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[Nook Color General] ggbutcher:
Successful Compile in a VM

Don't have 10 posts yet, so posting here...

I got ICS to compile in a rather small VM, 1G memory. I set out to work on this during down time while deployed to a remote location for work, so it had to fit on a Thinkpad X61 running Win7 with 2G of memory. Here's what it took:

1. I installed VMWare Player, and created a XUbuntu vm with the standard parameters, 1G memory and 20G virtual hard disk. I later had to increase the hard disk to 30GB, so change the parmeter when you create the vm. I also did a full install that I later had to scrape back to command-line only, so get the alternate install CD and do the command-line only install from the start.

2. repo sync performance was abysmal, even without the github problems. So, I did it on my desktop computer at home and rsynced it to the laptop VM before I left.

3. Don't forget to change common.py. If your VM only as 1G, it needs to be 512

4. The default XUbuntu install didn't create a swap file/partition, so I later had to create it.

5. Even after all that I still experienced out-of-memory aborts, which I was able to get around with running make -j 1 bacon. brunch encore was running make bacon with -j 2, and the two concurrent jobs were eating all the available memory and then some.

Hope this helps those of you struggling with a VM compile...
[Nook Color General] ggbutcher:
I got usb adb to work but ADBWireless is much easier...
[Nook Color General] MrColdbird:
no kidding... Adb wirelessb plus nook is the perfect combination.
[Nook Color General] rampart51:
I installed sneakpeek2 on an SD card using verygreen's process.

Using CM7 (Mirage) my screen is very responsive. No issues.

Using sneakpeek2, i really have to hit the screen hard to get any response out of it. Scrolling through a web page really lags.

I ran screen calibration (from the market) and I installed Nook Tweaks (market) and overclocked it to 1200. Pretty much out of the box except for the two mentioned apps.

Has anyone else noticed this behavior running from an SD card?
[Nook Color General] khaytsus:
Gotta love douchebags.

Sounds like your SD card is slow or you're downloading something. Any IO when running on the SD makes things slower, downloading from the Market is horrible on an SD card. I ran CM7 off SD card early in 2011 and ICS for a week or two a month ago, and both felt about the same, so don't think there's anything new going on here.
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
I too am running from SD and have touch problems. I had them with sneak1 also. I went to development settings and changed it to show touches to debug. The screen is registering the touches quickly, it's just the software (system or app) is not responding to them well. Sometimes you have to hit something more than once or maybe hold the touch longer before the selection is registered. I know the screen is registering them right away because a little spot shows, it's just not making the software respond quickly.
[Nook Color General] yujikaido79:
Sd card mounting problem

Anyone else have problems with their Sd card mounting I am running it from the internal storage and have only got it to mount once and it was fine for a day, now it won't mount anymore. Tried to reinsert it and restarted multiple times. Also seems to lock up sometimes on the storage settings menu. Any Ideas? Other than that its running great, when it was mounted could play songs from the sd card and kindle and other apps dependent on the sd card worked fine. Anyway I can utilize the internal storage for downloads and app data instead?
[Nook Color General] greiland:
I was having all kinds of problems trying to get one of my SD cards to mount. Couldn't get recovery to recognize or mount it either. I re-formatted it multiple times trying to get it to work, using both Windows 7 and Easeus Partition. Finally got it to work, but not sure how. Sorry, I don't really have a solution for you, just wanted you to know you're not alone.

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It does seem to be kind of touchy sometimes. Sometimes after a fresh install, it doesn't connect via usb for me, but after plugging and unplugging a few times, it finally recognizes it. The after that, it works fine.
[Nook Color General] rampart51:
I just reinstalled everything on a SANDISK SD card. Things are smoother but the touch issue is still there. Not as bad.

I turned on show touchs also and see the little spot as soon as I hit it.
[Nook Color General] greiland:
Well, I reverted back to the old gapps (actually I did a wipe and fresh install of CM9). My nook was becoming veeeery sloooooow and non-responsive. Don't know if it had to do with that calendar.apk or not, but it started happening after I made that change. It's running great now, so I think I'll run it this way for a while to see if it stays fast. Then I'll try that calendar fix again to see if the same thing happens. I really would like to have calendar sync working, but not at the expense of slowing my system down that much. Wish there was a regular gapps version that had calendar working (browser sync still seems to be buggy too).
[Nook Color General] tsukaza:
I successfully built it using andbot method, flash over cm7.1 and it is running great. I then try to install the apps using gapps-ics-20111125-2.zip and it updated according to CWM but when I boot into CM9 I do not see any of those google apps like gmail, market, youtube etc? Any solution, am I doing something wrong. Thanks.

Btw sideloading works so far. Except gmail.apk, Market.apk and framwork.apk
[Nook Color General] greiland:
Anyone use Google Currents and having rendering issues? It worked fine with CM7, and pretty sure it worked with CM9 sneak1, but it's not working with CM9 sneak2. When you go into site, the opening page looks fine, but when you click on an article, the font is extremely tiny, unreadable. There doesn't seem to be a way to enlarge it either. Anyone else have this problem??
[Nook Color General] bmaa:
Thank You. That worked for me (as MTP). I wanted to test video playing, using mobo, and it worked fine (great!) with peek2 and off SD card. Sound and video (at least avi) are running fine.

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are you running off sd card? if yes, follow post 14.
[Nook Color General] kcls:
I have enabled USB storage in the "USB computer connection", and when connecting the nook to my windows 7 x64 Laptop, it sits there forever trying to find "MTP USB Device" forever, until failing. Anyone know how to get around this?
[Nook Color General] rampart51:
I had the same thing happen to me. I have not had time to research it yet.

I am running winxp.
[Nook Color General] greiland:
By system wipe, do you mean format /system in recovery? Just want to make sure it's safe to do that. All I have ever done was wipe data/factory reset, wipe cache partition, and wipe dalvik cache.
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
I'm not really sure you should format /system before flashing sneak2. The install script tries to verify you have a Nook Color before it will actually do anything. It does that by looking at your build.prop in /system and if you wipe it first, it may not run.

In my earlier post I was only trying to say that the other wipes would not remove gapps, I was not suggesting you wipe /system. I'm not sure how to remove the gapps if you are running on emmc. Maybe flashing back to CM7 first without installing gapps on it. The backup scripts in the sneaks will only backup gapps that are installed on CM9.
[Nook Color General] rampart51:
Does anyone know of a good app that will tell me what process is sucking the life out of my CPU?

I looked at the market and tried a few but most don't tell me which process is doing the harm.
[Nook Color General] Candurin:
I like Android Assistant. Easy to use and really improves battery life too.

https://market.android.com/details?...wyLDEsImNvbS5hZHZhbmNlZHByb2Nlc3NtYW5hZ2VyIl0.
[Nook Color General] greiland:
Ya, I was a little nervous about formatting /system. I did as you suggested and installed CM7, then wiped and installed sneak 2. That seemed to do the job. Thanks!
[Nook Color General] St1ck33:
I had this problem, but I believed I fixed this by changing the options for text size. You have to go to the home page of currents, and click on the cog wheel in the bottom left I believe.

Hope this helps.
[Nook Color General] greiland:
That did the trick. Thanks. There are 3 options: small, medium, large. It was set on medium. When I set it to either small or medium, the font is microscopic, totally unreadable. When I change to large, it's still somewhat small, but at least readable.
[Nook Color General] onclebob:
hi!

I wanna try the sneak2 but i have some questions before going into this built.

- Is there only english ore all language? (like french :) )

- Can i flash it with CWM 3.2.0.1 ?

- updating will erase emmc storage for media?

- Does it taste good :)

Thank you,

Thank to the Dal' and Fat_tire pushing the nook to the heaven!

onclebob
[Nook Color General] webdroidmt:
Been reading through the thread and have been experiencing issues similar to many of you. I have sneakpeek2 installed on Sandisk 8gb SD using verygreen's image.

On USB storage, I initially had Win7 searching endlessly for MTP drivers before failing, so I gave up. It is working now and shows the NC as a portable media device. I am able to transfer files without issue.

Touch response is off, most touch actions seem to register slowly. Many times I have to tap an icon more than once to get it to register.

Last but not least, after having sneakpeek2 installed from the first day fattire posted it, this past Sunday it became very sloowww. Slow to the point of being pretty much unusable. Tried rebooting a few times but it remained slow.

So, I decided to reflash it Sunday night and 2 of my 3 issues were resolved. Sorry, no science here, just reflashed it to my SD and it was running fine again and the usb storage was working. Usb seems to be a bit finicky for me, sometimes I have to plug it in a few times for it to work.

As for the touch issue, that still remains. I'm figuring that will be improved when a more "official" build is released. Overall, this pre-release works very, very well and I appreciate fattire letting the masses taste a little ice cream.

One other thing, I'm using Go Launcher and I like it but it "appears" to run pretty slow on this, as opposed to Trebuchet.

Mike T
[Nook Color General] khaytsus:
I've been using mine with gapps-ics-20111125-2.zip (available on goo) with that Calendar.rar and no problems. I disable all of the Syncing except Cal, Contact, and G+ however.

I've found that syncing Browser or Photos takes forever. And each boot takes forever for the media scanner to to finish since /emmc came back "online", but once that's done (cpu has settled down after booting), it's fast as ever.
[Nook Color General] greiland:
Good point. I'll turn off photo and browser syncing and see if that helps. I have google currents installed, so I have that syncing too. That may be causing some slow down. You do sync Gmail though, right?
[Nook Color General] webdroidmt:
@greiland

Hi greiland, we seem to be crossing paths in this thread a lot. :p Anyway, when my NC started to slow up, I took off all syncing just to see if that made a difference and it didn't. Upon reboot it was still slow as molasses, so I decided to reflash.

I only have 3 items syncing, Gmail, Contacts and Calendar and I really don't have much mail going to this account. I'm wondering if there's some other background stuff going on to cause the slowdown???

Well, I'm just gonna' see how things go over the next few days. I'm hoping the rom starts to "settle in" and get comfortable. :D

Mike T

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- Is there only english ore all language? (like french :) ) Oui= French is there as well as others

- Can i flash it with CWM 3.2.0.1 ? Yes

- updating will erase emmc storage for media? Sorry, not sure on this one

- Does it taste good :) Yes and non-fattening :D

Mike T
[Nook Color General] kcls:
So you didn't do anything special for USB Storage? Just reflashes? I have sneakpeek2 as well on windows 7 x64, but mine just sits there endlessly searching for drivers.
[Nook Color General] rampart51:
Thanks.....that helps a lot.
[Nook Color General] Sam Adams:
Total noob here... I have Sneak-Peek 1 & gapps running from the sd card but can't get SP #2 to install from recovery. Again - all this is from the sd card.

Recovery reads:

......

Looking for the install images...

sh: (1).zip: unknown operand

sh: (1).zip: unknown operand

then looks for gapps and shuts down

Is it possible to install #2 from scratch rather than going through #1 first? Any help would be appreciated!
[Nook Color General] webdroidmt:
@kcls

When I reflashed I tried connecting and was getting the endless search for MTP drivers again, just like in my first flash. Went into storage/menu/usb computer connection and saw that neither MTP nor PTP were checked. I checked MTP and tried to connect to my computer but no go. I went back in to those settings and checked off PTP but my computer still wouldn't connect. Maybe I should have rebooted immediately after checking MTP???

Went back to settings again and changed back to MTP and rebooted. This time when I tried to connect, after a few seconds I saw the usb icon in notifications but my PC/win7 didn't give me any audio notification until a few seconds after that. Then I saw the NC showing as a Portable Media Device and Win gave me the dialog box with options to transfer files etc. The only thing I could think of that I did differently from my initial flash was try going from MTP to PTP and then back. Maybe something in that sequence along with a reboot triggered a positive result. As I said earlier, no real science here, sorry I couldn't be more helpful.

As mentioned in my initial post, it appears to be a bit flakey. Even now, I just plugged it in and it didn't register right away. Had to unplug/plug back in and I just transferred over about 150 pics.

Mike T
[Nook Color General] rampart51:
No. You have to do #1 first. It doesn't take long to do.

Did you rename sneakpeak2 so that the file name begins with : update-cm-
[Nook Color General] webdroidmt:
Check the SP 2 zip, see if it has a (1) at the end and if it does remove it.

Mike T
[Nook Color General] Sam Adams:
Yes, used the #2 from Fatires puzzle post ;) I've wiped the sd and started from scratch several times, successfully running #1 ... just can't get #2 on.
[Nook Color General] bmaa:
Can you see SP2 Zip on the SD card? If you used Verygreen method, then the file (113M) will not fit unless you increase partition. That was my case, anyway. good luck.
[Nook Color General] kcls:
Ok, thanks for the info. I'll try some of this stuff later. Right now I have some other issues to solve. I'm getting hard SOD's (at least that's what I think they are) for some reason. Like boot up, lock the nook to let it settle down, try to unlock and the screen won't turn back on again until a reboot. That and It'll reboot after working perfectly fine for 5 minutes. Oh well, 'tis a pre alpha :D
[Nook Color General] Sam Adams:
Thanks Mike - that solved it!

Loving ICS - much better interface for the nook than GB. Thanks to all the developers getting this off the ground! Can't wait to get a stable on this... till then I'll bounce back and forth from this to CM7.

bmaa - yes - that was one of the first things I did do right - re-sizing the boot partition.

SA
[Nook Color General] Anon87:
hi.

i was wondering if there's anyway to boost audio output? I tried with the good old Nook Tweaks but it just force closes if use any of the audio options. Althou it still scales the cpu and allows me to enable usb host to connect my keyboard.
[Nook Color General] webdroidmt:
Glad to help. Figured helping someone named Sam Adams might provide a free brew down the road. :D

Mike T

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Yes, although it runs pretty well, it is a pre-alpha. I've also been getting SODs, mostly on the home screen and random reboots in various apps that go back to the cool boot animation, eventually coming back to the home screen.

I've got my taste of ice cream and I really like it, but for now I'll wait for a beta or better and go back to my very stable and quick CM7 Mirage.

That's one of the really nice things about installing on SD, I can bounce around between CM7 and ICS with ease.

Mike T
[Atrix 4G General] samcripp:
Guys this channel has been around for a long time, and is kind of quiet, you guys come to the forum with a lot of question that could be easily be answered a lot quicker in IRC! I'm inviting everyone to come and join active conversation in there, you will learn a lot quicker, and also solve phone problems faster.

If you dont know what IRC is, just think of it as IM for geeks.

Theres 2 ways you could join us.

1. visit webchat.freenode.net and where it says channel type "moto-atrix"

or 2. and the one i recomend

Download an irc client, on windows you can download xchat 2

or

Linux: xchat

and join the freenode server, once in there, on the chat line at the bottom type

/join #moto-atrix
[Atrix 4G General] BPinard:
It sure isn't quiet in there anymore!
[Atrix 4G General] neer2005:
Goddamn it Cripp I never see you on IRC anymore
[Atrix 4G General] bunder9999:
I really wish Luminary would stop saying n*ggers.
[Atrix 4G General] trogdan:
+1 against racial spam
[Atrix 4G General] panflute:
racial spam

If thats the way people can talk on your irc channel and get away with it, I want nothing to do with it.
[Atrix 4G General] ar31791:
Welcome to internet. Welcome to irc. Don't take it so seriously. But if you want, /ignore username works.
[Atrix 4G General] henrys01:
resident troll
[Atrix 4G General] Zxo0oxz:
Somebody should really do something about this.

EDIT: samcripp, you might want to mention mIRC too. I've found that most windows users aren't too fond of Xchat for some reason.
[Atrix 4G General] ar31791:
I'm on irc 24/7 and have experience moderating several online chat rooms for years. I will volunteer my time to operate the channel if you guys want.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] kufel:
I just want to restore kernel to stock. ROM is stock , I could restore back to stock phone but don't feel like wiping and restoring evereyhting.

Would appreciate if someone points me to the stock kernel.

Thx!!
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Luxferro:
Download the latest google factory image from here. It's good to keep a copy. Inside you'll find the stock boot.img (kernel).

http://code.google.com/android/nexus/images.html
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] kufel:
Awesome, Thanx!!!!

One more question - how to convert .img into .zip for CWM flashing?

I am at work and cannot connect the phone to the workstation :(
[HTC Desire S] anurag4444:
Hi friends There's a good news for indian users of desire s who has been waiting for the sense 3.0 android 2.3.5 update.

The update has started rolling out from today and all the indian user will receive the update within a week.

the proof is the official HTC India facebook page (see the attachment).

Those who gets the updates post the time date and place.
[HTC Desire S] mackhenri:
That's great news....
[HTC Desire S] varun.singh286:
Still got nothing... i am in Varanasi... been checking for updates constantly for a month now...

:-(
[HTC Desire S] varun.singh286:
Does anyone's Baseband Version contains letters "AU"...

i have "AU" written in the middle of my Baseband Version... and i am worried whether it has to anything with my software being an Australian one and not an Indian one... and whether I will get an update or not...

i received a small update months ago for performance improvements and i have a Software Version of 1.47.720.1...

So can anyone tell me whether I will get an update or not... or do I have to install it manually via RUU..

please...
[HTC Desire S] ashishjmeshram:
I also have the AU in my baseband version. Won't we get updates ever?

Has anyone got any idea on updates and baseband relations?
[HTC Desire S] mackhenri:
Me too on AU and don't worry we have Indian phones and we should get it as the top suggests but will be happy if some one in India reports it...
[HTC Desire S] varun.singh286:
thanks...

but i don't think anyone got it till now...

lets hope it arrives as quick as possible...
[HTC Desire S] mackhenri:
Can u give me the link for this FB confirmation..
[HTC Desire S] mackhenri:
Nothing yet...
[HTC Desire S] suku_patel_22:
Here is the link to HTC India Fb page..

Its there

https://www.facebook.com/HTCIndia
[HTC Desire S] ashishjmeshram:
No updates yet. Has anyone got the updates so far? Why this post on fb when they are not going to stick to it? It's just so frustrating having to wait so long for the update.
[HTC Desire S] Crhysis:
Got the update. Downloading now.
[HTC Desire S] ashishjmeshram:
Yeah me too got the update, down loaded and installed and it's awesome.
[HTC Desire S] suku_patel_22:
Got the update today

My Desire S just got updated today

Old:

New:
[HTC Desire S] rjuyal:
desire s Update

downloading update :)
[HTC Desire S] varun.singh286:
finally got the update...

it took a whooping 7 hours to download cause I was downloading at approximately 20KBytes/sec....

but everything finally paid off well...

thanks htc...

:-D
[HTC Desire S] mackhenri:
You should have gone to HTC service centre or update it via your home pc using internet passthrough
[HTC Desire S] vinayrathore:
Got the message for update upon manual check. Downloading now but its very very slow even over a 2mb leased line via usb internet passthrough..... :(

New Delhi Vodafone
[HTC Desire S] whosaysjohn:
How is the speed?

How is the speed of the new ROM guys???
[HTC Desire S] FuzzyBlacken:
Does NOT work on Rooted Phone

Update is available but cannot be applied on Rooted Phone.
[HTC Desire S] mackhenri:
I downloaded it yesterday morning...it took around 30 minutes on 1 mbps line speed...the new Rom is great every thing works superb....
[HTC Desire S] varun.singh286:
New Rom is awesome....

And I found a new feature...to take a screenshot of your screen without root...

Just press and hold power botton and at the same time press the home botton below...

It takes a screenshot of the current screen and saves it in your gallery...

Awesome feature....

And there is also a new Bluetooth version 3.0 in the new update (earlier it was version 2.1 and transfer speeds were very slow)...but now it has increased your Bluetooth performances like great transfer speeds and connectivity...

Enjoy guys...
[HTC Desire S] bai471:
Already upgrade, thank you for sharing!!!!!!
[HTC Desire S] subin.p48:
I also got updation

Hi team,

I have tried updating to 2.3.5 in my htc desire s which i got from OTA.

but while installing I have got into white screen with hTC on it. now I am not ableto switch off or switch on the phone it is hanged there. after removing the batterry after the hanging of one day all night. but it still remains in white screen.can anyone please help me out

subin
[HTC Desire S] Changi:
got the upgrade a couple of days back.. great U-ex.. but the memory consumption is more.. to be expected i guess..

htc has added 'memory' to the 'quick settings' to kill memory intensive apps when your usex goes slow..
[HTC Desire S] suku_patel_22:
don't remove the battery. visit customer care

Swyped from my Desire S
[HTC Desire S] sanjeevreddyk:
Take the device to HTC service center. Couple of days back mine is also behaved like this. After giving the device to HTC service center they told me that the main board was failed and replace with a new one with in warranty :)
[HTC Desire S] raghuram.h:
new update is awesome... additional features in almost all the preloaded apps... happy that my gtalk has a voice/video chat now
[HTC Desire S] suku_patel_22:
calculator is horrible,

better use seven plus calculator

Swyped from my Desire S