[Nook Color Android Development] 12paq:
Edit: funny, Dalingrin beat me to it while I was typing this up. LOL.

That's the million dollar question. The problem is frustating and can be discouraging for the devs who maintain the kernel and parts of the Nook build. The main sticking point seems to be that most of the devs do not have sod or sod-a-like or PMD experiances (minus, I think, one dev with PDB). The other point of frustration seems to be lack of proper logs to see why some of us are having sod/sod-like issues and PMD. This is some speculation on my part from reading the forums, but the rest is garnered from direct email or PMs with some of the devs.

So not being a dev, I am more of a fixer or pointer, mostly a Lurker, lol, I finally can pull appropriate logs and would like to share how to capture them and post them for devs. And frankly posting in a development forum that you had PBD or SOD without logs, only helps so much and I have been told after a while these reports only let devs know that somthing is happening, most importantly it does not report log code data.

So,... If you have Kernel panic and your Nook crashes or does not wake up, go with a root file explorer (like Root Explorer) and go to System in the root directory of your device then to proc, its:

System/proc/last_kmg

Within the directory "proc", scroll past all the numbered text files and look for a file called "last_kmsg". Often its not there, that is good info in its self because this file is only generated for certain specific events. Copy this file and save it somewhere where you can find it. It is most import, I believe, if the date and time is close to when your event happes it will more likely contain useful data.

The next log file you can generate with ADB, the comands are:

adb

shell dmesg

If ADB is not your thing you can use a terminal app within you Nook.The comands are:

su

dmesg

This will generate a bunch of informatoinal text , then pull it in ADB to a file or copy the file from terminal to send with your report.

Also there is an easy free app called aLogcat. This records activity data in reall time with the ability to stop recording and cut and paste to a doc for your report. If you can reproduce sod try starting this log report first the create your SOD event. Also logcats are easily pulled via ADB, if your comfortable with ADB, you don't need me.

So my assumption is if you can root your device flash CWM, change your partitions and load the CM7 firmware to your Nook then you can pull these logs for the Devs.

Please, if I have any of this incorrect, (which is likely, lol) please help us all out and help me disseminate the correct information.

In an addition the CM7 form post thread started Khauticus (sp?) has a form developed with help from devs to fill out with correct info.

My apologies in advace for the lenthy post. I really did not feel ok with starting my own post in the developer section because I am not a developer. If this info is helpful, please recomend a correct place to post or leave it here and link to it if you want, and move on.

Again my apoliges for my grammar, this is not my first language, bady talk was.

I hope this helps,

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