yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Nook Color General] xdabr:
Okay, thanks waylo, but maybe you can hold my hand a little bit more here -- by internal eMMC are you referring to the internal, non-removable SanDisk storage, and when you say "completely replace the stock Nook ROM" you do NOT mean that anything on that eMMC is removed or overwritten -- is that correct? You just mean that the SD card ROM image is what actually runs on the CPU, and the eMMC image (while intact) is basically ignored?
[Nook Color General] waylo:
Internal eMMC is the internal memory, non-removable, yes.

I should be more clear. I mean the opposite of what you think I meant.

You can have ROMs which run completely on the SD card (like running off a boot disk/CD/etc.) and essentially leave the stock ROM intact. This is what you want I think.

Or, you can have ROMs which overwrite parts of the internal memory, replacing it. My current Froyo ROM completely replaces the internal memory on which the stock Nook ROM is stored. I don't care about the stock ROM because I bought the Nook to use as an Android tablet, not as an ereader.

I can very easily restore that, by flashing a ROM package, back onto the eMMC. But I don't have a way to go back and forth easily.

Certainly, you could run a ROM just off the SD card, and then pop out the SD card when you want to run the stock ROM, untouched.

(Apologies if I'm mistaken on any part. My Nook understanding is not quite as good as some of the other folks on this forum, but I've been messing with my Android phone for the past year.)

EDIT:

The Complete Idiot's Guide currently just goes into:

1. Terminology

2. Creating a boot recovery disk (microSD)

3. Rooting the stock ROM, which means yes, you are altering the contents of the internal flash memory.

So info on sd-bootable ROMs would be a nice addition.
[Nook Color General] xdabr:
Okay, thanks. When you said "intend to flash a complete ROM" I mistakenly thought you were talking about a bootable SD card ROM. But you just meant when one is flashing over the internal storage, so in this case you DID mean that it can "completely replace the stock ROM".

Anyhow, I just read that you can also multi-boot off the INTERNAL storage! Booting from Nook or Froyo etc. at will WITHOUT card swapping. And that it provides much better performance that way. So much to learn....
[Nook Color General] faceman66:
Thanks for the vote of confidence, I don't know who needs to be asked, but many folks have asked for sticky, so find a mod and let them know!

As for your questions:

1. It is necessary to create and link your B&N account BEFORE rooting, because the NC won't attempt to do so after you root. This is important if you plan to use your NC with B&N store - if you want to search, buy, download, and read NookBooks, then your NC MUST be in sync with your B&N account.

1a. Of course, once you move beyond the B&N Stock rom (into a Froyo, Gingerbread, or Honeycomb rom) then the stock B&N apps are gone and you have to download the Nook app from the market and thus the app links to your B&N account and registering is a moot point. However my article is not intended for that audience so I didn't talk about it here.

2. Current thinking is that in order for the Android Market to correctly identify your device and google account (which is required for Market downloading) making the sync with YouTube/gMail/Talk ensures that connection. Without doing so you can/will run into issues trying to use the Market.

3. Other than hardware damage, the NC can be completely restored to OOBE (Out Of Box Experience) so nothing is irrevocable. Of course, the time and steps required to get there or to recover from a mistake will vary. ;)

Until you are comfortable using CWR and making/restoring backups... I would recommend trying out the roms via bootable SD card. It allows you to "try" the build before flashing it to the internal. Of course, you can use the bootable SD roms WITHOUT ROOTING. So you can do test them out before you root.

My article is intended for first time rooters, likely coming into this world since they bought an e-Reader and heard about the nifty "rooting/hacking" thing. I wanted to give someone a solid first step into the world with a rock-solid way out. That's all... anything more in depth is reserved for other articles.

Please feel free to pm or reply if you have any questions.
[Nook Color General] ADude:
Terminology is 1st, 2nd and 3rd.

There have been so many times in the world of technology, when something seemed incomprehensible, but as soon as I learned the terms, I discovered that it was actually similar to what I already knew.
[Nook Color General] faceman66:
Aye, a decent glossary is overdue.
[Nook Color General] gthirty6ptime:
Has anyone succesfully gotten flash to work with honeycomb?

From what I understand it works with froyo. so why not HC?
[Nook Color General] lifeisfun:
WOW, did you even try to read before asking ?
[Nook Color General] ArizonaGuy:
Simple search might have lead you here.

Google search may have lead you here.

As well as some results on other Android related forums. No one's gotten Flash 10.1 to work on Eclair 2.1 on the Nook - and since the HC Preview is based on a modified stock 2.1 kernel as mentioned in the first link it won't work.

Now others have gotten flash 10.1 to work on Eclair on other devices. So maybe it's possible. But we're all basically waiting for Flash 10.2 and/or the HC AOSP.

If you need Flash you have to go with one of the FroYo or Gingerbread options.
[Nook Color General] evilPERSOn2009:
10.1 is usless. Waiting 10.2.
[Captivate General] thehyecircus:
I found one for Dl30 or whatever it's called. I installed it on my Continuum and it force closed. Does anyone know of something more universal? Continuum uses the Stock Icon but there are no percentages and it is rather off putting. The circle icon is extremely ugly.
[Captivate General] thehyecircus:
Any idea how to remove a transparent pulldown menu?
[Nook Color General] jhcomputerguy:
So does anyone have any information on when Barnes and Noble will be releasing the official update to Froyo for the Nook Color? I read everywhere they said January, but well that has come and gone..
[Nook Color General] ADude:
The rumor - attributed to a BN employee - is end of March, including Flash support.
[Nook Color General] micl9:
That would be nice as I like my rooted stock setup.

But when the HC ROMcomesout I may chnage my mind!
[Xoom Themes and Apps] joeski27:
Anybody have any tips or info on sideloading apps onto the Xoom? In particular Im trying to get ADW onto the Xoom, but I'm not really sure of the best way of doing this, since I am unable to find the actual APK for ADW on my N1.
[Xoom Themes and Apps] 17akota:
I got Adw launcher ex to work on my xoom. Here's what I did.

Got on Root Explorer on my droid x

Searched for Adw

Found the Adw.apk file (forget that exact name)

Sent it to my xoom using Dropbox

Went on my xoom and downloaded the app from Dropbox

Installed it

Hit the home button and up comes ADWLauncherEX

IV been playing around with it and haven't found any problems with it yet. I like it more than the honeycomb launcher. I also did the same thing with handcentsms but I can't get it to send a message. I have service, it just won't send. Maybe they won't send messages over 3G.

Tell me if you get Adw to work.
[Xoom Themes and Apps] short/y:
I tried the stock ADW Launcher (not EX) and on reboot the Honeycomb boot animation never clears. I ran logcat and saw that the boot sequence is complete but the home screen never displays for some reason. Do you see the same thing with ADW Launcher EX?
[Xoom Themes and Apps] 17akota:
No. it just loaded right up and worked fine. Idk what happened to yours :/ hmmmm
[Xoom Themes and Apps] short/y:
I tweeted anderwebs about it and sent him a logcat. Could be my setup but I'm stock -- not unlocked, rooted, nothing.
[Xoom Themes and Apps] CoatedMoose:
I am also having a similar problem. (Appears to boot fine except the boot animation never clears). It seems to me like the launcher never gets called or something.
[Xoom Themes and Apps] SPIDERTECH:
Also, if you have the pro version of titanium and use dropbox you can do the backup and sync all of your files to dropbox. Then you can just open dropbox on the xoom and transfer the .akp.gz file to the xoom. When you open it you're prompted to unpack the file and then you can just install from that apk like normal.
[Xoom Themes and Apps] CoatedMoose:
I suppose I didn't respond to the op's question.

I used Linda Manager on my Magic+ to back it up, then again using Linda browsed for the files and sent over email to myself (which I then received on the XOOM). Root was not required and Linda is free.

Updates on how to get adw working on the xoom would be appreciated - I have my own version that I was hoping to use (my own personal tweaks). The problem exists with my modded version and market version, so hopefully the fix is translatable/mergeable.
[Xoom Themes and Apps] CoatedMoose:
I have done some more messing around. I enabled

PROFILE_STARTUP = true

in the source for adw and have found the following:

running on rooted dream running CM6

DEBUG/HomeLoaders: load applications
DEBUG/HomeLoaders: loading user items in Thread[main,5,main]
DEBUG/HomeLoaders: --> starting workspace loader
DEBUG/HomeLoaders: ----> running workspace loader (1)
WARN/InputManagerService: Got RemoteException sending setActive(false) notification to pid 659 uid 10004
INFO/ActivityManager: Displayed activity com.android.launcher/.Launcher: 3249 ms (total 3249 ms)
DEBUG/HomeLoaders: ----> workspace loader 1 finished loading data
DEBUG/HomeLoaders: ----> worskpace items=13
DEBUG/HomeLoaders: ----> worskpace widgets=1
DEBUG/HomeLoaders: --> done loading workspace; not stopped
DEBUG/HomeLoaders: ----> items cloned, ready to refresh UI
DEBUG/HomeLoaders: ----> onDesktopItemsLoaded()
DEBUG/Launcher: ------> binding 13 items
DEBUG/Launcher: ------> binding 1 widgets
DEBUG/HomeLoaders: ----> loading applications from workspace loader
DEBUG/Launcher: ------> start binding items
DEBUG/HomeLoaders: --> starting applications loader unlocked
DEBUG/HomeLoaders: --> starting applications loader
DEBUG/HomeLoaders: ----> running applications loader (1)
DEBUG/HomeLoaders: ----> cleared application list

And running on unrooted XOOM

DEBUG/HomeLoaders: load applications
DEBUG/HomeLoaders: loading user items in Thread[main,5,main]
DEBUG/HomeLoaders: --> starting workspace loader
DEBUG/HomeLoaders: ----> running workspace loader (1)
DEBUG/HomeLoaders: ----> workspace loader 1 finished loading data
DEBUG/HomeLoaders: ----> worskpace items=9
DEBUG/HomeLoaders: ----> worskpace widgets=0
DEBUG/HomeLoaders: --> done loading workspace; not stopped
DEBUG/HomeLoaders: ----> items cloned, ready to refresh UI
DEBUG/HomeLoaders: ----> loading applications from workspace loader
DEBUG/HomeLoaders: --> starting applications loader unlocked
DEBUG/HomeLoaders: --> starting applications loader
DEBUG/HomeLoaders: ----> running applications loader (1)
DEBUG/HomeLoaders: ----> onDesktopItemsLoaded()
DEBUG/Launcher: ------> binding 9 items
DEBUG/Launcher: ------> binding 0 widgets
DEBUG/Launcher: ------> start binding items
DEBUG/HomeLoaders: ----> cleared application list

Both are somewhat edited to remove GC calls etc and time stamps, however the order of logs has been preserved.

The part that seems relevant to me is

INFO/ActivityManager: Displayed activity com.android.launcher/.Launcher: 3249 ms (total 3249 ms)

It looks like the activity isn't actually displayed on the xoom. Not sure where this comes from or how to fix it. Or maybe its just something to do with cyanogen being built in on the dream and 3rd party on the xoom. I will try some more testing later.
[Xoom Themes and Apps] jimi369:
I too have been playing with the source to see if I could fix the issue.... for the life of me I can't figure out why it's not passing on the "hey I am displayed" flag... I even went so far as to try to use honeycomb only methods to "bring the app front" and that didn't fix it.

Have you made any more progress?

BTW: this isn't confined to the xoom.... its every honeycomb device I have tried so far... including the emulator.
[Xoom Themes and Apps] CoatedMoose:
I gave up and built based my launcher off of the stock one in gingerbread. It doesn't have the nice features of adw, but it worked on honeycomb. And I didn't need all the features (in fact I needed even less) so it worked fine.

However, on the ADW blog anderwebs has a functioning update for ADWEX honeycomb now and ADW in the pipe. Relevant blog post here.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dahauss:
Hopefully someone can help.. NEW market will not install or even download anything. I flashed OLD market and 99% of all apps download (some still say download failed right away), some will update no problem.. OTHERS will not . I look in catlog when the install of the update fails.. for instance I tried to update a program called SOUND HOUND.. it downloads but fails the install.

You see in CATLOG this error :

DexInv : --- END '/data/app/com.melodis.midomiMusicIdentifier-2.apk --- status=xff00, process failed

and also

dexopt failed on /data/dalvik-cache/daya.@app@com.

What does this mean and how to resolve? why do some apps update fine and others get this kind of error?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dahauss:
Well I think I fixed it. Old market is the only one that works. New one won't download or install. I had to erase davlik cache and then market data and goggle services framework data. It appears the new market has issues as there is a big discussion on the google market forum. Glad someone was able to send me the old market.

Oh yea. I also had to uninstall an app and then reinstall the same app from the market and it fixed the issue.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xandermpls:
What are your top 20 applications of all time?

Hootesuite

Shazam

Lie detector

Metal detector

Connectbot

Transdroid

Cachemate

Juicedefender

Google voice

Hacked Skype

Tango

Gochat

Talk

Setcpu

Adb wireless

Shark native

Terminal emulator (le duh

Pocket legends

Angry birds

Evernote

Post yours :)

Texting blocked and I use Google voice. Minimal minutes with Skype # ftw
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xandermpls:
Add me on the internet!

Www.myspace.com/vwinkjacobalexander
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tackleberry:
Setcpu

Droidwall (when it works again I'm having issues with it on cm7)

Launcher pro

Root programs (titanium etc)

Advance task killer pro

Ourgroceries

Directv

Gmaps

Xda naturally

Anycut

Mobile signal widget

Traffic counter widget

From my permarooted 1209mhz G2 with CM7 nightly 6
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ilostchild:
Rom manager( have to no amon recovery :(

Sound hound

Gtunes

Bar code

Launcher Pro(fully replace adw)

Tikl

Twitter

Adfree

Titanuim back pro

Handcent

Teamviewer

SR

That's all got really...
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dustrho:
The one app I could NOT live without has to be NewsRob Pro. There's no better way to keep up-to-date with any RSS feed out there. It syncs flawlessly with your Google Reader account. 10/10

Other great apps include the following:

XDA Premium

Tweetdeck

Root Explorer

Spark 360

AdFree Android

FML (by Evan Charlton)
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xandermpls:
Tackle Berry why do you use a task killer?
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] poontab:
MMS 10char
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mftek1:
What's newsrob and google reader?
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Utorrent76:
CPU tuner.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dustrho:
NewsRob Pro = http://www.appbrain.com/app/newsrob-pro/com.newsrob.pro

Google Reader = http://www.google.com/reader
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tackleberry:
So it kills tasks that keep popping up when they are not in use and to free up ram.

From my permarooted 1209mhz G2 with CM7 nightly 6
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Proxin:
Going to be the usual task-killer naysayer and shoot you a few links...

Why you shouldn't use task killers:

http://geekfor.me/faq/you-shouldnt-be-using-a-task-killer-with-android/

Why they are bad and what you should do instead:

http://lifehacker.com/#!5650894/and...ed-what-they-do-and-why-you-shouldnt-use-them

I mean, it's your phone and all, but if you want to see better results it's advised that you shouldn't use task killers.

You have a G2, anyway, so I doubt you need to be killing off processes and gaining extra ram... it's a really fast phone and has good specs.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tackleberry:
Ok ill try without a task killer. I'm a fairly open minded noob. Watchdog downloaded

From my permarooted 1209mhz G2 with CM7 nightly 6
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Proxin:
I hope you experience good results! With my phone if I find an app that stays in the background constantly and is a system app that I don't use, I remove it thanks to root ;)
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] androidcues:
Taskkillers on android are like the most abusive thing you can do to the system. Good thing Android has no feelings or therell be another ASPCA popping up.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tackleberry:
Well I removed it. I trust you people here....most of you know more than me and I try to learn from it.

From my permarooted 1209mhz G2 with CM7 nightly 6
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MajorTom_:
SETcpu

handcent sms

twitter

facebook

shredder chess

linda file manager

and urban dictionary haha
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tackleberry:
ok 2 days no ATK, and my battery has seemed to suck in comparison, but stability overall has been decent and have not had any issues restarting...not that i had that issue before, but i did notice that some hesitation is gone....

im thinking about reinstalling it, and ignoring more .com/xxxxxxxxxxxxx items so ATK does not kill those.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tackleberry:
not to beat a dead horse, but im gonna update my findings since my last post a week ago..

i have not changed any settings, and my battery life is outstanding with ATK pro running, killing certain apps on an agressive and low security settings. without ATK pro, battery life was horrid and plain not acceptable at all.

on plain standby i would be down 20% from full in a matter of hours, where with it installed and running i would have 5% loss in the similar amount of time and usage.
[Fascinate General] mikejaret:
I am pretty sure I installed SC 2.5 but im not sure if it was a voodoo or nonvoodoo install, how do i check bc i want to upgrade to 2.8 but I dont want to delete data, how do i figure out which I installed....
[Fascinate General] bltl211:
Check your Quadrant score. If it is around 1000 you installed nonvoodoo. If it is around 1500 then you installed voodoo.

If you still aren't sure of which one you installed just remember that the voodoo version can be installed (you don't want to install nonvoodoo over voodoo).
[Fascinate General] mikejaret:
I scored 956 and 1056....must non voodoo
[Fascinate General] mikejaret:
so i installed the voodoo version of 2.8 and i still only scored and 896 on quadrant.....wtf?
[Fascinate General] Phasze:
You have to install the eb01 voodoo kernel as well.
[Fascinate General] Thrillhouse847:
No, the rom includes the kernel (which is based on EB16 so you don't want to go back to EB01).

However, this problem has been happening to some people when installing 2.8 (including me). Try installing SC 2.6 voodoo and when booting you should hear the voice doing the conversion. Once it's done and you boot up, just reboot into recovery and install 2.8 voodoo and you should now have 2.8 with voodoo enabled.

I don't know why this happens or why this works but I read this in another post and it worked for me so you might want to give it a shot.

Edit: It was jereeder who I got this info from so if it works for you then thank him.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] ronii1123:
So, I was hoping that someone may be able to develope something to switch the screen orientation without using the gyroscope sensor.

Why I ask for an app like this? Well, my Captivate currently has a broken Gyroscope sensor, and I know it is because no matter what is flashed it still doesn't work right. I did a large amount of research and found nothing on this :/

Sooooo Maybe someone might be able to develope and app like this? perhaps something similar to the way the new iPod Nano switches orientation when you use 2 fingers and flip the screen.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Boobie Watcher:
just wondering.....kies mini doesent even boot on my computer?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] trell959:
No.Well you can use the leaked version of 2.2 with the Odin package... its pretty much the samething. Also did you have any other version of kies on your computer? If so, you gotta uninstall them then reinstall the latest one. Hope I helped!
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cappysw10:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=963403
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] freditoj:
Hello, I've been having problems with titanium backup while changing roms.

I usually run the batch backup of all apps + system data, and when installing a new rom I run the batch restore all missing apps+system data.

The problem arises when for example changing from myn rls5 to warm Z i got random force closes on apps all the time. Also when changing from myn rls5 to cyanogen mod 7 I got force closes when trying to open the sound configuration in th e menu.

Should I disable something when restoring the apps+data?

I like to mantain my contacts obviously and apps when switching roms, is there something I shouldnt restore when changing roms?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xEVILFREDx:
Please help on this one. I get the same problem myself with extra stuff.

Good question. I was about to ask that. Still in noob on this stuff.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] agentphantom:
it has been suggested that you back up your apps+data only, not the system. good luck
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bigmoogle:
+1

Especially if you are switching from sense to aosp or vice versa.

MIUI 1.2.25 with stock kernel

HW003
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] freditoj:
Which of the options in batch should I run? Backup all user apps? Does that store my contacts?

Sent from my PC36100
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] agentphantom:
I backup my user apps in Titanium and backup my contacts and sms/mms using my backup root (just as extra precaution). After you wipe and put on a new ROM, as soon as you login into your gmail, your contacts and calendar are restored. But, whatever you do, nandroid!
[HD2 General] gameg2l:
Hi, this is my first post here :)

I've been here for a long time (well didn't have a handset so didn't find the need to join...)

I read through many articles and learned a lot from this forum

Last weekend I got my T-Mobile HD2 and I proceeded to install custom rom soon after

(latest Energy rom by NRGZ28- thanks)

The rom is awesome, it's just that I wanna try out android on my phone also...

I decided I'll try the SD first

So I followed a guide just downloaded the rom I want (MCCM GB V2.0 Gingerbread HoneyComb Sense theme) unzip, then copy to the root of my sd, run clrcad (don't know what he meant by working sound- I heard nothing) then run haret....

Then I am always stuck at the green letters screen forever, never get further...

I'm not sure what is wrong

I looked through all possible things

I did HardSPL4 and now has HSPL2.08, I got a custom rom

The only thing I did not change and think might be the problem is the radio...

my version is 2.10.50.26

Would flashing an updated radio make my android on sd work?

Is this "Leo_RADIO_2.15.50.14**" ok for my HD2? (on http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=611787)

Thanks for the help :) nice to talk to everyone~