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[Nook Color Android Development] mateorod:
I checked Nook Tweaks when I first built, but it has some internal checks that don't allow it to run. I guess it is one (of several) instances where the people putting out supporting Nook projects never considered that we would have non-CM roms. I don't have access to those checks, so fixing that will be difficult to know. But I will add looking into the volume to the top of my list, I remember that the Nook is barely usable as a music player without it.

I probably won't have it done before the end of the weekend, but there will be about a build a week, with the first update hopefully having the performance setting built right in.

Edit: I think I know what is going with NetFlix. I hope to have that working soon-- I also found out what is breaking Nook Tweaks, although fixing it is another matter. I may just have to look elsewhere for volume adjustments.
[Nook Color Android Development] majorpay:
Great... Well, I changed the performance setting VIA No-Frills to interactive and CFQ, so who knows? Maybe no more SOD anyhow... Sounds like the general consensus is that this is more of a "me thing" anyhow.

Edit: One thing I can throw in there was I was on trickle charge... Once I find my Nook cable, I won't be doing that anymore.
[Nook Color Android Development] AgentCherryColla:
The Netflix issue. Is that fixable from the user end? Can we just push a file? Or done need a flashable fix?
[Nook Color Android Development] mateorod:
Very doubtful it could be fixed that way. And I am not so sure that what I found is actually going to be helpful....krylon left some false trails it seems. Or maybe things just changed. But there was a bunch of talk about pushing a patch to cm as well, but it doesn't look like that ever happened. Which, if true, would mean that everything we theoretically need is in the kernel and/or device trees.

I will keep looking.
[Nook Color Android Development] lynnji:
If I'm coming from CM10.1 and do a full wipe/reset before flashing this, will a nandroid backup be of any use to get me set up quickly in PA, since the two are so different? I'm going to switch at some point, not in the middle of a business trip if it means starting from scratch.

You're crazy for doing this :) I'm impressed at how some of you developers do so much just for... fun? a challenge? the joy of helping others? Whatever it is, thanks.
[Nook Color Android Development] AgentCherryColla:
Could I just push the CM Kernel to this Rom. Or is there mods done to the kernel to make PA work?

---------- Post added at 10:06 PM ---------- Previous post was at 09:32 PM ----------

So I tried using the CM 10.1 Kernel. But Netflix isn't working still. So hopefully that's helpful.
[Nook Color Android Development] RoboticBuddy:
Wow. This little Nook Color has gone a long way, hasn't it? It was a weak tablet at first, but then this community brought life into it again.

I really thought that Nook Color development would stop at Android 4.1, but no, it continues to 4.2.2. I don't use my Nook anymore, but I have to pick it up again just to try this out. Amazing, what these devs can do to such a weak device. Thank you to all the devs supporting the Nook, as it was the first Android tablet I've owned. Good luck to you, and the community. :)
[Nook Color Android Development] mateorod:
Sorry I didn't see this earlier, I could have saved you the trouble. We use the exact same device and kernel tree, which is why I thought it was working in the first place. From what I gathered earlier today in a look around, the commits that were added to enable Netflix were in the kernel, the device and the proprietary files. But all of those projects are already in this rom. So they must ve relying on some commit from another project, the challenge is to find it.

Those guys just took it for granted because it was already there, but we are starting quite a ways back.

Thanks for giving it a shot guys! I do it for a bunch of reasons. I used to have a simple e-reader and then one day I found this site, and all of a sudden I had a full tablet. At the time I didn't even have a computer, so that was a pretty big day, you know?

Now I just want to see how far we can drag this thing, you know? A bunch of devices come and go, but the Nook keeps on coming. Steven676 got it into CM10.1, I think that is just great. We are very lucky he is around, he is just steadily improving the code base, and often. I also thought that 4.12 might have been it, very glad to see otherwise.

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I am not sure that it will include Netflix (b/c I haven't found it yet but I will see what Steven knows) but a new update will be out soon. It includes a working 'Performance' pane in Settings. It took awhile, but a conceivable 10% speed increase in people's devices seemed worth it. Also, I have now fully integrated with Goo Manager now, so (hopefully) after this next update, you should get notifications when a new build is put up.
[Nook Color Android Development] les02jen17:
I always used to say to my friends about buying an android device: "Don't look at the specs, look at how large and active the dev community behind it". I couldn't be any happier with my purchase! It's my first (and only) Android tablet that I own, and I always brag about how incredible it is that it was running on Froyo originally. Without the developers who backs it up, it would've stayed that way, but no--it went from Froyo to Gingerbread, Honeycomb, Ice Cream Sandwich and now to Jellybean! (Not to mention the wonderful custom ROMs and tweaks the developer community cooks up). It's just simply amazing. You know how to treasure a device. IMHO, you gave more than your knowledge--you gave your love to this device. My thanks goes to all of you! :good::good:
[Nook Color Android Development] bitstra:
found a bug in PA Preferences

Hi mateorod,

I've found a litle bug in PA Preferences:

1.

Goto System settings -> Hybrid properties -> Paranoid Settings -> Tools -> Backup Preferences -- gets 'properties.conf backup successful on NULL/BACKUP/date-time.conf'

because of NULL-device no restore possible!

2.

Goto PA Settings -> Apps 'Changed Apps' -> select an app (i.e. playstore) -> goto layout-panel -> tap a color -> view the color selection panel - there are not all screen elements visible. i.E. the HEX-Colorcode field and some color-fields at the bottom of the panel -> color selection is not possible!

regards

and thanx

bitstra
[Nook Color Android Development] lollyjay:
Unusual problem today. Press power, select "Reboot", select "Recovery", reboots back into PA, Happens every time. Cannot get into Recovery. :what:

Nexus 7 WiFi 32Gb | PA 3.15 13-Apr-2013 | Nova Prime | Franco-Kernel r61

Nook Color | PA 3.15 30-April-2013 | Nova Prime | Stock Kernel
[Nook Color Android Development] thejrcrafter2:
Would you say that this is smoother than the cm10.1, over clocked to highest setting, performance governor, 16bit transparency, basically anting that makes out smoother? The lack of a performance settings is the only downside I can see, but if it is smooth enough from the start, I might try it out.
[Nook Color Android Development] bitstra:
YES - give it a try. You can install it over CM 10.1 without factory reset/whipe data. I've done it only with whipe cahe/dalvik cache and that good.

Holding my CM 10.1 backup in back hand - but what for(?), I don't know:)

bitstra
[Nook Color Android Development] mateorod:
Thanks for the report, I will certainly check this out tonight. PAPrefs is the one closed-source element in the rom, so depending on where the problem is, I may not be able to do anything about it.

But there are a number of places where I define PAPref's behavior, so I will check and see if it is on my end. I certainly would like the backup/restore to work.

Performance settings are already added to the source, and will be available in the update this weekend. I tried to keep this as AOSP as possible, but I couldn't turn my back on a possible 10% speed increase. If you are nervous about that point, wait until I update this weekend.

Yeah, sorry. I have it on the bug list, but it might be easy to miss. I spent a lot of time on this but haven't been able to sort it yet. The only way to get to recovery is to boot into Cyanoboot and select recovery from there.

It is an extra-button press or two, I would like to fix it. But recovery is still available.
[Nook Color Android Development] leapinlar:
He mentioned that in the OP. You have to use the cyanoboot menu to get to recovery.

Sent from my Nook HD+ running rooted stock
[Nook Color Android Development] lollyjay:
Sorry I missed it :p

Der! It has been so long since I used the nook that I had forgotten all about the "n" command in Cyanoboot.

Nexus 7 WiFi 32Gb | PA 3.15 13-Apr-2013 | Nova Prime | Franco-Kernel r61

Nook Color | PA 3.15 30-April-2013 | Nova Prime | Stock Kernel
[Nook Color Android Development] rtotheichie:
So I have a feeling this is going to have a painfully obvious answer, but here goes anyway:

Where is the default Android email app?
[Nook Color Android Development] bitstra:
No pain, no problem...

I've flashed the PA-Gapps from over here: http://goo.im/devs/paranoidandroid/roms/gapps (the last one, 20130427...)

... and all is fine.

bitstra

EDIT:

oh yes, you'r right. Because I'm using only gmail, Id didn't see that the email.app isn't there - sorry. You can get out of titanium backup?

If not - take it it out of another rom.zip and copy it to /system/app and give it the right permissions :(
[Nook Color Android Development] mlegs:
Hello folks ! .. I am wandering around the web to find Paranoid Android with android 4.1.... The battery i think it drains faster in the last paranoid android which uses 4.2.2 of course. :) Can someone help me with an older version ? eventually released in the beginning of 2013 or the end of 2012.
[Nook Color Android Development] WJThomas:
Thanks mateorod, this looks great so far.

I have one missing feature. The previous PA had Bluetooth GPS support built in. There was no need for a third party utility. This ROM (and CM 10.1) does not. It has been suggested to use the Bluetooth GPS app from Google play. I have tried this, and it will show the GPS information inside the app, but even with mock locations enabled I cannot get my preferred mapping software (Copilot) to recognize the GPS is there. It keeps exiting with an error message that it was unable to register for GPS updates.

Since I use my Nook as my navigator on trips, this is an important feature for me. Without some way to get the GPS working with Copilot I will have to revert to the older version and miss out on the cool new UI. Can you please look into adding native Bluetooth GPS support like was in the previous version?
[Nook Color Android Development] mateorod:
Quick question-- what governors are available with CM10.1? All I see in

/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_available_governors is ONDEMAND. I am going to put out an update sometime tomorrow night, but that is the only governor in the new Performance menu.

I have some things I am going to try with netflix, but I don't have anything too solid yet. I am going to try some of the libskia changes in the CM repos.

I hadn't noticed that myself...it is in the source, but is not being built, not at any stage in the build process. I have several quick ways I could add it, but let me take some time and see if I can find out what is truly wrong.

Here are the most recent 4.1 roms. I hadn't noticed any change in battery myself.

That sounds like a worthy addition. I don't know what I would need to do yet, but I will certainly look. One of the things with leaving CM base, we lose all the hard fought extras that CyanogenMod does so well.
[Nook Color Android Development] mlegs:
Thank you :). Sorry I should of said: the paranoid android 3.15 (A 4.2.2) drains battery faster than CM 10 (A 4.1) ... At least on my nook color :(.. I just plugged off the charger , entered the app drawer, and already 1% was consumed. Now there is already 89% left after 14 hours since done charging (in idle mode).... compared to 76% left after one week on idle with CM 10 :( I don't know if it is one of paranoid android's features that drains the battery or if it is the android 4.2.2's features that drains it. I don't need what android 4.2.2 has to offer, but I really like some of paranoid android's feature and I wouldn't want to go back to CM10.

Thank you, mateorod, for this amazing ROM :) Good luck in your future projects
[Nook Color Android Development] leapinlar:
Get cpuSpy from the Play Store and see if it is deep sleeping when the screen is off. That may be the difference.

Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10.1 on emmc
[Nook Color Android Development] lorddunlow:
Interactive

Ondemand

Conservative

Performance

IIRC
[Nook Color Android Development] thejrcrafter2:
Is there a way to transfer data from the trebuchet launcher to the aosp launcher? Also, can we expect the status bar touch glitch to be fixed in the update tomorrow?
[Nook Color Android Development] mateorod:
Thanks I guess I will try and add some governors before the release...that may not make it in today's zip, but the performance stuff is still added, only OnDemand governor at this moment.

I don't know about launcher data, but I somewhat doubt that the aosp launcher has a restore data function. I have not solved the status bar issue, it is something from upstream not playing nice. It is my number one concern, but I don't have a solution on hand at the moment.
[Nook Color Android Development] mlegs:
the battery drains faster even when I read or work on the tablet :(
[Nook Color Android Development] rabi347:
Trying to install app from the playstore', but getting insufficient space error, can someone please help?
[Nook Color Android Development] purpleurkle:
Try clearing dalvik cache and fix permissions, in response to rabi347
[Nook Color Android Development] mateorod:
New Update

There is a new update out. (Hey, it looks like some people have already downloaded this as it was going up...don't install anything under 140 mbs, and check the MD5, okay? Or better yet, wait for me to post here, I am going to update once a week or so unless something big happens, so I can let you know when it is available.)

As promised, this release includes:

Performance settings, including everything familiar from the CM10/10.1 releases including memory management, dithering and the rest.

However, for some reason the governor is not changing. It has all four of the regular governors in the menu, but the change does not take.

Trying outside apps (someone suggested Trickster-Mod) DOES change the governor, so I just need to see what is up. The list of available governors is /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_available_governors, but that only lists ONDEMAND. Maybe you could add one of the others by hand here and have it work, i have not tried.

Another improvement is that I have added automatic updating from Goo Manager. It is not going to work on this release, since it wasn't added in the initial zip. But every successive release should give you a notification when the update is ready.

Bug list/Work list/Dream list is:

Add performance Settings-- DONE

Add Goo Manager updating-- DONE

Add NETFLIX--DONT KNOW YET

Dead zone in Navbar w/PIE

Power menu/ADB: boot into recovery.

Add stock email

Allow change to other governors

BlueTooth: native gps support.

I may edit this list some later if I think/hear of something else.
[Nook Color Android Development] rtotheichie:
I forgot to mention this earlier, but this is by far the BEST ROM I've ever used on my nook, or any device for that matter.

Also, does anybody happen to have a copy of the email apk? I don't usually backup system apps. Thanks in advance
[Nook Color Android Development] bitstra:
Here it is - See attached zip-file. It contains email.apk + Exchange2.apk

The zip-file is NOT FLASHABLE. Unzip it, copy the apks to /system/app and give them the right permissions...

regards

bitstra
[Nook Color Android Development] thejrcrafter2:
This isn't a huge issue, but could you try to integrate an automatic Gapps intaller into the zip? It is somewhat of an annoyance that I need to reinstall Gaaps then re-input all of my data every time I flash. Not a huge issue, like I said before. What makes the Gapps wipe, anyways? I might be able to work on it in my spare time.
[Nook Color Android Development] leapinlar:
You should not have to re-input all your data. It should stay. But for now, you do have to re-flash gapps. But mateorod is working on that and I am sure the fix is not far off.

Ordinarily with CM ROMs there is code in the installer to make a backup of gapps system files before the installer wipes /system. Then after installing the new CM system files, it restores what it backed up. That backup code is missing in PA. He just needs to figure out how to get it back in.

Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10.1 on emmc.
[Nook Color Android Development] bitstra:
[MENTION=4342828]mateorod[/MENTION],

please, don't understand this question as a feature request!

Do you see any way, we can get OTG working in JB 4.2.2 - does any body know where to start to build the stuff to get that working?

Edit:

But here comes a litle request...:

Will you built next releases with Paranoid Android newest Halo-feature? I use on my 5 month old nexus 4 and its very impressive...

More impressive it would be on my 2 years old Nook Color :)
[Nook Color Android Development] rtotheichie:
In case anybody else is going to do this, all you need is the email.apk file. Exchange services is already present and working. I simply unzipped the file and side loaded the email app. The formatting was a little funny at first when I had to set it up, but after the initial setup, it works perfectly
[Nook Color Android Development] mateorod:
This is an upstream issue from ParanoidAndroid, I have found out. So it is something that they have (presumably) kept this way on purpose. I am still planning on looking at this anyway, mostly because I also hate reflashing gapps each time. We are using a lot of the CM build scripts (due to our having a uboot and so forth instead of the standard (by now) boot.img of other devices. AOSPA only supports Nexus devices upstream (officially, anyway) so they didn't have any code in their build repos that could handle constructing a Nook rom. But since we have the CM build scripts, perhaps adding their backup scripts will be a little easier. But those scripts are in cm/vendor, so it may prove to be a challenge.

That is a lot of extra info---- I am looking at it, but it may be a little while...

The Paranoid Android guys have some real killer features, and their design sense is pretty much impecable. When I was putting together this rom and sifting through the PA promotional images, it really stands out.

But they do some things that absolutely drive me bonkers. I won't get into all now, but the point is that at this point, halo is (as far as I know) still closed-source. When ParanoidAndroid team is working on a big feature, they make their gerrit instance (where new features and code are worked on and reviewed) and privatize it. You can see in their manifest, whenever their gerrit address changes to "androidninjas:8181" instead of "paranoid-rom", they've gone underground.

I will add it as soon as it is available, I would like to know what you guys think about it. If someone knows that the code is available, let me know.

Yeah, Exchange is included, and I have the Email in the source. Generally speaking, the Android build system just sucks up any make files (or classes, modules, etc.) it comes across, so i do not see why it is not being built. That will get solved, though.
[Nook Color Android Development] WJThomas:
Gentle reminder: This has still slipped through the cracks.
[Nook Color Android Development] igoth76:
Problem with Gapps

I just installed the rom tonight on my Nook Color and am having trouble with gapps. I have twrp on sd card but ROM is eMMC, when I install gapps and reboot I keep getting that setup wizard has quit working repeatedly. I've tried different (older and current) versions of the gapps package from goomanager and all seem to give me the same issue. Any suggestions?
[Nook Color Android Development] bitstra:
I have TWRP on emmc-recovery-part. and this ROM on emmc-normal-part.; CWM recovery on sd-recovery-part. and CM 10 on sd-normal-part. No issues so far. This setup on my nook is driving since about 6 months with many installs, backups and recoveries...

bitstra

Edit: After switchig on the nook hold down de n-button until you get a CWM - selection menu. There select the emmc-recovery partiition for booting - install your emmc-stuff via this emmc-recovery...
[Nook Color Android Development] mlegs:
I solved the problem with the battery draining on nook color with paranoid android 3.1.5 ! :D it's actually an android 4.2 issue :) I have installed paranoid android 2,99 which uses android 4.1.2 and the battery consumption level is back to normal :) Thank you
[Nook Color Android Development] purpleurkle:
I hate to ask cause I'm sure I'm just missing something, but is there no way to play music? Like Apollo or media player? Like I said I'm sure I've missed something but I'd thought I'd ask just in case.
[Nook Color Android Development] lollyjay:
I use Songza, TuneIn Radio Pro with good results.

Nexus 7 WiFi 32Gb | PA 3.16 13-Apr-2013 | Nova Prime | Franco-Kernel r61

Nook Color | PA 3.15 30-April-2013 | Nova Prime | Stock Kernel
[Nook Color Android Development] Woz2000:
Are you installing the full PA-Gapps? Go to post #802 to get the link.
[Nook Color Android Development] AgentCherryColla:
I bought the ProVersion of PA Preferences. But I feel the all the tweaks and such are cut off the screen and I can't get to them.

Sent from my ~Ballin'~ Nook Color
[Nook Color Android Development] igoth76:
I was downloading the "latest for your device" through Goo Manager. I decided for S&G to try just downloading the latest available that way and using it and it did let me finish "Setup" and all seems to be working now. Thanks for the help/suggestion. :)
[Nook Color Android Development] bitstra:
Swipe the screen to the right side and you will have the PA settings options...
[Nook Color Android Development] bitstra:
[MENTION=4342828]mateorod[/MENTION],

a short headsup by paranoid's g+ news:

good news about Halo(?) ;)
[Nook Color Android Development] lorddunlow:
Mateorod, I noticed a bug with the lockscreen. Very infrequently, the screen flickers rapidly upon waking the Nook, and then it reboots. I think it may occur only when a media widget is active (i.e. Pandora media controls, Yatse media control, etc.). I'll try to grow logcat, but it's rare and difficult to reproduce.
[Nook Color Android Development] mateorod:
Link is down (expired?). could you toss up another, please.

I am putting out an update either tonight or tomorrow and have done some little things towards looking into this. But this is not a feature I have ever used in any device (I don't have a "smartphone", believe it or not...).

Right now, when I load up Google Maps, the little GPS notification does not display, and maps looks to be finding me by network location. I installed the Bluetooth GPS app from the store, but it wants to pair with a GPS unit. That sort of pairing is conceivably working now, (I would say a 18% chance of success, it depends where in the source code those actions are handled, i haven't looked really yet) but I cannot test it. What I believe you are saying you could do with this app is get the location information from an external GPS unit over bluetooth (or simply have the on-board Nook GPS work again), is that correct?

When the update goes out, will you check the GPS over bluetooth scenario again and maybe offer any other suggestions that would let me test this myself?

I also have some fairly extreme options I am willing to try, including following tonyp's example (from LG-P990) and testdriving a switch from bluedroid to bluez. But let's try the more simple reverts first.