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[Nook Touch General] RandyB201:
I am trying to access System-Settings-Accounts, but cannot find it on my NST rooted w Nook Manager.

I installed one touch Sync Settings from the market, but when I click on it, the NST reboots.

I found AccountAndSyncSettings.apk in the /system/app folder, but installation fails.

I copied the file over to my desktop and did an adb install. [INSTALL_FAILED_UPDATE_INCOMPATIBLE]

logcat info:

D/AndroidRuntime( 4396):

D/AndroidRuntime( 4396): >>>>>>>>>>>>>> AndroidRuntime START <<<<<<<<<<<<<<

I/AndroidRuntime( 4396): Heap size: -Xmx64m

D/AndroidRuntime( 4396): CheckJNI is OFF

D/dalvikvm( 4396): creating instr width table

D/AndroidRuntime( 4396): --- registering native functions ---

I/NATIVE-EPD( 4396): framebuffer_handle: 20

D/PackageParser( 3554): Scanning package: /data/app/vmdl13223.tmp

D/dalvikvm( 3554): GC freed 34328 objects / 2066216 bytes in 101ms

E/PackageManager( 3554): Package com.android.providers.subscribedfeeds has no si

gnatures that match those in shared user android.uid.system; ignoring!

W/PackageManager( 3554): Package couldn't be installed in /data/app/com.android.

providers.subscribedfeeds.apk

D/AndroidRuntime( 4396): Shutting down VM

D/dalvikvm( 4396): DestroyJavaVM waiting for non-daemon threads to exit

D/dalvikvm( 4396): DestroyJavaVM shutting VM down

D/dalvikvm( 4396): HeapWorker thread shutting down

D/dalvikvm( 4396): HeapWorker thread has shut down

D/jdwp ( 4396): JDWP shutting down net...

I/jdwp ( 4396): adbd disconnected

D/dalvikvm( 4396): VM cleaning up

D/dalvikvm( 4396): LinearAlloc 0x0 used 631916 of 5242880 (12%)

D/dalvikvm( 3554): GC freed 4440 objects / 255744 bytes in 121ms

Please advise...
[Nook Touch General] straygecko:
You don't install it. The workaround to change sync settings is to use the gmail app to add an account and enter the same account information you already have setup and you will be able to update the sync settings.
[Nook Touch General] osowiecki:
You don't install apk's in /system/app/ you just put them in /system/app/ and after reboot start working.

Try to access AccountAndSyncSettings using 'NookColorTools'. If NCT does not allow access to these settings try using 'apktool' to decompile package and try to infer correct 'am start' command from the directory structure,filenames and code. Experiment with 'am start' using adb.
[Nook Touch General] RandyB201:
This is a Nook Simple Touch. NookColorTools sounds like something from the nook color?
[Nook Touch General] RandyB201:
please clarify...

If I understand you correctly, I need to:

1) open gmail

2) add an account (btw, when I click the add account button, it just goes back to the inbox...)

3) enter the same account info i already have in there

I am unclear on how I access sync settings after that is done?
[Nook Touch General] straygecko:
Add account shouldn't send you back to the inbox. It should work like this:

Open gmail

Open menu, click on accounts

Click on Add account button

Click on the big g on the Add an account screen

Click Next

Click Sign In

Enter your gmail username and password

Click Sign In

Now you should be on the Data & synchronization page with check boxes for Contacts, Calendar and Gmail. Check/uncheck what you want and click on Finish.

If add account continues to send you back to the inbox get a logcat when that happens and post it.

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Yes but some of the things in NCT work on the NST. But don't bother installing NCT for this as the Account & Sync Settings isn't there. Don't try digging the intent for am start out of the apk either as market tools like one touch sync settings have already figured that out and that's what they do. I tried all this when I put together NTGAppsAttack and could never get Account & Sync Settings to work. IIRC, its a layout issue. There is something funny about what B&N did to Android on the NST that causes some apps to die with layout issues. If I did remember correctly it might be possible to hack the apk up to get it to work but I don't have the time or motivation to do it as the gmail workaround does everything I need.
[Nook Touch General] straygecko:
Do you have B&N apps disabled? If so, reenable and try again. B&N messed with the android authentication stuff and has their own account types. Since you aren't even getting to the page where you select the account type (Google and two generic android) I suspect it might be looking for disabled B&N account stuff and crashing.

The logcat isn't telling me much - is there anything earlier in the log of interest? /data/anr/traces.txt also might help but I'm not optimistic on that one.
[Nook Touch General] osowiecki:
am start -a android.settings.SYNC_SETTINGS

It does not work or you have just missed something?

Got the command from decompiled "AccountAndSyncSettings.apk".

AndroidManifest.xml.
[Nook Touch General] RandyB201:
some answers...

Here are the apps in my list:

ADB Konnect

Adding Machine

Appstore

Browser

Calculator

Calendar

ColorNote

Contacts

DeviceRegistrator

FBReader

Gallery

Gmail

Kingsoft Office

Library

Market

MemoryInfo-SwapCheck

Music

News and Weather

NOOK friends

Nook Touch Mod Manager

NookHWTest, version

Search Market

Settings

Shop

Social

Superuser

Swapper 2

Talk

TestCenterService

Zo Reader (This reminded me I want to uninstall this, I like FBReader...)

Tasks running:

ReLaunch com.harasoft.relaunch

SYSTEM(+4) android.process.acore

Gmail com.google.android.gm

Calendar(+1) com.android.calendar

SYSTEM (+2) android.process.media

Appstore com.amazon.venezia

Reader com.bn.nook.reader.activities

Home com.bn.nook.home

Dialer (+1) com.android.phone

ADB Konnect com.rockolabs.adbkonnect

Superuser com.noshufou.android.su

Google Partner Setup com.google.android.partnersetup

Services

Android System system

SYSTEM com.google.process.gapps

DeviceManagerService com.bn.devicemanager

TestCEnterService com.bn.serviceone

Settings com.android.settings

Market com.android.vending

SYSTEM com.bn.cloud.svc:svc

WafeformDownloaderService com.bn.waveformdownloader.svc

Android keyboard com.android.inputmethod.latin

Swapper 2 lv.n30.swapper2

com.bn.nook.affiledownloadservice com.bn.nook.affiledownloadservice

com.bn.demomode com.bn.demomode

Dialer com.android.phone

I will redo and post more lines, but nothing jumped out at me.

I have ReLaunch set to show hidden files, do not hide known extensions and show all files.

When I tap on the data folder it comes up empty, i.e. there is no folder called anr to check for the traces.txt file.
[Nook Touch General] RandyB201:
longer logcat file

longer logcat file
[Nook Touch General] straygecko:
OK, that's more helpful. It says you don't have an apk that handles the Add Account intent. It may have to do with your attempt to install AccountAndSyncSettings.apk from /system/app. Does AccountAndSyncSettings.apk still exist in /system/app? If so, try rebooting your NST and try the gmail work around again. If not, move it back there and reboot then try the gmail work around again.

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Realunch won't see things in that folder. You need to use a file manager tat has an option to explore with root privileges like ES File Explorer. But the logcat you posted was what I needed so no need to post the traces.txt
[Nook Touch General] RandyB201:
slogging on...

yes it is still there

I am geeky enough that I had already tried rebooting to fix the problem, but today I powered down the nook. I started it. The only thing I did before trying the gmail trick was start ADBKonnect and connect to the desktop.

The results were the same. My apps, task and service lists are the same with the exception that I uninstalled ZoReader. The task and service lists are identical, but there are a few differences in the "order".

Attaching the logcat file...

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Realunch won't see things in that folder. You need to use a file manager tat has an option to explore with root privileges like ES File Explorer. But the logcat you posted was what I needed so no need to post the traces.txt[/QUOTE]

I installed and used Root File Manager to find the traces.txt file. It was empty.

Just an afterthought... should I use my NookManager microsd card to reinstall GappsAttack?
[Nook Touch General] RandyB201:
I tried adb shell am start -a android.settings.SYNC_SETTINGS.

Starting: Intent { act=android.settings.SYNC_SETTINGS }

Error: Activity not started, unable to resolve Intent { act=android.settings.SYN

C_SETTINGS flg=0x10000000 }

logcat attached...
[Nook Touch General] osowiecki:
On my NST this command works fine because it starts the Gapps Sync_settings (I have NTGAppsAttack installed and configured)

other commands fail because nook does know which intent goes goes to Oobe.apk and which to Google account settings (I guess, based on ddms error messages).

Connect your nook via adb and run 'ddms' from your Android folder.

It specifically informs you when it is trying to run part of Oobe.apk or Gapps and when these commands generate errors.

Tonight I'll try to look closer to this problem.
[Nook Touch General] straygecko:
Logcat shows the same thing. No apk to handle the android.settings.ADD_ACCOUNT_SETTINGS intent. It really sounds like your AccountAndSyncSettings.apk got mangled along the way somehow. Reinstalling NTGAppsAttack won't fix that as AccountAndSyncSettings.apk is part of the stock B&N stuff. A logcat from Android startup (package manager messages) could help pin down what's wrong with the apk you have but knowing that or not the fix would be the same. Either restore to prior to installing NTGAppsAttack and reinstall NTGAppsAttack. Or you could extract the AccountAndSyncSettings.apk from the B&N 1.2.1 update file, copy it to your /system/app folder, reboot and try the gmail workaround again. The first has the highest probability of success but the second isn't too much work and has a pretty good chance of fixing it.

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The SYNC_SETTINGS intent is handled by AccountAndSyncSettings.apk which is part of stock B&N and isn't installed by NTGAppsAttack. I think this has something to do with the B&N account stuff they patched into android. Seeing from your profile you're not in the US or UK do you even have your device registered with B&N? Not having a B&N account setup might be what's making your device work as sync settings won't be trying to display a B&N account in its list of accounts.
[Nook Touch General] veloo:
I have the same issue. I tried multiple ways and apps to get to the sync settings. but my nst just reboots at every attempt.

my device is uk. just bought from argos last month :) rooted with nookmanager. one issue that i notice is that some dialog boxes display empty, possibly because foreground/background colours are same/similar. i can't remember whether i had this problem before rooting.
[Nook Touch General] RandyB201:
moving backward..

ok. the second option did not work. so, i am trying to reset the nook and start over.

i erased and deregistered it. after reboot i went through the setup process. then i rebooted with my nook manager card and rooted. rebooted and all looks good.

then i rebooted with the nookmanager card to install gapps attack

after reboot, i am stuck at step 16. Go back to ReLaunch and open the Market

when i do this it shows me the license screen i hit accept, then i just get a server error.

gmail and contacts apps seems to be working fine. when i open calendar, it opens but there is an image of an sd card superimposed over the top of the calendar -- i dont remember it doing htat before. talk will not open, it just briefly flashes the screen and goes back to the applications in relaunch.

I have done this entire process several times now and the results have been exactly the same each time???

update: i just tried this with a new gmail account, and the results were the same...

as i have thought about this most of yesterday and today, it seems to me that something is not getting cleared / deleted in the reset process...

aug-12-13 update: i installed nook color tools, used it to uninstall the market update, rebooted, rebooted w nook mgr card, reinstalled gappsattack. no change...

i am not sure if this is significant, but i noticed something else that supports my theory that not everything is getting erased in the reset process. when i open contacts, my google contacts from my original gmail acct are still in the list even though, i deregistered/erased and used a different gmail acct when i did this yesterday...
[Nook Touch General] RandyB201:
back to my original question...

I understand that B&N has modified the AccountAndSyncSettings.apk on the nook to fence it in to their company.

Has anyone tried replacing the AccountAndSyncSettings.apk in their nook with one from another Android 2.1 device?

I assume this would break the B&N apps, but I wonder if it would enable apps that need to access that apk...
[Nook Touch General] straygecko:
Server error can be something that lasts a short time or a long time as far as I can tell. It happened to me once when I was testing NTGAppsAttack before I released it and was restoring and running setup several times a day. I thought I was permanently locked out from Google but eventually it went away as mysteriously as it arrived. From my attempts to research the problem it seems that's the same story everywhere (not just on the Nook) - you're stuck with the whim of Google.

Deregistering and erasing I don't believe wipes your data partition. After deregistering and erasing you should also restore a backup from prior to rooting.

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Its not that B&N modified AccountAndSyncSettings.apk. They added additional account types to the lower level Android authentication mechanism and never tested them with AccountAndSyncSettings.apk and something they did breaks it. They did just enough to get things working for their purposes and no more. I have tried loading a couple of stock Android versions of AccountAndSyncSettings.apk from the 2.1 CyanogenMod releases and they fail the same way.
[Nook Touch General] RandyB201:
aha... that is annoying isnt' it! so, if i read between the lines properly the only way to fix that would be a kernel mod of some kind. is that right?
[Nook Touch General] RandyB201:
I tried doing a reset again, deleting everything on the data partion (and for good measure the cache, too). I was still unable to get through step 16. Every time I click market, I just get a server connection error. I will keep trying it every once in a while, but I am not holding my breath, lol.
[Nook Touch General] straygecko:
Not a kernel mod. Probably easiest to modify AccountAndSyncSettings.apk to ignore the B&N accounts as they are already handled by the B&N apps.
[Nook Touch General] RandyB201:
what about a plain install of android?

hmm...

okay. sorry my lack of knowledge here may reveal itself... i wonder, could i somehow copy the display driver off the nook and simply do a plain install of android on it using the eink display driver?
[Nook Touch General] straygecko:
You can do some searches on the forum here about attempts to load the CyanogenMod flavor of android. So far no one appears to have been successful.
[Nook Touch General] RandyB201:
new blog...

I started a new blog: http://nooktouchasitshouldbe.blogspot.com/

You are mentioned there with thanks; so, I thought I would let you know.
[Off-topic] edisile:
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[Off-topic] ABD EL HAMEED:
I usually play BF3 my username is ABDMIG
[Off-topic] GuestK00178:
I'm in.

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No TF2? :'( :(

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Count me in as a casual player. I'll join in with the clan and squad up with you etc., but I don't play enough to get involved in serious clan activity, like matches against other clans.

I'm generally a fps/tps player but like arcade racers like Burnout. I just enjoy team related gaming. Tactics ftw.

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Count me in too! My Steam name is WolfFusion99. I rarely play TF2, and like Archer, I'm casual. I downloaded TF2 yesterday so it would be cool if we could form a squad together and beast on some servers. Even though I suck so bad at TF2. Plus later I'm going to get Ghost Recon Online, and I'm downloading Battlefield 3!
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Someone should create a steam group for this clan
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I play Dota 2! If anyone is willing to make a XDA clan count me in!

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[Off-topic] roofrider:
I don't play any :( but would like to.

How do these free to play games work? Is it really free-free without any restrictions? If it is then i'll give it a try.
[Off-topic] matgras:
It is free with in game microtransactions for extra stuff
[Off-topic] edisile:
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[Off-topic] Gogeta:
Only for online gamers:confused:

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I'm playing NFS series ...

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[Off-topic] bassie1995:
Dibs on a spot! BF3, DCS, FC3, and a number of other games are what I play :).
[Off-topic] GuestK00178:
Wut? :confused:

There is an xda steam group.

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[Off-topic] 404-Not Found:
Count me in.

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I have Gran Turismo 5, Tom Clancy’s Future Soldier Ghost Recon, and a few others, but those are the only ones with Multiplayer Mode Online. I am to get soon CoD.

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And if is there going to be a clan for GT5? Because I am really excited about it.
[Off-topic] bassie1995:
FTFY.
[Off-topic] 404-Not Found:
Really?
[Off-topic] 404-Not Found:
Evading No Hack threads don't solve the problem. I tried joining no hack rooms, but the cars pop up every now and then.
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Got my BF3 working, that was beast! I played with Abd, but I'm going to play with Bassie later.

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[Off-topic] ABD EL HAMEED:
Ya too bad bassie wasn't there and we joined a bad server let's play conquest next so you can play with the jets
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I played Caspian Borders by myself yesterday. So I played with 2 jets, 2 helicopters, 4 humvees, and that's it :)

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[Off-topic] bassie1995:
I might have been there for a bit :P.

Didn't really work out, though, as my BF froze.
[Off-topic] -Grift-:
oh damnnn if we have enough players (atleast 10?) why not make a XDA platoon on BF3? Hit me up on origin anyway, ll-ExynosE-ll :good::good:
[Off-topic] roofrider:
Dafuq is on your user info? :eek:
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hehehe:laugh:
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Can't find you. My username is WolfFusion.

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[Off-topic] edisile:
You start to get decent when you hsve something like 200 hours of gameplay. I just have 350 xD
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[Off-topic] Android Pizza:
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Minecraft is rubberdubbish

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[Off-topic] Android Pizza:
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[Off-topic] Cooptx:
I will do minecraft :D when I get home
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[Off-topic] Cooptx:
Well I am at home now, but I forgot that my internet drivers are screwed
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Screwed how?

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[Off-topic] Cooptx:
Ubuntu and win8 doesn't show that I even have a widow card
[Off-topic] Cooptx:
I fixed my WiFi :D My minecraft is 401008
[Off-topic] -Grift-:
Yep sent my request :)
[Off-topic] Cooptx:
So I have windows again and all my games are working and installed.
[Off-topic] boborone:
Can not a fanboy of the game or a hater of the game please explain to what is minecraft? I know you mine and build. That's it. Not sure what it's all about.
[Off-topic] :
It used to be good but I've had it two years and I got bored of it.. They made it worse.

I'm not a fan boy/hater but I think it's gone downhill.

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[Off-topic] 404-Not Found:
I don't play, but I have in Kindle, not a fan or hater, but you just complete building your own world..and complete quests and stuff plus you play multiplayer with friends to build your own worlds. I don't like to play it too much because it gives me headaches.

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Just testing.......
[Off-topic] matgras:
it's a game about exploring a voxel based world
[Off-topic] boborone:
So for those who have a PS3, kinda like My Home thing on the Playstation? A Sims type game?