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[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] nagasgura:
I like to install custom roms, but I do not like to wipe data (which deletes all my apps and settings) every time. I have a lot of apps and it's a pain to Restore them every time. Is there an easier way (e.g. NANDROID restore of just data?) or will a nandroid restore of data just ruin the whole point of wiping data (which is unclear to me to begin with.)

Thanks in advance.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] myANdrew16:
hi,

I have a big problem, I don't know what can i do, and I deseperate, I was flashing my device using a SD Card, then the process stopped the progress bar was stopped, I waited for a while, but nothing happened, then I turned off my device but now It doesn't work, It doesn't turn on, and when I plugged the charger the indicator led doesn't turn on, I don't know if my device will not work anymore, please If you can help me I will be thankful, thanks!!!!.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] altafsameer:
press red button and green button with hardest key set will reset automatically
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] myANdrew16:
hi thanks for answer, I was trying to do that you said me but nothing happens I don't know if I'm doing something wrong, press the red button and the green at the same time, and Should I press the soft reset key??? Sorry but I don't know what is the other key that you said, however I pressed green and red button and the Reset key and nothing happened, also I tried with the soft keys and the reset and nothing!!!!!
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] Hakim Rahman:
To perform a hard reset using device keys

1. Press and hold the left SOFT KEY and the right SOFT KEY, and at the same time, use the stylus to press the RESET button at the bottom of your device.

2. Release the stylus, but continue pressing the two SOFT KEYs until you see the following message on the screen:

3. Release the two SOFT KEYs, and then press green button (phone icon)the HTC Kaiser TyTN II P4550 Hard reset Soft reset Hardreset Softreset button on your device.

Warning! Your device will be set back to factory default settings. Please ensure any additional installed programs and/or user data have been backed up before a hard reset is performed.

To perform a hard reset using Clear Storage

1. Tap Start > Settings > System tab > Clear Storage.

2. Type “1234” in the box and tap YES.

Back to main site

after that you can Flash again with official ROM for your device
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] myANdrew16:
hi thanks for answer, I've already done this many times but It doesn't work, It is still dead, the led charge indicator doesn't turn on, It doesn't turn on, nothing happens It just is dead.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] zebra363:
If you remove the battery, and boot the phone, will the LED turns green?

If it does, I have the same problem, then..
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] myANdrew16:
hi, the indicator LED never turns green, they neither turn on.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] Hakim Rahman:
you try with another battery (battery type)...!

:) because the device is hard brick with the physical characteristics of a black screen (no boot loader) and only the green LED on
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] MrKancho:
Same thing happened to my Kaiser last winter. I even tried a new display. Bit nothing. Then I let it rest for one or two weeks and it worked just fine again.. Maybe it was the cold.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] myANdrew16:
hi, thanks for answer

definitely I think that it's without boot loader, but in this moment I don't have another batt, but I don't understand why the LED indicator doesn't turns green when I plug the charger without batt installed, Do you believe that it can be saved?

one more thing, that I was flashing my device, maybe everything inside it was erased,

I don't know it's just a supposition
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] Hakim Rahman:
My advice should you take your device to customers service to be examined or to repair

I hope your device can be saved ..
[Nook Color General] Noah98:
I didn't think the nook color would play higher end games, but so far I'm really impressed. I have the following running quite well so far:

Raging Thunder 2

Asphalt 5

N.O.V.A.

Dungeon Hunter

Dungeon Defenders

Krazy Kart Racing

Pool Break Pro

Oh, and the graphically intense Angry Birds and Angry Birds seasons...
[Nook Color General] pfcwintergreen:
It also runs the Snesoid/Gensoid/Nesoid emulators perfectly. I wasn't expecting that just looking at the clockspeed (800mhz)
[Nook Color General] epakrat75:
I'm not surprised because I know that the NC contains the same PowerVR GPU that the Mid-Range Droid X / Droid 2 devices do. I've run "Dungeon Defenders" (first game powered by Unreal Engine and more graphically intense than Angry Birds) and it runs fairly smooth. The high end devices like those of the Galaxy S family have even more powerful PowerVR GPU and run it better of course. The PowerVR GPU model in Apple's products is between the NC and the SGS family if anyone is interested.
[Nook Color General] tekdemon:
The latest generation of Apple products actually use virtually the same processor as the Hummingbird found in the Samsung products. They use the same PowerVR SGX540 GPU.

But Apple seems to set mystery clocks on their A4 chips that appear to vary depending on the device. So the iPad's CPU/GPU appear to be clocked higher than the iPhone's. The iPhone may or may not dynamically clock up though based on what I've read.

An iPad should have identical performance to a Galaxy Tab though as far as raw hardware power goes. Any differences are likely purely in software.
[Nook Color General] camwinnn:
Id be mad if it couldnt handle those, my old 200mhz Wing managed that.
[Nook Color General] Croak:
Not quite true, the A4 iOS line is still using a SGX535 (same as the 3GS). Capable GPU, bit better than the 530 on the Nook Color (and Moto Droid line) but not up to par with the 540 on the Galaxy Hummingbird in terms of specs (it's about half as fast as the 540).

But, unlike the 540, the 535 is actually being used for UI acceleration on the iOS devices, giving them that trademark smoothness in everyday use, making iOS devices feel much faster than Android.
[Nook Color General] cutterjohn:
From what I could find it's only slightly better than the 530 and merely amounts to a slight clock freq increase... the 540 was PowerVR's big perf change.

Anyways, I'm not surprised that these games run OK given that this is likely the level of hw that they were targeted at. Next year might bring some problems as more games will be targeted at Tegra 2.
[Nook Color General] ctos:
game performance of NC is great, but I hate the poor video playback capabilities, I admire Samsung galaxy can play 720p mkv files without any problem because most of my movies are 720p mkv files.
[Nook Color General] cutterjohn:
I broke down and picked one up yesterday, but it's going back since I'm finding it way too hard to insert the mini-USB and couldn't manage it at all this morning. Anyways, NC is nowhere near as fast as Tegra 2. It's not bad, definitely better than ARM11, but still... not even close to Tegra 2...

...going to give B&N one more shot at not trying to sell sh!t quality for $250...
[Nook Color General] bassrebel:
Where can I get the emulators?
[Nook Color General] cutterjohn:
Either get market going, or find them elsewhere online... IIRC they're paid apps, but there might be some free ones for Genesis, SNES, & gb...

(Got a replacement NC. Idiot guy in the store was trying to tell no, thats as far as it goes, it's OK... so I asked got power? Yep. Plug it in. See no nice shiny LED lighting up on the cable... tries their store charger same deal as my cable, tries the demo unit and in it goes...

I tried the new one's cable BEFORE I left the store this time, but when I got home and started it charging I find that I have one with the SUPER sensitive touch screen...)
[Nook Color General] Ravynmagi:
I haven't been too happy with gaming performance on this. Mostly because many of my games look like this...

They don't play full screen and look bad. That screenshot was from Raging Thunder 2 Lite.
[Nook Color General] Croak:
Wonder if the Spare Parts trick we used for the Galaxy Tab will work on the NC.

I'm not rooted* and don't plan to be or I'd test it.

But basically, you install Spare Parts from the Market, fire it up, check Compatibility mode if it is unchecked, or uncheck it if it checked, reboot the device, then un-check or check Compatibility mode one more time, reboot again, and it will start stretching apps to full screen.

*Not rooting because I already have the far more capable, faster, lighter/smaller Galaxy Tab for full-on tablet duties. The dirt cheap Nook Color is probably going to be my dedicated bathroom device (replacing my Kindle WiFi) for throne and tub reading. I won't miss the eInk at all indoors, so the Kindle will now be just for camping trips thanks to its incredible battery life and outdoor-friendly display.
[Nook Color General] pfcwintergreen:
only reason im suprised it runs the "oid" emulators so well is because they run pitifully slow on my android phone running at 600mhz. naturally i concluded that the app required alot of juice to run properly. maybe its a software problem on my phone
[Nook Color General] cutterjohn:
Yeah, spare parts & the compatibility setting gets you full screen, or at least in everything that I've tried on various devices so far, and no incompatibilities yet either.
[Nook Color General] Noah98:
Yeah, you need to do the Spare Parts fix (that's what I did). All of the games I listed play fullscreen (Raging Thunder 2 included) and are the HD versions. They actually look and play great.
[Nook Color General] epakrat75:
LOL! That's probably because it's a Micro-USB rather than Mini-USB. They're similar connectors but are certainly different enough that you won't succeed in inserting one into the other. I certainly wouldn't fault B&N or the NC for that.

It was never advertised as such or intended to be. It's common knowledge (especially here) that the NC only sports a PowerVR 530 (unlike the 535 in the iPad). The Tegra 2 is even faster than the 540. Of course the NC wouldn't be anywhere near as fast. LOL! Perhaps, you should return just return the NC and purchase an actual tablet like the ViewSonic G-Tablet with it's awful screen for much more $$$ instead of an E-Reader if you have such high expectations.
[Nook Color General] Croak:
God, I couldn't believe how bad the G-Tablet screen was. Bought one from Office Depot when visiting my family for Christmas, because my Dad fell in love with my Galaxy Tab, and I thought it would make a nice gift for him. The display unit was locked down to the kiosk tight, so I was always looking at it from above in landscape mode.

Lucky for me, I decided to play with it and get it set up for him before wrapping it. Made me sick how bad it was off-angle, not to mention the blizzard of force closes on the very first boot up. Took it back and got him an Acer 10" netbook instead, which he does love.

I'm positive B&N is losing money on the NC, based on what they had to have spent on the display alone. Somebody there bought a clue or two when they opted for high-end parts and farmed out the industrial design to a real design firm. I imagine they've sold thousands upon thousands of these things just on the look and feel, functionality be damned. I know that's why I impulse bought one even though I already own and love a Galaxy Tab. :)
[Nook Color General] ethion:
What is the fix? I am wanting to get magic gem to play full screen. I downloaded spare parts from the market but didn't see any option that would help.

sent from nook color
[Nook Color General] Croak:
http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=10224035&postcount=13
[Nook Color General] spikey911:
Functionality be damned?

What is so bad about the Nook?

Sure it may not be as fast as the Galaxy Tab, but it certainly isn't slow by any means.

For the price its certainly going to do the job until the next big thing takes over, which is going to take some time.
[Nook Color General] cutterjohn:
I already own one, look at my sig and it kicks some major @ss.

I got the NC primarily for reading and taking when I didn't want the hassle of a larger tablet while still being fairly capable. I also decided on NC over Elocity A7 because I truly expect B&N to do a better job at support, but I wasn't at all impressed w/B&N quality assurance, customer service, or sales expertise as far as buying & having to return my first NC. Second is MUCH better wrt miniUSB cable, more in line w/what I expected it SHOULD be like, first one was DEFINITELY defective, but it was a hassle getting the morons at B&N to finally notice, oh yeah this one doesn't insert USB into NC #1 as it does the demo unit or the replacement that they finally coughed up which I tried right at the register BEFORE leaving.

Mine's not rooted yet and won't be until I check that changing build props will restore instore functionality and I get something setup to automate the process, although I could probably get away using root explorer and manually swapping two build props versions...

Back to gaming, GPU is only part of Tegra 2's perf gain, it also sports dual Cortex A9s which are quite an improvement alone over Cortex A8... but like I inferred above, I was looking at screen quality and likelihood of support for my 7" plus available kernel source, which both of my tablets have. gTab is just FAST, thing screams, and going between the two is like going from a corvette to a fiat.

[EDIT]

@Croak

You should have tried a custom firmware, or let it update as even their stock fw is MUCH improved over what it had OOB which I DID try to live with for a while, but got FC's too. (Apparently doing a factory reset would've helped with that as well, but the custom fws are MUCH faster since they utilize the latest nVidia drivers v. TapnCrap ships...)

ABSOLUTELY destroys everything else(except other Tegra 2s) in benchmarks excepting a few synthetic graphics test which it makes up for by handily spanking them in actual game FPS... too bad both cores aren't actually being fully utilized yet...

Samsung: thing's a ripoff period. Total cost $650-$1000+ for a cortex A8 tablet?! Not even a better screen or unlikely(given their lack of support for most of their phones) support from Samsung is worth that. They just ordered a crapload of Tegra 2s BTW, so I think that the Tab is about to be obsoleted to boot, along with all of their current phones.

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[Nook Color General] Croak:
I wasn't slamming on the Nook Color. What I meant was, sex appeal alone could be the deciding factor for a lot of buyers, not what it could do once you got it home. Which is a fair bit.

Like I said, I am one of those buyers, and I already have a Galaxy Tab which I still love.

That said, owning both, I'm not even going to bother to do more than use my NC as an excellent home reading device that can do light surfing and music duty.

Because at its very rooted best it would still be a pale imitation of my Tab, and no amount of XDA lovin' or B&N firmware upgrades is going to change that. You can't get working Bluetooth, GPS, GSM telephony, 3G data, FM radio, cameras, light sensor, hardware navigation buttons, and a haptic vibrator in a software update.

And THAT said, for the price, the NC is a great device that offers up a lot of potential modding fun if that turns your crank, and is also a great 'hold-me-over' device for people caught in the "wait and see" next gen tablet loop.
[Nook Color General] Croak:
No way in hell I was going to give that piece of **** to my 67 year old father and say "good luck, and don't forget to never move it if you want to see what's on the screen". It's not a consumer device at this point, and it never will be.

Sure, it benchmarks well, but that is the ONLY thing it has going for it.

Had I bought one for myself instead of a Galaxy Tab, the G-Tablet would have "saved" me a whopping $150, and in return I would have had a bulky piece of **** that required HOURS of ****ing around with just to make it somewhat usable, and after all that it would still be a plastic piece of **** with a display that a $200 netbook puts to shame. Did I mention the G-Tablet was a piece of ****?

The Tab ain't a ripoff, I paid $600 for mine brand new, it works out of the box and works WELL. There's been half a dozen firmware updates to choose from since I bought mine in November. Mine is a Bell Canada version which runs unbranded Euro firmware just fine (and makes phone calls), so it'll continue to get good updates (just like my non-US carrier Galaxy S phone did).

The Hummingbird still has a lot of life left in it, take a look at how well the Nexus S benchmarks and performs in the real world. Besides, we're still several months away from seeing the 7" replacement for the Galaxy Tab from Samsung hit retail. The 10" device will release before that, but I don't give a **** what the 10" Samsung tablet has under the hood, because I don't want a 10" tablet, it's too big for my usage.

I'm GLADLY paying another $20 a month for 500mb of data, because I WANTED and NEEDED mobile data with it, and since there's no contract, I can drop it at any time if my needs change.

As for Samsung buying Tegra 2 chips, it's one of two things. Either they don't want to be behind the Honeycomb curve like anyone who didn't use a Snapdragon chipset was for Froyo.

OR (and this is highly likely) Microsoft has decreed that the next generation high-end WP7 devices will use the Tegra 2 chipset. Keep in mind that Microsoft is tight with Nvidia, has been for years, and they were the first to use a Tegra, for the Zune line...which coincidentally had the same core of MSFT developers that now work on WP7.

If that's the case, that means Samsung will have no choice but to use it, just like they HAD to use the inferior and more costly to them Snapdragon for their WP7 phones instead of using Hummingbird.

Since Samsung has publicly committed to building a LOT of WP7 devices in 2011 (like, 60% of their smartphone production is planned to be WP7), there's your huckleberry.

For high-end Q1/Q2 Android tablets and phones, they've got the HIGHLY capable Orion A9 dual-core chipset (which should be at least as fast as the Tegra 2 CPUs, and totally SMOKES it in the GPU department). And they can make the Orion chipset cheaper themselves than they can buy Tegra 2 chipsets from TSMC (or Global Foundries).

EDIT: Sorry Nook folks for ****ting up this thread, won't happen again.
[Nook Color General] Croak:
Aww, hell. I lied. More thread ****ting on the way.

I think I mentioned that whole Honeycomb thing, CJ. And amigo, MSFT went with ATI for the 360, but they still work very closely with Nvidia, and they bought an awful lot of Tegra silicon for the Zune line.

I also think I mentioned that the Viewsonic device was a piece of ****. Just to get that out of the way.

That piece of **** ain't a Vette, it's an econo-box with a big engine stuffed in it. We're not talking WRX here, we're talking about a FWD Chevy Cavalier with a Corvette engine crammed in, and nothing else improved.

The viewing angles aren't just inconvenient, they're ATROCIOUS. You can't even change orientation without it looking like sparkling ****, or even turn it upside down, let alone bend your wrist a bit. TN displays should not be on handheld tablet devices in any shape size or form. Especially not on $400 tablets sold at the end of 2010.

Looking at your sig, you've went through a series of low end slate devices before finally ending up with a decent one in the NC. From your perspective, the Viewsonic device WAS an improvement compared to your other slates.

From mine, it's a HUGE step down into the ghetto, and it and all its re-badged clone brothers are giving Android and tablets a black eye. There are thousands of consumers out there that won't ever give Android a second chance because they got ****ed when buying the various varieties of the G-Tablet. That's just bad for the platform.

At $400, it is NOT a bargain compared to the Tab. You give up 3G, you give up A2DP, you give up GPS, you give up haptic feedback, you give up case quality, you give up glass quality, you give up screen quality, you give up pixel density, you give up a huge aftermarket accessories market, you give up sanctioned Android Market support, and you give up CUSTOMER support. That's not worth $200.

And yeah, it would take hours of dicking around...tell me you spent only fifteen minutes on your ViewSonic just trying to make it run out of the box with a straight face. Go on.

I didn't spend ANY time rooting my NC because it didn't need it for what I bought it for. It WORKS, out of the box, as advertised, for what it is, a great LCD eReader.

I spent about an hour on my Galaxy Tab dicking around with firmware, mostly to enable voice phone support that North American carriers cut.

And while I might have some choppy Flash playback on my Tab, at least it shipped with it working as well as it can on any Android device, and Samsung didn't just slap a "F" logo on the box and lie about it like the Viewsonic. :)

If you want to whip out dicks and compare Quadrant scores, I can whip out my 2500 Galaxy Tab score as well.
[Nook Color General] spikey911:
This is the reason I broke down and bought the Nook..I love playing Sonic Spinball.

Anyway, I also see there is an Atari 2600 emu also..Now thats living..
[Nook Color General] long2know:
The Nook Color runs nearly everything better than my EVO running EViO and netarchy's 4.3 kernel.

The slight performance deficiencies that i have seen (which are few) are probably due to Eclair. I suspect NC will get a nice performance boost with Froyo or v.next, whatever it is.
[Nook Color General] madsmurf:
First off, on topic ;)

The gaming on these nook colors are indeed quite nice. While nothing top of the line, it packs a decent punch. I was surprised some Dungeon Defenders loaded up as well as it did and that looks beautiful. While android tablet gaming has a ways to go, this is a decent start. I can't wait to see what some finished 2.2+ action will be like with full android and an OC'd kernel. Let alone 3.0 tailoring more to tablets. And the screen? I am all for some 7 inch 1024x600 action that I can hold however I want and share with others nearby if I want to no matter what viewing angle.

That reminds me ;)

Screens on tablets... not looking to get into a flame war too, and not taking sides, but I really wish people would stop defending crappy screens on tablets. A majority of what you do with a tablet device IS all about the screen. The more people that are "Okay" with horrible screens, the more companies are going to slap em in portable devices for a better profit margin. The last thing we need is some tablet related injury to start cropping up from decades of people holding tablets at precisely the perfect viewing angle for hours on end resulting in a future race of hunchback super humans with locked wrists and tunnel vision.

There is no defending the screens on some of these devices... while some aren't as bad as others, it doesn't matter what new quad core Arm CPU you have in that thing or HDMI with a multi-card reader, usb port, and... LASERS!!! If you try to wiggle around to get a lil more comfortable and that 7 degrees to the left just turned that web page, movie, game, etc. into a black void of nothingness, then that screen shouldn't be in a tablet. Unless it comes with some kind of harness where it attaches to a special helmet via brackets and a counterweight so that it is always at a perfect viewing angle for that screen. Cause as a fellow human, I have to admit, I tend to move around some while spending time reading a book, watching a video or two, surfing the web, etc. And it is always nice to kick back on a recliner or in the bed and relax placing the tablet wherever you want, however you want, and still be able to view it.

So yeah... boycott bad screens on tablets... return them things to the store and send the device manufactures a message :)
[Nook Color General] DropZite:
Totally makes sense! If only a lot of people would do this, then us consumers would benefit a lot from this :)