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[Nook Color Android Development] Canadoc:
Have major problem. Music doesn't work on this for me. I tried copying some mp3 to the sd card in the music folder. They show up in the music app but when i try to play them I get error that this file type is not supported.

They are normal std unprotected mp3

Any fixes?
[Nook Color Android Development] Canadoc:
Just rechecked my youtube app and sure enough it doesn't play either.......
[Nook Color Android Development] jtbnet:
I tried EASEUS Partition Manager Home Edition (free) and it doesn't see my Nookie Froyo sdcard either when inserted via USB or via SDCard adapter??? My sdcard boots fine for Nookie Froyo 0.5.9 but shows the sdcard partition as unmountable/bad... when inserted into the nook and as it's a 16GB Class 6 card I'd like to be able to expand the 4th partition to make it more usuable...
[Nook Color Android Development] wvcachi:
Hmm, it saw my SD reader just fine... You've probably already tried this, but it helps to hook the reader up before opening EASEUS, wait until your OS sees the reader, then start the program...

Has anyone not gotten the "damaged SD card" error in 0.5.9? I tried it for the first time tonight and got it, and I've heard several other people say the same thing. I've gone back to 0.5.8.
[Nook Color Android Development] kassemja:
damaged SD card" error in 0.5.9

I have got the card error with 0.5.9?, i tried with both 2g card and 16g same, also tried 3-4 times, i get the same error every time, i initially thought the error was caused by the re-partioning, now i'm 100% sure its the image. i'm reverting to 0.5.8. i think there is guide some where in nook general form on how to fix the browser fc issues.
[Nook Color Android Development] Homer_S_xda:
I was getting the error so I started poking around on the card. I expanded the SDCard partition to fill the card. No luck, still get the error. I looked under settings/sd card and phone storage. Mount SC card is in the menu so I pressed it. It will not mount the card. I'm going to try burning it again but I'm not too hopeful.

Homer
[Nook Color Android Development] Canadoc:
Can anyone else confirm mp3 are working?

youtube?
[Nook Color Android Development] bfhunt2009:
FWIW I successfully used EASEUS to expand my sdcard partition. However, after expanding the partition I also formatted it with EASEUS before putting it back into my NC.

I am running 0.58 but based on the change log I doubt 0.59 has anything to do with this problem.
[Nook Color Android Development] straby187:
I'm trying to get my system back through Nookie, but absolutely nothing happens when I plug into usb. I'm just trying to get to adb.
[Nook Color Android Development] samuelhalff:
What do you mean you're "trying to get your system back"? Your internal os dosen't boot anymore?
[Nook Color Android Development] duloz:
What program are you using to create your sd card? I've found that some programs do not format the file structure in an adb friendly manner.
[Nook Color Android Development] straby187:
yep, no internal os!!
[Nook Color Android Development] bfhunt2009:
Remove the SD card and try holding power and the n key down for 30 seconds
[Nook Color Android Development] samuelhalff:
Was adb working before? As duloz pointed out, try a different program/Os to create your SDcard. Then check your ADB config again (see http://nookdevs.com/NookColor_USB_ADB)..

Further help will require more information on what you have tried and was working before the problem..
[Nook Color Android Development] straby187:
It was working before and works with my N1. I will try ADBwireless when I get home. I think my actually usb port on nook is the problem.
[Nook Color Android Development] mattphoner:
Does anyone still get mobile YouTube (the m.youtube.com site in the browser) showing the videos, but when you try to play them, you get the error "Cannot play video / Sorry, this video cannot be played"

It's really annoying, as I installed the Flash101.apk from nookie tips/tricks page. Can anyone help?
[Nook Color Android Development] taylor.fowler:
Really Impressed

Got 0.5.8 up and running on the sh!tty SD card that came with my blackberry from work =) (after coming across the same Damaged SD card error as others in 0.5.9)

Changed LCD Density to 200 and had a HUGE!!! jump in responsiveness. Much better than the default 160.

Thanks to the devs, cant wait for a flashable zip!
[Nook Color Android Development] watzone69:
The only thing that works for me is to use Rockbox (not in the market) but it crashes after 2 or 3 songs and causes a reboot. No luck with Pandora or Youtube either.

Those are not the highest priorities dev-wise right now so we'll just have to switch over to Nootered for media. Fixes will come soon enough.
[Nook Color Android Development] samuelhalff:
Run adb over usb configuration again, page mentionned in my previous post. Worked for me when adb stopped working. And try different usb ports.. good luck
[Nook Color Android Development] straby187:
I tried diffrent ports. My computer doesnt show any signs that anything was plugged in.
[Nook Color Android Development] Canadoc:
I realize they might not be a priority, but they are 2 of the main reasons to use a tablet.

1.Surfing/email

2.multimedia

3.gaming

We need OC and hardware accel to help 2 +3

But if we can't play most media and youtube then no real benefit to 2.2 until it can .

Don't mean to sound sour as I applaud and am amazed at the work done so far.

Just surprised as hadn't heard or seen mention of music not playing on it either.
[Nook Color Android Development] duloz:
Seriously? Never thought 2&3 that important. Don't even use ipad for those...
[Nook Color Android Development] urbanengine1:
You don't need flash to watch videos on the m.youtube website...

(I've used it on my rooted nookcolor)

Try normal youtube and see what happens.
[Nook Color Android Development] mattphoner:
Neither worked, 2.1 had me choose a different application to play the video, and 2.2 said something to the effect of "an error occured". I tried both m.youtube.com and www.youtube.com using Desktop agents under both Dolphin HD as well as stock browser.
[Nook Color Android Development] Canadoc:
Really? Then why push for a faster OS? Stock nook color does browsing just fine.
[Nook Color Android Development] duloz:
There's more to be done than just gaming and media. Froyo is a nice to have for the flash. That and I hear swype works with some tweaking. Better than any of the p.o.s. keyboards I have now (most if them, and this message took over five minutes due to hanky keyboard). Beyond that, froyo ultimately means better resource management as well=better better everything.

Plus, I do a lot of things for the "because I can" factor.

I'be never really understood the draw for gaming on touch screen, outside of card games, puzzle games, angry birds, etc. I guess I am wrong in the fact that I don't really confider those gaming.
[Nook Color Android Development] Canadoc:
I am far from a gamer but it is nice to know if I am somewhere with y device that I have the option to play chess, sudoku, angrybirds or a driving game too.

Yes flash is nice to have but for me that falls under multimedia as I care most about watching a flash movie.

I am not sure really why mp3 won't play. And so far nobody has responded to me to see if this my problem or the current build's problem
[Nook Color Android Development] Homer_S_xda:
Are there people who

are not

having issues with 0.5.9 and the bad SD Card error?

Homer
[Nook Color Android Development] djkns:
its the img file... theres something wrong with it...:mad: everyone so far has had the sd card error... :eek:
[Nook Color Android Development] WillySun:
I see that Froyo 0.5.9 has more change than discript in CHANGELOG:

default web browser FC fix - no longer dies on location requests!

Example (in init.rc), now we have:

export EXTERNAL_STORAGE /mnt/sdcard

(instead) # export INTERNAL_STORAGE /mnt/media

export PHONE_STORAGE /mnt/media

...

m.b. “PHONE_STORAGE” the same as “EXTERNAL_STORAGE” for Nook?

m.b. that problem of "damaged SD card"?
[Nook Color Android Development] cicada:
Found the sdcard problem. Grab the 0.5.8 base archive and push system/bin/vold, the one in 0.5.9 is broken.

Will be fixed in the next update
[Nook Color Android Development] MikeCriggs:
A Couple Unreported Bugs for Nookie Froyo 0.5.9

Damaged SD Card error upon boot in notification bar (does not go away).

Pull down menu is not to scale when pulled down.
[Nook Color Android Development] BertoJG:
The videos I tester were from CNN and were okay, but occasionally I would seem some frame skips. In regards to the file, I will have to search for it again as I don't recall where I pulled it down from.
[Nook Color Android Development] yeah right:
This is awesome! Just what im waiting for,more development on theNC. Hopefully by the time im ready to buy one,2.2 will be running fine. Keep up the good work!
[Nook Color Android Development] Bimboy:
I remapped the Volume + and - buttons to be Menu and Back. It makes navigating a LOT easier, and the soft buttons are not working on this build.

If you'd like to do the same...

In a cmd window:

adb pull /system/usr/keylayout

Then, edit both of these files: twl4030-keypad.kl and qwerty.kl in your favorite text editor. I used Notepad++

On both files, replace 'VOLUME_DOWN' with 'MENU' and 'VOLUME_UP' with 'BACK'

Back in a cmd window:

adb shell mount -o remount,rw /dev/block/mmcblk1p2 /system

adb push twl4030-keypad.kl /system/usr/keylayout/twl4030-keypad.kl

adb push qwerty.kl /system/usr/keylayout/qwerty.kl

adb shell

cd /system/usr/keylayout

chmod 644 twl4030-keypad.kl

chmod 644 qwerty.kl

reboot

You'll still be able to control volume via Settings>Sounds Settings>Volume

(now to try to get Gapps working, YouTube, Market, then install flash, etc.)
[Nook Color Android Development] dahonda:
if you see mlo, uImage and other files then you mount the boot partition. Depend on the computer you are using, it might not able to mount the ext2 and ext3 partition. Your best bet is to use adb

"adb push <whatever file> /sdcard"

Hope this help
[Nook Color Android Development] xwint3rxmut3x:
You can try this flash apk, i'm pretty sure it's the one I installed on my n900 and it worked there. Please confirm/deny if this one works for the NC.

Also, thanks so much to the Devs that got this project going. This is really exciting news for everyone with a NC, and planning to have one shortly.
[Nook Color Android Development] Divine_Madcat:
Incredible work so far guys. For being still an alpha, it was incredibly functional. This gives me great hope that somebody (either yourselves or other devs) will get a fully working, fully functional build in the near future, and really show what this tablet can do! :)
[Nook Color Android Development] drksilenc:
i think the biggest hurdle is lack of recovery like amon ra. Once we get that then the real work can begin
[Nook Color Android Development] Bimboy:
This works. I also updated the Wiki with this info, as well as info on how to install Google Apps, and YouTube, using the attached YouTube app.
[Nook Color Android Development] fattire:
Huh? What do you need "recovery" for?
[Nook Color Android Development] suzook:
While I agree clockwork is important, its not a must. With this method of booting from sd card, you still can have your stock nook on the internal card. Best of both worlds.
[Nook Color Android Development] mbh87:
While being able to boot from the SD is a good option, being able to flash custom ROMs from Clockwork would be a better option for many IMO.
[Nook Color Android Development] xwint3rxmut3x:
I agree 100%, I have NITdroid (froyo for n900) running off an SD card on my phone and it's terrible. It really depends on the speed of your SD card, but mine has alot of issues loading stuff. It works fine, as long as i'm patient, but it's not something i'd be ok with as a primary OS.
[Nook Color Android Development] Divine_Madcat:
I suspect that is why this rom felt slow..I think once we can flash it, we will really see a difference. But if jam wrong, I don't mind being corrected. :)
[Nook Color Android Development] RoboRay:
There are plusses and minuses both ways...

Booting a replacement OS from SD is completely safe because you can always simply remove the SD card to revert to stock functionality. You'll want a fast card to run the OS from, however.

Installing a replacement OS on the internal flash could offer performance benefits (depending on the speed of the internal flash as compared to the speed of whatever SD card you have) while also still allowing use of the SD slot for expanded storage space.

Given a choice, I'd rather run from the internal flash. But, I could live with a bootable SD card. That's how I run Ubuntu on my OLPC XO. :)
[Nook Color Android Development] fattire:
Just for the record-- there's nothing technically stopping you from installing this on your internal emmc. You can wipe over your old partitions and you'd also need to change init.rc on the ramdisk to point to the new locations, but it should work.
[Nook Color Android Development] mbh87:
I see booting from the SD as a good option to those that still want to use their Nook as a reader. People kind of like my dad, he can pull the SD, read a couple books then pop the SD back in and use it as a tablet. I however have no interest as using mine as a reader but this is still awesome progress and I hope things keep getting better :D

Edit: Is there any possible way to Recover the Nook Color from a brick? If for some reason it wont boot?
[Nook Color Android Development] rboatright:
yes, there is. It will always boot off of an sd card, so a recovery sd is possible using the system folder in the sideload_update.zip.

It will also boot from a USB boot but no one has gotten that finished yet.
[Nook Color Android Development] mbh87:
So you would be stuck with always having to boot from the SD? Or will it pull the side_load and put everything back to stock?
[Nook Color Android Development] fattire:
I believe there is also support for booting off nfs, but I truly know nothing about it.
[Nook Color Android Development] TchnclFl:
Can't you just send it through the 8-boot cycle and it'll reflash itself?
[Nook Color Android Development] wvcachi:
Don't know about anyone else, but pushing the vold from 0.5.8 caused it to hang at the boot animation on rebooting. Curious to hear if it's just me, or if others have the same issue . . .
[Nook Color Android Development] deitiphobia:
I got a "Sorry! Process system is not responding" error message with a choice to wait or force close. And then my Nook just froze on a blank screen.

I was able to revert back to the original VOLD file, but the same error keeps occurring. Thankfully I performed an image backup to a different SD card so I'm going to switch back to that so this will all work.

Hope a fix is coming soon for this. So much stuff just doesn't work without access to the SD card.
[Nook Color Android Development] Homer_S_xda:
I figured it was something. Thanks for taking care of this! [Thanks inbound]

Homer
[Nook Color Android Development] Homer_S_xda:
Maybe check the permissions on the original and set the new file the same after the push?

Homer
[Nook Color Android Development] bfhunt2009:
Priorities

I have to weigh in here. I think the devs are going about it in the right order. While your list of features is ultimately where I want to be as well, the first order of business is to get the infrastructure in place. Fixing the Accelerometer was a big help with #1 in your list, and made the tablet much more usable as a carry-around device. IMO, BT is the next priority. I too would very much like to be able to play mp3s, but not without BT headphones -- especially since I am using the volume up/down keys for Menu/Back buttons.

Keep up the great work devs.
[Nook Color Android Development] Homer_S_xda:
Updated: I did this and based on your experience and my comment I took an extra step. I moved it to the SDcard via Windows and then rebooted into Ubuntu. I renamed the original file vold.OLD and moved the new file over, after sorting sudo v. su, and then checked permissions on the original file and the new file. The original file was executable so I set the new file to executable. Shut down and put the card in my NC. BINGO now all is well, no more bad SDcard. This will keep me going until the OP gets the image updated.

I'm certain there is a less convoluted way to do this. Bottom line:

Set vold executable after replacing the 0.5.9 version in /system/bin with the 0.5.8 version.

UPDATE: Your mileage may very. You might just need to verify that it is executable or if it doesn't work, change the permissions and try agin.

Homer
[Nook Color Android Development] Canadoc:
We agree to disagree then. I don't need Bluetooth that much. My wife has iPad and never have used the bluetooth on it. But do use it to watch YouTube and listen to music on it.

It is likely also an infrastructue thing that the OS can't read an mp3 file.

Either way I applaud the devs and their work. Just wish the basic funtionqlity of 2.1 was at least there
[Nook Color Android Development] Homer_S_xda:
Feature Request: can IPTables be included in the kernel?

I need to be able to set proxy and without IPTables, no go as ProxySetting relies on it. Unless you know of another way to get setting proxies in there. ;)

Thanks!

Homer
[Nook Color Android Development] kassemja:
I can confirm pushing vold from nookie.0.5.8 base files fixes repair sdcard issues in 0.5.9. Permissions did not need to be edited.
[Nook Color Android Development] BugsBunny891:
I am running 0.5.8 and everything works nicely. unfortunately i cant seem to get the volume buttons to remap to BACK and MENU although i did get it to work on my rooted stock firmware.

also i am having trouble with applications, they tend to stop repsonding rather often causing me to force close them.

the homescreen is laggy too when trying to add/remove icons or widgets

finally, my download speed from anywhere is horribly slow. i tried encryped and unencrypted networks and they were both really slow.

i have a 8GB class 4 microUSB card, is anyone else having similar problems?
[Nook Color Android Development] deitiphobia:
How to repair permission on Vold if it's causing Nook to freeze at bootup

I unfortunately didn't experience the same. When I copied over vold, my Nook would not fully boot and would freeze up.

I had to go into ADB and change permissions on the vold file to get it to come back to life. After doing so, the problem with SD Card not found was fixed!

Here's what I did in ADB to correct vold causing freeze issue:

adb shell

# cd /system/bin

# mount -o remount,rw /dev/block/mmcblk1p2 /system

#chmod 6755 vold

# ls -l vold
[Nook Color Android Development] deitiphobia:
So now that my SD card partition is viewable by my android apps and such, how come when I plug in my Nook into laptop and turn on USB storage, I only see a small partition that is 115 mb and called boot?

Where's the rest of my SD Card??? and can I get it to show in USB storage mode so I can copy over my music files?
[Nook Color Android Development] chhaggerty:
If you install samba file sharing it will show up on your windows network. I copied around 12 GB of music and ebooks this way. More info available here.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=891638
[Nook Color Android Development] deitiphobia:
Thanks. Samba is working but 12 Gigs is going to take forever this way. Is there any other way? I'm only getting 211KB/sec transfer rate via Samba for some reason.
[Nook Color Android Development] diomark:
Finally tried this with a class 4 microsd card.. (it's a sandisk class4 - so actually has ~9mb writes / 16mb reads under windows..)

Too laggy for me:( Would love to see someone with more skills then me package this up to run under clockwork / replace the stock rom on internal memory..

-mark
[Nook Color Android Development] cybertimber2007:
Patience. Patience. Rome wasn't built in a day, and you can fit Rome, China, Panama and the Grand Canyon on a Nook Color.

...video or book, your choice.
[Nook Color Android Development] theyownus:
im getting very strange microsd card results. not sure if it is related to the image or not...

i initially imaged an old nokia branded card i got with my n82 3 or 4 years ago. no problems. a little laggy but for the most part very very usable. j disk benchmark from market i get 2.79MB/s write 6.6MB/s read

purchased a patriot lx 4gb card class 10 and whether i expand the sdcard partition or not the nook is much laggier and internet is so slow it is unusable. it took me 23 minustes to download quadrant (>1mb). i ran the j disk benchmark on it my phone and get 3.45MB/s write 7.05 read

I have checked both cards in linux and get higher speeds but the differences between the 2 cards is similar. the patriot benchmarks much higher than the nokia card.

any ideas what is causing this? i can literally shut down and swap cards and see the differences plain as day. running quadrant standard freezes on the patriot card @ step 3 of the SDcard test (database writes) it hasnt completed a full cycle in quadrant. The nokia card gives a quadrant or ~1400 (i know quadrant scores mean very little)

I purchased a sandisk 8gb class 4 card to try out this evening. will see if i have any luck with it.

anyways any ideas?

where are we on the road to installing this internally? will that provide a significant reduction to the lagginess/speed up the system?
[Nook Color Android Development] wrxtc714:
stock softkeys and notification bar

I wish i was smarter and could do this myself but i feel like the main thing we really need to do now is get the stock notification bar and softkeys to always show no matter what.

that would eliminate the need for softkeys and give us a easy way to navigate

because we would have our menu and back buttons always there.

I will take a look at the framework and see if i can figure it out

hopefully it will be as easy as just replacing the notification files

if anyone has tried let me know

should be the framework correct?