yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Nook Color Android Development] bobtidey:
I'm guessing that might help with top level navigation smoothness, but are you noticing any difference in app performance under Apex? It's general lagginess that is causing me to revert back to pre-test each time.
[Nook Color Android Development] bdcrim:
It is weird for me while I am navigating through an app. I don't play any games, so I would not have anything to report there. In the browser for example, the touch sensitivity is much better. I can click through to another web page without having to pound the crap out of the screen to get it to respond. But the flip side is that there is lagginess in making the transition to the next screen or pinch to zoom works well sometimes and other times it lags. My nook is 14 months old. It may be getting tired, just like my 55 year old body.
[Nook Color Android Development] seth.i.simmons:
Not sure what's up with the varying levels of success, but this latest build with opengl enabled and the latest kernel are sick! Working soooo much more smoothly, and much prettier. Dang, nice work guys, and I can't wait see it improve even more.
[Nook Color Android Development] Nburnes:
As others have mentioned, launcher is really the laggiest part for me still, even at 1.2 GHz with Interactive.
[Nook Color Android Development] bobtidey:
I didn't think OpenGL had been enabled yet but maybe I've missed something.

I thought the first 20120202 had it enabled but wouldn't boot so that got taken away and the openGL commented out. Then the new kernel appeared but I haven't seen anything about a Samiam build with OpenGL enabled.

I was testing with 20120203 with new kernel.

My other thought is that maybe there are some dependencies on overclock. With CM7 1200 was the sweetspot and going higher actually reduced performance as I think the GPU actually ran slower. Maybe with the current build this is happening but with a lower overclock.

What clock / governor are you using in your test?
[Nook Color Android Development] Dubbee:
Crap. Well I flashed 20120203 this morning and now my nook won't power on at all. Some kind of a bad flash I guess. Can I assume nobody else has had this problem and it's just something with my device?

In the meantime I'm searching for how to recover from this situation....
[Nook Color Android Development] leapinlar:
The opengl version people are talking about is the Eyeballer version on his server.
[Nook Color Android Development] wrippel82:
What is this eyeballer version you speak of? I don't see it on his server..:confused:
[Nook Color Android Development] bdcrim:
http://techerrata.com/browse/nightly_kangs/encore
[Nook Color Android Development] leapinlar:
By his server I meant eyeballer's server. He makes reference to it in the first post of his thread for installing CM to emmc here:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=12797652
[Nook Color Android Development] bigbob23:
http://techerrata.com/browse/nightly_kangs/encore
[Nook Color Android Development] Rick_V:
Did you try holding the power button for about 10 seconds? Once you see the green Cyanogen logo press the "n" button that should get you into the bootloader, navigate down to second option and select recovery. Then the third option will reboot into recovery. If you have a backup restore it from there.
[Nook Color Android Development] Dubbee:
Thanks Rick, but no it was mucked up. I made a cwm recovery bootable card and am back in business. Didn't get to test much today!
[Nook Color Android Development] seth.i.simmons:
Well I'm still running the stock launcher, haven't tried any others yet. Its still certainly not CM7 fast, but its MUCH better with OpenGL enabled, and the new kernel. I'm using Eyeballers OpenGL enabled zip.

I'm running 1200/interactiveX right now, and its running fantastic. Much more smooth and snappy than before, and thats with much more eye candy, due to enabling OpenGL. And I think to enable OpenGL all you need to do is put a "#" symbol before the comment about disabling OpenGL in the build.prop file, but I could be wrong. And obviously you would have to have the latest nightlies with the drivers, too.
[Nook Color Android Development] ibilln:
Done. Still get SOD after letting it sit for an hour or so. Also huge battery drain - loose 50% sitting overnight. Thanks.
[Nook Color Android Development] leapinlar:
Yes, I got one too the first hour. I re-flashed Sam's nightly to make sure it was clean and re-installed the patched kernel. That was over 24 hours ago and have had no more SODs. Battery drain has been about 2% per hour with the screen off but wifi on.

Edit: Spoke too soon. Just got another SOD a couple of hours after this post.
[Nook Color Android Development] velizet:
The server seems to be down, for whatever reason.
[Nook Color Android Development] tsddave:
wow!

I am running the build of 31st Jan and this is much much more than I expected!

I have been using it as my rom ever since and its not misbehaved once.

The speed is fine ,everything ive tested is fine!

I only flashed this to see what it was like thinking I would go back to cm7 but this is now my main rom. Many thanks!

I see the mixed response to the later builds so I think I would hold fire with this version for now.

Big thanks to everyone who is working on this...you guys are legends.
[Nook Color Android Development] Mateso:
its up again.. downloading opengl kang right now
[Nook Color Android Development] notriddle:
Electronics don't work that way.
[Nook Color Android Development] bigbob23:
It was down again a few minutes ago.

Edit: It's up, I ran into a DNS problem.
[Nook Color Android Development] RETIEF:
branch differences?

What are the differences between this version samiam version?
[Nook Color Android Development] leapinlar:
They are usually pretty much the same. They are usually built from the same source about the same time of day. However, the opengl version was built with opengl enabled and so is different than the normal builds. More experimental.
[Nook Color Android Development] brezhnevv:
I'm running the kang opengl rom without problems so far. YouTube HD and Netflix still won't work but everything else seems to run a bit smoother. Finally have the popups on thumb keyboard back! I can use åçčęñţş again!
[Nook Color Android Development] Cuppeerr:
Hey, where can I find the nightly changelog list? I've looked and looked but cant find it....
[Nook Color Android Development] Samiam303:
There isn't one, because most of the changes are little backend things, not "features". You can look at Fattire's github or the Cyanogenmod Review page if you want to see what's been merged into the source.
[Nook Color Android Development] ibilln:
Installed

update-cm-9.0.0-encore-KANG-20120204-opengl-signed.zip

then installed Mr. Tire's SOD-fixed uImage

SOD after an hour or so idle.

Uses a lot of cpu

Among my many talents, I guess it will now be OK to list "SOD Whisperer"
[Nook Color Android Development] leapinlar:
Do you have any services running in the background? Things trying to sync like email, calendars, etc? Earlier builds I used was running high cpu because media was trying to sync and eating all my cycles. I think one of the things that helped was I disabled gallery since we don't have a camera for taking pictures. Gallery kicks in media sync when you boot and takes forever to finish. I recommend you try disabling gallery at least temporarily to see if cpu usage goes down. Go to settings, applications, all, and select gallery. There should be a disable button there. Then reboot and see if that helps on cpu. You can enable again later if you want.
[Nook Color Android Development] mazook98:
I'm finally back to this forum after a long hiatus, and my Nook is a relevant device again: using the latest opengl nightly, took all the advice from the OP, and I have the best, most functional ICS out of all my devices: loving it, and no issues to speak of that cause me any problems whatsoever...

Awesome.
[Nook Color Android Development] Lsjreadingpa:
Can anyone tell me if video playback is running without choppiness? I reflashed back to 7.2 because of how bad video playback was.
[Nook Color Android Development] bigbob23:
I'm not having any issues with MX Video player.

Edit: The videos I played were mpeg-4 with low bitrates (1 Mbps or less), which may explain the lack of choppiness.
[Nook Color Android Development] swaaye:
ICS is definitely getting a lot better but I'm back on CM7.2 after trying two recent builds. CM9 is still much slower. The GL build is interesting because browser UI acceleration is working but it's not really faster. The launcher is strangely laggy on CM9 yet too. Loading apps takes awhile.

I'm wondering if 512MB RAM is just not enough for good ICS operation from a multitasking standpoint.

I'm very impressed by the progress though. Nook Color community rocks.
[Nook Color Android Development] Lsjreadingpa:
mx video player did not run well for me. I am not sure if it is because i am trying to play avi files though, all i know is video play back on several video players ran choppy. I also can not stream podcasts like i could with cm7.x.
[Nook Color Android Development] Etaduck:
I'm using mobo player myself, works great, but can't play anything HD. Audio would work, but video stutters horribly, its the lack of a hardware decoder, but I just download everything SD anyways.
[Nook Color Android Development] Lsjreadingpa:
yea i download sd video too but it just stutters. Can you tell me if you have any luck streaming video from other sources besides youtube? I watch streaming shows from twit.tv but was unable to using ICS.
[Nook Color Android Development] webdroidmt:
Just want to report I'm currently on Sam's nightly 0204 with the 109 kernel and it seems to be running as well as I can recall from other nightlies. I decided to try Nova Launcher and app drawer transitions are much improved. Also navigating homescreens is much smoother.

I tried the open-gl and unfortunately, was getting random freezes on app drawer transitions, as well as some apps and the browser, forcing a reboot.

I look forward to Flash and video in general being improved, as I really enjoy the ICS OS. Thanks.

Mike T
[Nook Color Android Development] Cuppeerr:
Yeah that's what I meant I wanted the github. Thanks!
[Nook Color Android Development] ibilln:
SOD sagas

Not that I can find using various "task killers", etc.

Interestingly, every time I boot I look and find the browser using a ton of cpu. I kill it, and still the SOD's persist. Last night I had a "hard" SOD - SOD and the nook would not boot without being recharged for half an hour or so, then it showed 10%/red battery. So the battery was drained way down.

Also, I notice the unit boots to 1200 mhz as cpu max freq. I don't seem to be able to get it to boot to a lower freq. CM7 boots to 800.

Am not going about this very scientifically - noting all processes and their states before letting it sit, etc. So all this reporting is anecdotal. Perhaps useful, perhaps not. ...Thanks
[Nook Color Android Development] leapinlar:
Go to applicatoms like I said and disable one app at a time. Since you think browser is taking a lot, start with that.
[Nook Color Android Development] lekofraggle:
Hey all, thank you so much for all of this. I am running the opengl plus the new kernel. Everything seems perfect except chainfire's night mode. Any thoughts? It worked on Samiam's build before the 109 kernel. I know chainfire just added support for honeycomb so I am way into uncharted territory. Thus far the dragons be at bay in general though.

Oh, I am on emmc.

Thank you all again. It really is wonderful. snappier than stock.

~Leko
[Nook Color Android Development] pdanders:
I love ICS on my Galaxy Nexus and Transformer Prime and I was thinking of trying it on my Nook Color (currently running CM 7.2 KANG). Can the current ICS nightlies be flashed at an SD card? I'd rather not mess up my current install of CM7 (yeah even though I have a TF Prime I still use my NC for reading)
[Nook Color Android Development] asting:
For whatever reason this last nightly is really destroying my battery. It lasted less than 12 hours today (11 of which were idling). I'm not sure if i can mess with settings and fix it, but otherwise this last build seems great. Even the keyboard alt buttons work now.
[Nook Color Android Development] bigbob23:
See the first post in this thread for information on installing to a SD card.

I use ICS for reading and it works the same as CM7 with the BN Nook, Aldiko and Kindle apps.
[Nook Color Android Development] pdanders:
Doh!!! Thanks, it was right there in front of my face and I missed it.

GAH
[Nook Color Android Development] Temetka:
Got the latest version up and running.

So far so good. The only issue I had was Astro locking up on me, which in turn locked the whole system. However that was when I was running it off of SD. I am in the process of installing to EMMC. I will report back in when I am done.
[Nook Color Android Development] SGH-i200:
Which ZIP you have installed? Can you look up the CPU usage with 'CPU SPY'?

I was running update-encore-20120205.zip with new kernel 109 (with performance governor set) and the CPU was on full speed all night. No deep sleep...

Edit: Maybe it's because I was running the ogl enabled ROM (eyeballer, cm-9.0.0-encore-KANG-20120205-opengl-109-signed.zip) before - and didn't made a full wipe when moving back to SAM ROM...
[Nook Color Android Development] furius:
Has last Sam's nightly opengl enabled and kernel 109? or must I use eyeballer build to test this configuration?

thanks
[Nook Color Android Development] IamJAX:
Any solution for this issue?
[Nook Color Android Development] Samiam303:
Nope it doesn't. I may build a version like that though -- as of last night's build I included an unmerged and seemingly forgotten tweak from the CM review, which hopefully will make the launcher seem a bit more responsive.
[Nook Color Android Development] SGH-i200:
My vote against 'opengl enabled'!

I want to vote against 'opengl enabled'!

Browser and ICS Browser+ got frozen by only surfing XDA-Dev. That never happend on your Builds - so im back on without opengl.
[Nook Color Android Development] marshj05:
I second this. Tried the opengl enabled versions and very slugish. Went back to Sam's and everything is pretty smooth. For me, better than the CM7.2, very stable, no major issues.
[Nook Color Android Development] Sam Adams:
I third this! Sam - please keep yours opengl free until they find out what's causing the freezing/lagginess.
[Nook Color Android Development] bretzke:
Is the switch something reachable without a flash? Something that Root Explorer (or like app) can edit/save/reboot to change?

Sorry of the ignorance, I'm coming to the OpenGL change party late but I thought it was just keeping/commenting out a line in a file.

Dave
[Nook Color Android Development] Samiam303:
It's commenting a line out in a file, but it's a file that exists pre-build. It has to be done in the source.

If I do an opengl build, I won't switch to that exclusively -- I just might do a one-off build with it enabled 'cause I haven't even tried it yet. Has anyone tried today's nightly yet? If you were having launcher lag problems before, does it seem any different?
[Nook Color Android Development] velizet:
Just FYI..

Eyeballers version of Open-gl enabled with kernel 109 has no problems, and the best CM9 nightly so far.

I am using the update-cm-9.0.0-encore-KANG-20120205-opengl-109-signed.
[Nook Color Android Development] pdanders:
It's crazy how well this already works. Installed to my SD card last night and other than being a bit sluggish CM9 already seems to be pretty stable and work great.

I'm going to stick with CM7 on my eMMC for now... but CM9 is going to be amazing in another month or so. It's crazy how much better ICS is suited to a device like the NC compared to GB. No more 3rd party softkeys
[Nook Color Android Development] Nburnes:
Newest nightly with 109 kernel is awesome when it comes to the launcher. Much smoother scrolling all around.
[Nook Color Android Development] Awats:
Hi Samian,

I have a very minor request. If you could do a file compare prior to uploading the new build it would help some of us with limited bandwidth. If the new build is no different than the last build don't upload it to the server.

As it is, we have to download the new build before we know if anything has changed but we can't depending on the file size to know for sure. I do look at the change log but I am not convinced it's a reliable decision point.

It's minor but it would reduce the amount of unnecessary downloads only to find out nothing changed. Some of the changes that do happen are subtle and it's easy to think things are different when there is no difference at all. If a new build appears, it's different than the last build (even if it's a revert.)

Awats
[Nook Color Android Development] jwzg:
This may be a question for a general thread but I'll shoot anyway. If I get too many boos, my mod clothes can make this post magically disappear.

Since our devices do not have a camera, is there any way to exclude the camera as well as the phone package as you are building? I've only cooked WM ROM's and am new to cooking Android ROM's so... I just don't know whether there are dependencies that need that package there. I guess I just found it senseless to include packages for hardware that isn't present.
[Nook Color Android Development] bigbob23:
You can easily replace the kernel in the zipfile with 109.

I believe that Windows does this if you drag the kernel to the zipfile. For Linux or OS X, I found the easiest way was to do the following from a command line prompt:

zip -j <path to zipfile> <path to kernel>
[Nook Color Android Development] stolenmoment:
When using the 20120207 version of this ROM, my graphics test app (Softick Solitaire) often doesn't display flipped cards properly until you tap them. Back to software rendering.
[Nook Color Android Development] Samiam303:
That's something I've been thinking about myself - I'm going to work on figuring out the best way to avoid doing unmodified rebuilds. I'm not really clear what you mean regarding the "changelog" being unreliable though - all the changes come from either fattire's github or from the CM review, so if something's listed as merged under ics there then it's in the build, and if there's not something there then it's not in the builds, unless I've specially come in here and said so.
[Nook Color Android Development] webdroidmt:
Hi Sam,

Been playing around with 0206 build with kernel 109 and it appears equal to me with the 0204 build I was using. The only difference I noticed was that the 0206 build checks and prepares the SD card.

I'm still using the Nova Launcher and to me, it runs smoother and has a better overall look than Trebuchet. FYI, I did try the newest open-gl with kernel 109 for a second time last night. The first time I tried it, I experienced lockup/reboots with the app drawer, the browser and a few apps. This time, just the lockup/reboot on the browser, screen transitions etc. seemed ok.

But for me, I think I'll stick with non open-gl for a while, as it's running well and pretty smooth.

Btw, whenever I flash a new build, I end up with 2 Gallery apps, so I've been deleting the Gallery2 apk from the zip. I don't use either Gallery app but which one is the recommended one, Gallery2 or Gallery Google? If it's Gallery Google, do you think you could just eliminate Gallery2 from your build zip going forward? Thanks again.

Mike T
[Nook Color Android Development] Temetka:
As promised yesterday I installed the latest nightly to my EMMC. Of course it is much faster than running of SD (duh) but I am still having the issue with Astro file explorer locking up. I was attempting to copy a .JPG from my SD to internal storage and it just hard locked.

I tried ES File Explorer but for the life of me I am unable to figure out how to navigate to the EMMC when it start navigation at /mnt/sdcard. I am sure the problem is a PEBCAK, but who knows.

I have tested the following apps so far. Unless noted they are crash free (so far):

Loldroid

NASA

Calendar (I love the calendar that is built in. It looks great)

Youtube (A tad slow on searching, but otherwise is fine)

Amazon App Store

QuickOffice HD

Documents To Go (Amazon gave them to me free for both, so why not?)

Smithsonian

Star Traders RPG

I also watched a DVD rip of Tron and it played back without a hitch. I haven't installed a music player yet though.

Here is some info most of you actually care about besides my anecdotal evidence of my selection of apps behaving themselves.

Android Version: 4.0.3

Kernel: 2.6.32.9 fattire@laptop #108

CyanogenMod version: 9.0.0-RC0-NookColor-KANG

Build Number: IML74K

Overall the system is pretty snappy. That being said, is there an OC kernel available?
[Nook Color Android Development] SeaFractor:
You've already got it. :D

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Sorry, clicked on post before I finished.

You'll find the settings for the clock speeds and govenor under "Settings | Performance". You'll find the choices for CPU, dithering, etc.

For voltage mods or custom clocks, you'll need a third party app. Check out Dalgrins, his works under ICS as well.
[Nook Color Android Development] ibilln:
fourth it

I fourth it
[Nook Color Android Development] taylor.fowler:
IIRC from CM7, some apps are dependent on camera and dialer and will FC if you remove those. Could be wrong though....
[Nook Color Android Development] Awats:
Interesting. Many of us have found there to be no real difference assuming you use a good SD card. In fact, I recall someone saying the eMMC is no different than SD.

Were you using a really cheap card? My son was running from eMMC and I was running from a good SD card and we couldn't see any perceivable difference.

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I think much of it is the speculation in this thread about possible changes that I can't confirm in the change log. I do watch the change log but then I will read in this thread implying other things changed.

I will take your point that if it ain't in the log it ain't in the build. :)

Thanks for at least listening!
[Nook Color Android Development] SGH-i200:
Nightlies and not RCs!

I think there is no need to worry about one nightly not being much different from another.

@SAM - Please don't waste your time. Put it into making ICS on NC perfect! ;-)

@All - Read the change log!
[Nook Color Android Development] ianPhillips1:
Try Chrome beta,its snappy(&buggy 8( ) but me likey so far

sent from my secret pocket machine
[Nook Color Android Development] Awats:
@SAM - Put ALL of your effort into this!

@ALL - Read the change log! ;)
[Nook Color Android Development] Sam Adams:
Like Sam's 0206 - pretty snappy. One thing has happened a couple of times - After restoring some apps from Titanium - it spazzes out and freezes but a quick on off of the screen clears it. For grins I tried eyeballer's latest opengl again... still way to laggy for me - not seeing any benefits.

Can't get Chrome Beta to load a website period... that's more than a bug in my book.
[Nook Color Android Development] nicatronTg:
Yeah, Chrome beta doesn't load any websites here. Force closes if attempting to open the settings menu.
[Nook Color Android Development] Samiam303:
Just to be clear - I'm not the one doing work on this other than making sure that the builds keep building and trying to provide some troubleshooting. The heavy lifting is coming from the guys over in the development thread and the cyanogenmod folks, so you owe them the thanks!
[Nook Color Android Development] pdanders:
Do into the settings for ES File Explorer and change your home directory to /
[Nook Color Android Development] SGH-i200:
Off topic:

@Temetka - You don't have to edit the settings. Simply tab on the '/' icon. Then you will see the eMMC folder.

@pdanders - Thanks for answering - but please don't post full quotes if not necessary.

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Thanks for the reminder. But your work is important, too! Because we don't need to build and waste energy for all building the same thing... :-)