Masterface7:
I followed these instructions

http://nookdevs.com/NookColor_Installing_su_and_the_Superuser_app

to get super user then i just installed button savior normally. I do not have usb enabled and button savior seems to still work.
[Nook Color General] ravn1:
Could you please upload a video showing the reading experience of a heavy PDF(scientific article or downloaded magazine) in Alkido(Is it even possible to zoom?).

Touch, webbrowser, android is all great, but the MAIN reason for me wanting to get this is to read articles on it, and those are mostly PDF that I get through the school library access(even though they originate from HBR, MIT Sloan and such).

I'm just waiting to see the progress and feasibility of this rooting, then ill order it myself. :)
[Nook Color General] stelph:
Good to know! Hopefully once a dedicated thread for the Nook Touch is set up ( request it here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=14679998&posted=1#post14679998) a proper thread for apps that work on the Nook Touch would be great
[Nook Color General] GabrialDestruir:
If someone wanted to try installing Gapps I'd try these steps first.

http://nookdevs.com/NookColor:Manual_market_enable

You need to remove any framework.jar with these packages and/or modify the framework.jar in the NookTouch.

At the very least it'd give a decent idea of how similar the software is to the NC's 2.1 if this works then it could be possible to modify AutoNooter to work for the NookTouch and if it worked it'd allow access to market making testing of various apps easier on the NookTouch.

I don't have one of these myself and can't afford one or else I'd test those steps myself. But I'm very interested in seeing the results.
[Nook Color General] pfcwintergreen:
I've got mine running launcher pro. Opera Mini, root explorer, and the Amazon App Market work. Got button savior partially working (I use the soft key home button to get back to launcher pro, since the physical N button goes back to Barnes&Noble home screen); However I can't get apps to recognize super user access (even though I have the superuser app installed etc).

I tried to install Gapps via adb but kept getting a message to the tune of "SDK is old version".

General observations:

-as you'd expect, using android launchers/web browsers & apps eats noticeably at the battery as the screen is refreshing so much. Compared to a tablet though the battery life would still be phenomenal using it this way.

- My Barnes & Noble paid books still work fine using the stock reader when rooted. No prompt for user name/credit card or anything like that.

-A basic launcher with no transition animations whatsoever, and a good RSS reader with a simple interface; these are things you'll immediately want when you try to use this thing. Any suggestions?
[Nook Color General] GabrialDestruir:
See here about where you should start for gapps.

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=14680806&postcount=40

Also for a minimalistic launcher you could try something like Zeam with all the enhancements turned off.
[Nook Color General] Masterface7:
thanks for some good info.

first for installed super user did you do it this way

http://nookdevs.com/NookColor_Installing_su_and_the_Superuser_app

i got super user installed and it works great things ask for permissions and i say yes no problem.

I figured out my credit card problem i canceled my old card due to the sony thing and still had the old info on my bn account. after i fixed that i deleted the books and redownloaded them and it worked no problem.

Pulse didn't work for me but the genie widget is working great aka aosp news & weather. that is what i am primarily using for news right now.

I am planning on trying to get gapps later

also does this thing have a system restore like the nookcolor does like when it is 8 failed boots?
[Nook Color General] Masterface7:
Alright I tried the get the gapps on and Gmail works :) but market gets an error it says , Attention A server error has occured. Retry, or cancel and return to the previous screen. Also you tube boots but the videos don't work, google talk doesnt boot.

edit: I downloaded the gapps pack linked then deleted framework.jar then did all the steps in that guide.
[Nook Color General] ugly pete:
same here. market gets an error. i downloaded the amazon appstore tho!! works great!
[Nook Color General] GabrialDestruir:
The market error might exist because there's not a proper Android ID on the device... before hacked framework.jar's allowed these to be properly generated. This may very well be the case here which means someone needs to modify framework.jar or open it up to see if it needs it then replace it with a modified version.
[Nook Color General] rev0l:
I've bought one directly at B&N store (Paypal & german billing address), and send it to Borderlinx (Virtual Address Service / Package forwarder Service)...

With German Fees, additional shipping and a 29$ Cover i have to pay about 180 € / 250 $ for it...

hope this is worth investing ;)

I've ordered it on Jun 9th, Today it was delivered to Borderlinx...

lets see how long it takes over the great river ;)
[Nook Color General] Masterface7:
hmm any guides on modifying the framework.jar?
[Nook Color General] GabrialDestruir:
http://nookdevs.com/index.php?title=Enable_the_Android_Market&diff=prev&oldid=3923

Following the section on Android ID through the emulator may fix the market issue.

At the very least it'd tell us if there's a problem one way or another.

If it's an issue of android ID issues someone can then modify a framework for the NookTouch.

Though it'd be helpful if someone could post a logcat of when trying to use market it might give more information on why it isn't working.
[Nook Color General] mdall:
Are you talking of this thread ?

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=955847
[Nook Color General] GabrialDestruir:
Yep that's the one.
[Nook Color General] william1853:
I can get the Amazon Appstore to appear to work, but I can't get it to install anything.

Ugly Pete do you mean that you're getting it to install programs?
[Nook Color General] slmillman:
Have you turned on sideloading? AppStore requires the ability to install apps from memory.

One way to turn this feature on is to install NookColor Tools into /system/app and then run it. (If the checkbox is ticked, untick and tick again).

After that AppStore should work fine.
[Nook Color General] Masterface7:
I am able to search for and install apps using the amazon app store as well. I have enabled sideloaded apps though
[Nook Color General] william1853:
That was my problem. Thanks very much. Everything I am trying is now working great. There are definite limitations to e-ink, but I can now transfer files with dropbox and keep my epubs in sync that way.
[Nook Color General] mdall:
This seems to be the source code of the new nook (if i'm not wrong)

images.barnesandnoble.com/PResources/download/Nook/source-code/nook2_1-0.tgz

(Il found it on that page

barnesandnoble.com/nook/legal/)

(Sorry i can't post links)
[Nook Color General] redbluff:
Need some help.

I do all the steps in the instructions. Remove the SD card and hold the power button down. The rooted forever screen goes away and it acts like it is rebooting into normal start up mode but just then stays on the read forever screen. I then have to plug into USB on the computer and it reloads stock firmware on its own. I have done all the steps multiple times. ANy ideas?
[Nook Color General] william1853:
I know in my case my first effort to write the noogie SD card failed, and it only worked for me after I wrote it again using a linux system. Probably not your issue, but thought i would mention it.
[Nook Color General] jmgazer:
Me too.

Jim
[Nook Color General] Stephaneke:
you might have forgotten to rename the uRamdisk_rooted to uRamdisk?
[Nook Color General] redbluff:
Thanks. I checked my SD Card to ensure all the files were there and written to the card. I have all the files on the card that were in the instructions.
[Nook Color General] redbluff:
Thanks. I did not rename as the instructions just said to replace it. I will rename and try it again
[Nook Color General] mikeokie:
When using SoftKey, enable softkey in the notification bar, even if you are in the B&N library screen you can get back to your launcher using the home button in the notification bar
[Nook Color General] mikeokie:
GApps

Removing framework.jar is key.

Got the same results, was able to log-into YouTube, but Android market still responds back with "Server not Available"

Gmail works, When I try to attach something to an e-mail just opens the Gallery which is empty, Need to find a way to browse file system when adding attachments in Gmail.
[Nook Color General] jmgazer:
Rooted Nook Touch, now what?

I think I rooted my NT, at least I followed directions. Now what, it looks just like it did before rooting. I have Win Vista PC; how do I get ADB and how to connect with the Nook, or do I have to? No new screens or menus on the Nook T.

Jim
[Nook Color General] devbot:
In the guide there is a command line to backup the nook before rooting but it seems to be a linux/unix command

dd if=/dev/<nook> of=nook_touch_backup.img bs=1M

is there a Windows alternative to do the same?

Also, anyone know this?
[Nook Color General] epophoto:
Actually surprisingly the n2e native application browses flders i made for my books fairly nicely.
[Nook Color General] epophoto:
Is anyone trying zeam launcher yet? It is a stripped down minimalist launcher
[Nook Color General] ricky.zhou:
Have difficulty in getting noogie.img.gz & uRamdisk_rooted

Just got Nook touch yesterday and willing to root it now. But I found i have difficult in downloading these two files noogie.img.gz & uRamdisk_rooted that the web is blocked by Chinese Gov.FML P.s. i am in China now.

Many thanks if anyone here could help to download these two files and send to my email zyb1148@gmail.com. Cheers.
[Nook Color General] elmonica:
I find all the buttons on the ADW launcher screen to be awfully small, and I find the contrast between the icons and the various background themes to be poor.

I created an all white jpeg and attempted to replace the theme but it ignored my efforts. I also attempted to adjust size of the icons but could not.

On a positive note, I was able to increase the size of the Softkey button along with the little docking bar that pops up.

P.S.

Somebody asked about placing ADW Launcher in Landscape mode. I was able to do that through the settings. I changed it back however, because that change also put Opera mini in Landscape mode and I am not sure I like it.

P.P.S.

Scrolling up and down browser pages is sort of a pain isn't it? It doesn't really scroll in small increments. For reading web content, it might be better to use something like Instafetch, and then read it with page turns instead of scrolling. I haven't tried it yet, but may. Opinions?
[Nook Color General] Michael.Rose:
Back up Nook using dd for Windows

You can use a port of dd for Windows. But keep in mind that the syntax is going to be VERY different on Windows as the OS can't "see" the various volumes on the Nook/Linux directly. It should work just fine, but rather than futz, I just did it from Linux. The idiosyncrasies of trying to do this correctly on Windows, just wasn't worth the effort. I didn't have a Linux box handy at the time, and I couldn't shut the machine down to boot a linux live distro so I used a virtual machine. I booted up a "live" Linux VM, connected the Nook to the VM, did the backup, and saved the image to a SMB share. It worked like a charm.
[Nook Color General] jocala:
I'm shocked at how good the B&N software is. The developer(s) deserve a gold medal, it's really first-rate.
[Nook Color General] jocala:
There's no excuse not to have a Linux system handy in this day and age. VMWare Player and a linux systen image are a download away.
[Nook Color General] niphoet:
"No excuse"? Chill out. I'm not trying to start a flame war, but as a Linux and VMware Administrator, I can say that Linux is not for everyone.
[Nook Color General] jocala:
Apologies, no flames meant here either, off-topic for this thread.
[Nook Color General] mikeokie:
Use Ubuntu Live CD, boot using the CD and you have Linux and your above command works, then all you do is remove the CD and boot back to Windows
[Nook Color General] mikeokie:
Wallpaper

I want to add more wall papers to my nook. I am using Launcher Pro. When I go to select a new wallpaper all I can choose from are the stock Launcher PRO images, and if I select gallery it is empty. Any suggestions?
[Nook Color General] jocala:
Try creating a media folder on your sd card.

On my android phone: /sdcard/media/resource/*.jpg is where a lot of wallpapers live. Copy jpgs to this folder, unmount then remount the sdcard (device info, settings). It may then index the pics for use.
[Nook Color General] mikeokie:
Wallpaper

Tried creating a folder on the sdcard /media/resource. No dice no pictures are recognized in the gallery. Also tried just putting them in the Media folder as well as in the DCIM/100ANDRO folder. Still nothing in the gallery. Also tried renaming the images to IMG0001.jpg and still no luck.
[Nook Color General] ItsBobLoblaw:
Hello all. I'm fairly new to Nook rooting (and to using Command Prompt and adb as well), but I was able to root, install Superuser, and install and load the Kindle app. Once I'm on the Nook homepage, how do I get back to the Kindle app? Do I have to use adb via command prompt every time?

What if I installed a launcher? (Any luck with Zeam yet?) I'm still learning and I've been doing a lot of reading, but would that process be like this: install and load a launcher, install and load Button Savior, configure BS (never used before), and I'm good to go?

Also, could anyone help me with figuring out how to write the adb start codes? I see they are a little different for different apps, but I can't find how to write them.

I'm not looking to do anything too fancy yet, just a launcher and maybe a web browser for now.

Thanks!
[Nook Color General] elmonica:
Instafetch Lite

Anyone get Instafetch Lite to sync with their Instapaper account? A pretty clear cut process normally, but I am not pulling any articles down for some reason.

I did get Read It Later to work. I would rather use Instafetch however, since it has settings so you can read the articles with page turns instead of scrolling. I find scrolling using the Nook Touch screen less than ideal.
[Nook Color General] mikeokie:
I installed launcher pro and aw launcher both work great. Opera mobile is awesome. One tool which you need is softkey it will allow you to have a home button in the navigation bar. So if for example you find yourself on the BN home screen and want to go to your kindle app just hit the home button using soft key. I have the soft home button linked to home of my launcher pro and it takes you to all of my apps. And the library app which has your BN books also shows up in your list of apps in the launcher.
[Nook Color General] elmonica:
Mike,

FYI, There is another thread with more activity over here:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=14820111#post14820111

I keep hitting this thread accidentally with my comments.
[Nook Color General] jocala:
That's why we need a forum or subforum :)
[Nook Color General] topher200:
InstaFetch logcat

I would really like to get InstaFetch working. It installs fine and loads the Dashboard and Folder screens, but fails to open any articles. Here's a logcat of it failing: https://gist.github.com/1032930

It looks like it's trying to use the Android scroll bars but failing to find them. Could that be something that's just not included in the Nook version of Android? Can we do anything to support that?

I'm emailing the developer as well.
[Nook Color General] elmonica:
Same problem here. After first trying the Lite version from Amazon's apps store, I found an old apk off of some freeware site and installed it and was able to open an article, although with some difficulty. But that version didn't have any of the settings I expected including the one for paged reading, so i downloaded the current Pro version, but I am now experiencing the same issues as you.

I have concluded using a browser on this device is not going to be of much use to me on the Nook for reading articles, since scrolling sucks. While "Read it Later" works fine on the Nook Touch, there is no paged reading feature like there is with Instafetch, so scrolling is still required.

P.S

I also emailed the InstaFetch developer yesterday, but mostly because I was checking on my account status, since I hadn't used it in a long time. I did mention to him that I was trying to get it to work on my Nook Touch as well.

P.P.S.

If anyone wants to use Instafetch on their Nook Touch, please hit up the developer with an email asking him to help us out. Thanks.
[Nook Color General] topher200:
Questions from InstaFetch developer

He sent me a reply:

Does anyone know how to best answer this question? I've seen people say they think it's running a modified version of Eclair, but nothing definite. What about for ROM? Is the best way to describe it "Stock Nook Touch ROM?"

EDIT: I'm finding more resources that say it's Android 2.1. So that just leaves the ROM; what would you say it is?

The dev has sent me a debug version to help him with - no response from the tests yet.
[Nook Color General] jocala:
From build.prop: ro.build.version.release=2.1

I'd say it was Nook Touch Rom 1.0 (rooted Eclair)
[Nook Color General] Optics2:
Repligo working

I just installed Repligo Reader on my newly rooted Nook Touch and I can view technical pdfs (those with math and such) with no problem.

Highlights:

The panning is a little annoying because of the screen refreshing/flicker, but it looks rather good.

Double click to zoom in and out

The HW buttons don't work.

Zooming / panning / annotations were my biggest hopes and I'm reasonably impressed with Repligo (no, I don't work for them)
[Nook Color General] 1000QA:
Does anybody know if this works in landscape mode?

Thanks a lot

1000QA
[Nook Color General] ghoul02:
Can somebody test this?

I used TouchNooter to root the Nook, then it was stolen. I had wifi off. Anyway, I tried to remotely install Plan B to see if I could find it. Can somebody do a quick test to see if it will send emails when it installs remotely?
[Nook Color General] lesdense:
As others have observed, we need a specific forum for the Nook Touch (if there is one now I haven't found it). I got a Nook Touch yesterday and rooted it using the instructions linked to this thread. It all went well but now I've got several questions.

This rooted Nook Touch is running off the micro SD card, I presume (my rooted Nook Color runs CM7 on internal memory). If I swap out the nooter card for a generic micro SD the Touch boots to stock. If I install nooter on a faster micro SD will it have a meaningful effect on the speed of my installation (refresh rate and such)?

My 2gb micro SD shows as being a tiny fraction of that size -- a consequence of burning the nooter image I guess. Could I have burned the image in such a way that it would have retained the full size of the card but still generated the bootable image I need?

I have Market but, even though I can type in the Search box I can't make it actually search for apps. Is this a known problem or am I overlooking something?

I can't find a way to use my own images as wallpapers. I'd be happy to have NO wallpaper just to have the most readable homescreens. Anybody figure out how to do either one?

I'm no longer a complete noob at this stuff but just barely. All wisdom welcomed.