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[Nook Color General] chilre:
sgx libs v4 vs v5

I can't reply in the dev thread, so posting here.

While the library files are identical between the versions, there seems to be a difference in the rc.pvr . following linux conventions, I would guess that this script is used to load the required libraries at start up.

Assuming it is so, then could this be the reason for the noticed better performance with v4? Again, I am assuming that this file is part of the start up in the kernel (used while building the kernel?). Don't have my nc with me right now to check.
[Nook Color General] eyeballer:
So far we're not using that file at all.

Just these http://pastebin.com/hfvBweGd
[Nook Color General] Martdude:
I flashed update-cm-9.0.0-encore-KANG-20120204-opengl-signed.zip tonight and my flash is finally working, I use veetle.com app and to stream various shows and for the first time it is working. Running the lasted flash for ICS and the flash setting link is also working for the first time. Thanks guys for all your hard work.
[Nook Color General] bionictoothpick:
Is there an update.zip with the 109 fattire kernel that may be flashed with CWM?

I just installed the above update-cm-9.0.0-encore-KANG-20120204-opengl-signed.zip and it has the 2.6.32.9 fattire@laptop #108.
[Nook Color General] khaytsus:
Copy the kernel into your zip and re-flash? Or just copy over the kernel in boot in CWM? Various ways to do it.
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
No. I did not want to make one because if someone flashed it to an older build it would bork it up. Besides, I have pretty much concluded it does not prevent SODs. I have had two since I installed it.

But, if you still want to try it, there are two methods that work for emmc installs. One is to put it into the nightly zip before flashing and the other is to push it to your system via adb. Search this and the other two CM9 threads for instructions.

Sent from my Nook Color running ICS and Tapatalk
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
Copy with ADB, not CWM.
[Nook Color General] eyeballer:
By popular demand.. opengl with 109 kernel: http://techerrata.com/file/nightly_....0-encore-KANG-20120205-opengl-109-signed.zip
[Nook Color General] bionictoothpick:
That's what I'm talking about. Have to show off something during the superbowl! Might as well be ics!
[Nook Color General] 3rdman:
I'm running this combination (109 + openGL) and it seems great. Flash works but not in "HD"...I see that the location bug was fixed at some point and using WiFi, it finds me very quickly...great!

Can someone help me to get the Asus weather widget to work? I have the signed version and it's copied to the system/app folder. I changed permission to rw-r-r (like everything else in that folder). I then install it (no problems there either) but when I try to use it, it now just refreshes forever and doesn't actually update. I even copied off the weather.apk off my Prime but that won't work (not signed?)...Can someone post working instructions for me?
[Nook Color General] kevlingo:
Hi all

I am using eyeballer's 109 build w OPENGL enabled. Ive noticed some odd behavior with touchscreen. As long as I'm on battery, it responds great. As soon as I plug it in, touch response is erratic at best. Forget trying to drag an icon. I am using the stock cable and charger. Anyone else experiencing this?

Everything else works great.

Kevin
[Nook Color General] bigbob23:
I remember seeing this occasionally (but rarely) with CM7.
[Nook Color General] koopakid08:
This is just a problem with NC's in general, no matter what ROM you use.

Sent from space
[Nook Color General] brad2345de:
Opera Mobile showing Phone UI on CM9

Hi all,

I've installed the lastest ICS with OpenGL enabled and am very impressed.

One issue is that although I restored the app from a Titanium backup of my working CM7 setup, the Opera Mobile UI is displayed as the phone version (with the thick status bar on the bottom). Is there anyway to force Opera to tablet layout.

Also the Opera config page will not display. When trying to load it I get "Content Blocked by Content Filter". Any idea what might be causing this?

Thanks for the great work!

BTW I've tried several fresh installs of Opera via market etc.
[Nook Color General] stolenmoment:
That seems to happen to some units and not to others. I've never seen it, but others have. Don't know of a solution.
[Nook Color General] stolenmoment:
Is there some way of preventing Market from wanting to upgrade Maps to a non-working version?

I restored the older Maps via Titanium, but Market keeps trying to update it. I don't want to stop updating everything else.

Thanks!
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
Just go to market, my apps, and open the maps entry. There should be a check box that says "allow automatic updating". Uncheck it.
[Nook Color General] eyeballer:
New builds up.. http://techerrata.com/browse/nightly_kangs/encore

Just fyi the 109 kernel is included in both opengl and non-opengl from now on..
[Nook Color General] eventz:
In the middle of a book. I think I will be flashing this weekend. I am new to the rooting/ROM thing and have been going crazy with it on my MAtrix. Been taking it slow on my NC though.
[Nook Color General] stolenmoment:
Long since done, but Market keeps asking if I want to update it.
[Nook Color General] cincibluer6:
I'll update to this one this weekend but the last one you put up (109 with OpenGL) has been good for me. A little hesitant at times even with 1100 MHz CPU speed but overall very nice (can't expect perfection from an alpha.)

Thanks for all the hard work (you and all the devs involved.) ICS is much, much better than Gingerbread IMO.
[Nook Color General] Martdude:
Okay flashed this and so far real good. I dont run form the sd card at all run directly from the NOOK memory, performance is good and flash perfromance is exceptable for what I use it for on some pod cast and streaming tv. I dont expect perfection from a work in progress ROM so I am very happy with the results so far. Keep up the excellent work.

Martdude :D
[Nook Color General] webdroidmt:
So far so good, as per Keyodi's suggestion, edited the first line of the egl.cfg file and just experienced one freezeup and that was on the initial boot of the rom. After that, no freezes to report so far.

Overall performance is good and I'm now able to pull up websites on Chrome Beta. I couldn't do that with a non opengl build. Chrome still FCs when trying to access settings but definitely usable. Thanks.

Mike T
[Nook Color General] iakovl:
so CM9 is good for normal use by your opinion?
[Nook Color General] SGH-i200:
Two Unofficial Nightly Builds

Thanks koopakid08 for adding the link to eyeballers nightlies to the first post so everybody new to the game can find them quick.
[Nook Color General] webdroidmt:
You know what they say about opinions, right? :D Honestly, not copping out here but I believe you need to make that determination for yourself. Just from reading the multitude of related threads here, you can see the current strengths and weaknesses of CM9. It's certainly still "experimental", somewhat unstable and your specific needs will determine if it's good for your normal use.

If you're a big gamer or have to have Netflix working now, stick with CM7. If you have to view Youtube in HD or don't want to deal with flakey Flash video, stick with CM7. On the other hand, most other daily uses such as mail, music and other apps are just fine. I also think the interface is outstanding but again, if you're looking for rock solid stability and some of the things I mentioned above, stick with CM7 for now. Better yet, check out the Racks11479 thread for dual boot CM7 & CM9 for the best of both worlds. http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1448186

Mike T
[Nook Color General] Taosaur:
What I would really like is a zip for moving CM7 (or if possible, CM7/9 agnostic) to Alt boot on EMMC. I have three different zips that will do it for stock, but I think they need to make different changes to init.rc for CM7/9 to work on an Alt partition. Ideally, having a zip for the reverse would be great, too, making it easier to update and back up both systems. Maybe Dean Gibson's scripts here could serve as a template: http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=18783335&postcount=49

I know he uses these scripts for managing two rooted stock installs, but I haven't been able to get them to work w/ CM7/9, and they're made to work with a very old boot menu, not the CM stock one.

ETA: I also just experienced the NC failing to recognize that it's plugged in on Eyeballer's 0205 nightly. A reboot solved it.
[Nook Color General] pdanders:
Another option is to just grab an extra SD card and install CM9 on it. Then you can pop that SD card in when you want to try out CM9 without impacting your CM7 install
[Nook Color General] Awats:
Frankly I would say no. I use it everyday but it's not quite there for a general recommendation.

That's not a slight on anyone's effort but a signal that if you aren't going to try it for yourself to decide and accept some quirks, it's not ready.

If you want to play with it and see what it's issues are (and what does work), sure, it's ready for that.
[Nook Color General] iDidItAll4theNookie:
It works in general, but many things feel like they run at about 75% of the speed of CM7. If you play games, that difference is very noticeable, and more detailed webpages tend to hang up at times. Otherwise, it works decently, and the updated Mail apps are great. I'm sticking to CM7 for now, but I test the newest breakthroughs from time to time to see how close it gets. nAndroid backups FTW.
[Nook Color General] grayfoxmg1:
As for web page browsing, e-reading, and low end games(gameboid): I really can't see any performance difference between CM9 and CM7. Now Youtube HD doesn't work and regular Youtube is a ***** to buffer sometimes. Also you will have random freezing and FC's, but that is to be expected in a experimental mod. I have been using Samiam's builds mostly, and if you look at his first build and this last one using the #109 kernel, its a world of difference. The create thing about these builds (be they Sam's or Eyeballer's) is that they are released as an archive. Meaning if the next build suddenly runs like a stock '93 Compaq with Windows 7 (imagine how slow that is), you can go back to the last build and proceed to troll forums and rant about the inadequacies of the most recent one.

TL;DR

Yes for average day-to-day use that doesn't require heavy graphics and processing, CM9 is on par with CM7. We have our starting point and can only get better thanks to Sam, Eyeballer, Fattire, XDA's ICS community, and the rest of the Cyanogen team.
[Nook Color General] ibilln:
not ready for prime time

Sorry, I have to register a disagreement. I don't see -anything- on a par with CM7. Performance, as said above - about 75%. Lots of SOD's. Lots of extra battery use. Numerous times tapping just won't work for a while. Several application crashes. etc.

The UI is much nicer, and CM9/ICS is coming along, with progress almost daily. I love to be able to futz with it, and see what it can/will be. Fattire et al. deserve much slavish praise!

However, this is not "a software", as they say in China, which is ready for prime time.

My personal opinion, surely.

PS - IOW, it is important for people to know this is alpha.
[Nook Color General] swaaye:
Yeah I'm sticking with CM7.2 for the time being. I've tried a few CM9 builds and while the OS is neat, it's buggy, lacking some functionality and is clearly slow/chunky. It's alpha-level software right now, which is what the developers will tell you too. The big draw for a lot of people I think is the eyecandy, but I couldn't care less about GUI pretties to be honest.

I also dislike the permanent soft button status bar because, with CM7, I run apps fullscreen if I can and use Button Savior. A loss of screen real estate in a browser isn't something I want to accept.

The best thing about Android 3/4 are the more tablet-oriented applications. It's a shame those didn't come to Gingerbread.
[Nook Color General] SGH-i200:
Auto Hide option in ICS

The 'Auto Hide' option in 'Settings/System/Combined Bar' works great in Galery. But you are right. It doesn't work in the stock Browser since it has no fullscreen option.
[Nook Color General] envied:
Has anyone been able to fix the GIGANTIC keyboard bug?? I assume its a bug I flashed to an earlier nightly that I have been using and that fixed it but Sams newest build the 09/10 build seems to installed with a keyboard that takes up have the screen in portrait mode..good for blind ppl bad for regular users, 3rd party keyboard doesnt fix the issue either it seems.
[Nook Color General] grayfoxmg1:
Choose an aftermarket keyboard, I personally favor thumb keyboard, but I've heard alot like swiftkey.
[Nook Color General] friedsonjm:
Just installed update-cm-9.0.0-encore-KANG-20120210-030001-signed.zip

What is the 'best' launcher to use with this?

I am having problems with the Market - opens, then immediately closes.

My Nook was 'V6 Supercharged' before this upgrade, maybe that is the problem?:cool:
[Nook Color General] RoboRay:
Try changing Maps to a system app with Titanium.
[Nook Color General] bobtidey:
I've switched to using Nova as it seems to be significantly smoother than Trebuchet. You can also back up and restore its settings which is nice.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1389071

I'm still using with a CM9 version built just before the test-ics was introduced (end Jan). I keep trying new versions with and without openGL enabled and the 109 kernel but for me they all have significant extra lag.
[Nook Color General] Temetka:
Mouting

Ok so to copy files to my newly ICS's NC, how do I do this? Right now I am un-mounting the SD card and hooking it up to my tower via an SD to USB adapter. But this doesn't let me user the other 5GB (I repartitioned to 3GB / 5GB).

I am sure there is something somewhere in the settings, but I am unable to find it.
[Nook Color General] friedsonjm:
I've switched to Nova as well, just wished it did not 'waste' so much of the home screen with blank space - 7 rows should be more like 9 or 10!

I have found both gmail and market shut down as soon as opened... maybe there is a gapps I should be flashing?

EDIT: Yeah, went to beginner of this thread, and found the ICS gapps link.. will try now.

EEDIT: Nope, same problem.. trying latest nightly ROM, will see if that helps..

EEEDIT: Nope, still no dice! Very frustrating... without gmail and Market, ICS doesn't work to well for me... Also not working - script manager.

EEEEDIT: gapps-ics-4.0.3-sam-noinit sovled the Market issue...
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
There is a setting. Go to settings, storage, menu, usb computer connection, and select MTP. Then plug your usb cable to your PC. Go to Windows explorer and scroll the left pane to the bottom. You will see a device called nook color. There will be no drive letter. Under that you will see both sdcard and emmc.
[Nook Color General] envied:
I tried an aftermarket keyboard and it didnt fix the issue. it was still a gingerbread keyboard though off the market place so maybe thats why it didnt fix it?
[Nook Color General] RETIEF:
swiftkey

Swiftkey works well with normal sized keys. I personally don't like the Swiftkey tablet apk. But the one for phones works well.

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The nightly build from 2-10 works very well. I also installed the Nova launcher which seems much more responsive and laggy than trebuchet.

I don't use the nook for video much so as far as I am concerned, the existing build is a winnner.

:)
[Nook Color General] grayfoxmg1:
Well, for me, using thumb keyboard I could go into the 'thumb keyboard settings' in my app drawer and change how big everything about it is.
[Nook Color General] envied:
well i have an old build that works but the 2/10 build and 2/8 makes the keyboard huge..

It takes up half of the screen and letters are gigantic it is some sort of bug.

even full wiped and everything and it was still there until I went back to an older

nightly and it was fine and normal size and only took up about 1/4 of the screen at

the bottom instead of 3/4 or 1/2 the screen.
[Nook Color General] SGH-i200:
Its not a bug its a feature! ;-)

This bug was introduced with usage of new drivers. The last nightly without them was 1-31.
[Nook Color General] bigbob23:
While the keyboard currently is quite large, the earlier ICS keyboard was too small for anyone with large fingers. Maybe half-way in between would be a good compromise.
[Nook Color General] libertus77:
I downloaded 'Ice Cream Sandwich Keyboard' from the market when it got huge. I'm in the 2/4 nightly and it still works wonderfully.
[Nook Color General] SGH-i200:
'Ice Cream Sandwich Keyboard' from the market

Which one? From ohntanmi or another?

https://market.android.com/details?id=inputmethod.latin.ported&hl=en
[Nook Color General] libertus77:
Yep, the johntanmi one. Substantially smaller than the built in one, but keys are still big enough for my fingers. I hardly ever use landscape, so can't testify there.
[Nook Color General] zinahe:
I guess it's time to install ICS

I've been holding off installing ICS for a while. Believe it or not, I'm running CM7 nightly 122. I'm not kidding. Rock solid. But now as the complaints about the current build are about the size of the keyboard :) I think I better get to it.

Cheers and kudos to the developers.
[Nook Color General] 12paq:
Post moved to new thread.

Thanks
[Nook Color General] Taosaur:
I'm still on eyeballer's 0205, and I'm noticing touch response seems way more accurate than CM7 ever was, and I rarely if ever get phantom touches. The UI is also just so much smarter, and a lot of the ICS Google apps are great. The status bar is smarter about hiding in Mantano Reader, too, which upgrades my main use for the NC. I was expecting to go back to CM7 when I couldn't get either OS to boot on a secondary partition, but even with CM9 having overall worse performance I can't see going back.

I haven't tried Perfect Viewer yet--if it doesn't work well, that may drive me back to CM7. Otherwise I think I'll stay put and keep my fingers crossed for CM9 to get at least up to par w/ CM7 performance before too long.
[Nook Color General] Temetka:
Weird. Those options were already enabled. Yet I could have sworn when I plugged it in last week my computer didn't recognize it. Now it works just fine. Anyway thanks. :)

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I was using the free paid version of swiftkeys that I got from Amazon's free app of the day, but the letter were so small. This keyboard otoh is nicely sized. I might even pay for it as I really liked the black and blue theme I had in swiftkeys. Does the paid version have a theme like that?
[Nook Color General] cyonsinn:
Has anyone found a volume control app thats compatible with the current kernel? And is there a way to tune the display colors, cause my ics nook looks dull or faded compared to my ics phone. (voodoo control would be beautiful if it worked with our kernel) :(
[Nook Color General] khaytsus:
Swiftkey Tablet X works fine on the NC on ICS. I haven't tried the phone version (Swiftkey X).
[Nook Color General] RETIEF:
Swiftkey X

Swiftkey X works. I prefer it to thumb keyboards which the tablet version is.
[Nook Color General] envied:
ok I switch to the 2/13 nightly and I tried the diff keyboards you guys suggested (Ice Cream Sandwich by jan or whatever) but its still gigantic after switching to it

and tried rebooting but it didnt fix it. Still huge :/ idk why its working for you guys

but not me i guess ill go back to the older one before it started
[Nook Color General] =X=:
I just upgraded yesterday and noticed how huge they where. I use swiftkey tablet x and FlexT9 and they are the right size.

Yes 122 was the best. I upgraded to the latest CM7 and it was miserable. After a few months I couldn't handle it anymore so instead of going back to 122 I jumped to CM9.

There are some things that work better with CM7 like hardware acceleration (Netflix, flash, etc...) but for the most part CM9 is a much better experience. And Finally my nook doesn't feel like a tablet with a Phone OS it feels like a tablet.

=X=
[Nook Color General] bigbob23:
I have read a number of complaints about the Kindle app but I don't seem to have any issues. There are a couple features I wish it had but it appears to me to work the same as it did in CM7. Am I missing something?
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
It depends on which version of the Kindle app you are running. If it is a 2.0+ version there is no problem. If it is 3.0+ then it has problems. Either it displays a half page on early 3+ or in later versions it displays properly with wide margins and wide line spacing so that very little text is shown on a page.

Sent from my Nook Color running ICS and Tapatalk
[Nook Color General] bigbob23:
I didn't use the Nook app much with CM7, but don't recall it being greatly different. I thought this look was mainly due to the lack of variable margins/line spacing with the app (i'm using version 3.4.1).
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
That look is what people don't like. And it is because there is no adjustment for margins and line spacing. You are only getting a paragraph or two per page. With the old version you can get 5 or 6 paragraphs per page. They want it back like it used to be.

Like this: (removed)
[Nook Color General] ohshaith55:
Try nooktweaks by dalingrin. Its in the market. It controls sound and I think I recall it working on cm9. Also newer builds of cm9 include DSP manager I believe. As for color I don't know of any app like that for the nook.
[Nook Color General] cyonsinn:
Are you talking about nook color tweaks? if so it just freezes and FC's on mine when i try to adjust audio settings. but thanks for responding much appreciated.

And Dsp managaer doesnt have an option for headphone volume gain :(
[Nook Color General] Taosaur:
My sound has been a lot better on CM9 vs. CM7 without nook tweaks or DSP. I haven't tried lining out to a dock or stereo since I installed CM9, but I couldn't come close to maxing the volume on headphones. Sound and touch were my biggest peeves w/ CM7, so having those two things fixed offsets issues like battery drain and constant SOD.
[Nook Color General] rgp1236:
Try Volume Plus 8.1 Beta. It has worked great for me so far. I usually try eyeballers update every day.

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I am posting this again with the thread for reference. I use Volume Plus 8.1 Beta which you can google It works like a charm on eyeballers nightlies thus far. I cannot yet post links or would happily do so.
[Nook Color General] kfxdadev:
Building just broke (perhaps because of German and Polish translation merges)

Hi,

For those building the ICS nightlies themselves, this morning the compile failed for me. I believe this is because of the German and Polish translations being merged into the ics branch. I've emailed fattire about it. I cant post in the dev forums, so I'm posting here. The error messages are:

packages/apps/Settings/res/values-de/arrays.xml:358: error: Error parsing XML: mismatched tag

packages/apps/Settings/res/values-de/strings.xml:1791: error: Resource entry system_update_settings_list_item_title is already defined.

packages/apps/Settings/res/values-de/strings.xml:685: Originally defined here.

packages/apps/Settings/res/values-de/strings.xml:1793: error: Resource entry system_update_settings_list_item_summary is already defined.

packages/apps/Settings/res/values-de/strings.xml:686: Originally defined here.

packages/apps/Settings/res/values-pl/strings.xml:1808: error: Resource entry system_update_settings_list_item_title is already defined.

packages/apps/Settings/res/values-pl/strings.xml:685: Originally defined here.

packages/apps/Settings/res/values-pl/strings.xml:1810: error: Resource entry system_update_settings_list_item_summary is already defined.

packages/apps/Settings/res/values-pl/strings.xml:686: Originally defined here.

make: *** [out/target/common/obj/APPS/Settings_intermediates/src/R.stamp] Error

Edit: This problem was fixed by a later checkin this past weekend.