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[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] cfoesch:
If you have 1.4.1, that will not restore you to 1.4.0, in order to restore to 1.4.0, you need to download the aclaim_update.zip from another thread (the one about how to revert to 1.4.0) and place it on an SD-card, and then reboot your NT. That thread will cover issues and problems you experience with the process.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] Jesterdtm:
Netflix

Can anyone confirm is this will run Netflix? If so, is it available on the Android Market, or do you have to load an .apk?
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] Jesterdtm:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1363652

Very helpful thread combating automatic driver installation.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] X-Stranger:
This mod is exactly what I was looking for. Thanks!
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] 28907126:
Hi cfoesch, got any other dl link/site since there is a 509 error in your dropbox a/c:( Guess your file must be really popular to have your a/c traffic blocked.

Thanks in advance
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] cfoesch:
Ack! Oh noes! :( No, I don't have anywhere else that I can host the files right now. I have an alternate host (or rather, the original host I had planned on) but they're off right now.

I've moved some screenshots out of the public directory, so hopefully that might drop some of the traffic, if people are leeching bandwidth by direct linking to them. (I have used direct links in my posts, so, I know at least some leeching has been occurring.)

So, only thing up now are snowball-mod.zip, and snowball-update.zip, unfortunately, until they reallow dropbox downloads, I suppose it's stuck. :(
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] jimmysuggs:
Yes, I'd like to know the answer to this as well.

If units set to 9.9.9 are updating, this is something people should be aware of.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] 28907126:
cfoesch Thanks for the quick response, it's still down now:eek:, and I read that the first 509 ban will be for 72 hours. Guess have to wait till it's up again. But still thanks and looking forward to snowball-ing my NT.

Can't wait with the device finally on my hand.:p
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] cfoesch:
The vast majority of people who used Indirect's root, yet updated to 1.4.1, did not actually apply his OTA block, which required manual interaction to complete.

People simply misunderstood, and thought that by merely rooting, that they would block OTAs.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] nando99:
restoring my nook back to 1.4.0 while waiting 4 new links if possible...
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] cfoesch:
Ok, so I've posted an extremely trivial update. If you already have snowball-mod installed, then don't worry too much about updating.

The entire purpose of this update was to reduce the file size in order to reduce traffic load, and hopefully keep dropbox from killing my traffic again. (Original: 40MB, new: 25MB)

There are two files that are actually new, "ipctool" and "viewmem", both of which can be obtained from the Basic Hacking Tools thread. This update won't even delete any files to ensure symmetry of installing the full-mod.

Oh, there is one change though. In order to save space, I pushed the /system/etc/hosts file off to a script that will download a hosts file from the source and install it. If you installed a previous version, then your existing hosts file is already fine, and there is no need to run this script.

Once my dropbox becomes active again, and you can install fresh, it will require entering a terminal and typing "setuphostfile" on the command line. You'll be spammed with the header to the file, but it will otherwise install and off you will go with your hosts-file-based-ad-blocking.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] darthvince:
cfoesch, in the OP you said that it's easy to remove the book button by replacing the graphics. Do you mean that it will be easy for you to include in a later build, or that it's easy for the user to do it? If you mean the user, would you mind telling us how to do it? Not so easy for me ;)
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] cfoesch:
I meant that it would be easy for me to do. I'll get around to it, I just have had other things on my plate recently
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] travisn000:
Do the files posted here:

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=21003708&postcount=10

work with snowball mod?

I was thinking of trying them over the weekend, but if someone has already tried and failed it is nice to know ahead of time.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] cfoesch:
I can't really support something that I'm not using myself, but there is no reason why another SystemUI.apk wouldn't work.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] 424aca:
what if i link it to mine as a public download for

4 shared

mediafire

dropbox

and box(i think it has public tools) (i think)
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] Jesterdtm:
Netflix does work. sweet

got it up and running. it is so awesome. Pretty sure my daughter is pretty excited for her Nook now.

Still can convince my wife that all of this stuff is legal! lol.

had to do a factory reset... but i did want to include a link i found that was helpful for me to get to the "unknown sources" which finally let me install the other one to allow USB debugging. which made everything so much easier, including getting past that windows driver automatic installation that held me back for hours.

It's the first link: (app menu)

http://www.comptonsoft.com/test/

Cfoesch you are awesome.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] beatphreek:
It's harder to believe that crippling and locking down the device is legal...
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] oZo:
I had tried all manner of driver re-installation, etc., on my computer to get the ADB driver installed for the Nook.

No go.

So, I bit the bullet and partitioned the hard drive and installed 32 bit Windows 7 Ultimate.

After that settled down, the snowball/root system worked so fast I had to check if something had crashed.

Great work!

Now my girlfriend is using her nook, and not hanging the hairy eye ball on me....at least not for this. lol
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] Jesterdtm:
i was very angry with win 7. But using that tgps apk to getting into the system settings helped me catch one very big thing that I was missing-

Three things to get you started-

a. enable third party apps (unknown sources)

b. enable USB Debugging (on my nook this was listed twice, i checked both, but i think the first one is the real one

c. DISABLE AUTO MOUNT <-- that was the key to keeping windows from auto installing the Nook when USB Debugging was enabled, also if you see that it has the "Safe to transfer files USB mode icon, it's not going to work.

Links for all those settings are in this thread.

---------- Post added at 02:36 AM ---------- Previous post was at 02:34 AM ----------

Has anyone successfully gotten a different keyboard going?

I installed Swype just fine. However when using settings to change, the settings/input/keyboard just FC's

using the "Hackers Keyboard" app that comes with also is FCing.

just curious. it's not critical.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] SCClockDr:
Look at this thread "[Tutorial] Installing alternative Keyboards on the NT"
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] cfoesch:
I use the Hacker's Keyboard that comes default with snowball-mod. It also follows the directions on where to put the apk according to the other threads. There shouldn't be anything to keep you from using hacker's keyboard straight away after installing snowball-mod...
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] MikeCh:
Hi,

I had this method applied on my Tablet. was OK for few days, then all of sudden I was upgraded to 1.41 today and lost root and side loading. I also had the build.prop faked to Nexus S to get some games to work. Any idea what did I do wrong?

Thanks.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] travisn000:
xecuter just posted a modified SystemUI.apk that has the home button fix (same as in snowball mod), but also has ICS icons centered on the notification bar, and with a WORKING soft home button in place of the non-functional (in snowball mod) reader icon.

I installed it and it works great!

(..I also removed button savior :D )

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=21149748&postcount=21

Screenshot:
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] Sycobob:
cfoesch, in the modded framework-res.apk you made, how did you create it with no compression? I notice the framework on the Nook is all uncompressed. I'm digging around and changing things back to the stock Android theme/style but when I recompile with apkmanager it uses compression. Even when I set the compression level to 0. I'd rather not test out my modded version in case the Nook can't handle compressed system files. I don't really want to redo the setup without a nandroid to fall back on.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] X-Stranger:
This works for me too. Thanks for the link.

However I would not remove button savior, because some apps hide status bar (GTA3 for example), and to get to the menu you need button savior. By the way, it there any way to make status bar with buttons permanent?

I would suggest to add this modified SystemUI to the Snowball Mod.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] cfoesch:
Hm... my NT also seems to be reporting 1.4.0 as the version rather than the proper value...

I'll get looking into this... (*grumbles about B&N being total dicks about this stuff*)

--- EDIT ---

Oh, I totally forgot that I had broken out of the script before it ran the OTA-block, due to installing the other software locking up... so, mine should be unrelated to anyone else's...

Do you still have the log.txt from your install?
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] cfoesch:
To reiterate what I said elsewhere. I'm finalizing snowball-mod at v2.1.1, because I cannot abide dealing with the moral quality of Barnes and Noble anymore. I'm turning in my NT for something that isn't produced by a hostile manufacturer.

--- REITERATION ---

So, I've decided finally that although a lot of forward progress has been made on hacking the Nook Tablet, I simply cannot justify continuing to own one, when I could trade it in and get an Iconia A100 for like... $10 more.

So, unless I miraculously receive enough donations to go out and get a real tablet that won't make me want to gouge my eyes out every other day from frustration, and sheer disgust at the moral quality of the manufacturer, I just cannot justify keeping my Nook Tablet.

I hope everyone the best of luck, and I'm sure we'll have custom ROMs running on the Nook Tablet before too long, and everything will be hunky dory, and life will be awesome... I'm simply unwilling to beat my head against the wall over the bull**** from Barnes and Noble...

This also means that snowball-mod will be finalized at snowball-mod v2.1.1, and I won't be able to offer much in the way of real support for it anymore... of course, I can naturally still answer a ton of questions and such, but without a Nook Tablet myself, there is kind of little testing or anything that I could do to help keep the updates coming, etc.

Maybe if the donations trickle in, and I finally get enough to repurchase a Nook Tablet, I might do that as well... who knows. What I am certain of however, is that I cannot keep my Nook Tablet as is, when for $10 more I can get a tablet that isn't going to treat me like a child who cannot make security decisions for myself. I'm a grown woman, and I can look after myself, thank you very much, Barnes & Noble...
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] travisn000:
...sorry to see you go! I have similar sentiments myself, especially having purchased two nook color devices. I really like the form factor and battery life of the nook, otherwise I would be right behind you... maybe I still will be :mad:

Thanks again for the work you put into this project!
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] Mr. Argent:
While i'm disheartened to see you go, I won't say you are unjustified.

Still, if B&N won't unlock the bootloader, we'll do it for them, heh heh. They need to learn that it's the user who decides how the device is used, not them.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] dodgepot:
Thanks for this, CFO. You will be sorely missed.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] Novalis31:
Is this stable yet? I keep going back and forth thinking about installing it after reading everything.

Sent from my Nook Tablet.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] cfoesch:
As stable as really it ever could really get. It's a total hack layered on top of the total hack job that B&N did with the original Android. Which is to say, it's reasonably stable, but don't expect it to be rock-solid... I mean, it's impossible to work miracles with the crap that they laid down.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] Novalis31:
Thanks for the heads up, I'll just wait for ICS.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] wedmiston:
cf - hate to see you go. I have a few easy ones for you if you can help a noob:

1. Successfully rooted my NT using nook&zergy, but yours seems to have more fixes I'm still struggling with (white on white menus, inability to see 12GB space when connected to PC, etc.) Any harm running snoball on my NT in it's currently rooted state?

2. What does the System. ui file I'm reading about do and is it part of snoball. If not, a good addition?

I can't return my NT because I bought it with rewards points, and I have no desire to keep messing with it once i get it to as full an Android-like state as possible.

Your help will be greatly appreciated!
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] heric1:
I cannot get Google Music to work. I keep getting a FC when trying to play a song. There was a post in the general section about moving it from data/app to system/app and fixing permissions as a potential fix, however that did not work either. Also Google Music worked for me previously under Indirect's root method. This is the only problem I am having, everything thing else is perfect. Any suggestions? Thanks in advance and also for all the hard work that has been accomplished.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] cfoesch:
I'd like to help people with specific apps not working, but unfortunately, I no longer have a NT to test with.

Unfortunately, because of all the broken crap that B&N pulled with their version of android, a lot of things are just simply broken.

Not like it matters, it looks like nemith will shortly deprecate snowball-mod, and snowball-mod can take its rightful place as a simple footnote in history.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] gr8wing:
I have been running the latest snowball root, but today it updated to 1.4.1 Not sure why, but I have all my apks backed up and in the apk folder for the rooting. Should be a simple restore.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] cfoesch:
Yeah, I don't know what is causing this, and it's kind of the reason that pushed me over the edge and caused me to return mine.

I think the only way to really be safe in Snowball-mod until the custom roms come out is to delete your /system/app/DeviceManager.app ... I hope that should stop any problems...

Also, I asked before about this, but do you still have your log.txt from the install? I'd like to see it, if you could post it somewhere.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] kusje:
Good day. I am in the process of returning my nook. How should I best remove snowball mod? I've done a factory reset but the startup screen "hack" instead of "nook" still appears.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] HMG10:
Did you do the 9 interrupts of the boot process for a full reset? Or the data reset by hiding down volume button? You have to do the first I mentioned.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] cfoesch:
The "factory reset" is entirely the wrong thing to do, and people tend to think that it recovers the software. It does not. It only redoes all of the /data partition.

You should have installed the NookUnroot, and used that, or the 9-interrupted boots, or any of the other ways to trigger a full factory software recovery.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] Silthion:
So it's not a valid method anymore? I mean, doesn't it prevent the ota to update the nook anymore?

Thank you!
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] kbs24:
internal sd hack

Is there any way to free up the lost 11gig other than using the entire snowball-mod? I have used many other methods and I'm all set with root, apps, ota block, N fix, etc, but I don't want to use the snowball and lose all B&N stuff. Is there a procedure separately that I can go through to make the internal mem visible? Also, same question, but as regards fixing the white-on-white problem. thanks for the help.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] lavero.burgos:
+1 to the internal hack and about the white-on-white there is a decent fix here and the .9.png file he used is attached here or you can modify it to your taste ( i would prefer rounded corners ;))

- Veronica
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] kbs24:
"+1" what does that mean, I am surely missing something! Thanks for the link for the white-on-white, that looks easy enough, but what does +1 mean for the reserved memory issue?:confused:
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] lavero.burgos:
lol +1 means that i second your request, i support it , i would like it to be done too.

~Veronica
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] kbs24:
Ha! That's a new one for me. Good though!:D
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] nitros:
Unrooting

I've used this method to root my nook and delete everything. This was prior to knowing the zergy method. What is the process for restoring the nook to stock using this method?

Do i run the BN update exe? I've read there is a way to do it via sd card but i havent been able to locate what I need to do so.

Or simply following the instructions here? Would it work without screwing stuff up? Since the nb content is deleted would it restore properly after it reboots?

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1380235
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] SCClockDr:
See Below.

I would give the directions in this post a try.

I personally would stick with my former suggestion, it brings your nook to the beginning status & you can root from there using Indirect's Method.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] cfoesch:
There is a way to make more of the 11GiB of space available, but it requires repartitioning. I can explain it, and could perhaps even write a walk through, but I am loathe to do so, because IF YOU BREAK YOUR PARTITIONS NOTHING WILL SAVE YOU (until we have the SD card boots and such like that).

In any case, the repartitioning is advanced stuff, and I don't want to be responsible for anyone bricking their device because they screwed something up in the process.

Although, with snowball-mod, you can use the "setup-sd-ext" command from a terminal that will setup a card image that will be mounted on your device, making more of the 11GiB available for user content, but it will also not USB mount, so you would have to copy everything through an sd-card or the /mnt/media partition anyways.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] kbs24:
Hmm, sounds tempting but I probably should not try. If there are tools, or a separate executable that could do it, that would be good, but the only partitioning I have ever done is for setting up apps2sd on my Nexus One, and on a couple of my pcs I think I did it when I got a new huge hard drive, and then again when I wanted to set up a dual-boot XP and Win7. If you ever do write something up, please publish it in this thread though, I would be extremely curious to see how it is done....Many thanks to all of you wizards out there...!
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] docfreed:
Forgive my ignorance but on my rooted NT, the entire 11 Gb is available at /data (although I use /data/media/xxx where xxx is a directory that I created, for example Videos. I set the data permissions to 777 using Root Explorer and I actually can see 11.55 Gb free - I have stored about 5 Gb of videos there and a further 4 Gb of MP3 audiobooks (the latter in a directory called /data/media/audio)

I am able to readily access these directories using any of a number of media apps, e.g., MVideoplayer. I rooted with Indirect's method.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] kbs24:
Interesting, I am rooted so will reset permissions and try to move some stuff over there.

OKAY, THIS TOTALLY WORKS. I was able to move a bunch of music files over there, and the free space decreased. HOWEVER, can someone please explain what it means to reset permissions to 777? (When I look at the permissions of /data/media using Root Explorer, all 9 of the boxes are checked.) So, then, is the issue simply finding apps which will browse over to that location? I have not yet tried MVideo, but I will today. Does anyone know of any other apps that will recognize this directory? Any such app would have to have superuser permissions, right?
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] redlinezo6:
So I also had the issue with the update being pushed through even with the mod loaded. I totally appreciate all the work put in to everything you and others have done. You guys are my heroes. Only reason i bought this thing was because of lightning fast support from devs like you. Its a little off topic but im considering returning my nt as well. What i hope you can tell me is how much resistance is bn going to put up? I bought mine on black friday. Am i screwed? Will they give me a full refund? Am i better off with a kindle fire? I love having a tablet but not enough to spend the money on a xoom or something. Im at a loss. Stranded in the land of corporate lockdown. Once again. Thanks cfoesch.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] shawner47:
777 is full read/write/execute if I am not mistaken. If all nine boxes are checked you should be good to go. Can't help you on the apps though as I have not used any.

If I were you, I would just make the magic sd card and restore back to 1.4.0 and re-root using the nook&zergy method from indirect. I did this, with no debloat and then did the OTA block from indirect as well. This was on Christmas morning and I still have not received any updates. With the great things the devs are doing here it is only a matter of time before we get a full on ROM for this baby and then we will be golden!

What I'm saying is don't get rid of it. It is already a nice Android experience with just being rooted, and in a while it will be a great experience. JM2C.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] kbs24:
following up on 11gb available on /data/media

SO, the 11 gig is there, I can read/write, but I tried mvideo and when I browse it over to the /data/media directory it does not see the folders. What am I missing?