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[Nook Color General] japzone:
Well an option for you is to setup a Computer somewhere and then install a Remote Program like Teamviewer. Install the Software on your PC(Available for Win, Mac, and Linux) and then download the Android App from their Website. It will make a Secure Connection to your computer and allow you to view your Desktop and have Full Mouse/Keyboard control no matter where you are. Whether it's your Home WiFi in Chicago or the Cafe in Tokyo.

Once setup, you can run the Program on your Computer but use it on your Nook as long as the PC is on and you have WiFi.

I know it's not Windows on your Nook but it's close.

Another idea(and I don't garantee it will work) is install Ubuntu on your Nook(Thread in Dev forum), manage to install Wine on it, and then try running your Program in Wine and see if it works.

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[Nook Color General] poofyhairguy:
The funny thing is, I totally expect Android Tablets to perfectly run Windows (XP or so) in a VM one day soon. Look at the specs for Tegra 3- one of the bullet points is a hardware virtualization support. That plus 1080p support in Tegra 3 is the reason I bought the Nook Color- so I could have SOME tablet to tide me over until those chips are sold in actual devices.

The Nook Color will never have that kind of power, nor honestly does any device currently on the market.
[Nook Color General] jumbosson:
I don't claim to be and expert what-so-ever, but here is my understanding:

In the past, WinCE was the base OS, and Win Mobile was just a very specific set of features from WinCE. As far as I can tell, WP7 is still just a very specific version of the newest version of WinCE, now named microsoft.com/windowsembedded/en-us/evaluate/windows-embedded-compact-7.aspx - Windows Embedded Compact 7 (Formerly CE). Do some reading there. The Business and Embedded side of Win CE doesn't get a lot of end-user coverage, but is actually a really good platform. As far as I can tell MS is just pushing WP7 out the wazoo.

I think it is very plausible to build a WinEC7 OS to run on the Nook because of ARM. Perhaps Win Embedded Handheld 7 would be better? I think there are options available that the business world has been using and MS is just not pushing to the general public. When MS pushes a new product, it's usually decent, but they don't draw attention to all the background and business side of the house that they have to build (and sell). WP7 is just a single product: Win Embedded Compact and that whole line is a full OS Stack.

I have no knowledge of it, but I'm thinking Win8 will be combining Win7 and Win Embedded/Compact version similar to how Android IceCream will be the combining of Gingerbread and Honeycomb (and Chrome OS). Surprise Surprise: Google and MS are both the same!! Will Apple follow suit?

Just as a note in case I seem biased here, I personally still use 2 Win7 PCs, but my 2 mobile devices are Andriod (HTC Aria, Nook Color CM7).
[Nook Color General] jumbosson:
Just another note: you SHOULD be buying licenses to use these products. As poofyhairguy says, it's closed source and would require licensing.
[Nook Color General] bobzdar:
Your best bet is to contact the developer of your app and see if they have a port to Android in the works. This will be much easier and more likely to happen than trying to get WinCE/WM working on your Nook.
[Nook Color General] poofyhairguy:
What gives you that idea?

For a build to be made:

1. We would need the source code to some version of Windows CE. We have none. Source code availability is why we have so many android ROMS. Unless you are willing to pony up BIG bucks to make the Nook an official development platform, then we can't get legal access to any of MS's development tools.

2. Without the source code, the best you could do is hack a binary copy to work (ala what happened with Honeycomb) but that version is covered by license so it would be illegal to distribute it to the community (unlike Android). The only way that would work is if you have the correct drivers, we have none.

3. You would have to do all that yourself. The Nook Color CM7 team is made up of three people who are completely focused on getting a perfect CM7 release. One of them (dal) has said more than once that he won't touch a proprietary OS.
[Nook Color General] jumbosson:
Yes, to build this legally, you would want to use the tools MS sells and license it. Trials are available (6 months I think). WinCE is a group of a bunch of features. Normally, to build the OS for your specific hardware, you use the Platform Builder which is an add-on to Visual Studio 2008. You pick and choose the compatible features you want to include including some hardware interfaces, and it does the work of compiling into a usable OS. Not exactly source code, but blocks of functionality.

The key is compatible hardware. Processor should work, but don't know enough about Nook to research other hardware. I think I saw somewhere that a Tegra 2 was supported.

MS does offer options to buy different portions of the source code, but I think most basic stuff can be done with platform builder. I'm sure it's also got NDAs and you'd get in trouble for releasing something using it on XDA.
[Nook Color General] ErroneousBosch:
Firstly to the fellow who wanted windows 7 on a nook: No. Windows 7 will not run on a nook. This is because the Nook is a RISC (ARM) architecture computer and Windows is exclusively x86. Bit like trying to find where to put gasoline in your electric car. Not Compatible. And you wouldn't want it anyway. Even overclocked, the venerable Nook would run something requiring that amount of power so poorly as to be unusable.

As for the whole Windows Mobile/WinCE route: Remotely Possible but not likely. A lot of this has to do with the lack of source code/drivers. Yes, both of these are designed to work on RISC/ARM architecture, but the issue is that without proper drivers and kernel modules, it will not talk to the hardware or even run. ARM kernels have to be much more tailored than x86, mainly due to the limited resources and interface options. Microsoft usually works with hardware manufacturers to tailor WinCE to their hardware to make sure it runs stably and quickly, and to make a proper bootloader (a whole other hurdle). And yes, for WinCE you DO have to compile your copy FOR the machine it is on. Thus goeth the way of Monolithic Kernels.

In short, if you wanna do it, join the MSDN and do it, but I don't think you are going to find many developers here who want to tackle the royal PITA a project like that would be. Blackbox development (which is what this would be) is the defined opposite of easy and fun and likely by the time it got done, we'd be on the Nook Holo. :p

Besides, what is so all-fired great about WinCE/WM7 that Android isn't doing for you? Maybe developing an app/launcher to do what you want might be a simpler and more time effective way to get what you want out of your nook.
[Nook Color General] urbanengine1:
LOL... but seriously:

Pretty epic, running it using the qemu emulator here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=6661598
[Nook Color General] ExploreMN:
Okay, I couldn't read through all the pages on this so I will cut to the chase.

Raptor, you said "call you crazy" in your first post. Okay, you crazy!

When there is an ARM version of Windows...perhaps. Right now, not a chance.

At best you would need an x86 emulator. Emulators need to be considerably more powerful than the original gear. So, you *might* be able to get Windows 3.1 running using DOSBOX for Android.

Now, lets throw logic out the windows (pun intended) and lets assume you could run Windows 7 on the NC. Your battery would last about 30 minutes at best and it would be so slow that it would take you 10 minutes to load a web page.

Sorry man...this isn't happening.
[Nook Color General] ramiss:
The problem with posts like these is the lack of proper expectation and understanding.

Quite often we come across posts asking..."Hey, we are a bunch of hackers, why can't we just fix windows to run on the nook?" On the surface, to the non-hacker, this seems like a perfectly worthy challenge for the amazing members of xda. However, this is where the rip in the space-time continuum starts...

I will use an analogy here: What xda developers do normally is take a sedan, hot wire it, remove the governor, and give us access to supe up the engine. This is a LOT of work for people with jobs and lives, and we appreciate it.

When someone asks to port another OS over they are asking the developers to take a sedan chasis and find a way to install a Ferrari engine, tires and interior.

Can it be done?....Yes. Are our developers smart enough?...Absolutely! Is it a rediculous amount of work, requiring the type of man hours and resources that only large corporations can provide?....Yup! If we attempted this would it take over a year, all for 1 guy who doesnt want to carry another device around?...on the surface, yes.

Moral of the story....when an xda member says it is a crazy idea you might want to say "ok thanks anyway!"
[Nook Color General] urbanengine1:
nice anology :cool:...

but hasn't all of this been covered? almost everything in this thread is 2+ months old. I just wanted to update cause i though it was pretty nifty running 95 using qemu. i wasn't trying to say you could port windows to arm or anything.
[Nook Color General] japzone:
Besides emulating Long Dead versions of Windows (ie: 3.1 or 95) you'll have to wait until Windows 8 for an ARM version of Windows. You'll also have to hope that Microsoft will make said ARM version available for seperate purchase (ie: Not Pre-installed).

Once the above happens then maybe someone here could get Windows on the Nook but I'm doubting the Nook will have the necessary processing power.

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[Nook Color General] whymoo:
Maybe you could install virtualbox on unbuntu and then install windows on it
[Nook Color General] Goferbroke:
Uh, No. Not with the amount of Ram on an NC (512mg). Once you've loaded Ubuntu, you have very little RAM left to run Win 95, let alone Win 7 or 8.

However, I know how to run Windows whenever I want on an NC...you just use Remote Desktop or Citrix. Works great!!!
[Nook Color General] votinh:
Instead of installing Windows 7 on the NC, I'd rather have Puppy Linux running on it.
[Nook Color General] japzone:
Now that could be possible.

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[Nook Color General] votinh:
I'm sure it's doable, I just don't know how to.
[Nook Color General] Tekara:
I'd start with either gentoo or archlinux where you can compile everything specifically for the architecture of the host machine.
[Nook Color General] superbeak:
hahaha

too bad the nook color only has 512mb of RAM. Windows xp would run at those specs but windows would be stupid and useless on a tablet lacking usb,hdmi out,among other features in hardware.
[Nook Color General] halrulez:
Well they have onlive desktop now and it is a virtual windows you can get the apk in the themes folder for nook
[Nook Color General] loveubuntu:
you say no insult but you are insulting us by suggesting to replace our good not great OS with POS WINDOWS. Who cares what version, Windows is an inferior product. Now go try booting Ubuntu on your Nook. Waste of time thread.
[Nook Color General] bobstro:
Just don't put Unity on it. Oh God, PLEASE don't do that! :)
[Nook Color General] dead_makers:
Windows 8

okey,those windows of course belong to pc and need enormous amount of resources, but I believe windows 8 need less sources to run since its focused on tablets,anybody here thinks someday we can see win8 on NC ? I know android run smoothly on this device but the interface of win8 is really amazing and I fall in love with this OS after 3 days of working on pc
[Nook Color General] bobstro:
What would you say is the number one benefit that Win8 would offer on the NC that Android doesn't provide? Other than being Win8, that is?
[Nook Color General] gbohm:
you can not compare x86 architecture to arm u can not compare clock speeds and say it will run not only they have different orders on low level they have completly different calculation powers per clock speed ...

nothing i repeat nothing (win7 or any windows for x86 , windows mobile no matter which version because of closed source and unsuported hardware and last but not least windows 8 for arm because of the required hardware(it will only support special hardware like wp7)) of this will ever ever happen on the nook color

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[Nook Color General] n3cr0tic:
Seems like it should be possible to port my car over to my nook... there are so many times it's hard to have my car with me and my nook is so easy to carry.

I don't understand why no one has talked about this yet, seems like it'd be easy...

After all, they are both 1) made out of matter and 2) exist in this time/space.

That's the hard part guys come on! get going!

OH! I want it for free to k? so after all your hard work...just go ahead and give me your product ok?
[Nook Color General] plasticarmyman:
dude...just use OnLive desktop....that's a full win7 virtual desktop with 2gb of cloud storage and microsoft office 2010
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] danyzfr6:
4G just went live today in San Francisco, but I can't connect. I'm wondering if anyone else is having this problem. I'm running Fresh 3.5.0.1 with PRI Version 1.9_003 and Baseband version 2.15.00.11.19.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mroneeyedboh:
Now Im not 100% sure of this but I did have issues with fresh and 4g. I rooted my evo and went from sprint lovers ( 4g ) to fresh ( no 4g )... I was paranoid that I funked my rSAs I kept doing RSA and MAC checks and everything worked out...

I then did a deroot ( because I had flasehd over fresh and no 4g still ) and then rerooted ( funny thing is it changed my hboot from 2.02 to 2.10 ) so I had to alter a few steps.

In the end, Im now on Myn and Ive had 4g since yesterday ( first day on Myn ). I'd go Myn. I also backed up my RSA keys, I would do that too when you root or directly after you root. then run the RSA tests and MAC tests and then update to semi-new ( I went with slightly older WiMAX, radio etc just to be safe. They are the most tried and true.

good luck bro.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mitchellvii:
Not in SF but am getting 6 mbps with that Rom in Charlotte.

Mitchell's EVO
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mroneeyedboh:
The ROM doesnt necessarily constitute higher transfer rates
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] danyzfr6:
I'll try that. Thanks!
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] exstrat:
Did you have any luck? I'm kind of in the same boat as you. Using Fresh 3.5 also. All my mac address' are correct, including the RSA keys. I did a tour of SF earlier; haight, missions, union square, and still no 4g. It'll scan, but then it will display disconnected.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] danyzfr6:
No, no luck. Question: How do you change your MAC Address?
[Epic 4G General] 1greek4u:
So I uninstalled the launcher on my phone and inadvertently exited market before I downloaded/installed another one. Now all I have is a notification bar and black screen.

Is there a way to install apk's through CWM? I'm sure there is, I just need to get launcher pro back on my phone. I don't want to revert back to my last backup because it's kind of old.

Thanks guys

Edit: Sorry wrong forum, please move to general.
[Epic 4G General] decalex:
maybe hold the 'home' button - see if it gives you Market as recently used apps, and d/l a launcher.
[Epic 4G General] 1greek4u:
I knew the solution would be simple. Thank you very much sir
[Epic 4G General] decalex:
hehe no prob. glad that worked before u got flash-happy.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Boogie1979:
Hey Guys.

Just wondering if anyone else has experienced this issue.

-I touch phone icon

-start typing contact name

-click on image of contact

-no other numbers come up. just the home number.

--if i goto the actual contact tab on the upper right side

--search for same name

--click on image of contact

--multiple choices are available.

i find this is only on certain contacts. there is only a hand full out of all my contacts that this happens to. I checked in the contact profile to see if there is something that i clicked but nothing stands out.

These contact were brought in from Nitro Touchdown exchange software which i am running on the phone.

Thanks for your time and knowledge.

Bogdan.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lordvoldemort:
Hello ppl,

Today a weird thing happened on my desire..I sent a ms to my friend..It was sent and the suddenly I got a message on the screen which said'android.mms."something" is not responding force close or wait...I did a force close..now all my messages have disappeared..Is there any way to get my smses back??there were more than 500msgs...all disappeared..this is just inacceptable:mad::mad:

I can restore frm titanium backup..But the backup is around 15days old..I want the recent smses...\\

Any idea how to retrieve those smses????

thnx in advance for your kind help people..

Cheers,

lordvoldemort.......
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lordvoldemort:
Someone plz reply.... its not a difficult question...
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Lennyz1988:
Did you reboot? :P And did you try to make a backup of your messages? Maybe the backup program can see them.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lordvoldemort:
Yup.. rebooted 3 times... as i mentioned earlier... backup can be restored but its 15 days old.. thnx for reply mate:-)
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Lennyz1988:
I am not talking about restoring, but about actually trying to make a backup of the messages, maybe the backup program can still see the messages. Worth a shot.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lordvoldemort:
Yup tried tht.. no luck... bckup too doesn't see any messages..
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mr.Duck:
My buddies phone just starts up to a black screen after the galaxy S boot screen. I've tried getting into recovery but it does not work. This phone was completely stock, so I'm assuming it was on 2.1 eclair. I tried odining back to stock but thats not working either, also the only way i was able to get it into download mode was by doing the method explained for HWL phones. I cant even get adb to recognize the phone cuz i can't turn on debugging, anyone have any ideas?
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AgentFour20:
Use odin v1.3 . With the cable pluged into the computer and the phone off plug the usb into the phone while holding both volume buttons . That should get you into dl mode . Just flash back to stock .
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mr.Duck:
That's what I did still not working, the phone was stock yo begin with, that's why I'm so confused, any way to wipe the phone? Our does using odin quotes the phone already? I tried adb but since the phone is not booting up all the way its not being recognized by the computer
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AgentFour20:
Do it again and click repartition . But it important you use v1.3
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mr.Duck:
ok i did all that, and its still going to black screen... tried several times all using 1.3
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AgentFour20:
Did you use both files .tar and .pit
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] InversedTech:
What exactly happened to make the phone that way?
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mr.Duck:
no idea, he said things started force closing all of a sudden, then it stopped booting up properly... he said he didnt root or anything, so the phone was completely stock...

and yeah i used both the pit and tar files
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] droidly:
Hi Scott,

I only have 1 device right now, so no need for sync, but I would be interested in how you can read your BN books with FBRreader. I have installed FBReader, but don't know how to read the books with it.

Also, I installed the dolphin web browser and clicked on a few epub links but nothing happens, is there a way to get it to bring up those files in FBRreader?
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] Delvorak:
I haven't actually purchased any books from B&N, but assuming the books you purchased are DRM free, you should be able to just move them into the \sdcard\books directory, and they should appear in the FbReader library. I believe, by default, the B&N books go into the internal storage, in the B&N Downloads\Books directory. Use a file manager like estrong's, astro's, or root explorer to copy them.

Via your web browser, save the epub books to \sdcard\books (or move them there after they download), and they'll show up. I don't believe that you can associate any book reader with epub files, I don't think android supports that. You have to open the book with the app, not the app with the book.

Scott
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] RoboRay:
I use FBReader on multiple devices and would be extremely interested in such an app!
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] Delvorak:
Thanks for your interest in my syncing app.

One pretty major requirement for this app is that your devices have to be rooted. Android doesn't like one app accessing another app's data, so the only way I could do it was to use root privileges.

It's still in beta, but you can download a copy of it at:

http://sync.splitmatrix.net/apk/fbsync.apk

Currently v1.0.9.

After you install it, go into the settings (blue icon, or menu/settings), and enter an email (doesn't have to be an email, any unique string will work) and numeric pin # (this isn't secure, so don't use a pin you care about). The email/pin is just to uniquely identify you. You should use the same email/pin on each device.

On the same screen, you can choose to sync the actual book files as well as their positions. It only uploads/downloads the books when it needs them, so it may take a while the first time you sync, but after that it shouldn't take more than a minute MAX, my typical sync times for 90 books is about 5-10 seconds.

Obviously you should have Fbreader already installed, and you need to have ran it, and gone into the library (menu/library) at least once (this creates the fbreader app database).

Click the middle, orange icon, to begin the sync process. It first uploads, then downloads. It only updates the book's "place" on the web if it's farther ahead than the web's "place" for the book.

Please let me know of any issues you find, or any improvements you want.

Thanks,

Scott
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] qwerty017:
Cool

I just tested and it does work as stated. One question though, where is it uploading the data too?
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] Delvorak:
Personal website, sync.splitmatrix.net. if the app takes off, i'll figure out something more secure and permanent.

Scott
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] RoboRay:
Interesting. I'll try it out. Thank you! :)

One thing to think about however, especially if you open this up to general usage, is that by uploading/downloading the book file itself rather than just the current read-to position, you could potentially run into copyright issues. There is reason to believe that this could fall under Fair Use, but past rulings on similar commercial services for other media have been inconclusive. That may be a can of worms you don't want to open.

I am not a lawyer, but I do play one on web forums.
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] qwerty017:
One thing I would try would be saving it on Google's servers through IMAP or something like SMS Backup does. Then no need to have to pay for a server. Don't know if it is at all possible but just thought I would see how you liked it.
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] Delvorak:
Yes, this is something I'm aware of. Not sure what I'm going to do about it yet. That's why it's a setting ;)

Scott
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] Delvorak:
The server it's currently on is hosted by a friend of mine for free, so I'm not concerned about it at the moment. If thousands of people end up using this, then obviously I'll have to make some changes.

Scott