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[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] ShinnAsuka:
ok so just to make sure, there are two files in framework folder in snowball mod. i have to set permission for both to 644 (in other words: owner has read and write checked, and the other two only have read checked)

is that right?
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] cfoesch:
You only need the framework-res.apk file for what you want. It should be 644 root.system (that's what snowball-mod installs it as) The other file in there is from gapps, and you probably already have it if you have the android market.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] ShinnAsuka:
oh ok, i'll try it in a bit then. hopefully everything goes as planned....

**goes to backup EVERYTHING with TBPro** :D
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] cfoesch:
I seem to be getting FC in the XDA developer app, as well, as for Facebook. Can anyone else attempt to replicate this? Do they FC for you as well, or no?

The XDA Developer app FC with a NullPointerException in PasswordCrypt.encrypt (PasswordCrypt.java:260) the moment I try to do really anything immediately after logging in. (Click on nearly anything, or back or home, or menu all FC XDA developer.)

The Facebook one crashes right away, with no information to report.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] lavero.burgos:
Use XDA payed version or tapatalk those works fine. Facebook crash is well known issue. No fix so far though
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] fierywater:
Just wanted to thank you for the hard work you've done on this. Dolphin Browser is a lifesaver on this thing!

Just a couple notes:

1) Same issues with gapps FCing, of course.

2) I didn't experience the issue with the complete action with box looping, using ADW EX.

3) I've had an issue with ADW and ADW EX not successfully loading widgets on boot; I had to remove and re-add them to make them work. Could be just me, though.

And a small feature request; would it be possible for you to hack in some sort of keyboard settings access so we can use alternate keyboards from the market? I know B&N probably hacked the crap out of that to begin with, but I had to ask.

Again, thanks a bundle; we may not have custom ROMs yet, but this isn't bad at all.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] lavero.burgos:
You can use other keyboards use anycut app to create a shortcut to access to keyboard settings
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] ms2003:
does the 2nd method for the devices those have already rooted, and won't wipe data?
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] t-r-i-c-k:
This does not happen on my Nook and I've also not heard anyone else report an issue after using my Mac root script. I wouldn't be surprised if it were a launcher issue. I use Golauncher Ex.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] ShinnAsuka:
hey all, so i just installed snowball mod and i keep on getting google services framework force closes. i've already tried clearing data. currently using adw launcher ex. any ideas?
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] cfoesch:
No, the 2nd method is for updating from a prior version of snowball-mod to the newest version. It will not run on a system that has not had snowball-mod installed on it.

Huh... I'm tempted to drop in Go Launcher and give it a try to see if it fixes the Gapps FCs... I suppose I can do it easily enough without reseting my device. (BLEH! After I _just_ set it up!)

The FCs tend to happen most often around installing something from the Android Market, or even sideloading once the Market is setup. But then, it does force quit on reboot as well... v_v bleh... and here my server died, so I'm hard at work attempting to fix that, and it's keeping me from hacking on the NT stuff...
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] fierywater:
I didn't think I was able to activate any of the keyboards from there, but I'll give that another try. Also, I saw the tutorial on adding alternative keyboards, but I'd specifically like to be able to use ones from the Android Market if possible.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] ShinnAsuka:
i'm using go launcher ex right now and the FC's for framework are still happening... but not as frequent as in ADW Launcher... curious...
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] DeanGibson:
More than just a simple change

If you unzip and diff the two versions, there are about 100 files that changed.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] t-r-i-c-k:
What version? The most current? Could also be a permissions thing if everything isn't 100% correct? Also, for my root I sourced the gapps direct from the goo-inside.me site.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] ShinnAsuka:
i am using the latest one available from the android market. i installed snowball mod on a fresh NT (format resetted 8 failed boots) and it was at 1.4.0.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] lavero.burgos:
What about the unable to charge the nook while is on with this method ? As users have reported that with indirects method they can only charge the nook being off . Mine will be arriving in few days im out of usa so I must be very carefully on what to run into my device. Hope the Fc's issue get fixed as well. Thanks for the hard work, keep it up :)
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] cfoesch:
I haven't had any trouble at all with charging with snowball-mod, and I've been using it for like ... 2~3 days already. Without knowing what extra stuff they did with Indirect's install, there is no way to pin it down to something wrong with Indirect's process at all.

It's far too easy to install something else, or delete something yourself, and then unknowingly screw something up.

Unless someone can tell me that it is happening with a stock snowball-mod (lol, stock) it's pretty much impossible to pin it down to anything that the roots are doing.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] cfoesch:
I don't have either on hand... is there someway you could put the file list on paste bin or something? If you do that, I could evaluate if anything is actually important to snowball-mod.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] beatphreek:
That's a good thing...

I just got it on.... B&N helped me along with that sneak attack OTA update...

Already looks more like my NC and I like that. Thanks for the work on this.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] cfoesch:
TL;DR: The list is a big "meh". Most of the apps are deleted or replaced, a lot of it is packaging meta-data, which will of course be different, and otherwise an indifferent "meh".

Looking through the list a lot of them don't matter. They're either deleted, replaced, or just meta-data.

The kernel modules are interesting. It might fix WiFi issues that some people have apparently been having. But then, they likely made some updates to the kernel as well, so the kernel drivers might not even work on an otherwise 1.4.0 machine. Update the kernel as well? Eh... we could, but that's dangerous. Letting B&N update your kernel, and they could modify it to reject all sorts of things, or such.

Basically, what real problems are people having with the 1.4.0? A bit of wifi trouble mostly. I suppose I can look down upon them from my my-wifi-works privilege, but then it just doesn't affect me, so it's hard to get an idea of their pain. (Oh wait, when I first boot up the Nook and couldn't get _ANYTHING_ on the B&N market. It was tears.)

So, yeah, it looks like there is stuff that changed, some of it might possibly even be stuff we could want to roll in, but in the end, the stuff that I left there, is mostly just to prevent possible FCs, and FCs only recorded by logcat.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] amdboomer:
one question, everything seems to be fine, except none of the apps see the 12GB of free space or my micro sd card? what could be the problem?
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] cfoesch:
The SD Card is unmounted by the zergy root exploit, so you may have to remove it, and reinsert it. (Check in Settings | Device Info) if it says "No SD Card found!" then just eject it manually, and reinsert it.

As for the 12GB of free space, that's a little more difficult. I haven't had much luck using the /mnt/internal space (which is just a direct link into the /data partition), because it has permissions and owner/group rights, and many apps automatically set their permissions etc on things to be protective. (mode 640 or such.) This makes it very annoying to deal with in ES File Explorer, or whatever.

I use the setup-sd-ext from snowball-mod, which sets up a FAT32 card image on the /data partition and then mounts that to /mnt/sd-ext. However, nothing seems to care about it, nor see it normally. So, unless you can manually specify arbitrary directories, the space still isn't very useful.

The _GOOD_NEWS_ though, is that MX Video Player can use arbitrary directories, and so you can load up all your movies onto either (if using the /mnt/internal directory, you have to also set the permissions correctly) and still watch them. And movies are the biggest consumers of space, so. Yay! ... However, I haven't found a way to get Music to play off of either of them. :(
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] amdboomer:
Thanks for the info. I did get the sd card mounted, re-inserted it and reformatted, now it's all good. Have a32GB on the way, so I have no need of the internal, still what a waste, :)

I do have a new issue though. I was playing Sacred Odyssey, when I exited my nook rebooted it self then performed a resotre! WTF?!?!?! It did not update to 1.41, it just did a factory restore of 1.4.0. Anybody else have this randomness happen to them? :eek:
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] cfoesch:
That's weird and crazy... I haven't had anything like that happen. You might get better traction and attention for the question in the General Questions section, though.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] beatphreek:
Do you have that stock 1.4.0 udate.zip file on the root of your SD Card by chance?

I forgot to remove it from mine and rebooted it and... woops!
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] davewuvswaffles:
Has there been any luck in getting Facebook to install and not FC?
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] cfoesch:
No... it seems to depend upon something from the stock NT... not sure what it is depending upon, or trying to activate. Also, the XDA App crashes if you try and login.

--- edit ---

I'm going to give it a try without deleting any of the stock apps, then if that works, I'll start figuring out what causes it and what doesn't.

--- edit ---

The crashing is unrelated to the deleting of stock applications.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] Utrru:
Slowly but surely we're getting there. ;) I have noticed a lessening of force closes in Gapps though

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[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] davewuvswaffles:
Thanks for looking into that, I'm sure you'll figure out what dependencies were removed soon enough.

Also, I don't know if this was snowball, but is there any reason that Chrome to Phone and installing from the Market via PC don't go through to my NT?

Edit: Just read your post on the other thread, I'm assuming those would be fixed with the update. Thanks
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] cfoesch:
So far? Apparently _none_. I think it has to be something that I added. I'm trying now with deleting all of the /system/lib that I had. (This will break any number of the /system/xbin binaries, but this won't be released, lol)

This is related to why Google Framework Services is Force Closing. Something about the way apps are tracked and such on the NT causes GFS to crash, and that means a bunch of the other things crash. The other part of it is probably being unable to since Contacts.apk (saw this on NTHiddenSettings.apk) but I can't for the life of me figure out why Contacts doesn't work.

All stuff to work on. :( <-- sad pandas for full plates.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] Elmar1801:
I switched back to indirect's script for root and i find something interesting. Of course there are also fc's like here but a little less i think. I tried the new hidden settings app by brianf21 and disabled the contact sync. After that no fc's anymore.

With cfoesch root i can't even open the sync settings (fc).
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] cfoesch:
As mentioned, I overwrite the AccountAndSyncSettings.apk which causes these fc's, the next version will restore the stock Nook Tablet .apk, which resolves this issue.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] Utrru:
ETA on the next version?

Sent from The Droid ... The one you were looking for...
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] cfoesch:
I'm narrowing in on what causes the FC for Facebook. After that, I will release.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] Utrru:
Cheers m8. Cant wait :)

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[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] Utrru:
Did you ever figure out thecmovies/music issue by the by? I noticed it was select files that would play kind of properly.

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[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] cfoesch:
Update to v2.1.0

What's different in v2.1.0?

* Facebook doesn't crash anymore.

* XDA's Free App still crashes (not the fault of snowball-mod)

* Indirect & mine working on getting adbd to maintain root during reboots, simplifying update processes, and other details.

* FEWER GOOGLE FRAMEWORK SERVICE CRASHES! Everyone will enjoy this one.

* NTHiddenSettings.apk courtesy of brianf21

md5sums:

65eeac3d0733e01360db87c6c6d8a09c *snowball-mod.zip
f3edf8f00b31a56d802512dd8f90355a *snowball-update.zip

Enjoy! (It took FOREVER to track down what was crashing Facebook, and honestly? I still don't particularly know. ... but I had to wipe a bunch of /system/bin and /system/xbin files away. Most of this update is trimming the fat of stuff that was naively included.)
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] Elmar1801:
Thanks for that. Will test later.

Can you please modify the thread header so erverbody can see the update.

Do i have to run the root and the update or only the root?
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] davewuvswaffles:
Works like a charm, thanks a ton.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] cfoesch:
No, you only have to run the snowball-update if you are running a prior version of snowball-mod.

If you're installing from scratch though, you want to use the snowball-mod.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] cfoesch:
There seems to be some confusion about the versions of the update.

The versioned .zip files in the snowball-update package are the rules to apply to that specific version in order to bring it to the current version.

As such the v2.1.0 snowball-update has three previous released versions: v2.0, v2.0.1, and v2.0.2 all of these need their own .zip in order to apply appropriately in case later versions need different rules for handling the update.

So, it is _EXPECTED_ that the snowball-update.zip will not contain a file with the current version number that you are applying to. In the future, I will include a "This_is_vX.Y.Z" file just so that the confusion is avoided in the future.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] darthvince:
Works great. I have a couple of weird issues. The nook app from android market will not open. I attempted to uninstall and reinstall without luck. Also rebooted. No luck.

I also wanted to let everyone know that go launcher works great with this. I'm loving this mix of nook and cm7.

Can anyone tell me what the book button in the bottom bar does? Lol.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] lavero.burgos:
Hello @cfoesch thanks for your work, this method seems to fit my need to root my device but before do so could someone report if ADW launcher works fine too?

*Are you interested on the 1.4.1 with full root and android market by DeanGibson if so is it in your plans to integrate it to snowball? Take is as a request of my part too :D.

*Does google apps works fine?. Google voice is a must for me i use it alot to text bf :P

*Does Android and Amazon market works without problem?

*Just o make sure if i use snowball ill still be able to enjoy the "nook UI experience" :confused: got confused by the post below :D.

Thanks!
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] Thedonk13:
ok, i thought i would love this mod, problem was the amount of FC's i was getting....everything was working fine, and than bam, FC for the google service's stuff...it really didn't hamper anything, but it was horribly annoying!!

i loved everything you did as well, minus the keyboard, that thing is gawdy and just bad for this tablet...sorry....

on a side note, if you want to revert to indirect's nook&zergy, you need to restore from your SD card, DO NOT FACTORY RESET from inside the nook...all hell will break lose and you will be friggin annoyed as hell...took me about 2 hours to figure everything out...i just got my nook yesterday....

anyways, will keep my eye out and check in from time to time....do you think you will be posting any changelogs to let us know what is in the udpates?
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] Thedonk13:
nook UI is all gone and replaced with adw....i believe the object of this mod is to get as close to a port of CM7 as possible..but NOT CM7 so don't get confused there....
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] lavero.burgos:
Thanks , yes I already know cm7 is not posible yet we need the bootloader unlocked,progress is going well though

Sent from XDA using one of my Android Toys :P
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] cfoesch:
Huh... I've reproed this bug... does anyone have it working on a different root? If they do, I can work on figuring out what the difference is, and hopefully solve it. Of course, I don't want this to be like the XDA free app bug, where I spend hours tracking down something, which it turns out will affect

all

tablets without an IMEI...

Nothing. Hehehe... I've been considering replacing the graphics with something that is invisible, so that it doesn't show up anymore. It wouldn't be too hard to do. v2.1.1, I suppose.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] cfoesch:
This is not an update to the actual Nook at all, but I've updated the installation scripts to detect various error conditions, and recommend solutions, automatically, and avoid certain pitfalls that people might come across.

ffa9a89f70deab6fe7f37ff9121596f7 *snowball-mod.zip
7498b3faa6848765d6b7bd75069dd669 *snowball-update.zip

7 minutes to New Year's here... I'm going to go have fun instead. :P

--- Edit ---

Oops, BROKE the full installer. It should be repaired:

2adab5cc844735cb61d788369a407e75 *snowball-mod.zip
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] ShinnAsuka:
hey all i messed with an anycut setting and accidently forced a soft reset which only cleared data. so then i used indirect's nook unroot app to reset to 1.4.0.

Now when i try to install snowball mod, it won't let me because it says that my device is not a Nook Tablet. Before I triggered that accidental reset, I did change my build.prop to that of mimicing a Nexus S so I could see more apps in the Market, but I would have thought indirect's nook unroot app would have gotten rid of that since it clears both /data and /system.

Any ideas? I can post a screenshot later on...

Heres a screenshot:
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] lost101:
I had the same problem. I went back to the previous version and it worked fine. Obviously still something wrong with this release.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] ShinnAsuka:
hey can you either link me or post the previous version?

the md5 sum on this page and the first page differ, so i think that means the file on dropbox hasn't been updated yet... T_T
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] lost101:
I hope cfoesch doesn't mind. Here is the previous version: http://www.mediafire.com/?bc7jwc6ktf6g0l7

Perhaps it would be worth having the prior version of each new release available in the OP.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] ShinnAsuka:
thanks a lot, unrooting and gonna try this one out! i'm sure she won't mind...

EDIT: it works!
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] cfoesch:
Hm... the last lines clearly state that the snowball.bat file thinks that the /mnt/media has been mounted by your computer...

I could really use the media-mounted file of anyone who's having this trouble. It should contain just one line, and is text.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] rbellis:
this is awesome. I got this to work the 1st time without an issue. I had previously used indirect's method. I took it back to stock and used this one.

My only question is.....I had been storing my books in the B&N/books folder....Where should I store my books and what app are people using now that the stock ereader is gone.

other than that....this is awesome. Just wish the option to create folders with ANY launcher worked. I am using Go Launcher so I have that taken care of.

thank you for your hard work! I tis nice to see DEV's still working on the NT
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] monkeybiz:
grep: permission denied

That's what mine says.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] Indirect:
You need busybox..I'll give the creator of snowball the files and script

Sent by breaking the sound barrier
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] cfoesch:
Ah, that tells me exactly what's wrong, and makes sense... thanks.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] ugic:
- is there a way rather to change/remap the book button into for example search?
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] cfoesch:
This probably requires rewriting some of the intents, and such. I'm not exactly sure how to do any of that. Making the button disappear is easier (since it's just overwriting image files).
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] beatphreek:
Is there a change log for the latest update? I will of course install it blindly anyway... but i was wondering what i should be on the look out for during daily use. I am not seeing any real issues currently and the snowball 2.02 is the latest folder i see in my update directory.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] cfoesch:
The best way to find out which version of snowball you are running is to open up a terminal and type "snowball-ver" if it reports 2.1.0 then you are running the most recent version.

There have been a few updates to the packaging, but nothing that impacts on-NT files.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] strictlyrude27:
Do I need to factory reset before installing Snowball? (OP doesn't make this totally clear, unless I missed something.)
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] mikenike192:
Well when I did it today my nt had updated itself to 1.41 so I followed the guide to reset it to stock 1.40. I believe you just have to be at 1.40. Once I was at 1.40 it was as simple as running the shell commands included in the OP.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] servergod:
changelog

I see that the date changes on the post, but I do not see a change log.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] beatphreek:
Ok that is the version Im on. I just saw the post title said it was updated today, but i didnt notice any posts or change logs with what had been updated.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] bobstro:
May I ask how you did this? I'm having the same issue on a rooted Nook Color. I've poked through the zip and have a basic understanding of what's going on, but I'm not sure where to look for this particular fix.

Thanks!
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] cfoesch:
Uh... it is from some other thread on here... I could look it up, or you could just google it yourself?
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] bobstro:
Since you gave attribution for the others and not this, I thought it was original content. Sorry.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] heric1:
I rooted using Indirect's method with the OTA blocking yet my nook updated last night. Does this method use the same method of OTA blocking or will it stop it for good?
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] 1000cleverlines:
this mod is decent. i really wish i could just access the B&N reader though since I got used to it with the original root. the nook app from the appstore doesn't even run. I might be going back to Indirect's root though until someone comes up with something a bit more stable...
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] lavero.burgos:
Did you use the 9.9.9 ota blocking?

Sent from XDA using one of my Android Toys :P
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] cfoesch:
Indirect's root now blocks OTAs automatically, without any intervention from the user. However, yes, snowball-mod has always blocked OTAs automatically.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] cfoesch:
I agree. Unfortunately, I have no idea why or what is blocking the B&N Nook app. I imagine it is to prevent people from accidentally installing it on Nooks or nooks that are rooted or... I'm not precisely clear.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] 424aca:
i have a question,

how do you go back to stock 1.4.0

do you do a full restore

turn off-> hold power + home->click n for format

will that work?