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[Nook HD, HD+ General] Tigrisan:
I found them. But I still don't feel comfortable enough to tackle it now. Maybe in a day or two, I'll give it a try.

In the meantime, I wanted to say that I haven't had a bit of trouble following these couple of threads that started when the HD+ was just releasing as far as what to do to sideload and such. Unless someone comes up with a 'new' method such at booting from an SD, I think this and the one or two other threads going already have been more than I could ever hope for as far as helpful goes.

Thanks again! :good:
[Nook HD, HD+ General] tonyp22:
Has anyone else noticed a very very faint colored gradient down the right edge of the HD+ screen? I'm not sure if I'm imagining it, but if I go to a pure white screen it seems like as I get to maybe 1/4" or so to the right hand side there is a slightly darker gradient. Doesn't appear to be noticable on gray or other colored backgrounds.
[Nook HD, HD+ General] leapinlar:
I don't see that on mine. Maybe your device is defective. Or maybe my old eyes are defective and not as sharp as yours.
[Nook HD, HD+ General] MGREX:
Realistically speaking how far are we from being able to boot CM10 on the HD+?
[Nook HD, HD+ General] mpeg3s:
I think the 2D performance on this Nook HD+ is poor.

Has anyone ran 2D benchmarks?
[Nook HD, HD+ General] The Old One:
Realistically it would more likely be CM11 before we get a port on the HD+.
[Nook HD, HD+ General] dbh369:
Where do I get nook tools 0.2?
[Nook HD, HD+ General] leapinlar:
Look at my Nook HD+ tips thread linked in my signature. I have it attached there.
[Nook HD, HD+ General] smatticus:
Sorry, i should have stated in my original post that i do actually own a 32gb hd+ and was looking right at the microphone as i typed said post. It's on the top of the device to the left of the volume toggle. the quality of the recording is much better than on the nook tablet.

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i don't THINK i see one on mine.
[Nook HD, HD+ General] Tigrisan:
I don't see that at all either. The display on mine is stunning and I think, even better than the iPad 3 a couple of the guys have that I work with. I would call BN and tell them you have a defective display, or at least ask them if anyone else has reported that.
[Nook HD, HD+ General] Sochaux:
htttp://bookclubs.barnesandnoble.com/t5/NOOK-HD-HD-Support/NOOK-HD-Screen-Defect/m-p/1404674#U1404674
[Nook HD, HD+ General] tonyp22:
I had my wife look at it, and she agreed that on the starup white display there is a very very slight (but still visible) shading down the right side. Makes it look like the illumination is not even across the display. Back to B&N today for an exchange. Hope the next one desn't have this problem.
[Nook HD, HD+ General] madsquabbles:
it's there. most notable when you set it a lower brightness with a white bg. it's an uneven lit screen. it's pretty common and most likely will be on the new one. hopefully just not as prevalent. since i read with a black bg i really don't get bothered by it.

on another note, this thing has some awesome standby time. 24hrs sleeping (the tablet, not me) and it's barely gone down 1%. all i need now is a nice portfolio type case for it.

i really wonder how bad the hearing on some of the guys reviewing the reader are. a few claimed low volume levels, but mine is freaking loud, not as good as my galaxy note 10.1, but pretty loud - just facing the wrong direction. cup your hand and put a sticky note in front of the speaker and it'll redirect the sound back to you 10x better.
[Nook HD, HD+ General] Tigrisan:
Your link has one too many "t's" in it. Anyone following it will have to edit.

That aside, like I said, mine has nothing. The screen is great so it's obviously a flaw that some models are experiencing but not all.

As to the volume, mine also it extremely loud.
[Nook HD, HD+ General] Sochaux:
XDA-Developers say:

That's why :rolleyes:
[Nook HD, HD+ General] tonyp22:
The replacement has a nice, even illumination across the screen. Perfect? Hmm, I'm anal about this stuff so I'll never say yes, but nowhere near as prevalent as on the last one. I lowered the brightness to almost 0 and saw no obvious discontinuities. I can live with it, picky as I am.

I agree about the volume - it can get pretty loud.
[Nook HD, HD+ General] tonyp22:
Hmm, it's seeming like this one is taking longer to get to the initial full battery charge that the last one. Anyone have an approximate time to full charge for the first go-around?
[Nook HD, HD+ General] Tigrisan:
It took mine about 3 hours on the initial charge at 50% when I plugged it in but now, it's taking about an hour and that's it.
[Nook HD, HD+ General] verygreen:
Not sure about you.

Mine just booted into CM10 a few hours ago ;)

[YOUTUBE]_YAj9LkwOgE[/YOUTUBE]
[Nook HD, HD+ General] Tschumi:
You evil, evil, wonderfully evil man!

(so, it took less than a week of tinkering... Kudos, guys )
[Nook HD, HD+ General] tech6:
Congrats! When are you going to share?
[Nook HD, HD+ General] someone0:
How dare you didn't put CM11 on it, oh wait I suppose to say that next year. BTW which version of Android is it base on, 4.0/4.1/4.2?
[Nook HD, HD+ General] linuxjacques:
As the device info shows at the end of the video; 4.1.2

And the stock kernel.
[Nook HD, HD+ General] someone0:
Yea, stupid question on my part. Although I didn't see the whole thing, ICS is CM9 and JB is CM10 and I don't think google release source code for 4.2 yet.
[Nook HD, HD+ General] hwong96:
JB 4.2 and API17 released last week.

Sent from Nook Color CM10 using xda app
[Nook HD, HD+ General] dbh369:
And still the MODS don't give us a thread?!?!?
[Nook HD, HD+ General] IDtheTarget:
Is this using the standard Nook Color SD card boot? Or did you do something special?

Thanks for all of the awesome work you're doing!
[Nook HD, HD+ General] verygreen:
Currently it's just a standalone image that I populate by hand, but self-expanding sdcard approach like on Nook Color is actually pretty easy to do too. It's just not really needed at this stage.
[Nook HD, HD+ General] The Old One:
Perhaps we should move this to androidforums.com They had a nook hd and hd+ forum in SEPTEMBER!

Sent from Droid 4 Running Codename Android
[Nook HD, HD+ General] someone0:
So far, how reliable is the CM10, or should we still keep using Nook + root + gapps for a while?
[Nook HD, HD+ General] docfreed:
Irrespective of how you actually make the CM10 SD Card how do you get the HD+ to boot from it? Are you saying that an HD+ can actually be made to boot from an SD Card or is there some other magic that needs to be performed?
[Nook HD, HD+ General] hwong96:
If past Nook models are any indication, the SD card is booted first provided the SD card is boot able and the ROM is compatible with the hardware. So LeapinLar's modified CM9/CM10 boot able SD card should work.

Sent from Nook Color CM10 using xda app
[Nook HD, HD+ General] leapinlar:
First, that is not my bootable SD. That was created by the very same verygreen that is posting here and demonstated the CM10. All I did was modify his image for CM10. Second, this is a different device so that card cannot be used.

And from what verygreen said a few posts back, he did not accomplish what he did by booting from an SD. From looking at his video, he first boots to the stock and follow on loads CM10. He said it was an image.
[Nook HD, HD+ General] verygreen:
That's not entirely correct.

Nook HD+ does boot from SD card by default.

I only show the stock at the start (and power it off) as a "non-fake marker" - i.e. to demonstrate this is not a video I am playing back on the Nook.

The fist Nook logo is the stock bootloader booting from SD card, we can't do without it because the boot process checks signatures and such. After this stock loader is loaded, it then loads and passes control to our bootloader (the cyanoboot logo) which is then actually loading everything else.
[Nook HD, HD+ General] leapinlar:
Wow, you are making great progress. I didn't mean it can't, I just didn't think you did. You said something about the SD approach not being necessary. Now after I read it again, you said the self partitioning scheme was not necessary, you just used an image.

I can't believe this is happening this fast. You guys are wizards.
[Nook HD, HD+ General] someone0:
I believe the Nook HD+ already had the ability to boot from microSD out of the box. At least that's the impression I got from watching verygreen original rooting video.

I think we just didn't know how the partition has to be on the microSD or would stock compiling JB android would boot.

Nah, he is a dev. And I'm neither(seriously if I'm I would toss all the cars in front of me away during traffic jam, and YES I prefer doing that than teleport myself.). You got a good grim of things yourself.
[Nook HD, HD+ General] linuxjacques:
So where does the chain of trust stop? Hardware checks MLO which checks u-boot and u-boot doesn't check kernel?

Or does MLO not even check u-boot?

I'm sorry I missed the initial discussion and now I can't find it. :confused:
[Nook HD, HD+ General] verygreen:
They forgot to take out debug code from u-boot, so it will load a kernel off sdcard without any checks.
[Nook HD, HD+ General] leapinlar:
Does that mean they might be able to load a new signed u-boot in an upgrade and block it again?
[Nook HD, HD+ General] verygreen:
no, not really
[Nook HD, HD+ General] Tigrisan:
I have been trying to follow this thread religiously, but I have to ask, did the image file and instructions get posted somewhere on booting from the SD and did I miss it? Or is it still in the Dev stage? Sorry, I'm a bit impatient...
[Nook HD, HD+ General] leapinlar:
Nope, you just have to wait like the rest of us.
[Nook HD, HD+ General] someone0:
Anyone got any idea on how to deal with certain dialog box that show up with white text on white background and unable to read a thing or know what you are typing?
[Nook HD, HD+ General] leapinlar:
I have the same problem. Trying to figure out how to change text color.
[Nook HD, HD+ General] someone0:
I start to think it's the theme on the Nook, there must be a way to change it, unless it built into the Nook binary.
[Nook HD, HD+ General] leapinlar:
I've done a little research and I think it is built into framework-res.apk, which unfortunately is on /system.
[Nook HD, HD+ General] someone0:
I know we can put a symbolic links in the /system/etc/hosts even though there already a file there. I don't know about apk though. Unless you wanna reset your? I know it's a pain but I have been able to guess what they say by experience so far on the app I use, so at least it is not a hugh problem for me.
[Nook HD, HD+ General] leapinlar:
How did you successfully add a symlink for an existing file? When I was playing with your first gapp package, it gave me errors when the ln -s command tried to link over an existing file. Are you sure that hosts file was really linked?

If we can successfully link it, I might be able to edit framework-res.apk and fix the colors.
[Nook HD, HD+ General] verygreen:
I suspect (but did not try) that you can just delete a file on .system, then put symlink in it's place.

The system checks that if the file is not there, and ignores such an event.

Supposedly it also ignores all non-regular files too.

In fact I guess let me try...

Yup, it works.

I replaced /system/bin/ping with a symlink to /data/su/busybox and reboot completed fine.
[Nook HD, HD+ General] leapinlar:
Ok, after one botched attempt where I thought I had bricked my HD+ (framework-res.apk was deleted but the symlink did not work - only way out was to manually do the 8 failed boot procedure), I got it to symlink to framework-res.apk on /data and it does not reset. And I got the apk decompiled and found the color settings. Just need to figure out which setting to change. Next test is to see if I can re-compile so it still works.

Edit: I attached the colors.xml file from the framework-res.apk as a zip. Anyone want to look at it and give me some ideas?

Edit 2: Modified slightly, recompiled and pushed. Still boots and runs fine. Just need to know what to change.

Attachment removed.
[Nook HD, HD+ General] linuxjacques:
The 2.0.4 GPL patch is out: http://images.barnesandnoble.com/PResources/download/Nook/source-code/nook_hd_2.0.4-delta.tar.bz2

It contains DRAM config changes in x-loader and a few minor-looking changes in the kernel for the panel, hsmmc, and backlight.

According to http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=34473739&postcount=84 2.0.4 can still be rooted like before.

I'm curious whether they snuck in a new u-boot, but as verygreen implied, that should only be a minor inconvenience.
[Nook HD, HD+ General] madsquabbles:
any idea where dev going to moved to? it's almost 2 weeks and we've got no home yet. i've had devices that had forums up before they were officially out but this one is now in limbo in the middle of development. heck, the galaxy note II for verizon won't be out for another week and they've already got a folder.
[Nook HD, HD+ General] dbh369:
I got Play store working via someone0 technique. This is great, got it running. Has everyone had problems with google voice fc, gmail fc when you set sync, and apps not being available ( like Evernote)? Any solutions yet? Adb pull from my phone the only way?
[Nook HD, HD+ General] madsquabbles:
last i read gv isn't working. as for missing apps i do believe you'll need to pull them off your phone or you can try amazon appstore.
[Nook HD, HD+ General] leapinlar:
Google Voice is the only app I want to still work and it does not. It FCs like you say. And I have been debugging and found no solution yet.

And manually installing apps that Play Store says are not compatible is the only way. The ordinary fix for that will not work on our device since it means editing build.prop and that is on /system and cannot be edited or it will reset.
[Nook HD, HD+ General] someone0:
Maybe, we can't edit them and leave them in the same location, but we can remove certain files and replace them via sym link. So, it might still be possible. I have wonder if I go back and use the JB gapps would it have incompatible with those apps also? I don't exactly have tme right now and neither I care about having VoIP on the tablet that have no front facing anyway.
[Nook HD, HD+ General] leapinlar:
The version of Play Store does not matter. It is what it reads about LCD density and device info. And yes, I think we could do the symlink trick, but not positive since build.prop is needed very early in the boot process.
[Nook HD, HD+ General] verygreen:
Potentially you might be able to overwrite at least some of the stuff via /data/local.prop

Additionally I have the same density as nook stock in CM10 and Google Voice still shows up in market (google talk does not, though).

Also GoogleVoice does not really allow any VoIP, does not it? Usually you needed stuff like GrooveIP for that last I checked.
[Nook HD, HD+ General] leapinlar:
I was able to do the symlink with build.prop so I can put anything I want in it. I have not found the right combination of settings there to make market make things compatible yet. May try NookColor settings. Used Galaxy Tab first. I am using Evernote as the test for compatibility.

I only use GV for free texting and voicemail service, not VoIP.

Edit: I did a little more experimenting and I thought maybe permission xml's under /etc was the problem. I was not able to fix the Play Store issue, but I wanted to tell about what I was able to do with /system/etc/permissions. I copied the whole folder to my /data/su/system/etc and deleted the /permissions folder in /system/etc. Then symlinked to the copied folder in /data. Rebooted and all was ok. Then I could edit directly the files in /data and they would be loaded at boot. This is so cool we can do this. It really opens up some possibilities for making a lot of changes to /system. Like verygreen said, the only files you cannot do that with are files like su.

Edit 2: How about putting a whole different ROM in /data and deleting most of /system and symlinking back. Some files may need suid so that may not work, but worth thinking about.
[Nook HD, HD+ General] verygreen:
for suid files, you can just copy them to /res first and then point your symlink there. But there are not many files like that.

That's possible too, but I see little point in this. You are still limited by what's in B&N ramdisk and such.

Of course there are tons of bootloader holes that for example would allow you to totally skip supplied ramdisk image and instead set root to a different place altogether, but that requires some invasive changes. All in all, I think with this level of changes, you are better off just doing a proper full rom and stop depending on anything B&N (but xloader and bootloader)
[Nook HD, HD+ General] tonyp22:
It seems like not all HD+ tablets have been auto-updated to 2.0.4. Mine is still at 2.0.2 and I sideloaded a bunch of stuff, including GoLauncher and AnyCut. Does anyone know if the 2.0.4 update will cause all the sideloaded stuff to get wiped?

Haven't rooted yet.
[Nook HD, HD+ General] leapinlar:
It might. What are you waiting for? That is the easiest of all the things you have done. I used someone0's batch file and it was a piece of cake. And the gapps works really good too. You can use free apps to set the databases so you can block updates and install from unknown sources.

Edit: if you have not rooted, everything should be ok if it updates. The updates are designed to not mess up installed apps. It is just rooting and stuff like that that it might mess up. And 2.0.4 roots fine. I just got a second device for my gf for Xmas and it updated to 2.0.4 yet rooted fine.
[Nook HD, HD+ General] docfreed:
Not rooted and I updated to 2.04 - no problems on my sideloaded apps (even ADW launcher)
[Nook HD, HD+ General] tonyp22:
Thanks. I was going to wait for 2.0.4 before rooting. I wonder why mine didn't update yet?
[Nook HD, HD+ General] tonyp22:
BTW, does anyone know if I can sideload the Amazon Store? It seems WiFi Analyzer won't run without it.
[Nook HD, HD+ General] Tigrisan:
Sideloaded Amazon's AppStore and it works great! I did all of this after the auto update to 2.0.4 so couldn't tell you if it would have wiped mine. But I've not rooted either, I'm just sideloading. If someone posts a vid on how to root, then I'll do it from that. I'm not good enough to do it otherwise.
[Nook HD, HD+ General] leapinlar:
If you originally got a free app from Amazon on one of their daily deals, those won't run unless you have Amazon store installed and you are logged in.
[Nook HD, HD+ General] Windsor1959:
I just tried a little experiment. I upgraded my rooted HD to 2.0.4. All sideloaded apps remain, and I still have root. A few people may find that helpful.
[Nook HD, HD+ General] Taosaur:
I suspected as much and was going to let the experiment play out regardless (still haven't received the update) but it's good to hear it confirmed.

Those dependencies are one of the many reasons I nuked the Amazon store on all my devices long ago. Just re-download from Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.farproc.wifi.analyzer
[Nook HD, HD+ General] Tigrisan:
My problem with downloading from Play and not using Amazon's AppStore anymore though is, I have a couple of apps that are only offered through Amazon. And I use them frequently. I haven't found anything I like in Play that's equivalent so I'm sort of stuck with Amazon as well.
[Nook HD, HD+ General] RALIR:
Hi Roustabout,

When I do this database editing using SQLite, get rid of the wal and shm files and reboot, Nook HD+ does the 8-cycle reboot and reloads stock ROM. I have done this about 3 times. Any thoughts on what could be the reason?

I also tried Skyhawk's approach using Nook Color tools. But after placing the apk file in system/app folder, I do not see the app in the app drawer. Someone0 suggested that Skyhawk's post omitted a chmod and chown step. But I have no clue asto what kind of chmod and chown commands are needed to see this app in app drawer.

I am sorry about having to put this in this post, but as you all know, other posts were closed and I did not have a choice.

Thank you and hope for everybody's understanding.

Best Regards,

RaliR
[Nook HD, HD+ General] someone0:
Stock UI may have problem not updating the sideloaded app. I suggest you remove the apk for now the reboot, and the first thing you do after it got reboot is to put the app at /system/app/ then start looking for that app in the UI. If you still can't see then I suspect you may either have prmission problem or the apk file is corrupted.
[Nook HD, HD+ General] RALIR:
Hi Someone0,

Thank you for your note. I am more interested in knowing why my SQLite modifications did not work. I followed Roundabout’a notes about making the changes to the db tables and cleaning up the backup files. Still when I rebooted, it went through 8-time reboots and reloaded stock ROM.

By the way, I did use Nova Launcher as well as Apex Launcher App drawers to look for Nook Color tool app.

Thank you for your patient answering of members’ questions.

Best Regards,

RaliR
[Nook HD, HD+ General] leapinlar:
The only thing that could cause that reboot is you inadvertently changing a file on /system. I remember reading his post and don't think he had you doing that. In any case, I have instructions for doing that mod on my HD+ tips thread linked in my signature.
[Nook HD, HD+ General] Taosaur:
I mentioned it in one of the closed threads, but just to confirm: after rooting and before attempting Skyhawk's method, did you run Superuser at least once from the app drawer? Some file managers let you know that they weren't able to get root permissions, but some don't and give every appearance that you've set the "root explorer" setting and/or changed /system permissions and/or copied your file, when in fact you've done nothing. If you never got a dialog box with the Superuser logo asking you to "Allow" or "Deny" root permissions, then you either didn't start Superuser or didn't turn on root permissions in your file manager settings.

Finally, once you're sure you've given your file manager root permissions, confirm that the .apk has pasted into the /system/app/ folder before looking for it in the app drawer.

Those are all basics that you probably already tried, but it will help to confirm you've taken those steps before worrying about more involved procedures.
[Nook HD, HD+ General] kunchers:
And I take it that the app store and the apps that you install from Amazon properly show up in the app drawer?
[Nook HD, HD+ General] leapinlar:
Of your launcher, yes. Not the stock app drawer.
[Nook HD, HD+ General] mateorod:
If you edit the framework-res to read as 'voice-capable' in the bools.xml then things like phone calls over Google Voice will probably be possible. That is all that is needed with the Nexus 7. That won't solve your FC problem, I don't think, but it a step you will probably want when that symptom is solved.

I would bet you dollars to donuts the autopatcher could do this for you:

./auto_patcher NookHD.zip voice

but it is an easy edit do it by hand if there is something about the NookHD rom I don't know(I haven't been following too closely since I don't have one)

OT edit: Lar, I was working on an encore rom, and I messed up the config and made it with a boot.img, and flashed it w/o checking. I was about to start trying to push or flash over a backup of my partitions by hand when I remembered your EMMC repair...worked like a charm...
[Nook HD, HD+ General] Tigrisan:
Yes, that is correct. I'm using GoLauncher and everything shows fine. None of the sideloads will show however if I stick with the BN interface. But the appstore works right, the apps download the way they should and everything is recognized. For the few I use through the appstore, it was well worth the sideload for me anyway.
[Nook HD, HD+ General] kunchers:
Also, I've been reading through as much of this as I can (don't have the HD yet, but I ordered it), and I'm unclear if I can get the Google Play store on there without root; I'm not interested in full GAPPS, but just the store. Possible just to sideload vendor.apk and not bother with root?