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[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] Mike_IronFist:
It's honestly not quite worth it right now anyway... the battery life is not as good as stock and the spotty graphics driver makes Netflix ugly and causes video lag often when watching stuff. I bet one might be related to another (I heard that some video codecs even fall back to software processing , which can't be good for battery.)

EDIT: Sorry, I realize this post sounds really negative and unhelpful. What I should have said is this:

It's better to wait for the next release of the CM7 ROM right now if you didn't get the first one; don't forget this stuff is bleeding edge and not intended for wide usage. We're all basically testers as well as end-users right now.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] Anon9mouz:
Yeah stock is killing me making me wanna throw my nook. I think I need this home catcher or something bc it won't stay on the android side if i. Press home it goes back to barns and noble so idk. That's why I rather goto a rom lol

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[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] xrabbitfootx:
though i'm unable to get videos to play through the gallery video player, mobo player is playing them. unfortunately, it's unable to size them correctly and they sometimes appear off-center.

am i to understand that you expect somebody to give you the rom while complaining about finally paying for an app you'd previously stolen?

how about you mitigate your debt to the development community by donating to goncezilla or celticwebsolutions, then, if they're cool with it, i'll be happy to send you a link! :D

thanks,

rf
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] CelticWebSolutions:
I think you'll find your experience with battery life isn't what a lot of others are getting, is it possibly that you are using it a lot more now that is has functionality? Or maybe a certain app is playing up? I'd be happy to help you find your issue with battery life, from the reports i've had and personal experience the battery life is far superior to stick. Feel free to pm me and we'll see if we can work out your issue :)

HD Netflix I can't comment in yet as I don't have it myself.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] cgdash:
Yeah I don't quite understand the battery life issues - I haven't had any problems with the battery on this CM7 alpha ROM. In fact it seems pretty good in my opinion.

My NT has been running on battery for 1d 1hr with 40% of the usage being display. The display has been on for 3hr 1m for that time and my battery is still at 84%. Some of the things I did do:

Reset Battery Stats before applying the backup

Brightness set at about 40-45%

Screen timeout set to 1 minute

under "WiFi Settings...Advanced" I set Wifi to sleep when screen is off (only 2% of my battery usage is Wifi)

My guess is some people either have Brightness at high, Wifi not set to turn off when screen is off, or a ton of running services
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] Mike_IronFist:
Oh jeez, I just realized how bitter my post sounded. Sorry about that, I was just trying to point out to Anon9mouz that some of the stuff is in a pretty "alpha" state of things, as is to be expected, and that it's worth it to wait for the next release right now.

I didn't mean to put down your work at all, what you and Gonce have done is absolutely impressive and I definitely do appreciate that my Nook Tab does indeed have more functionality. By complete coincidence you also released that ROM on the morning of my birthday, which made it an unexpected but very welcome gift. :)

There's something that I hadn't considered, though, which is that I set the battery meter on the status bar to show a percentage rather than just the icon. Seeing the number itself may have helped contribute to the illusion that the battery was draining so much faster than it was, because on stock I was able to see that percentage number far less (since the stock ROM has the battery displayed as an icon by default.)

As for Netflix, I have some account details that I can share with you via PM in about an hour so you can test it out for yourself. It's a US Netflix account, but I've been told that US accounts do indeed work in the UK seamlessly, so it shouldn't be a problem.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] daedricgeek:
Battery Use Screenshots

Battery problems .... Never had any so far . Hav been playing lot of games (nothing 3d), Opera browsing , and reading books .

Anyone reporting battery problems ought to post a screenshot of the battery usage graph : Settings -> Applications -> Battery use . Then click on the graph . Hold the power button then select screen shot . The screen shot will be found in the sdcard .
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] Anon9mouz:
Ur probably right honestly that's usually how i set mine up too and people always forget to wipe battery stats lol

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[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] Anon9mouz:
They know I don't have a problem donating, really ima bout to try and get them to start a project with me on the port of miui and either twrp 2.0.1 recovery or touch cwm either or there both touch be a nice feature to have

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[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] CelticWebSolutions:
Not to worry, it did sounds a bit harsh but in all fairness out of almost 400 posts there really hasn't been any abuse so it's water of a ducks back, I expected a lot more, especially when the bricking issue was dicsovered.

If somebody such as yourself would be kind enough to give me their US netflix account details that would be great, perhaps I could look further into it then as time allows :)
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] CelticWebSolutions:
Are you saying you'd like our help in porting it or are you talking about others?
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] stealthfx:
Guys one thing with battery life and charging. I found out that when having wifi up and the screen brightness up, it NUKED the battery, in fact charging the tablet with screen brightness up doubles charge time, and when I am charging off USB, the tablet won't even charge, in fact, it still drains the battery. I know this is\may be pretty common sense for anyone that's used to running tethering etc on their phones, but it's something a new user won't think about.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] cgdash:
Exactly - that's why I suggest anyone concerned with Battery life take time to do the steps I mentioned in my earlier post. It makes a huge difference compared to when display is full brightness and wifi is always on (even when screen is off).
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] CelticWebSolutions:
Having the screen brightness up is probably one of the biggest killers of battery life. It;s well worth turning it down as low as you can comfortably go, many people would be surprised at how much of a difference it can make!

I've started a post HERE for people to vite on their battery life and I'll probably add to the first post with hints and tips to improve battery life and get the best of your device :)
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] daedricgeek:
HD NetFlix

hi

I Remember reading somewhere(anandtech I think) that the secure features of the OMAP 4xxx platform was required for HD Netflix certification.

Now that the

secure chain

has been broken , What will happen to HD ? Is netflix 1080p available for any other device ?

Am in India and so Netflix is of little matter to me . Still interesting to know if the fact that the OS is not secure can be verified by apps ....

DaedricGeek
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] Anon9mouz:
There's native screenshot?

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[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] Anon9mouz:
Yalls since u have a 1up on me it might take me a bit to figure out but if not the rom forsure the upgraded touch recovery:D

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[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] tselling:
Text-to-speech is working fine in Moon+ Reader Pro.... both the built-in Pico and IVONA are working fine.

I think someone else reported no sound in Talking Tom Cat and Talking Ben apps.... but these are the only two apps/games I have found so far where sound doesn't work. These apps also make use of the microphone so I wonder if its related to that?

Flash Video Browser seems to be working ok for Hulu and You Tube.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] StridAst:
The talking tomcat app doesn't work on stock either, so it's not just a cm7 bug.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] CelticWebSolutions:
Yup, push and hold power button gives you various options, one of which is screenshot :
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] Loglud:
Hmm interesting about the microphone. Id be interested to see if the I2C line can only handle one communication at a time, and the Microphone is defaulted.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] dang69:
I just used it in the battery thread. Pretty cool.

I'm not sure if it is CM7 related but if I use gallery to render a wallpaper it seems to come out the wrong size and resolution. Is this one of those resolution glitches people have mentioned further back in the thread?
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] daedricgeek:
Yes Native screenshots in png 600 x 1024 .... Check out the attachments ...

( I hav recompressed to jpeg to reduce file size)

Very helpful .
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] knuckhead:
I think I chose a wallpaper via Gallery and it looked funky until I rebooted. I seem to recall that being the case.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] Anon9mouz:
Is there a settings for it, like changing between png or jpeg? TIA

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[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] Anon9mouz:
OK I just asked if there's settings so i guess native is png? So u converted in this zip to jpeg native? And it's flashable thru cwm? TIA

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[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] WRX1:
Just a few more items.

I have been pounding away on this since Sunday and everything has been pretty solid. Battery life has been great (brightness about 1/3rd from bottom), and I turn wifi off at night.

There is a little over 2hrs of screen time on those screenshots.

But really, other than the SD card issue (which I never tried), it has been a real solid tablet. I can FINALLY connect to my buffalo n router (couldn't do it on b&n rom). I still can't get dropbox to work, but it looks like I am on the 2.0.1 and that seems to be the problem. Other than those minor things, I haven't run into any show stoppers yet.

Oh yea, if you look at my 1st screen shot, I have 2 different times running that are off by about 4 hours. Any idea why?? On my phone I am always within 2-3 minutes.

The plan for tonight is the just beat the hell out of it and see if I can stumble across anything else.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] c0ldburn3r:
Interesting, is your wifi set to sleep or to never sleep? I see there's a section when the screen was off and wifi was chewing your battery.

I'm still at work so I haven't had a chance to give betterbatterystats a look over but something is holding a wakelock on my device.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] ms2003:
It seems superuser is not the latest version, google market asked me to update to the newer version
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] CelticWebSolutions:
Update away :)

Things that that will be smack up to date in final version of course :)
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] dang69:
I mentioned a gmail issue earlier in the thread. pay no attention. They've done something with Gmail that buggered it. i've suddenly got it doing the same thing on a few devices.

Rom is still running smoothly for me. lot's of Youtube today, a couple of sketches etc.

I'm reporting in the battery thread but thought I'd say here I am confident that there is enough to use the tab on a transcontinental flight with a single charge. That's kind of a long standing metric for my devices.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] pjdick:
Weird. This may or may not be related to the SD card formatting issue.

I had a spare 32gb SD card, so I stuck it in the nook tablet. In cm7, I can read and write to the card. However, from clockwork mod, I can't mount or write or anything to the card. I try to make a backup, no dice.

I then put in a 4gb SD card, and all was fine. Worked as it should.

Just for the heck of it, I ordered a new 32gb SD card. Different brand, different speed class. Same thing. Can read & write in cm7, but from clockwork mod recovery.... Nothing.....
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] dang69:
We've had to pop the card out and back in CWM. did you do that?
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] CelticWebSolutions:
While in CWM pop the card out

Go to mounts and 'unmount sdcard'

Pop card back in, wait a few secs then click mount sd and see if it stays as mounted.

If it reads it in the system is should read it in CWM as long as its just normal formatting
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] tonyp22:
Touch Android to Begin

I finally got past playing with both the Windows and Ubuntu methods of prepping an SD card and installing the files. I am using a 4 GB Class4 Sandisk that tests out using h2testw at a bit over 5 MB/sec. CM7 starts up just fine, but when I get to the "Touch the Android to Begin" point it does nothing no matter how many times I press on the little green goober. I just keep getting the guiding hand sliding up to the Android teasing me on.

Is it possible this has something to do with how I partitioned the card? Since I read that the /BOOT partition is being used as the install location for many apps I decided to make that bigger. It is about 1.7 GB. I made the /system 600 MB since with my last CWM backup of my rooted NT the /system usage is only about 400 MB. I used the rest for /data.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] dodgepot:
I've been running this for a few days now and I must say, I'm impressed. It's beautifully laid out, albeit a bit confusing to get used to the soft keys but I managed.

Battery life has been really good to me thus far but I have been running wifi off when it's not in use.

I'm guessing the build.prop is the nook tablet original, so is it okay if edits are made?

I can't thank you guys enough for the work that you've done.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] Anon9mouz:
It won't let u update su binary tho

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[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] pjdick:
I tried that. No dice. I do nor even have the option to "unmount SD CARD"

It just won't recognize that there is one.

The 4gb card was fine though....
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] Know-Fear:
I don't bother unmounting the card once I have ejected it. I normally just eject the card and push it right back in and it's good to go. This is probably why it recognized the 4gb card. I have had to do it every time I make a backup. (or restore when my files don't wanna play nice)
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] tonyp22:
Woo-hoo! Solved my own problem. For some weird reason when I Labeled the /system and /data partitions in gparted it didn't take. Re-labeled them and now I'm finally running CM7 via SD card. Time to start reinstalling apps.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] CelticWebSolutions:
you don't use advanced restore, just restore as you normaly would and select the CM7 backup :)
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] CelticWebSolutions:
OH! I just hit my 8 thanks per day limit apparently.... 8 isn't much really is it on such a big forum....
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] jon.01:
Hmm...Titanium backup is having difficulties restoring user apps. I verified everything after making the backup. Maybe it's just me..
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] Elmar1801:
Internal version works great. Extreme testing now!

I think my second donate comes today! :-)
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] CelticWebSolutions:
are you using internal or sd version? I'm assuming internal.

Titanium works for me on most things, a few do seem to freeze though, there again they did that on original OS too.

What apps are you trying to restore? Sometimes you're better doing a couple at a time and then you'll see which ones are the problem :)
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] css771:
I dont know if I missed anything, but is the kernel overclockable?

EDIT: nvm it doesn't seem like it. Later version perhaps. And also, in the Settings menu, it read "About Phone" instead of "About Tablet". Minor, i know, but still just stating it.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] dang69:
Let's get on the "real" thanks button folks. Here's hoping Celtic can take his wife out for a nice dinner as thanks for loaning him for a few days. Long as he doesn't fall asleep in his soup.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] lavero.burgos:
Try restoring without data just app.

BTW Celtic thanks for not use depositcrap or anything like that lol, DL now speed is good. Can you tell me if this rom has the Internet option in CM settings please

~ Veronica
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] jon.01:
Using internal.

Apps which are problematic so far:

Aldiko

Statistical Toolbox

Jenga

Merriam Webster 1.1

imo
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] darthvince:
You might need to reboot and make sure you have "Unknown Sources" on. that fixed mine.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] tmjohnsonfse:
Help...I am getting a MD5 mismatch error when I run the restore. I have the zip on my sdcard in the correct folder. I am running restore and it see it. What could I be doing wrong. Thanks for the help. Do I need to wipe the cache or something of that nature. I am new to this.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] lavero.burgos:
Meh you need to uncompress it and put NTCM7 in your sdcard. Remember it is not a flashable file that Celtic stated yeterday.

PS: In any case and for a future this is how you fix MD5 mismatches http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=13144961&postcount=7

~ Veronica
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] offlimitz:
Aw yes, in my eagerness I overlooked the backup. Doing this created the folder, although it is interesting it was not there to begin with.

Otherwise, restored with CW7, its a beautiful thing!! :eek:
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] marc11284:
Install went super smoothly. The "n" hardware button doesn't seem to be functioning on my device. Iknow people were having that problem earlier. Should I follow those earlier fixes?
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] lavero.burgos:
It is better always to wipe data after you flash a ROM ;) that is the equivalent of erase & deregister in stock ROM.

~ Veronica
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] tonyp22:
clnook, I'm doing this off the top of my head so it'll be a bit "stream of consciousness", even though I've done it myself.

1. Download and install the MiniTool Partition Wizard Home Edition.

http://www.partitionwizard.com/free-partition-manager.html

2. Insert the SD card adapter with your mini SD card in it into your card reader. I assume you'll make sure it's not write protected.

3. Open up MiniTool and find your SD card. You are on your own for making sure you pick the right storage device! I will not be held responsible if you pick one of your hard drives and wind up destroying your data.

4. MiniTool is an "Apply Action" type of utility. when you've made your adjustments you have to Apply it by selecting the checkbox in the upper left part of the menu bar. Make sure you've done the work on the correct drive before Applying! I recommend you Apply after every single change you make instead of doing one at the end.

5. With your SD card selected, see if there are already any partitions on it. If there are (there will probably be one partition), see if it is a FAT32 partition. If it isn't, right click and select Delete. Then right click and select Create. Create a FAT32 partition. If you already have a FAT32 you can skip this step.

6. Right click and select Move/Resize. Turn this into a 50 MB partition. If you use the slider it should be pretty obvious how it's done. If you had to Create a FAT32 partition as described in the previous step, then you could have made that 50 MB to begin with. If so, this step could be skipped.

7. Right click on the new Primary partition and make sure "Set Active" is selected from the Modify submenu.

8. Right click on the remaining unallocated space and create a 2 GB EXT4 partition for 'system'. By this point the steps you've taken already should make this part a bit more familiar. You'll get a warning here that Windows will not recognize thsi partition. Ignore it. When you Apply here it will take a moment or so to complete.

8a. Label this partition system

9. Right click on the remaining unallocated space (should be the rightmost part of the card) and repeat above for 'data' (including the labeling). I'm assuming all this is being done on a 4 GB card. With the 50 MB taken up by the root drive your 'system' and 'data' drives will not be quite 2 GB each, really, if you want to make them the same size.

10. Format the Primary FAT32 drive. Label this one BOOT. Exit MiniTool.

11. Eject.

Once the card is prepped, go to Post #165 (thanks to DarkDvr) to see how to use ext4fsd to place the /system files into the created partition.

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=22211219&postcount=165
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] CelticWebSolutions:
interesting, you're the 2nd person to mention the N not working. First person was on SD Card version.

We'll have to look into that, it should work, it does on ours and I'm assuming most others have it working.

Could you try opening the Rom Manager app please and fix permissions and tell me if it does it ok ?
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] xrabbitfootx:
2 things:

1) THANK YOU! i've been following this development as patiently as i could since the NT dropped. your team has been very patient with the ungrateful nerds (to paraphrase indirect).

please, post a donation link so some of us can show our gratitude. i know that sometimes people don't donate because they think that the amount is too small. most of us drop a buck here or there for an app-- without me getting all sally struthers, let's give what we can to this team, eh?

2) i downloaded this to my NT and extracted using root explorer but had an MD5 sum error. if anybody gets this, download it to your computer, extract, copy it to your NT sdcard, then restore (after a backup and wipe, of course).

again,THANK YOU!

-rf
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] CelticWebSolutions:
Current issue there would be writing the files to the ext4 partition.

WE do intend on releasing an image which people can 'burn' to their sdcard in windows, mac or ubuntu where it's all setup ready for you but not straight away
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] jon.01:
ok so nothing showed up in the log but I did notice that if I installed Aldiko from the market I will get an error saying cannot install. Cannot install to SD or internet or something like that.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] jtbnet:
Recovery fails with Large SDcards

GUESS on the why CWM might have a problem with a larger SDCard, actually a Partition greater than 4GB... MIGHT CWM not have been built with support for FAT32 but only FAT/FAT16 which has a Max Volume size of 4GB vs. FAT32 with MAX of 2TB?

Might be worth asking Nemith as he is likely best versed in CWM Recovery built for this...
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] ms2003:
actually I'm using a 16G TF card with FAT32, it works fine, I can use it to backup and restore ROMs.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] kcpaynev1:
Wish I would have downloaded this the other day, oh well guess I just gotta wait :)
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] jtbnet:
Probably again a stretch BUT even FAT32 still has a single Filesize Limit of 4GB and CWM Recovery packages data in each Partition into a single File so IF someone were to have a Partition that backed up to a file bigger than 4GB (i.e. has a few large video files in it) then that could still fail...
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] ms2003:
yes, you are right. if someone's backup file bigger than 4G, it will fail, due to FAT32 limitation. I don't know if Android and CMW can support other file systems.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] Anon9mouz:
I don't see what the problem people were have with apps not installing or dropbox not working or what not. All mine seems flawless now I'll ima do is go back to recovery wipe caches and fix permissions just for the hell of it. I'm loving it so much I been on that more than my phone but still haven't gotten all setup yet

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[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] CelticWebSolutions:
Android supports ext but I'm not sure if CWM can...
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] c0ldburn3r:
Ah ha! Location services was waking the device every 10 min, battery killer.

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