yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Nook HD, HD+ Android Development] verygreen:
Merge to upstream CM is incomplete ATM, I'll update various relevant topics once the there are fully functional nightlies.

Also, sdcard builds would still need to be produced manually, as they are not going to be merged into CM proper, sadly making a converter like what we had in Nook color days to install emmc zips onto sdcard is much more complicated.
[Nook HD, HD+ Android Development] deckoff:
Let me get it straight, did the device get official status now ?

This would be awesome :)
[Nook HD, HD+ Android Development] infra_red_dude:
A big thanks to verygreen for getting ovation the official CM status. We value your hard work. I've been following you since Nook Color days...
[Nook HD, HD+ Android Development] killersloth:
WiFi Tethering my Sprint 4G and I get no issues streaming hulu/Netflix

6.7mb down

4.3mb up

And congrats [MENTION=3654172]verygreen[/MENTION] :)
[Nook HD, HD+ Android Development] BenGman:
Nook App APK

Anyone has the Nook Reader July 25th APK file (or any late version)? I tried the build.prop edit but still cannot get the Nook App on Playstore and I can not locate the Nook apk otherwise.. Thanks in advance!
[Nook HD, HD+ Android Development] soshite:
Tried, it didn't work. :( Thanks though, I hadn't thought of that before!

It is from the one on this thread. I have tried doing Factory reset. Does not work. It won't mount data. :/ It just spins, but in that awful resolution, it doesn't fix itself like every other nook I've seen

That makes sense.

Well, that was what I originally did. The CWM on this thread does not let me wipe /data. I install the CWM to recovery, but then it won't let me do the factory reset. If that is the case, then the cwm I was using was wiping the wrong /data, and perhaps that's why it is not booting? If I used adb $ sh, and just delete everything inside /data, will reinstalling cm10.1 recreate all the folders and files inside there? Or are there specific folders I need to delete?
[Nook HD, HD+ Android Development] Jack45:
http://www.1mobile.com

Search for "nook"

Second listed app within results
[Nook HD, HD+ Android Development] foxorroxors:
Guys any way to do this without a PC, I've unzipped the image its 900mb with androzip, placed rom gapps and cwm in a seperate folder, all on sdcard, I assume its still ext-sdcard for external? But it refuses to boot off the image...

Ideas? Or PC only?
[Nook HD, HD+ Android Development] Jack45:
Search this thread for "sd card"
[Nook HD, HD+ Android Development] foxorroxors:
I've looked but couldn't see/find any thing? =( could you link me please?
[Nook HD, HD+ Android Development] :
My favorite guide to get a bootable sd card [for this tablet] (may work without PC?) (Definitely works for emmc install and/or best cleaning, sdcard cwm10.1 I don't know.)

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2062613

For future reference, I slightly tested getting a bootable sdcard from android. The marking a partition as active for booting is the harder part. But, at least two partition apps from the play store looks like a bootable sdcard can be made or maybe the partition tool in cwm could do it? Also, it appears the .img file can be written by an app as well. I've never done it that way with those apps nor the tool in cwm, but it should be possible in 2013 I would like to think. Maybe, the next time I will try it.

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I'm putting an end to this :)

100% Clean install of 8/1:

cleaned emmc too

formatted everything possible

permission fixed immediately after install

unckecked google's want to to install backup data/settings and installed pure new apps instead.

no titanium backup

no left over files as emmc was wiped [formatted 100% clean]

Made as few setting changes as possible.

Nothing left over nor copied from anything before. Clean spanking brand new. Not even BN stuff. All gone.

And there are reboots.

Working backwards once more, no amazon, fixed permissions again, made sure GPS/location disabled and still forced reboots.

Now, removed any apps to my best ability that could try a location check (other than maps which I do not use here)...
[Nook HD, HD+ Android Development] foxorroxors:
Went to a friends and used his comp. WORKED LIKE A CHARM no crashes, and galaxy on fire 2 can be downloaded, made my day lol
[Nook HD, HD+ Android Development] NicoleC:
I got random reboots right off the bat on my initial clean install. That doesn't mean it's not a bad idea for people to try, but I don't think it's a cure all.
[Nook HD, HD+ Android Development] :
You are correct. It definitely oh so most definitely is not the problem.
[Nook HD, HD+ Android Development] dbrickg:
Argh! Sorry to hear it. Mine still hasn't rebooted. And I didn't do nearly the kind of cleaning you did. Just to reiterate, in case there's anything I forgot to mention before, I used cwm; before I flashed the rom, I did a "wipe data/factory reset", then a "wipe cache partiton", and then "advanced / wipe dalvik cache". Then I flashed the 8/1 rom and gapps, and rebooted. I didn't have to change any location services stuff (both GPS and Wi-Fi are checked). I installed google maps (but I'm not sure if I actually used it... I'm doing that now, just in case that makes a difference). And no soft reboots. It had been like 4 days or something without rebooting.
[Nook HD, HD+ Android Development] DeathEvil:
I have done it on 3 nook HD+'s and all have soft reboots. Sometimes they happen during sleep so you don't even know it. The only way to be sure, is to open some app and leave it in memory before going to sleep. If in after 24hours the app is still listed in recent apps then you are safe. I can game for 4-5 hours and have no problems, but sometimes during browsing google play, it soft reboots, and sometimes it doesn't, but once every 24hours I get a soft reboot either while lightly using the device, or while the device sleeps (but never during heavy use such as gaming).

Not calling you a liar or anything, just find it hard to believe that 3 of my family nooks soft reboot, and some people claim their nooks are rock stable...

verygreen, can we expect some experimental emmc 10.2 love like sdcard users?;)
[Nook HD, HD+ Android Development] hyperxguy:
Sorry to hear about your problem.

I bought 3x NookHD+ (gave 2 to relatives). Three friends bought 1 each. I'm the "tech-support" guy, so I flashed the other 5 with 0712-ROM.

Only one friend had a reboot issue using Maps. He doesn't actually need it just playing around, so I asked him to remove Maps due to lack of

GPS anyway and the reboots stopped. My own Tab has been dirty-flashed with every updates available.

Everything has been great on all 6 (except that reboot incidence). Everybody runs loads of apps on their tabs.
[Nook HD, HD+ Android Development] gidal:
So what is the symptom of this infamous soft reboot ?

What makes it soft, other than hard?

Is there a way to track, sort of performance log or reboot log in /var/log?

I haven't experienced it, I think.

For me, I noticed that a lot of install/uninstall really messed the nook badly.

That, and anytime the storage gets used beyond the half mark, really slows it down.

/ran_start

For simple browsing and watching youtube, it sure works.

But then again, that's not why we are here, isn't it?

No performance mods will help Acrobat reader or youtube work better.

We want more, out of these cheap nooks, to make them work harder! :)

If this was the Nexus 10 forum, we wouldn't be talking about tricks to make it go faster.

Or problems with stability from using a modded SW.

IMO, any gaming on phones and tablet are casual (even with games like MC4 and RR3).

Anyone who thinks otherwise, really need to try gaming on consoles and PC. ;)

Ok, Tegra4 is an exception, because the games on that platform actually look like they mean business.

/ran_end
[Nook HD, HD+ Android Development] DeathEvil:
I think you got it mixed up, games are not categorized by graphics, but by content. Games like gta3 are certainly not casual, hell they were on pc and ps2 some time ago...

angry birds, cut the rope, where is my water? etc. those are prime examples of casual gaming in my book.
[Nook HD, HD+ Android Development] stephencwl:
Did you pop out the sdcard and see if the reboots are still there? Mine got picky about brands of Sdcard and there are some reboots. I ran pure internal and zero reboots.
[Nook HD, HD+ Android Development] rushless:
No reboots, but still have the lag. Seems that will always be. Perhaps if I stop using my other devices in comparison, I will acclimate ;)
[Nook HD, HD+ Android Development] Melven1:
Great to see verygreen has got us approved as an official CM port. Just saw it on the CM teams Google+. Congrats on your hardwork getting recognized!
[Nook HD, HD+ Android Development] dbrickg:
"Soft reboots" just drop you out of your session and you lose all "recent apps" but "uptime" remains the same. Mostly you won't even notice they've happened. Frequently they happen while the nook is asleep. Occasionally they'll happen when it's awake. If you happen to be watching, you'll see the nook suddenly switch to the rotating cyanogen mod logo for a couple of seconds, and then directly back to your home or lock screen.

A "hard reboot" would take a lot longer and would show the same sequence of screen events you see if/when you do a deliberate reboot: black screen, nook logo, some kind of screen dirt on the right hand side (random colored pixels), cyanoboot universal bootloader logo, spinning cyanogen mod logo, then your lock or home screen. That whole sequence takes a minute or so, and if you do an "uptime" at a command prompt, you'll see that it's been reset to 0 at the boot time.
[Nook HD, HD+ Android Development] spartan4585:
Still fuzzy on the softboot.

I get kicked out of my programs occasionally. eg. Dolphin browser but never to the point where my nook would boot back into the spinning logo. So..is this a software issue and not a "softboot"?

My nook has been pretty much rock solid.
[Nook HD, HD+ Android Development] ItsDon:
Lump me in the group of rock solid users. Dirty flashed almost every version and have never seen a reboot (soft or otherwise) that I didn't initiate. If you have 3 and they are all doing the same thing I gotta believe it is some common app or setting that has been installed. I definitely don't know how to help you, sorry. I just wanted you to know that it is possible to have a solid experience with the Nook HD+.
[Nook HD, HD+ Android Development] gidal:
[ot]

My point exactly.

If you didnt already played GTA3 many many many years ago, you are just another casual gamer. ;)

Non casual gamers stay up to date with the latest and greatest, and maybe play oldie but goodie games everynow and then for giggle.

Crazy Taxi is a good example.

Never did I say that the eye candy makes the game - I'm referring to the whole experience, graphics, sound, story, complexity, etc.

Honestly, I had played a much more complex mini games from RPG games on PC, PS2, etc - many many many years ago (albeit less pretty graphically), compared to todays common games, e.g.: Candy Crush Saga and Angry Birds. LOL

[/ot]

Back to topic:

Count me in as one of the owner of solid Nook+ running 0801 build (dirty install, sequential upgrades from 0712 or the like)

I also run Pure Performance - smooth overall (as long as I behave and don't install and uninstall apps like a maniac monkey till the nook ran out of storage)
[Nook HD, HD+ Android Development] DeathEvil:
if you guys are really rock stable then I'm at a loss as of what might be causing the soft reboots...

one of the nooks has pretty much only google apps installed, and still soft reboots every now and then. I will try uninstall google maps and see if it makes any difference.

edit: if you guys are rock stable, then enable "quick wallpaper render" in launcher settings and restart your phone.
[Nook HD, HD+ Android Development] leapinlar:
My device is also rock solid.

How about the SD you have, if any. And how about the launcher you use. I never use trebuchet.

Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10.1 on emmc.
[Nook HD, HD+ Android Development] DeathEvil:
First I was using without SD and still had occasional reboots, now I use class 4 32gb sandisk. I use stock trebuchet, although tried tsf shell, but made no difference (but it is running amazingly smooth, unlike any launcher I have tried)
[Nook HD, HD+ Android Development] swaaye:
I have a strange audio problem that may be specific to our ROM... It happens with Carbon too. In BSplayer I do not get audio from videos with 2 channel audio. Video files with mono and 6 channel audio work fine. I tried a slew of vids and 2 channel seems to be the commonality. Any ideas on this? These files work fine on my other tablets.
[Nook HD, HD+ Android Development] jbbandos:
About stability, I've seen a couple of the soft reboots I had were preceded by a "fatal exception" in exchange mail. I am synchronised with the office email (exchange) and to yahoo mail, besides Gmail. I wonder if the reboots could be because of it? It would explain the apparent randomness.
[Nook HD, HD+ Android Development] DeathEvil:
no audio issues whatsoever (2.0, 5.1 dolby & dts) using mxplayer with custom codec. I wouldn't blame email exchange for reboots, it is really very random and can happen during any activity (it never happens while gaming which does seems strange to me)
[Nook HD, HD+ Android Development] swaaye:
Yeah I discovered the lack of audio with some vids is because of BSplayer having removed ac3 audio support in the current version.
[Nook HD, HD+ Android Development] Jack45:
From Google Play:

"TEMPORARILY REMOVED SUPPORT FOR DOLBY TECHNOLOGIES (AC3, E-AC3, MLP) DUE TO LICENSING CLAIM BY DOLBY"

Some updates...aren't. As a result...I didn't.
[Nook HD, HD+ Android Development] NicoleC:
I'm using a Sandisk 32GB Class 4 and Nova.

I uninstalled Google Maps and haven't had any reboots since then, at least not ones while I am using the device. It may be coincidence or it may be Google Maps related as others suggested.
[Nook HD, HD+ Android Development] verygreen:
Ah, thanks. updated.
[Nook HD, HD+ Android Development] hd32:
If I understand right, there is no need now to flashthe 5/5 kernel?
[Nook HD, HD+ Android Development] verygreen:
If you use 5/10 or 5/11 release, you stil need to flash the kernel rollback.
[Nook HD, HD+ Android Development] dbrickg:
The problem, if I remember correctly, was that as soon as you plugged the HDMI cable into your TV or whatever, the nook would reboot to stock. With the emmc install that obviously won't be possible, so I'm curious, too. As soon as this backup is done, I'll go try it out....

... yes, HDMI works with the new emmc install! I plugged it directly into my projector, and voila, the nook showed up on my big screen!

EDIT: audio was still coming through the nook. I don't have time to play with that right now, but will mess with it later. It would be really cool if I can get sound going through the big speakers

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I've never had the "no boot while untethered" issue. So I guess that's one of those things that depends on some specific hardware problem. Whenever I flash a new rom, there is a sort of garbage screen that flashes for a second or two before the cm10.1 rotating counter-rotating logo comes up. And I think, but I'm not sure now, that that's gone for subsequent reboots, like if I do a backup....
[Nook HD, HD+ Android Development] verygreen:
Ok, I see.

Well. I'll fix this together with A2DP issue (works for me locally, probably will work for hdmi too).
[Nook HD, HD+ Android Development] Classpro:
I'm confused about what I need to do to update from the 20130505 version. Do I need to start from scratch and reinstall all apps and settings or is there an update install? What is on /Data? After bootup is there a way to copy the /data back?

Does flashing the new internal recovery affect anything else?

Thanks so much for your great work. This is a wonderful improvement.
[Nook HD, HD+ Android Development] verygreen:
Get the 5/11 cm zip, and kernel-rollback.zip.

Install the cm zip, and then install the kernel rollback.

That's it, no need to erase anything, all your apps and settings would remain.
[Nook HD, HD+ Android Development] Classpro:
verygreen: You're a genius! Truly. Worked great. Installed internal CWM, enabled on menu, booted right to it. Changed the build prop to Nexus 7 and Zinio works. Really, you've made this into a quality tab. Thank you so much for your help.
[Nook HD, HD+ Android Development] matthewsjl:
OK - after trying to get the SD card going (and failing).... I decided to go native emmc.

Here's what I did:

1. Imaged the early2 image to an SD card

2. Downloaded the latest ovation CM10.1, gapps (20130301) and the kernel rollback.

3. Booted off the SD card into CWM. Installed the CM10.1, gapps and then the rollback.

[Earlier in the day, I had installed the CWM recovery]

4. Erased the /data directory.

5. Rebooted

Anyway, the NookHD is just hanging during the boot. Gets through the bootloader does the slow spinning wheel and then just sits with the fast spinning cyanogenmod logo.

Any ideas? I've done this multiple times now with no change in behavior - so it may well be me at this point.....

Thanks,

John.
[Nook HD, HD+ Android Development] verygreen:
Getting logcat would be best at this point.

If you cannot get to it due to "device offline", copy your adb key from ~/.android/adbkey.pub on your computer to

/data/misc/adb/adb_keys (boot to recovery to get access to /data)
[Nook HD, HD+ Android Development] matthewsjl:
Hmmn. Fixed. Had to manually format data from recovery to get it to finally boot......

Something must have been screwed in there somewhere.

John.
[Nook HD, HD+ Android Development] libertus77:
Could anyone tell me the easiest way to switch between recoveries? I installed TWRP because I love the GUI form of recovery, but I can't seem to get a good nandroid via twrp on here. I'm not sure what all it is backing up, but it made an 8GB nandroid, which is a little insane and not very useful. Not sure what's going on. I suppose I should switch back over to cwm so I can get a good backup.

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Never mind. Appears it was backing up Boot, which apparently totaled ~6GB. I dunno, but now my backup of just system and data is just a bit over 2.

:cowboy:
[Nook HD, HD+ Android Development] YevOmega:
This has PIE controls right? Is so, do they work well?
[Nook HD, HD+ Android Development] verygreen:
I needed to google what that is ;)

The options are all there in settings, but I was not able to make it work for me. On the other hand this should have nothing to do with my build, it's a generic feature.
[Nook HD, HD+ Android Development] Strouperman369:
PIE controls work just fine. To activate them, you have to turn on the expanded desktop first.
[Nook HD, HD+ Android Development] verygreen:
Yup, I know. Still did not work. Or I might be missing something.

In any case does not seem to be too important for convenient for me, so I'll likely won't pursue it on my end much.
[Nook HD, HD+ Android Development] Ogre6473:
Hey guys! Noob question here since I've haven't put a ROM on my Nook HD+ yet. Do I have to be Rooted to install the ROM, or can I do it without Root? What's the best process for it? Also, would it be smarter for me to stay un-rooted if possible since there's that boot loop that happens when /system is edited?

Sorry for the multiple questions, just trying to learn everything as fast as possible. And thanks Verygreen for all the hard work.
[Nook HD, HD+ Android Development] verygreen:
cm-10.1-20130512-UNOFFICIAL-ovation-emmc.zip.

- Fixes BT audio and probably HDMI audio too.

- Should now boot with no cord connected.

Hm, it seems that our list of things not working becomes quite short.
[Nook HD, HD+ Android Development] verygreen:
No point in rooting if you do emmc install, as it wipes stock anyway, and with that the pesky bootloop on changes disappears as well. Bye-bye secure bootloader, we hardly knew ya ;)
[Nook HD, HD+ Android Development] BigMacca:
You have to enable pie controls, then go into the power menu and enable extended desktop.

Now here's the bit that took me a while to figure out, you need to hold down the power key to bring the popup menu up and then select extended desktop from there as well.

I'm just playing with it but I don't like not having a back button onscreen....
[Nook HD, HD+ Android Development] Jack45:
Unboxed, let Nook update to 2.1 (to create a baseline to back up), used e.mote's detailed installation instructions, then removed sd card. Haven't used card since. Subsequent vg updates and sideloads performed sans card. Both Nooks boringly stable.
[Nook HD, HD+ Android Development] foxorroxors:
Well in 3 days I've had one softcrash from opera but that happened on the n7 I have also.... so chances are it operas bad code.... not using an SD card it comes on Thursday lets hope it stays stable lol...
[Nook HD, HD+ Android Development] Ogre6473:
I asked this in a separate thread, but figure I'll have better luck here. I've decided to return my Nook for a smaller and faster tablet, so I would like to reinstall the stock ROM. Anyone have any helpful info or links?
[Nook HD, HD+ Android Development] izi975:
You should get all you need here http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2062613. Under #6.
[Nook HD, HD+ Android Development] SirMerkel:
I have a minor issue; sometimes when I go to unlock the device when it's been in idle mode, the screen will dim and lock again (immediately after the unlock) and I'll have to reboot the tablet.

Anyone else got the same issue?

Thanks for all the work that's gone in to this!
[Nook HD, HD+ Android Development] SCWells72:
I'm toying with the idea of pulling down verygreen's build tree and trying to build a custom kernel with 16-bit color depth to help the GPU bottleneck and ideally some minimal level of CPU overclocking (I'm thinking 1.7GHz). I'm able to find plenty of guides for building CyanogenMod yourself and don't think that will present too much of an issue, but I am wondering if anyone might have pointers on where to change the color depth and how to add overclock settings. Any tips?
[Nook HD, HD+ Android Development] leapinlar:
It is probably your cover. Some have magnets in them to automatically turn it on and off. If you do have that, the solution is to open and close the cover twice before using the lock screen.

Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10.1 on emmc.
[Nook HD, HD+ Android Development] SCWells72:
I'm also having occasional soft reboots, though far fewer than just a couple of builds back. This is on a scorched earth rebuild of CM10.1 about a week back that otherwise runs quite well.

Now here's a question...what's the deal with wallpapers under this ROM, and is it possible that the root cause of the wallpaper issue is somehow related to some of the other issues folks are having? I ask because anytime I select a wallpaper, it either "degrades" or resets to the default green leaf wallpaper over a short period of time. By "degrades", I mean that a nice wallpaper that's set using, for example, Nova's wallpaper setter to look high-resolution ends up looking more and more zoomed in almost by the hour until it's an ugly mess, and live wallpapers such as MultiPicture Wallpaper Live just end up getting reset altogether, like I said, ultimately landing back on the green leaf from the "Wallpapers" category. While this may be (no-so-)happy coincidence, I also noticed that the last time my HD+ experienced a soft reboot (about an hour ago), MultiPicture Wallpaper Live was reset to the green leaf.

Is this some kind of slow resource leak perhaps? I've never seen this type of behavior on my original Nook Color, Touchpad, or Galaxy S4.
[Nook HD, HD+ Android Development] al mon:
I use Multi picture Live and ADWEx for the launcher and have never had issues with the paper resetting. Can you give that combo a try and see if that helps? Maps update stopped my soft reboots.