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[Nook Touch General] fullmanido2016:
Hello, is there a way to place opera apk on the Nook Glow?

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Hello, We are using the NG2 for a door display, I have been through all of the searches, what link would your use for a landscape view browser for the NG2? Great posts!

QUOTE=Renate NST;63439436]Yow! I could kiss B&N! :D

root@ntx_6sl:/ # getprop
...
[ro.build.version.release]: [4.4.2]
[ro.build.version.sdk]: [19]

4G storage, only 512M RAM, no Bluetooth.[/QUOTE]
[Nook Touch General] Renate:
I tried the general Opera release on http://www.opera.com/mobile/operabrowser/android

It looks like it dies on a malloc, not enough memory, but I didn't look that closely.

Me? I'd write a door display as an Android app using WebView (if I really needed HTML).

That would give you something less hackable than a regular browser.

Actually, I'd just write the whole thing as an Android app without any HTML.
[Nook Touch General] clavierkid:
I think the NST worked better, when it came to running apps.

Is it because I overclocked the CPU? Maybe an older version of Android just ran better?

Is there anyway to increase the performance of the NGP?
[Nook Touch General] Renate:
The Glow Plus has 4G, but it's a question of partioning too.

Usually they set up the system partition a bit tight, because it's just wasted space what you don't use.

root@ntx_6sl:/ # df
Filesystem Size Used Free Blksize
/dev 229.7M 136.0K 229.6M 4096
/sys/fs/cgroup 229.7M 12.0K 229.7M 4096
/mnt/secure 229.7M 0.0K 229.7M 4096
/mnt/asec 229.7M 0.0K 229.7M 4096
/mnt/obb 229.7M 0.0K 229.7M 4096
/mnt/shm 1024.0K 0.0K 1024.0K 4096
/system 371.9M 288.2M 83.6M 1024
/data 2.8G 465.9M 2.4G 4096
/cache 378.0M 6.2M 371.7M 4096
/device 7.7M 1.0M 6.7M 1024
/mnt/shell/emulated 2.8G 465.9M 2.4G 4096

So, you've got about 80M of slack in /system

(Mostly) everything else comes out of the shared 2.4G left over.
[Nook Touch General] EugeneLoy:
Hi folks, anyone tried installing xposed on rooted NGP (want to tweak few ui settings, but don't feel overly confident with advanced android stuff and afraid to brick my reader)?
[Nook Touch General] Mumblestumbles88:
List of helpful apks I've found that work real well

Kindle App (e-ink friendly)

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2024062

APkPure is an app that lets you download and even update your apps

https://apkpure.com/apkpure-app.html?icn=aegon&ici=text_index

Evernote works great. download it on APKPure.

I like using this launcher called Nano, because it's designed to take up less than 1 mb and do everything you'd expect a launcher to be able to do.

https://apkpure.com/nano-launcher/com.cooeeui.zenlauncher

I'm rooted. I don't know if that will create problems trying to install these on a nonrooted GLP.
[Nook Touch General] selcuko:
I did install xposed and made the short 'n' button press 'back' and long 'n' press 'home' w/o problems.
[Nook Touch General] Mumblestumbles88:
Has anyone had any luck with Google Play services and Google play books? Are there specific versions of working APK files anyone can share?
[Nook Touch General] EugeneLoy:
Hi, I removed partner.apk and bnrearer.apk recently and it turns out that default keyboard was packaged inside one of them. I tried few third party keyboards but not happy with the replacements I stumbled upon so far.

Can anyone recommend a decent free minimalistic keyboard that plays well with e-ink displays we have on NGP?
[Nook Touch General] spedinfargo:
Does anyone know an easy way to get Calibre Companion on my device? I purchased it on Google Play on another Android device and it works great. From what I understand it's very difficult to get Google Play to work on the Glowlight Plus - I tried APKPure but it doesn't look like I can get to my paid Google Play apps from there. Any ideas for me?
[Nook Touch General] David0226:
I *think* if your other device is rooted, you should be able to find the .apk using root explorer (or adb), copy it to an external storage device via wifi or usb and the side load it to your Nook.
[Nook Touch General] spedinfargo:
Thanks for the quick reply! You're correct - detailed steps are a in a post from a little further up on this thread: http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=64900694&postcount=222

If it's not there, you can install the app on a rooted android device via Google Play and get the apk from there. If I remember correctly, they're stored in /data/app/com.vendor.app/base.apk. From there, get the APK onto your computer. You can do this via adb:

adb pull /data/app/com.vendor.app/base.apk

Of course, com.vendor.app is a place holder for the actual package names. You may want to rename the base.apk after you pull it off of your phone to avoid confusion.
[Nook Touch General] David0226:
General "Thank you"

Just a general "Thank You" to all who have contributed here. I received a Nook Glowlight Plus I purchased on Ebay late this morning. With the help of posts from this thread, I already have adb working over USB, root, a new launcher, and my favorite reader program (AlReader) set up.
[Nook Touch General] David0226:
I got the Xposed Framework and Xposed Additions installed but I can't figure out how to set the "home" key to back. When I go to add a new conditions my only choices are:

Screen On

Screen Off

Lock Screen

How do a get "back"?
[Nook Touch General] cazar:
You can configure 'Click' and 'Long Press' after adding 'Screen On' condition.

btw, you need to enable 'Buttons - Allow External Devices - Miscellaneous' to make it work.
[Nook Touch General] David0226:
Thank you for the quick reply. That is the info i needed. I have it working now.
[Nook Touch General] Renate:
You could always just grab the stock Android 4.4.2 "Latin" IME off another device or an emulator.

It's not great, but it works.

(Actually, looking at it it has a lot more junk in it than I want.)
[Nook Touch General] corbindavenport:
Hello everyone, has anyone tried getting the Play Store to work with this guide?

http://xdaforums.com/kindle-fire-hdx/themes-apps/how-to-install-gapps-root-t2954372

I really want a GlowLight Plus, but I already have all my books in Google Play Books (which needs Play Services).
[Nook Touch General] pkchainsaw:
Has anyone tried zinio? That's one of the main reasons I'd be interested in using an ngp. But I do t want to buy one and then find out it doesn't work.
[Nook Touch General] clavierkid:
Kindle is a totally different thing, you might have better luck with the NST guide (I think it's called NTGAppsAttack).

Alternatively, you may be able to pull the books off of your phone (if you're rooted) and import them to calibre. You may need the DeDRM calibre extension. From there, you could send them to your nook.
[Nook Touch General] zerodean:
I found an alternative status bar that I thought worked & looked better called Material Status Bar Lollipop by Treydev.

Additional apps that appear to be working well for my purposes (some previously mentioned in this thread):

APKPure and FDroid: Download APKs w/update options

Moon+ Reader : adjusting day/night theme background and text color to solid white and solid black helps.

Wallpaper Setter: could not adjust wallpaper via Nova launcher without crashes. Used Wallpaper Setter then adjusted permissions of wallpaper using adb code earlier in this thread. Also syncs books via Dropbox well.

Xodo: PDF reader/editor that will save edits back to Dropbox

Xposed framework

Xposed Additions module: Remapping home button short/long presses to back/home

Xposed XPrivacy: restrict access to apps

Xposed Boot Manager: restrict apps from loading at boot

Greenify

Adaway

Solid Explorer

Feedly: Required setting up new account using something other than Google Auth

Network Monitor Mini: See your network speed

Button savior

Battery by MacroPinch: This one displays battery status/stats ok on E-INK (others didn't) and estimates how much battery life you have left

Dropbox

I've only had these going for a couple days and will likely remove some, so may have more to report later. I can say Moon+ Reader appears to be a major battery hog while reading on this device.

What I did to root NGP and get it setup: Nothing new. All the instructions needed are included earlier in this thread. I pretty much followed them.

I installed the minimal Fastbook/ADB (for Windows 10) software linked to earlier in this thread. The install failed to include android_winusb.inf so I downloaded that from an alternative place and then made the necessary edits to it mentioned earlier in this thread. Then updated the USB driver doing a manual location search and loaded android_winusb.inf. That allowed me to root my NGP using the script attached in this thread. After root, I installed Nova Launcher using "adb install" command.
[Nook Touch General] kazikas:
some screenshots maybe? I don't yet own new, but gonna get sometime soon
[Nook Touch General] b-rad.cc:
I can confirm this. I'm running nano launcher and nothing else but moon+. Even with wifi off it seems like the battery drops one percent every few minutes. Shame it's such a hog.
[Nook Touch General] selcuko:
I have used Cool Reader on 3 generations of Nook including the NGP, and, am very happy with it. I was even able to transfer my notes and annotations. It uses an sqlite database for those. Needed to some sql to change book paths. But, it was not so difficult.

I highly recommend Cool Reader + Fora dictionary combination for NGP.
[Nook Touch General] clavierkid:
Yes, I've used Cool Reader on the NST, but I prefer Moon Reader so far because of the time remaining in book feature. Does the newest version of Cool Reader have this? Android on NST was too old to run the newest updates.
[Nook Touch General] selcuko:
I don't think it has.
[Nook Touch General] elpopa:
This post is very nice!

Transforms your NGP in a much better reader in seconds!

Thanks!
[Nook Touch General] daneland:
Hello you guys.

I managed to install apks through USB debugging method without root access.I want the native nook reader app to recognise some other fonts. I have some epub files and all I can see squares instead of letters.I guess this is due to lack of support of native app for epub's font.

The question ;can i install new fonts without root?

Is KINGOROOT is any good for rooting?

Many thanks in advance
[Nook Touch General] David0226:
I would not try KINGOROOT, there is a root script provided earlier in this thread (here). Since you already have ADB working, rooting with this script should be easy.

That said, reading this thread carefully indicates that the fonts available to the native reader app appear to be embedded in the app itself. If you want to use the Nook reader app, your best bet is to use Calibre to embed the font you want to use into the epub itself. You can find instructions to do this here. The article says it is for Kindle books, but it works for epub books as well. I assume that the books in question are DRM free as books sold by B&N should not have this problem. If they are not DRM free, you will have to strip DRM before you can embed the fonts. This is illegal in many countries and the process differs depending on the source of the book, so you will have to make your own decision here as well as search out the procedure for yourself.
[Nook Touch General] aude:
Status bar troubles

Thanks to all your efforts, my NGP was rooted and customized in a breeze. What I did not manage up to now, however, is getting a status bar to work.

I tried both the recommended Super Status Bar and this one:

Both just do not appear anywhere. I'm using Nova as a launcher and - should that matter - replaced the wallpaper with a blank one. Any ideas?

Thanks in advance!
[Nook Touch General] David0226:
I have noticed on my rooted Glowlight Plus that if I start the Nook app and then exit it, the status bar stays available, at least for a while. It is not the most elegant solution, but it works if you really need something from the status bar.
[Nook Touch General] aude:
Workaround Status Bar

Thanks! This works for me too - if an alternate status bar has been enabled, I get that one and otherwise the standard Nook version. Both disappear once I've send the NGP to sleep and come back to Nova, e.g.

Seems to cry out for an Xposed module or something - if I only knew...
[Nook Touch General] ZeroChaos:
ZeroLab Nooter (Finite Edition) — NOOK GlowLight Plus

https://zerolab.net/?p=2144
[Nook Touch General] weniwe:
External keyboard

Hi all,

I am thinking of buying a NGP and using it as a note-taking device.

Is it possible to use an external keyboard with the NGP via USB OTG after rooting?

Thanks!
[Nook Touch General] Renate:
Right now, I believe that nobody has USB host mode working yet.

It is on my list of things to do.
[Nook Touch General] cemunleashed:
Is there a solution to ghosting problems? Letters from previous pages are visible in most apps(moon reader,fbreader etc.). Even with e ink supported ones like Cool reader

Is there an app to refresh screen every x seconds or something like that?
[Nook Touch General] OrTraCon:
Bricked after removal of 'bnereader.apk' and 'partner.apk'

I got the same situation... my NGLP is bricked after removal of `bnereader.apk` and `partner.apk`. Were you able to recovery? On reboot I was only able connect to the Internal storage partition. My bootup screen just has that bouncing circle. I've tried putting the firmware v4.5 file onto the Internal storage partition but that does not resolve the brick issue.

HELP!!!
[Nook Touch General] David0226:
I have tried several reading apps, Cool Reader and Alreader, that even have a refresh after "x" pages option, but it seems to be ignored.

I have installed Button Saviour Pro and the Nook Clear Screen app (available from Google Play). I then remapped the Button Saviour camera button to Clear Screen. Then I manually fully refresh the screen when I see ghosting.

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I assume that since you were able to "remove" the apps, that you are rooted and you have adb working. Can you connect using 'adb shell'? If you can, can you put back the "removed" apps and then reboot again?

A note of caution here for everyone. Never simply delete an app from your device. Rename it (bnereader.apk.bak) or copy it to a new directory where it can't be read by Android (/system/archive), but never delete it until you are sure the device will function without it. Even if someone else says it is safe to delete, don't. They may have made additional changes / installed additional apps that makes it safe for them to remove, but not for you. So always move or rename a native app and reboot as a test before permanently deleting it. Just my two cents.
[Nook Touch General] OrTraCon:
Yes you are correct in your assumption... I was originally able to root the device and use ADB. However, I did not delete the `bnereader.apk` and `partner.apk` files... I just moved them to a different dir ('./backup/'). I think my problem is, as Renate NST pointed out, is that without one of these app the device does not have a launcher. (I was too eager and did not install another launcher before moving these files.) And without a launcher upon reboot I cannot get into the Settings screen to get to the Developers Option to enable adb. My adb server is running fine but everytime I reboot the device `adb devices` show nothing attached (obviously, b/c the device doesn't have the developer's option enabled yet). So I am in a vicious loop to nowhere fast. :crying:

My silver lining... I just got the NGLP a few days ago at a brick (pun intended) and mortar B&N... I am going to play dumb and see if I can exchange it for another one, blaming it on the firmware 4.5 upgrade that bricked my first device.

Another NOTE of caution.... before removing / moving / disabling either of these apps (`bnereader.apk` and `partner.apk`) make sure you have another working launcher installed!
[Nook Touch General] Kramar111:
"Hard Reset

A hard reset accomplishes the same result as an erase and deregister, but is more complex to perform. For this reason we encourage you to erase and deregister your device before performing a hard reset.

How to perform an erase and deregister on your NOOK GlowLight Plus

If the desired result was not achieved after completing an erase and deregister on your device, then you may want to perform a hard reset. Performing an Hard Reset on your NOOK GlowLight Plus will delete all settings, including the NOOK account and all files saved on the device memory. Once the Hard Reset has completed you will be able to reboot your NOOK as if it were a new device, and sign in to your NOOK account.

1. If the NOOK GlowLight Plus is powered on, press and hold the power button, then tap "Power Off" to shut the device down.

2. When the device is completely shut down, press the power button 3 seconds to boot the device. Immediately release the power button.

3. As soon as the device powers on the glow light, immediately press-and-hold the power button again. Hold it for a count of 12. You should see the boot animation (the three flashing dots) stop. When this happens, you've successfully interrupted the boot process.

- As soon as the device boots and turns on the glow light, the power button needs to be pressed and held until the boot animation ceases. If this is not successfully done while the while trying to do this 4 times in a row, the device boot count will be cleared and you will need to start over.

4. Repeat the above Step 3, three more times.

5. After 4 successfully repetitions of Step 3, boot the device again for the 5th time by pressing the power button 3 seconds.

6. When the device boots for the 5th time, a screen instructs you to press the NOOK button to factory-reset the device.

7. Press the NOOK button to perform factory reset mode."

It's quote from B&N forum or support, but now it's deleted.
[Nook Touch General] jinside:
Thanks for this post. Putting the patch.lua in the SD card root and making sure wifi was turned on worked for me. Between coolreader, koreader, and xposed home mapped to page down the ngp is a reading machine.
[Nook Touch General] cemunleashed:
how did you remap home button to page down? I tried xposed additions but it FC every time i try to remap.
[Nook Touch General] jinside:
Xposed additions requires root. I took an apk linked earlier in the thread which was an older version. I haven't figured out how to buy pro since we don't have the market and you really need 5 buttons when the free version only supports 2 options per button which means 4 buttons. Short press home; page down, long press home; back, short press power; home, long press power: power off. It would be extremely useful to have a 5th button for page up when surfing websites.
[Nook Touch General] daneland:
Anyway to run this script in Mac OS,I tried but I cant comprehend "How to run a .sh-script in a Mac terminal"

I managed to do with parallels' windows for mac os. Needs to install universal android device drivers.But nothing really complicated.
[Nook Touch General] cemunleashed:
Thank you.

For websites i use UC Browser mini.You can change page up/down settings.(tap to scroll or on screen buttons)The app isn't e ink optimized but scrolling works without problems.
[Nook Touch General] jinside:
For my fingers and websites UC mini didn't work consistently. Trying out status bar scroll up and down apps, wish there was an option for just page down and up instead of the whole page. Really these are minor user specific workflow issues. Koreader is really working very well with my scientific PDFs.
[Nook Touch General] klemperer:
my GLP was rooted using this script before, however, after some system updates from B&N recently, it became unrooted again. "The SU binary needs to be updated" pops up when SuperSU is launched. I ran rootnook.cmd again, and the script failed with the following information:

C:\rootGLP-3>rootnook.cmd
rm failed for /data/local/tmp/.nookrooter, Directory not empty
push: files/supolicy -> /data/local/tmp/.nookrooter/supolicy
failed to copy 'files/supolicy' to '/data/local/tmp/.nookrooter/supolicy': Permi
ssion denied
pkg: /data/local/tmp/.nookrooter/eu.chainfire.supersu.apk
Success
Restarting adbd as root... error: protocol fault (couldn't read status): Invalid
argument
Failed to get root privilege, exiting.

Any suggestions to fix this problem? Thanks.
[Nook Touch General] OrTraCon:
Are you using rootGLP-3.zip? That seems to work for me. The file can be found at http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=64191791.

Also, I was successful using the ZeroLab Nooter process... https://zerolab.net/2015/12/06/zerolab-nooter-nook-glowlight-plus/

The instructions are in Russian but you can use Google Translate. I like the ZeroLab method has he was able to modify ReLaunch for the NGLP.

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Does anyone know how to disable the screensaver timeout on the Nook Glowlight Plus? I don't want the screensaver to kick in as I am using my GLP as an always-on display. I have tried downloading and editing the settings.db (like I would do for the NST). However it seems this database is encrypted for the GLP.
[Nook Touch General] cemunleashed:
Disabling all animations from developer settings did the trick for me. It requires a reboot.
[Nook Touch General] daneland:
It is the best reader I have tired so far,particularly very good with PDF which is my main ebook format.If you follow the instructions from the above link you will get this rocking pretty easily. The patch can be copied to koreader folder after the app installed,at least this is what I did.
[Nook Touch General] David0226:
I tried koreader and it is by far the best PDF reader I have seen for eInk devices. I still prefer cool reader for reading epubs. When I have some time, I will do some more digging into koreader settings for epubs to see if perhaps it can be configured to surpass cool reader.
[Nook Touch General] swd1:
Can koreader be installed via ADB without rooting NGP?

Thanks in advance.
[Nook Touch General] cemunleashed:
Yes. You just have to send patch.lua to /sdcard/koreader/patch.lua else it won't work.
[Nook Touch General] fearless139:
After installing Xposed 2.7, my NGP doesn't show screensavers anymore, just standby at the current screen. Does anyone face the same problem? I searched a lot in this thread but cannot find the solution.

Any expert help please?
[Nook Touch General] cemunleashed:
I have xposed 2.6.1 installed and do not have this problem.
[Nook Touch General] darren1:
I am thinking of purchasing a Glowlight Plus has anyone tried running microG GmsCore - FLOSS Play Services compatible framework? Its available on this thread.

http://xdaforums.com/android/apps-games/app-microg-gmscore-floss-play-services-t3217616
[Nook Touch General] almot1:
Xposed Additions

I'm having problems with Xposed Additions. When I'm trying to run it it gives me a message that some services are not running and I need XposedBridge. Can you tell me what I'm doing wrong? Thank you.
[Nook Touch General] hgelpke:
I have it running with no issues
[Nook Touch General] darren1:
I ordered a Glowlight Plus on Thursday. But I have to wait for it to ship from the US to the UK.

Have you installed the Google Play Store or did you use BlankStore? And if you used the Google Play Store can you download content you have paid for?
[Nook Touch General] RyogoNA:
Mine stopped working replacing standard launcher with custom one. That's why I posted custom screensaver app few pages earlier.
[Nook Touch General] MikeN68:
Pageturner Pro

Pageturner Pro (and free) work just fine on the new Nook. I still think (for my old eyes) some of the app text is a bit small, but the reader and sync still work as designed. Justified text would be nice but he looked at this a while ago and it is still not in the current 2.3 version unfortunately.