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[Nook Color Android Development] ADude:
Well I can edit any Wikipedia page, but when I click on "edit" in Nookdevs:
[Nook Color Android Development] japzone:
Did you make an account?

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[Nook Color Android Development] The Chris:
So, what does this image do on the stock ROM? Should I be able to take this card out and go back to booting my autonootered stock ROM? When I take it out and try booting, it just sits there at the "n" screen. WTF?
[Nook Color Android Development] wgarrido:
Yeah it should, mine does. Actually I replaced my u-boot.bin (on the uSD) so that I hold down the n and it boots to stock without taking the uSD out.
[Nook Color Android Development] ADude:
I've never made an account at Wikipedia.
[Nook Color Android Development] verygreen:
This image does not touch the emmc at all.
[Nook Color Android Development] The Chris:
That sounds good. Any idea how I can get past the "n" screen without the SD card in? It boots with the SD card in, though.

EDIT: n/m. I did the 8 boot failures and it "fixed" it.
[Nook Color Android Development] fbueller:
Am I the only person who can't get the software keyboard to show up when I tap in a text field?
[Nook Color Android Development] verygreen:
It did not work for me the first time too.

I went to the home screen then returned back to the place that had the text input field and tried to press on it.

Then back to home screen.

Several such attempts eventually made the keyboard to appear.

Anyway in the newer nightlies I don't have this problem anymore, so you might want to upgrade.
[Nook Color Android Development] webvan:
Is it worth trying to update to the latest nightly (for YouTube ?) or this image still the best one for Bluetooth?
[Nook Color Android Development] anonim1:
Forgive my ignorance, but what is the feasibility of adding dial-up networking support to the Nook Color? Some folks are able to tether their device to their phone using an ad hoc wifi network, and others have had success via a bluetooth personal area network (PAN) using the "pand" utility. Unfortunately, I have a Blackberry phone, and it does not support the PAN profile. It does, however, support dial-up networking (DUN) over Bluetooth. According to https://sites.google.com/a/android.com/opensource/projects/bluetooth-faq, "dund" is the utility that is needed to establish a dial-up connection on Android. When I run this command on the NC, it says "dund: not found". I'm not a developer and don't know how much effort would be involved in adding this functionality to the CM7 image (or any other image, for that matter). I'm all ears..
[Nook Color Android Development] sinanju:
DUN is part of the bluez stack, but it appears not to be a profile included in Android... though some time around Cupcake there were discussions about it, so it may have been in at some point.

It would seem that the effort would be to rebuild the bluez stack with that particular component in it. If you want it, it would probably be something you should look into doing yourself, since DUN is somewhat old-school.
[Nook Color Android Development] webvan:
Is everyone still running that original image? Must say I find my NC to be a bit sluggish running from the microSD. Wonder if the speed of the microSD makes a difference?
[Nook Color Android Development] jblues1969:
It does. Oh, yes, it does. Wow. The difference between class 4 and class 6 is staggering with CM7 on SD.
[Nook Color Android Development] webvan:
ok, I need to look into that then, not just booting but normal use too?
[Nook Color Android Development] play3r:
Worked great!! [ with one minor typo change ]:

I think you meant:

dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0 of=/dev/block/mmcblk1 bs=1024k

Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!

BTW, I had to find an SD card with good "small block random write" capability before this worked perfectly.l
[Nook Color Android Development] jcarley0830:
SD Card Class Question

I have color nook with latest stock 1.2 running and just set up CM7 to dualboot from sd card. No problems with setup at all.

My question is sd card size/speed. I am using a 16gb sandisk card which I assume is class 2 as there is no number noted anywhere on it.

The market app was so slow that I couldn't download a thing. Updated market app with newer version from my rooted Incredible. That made a huge difference. However I notice that there is a lag between icon/button selection and running of apps at times. Also the Amazon store app is so slow I can't download on it at all either. What's odd is I use mvideoplayer app to watch movies and they play just fine with no speed issues. Once apps are running I don't notice any lag either.

I was wondering if a higher class sd card would possibly eliminate some of the problems I am experiencing? Given the massive improvements to CM7 on nook I am considering leaving stock unrooted and dualbooting from sd card permanently. Is 4 that much better than 2 or should I just get a 6? I've read some concerns with class 10 cards so not sure what my best options are.

Is there a brand that is preferred/should be avoided? Every Sandisk I find is only a class 2 so not sure what brand to consider. I was looking at THIS RiDATA card on newegg but not knowing anything about company I wasn't sure if it was good or not. Online reviews are a dime a dozen so I didn't put a whole lot of weight into it only getting 3 eggs. Could be better, could be worse.

Any input would be greatly appriciated. Thanks!!
[Nook Color Android Development] RoboRay:
Sandisk Class 2 cards tend to outperform Class 6 and even Class 10 cards from other brands.

It's a fairly meaningless spec when it comes to random reads/writes, which is what matters when running an OS from it.

Nobody seems to advertise their small-block performance, unfortunately, which makes finding good SD cards a trial and error task. Don't even look at the Class number.
[Nook Color Android Development] jtbnet:
I did the testing with 6 brand names and multiple speeds from each and 2 things stuck out... all around Sandisk tends to perform at a least a Class faster than marked... All around KingMAX Class-10 were the consistent winners so I've given up any other brand at this point... last night after updating a KingMAX 8GB SDcard to CM7.0.2 with Dal's latest 1.3Ghz kernel I pulled my all time best Quadrant score of 3170 running from the card and consistently since switching to these my scores are always faster from SDcard than running from eMMC... They are Not the Cheapest (8GB ~$30 from buy.com) but with these you actually get what you pay for.
[Nook Color Android Development] wgarrido:
You are so right! I have a Sandisk Class 4 and Patriot class 10 and I did a image copy the Patriot and it sucked. Had to go back to the sandisk much faster. I think what it is, is the read speeds since the class is only for write speeds. The cheaper cards will have lower read speeds and still be a class 10. Sandisk being a better brand has better read speeds. I used SD Tools from the market to test the cards.
[Nook Color Android Development] jcarley0830:
So I looked at my card again and I don't think it is a Sandisk as is doesn't say "Sandisk" anywhere on it. It also doesn't list any manufacturer at all. Just says micro SDHC, class 2, 16GB and then C16G Japan. Not sure who manufacturer is.

I installed SD Tools from market and ran test. Not sure if since running CM7 off of SD card if that will skew the results. At any rate here is what I got. Write Speed = 7 MB/s and Read Speed = 22.1 MB/s.

I have no idea if these values are good or bad. Thoughts?
[Nook Color Android Development] khaytsus:
You already said your card is junk, get a new one...
[Nook Color Android Development] jcarley0830:
I never said my card was junk!

That's what I'm trying to figure out. I don't know what are acceptable read/write speeds for a card. Plus if it is a sandisk card, others say class 2 is better than no-name cards. I'm just trying to figure out what I have, how speeds compare, and if I should get a new one.

Thanks for that stellar informative response! I guess I thought a senior member wouldn't slam a new guy for being inquisitive and trying to get an understanding of things. Guess I was wrong!
[Nook Color Android Development] wgarrido:
I am using the Sandisk Class 4 right now and I am getting:

Read: 35.7MB/s Write: 6.3MB/s

I know on the class 10 I was using the read speed was about 19MB/s. So read affects the system the most.
[Nook Color Android Development] jcarley0830:
Thanks!! Looks like my read speed may be slow which could be affecting my performance.
[Nook Color Android Development] webvan:
That sounds abnormally high, would make it a Class 35 card -> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Digital#.C3.97_rating - alsmost on par with a 5400rpm HD.

Having said that I've also found that my Class 4 Sandisk is an excellent performer, on par with the Class 6 Transcend I just got and in the Class 10 category.
[Nook Color Android Development] wgarrido:
Not really, the class is just min write speed. The read speed can be a lot higher based on the quality of the card. I am running the release CM7, if that makes a difference.

My Captivate with a PNY Class 4 gets ~6 Write and 12.5 Read so Sandisk is definitely better.

I ran it again and got Write 7.4MB/s and Read 27.5MB/s

and then 7.6MB/s and 34.5MB/s
[Nook Color Android Development] webvan:
Nope "Read speeds" are also covered, see column 3. Again 35MB seems impossible, I suspect that app is not returning reliable results. Which Android app are you using?

I've found that HD Speed http://www.steelbytes.com/?mid=20 (internal SD reader and USB2 reader) and SDTools on my Android tablets give comparable results
[Nook Color Android Development] wgarrido:
Thanks for the Desktop app, I will try that. I am using SD Tools on my phone and tablet.
[Nook Color Android Development] khaytsus:
Orly.................
[Nook Color Android Development] mrkkk:
so you cant put latest cm7 nightly directly from their website

this thingy is modded to boot from sd only?
[Nook Color Android Development] cybertimber2007:
This: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1000957 plus latest CM from their website, and onto your SD card you can go.
[Nook Color Android Development] Contra1971:
hey guys the OPs link to the SD rom is broken
[Nook Color Android Development] Divine_Madcat:
Given that there is absolutely NO reason anyone should have been using this rom for months, i don't see that as a problem.........
[Nook Color Android Development] Str0ntium:
However, this thread is linked to from here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=998861
[Nook Color Android Development] thefamousmoe:
ok. I cannot boot into clockwork recovery for some reason. I flashed it from rom manager, but it just boots directly into cm7. Should I be holding down power + volume up or something like that?

I guess I'll try the honeycomb fix. Are there certain drivers that I need for adb? I have used adb with my droid x before, and I had to download certain motorola drivers for it to work.

edit : nvm

http://nookdevs.com/NookColor_USB_ADB
[Nook Color Android Development] Nooter:
This is going to be a fun weekend!
[Nook Color Android Development] celticchrys:
Lovely to get to try CM7 via SD. I am unable to get Bluetooth to turn on. It tries, and then un-checks itself.

How would a person go about adding Google Apps to this image?

** EDIT **

Nevermind, I followed the posted instructions. The only other dilemna I have is that I installed this on an 8GB SD card, and altough I resized the 4th partition to use all leftover space, In "Settings" under "Storage", it says I have 116 MB total space on sdcard and 594 Total space in Internal storage. /mnt/emcc has 5.00GB. Can I install apps to /mnt/emcc ? Or what is the best way to make use of this space?

Please pardon the confusion.

** EDIT 2**

Now have the partition size sorted thanks to this post:

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=12031311&postcount=19
[Nook Color Android Development] thefamousmoe:
stilger

How did you adb into just the sd card? I haven't rooted my noot yet, just been running Froyo and now Cm7 from the sd card. The instructions say I need to have a rooted nook.
[Nook Color Android Development] riceknight:
Thanks soo much! This worked like a charm.
[Nook Color Android Development] verygreen:
Once you boot from the SD card, you start to run rooted android image and you can adb into it. (see the instructions to update the device id so that adb knows nook is compatible with it).
[Nook Color Android Development] stilger:
Well if your booted off this SD card image your not running off your regular nook (eclair) image this SD card (CM7) image is already rooted. I assume CM7 is out of the box open and doesn't need to be rooted.
[Nook Color Android Development] thefamousmoe:
ok that makes sense. Thanks!
[Nook Color Android Development] ADude:
Just so people do not take that as definitive, I wanted to report that WPA2 is working fine for me.

And a question in return:

- When Android Date & Time says "Automatic - use network provided values", does it mean Cellphone Network, or does it look for some sort of time server on my home LAN, or will it locate my ISP and use that as timezone ?
[Nook Color Android Development] stilger:
I couldn't get into Clockwork either. I did not spend alot of time trying though. I did tried holding N and also the reboot to recovery from Rom Manager. Neither worked.

BUT when i took the SD card out and booted my nook normal (rooted eclair) it went to recovery on first boot. So it must be telling it to go to the internal memory recovery which it never gets to because its booting off of SD first.
[Nook Color Android Development] stilger:
WPA2 worked for me as well. You will need to set your time. It does not get it from your local network. The Automatic is only if your on a cell provider network.
[Nook Color Android Development] drivenapollo:
flashed on an 8gb patriot class 10. No problems loading. Loaded right up, and am now going to work on getting the market installed as the per the instruction above. Thanks again for the hard work. This is what i have been waiting for since the origional cm7 release for the nook. I like to keep the rooted stock 2.1 just incase.
[Nook Color Android Development] verygreen:
This sd image does not have CWR I think, at least they don't include it in CM7 builds.
[Nook Color Android Development] verygreen:
Also, for those reporting BT as non-working.

Make sure you power off before booting with the SD image, not just soft-boot from your normal nook image into the sd card.
[Nook Color Android Development] stilger:
It looks like it tries to install. It puts something on the first fat32 partition for clockwork and Rom Manager says its installed. It just cant boot to it for some reason. I think it sets it to boot from recovery but somehow does not use the SD card recovery...
[Nook Color Android Development] stilger:
I tried a Hard Power and bluetooth is still not working. I can not get it to enable. :(
[Nook Color Android Development] verygreen:
Hm.

So far people are reporting that hard poweroff helps them.

Anyway the other trick that used to work was this:

you might want to change /system/etc/wifi/tiwlan.ini (when booted from the SD image)

(you need to remount /system read-write first of course)

look for BThWlanCoexistEnable = 2 line

change it to BThWlanCoexistEnable = 1

save the file

power off the nook again and then turn it back on and boot from SD.
[Nook Color Android Development] EpicFail236:
Nothing for me either, after a hard reboot. Logcat shows an error:

E/bluedroid( 999): bt_enable: Timeout waiting for HCI device to come up

if that helps. going to try the ini file edit and see if that helps.
[Nook Color Android Development] stilger:
Ok this worked. :) Thanks.. I can see my Palm Pre and a Bluetooth Headset. Finding my bluetooth GPS now to test. :)
[Nook Color Android Development] Mikey:
Im curious about this as well, mine isn't playing nice with the Nook
[Nook Color Android Development] thefamousmoe:
does anyone know if flash player works with this build? If so, do we have to do anything special to install it or just download it from the market? Also is it overclockable?

edit: its like every time I ask a question, I figure it out. Flash player looks like it is working. I am able to run Playon pretty good. The movie is just starting but it might have been a bit jittery. Can't really tell until after the credits. Anyways, I just downloaded it from the market and then had to restart.

edit: I did it again! Ok, you can overclock CM7 to 925 MHz. It is under Cyanogen mod settings. Wonder why on the froyo build I could overclock to 1.1 ghz....
[Nook Color Android Development] stilger:
Bluetooth GPS is paired but not connected. Getting some GPS software to test.
[Nook Color Android Development] Mikey:
Same here .......
[Nook Color Android Development] drivenapollo:
Got market installed perfectly. I know it was posted prior on how to install market but i did not have adb installed. What i did was:

download the combo pack here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=910008

Then I went to: http://nookdevs.com/Honeycomb_Google_Apps_and_Market and followed the directions exactly.

It worked like a charm. I am using the older gapps, but happy that i have them. Thanks to stilger for his earlier directions to help me. :)
[Nook Color Android Development] stilger:
WORKED! Had to Install Bluetooth GPS Provider from the market. Started the service and BAM.. Accurate to 1 meter on google maps!
[Nook Color Android Development] thefamousmoe:
i want to say for anyone messing with adb on a mac. You have to put ./adb instead of just adb per the instructions. that gave me a headache figuring that out.
[Nook Color Android Development] ADude:
Which is appropriate because they were both designed by the same guy.
[Nook Color Android Development] thefamousmoe:
Also, for anyone who was confused about why the lockscreen looked weird....

To fix lockscreen: CyanogenMod Settings > Lockscreen > Style options > Lockscreen Style > Sliding Tab
[Nook Color Android Development] Hadelo:
I can confirm this.

Used Bluetooth GPS Provider and GPS Status.

For the people who are looking for an offline navigation i can recommend Navit.

http://wiki.navit-project.org/index.php/Navit_on_Android
[Nook Color Android Development] Mikey:
Has my right in my bedroom :) on satellite look :)

Time to try it out driving too the bar.

Thanks again to the feature i have been dieing for :)
[Nook Color Android Development] thefamousmoe:
ok so I used easus to extend my partition, and it said it was extended. It even shows a full 6.5 gigs when I hook it up to my computer. However, the nook is still only seeing it as 115 mb. I even formatted the partition using disk utility, again it says 6.5 gigs free. Any suggestions?
[Nook Color Android Development] stilger:
Read this post: http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=12031311&postcount=19 that I posted earlier in this thread and do the second section. It mounts the first fat32 partition as sdcard. It needs to be changed to the 4th partition per my instructions.
[Nook Color Android Development] thefamousmoe:
ok I'll try that. I was trying to do the first section earlier and it wouldn't work because I didn't know the correct commands on a mac, so I kind of gave up trying that. But I see the second section is entirely different. Thanks a lot.
[Nook Color Android Development] stilger:
Someone earlier said adb was not in the path when running for a mac so you need to cd to the directory it is installed in and run ./adb instead of plain adb when running those commands.
[Nook Color Android Development] thefamousmoe:
lol yea that was me that said that. getting adb to work on a mac was weird. I couldn't get the path to work correctly, so that is what I had to do.

alright! that seemed to do the trick. Thanks a lot! You've helped me a lot today. lol
[Nook Color Android Development] aludal:
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[Nook Color Android Development] ADude:
The directions to install ADB drivers in Windows XP (Easy USB ADB installer) does not work when my unrooted Nook Color is running this CM7 uSD card - it cannot find the drivers.

Aha - in the Easy USB ADB thread, someone mentioned manually pointing to the folder, instead of "search automatically" and that worked.
[Nook Color Android Development] webvan:
Able to connect to my Bluetooth GPS too here but it times out after a couple of minutes and only reconnects if I reboot the NC :-(

YouTube videos are not playing for me, anyone have luck with that?

Looks like Google Maps Navigation is not getting installed at the same time as Google Maps ?
[Nook Color Android Development] diomark:
Run google maps and try to navigate somewhere. You'll then see a navigation shortcut appear in your app drawer.

-m
[Nook Color Android Development] webvan:
You have the Navigation icon? I'd thought of trying that, but no go, the Google Apps installation wizard crashed towards the end so maybe that has something to do with it...thinking of starting from scratch.
[Nook Color Android Development] riceknight:
Is there any way to easily do this in windows? I extended my 4th partition using a partition magic, but not sure about the second step.
[Nook Color Android Development] ADude:
I assume that 11223344556677 is the dummy serial number of this CM7 install ?
[Nook Color Android Development] verygreen:
It's a dummy serial number hardcoded in the kernel source for now.
[Nook Color Android Development] stilger:
The second step is using windows and adb. The problem is windows cant see the other partitions so you have to either put the sdcard in a linux box and find the correct partition and modify the /etc/vold.fstab or follow my instructions to modify it using adb. There might be an editor for android that you can use but when i tried vi in a terminal i could not save and exit. (lack of esc on keyboard)
[Nook Color Android Development] thefamousmoe:
you might be able to use root explorer and save it from there?
[Nook Color Android Development] riceknight:
Yeah sorry I feel like an idiot, I misread something and thought I needed a linux box. I followed the steps in adb and it should be working fine. Thank you soooo much for the help. I really appreciate it.

*edit - ugh... now the nook can't find SD card... I'll look over the partition again to see if I didn't mess something up. I double checked the vold.fstab and it looks good.
[Nook Color Android Development] wmadan:
I can confirm that I could pair my Think Outside Stowaway bluetooth keyboard and it works! I also rebooted to the SD image and the settings retained the pairing. Cool.

Also the little built-in stand that is supposed to prop up your smartphone is also sturdy enough to prop up the Nook Color in landscape mode.
[Nook Color Android Development] stilger:
FYI - I tried Copilot live with my bluetooth GPS and it appears to work as well. Ill get a chance tomorrow to actually try it on the road. Great JOB everyone involved.
[Nook Color Android Development] webvan:
No GPS lost connections? Which Bluetooth GPS tool are you using?

Any luch getting Google Maps Navigation to appear in your App list?
[Nook Color Android Development] ADude:
Many thanks to very helpful people like stilger and verygreen amongst others.

The suggestions in the thread regarding Market and ADB worked beautifully and I just finished reading a mail in Gmail App.

CM7 seems cleaner and more straightforward than Froyo (although I do like Honeycomb, and look forward to builds here with Flash after 3/18). So far, surprisingly stable.

BTW, for the noobs, in the Honeycomb Google Apps and Market:

What you actually have to do is use your usual unzip program to unzip it in the same folder as adb.exe, then open a command window in that folder, and then issue the DOS command "adb remount" (and you can use cut and paste for all the succeeding lines).

And, I went to:

http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/index.php?title=Latest_Version

scrolled down to the bottom, and then up slightly to "	CyanogenMod 7" line to download the latest version from only 4 days ago.