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[Nook Color Themes and Apps] axe2:
Mucked around trying to get gmail installed, and now I'm back to where I was: Market not working, and YouTube crashing... I think this will work, but the procedure's not quite there yet...
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] barrosd12:
I can't even get this far - I just get an "There was a problem" authenticating pop-up whenever I click "My Channel" or anything like that...
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] antoniouslj:
I'm having the same problem... :(
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] Delvorak:
You can get past the initial authentication issue by manually pushing the files in the market.7z file that someone posted in this thread a while back. I get another error later, after trying to log into youtube, unfortunately.
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] barrosd12:
I made some progress on this yesterday, and actually managed to log into Youtube.

There needs to be superuser access as well as root access with busybox, from my experience with this thing. If you want, you can use Z4Root, it worked well for me and another forum member :cool:

Once you've used Z4Root (just google for the APK), it'll reboot and give you full superuser and root access, at which point you can use Titanium Backup and the Youtube app (only 2 I've tested so far). Now I'm testing whether or not the Youtube access gives you broad access to all the other Google Apps - I had to re-root because of a lot of junk in the system folder giving me a huge headache
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] Kdragon75:
I just ran Wireshark while trying to log in and say nothing about google. Just DHCP... So.. is anyone good at android network troubleshooting. if we can find a way to trace back through the network layers (yes OSI) we can find a more definitive answer and not just poke in the dark with different apks.

EDIT:

I just opened dolphin and all the traffic is showing up as LLC aka Layer two... Odd.. Ill look into it more when i have the chance.
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] thetoady:
my guess is that the XMPP infrastucture might not be installed, but htis is just a guess, don't have my nook color yet. Also, if your network is encrypted, I'm unsure what wireshark will see (don't have experience in that context)
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] Kdragon75:
lol yeah WPA2 with AES makes it hard to sniff traffic DUH! So... I tried one more time and I see the nook talking to google over https (figures) but it waited till it timed out on the gui... Ill have to install logcat apk to see any related messages on the nook side.
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] thetoady:
pretty sure this is the problem

E/ActivityThread(11402): Failed to find provider info for android.server.checkin

The people who do the xdandroid stuff and build roms from hand might know better, also to look through the AOSP stuff to see where that is and how it could be easily copied/integrated into the nook.

update:

now see

https://justanapplication.wordpress...ndalone-android-runtime-systemserver-startup/

specifically the area that has

"... 09:50:37: 22001: INFO: SystemServer Starting Checkin Service."
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] Kdragon75:
android.server.checkin seems to be a part of Checkin.java.

This seems to be compiled into core.jar.

I tried to pull the core.jar from my hero and it fails to boot (still had adb connection).

Perhaps if we pull core.jar from a droid x with similar hardware?

BTW Checkin.java can be found here
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] thetoady:
So I was thinking that, but don't see Checkin.java in xdandroid source and it hooks up with one's google account just fine.

But I think its beyond that really, it sounds like there's a thread running based on that class. but don't really know, don't have experience with building android roms
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] 2sh0rt:
Just curious... has anyone tried using the SlideMe market yet? Not sure if that requires signing into google or not but it may be an alternative to the Google Android Market
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] jsmith.nook:
I'm using it without any trouble on my rooted NookColor.
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] 2sh0rt:
and doesnt that have mostly everything the regular app market has?
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] chuffykow:
I'm not too familiar with the real Market (NookColor is my first Android device), but SlideME only has a few thousand, if that, apps on it. It works great, but the selection does look to be very incomplete.
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] Delvorak:
Anyone tried restoring the "Accounts" entry from titanium backup (backup up from your phone) onto the NC? assuming "Accounts" is what stores your gmail credentials, could that possible fix this problem?
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] sminker:
Thanks for this. I didnt even know this program existed. :confused:
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] Kdragon75:
I have tried to move over my accounts. db file. It how's your accounts but login to anythinwill still fail toany thing.also it messes with the nook apps and forces it to rest to "FACTORY" (JUST /DATA gets rest.
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] weili3d:
"black market" exists?

If getting on the official market is so hard with so many android devices, one would think that there would be "black markets." Yes?

I am new to android devices. Nook Color is my first, so not being about to access apps market is a downside. Why would google set such a limit??? (Or is google doing such a thing?) I would assume that app authors want to have access to more users not less, so does google.
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] modembug:
There is applanet or "Blackandroidmarket". :P
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] norkoastal:
Yes there are black markets, but they do not provide the sync'd cloud that the real market provides, only one off app DL's from each user device seperately. The true "market support" is more about accessing previous paid and DL'd apps across multiple devices with a single google account. I want email, contacts, and calendar to sync between my NC, Evo, and online at all times w/o sideloading and using hacked apps.

Kudos to the devs for their progress thus far!!!
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] weili3d:
Thanks! I am glad that there is a black market. I just loaded the xda app. Worked well.
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] Masterface7:
there is also apktor which lets you add public repositories.

I agree with that guy up there though all these alternate ways to get apk's do not replace the market its just a band aid.

Does appbrain have its own market or does it just link to the real market?

edit: I would say appplanet is the best/largest but if it has an app with a price with a line through it then that means you are stealing it, so just be aware.
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] SystemIdleProcess:
AppBrain links to the market. I tried to get their Fast Web Install to work but no luck.
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] TainT:
Applanet also asks for some really weird permissions.

The account credential one scares me. :JusSayin:
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] Kdragon75:
Is this dead?
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] axe2:
I've been able to get a Google Reader to work using the YouTube login approach, but have hit brick walls on everything else.

I'm betting on a replacement rom at this point. I've been working (very slowly) on getting setup to build CyanogenMod and/or the TI omap build, but I've never built a complete Android before, and I don't know how hard it will be to get everything working. Fortunately, we don't have much hardware to get working (WiFi, USB, and display).

Anybody else working on this?
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] cabbieBot:
is that on this thread somewhere? That would be huge for me. I heavily use Google Reader and want to use it instead of NewsRob.
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] axe2:
This is working from memory, but it should be close:

1. Download CyanogenMod gapps from this post.

2. Unpack the zip file and find the system directory.

3. adb shell "mount -o remount,rw /dev/block/mmcblk0p5 /system"

4. adb push system /system

5. adb shell "mount -o remount,ro /dev/block/mmcblk0p5 /system"

6. Reboot?

7. Run YouTube

8. Select "My Content" from the menu and log in.

You should now be able to install/run Google Reader and link it to your account that you logged into via YouTube.

This almost works with Gmail as well, but gmail crashes when it is reading the list of emails.

Good luck, and correct me where I might have erred.
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] william1853:
BINGO that worked for me. Both Google Reader and Google Books are working for me now. MANY Thanks!
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] sapienta:
Awesome, thanks for the instructions. If only the rest of the Gapps would cooperate :)

Edit: man oh man pushing the entire system folder did a number on my device. The n button doesn't seem to work anymore. Anyone have the original system folder ? can you please zip and it and send my way. Thanks a million.
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] sapienta:
Hey anyway to undo this ? I didn't backup my system folder before pushing the one in your link :( failed.
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] kaicherry:
Can you do the recovery thing? I believe afterwards you will have to re-root, but nook+power+volume up I believe puts it in recovery mode.

-K
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] william1853:
FWIW, interesting that sapienta and kaicherry had a problem. Not saying that they didn't follow the instructions, but as for me, I don't seem to have any issues at all after rebooting.
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] sapienta:
I rebooted again and everything seem to be working fine now. Phew... but according to this thread http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=866068

after about 8 or so bad reboots the NC will reflash itself, so no worries :)
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] go0nie:
I also tried this, but it didn't quite work. I was able to put my NC info into appbrain app though on the NC and then log in on appbrain.com. It sees my Nook and lists it as a " LogicPD Zoom2" where it would normally list the device(ie HTC Hero). I'm not sure if that helps anybody.
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] kaicherry:
Why did you think I had a problem?

I did not, in any way. I haven't even attempted to do this yet.

-K
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] david_beholder:
When I'm starting youtube it just closes out. That's it. :)

Other apps like gtalk a simply doesn't let me in stating: it might be temporary problem or your phone may not be provisioned for data services. Altho internet works well.
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] xboxexpert:
if you uninstall googleapps.apk and GoogleCheckin.apk you will be fine. Youtube will give you an authentication error but it will open normally. Its funny because once you install those files and successfully login to youtube the application just exits out after a complete reboot. Its like the file is set to a permission that doesn't allow it to be accessed. If you wanted to recreate the issue your experiencing and get an idea of what i'm talking about go into say Angry birds and play level 1 and beat it. now set permissions to the /data/data/app/(angry birds directory/(something like files directory)/highscores file and set it to read only then launch angry birds. The game just fails to load when trying to load the level because the file has the wrong permissions. I bet its a permission thing with the market place app and youtube.
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] h8rift:
You may be on to something...I'll look at permissions on these files from the Market.7z earlier on my nook when I get home.
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] xboxexpert:
Yea I'm at work busting my ass and playing with my nook every chance I get. Its a freeking awesome tablet. I was able to get market up and running on some piece of **** china device once Im sure i can get it to work here. It doesnt help that Andriod 2.1 is installed. I say cyaogen gets his ass in gear and developes a port for this cause i'm sure this device can handle it.
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] ZeroSX:
I doubt he has one/has any intention of buying himself one just to port CM to it. I'm sure if he was "gifted" one that could change, but it really can't be expect of someone to dev for a device they don't have/use.
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] william1853:
Sorry Kaicherry! I must have misread the post from sapienta and thought it was from you.
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] xboxexpert:
From my understanding he already ordered one...
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] SystemIdleProcess:
I've tried using the dev tools that are in the AVD to play around with the account sync but still am not having any luck. I'll probably stop messing around with it and just wait for a custom rom.
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] kassemja:
Hi All,

I have been checking XDA all week for solutions to Vending.apk / Google apps. I have a rooted HTC Desire and have been comparing directories/files between the nook color and HTC. I have noticed something interesting in the data/system directory and accounts.db file where your login / passwords for your Google accounts are kept. On the HTC and Nook the tables/ structure in accounts.db files was the same, the HTC had information about Google accounts and the nook had account details for barns & noble registration. I have not had a chance to merge the Google information from HTC phone into th e nook accounts.db file yet. I tried HTC accounts.db on the nook yesterday. The nook still worked although I lost access to few apps like super user root explorer and didn’t get the google apps going. I still have not had chance to fiddle any further as yet, but I would interested to see if anyone has any luck combing the accounts.db files.
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] jerrygon:
Oh boy.... I think we are getting close.
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] SystemIdleProcess:
I was able to import my accounts from my HTC Hero into my NOOKcolor's accounts.db and while this got me past the prompt to sign in I was still unable to connect/authenticate.
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] whgarner:
any use?

is this link of any use for someone to figure out for the nc?

http://augendev.wikispaces.com/Market+Fix

i've tried working with it, but i do not have the skills to work with it properly.

b.g.
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] whgarner:
anybody install vending yet

has anybody gotten the vending.apk to install? i can get it loaded, but when i attempt to install it i get "failed" or if i use an installer i get a failure because "missing shared library."

bg
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] godsfilth:
this was just posted a few days ago in the archos thread this could work http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=862824

id test it myself but after 2 broken NC's, broke due to manufacturer defects not my tampering with them, i just returned it and said screw it.
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] ZeroSX:
I have it installed but it will simply not communicate with google.
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] norkoastal:
Thats a bummer.. Did you triple check all steps to ensure you didnt place the files on the SD? Just want to avoid testing myself if this was already done to exhaustion.
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] rhcp011235:
This is all being worked on on irc.freenode.net #nookcolor

Its alot more then mesing with vending.apk.

I have gmail working and maps and location. Rest is broken.

And for all that care that running of 2.2 on it. is false. it runs but nothing works as in no drivers no wifi etc.
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] Mistar Muffin:
Until tonight my Market would always fail to even load the TOS when launched. Now I can get it to pull the TOS and let me accept them, which means it's communicating over Wifi. At least that is something, I suppose.
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] Mistar Muffin:
I have the market working. I was able to browse and select the official Ebay app. It downloaded, installed, and ran. Instructions will be forthcoming once I do a factory reset and confirm I can duplicate my steps.
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] Mastiff:
I love you and I want to have your children! :D
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] pstein2:
+1 Agreed :p:cool:
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] Mastiff:
On second thought the two teenagers I already have is probably more than enough for me... But I still love you!
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] justreboot:
Wonder if we can get the calendar working now ? That would be sweet....
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] norkoastal:
Muffins for breakfast!!! Thanks MM...
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] 10equals2:
Please actually work? Please?

Calendar, Market, Gmail, those are the only things that I have a hard time finding good replacements for.
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] xboxexpert:
Market working on this device would absolutly rock.
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] RNSlate:
+1 for this one. It is the device is lacking.....
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] compuguy1088:
So, is it repeatable?
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] Mistar Muffin:
I just got the market working again after a complete wipe. It only took 6 wipes this time to find the right steps! :-)

I took notes and I will be posting here shortly once I make them coherent.
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] cabbieBot:
Most excellent
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] gojeda:
With any luck, the steps to getting Market to work will also include actually logging into your Google account.

One can only hope...
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] 10equals2:
Nice! Looking forward to the steps
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] Mistar Muffin:
Rather than bury the steps 13 pages into this thread, I started a HOWTO thread.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=9749902
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] forcedfab:
Agreed , anyone have any luck getting google calendar working . Not sure what all is missing besides the calendar.apk and calendarprovider.apk . When you try to install calendarprovider.apk thru adb it fails and says failed older sdk . I read somewhere online it might need to be installed thru busybox , anyone have any ideas ?

Maybe the data partition needs to be made RW before installing thru adb ?
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] feisty_noodle:
Calendar works for me. I obtained Calendar apk's from update-cm-5.0.8-Droid-signed.zip found here:

http://forum.cyanogenmod.com/files/file/43-update-cm-508-droid-signedzip/

From there, I got these apks shown below; they work for me, so give them a try.
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] forcedfab:
I uninstalled Calendar.apk and deleted the files off the NC , when trying to install the versions you provided thru adb I get " install failed update incompatible " on both files
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] feisty_noodle:
These files are meant to reside in /system/app NOT to be installed through package installer (which ends up in /data/app).
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] rad131304:
I pushed them to the /system/app/ folder and ended up with the following logcat when I ran Calendar
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] forcedfab:
Ok , I understand that . I deleted the previous files the the associated data file. I put the new files in my dropbox , which I then downloaded to my sdcard , set the system partition to rw and transferred the files to system/app . They copied over , but even after a reboot calander doesn't show up in the app tray . Do I need to set their permissions the same as the other files in system/app ? What am I missing ? Thanks for the help .
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] rad131304:
I tried the second set of apks after the first set FC, and calendar doesn't show in mine anymore now.
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] feisty_noodle:
Hmm, I cannot quite figure out what the problem is for you guys.

I just double-checked my command-lines and it was literally just those two files pushed to /system/app.

I usually fix the permissions (to 644) after the fact, but even with screwed up permission it was working.

What I don't understand is why apk's in /system/app are ignored by your systems ...

On a somewhat unrelated note, this was my last step with Gapps. When I finished everything (accounts set up, Gmail working, Market working, Youtube working) ... only then did I start messing with Calendar. Not sure whether there is any logic to this order ...

Also, I had SetupWizard.apk along for the ride with the rest of the apks ... I found that that was key to setting up my accounts.
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] weili3d:
Many thanks for getting market and other google apps to work. I followed the instruction posted on nookdevs and got youtube to work. But gmail and market are still not working: can not sign in my google account. It seems that the software expects phone connection and ignores wifi connection. Is this a known problem? I ran through the thread quickly, did I miss the discussion on this?

Thanks in advance.
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] feisty_noodle:
All of the discussion has moved to a different thread:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=869609
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] norkoastal:
Thanks for the tips FN... Perhaps we launch a new thread to tackle Calendar/contacts? Gapps are getting knocked down one by one it seems.
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] NookMedia:
What did you use to install the apks? I used adb and and got the following

adb uninstall com.google.calendar

Failure

adb install Calendar.apk

1400 KB/s (255013 bytes in 0.177s)

pkg: /data/local/tmp/Calendar.apk

Failure [INSTALL_FAILED_ALREADY_EXISTS]
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] feisty_noodle:
You are supposed to push the files to /system/app to replace the ones in there (btw, always back things up ...).

Talk is a system app!
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] cabbieBot:
Calendar working great for me

Downloaded, pasted with root explorer, changed permissions, reboot and done
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] william1853:
I'm running into the same problem installing calendar as several others have noted. I extracted them from the same downloaded file, used adb to push, and also Root Explorer to drop them in /system/app, but they never show up in EXTRAS or in ADW no matter what I do or how many times I reboot.

Has anyone else separately installed the Calendar.apl and CalendarProvider.apk successfully? And, if so, any additional tips?

THANKS
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] feisty_noodle:
Just a suggestion ...

This thread is pretty much abandoned as far as substantial answers to questions go (for a number of reasons).

In the meantime, there is a more appropriately-named thread here:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=876559
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] william1853:
Thank you feisty_noodle!!!!!
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] chongbh:
Dear all members,

I just download the Angry Birds Season from the market, just in case you all not aware.
[Desire HD Themes and Apps] Aamir.Badat:
Wil this work on the DHD just curious to see Touchwiz UI

Check it out here:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=709763
[Desire HD Themes and Apps] nxtwrld:
just tried it an it works. no samsung plugins though and it seem a bit laggy compared to Sense
[Desire HD Themes and Apps] Aamir.Badat:
is it an apk file??
[Desire HD Themes and Apps] paulus_01:
Thanks, but as I so not like the samsung UI, I'll stick with my DHD's for now ;)
[Desire HD Themes and Apps] Aamir.Badat:
I prefer sense too that is why I bought a DHD I was just curious about touchwiz UI.
[Desire HD Themes and Apps] nxtwrld:
I prefer Sense as well, but being able to freely organize apps on screens, instead of one large list, that shifts when adding or removing apps has something to it. I wish Sense got something like that.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] videira:
Hello, I have installed android on my htc hd2, but the touch screen is always blocking.

Unblock after two minutes, then returns to block.

what's wrong?:confused::confused::mad::(:(
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] letmein123:
I am currently running the [ROM] OTA_Supersonic_3.29.651.5 [ROOTED] [DEODEXED] [SIGNED]

How can I get the Smooth Sense icons shown in this thread?

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=743880
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] faster3200:
Here. New version coming out today.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] letmein123:
oh cool, how do i load this? do i use rom manager or metamorph?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] faster3200:
Flash the .zip in recovery.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] letmein123:
done! nice work!!! It looks great! So easy to add also :)

slight prob, everything under settings, other than personalize, crashes :(

I just updated rom manager and when i tried to launch that, it crashes also.