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[Off-topic] mingolianbeef:
Aaaah I love a good game column :) . Support from here all the way dudio.!

Side note: if u ever need a writer I would love to help :)
[Off-topic] hulkamaphone:
Thanks very much ognimnella! If there is a particular game you'd like to review on your device I'd love to see a sample (obviously one that hasn't already been reviewed). Just email to hulkamaphone@gmail.com and we can go from there.
[Off-topic] mingolianbeef:
You should never have told me that lol. Will be sending something very soon.! :)
[Off-topic] Locustslayer:
Yeah same here dude. I write video game reviews but android game shouldn't be much different. If you need help I can write some to.
[Off-topic] hulkamaphone:
wow, that was a speedy reply!
[Off-topic] hulkamaphone:
Thanks Locustslayer, feel free to email a sample to hulkamaphone@gmail.com and we can go from there! As well as the currently reviewed titles, we have Asphalt 6: Adrenaline, Modern Combat 3: Fallen Nations and Shadowgun currently being worked on... so anything other than those would be great.
[Off-topic] mingolianbeef:
I love android games, and I think it would be cool to write about themfor a hobby :)
[Off-topic] Shm33g:
May just write up GTA III and Dead Space reviews if you guys don't mind, I've been playing both non-stop for days lol
[Off-topic] mingolianbeef:
I think it would be awesome. Imma take a look at some of these openfeint games soon. But for now I'm sending in stuff for gameloft games
[Off-topic] hulkamaphone:
Hey Shm33g, that would be awesome. I managed to hack a version of GTA III after paying for it on my Nexus S (only to have compatibility removed) but I uninstalled it once my refund was cleared.

I have Dead Space but feel free to send through a review of that too if you'd like.

Seems like there are a few keen gamers here on xda forums, good to see I'm no the only one!!:D
[Off-topic] drognan86:
So gooood
[Off-topic] hulkamaphone:
Thanks drognan86, BTW, if anyone has any review requests just let me know! I'm gradually building up a list of what I am planning to review but I'd like to know what others out there would like to see.

thanks!
[Off-topic] hulkamaphone:
Hey SHm33g, you still interested in writing reviews on GTA III and Dead Space? I've left these out of my review box so we don't overlap.
[Off-topic] mingolianbeef:
Yo man any updates.??
[Off-topic] boborone:
http://installornot.com/

That site is run two members here and are open to new writers.
[Off-topic] hulkamaphone:
Hey all, sorry for the lack of updates, I've been really busy with work/family etc. I had a few people express interest in writing some reviews but only received one so far. I'm keen to keep things running along so if anyone wants to contribute please feel free to email/pm me and we can go from there!

I'm hoping to start the reviews again very soon but at the moment I haven't had time to get any more and sit down for a good gaming session.
[Off-topic] mingolianbeef:
I don't have much time ATM but I call dibs on mini motor racing and Sims freeplay lol
[Nook Color General] Thibor69:
I bought the original Nook Color back in Nov. 2010. I went through all the methods back in the day, when guys first started rooting the Nook and all the problems we had back then ... side loading apps ... adhoc issues ... B&N updates ect ... we got CWM recoveries and finally we got fully working froyo's and Gingerbread's. Then CM7's and the Phiredrop's.

I been through it all. I ended up giving my Nook to my son, and he loved it. I got into Android Development Cell (ROMS). I Now got my Nook back from my son. It is working, but I have forgotten a lot about how to mod it .... mainly the partition tables, and how the bootloader runs. Does it look to the eMMC first ? or the SD-Card ? Can we flash from both locations ?

Anyways ... He has it setup weird now. It has a dual boot menu, I can boot into CM7 or CM9, But it is acting up and some stuff doesn't work. He also says it can boot into Stock 1.4.2 somehow *shrug*

I have done some searching here on xda but it is a lot of OLD posts and dead links.

Could you guys help me out with a few questions ?

01) I would like to wipe EVERYTHING from eMMC abd SD-Card and start over. I know I can format the uSD and also format the eMMC, but Can I flash a SD with a CWM image and then install Stock 1.4.2 on the eMMC. Do I even need to install stock first ? What is the best method for this ?

02) Will I need to nooter my nook again at this point if I do that ?

03) Can I run CWM on the SD and run a nandroid backup to that same SD if it is a large SD-Card ? I thought I could since the bootloader looks at uSD first (but I guess it looks at the boot partition huh ? ) my son says NO you can not run CWM and have a nandroid backup on that same SD. Yes or No ?

Bottom line is this is what I’m trying to do……

01a)

I could care less about stock B&N

.

02a)

I just want a Nook that will dual boot into CM7 and / or CM9 preferably from my 16 GIG SD-Card but it really doesn’t matter, as long as I can install app’s to the external SD-Card.

03a)

I want a way to backup the entire CM7 or CM9 via CWM to my SD-Card.

NOTE: I have a (1) 16 GIG SD-Card (1) 4 GIG SD-Card and (1) 8 GIG SD-Card.

If you could help me out with any info at all on any of this, please do so. I am mostly Android literate and I have a working ADB on my win7. I just have forgotten exactly how the nook operates at the lowest level, and how the newer CM's are flashed now after a clean format

Thank you for your time and help to any of my questions.

Peace
[Nook Color General] DizzyDen:
Partition talbes and mount points

The Nook Color boots from uSD first... then eMMC if there is no bootable uSD in the card slot.

Browsing the developer forum would be very beneficial... as there are constantly new posts... so almost all of this is covered in recent posts.

Create a new bootable CWM recovery uSD and place one of the files from here on it.

Boot into CWM and flash the file you downloaded.

Only if you want stock to be rooted... not necessary if are going to flash a different ROM to eMMC or don't care about stock root access. If you choose to root stock.... use this thread

Yes.... I do that frequently.. the thing is... the nandroid backup will be of the eMMC unless you use one of the modified CWM's designed for SD installs.

Additionally... if you are going to run that from a uSD with another ROM on it... you will certainly have to adjust the boot partition on the uSD to be large enough to hold the nandroid you are creating.
[Nook Color General] Thibor69:
So you are saying that I can do it in this order:

1) Format eMMC ( only boot partition right ? )

2) Format uSD ( resize boot partition to a larger size for backups )

3) Create bootable CWM uSB ( any particular one you recommend ? )

4) Put one of the stocks 1.4.x files on the uSB then flash it

5) Put CM7 or CM9 on uSB and flash it

Question: Do I need to flash stock 1.4.x even tho I dont want it ? or can I skip step #4 ?

Thanks
[Nook Color General] votinh:
Item 1) highly NOT recommended. There is no point to format /boot.

Item 2) if "uSD" means the external microSD card, then, no, you don't need to format it since it will be done in step 3 of your list.

Item 3) Get the CwMR version 3.2.0.1. And call it "flashable CwMR uSD", not uSB.

Item 4) If you don't want stock, leave it out as no point to touch it.

Item 5) After done step 3 above, put CM7 OR CM9 in there, the CwMR uSD, and flash.

Strongly suggestion: before doing anything. Be sure you know what you trying to do or at least, pls let us know what you try to accomplish. For example, do you try to run CM7 or CM9? Do you want to run it from the external uSD card or from eMMC? Instructions are different.
[Nook Color General] Thibor69:
Hello -

Thank you for the update info. Glad I asked first. Thank you Dizzy for your help, you have been a big help to me in the past also. Votinh thank you for your reply. Looking back at what I wrote I see many mistakes in my process. Thanks for correcting them.

Now ... as to your question Votinh. What is it I am trying to do.

First off this is what I currently have.

Nook is working, but not well and just a mess in general. Sometimes it locks up or just runs at a crawl. ( I have CPU oc'd to 1200 ) I have CM7 and CM9 but can't seem to boot into CM9 anymore at all. I also have CWM v3.2.0.1 installed on my external SD-Card with a nandroid backup.

I just want to erase it all and start over : )

I want my Nook to be able to Dual Boot into CM7 and CM9. I would like both CM9 and CM7 on my 16 GiG SD-Card, BUT if that is not

easy or possible

then I would like CM7 on internal and CM9 on external. I dont need stock.

If all else fails ... or just to complicated I could live with just CM9 (nightlies or stable) with all APPS installed to external SD. and forget about dual boot.

Again thank you .... and please ask me any more questions you might need to help clarify my goal.

Peace
[Nook Color General] votinh:
So far, everything you've asked are doable, in fact, a lot of members currently having the same system you describe.

Firstly, "I would like both CM9 and CM7 on my 16 GiG SD-Card" is called "dual-boot, it is a true dual-boot.

Go thank "racks11479" for his tremendous work

Link: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1448186

Note: both CM7 AND CM9 are on the external uSD card.

Secondly, "then I would like CM7 on internal and CM9 on external."; since your wish is granted :), this is just an option for you. Yes, you can easily install CM7 in eMMC (aka internal memory) and booting CM9 off uSD as you want.

For references:

Boot CM7/CM9 off uSD, thank verygreen.

Link: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1000957

---------- Post added at 05:27 PM ---------- Previous post was at 05:21 PM ----------

Update from my last link

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1576879
[Nook Color General] Thibor69:
Ok ... got it. But If I just want to install to SD external ... can I format the internal eMMC ? And my last question .... I see your signature and what you run. You recomend CM7.2RC1 MiRAGE KANG on eMMC and Dalingrins kernel. You like that setup the best ? I think I will try that setup now. What version of CWM should I use for that and were will CWM be eMMC also ? or can I backup to SDCard.

Thanks once again
[Nook Color General] mateorod:
Wait a minute. Alan Moore doesn't live in Scottsdale!

Whatever. Swamp Thing is awesome. You can live wherever you want
[Nook Color General] Thibor69:
Wow ... good call brother. Not many people know the face.

Peace
[Nook Color General] MISRy:
Once again, NEVER format the eMMC short of a catastrophic event, (sometimes referred to in tech circles as a Mountain Dew Event.)

Mr72 has good instructions for getting 7.2 up and running on eMMC, http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1443292

You'll want to use his directions to load the image found in mrg666's thread here, http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1344873

Dalingrins would be redundant as it is already part of this build. You *will* want to run the V6 script as it is well worth it.

Once you've got that going well you should have read around enough to be able to load CM9 nightlies on an SD card. You *do* have a Sandisk card, right?
[Nook Color General] votinh:
In bold: sure, but what do you try to do? Format the internal so that you can install something else on it?

I currently have CM7.2-RC1 Kang running on eMMC, it is really good.

Booting off uSD is more like for experimental, play it for a while to see if we like it or not. For trying, I recommend using uSD.

I have not spent more time on CM9 since I don't see much of the benefit of it.

Also, MisRy covered pretty well there.
[Nook Color General] Thibor69:
Thanks for the info Misry. I have many sd cards and have used them all will good results. My Sandisk is only 4 gig ... so it was not going to be my first choice. I also have a Class 4 8 Gig Kinston I was thinking of using. Or a Class 10 16 Gig Patriot, which I know people dont like, but it seems to work fine in my phones ....?
[Nook Color General] mateorod:
Magus-

The difference in the SD card class as far as speed comes down to the size of the information we want to write. The lower classes aren't very fast with the large hunks of info, but excel with the tiny byte exchange used in the ROM. As the speed of your system will really be affected by the slow I/O rates of something like a class 10, compromise on size before class. It may be counter intuitive, but people have given up on cyanogen in general only because they had the wrong sdcard. This is especially true if you have a dual boot and are running the ROM off of the sdcard itself.

Look at the "strange results or how I learned to love cm" or something thread. Google that with xda and nook and you'll find it. That has all the info you'd want and way more.

Do another book with Eddie Campbell and we'll call it square. You know you want to.
[Nook Color General] Thibor69:
Well I was testing a homemade script and I believe I did in fact format eMMC and either scrambled the boot partition or deleted it also on emmc. No mater what I do I can not get eMMC to boot. I can boot cwm from SD-card, but nothing on eMMC.

Advice ?? please be as technical as needed. I do not have Linux right now, but I do have adb on win7 and 3 sd-cards

THanks
[Nook Color General] mateorod:
Well, let's see what we're working with...

$ su

# fdisk -l /dev/block/mmcblk0

Post the output of the above. It'll show what partitions are left (if any) and then we can take it from there. This can be a hassle indeed, and it will require some research as I have avoided doing this myself. I am hoping your ROM partition is still intact, at least.

Anybody else who can help, please do. I may not be able to respond as often as I would like.
[Nook Color General] MISRy:
I was gonna suggest 8+1 to see if we can get back to square one.

http://nookdevs.com/NookColor/RestoreToStock
[Nook Color General] mateorod:
He's gonna need a ROM partition for that to work.

For a long time, 8 failed boots would (as a last resort) result in a working Nook for just about every problem. But, as users are getting more experienced across the board, more advanced and dangerous stuff is being attempted.

When everything goes right, it can be pretty rewarding, but when it goes wrong...well, let's just say the solutions become a lot more advanced as well.

The output of the command will let us know which partitions are erased and if any are still intact. Considering the information we have so far, I am not hopeful. If the emmc was erased and formatted...well, we'll see.
[Nook Color General] Волк:
Here's what has occoured:

over-wrote the following partitions with "0":

# 0p7 = /cache

# 0p1 = /boot

# 0p5 = /system

# 0p6 = /data

Then formatted 5-7 ext4. Flashing a ROM with a blank boot partition has been done on another device many times with no issues, for some odd reason this nook responded poorly and I believe the the boot.img never copied over to 0p1.

I am not sure what all he tried but I know he tried the flashable emmc fixer, which didnt' fix it. I am actually concerned that made it worse, but that's my opinion and I don't have my hands on the device. For what ever reason he couldn't get adb working with the device. I found this thread:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=919353

And since ADB wouldn't work, I wrote a script and created a flashable zip for him so it would perform the same operation, but it stopped saying bad zip. He tested it with 7zip and there were no errors, I checked my script and I see no errors in it and yes, I used a proper program for it as well, NotePad++. He's a bit frustrated and sending it to me. I am confident that if none of the things he tried didn't completely scramble the internal partitions that I can get it working. But if anyone has any idea as to why the script would fail, let me know.

Edit: And correct me if I am wrong, but it's the lack of a kernel which caused it to respond so badly. A similar thing happened on our phone but was due to powering off with a blank boot partition (not our noob moment but someone else's), but being that it's a tegra 2 system we have Nvflash and all is easily rectified. My theory is that there's something, most likely memory, which is loaded by the kernel and is required for a recovery to run.

He tried the 8 failed boot and it did bring up something which ended with an error about no boot partition, I'll try to get the picture he showed me later, I need to run off to work right now.
[Nook Color General] MISRy:
... Nevermind
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
First, why in heaven's name would you purposely want to write zeros on the boot partition?

Second, adb was not working because there was no kernel or ramdisk on the boot partition since you had him zero it out. Adb needs both.

If he was trying to flash your zip with CWM from a bootable SD card, then the zip needs to be properly signed before CWM will flash it. You can have CWM toggle off that check, but I doubt he did that. Hence the bad zip error.

Also if he has his CM7 SD card still working, he can repair the emmc partitions using the terminal emulator from CM7. All the adb type commands can be run from there.

The boot partition probably needs to be reformated to vfat before it can accept any files from a CWM restore.
[Nook Color General] Волк:
For the same reason you would clean any other partition. Check out install scripts from kernels.

He couldn't get it working earlier, at least not from what I understood, and then, once he booted from a bootable SD why would ADB still not work?

We tried to toggle signature check, just in case that was the issue since I had him insert the .img's and I sent him the zip with install script and needed structure, so I'm still at a loss.

Oh, cool, that's the first I've heard of that, thanks.

In the thread I linked it uses the dd command which operates at a low level, it's copies a file with formatting, and will write the file with the same formatting. I've seen other places where they image a partition with that command, in both directions. Again, checkout kernel install scripts.
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
None of the install scripts for nook color kernels ever format /boot. They just copy over what is there. File by file, no images.

He may not have ever had adb working on the nook color. Just because he had it installed on his PC does not mean it will work unless he set it up properly for the nook color.

Not all adb commands will work on the terminal emulator. Most will. Depends on which is built into busybox. Also he may have to preceed any command with busybox.
[Nook Color General] mateorod:
A custom-made busybox, with a full set of utilities, is available with any install of Botbrew, fleshing out the missing tools. One of the big out-of-the-box advantages to the app.

If you've ever tried to zip a file in the terminal, you know what I am talking about.

It's in Google Play.
[Android General] hulkamaphone:
Hi All,

I have started a new blog called Android Gaming Reviews, specifically to cover and review the best games the Android platform has to offer. We focus mainly on the major publishers but do cover independent games if they pass our desk and offer a quality experience. I'd love to hear your opinions on the site as far as content or style. I aim to have a couple of reviews published per week, with news thrown in when available.

Check it out, subscribe, comment and feel free to send in or request your own game reviews!! Oh and if you're interested at all in submitting reviews on Android Gaming Reviews please let me know via email, however the site does not generate income so this will be a volunteer position.

Link:

http://androidgamingreviews.blogspot.com.au/
[Android General] creagrox:
Way to go!

Wish you luck, and perseverance.

______

I would love to interact with people more than getting you to press thanks button. PM me for any queries, friend invitations or small talks. thank you!
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] sookieball:
I didn't get to it quick enough and that makes me sad. :-(

Any one got the leak?

Or any word on if anyone is working on a aosp type build of the leak?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] pewpewbangbang:
it was an april fools joke?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] rootusr:
huh?.... April's fool day?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] sookieball:
Oh lord! What a bad joke! Hahahaha
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] WiredPirate:
Who needs Jelly Bean when Krispy Kreme is so stable and has such good battery life!!;)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] sookieball:
^^^^^^

LMFAO!
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] Maxi1984:
Hi,

i'm in Australia at the moment and bought a Telstra Velocity. At the moment it runs with the Gingerbread version but i want to update to ICS soon.

In the Gingerbread version there is no other language than English to choose. I was wondering if there are more languages in this version... can anybody tell me?

If not, is there any chance to get the German language on to that phone?

Because on the Rom it says it is just for the X710b version, so i think i can't take a rom of another Vivid/Velocity version.

I remember on the HTC Wildfire and on the HTC HD2 you could take all the roms for all the different hardware models because they don't change the radio rom?!

Why is it different on this phone? Or is it just a misunderstanding?
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] Spectrejester:
The ICS update for Telstra is all ready out so you can update it now. I checked mine, which is running ICS, and it only has English language option.
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] Maxi1984:
Yes i know that it's already out, thanks for the information about no German language included.

Is there any other way to get German language to the phone?

I'm wondering why i can't use a Custom Rom or Rom from another country/provider?

On my HD2 and Wildfire phone i could use alle the custom roms for the different hardware versions (UMTS frequencies)!
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] ScubaSteev:
Where can i download fully stock rom/kernel

I need everything all stock.

And how do i do it?

Thanks
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] igerald904:
If you go to the development section an grab el29 tar and Odin 1.85 they are both in the development section with wiki rooms kernels and etc...
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] MeWarning:
Here's a good link:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1433101
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] igerald904:
A soon a you click on the development section its like maybe the fifth thread by mr. Clown hope that helps you out.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] playya:
By taking your time and reading as well as doing a weeee bit of searching and you will be OK. Development has everything you need . Check out sfhub
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] ScubaSteev:
I'm not going to need a computer to do it will i?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] iniz94:
Yes, you need a computer to use Odin unless you use the App Mobile Odin which you can buy for $5.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] igerald904:
Just google -mobile odin pro apk
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] ScubaSteev:
(Root)mobile Odin?

Its on blackmart...if that's works
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] igerald904:
That should do it
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] ScubaSteev:
Ok cool...is it possible for me to brick phone if i for this wrong?

I really don't wanna brick it but i need this back to stock for a week
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Epix4G:
Seriously u can't buy a great app made by chain fire he has a thread on xda with a free version and you pirate it.....I don't understand some people have a great nite u saved 5 $ maybe go buy a big Mac
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] ScubaSteev:
Can't afford it lol

If i can get it free i will
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] drinxtir:
+1

(Pirates get skurvy)
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RoRo1990:
Hello so I have started to hate the feature where you are in the contacts list and sliding left calls and right sends a message. Sometimes when I am sliding down to find a contact I accidentally slide left and it calls someone I don't intend to call. It seems if you don't perfectly slide your finger down vertically it will do the message/call function. Is there a way to change the sensitivity on this feature?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RoRo1990:
So i guess it's not possible
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JJEgan:
or nobody that knows has read your post .

jje