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[Nook Color General] Taosaur:
Are docks not compatible with these builds or something? I've tried a couple of ICS launchers (Nova and Apex) that should have docks, but when I install them on Eyeballer's build (3/29ish OpenGL), there's no "Dock" menu in the launcher settings and no dock. I can't find anywhere to enable it in system settings, either. The baked-in Trebuchet settings have a "Dock" menu, but it's a stub that doesn't do anything.

Now, when I installed a CM9 nightly on top of CM7, ADW Ex still had its dock. Is there maybe a system setting toggled off with no GUI element to toggle it on again? Am I just missing something obvious?
[Nook Color General] ziggy34:
My guess they are detecting you have a tablet and are running in tablet mode.
[Nook Color General] plasticarmyman:
is netflix working on cm9 for the nc yet?
[Nook Color General] Taosaur:
Hmmm, I could see a dock being less critical with a tablet's screen real estate, but they don't expand the usable space to compensate--you just get an inch of wasted space between your apps/widgets and status bar in portrait mode.

Apex is great, btw. Both it and Nova are more responsive than Trebuchet, and Apex has more options.
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
No

Sent from my Nook Color running ICS and Tapatalk
[Nook Color General] stolenmoment:
I'm sticking with ADW free for now. 8x8 icon grid plus dock. I'm not even using the other four screens...
[Nook Color General] nitephlight:
you could always force the tablet into phone mode by upping the lcd density then soft key patch it, but don't we all already have phone phones for docks :-)
[Nook Color General] plasticarmyman:
it's the one thing stopping me from flashing it over :\..i'm tempted to just do the dual boot on my SD...

i have read on some other forums, for other devices, that they have Netflix running on CM9...so if i am correct this is unique to our device and the CM9 builds we have available right?
[Nook Color General] Taosaur:
I take back my Apex recommendation--I rebooted, and Apex is in a crash loop, and I can't find anywhere to change my default launcher app (I can get to Settings via the notifications settings screen), nor does Apex show up in the app manager. I don't feel like messing with it now so I just switched over to my CM7 partition.

ETA: I don't think Apex was the problem. On further reboots, I was getting an "updating Android" message before my lockscreen loaded, but it would abort without doing anything. I went ahead and flashed Eyeballer's latest OpenGL build and Apex is working again, though my launcher settings were lost (maybe because it's installed to /system?). Unfortunately, now all my Google apps are crashing, and reflashing the most recent gapps didn't help.
[Nook Color General] rgp1236:
Netflix

It is certainly not unique to this device. MANY devices do not have ICS at all. As I understand it, hardware acceleration is dependent on drivers that are not available as yet for the Nook. If they have to be "reverse engineered," it will take a developer with the skills and time to take the task on, and could take months to achieve.

If you have the skills, please feel free to go for it!
[Nook Color General] tonyp:
I don't think there'll be a dev who would go for it. We can wait for another device with the same chipset to get ICS. I'm not sure but I think the LG Optimus Black has the same chipset and has a confirmation for an ICS release (3rd quarter 2012 though..).
[Nook Color General] nolook:
I'm going too keep my nook until the nexus tablet comes out...hope a good hardware accelerated build comes out before then...
[Nook Color General] joeindallas:
two small issues

Now that I've gotten my battery life issues ironed out, I have only two (small) issues that are keeeping my experience from being perfect so I thought I'd see if anyone had suggestions. First, with the default launcher is there a way to display battery life in numeric format in addition to the graphical? Second: I moved to an older version of the kindle app to fix all of the spacing issues, but on ICS (as opposed to my prev. experience with CM7) the fonts are out of whack and I will frequently get what appears to be multiple words with no spaces between them. Is there a known fix for this?

Thanks for making my Nook Color experience so good!
[Nook Color General] boomn:
When is your ICS build from, and when did you last try the Kindle app from the market? The Kindle app has received some big updates in the last week or two and the text has appeared perfect for me with the non-opengl ICS builds I've been using from the last two weeks

I don't have my Nook in front of me, but there is a battery display setting somewhere in the settings menu
[Nook Color General] joeindallas:
My ICS build is the non-opengl from 3-31. I just tried the latest Kindle App. I had not tried that version before, but I still can't find a way to shrink the margins enough to show the same page real estate as 2.05, so I went back. Thanks for the confirmation that I was just dense in not finding the battery setting - tried again and found it.

Thanks.
[Nook Color General] :
Not sure if this happens to everyone, but when Google Music is playing, doing something else just stutters the music.
[Nook Color General] stolenmoment:
That happened to me, briefly, today, with eyeballer's 4/22 build. For experimentation, I should have just rebooted, but I reflashed 4/21 (ok), then flashed 4/22 again and all is fine.

So, my advice is to mess around and see how stable the effect is.
[Nook Color General] tonyp:
I just flashed CM9 and am pretty happy so far. Huge difference to sneakpeak2.. :D

One thing I noticed, too. Some apps still show the phone gui, I believe the official Google Reader app should have a nice tablet view with 2 columns but it only shows a single one. Is there a solution? Or do we have to live with that?

Edit: Another question - when changing the home screen there always appears a blue frame. Is there any way to hide that?
[Nook Color General] Polishzx:
Greetings all,

I am a noob to the nook color, but familiar with cyanogenmod 7.1, as i still use it on my droid incredible.

I am curious if there was a "somewhat" stable version of CM9 that anyone could recommend I install. I doubt I will update my nook color too often, maybe once every couple of months. I really only browse the web, stream live video on the web the occasional game. Is there a version that would be suitable or are things still pretty shaky with CM9?

Thank you for your help.
[Nook Color General] carbfrze:
Wifi issues!

Hello all,

I'm currently running two different Nook Color's w/ the stock ROM running on the EMMC and CM9 running off the SD cards. They are both running the latest encore nightly builds from samiam located on http://nookdevs.com/Portal:NookColor

I have also tried the wifi_SOD_patch.zip with no help.

My problem is that wifi will randomly disappear either while I am using the Nook Color actively or after it goes to sleep. I've tried all the different options for turning off or leaving wifi on during sleep with no help.

Once I lose the wifi connectivity, I can go into the Wifi settings it is showing that the Wifi is toggled on but all networks are saying out of range. And it will not allow me to turn wifi on or off by the toggle switches.

On one of my nooks I have the triple boot options installed and when I boot into CM7 I have no wifi problems so I believe the problem must be somewhere in the wifi driver for CM9?

Please help! I've searched all the threads and I am starting to go cross-eyed.
[Nook Color General] grayfoxmg1:
I'm running Sam's latest and my only problem is that the V6 package in botbrew doesn't work and I had to do it the old way. Of course I'm installed to emmc, but I don't see how that would difference would allow my wifi to be fine and yours not. Maybe you had a bad download? Or try it with out the wifi sod fix, I haven't used it in a month.

Sent from Tapatalk 2 on my Nook Color running ICS
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
Don't use the wifi SOD fix patch on CM9 anymore (you can still use on CM7 though). It was for the 2.6.32.9 kernel and the latest CM9 builds have the 2.6.32.59 kernel in them. They are not compatible. And the .59 kernel has wifi SOD fix built in. The wifi fix was only for SODs and did not help with connection issues anyway.

He might search for the wifi adhoc fix in twlan.ini. Some have said that helped with connection issues.
[Nook Color General] mf6764:
Jelly Defense now works

I just updated to Eyeballer's newest 4/28 non open gl rom that has fattires newest kernel and found that Jelly Defense which never worked before now works.
[Nook Color General] bkdroid:
If you haven't been following the conversations in the development section, goo manager and TWRP have come a long way, and work seamlessly together now! There is also a wonderful video how it all works avail from eyeballers TeamWin Recovery Project thread. Check it out!
[Nook Color General] lrome53:
Nook running Rack's triple boot stuck n charging lop cannot boot

Hi all,

I am running Rack's great triple boot. All was well until the battery level fell below the operational threshold, and now the nook will only display the charging icon, will not boot, or even start. Any idea's, am I hosed?

Larry:confused:
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
It will do that until charged up enough to reboot. Give it some time on the charger.

Sent from my Nook Color running ICS and Tapatalk
[Nook Color General] grayfoxmg1:
I'm sorry but I have to ask for clarification purposes. You said it fell below the threshold and now it only shows the "charge device" image. You also said it won't start, but you didn't tell us if it accepts a charge. When you plug in your cable are you getting the orange charging light?
[Nook Color General] boomn:
Are you using the stock B&N wall charger and cable?
[Nook Color General] lrome53:
Thanks for responding, yes the orange charging light illuminates, but after three days still only have the charge triangle, no boot. If I unplug the charger the triangle changes to the plug n the charger attention triangle.

---------- Post added at 06:30 PM ---------- Previous post was at 06:29 PM ----------

Yes, it shows orange, but randomly flashes green. I have two new Nook cables, both have same result.

---------- Post added at 06:33 PM ---------- Previous post was at 06:30 PM ----------

Is 72 hours and still charging enough time? I am beginning to think I may have to burn a stock ROM, open the Nook and replace the MircoSD to get it recover...
[Nook Color General] grayfoxmg1:
Before you open the nook, just try to make an SD version of cm7 or something, see if it will boot from SD. If that doesn't help, than I'm sorry to say, that you'll have to wait until one of the guys that know lots more than me can help. Because that's all I've got.
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
Yes, 72 hours should be plenty. You will not be able to replace the emmc, if that's what you meant. The microSD is replaceable by just opening the flap. You may have to put a new battery in though.... one more thought, maybe you could make a CWM boot sd and then go to it to clear battery stats. That worked on my friend's nook when hers died... You just made me think of one more thing. The battery stats are stored on a partition on emmc, and if your emmc partitions are hosed up, they can't be read. There are a few other recent threads about bad partitions, look at those.
[Nook Color General] numus:
I have been using eyeballer's non-opengl version for a while. Does anyone else have problems with it being laggy and randomly freezing? Think mine was build 4/30/12...

Contemplating finally buying a real tablet if this thing will probably not stablize at some time...
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
Must be some app you are running. Mine is smooth as silk. (edit: of course I have been running the incremental updates too. 4/28 updated by incremental 4/29, 4/30, and now 5/1. - wait, it did freeze once, this morning, I forgot. It rarely has done that.)
[Nook Color General] MechaGen:
I'm on non-opengl 4/28/12 and have had the same results. Ready to restore my nandroid backup. :-)
[Nook Color General] numus:
Are you guys running v6? I was and it seemed to get worse so tried to uninstall it but that seems to be impossible to get all the little stuff out of it.. thinking of flashing back to stock and rebuilding everything
[Nook Color General] lrome53:
Thanks for the info. Yes, I meant replacing the emmc. I read it was just a MicroSD mounted internally. Early in the Nook development I read a thread where someone opened the Nook, removed the internal SD card, rooted it, re-installed it with some early version of Cyanogen burned on it. Regardless, I'll try the CWM SD and see if that works, and post the results.

Figures, I was using the Nook for a music player at a party the other night, hooked up to a sweet JBL sound system, and while extolling it's virtues to one party-goer I said, "The Nook is amazing, and virtually unbrickable." Kind of like saying "Not even God can sink this ship." oh well....
[Nook Color General] carbfrze:
CM9 Wifi issues still!

yeah, I reloaded both CM7 and CM9 as I realized I was trying to install nightlies from elsewhere and accidentally overwrote my EMMC Nook system. I just did the latest installs from this thread: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1448186

And I just had my wifi cut out on me on CM9. From fattire's personal request I'm attaching a Logcat file and hope someone can take a look at it and tell me why my wifi is cutting out.

Again no matter what I do I cannot get it to come back on until I reboot, then all is well for a while again.
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
4/28 is when keyodi pushed the new kernel with rotations set the same as CM7. Could you be running something that does not like the rotation?

Sent from my Nook Color running ICS and Tapatalk
[Nook Color General] rgerrans:
Slow Download Speeds

I was doing some network upgrades at home and ran Speedtest.net on my Nook for the first time and notice very slow download speeds. I was getting 1-2 Mbs speeds on the Nook (w/ latest nightly) while seeing 10x that on my Android phone on the same WiFi network. Anyone else experiencing this (trying to isolate if it's the device or some configuration on my network)?
[Nook Color General] stolenmoment:
Here-documents not working...

I've been messing about with various shell scripts, and I find here-documents like

su << EndOfScript
mount -o remount,rw /system
EndOfScript

don't work because it's being stupid about creating the tmpfile for the here-document. sh says

can't create temporary file /sqlite_stmt_journals/mksh.<random>: No such file or directory

while bash says

cannot create temp file for here-document: Read-only file system

bash works if /system is already mounted r/w, but I'm trying to automate things at boot time...

I've worked around some of this with

su -c '...'
# or
echo ... | su

but that can only go so far. Can we submit a bug report somewhere?
[Nook Color General] rampart51:
Just ran it. Mine is :

download : 7578kbps

upload : 3405kbs

ping : 81ms

SORRY.....these results were using CM7 Kang Mirage
[Nook Color General] bluewhite79:
So I flahsed nightly 4/30 (samiam) last night and I cannot get youtube to play videos. The app launches and everything works - except for the video portion. AFter trying to load the video, I get an error that says something to the effect: Error loading video, tap to try again.

WEll it'll never load - even after clearing data/cache of the app and a reboot of the Nook.

Also, my stock e-mail app keeps force closing. Other gapps work well. Play store, Gmail, maps, Gallery.

So just two apps acting up. Anyone experience this?

BTW, I just upgraded from CM 7.1 after leaving the nook alone for months.

edit: also noticed that I cannot play videos from the Gallery or any other app that plays videos.
[Nook Color General] eyeballer:
HD youtube won't work, toggle it off and it should play. You might need to wipe data if you're getting force close issues with apps. It's generally recommended that you do that going from CM7 to 9.
[Nook Color General] racks11479:
If this pertains to CM9 which of course it is :p. Try issuing the busybox command before mount. For some reason or another mount by itself doesn't execute properly unless ran with "busybox" as a prefix.

Could be wrong, just my 2 cents. :)

-Racks
[Nook Color General] bluewhite79:
What about other video playback in the gallery, quickpic, rockplayer, etc?

Not working yet, or is there something I can do to get videos to work?

I'll do a data wipe to see if it clears things up, but what about dalvik?

thanks for the help.
[Nook Color General] stolenmoment:
Nice try, and you gave me a clue that got me a bit farther: the busybox sh implements working here-documents, so the first line of all of my scripts is now #! /system/xbin/sh and things work a bit better, and I've set Terminal Emulator to always give me a busybox shell and prepend /system/xbin: to $PATH as well.

A bit more detail: it wasn't that mount was failing, it was that the '<<' syntax for redirecting stdin was failing to create a tmp file in which to store the input.
[Nook Color General] mateorod:
If you wipe cache, davlik will be wiped. But I wipe davlik every time I flash. From what I understand, it is really the only thing that needs wiping, even when going from cm7 to cm9, although maybe not in every case.

As for videos, the current market version plays HQ videos, just not HD. You can watch most videos you find on the internet, even w/o flash player working. Set your video player (I use MX player) to software decoding which may require a codec pack. MX offers various arm-x codecs in the market, the nook uses the arm-7.

The browser tends to route the video playback to the outside player more consistently if you are viewing the mobile sites, I believe that is because many mobile sites are put together with the idea the user may not have access to flash.

Video playback has not been a real issue w/CM9, in my experience.
[Nook Color General] Sam Adams:
Hey all,

Can someone give me a quick, concise update on where CM9 stands. I got real tired of the video issues (need my Netflix!) and lack of consistent touch response and went back to CM7 about a month ago and have not been following the CM9 progress in the threads... so, anything of note? I really liked the look & feel of CM9! I do appreciate all the work the developers are doing

SA
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
Non-opengl version is pretty snappy. Touch response is much better. Still no Netflix. Flash works on the non-opengl version if you use Opera Mobile as your browser.

Sent from my Nook Color running ICS and Tapatalk
[Nook Color General] grayfoxmg1:
I thought it was the other way around, dalvik wipes cache but cache doesn't clear dalvik. Also I only wiped cache/dalvik when I upgraded back in late december from CM7 to CM9.
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
There are two dalvik caches. One in /cache (for system apps) and one in /data (for installed apps). Clearing dalvik clears both. Clearing /cache will clear the dalvik in /cache but not the one in /data.

In flashing new ROMs, the only one really needing clearing is the one in /cache since only new system apps are installed in a ROM flash. Also only clearing the one in /cache makes it boot faster since the nook does not need to rebuild the one in /data for your installed apps which have not changed.

Sent from my Nook Color running ICS and Tapatalk
[Nook Color General] xpri:
are the opengl or normal builds more stable?
[Nook Color General] velizet:
I don not find any difference in my daily usage. But that's me and I do not use any performance checking apps. BTW I'm not a gamer too.
[Nook Color General] xpri:
i went ahead and flashed the opengl build. anyway, is there a option like in cm7 where we can swap the emmc and sdcard mountpoints?
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
Yes, go to settings, storage, menu and select storage configuration and check use internal storage.

BTW, I have found the non-opengl build to be the smoothest. Some have reported occasional freezes with the opengl builds.
[Nook Color General] velizet:
I also had occasional freezes with the non-opengl builds.

I did not do extensive testing but it seems the freezes came in after less than a minute when the NC got connected to the wifi after a long period of inactivity.

Very vague explanation, but it can maybe help somebody to find the reason.

EDIT: Anatomy of the freeze:

I'm on the latest non-opengl nightly.

Nook is turned on during the night with Wifi always on. While in the morning, using FBReader reading a book, notifications about GooManager, Mail, Pulse is being shown. When trying to connect to Mail or GooManager, the application opens, but Nook freezes.
[Nook Color General] howdykeith:
Hiya all.

So I gave cm9 a try on my Nook.

I watch a lot of DLNA videos off my network normally. Unfortunately with cm9 I can't browse the DLNA media on my network, as no servers show up or can be added manually.

Additionally, with Samba share running I can't see my Android on my network.

Is there some firewall setting built into cm9?

Well I look forward to cm9 in the future, and the hardware acceleration, whatever that means.
[Nook Color General] elcidroyale:
How do I get the feature where I'm browsing the web and when I pinch to zoom the text automatically formats to fit the screen. Lost that feature with cm9!

Sent from my ET4G
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
I use Dolphin Browser with CM9 and still have that feature.

Sent from my Nook Color running ICS and Tapatalk
[Nook Color General] jewnersey:
any reason why all of a sudden when it try and use my nook while it is charging it just drains and dies? and also it is charging ridiculously slow

(on the 5/20 opengl build)
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
Mine was doing that recently and I went to my battery widget and it said I was on usb, not a/c. I booted to my cm7 and it said the same thing. I think it was my cable/charger (both stock). I switched to my spare, and all is well. I know that does not help you, but if it thinks it's on a usb port, it acts that way.

Sent from my Nook Color running ICS and Tapatalk
[Nook Color General] jewnersey:
yeah so mine thinks its on USB too. flashed latest open gl , no change.

dont have an extra cable :(

gonna try to go back to 5/15 which i know was working fine.

edit:

didnt help.. is there anyway to force AC (or whatever) mode rather than USB.

its fackin weird. my laptop battery just killed itself randomly, and now my nook doesnt want to charge right....?
[Nook Color General] bobtidey:
To be in AC mode the USB cable must be connected to a charger that shorts the data lines together to indicate it is a charger not a USB data port. The standard Nook charger does this as do many other USB chargers.

In AC mode with a normal USB cable you get a charge rate of about 1A. You only get the full 2A charge rate in AC mode using the special B&N USB cable with the extra charging pins.
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
Yes, many tablet type chargers have this feature. My Galaxy Tab charger does this. In fact I bought some Galaxy Tab usb adapter plugs on ebay so I could use other charger blocks with it. It works with my Nook Color too (and stock cable of course).

Sent from my Nook Color running ICS and Tapatalk
[Nook Color General] jewnersey:
I'm using the stock charger, but I guess that feature is currently broken. i have some soldering experience, can I just rip it open at the plug and fix it?
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
Yes, on the usb end of course. Or make an adapter. Just short two center pins. If you mod the cable, it will think you are on AC all the time and it will not work for data on PC.

Just modify an old usb extension cable and use it when charging between the block and your nook cable.
[Nook Color General] jewnersey:
I was under the impression the micro end is what gets messed up with these cables. I honestly never use the usb for PC transfers and have pretty much never unplugged it from the charger.