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[Nook Color Android Development] mateorod:
Yeah, dizzyden has a rundown a couple posts back.

As for the update...eyeballer has a copy of the zip, completely compiled from source. But it has at least two issues that need to be resolved...the resolution is wonky, the app drawer icons fit, oh, six to a page. And the reboot menu is nowhere to be found, although the necessary instructions are indeed present in the device overlay.

Not exactly what we had hoped for. I had to write the make files for the compile, and so I am investigating it now, as well as reaching out for some perhaps more expert advice.

As discussed before, the nook is mdpi, but with a twist. The kindle fire is the same, mdip-large. We both use a mixture of mdpi and hdpi icons, or something. Not my strong suit.

I am going to continue to look into it. If I struggle, I may release it as a test release and see if any of you have ideas. I think of it as a compile issue, since a bunch of playing with the various prop files have yielded no change. But these sorts of problems are what community development is all about, right?

Just an update on the progress, you know I don't like to keep you waiting.

What? You say you've been waiting for a stable update for almost two months? That can't be right. Doesn't sound like me at all...

The search continues...
[Nook Color Android Development] kevin37:
Hay man sorry, I read through page 6 and there was nothing so I thought I may have been an exeption, my mistake for not reading the whole thread. In reading further after I posted I saw that I was not the only one with this issue. I was at work and did not have time to read all the posts until I got home but, I will be sure to read them all next time befor posting! Also I got 1.5 to flash with gapps only after installing the cm9 unofficial nightly Rom But if I do a full wipe it gets hung up on the boot animation. Also if I dont do a full wipe and or do a full wipe and then flash 1.6 over 1.5 it does a continued boot loop eather way. I guess thats because of the bug issues with 1.6. I dont know if this is the case with other installs but I figured I would post what worked and didn't work for me.
[Nook Color Android Development] les02jen17:
I just flashed PA on my NookColor. I was greeted by CM9's awesome boot animation and I just started asking myself, what would I not give to have a fully-functional CM9 on my NookColor? :D Thanks for all the effort, you guys! I'm really grateful!!!

---------- Post added at 06:15 PM ---------- Previous post was at 05:57 PM ----------

Can you share how you applied these "additional config (overclock/various performance tweaks)" to your PA NookColor? ;)

UPDATE:

Alright. Apparently, I didn't do my homework so my bad. :P I've just started reading the whole thread and I ran out of "thanks" to give (I'm limited to 8 per day) because of all the useful posts that I've seen which contains tweaks and tips for this awesome ROM. Thank you, thank you, thank you. And I hope you haven't given up on this ROM just yet! :D
[Nook Color Android Development] mateorod:
Okay, I have been busy with getting the 2.0 release of my autopacher tool out, and have not yet managed to solve this totally odd resolution issue.

So I am going to let you guys try it. This isn't a full release, simply because there is some wierdness here. I am actually hoping that by playing with it, maybe someone can stumble upon a solution. I am not 100% sure it is a compile issue, although I am betting it is.

The bugs that I know of are:

Resolution is Big. BIG. Six apps to a page in the app drawer. You have been warned.

Reboot menu doesn't work.

Let me know if you find any more, consider this mostly a proof on concept release while I look for some fixes. Play with the pad.prop. Look at the build.prop. See if you can find anything helpful. I just can't spend too much time playing with it since my Nook is mostly borked.

Download Deprecated. Current download link on OP!

This rom has been 100% compiled from source. This is not a port, this is a proper ICS PA rom for the Nook Color.
[Nook Color Android Development] eyeballer:
I've been trying to look into the dpi issue but can't figure out why it's doing it.. must be something in the PA f/b but not sure what...
[Nook Color Android Development] derekr44:
I get a "Unfortunately, Paranoid Android OTA has stopped" error twice when booting. (I dig the boot image, btw) Initial performance is very sluggish and my Apex UI takes awhile to respond. I do see that I'm running v1.6 with a Sept 5th build date in Settings, so the patch applied successfully.

My app drawer looks fine, though. I'm looking through my prop files and changing things around to see what comes of the changes, but so far, I only noticed some poor initial performance...

EDIT

* Paranoid Settings icon is missing in the settings menu (minor cosmetic)

* I did notice that I the notification background is there instead of the persistent transparency (yay!)
[Nook Color Android Development] mateorod:
Anyone else try with a new launcher? I don't have market access so I couldn't install anything new. But I figured that might take care of the issue. I will probably bundle one when this thing gets a release.

Thanks for your report...I actually thought that the performance on this rom was waaay better than the prior two releases...anyone else?
[Nook Color Android Development] derekr44:
You know, it very well could be the fact that I haven't applied v6 to this version of the ROM yet, if that matters...

I have an APK for Atom Launcher. I'll try that as well.
[Nook Color Android Development] grayfoxmg1:
Have run this with the stock Trebuchet launcher, Apex launcher, and Nova launcher. I got the best performance from Trebuchet and Nova when running this WITH v6 supercharge. However, I do use CM9 as my daily driver but honestly preferred Eyeballer's builds to this (sorry Mate). However I am keeping an eye on this thread and will probably test your next release.
[Nook Color Android Development] mateorod:
Well, I am syncing from the same device repo as eyeballer, so there shouldn't be any differences as far as that is concerned, although I can certainly understand prefering straight CM9 for performance or aesthetic reasons.

Those of you who have used different launchers, is the app drawer sized as normal?
[Nook Color Android Development] grayfoxmg1:
app drawer had a default of 12 apps per page in portrait orientation and 6 in landscape, anyone got something different?
[Nook Color Android Development] mateorod:
Okay, I dusted off the Nook and figured this out.

The default DPI is set at 240. Set a custom user/system dpi of 160 and you will be back in familiar territory.

Everything else is customizable from there. If you just want to have a normal app drawer and systemUI, try just setting the custom dpi on trebuchet and systemUI.

So we are back down to (from what I know)

reboot menu missing

icon for paranoid settings

Paranoid Backup FC's, but that isn't supported anyway, so I will yank it from the release.

I find this to be waaay more responsive than the first several ports. That could be due to the improvements in CM9 or just the simple fact that we were able to build completely from source and everything has been compiled for our device. Let me know what else you see, and I will see what I can do about it.
[Nook Color Android Development] derekr44:
Is my Google account & sync supposed to disappear because of a missing gapps? I noticed it disappeared along with the Gmail & GTalk apps after the 1.6 flash.

Should I just reflash the existing gapps from 1.5 to use with 1.6?
[Nook Color Android Development] mateorod:
I don't know the answer as Gapps crashes my nook. But my first thought upon missing some gapps would be to reflash te special gapps package on the download page.

I am not sure why anyone would put out a rom where it was supposed to remove those things. Not exactly a feature, is it?
[Nook Color Android Development] bodi524:
I flashed the 1.6 ROM then the same gapps package I used for 1.5. It worked fine. Using Holo Luncher.

I used botbrew to install V6 supercharger and have things working great.

I removed the PA OTA app as that was forcing closed.

Thank you for this ROM! I have PA on my GNex as well. Thanks much!!
[Nook Color Android Development] derekr44:
:)

EDIT:

I reflashed 1.6 and followed that with the 1.5 gapps package. Upon reboot, I get errors that the Google Account Manager has stopped, as well as the Play Store and Search. Going to revert back to my 1.5 nandroid backup and do a fresh reflash from there to see if I can give it a cleaner patch.

I've got Holo Launcher HD, Apex, Atom and Nova launchers I can try out.
[Nook Color Android Development] mateorod:
Brand new build of PA 1.6 is ftp'ing up right now.

I have it at a new download page since the versioning was so bad on the original page I was worried people would accidentally download old roms

All the install issues are solved, as this is FULLY compiled from latest CM9 sources.

Optimized pad.prop with working flash (with Opera) and 3D YouTube.

The long-press reboot menu does NOT work; I have preloaded Quick Reboot. I recommend that you put the shortcut on a homescreen, that will give you the same basic functionality. Screenshots can be made by power and vol. down,

Eveything else works great, as far as I can see. I believe this to be the fastest and smoothest PA rom by far, although we have had at least one report to the contrary. You be the judge.

I wasn't going to post the link yet, but my son woke up with a bad cough, so I am away from the computer for the rest of the night. Please wait for 45 or so more minutes before downloading as it is still in the process of going up.

If you are one of the first to try, checking the MD5 might be a good idea.

Thanks all, and especially the CM and PA teams. I just wrote some make files, they are the ones who did all the work!

Special shoutout to the great work being done by our CM10 team, fat-tire, keyodi, eyeballer and krylon. And riverzhou, who had made the best Kindle Fire rom the Nook Color has ever seen!

Later folks. I will try and clean this up later tomorrow.
[Nook Color Android Development] Quantumrabbit:
MD5s Verified after DL

PA 1.6a: fcf04d75d7937d756421499f5630abaf

GAPPS: f40db4a757083a6eb93d15317319e1f5

Installing now will report back shortly.
[Nook Color Android Development] k8108:
Did a complete wipe. Rom loaded fine. Even after a couple reboots, had a few freezes. Seems to be running okay now. Titanium backup freezes up every time. Smooth. No lags. Thanks for all efforts to get this from updated.
[Nook Color Android Development] Quantumrabbit:
Ha! That's a quaint little boot image.

Seems to be working pretty well. If battery life has improved, I will finally be happy on a CM9 ROM.

I did get one freeze requiring a reboot when I disabled my wi-fi
[Nook Color Android Development] hirent:
WOW!

I can't believe how smooth this ROM is considering the hardware and software limitations!

Great job on this one. It really is usable, I have just installed it and still configuring all the settings.

Will leave more feedback after using for a few days.

Thanks!
[Nook Color Android Development] grayfoxmg1:
Running through auto_patcher now, will report in once I've played with it a little.
[Nook Color Android Development] davidr415:
VERY NICE.. I never tried 1.5 but I did run AOKP for awhile.. this is considerably less laggy..

I do a lot of reading and the three readers I use (Nook, Kindle and Mantano) are actually snappier in this than in 7.2 MiRaGe.. and I am even running from SD vs EMMC for 7.2 (which doesn't seem to make much performance difference in my rig)

Nice work!!
[Nook Color Android Development] leapinlar:
Really good news mateorod, it runs with no mods at all on my SD install. All I had to do was rename to update- at the beginning and copy to the boot partition. No wiping at all. Works great so far. Thank you so much.

Sent from my Nook Color running ParanoidAndroid and Tapatalk
[Nook Color Android Development] grayfoxmg1:
is it weird that i feel this set into tablet UI looks better than eyeballer's straight CM9? Regardless I patched this with your auto_patcher script in cygwin, installed V6 script 11T6. This rom is really snappy, everyonce in a while it takes a while to boot, but for the most part it is noticeably faster than base CM9. I'll stick with this for a while and report any issues I find.
[Nook Color Android Development] hyperxguy:
WiFi problem

I'm coming from MiRaGe/CM72, installed this ROM for the 1st time (after factory reset + wipe cache/wipe Davik cache) --> I can't get thru the router to the web. It takes the password without problem but just can't connect. I didnot have any problem in CM72, flash back CM72 and no connection problem. What did go wrong ? Thanks.
[Nook Color Android Development] grayfoxmg1:
Router type? Connection type? Security of connection?
[Nook Color Android Development] cozboogie:
Hey bodi...where did you find the PA OTA to remove? Mine is FC'ing as well.

Thanks,

Coz
[Nook Color Android Development] mateorod:
Jeez, I don't know anything about that. I would try regular CM9 and see if it is a PA-specific issue. If so, then we will know more, I guess.

I thought I yanked that out!! Maybe not, though, I got in a rush at the posting phase. ParanoidOTA and Backup are unsupported by me and them, so it is better gone. You can find them in system/app, if they're still there.

Keep looking for other things, you might get one more update before Jellybean at that.
[Nook Color Android Development] les02jen17:
Erm... I was about to try the auto patcher but got confused 'cause there was so many of them. If I'll be using the latest PA, what auto patcher should I use?
[Nook Color Android Development] satya-1998:
A bit problematic......

I was successfully running PA v1.6 of August 3rd. (The previous version) I downloaded this new one and flashed it directly over my present ROM. Resolution problems are fixed but I get lockups while installing Apps like Nova Launcher etc. The ROM locks up on its own at times......

I tried a fresh install again, but of no avail. So I am back to my old PA.....

Maybe strange, but true
[Nook Color Android Development] mateorod:
All versions of the auto-patcher carry a full complement of patches. So you should always use the latest one. I we haven't had to update the ICS patches for awhile, though, so anything from the last month or two will do.

./auto_patcher pa_encore_etc.zip pdroid,v6supercharger cm9

Where you can remove one or the other mods if you only want the one. I include them both to illustrate that no spaces go between mods.

....

I have had a couple lock-ups myself. PA closed down work on their ICS repo before they were complete or mature. This is probably as good as we are going to get until jellybean. I personally found the speed and smoothness more than worth it. I can understand you feeling otherwise.
[Nook Color Android Development] grayfoxmg1:
I actually ran this latest build as

./auto_patcher pa_encore_blah.zip v6supercharger paranoid android
[Nook Color Android Development] mateorod:
yeah, with just the v6, all the patches are the same so you got away with one. The auto-patcher will query your rom if you don't pass a ROMTYPE argument (cm9, cm10, aokp-jb etc.) but if you pass an unknown like "paranoid android" it defaults to aosp for ICS.

For Android 4.1, the auto-patcher recognizes PA as a cm10 derivative and acts accordingly. I never did port that back to ICS. I might do that for the update, though.
[Nook Color Android Development] Vidjda:
Hi,

I had cm7 installed on sd card and now i want to try PA CM9 on same card. I formmated sd card and followed the same principle with this rom but i got error so i guess i first had to delete former settings from cm7. What's the right procedure when trying a new rom?
[Nook Color Android Development] hirent:
I didn't even realize this wasn't JB.

I just discovered PA recently when I installed it on my Photon, that was version 2.0 based on JB.

This is so much smoother than CM 7.2 on NC, that I didn't realize its based on 4.0.4 and not 4.1.

Although, I do have to say the device hardware limitations are coming to the fore. The ram gets fully occupied by the OS and 512MB is just not enough. This ROM is even more amazing when you consider this fact.

I cut down on everything I could think of, including keeping only one screen. That freed up some working RAM and it runs better now.

Incredible work.

Can't wait to see what JB brings to the table.

I believe the NC is on its way to become a legacy device by year end.

Thanks for sticking with this.
[Nook Color Android Development] grayfoxmg1:
ehh, i saw that auto_patcher had the option for PA so i was like, why not? Haven't experienced any problems thus far, would you like me to upload my update.zip that auto patcher created?
[Nook Color Android Development] mateorod:
Your choice, I feel like the auto-patcher is easy enough for individuals to use, but i am sure people would use an uploaded zip.

Yeah, i have built a JB PA rom awhile back, but it still has the same issues that our CM10 has. Once people have had a chance to try the gang's CM10 we'll go ahead and put together a PA build for encore too. The nook has been slowly hemorrhaging users and forum activity since the new year. What a great time it has been, though, huh?

My nook got wet and borked the wifi chip in May. It took quite a bit of effort to even repair it to a useful state. But after doing so, i had to adjust myself to its now limited capabilities. In so doing, i realized that it will never lose its usefulness to me. As a reader, it will always be useful to my family.
[Nook Color Android Development] k8108:
This is my first go round with PA. I am absolutely thrilled! Every try with 4.0 roms led to frustration as I could see the possibilities, but got frustrated at the freezes and lags. I need a larger dpi on some apps due to old age (53 year old grandma). PA is running smoothly for me without patches or new kernel, and I love the freedom of customizing each app!

I'm sorry that your nook got borked, mateorod, but thanks for hanging in there for the rest of us. I've had my nook for over a year and a half and I'm still having fun with it. I get tempted to move on, but I am pretty attached to my nook.
[Nook Color Android Development] Vidjda:
Tried to put the PA rom using 1.6 version bur still stucked at boot screen loop. Any suggestions? Can't seem to find 1.5 version as i read that same thing happened on earlier builds.

EDIT: found 1.5 version so i'll try with that and upgrade with 1.6
[Nook Color Android Development] mateorod:
There is a new download page. It is on OP and my release post.

www.techerrata.com/browse/mateorod/paranoidAndroid
[Nook Color Android Development] krylon360:
Mateorod

If you would like me to look into the reboot menu issue, shoot me a pm with the links to the base source and device tree you are using. It may just be an overlay issue.
[Nook Color Android Development] mateorod:
I would love some input from you, krylon. The reboot is in the arrays.xml like always, though. First place I checked. I even decompiled and compared the framework-res values and xml folders with a stock ICS build. There were differences, but nothing that looked to be the blame, although I could have of course missed something.

I also tried to add an invisible power button to the bottom right corner through some additions to the SystemUI (similar to what Leapinlar's UI patch used to have, although quickly done) but at the end of the day, it didn't replace the function enough, so I just went with the preloaded app.

Anyway, point is, some expert advice is more than welcome. I will pm you when I get in front of my real keyboard.
[Nook Color Android Development] Quantumrabbit:
So last night, while dicking around with wi-fi settings, I froze up again twice. I'm nearly convinced there's an issue directly related to enabling and disabling wi-fi.

Also, long-holding the N doesn't give me the recent apps... any chance you could add that, Mateorod?
[Nook Color Android Development] mateorod:
I actually think it is related to waking from sleep. My machine does it periodically, but i don't have wifi, and they would be easy to confuse.

There is obviously a problem with hardware keys, there are plenty of obvious places to look i just haven't looked yet, for time/ priority reasons. I just felt like they prematurely closed ICS to get on to jellybean and i have a heathy fear of hunting down bugs that could be due to the immature PA repo.

PA 2.1x (or whatever they're on now) is radically different, they were really just getting started with 1.6. So I haven't spent bunches of time trying to refine it as it is months out of date. For example, they haven't used pad.prop since 1.6, they have trashed the three layout model, you can preview all changes, which are done by a closed-source preferences app...yadda yadda.

But i will continue to poke around, since i don't know the status of CM10. Maybe krylon360 will find a point of egress here.
[Nook Color Android Development] RoboticBuddy:
This is probably the best ROM for the Nook Color I've used! It's really fast, but there are some lags. And one thing, whenever I'm installing an app, it freezes, and I have to reboot it. Any fix for this?

(I'm using PA 1.6 installed on eMMC )

Anyways, it's a really great ROM overall, thanks!
[Nook Color Android Development] eyeballer:
CM10 is progressing nicely, we had a pretty busy weekend... ;)
[Nook Color Android Development] grayfoxmg1:
Just reporting an issue I've come across. When running the 'Aurora' app (firefox 17). It will freeze the device when it tries for an update check. It is this auto updating that gets it as all my other browsers (stock, chrome, dolphin, and firefox beta) work fine. It's nothing you should worry about, I'm just throwing this out there to warn other users of the app.
[Nook Color Android Development] stinky634:
This ROM looks great.

I was not able to get it to run for more than a minute before it locked up. Not sure if I am missing something on installing, but full wipe/format was performed.

Also, when I was typing in my WIFI password I noticed the letters on the pop ups when you type were too low so the bottoms were cut off.

NO worries, I reverted back to my Mirage Setup from a while back that I have been very happy with. I will keep lurking here and see what develops.

Thanks!!
[Nook Color Android Development] -somebody-:
ooh ooh, great to hear. thanks eyeballer
[Nook Color Android Development] chopsticksny:
anyone has the flash player for opera?
[Nook Color Android Development] leapinlar:
Just download from the play store. It is the ordinary one from there.
[Nook Color Android Development] mateorod:
Are you using the ROM from here?

There have been some isolated freezes, but nothing that really bugs me too bad. YMMV.

But the cut-off graphics sound like a hold-over from the ports from last month.

If anyone finds a link to the older download page on this post, would you let me know? I have seen this a couple times now, am afraid I am accidentally sending them there.
[Nook Color Android Development] chopsticksny:
hello, i cannot find the flash player in the play store.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] blues_man:
Hello everyone!

I installed the ICS 4.0.4 BCM RC4.1U2 on my Desire (using Data++ layout)

The installation worked perfectly but unfortuanetly I am not able to connect to an 802.1x EAP WiFi (eduroam at University of Paderborn, Germany). I used the exactly same settings as before on the Froyo HTC Stock Rom, there I've never experienced any problems: EAP-TLS including root and client certificate.

Obviously the wifi configuration is not saved properly on the phone now, so that no connection is established at all. When I try a second attempt to connect, the configuration for the eduroam is still blank.

Is this problem a known issue for the ICS 4.0.4 BCM RC4.1U2? I could not find any bug reports concerning this. Connecting to other wifis (WPA or WEP encrypted) is no problem. I even tried a full wipe and re-install, but I have still the same problem.

Does anyone have an idea? I'd be very thankful for help or hints...