yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Nook Touch General] Renate:
Yeah, I hate buttons with no tactile feedback.

Before I replaced that button I had to whale on it with my thumbnail to actuate it.

It's also possible that the switch is fine and you have some other problem.

Unfortunately you'd almost have to open it up to trouble shoot it.

You might end up with your device looking like mine.
[Nook Touch General] swd1:
Thanks @Renate. Any tips on opening it up? I tried with flat screw driver. That seems to damage the white finish.

Also do you know if waterproofness will be ok if I open it?
[Nook Touch General] Renate:
@swd1 Here are two posts to read carefully:

https://xdaforums.com/t/new-nook-glowlight-plus.3230323/post-87342673

https://xdaforums.com/t/fixing-a-dead-glow-glow2-brnv510.4229851/post-84442189
[Nook Touch General] swd1:
Thanks for your continued help. I read those. Since the Glow2 will be opened from right side not sure I can reach the power button on the left and fix it. Do you have experience holding it down certain duration and it may turn on? I don't believe I have any other issue. This happened once before and after several attempts holding power button down restarted it.
[Nook Touch General] Renate:
I think that you probably have a problem that will not be resolved until you replace the power switch.

Yes, you can jumper the switch and get this thing booted, but you really can't open this every single time.
[Nook Touch General] swd1:
Thanks @

Thanks. Any instructions on how to replace the power switch? You are a great help.
[Nook Touch General] Shagbark:
There's an English version there as well, which doesn't install the Russian keyboard.
[Nook Touch General] Renate:
Well, you can see from the photo above that it's not that easy.

Removing the old switch without destroying the PCB is tricky.

I usually try to remove component carefully and destructively.

Since you're not going to reuse the switch you can carefully take it to pieces then unsolder the pieces.

Getting a new switch that fits the old PCB layout can be difficult.

So, you connect thin wires (30 AWG) and wire it to anything you have as a switch.
[Nook Touch General] broreader:
Anyone know how to “undo” the root? After rooting, I erase and de-registered the device, but when I run the root script again, it says root detected. Any way to entirely reverse it?

Sorry in advance for the question. I’m not very familiar with android
[Nook Touch General] yegoshin:
It would be nice to get the status bar working again just for the sake of time keeping etc...
[Nook Touch General] nicvel:
Getting back the Status Bar

I got my Nook GlowPlus today and immediately sideloaded Nova Launcher a few apps, including Mantano reader and Kindle app.

Whenever I press the "menu" button in either of those two apps, the Status bar would come back and stay there for a while. But eventually it disappears.

Now, if once you start into Nova Launcher you then press the home button (either the hardkey or a softkey like Savior's Buttons) and launch the vanilla Nook launcher, and then you get back to Nova Launcher, the status bar comes back for good.
[Nook Touch General] dnastase:
Yes, 4.4, thus you can install the latest versions just fine.

I mostly use androiddrawer dot com to get apks but for some apps they don't have it and then I just search the inet ...
[Nook Touch General] jinside:
Anyone know of an existing norefresh app that works?
[Nook Touch General] x111:
thanks.

unbelievable how much useless space inside that can b used for extra battery for example.
[Nook Touch General] ewandeep:
I succeeded. However most of the applications crash or are not usable. For instance kindle crashes when I open a book.there is a version that works? Is there a good pdf reader? Thanks in advance

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[Nook Touch General] yegoshin:
Ahh interesting, must have been because I got rid of the stock launcher (renamed to .bak over console) Like in Renate's post. I returned everything to original then installed Nova over ADB and all is good, got the status bar back unless I shut down(restart) the device then I have to do the nook app trick again. (Also the stock keyboard came back without renaming the stock nook Launcher to .bak)

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Hmm mine seem to work no problem, here is where I got the kinda apk:

http://www.apkmirror.com/apk/amazon...mazon-kindle-4-17-0-146-android-apk-download/

It did crash so at first, so using Savior buttons I went to the open/running apps and swiped it away. after that opened it again an it worked no problem. Sync'ed with Amazon and got a book and opened it. (A little slow since the kindle app is probably meant for quad core table processors )
[Nook Touch General] dnastase:
Hmm, indeed. None of the Amazon apps that I've tried works.

The oldest I have (and which works on all the other Nooks) behaves weird here: forgets credentials, shows text black on black after the first page.

Bad news :(
[Nook Touch General] gibletpie:
At the risk of sounding ignorant (as I'm new to ADB), how did you return everything to original? Uninstall the apk's through ADB and rename through it as well? I want to play with this stuff, but would like to know how to return to original before jumping in.
[Nook Touch General] dnastase:
I tried this apk too. It worked further than the others, but it's still crashing on some books :(

And it took a while until I could register, it's like the keys on the keyboard were pressing on themselves, randomly. Weird.

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And the reason:

User 52%, System 45%, IOW 0%, IRQ 1%
User 55 + Nice 0 + Sys 48 + Idle 0 + IOW 0 + IRQ 0 + SIRQ 2 = 105

PID PR CPU% S #THR VSS RSS PCY UID Name
3580 0 71% R 132 999484K 186592K fg u0_a28 com.amazon.kindle
2457 0 3% D 19 754256K 44796K fg u0_a5 com.android.systemui
2409 0 1% S 64 786268K 28916K fg system system_server
7787 0 3% R 23 712484K 26584K bg u0_a11 bn.ereader
2542 0 0% S 10 682476K 18472K fg u0_a1 com.nook.partner
8118 0 1% D 9 678492K 16852K bg u0_a1 com.nook.partner.ota
2047 0 0% S 4 671380K 13800K root zygote

it uses too much resident memory.

Actually the Kindle brings down the whole Android at times (eg: reboot).
[Nook Touch General] yegoshin:
I renamed the Laucher2 (like in post #20) through console, like I did it originally (returning it back from .bak to .apk and from .bak to .odex)

So you don't have to worry about that unless you accessed console and did the renaming originally (which you don't have to do, it actually works better without that step)

As for uninstalling the app .APK's there is a little bit of a catch 22. You have to know what they are called in the /data/app folder. HOWEVER you can not currently access that folder through ADB:

adb uninstall com.teslacoilsw.launcher
adb uninstall com.orux.oruxmapsbeta
adb uninstall com.smart.swkey.nonroot
adb uninstall org.broeuschmeul.android.gps.usb.provider
adb uninstall org.geometerplus.zlibrary.ui.android
adb uninstall org.pocketworkstation.pckeyboard

I believe those are in the APK's (if you look inside on the computer), or alternatively you an install the same app on a rooted android device to get the name from there. Does this make sense?
[Nook Touch General] gibletpie:
Yes, thank you so much. :good:
[Nook Touch General] dnastase:
You can do in the adb shell: 'pm list packages' and it will show you something like this:

shell@ntx_6sl:/ $ pm list packages

package:com.dr.patterns

package:com.android.defcontainer

package:android

package:com.android.settings

package:com.amazon.kindle

package:bn.ereader

. . .

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I believe the unreadable text is because the 3.2 version of Kindle that I have was changed so that it worked better on NST.

I couldn't find any original one on the inet.

Does anyone have a 3.2.x version of Kindle that's original ?
[Nook Touch General] Windsor1959:
Sometimes, when I go into the Nova app drawer, one app icon will act like I've pressed it and the app will start up. And I thought it might be some cool Halloween trick!
[Nook Touch General] Renate:
With a tip of the hat...
[Nook Touch General] DeanGibson:
Defective GL+

Hey, you've got a defective unit; light is leaking out of a hole.
[Nook Touch General] dnastase:
I don't understand, what is it ?
[Nook Touch General] Renate:
Just showing off my reader app and a personal hello to someone who apparently likes Jack London.
[Nook Touch General] dnastase:
An original 3.2 does the same :(

3.5 or 3.7 or 4.0 or 4.2 just die upon start :(
[Nook Touch General] jinside:
pm list packages -3 will show all third party apps.

You can also run the settings app->apps->click app->uninstall..etc. you can stop running apps but it can make things go wonky.
[Nook Touch General] Windsor1959:
Perhaps it would be a good idea if we listed apps that are known to work on the NGP and apps that don't seem to work on the NGP. We could do this here or in a new thread. People wouldn't have to find out by trial and error(unless they like doing that). Besides, it may happen that someone else will figure out how to make an app work on the NGP that didn't work for you, and can share their tricks.

A little background. When I tried my Logos Bible Software app on the NGP, I got a dark, blank screen whenever I opened up a book or other resource in the app. That also happened when I got an Onyx T68 some time ago. The Logos tech people said that this was because the app is designed to take advantage of hardware acceleration features that most Android tablets have but that many E-Ink devices do not have, so they cannot offer tech support to people using E-Ink devices. Now, that app works just fine on my Boyue T62+ but not on the NGP. So the NGP also lacks these acceleration features, whatever they are. This may be one reason why some apps (Kindle?) aren't working on the NGP.

Moon Reader pro works just fine, as does Calibre Companion. Instapaper also works fine. KOReader crashes at the start (the newest version - I haven't tried older versions yet). There is a version of ALReader designed for E-Ink, but I haven't tried that yet. Obviously, Renate's app works fine on the NGP! (How does that app work with Calibre Companion, I wonder?)
[Nook Touch General] dnastase:
My additions to the list of working apps: Button Saviour, FBReader (2.5.10), Zeam Launcher (2.8.8) and TotalCommander (2.61)

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I can't figure out how much swap file the NGP has setup ... (was thinking if I can increase it the newest Kindle app will work, slowly but it will ...).

/proc/swaps shows nothing. But there must be something since top shows VSS way bigger than 512Mb ...

Hmm, I'm reading Android doesn't have swap. The vss - rss difference is probably stuff that can be memory mapped...
[Nook Touch General] Renate:
If you don't want/need anything to do with B&N you definitely should rename or delete:

mount -o rw,remount /dev/block/mmcblk0p5 /system
cd /system/priv-app
mv bnereader.apk bnereader.bak
mv partner.apk partner.bak
reboot

Both of these will react/do lots of actions behind your back.

android.intent.action.ACTION_SEND
android.intent.action.ACTION_SHUTDOWN
android.intent.action.BOOT_COMPLETED
android.intent.action.CONFIGURATION_CHANGED
android.intent.action.DOWNLOAD_COMPLETED
android.intent.action.DOWNLOAD_NOTIFICATION_CLICKED
android.intent.action.LOCALE_CHANGED
android.intent.action.MAIN
android.intent.action.MEDIA_MOUNTED
android.intent.action.MEDIA_SCANNER_FINISHED
android.intent.action.MY_PACKAGE_REPLACED
android.intent.action.PACKAGE_ADDED
android.intent.action.PACKAGE_FULLY_REMOVED
android.intent.action.PACKAGE_REPLACED
android.intent.action.SEARCH
android.intent.action.SENDTO
android.intent.action.VIEW

You will need full root to do this.
[Nook Touch General] jinside:
With non-root I was able to disable the nook app and stop the com.partner process. This might help for those who do not want B&N to update their device. I will yield to those who are rooted any may provide additional information of whats going on behind the scenes.
[Nook Touch General] IndianBOB:
I rooted NGP yeserday with kingoroot for PC

I received NGP yeserday. and I rooted NGP with Kingo Root for pc.

Not opening Nook, you can root easily.

1. open USB debugging on Development Options

2. connect to PC, and with Kingo Root for pc you can root.

taking almost 30 minutes, over 10 times rebooting is need.
[Nook Touch General] Windsor1959:
Kingo Root can send sensitive info to its Chinese servers. If you use it, you need to remove it from your NGP ASAP. I would be very cautious about using a PC version. Try http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=61748798 method, used for another device, jnstead (without the part about downgrading Android firsy, of course).

Edit: When I checked out this method, it also requires your device to be online. No go for me. Proceed at your own risk, as always!
[Nook Touch General] Renate:
Stock fonts on Android have gotten worse and worse.

It seems like we're going back to the days of one font (in this case Roboto).

I don't see any decent serif fonts on the NGP.

I thought the flyer showed Georgia as a font selection?

What do people use as fonts? Do they like them?

I'm sticking with Caecilia.
[Nook Touch General] kazikas:
Was using Charis SIL for quite some time, but switched to Bitter for good. And both fonts are free.
[Nook Touch General] joygram:
my ngp is bricked T..T

I removed `bnereader.apk` and `partner.apk`

after recover only `bnereader.apk` .... bricked.

so I entered hard reset with recovery mode

after all....

adb interface disappeared and can't boot.

Is there any other way to recover?
[Nook Touch General] Windsor1959:
My apologies! I decided to try Kingo Root for Windows after all, after reading up about it. After maybe 45 minutes of working on it, with several reboots, it achieved root for me. Just to be on the safe side, I installed SuperSU and System App Remover. Before rebooting the NGP after SuperSU downloaded its binary, I deleted the KingoRoot superuser with System App Remover. Then I rebooted. I have root. I installed SetCPU and found that the kernel gives several options for governor and scheduler. I enabled the root explorer feature on ES File Explorer. That's all so far.
[Nook Touch General] case-sensitive:
Could you explain how one would install fonts in android? THANKS!
[Nook Touch General] kazikas:
Copy to /system/fonts and change permissions to 644
[Nook Touch General] case-sensitive:
Thanks! I copied the .otf files to /system/fonts and change the permissions to rw-r-r. However, my ebook reader app (Alreader) does not recognize the fonts. Is that because Alreader only use ttf? Could you recommend an ebook app that uses otf?

THANKS!
[Nook Touch General] kazikas:
For AlReader you can put fonts to /sdcard/fonts also. If AlReader is set to 'e-ink adaptation' it reads only ttf fonts. You can download/convert otf to ttf or turn off 'e-ink adaptation' (it doesn't really do anything, just hides some settings) for supporting otf.

There is very detailed help page for AlReader, but only in russian.
[Nook Touch General] Renate:
Interesting...

Does everybody have extra fonts installed by B&N on /sdcard ?

It looks like there is supposed to be:

AscenderSans

Baskerville

CenturySchoolBook

Dutch

Georgia

GillSans

JoanaSans

Malabar

MundoSans

Trebuchet

But I don't see them on my device.
[Nook Touch General] Renate:
Ah, now I see.

Theses fonts are all inside /system/priv-app/partner.apk

When unzipped they are found in assets/fonts
[Nook Touch General] Windsor1959:
I've had a couple of OTA updates from B&N. The latest is Software Version 4.5.1.33. I lost root in the process, but I don't want to take chances with Kingo again. But it is a good thing to have that extra control over your device. So, if anyone finds some other way to root without opening up the device, that will be great.
[Nook Touch General] Renate:
Does everybody have their "screensaver" working as they would wish?

I looked into it and it seemed a bit screwy.

I could set "wallpaper" and it would use it for both the Android stock Launcher and the screensaver.

The paths that are indicated are /storage/emulated/legacy/sleep (i.e. /sdcard/sleep) and /system/usr/sleep

I gave up puzzling and just patched /system/framework/android.policy.jar - ntx.fb.Screen.draw()
[Nook Touch General] jinside:
I have not been upgrading. Any benefits? Performnce increase?
[Nook Touch General] Windsor1959:
Of course, almost every upgrade (be it an app or an OS) will claim "bug fixes and performance improvements"! There may be a slight overall performance improvement. The main new features are these: the very first upgrade, which came almost right after I bought my NGP two weeks ago, introduced B&N Readouts to the NGP. A later upgrade added compatibility with Adobe DRM ePubs and PDFs (but, from what I'm told, ADE won't recognize the NGP because the NGP uses MTP). The odd thing is to go to one of the NGP threads in mobileread.com and see how different users have different firmware versions, and how the latest updates aren't even on the B&N site.
[Nook Touch General] theCroh:
Has anyone tested Google Play Books on the NGP (or is it even possible to install it without rooting)?

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[Nook Touch General] Renate:
Tantalizing, but not there. :(

Under Settings > Display > Cast screen

There is nothing.

If you have root and do (and then reboot):

setprop persist.debug.wfd.enable 1

You will get a "hamburger" on that screen that links to "Enable wireless display" (so click it already).

Unfortunately, WiFi Direct seems to be unimplemented in the WiFi driver so that we don't have any Miracast to Rokus.
[Nook Touch General] dnastase:
Just installing the apk doesn't seem to suffice. The app seems to start but never displays anything.

Maybe it needs other Android components installed ... but I can't find out which ones.
[Nook Touch General] theCroh:
Google Play Services and Play Store might be needed.

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[Nook Touch General] Renate:
It looks like (and I could be wrong) that the PCB is not populated with a few components that connect the ID pin of the USB connector.

There is a (possibly) missing resistor and diode from under the flex cable for the home button.

I tried poking at the far side of those components but couldn't get a peep from it.

We'll have to try forcing USB host mode.
[Nook Touch General] dnastase:
Installed the latest versions of them, but Google Play Services keeps on crashing.
[Nook Touch General] Renate:
Aw, don't say "crashing" without at least giving us a snippet of logcat.

(You don't need to post the whole thing, only the interesting parts.)
[Nook Touch General] Windsor1959:
Okay, I installed Google Play Store, Google Services Framework, and Google Login Service. I placed the apks in system/app, changed permiaaions to 6-4-4, and rebooted. When I start Play Store, it asks me if I want to sign in to my account or set up a new one. So far, so good. Meanwhile, I get pop-ups saying that Google Services Framework isn't working. When I try signing in from Play Store anyway, it tells me that there is a problem connevting to Google's servers and I should try again later.

I went through all my steps so someone else could tell me if I missed anything along the way. I'll see if I can get a logcat later. Thanks.
[Nook Touch General] dnastase:
Lol, if you really want to spend time on this ... didn't realize that... I was just trying bc I thought it would be a quick thing ...

I will do so later ... after the chores ...
[Nook Touch General] Windsor1959:
I've made some progress. I moved those three apks from system/app to system/priv-app (which is apparently where they belong in KitKat). That has stopped the "Sorry, but.." pop-ups, but I still can't sign into my account. So I must need to install something else Google-ish. I'll see if I can figure out what. Hints are most welcome!

Edit: I have Zeam Launcher installed. When I check in Settings in the app drawer, there's no Accounts section. Could that be an issue?

I tried installing Gmail, to see if I could sign into my Google account that way. No dice. No matter what I do, I get the "Couldn't sign in - There was a problem communicating with Google servers" window. But nothing is force closing, like before.

Well, enough for tonight!
[Nook Touch General] Windsor1959:
In case anyone is interested, these Gapps seem to work - somewhat - on the NGP: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2608800

Gmail works. Play Store signs in. I can select apps to download, and it offers to update apps I have on my device already. But nothing seems to actually download, and I sometimes get a pop-up telling me that Google Services Framework. is having a problem. But it's progress.
[Nook Touch General] zpaz:
Thanks to this thread I was able to install a new launcher (Z Launcher from Nokia) and Scribd (too bad animations cannot be turned of in that app) turning the device into quite the reading machine. Though, currently I cannot change the background of my launcher.

When I try to change the background I get "No apps can perform this action". Is there something I need to install? I found this site. Where one has the same problem.

There the answer is enabling the services:

com.android.wallpapercropper | com.sec.android.wallpapercropper2

But I'm not sure how I can do that.

Also it seems you cannot remove the two guide books which is lame.
[Nook Touch General] Renate:
There's a couple of aspects to wallpaper.

There is the WallpaperManager, which is the underlying bit.

Then there is any user application which tidies things up and lets you select a part of a snapshot of your Maui vacation without cousin Fred in it.

This app would handle the android.intent.action.SET_WALLPAPER

The NGP has the WallpaperManager in it.

My NGP has the stock Android Launcher in it, which has a set wallpaper option.

I don't use that, I use my own little app.

You can select a solid color for your wallpaper.

If you are interested in something that can do white, black or 0x008080 with a single button,

I can probably polish up my version.

I forget how/where, but the system just turns your wallpaper into a PNG and parks it somewhere.

Note also, that the NGP uses your wallpaper (sometimes?) as screensaver.

(That's why I patched android.policy.jar)
[Nook Touch General] zpaz:
Hi, yes, the goal was going for something like solid white. I made a white.png and uploaded it to the device. But well that didn't work. So if you can help with that. That'd be great.
[Nook Touch General] Renate:
In the signature below is Wallpaper-1.0.apk

This is an amazing feat of engineering and user design, so don't make fun of it! :p
[Nook Touch General] Kramar111:
link missed :)
[Nook Touch General] Renate:
No, you didn't.

I just put it there an hour ago.
[Nook Touch General] jreem74:
Seems that some time went by, but, Renate NST, could you explain in more detail about "patching android.policy.jar"? Does it mean that we should replace it with the modified one in order for screensaver to work again? Then, can you provide the working version of android.policy.jar file?

Thanks!
[Nook Touch General] Renate:
I've deleted a bunch of B&N stuff from my NGP.

Some of the effects of this have been wide-ranging.

I haven't gone back to check, but apparently the IME (soft keyboard) is packaged in the B&N apks.

Since I had no soft keyboard I installed the stock Android IME, but the styling could be better.

The point is, I'm not at all sure what others are experiencing on their unmodified NGPs.

Maybe I should pick up another to leave stock for experimentation.

The "screensaver" seemed to be the same as the wallpaper.

There is also that horrible Zzzzz... screen that shows up too sometimes.

In any case, I'd rather release patches than patched files.

It gives people a chance to decide what they want in and out.

What screen shows up when you hit the power button?

Do you use a launcher? Are you happy with the sleep images?