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---------- Post added at 11:54 AM ---------- Previous post was at 11:36 AM ----------

Thanks a lot Renate. I've actually tried to use your Touch.apk on one of my broken NST's, but all it ever does is flash and then nothing happens when I initiate the app. I'm not sure if I'm missing some kind of supporting files or not for it to work properly. I use your USB host app all the time, and it plots the touches with coordinates. Just by messing with it, I know exactly what region is messed up. It'll actually register two touches when I am only touching with one finger in the regions in question. I thought I'd repurpose this nook and others like it to run as a low power display as a picture slideshow, clock, calendar, etc.

I tested a clock app called "NightClock" which is an android 1.6 donut app. It's a simple clock app without ads that can change the text color, font, and have it display battery life. It can display the time in huge readable letters, and is easily viewable at night with very little light.

I stopped all background apps, and ran it and it dropped the battery level from near 100% to about 75% in an hour and a half. I have a CPU governor setting the max CPU clock to 300mhz (the minimum the app allows), a newly installed extended battery 2150mAh which by its mAh rating, it should last 30% ish longer than a normal NST battery.

It could be a problem with the app, but I thought maybe the touch screen is sucking a lot of power.

Here is the download if you're interested in inspecting it. If you get to a font that looks like a chalkboard, it will totally get stuck on that font and freeze up the nook when opened, and you'll have to reinstall the app to get a different font.

httphttps://drive.google.com/file/d/1D-IBTyNz_-EXL7zUYZfBmoF6QSIGFJKi/view?usp=sharing

I knew about the dust thing, and I've tried fixing this one by cleaning the screen very well, but it appears to be something deeper than that. I may open it up and see if there's anything underneath the cover blocking it, but I know the consequences of that by reading some of your earlier posts.

Thanks for all your input guys. I appreciate all of the awesome development on the NST. In my opinion, it's better than any other e-ink reader to this day. I did my research before settling on this, and I'm really enjoying playing with it. I've given NST's as gifts to many of my friends and family that I've rooted and customized with all of your guys' hard work and unswerving interest.

---------- Post added at 12:13 PM ---------- Previous post was at 11:54 AM ----------

One would think, why not use a regular lit up clock instead of the NST???

Here is some of my reasoning: https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2014/06/26/sleep-electronic-gadgets.aspx

Any amount of extraneous light lowers melatonin in the brain which lowers quality of sleep.

The NST without glowlight (or with glowlight shut off) is awesome for various reasons. It has no light in it, and it can be read easily and clearly without glare under a dim red light (which supposedly has very little effect on melatonin levels compared to blue light containing full spectrum light from normal backlights). I can read the NST before bed, and have no issues with my sleep being disturbed or shortened.

I also love how low the power consumption is on this reader. It goes through a 1500mAh battery in many weeks with nightly reading and deep sleep in between sessions.

And thanks to all the people on xda, you can easily sideload books, read pdfs (with amazing quality), listen to an mp3 audiobook WHILE reading (which I do to practice foreign languages, modern greek and spanish)[huge thanks to you all Renate, myshkin, and xda for help with usb host and audio], you can check emails and send texts with google voice through email, and you can remove all the commercial junk of people trying to sell you stuff which also lowers battery consumption wasted on advertising.

I can't thank you all enough for this. I say long live the NST. I've enjoyed learning it from the inside out and passing it along to my friends and family.