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[Nook Color Android Development] BPB21:
Small issue with apps

First thing's first; you all are amazing! This is great stuff.

One minor issue; if this isn't applicable feel free to move or delete this post. I'm just not sure where else to ask...

Why, when apps are installed, does it place a link to them on the home screen? And when I try to drag them off, it uninstalls the app instead of just getting rid of it. Is this an overall ICS thing or something unique with this ROM? I've only tried the OGL & non-OGL versions of this on my Nook Color. More importantly, how do I get it to stop placing a link to the app on the home screen in the first place?

Any help or redirection appreciated!
[Nook Color Android Development] eyeballer:
Play Store -> Settings -> uncheck "auto-add widgets"
[Nook Color Android Development] bdcrim:
I am having the same issues on openGL and non-openGL. The issue was minimal on the non-openGL build until the last kernel update for me. Instead of dropping back to that kernel, I have had the move back to CM7 until the 3.?? or whatever kernel drops. I am, however, appreciative of the contributions that have been made and those who have made them.
[Nook Color Android Development] friedsonjm:
VSEL, Clockspeed, Voltages...

I do a lot of traveling, and battery life per charge is very important to me. I wonder if anyone has worked with CM9 and can recommend settings beyond the "300 minimum 1200 maximum" setting, using Android Overclock or something similar?

Right now, about the best I can do is turn off wifi, and set max to 600 when I'm spending the day 'in the air.'

thanks, jf
[Nook Color Android Development] yanom:
Bug

I tried some of the ICS roms, but the'res a graphics bug - things that were on the screen previously do not get removed from the screen unless they get painted over.

I'm an amateur game developer, so I liken it to drawing each successive frame without clearing the screen of the last frames. That's what it is, really. I tried with and without openGL and it still has the problem.
[Nook Color Android Development] DigitalMD:
You are already taking drastic measures. You might try setting the screen brightness as low as possible. The OS really doesn't eat much battery unless apps are doing something. Watch out for battery eating apps.

This study shows that 25% of current Android apps have battery draining bugs.

check this out. Includes Apps like "Angry Birds" and many "free" apps, etc. that eat your battery even while your phone should be sleeping.

If you are using some ad supported apps, turning wifi off might actually cause more battery usage as the app repeatedly tries to get your locations and hit the ad servers.

http://www.phonearena.com/news/One-i...-shows_id31361
[Nook Color Android Development] friedsonjm:
i don't run games, but this is discouraging:

"To show you how much energy is used after an app loads, a sample app was devised by the guys behind the study and connected with a remote server. 5 packets of data was sent which used 127uAh of energy. After the app loaded, it ran for another 6 seconds, burning 187uAh in energy for a total of 57% of the energy used. That "tail" also happened to occur if the routine was delayed by 5 seconds after the connection was made. This extra use of energy also shows up when a bug called a "wakelock" tricks the device into running at a high-power state and keeps it running at that level. The study found that such bugs were in Android's Mail program and the Facebook app.​

...and yes, I keep brightness to a minimum.... would like to take advantage of other's work on undervolting, if possible..
[Nook Color Android Development] DigitalMD:
under-volting is touchy and does very very little for your bat, but its worth a try. It can really make things flaky if you go too far.
[Nook Color Android Development] freonchill:
I am of course appreciative of the contributions of everyone working on ICS for the nook here.

I was hoping to provide feedback of a problem and see if anyone else was having it. i consider it to pretty much make my nook unusable for surfing the web, even briefly, as it results in having to force a shutdown and reboot. i installed dolphinHD, what i used to surf back when i used cm7 to see if it works any better than the stock ICS browser, ICS browser+, and chrome beta.
[Nook Color Android Development] bdcrim:
My issues were not just web browsing problems. I would experience freezes opening apps, scrolling the app drawer or switching launcher screens. I tried different launchers, browsers, CPU settings, etc.. with no success. I really like CM9's layout, but CM7 does everything I need without any problems. Good luck.
[Nook Color Android Development] yelloguy:
I have been using CM9 on the Nook since the early days of hidden links but I am getting a little frustrated with the freezing and SOD problems.

First of all, thanks to all the devs for pumping their free time into this project. Now, I have been using Eyeballers version for the last few months and have noticed progress. I have mostly used opengl version and had bad battery life and a complete freeze issues. So I read on this thread that non-opengl is better. So for my last flash, I tried that version from some two weeks ago. But that version is giving me the exact same problems of occasionally freezing AND it has SOD problems as well. So I am downloading the opengl from last night as I type this. Just wanted to ask if others are also noticing bad battery life (maybe a day tops) and almost a daily freeze? I stopped using Chrome because I thought that was the culprit. But it happens in other apps too now.

I am willing to try a complete rebuild of my sd card if that fixes it. Otherwise I might go to rooted stock and install the few apps I use everyday. That should give me better battery life and no freezes.

Thanks for any advice.
[Nook Color Android Development] leapinlar:
If you are running this on SD, the problem could be the kind is SD you are using. I run mine on Sandisk class 4 and the non-opengl never freezes or SODs. Other higher class cards have given many users the problems you are having.
[Nook Color Android Development] boomn:
My emmc installs of these non-opengl builds have all had intermittent freezing issues (at least as of two weeks ago when I last tried one).
[Nook Color Android Development] leapinlar:
Then it is your settings or installed apps. I never have any with eyeballers non-opengl ROMs. I do with his opengl ROMs though.

Edit: Of course I disable some of the system apps that I don't like/use like gallery, stock browser, calendar, calendar storage, camera, sound recorder, and voice dialer. I have third party apps I use for gallery, browser, and calendar. That could be making a difference too.
[Nook Color Android Development] boomn:
I've had it lock up on default settings from a fresh install before I even installed apps. For whatever reason my Nook just doesn't feel ready to accept CM9 yet
[Nook Color Android Development] leapinlar:
See my edit above. That could be the difference.

Edit: Actually I had disabled a few more that I did not list above, Exchange Services, OpenWnn (alternate language for keyboard), and one with oriental characters (also a language).
[Nook Color Android Development] freonchill:
leapinlar, i took your advice and tried disabling as many apps, especially stock apps that i dont use to see if it would make it any better...

WOW. i have been using cm9, the 6/15 openGL build for over an hour on my SD with only one FC on dolphinHD after doing my daily trudge through 1000+ articles on the google reader app. i would have to say that that is the first time that i have been able to do that using cm9. this SD install should also be configured with v6 super charger, if that makes any difference in my little experiment. for reference, the SD card is a sandisk 32gb, CL4 with decent performance: Random Write 4KB (QD=32) : 1.025 MB/s.

i wonder if its the accumulation of all the other apps or perhaps its just one of two of the apps that is causing the freezing that we are having on the nook with beta cm9. i wonder if it would be beneficial to try systematically re-enabling some of the more background (updating/syncing) apps to see if they are causing the freezing or not.

to access and disable apps, go to settings / devices / apps / all (hidden in portrait view), scroll far right

select an app, choose disable (unless its greyed out)

i googled a couple of these and found that other devices said its safe to disable some of these apps, but your mileage may vary if you do use them

what i have disabled:

android keyboard

apollo

black hole

browser

bubbles

calendar (645kb)

calendar (0.89mb) perhaps the data?

camera

clock

com.android.wallpaper.holospiral

download manager

drm protected content storage

email

exchange services

google bookmarks sync

google search

html viewer

magic smoke wallpapers

market feedback agent

market updater

movie studio

music

music visualization wallpapers

my uploads

news & weather

openwnn

phase beam

pico tts

rom manager

search

sound recorder

themes provider

voice dialer

voice search

[what are either japanese or chinese characters; icon is blue circle with one character, along with red circle behind and smaller yellow circle bottom right hand corner)]

there are several android icon apps that have disable greyed-out, guessing that they are required system apps that cannot be disabled.
[Nook Color Android Development] leapinlar:
Seeing that you have two calendar apps makes me think you have some older stuff on there from way back. Early in the sneekpeek days and shortly after, and with the first set of gapps, there was a problem of duplication of apps. And since the SD installer script does not format /system as part of its installation process, some old stuff may still be there and may be contributing to your problem. And two calendars was one of those.

I modified the installer script to delete these duplicate apps. You should go to my tips thread linked in my signature and look at item B2. It links you to my updated script and tells you how to easily install it. Also you should update to the latest ics gapps (4-29).

I recommend re-enabling both calendars, google search and search, then putting my new script on the boot partition along with the same CM ROM you flashed last and the newest gapps and flash those. As it installs those, the duplicates will be deleted. Then you can go back in and disable those you don't want.

Sent from my Nook Color running ICS and Tapatalk
[Nook Color Android Development] yelloguy:
Thanks so much for the useful info above. My card is a SanDisk CL4 which ran CM7 without any issues so I doubt it is a card problem. But I have seen stranger things so I wouldn't be surprised if it is. I have another 16GB SanDisk card lying around, I will try that next.

I installed 6/20 open gl build last night on the same old card. If I have a freeze, I will start disabling apps one-by-one.

Thanks again.

Edit: Had a freeze soon after I disabled the first app (Google Voice Search). I am going to try rooting Stock.
[Nook Color Android Development] MechaGen:
If you "Disable" an app it disappears from the list. How do you "Enable" it if you want it back?

Edit:

Sorry, I scrolled down to the bottom of the list and see the Disabled apps.

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[Nook Color Android Development] friedsonjm:
Do these settings stay persistent between ROM updates? jf
[Nook Color Android Development] cybertimber2007:
Does anyone have a solution for this? I got it with the 6/19 build, clean install on SD card with Cyanoboot. No amount of reboots/reset fixes it, so it looks like it ends with a clean install.
[Nook Color Android Development] fastoy:
I'm running eyeballer's non-OpenGL from 06/12/12 and leapinlar's scripts (they cleaned up duplicate apps) with no apps disabled. Very solid. I'm on a Sandisk 8GB Class 4 uSD. I'm overclocked to 1100 mHz.
[Nook Color Android Development] glgehman:
First of all, thanks and props to all the Nook Devs here for all the work they've done. Especially to Eyeballer, whose name I see in all the forums for all the devices I happen to own!

Is it, perhaps, time for a non-nightly CM9 roll-up thread with a package where you format System and Data, as well as Cache and Dalvik? I first started using Sam's nightlies back around January/February, and then Eyeballer's and had great success with them. I have one Nook with an April build on it that's really solid and fast, still. But the tablets that I've been updating with May and June builds are less and less stable. Freeze ups. WiFi weirdness.

At this point, I'm only a casual Nook Color user. I can't afford to spend a bunch of time investigating possible causes or reading 800 messages into a thread to find the stupid mistake I'm making. It's actually less work for me to completely wipe a machine and restore from backups. And as far as frequency of updates: monthly or bi-monthly is probably as much churn as I'm willing to absorb.

I know what I'm describing would be a lot of work for somebody, and you all are really busy already. It's just odd that we have here two (three, counting Dalingren's?) separate threads pursuing incremental nightly builds while the forums for other devices (phones!) spawn dozens of complete (often indistinguishable) Kangs.

Just the opinion of one faithful Nook Color user with too many other, newer devices to play with. As I said, thanks for everything!

glg

P.S.: Is there any way to remove goo manager? Its notifications are hideous and I never use it for updates.
[Nook Color Android Development] leapinlar:
You can disable the notifications. Just open Goo Manager, go to settings and open ROM update check frequency and select never.

Or, if you want to completely disable the app, go to settings, apps, and select all and Goo Manager. In the upper right hand corner will be either 'disable' or 'uninstall updates'. If it says uninstall, do that first and come back and it will say 'disable'. Do that. Once disabled it will no longer show in your app drawer or run. If you want to re-enable, go back to settings/apps/all again and scroll to the bottom and select it and choose 'enable'.

Sent from my Nook Color running ICS and Tapatalk
[Nook Color Android Development] RASTAVIPER:
I use non-opengl installed at Sandisk @2 Card and except a very small lagness, there are no freezes, daily reboots or other problems with apps.

Battery lasts almost 10 hours of full using for browsing, chatting etc, so I guess it would keep nook alive for at least 3 days if it was only sleeping.
[Nook Color Android Development] leapinlar:
I'm not sure I follow what you are asking for. Are you asking someone to start building/customizing and posting CM9 ROMs and starting a new thread? Why? Eyeballer's builds are great. And remember we do not have a stable build yet from CM. It is being updated almost every day as they fix things and add new features. That is the whole concept of nightlies. Some work great and some have bugs as they try to get things right.

Sent from my Nook Color running ICS and Tapatalk
[Nook Color Android Development] glgehman:
Well, again, maybe I'm misunderstanding because I haven't read every post in the relevant threads, but a few weeks ago it sounded like: You can't format your system partition because the nightly CM9 is expecting to find some files there from some earlier state (i.e.: not a complete install).

Then these last few days it sounds like there are conflicts with old software (e.g.: two calendars) that you, Leapinlar, have kindly provided a script to clean up. But that if maybe if you have these conflicts, it might explain why the system locks up.

I'm just saying that scanning the first three pages of the Android Development forum, I don't see any "CM9 for virgins" post that lets me download a package that I would, you know, format system, format data, format cache, install & run. So that the only thing in System is what the install puts in system, the only thing in bin is what the install puts in bin, the only thing in sys is what the install puts... etc. And it doesn't need to be updated that often. Once in a while on significant functionality milestones.

Or can I use the Nightlies that way? Super-wipe everything and install?

glg
[Nook Color Android Development] leapinlar:
You can wipe everything (but not /boot) now and it is ok. That not being able to wipe /system was one of those bugs that I mentioned sometimes shows up in nightlies. It is fixed now (eyeballer fixed it for us). And that duplication of app problem was only for systems that were installed on SD. Pick a nightly and wipe away if you want (but you don't really need to, see my tips thread in my signature for more information). If that one seems to have bugs you cannot live with, try a different one (earlier or preferably later).

Edit: Soon CM will be releasing a version called a Release Candidate (RC). It serves the purpose you are asking for. It is a snapshot of a nightly that many people prefer to use instead of the sometimes buggy nightlies. It only gets updated occasionally (RC0, RC1, etc). I don't know if eyeballer is going to make one for us when the time comes, but it is what you want.
[Nook Color Android Development] routey:
Just flashed to the new 2206 opengl...noticed that the recent nightly does not come with non open gl, I have to say I'm very impressed coming from the 0606 nightly, I just flashed cm7.2 again to compare n I have to say my cm9 is just as smooth!
[Nook Color Android Development] glgehman:
Yes, exactly. Thanks for the other help.

glg
[Nook Color Android Development] RASTAVIPER:
I can confirm the same for today's nightly that I installed at my Dualboot card this morning.

But scrolling while browsing in Opera Mobile and Dolphin haven't approved much.

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[Nook Color Android Development] routey:
right, surfing with dolphin is still lagging and just 5mins ago it hanged and i had to do a force restart of my nook color.. everything else is running smooth thou, will probably flash to 2306
[Nook Color Android Development] pkchainsaw:
youtube

So, has anyone gotten YouTube to work? It mostly worked for me (opengl) until the last several night lies. Something hapeed about half a month ago. Now it just spins for a very long time and if it does anything, it says cannot play touch to retry.

Anotherquestion. Anyone know how to get the "can't find your location" to stop? I've disabled every setting I could find, but I must be missing something.
[Nook Color Android Development] fastoy:
My youtube is kind of hit and miss also on eyeballer's non-OpenLG from 06/12/12. As soon as it starts playing (if it's HD) tap the HD in the bottom left and it'll play. These are videos from my Panasonic Lumia. iPhone videos don't seem to play at all. They will crash the youtube app.
[Nook Color Android Development] RASTAVIPER:
YouTube through Page or through the app? Cause I remember that it was playing fine directly through Opera (not HD) since non opengl 8/6 version.

Produced by NookColor at ICS 4.0.4
[Nook Color Android Development] friedsonjm:
So, what happens here after CM9 is pronounced 'stable?'

My understanding is that after CM9 is 'stable,' then the nightlies will stop - is that correct? What happens to development here, on such things as HWA and 3.0 kernel, when and if CM9 stops?

regards, jf
[Nook Color Android Development] leapinlar:
I don't think that the nightlies stop. And it is a long time before stable. The first step is a series of Release Candidate (RC) versions. And the nightlies continue. Then when the devs have deemed it stable enough, they release a stable. Probably CM 9.0 stable. Then they probably start working toward CM 9.1 with a long series of nightlies and RC's, followed with CM 9.1 stable. So it will be a long time for the nightlies. At least that is how it worked with CM7.

Sent from my Nook Color running ICS and Tapatalk
[Nook Color Android Development] Divine_Madcat:
Not sure how you came about that "understanding". Nightlies never stopped after CM7 stable, nor would they after CM9 (especially since CM9 may go to 9.1, 9.2, etc).

Anyway, after installing CM7.2 (mirage) and CM9 (non OGL), i can't see how people are using CM9 as it is. I guess my major complaint is the lagginess. Even with the tweaks posted, i cannot get over how laggy the UI is (which carries over to the games). While i applaud all the effort here, i can't help but feel that only the 3.0 kernel will actually make this usable.

Of course, given how many people say they use this builds, my worry is that perhaps my nook is just dying... anything is possible.
[Nook Color Android Development] CheapTrikz:
what has been the best nightly so far?
[Nook Color Android Development] freonchill:
the double calendars might be b/c i was booted to my SD install, even though i had installed cm9 to my internal memory for the first time (been installing to sd since i got my nook color last summer)

so, based on your suggestion about my double calendar, i decided i should format all of the internal partitions to make sure that were no remnants of any previous nook software, previous cm7, previous cm9 installs; more than just the typical data and dalvik wipes.

06/24 openGL

4/29 google apps

3.2.0.1 cwm

after the initial boot, i went through the apps list and disabled the following

android live wallpapers

apollo

blackhole

browser

bubbles

camera

clock

com.android.wallpaper.holospiral

cyanogenmod wallpapers

email

exchange services

google one time init

google search

google text-to-speech engine

goomanager

magic smoke wallpapers

movie studio

music visualization wallpapers

news & weather

phase beam

pico tts

setup wizard

sound recorder

spare parts

voice dialer

voice search

i did notice that there was calendar, calendar data, and calendar sync; not sure if the first two were the first two from the previous list and i didnt add the data to the name when i listed the names previously.

after using it for 30-45 minutes of installing apps; it slept for the day; and then i used it, including youtube (non-HQ) for about 30 minutes this afternoon.

side note, since using cm9, i had tried browser, browser+ & chrome beta. went back to using dolphinHD for about an hour, compared to the 2 minute increments between hard resets before, seems much faster in loading pages than the others, and thats before i change the o/c settings from 300/800 stock to 300/1100.

did just have my first hard lock-up while installing antutu benchmark.

antutu benchmark results

stock 300/800 ondemand = 1748

o/c 300/1100 interactiveX = 2282

ill update again in a couple of days with any further developments.

going to run a week before adding v6 to see if i can tell if it locks-up more or less with v6 supercharger installed.

question: can anyone recommend a good low-cpu usage status/toggle widget?

i used to use Elixir2 to toggle airplane mode, show cpu current mhz, toggle brightness settings, and see battery voltage; but wondering if it could be part of the many hard lock-ups that i have; was wondering what everyone else uses; if there was a better app...
[Nook Color Android Development] MechaGen:
The latest one! Seriously.

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[Nook Color Android Development] RASTAVIPER:
I am checking this at Questions thread, but maybe here there are more ideas.

Are there any known incompatibility issues with Ip Camera for cm9? I get no feed from lan network although it works when I connect from mobile.

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[Nook Color Android Development] friedsonjm:
No updates today?

Just checked again, 7:45 Eastern, via GOO. No changes last night?

---------- Post added at 07:50 AM ---------- Previous post was at 07:49 AM ----------

What is aokp_encore_ota_eng-krylon.zip ?

See it now as a compatible ROM under GOO.

jf

EDIT: Ok, found this: http://rootzwiki.com/topic/27934-romunofficialaokp-encore-build-40-june-25th/

Google is a wonderful thing...
[Nook Color Android Development] freonchill:
i use ip camera basic and ip camera lite without a problem

i have a Zmodo CM-I11123BK newegg link
[Nook Color Android Development] RETIEF:
Thanks for the update. And for all the hard work.