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[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] chogau1:
help with sd

I have the NT8Gb, I burnt the img to a16 gb sd card and cm7 loads flawlessly, all apps run great, updates to new play market, no issues, but the problem is that the sd lost 10+ gb of space, so I went to the partion wizard in windows and expand the 1.30 gb partion to use all of unallocated portion and now I have like 12 gb of space for media, but when I restart cm7 the problems begin, forcloses, random reboots, especially with apps that modify files from the sd like the cover music searcher and dropbox, any ideas how to resolve this issue, i love cm7, but losing 10 gb of space leaving only 1.3 is sad. I tried expanding after and before the first cm7 load and i get the same result.

By the way the md5 of the first page of cm7 devs forum changed right? Im getting a different code, if not, may that be the issue? Thank you
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] GuyInDogSuit:
Sounds like you're running CM7 from the SD card. The partitions set up by the image you burned should NOT be messed with. You CAN, however, add to those partitions. The SD card might have some unallocated space after those partitions, so just create a new partition on that, and mount it in CM7. It will appear as "/mnt/media" or something like that. But restore or reburn that CM7 file, so the partitions are in place. Good luck!
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] movrshakr:
What is your basis for this advice? There are many previous posts describing how to enlarge the FINAL partition on the card into the unallocated space. I have done this, as have many others without any issue.

I am not sure exactly what this person did from his description (don't remember WHICH partition was the 1.3 GB one). If it was the final partition, then merely expanding it was not the problem--something else happened.

I hope he did not expand the partition while running from the card????
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] chogau1:
My initial thought was to create a new partition but sd cards can only take 4 partitions max, so that's not an option, so I did exactly like you said I expanded the final 1.3 gb partition to use the remaining unallocated space. Is there any option to select or step to follow to make it work properly? What software did you use to expand in windows? Expanding should be done before or after loading cm7 for the first time? thank you very much for the help
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] chogau1:
You cannot expand while mounted on the NT, it just shows one partition, I use a digital camera as a card reader and writer
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] Solar.Plexus:
Make sure the partition you are expanding is the last partition, formatted as FAT32.

You can use Partition Wizard or EASEUS Partition Master in Windows.

It does not matter when you expand the partition, the only thing this partition is used for is your user data.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] chogau1:
Thats exactly what i did, going to try a different sd card and report back
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] chogau1:
I tried with a different sd card, expanded the 4th partition using eusus and load cm7 without issues, worked well for 20 minutes and then rebooted by itself to stock rom, now I cannot load cm7 anymore, after the initial screen it goes black. I am getting frustrated, cm7 looks great, but having this issues suck, I guess, I will have to settle for the little 1.3 gb and the 4gb internal for media and hope for another solution later. I dont want to use internal, I dont want to root and void the warranty yet as I bought the thing 4 days ago.

Any suggestions will be appreciated.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] TheBigDogz:
If you only have it for 4 days, you may want to check out Galaxy Tab 2. Amazon is taking preorder for $249. Google the spec and check our Engadget review...it is a lot better than NT for 50 bucks more.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] chogau1:
The best advice so far...sending this NT dog back to BN
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] tmlee51:
Since more cards failed and only a few succeeded, so I'd speculate that it's NT not cards.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] movrshakr:
Oh, I don't doubt for a moment that it is hardware, software, or both differences inside the NT that is causing the problem, but I also think it is possible that some cards "tolerate" those differences better than others.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] Fletchguy75:
Need help won't boot from card

Ok I am stumped. I took a brand new sandisk 32GB card did a fresh format on it right out the package. I downloaded the external sd card final alpha zip. I unzipped it got the file into win32 disk imager clicked write and watched it prgres til done. I then took the card placed it in my Nook Tablet which was off seated it correctly closed the door held power button til power started and it just boots right up to the normal nook software. Tried few times on and off same thing. Took car out to verify on windows computer that the image file was there and it is. So tried again starting with fresh reformat in windows and again put the img file on the clean card reinserted and samething Barnes and Nobel boots right up..What did I do wrong??? I got file from this site original post which shows external cm7 Alpha....card is brand new never used and works fine just cant get the nook to boot from it. Is there a setting on the nook to get it to boot from card first then internal?????

Edit:: I just noticed when I have te card in the nook and go to the info and look at the 32GB card it shows105MB free of 190 MB ...56% free...How is that possible on a card that shows it as 32GB when in the computer..something isnt loading right..
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] movrshakr:
Some people have to, from off state, plug it in to USB or to power charger to get it to boot card. Try that.

I did not format my brand new card--just wrote image to it out of the package.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] Solar.Plexus:
When you write the CM7 .img to your SD card, it creates 4 partitions on the card. The 190MB partition you are seeing is the boot partition. Your NT is recognizing the first listed partition on the card. This is normal.

As for your issue, try what movrshakr suggested: plug it in and power on.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] movrshakr:
You should not have to press power on. When you plug it in, it turns on.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] Fletchguy75:
Will try

Ok I'll give that a try when I get home..Just in case thats not the issue and I have to start over what format should the card be in before starting ie ntfs fat fat32...Then if it is where I have to plug it in to get it to boot is that what has to be done everytime it is powered on to get it to boot in cm7 or just the first time as long as card stays in the nook? Is it and issue being looked at as reading I see only some have this issue most don't is it larger sized cards that are doing it or just random? Thanks for the replys....I wish someone would make like ics on sd card for the htc evo or at least honeycomb or gingerbread. Im still on froyo rooted modded to boost mobile lol
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] Solar.Plexus:
FAT32 is the default format for SD cards.

No one really knows the cause of the needing to be plugged in issue, but it's probably NT hardware related.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] Demetris:
Is not hardware related is a bootloader issue.

We need to strip the bootloader from a normal behaving nook and flash it back to the faulty ones.

Their flashing machine must have memory failing issues :) and corrupts the flashing of the bootloader, it works but not as indented.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] movrshakr:
What is your basis for this conclusion?
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] Demetris:
Brain Cells.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] movrshakr:
Thanks. Now I understand your approach.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] j.arruda:
First I would like to give a huge thanks to Celtic and the others that have helped him port CM to the NT. From the moment I got the device when it was released, I couldn't wait for it to be freed of its terrible stock ROM.

Since 0.02 was released I have been daily driving it and I'm happy to report that there are definitely no show-stoppers, just bothersome bugs that should get zapped for beta.

* Like noted, I have experienced the wifi issue when returning from sleep, but occasionally my device gets into a state where it attempts to turn off wifi but never returns from that state. The field is disabled and subtitled, "Turning off...".

When a reboot is attempted via the power menu, it takes about two minutes to get past the "Rebooting..." and progress indicator to a black screen, but at that point it never reboots. The backlight is on with a black screen and the device must be reset with pwr-n.

* Using the Netflix apk posted here and from the market, the video is out of sync with the audio fairly badly. This is unfortunately my largest peeve with continuing to use the alpha, as watching HD Netflix on the NT was one of its biggest boons.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] movrshakr:
My Netflix app, which I just download from market before it was 'play,' works fine. It is strange how people have such different experiences supposedly with the same configuration.

I experience the wifi disconnected after sleep, but it is only a minor annoyance. I have a widget on the main screen with a wifi button on it, so I have trained myself to just hit that twice (off-on) after waking NT up. I also have a shortcut to Wifi Analyzer beside that which helps to speed up the connecting (just open it, close it).

One thing I love is battery consumption in sleep is nil, and when in use is really good too. I leave mine in sleep for days and it only drops a percent or two if at all. Sure is nice to not have to power completely down for battery reasons.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] Tsmith.ks:
So far I haven't had a issue with Netflix. Though I have only watched a hours worth of content muslef. My kids watched quite a bit and never mentioned anything though.

Once in a while I get stuck while rebooting or powering down. Like a previous commenter said. I'll have to hold in the power button for roughly 10 seconds to force a shut down.

Though, the reason I quoted you Mov is because of battery life. Its been pretty terrible so far. Yesterday I got about 10 hours of life out of the tablet and a good 75% of that time the tablet was asleep. The android is was very high on battery usage. Above 60% iirc. The screen was below 15%. I am wondering if it had something to do with the live wallpaper so today I just have a static image for the background. We'll see. In over 2 hours of being powered up (maybe 1 hour of use) I am down to 75% so I just turned the screen brightness down 1 notch to medium... when I get to work wifi will go off to so I am curious as to how much that will help out
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] movrshakr:
I leave wifi set to ON, but of course it turns itself off some unknown time after screen off.

Again, that interesting situation of such differences in outcomes.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] J_M_H:
Is there any speed difference between running on the SD card or EMMC? I'm using a Class 10 card with good read-write speeds.

Thanks.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] Fletchguy75:
Plugging in no help

Ok so I tried to plug the nook in while off..inserted the prepped card then turned on the nook..boots up to normal barnes and noble os. I tried 12 times then decided well maybe I messed up the new sd card. I grabbed another off my shelf brand new 32 GB sandisk. This time I didnt do a clean format just used it right out the package. I even redownloaded the Alpha final zip again unzipped to a new folder then used win32 imager writer to write the img file to the disc. I didnt even add the google extras just the img.. I took my turned off nook inserted the new sim made sure it seated well closed the door plugged it in waited since was told it would start on its own.10 minutes nothing so I press the power button. I had to hold it extra long to get it to power start...screen gave the little light flash then proceded to boot right into the nook Barnes and Noble os.......So I have tried total of 4 cards now I can see the boot files on the card when its in the card reader on the laptop but the nook just will not boot from the sd cards at all. It does after it boots adds some folders from the nook though to the sd card all are empty but only there after nook boots up not before...I don't get it...This CM7 Alpha final external is the right zip for this correct and its the TEAM B Alpha Final.img file I want win32 to write to the disk correct. When thats done I should just pop it in and start the nook right? No rooting prior need for this to work? No special way to set the nook boot order?? The nook reads the sd cards fine just will not boot from an sd card...Any more ideas???This one has software 1.4.2 and is about 60 days old.

Edit: I attached an image of the files I have on the sd card once it has been created before going into the nook..Is this right am I missing anything?
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] lost101:
Re-posting here since it seems relevant:

After more testing, tethering is only required if I reboot. For clarity: I can shutdown and power back on into CM7 without usb.

This is on a 8GB Nook Tablet.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] Fletchguy75:
Ok got it going

Ok finally got it to work I had to get my files from a different link and it worked first time not sure why..Anyways I have the cm7 going but I can not get it to go into recovery mode to install the google stuff like market. No matter how long I hold power and the home buttom on the nook it either boots cm7 or turns off. Is there another way to get the stuff loaded? Thought someone said something about clockwork recovery mod or something?? Any links or help? Thanks..

Edit: I also saw in the shut down menu if you choose reboot it has a recovery option in reboot but that does not work....Also theme changes do not work. Says theme changed but stays the same as original load.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] movrshakr:
'Shutdown' usually means complete power off (long power button push). Are you using it to mean 'quick pwr button push to screenoff mode?"
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] lost101:
Complete power off.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] greenwood625:
I was trying to find how to remove any kind of personal information if it records any so that i can give my nook tablet to someone. If somebody can help me with that will be great. Thanks.:)
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] old_fart:
imho, the speed is derived from the clock ( 1 giga hertz ), the chipset, and the memory. . . so the class ratings of the microhcsd is secondary.

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i am emmc and a few of my benchmark numbers are:

passmark

sys - 1811

cpu - 3304

disk - 3645

mem - 966

2d - 1982

3d - 943

.

quadrant

sys - 2500

cpu - 3293

mem - 1646

i/o - 4864

2d - 533

3d - 2163

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antutu - 5519

linpack - 72.7

emp7 - 26.086

nenamark2 - 26.0
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] movrshakr:
I cannot give any measured technical data because I run from the microSD card. But the general feel is that it is beautifully quick running on the card.

It actually SEEMS to me to be sometimes quicker than in native Nook mode.

This came up before and Celtic said that almost all of the OS is loaded into RAM from the card, so there would be no difference in speed so far as the OS operations are concerned.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] ms2003:
you can do a factory reset
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] greenwood625:
How to do factory reset ? Can we do that even if we installed the final version of team b cynogen mod 7 and rooted the tablet?
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] DarkDvr:
ADB doesn't work with NT anymore. I connect my SGS2 - works like a charm, but not with NT.

Used to work fine. Been deleting/reinstalling drivers for NT for past 3-4 hours. ADB Composite Interface shows up in device manager, but "adb devices" just doesn't show it.

I have 2 NTs with me, both have this problem.

Anybody got any advice besides the standard delete-ur-drivers-reinstall-etc?
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] Fletchguy75:
Help with google apps

I got the cm7 android going but I can not get the nook to boot into recovery mode to install the google apps. I didnt use the links posted on this site as I could not get them to work so I followed links here http://www.anamardoll.com/2011/07/ereader-running-cm7-on-nook-color-from.html . This worked first time but last step is to put the google app zip on the sd after image file sets up the android os. I got the app zip on the card and then says to have nook off pop card with app zip on it into nook then hold the home button and power button together to get into recovery mode so it loads the google app zip. No matter how long I hold it will not boot into recovery mode . If I hold for like 7 seconds it turns off if I hold any less it just boots into cm7.. Anyone have any help on how to get the google apps on this or anoter way to get it to boot into recovery mode??
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] greenwood625:
See if u have ROM manager installed in your nook. If so go into that and one of the option says reboot to recovery mode.

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How to do factory reset ? Can we do that even if we installed the final version of team b cynogen mod 7 and rooted the tablet?

I did wipe data & factory reset , wipe cache in recovery mode. Thats good enough to take all the data or do I needed to do anything. By doing that it took off all the contact info and applications installed and gapps and harddrive NT shows almost 12 gb available.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] ms2003:
yes, in cm7 just wipe data is ok. additionally you may need check your media partition, if there have

data you also need delete them
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] mak0305:
It possible to use the mnt/media for applications?
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] ash16:
I don't think that this is working for anyone else but just in case it might help someone it has been working flawlessly for me for about a month. I was having to boot to Sd CM7 while tethered only but I learned that if I start with the tablet completely off, press the power button to turn it on, and then immediately press and hold the power button as soon as the n screen comes up, it will boot from the SD without being tethered. It works for me 100 percent of the time now that I have the timing down.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] Bonnie_Raitt:
Perhaps it's just a coincidence but I noticed my NT reboot several times while listening to music on Tunein Radio. Wifi kept dropping too.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] miniblue:
Interesting - Tune In reboots on me as well.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] lavero.burgos:
check the adb_usb.ini under C:\Users\username\.android and post the output.

Did you installed your SGS2 phone's drivers recently?

~ Veronica
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] J_M_H:
Thanks for the benchmarks, old_fart. I'll run the benchmarks using an SD card and see if there is difference.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] digixmax:
Problem with B&N Nook App

I downloaded the B&N Nook app to my NT which is running CM7 off an SD card. When I opened the app and signed in to my B&N account the app went on to sync the library, then the NT's screen went dark and the NT rebooted itself (into stock ROM, as my NT is one of those which require USB tethering to boot into CM7)!!!

Has anyone had this problem before, and is there a fix for it?

TIA.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] DarkDvr:
It has the required 0x2080, no spaces, no CR.

Phone drivers completely unistalled, old drivers in device manager all cleaned up - including mass storage drivers, I/J WPD drives and all adb drivers.

I've tried different ports, different NT, different cable, nothing works. I've read threads pertaining to this issue and tried everything mentioned there. Nothing. ADB shows up in device manager, but adb devices is empty. Adb kill/start server doesn't help either.

It's been 2 days now, and at this point I think only windows reinstall will work.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] lavero.burgos:
I would clean registries and cache with CCleaner first. Reboot.open CMD as administrator. try

~ Veronica
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] jamosjamos:
I had this issue. NT running of an SD card. It rebooted when running Nook app, but it also rebooted sometimes on wake up and with some other apps. Eventually, it got worse and would not boot into anything but stock. I reloaded SD card and tried again. It still rebooted into stock with Nook app and other apps. I eventually replaced the SD card (It was an off brand Class 10 16GB card) with a SanDisk 32 GB Calls 4 card. For a couple weeks, the CM7 load has been rock solid on the SanDisk. The one exception has been running Quadrant. One out of the 3 or 4 times I've run Quadrant, the NT locked up and I had to shut it down and restart.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] digixmax:
I just tried this a few times, it works like a charm!!!

Also, it seems that when the n screen comes up one just have to press the power button (rather than actually have to hold down the power button) for the NT to boot off the SD.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] sangahm:
I first cleaned Davlik cache and Fix Permissions. Then I switched from a Patriot Class 10 16g to a Sandisk Class 4 16g, and have experienced less FC's, slowdowns, and choppiness.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] TheBigDogz:
I am using CM7 on SD. Where do you go to "cleaned Davlik cache and Fix Permissions"? Will cleaning the cache wipe any of my existing application data?
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] skrowl:
http://celticwebsolutions.backup-spot.com/ntcm7/build_update.zip is the correct url for the patch, the goo.gl link goes to .zp (no i)
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] old_fart:
for davlik, use tt ( titanium backup ) go to menu/more/clean up ...

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for fixin, use rom manager ( 8th item on the list )

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your welcome. . some people ( me included ) have noticed the scores ramp "up" after three or more runs and then they stabilize... . i read its a ( minor ) flaw in the app - java data buffers. ( the best programmers do a cache clear step )

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yes, the registry does keep a locked ( read only ) copy of the device. . in regedit, you gotta right click on the ( stubborn ) ones and change the permissions to 'allow'. . . but. . . did anyone mention the ( beautiful ) troubleshooting tool :

"USBDeview". its a must have in anyone's toolbox ! . ( a person is known by the tools they keep )
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] movrshakr:
ummm...the patch for WHAT? What got patched?
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] old_fart:
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@Bonnie, did you email the developer of 'Tunein Radio' and give him/her feedback. ( secret ) developers are really lonely and crave an email once in a while...

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a more aggressive step would be to capture a 'logcat' and pass it to our dev team.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] succulent:
CM7.2 RC1 fixed some wifi issues. I haven't notice any wifi drop and TuneIn Radio is playing like it should in my build. Asked Celtic and Gonce nicely for an update :).
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] sangahm:
Old_fart got the first questions. Clearing the davlik cache will not wipe data, as it's just cached data for performance.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] topched:
I've also had a lot of issues with random reboots on my Nook. This happened often when it was running as rooted 1.4.0, and now it frequently occurs on CM7.

TuneIn radio has been problematic, but even Google Music would reboot at times (not the streaming version, just playing mp3 files from my sd card). It also happens from time to time when I'm listening to podcasts on Doggcatcher. It doesn't seem to matter what audio app I'm using, my nook doesn't like it. I've fixed app permissions and cleared caches, reinstalled apps etc. Does anyone have any other suggestions for this annoying problem?
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] movrshakr:
Someone has filed a complaint about this "ROM" not having source released, and the originator is abandoning it.

See the development alpha thread.