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[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] mb02:
I don't recall serving in the military was the only way of serving a country. I find it quite contradictory to make bold claims in the realm of defending someones rights while metaphorically and verbally slapping them in the face for exercising them. If people who defend my country are all like you (which I'm glad they arent) I would gladly go live in canada, and I hate the french. Regardless, this is a FORUM whee anyone can speak their mind on any post, so oh well if some jump at this guy for a pointless thread.

Quick hint though: I would suggest refraining from telling people you served in the Navy when acting like an asshole, you're giving our nation and its people you represent a bad name. Thanks.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] viniturb0:
Ghost volume button issue on most devices

No micro sd card support

Confusing user interface

No Facebook contacts sync

No native social network widget

Can't add more home screens

Fuzzy speaker

Lock screen vibration can't be switched off

No digital clock only analog widget

Quadrant benchmark only 1500 score

Lag in many areas

No Facebook events calendar sync

Only 5m camera

NO SWYPE

THE VOLUME BUG HAS REALLY PUT ME OFF AND SAMSUNG ARE STILL TO ACKNOWLEDGE THE ISSUE,
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] martonikaj:
Then don't buy it. Or if you have it, return it. Or ship it to me, I'll take it.

(Sorry in advance for long post)

"Most" devices. How do you know? because people on XDA talk about it? I highly doubt it is "most" devices. You're always going to hear from people with the problem.

Personal preference. I don't mind. Whats it matter? I have an SDcard and haven't removed in it a year and a half.

Its a new version of android. If you're buying this phone you KNOW that its different. If its confusing to you I'm sorry but its of course going to have a learning curve. Are you gonna complain when your other phone gets updated to ICS too? Gonna stay on 2.3 for the rest of your life? Have fun.

Google has said they'll let Facebook back in when they follow the rules for contact syncing. Its Facebooks job to fix the app.

But you have specific G+, Twitter, and Facebook widgets.

Again, personal preference. Every Nexus has had 5. If you want more, add a launcher. And just as a side note, if you're using more than 5 screens, its faster to go to the app drawer than swipe over to a 6th/7th screen.

Is this really a problem? Again, you're only going to hear from the people who have the problem, not from all the satisfied people

Small cosmetic issue, again personal preference. Most people are fine with it (and I'm pretty sure you can turn off haptics in the settings).

Download a clock widget from the market. Stock android hasn't ever had a digital clock widget. And the time is in the status bar...

Who cares about a benchmark score? Need to brag to your friends? All that matters is the device is quick. Its clear that Quadrant hasnt been optimized for ICS.

Its the first phone (and a dev phone) with ICS. Its gonna be slightly off. You know this going in when you buy a Nexus. And again, it depends on whos using it and what they deep acceptable for "lag".

Refer to the above comment on the Facebook app. Its not Google's fault.

Which has proven to be a very capable camera if you use it right. MP =/= quality.

Not Google's fault, again. Swype needs to be updated for ICS.

RAGE. Buy a SGSII and shut up.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] fdm1:
Also, why did you start a new thread just to copy and paste your whining and add "NO SWYPE"???
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Jebus99:
What a complete and utter troll.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] pukemon:
Lame gs2 fanboy. Sounds like he needs an iphone more than anything if he is 'confused'.

I invented cyberspace. You're trespassing.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Lcrkz0023:
"Massive"??...thats a strong term to use. Most of your points are either things we already knew or there are other ways to circumvent, so therfore a non-issue. I think you just wanted to make a thread just to be making a thread.

Annnd..i let you win, by replying to this bs
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] viniturb0:
Nice one buddy

I'm just pissed off cos I paid a lot of money

Do u want to buy it? I paid £530 I have a receipt for it

If not its cool I'll return it tomorrow cos of the volume issue
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] viniturb0:
Sorry if I upset u guys but I paid of lot of money that's why I'm pissed off. The volume issue doesn't help u can't hear the other party cos it goes to almost 0
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] fdm1:
There's nothing wrong with expecting things to work. The problem is that most of the things you are expecting are things that you should have known about or things that never existed or were expected to be implemented.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] musashiken:
Seems like OP is one of those average Android users who have not seen what stock Android is.

That's the problem with Manufacturer skins and casual users, take away Touch Wiz or HTC Sense and they're confused as hell.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] oilfighter:
You sound like a facebook addicted teenager. You realized that you bought a device that will set the standard for FUTURE software development right? If you want to be at the forefront of android OS, you have to let app developers to catch up. What, do you think facebook knows what will happen with ICS? If you can't live without those apps, go back to a gingerbread device, there are many choices!
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] chewbz:
I find it funny that you listed low quadrant score as an issue. You should really research about a phone before you buy it, this will inform you about the hardware limitations such as no sd card support or 5 mp camera before you take the plunge of purchasing the device.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] DammitCubs:
I put my thoughts above.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] sauron0101:
The volume bug is the only one that is severe. I don't mean to be rude, but the rest is just plain ... ignorant.

Quadrant is an accurate benchmark? It is appalling unreliable.

Megapixels is a measure of camera quality?

I'd return in your position.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] JTECJ:
What a waste, there are so many people drooling over that phone and can't yet get it...then we have to see this!
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] xandermpls:
+1
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] voxigenboy:
if this' gonna be that kinda party i'm gonna stick my di** in the mashed potatoes! ;D
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] cenwesi:
Dude, you lost me when you listed Quadrant....are you for real?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] pukemon:
Wait. You dint realize... uh nm.

I invented cyberspace. You're trespassing.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] viniturb0:
Thank you for enlightening me I'm truly grateful, maybe it's not the right phone for me,

Ok quadrant score was a rubbish one accepted,

I love the no skin factor but I guess I got used to the sense ui and speed.

I'm going to return it tomorrow

THANK YOU ALL FOR YOUR COMMENTS GOOD AND BAD IT'S NICE TO SEE KNOW PEOPLES VIEWS
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] joefrog1996:
Is beats audio software based or hardware based in the sensation XL. If its software based how to you get it on the dinc 2? Is there a kernal or a driver I can install?
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] knipp21:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1287038
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] anlog:
So... I'm showing /data mounted with 11GB free, and all of the custom apps I've loaded from the Market are in /data/app. The 1GB of "user" storage is mounted at /mnt/media.

Either I'm really stupid, or perhaps we already have access to the full NT memory???
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] conundrum768:
That's weird. Has there been an OTA update that we weren't told about, or did the root do a whole lot more than we thought? I'm confused.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] anlog:
I haven't received any OTA. I think root basically gave us access to the /data mount. B&N wasn't anticipating root or the ability to load Amazon/Android markets...
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] conundrum768:
Well, isn't that dandy.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] rmm200:
Get busy and try side-loading 10GB of applications and see what happens!

Although I suspect /data is a mount point for the two file systems, app and whatever the B&N one is called.

What does /etc/fstab show?
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] anlog:
It looks like the standard /data mount from any other Android device. They just didn't anticipate end users having access to it...
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] downsay:
Not to discredit you at all, but would you be able to post a screenshot for the guy who was asking for proof on repartition info earlier in another thread?

Speaking of which, is there an easy method to take a screenshot?
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] anlog:
You can run a "df" from an ADB shell to see the mount points.

/data is there with over 11GB free.

This is all stock - no repartitioning required.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] downsay:
Unfortunately I have not had the chance to root yet. I guess tons of others have and they should easily be able to verify your findings. Looking forward to your one click root btw.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] tsubus:
Could you post the contents of /etc/fstab and the output of these two commands:

df -h

mount

I'd appreciate it. I am currently deciding between the KF and the NT, leaning towards the NT, and I think being able right away to use the entire space available for apps would seal the deal.

Thanks.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] anlog:
Indirect has incorporated my gapps install into his root script, so it's better to use his now.

Good luck!
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] anlog:
See below...
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] anlog:
I've loaded over 500MB in apps from the Android Market and can see all of my apps and settings stored in /data. It's the real deal.

# df

df

Filesystem Size Used Free Blksize

/dev 456M 44K 456M 4096

/mnt/asec 456M 0K 456M 4096

/mnt/obb 456M 0K 456M 4096

/system 602M 392M 209M 4096

/data 11G 580M 11G 4096

/cache 419M 7M 412M 4096

/bootdata 47M 3K 47M 512

/rom 47M 15K 47M 512

/mnt/media 1021M 7M 1014M 4096

/mnt/secure/asec 29G 5G 23G 32768

/mnt/sdcard 29G 5G 23G 32768

/mnt/secure/asec 29G 5G 23G 32768
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] rmm200:
500MB still fits within the 1GB user area.

Can't you dummy up a copy to exceed the 1GB boundary, just to see if it is real?

Easy for me to dream up work for other folks...
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] tsubus:
Thanks!

10char
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] anlog:
The 1GB area is mounted at /mnt/media, but sure I can try pushing more data to it...
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] jdubr:
Screenshot = press 'n' button and '-' volume button. It ends up in your Pictures folder.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] downsay:
I have read through those instructions many times. Unfortunately the instructions aren't clear cut enough for me. I have no idea on how to change to the proper directory, nor what that proper directory may be. I will wait for someone to create a step by step guide with numbers and every specific so that it is noob proofed for people like me.

I guess i should add...do i need to unzip the files first after downloading and before running the script.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] Drewmungus:
Even before root all of my side loaded apps and amazon apps were getting installed into the B&N content storage(or what ever you want to call it.) I've already used 1.17 gb's in there.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] snailmale:
Apps installed from market are one thing, but are we able to mount the partition as well? I.e. to sideload music or video files from our computers, in the usual drag and drop manner.

Sorry if I'm repeating the same question again!

Edit: i.e. Similar to in the SGS II, where there is 2GB for apps (more than enough), 11gb for app data/internal sd, plus external sd.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] anlog:
USB mount won't show /data...

I wonder if we can create a loopfile on /data and mount it as /mnt/media in /etc/vold.fstab???

Gonna test...
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] spoland:
N button and volume down for easy screenshot.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] ms2003:
during discussion above, i guess b&n missed leading people understanding. their assumption is user only can install apk through their store, and user only can copy files to media folder.

just my guess:D

---------- Post added at 03:39 PM ---------- Previous post was at 03:37 PM ----------

during discussion above, i guess b&n missed leading people understanding. their assumption is user only can install apk through their store, and user only can copy files to media folder.

just my guess:D
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] roustabout:
On the NC and NST,

/data is an android-only vanilla filesystem

/mnt/media is the filesystem that is swapped out of Android for copying in from Windows.

When you install an app via adb, the adb command has access to /data

When you install an app via the Amazon Appstore, that app has access to /data.

On a rooted device where /data is not full, you can use fdisk (or busybox fdisk in case you have not symlinked busybox to the commands it supports) to shrink /data. I would do this over a wireless connection, so that you don't get involved in both partition editing and unmount/remount at power on.

If the /data partition is the LAST partition listed by /mount, you can delete it and resize it hot very easily.

delete it.

hit n

create the 'new' partition as a smaller size.

w to write your changes.

You get an error about the kernel still using the old partitioning. You don't care. Reboot, and your /data partition has shrunk. Now might be a good time to run fsck on that new, smaller paritition. You'll get a warning about running fsck on a mounted disk. On a device with a resized partition and no actual filesystem damage, this has not been an issue for me. YMMV.

Then you would need to delete and recreate /mnt/media to the desired size, toggle the partition label to make it a fat filesystem, reboot, confirm that those boundaries worked also, and then run mkfs.vfat (if I'm remembering correctly) on your new partition.

The tricky bit is getting the partition order correct in a complicated filesystem like this one.

On the NST, you don't actually have to get everything just right.

I found that out by happy accident - I wanted to resize /data and /media there, and they are partition 6 and 8 respectively.

The first time I did it, I was confused about which set of notes described what. When the device failed to start 8 times, it looked at the world and realized a reimage was needed, and formatted the available ext fileystems as /data and /cache, and the fat filesystem as /media.

I did not realize this until quite recently, when I needed to reimage my NST to apply update 1.1, and lo and behold: the partition table after reimaging from stock was not in the order I'd ultimately imposed on it the first time.

I do not know how robust the recovery on the NT is.

Seems to me this is a great time to find out - but I would only muck around with the /data and /media and not touch anything below those, and I don't have one of the NTs so my money's not at risk.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] anlog:
Personally, I'm not going to repartition until we have CWM, but I suppose it would work.

Last night I managed to create a loop file in /data, format it as vfat, and mount it. I'm still trying to get it to automount at startup to replace /mnt/media. Writing an adb script to do this would be pretty easy.

The init.rc file needs the commands to create the loop device (mknod), but it appears that the init.rc gets overwritten after each boot???

Still testing...
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] roustabout:
The thing with my solution is that it's not going to work for 99.9% of the people here, since it assumes you know more about how to work with ADB than "the little end of the cable goes into the Nook Tablet, and the big end goes into my computer."

If yours is a scriptable hack, that's interesting. I'm fairly comfortable with manipulating the partition table, but I'd love to know if there's a viable recovery partition on these devices.

Since the /media and /data partitions are adjacent in numerical order (10 and 11) are they also adjacent (and preferably in that order) on the disk? That is, what does busybox fdisk tell us about the underlying geometry?

If they're adjacent and correctly ordered on disk, there's a high likelihood that after doing the resize you would be able to use the advanced commands to reorder the partitions correctly. (To grow /media, you have to first delete and recreate /data smaller -- but once you do the delete /media step, the other partitions all renumber down and your new /media will be at the wrong partition number unless you redo the partition order before restarting.)

I just took a quick look at the smb.conf file for one of the Android smb servers. It says it doesn't want to share ext4, but it leaves open that it may be possible.

# Auto-generated by com.funkyfresh.samba

#

#

# smb.conf last written on 2011-11-21_09-41-30 by build 111009m

#

#

# Manual edits of smb.conf are not supported.

#

#

# Sharing of non FAT based filesystems is unsupported. Do so at your own peril.

#

#

[global]

interfaces = eth0 eth0

bind interfaces only = yes

workgroup = WORKGROUP

server string = Samba on Android

netbios name = ANDROID

remote announce = 255.255.255.255

encrypt passwords = yes

security = USER

restrict anonymous = 1

load printers = no

printcap name = /dev/null

disable spoolss = yes

deadtime = 5

delete readonly = yes

nt acl support = no

inherit permissions = yes

socket options = SO_SNDBUF=16384 SO_RCVBUF=16384

local master = no

unix extensions = yes

[sdcard]

vfs objects = fake_perms

comment = Android /mnt/sdcard

path = /mnt/sdcard

force user = root

read only = no

writable = yes

guest ok = no

[share2]

vfs objects = fake_perms

comment = Android /mnt/sdcard/external_sd

path = /mnt/sdcard/external_sd

force user = root

read only = no

writable = yes

guest ok = no
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] xdajunkman:
Disregard...asked question that I then found an answer for.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] anlog:
Ok so it looks like the loop method isn't going to work with USB mass storage.

You can basically create and mount a looped virtual vfat filesystem on the device without any issues. You can even mount it to any point you want. I tried a bind mount pointing the looped vfat filesystem to the /mnt/media/Storage/, and the mount works, but the drive fails to mount in Windows when connecting the NT.

Looks like reformatting and swapping of the partitions willl be the route we have to take, which would give 1gb for data and ~12GB for /mnt/media.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] roustabout:
I'd recommend resize and preserve order if possible, not formatting /data since we don't know yet how good recovery on this unit is, and use fdisk to reestablish the correct order before restarting.

Since there's no boot from an outside OS, reformatting /data is going to be risky if it's even possible, since you kinda need /data to finish starting the device up.... You might be able to get a boot with /data not present, but I'd rather not try it.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] anlog:
You can probably symlink to a temporary /data while you work on the real one, but without custom boot images you can't really control the init.rc to run commands before the system starts up. The init.rc gets overwritten at each boot.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] roustabout:
If you leave teh starting cylinder of /data alone, you don't need to reformat it - and I think making /data 1G and relocating it on disk is pretty risky if you plan to install a lot of apps or actually buy many books from BN.

On the NST, in /data there is a folder /data/media and in /data/media is the B and N download tree for books and magazines.

AGain on the NST, I know the set of operations I posted earlier for resizing /data hot work and don't blow out the device, because I adb'ed into my NST and confirmed it as I posted them.

Again, that set of things is:

On a rooted device where /data is not full, you can use fdisk (or busybox fdisk in case you have not symlinked busybox to the commands it supports) to shrink /data. I would do this over a wireless connection, so that you don't get involved in both partition editing and unmount/remount at power on.

If the /data partition is the LAST partition listed by /mount, you can delete it and resize it hot very easily.

delete it.

hit n

create the 'new' partition as a smaller size.

w to write your changes.

You get an error about the kernel still using the old partitioning. You don't care. Reboot, and your /data partition has shrunk.

If (and I think there are) partitions after /data on the NT, then things get annoying.

You delete /data, but partition 12 becomes partition 11 and your new data is now 12, which you don't want.

This is where knowing the output of both mount and

busybox fdisk /dev/mmcblk0 (or whatever the emmc is called) is helpful. It'll let you know if, after you resize, the command in fdisk advanced mode for reordering stuff on the disk will work as expected. If so, then after shrinking you would go to expert mode (x) and use f to fix the partition order.

Then use r to go back to main mode and p to print your partition order and be sure that it's what you thought.

Write it and restart, and the contents of /data are all still there - fdisk doesn't format, so as long as you respect the original starting cylinder and it wasn't full to begin with, your files are still there on an ext3 filesystem; it may not be true for ext4, but I think it is. Then you can fsck to bring the disk description into line with the actual disk extents.

And that last step may indeed let you test how robust recovery is on these.

In the NC, the second or third partition contains a complete recovery image. That's not normally mounted, but it can be easily enough:

mkdir /mnt/tmp2 (or whatever)

mount /dev/block/mmcblk0p2 /mnt/tmp2

and then go look in tmp2 to see what is there. If nothing's there, it's worth looking through all of the normally unmounted partitions to see if there's a full recovery.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] DagobahSamurai:
Noob question as the progress of this thread has reached over my head.

Is it true that we get access to the full (or at least 11gb) of the internal storage for user content from simply rooting and that no repartitioning is required? Meaning I could have (with my 32gb micro sd) ~43g of user content on the NT?
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] snailmale:
Yes. But you can't see your 10gb of internal data when you plug your NT into your computer. You can see it from Root Explorer on your tablet. To utilise that 10gb, you can either download 10gb of apps, music, etc, or copy files over from your sd card.

i.e. fill up your sd card, copy contents over to \data on your NT, then put other stuff into your sd card (if you want)
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] DagobahSamurai:
Thank you for the quick reply. This is good news! So, since it's just essentially managing folders, would any explorer (I've used Linda) suffice? Or does it have to be Root Explorer?
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] roustabout:
I am hearing that fdisk does not work on the Nook Touch - fdisk sees one unified partition of type ee.

That's a really big problem for a lot of what I need from the NT partition layout, since I need my computer to see the partition for sideloaded content when I connect the NT to it.

I think that largely takes the NT off of my things to be interested in purchasing list, and I'm very curious about how BN is planning system recovery for the device. The NC had a really bulletproof restore.

It also raises the question of what OS 1.4 for the NC will have - if it's Gingerbread, is it going to completely wipe and reformat the device as it installs, and create a unified layout like this one?