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[Nook Color General] speedfreak007:
an actual tablet OS!?

I've installed the alpha cm9 zip on my nook and despite all the shortcomings, my nook finally felled like a tablet, and not just an oversized phone. Tablet apps which actually use the screen estate aren't compatible with gingerbread, so there's definitely a "need" for cm9 :)

but due to the lack of sound i reverted to cm7.2 rc0 :)
[Nook Color General] zaphod666:
Has anyone tried the newer N64oid (2.0 +) out on one of the CM9 builds? It seems like having a working N64 emu would be a good reason to give CM9 a chance.
[Nook Color General] khaytsus:
Is there a demo to try? I'll try it but not for $5 :-)
[Nook Color General] big_kitch:
Sneakpeak2 from SD card

I successfully got the first CM9 alpha running from an SD card using verygreen's installer. If you follow the DEV thread you will see that fattire released a second version today. I want to run it from SD again but the zip is too big to fit in the boot partition created by verygreen's image.

I tried increasing the partition size of the boot partition using Easeus Partition Master (and made sure that the boot partition started at sector 63).

The install seems to go okay but on the first boot it just goes into a boot loop.

Any ideas?

Thanks

Nick
[Nook Color General] mf6764:
That happened to me too. What I later tried sucessfully was to do what you said which was to increase the partition size and install fattire's first version than use fattire's second version to update it.
[Nook Color General] webdroidmt:
Thanks for the tip, this worked for me too.

Mike T
[Nook Color General] mf6764:
Read Fattires post from this morning very carefully

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=21006133&postcount=1144
[Nook Color General] fattire:
Lots of people seem to be getting it finally :)
[Nook Color General] mf6764:
Does anyone have a link to the gapps to use with Fattires 2nd ICS build. I used verygreens sd installer and it worked but when I tried to install gapps I now get a nfc service has stopped loop. Does anyone know how to fix this or do I have to reinstall again. Do I just remove the nfc apk from the gapps zip file before I try again?
[Nook Color General] webdroidmt:
Just saw your PM, sorry I'm late but I was "eating" some ice cream. ;) I was loading some pics & music and it took a while. But I see YOU GOT IT!.....cool.

Mike T

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Thanks for this fattire, I'm old, so I grew up with an old saying while I was in grade school. RIF....Reading Is Fundamental!

I'm anal, so I read just about everything. Skimming not allowed. :D

Very, very nice and again, thanks.

Mike T
[Nook Color General] webdroidmt:
I used this one with verygreen SD, worked great.

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=20208921&postcount=366

Mike T
[Nook Color General] DizzyDen:
Yes... and a hint for you... resize the boot partition before booting it in the nook ;)

write image to card... resize boot partition... boot it in the nook.
[Nook Color General] blushrts:
OK, I'm not going crazy. I had the same issue last night with the 2nd version, I will try this tonight when I get home.
[Nook Color General] Anon87:
Does anyone have a link to a flashable gapps 4.x (modified to get rid of the nfc errors)?

I tried the one from verygreen but it didn't install. I have ICS install on my nooks' emmc.

Sent from HTC Desire
[Nook Color General] rhester72:
Three words: new daily driver.

Thank you very much, fattire!

Not sure if it belongs here or in general, but one regression from "sneak peek 1" that I've noticed...Touch Keyboard no longer allows you to do hold-selects (i.e. you hold the key down to get to the alternate key)...the popup selection window is blank. Kind of a bummer because Touch Keyboard is _wonderful_ compared to stock, particularly in landscape, but certainly not a show-stopper.

Thanks again!

Rodney
[Nook Color General] Neckberg:
So, I just realized I have not flashed anything to my Nook since I first flashed CM7 (a long time ago). I am running everything off the EMMC. So I am not sure of the correct process. I have sneakpeak2 and the non NFC gaaps.

I am going to titanium my apps and create a nandroid.

Then what do I need to wipe before I flash?

Can I flash sneakpeak2 over CM7?

Then I boot, let load, reboot to recovery, flash GAAPS, and reboot.

Thanks for the help guys.
[Nook Color General] eujene:
Any ideas on how to get USB working on the latest build?
[Nook Color General] ZenoGia:
I don't understand, i just flashed sneakpeak2 over CM7 and I STILL cannot use my Nook Color! My touch screen DOES NOT work. The only ROM that works is CM7, not even stock 1.3 or 1.4 Nook emmc works. Its really very frustrating, does anyone have any idea why that is?
[Nook Color General] KCs2k:
Going from CM7 to CM9 be sure to WIPE EVERYTHING. Even going between alpha builds I always completely wipe everything Data, Cache and Dalvik Cache.

You might get away with not wiping from build to build but the most ideal way to make sure everything is going to work is to wipe everything. Good luck...
[Nook Color General] ZenoGia:
I have done this about 4 times exactly as you have said, which is the way I have aways done it, still no touch screen.

i have even tried going from one build to another without wiping everything and no avail.

perhaps i'm doing something wrong.

I have a 4GB Card with CWR 3.2.0.1 (boots up fine)

Quick question though, Did i need to root my nook before using CWR or does CWR automatically root it?
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
I agree, that's my experience too. But modding the micro end is complicated. 12 wires/pins. When mine recently was messing up, just plugging the Galaxy Tab adapter plug in fixed it. Modify an old usb extension and see what happens.

Sent from my Nook Color running ICS and Tapatalk
[Nook Color General] bobtidey:
It is unlikely to be a problem with the micro end IF the cable functions as a USB data cable as the AC mode data line short is within the charger itself.

I'm also somewhat surprised that he data line short within the charger would get broken but obviously something is wrong if you don't get into AC mode.

I'd suggest the following tests before you start ripping things apart.

a) Does your Nook USB cable function as a data transfer cable between the Nook and a USB computer port? If it does then it is basically functional as a cable.

b) If a) doesn't work then try another USB standard micro cable (non Nook) when this works then try it into the charger. If it stays in USB charge mode not AC then you probably do have a problem with the charger. If it does go into AC mode then you have a problem with the Nook USB cable. A standard USB cable will give you an intermediate charge in the short term but a replacement Nook cable will be needed for full charge rate.

c) If Nook USB cable does function in a) but when used with the charger stays in USB charge mode then the problem is probably with the charger. If you have access to an volt/ohmeter then buzz out the inner two USB contacts from the charger with it NOT plugged in. It should show a low resistance.

d) If c) indicates a good low resistance on charger then I'd try test b) anyway in case there is something more subtle with the Nook cable end like a high resistance contact which is allowing function in data mode but preventing the Nook from seeing the data short properly.

If none of these resolve it then maybe there is something wrong at the Nook end preventing the data line short being detected properly. This could be either some low level hardware problem or maybe some software preventing the sensing being passed up, but I haven't heard anything like that before.
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
bobtidey, maybe you can tell me what is wrong with my charging system. It started acting the same way as jewnersey described. So I plugged the usb end into my Galaxy Tab charging block and it said it was on A/C and started to charge right. So then I used one of my Galaxy Tab usb adapters between my nook charging block and my nook cable. It said A/C. I took the adapter out and it said usb. OK, so I just decided to use it with the adapter. Next time I wanted to use my nook cable to transfer data to the PC, the Nook was not recognized by the PC. (No, I did not have the adapter on the cable). I switched to a standard microUSB cable and the PC recognized the Nook.

I can use it this way, but I am stumped as to what is going on.

Sent from my Nook Color running ICS and Tapatalk
[Nook Color General] jewnersey:
Cable is the issue it seems.. no data transfer, my inc2 cable works fine though and shows as AC. So what can I do to this cable ?
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
I don't know why, I'm hoping bobtidey knows, but the adapter seemed to make my non-functional cable work with the charging block. I would still try to make an adapter out of an old usb extension and try it. Or if you are convinced the cable is no good for data transfer, mod it on the usb end. You can't ruin it more than it is. It might work for charging. But if your nook is still under warranty, make B&N give you a new one.

Edit, if the data lines are not making contact, on one end or the other, it would not recognize the charging block as having shorted pins. Or transfer data to the PC. Do some more diagnostics.

Sent from my Nook Color running ICS and Tapatalk
[Nook Color General] bobtidey:
If Nook is under a year old then ring up B&N customer services, explain your USB cable is bust and they will send you a new one. They are used to this request. They will want to verify the serial number and customer name.

It is ultra difficult / impossible to repair the cable yourself if it is the micro end (most likely). The connector is a special B&N part (not a standard micro-usb) with lots of pins. So a difficult job even if you could get the part which I don't believe is available anywhere separately.

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SO I can picture a bit better what is the nature of the Galaxy tab adapter? Is it a separate cable that plugs into the Tab charger with a USB female, or what?

If I understand it your Nook cable never works for USB to PC data transfers, but does work (AC) charging when plugged into TAB charger or via the adapter? A standard cable works for both USB to PC data and for (AC) charging, but obviously with reduced rate as it doesn't have the extra pins.

Maybe the data lines in your Nook cable are shorted out internally. That would stop the the PC connection working. Plugging into the charger would just be shorting data lines that were already shorted but the Nook would go AC charging as it saw shorted data lines and now had power from the USB power lines.
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
It is just a small male to female block that has the data pins shorted internally. You plug the male into the charger block and plug your cable into the female end.

Sent from my Nook Color running ICS and Tapatalk
[Nook Color General] bobtidey:
Ah. That makes even more sense to what I just said. If the adapter is used to short the lines rather than in the charger then the Nook cable straight into the charger wouldn't show AC normally. But if there is already a short in the Nook cable then it would.

Do you have a meter to bus the two inner pins on the Nook big USB connector? Also it might be an intermittent short that is susceptible to a bit of cable flexing.
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
That could be it. I will try it later. I do flex my cable a lot. That's how I broke my old one. Too many connects/disconnects. Thanks for the input.

Sent from my Nook Color running ICS and Tapatalk
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
Bobtidey, It is definitely the cable. I have a new spare charger/cable. First I used the old cable with the new charger block, no difference. No amount of wiggling made any difference. Still only worked with adapter. Then I used the new cable with the old charger block (w/o the adapter) and everything worked perfectly. I think you are right about an internal short on the data lines in the cable. Given the life of these cables, I am going to continue to use the defective cable with the adapter for charging only and will save the new one until it completely breaks. I will use my standard micro cable for the PC transfer. I am completely out of warranty, by the way.

Thank you again for all your help.

Edit: I just remembered something else that may be why it works with the adapter plug and not directly plugged to the charger block. The data pins are not shorted with 0 volts on them. They have a resistor array that connects to the +5v and ground pins that puts the same voltage of like 3.2 volts on both data pins. The galaxy tab charger is set up the same way.

Sent from my Nook Color running ICS and Tapatalk
[Nook Color General] mateorod:
The nook has been out for awhile now, and I am sure that there are many others who, like myself, are no longer under warranty.

Just as a tip, I guess, I have had three cables break on me, the last two after the expiration of the warranty.

I have just continued to bring them to the nook center at Barnes&Noble and they keep replacing them out of some loose stock they keep behind the desk. No questions asked.

So don't necessarily think you have to make do or spend money. You may, but I haven't heard of anyone being turned down,

That's what makes the class action nonsense such a waste of time. It's pretty hard to get an award when the ostensible damages can be immediately redressed upon request. But whatever.
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
The last time I tried to do that, I had my Nook with cm7 on it in my hand, and she wanted to look up the serial #. She took one look at it and said no way, your warranty is void. Duh! *slaps forehead* So my advice is only take the cable, not your modified device.

Sent from my Nook Color running ICS and Tapatalk
[Nook Color General] stolenmoment:
I've never had success getting one in a store, but the lady on the phone this past March took the serial number (2010...) and shipped me a new cable with no fuss.
[Nook Color General] dstarke:
How far have we come?

How does the progress in ICS compare with where Honeycomb left off? It seems stuck at the same points. Is Honeycomb at all viable?
[Nook Color General] koopakid08:
Honeycomb is terrible. It was never even close to being a daily driver. ICS is getting very close. Pretty much all we are missing at this point is hardware acceleration so Netflix doesn't work. Other than that things run pretty smooth with a few hiccups.

Sent from space
[Nook Color General] Taosaur:
Pretty much agreed, though I never got the market working on Honeycomb so I abandoned it after a pretty short trial. I also found Honeycomb itself not so good, regardless of performance on the NC. It always struck me as the Windows Vista of Android releases.
[Nook Color General] KingJL:
Sooh sooh cruel!
[Nook Color General] grayfoxmg1:
But oh so true
[Nook Color General] ><Maddog><:
Has anyone got the Sirius XM app to work with CM9? I updated the IMEI and have had it running fine in CM7, but when I try and to run it, I get a force close. I've uninstalled and re-installed and I'm having no luck. I read other posts that people have run the app on the Xoom in ICS, so the app should work... except it doesn't. Any suggestions? Anyone using this app now with ICS on the Nook Color?

Thanks for the help!
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
More good news for CM9 phone gui users. You no longer have to use my patches to get sofkeys to display in phone gui mode. Two simple lines are added to local.prop to set the density which enables the phone gui and to tell the system you have no hardware keys. See my post here. So I will be making no more zips to enable this feature. No-moar zips!
[Nook Color General] big_kitch:
Does anyone have location services working? Even when connected to wifi apps such as Maps say "Please enable a My Location source in System Settings". Apart from the GPS-based ones, the appropriate boxes are checked. Any ideas?

Thanks

Nick
[Nook Color General] martyg7:
Dropbear SSHd

Is there a SSH daemon built into the CM9 nook color builds?

I have been using the dropbear server in all my CM7 devices.

Is there a recommended equivalent I should be using?

Curiously, the SSH client was built from dropbear source, but the server is missing.

FWIW Running eyeballer's cm-9-encore-20120529-0730-opengl-unofficial.zip

This ROM looks like a keeper for me. I tip my hat to the developers.
[Nook Color General] dstarke:
Different experience

That's funny. I was nice and stable on Honeycomb (with reduced apps available, of course) and have had nothing but problems with ICS (freezes, spontaneous reboots, sticky or nonresponsive keys, etc.). I've gone back to CM7 to be able to use my NC.
[Nook Color General] DigitalMD:
Well I'd say you were a badddddddddddd boy when you installed CM9 because most people have a much better experience.

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Coming soon to other tablets near you !!

Android 4.1 Jelly Bean, which will probably be a tablet-centric update to the Android OS. Don’t expect phones to see 4.1, they will be waiting for the next major release of Android 5.0 sometime in the fall.

WHy ? How? Humm , because the Google Nexus 7 tablet (Asus 370T) is scheduled to go on sale in July with Android 4.1 installed, right after the Google World-wide conference.
[Nook Color General] koopakid08:
I highly doubt that... Unless the CM9 you used was Sneakpeak1.zip, things have improved greatly since then.

Sent from space
[Nook Color General] kcls:
I doubt this. The whole point if making the jump to 4.0 was so Google could unify their OS. Why would they release, in essence, another honeycomb, or tablet only update? Jellybean will most likely be similar to a Froyo to Gingerbread update, but will be made for tablets and phones.
[Nook Color General] Taosaur:
A lot depends on what you do with the Performance settings. I was getting slowdowns and complete lockups (as in, the screen freezes requiring a hard reboot) before I turned on 16bit graphics (which had no discernible impact on the graphics, but seems to have cured the lockups). I do run into annoyances that wouldn't be there with CM7, too. USB connections seem unreliable, along with the complications of having Windows see the NC as a media player rather than a drive. And a few times I've had a CM9 installation go completely south with rampant FCs, and had to start from scratch. Without question, it's not as reliable as CM7.

With Honeycomb on the NC, the flipside of it being worked on so briefly and then abandoned is that, yes, nothing ever got fixed, but nothing new got broken, either. If somebody stuck with it, they likely would screen out what was missing over time and forget about it. I can see how switching to a ROM in active (pre-beta) development would be jarring.
[Nook Color General] mateorod:
I check in on OpenGL every couple weeks, and I don't see how anyone stands that as a daily.

Someone trying opengl and deciding it is too buggy seems perfectly understandable to me.

I downloaded a build last night when they posted, and saw the numbers.

43 for non-GL and 600+ OpenGL.

I think those people are insane, but what do I know.
[Nook Color General] eyeballer:
Haha.. the numbers are definitely interesting, but I think the non-opengl downloads are inaccurate as I'm sure many are using Sam's builds and we don't have numbers on his.
[Nook Color General] grayfoxmg1:
That's certainly true, because I used sam's for non-opengl and yours for opengl. But lately I've been fairly consistent with running opengl, and your builds now are way more stable than they were a month ago. The builds are becoming increasingly better, so much so that in a few weeks I doubt you'll be able to tell the difference between your opengl and non-opengl builds.
[Nook Color General] Taosaur:
I spoke too soon--just locked up again :/ I'll try backing off my overclock, and I'm considering matereod's V6 installer. Anyone else getting these? The screen just freezes and won't even turn off unless I hold down the power button for a hard reboot.
[Nook Color General] jmesseder:
I think they just get confused with doing so much. (Anyone for AI?) I first notice with the original Windows that it would lock up and the only way back was reboot. Same with every Windows version since, including Win7. My NookColor did it, I put CM7 on and it did it, and I've had CM9 going a couple days and had to reboot once. I switch back and forth among apps and eventually it just loses track of where it's been. Turns out pooters aren't any smarter than humans. Faster, when they're working, but not smarter.

That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
[Nook Color General] jp2345mj:
ICS SD card help

When I setup my SD card I get to the cyanogenmod screen then the screen goes blank but not off. The animation screen does not appear. Anybody know what causes this?
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
Are you holding the n key to get into the boot menu?
[Nook Color General] stolenmoment:
I get them every few days, and I've been keeping up with the eyeballer's diff updates. My CPU settings are 300/800/1000/1100/1200, default voltages, conservative.
[Nook Color General] grayfoxmg1:
Has anyone looked at the download numbers recently, I just did and it was rather surprising.

Congrats to you, Eyeballer, for breaking the 10k benchmark.
[Nook Color General] eyeballer:
Hah.. my guess is something is stuck in a loop trying to download it so it keeps hitting it and increasing the count. I don't think we suddenly have a 10-fold increase in users.
[Nook Color General] mateorod:
Maybe all those fireworks salesmen have figured out how to get administrative privileges.
[Nook Color General] eyeballer:
Seems it's related to the new download code in goo manager. For those that didn't notice, even when you use goo manager to download one of my nightlies the download actually comes from techerrata so it's generating download hits when a download is resumed. Hopefully will be fixed soon :)
[Nook Color General] grayfoxmg1:
I saw that article, it made me proud to be apart of nook development.
[Nook Color General] jp2345mj:
I haven't been holding the "n" button. I'm trying to get it to load for the first time.
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
Give it a little help by using the boot menu. Hold n. Then choose what you want to boot to. Then you can tell what is working and what is not.
[Nook Color General] jp2345mj:
What should the boot device and boot mode be when I want to boot the ICS from the SD card. I already had the lines of code go across the screen when I first ran the install so I believe it should be good to go.
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
You need to recap what you are doing. That post you quoted is very old. Are you trying to run CM9 off an SD? If so, go through the steps you went through, including where you got your files.

Ordinarily the boot menu choice should be SD, normal if you flashed properly.

Sent from my Nook Color running ICS and Tapatalk
[Nook Color General] grayfoxmg1:
I have a really stupid question. Maybe it's already been mentioned, but I was wondering if this build will eventually become the Official CM9 for nook? I realize it says 'unofficial,' but with all the work you guys have put into it, I was curious if this isn't just a few steps away from being hosted on the cyanogen wensite.
[Nook Color General] bedoig:
http://get.cm/?device=encore <-- Should eventually show up here.

As far as I know, Eyeballer's and Samiam's 'unofficial' builds are based on CM source, just not compiled by CM.
[Nook Color General] routey:
anybody playing angry birds on cm9 and experiencing lag? oc to 1.2 but still having lags. did not touch the other performance settings. any advice please. thanks
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
Probably because you are running opengl. Try the non-opengl version.

Sent from my Nook Color running ICS and Tapatalk
[Nook Color General] stolenmoment:
Sorry, just got a lockup (with the lockscreen on!), having switched to 16-bit a couple of days ago. I'm keeping up with the diff updates, non-opengl.

Any more theories, anyone?