[Nook Color Android Development] DaveNagy:
Hi guys,

I'm a fairly newbish newb, although I've rooted and ROM'd my Evo, and rooted the stock Eclair on my NC. I also checked out Honeycomb, running on the sdcard. Last night, I decided to follow the OP, and get Froyo up and running.

This then, is my story. :p

Burning the image to the sdcard could not have gone more smoothly. The NC booted up under Froyo nicely. Later, I was able to confirm that the /sdcard partition was present and usable.

I was able to get my Gmail account working, but I was unable to sign into Google Talk. Likewise, the Market seemed non-functional. I think it just displayed a blank screen but no errors. I did the clear data and force close thing for the market and framework, and then I rebooted. After that, the Market started working beautifully.

(I don't recall if GTalk started working. Let me check now... Yep, it's working now. Excellent.)

I was happy enough with the performance at that point to want to start personalizing things. Let's see, how do I transfer stuff over like wallpaper? I ended up installing Browsix (both free and paid) from the market. It seemed to work for a bit, but when trying to do a multi-file transfer (about 5 .mp3 files) it errored out and then force closed. Then other apps started force closing: the browser, Astro, etc. The NC became unusable until I rebooted.

While I was shut down, I pulled the sdcard, and looked at it with Easeus Partition Master. Yep, the sdcard partition was there, but small. I expanded it to fill all the unused space on my 8GB Class 10 Kingmax card.

Since then, I've continued to encounter a lot of force closes. Virtually everything is affected. Zeam, the Market transport thingie, and especially Browsix. In fact maybe the problems only occur after I've attempted to use Browsix. I'll experiment with not using it, but I worry that the problem may be more fundamental... related to writing anything to the sdcard, perhaps. (Yes, I just tried again, and didn't run Browsix. The News and Weather app forced closed as I tried to set a location, and that caused the browser and Astro to close as well.)

Can anyone recommend any other method for getting files from my computer, to my NC?

Oh! ADB has miraculously started working for me. That's a first. Prior to running Nookie Froyo, "adb devices" always returned null. So, I guess I could use that to push files, huh?

What else... Oh, the NC seems very sluggish for a couple minutes after booting up. I expected that on the initial boot, but should it still be happening?

Umm... I copied some desktop images into the "nook/images" folder on the sdcard. I can view them in Astro -> Gallery without a problem. However, when I go to change my wallpaper, also via the Gallery option, I don't see any of those images. I think I also tried setting the images as wallpaper from within Astro or the Gallery, but it didn't work. After I resized and touched the "Save image" button, it just put be back on the resize screen again with the default "frame". No changes were made to my home screen wallpaper. It also seems like the menus in Gallery are messed up. They only show for a fraction of a second.

So in general, this seems >that< close to being usable. But, as it stands at the moment, it's too buggy to be a daily driver.

(I can try a different sdcard, if you think that might help.)