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[Nook Color General] rjsmith2007:
If you need help. Let me know.

The Nook Color already has a Froyo image that can be installed. DSP currently doesn't work. That is responsible for video decoding not only for local files, but for Flash video as well.

Other than that, Flash will still run, but not on all occasions, and the rest of your requirements have already been accomplished (ie. apks can be installed and already exist on the Market or from the Internet).

You can install the Froyo image (it consists of a boot image and a system image) to your Nook easily, and afterward install all of the "G" apps with a quick copying of a folder.

Check here: http://xdaforums.com/forumdisplay.php?f=864

- Do a little reading

- Possibly try installing Froyo on your memory card first.

- PM me if you need any guidance. I'm feeling pretty PRO at this after using adb all weekend to work with my Nook.

FYI: You can completely hose your internal installation and still be good (As long as you don't actually corrupt your memory physically). The Nook can always be booted off of a microSD card and restored to a fresh installation.

Edit: I just read some of your other posts. Just a thought: You could uninstall or disable the browser by default, thus not having to worry about Internet filtering. Later, users could still install apks from the sdcard (All that you have to do is tick a box in "Settings"). You can also do all of this without touching the stock rom. Of course you'd want to disable that from booting ever, so... after you were booted into your microSD card OS you could use adb to delete the content of the mmcblk0p1 (boot) partition. But I think that still might go against BN's warranty rules.
[Nook Color General] gallahad2000:
I understand the reasoning of wanting to lock it back down but if your students are capable of finding XDA (I'd imagine 1 or 2 of them is, at least) then that person would probably root the systems for anyone who was so inclined. I mean, B&N wasn't able to stop it, it's not likely that you would (without some sort of remote supervision app that could monitor and detect rooting).
[Nook Color General] kar_:
that was going to be my 2cts. A student would just have to pop in an sd card. And it would be a little unfair not giving student that right? And even then, they could always push something over via adb.
[Nook Color General] minotauri:
Have you looked at other options like the Archos line of Android tablets?

Otherwise, the SD Card install of Froyo works well - just superglue the opening :)
[Nook Color General] blackderbyhat:
Why would any school district buy tablets with no warranty? Doesn't seem that feasible to me.
[Nook Color General] Musicman247:
He's only looking for a proof of concept right now, and is trying to work with Barnes and Noble directly.
[Nook Color General] Main Target:
I forsee many broken nooks in our future.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] aloniy:
oky i got i9000XXJPY on my galaxy s 2.2 froyo.SRJP3. i want to use Odin to flash 2.2.1 i9000xxjpy to i need to use 512.pit?? and what els do i need? can some one help me plzzz :confused
[General Questions and Answers] kpbotbot:
Considering the fact that I could copy all files from my phone to my computer, zip it with the correct parameters, cook with the Android Kitchen, and flash, will this work?

There are some phone manufacturers who don't, and will never release updates (minor manufacturers you have never heard of before, believe me).

Looking for the correct custom recovery won't be a problem, since some boards between some devices are similar, or even the same.

Thanks in advance for replies :)
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ydnandy:
This evening I was playing around with my Evo and got thinking, "I really like how everything is running right now! I've been running SteelH I.2 ROM stable for a few weeks, launcherpro, all my homescreens setup... perfect! I should take a backup."

I reboot into recovery, take a nandroid backup, then go to reboot the phone. Backup completed without any errors, but the phone would not restart. It sat at the white HTC and would not budge. I removed the battery several times and rebooted, but nothing. I could still get into recovery, so I wiped data, cache, dalvik and attempted to reboot. Again, nothing... just sat at the HTC screen. At this point I was thinking, "great... gonna have a long night ahead of me troubleshooting this one." I restored the backup I had just taken about 30 minutes earlier, but wasn't very confident that it would help at all... reboot, and after a few seconds, my boot screen starts loading! :)

So, here is what I am wondering.... I had not done any "hacking" since the last reboot... just installed/uninstalled a few apps from the market. What could have caused my phone to react like this? Also, if it wouldn't reboot in the first place, why did restoring the backup work? I had just taken the backup a few minutes earlier.... :confused:

thanks!
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AbsolutZeroGI:
Well, that certainly is unique. I've had problems doing nandroid back-ups (recovering from and creating them) before but it always booted just fine no matter what happened. Maybe there was a small software error that was fixed when you recovered.

Either way, I wouldn't worry about it. Recovering a nandroid back-up = problem got deleted.

That's why I tell everyone to nandroid before doing anything :D
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 420-69:
Like I said, it wont turn on. when i try to boot into recovery (power button + volume down) it vibrates 3 times and does nothing, what should i do??????????
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jfree3000:
Take the battery out and let it set for 30 min to an hour if needed, then put the battery back in and let it charge for a while and then try again. I have had problems like this before, not the vibration but the not turning on and I did the following things and she booted right up! Good Luck!
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dadoc04:
RIP

Sent from my HTC Evo
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] K Dotty:
I just started using the sense launcher due to launcherpro not working atm.

Anytime I press the home button in an app it shows the splash screen then a loading box.

It is incredibly annoying and I don't know what could be causing it to happen.

Any suggestions on what's causing this or a fix?

Thanks

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LeeDroid- v1.4.1

S-Off-Buzz 1.2.0

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[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] descenpet:
seems like sense launcher got killed in the background. you don't have anything set to kill background processes, do you? this kind of things happened quite alot on my old hero due to low memory but only happened only once or twice on DHD with alot more RAM, and that was with alot of stuff running.

or since you used LP, i assume you don't really need sense widgets. you can try some other launcher.
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] K Dotty:
I set my task killer to ignore sense so it doesn't kill it. I think I hav the adw ex apk somewhere so I'm gnna use that but I really want my sense to work because its a nice to have the stock parts of the Rom working properly, just for peace of mind

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LeeDroid- v1.4.1

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[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AndroHero:
the way you said "I hav the adw ex apk somewhere" makes me think you are using warez as that is a paid app...... if you have been downloading from a certain planet of apps lol then no doubt your device is swimming with malware by now as thats all you get from that place.... i suggest Sourcing your apps from a more reliable place in future :)
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ghostofcain:
Task killers are evil, don't play nicely with android, and are uneccessary anyway, remove it and I wouldn't be surprised if everything works fine. Further reading on the evils of taskkillers here and here
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] K Dotty:
I have anti-virus (not sure if it does anything) plus I copy all the apps that I buy to my dropbox through titanium because once I accidentally wiped my phone without any backups and lost everything.

I do get my apps from a reliable source. I like to try before I buy and I always purchase good apps to support the devs who then make the app better :D

I think my sense is playing up due to the amount of random add-ons that I have flashed.

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[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Pyro509:
just started running Epic exp. 2.0.7 last night because I updated to dk28 and Syndacate isn't running dk28 yet (Hope you guys have it soon!). Anyway, I am liking it so far, not much different than stock, runs good although today I used the wifi hotspot to connect a laptop and after 15 min. my battery went from 65% to less than 20% telling me i need to charge. Is it because of the rom? has any1 else noticed this issue or is there a setting somewhere i need to change? Also as a side note is there any rom similar to Syndacate for dk28 that i can run?
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] maldito.boss:
i know there is a syndicate rom for dk28.... i get back to you on that one in a sec.. and about u batte life? i have no idea but wifi tether can get alot of juice from the batt..

** edit ** here it is http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=861220
[Nook Color General] ChrisJ951:
Is it possible to overclock while using Froyo from an SD card, or does it have to be installed to the internal drive? (I do see overclocking roms posted but I don't want to accidentally mess up my NC by installing the froyo OC's while running from the SD card)
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] charlie95113:
Watsup to everyone i just had a question is there a way to flash a diferent boot screen besides using adb or enrevoked. I came from a moment rooted ofcourse but all I can find is those two methods. I'm alsoasking beacause I no longer have my PC. If possible how would I dothis without a PC? THANX
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] user7618:
Download the boot animation you want, make sure it's named bootanimation.zip, and move it via root explorer or another file manager of your choice to system/media. It should over write the current bootanimation.zip. Then just reboot.

If it's a flashable zip, then just flash via recovery like a rom or theme.

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Sent from my CDMA Hero. I got some hot Froyo-on-Hero action here!
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] charlie95113:
Ok man thAnx for that one but what I mean is the bootscreeñ before the animation which would be HTC logo in white is it the ame method
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] charlie95113:
I was reading more and its callled the splash screen. Thanx
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] il Duce:
You can only modify the splash screen if you have an unlocked bootloader. You can achieve this via regaw's s-off unrevoked forever method (my favorite), you can also use the eng-spl fastboot posted by darchstar (I think). If and after you do that, then there is a guide on how to create you own splash, and a thread with already created ones. Good luck and enjoy.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] JOMOID:
I know everyone has heard of the Sidekick HSPA+/ 4G/ 2011 / whatever they plan on calling it. And I dont know about you but I am EXTREMELY excited. Please tell me your thoughts and what you want to see on it... I know it must be Android 2.3 and have a front camera!
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] jjp023:
Don't think it will have a front facing cam, android maybe
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] JOMOID:
Bump

Curent : HTC Glacier ( WHITE MyTouch 4G) NON-Rooted

Dead : Sidekick iD

Sidekick 2010

Palm Centro

G1 - Rooted as ****.

Blackberry 8520

iPhone 2G
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] canadariot2312:
It must be slimmer. The thing was a brick and also kind of heavy. Depending on when it will be released, it will probably have Gingerbread out of the box.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] redm1st:
Where did you hear these sidekick 4g rumors at? Cause I heard they put and end to the sidekick since there new line up.

Evo OMJ 2.2 Froyo 4.4 - SBC bcnice v7 Rom
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] JOMOID:
It was on like androidspin I think...i tried to post a link but I havent been on xda long enough. But it is official. Suppose to be like the sidekick 4G ...i just hope they dont take the kicking feature awah

Curent : HTC Glacier ( WHITE MyTouch 4G) NON-Rooted

Dead : Sidekick iD

Sidekick 2010

Palm Centro

G1 - Rooted as ****.

Blackberry 8520

iPhone 2G
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] canadariot2312:
T-Mobile (USA) CEO Philip Humm announced a new one coming this year. Not a rumor, but a well proven fact.

And yes, that was from the press conference not too long ago.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] King Royalty:
I dont see why not, its a 4G phone like the myTouch 4G, Samsung Vibrant 4G, EVO 4G, Epic 4G, notice how they all have front cameras?
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] canadariot2312:
The G2 doesn't have a front facing camera, than again, it isn't called the G2 4G.

Looks like you are right. There is a front facing camera.

The downside being no camera flash (bit strange) and it is running Froyo (than again, it seems like no phones beside the S and the Arc are running Gingerbread).

I like the design of the Sidekick 4G.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] JOMOID:
A open keyboarrd picture

http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2011/01/sk-4g-itw-tmonews.jpg
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] JOMOID:
The G2 could have been SO much better if it had a front camera... and Sense ! THat would be THEE perfect phone.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] Product F(RED):
Well the Desire-Z is the G2 with Sense. But I definitely agree about the front-facing camera.

Anyways, the Sidekick 4G is made by Samsung. At least we know the target demographic doesn't care about updates :P
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] canadariot2312:
On the bright side, it doesn't have the TouchWiz interface.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] z33dev33l:
Only interesting looking android phone I've seen in some time... might pick one up as a back-back-backup just in case my 3 WP7s blow up at the same time...
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] Product F(RED):
Yeah but they better include a 2000 mAh battery. Sidekicks used to have really long battery life because they were always connected to the internet (AIM, etc) with push. Battery life is not Android's forte. I can't wait to see all of the confused ghetto 13 year olds who have no idea how to operate Android.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] Alfred F. Jones:
I am ridiculously excited. I love the Sidekick.

I'm hoping they make a Sidekick Launcher that's like the DangerOS though.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] Product F(RED):
The launcher is in the last picture. Look on the right side of the screen.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] Alfred F. Jones:
Yeah, I just saw that when I was going through more pictures online. It seems similar enough -- enough to utilize the scroll wheel (scroll... sensor?) on the right.

I think the only thing I miss is the set of numbers that were set-up on the keyboard so that it had a more phone-like feel. (The ones you could dial with, or use ALT to access).
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] canadariot2312:
I want to know the dimensions of the Sidekick. It looks pretty thin and I am assuming that they haven't change the screen size much.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] CharlieBoy808:
I think this post deserves a bump.

I am disappointed that it is a Samsung phone. I'm hoping that maybe Andy Rubin might give it a personal touch I hope. He was one of the original founders of Danger Technologies, INC after all.

I've used Sidekick since the first Color version (SKC) all the way up to the SKLX 09. Then the MicroGate problem occured and I abandoned the platform all together. I must say that even though I wanted the most badass phone I could get at the time; I am seriously displeased with my current Samsung Vibrant. Mostly on the behalf of firmware updates, but also because I used a real keyboard for so long that I still to this day can't stand using a virtual keyboard.

What they need to make this a hit is speed, ease of use, functionality, battery life, OTA updates, and a very snappy responsive keyboard. The last generation keyboard by Sharp wasn't bad and more of the same design would be good.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] theabunai:
Can't believe Samsung is heading the next release of the sidekick...

I always thought the sidekick was the first "smartphone" on the market when it first came out...
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] TheDeveron:
I didn't know there was still so much love for sidekicks out there. I thought the declining market for them was the reason they died out in the first place.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] CharlieBoy808:
It died because Microsoft bought out the development company, tried to make an upgrade to the servers, lost everyones data, the all of a sudden a verizon kin 1 and 2 come out with cloud technology. That would be why it died. Good thing T-Mobile owns the name Sidekick. To bad Andy Tubing can't buy back Danger Inc lol
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] ImHerMan:
They should've given the sidekick to HTC, it'll be easier to release a CM7 for it
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] evilPERSOn2009:
is this phone good?
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] domineus:
it was o.O

...

yeah...

no

As far as the sidekick 4 I may have to buy it. =/ I'll check it out
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] jariayamon@Yahoo.com:
Side kick

i dont think it will be worth it.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] black50z:
everyone is coming out with 4g phones
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] Tachi91:
Even though the 4G their using is Fake and just an upgraded 3G... That goes for everybody not Just T-Mobile
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] CharlieBoy808:
Honestly, if you are a member of this site then you know about what 4G is. The average consumer wouldn't know the difference so I applaud T-Mobile for just saying 4G. I swear explaining the difference between GSM and CDMA has been really annoying, let's not add different names to faster speeds. Now al the other companies can just market like they already do "mine is faster than yours" lol
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] ein777er:
for witch region ist the phone?

kind regards ...
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] tecjunkie:
Any plans for a new rom on this?
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] Product F(RED):
US, T-Mobile.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] yogi2010:
did anyone pick one up yesterday? in some ways, it's a downgrade from my Epic, but i don't care, lol, it's good to have a Sidekick again, or at least the closest thing there is to a Sidekick. the keyboard is the BEST!! that's one thing Sidekicks will always have over other devices, imo.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] chriscalifornia:
agreed

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[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] t-mo123:
Does anyone know if there will be any development on the sidekick 4g? There isn't even a forum for it yet and I was just curious if any devs are going to be interested in this phone. . .
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] musicalchino:
I was wondering the same thing. I'm about to pick the sidekick up right now and I'm not too sure I want to let my G2 go haha.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] t-mo123:
Lol, same here. I have a galaxy s 4g and I am not sure if I want to give it to my g/f and pick up the sidekick 4g. They have it online at Amazon Wireless for $79.99, no rebate required.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] chriscalifornia:
4G is completely worth the hype.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] yogi2010:
+1, lovin' it.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] rpmccormick:
I just got mine in the mail. woot!

A modern phone with a 5-row keypad and LEDs... how can you go wrong? I do already miss the larger screen though (I had a G2, then a Galaxy S 4G, and then a Nexus S before this one).

I can't wait for a custom rom, as there is way too much TMO bs on all their phones these days (even the unlocked Nexus S had TMO bs on it!).
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] jdm232323:
i hate sidekick... just my opinion.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] yogi2010:
Can't wait for custom ROMs either.... even with the bloat, the speed and battery life seem really good.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] G1Hope:
I'm gonna get mine soon.

I have a G1 but I *STILL* use my old Sidekick LX 09 as my primary phone. I've been waiting, waiting, waiting for an Android-based phone with a *good* keyboard. The G1's was okay but the way it hung off in space off one side of my hand was a dealkiller, plus it was slow.

Seriously, why does it take a Sidekick to have a good keyboard, shoulder buttons, etc.? For people who message intensely (e.g. me, most of my friends, etc.) having a good keyboard is vital. Instead the manufacturers kept making phones with crappy 3-row or 4-row keyboards, keyboards with square keys in a grid with no spacing between them, endless phones with NO keyboard, etc.

A real 5-row keyboard with staggered layout and spacing between buttons and a form factor that sits well in your hand... Was that really too much to ask for?

The only thing I'll really miss from my old SK that isn't in the new one is the d-pad. Having both the d-pad for precision navigation and the trackball for analog movements seriously made navigation easy on the later Sidekicks. It made the phone really easy to control and let me fly through menus, and it made for awesome control in games as well (the slow CPU/graphics and locked-down OS unfortunately meant that good games were rare).

I admit I'll also miss the flip screen (super easy to open and looked cool) but Microsoft owns the patent now, and I can live with the slide screen I guess.

I love the level of community work that's happened on the G1. I hope all lovers of phones with a good physical interface form a similar great community for the new Sidekick.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] Ace42:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=760571

Can the Lag Fix be used on this "galaxy S" variant? Since it technically has the same internals as the other galaxy devices.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] sofauxboho:
FYI, if any of y'all are curious a few of us are hacking around on the SK4G over here:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1037403

Making some slow progress...
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] EsOne:
IMHO The sidekicks have been getting worse with each new release. And from what I hear this one doesn't change that. Memory lacks on it, as from what I heard. From some reviews and such I have been seeing the keys are placed weird. Never a big fan of the sidekick though, so I guess I am kind of biased.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] bipoler:
I too took my epic in for service and while waiting the 3hrs I decided to mosey over to tmobile..the 4g here is stellar and fast and I made the switch...o well...next time sprint lol if the epic 2 is better ill come back but for now happy with real 4g speeds stable and reliable nd 79.99 unlimited errthang minus 2gb data cap o well wifi anyone
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] Wreximus:
The ITU has actually come out and said that it is considered 4G.