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[Nook Color General] ibilln:
8 gb Sandisk card. I overkilled the space; now I have 320mb on boot. But, all (seemingly) works. Thnx.

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I could not get just the update...zip to work - no gaps. Must be something I did, but no can figure it out. Works with my new huge boot partition. Is it better to get it working or to figure it out? There's the existential question for the day.
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
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You know, the script in verygreen's installer first looks at the native size of your card then allocates the remaining partitions based on the size it detects. The smaller the card, the smaller the partitions. Maybe the script made an error the first time you ran it and it thought you had a small card. Then it would make /system about 300 MB. 300 may not be big enough for installing CM9. That may be why you got out of space errors during installation. It was out of space on /system. Then when you reformated your card and started over, it detected your card correctly and made /system bigger. No more out of space errors. Just a theory.

One way to test this theory is for someone to try to install CM9 on a 1 or 2GB card. The script sets /system to 300 on those cards. I don't have one or I would try it.

Sent from my Nook Color running ICS and Tapatalk
[Nook Color General] ibilln:
Ok theory, but I dd'd the generic-sdcard-v1.3.img or -ICS.img to the card about eleventy-seven times. Only thing that worked was to increase the boot partition after one of the dd's.

I don't understand it either...
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
What does dd the card mean? I used windows and Win32DiskImager to write the image to the SD. Maybe that is what was different. It wasn't until your partition software messed with the card that it worked.

Sent from my Nook Color running ICS and Tapatalk
[Nook Color General] ibilln:
dd is how you get the image onto the card from linux/unix. See verrygreen's original post. This site won't let me include url's 'cause I'm a new guy.
[Nook Color General] rampart51:
Thanks...I tried that and I'm definitely touching the screen.

I've also used Nook Tweaks to max out the CPU at 1200 (step 5). Maybe I'll try another CPU tweaker because Nook Tweaks doesn't appear to have an "ON DEMAND" option.

CPU Spy says most of my activity is 300 MHz. Odd.
[Nook Color General] svennn:
I also use dd to write my SD (on a Mac) and can't find a way to increase the boot partition. This is keeping me from installing gapps.

How did you do this?

Steve
[Nook Color General] minnime007:
flashed over last night, it kept all my apps except theres no g apps and i cant register a gmail account, there alot of crashing but no bootloops and pretty snappy. for an alpha its exceptional, i'll probably flash back to cm7.1 in a few days, its not yet a daily driver :(
[Nook Color General] brentb636:
CPU Master is working fine for me. You might try it !

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I'm running each new nightly, the morning after production, and it's cool, BUT it would be nice to have a "change.log" file on the nightlies. Anyone know if such a thing exists ? [edit] Found the answer in the Development forum, "NO" there are no change logs being done, for good reasons . :)
[Nook Color General] lowpeezy:
Wallpaper sizing

Is anyone having problems getting their wallpapers to size properly? I cant remember if I had this problem on sneakpeek2, but I updated to the latest nightly.
[Nook Color General] KCs2k:
If you've not checked out this post for the nightles, grabbed the latest one and Samiam303's gapps give that a try. I've been running that daily for a week now and other than a few apps not playing nice have no trouble with it at all.
[Nook Color General] HimWill:
I put this on a 2Gb PNY card last week using Verygreen's original installer (not the new ICSversion).Used sneekpeek1, then 0115 nightly,then the then current GAPPS that Sam was hosting.

Here is the info on the partitions: boot 117.63 Mb 13.12 used 104.51 open

* 462.81Mb 462.81used 0 open

* 964.84Mb 964.84used 0 open

CM7SDCARD 368.68Mb 352 Kb used 368.34 open

Note: This card benchmarks at 4Kwrite 0.011 Mb/sec,it does run ICS ,but really drags along.

Benchmark any card you are going to use and select one that testa 1.000 or higher for best results.(A 1.000 score is about 100 times faster than this one.)
[Nook Color General] ibilln:
Disk Utility for some reason won't increase the size of the FAT boot partition. Decision by Apple to dis anything windows-esque I guess.

I run some VM's with Virtualbox on the Mac. With a Windows VM, there are a number of partitioning programs. I used EASUS home edition for the SD boot resize I did.

Interestingly, I tried to use gparted on a Linux vm. It couldn't increase the size of the SD boot partition - got all confused. So I went to the above.

Googling "disk partitioning software for mac" yields a lot of useful things, including a bunch of links for live CD's, most of which run gparted. It may work better from a live CD than from a VM.

Y, its all way more convoluted than need be, I think.
[Nook Color General] HimWill:
Did you Decrease the SDCARD partition first by about 85Mb, then Increase boot by 85 Mb? It's a balancing act, since there is no unallocated space available.
[Nook Color General] stingray59:
CM9 so far!

I'm not a power user by any means nor a code hacker or writer. I use the NC for book reading, getting my email, facebook, watching movies, and a few other things. For some time I ran CM7.1 with no issues. I'm now running CM9 nightly #123 and so far no problems. Anything I did on CM7 I'm doing on CM9. For us non developers it's running well enough that its a daily driver for me. I wish to thank all of you here who have provided the skill and time to make this happen for us non technical guys. My only, and I stress only, issue I see right now for me is battery life. Without Juice Defender CM9 does eat up my battery.

I look forward to continued use of your efforts.

Signed: Just a user.
[Nook Color General] cougar_15:
Has anyone tried running droidwall on the latest unoffical nightly? When I tried it gave me an error that said the kernal was not compatible. The funny thing is I seem to remember it working on preview 2...
[Nook Color General] shyam2010:
i know for a fact that its alpha version...i am no means trying to be annoying ..just wanna know...if there's anyway ...to get USB Mass storage..on CM9 ..? as thats the one of the important things...i use..for my data transfer...
[Nook Color General] Carw:
getting fullscreen

does anybody have a fix to make the status bar go away so fullscreen apps work. i am currently using the unofficial cm9 nightlies, the latest.
[Nook Color General] ibilln:
No - increased boot partition after putting verygreen's .img onto the card. -Then- copied the update...zip to the boot partition, rebooted, and the update (which worked) made all the other partitions. Of course it could be that the size of the original boot partition is hard-coded into the update...zip, but I'd not think so, given the quality of the development work here.
[Nook Color General] HimWill:
Verygreen's image sets up the boot partition at ~117 Mb or so and leaves the rest of the card unallocated.The update.zip sets the rest of the partitions and writes the ROM.

So the best time to resize boot is right after writing the image (just as you did it).

I was referring to a previously written card,where the card partitions have data in them.The only "empty space" is in the SDCARD partition.You are "borrowing" from SD to "give it" to boot to resize.
[Nook Color General] Sam Adams:
While the usb connection is a little iffy at times try this: Go to Storage and click the menu button on the top right... enable MTP and then

reboot

(this worked for me) and your computer should see the nook - if not try disconnecting and reconnecting the usb cable...
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
But MTP is different than USB mass storage. It will not show up as a drive letter on your windows computer. It will show as a "portable device" below all of the drives. It should say "Nook Color" and you can click on it to see two folders, one for SD and one for emmc. One nice thing about MTP is that both your PC and the nook can see the files at the same time.

Also make sure you have USB debugging turned off.
[Nook Color General] ibilln:
Yup, thaz what I'm doing. I suppose there's a Clonezilla something out there that would let you move all partitions around, resize, etc, but that seems like really asking for trouble.
[Nook Color General] zaphod666:
I was told that ICS does not currently have a way of hiding the status bar. There is an app that will do it for Honeycomb but it is not currently compatible with ICS.
[Nook Color General] brentb636:
Easeus Partition Manager does a fine job, and works on PC's, too. Very useful utility.
[Nook Color General] bass0324:
I was just wondering if the latest nightly have deep sleep built in?
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
Yes, but it does not seem to sleep very long unless wifi is off.
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
I think I figured out what is going on with the lcd density issue. ICS was designed mostly for tablets but also has the ability to run on phones. Most tablets do not have hardware buttons for back and menu but most phones do. I think that ICS senses whether it is on a tablet or a phone based on lcd density. Tablets run at 160 and phones run at 240. If ICS senses anything other than 160 density, it reverts to a phone layout (no soft buttons, status bar at the top, etc). At first when I would switch to 240, systemui would crash. After flashing a newer nightly the systemui quit crashing but it still had no soft buttons. And the status bar was at the top like a phone. I got around no soft buttons by installing Button Savior to add my own.

I now think this is not a bug but is the way ics is designed. Maybe as CM9 develops the devs will change the behavior for our Nooks.
[Nook Color General] rampart51:
FYI....I use CPU SPY and it tells me that it is DEEP SLEEPING.
[Nook Color General] k8108:
How did you change the density when there is no density line in build.prop
[Nook Color General] ibilln:
install fix-bootanimation.zip - how?

Can install to emmt section using CWM menus, etc, but how to do it to the SD card?

Several posts around talk about not being able to get into "full" clockwork recovery booting from SD - only get the penguin script to install an update...zip or gaps...zip - and the responses are always to the effect that "you don't need more than that".

Clearly I'm missing the big picture, sorry, thnx
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
Most people edit the build.prop file in /system. Add the line:

qemu.sf.lcd_density=240 (or whatever you like).

But by editing that file, every time you flash a new nightly you have to reedit it. I got around that by editing the local.prop file in the root of /data instead. Put the same line in. That way it is not overwritten on a new flash. If the file does not exist just create a text file with that line in it and save to /data with the name local.prop. Do not forget to change permissions to match the other files.
[Nook Color General] boomn:
Same way you installed the ROM or the Gapps. Just use your computer to place the zip file in the boot partition and that start your Nook in recovery mode to activate that install script. I don't think you have to rename it with "update-" but I'm not 100% sure on that from memory
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
You do need to rename. I found the best way is to name gapps-gb- in front.
[Nook Color General] boomn:
Thanks for the confirmation
[Nook Color General] ganovim:
Very Interesting.. I have been using cm9 the same way (thanks to you), but if your observations are correct, It might be a simple change to keep the lcd at 240 (for us old folks), and still have the tablet soft buttons, notifications menus etc.

What would also be great is to finally have some kind of audio input driver that works. ( I have been using a usb audio dongle with good audio out, but no mic audio in)
[Nook Color General] k8108:
Does it matter where you insert the density number line in build.prop? How do you change permissions? (Sorry for the noob questions - I've been flashing roms for more than as year, but this is new stuff to me)
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
You can put it anywhere.

To change permissions, do a long press on the file name with root explorer. Select permissions. The three boxes on the left should be checked and the top box in the center. No others. Of course you need to make sure the directory is marked R/W before you start. If you modify the local.prop, you do not have to worry about the R/W.
[Nook Color General] Gatos7:
Nice find ... Just wanted to ask, Maps app is running ok for you ? Cause it constantly FC's in my nook with ICS. (I've tried every nightly since 1.7 and it FC's in all of them)

No one else was this problem ?

Edit: I just found out that maps only FC's when wifi is on. If I start maps without wifi it works without problems but of course I cant zoom in since I don't have an internet connection
[Nook Color General] ibilln:
Renamed to update-... and then to gapps-gb-... In both cases, penguin installer did some stuff. However, boot animation was not "fixed". .

This is easy to do in emmc with "full" CWM Recovery.

Foo
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
ibilln,

You are right about the fix boot animation install zip not working with the SD recovery script, even after renaming. The script is looking for something in the meta-inf section that is not there. The script returns errors whether you name update- or gapps-gb- and does not finish the install. I think it is looking for a proper signature and these homemade install zips like I made for the wifi module are not signed properly. On an emmc install, CWM recovery does not care and will install them anyway.

All is not lost, however. I find it very easy to manually install both the boot animation zip and the wifi module with root explorer.

First go to the install zips and open with root explorer. Go to system and keep going deeper until you get to the payload file (either bootanimation.zip or tiwlan_drv.ko or other file). Pay attention to where in system it is. Then long press the file and select "extract". Then come out of the zip with root explorer and go to the system folder on your nook. Then go to the place in system where it was in the zip (ie /system/media for the boot animation.) Then copy the file you extracted over the file that's there. Change permissions. See my post a few back on how to do that. Reboot. You should be good.

You need to do this with each new nightly. Of course you only have to extract the file the first time.
[Nook Color General] Hkdubois:
I am using an older maps version, 5.9 I believe. The newest just seems slow to me. Also, some further testing shows that only changing the first line is needed, and keeps some weather apps from trying to locate via gps.

I am too new to post in the development forum. Do the developers read this one? This seems to a noob like me to be an easy thing to integrate into the builds.
[Nook Color General] sdlopez83:
Newest needs gmapps version needs 2D acceleration. Cm9 on my atrix does not have it either. We have to rollback as well. Only difference is it goes blank.
[Nook Color General] DizzyDen:
This is incorrect... it is the script in Verygreen's recovery mode that sets up the partitions... NOT the update.zip... if you look at ANY of the update.zip files... they do not partition devices... the MAY format partitions already created... but generally they won't do that either. When you boot into VG's recovery mode.. the first thing it does is run its script to check the partition layout... it will partition the SD if its not... or tell you it is partitioned and go into looking for the updates.

This is because (especially Windows) systems do not like resizing the boot partitions when other types of partitions exist on the drive... these SD's have ext3 partitions on them.

Probably not an option... see reasoning above.
[Nook Color General] HimWill:
Thanks for translating my "jargon",i have a better understanding of the process now.I should have been more accurate with my "terms".Using update.zip instead of "update-cm9-blah,blah.blah-xxxxxx.zip for example,a little nebulous to say the least.I'll try to do better.I didn't reference any Windows stuff since he is using a MAC.I tried to express the ideas in conversational,non-OS specific terms as to what was going on when he was creating the card.

A BIG THANK-YOU to all the devs putting in long hours on this project.(How about Keodi,what a busy guy here lately.Does he ever sleep?)

Well,back to lurking.
[Nook Color General] ibilln:
Great work!

First, this CM9/ICS experience has been great for me. I've learned a lot thanks to various folks here. Also of course thanks to developers.

For now, I'm going back to CM7; I don't have time to follow all the updates/mods needed to actually use CM9/ICS. But I will passionately lurk, and root for this effort from afar. (pun intended...)
[Nook Color General] khaytsus:
Weird, I haven't flashed in over a week, yet my Nook Color CM9 is working fine. I must have missed a memo. And initial flash + gapps + fix calendar. Done. :rolleyes:
[Nook Color General] DizzyDen:
Will, I use update.zip as well... yes a LOT easier than all the blah-blah...

I was only pointing out that it is the recovery script that does the partitioning... and explaining why it is important to resize the boot partition before booting the SD in the nook...

I apologize if you felt I was negative in any way... I was not meaning to be at all.
[Nook Color General] MechaGen:
I have no other files in /data to match permissions to. Tried rw- r-- r-- like build.prop in /system, but that isn't working.

LCD density is the one thing that keeps me running CM7 on my Nook. I can't stand 160, all the buttons are so small.

Any suggestions?

Sent from ICS Cappy!
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
You did create the local.prop file in /data, right? And it has the line

qemu.sf.lcd_density=240

in it right? That's a q not a g.

To change permissions, do a long press on the file name with root explorer. Select permissions. The three boxes on the left should be checked and the top box in the center. No others.
[Nook Color General] MechaGen:
Yeah, I followed you're instructions to the letter. I haven't used root explorer in months. Found ES File Explorer has all the same functionality and a cleaner UI, in my opinion.

I'll install R E from tibu and use your check box suggestions.

Thanks

Sent from ICS Cappy!
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
I don't know why it would make any difference, but I use the SD install. Have you tried putting it in build.prop to see if you have the density change at all? If it works there then it is something to do with local.prop.
[Nook Color General] MechaGen:
Dude,

That did it! Works in build.prop. Thanks.

Sent from Tapatalk, NOOK Color CM9 Nightly's!
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
Glad you got it working. The only thing wrong with putting it in that file is that each time you flash a new nightly you have to re-edit it. Are you sure you were putting it in /data, the top level one? There is another data folder inside /data.
[Nook Color General] MechaGen:
Yeah, that's where I put it.

I'm restoring my CM7 backup for now. I can't get ICS configured the way I like my tablet yet.

LCD density of anything other than 160 breaks the on screen buttons. I was using Button Savoir, but that's just a big band-aid.

I'll put together a SD card version of ICS to play with.

Sent from ICS Cappy!
[Nook Color General] zk9:
i just upgraded my nightly to update-encore-20120127.zip yesterday, and the problem right now is the gallery becoming double. if i want to change the wallpaper, the option are gallery (com.android.gallery3d) and gallery(com.google.android.gallery3d)

if i looking the All tabs at apps menu in setting, there are 2 gallery application the first with size 743KB and the other 1.05MB. and to make it more confuse, in the /System/app there are Gallery2.apk (1.41MB) and GalleryGoogle.apk (1.83MB)

did any one having the same issue with me? and how to fix it, wich apk should to be deleted?

Thanks in advance...
[Nook Color General] jcwenger:
So if I understand you right, you're implying that build.prop qemu.sf.lcd_density=160 should bring the softkeys back -- I'm seeing no change with that in place. Did you recover them with a different method?
[Nook Color General] Homer_S_xda:
I can confirm that two Bluetooth keyboards work with the ICS preview: Case Logic and Logitech Bluetooth Keyboard for Android 3.0+. The Case Logic one is going back, too small for my big fingers. The Logitech one is better looking, bigger and Logitech quality. They really mean that you need Android 3+, I could not get it to work under CM7. I'm thinking the BT profile where the device drives rather than the phone/tablet is not implemented in 2.x. By driving, I mean the pairing request makes the phone/tablet generate the key that you then enter on the device. 2.x seems to only pop a window to enter the code from the device, like for headphones or something.

UPDATE: Solution for CM7 here.

Homer
[Nook Color General] 911jason:
Is the touch screen wonky for anyone else? Have a really hard time removing widgets, etc.
[Nook Color General] koopakid08:
I never had a problem but I only used it for about 2 hours before going back to CM7.

Sent from space
[Nook Color General] 911jason:
Thanks, I was having a hard time trying to move widgets and icons around or remove them entirely with the default Launcher. When I switched to ADW EX the problem stopped. Not sure why, but it runs much smoother with ADW.

Wish the Kindle app would work though! Like someone else mentioned, it seems to think the NC is a phone now and gives you all of about two or three paragraphs on a page with HUGE margins all around.
[Nook Color General] caferacer73:
I just setup ICS to run off of the microSD card. Wasn't a fan of the native launcher, so I'm playing with three others, Launcher Pro, ADW and Nova Launcher.

Here's the major problem I've been having, battery life sucks! With CM7.1, I can go almost 2 days between charges. Seems with ICS, I have to stay plugged in all the time. Not sure if something is configured wrong or what.

Anyone else have this problem?
[Nook Color General] 911jason:
I found battery life to be equivalent to CM7 or maybe even a bit better. Did you download Dalingrin's Nook Tweaks from the Market and set up your CPU stepping?
[Nook Color General] EverythingNook:
The battery for me is worse, not by much but its worse.
[Nook Color General] 911jason:
I installed ICS just before I went to work last night, then used it for my entire 8 hour shift. It was at 40% when I plugged it in this morning. That was probably about an hour of tinkering with ADW EX settings and the rest of the night reading with the Aldiko app.
[Nook Color General] EverythingNook:
For me it drains even with the screen off.
[Nook Color General] 911jason:
Have you used CPU Spy to see if it's entering Deep Sleep?
[Nook Color General] EverythingNook:
Just installed it, will report back.

Edit: It reports Deep sleep only 12% and 300 MHz at 80%
[Nook Color General] Homer_S_xda:
Build question (noob I'm certain).

I am stuck at the step after extracting the proprietary files from the CM7 encore device via adb. I cannot get setup-makefiles.sh or add_lunch_combo cm_encore-userdebug to run. The setup file gives no error and the add_lunch_combo says command not found.

I'm fairly certain it is either an issue with path or a dependency.

Any help?

Homer
[Nook Color General] fattire:
No error is good. If it comes back with a prompt, chances are it worked.
[Nook Color General] jewnersey:
so running repo sync downloads EVERYTHING?

is there a way to just get the ICS encore necessary files cuz this takes entirely too long and downloads an excessive amount of unnecessary junk