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[Nook Color Android Development] arkas79:
I also want to add, that battery life during sleep is indeed dramatically improved for me compared to the nightlies.
[Nook Color Android Development] pastordl:
Lovin' the unofficial zip.

Ditto on the battery life. Will the kernel be in the nightlies soon? :good::highfive:
[Nook Color Android Development] Lakland:
the cm-10-encore-20121208-2306-unofficial.zip is a HUGE improvement in speed and responsiveness. I upgrade from the latest nightly to this special ROM. On performance setting I change the CPU for on demand, leave all other settings defaults. Is there any special settings on Performance tab that I can configure so I can get the most out of it?
[Nook Color Android Development] sisterchick:
See above for recommended settings for using this test ROM.
[Nook Color Android Development] GizmoTheGreen:
I have an old encoded video at 1024x600 that plays just fine though. (with H/W)

they also mentioned HW accel was working but don't slap anything ridiculous at it, like _1080p_ high profile. which is was makes me assume 720 should work, atleast medium profile.
[Nook Color Android Development] duane1221:
Bug Report

I flashed the test ROM today after wiping cache. CPU was set at max 1000 - Interactive. I/O = BFQ, zRam and KSM both disabled. When I put the Nook to sleep by pressing the power button and letting it sit for about 10 minutes, I got a SOD - no backlight. I have to hold the power button down to get it to reboot.

dmesg: http://pastebin.com/8v9wJeVs
[Nook Color Android Development] dna_d:
I hope someone can help. I wiped data, flashed the newest nightly and gapps, rebooted to a TON of issues. Re-wiped, flashed Beta 5 and gapps, still same issues.

What happened at first was I could not type anything as the keyboard would crash constantly. Installed the 4.2 keyboard, that works now. Other main issues are most of the apps crash right away, will flash on the screen then close. Says I am connected to wireless, but I get the no connection error in Play store. Nook is pretty much unusable, and I would REALLY like CM10 working. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated. Her is a pastebin of my logcat that I ran for a few minutes:

http://pastebin.com/zySrULJw
[Nook Color Android Development] duane1221:
I would think you should wipe the cache too, not sure if that is causing all your issues, but it may help.
[Nook Color Android Development] leapinlar:
Are you using the correct gapps, those for 4.1? There is a version 4.2. Don't use it.
[Nook Color Android Development] dna_d:
When wiping data, it states it is formatting cache, so I assume it does not matter. But to be honest, when I did the first wipe I wiped cache first.

I am using the ones from the second post in this thread
[Nook Color Android Development] leapinlar:
You are right. If you do a wipe data/factory reset with recovery, it already wipes cache. No need to do it again.

And on the gapps, he has two links, one on techerrata and one on goo.im. If you used the second link you could have picked the wrong one. You need to have the one that says 20121011.
[Nook Color Android Development] bigbob23:
When using CyanDelta to upgrade to a new nightly, I don't see any option to wipe the Dalvik cache. Is this done by default or should I reboot into recovery to wipe?
[Nook Color Android Development] Mr-Glass:
Yes - If you look into Settings you should have a check mark next to "Wipe Cache" that states Wipe Dalvik cache after zip install ...
[Nook Color Android Development] dna_d:
You are my hero. That was it for most of the issues. I still had to replace the crashing keyboard with the 4.2 one, but I would have done that anyways. Is there any way to get the pull down bar to be the full width of the screen, by chance?
[Nook Color Android Development] steven676:
720p H.264 baseline profile will work. Main profile may be slow depending on the content in question, and high profile videos are likely to stutter a lot. That said, all of this is with the built-in media framework -- if you're using a third-party player, it'll depend on exactly how they try to get hardware acceleration.

Nothing there that indicates the reason for a crash right off the bat, but this does raise eyebrows:

<6>sr_class1p5_calib_work: mpu_iva: Calibration complete: Voltage Nominal=1362500Calib=1325000 margin=62500

1.325 V might be a bit low for your (presumably early production, since it's ES1.1) chip, and this might be biting when you try to wake the system (which should ramp the CPU voltage/clock speed up). That said, it could also be a bug somewhere else.

Anyone else have observations for what voltages SmartReflex picks for this (nominally) 1.3625 V operating point (you'll find it in your dmesg shortly after boot, in a line which looks exactly like the one I quoted)? (If you're running a nightly, I believe we had this OPP at 1.35 V nominal, so look for that too in your dmesg.)

This Google Apps issue needs to be put up in lights at the top of the thread. And no, the notification pulldown is not supposed to take the full width of the screen in the Jelly Bean tablet UI.
[Nook Color Android Development] derekr:
Wow! 2 - 1/2 days of sleep and battery has dropped only 12% with the unofficial! Unheard of - used to have to charge every second day...

Great work guys
[Nook Color Android Development] Lakland:
My update: improvements in speed accessing drawer where all the apps are. Facebook take time to load, is not fast as my gt-p3113. Browsing on Facebook sometimes freezes. I am seeing a lot a message that the app is not responding and ask for wait, report or close. Google search is the worst, I think because of the Google now feature. It freezes, nothing moving, and force close. nook app take time to load but work as expected.

Netflix also have some lag, but better response now.

All angry birds are OK.

For now this rom is the better I test so far. No SOD yet.
[Nook Color Android Development] frankusb:
Hi,

Installed test build on Sunday. Left it idle and checked it now. 2d 12h 48s started at 85% and is currently at 66%. I have not had any SODs before the test build in quite a while so no data there. Overall the tablet is quite usable.

Frank
[Nook Color Android Development] pastordl:
Had some same problems. Fixed Permissions, problems got fixed.
[Nook Color Android Development] RandomPooka:
Yeah, I'm loving the battery life my kids are getting on theirs. Mirage CM7.2 had my son recharging his NC every day, sometimes more frequently. I looked at his battery status the other day and he was at 38 hours with 70% left, give or take, and he uses it a LOT when he's home from school
[Nook Color Android Development] Taosaur:
I ran into a problem today on the test build which may or may not have anything to do with the ROM. Attempting to install Titanium Backup from Play, I keep getting "Package file is invalid" errors. I'm setting the NC up fresh under a burner Gmail account w/ no credit card info, if that's relevant. It's going to be a gift.

ETA: I was able to install ES File Manager no problem.
[Nook Color Android Development] declined:
still getting SOD

I installed a fresh version of cm-encore 1208-2306-unofficial and I am still getting SOD everytime i go into sleep, even with stock settings, is there anyway I can offer logs to help find the problem?

Thanks!
[Nook Color Android Development] Lakland:
Thanks. Where I fix permissions?
[Nook Color Android Development] mrapollinax:
Boot into recovery, it typically is an advanced option.
[Nook Color Android Development] WoodmanMN:
Are you overclocked to 1100? ON my Nook (which I presume to be an initial release model) when I OC CM10 to 1100, I get play store errors. When I leave it at 1000, it's fine.
[Nook Color Android Development] RandomPooka:
My daughter couldn't install Temple Run from the Play Store . She's at 1100, so I'll have her drop back to 1000 and see if that fixes it
[Nook Color Android Development] robross0606:
Netflix?

Anyone managed to get Netflix running on this ROM yet? All I get is a grey screen and I'm up-to-date with nightlies as of today.
[Nook Color Android Development] sisterchick:
Search this thread and find the link to Netflix 1.81 - that version runs fine for most.
[Nook Color Android Development] robross0606:
Sorry, I take that back. It appears to be working now. I swear I must've uninstalled and reinstalled 20 times before it started working...
[Nook Color Android Development] dbrickg:
afaik, you need to use an older version of netflix. see http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=29514378&postcount=5
[Nook Color Android Development] Lakland:
thanks I found it.

Update I did it and I found some improvement now. Still some apps take some to come up, but is usable. I will remain with this ROM for now thanks Dev's!!! Let me know if you want some additional tests:cowboy:
[Nook Color Android Development] Taosaur:
That did it, thanks!
[Nook Color Android Development] Lakland:
I installed, I am on 1000. Change it and should be ok
[Nook Color Android Development] samcoinc:
Ok - This is the third time I installed cm-10-encore-20121208-2306-unofficial.zip images (md5sum checks). First was over the top - second and third was wipe system, data, cache and Dalvik cache. Install cm-10-encore-20121208-2306-unofficial.zip then gapps-jb-20121011-signed.zip. Run through the initial setup. The only thing I do is disable google search. Now - I first noticed it with my mythtv front end (mythtv android frontend by daniel frey) - I tried to play a video from the mythtv back end... The nook rebooted. First time I have seen that. So I thought that maybe because the app was beta... But for grins I tried to play a youtube video - same thing - reboot. I have also fixed permissions. This doesn't happen atleast on the nightlies.. (12/07) Also it doesn't usually come out of sleep with any keys (N, power or volume.) have to hold power for a good 10+ seconds then press again to reboot.

Something I am doing wrong? Like I say - fresh install with everything wiped.

Not a big deal as the nightlys work really well - no sods or such - but I wanted to play with the modded zip.

sam
[Nook Color Android Development] leapinlar:
That is the definition of SOD (Sleep of Death). It won't wake out of sleep and the only way to get it back on is to hard power off (like you did) and power back on. So you are having SODs with the test ROM.
[Nook Color Android Development] samcoinc:
With the test rom - it seems to do it almost every time.. I even lowered the processor speed to 800 from 1000 and it still is doing it.

sam
[Nook Color Android Development] leapinlar:
With the Nook Color in CM7, using the 2.32.xx kernel, SOD was related to the WiFi kernel module and WiFi state. If you had WiFi set to never turn off during sleep and it was accessed a certain way by certain apps, it hung up and could not come out of deep sleep. So, the reason it happened to some users and not others was it depended on how they had WiFi set and which apps accessed WiFi. I don't know if it is that way on CM10 since it has a different kernel and WiFi module. But obviously not all users are getting them so there must be some factors triggering them.

For those users that are still getting SODs, check your wifi settings. And Nook Color users found that using a program like Tasker to positively turn off wifi immediately when the screen turned off helped. The default for the system to turn off wifi when the screen turned off was like15 minutes. If their app interacted before it automatically turned off, bingo, SOD.

Sent from my Nook HD+ Running CM10 on SD
[Nook Color Android Development] bigbob23:
Thanks, I had missed that (but it was checked).
[Nook Color Android Development] samcoinc:
I just tested a couple of things.. First - I set the nic to never be on during sleep.. (still sod'ed) then I set the nic to off. (still sod'ed) I know I posted my specs for this nook in this thread but I cannot find it. I will have to re-find them.

sam
[Nook Color Android Development] eyeballer:
Can you join us on IRC for some testing?

Once you get to the chat screen let us know that you're the 800mhz sod guy :)

Click here: http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=nookcolor
[Nook Color Android Development] WoodmanMN:
I agree, the default of wifi always on kept mine SODing on the unofficial. I have mine set now to keep wifi on during sleep never, and have the wifi idle timeout set for 15 minutes. Where every time it slept for more than 5 minutes before it would SOD, I am now having better luck. Will have a better test tonight as I play with my computer and watch TV.

I'm finding the nook's processor the weak link at the moment. My nook can't multi-task well it seems. When downloading from play store, all other items are very slow, including web browsing, opening settings, etc.

I'll see how it runs over a few days before fussing with it.
[Nook Color Android Development] steven676:
Did your device SOD with previous nightly builds?
[Nook Color Android Development] deesto-xda:
I've been fighting with this for a few hours now: in the latest CM10 nightly, I tried all of the 5 available JB zips at http://goo.im/gapps/ (including gapps-jb-20121011-signed.zip), tried wiping all caches with each install, and each time the apps don't appear in the app list, and indirectly launching Play Store force closes it. Since 20121011 was the ZIP that people seem to recommend as the fix, and it's not working for me, what else can I try?
[Nook Color Android Development] WoodmanMN:
It was having SOD issues on 12-05 until I changed the sleep policy to keep wifi on only when plugged in, and timer at 15 minutes.

I got tired of lagginess when multitasking, so I went back to my backup of 7.2, but kept reading up and decided to try the unofficial.

It did just SOD on me after my last post, so I changed settings again.

If I turn wifi off before putting it down, it doesn't SOD, so I'm pretty sure it's a wifi related issue.

Working with the sleep settings in the WiFi menu to troubleshoot and will report back tomorrow.
[Nook Color Android Development] unicyclingEMT:
I just got around to trying the unofficial zip and it is amazingly fast. I am running on an SD card and the performance is just great. There is a slight lag but nowhere near as bad as it was with the official nightlies. Thanks guys!
[Nook Color Android Development] bowguy:
Go to Settings -> Apps and click on Google Play Store. In the upper right is a button called "Uninstall updates" Click on that and follow the directions. That's what finally worked for me.
[Nook Color Android Development] gardndj:
Still having the constant freezing issues, though in some of the newer nightlies my nook will reboot itself occasionally instead of outright freezing. I've tried an sd install to see if it was something funky with my internal memory but I encountered the same problems. Been playing around with different processor/memory settings with no results either. So I've been monitoring my kernal messages with "adb shell cat /proc/kmsg" and right before a app crash/freeze/reboot I'm getting binder errors. Specifically:

<3>binder: 2173: binder_alloc_buf, no vma

<6>binder: 1519:2254 transaction failed 29201, size 2200-0

Also:

<6>binder: release 1517:1517 transaction 59990 in, still active

<6>alarm_release: clear alarm, pending 0

<6>binder: send failed reply for transaction 59990 to 1699:3274

<6>alarm_release: clear alarm, pending 0

<6>alarm_release: clear alarm, pending 0

<6>alarm_release: clear alarm, pending 0

The numbers vary but the messages are pretty much the same each time. Correct me if I'm wrong but I'm pretty sure this has something to do with memory allocation, just wondering if there's a memory leak somewhere that's leading to these crashes? Or am I reading way too much into this?
[Nook Color Android Development] sisterchick:
Test Build Report

First - thank you for the time, knowledge and dev work in this build. It is appreciated. Second - in the spirit of reporting, not complaining - I too have been getting the occasional SOD on the above build. I'm running it with stock settings, including the wifi policy. SOD has happened a couple of times after an extended idle period (work day) not on the charger. May have been a correlation to auto updates being pushed from the Play store. Yesterday when I rebooted, the battery was nearly drained too.
[Nook Color Android Development] Dave08:
I'm fairly confident it's wifi-related also. Last night I installed the Long Battery Life DEMO app and so far so good. This small app disables wifi immediately when the screen turns off, over-riding the wifi idle timeout when the screen goes out. It also allows the wifi come back on by itself when the screen is turned back on. I could just turn off the wifi myself, but I forget sometimes or am interrupted. I'll report back on how this appears to work out. Let me know if there's any particular scenarios you want me to try.

Background: I've had SODs on every nightly I've installed since 11-11 (my first CM10 install on my NC), sometimes after running for several days with none. I tried the experimental build last week and had a SOD on it the first time it went into sleep, which was discouraging to say the least. I'm currently running 12-10 nightly and it ran fine (a bit laggy) until yesterday afternoon. I was browsing the web, was interrupted by a phone call, and when I came back to my screen-off NC 5 or 10 minutes later it was SOD. Edit: I installed the Long Battery Life app after that SOD.
[Nook Color Android Development] bigrat:
Side note: No SOD or crashes with the experimental build yet. One thing I have noticed is much better battery life. I don't know how much this has to do with the stock settings, or the ROM, but it's certainly much better.
[Nook Color Android Development] deesto-xda:
Thanks, but there's no Play in my Settings -> Apps lists. No Maps, no GMail either, etc.
[Nook Color Android Development] lollyjay:
Keep sliding across until you get to All.

QI0CM787SV, 12/11/2010

ES1.2, cyttsp

PA Encore 2.99 06DEC2012 nightly
[Nook Color Android Development] leapinlar:
They are system apps so you have to select the all tab at the top. They will not be in downloaded apps.
[Nook Color Android Development] WoodmanMN:
I have had my nook running since 11 pm last night with no SOD issues. Current settings are :

Processor 300-1000

On demand

BFQ

Z ram disabled

WiFi sleep at 15min plugged in or unplugged.
[Nook Color Android Development] RoboticBuddy:
What are the best settings for the best performance? Like the I/O scheduler, zRam, etc.
[Nook Color Android Development] kkt12:
This line of inquiry has been explored several times; use the "Search Thread" feature (near the top of the page) and you will find many suggestions.

Currently, I'm using these settings:

OC 1.1

interactive

deadline

zram disabled

animations at .5

16bit transparency

system tuner setting OOM: aggressive

system tuner setting systcl: recommended

I've tinkered with these setting quite a bit but have never experienced any SODs. I did experience the screen-flicker with some earlier nightlies. I've noticed that since approx. 11/24 the system lag has improved greatly. Haven't tried the unofficial nightly, I'm curious though.
[Nook Color Android Development] Lakland:
Update

For now I am using the special non official nightly. Some times some lags some times don't . Some times apps load fast some times don't , the poor nooky is usable, By The way do not expect a lot of it. Is really usable with patience.

---------- Post added at 05:50 AM ---------- Previous post was at 05:47 AM ----------

Also, leaving WiFi all times on, suck up battery real fast. I change settings to turn off when in battery
[Nook Color Android Development] WoodmanMN:
As much as I love the CM10 interface, the inconsistency in performance on my Nook keeps me from running it as a daily driver. My Nook runs great on CM7.2, not laggy, very consistent, and while dated, is useable without the need for patience. I'm running a very old release Nook Color, sop others may very who'll run much better than mine. Sadly, mine isn't up to it, so a Nexus 7 is wanted.
[Nook Color Android Development] deesto-xda:
Yes, thanks: I've already tried all sections (running, all, etc.) and they weren't listed anywhere.

---------- Post added at 10:33 AM ---------- Previous post was at 09:33 AM ----------

What eventually worked for me, using CWM:

- Flash latest nightly (12/13), with full cache & Dalvic wipe

- Flash both gapps-jb-20121011-signed and gapps-jb-picasa-20121011-signed, in that order, without rebooting

- Fix permissions

- Reboot

It's working but everything is slow as heck, even with overclocking etc., and some apps just spin and eventually time out.
[Nook Color Android Development] Omega Ra:
getting an error when trying to update to the latest nightly, it says write failed: ENOSPC (No sp...but then it is cut off because the notification window is ended. Plus it errored when I tried to back up current ROM. It got into recovery and started, but then errored. I sent in the log via email when it rebooted.

EDIT: I think I found my problem, not enough space. I had 3 backups and once I deleted one I was able to do it.
[Nook Color Android Development] lollyjay:
You don't see this?

View attachment 1563100

In that case I suspect that the gapps did not install.

QI0CM787SV, 12/11/2010

ES1.2, cyttsp

PA Encore 2.99 06DEC2012 nightly
[Nook Color Android Development] deesto-xda:
Nope: none of them showed up anywhere.

I'd agree that they didn't install correctly for some reason, but they were installed and somehow hidden: when I indirectly launched Play Store via a link, it came back immediately as a crash.
[Nook Color Android Development] Omega Ra:
I tried installing the Chainfire 3d app, got it in and installed the driver, now I have nothing but a black screen after the cyanogen screen. Guess I am restoring back to CM7 then reloading CM10...ugh
[Nook Color Android Development] Lakland:
Does anyone has test the latest nighly with the non official nightly ?
[Nook Color Android Development] Dave08:
Any chance we could have the kernel from the unofficial build as a separate flashable, to install with any nightly?
[Nook Color Android Development] leapinlar:
By popular demand, see attached. Just flash with recovery. For emmc, not SD installs.

Edit: uploaded signed version

Attachment removed
[Nook Color Android Development] lynnji:
Thanks! You're spoiling us. My setup is already running so smooth.
[Nook Color Android Development] stolenmoment:
Doesn't flash. TWRP reports Error Status 2.

The manifest has uRecImg and uRecRam instead of just uImage.

I edited the manifest and replaced it in the zip, but that didn't change the error message.

Copied uImage into place manually with TWRP's file manager and all appears OK...
[Nook Color Android Development] deesto-xda:
Also, the nightlies won't flash via system check/update (bad sig check).
[Nook Color Android Development] lynnji:
Flashed fine for me, using cwm 5.5.0.4, pa 2.99

Sent from my NookColor
[Nook Color Android Development] deesto-xda:
As I mentioned, I downloaded the update directly from system settings, and it failed to flash, saying the signature was bad. CWM fails as well, unless you turn off signature verification.
[Nook Color Android Development] no_cannabis:
Wanted to take a log of SoD by running logcat in the terminal, but I guess such operation prevents the device from sleeping and SoD cannot be reproduced :(
[Nook Color Android Development] RallyStyle2003:
Lost sound on wakeup for a bit last night. Tried headphones and they worked fine. Unplugged them and the speaker works again.
[Nook Color Android Development] aludal:
Sure, it's unfair! LOL. Comparing an old Nookie to tegra 3 tab is unfair. What I was asking whether it's sufficiently slower and unpractical than CM7.

As to NC "slowness" on some new ROMs, you may want to have a look here in my blog.