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[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] asawi:
Sv: [Q] PLEASE HELP I GIVE UP and throw myself at the mercy of this community

I can't see any reason not to register your device if possible. You can block updates even if you're running stock as long as you're rooted.

It's more convenient running from internal than from SD, but I can't say I noticed much improvement in performance. Stick to class 4 unless you already have the class 6 lying around.

Be prepared that there might be problems registering after running the Ubuntu restore due to serial number possibly having been wiped.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] 1_ton:
O.K.

Alrighty then. I guess I will stick with just running off the SD card then. If I can't register then I will probably flash to internal. just curious why stick with class 4? Does the class 4 just run better or more compatible with the NT? How can I can confirm root?
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] asawi:
SanDisk class 4 is the SD card most often recomended för NT. Runs fast and well and even devices that are fussy boot easily from it. The way data needs to be read for this kind of use isn't any faster on a higher class.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] 1_ton:
I was just thinking...........

Is it possible or realistic that I can run a different SD card for different people using the tablet? i.e. using an 8 gig card with games and such for my kids to use. another card for my wife and then a card for myself. My fear is that the kids will eject the card or just not really know what they're doing and do something accidentally? (They are kids after all). My wife doesn't like the fact that I keep changing the configurations. Just overall giving everybody the ability to have the apps and configuration they want without encroaching on somebody else's preferences and hogging up all the space available on the card.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] datallboy:
Yes that is possible. Just write the SDC version from iamafanof's page onto separate SD card. Recommended to use at least an 8GB Speed 4 microSD.

The other option is to use the profiles/users feature. It might be only CM10.1 builds that have the User capability. You can set up different accounts for yourself, your kids and your wife.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] digixmax:
+1000.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] 1_ton:
Is there any way to change the S/N in the Ubuntu program? or should I just leave well enough alone since I had so much trouble in the beginning?
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] datallboy:
Not that I know of. Could be wrong though.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] 1_ton:
Just noticed

I just noticed that my 16 GB NT is only showing 8GB avaiable? Did I copy a wrong image?
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] asawi:
You only have 8GB user controlled storage. 3 GB is used for operating system and 5 GB for BN data.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] 1_ton:
soooo

Can the BN be wiped out then by flashing to internal? My S/N and Mac address have been wiped and replaced with another nooks info. I have verified the S/N on the sd cover of my tablet against the system info. and they are not the same. I didn't have any problem registering but I did encounter some problems when it came to downloading my BN content (which was not much) can the whole thing be flashed and I can just run the Nook app from the Play store?
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] 1_ton:
O.K.

I'm reading this right meow http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2081981
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] datallboy:
Because the Mac address has been wiped there may be problems with the internet. There is a label with the Mac address inside your nook. You can take off the back cover and take a look if you wish and attempt.

You can internally flashing CM on your Tablet. You may not be able to use the stock operating system, but you can always use the nook app on google play store to download all your books and such. Adam Outler is working on a solution to the S/N and Mac Address issues.

If you have your S/N and Mac Address stored somewhere then you can attempt to dig into the files and reset the ROM partition. system/build.prop, system/xbin/setserial, and rom/devconf are some of the places where you can find information storing the MAC address, S/N, ProductID, etc... DO NOT JUST MESS AROUND WITH STUFF IF YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT IT DOES.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] digixmax:
For proper operation of the NT, in addition to MAC Address and S/N, you also need other device unique data such as security public/private keys. FWIW, here's the directory listing of /rom/devconf:

root@android:/ # ls -l rom/devconf
ls -l rom/devconf
-r-xr-x--- system system 33 2012-01-12 14:03 Backlight
-r-xr-x--- system system 6 2012-01-12 14:03 BatteryType
-r-xr-x--- system system 10 2012-01-12 14:03 DateManufactured
-r-xr-x--- system system 3 2012-01-12 14:03 DeviceAttribute
-r-xr-x--- system system 16 2012-01-12 14:12 DeviceID
-r-xr-x--- system system 13 2012-01-12 14:03 EAN
-r-xr-x--- system system 12 2012-01-12 14:03 EventType
-r-xr-x--- system system 28 2012-01-12 14:03 HashOfPrivateKey
-r-xr-x--- system system 12 2012-01-12 14:03 MACAddress
-r-xr-x--- system system 10 2012-01-11 08:34 MainboardSN
-r-xr-x--- system system 7 2012-01-12 14:03 ModelNumber
-r-xr-x--- system system 6 2012-01-12 14:03 OperatingMode
-r-xr-x--- system system 0 2012-01-12 14:03 Platform
-r-xr-x--- system system 9 2012-01-12 14:03 ProductID
-r-xr-x--- system system 333 2012-01-12 14:03 PublicKey
-r-xr-x--- system system 16 2012-01-12 09:03 SerialNumber
-r-xr-x--- system system 468 2012-01-12 14:03 WiFiBackupCalibration
root@android:/ #
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] 1_ton:
Uh yea! I'll be leaving it alone. Perhaps if I ever get another tablet I'll dive into this. but, right now it's way above my skill level.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] digixmax:
In the meantime, Adam should update his original post to warn folks (who go looking for unbricking tools) of these issues.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] 1_ton:
Maybe so. I think everybody should already be considered warned. I think perhaps the most popular thing posted in most of the threads I have read anyway is "WARNING"! do this at your own risk. There's a lot of people on here diving into this stuff unlocking the potential of many devices and technology. If I wouldn't have been so rash and paying attention to what I was doing in the first place and perhaps read a few more threads I 1) wouldn't have borked my NT in the first place and 2) My NT wouldn't be recognized as who knows how many others as the same device. I have restored to 1.4.0 via Adam's restore method re roted via the efforts of Albert and indirect with the help of Raywaldo and datallboy and countless others. I have a pretty kickass tablet again. Ubuntu touch on a tablet how kickass is that!
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] megaghostgamer:
Sorry to be on your forum but guys I'm having a similar problem. My nook had been sitting for a few days on kuzma cm10.1 and when I went to use it, touch went crazy. Then it started to shut itself off. I tried wiping dalvik and cache no change. Also I tried a back up no luck, should I try Ubuntu method? Thanks and once again sorry for being in your forum seems there is a lot of good help here :)
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] asawi:
I would suggest you try some less "aggressive" methods before resorting to the Ubuntu method. Do not just jump in there unless your failry sure nothing else works!

I don't have any too useful advice what to try, except if you've tried doing things through CWM (like reflashing the ROM, or flashing another ROM) and it doesn't work at all, try running CM10 from sd card and see if you can restore the touch firmware that way.

If you resort to some unvrick tool, try the repart.img one before the Ubunto one. (Google "repart.img" if you haven't already come across it. It's linked to in several places here on XDA.)

Edit:

What I would try

1. Burn a CM10 sd card and reflash originla touch formware from the app included Ready-made card image at http://iamafanof.wordpress.com/2012/11/18/cm10-0-jellybean-sdcard-img-for-nook-tablet/

2. Flash a freshly downloaded ROM (and corresponding gApps)

3. Run the repart.img

If the repart.img works you're back to out-of-the-box-state NT and can start all over with root or whatever

4. If nothing of the above works I would consider the Ubuntu method. Then and only then!
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] megaghostgamer:
Will try when home at work, thank you so much :)
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] asawi:
And just to clarify: As soon as problem is solved, don't do the rest of the steps! Except maybe it could be good idea to reflash the ROM!
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] spcagigas:
Dumb question for your but.... Is the battery fully charged when this happens? The Nook Tablet's digitizer is known to get really janky when the battery level is low. Normally, this doesn't happen until after you get the system's low battery warning, but some ROMs don't seem to report battery level consistently, so it might look like you have 40% battery, when you're really closer to 15%.

So, before trying to reinstall anything, I'd recommend just letting it charge for a couple of hours, then seeing if the digitizer is still janky.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] megaghostgamer:
Thank you so much!!! I really appreciate it, the repart.img did work. It's working just like new :) Thanks so much for helping me. This is why I love the Nook community :)

That did happen throughout my process of unbricking it, it was at 59% then I rebooted it and it went down to 18%. Other than that it's working good with this unbricking guide http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1663836 . It did have 1 random shut down throughout the process but I booted it back up and completely the process and not one reboot :)

Thank you all for helping me unbrick my tablet! I just might port a Rom for y'all ;) JB Style .

Edit: It is still randomly rebooting. I tried the ubuntu method from sd no boot off the sd. I got the repart to work though. What should I do and yes the touchscreen is fixed. Thanks :), I'm going to let it sit and charge for a bit.
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] drizzt5:
Alright, so I have been fairly certain that I caused this problem but I wanted to make sure.

My gf dropped her HTC Vivid and broke the LCD and digitizer. I ordered new ones on ebay, both an LCD and digitizer, and installed them. The only problem is that after the installation the wifi and GPS on the phone were extremely weak. The wifi only works about 10 feet from a router, any further and it just doesn't show up. The GPS just says locking on target forever. I'm pretty sure the damage was caused by me and not by her dropping it, but I can't be sure. Wifi seemed to be working fine even with half the LCD and glass obscuring the view of android.

Even though I was pretty sure it was a hardware thing caused by me, I was scared to take the phone apart again after getting it all nice and put together so I tried unlocking, rooting, and installing CM 10.

CM10 works great, but the Wifi and GPS issues remain.

So I guess I need to take it apart again and put it back together very slowly and hope that this time any loose components or what not are put back into place properly....

Does anyone know where I can find any schematics online so that I can be sure to be EXTRA careful with the Wifi and GPS antenna? This way I can also inspect them to make sure they aren't damaged.
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] XxSHaDoWxSLaYeRxX:
you probably didnt put a wire all the way in or pulled one out there are a few youtube teardowns. google around
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] drizzt5:
Tearing down the phone isn't the problem. I need to know exactly what is related to wifi and GPS to make sure I pay extra attention to those parts. I can't seem to find it yet.

edit:

I took the whole thing apart again, I put it together piece by piece very carefully following every breakdown and the Wifi and GPS are still incredibly weak and not working properly. Ideas?
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] XxSHaDoWxSLaYeRxX:
Re: Ok so im trying to go back to stock with the ruu

I'll look for a diagram sometime tom. And get back to you
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] homeslice976:
Looks like BT+wifi share an antennae and GPS has it's own. Both towards the top. My guess is it's just a metal tab that makes contact by the pressure from the case, but I haven't had mine apart to confirm that.
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] rignfool:
Love that picture
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] homeslice976:
Lol that's the picture that HTC submitted to the FCC...
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MachinTrucChose:
I got my N4 a couple of days ago. It's my first foray in the Android world.

The requirements that I am hoping to meet are pretty simple:

1) I want to be able to call contacts and send text messages

2) I don't want Google tracking my contact list

3) I don't want Google tracking my location

4) I don't want Google tracking my browsing history

5) I want to be able to use the Play store to download 3rd party apps. I didn't buy an N4 to use it it like a dumbphone. Logically, the Play store shouldn't require constant access to my contacts, location or browsing history.

I am making this post to get help meeting the above requirements. Despite seeming really basic, I'm running into trouble, and I think I will need frequent help. This thread can act as a journal that hopefully other people can follow.

What I did so far is immediately flashed the N4 to AOKP, and applied the OpenPDroid patches (though I've yet to use OPD). From a blank slate start, I declined to create an account, disabled location access, etc, during the startup wizard.

Adding a contact round 1

I was able to create a local, unsynced contact.

Using the Play store

I was forced to sign up for a gmail account, which is normal. I declined to "keep this phone backed up with my Google Account". I then went in Settings > Account and disabled sync for everything, including Contacts. I also disabled background sync in the power controls.

Adding a contact round 2

I am now unable to add a contact without being forced to sync it with my BS gmail account. When I click "Add Contact" in the phone app, a dialog says "Your contact will be synced with bs@gmail.com" and my choices are either "OK", "Add other account", or to cancel out by clicking Back.

So I'm already stuck. Once a Play account is created, I am now unable to do something as basic as adding a contact without sending it to Google. Can someone tell me how to get past this obstacle?
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gotzaDroid:
That's how Google makes their money! Your only options are to either start using the amazon app store only or side loading apps if you don't want Google involvement. Good luck.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 3UR0TR45H:
Why? Like they don't have all your information already? You freely give your information to everyone when you use the internet. Congratulations. You are not that special.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MachinTrucChose:
Eurotrash: always in this sort of discussions there's people like you who essentially advocate shutting up and taking it. "That's how things are" is not an acceptable solution to my problem, or I would not have made this post. There IS a way around the creeping, and someone knows it. My last resort is blocking every Google service from accessing the Internet except Play. I'm asking here because I'm hoping there's a less extreme solution that other people can use.

Gotzadroid: I will hold out for a better solution. Amazon appstore will likely be limited. Sideloading is not possible because many devs don't provide APKs
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ScumDroid:
I know you can get an app to block individual permissions of other apps: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.stericson.permissions

It requires root. Not sure about the contacts and other stuff you wanted to block, im assuming you've disabled location services.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Cheeze[iT]:
Why not try flashing like cm10 and not flashing gapps so no Google apps? Then just manually downloading the apps apks and sideload the ones you need?
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MachinTrucChose:
Didn't think my post lacked clarity, so hopefully this will be clearer:

My ONLY problem right now (we'll leave the rest for later) is that the Phone app, an essential app if I want to use my phone for making calls, an app that isn't even part of Gapps, doesn't let me add a local contact without sharing it with Google. That's it. Forget everything else in my post.

So my simple question is, how do I add my friend Bob to my contact list, locally in phone memory or on the SIM card or whatever, without telling Google I'm friends with Bob and giving them his phone number?
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Michealtbh:
As previously mentioned, try flashing a rom without gapps
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gotzaDroid:
OK, try this. Make a dummy gmail account for the play store only. Get all the apps you want and then sign out of gmail. Only sign back in when you want another app. That should keep Google from syncing all your info.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MachinTrucChose:
The Phone app is not a part of gapps. It came on the stock ROM before I flashed gapps on it. I didn't try it before adding gapps, are you saying it will change behavior and no longer prompt me to sync when I try to add a contact?

I gotta go to sleep, I'll do more tests tomorrow evening to test this (and wait for your reply to the above question in case you misread my posts).

If the answer to the above question is yes, this would immediately beg another question: how do I install 3rd party apps from Play without flashing gapps?
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MachinTrucChose:
That's what I did in the OP (2nd bolded step). I created a dummy account cause Play requires it. That became my main Google account on this phone (since I declined to set up an account prior to that). That's the account Google tries to sync my contacts to when I try to add a contact.

I looked in the Gmail app, there's no way for me to sign out. All I can do is add more accounts.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Vangelis13:
A similar thread from the galaxy nexus forums: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1589367

However, I'd also be interested in a deeper insight on why you're trying to do this. Fear of the big brother? Or just proving a point?

We know before buying an android phone that everything is tied to that Gmail address; now you want to cut that tie but maintain full functionality. Well, that probably doesn't work. And if it at the end does, why going through all that trouble? If a different platform offers all that then.. ;)
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kaiowas82:
Why you bought an android phone in the first place? Just curious
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Drakkula4:
You can try downloading or side loading the app "contacts+" then sign out of your dummy gmail account. You can get a sim to USB hub online and plug your sim into the hub and into PC to add contacts directly to sim. I don't know if there's a way to export contacts to sim anymore unless I'm guessing developers somehow add that feature. So look into CM or another well built ROM and ask some questions.

Good luck
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Michealtbh:
Stock rom comes with gapps already loaded.

Most custom roms come without them and they must be flashed separately. If you choose not to flash them you aren't even given an option to sign into your Google account at first boot, so there will obviously be no option to sync your contacts.

Your phone will be crippled and you'll have to find workarounds for many things. I don't think you'll be able to use Maps for example. To install apps you'll have to download and install the apks or use an alternative app market like SlideMe or Amazon
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] davwman:
What's there to hide? They're just contacts;)

Sent from my Nexus 4
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chrisrozon:
Google doesn't care what your Aunt Bertie's phone number is. All they use the data for is to customize ads for you, and if you're going to be seeing ads anyways they might as well be relevant to you.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MachinTrucChose:
It's disappointing that the thread is taking the direction of Google advocacy rather than finding a technical solution to my problem, hopefully this post answers your questions and we can stop arguing about this.

How do I sign out of my dummy gmail account?

Nope, not full functionality. I can avoid using all gapps. The only required Google service is the Play store, which is the primary gateway to non-Google apps. I would use Email over Gmail, Navfree over Maps, etc.

The next paragraph is meant as a reply to the 5 posts essentially saying "tinfoil hat, trust Google!".

This is supposed to be an open phone, allowing the user to do what they want, compared to the big bad iOS. That's why I bought it. Now I find out Google is insisting on taking something extremely private (my social graph) even when I don't want to give it to them. I respect my friends' privacy, and I don't want an intersection of my online and offline lives being made by some 3rd party with intentions I don't trust. The insistence is starting to creep me out. You can provide convenience and still respect basic privacy, look at Mozilla with Firefox Sync: even they don't see the data you sync. I'm not even asking for that much, just respect my wish to draw the line at real-life stuff. I guess I shouldn't be surprised, this is the company banning people using pseudonyms on Google+.

The most disappointing thing in all this, is that you have 5000 custom ROMs being developed, which mainly differ in pointless GUI BS like scroll animation speed. Not a single one of those projects thought to provide a way to make the phone usable without giving up extremely private data. AFAIK only 3 guys are working on privacy stuff, and even those guys' patches and apps don't protect you from the Eye of Google.

What if I don't want tailored ads? Or what if I only want tailored ads by tracking the online activity I'm willing to submit to them, and I feel it should be my my right to draw a line? Many people are not comfortable seeing an intersection of online and real life activity. I am one of those people.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dddennizzz:
Simple question deserves simple answer, only thing I can think of, go to settings > accounts > google > tap your account email address > and uncheck the things you don't want synced with google.

Hopefully it works and you will just have a local copy of everything then.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Cheeze[iT]:
Again just flash like cyanogen mod since you have to flash gapps separate. Then don't flash gapps and your phone will have nothing to do with google.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] madgibbon:
+1

That should stop contact details etc being synced, you might also want to turn off location services if you don't want your location tracked.

While I'm quite paranoid about keeping private data such as passwords secure I'm not fussed about contact details. I'm sure a company as large as Google could get hold of most peoples contact details if they really wanted too. Plus I'm sure it wouldn't be worth Google's reputation to use your personal data without declaring it, the media would have a field day!!!
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] irononreverse:
Couldn't you add contacts to your sim card on another phone then have them display in the phone app?
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kaiowas82:
So, you will definetely not find the solutions to your problem here.

Here is full of "developer wannabe" that just have fun modifying gui and useless animations, and build roms after roms just to show off they elementary knowledge.

Said that, you can try develop something yourself, to enlight XDA you know.....

---------- Post added at 06:08 PM ---------- Previous post was at 06:07 PM ----------

Well, he said that he's not going to use Maps, but some alternative, so he's fine with his location being tracked.

---------- Post added at 06:12 PM ---------- Previous post was at 06:08 PM ----------

what about not installing gapps at all and using amazon app store instead??