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[Nook Color Themes and Apps] feisty_noodle:
Wow, that was quite a bit of work to figure out, to be sure.

Thanks, will give it a try!

Does this also provide the Google account setup capability (Reader, Listen, etc.)?
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] bbtheory:
Thanks for the fix first of all!!!

I used root explorer and copied over all of the files recommended, then installed the youtube app you linked to, but when I tried to go to menu/my channel it flashes a message that there was a problem authenticating.

Any ideas?

Thanks!!!
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] bazzly:
Never mind...
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] Xhorder:
Before doing the androidID stuff, Gmail is supposed to work? It doesn't. Just flashed for a sec and goes back to home screen

Also, there is no Market icon available. Am I supposed to install Vending.apk after putting it in /system/app?

EDIT: Youtube now doesn't work either...

EDIT2: Youtube works after an uninstall/reinstall, and I can sign in. Gmail still doesn't work and no market icon
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] Mistar Muffin:
Yes, that is correct.
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] Mistar Muffin:
Try rebooting first. If that does not fix it then try clearing the data for the youtube app. If all else fails do a complete factory reset and start this from scratch. The youtube authentication issue was my biggest hurdle and I ended up doing a factory reset myself.
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] norkoastal:
Same here...
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] pulser_g2:
Does the build.prop contain a valid version string which allows market access?

Also, there's a new version of the market going about too :)
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] bbtheory:
Ok so I got past the youtube and now gmail works and the market gets the server error. However, I cant seem to get started with AVD to get the android ID... are there some more detailed instructions for an AVD noob???
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] norkoastal:
Were there any variations from the steps above that you made to get gmail working? Not sure why mine is flashing then closing.
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] bbtheory:
No variations from the steps above other than fixing the permissions on the files that I copied over... They need to match the permissions of the other files in the respective folders.
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] thinkpol:
Managed to get Gmail, Reader, and Market working. However, every download on the market fails. When I run a logcat i get "authentication failed"

I did replace androidId using the emulator.

Any ideas?
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] cookme:
Nice! this works great! just tested out couple free apps from Market and both installed and worked fine. Thanks for figuring this out! finally I don't have to hunt for apk files :)

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buy the way, AppBrain works fine with Market too.
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] william1853:
From my pandigital days I have this question: does enabling google market and other apps prevent your nook color from staying in deep SLEEP?
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] msid:
I had an issue because I had not ever logged into youtube with my gmail account. I went to youtube.com and logged in, then was able to log in using the YouTube app.
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] bbtheory:
Can someone plase post some AVD or emulator instructions??? That would be awesome!!!
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] msid:
For avd, you have to have the Android SDK installed. Then you can run (sdk folder)/tools/android to start the avd manager.
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] bbtheory:
When I do that I get this message:

[INFO] Starting Android SDK and AVD Manager

'java' is not recognized as an internal or external command,

operable program or batch file.
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] cookme:
You need Java. (java.com)
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] dtkav:
Thanks a bunch for the tutorial!

I tried to do this from a fresh re-flash (+root) and youtube always seems to crash upon opening. I installed it with adb. any ideas why this might be?

edit: tried again from root.explorer -- worked great :)
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] msid:
Go here for the instructions:

developer.android.com/sdk/installing.html
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] pstein2:
When I do this it tells me:

You cannot paste here because the file system is read only
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] monsterpt:
You have to select mount button at the top of the page in root explorer. This makes the folder data writable.
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] tokyomonster:
Make sure you click the 'Mount R/W' button in Root Explorer in order to remount your /system partition wtih read+write privileges.
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] cookme:
install "Superuser" app and reboot. The next time Root Explorer starts you will get a prompt for superuser access. Search for "NookColor Installing su and the Superuser app" for more instructions.
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] pstein2:
I have superuser installed and it will let me remount every folder but the system folder. ???
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] Xhorder:
How exactly did you fix the permissions? thanks
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] msid:
Working for me now. I had to set permissions on the apps in the /system/app folder once I moved them. Rebooted, youtube crashed, uninstalled/reinstalled youtube and logged in. After another reboot Gmail and Market are working.
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] giantsfan:
Found this in another thread. Go into terminal and type

su

mount -o remount rw /system

That enabled me to change to RW in the /system folder
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] Ket009:
Ditto, I found instructions for using Terminal Emulator to fix this but I can't get an apk of Terminal Emulator :/
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] msid:
If you are using root explorer, you can long press the file and select "permissions"
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] moovius:
Root Explorer

So to install Root Explorer, I have to install App2SD and Busybox too?
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] giantsfan:
Here's the link to terminal

http://www.freewarelovers.com/android/app/android-terminal-emulator
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] msid:
I don't think you need BusyBox, but just su and SuperUser.apk -

nookdevs.com/NookColor_Installing_su_and_the_Superuser_app

then install Root Explorer.
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] Ket009:
thanks bunches that did it.
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] kassemja:
sucsess!! thanks mister muffin. well done.
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] pstein2:
Okay I have it where system will r/w but when I copy and paste the files it says the files are copying but then they don't copy over.
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] moovius:
Install Youtube App. Menu->My Channel. Log in with gmail account.

Now type these 3 commands:

After this point you are connecting the nook to your computer and typing these in from the terminal, correct?

I think the guide could use some clarification such as "Now from your computer enter this command into terminal". Just to noob-proof things.
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] pstein2:
+1 I too would like to know that.
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] vsc:
Any advice on Talk?

I got,

I/ActivityManager( 840): Start proc com.google.android.talk for activity com.google.android.talk/.SigningInActivity: pid=2605 uid=10059 gids={3003}

I/dalvikvm( 2605): Debugger thread not active, ignoring DDM send (t=0x41504e4d l=38)

I/dalvikvm( 2605): Debugger thread not active, ignoring DDM send (t=0x41504e4d l=50)

I/ActivityThread( 2605): Publishing provider com.google.android.talk.SuggestionProvider: com.google.android.talk.SuggestionsProvider

I/ActivityManager( 840): Starting activity: Intent { act=android.intent.action.VIEW cmp=com.google.android.talk/.BuddyList (has extras) }

D/AndroidRuntime( 2605): Shutting down VM

W/dalvikvm( 2605): threadid=3: thread exiting with uncaught exception (group=0x4001b170)

E/AndroidRuntime( 2605): Uncaught handler: thread main exiting due to uncaught exception

E/AndroidRuntime( 2605): java.lang.RuntimeException: Binary XML file line #20: You must supply a layout_width attribute.

E/AndroidRuntime( 2605):	at android.content.res.TypedArray.getLayoutDimension(TypedArray.java:438)

E/AndroidRuntime( 2605):	at android.view.ViewGroup$LayoutParams.setBaseAttributes(ViewGroup.java:3467)

[etc...]
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] smarcisin:
i fixed all the permissions in root explorer and the only app that shows in my app drawer is gmail and that does not open....not sure what the problem is
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] david_beholder:
Thanks, Mistar Muffin, having Android market is so exciting. I have pretty close looking log and not idea what android.view.ViewGroup$LayoutParams.setBaseAttributes about :)

One more time thanks for gmail and youtube
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] bbtheory:
Got it working, thanks to all and especially Mr. Muffin!!! The nook is rocking!!!
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] bbtheory:
Using root explorer... You press and hold on the file and then select permissions. Then set the permissions to match the other files in the directory.

I did this for all the files I copied over, the apks, the lib, etc, and framework files too... Hope this helps.
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] Mistar Muffin:
The relevant line here is:

E/AndroidRuntime( 2605): java.lang.RuntimeException: Binary XML file line #20: You must supply a layout_width attribute.

We were discussing in IRC possibly modifying whatever XML file it is and repackaging the APK, but no one has attempted it yet.
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] bbtheory:
You have to reboot after fixing all the permissions for the apps to show up.
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] ws6kid:
does this support the new update for Market?
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] pstein2:
Okay I have gotten this far now. No market button though, and gmail just flashes.

Edit1: Youtube does not work now either, it did till I pushed the packages.xml and rebooted now they all just flash.

Edit2: I just want to say I am sorry for being so much of a bother :), and thanks for the help thus far. I have not made much progress past here, still just flashes.
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] xboxexpert:
For some reason I just sit at Loading when I click Market.
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] david_beholder:
I also have tried calendar but it does start but doesn't get sync
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] clockworx:
For anyone who cares, I'll probably throw together a Nook Color version of my non-ugly Market hack from the PDN, which allows the device to generate its own Android ID (no Emulator needed). You'll still need to perform the other steps.

Anyways, awesome work Mistar Muffin!
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] mick2021:
got it to work but noticed the market doesn't display the full list of apps/games.

other than that thanks! :)
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] ddenson:
Same here - in fact, it only shows 10 items under each category - can't remember if this is normal and don't have access to my nexus right now...

But --- a huge thanks to MM!!!
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] Mistar Muffin:
I noticed this too...it does not appear to load additional results as you scroll down. It might have to do with the fact that the initial 10 results are all on the screen and no scrolling is required...therefore it never triggers the event to load more. Just a theory..

I have also noticed missing apps such as Google Reader, Earth, Amazon, etc.
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] ddenson:
Could this have to do with the ID generated by the emulator? I'm not a dev, but I remember reading somewhere that the emulator's market was limited...
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] pstein2:
I have got the market link, and gmail and talk to show but when I click them it flashes to the TOS then just flashes back to the home screen.

(Well I am done for the night will try again tm)
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] ddenson:
I just noticed that this only happens in portrait view. In landscape view, it works as expected - scrolling down to show more items.
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] Mistar Muffin:
This actually fits into my theory that a scrolling event triggers the loading of more results. In landscape mode, a portion of the first ten results are off the screen and scrolling down to the bottom triggers a new batch of 10. This is not the case in portrait and I'm not sure what can be done about it.
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] smarcisin:
okay so i did a hard reset and started from scratch....i installed titanium to restore my backup or root explorer and terminal emulator....then i followed the first half of steps from the OP then when i rebooted after putting privlages.xml back i cannot access titanium, youtube or gmail...they just flash and close....and no other ions appear in my app drawer
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] Pinesal:
Anyone try to use the new Android Market with tablet support?

http://downloadsquad.switched.com/2010/12/11/android-market-hands-on/
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] iconoclastnet:
At one point in setting this up I had you tube go from working and logged in, to "flash and disappear" when launched. It turns out the auth token it had saved was no longer valid somehow. After clearing the app data for you tube I was able to launch it again as usual.

I also had to install the SetupWizard.apk from that same gapps package to get some of this to work as well.

Google ebooks now syncs my books too, which is probably a good sign that the google auth bits are working as they should.

Market launches, and shows me the meagre selection expected for an emulator generated id (I expect this will improve once someone figures out an appropriate device type to impersonate). Unfortunately, when I try to install anything, the "downloading" progress bar never progresses. I must still be missing something.
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] clockworx:
Well, that was easy :p

Here's a link to my Non-ugly market hack for the WPDN, ported over to the Nook. It will allow you to get an Android ID on your own, no need for an emulator. Tested and working.

To install, just drop this framework.jar into the /framework folder that you copy over with the Google Apps. (or manually push over to /system/framework/ if you wish.

http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?1wb78ollpb1bd78
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] spyder1222:
Unable to copy files

edit: nevermind, figured it out
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] ender89:
gmail sync

anyone figure out how to enable gmail sync? usually its handled in the system settings, but the nook color has a neutered menu.
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] macndroid:
"Start the AVD. When prompted, sign in with your existing Gmail credentials. Use CTRL+F11 to slide the keyboard in and out when prompted."

The process works up to this point, but when I try to sign in to my google account the AVD replies with "Can't establish reliable data connection with server"

edit: it signed in if I made a new account.
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] Pinesal:
When I try to see my Channel in the Youtube app. It tells me there was a problem authenticating. What did I do wrong?
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] Freedomcaller:
sweet it worked for me.

i was too lazy to egenerate a android_id so i used 9774d56d682e549c

thats the device id of every motorolla droid2 in exzistance, having a unique android id is not as important as it used to be as most devs have learnt to work arount it due to the motorlla being morons (i know we fixxed all our apps at work) so just jump on the bandwaggon...

i guess its better to have a unique id since you dont have a unique phone or imei or esn or any of those things, the only unique thing this device has is a mac address LOL

but w/e i dont care i just used the droid2 android id and my market works!

</rant>

*edit*

looks like my market works but all the downloads are failing lemme try generating a legit android id, perhaps this is what i get for cutting corners....

*edit2*

ok i generated a new android id and now it works fine so it looks liekt aht was the issue, but i wonder why the droid2 android id didnt work...
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] feisty_noodle:
Thanks, this was very useful!

With the new framework.jar, I didn't need to bother with the emulator-derived ID.

After a lot of messing about and a /data wipe, I am up and running.

As previously mentioned, SetupWizard.apk came in handy ...

I am now trying to get Talk to get started (at the moment it tries to initialize and exits). Anyone with words of wisdom? Nevermind ... known problem.
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] forcedfab:
Having the same issue , remount the system folder as rw and it says it is copying but it doesn't

How did you get it to copy over ?
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] Pinesal:
Also, non of the apps appear in my apps list, Gtalk, gmail, market etc, are all missing. Even though I seem them in the system/app folder. Is that right?

EDIT: Sounds like I may need to wipe and start over but how do you get the Nook to fail to boot 8 times?
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] feisty_noodle:
You can just wipe using the procedure described for unrooting.

http://nookdevs.com/NookColor_UnRooting

You won't get your /system back to the original state, but the /data mess will go away.
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] thetoady:
so I must be an idiot, can't seem to get it to work. I installed them all youtube sometimes runs and sometimes flashes in and out, but every other app just flashes in and out and can't figure out what I did wrong

so couldn't even get to the point of changing the androidid
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] Pinesal:
Ok wiped and redid everything and I still get the authentication error. Sigh.
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] jsmith.nook:
When I try to run GMAIL after getting to the point where it says to test GMAIL as outlined here I get a message on the screen that says "This account is not configured to sync automatically. Press Menu > Refresh to sync mail once. Or press Home and touch Settings > Accounts&Sync and configure this account to sync mail automatically"

If I start up Market it dumps back to my home.

Any ideas?

I've done this three times. Each time I did a factory reset then rooted with nooter then started on those instructions.
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] monsterpt:
glad for the 8 boot fail safeguard cuz i was just sitting at the N screen for 10 minutes.
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] wumpus11:
Thank you Mr Muffin! I had already done everything on this list with no success, using gapps-EPE54B. When I replaced it with ERE36B-2, downloads from the market -- the final non-working piece that has plagued me for over a week -- began to work like a charm.
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] Xhorder:
fixing the permissions made it work! Thanks.

And as an FYI, I was able to buy a paid app and have it work fine.
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] Xhorder:
I'd like to know this too... Not having the auto-update option is a pain!

Would it be as simple as dropping in a newer Vending.apk?
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] bazzly:
Just wondering...what kind of machine is everyone using to do the procedure? (Win, Mac,Linux)

Also...where could I get Root Explorer? All I have as of now is ASTRO. I couldnt find Root Explorer anywhere. Is a free app? Only avaliable from the market? How could one obtain it if he/she has no other android device?

Thanks

Never mind...just saw this http://www.nookdevs.com/Enable_the_Android_Market
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] Raxxon:
I keep getting a "network error" from the YouTube app. Keeps giving me a 401 after sign-in....
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] smarcisin:
man i cant get this to work...i have youtube working again.......now gmail just flashes again and none of the other gapps show up in the app drawer
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] rboatright:
A simplified set of instructions has been posted at

http://nookdevs.com/Enable_the_Android_Market

that includes all of the above optimizations. This set does not require an emulator because it incorporates clockworkx framework.jar.

It is much simpler. I strongly suggest using it.
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] johnnydeathmatch:
Anybody have any tips on how to get the factory reset done? I've made it fail booting well over eight times (I'm using windows, so no shortcut method for me). I did eventually see a menu that asked if I wanted to reset the nook. Is there any kind of indicator that you've succeeded?

After doing that I tried to do the hold power+volume up+home, but when I do that, since I'm holding the power button, it just turns itself back off! So, I'm at a loss.
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] ddenson:
Quick question - I've already used the emulator to generate an Android ID and the market works, but is limited because of having an emulator ID. Will the ID generated by your framework.jar improve this, or should I not bother? Thanks.
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] spyder1222:
Market installed, but not downloading

I followed all of the instructions, and got the market to download, and I can search. Only problem is when I try to install anything, the item just gets stuck on trying to download the app. Anyone know why that might be?
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] johnnydeathmatch:
Ok, if anyone else is having a problem getting the factory reset done and is on windows, there is a shortcut that we can use as well

right click in your adb directory and hit new -> text document. name it 'foo' (or anything, as far as I can tell. I wouldn't give it an extension, though). open it up in notepad++ (notepad might work, didn't try it) add this to the file:

\008\000\000\000

then type this:

adb push foo /rom/devconf/BootCnt

If your 'foo' file is somewhere else, then put that path down. If it can't find the file the first time, just find it in widows explorer and drag it into the command line after typing 'adb push ' (make sure to add the space) then add '/rom/devconf/BootCnt' and hit enter. Next,

adb reboot

This will get you the eight reboot reset! Now I still need to figure out how to do the power+vol up+home reset.....
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] myv6mustang:
Came across this the other day...havent tried it yet though http://code.google.com/p/market-enabler/
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] jeffreycentex:
I didn't either bother with that. Why write the file on your computer, push it, then shell it in place...

adb shell
echo -n -e "\008\000\000\000" > /rom/devconf/BootCnt
reboot
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] DyDx:
I just read the instructions at nookDevs and it seems very straightforward. I'm comfortable with using the command line and whatnot, so I'm curious -- which steps are risky? All the warnings on the nookDevs page are making me cautious, but it really doesn't look very difficult.

Can anyone confirm that those instructions worked (or didn't work) for them? And if you have access to all Market apps, or are you restricted in the same manner you would be running it from an emulator?
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] rad131304:
Market Works, Gmail and and Youtube, not so much

So the Market works;

Gmail just flashes and closes; i get the following logcat:

This seems to be indicating something about a missing conversation list activity.

YouTube fails with the following logcat:

Which seems like its saying I'm missing Google Services Framework and Settings?

If anyone has insight into these two errors (particularly the Gmail one - I have little use for the youtubes), your assitance would be appreciated.
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] ddenson:
Thanks. I might try that too, but was also curious if an ID from the emulator gave the same market access as an ID from clockworx' modified framework.jar file...
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] clockworx:
So far as I know:

My framework.jar feeds the phone a fake phone type and ID to get a real Android ID back generated by Google.

market-enabler is to set the Market to a particular custom one, completely unrelated to Android ID. For instance, if you set it to whatever respective cellular provider, their apps should show up there. (Set it to a Sprint Market, you'll see some custom Sprint apps, same w/ a T-Mo market or Verizon)

Limited apps showing in Market is an issue with running unsigned releases. Ours appears to be signed (I'm seeing all the apps I used to miss on the WPDN, such as DataViz DocsToGo full version)

So all three are pretty unrelated.