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[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] Drakula:
You can install more launchers without performance penalty.

The launcher just handles some OS events so if they are redirected to another launcher the first one doesn't run.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] dang69:
Although I don't have as much understanding of how launchers work as Drakula I can report that I have been running Go on this rom just fine. As stated, it asked me to choose a default the first time I hit the "N" button after installing it. I chose Go and all has been well since.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] daedricgeek:
As I said before, titanium backup works well. I'm able to restore apps. The problem is that some apps 'fail to install ' with the SD card mounted (eg. Aldiko and flccommando) Hence the question:

Can you unpack APK files from the titanium backup?

This issue will probably be fixed with updated CM build but I also want to know it to better understand how titanium backup works ...
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] dang69:
TB files are real gzips. Nothing TB specific about their assembly and they can be extracted on a desktop. I don't know about apps to unpack them but I can't believe there isn't one.

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Just wanted to report that cut and paste seems to be working well. I have copied and pasted from Gmail to both google search and Dolphin HD as well as Office suite text documents. Cutting has worked from Gmail drafts and office documents as well although I have more need for copying than cutting. I'm using swype as my keyboard.

Nice!
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] CelticWebSolutions:
Believe it it not there were two reasons I started this project, first was strictlyrudes am and second was my wife kept saying how annoying it was without cut and paste. It was the first thing I made sure was working lol
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] dang69:
And work it does! With the little sliders it's almost easier to use than a desktop and mouse. Judging by posts I've seen in the BN forums, that alone could have a lot of people jumping ship from stock.

I'm going to try voice search soon. Pretty sure it should work but wondering if the functionality extends to some apps it didn't with stock.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] c0ldburn3r:
Well you guys can feel proud of this Alpha, it runs SPB Shell with live backgrounds without a hiccup and SPB Shell is a monster bear of a launcher.

Currently trying to track down a battery drain/rogue app. SOB'n battery drops like a fat kid at a gym.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] johninsf:
Titanium Backup did work fine for most apps but did not restore a few others.

Sorry to be dense but how would I restore from my SD Card when some suggest popping it out? Maybe I am confusing restoring and installing?

Either way, this will likely be addressed in their next build of CM74NT.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] bananelol:
Everything running fine so far, no problems restoring Apps or anything.

Now even my Exchange is running fine! I couldnt get it to work on Stock because of the Security Settings...

Thanks so much
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] dang69:
First (minor) issue I've had. I recommend against using "airplane mode" to turn off wifi. It may be that it was becoming confused by trying to turn off other things which don't exist on the NT. The wireless and airplane mode went gray and even after a reboot wifi error-ed twice before popping on.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] AugustusBot:
Has anyone tried using Titanium to backup the nook's stock Netflix app? then restore it to the CM7 build?
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] dang69:
Voice search from Google works perfectly. I can't get dragon with Swype to work. I'm wondering if the Swype installer thinks the device can't handle it. Perhaps I should find a different apk than the one the installer grabs. When I press the "flame" button there is a blink but no joy.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] SCClockDr:
Make sure you are not in a URL field as it seems Dragon refuses those. There may be others as well.

Try a regular post text box maybe.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] Mike_IronFist:
Yes, I have and I don't recommend it. It works the same as if you installed it from the market except that the Nook "version" is considered a system app, so once you restore it you can't uninstall it without using Titanium backup. Just install the market version; it's a slightly newer build anyway so you won't need to update.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] AugustusBot:
Will that still be the HD version?
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] ckevinwelch:
You can also uninstall system apps by deleting them from the /system/app folder.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] dang69:
Well that definitely changed it! In a reply to an email it goes from keyboard to a large box which says "getting ready" and has a picture of a microphone with a red slash through it. I'll bet that when we get the mic opened up this will work.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] knuckhead:
- Dropbox 2.0.1 and ES File Explorer 1.6.1 and CM7 alpha -

I have Dropbox 2.0.1 and encountered the problem of not being able to see my files on the Dropbox server. I also have ES File Explorer 1.6.1 and found a way to easily access the Dropbox files from inside this file explorer.

You have to the change the focus from 'Local' to 'Net' (top left corner of the app) and press 'New' or '+' and choose 'Dropbox' and enter your information. You should be able to see your files this way.

This worked for me and I hope it works for you.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] Mike_IronFist:
No, but even the stock version I restored didn't appear to be streaming HD either. I think this is a problem with how the NT is identifying itself to applications. It seems like the APK is a one-size-fits-all deal and the streaming quality is determined at runtime based on what platform the app thinks it's running on. I think Celtic has the ROM pretending to be a different device so we can access any app on the market and it's having unintended consequences.

Celtic, might you be able to shed some light on this? Resolution does appear to behaving a bit oddly on this ROM.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] lehite:
Forgive my inexperience :(

Please forgive my inexperience, but I have never flashed a ROM using CWM. Will you let me know if this will work:

1. Boot clockworkmod using an sd card (this method, (method 1)specifically)

2. Remove the sd card that I used to boot into CWM and insert a second card that has the ROM for CM7 (or CM9 eventually) - Or even the same card after a format and adding the files.

3. Select Restore from the CWM screen.

Will this work? Thanks for your insight.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] CelticWebSolutions:
I believe that will work yes, there is no reason to have a 2nd card though, you can install the files on the boot sd ;)
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] lehite:
Okay, so I can put the CWM boot files and the CM7 files all on the same SD card and I'll be good to go from there?

Thanks for your help! Looking forward to a Beta (I've had enough of a scare with one near-brick) and I'll give it a shot.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] CelticWebSolutions:
I'll test it fo you shortly.

Believe it or not I am actually trying to brick mine now an the damn thing won't brick no matter how many times I try and kill it! I wouldn't mind if I'd fixed it but I haven't yet, it's just being stubborn!

DIE NOOK TABLET DIE!!!!!!!
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] Loglud:
Just to let you guys know the only partitions that are really unrecoverable are mmcblk0p1 and mmcblk0p2, besides that you can always flash back to stock. I have been running everything since the exploit was discovered off of the internal boot partitions. I guess the real question is why would you not use the internal boot, what apps could the developers port over to make CM7 more appealing for internal boot? I ask this because I'm sure there would be way less problems running off of the mmc0 then running off of the SD card.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] HighBomber:
I have CM7 running internally and so far am having very few problems except:

- The wireless on the NT crashes every now and then when I browse the web or marketplace, but applications such as Veetle have not crashed the wireless once.

- ADW has crashed on me a couple times while viewing the drawer and changing the orientation.

I now want to get the SDcard version running for my other stock NT. From what I have read, is it true the alpha does not recognize an sdcard partition? Has anyone been able to have it recognize more memory than the 50MB boot and two 2GB system and data partitions?

Thanks for all the hard work!
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] CelticWebSolutions:
There is nothing stopping you making the boot partition larger if you wanted to, tahtr is currently the partition it recognises as the sdcard.

Of course you'd have to be careful not to delete any of the boot files!

I do have a file here that could enable a 4th partition but it hasn't been thoroughly tested and after the bricking issue everything is getting a good testing before public release!
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] Anon9mouz:
PLUS one I feel that it's not like it's boot manager :rolleyes:. I would say maybe if u have a class 6 or higher than maybe it might be worth while but me personally if ur sd corrupts then ur assed out so internal seems like the best option to me

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[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] conundrum768:
If I'm not mistaken, Celt said that the build.prop was the default NT one, so the information that the Netflix app is accessing (re: device info) must be located someplace else.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] lehite:
I appreciate this, but as you can gather since I have never flashed a ROM from CWM, I'm not really that smart with this stuff. I got stuck in a boot loop using Indirects one-click flash CWM and it scared the heck out of me. I want to install CM7/9 to internal, but I am only confident in my ability to boot to CWM from SD, not internal.

I assume using the method I mentioned above would allow me to flash CM7 to internal?
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] AdamOutler:
That was the purpose of my Ubuntu Recovery. This was the reason i made it a priority to create such an application.

However the only partition which is truely unrecoverable is ROM. it has serial information. I think that's p5
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] xrabbitfootx:
after testing this all day yesterday,the only issue i had was when importing my old settings in pure grid calendar oddly killed the status bar.

also, after struggling to get titanium to restore everything properly, i found it best to download from the market and restore data from titanium backup.

besides that, all is polka-star!

sent from my nook tablet
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] CelticWebSolutions:
Could anybody who bricked their NT and happily managed to recover it please contact me directly via Pm please ;)
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] daedricgeek:
Mounting internal memory "/media"

Hi guys,

The /media partition is not mounted in this build ...

so I was meddling and tried to mount the partition .

used the command :

mount -r -w -t vfat /dev/block/platform/mmci-omap-hs.1/by-name/media /media

/media mounted but doesn't load in windows . nor does it show up as /mnt/media .

Am attaching screen-shot of my command and a zip file containing df & mount command outputs . Also I've put the vold.fstab file . I'm figuring something in the vold file is watz wrong ...

Any way until the ROM is updated , the above command makes the media partition accessible from the device file manager and apps ... How to make this command at bootup everytime ? (like the boot.bat or something win98 used to have)

Thnx

p.s: I'm kinda n00b so pls hav patience with me :)

[edit] I looked up the /proc/mounts file and the /media partition is referenced there . (is this the new fstab ??? ) . I hav rudimentary linux knowledge but android is throwing me a curve here :(

Am gonna try editing the vold file and rebooting.

Can someone with stock rom installed post the '/proc/mounts' and '/etc/vold.fstab' files here

. A comparison would be useful , methinks.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] CelticWebSolutions:
WE'll be updating this as soon as other fix is sorted. We'll be setting the sync partitions too (the one staht show in windows).

I'm just personally attempting to brick my device by formatting AD and currently it just formatted my SD which is good and bad, good it didn't soft brick device like it has been, bad in that I didn't think about what was on the damn card and it wiped it all back to one single partition lol

Oops!
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] Mike_IronFist:
Oh wow, I feel dumb. I forgot that the current graphics driver for CM7 on the Nook Tablet is not working that well in the first place and that's probably the reason why some apps aren't taking advantage of the resolution properly! It would explain the subpar video playback as well, which Gonce and Celtic already acknowledged and are working on improving via a new driver. Once they get a good GFX driver (which probably won't be for some time) I'm sure Netflix will look fantastic on the Nook Tab running CM7.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] AdamOutler:
keep a dd backup on your desktop of /dev/sdc or whatever... this way you can easily populate it. It's also possible to backup just the partition tables using some Linux tools on the command line.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] Loglud:
I think it would behoove the devs to make this an operation in the flash they make for cwm.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] ms2003:
I tried extract apks from backup files, although they looks fine, but their installation will fail, I don't know the reason.

normally if I restore apks smaller than 20M, it works fine, if larger than 30M, it won't work, I think it's something related with the ROM.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] CelticWebSolutions:
Because I don't use windows and I wanted simple and quick repair for every time I bricked the NT during testing I created a simple cwm recovery sd and a small zip to flash to recover your system

If anybody wants the zip it can be found HERE all you need to do is create an sdcard with CWM on it which can be found HERE remember you can partition the sd on any machine, not just ubuntu. It's quick and simple to do :)
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] tselling:
I was able to get the media partition to mount under windows by messing with the /etc/vold.fstab. I made the media partition mount to /mnt/sdcard. But I can only access the internal storage media partition now (windows and on the NT)... the external sdcard is not mounting.... since I made the media partition close to 10gb using parted not a major issue for me. But I think something needs to be fixed first in the NT software so I don't want to post how I mounted the media partition under windows.... I am sure it will get sorted out soon by our current developers.... and hopefully I will have my development laptop arriving this week so I can start helping.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] CelticWebSolutions:
Media partition is mounted on the system in my version again though we need to do some seriosu tetsing before releasing an update this time :)
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] Goncezilla:
Hey all, we've actually had the fix for this for a bit now. We mistakenly pushed an old boot.img but will include the new one in our next update.

SD card version has been fixed by the way. Everything seems to be working great! I will try and make a video soon.

Celtic is hard at work testing a fix for the internal image that will both unlock the media and B&N partitions (by adding new boot.img) and a fix to the sdcard formatting bug that caused suedo-briking.

Benchmarked SDcard with AnTuTu at 5370 (best of second attempts), should be better from internal.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] tselling:
Thats great news! I am sure we are all looking forward to that build :-)
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] CelticWebSolutions:
And thank you for the files and location of the xloader ;)

I just released a flash zip with them for people who've bricked by formatting
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] tselling:
Great news, and of course none of us would think of rushing you... ok maybe we might just a bit.

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Thanks, but I think there were a few of us that came up with that idea. I am just glad that it seems we really cannot brick our NTs! And thanks for all your work on this. CM7 on the NT is the only reason I purchased a couple of used NTs.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] CelticWebSolutions:
Or maybe it hasn't :( the formatting issue is slightly different on the SD version, it's currently not quite as serious as it was but it's still got some serious issues if 'Joe Blogs" gets their hand on it and has a play.

IF it's an SD version it needs to be idiot proof, for many people the whole Idea of having the SD version is for 1 of 2 reasons, either becasue they are afraid of warranty problems with internal or because they don't know who to do internal version and want the easy way.

Sd version is gonna be a little longer than the internal I'm afraid but never fear it will be here when it's ready :)
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] c0ldburn3r:
Curious if anyone else gets turrable battery life. Its like its not sleeping but it is.

10 char this
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] moseskim:
Can't say that I have - in fact, my battery life has been amazing. I left my NT unplugged and locked for about 18 hours and the charge was still 100%. I'm running the internal flash version. Poor battery life might be related to the wifi-sleep state that you have selected.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] dang69:
Moderate use since 5 this morning. Still at 68%. I think the wireless sleeps pretty much as before.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] dang69:
Wireless settings> advanced> sleep when screen off. Those are my settings.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] angusj:
No. Are you seeing anything unusual in Settings | About Tablet | Battery use?
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] stealthfx:
Guys...where the heck is the option to stop the tablet from sleeping\screen off when plugged in and charging? ALso, I am getting solid battery life so far, I am at 68% after moderate use since 7am (it's nearly midnight now).
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] jon.01:
Settings > applications > development
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] ElectroMike:
Thanks Celtic! It did the job! You and Indirect are the best! Looking forward for the new builds!
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] CelticWebSolutions:
Post quoted previous post that had been edited so no longer made sense :)
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] paulus_01:
Lol...

it is not, i had almost immediately edited my post as you can see above your post ;)

Guess you quoted me in the few seconds it was unedited ;)

Which is funny, as I have editted it at 9.49am and your post is from 12.28pm, so something is messed up or it took you a veeeery long time to type this ;)
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] CelticWebSolutions:
Ah yes :)

I see you have edited your post, I clicked to reply then got distracted in the middle.

I'm off into a meeting now so I'll nit be around for a couple of hours :)
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] ms2003:
i'm not sure whether this isis caused by the rom. the touch screen is more sensortive and jumped more than the original rom when charging.

but it isnot a big issue
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] Know-Fear:
Having used this since a few minutes after release, here is my breakdown of it thus far.

1. Very smooth. Most things that I have tried are working properly. I don't watch a lot of video on it so I can't comment on those issues.

2. No SoD as of yet. I did however, have a black screen after using the reboot option from the power menu. I had to longpress power button to restart.

3. Wifi has been pretty good. I have noticed when I switch locations and try to connect to a different router or even tether from my phone, sometimes it errors out.

---Signal seems really strong when it is connected though.

4. Last night, I was reading a book and my battery was around 60%. I closed out the reader app and set the unit on my desk. I think about 30 minutes later, it was chirping at me wanting to be plugged in as the battery was below 10%. This is the first time for this. I close the apps the same way always. I guess the next time I do anything, I will check running apps and see if I have something running rogue.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] ae1990:
I second then wifi issue.

Quadrant standard doeand work :0

Nativebvideonplayerbbroken but Max player works fine

Still an upgradentonstock loving my pics keyboard easy install as well

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giving thisnflashable zip if I brick with format SD card method pop in thehe SD card with boot able cwm on it and flash that zip I should be able to access my previous back ups so long as theybwerensaved. And restore them of course using cwm/backups/nt4cm7 or of course a stock back up
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] dang69:
Am I correct in understanding that the folder "_MACOSX" is merely an artifact of your machine? Can we just leave it there and CWM won't care or should we remove it?
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] jsp254:
YES! I've noticed a significant drain. Slightly more than stock with wifi off asleep. Significantly more with wifi on asleep. And its like its leaking juice with wifi on and being used. I dropped about 15-20% in about 45 minutes last night using the FB app. Had full signal on wifi also.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] c0ldburn3r:
That's been my experience. Haven't had a chance to dig into it. Wife is too demanding right now. Ill give it a look tonight.

My hunch is around the wifi. Set to sleep on screen off.

10 char this
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] knuckhead:
I never copied this to the sd card when I flashed CM7 and mine worked perfectly.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] dang69:
Oh hey! Good point, I didn't either. I won't copy it to the SD-unbricker then. I'm just making preparations in advance. I feel like I'm living on borrowed time. I flashed the internal a few minutes after release and have been running happily ever since.

Gmail is acting strange this morning but it might just be a fluke....
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] daedricgeek:
Hi ,

I had an issue where the Ram usage went very high .

I was using the terminal and just checking out some stuff (basically tried using busybox commands in bash) then went to homescreen .

"Go Task manager widget" showed only 300 MB ram free . tried closing all aps . quit terminal , killed background processes , still no change. Went to application settings and it said 150 MB used , 150 MB free(approx.)

Reboot cleared the issue .

Also the system had a Crash when using MxPlayer. Was viewing a MP4 video in HW mode and tried resizing the screen when it was paused . Got a black screen(not blank ) had to do power button long press to turn off and restart .

( I know GPU drivers are still beta but thought I should report it )

BTW Is it just me or is the DSP missing ? Also did anyone get audio stutters in MxPlayer ?(I'll try software mode in MxPlayer now)

Battery is pretty good and Wi-Fi is stable . Had an issue once where Internet connectivity was lost after the device went to sleep. Wi-Fi signal was good after wake but no internet . Turning off & on the Wi-Fi solved it ...

Thnx

Daedric Geek

P.S: sorry for pointing so many mistakes but its only coz I've been using it a lot and CM7 is Awe-f***ing-some :D
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] Goncezilla:
I haven't gotten to do any battery testing myself, but the new boot.img that sets up the media and B&N partitions (internal storage) also contained a new kernel that I turned on some extra power management options. Hoping this will help when it is released.

I plan on doing some battery tests this evening.

On another note, anyone know howto get flash working? :o

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All input appriciated. We will log these, can't say any of these make it near the top of the priority list right not, but we will get to them.