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[Nook HD, HD+ General] diajohn:
Market

We tend to forget that B & N is in the book business not the hardware business. While I wish they would let this device be fully and easily converted to an Android tablet, why would they? I use the few hacks available and find it to be good as an Android Tablet and happy to have it.
[Nook HD, HD+ General] dbrickg:
Yes, of course they're in the book business. But they do sell other stuff, nice coffee cups, for instance, with cute book-related quotes printed on the outside. And they don't lock the top, making them useless for coffee, on the grounds that they're a book business and don't want to allow their customers to actually use their mechandise for anything other than reading. Or, maybe if they were selling sports cars, they'd take the wheels off, insisting that people only use them to sit in the driver's seat and read books on the heads-up video display. In short, it seems to me that, more than being in the book business, they're in the business of selling stuff, and, no matter what that stuff, it seems silly to deliberately cripple it. It's as if they started censoring their books based on some arbitrary rule....
[Nook HD, HD+ General] Taosaur:
They just took a big step in that direction: http://liliputing.com/2013/05/bn-adds-google-play-store-to-nook-hd-nook-hd.html

If they would just let other launchers override the native button/notification bar and recent apps, I wouldn't need CM10.
[Nook HD, HD+ General] bkosh84:
Comparing a tablet and a coffee mug is like me comparing a car and a tank.. Two COMPLETELY different things.. I'm pretty sure it probably cost B&N about 2 dollars to "make" that coffee mug and sell it at a 90% profit when they sell them.. Tablets are very content driven.. B&N probably isn't making any money on the Nook itself.. More off the content that people buy on it (Newspapers, books, magazine subscriptions, ect..)
[Nook HD, HD+ General] dbrickg:
Yes, of course you're right: they're very different things. Just like books and cups and nooks are all very different things. All I'm saying it *whatever* they sell, whatever *anybody* sells, they should probably sell the best stuff they can. I still buy ebooks from the B&N store, but I would never have bought a nook in the first place if it couldn't be uncrippled. As it is, I've bought 4 of them. But no thanks to B&N. A big thanks to xda developers.
[Nook HD, HD+ General] e.mote:
I don't think the Kindle Fire HD 8.9 is selling well, either. It has had several $50-off sales, and has been marked down to $269 (16GB) from $299. Likewise, from the latest IDC report, the whole KFHD line hasn't had the same success as the orig KF had. A reasonable conclusion can be drawn that, as tablet users become more savvy and demanding of their tablets, walled-garden-style tablets with limited ecosystem are losing out to more "open" tablets. Perhaps that's the same conclusion drawn by B&N in adopting Goog Play.

http://www.geekwire.com/2013/amazons-kindle-fire-dips-4-market-share/

It'll be interesting to see how Amazon adjusts to the slowdown in adoption rate. It can't rely on low pricing to push KFs any more, not with low-end tabs dropping down to $170 for 7" and $250 for 10". From the B&N CEO's allusions, we can surmise that B&N is ditching the hardware route and concentrating on packaging its core IPs for existing ecos. There's no good business reason for B&N to do its own hardware, now that the walled-eco strategy has failed.

I just got the Nook HD+ a couple of days ago, about a day before the new 2.1.0 update, so have had experience with both the old and new software. The improvement is night and day. I'm hoping that this will kickstart the Nook line and get more users into the Nook fold, if for nothing else than to get more bodies into these forums. The hardware is great, and now the (stock) software is good enough. But for the long term, I do expect the HD line to be the last of the Nooks.
[Nook HD, HD+ General] dbrickg:
Yahoo! Sounds like they're starting to get the message.
[Nook HD, HD+ General] dbrickg:
Nicely said. Yes, yes, and yes. And I imagine you're right, too, about the HD being the end of the line for nooks. But I hope not. I really like my HD+ and would love to see them continue to upgrade it!
[Nook HD, HD+ General] Taosaur:
I'm doubtful whether there will even be another generation of eink Nooks, though I'd love to see a reader with the screen and lighting of the new Kobo Aura, but running Android.
[Nook HD, HD+ General] dbrickg:
You just need a bigger carry bag :)

Seriously, though, one of the reasons I like the HD+ is that it fits in my small Eagle Creek side bag... just barely. Whereas all the 10" tablets are too big. And I love that it's big enough to display a usable full hacker's keyboard in portrait mode. On my 7" tablets, the keys are too small for my big fingers. The keyboard works well on the 7"s in reduced mode, but it's kind of nice to have working Ctrl and Tab keys accessible all the time.
[Nook HD, HD+ General] rushless:
Had it released with Google Market, it would have been. That of course would defeat the business model purpose of the device in the first place.
[Nook HD, HD+ General] View92612:
You are absolutely right. I was in the market for a tablet in last November and checked out Nexus 7, Kindle Fire HD 7, and Nook HD. I ruled out Nook quickly after checking what's available in the B&N App store. I have Amazon Prime but still refused to pay for a KFHD due to the locked environment. In the end, I bought Nexus 7 and later received KFHD as a free gift. Now I just bought a new Nook HD+ as I prefer a larger tablet for reading books and technical manuals. I would not have bought one if they didn't add Google Play support.
[Nook HD, HD+ General] Borat38:
I was able to take advantage of the Mother's Day sale on barnes&noble.com, got me a Nook HD+ for $228 with taxes and shipping—still a great steal at that. I wish B&N would turn the walled ecosystem biz model on its head and compete head-on with the other tablet giants. Heck, ship them all rooted, and watch the buyers drop the Kindle and iPad mini lines en masse once they realize what Nook HD+ can do. (the hope of course being that B&N can sell more books despite having that open platform)

I do hope they don't discontinue the Nooks; with their specs, they can price it up to $300 and it'd still be an attractive alternative to the other better-marketed options from Samsung, Apple and Amazon.
[Nook HD, HD+ General] CubeCloudOS:
? I installed apex launcher from Google Play and everything worked fine sorry for bumping an old post
[Nook HD, HD+ General] pdx1138:
Ya I ran go launcher HD pad version and it works fine on stock nook HD+

I am running cm 10.1 now rooted.

I would have been ok with running stock rom, but got too many "you can't do that" messages lol.

So I'm running CM 10.1 and love it. This is a fantastic tablet for the value. I got the HD+ 32gb for $ 179

then added a 64GB sandisk class 6 (one of the very few 64gb sdcards that actually works without problems on nook)

so I have a 96gb tablet that still cheaper than a Nexus or Asus.

Very happy with it and recommended to all my friends.

I think if more people were fully aware how awesome it was for the low cost, they would quickly be bought up!
[Nook HD, HD+ General] JeauxAdam:
That's just it. For the money you can't beat it! I don't blame people though, up until recently it was barely a tablet. More like a souped up e-reader. This is obviously better with the custom roms but the addition of the play store natively helped to make it more of an actual tablet.

Only now at the end do people, including me, realize how good this is.

Sent from my Nook HD+
[Nook HD, HD+ General] verygreen:
The reality is most people are not going to fumble with installing adb, writing sdcards and doing stuff with cwm to install other ROMs, so they take stock ROM and that's all they have access too reasonably with all the limitation there might be.

There's a reason why all those "android sdcard" businesses were doing so good back before play market bacame available in stock rom.
[Nook HD, HD+ General] Xceptic:
I just picked up a 16GB HD+ for $149. Put a 32GB class 10 sandisk card in it ($25 at Costco right now) so now have a 48 GB device with an HD screen for $175. I already own two e-ink readers (Kindles) that I'll continue to do 99% of my ebook reading on, because they are better outside, easier on my eyes than an LCD, hardly ever need recharging, and let me concentrate for long periods with no distractions from other apps.

The nook will be used to read high graphics content items, watch videos, and as a mobile office. It plus a bluetooth keyboard are way lighter than my laptop and adapter for travel. I don't miss wireless network connectivity because I also have a smartphone; same deal with cameras and GPS. Just need to modify the nook a little so I can install apps that require GPS and also update the interface from the outright ugly/clunky B&N format.

Apple products may look better but this device has so much better flexibility and is so much cheaper. Thanks developers for helping all of us (including this 58-year old female) modify our devices to better suit our needs!
[Nook HD, HD+ General] Taosaur:
I'm talking about the bar at the bottom with a back arrow on the left (sometimes) and Nook Recent button on the right. They're a poor parody of how post-ICS Android handles button persistence, consistency of function, and recent apps. Did your launcher over-ride softkey appearance and behavior, and replace the stock "recent" interface?
[Nook HD, HD+ General] ridgemagnet:
Thanks to folks like verygreen it is trivial to root the Nook HD+, there really is no reason to keep it stock. Frankly with BN getting out of the tablet business you are more likely to get better support here on XDA than from BN themselves. If you want GPS you'll need to pair a Bluetooth GPS with the nook, and that works well on CM 10.1 - not sure if this works with stock. Google Earth doesn't currently work on this build but most other apps are fine.

I'm running with the Nova launcher on CM10 and it has been a reliable and generally well behaved device.... I also have a Nook ST rooted and repurposed as a flight computer but I really would be amazed if any company produces an e ink android tablet any time soon.. Shame as I would love to have a decent outdoors capable web device.
[Nook HD, HD+ General] sdgon:
B&N didn't position HD+ right. As a e-reader, Kindle paper white or nook 2 are better than Nook HD + , cheaper, lighter and no back light. As a tablet, stock B&N ROM has limited function.

Xda developers is my only reason to buy a Nook HD+, but rooting is not popular.
[Nook HD, HD+ General] jpisini:
It is not that it isn't popular it is the fact that only a small percentage of people mod or root on any device and the Nooks are not very popular to begin with (which is why they have been discounted) which leaves a small community of rooters and even smaller group of developers. Don't get me wrong I love the device and so does my wife but she is never going to root her tablet. She hasn't rooted any of her phones either not her thing. it has to work out of the box and to be honest the HD plus is pretty decent out of the box, maybe not compared to a Nexus 10 or an Ipad but at half the price you can't really complain about what we get it works well enough for most things.
[Nook HD, HD+ General] pdx1138:
From my perspective, simply enabling google play store was huge.

It's a great tablet just after that fact.

They "should" have had that strategy to begin with on the HD line of Nooks.
[Nook HD, HD+ General] Steve Tack:
Well, it's not hard to imagine why they'd want to limit the apps on a device that I assume exists for the purpose of selling content from Barnes & Noble. The first thing I did even on stock was download the Kindle app. I'm sure if a Barnes & Noble executive saw that, they'd shed a tear. Clearly they weren't able to pull off what Amazon was able to do with the Kindle Fire.
[Nook HD, HD+ General] verygreen:
Kindle fire HD was rootable on day one too, with a lot less effort than Nook HD too.
[Nook HD, HD+ General] Steve Tack:
Hehe, I'm sure that an Amazon executive would have a similar reaction seeing somebody install the Nook book reader app on their brand new Kindle Fire. :laugh: Though I suppose in reality 99% of buyers are going to be perfectly happy on stock and buying into a particular ecosystem.

It's pretty fun bypassing that stuff in any case.
[Nook HD, HD+ General] spartan4585:
I needed to have access to all my Amazon Apps as well as the Play store so stock was never an option.. I also felt liberated from the closed ecosystem.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] tracer123:
Hello ;)

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VIDEO from my phone:

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DOWNLOAD :good:

Second version

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changelog:

02.05.2013
Second version with darker background

01.05.2013
first release

:rolleyes:
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] Men_in_black007:
Stuck Up At Boot Logo
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] black star13:
I can change to cm9.....n this is a good lockscreen...awesome

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U can look that tut
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] Men_in_black007:
Wiped Dalvik Cache And Cache...

But Still Not Working Help!!!:(:(:(
[HTC One X] Pluto:
Whenever I enable a lockscreen app (Holo Locker, WidgetLocker). Multi-touch isn't working. I'm talking about in games because it is working in browser and gallery.

The correlation is really weird but I also noticed multitouch not working when I choose "no lockscreen" from HTC Lockscreen.

I don't exactly know what relates the lockscreen and multitouch but it's an annoying bug and I want to use Holo Locker with Sense. I play a lot of games too. Is there a way to make this work?

No matter what ROM I run, as long it isn't AOSP or Desensed does not accept an alternative lockscreen app.

I'd appreciate any help guys.
[7" Kindle Fire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] smallboy99:
I Recently Rooted My KFHD7

Whilst messing around I accidently deleted SystemUI.apk

Now whenever I turn on my kindle, I get the unlock screen (Go Locker) and then when I unlock it I just get a black screen.

I tried pushing the file back into /system/app using adb but I got and error saying it was read-only

Also, I tried doing remount but I got: Access Denied: Operation Cannot Be Completed :(

Can Anyone Help?

EDIT: I Tried doing adb reboot bootloader, but it failed. I then tried doing adb reboot recovery, I then reset my kindle, now I can access my homescreen but anything past that is blank, I also now have the additional problem of ADB being disabled and no way to re-enable it :(
[7" Kindle Fire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] r3pwn:
You need to put it into fastboot by doing "adb reboot bootloader" and install twrp recovery then either reinstall stock, install cm10.1, or install Kinology. That's the only way I can think of.
[7" Kindle Fire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] smallboy99:
Thanks for the advice!, I will try asap, also, I thought you needed a factory cable for fast boot. Anyway, Thanks A Bunch :highfive:
[7" Kindle Fire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] admiralAUGBAR:
Same problem

I also recently re-rooted my KFHD since the most recent amazon OTA update. I was dicking around out of my league and renamed the Systemui.apk File to Sysui.apk (don't ask me to explain). I know very little about the rooting process and the filesystem in general but dicked around anyway.

Now i unlock and have a black screen. I downloaded Android Commander in the hopes of accessing the .apk and Renaming it back to the original Systemui.apk in hopes of restoring it's functionality. BUT of course Android commander says i

DO NOT

have root access therefore I cannot rename the .apk file. Please help. and also feel free to dumb it down so i can get my KFHD back! I am very upset about this and will not sleep right knowing i ****ed this up after so much work to get this device the way i like it finally.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] theOPEC:
Well, it looks like the stock HOX supports usb otg now, but doesn't work with the xbox wired controller. o.0

Do I have to replace the kernal to get the support to work?

Also, what about the PS3 controller? Can I use that with just rooting?
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] s1l3nt:
For the ps3 controller, you can get the six axis control app. Well worth it. No wires needed either
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] danz8509:
http://d-h.st/sSj

Not claiming this is mine just giving props to zoot1 for getting it to work on our galaxy note 2! thanks! didn't see a forum here for it!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] Zugshad:
any chance a link to the actual thread so could read more up on it? i am interested in trying it, but the last thread i saw that was "working", they came back with it got broken by google/samsung?? so would like to find out more..

on a side note.. i have also read that the new S-Voice is now better than google now? can any confirm the truth behind this?

again, thanks for sharing and the post.. but if able, id like to see the thread where you got it for more info..
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] danz8509:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2229222

that's the closest thing I could find! I personally tried it on my note 2 and its working great!, my limited time with it about 10 mins lol its a lot better than s3 svoice
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] Zugshad:
how would you compare to google now though ;)

since the bad english on that guys part, what did you do for installing.. did yo uuninstall s-voice (if already on phone) then flashed... or were you able to flash it over s-voice etc.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] danz8509:
I like it better than google voice the s voice driving mode is working as well! pretty cool having texts read back to you while driving I just installed it over my previous svoice works great!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] LittleRedDot:
Downloading now, will report back.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] borijess:
Anyone got this working on CleanRom 4.8? It doesnt work for me. It force closes.

Sent from the TermiNOTEr 2! ;)
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] LittleRedDot:
Does not work on cleanrom 4.8,still getting the "no connection" error.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] tnosz:
No network connection here too. :(
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] Zugshad:
Im on cr4.8 and working fine for me, the first time used it it gave me network error, opened back up and working ever since, did you guys have s-voice already on? I had it and just flashed right over the old without uninstalling the old

Tried to upload a screenshot for yall to show working but app tells me I have to update as no longer supported but app is up to date :(
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] tnosz:
I installed it via twrp over my old s-voice.

Ill try to uninstall the update and re flash this new one again.

UPDATE:::

Booyah!!! This method worked for me now svoice works thanks!:D
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] LittleRedDot:
I went through and uninstall ed every trace of my previous svoice and installed this clean, 1fc but seems to be working g ok now.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] Mac11700:
I had to go into the app manager and enable it. .but other than that. ..its working for now.

Thanks for posting this

Mac
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] bsw11:
How can I tell if its the new one? I checked the version in the app manager and it says 10.0 - I have a theme installed so it seems to look the same. Any tells in the app I can notice?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] Bajanman:
Different looking Mic button! Hit left menu button scroll down to about:

Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I317 using Xparent SkyBlue Tapatalk 2
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] neoissuperman:
This works great. I gave her an australian accent with ivona tts so hot!!!!!! Thanks
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] LittleRedDot:
Now it won't work, just fc Everytime.

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Ok I uninstall ed again and wiped cache and dalvik 3 times then re flashed the zip... It won't show up anywhere... Not the app drawer, not in root explorer, nowhere.

So I flashed it again, still it won't show up?

What's up?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] tnosz:
1.Flash this one first.

http://hotfile.com/dl/199986593/6b163c0/S-Voice_Android_phone_J.apk.html

2. Uninstall update from application manager.

3. Flash the svoice.zip.

No need to wipe cache

:)
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] LittleRedDot:
Tried your method to a T, still cannot get it to install
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] Mac11700:
You have to enable it before you can see it. ..Go into your application manager and enable it . That's what I had to do.

Mac
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] kitkit201:
Worked for me. I had to uninstall the old svoice first before doing the above. I skipped step 2
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] afrojoc:
I just unzipped it and installed over the current svoice and it works perfect..
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] LittleRedDot:
Yeah its not in my app manager either, I'm telling you 3 flames and it's not anywhere on my phone.

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Dos this to the letter, still fc Everytime I ask it to do something. This app is just a pos.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] Mac11700:
Hate to tell you that you may have to start from scratch to get this to work.

It can't fc if it isn't installed...cause if it isn't showing up in the app manager..it can't be enable cause its not installed completely

Mac
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] LittleRedDot:
What do you mean start from scratch, isn't that what I've Ben doing this whole time?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] LT1UltraZ:
have it installed on cleanrom 4.8 but it keeps FC.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] XXtremeAzzKicker:
Mine doesnt FC but just keeps saying network error.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] borijess:
Same here when I ask it to do something. FC's

Sent from the TermiNOTEr 2! ;)
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] kingofkings11:
+1 - did this and it's working great now.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] LittleRedDot:
I've tried every Avenue of attack listed here, and I finally got svoice installed. But as soon as I give it a command it freezes then fc's.

If you got it working please let us know how you did it, and break it down barney style.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] hkjxda:
All you have to do is download the Svoice.zip from the OP... then

1. Extract the actual apk from the zip file. use root explorer or something. The apk is in the system/app folder in the zip file.

2. Either install that new svoice apk over the old svoice, or uninstall the old one and then the new.

So there you have it. Dont flash the svoice zip, just extract the apk from it and install and benefit! :)
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] XXtremeAzzKicker:
Sick....that worked. Just extracted and installed and works fine.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] ramharder:
I am on clean ROM 4.8 just extracted app installed over the old one and everything works fine. :thumbup:
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] LittleRedDot:
Just tried this method, still get the connection error.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] LittleRedDot:
I tried again and it is working, I guess it was just user error the first 30 tries. I'm still not convinced it works and better than google now though.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] Bajanman:
Dude it's a completely different concept!!

So no need to compare them :rolleyes:..

Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I317 using Xparent SkyBlue Tapatalk 2
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] LittleRedDot:
For my purpose they do the same thing, so I'll compare away