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[Nook Color Android Development] seth.i.simmons:
My main reason for removing what I do is to make it as barebones as possible, and only have what I know I use installed and taking up valuable assets. As to what I remove, that's quite a long list :P I delete A LOT of apps from /system/app that I don't need or use, and I delete the whole ringtone folder in /media, since I obviously don't need those. I also edit my build.prop with the HTC Netflix hack, my lcddensity of 187, and I up the dalvik heap size to 40mb... If you want a specific list of all the apps I delete, I suppose I can whip one up for you tomorrow, but for now my tired brain needs to sleep. Lol...
[Nook Color Android Development] MadMikeSS:
Installed n86 with 5/23 OC Kernel, working like a charm. Great work as usual.
[Nook Color Android Development] seth.i.simmons:
Same here, and I just thought I would say thanks to all the awesome devs and their crazy hard work on NC development. Keep it up, y'all continue to make my NC sooooo much better than it is stock.
[Nook Color Android Development] khaytsus:
And none of it matters.. /system is way larger than we need.
[Nook Color Android Development] only one haze:
cool, great idea
[Nook Color Android Development] seth.i.simmons:
No I think your missing the point of why I get rid of these apps... I realize there's tons of space in /system, I do it so I don't have nearly as many programs that could be running in the background, using battery and ram, when I don't even need or use them. Even if it does nothing functionally, at least I know that there's nothing needlessly hogging resources.

Edit: had some time before bed, so here's the list (I think it has everything, and remember REMOVE APPS AT YOUR OWN RISK!)

(All these are .apk's)

ADWLauncher (I use VTL.Launcher, you MUST have an alternative launcher installed in order to remove this!)

Browser

Calculator

Camera

CMStats

CMUpdateNotify

Cyanbread

Development

Email

FIleManager

Gallery3D

HTMLViewer

LiveWallpapers

LiveWallpapersPicker

MagicSmokeWallpapers

Mms

Music

Pacman

Phone

PicoTts

Protips

Provision

SoundRecorder

TelephonyProvider

TtsService

VisualizationWallpapers

VoiceDialer

VpnServices

For most of these, I just dont need or want them, but for some, I have a replacement that works better IMHO. So for me, this list works great, and I get no weird FC's or anything, works awesome!
[Nook Color Android Development] hockeyfamily737:
Couldn't agree more.....It seems we remove a lot of the same stuff from the roms. Love being able to flash a 60 MB zip (instead of 90) rom in a couple of minutes and boot up in 30 seconds or so. Out of curiousity, I'm missing where I can up the heap size.....I go through these roms until my eyes go cross and haven't found it yet.
[Nook Color Android Development] seth.i.simmons:
Definitely, love the fast boot and general slimness of the rom once I tweak it. Oh, and you can find the heap size in the build.prop, should be "dalvik.vm.heapsize=32m", and there are two lines that are the same, but both need to be changed. Hope that helps!
[Nook Color Android Development] EverythingNook:
can i delete the u-boot.bin if im already using one?
[Nook Color Android Development] seth.i.simmons:
I would be careful with that, but I suppose you could, but be sure you have a bootable CWM card handy in case it somehow messes with your uboot. Shouldn't have any problems though, unless the installation needs that file and won't flash without it.
[Nook Color Android Development] EverythingNook:
considering i only have 1 sdcard ill keep it :P

and some of the stuff you deleted, dont you need stuff like camera?
[Nook Color Android Development] hockeyfamily737:
Yeah thanks, I know it's in the build prop, but you read enough of it, using notepad on the pc (big long run-on sentance) and it gives you a headache.....I'll look for it post flash and change it in root explorer.
[Nook Color Android Development] seth.i.simmons:
So far I haven't had any issues at all... what would I need camera.apk for??

And to hockeyfamily: No problem, and I can't stand trying to edit the build.prop in notepad, its MUCH easier in RE on my NC... go figure :P
[Nook Color Android Development] semperlux:
My NC's software version is 1.2 and some users have been having a difficult time making CM7 stable what that software version. But then there are others--such as yourself--that say aside from a regular FC, is working fine. So my question to you is--since we have similar hardware-

-what tutorial, video or website did you consult to run CM7?

When I tried, I received an error message though CWM, "format /data error" or something like it, I don't remember now. I powered through the installation only to have it bootloop at the color logo. I couldn't even use the version that I restored earlier, it bootlooped as well. I had to reset the NOOK to factory standards (interrupted boots) and presently I'm using MN4-5-6. Any help or direction would be appreciate it.
[Nook Color Android Development] MadMikeSS:
I used the instructions in this thread post, which is the listed instructions from the CM7 development thread: http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=11452450&postcount=19

I've installed running CWM from SD and from the emmc, they both work fine as long as CWM is up to date. Only problems I have had installing CM7 lately has been the hangup at a blank screen, installing the .32 OC Kernel from Dalingrin fixed that. Odd that you are getting that error trying to format /data. Will have to have someone else pipe in about that one.
[Nook Color Android Development] RoboRay:
So that the Market will show apps that insist on camera permissions, even if they don't actually need them for your desired functionality? Same as the telephony APKs and some of the other things you've stripped out.

While I haven't researched it myself, based on prior discussions here at XDA I was under the impression that the Market relies on the presence of some of those /system apps to determine which other apps are compatible with your device.

Yes? No? Maybe?
[Nook Color Android Development] seth.i.simmons:
So far, with all the apps I've used, I havent had any issues at all... Guess I wouldnt notice if I was losing some apps in the market by removing it, but I cant believe that none of my installed apps need the camera permission and cant find it because I removed that... As far as I know, I have no ill effects from removing any of these apps. So far, so good!

Anyone have any input on whether or not removing these apps changes what I see in the market??
[Nook Color Android Development] :
The only thing it used to break for me was dropbox, but since then they removed the dependencies on the phone being there. I always remove all these system apps, and haven't noticed anything bad about doing so...
[Nook Color Android Development] Expatriotex:
I've been through most of the nightlies and RC's. Coming from the 3.1 beta and OC which was working great I flashed the 1.2 rom with the keep cwm option, and then flashed the #83 nightly to find wifi loops. Wifi loops on #85 and #87 too.

Up until and including the 3.1 beta i was one of the lucky people where everything just worked.

Changing the encrytion on my belkin router doesnt help, but wifi seems solid w/ tether to my evo, just really slow because of sprint.

Wifi loops really kill the battery too, like down a % every couple of minutes, which i havent seen mentioned yet.
[Nook Color Android Development] newellj79:
There is only one commit between 86 and 87, and it doesn't have anything to do with the nook.

http://cm-nightlies.appspot.com/?device=encore
[Nook Color Android Development] only one haze:
A follow-up, if you don't mind...what are your replacements? Thanks for this. I think I will be trying it out myself.
[Nook Color Android Development] seth.i.simmons:
Heres the list with the removed apps that I replace or that I just delete, with the reasons:

ADWLauncher (I use VTL.Launcher, you MUST have an alternative launcher installed in order to remove this!)

Browser (I use DolphinHD)

Calculator (I use a scientific calc, cant remember the name.)

Camera (No use.)

CMStats (No use.)

CMUpdateNotify (No use.)

Cyanbread (I use a different theme)

Development (I never use any of the options in here)

Email (I use Gmail only)

FIleManager (Root Explorer is MUCH better and more useful.)

Gallery3D (I use Quickpic, much faster and better, IMHO)

HTMLViewer (No use.)

LiveWallpapers (I don't use LWPs)

LiveWallpapersPicker (same)

MagicSmokeWallpapers (same)

Mms (No use.)

Music (I use Music from market to use Music Beta, just got my invite!)

Pacman (No use.)

Phone (No use.)

PicoTts (No use.)

Protips (No use.)

Provision (No use.)

SoundRecorder (No use.)

TelephonyProvider (No use.)

TtsService (No use.)

VisualizationWallpapers (Same as above, I don't use LWPs)

VoiceDialer (No use.)

VpnServices (No use.)

Hope that helps you out some!
[Nook Color Android Development] newellj79:
Real quick if u don't mind how do u go about removing them.
[Nook Color Android Development] mr_fosi:
By mounting /system R/W with root explorer and renaming/moving/deleting them in /system/app.

I would recommend renaming or moving first to make sure you have no other apps Dependant upon the ones you make unavailable.
[Nook Color Android Development] seth.i.simmons:
Definitely second that. I delete mine now, but just to be sure you don't break any other apps, just rename or move them for now.
[Nook Color Android Development] only one haze:
Thank you sir! Will try this out with the next nightly. And you remove the .apks from the original nightly .zip and then re-zip and flash that one correct? Or do you go about it a different way?
[Nook Color Android Development] TJNooker:
Or back them up with Titanium Backup and then remove them.
[Nook Color Android Development] Awats:
I've been depending on that log too to determine if an update is worth it, but things appear to be changing that the change log doesn't appear to be addressing. Now it might be that the "differences" are artifacts to the intended changes but things are changing.

I logged a bug which got rejected as invalid but the bug disappeared in the next build (so far, it hasn't reappeared.) I don't know why it's fixed but something changed and there is certainly no reference to it that I could find in the log or details.

So far 86 is working great with OC on SD!
[Nook Color Android Development] seth.i.simmons:
Yep, after I download the latest nightly, I unzip it, tweak it, then re-zip it, all with Root Explorer. Awesome app, it does so much, I can download, tweak, and zip all on my NC. Gotta love that!
[Nook Color Android Development] only one haze:
sweet. I need to bite the bullet and install CWM to emmc and quit using a SD card for every update. then I could do it all from the NC itself as well.

edit...and if I do it from Rom Manager, it takes care of everything for me correct?
[Nook Color Android Development] SCWells72:
I did exactly that the other day. I realized that at some point I'd accidentally borked my stock 1.2 emmc install anyway and hadn't even realized it for a couple of weeks given that I never boot into stock, so I decided it was probably time to just accept that my Nook runs CM7, not stock, and make my life easier. I've been running directly from emmc ever since and things like CWM and Kernel Manager Lite are SO much easier now!
[Nook Color Android Development] paleh0rse:
IMO, since it's so damn easy to return to stock, there's really no reason to keep it around other than the "read to me" functionality for children's books. I just wish there was a way to port that single functionality over... :(

Then again, not having that functionality means my daughter spends all her time on my wife's iPad2 instead -- which ultimately means more quality Nook Time for me! :)
[Nook Color Android Development] only one haze:
well Ive got a dual boot with the Stock 1.2 in the dual boot partition and CM7 in the main partition, but have been using an SD card with Clockworkmod to do all my update flashing.

edit after seeing paleh0rse post...yeah if it wasnt for my wife really using the nook as a reader and us using the "read to me" for our little boy, I would be all CM7 no questions asked.
[Nook Color Android Development] mixerman826:
Does anybody know what's wrong with my nook? I left it at home while I was on a week long biz trip. When I came home, the battery was dead, so I plugged it in to turn it on. Ever since then, my wifi icon won't turn green and my google apps won't sync. I was running the initial beta before.

So far, I tried fixing permissions, clearing both caches, and flashing n86. I can access websites including google's just fine. I'd like to avoid a full wipe if possible.

Also, my evo on the same router is just fine.
[Nook Color Android Development] Awats:
I am still seeing the wifi being turned off during standby randomly (at least I can't nail down when it will happen.)

When I turn it on, it takes the wifi about 10-20 seconds to scan and come on again.

Even on SD and not overclocked, it does seem pretty snappy over earlier builds.
[Nook Color Android Development] ADude:
UPDATE: "Never Mind". The changelog had a typo for a few minutes when I was looking at it, so my comment was mistaken.
[Nook Color Android Development] Ronin3178:
IMO its part of the deep sleep, when my Nook has been sleeping for a while, it does take about 10 seconds or so to reconnect to my wifi, it doesn't bother me.

eMMC N87/ 5/13 OC
[Nook Color Android Development] DizzyDen:
You quoted changes for N-86 NOT N-87...

cm_encore_full-87.zip
telephony: Samsung RIL strip off the tailing NITZ data (android_frameworks_base)
[Nook Color Android Development] Awats:
Me neither really, I will just noting it.
[Nook Color Android Development] Deaks2:
Edit: duplicate of post #3058. Delete plz.
[Nook Color Android Development] RoboRay:
The NC is not a Samsung device. ;)
[Nook Color Android Development] ADude:
Yes.

Friends, if you are going to do anything other than install the latest CM7 Stable, then you owe it to yourself to spend a couple of hours reading various thread in this Forum and even the parallel Nook General sub-forum.

What you will find is that almost everything you come up with has been discussed extensively before.

If there was any net benefit to removing CM7 included system apps, there would be people with special "cleansed" versions of every nightly (or else the nightly builds would already have them removed).

But, as some above have said, there is no lack of space, and there are no other resources being used.

Part of this comes from old phones with limited space on old Android operating systems that did not do proper memory management. Neither is true for CM7.

See the article in my signature on the "using resources myth".
[Nook Color Android Development] ADude:
Weird glitch !

I refreshed the page a half hour ago and it said:

and then after seeing your post, I refreshed again, and now it says what you quoted ! :confused: :confused:

Perhaps an editing typo that was just corrected.
[Nook Color Android Development] DizzyDen:
Nope.... look at what you pasted.... it has 87 with the changes.... 86 is below it.
[Nook Color Android Development] newellj79:
Sorry but that was in 86.
[Nook Color Android Development] :
Connecting to VPN (both PPTP and L2TP/IPSec PSK) in N86 seems to cause my NC to lock-up and requires a hard reset. Anyone else experiencing this issue?

Running N86 w/ OC kernel 052311
[Nook Color Android Development] TJNooker:
I'd like to set my launcher (LPP) to keep itself in memory. LPP has a setting for this and CM7 also has a setting for this. Which one should I use or should I use both? Does CM7 have priority in the settings hierarchy, i.e. does it overrule LPP on identical settings?
[Nook Color Android Development] Robertjm:
USB connectivity to computer...broken or fixed?

Hi all,

Have a problem with connecting my computer to my Nook Color which basically started since I got rid of a rooted stock kernel and went to CM7 for gingerbread goodness.

When I'm in my W7 partition I will get an audible msg that the USB cable is being plugged in, and the N on the cable turns yellow, meaning it's charging. However, the two mount points do not mount and if I go to Adobe Digital Editions the device is not visible, which it would automatically be upon plugging in.

No joy either over on my Ubuntu Lucid Lynx partition. In the past it automounted upon plugging the cable in.

YES, I know I can connect by way of wifi tethering, but I need to use a hardwired connection (USB) so I can get library books on the device.

Is this an issue that is still broken, or was there a fix/workaround developed to deal with this? I'm using 75 nightly.

Thanks!

Robert
[Nook Color Android Development] ADude:
When I posted above, the changelog mistakenly showed it in 87.

Then, the changelog was edited to put it back in 86 and put a Samsung change in 87.

So, I was seeing a changelog "typo" that was clearly there for only a few minutes.
[Nook Color Android Development] TJNooker:
@Robertjm

Check out an app called NookColorUMS. It's an xda invention I think. It has a menu that allows you to mount the sdcard or even emmc partitions to your PC. My Nook does not automount via usb so I use that app.
[Nook Color Android Development] newellj79:
Its an awesome app, especially for the randomly borked nightly that wont mount via USB.
[Nook Color Android Development] 12paq:
Edit: I think you might mean this one? Nook Color USB Mass Storage utility. Never mind, you're right its called: NookColorUMS

Yup, a valuable tool in the toolbox, found here.
[Nook Color Android Development] martian21:
While you may be correct on resource usage, I can personally attest that the boot time is MUCH quicker with the "un-needed" apps removed. A very small thing, but for those of us who can't stay out of Clockworkmod it helps :D
[Nook Color Android Development] boxcar8028:
yeah, I had the same issues with USB not mounting. But I do think this has been fix with builds after cm7 n80

Im on cm7 n87 and USB mounting is working just fine.
[Nook Color Android Development] miniaturepeddler:
Updated to Nightly 87

Upgraded to Dal's OC

Applied the Netflix 'fix'

And Wifi is STABLE!!!

So I believe that I am finally sticking with an upgrade from my nightly 78 and will make 87 my new baseline for future upgrades.

Thank you developers!! You are doing great!!!

:)
[Nook Color Android Development] boxcar8028:
Battery life

Just wondering how is everyone's battery life. Its seem to me that n86-87 is not as good as earlier builds. In the past after 7hrs of sleep I would get maybe about 5% battery usage. now its more like 15-20%

cm7 n87 with dalingrin's new kernel 5/23
[Nook Color Android Development] hockeyfamily737:
No problems with dropbox and I really strip my rom's down too.

sent from my Ginger-Hero CDMA
[Nook Color Android Development] akaCat:
I'm on 86, and in the last 2.5 hours of sleep it shows a drop of 1%. It's not OC'd, but that shouldn't make a difference.
[Nook Color Android Development] ansleyj44:
Do you happen to run cpuspy? Did it actually enter deep sleep?

This might be specific to me, but I've noticed it twice now, once on beta 3.1 and once today with nightly 86, both running oc.

So I'll charge my nook to full overnight and unplug it in the morning, turn it on to check it out, maybe using one percent battery or like 15minutes worth of play, then put the screen to sleep and leave for work. Come home 8 hours later to find it never got into deep sleep. The battery has run down 10 to 15 percent and cpuspy confirms it hasn't used deep sleep.

The first time this happened I thought it was my live wallpaper preventing deep sleep, but once I rebooted it had no problem with deep sleep, live walls and all.

Today, same thing happened. Came home to find a12 percent drain, no deep sleep according to cpuspy. I checked some email then turned off the screen, and curiously, it went into deep sleep after about 5 minutes.

I have no idea what this means, but maybe someone else does.
[Nook Color Android Development] boxcar8028:
I have not try using cpuspy to check my battery life, but I'll try it tonight. I'm also thinking of trying just flashing the stock cm n87 without the new Kernel. - thanks
[Nook Color Android Development] seth.i.simmons:
While I understand what your saying (and have read through your task killer link twice before now), I still disagree that we should just leave them alone. My boot time is MUCH faster, I dont have useless apps cluttering up my app drawer, and I don't have to worry about those apps if I'm trying to troubleshoot any problems. Theres no con that I know of yet, it runs great, and I still will keep on tweaking every rom I install, if only for the fun of it :D

Tweaking on the Nook is more than half of the fun, and I love having to mess with things. And I'm not a noob that doesn't read anything, I'm pretty sure I've read almost every pertinent thread replied to in the last few months. I'm not doing this because I don't know any better, I'm doing it because I KNOW it doesn't do anything bad, and AT LEAST helps boot times, and I get a small boost in available RAM.

Also, the last thread that I know of about this subject was mainly replied to by me. If you know of any threads that may help me, shoot me a PM or post them up, I'm always up for some more forum reading :rolleyes:

And not sure on those last two lines, sounds like your talking about using a task manager :confused: Not sure what that has to do with anything, but I understand the Android task management system pretty well, and don't use a task manager unless I need to kill a certain app for some reason.
[Nook Color Android Development] Hindle1225:
Miniature. The netflix "fix" you refer to... Is that using the vision build prop? Because I'm having trouble getting it to work.
[Nook Color Android Development] ADude:
IIRC there is a separate Netflix thread that may be of help.
[Nook Color Android Development] miniaturepeddler:
Yes the 'netflix fix' I'm referring to is the build edit. I tried the non edit method and I get speed racer and the chipmunks so I have stuck with the edit.
[Nook Color Android Development] Hindle1225:
Did you do the full edit or just the manufacture and model?
[Nook Color Android Development] I Am Marino:
I just installed the non device check apk and then changed manufacturer and model and it works perfectly.
[Nook Color Android Development] angomy:
Have you had any issues with other apps or do you swap out build.prop files between using Netflix and other apps?
[Nook Color Android Development] I Am Marino:
I've done nothing else that has needed me to switch back my build.prop. It's just left as I changed it to make Netflix work.
[Nook Color Android Development] Hindle1225:
Thx for the info. I'll reflash the kernel and n87 and see how it works out for me.
[Nook Color Android Development] nolook:
where is this apk for imei spoofing Netflix/swype/HBO?
[Nook Color Android Development] :
Really? You mean the thread right below this one?

Jeez...

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1091628
[Nook Color Android Development] oldman_58:
Tale of 2 NookColors

I have 2 NC, both on nightly #86 and the OC Kernel from dalingrin, 1 goes into deep sleep and one does not.

All settings are the same, the difference in power consumption is negligible after 16 hours the NC that deep sleeps is at 61% to NC that does not Deep Sleep is at 58%.

Does not make a lot of sense...
[Nook Color Android Development] Larteas:
Hello. When you want to update without a full wipe what you have to format at CWM?, only the cache or something else?

Thanks!
[Nook Color Android Development] oldman_58:
Wipe Cache

Install the update

Wipe Dalvik

Hold the power button till the nook turns off release

Now turn on your Nook, it is going to take a while to boot up, since Cache and Dalvik will be re-built.