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[Nook Color General] brian717:
I think this is at least partially the fault of the hosting. Perhaps it would make sense to spin off another server to host the repositories for all the noobs that are looking to either get started in rom development, or just to build the rom as-is.

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Some more thoughts, while we're on the topic. Warning: a bit of a wall of text.

While developers should definitely have access to a reliable server for development, I think spreading knowledge is always a good thing. I hope that most of the people following fattire's tutorial are not just going through the motions, but getting to know linux, git, and development a bit better. If thousands build the rom, and only 1% end up looking into everything further, we're still getting dozens of potential developers familiarized with the process.

It seems more in line with xda's goal as a whole - the site isn't quite for developers to efficiently churn out roms, it's more for developers to share knowledge and communicate. Sharing knowledge like this is what makes open source projects thrive (that and good, motivated developers).

I'd also like to note that the signal to noise ratio in that thread is incredible for xda. In most other threads, you'll see much more off-topic discussion, complaints disguised as "bug reports", and even posts by well-meaning users who just want to tell the developers what a great job they're doing. While that's nice, it still clutters the thread up a bit. The development thread for this is remarkable in how much of the talk is development-related. Some of the time, even the seasoned developers in the thread seem to be learning - the instability with the repositories is a great example.

Don't know where I was going with this, but I for one am glad the developers put in the effort to walk us through the process. I'd much rather get some help with those damn repository issues than have the developers just hand over a zip every now and then.
[Nook Color General] speedfreak007:
Is there anyone who's building cm9 willing enough to tell us a what's achieved by the massive work of the devs, compared to the alpha zip file which fattire posted? I currently have no time due to exams to play around with android myself, but I would like to know the current state of development if that's possible :)
[Nook Color General] khaytsus:
It's faster, rotation works, quite a few updates in the launcher, the "recent apps" button works.

Honestly the only thing really missing is Sound. There are some lags here and there, but the NC honestly has always lagged a little. Stuff scrolls really nicely, but I'm sure there's more 2d and 3d acceleration that needs doing. Last I heard there was video stuff to do, I assume something with the overlays. I haven't tried any video related stuff, since sound isn't in the repos yet.
[Nook Color General] yelloguy:
Thanks for the update. From the looks of it, everyone has been helping each other and not much actual development is being done. Only time will tell how many of these new developers are in it for the long haul and how many are in it to try the builds and never do any development. If we find some new devs, then it is well worth the effort.

Not criticizing anyone. Just sharing my thoughts. FWIW, I am a Microsoft developer with quite a bit of experience myself and I have considered jumping in but am hampered by the lack of time.
[Nook Color General] jlmelancon:
I'll admit I'm one of those that is hogging up bandwidth downloading the sources...now. After reading and re-reading the tutorial I've been able to get to the point of downloading.

I have a bit of programming experience and if I can pitch in I will. For now though I'm only downloading so I can get the latest version of CM9 for my Nook.
[Nook Color General] velizet:
It seems, for the time being, CM9 development turned into a general noob class for setting up VM's, ubuntu and compiling from source.

Anyhow, CM7 for the NC is very good, and apart from nice looks and being the "new thing" what do we expect CM9 to bring to NC?
[Nook Color General] MrColdbird:
Hope of patching the ICS framework up to allow splitscreening apps as seen on YouTube. :)
[Nook Color General] khaytsus:
If you guys are complaining about random folks building ICS thinking it's slowing down or stopping "real" development, it's not, so you can go ahead and stop with the pity party.

I suspect the underlying complaint is that "everyone is building it, so CM isn't releasing builds, and I don't feel like building it, so I don't get new builds". It's already been said once it's stable, it will be built by the buildbot.

If say fattire were building, testing, and uploading a build for people to use daily (otherwise people would whine about not getting a new build) he would be distracted from actual development.
[Nook Color General] lfb02000:
update revisions

which update...zip has openGL, 109 and tweaks. Not sure which build has everything included
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
And tweaks? You mean tnp's modded build? If so look on the other thread (unofficial...etc). He posted one not long ago.
[Nook Color General] Ostrich Egg:
Anyone else having problems with Eyeballer's 2/27 OpenGL build? If I wipe the dalvik cache and let it rebuild, everything is fine on the first boot, but on subsequent boots no applications will run--the window will pop up and then immediately close.
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
Look back a few posts. A user said my 240-softkey patch broke on that build. Maybe something is broken on that build.
[Nook Color General] Ostrich Egg:
Is there a way in recovery to flash packages from the internal storage partition?
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
I think the CWM recovery only works with SD card zips. I don't think it knows how to read emmc.

Is there a reason you want to do this?
[Nook Color General] grayfoxmg1:
Thats right, there is an option to mount emmc, but all that does is include it when you clear all data for a fresh instal.
[Nook Color General] Ostrich Egg:
It's not a big deal of course, just that flashing is the only thing I use the microSD card for. If there were a way to do without it completely I think that would be preferable.
[Nook Color General] racks11479:
Actually with the CWM-based Recovery 5.5.0.4 there is an option to install zip from internal sdcard (which would be your media partition)

From CWM Recovery choose to:

Install zip from sdcard --> choose zip from internal sdcard

-Racks
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
That's amazing to me that you can get by without an SD card. I have my emmc full and my SD almost full. LOL. But seriously, another use of your SD should be using it to do nandroid backups of your device using CWM recovery. And that also can only be done to SD. It's really a good idea to backup occasionally.
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
Racks, does that version also allow you to put your nandroid backup on emmc? That would be nice for those that have one install on emmc and another on SD. The old CWM would try to put it on the boot partition of the SD.
[Nook Color General] stevek28:
running nook tweeks

I'm running cm9. Can I just flash the tweekszip?
[Nook Color General] stevek28:
netflix

Did I miss something?

I am running current nightly cm9 and trying to run netflix. The app attemps to load a movie and stops.
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
What do you think you missed? To my knowledge netflix has never run on CM9. It runs on CM7, but not 9.

Sent from my Nook Color running ICS and Tapatalk
[Nook Color General] zires:
Noob here on cm7 kang. What are the procedures to upgrade to cm9? What is the best rom? Tia
[Nook Color General] grayfoxmg1:
That's a matter of opinion. You can make your own (ala fattire's guide), use Samiam303's (with or without community tweaks, from tnpapadakos, or supercharger script, from mateorod and I), Eyeballer's(again with or without V6) ,and Eyeballer's OpenGL builds( and once again with or without V6).

I personally use Sam's with the V6 supercharger, but I've heard a lot of good things about Eyeballer's builds.
[Nook Color General] stevek28:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1030227
[Nook Color General] RETIEF:
Recovery question

Actually with the CWM-based Recovery 5.5.0.4 there is an option to install zip from internal sdcard (which would be your media partition)

Where does one get this recovery?

Thanks.
[Nook Color General] Ostrich Egg:
I assume he's talking about this (from the ICS dev thread OP): http://sphsolutions.net/android/Encore/Nightlies/Recovery/

I don't know how to install them though :/
[Nook Color General] tonyp:
As some people here already mentioned - with newer CWM versions it does work.

There is one reason - if you swapped your emmc and sdcard (with the cyanogenmod option) you can't use ROM Manager anymore to make an update because after rebooting to recovery cwm can't locate the file.

A workaround would be to place the flashable zip in both emmc and sdcard.
[Nook Color General] KingJL:
GenieWidget

I am new to the NC. I have installed CM7 (somewhat satisfied), but have now moved to ICS. I initially installed from Samiam's nightlies, but now am using the nightlies from Eyeballer. I would like to thank both Samiam and Eyeballer for their efforts.

There appears to be a inconsistency to touch sensitivity. The response to tapping (touching) icons seems to be hit or miss. Within applications, the soft keyboard at times is at times ultra sensitive (inputting extra characters). I have searched the forum and can find no reference to these problems (maybe I have not searched correctly).

Also I can find no menu for the News & Weather app (GenieWidget.apk). If I remember, with CM7 on the nook, there was a menu icon for this app. I know it is there on Galaxy Tab Gingerbread, and Samsung Infuse Froyo. With NC ICS I cannot force a reload or set my location without the menu icon.

If I have brought up issues that have already been dealt with, plz forgive me and point me in the right direction.

Thanks again to the devs and those that provide us access to these updates!!
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
The touch sensitivity issue is well known. It is much better than it used to be, but in my opinion could still stand improvement.

The menu is there, it just looks different. It is three little vertical dots either on the bottom status bar or in the app itself in the upper right corner. It is now called the 'action bar', but is really the menu button.

Sent from my Nook Color running ICS and Tapatalk
[Nook Color General] KingJL:
I can find the menu in all of the other apps ( I had figured out the vertical dots that is in various places), but for the News and Weather app (GenieWidget.apk), there are no vertical dots to be found (at least on my system).
[Nook Color General] jewnersey:
eyeballers latest opengl build has been sluggish for me...

and i know poeple have wifi issues, but mine connects fine and then is pretty much not capable of downloading anything speeds are **** although the rest of the web works fine
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
There must be a bug in the program or the tablet gui. I run at 240 dpi so I am normally in the phone gui. The three dots show up on the lower status bar in News and Weather there. When I switch to 160 dpi and the tablet gui, there are no dots there. Something is either wrong with the app or the tablet gui. The gui is supposed to recognize when the menu is needed and show it. If it's not needed, it does not show it. Somehow they are not communicating right.
[Nook Color General] KingJL:
At least now I know it isn't me!!

Thanks leapinlar!!
[Nook Color General] grayfoxmg1:
I can confirm this as well. Though it isn't a big issue for me as I us different services for news & weather respectively.
[Nook Color General] KingJL:
I have been scouring the CM9/ICS development threads. Is there a common place to list issues encountered with CM9/ICS where the developers can be aware of the issues? Not a place to complain... just a place to note issues with the current nightlies.

Examples are:

1. no menu for "News & Wearher" (GenieWidget) when running ui at 160 dpi

2. Terminal Emulator does not show superuser request when trying to "su" if superuser automatic response is set to prompt (if su automatic response is set to "allow", then "su" is successful).

Just looking for the best place to note problems so that they can be seen and possibly fixed.

Currently running:

Eyeball's 3-2-2012 [SDCARD]
[Nook Color General] lfb02000:
Am running eyeballer's "update-cm-9.0.0-encore-KANG-20120301-080001-opengl-signed.zip" and find everything working. Just want to mention I didn't have any lockups until I installed Chrome Beta. After managing to uninstall it I have not had another.
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
Opengl comments and questions should now be posted here:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=23164909
[Nook Color General] vshun:
I do not think it is cm9 issue though with missing menu on news and weather app. I can not find it in the same app in stock ICS rom on Transformer as well unless I am missing something.
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
The problem is either the app is not telling the tablet gui that it needs a menu or the tablet gui is not responding properly. All I can say is the menu shows in the phone gui. This could either be a CM9 issue, or ics issue. Sounds like ics since you have the same problem with transformer.
[Nook Color General] k8108:
The work around that I used for the news and weather widget (a must have! ) was to use Button Savior soft keys app. BS has a menu button so you can bring up settings on the N & W widget.
[Nook Color General] KingJL:
Just upgraded to the latest Eyballer build and also followed the suggestions of SeaFrator ( http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=23249779#post23249779 ).

Observations:

Everything seems a little snappier; Response to touch (at Home) seems improved.

Touch response within Google chrome is still slow and hit or miss (especially near the edges).

Thanks to Eyeballer for access to his nightly builds!

GooManager is great!!

Special thanks to Fattire for the new uboot... works great!!
[Nook Color General] KingJL:
UPDATE: This build is superior in all respects. The touch response is much better in all apps that I have tried (except for the default chrome browser).

I have been checking out browsers. So far I have found 2 that may meet my needs... Opera and Firefox Beta.

Opera seems to work fine, is very responsive and has no touch sensitivity issues. I am not a fan of the screen layout... it seems to be more suited to a smaller (phone) screen. For a phone, the layout would be excellent, but I find it lacking for anything with the real estate of the nook color.

Firefox Beta seems to be almost as responsive and as sensitive to touch as Opera. For me, the layout is much more suited to the nook color. I think I'll try flying with this browser for a while!! I need to find out how to make it the default browser to be activated from other apps (i.e. overdrive console, etc.).
[Nook Color General] KingJL:
Found it! Duh..!

When you use an app that needs to open a browser connection, it will prompt which browser to use. It will also allow you to set it as default... FOR THAT APP. While I am testing, I will not set a default... just let it keep prompting.
[Nook Color General] grayfoxmg1:
You can now download their aurora and nightly browsers for android
[Nook Color General] friedsonjm:
Earth?

I have the latest 3/5 opengl build and latest gapps.. and Earth does not run - has not run for me since using ICS. Any thoughts? thanks, jf
[Nook Color General] KingJL:
I have updated to Eyeballer's 3/5 build and the latest gapps (20120304). I do not know if the Browser app changed in this latest gapps build, but it seems to be more responsive... might be my imagination (or the power of suggestion, since it is something I am anticipating).

One issue that I am monitoring (occurred with Eyeballer build 3/4 build) has to do with charging and usb operation. After the NC was fully charged, it indicated that it was running off battery and was discharging even though the charger was plugged in. Also during this time, plugging the usb into the computer had no effect (no indication of usb connection on the NC or the PC and I was beginning to think I had a bad usb/charging cable). Everything else seemed to be operating normal. A reboot cleared all of the above conditions.
[Nook Color General] 28spawn:
Hi,

I'm about to buy one nook color and I have a doubt, is it possible to watch movies or videos using soft-decoding at ICS? Or it lags a lot? I have an X10 and I use moboplayer with 1ghz it runs fine 720p videos softdecoding.

Bye!
[Nook Color General] KingJL:
I have not been able to re-create this situation with eyeballer build 3/5. It may have only been an issue with build 3/4 (and possibly previous).

Anyway... I am happy with build 3/5! Thanks to eyeballer for the builds! Thanks to all the devs for the improved state of CM9 encore!

BTW: I am sure this subject should have been posted in the development forum under "[DEV] CM9/ICS Work-In-Progress" or "[ROM][NC] Unofficial CM9 Nightly builds - with/without OpenGL", but at the time of the original post, those options were not available to me.
[Nook Color General] Snoshrk:
When I played with ICS I was able to watch videos with little to no lag ( Techzilla podcasts, and various DVD rips) in moboplayer.

I have since gone back to CM7 Mirage as Netflix and the pc<->android wifi folder sync ap did not work.

Sno
[Nook Color General] SeaFractor:
You may want to check out http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1511501

Note: I'm trying several of them to see what does the correct full display in portrait mode. So far the smaller sizes look good in landscape, although the logo might be cut off.
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
I have been trying to use the CWM 5.5.0.4 taken from Sam's server in recoveries. It keeps giving me recovery.fstab errors for cache saying NULL is not a proper option and then only backs up /boot. Is there a working version somewhere? Fattires original post used Megaupload and is dead.
[Nook Color General] mf6764:
Problems with angry birds with newest build

Just installed Eyeballers 3/9 build with opengl on sdcard and it seems very responsive but I noticed a problem with both Angry Birds Seasons and Rio. Once you open these games it seems as if it wont register a single touch you have two touch with two fingers to get it to register a touch. It seems very similar to the ongoing problem with Jelly Defense that previous builds have. Anyone else have similar problems with newest build?

Update: Nevermind. It seems angry birds is registering touches correctly again. Maybe I had to reboot it or something. Jelly Defense still doesn't work but that was the case with all the previous builds as well.
[Nook Color General] Sudonym:
I've had similar problems with past builds where a game that worked previously becomes unresponsive to touches. Rebooting always fixed the problem. I run the open-gl builds, in phone mode using Leapinlar's 240-patch.
[Nook Color General] SeaFractor:
For those of you that have been following the build.prop edit sagas that some users, including myself, have posted it would be good to check out this very informative post.

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=23452283&postcount=80

Turns out that many of the tricks we'd tried in Gingerbread won't produce an error in ICS, but are not longer present.

As for adjusting memory settings, that is still worth while. But you can use the post above to help determine what edit's are not required any longer.
[Nook Color General] tonyp:
+ 1
[Nook Color General] mateorod:
I'm pretty sure that team win's app Goo manager hosts the CWM builds on techerrata. You can download the app on eyeballer's OP. That's where I get my nightlies, for the most part, although I don't have the brass to try experimental recovery.

I mess with my nook too much. CWM is my lifeline for when it all goes splat.

Edit: there sure are a lot of proper nouns in that first sentence. Download Goo Manager. That's better...and I just checked. CWM Touch builds are there, but kinda hard to find by browsing. Search "clockwork".

Its a cool app anyway. People are always looking for someone to build for them, its a great idea to get a wide variety of project builds all together in one place
[Nook Color General] commenter01:
Quick question: Has anyone running CM9 been able to run Go Launcher HD? It seems that the app won't run because it thinks it's running on a phone. I guessed it had something to do with the resolution, so I changed the DPI - but that didn't fix the issue.

Anyone?
[Nook Color General] racks11479:
Here's a flashable zip for CWM 5.5.0.4 to EMMC. Built this morning for you. :D

This should correct the NULL mount point errors. I haven't tested it myself since I run off SD, but it should flash and work properly.

**Disclaimer: Do so at your own risk, I am not responsible for ... blah, blah, blah.... you all should know the rest. :p "

-Racks
[Nook Color General] Islidur:
Rooted

Just rooted my wife's NC with Eyeballer's 0312 ROM. Tried Samian's, but no flash support there. Have to say I love this new ROM. Everything works with the exception of Netflix, no big deal right now though. Thanks to everyone involved with this.

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BTW, tried to use dual boot, but didn't work. I'm guessing B&N 1.4.2 had something to do with it. Have to boot from SD.
[Nook Color General] jewnersey:
how do you guys have your sdcard partitioned, and with this new swap space, whats the best way to set it up

by the way, i will be flashing3/12 then booting from EMMC
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
Thank you Racks. It worked perfectly in backing up my system to emmc. You are a true gentleman!
[Nook Color General] mcflyrk01:
running eyeballer's 3/12 w/ opengl, and i'm having a problem seeing android tether from my phone. i know it was always spotty with CM7, but it had been working fine for the past few months. anyone else unable to tether?

EDIT: ah, looks like it can't recognize ad-hoc networks yet...
[Nook Color General] greiland:
Browser won't sync - Problem Solved

I always thought this was an issue with the ROM or Gapps, but found this solution and it seems to be working for me. For those that get an error message when trying to sync browser under your Accounts Setting, try this:

http://blog.abrah.am/2011/12/sync-is-currently-experiencing-problems.html
[Nook Color General] bullfrog527:
Hello all, I was just wanting to ask a quick question. I haven't been following along the cm9 discussion as closely as I once was, which nightly should I update to and how? I currently have samiam's 3/4 build on SD, no other mods.

Thanks guys!
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
Just use Sam's latest nightly but if you do also install the latest gapps from goo-insideme.com. Just put the nightly zip and gapp zip in the boot partition and boot to recovery.
[Nook Color General] bullfrog527:
Thanks leap, I've downloaded the zips, where is the boot folder. I don't see it using es file explorer. Do I need to move them with a computer?

Thanks again
[Nook Color General] velizet:
The boot folder is the root of the SDCard.
[Nook Color General] bullfrog527:
Oh, OK. Facepalm

**edit**

So I put both zips in the root of my SD card, rebooted recovery, and the recovery script doesn't recognize them. It looks in dev/(something) and I can't find that folder. Therese nothing in that folder that looks close, it starts with a mk....
[Nook Color General] DizzyDen:
Are you trying a uSD install? If so... the easiest way to get the files where they need to be is open terminal or adb, make a folder on your sdcard called boot... and mount /dev/block/mmcblk1p1 to /sdcard/boot... in terminal it would be:

su (never had to do this step myself... but wouldn't hurt)

mkdir /sdcar/boot (this only has to be done the first time)

mount /dev/block/mmcblk1p1 /sdcard/boot (this has to be done every time you want to update)

Then move the files to /sdcard/boot and try again.

If you are not trying uSD install... ignore this post... we'll do something different.