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[Nook Color Android Development] simmerin:
Adding Apps to SD Card Honeycomb

I just tried the Honeycomb preview on an SD card. It's very smooth and seems to work well. However, other than email, a browser, and some utilities there are almost no apps installed.

Do I have to install the SDK and use ADB to install the market or other apps or is there an easy way for the non-programmer to do this. Thanks.
[Nook Color Android Development] svennn:
You need to use ADB. I was in the same position as you, so I learned to use ADB and got everything working.

Hopefully we will soon have a kernel that allows the HC Nook to sleep properly.

-Steve
[Nook Color Android Development] mrkrabs:
Just bought my book a couple days ago and loving it...so far i've rooted and ran a couple of roms from sd,class 4..including this honeycomb rom....they are running slow however,is it just because im running off the external sd? Wud it be faster if i installed to internal?
[Nook Color Android Development] luigi90210:
its 600 for the wifi only model as well
[Nook Color Android Development] Nooter:
Ah, my bad.
[Nook Color Android Development] altimax98:
Yeah much faster

Sent from one of those missing Droids
[Nook Color Android Development] lizhiwei:
Running HC v04 on the NC on the SD and I'm finding that not all apps show up on the market when I search, like Skype, Swype. Am I doing something wrong ?

I installed the market using ADB with instructions from the Nook Color Portal
[Nook Color Android Development] luigi90210:
motorola xoom system dump

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=X8FWP4CT

Source: Droid-life.com
[Nook Color Android Development] Paul22000:
Wo-ho!! Does this include the Honeycomb Gapps too?

:eek::eek::eek:
[Nook Color Android Development] Vindolanda:
Amazing...amazing..amazing :)

I can't wait to dualboot the full OS. Btw, the new music player is amazing and I'm dying to get my paws on it!
[Nook Color Android Development] Ellerbestyle:
Wonder how long it will be until we have a full working HC for the NC?
[Nook Color Android Development] Divine_Madcat:
Looks like it. I see Vending, YouTubeTablet, etc...
[Nook Color Android Development] luigi90210:
nothing will install

im getting these errors

[1/4] Installing app: GalleryNew3DGoogle.apk
pkg: /data/local/tmp/GalleryNew3DGoogle.apk

Failure [INSTALL_FAILED_OLDER_SDK]

2119 KB/s (727136 bytes in 0.335s)

[2/4] Installing app: Gmail.apk
pkg: /data/local/tmp/Gmail.apk

Failure [INSTALL_FAILED_OLDER_SDK]

2584 KB/s (495011 bytes in 0.187s)

[3/4] Installing app: Music2.apk
pkg: /data/local/tmp/Music2.apk

Failure [INSTALL_FAILED_DEXOPT]

2394 KB/s (1105702 bytes in 0.451s)

[4/4] Installing app: YouTubeTablet.apk
pkg: /data/local/tmp/YouTubeTablet.apk

Failure [INSTALL_FAILED_OLDER_SDK]

2417 KB/s (1089456 bytes in 0.440s)

i think it has something to do with us using the older SDK instead of the newer one
[Nook Color Android Development] Divine_Madcat:
I fully suspect the apps are looking for Honeycomb specific API calls that Froyo/CM7 cannot support..
[Nook Color Android Development] luigi90210:
that makes alot of sense

well i just hope these apps ether get ported so we can use them
[Nook Color Android Development] msherwood:
Sounds like they will work fine once we have an image from AOSP or the new SDK and not the preview. Patience...
[Nook Color Android Development] bmx24:
the new sdk is allready out
[Nook Color Android Development] djxcee:
That's great! Now the waiting game...
[Nook Color Android Development] luigi90210:
well seeing that the xoom is released i am going to assume aosp code is going to be released soon so i think ill wait for an aosp rom from source code
[Nook Color Android Development] Robotic Clone:
Yep I just tried flashing some of the xoom apps via adb onto v4 and no dice
[Nook Color Android Development] Homer_S_xda:
This is what I'm thinking, why start a week long or more project knowing that the AOSP will drop in less than a week? Starting over with the released SDK has the same issues as the preview: no proper hardware drivers and patching instead of re-coding/editing and building. Patience, plus if we are very lucky the newer kernel will get finished in time for it.

Homer
[Nook Color Android Development] jetsaredim:
I'm a little bit of a n00b at this, so just bear with me. Just want to make sure I'm getting this correctly:

1 - Download image zip file.

2 - Burn to 4GB+ microSD card (dd/winimage).

3 - Boot NC with microSD in and it should boot into 3.0.

Questions:

a - Is that accurate?

b - What happens if I reboot without the microSD in, will it revert back to the "stock" NC interface/version of Android - or does that get borked?

c - Been looking around, but can't seem to find the info on how to flash this to the internal flash on the NC. How does that get accomplished?

d - Does this image have Market/Google Services already installed or do I need to go through the processes outlined on the nookdevs wiki to get those?

Thanks in advance.
[Nook Color Android Development] nicatronTg:
A - yes

B - stock is fine

C - find another thread

D - no, there are scripts on xda though.

Sent from my ADR6300
[Nook Color Android Development] ocdtrekkie:
No, the Market is only designed to show you apps it believes are meant for your device. Often app settings can hide apps on eligible devices. Also, as a hacked on Market, its not necessarily perfectly aware of what your device is and what it can do.
[Nook Color Android Development] tony1208:
tried doing this on a sasdisk 4gb card and no luck...winimage writes it fine but when trying to boot it no luck...stays at the android flashing font....i mean over 5 min and nothing happpens....i do have cm7 on my internal memory...cold that me the reason maybe ???
[Nook Color Android Development] FiveTenMatt:
I'm still getting hung at the Android_ phase... I see lots of people are getting stuck here. What have people done to get past it? I've tried three different kernels (stock, 1000, and 1100) with v4 HC, but it makes no difference. I've also tried three different brand and sized cards (8gb c4 patriot, 4gb c6 PNY, and 16gb c10 SanDisk), It hangs at Android_ every time. I'm running on a rooted system. Help!
[Nook Color Android Development] macboat:
I hope we can get HC stock youtube soon... this is the mostly used app on my NC.
[Nook Color Android Development] tony1208:
Same issue here...I ordered ordered a transcend class 6 card yesterday hope that's helps this issue
[Nook Color Android Development] Homer_S_xda:
Those having troubles with v4, are you running EMMC or SDcard?

Will it boot from the card with the as is kernel?

I and others have had issues with the 110223 versions of the OC kernels. I suspect something is not quite right. I went back to the 110208 version.

Homer
[Nook Color Android Development] giantsfan:
That's the card I have been using without any issues. It starts right up and is fairly snappy.
[Nook Color Android Development] bfhunt2009:
I posted a week back that I noticed that my HC v04 (Patriot class 10) always hangs at the Android_ prompt if I hold the power button down until the screen flashes, indicating it is turning on. However, if I simply, briefly, depress the power button and release it before I see any visible screen flash it always boots. This has not failed me yet.
[Nook Color Android Development] Adanedhels:
Guys I need some help I have installed the market/gmail apps, but when I go to download anything form the market the download just hangs indefinitely... Does anyone know whats going on or what I can do to fix this?

Thanks,

Adan
[Nook Color Android Development] Animec:
Adan, you might be helped by clearing the data and cache for 1. market, and 2. the google services framework and then rebooting. I may have rebooted first before clearing, don't remember :)
[Nook Color Android Development] wethead4:
Does anyone know how to get all the apps to show in the market? for example, NYtimes is not there. is there any other way to install the app?
[Nook Color Android Development] smaskell:
I'm not sure if this is the case for NYtimes, but apps that are not available in certain countries will not be available to the nook. Because there is no data plan, the market doesn't know where you are, and therefore doesn't let you install apps that are only available in certain countries. If you go to market.android.com and try it install it, it will say "not available for your carrier."

Some people have gotten it to work with market enabler. Personally, I just download the apps on my phone and then copy them over.

Google has said that they are working on this. I'm guessing this is why the wifi-only xoom is not out yet.

EDIT: actually, market.android.com shows "this item is not compatible with your device." That must not be the issue then.
[Nook Color Android Development] macboat:
Adan, do you have Gtalk installed? If you don't, try install one.

Log in Gtalk. Then go back to market and try to download again.

If you can't log in Gtalk, most likely it is your wifi's setting. (though I don't know what is wrong.) Sometimes, when I connect through my work wifi, I couldn't log in to Gtalk and Market will hang at downloading. Then I went to McDonald's or Starbucks or other public wifi, then it works.

If you can log in Gtalk but still your market hangs, then I don't know whats wrong.
[Nook Color Android Development] Adanedhels:
Ok so I tried clearing the framework and market. I turned it off turned the nook back on. I then started GTalk. I downloaded 2 apps fromthe market and it crapped out again and doesnt seem to want to get working again....
[Nook Color Android Development] Adanedhels:
finally the fix stuck and the market is usable
[Nook Color Android Development] Toys Samurai:
I hate to tell you this -- give up on the SD and use the eMMC instead. It will save you all the headache. I spent a week and bought 5 different SD cards trying to get HC installed via SD. I followed the recommendation in this thread when I bought the SD cards, but the best I could do was to boot HC once. After I rebooted, it got stuck in the Android_ prompt again. Then I gave up and tried the eMMC way. 10 minutes (MAX) was all it took.

Still not convinced? Take a look at the video I captured:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVSCuP2Zg20

See how smooth it worked? That's about a week ago. Since then, I reflashed it to the 2nd eMMC edition. Now, more apps work, even Google Map returns my location (via Wifi.) Oh, the gallery no longer forced closes when I opened an image.
[Nook Color Android Development] evilPERSOn2009:
I successfully install HC v4 in my Transcend SD 8gb class 6 and successfully install market, and able to install apps how to I put my movie/picturess to the sd card?
[Nook Color Android Development] jaysckap:
I havint tryed movies but pics work use a card reader and just move the pics u want from your pc to sd

HTC Incredible OMFGB 2.3.2
[Nook Color Android Development] evilPERSOn2009:
is it normal for the 8GB sd to be seen as 117mb boot? because that is what I'm seeing and don't know where to put files
[Nook Color Android Development] jtbnet:
The /boot partition is #1 of 4 partitions in the image and there isn't any reason to make it waste more space that ~100MB as even with multiple kernels/uImages I have most of the space free... It's the 4th Partition which gets mounted as /sdcard and that is where Android expects to see your files like pictures, audio, and video... and that is the partition you would normally see when mounted via usb or samba to a pc... Normally this would be the lion's share of the space on a bootable sdcard as /data and /system at .5GG each plus 100MB /boot takes just over a 1GB leaving the rest to be resized to use the remaining space on the card for the /sdcard mountpoint...
[Nook Color Android Development] milesje:
Has anyone seen a system dump for the Xoom that could be ported to the nook? I'm sure it would run smoother then the SDK port.

I searched a little and know that the Xoom has been released and was rooted in about 2 hours, just wondering if anyone has started on a Xoom port for the nook color.
[Nook Color Android Development] luigi90210:
Wait until aosp is out for a full honeycomb rom
[Nook Color Android Development] msherwood:
Mount it in Linux and you'll see all the partitions. Windows only recognizes the first.
[Nook Color Android Development] griffindodd:
Amazing!

Used the money I saved on my Xoom with the 25% coupon to buy the wife a Nook.

Flashed this rom and it's working amazingly I'm so impressed with this little tablet combined with HC. Still got the problem with the Marketplace failing authentication but outside of that everything seems awesome!

Now we have Xoom and Mini-xoom lol :D
[Nook Color Android Development] samuelhalff:
Use my USB mass storage utility to access all SD partitions..

Sam
[Nook Color Android Development] evilPERSOn2009:
Thanks you are a life saver. It worked. Dumb Windows.
[Nook Color Android Development] vlucchetti:
I am able to see the sdcard section that I expanded by mounting it on the NC when plugged into the PC via a card reader, but am unable to "see" anything on it from the NC itself.

Additionally tried to get market and framework on to it, but adb does not recognize it even with drivers re-installed. Frustrating as I like this over the custom froyo card.
[Nook Color Android Development] MrNameless:
To OP: You have a PM, please read it!
[Nook Color Android Development] Paul22000:
Regarding the News and Weather ("Genie") App:

I installed the one at this thread (link here) and it force closes the instant it opens.

Has anyone gotten this app to work?
[Nook Color Android Development] nexus15:
just out of curiousity since i dont have much experience with these things does it normaly take this long? just really impatient here to see the final release since we have all the apps from the xoom system dump but cant use them on v4 of this HC release.
[Nook Color Android Development] epakrat75:
Impatient? Really? Shocker. :D It takes as long as it takes. It hasn't really been that long yet IMO. Either wait or buy a XOOM. :p
[Nook Color Android Development] :
Curious if you guys are using the tablet gapps from the xoom dump?
[Nook Color Android Development] Paul22000:
No one has ported the Xoom's Google Apps to the NC yet.
[Nook Color Android Development] Eienkei:
Any words on porting the new image?
[Nook Color Android Development] luigi90210:
i think we are waiting for source code to be released

aosp rom>sdk port
[Nook Color Android Development] oldman_58:
Yes the word is patience...
[Nook Color Android Development] msherwood:
T-Plus 5 Days... patience is growing weaker!
[Nook Color Android Development] Paul22000:
What is the maximum legal limit as to how slow Google / Motorola can take to release the source code for Honeycomb under the rules of the GPL?
[Nook Color Android Development] Toys Samurai:
They won't work on the NC. SDK level 11 is required. The HC preview, if I recalled correctly, is only at level 10. I think Google only increase the SDK level to 11 when the final SDK was released.
[Nook Color Android Development] :
......Google is the one writing the code, they haven't even finalized it. lol

So that GPL thing is not applicable to them.
[Nook Color Android Development] danchappers:
So is the final sdk possible to port to NC?
[Nook Color Android Development] :
Right, this build is off the final SDK not the preview one.

edit: oops I'm thinking about the N1 port.
[Nook Color Android Development] nexus15:
Not sure I understand that when the xoom was released with final version of HC. They take the code they gave moto to make the xoom software, and they push that uncompiled code to AOSP.

Yeah so basically thats where we are at. v04 isnt using the final sdk so its not level 11, the final sdk is though, if that were ported it would just be another slow port. Therefore I can understand people waiting to build HC for the nook until the AOSP release.

I didnt intend to take over this thread, but only have been doing this now "lite hacking" as i would call it, for a short time I was just curious in the past, say with froyo and gingerbread how close to the flashship hardware release did they push the AOSP release, because this seems to be taking longer than it should. A bit flustrating seeing as how every OEM in China and Taiwan is working on or has shown a HC device. If they can get it why cant we?
[Nook Color Android Development] Cloudscout:
The actual Honeycomb source is under the Apache license which doesn't actually require them to release the source if they don't want to.

The Linux kernel is, obviously, under the GPL but that isn't as important in this case. What we really want is the Android source.
[Nook Color Android Development] :
Xoom was released with development code. As soon as they AOSP 3.0, the Xoom will be getting an immediate update to AOSP code, and it will be 3.0.1

Every AOSP push has been followed within days with a X.X.1 update that signifies AOSP code. Manufacturers are allowed early development code, that's a benefit of being part of the OHA.
[Nook Color Android Development] Paul22000:
What do you mean they haven't finalized the code?

Xoom released = Honeycomb is finalized.

How is the "Honeycomb source" different from the "Android source"? Confused :confused:
[Nook Color Android Development] Paul22000:
How do you know this?

I'm not saying it's not true; I just want to read more on this, preferably straight from the horse's mouth.
[Nook Color Android Development] :
I'll have to dig it up, but it's from an interview with andy rubin. Every AOSP release gets the .1 to identify approved aosp code from development code.

The code is "finalized" for what they needed it for Xoom(tablet). They have to finish trickling everything down to the rest of android. Seems like Moto pushed Google to get the sdk finalized so they can beat apple's announcement this week.
[Nook Color Android Development] Cloudscout:
It's not different. What I was saying is that getting the Linux kernel source, which is licensed under the GPL and compels them to release the source, isn't as important as getting the Android/Honeycomb source, which is licensed under the Apache Software License and does not require them to release source if they don't want to.
[Nook Color Android Development] msherwood:
+1 for this - from what I've read the 3.0 software has had a lot of bugs. My guess is Google is working on fixing all these problems before they release it on the world. I'm also betting like JCopernicus that they were trying to get a tablet in the wild before the iPad 2 was announced. And my gut tells me Moto was pushing more than Google to do that...

I just can't wait to test the new 3.0 GApps on a Nook Color port!

Can you imagine the horror? Google's headquarters would become Tripoli!
[Nook Color Android Development] {Diemex}:
I've tried for about a hour to get my sd card partitioned.

I tried a lot to get it to work, partitioning through cwm, the USb driver "hack" - didnt work because it didnt want to update the driver; NCUMS-app doesnt mount the sdcard to pc no matter what partition I use. I tried with different filesystems - currently I've got 2*FAT32.

I've got only one Sdcard (16gb), I want 2 partitions:

1.) Media 11Gb

2.) Honeycomb 4Gb

3.) CM7 on emmc, with access to the media

I cant get my 2nd partition to be recognized, neither by Windows, or through the NCums app.

So I cant have Honeycomb as 1st partition, because then I can't mount my media.

If there's a other way I can have HC and my Media on one sdcard please let me know.

I'm on Windows Se7en.
[Nook Color Android Development] smaskell:
Being part of the OHA does not mean that you automatically get access to code before it goes to AOSP. From what I've heard, Google hand picks certain launch partners for each platform. I work on the android team at Broadcom, a member of the OHA, and we don't have access to honeycomb yet. All of the code we use is just based on AOSP code.

But let me make it clear that I absolutely do not represent Broadcom in any way. These views are solely my own and do not reflect the views of Broadcom. Much of what I am saying is simply based on impressions I have gotten, not fact.

Either way though, this is obvious. If everyone got access to the code, everyone would have honeycomb tablets on the way. It's been the same before. Look at the original moto droid.
[Nook Color Android Development] FrasierCrane:
Yeah, it's pretty clear that competitive pressure drove the release date for the Xoom. Three major features (SD support, LTE radio, Flash) being unavailable at launch is well below standard for both Google and Motorola, particularly considering those features are the Xoom's main advantages over the iPad (and the iPad 2, if early reports are correct).
[Nook Color Android Development] Cloudscout:
Right. Obviously they WILL release the code when they're ready, they just aren't obligated to do so.
[Nook Color Android Development] mrsexkey:
I have a gtab and this is exactly the reason i bought a nook the other day.
[Nook Color Android Development] TKEMerph:
On the same page as you, I tried to Read the file first.. it made it smaller but when I write to disk it doesnt actually write to disk.
[Nook Color Android Development] camwinnn:
you open winimage go to disk, the top has whats plugged in your pc with a check to the left, click on your sd device, go down to restore virtual hard disk image on physical drive.

Your not just opening the .img file.
[Nook Color Android Development] noodles12:
downloading from the mirror on page 5 now. Has anyone gotten this to run? Seems like the thread is full of tech support rather than feedback.
[Nook Color Android Development] starkruzr:
So, I know I'm a crazy person, but... what are the necessary steps to get this to run off eMMC?

:D
[Nook Color Android Development] deolarte:
sorry for asking again, but no one has answered.

Is the rest of the SD card readable to write, if using an 8gb or 16gb sd card?

Is the internal usable or writable, thus being allowed to use root explorer to install apks directly like market and su?
[Nook Color Android Development] KitF:
What are the mount points for this?

It seems it can't see the /sdcard/ partition, is there a simple way of mounting that to make it see it as an sdcard?
[Nook Color Android Development] agarber1:
Make sure you are running WinImage as an admin. It should give an error at 93/94% but still be bootable. Worked for me on a 4GB class 10 card. This made my week.
[Nook Color Android Development] :
hay guyz, how dis work sense thierz no duel kore n nook kolor/

or did google unlok secrat kore wid OTA blindate?
[Nook Color Android Development] WhiskeySlx:
same, same, same, and same :D

What version of winimage are people using that's working?

I used the DL from the OP with Win7 x64, and winimage 8.5 x64.
[Nook Color Android Development] nootered:
Download, extracted using Winrar and imaged using WinImage. Worked like a charm! Amazing work you are doing kind sir.
[Nook Color Android Development] bigted41:
deeper-blue needs more thanks for this. burned to my sdcard through my blackberry (i know this isn't recommended, but i'm at work and it worked for me using winImage on win7 32-bit. I just cancelled at 94% like previous poster said.)

Thanks deeper-blue!!!!
[Nook Color Android Development] rjoudrey:
The img appears to be to big for a 4gb SD. Is there anything that can be done?
[Nook Color Android Development] cainhunpi:
I seriously think the xda group should start closing registration to the forums. Because stuff like this comes through
[Nook Color Android Development] giantsfan:
CPU requirements of needing a dual core were rumor, not fact. Google confirmed there are no minimum cpu requirements. We are looking at the proof...
[Nook Color Android Development] stwallman:
Thanks for the tip! I always try and use Winimage the "wrong" way LOL.

The tip is "Restore Virtual Hard Disk Image"...
[Nook Color Android Development] designate72:
Every time I download, regardless of mirror, I get a 0 byte img file inside the zip. Any ideas?
[Nook Color Android Development] camwinnn:
SU/Busybox arnt right so that wouldnt have worked.
[Nook Color Android Development] :
Heaven forbid a little humor gets in, right?