Forgive me if this is in the wrong place (feel free to correct me and move the thread if it is), but I wasn't sure where to ask this.
On my rooted nook color (using Zeam as my launcher), is there any way to jump to the last book/magazine I was reading? Normally you tap the little book on the status bar on the bottom, but after rooting this button doesn't seem to do anything (unless I switch back to the stock launcher instead of Zeam or LP or whatever). This is the only thing I miss from the standard NC set-up. A shortcut or widget would be great, or even just a fix for the existing unresponsive button.
Again, my apologies if this has been asked or is in the wrong place, I looked around for a while and didn't see anything. Thanks guys!
If you launch the stock BN launcher first and then launch your main launcher, the reading now button will work.
Sent from my Nook Color
It does seem to work, temporarily. But as soon as I do anything (scroll around, open another application, etc), the reading now button ceases to function again.
Thanks though, this is the closest to a solution I've found so far.
That's not my experience. Hm. If I launch the B&N homepage first, the button reliably takes me back to my book no matter where I've been or how long since I've been away from my book as long as I don't shut down my NC.
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Noob question(s): Once a NC is rooted, do you switch back and forth between the "pre-rooted" screens and the Android launcher screen? Do you have to download a B&N reader or do you use the reader already there?
Thanks to everyone who shares their knowledge here - you guys are great!
barbo said:
you switch back and forth between the "pre-rooted" screens and the Android launcher screen
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answered your own question If you look at other people's screen shots, you can see a soft button right below the drawer icon... that button is Nook-specific and opens the regular Nook menu
Thank you, big - I hadn't looked at screen shots. I appreciate the answer and I am getting closer to taking the plunge.
You also have a Library app and Shop app that show up in any replacement launcher you install. About all you lose is the B&N homescreen, which you can still get to with Home Switcher.
I actually wish we could disable the popup menu...its redundant and I bump it often.
rckymtnrfc said:
I actually wish we could disable the popup menu...its redundant and I bump it often.
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If you Run Zeam Launcher in "Full Screen" it is cover up the normal B&N Launcher. However you loss access to the soft back and menu buttons, and the notifications area.. Not really worth it.
I admit. I bought this thing for the android tablet functions but it is, at heart, an ereader and I do occassionally read on it. The last book read button is always showing but the function is lost unless I launch the original nook home. Any way I can get the function back or make a home screen shortcut for it?
I will second this! I use my rooted nook to read a lot and would love to be able to use the last book read function!
Sent from my nook color using the XDA app.
This isn't a fix but for easy use I just created a shortcut to the B&N launcher using anycut. I just have it as my secondary home where the books and stuff I actually purchased are.
It only functions if you have B&N's launcher active.
After each reboot start, open the B&N home and open the book, then switch to your launcher of choice. The "open book" button will work after that on any launcher... (at least "launcher pro" by my experience and other launchers by "hearsay").
Jim
daveknights said:
This isn't a fix but for easy use I just created a shortcut to the B&N launcher using anycut. I just have it as my secondary home where the books and stuff I actually purchased are.
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How did you do this with Anycut? I tried to do it with the shortcut menu and the anycut app. Cannot create any shortcut. This is using zeam.
Yeah, you just have to open the B&N home once and if the Nook isn't restarted it'll work.
The easiest way without making a shortcut is to use softkeys and long press the home button and set a long press on the virtual home to take you to the B&N home. After you've opened go back to your launcher of choice and you're all set.
daveknights said:
This isn't a fix but for easy use I just created a shortcut to the B&N launcher using anycut. I just have it as my secondary home where the books and stuff I actually purchased are.
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Heh, why would you do this? Just hit the big arrow button on the status bar, instant shortcut to all of the B&N stuff.
If you are not using the stock launcher, then just sideload the books onto your desktop of your replacement launcher. There are instructions on how to simply put books right on your desktop, for one touch book launching. They appear very similarly to the ones on the stock B&N desktop.
Definitely a decent workaround but I would prefer either the function returned or the icon removed. Right now, it's like your body's appendix. Just kinda... there.
During two 12 hour days of rooting and customizing two CNooks, I ran across a procedure for removing the stock Nook apps. Now I can't find it. I'm not sure if that included the main soft button, as well, but I'm giving one of these to my 75 year old Mom and I don't want her confused if she hits this button all the time.
Really appreciate any help here!!!
ClarkSt said:
During two 12 hour days of rooting and customizing two CNooks, I ran across a procedure for removing the stock Nook apps. Now I can't find it. I'm not sure if that included the main soft button, as well, but I'm giving one of these to my 75 year old Mom and I don't want her confused if she hits this button all the time.
Really appreciate any help here!!!
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AFAIK there's no way to remove the nook shortcut menu in the status bar. So what is she using it for, never reading on it? If you removed the apps and she did launch the shortcuts I guess it'd just fail to load the app, as they seem to be static shortcuts to those apps.
I would think when we get a custom ROM the status bar will be at the developers digression, and maybe someone will figure out a way to update the framework jar to remove the shortcut. My wife likes the shortcut, as her NC is 50/50 reader/tablet.
I installed the Kindle app on the Home screen, which I prefer. The Nook eReader is still there in the app tray, but because I changed the screen res, it screws up some of the texts in the Store and what not. The reader is still fine, though. But with the larger icons and text, it is WAY better. I tricked it out with the Aquarium Live Wallpaper and added Dolphin browser, which supports pinch zoom. And an email client; WeatherBug Elite, a Battery widget, a clock widget, and a WiFi toggle widgit went on the Home screen, as well - and I'm using Zeam for a launcher. I removed all the icons except the app drawer - and also changed the Volume Down button to be a Back and the Up to be a Menu. No SoftKeys for me. BTW: I set the lcd res to 220 using LCDDensity - far better than the 250 someone mentioned on the forum. I still see the time and the notification balloon - albeit, a bit truncated, but it works. I run SetCPU, though not really sure I need to.
I use Quick Settings for Volume.
I'm missing a few things:
1) Love to find out how to do a screen capture.
2) Desperately want Flash.
3) Desperately want Bluetooth.
And, really want to noop the nook shortcut launcher soft key - or preferably the whole status bar. I don't need it, with all the widgets, but I'd be happy to have it as long as the shortcut launcher softkey was nullified.
I'm planning to get NC for my parents of the same age like your mom as well.
They would use it for email and web browsing while traveling.
I hope you will succeed and share
Cool - and of course I'll share! Fact is, it's not a deal-breaker by any means. I
'll just tell her to avoid hitting that menu button. And if she does, she just clicks on the screen or clicks the button again to get rid of it. I'm really more interested in Flash - which I'm sure will be in 2.2, whenever they release it for the CN - and BT. Which I really want for the new BT headphones I bought for my lost Archos 70.
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Screen capture - hold down the large physical "n" button, and then very quickly press the volume down button. It will store the .png screenshot file in a directory called "Screenshots" in the system storage.
Now, if someone knows how to do video capture of the screen, please let us know.
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Screen capture - hold down the large physical "n" button, and then very quickly press the volume down button. It will store the .png screenshot file in a directory called "Screenshots" in the system storage.
Now, if someone knows how to do video capture of the screen, please let us know.
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Awesome... thanks for posting this. I previously download ShootMe unaware of this functionality.
I did it all from my Nookie...
I've been a googlin, but found nothing on this yet!
Last night I finally got around to rooting. Everythings running smoothly except for one minor thing, which is that the open book icon on the status bar [that normally opens the book you're currently reading] is no longer working.
It was working after I'd initially rooted, i.e. before installing any apps or doing anything. But then after a bunch of otherwise successful tinkering (install/config of ADW, uninstalling soft keys, modding the volume buttons, etc) I noticed it's not working any more.
Has anyone else seen this happen?
I tried one thing to fix it thus far: I reverted to the .bak copies of the keylayout files and rebooted; this successfully returned the volume buttons to their original function [no longer menu and back], yet the open book icon still doesn't do anything. (The icon glows while pressed, but no action follows)
The book icon to return to your previously read book only works when you're using the nook home screen as your default home screen. You can use soft keys to configure one press for nook home and two presses for ADW, and then it should work.
peiziyu said:
The book icon to return to your previously read book only works when you're using the nook home screen as your default home screen. You can use soft keys to configure one press for nook home and two presses for ADW, and then it should work.
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I'm sure I saw it functioning properly when I first installed ADW. (I remember being quite surprised and pleased!)
Now that I think of it, another thing that happened around the time it stopped working is that I chose a default launcher (ADW). Until I was satisfied that ADW would play nicely (i.e. that the open-book icon and other nooky things still worked), I'd just had the 'n' button popup the dialog to select between 'home' and 'ADWLauncher'.
Is it possible that booting with non-nook launcher as default prevents that button from being init'd properly? I mean there's three cases right?
1) Nook as default
2) No default (pressing 'n' prompts for which home to use).
3) Non-nook as default (e.g. ADW, LauncherPro, etc) as default​
I wonder if the open book button is initialized properly (during boot) in only the first case, or if it might work in the second case as well?
Open Book icon stops working when you set another launcher as your default.
-CC
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Open Book icon stops working when you set another launcher as your default.
-CC
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ah!
ok... so then if I want one press of the 'n' button to bring me to ADW, e.g., with functioning open-book icon I should the solution is this:
1) Uninstall ADW Launcher (revert default to native nook launcher)
2) Reinstall ADW Launcher (or whatever home replacement is desired)
3) Configure Soft Keys such that a single press of the 'n' button opens ADW, and a double press of 'n' button opens Nook Home.
I'll try it out when I get home from work!
Just use Home Switcher:
http://www.appbrain.com/app/home-switcher/ymst.android.homeswitcher
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Just use Home Switcher:
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... to set nook-home as default, and then softkeys to map 'n' to ADW?
Actually, I don't think you need to have the Nook launcher set as default; but you need to open the book from w/in the Nook launcher "shell" (use Home switcher to open the Nook launcher, but don't set it as the default). After that the book you opened in the nook launcher will open w/ the reading button.
Note: I am using Zeam as my launcher; YMMV w/ ADW ...
To be clear, since this is the wife's NC, my goal here is to avoid having to jump through any hoops to get it to work 'like it's supposed to'. The goal is that she turns it on, it goes to an alternate home [ADW, LP, etc], and all the native nook stuff still works.... This is her first Android experience, so it's gotta be boss for her to buy in (i.e. if she has to use Home Switcher or open the book the first time and then use homeswitcher again to switch to ADW 'every time'... well she's just not going to do that... she'll roll her eyes and give me the old 'It was fine before' )
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...you need to open the book from w/in the Nook launcher "shell"...
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Right. So my thinking is that this initialization of the CurrentOpenBookState (or whatever it's really called), referenced by the open-book icon, must be happening during boot-up when a non-nook launcher isn't made default. i.e. If you boot an unrooted nook, you can just hit that button out of boot-up and it works.
So, I guess one viable work-around would be to allow it to boot into the nook launcher [thereby initializing the book-icon], and then reassign [via SoftKeys?] the 'n' button to open the real launcher [ADW, e.g.]. It's less than ideal, but it's not a bad compromise - you'd see the nook homescreen once, but from then on out, you'd always go to the ADW home.
Any thoughts on how to improve that work-around? I haven't used Autostart at all, but I was hoping there might be a clever way to script the boot/startup sequence such the nook-home would load/initialize, and then an alternate launcher would load and become the default handler.
I'd like it
I add the books to my Zeam homescreen:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=9986743&postcount=35
HeroHTC said:
I add the books to my Zeam homescreen:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=9986743&postcount=35
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ah... nifty! Think my wife will probably stick to the shelves in the BN Library app though.
Has anyone had any success with Autostart on NC?
It's working fine on my Nook with ADW EX set as the default home app.
Try this:
1) In NookColor Tools clear the defaults for ADW (or your home app)
2) Click your Nook home button and choose the NC home (Do Not set any as default yet)
3) Open any book or magazine so that the Open Book Icon appears in your tray
4) Click the Nook Home button, this time select ADW (or your home app) as the default
5) Click the Open Book Icon in the tray and it should open your last book
6) When you need to read a different book or mag, use the "Library" shortcut in your drawer to select the book. The Open book icon should recognize the change as long as you are opening the books from the library.
At least this is how it has been working for me.
Hope this helps.
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It's working fine on my Nook with ADW EX set as the default home app.
Try this:
1) In NookColor Tools clear the defaults for ADW (or your home app)
2) Click your Nook home button and choose the NC home (Do Not set any as default yet)
3) Open any book or magazine so that the Open Book Icon appears in your tray
4) Click the Nook Home button, this time select ADW (or your home app) as the default
5) Click the Open Book Icon in the tray and it should open your last book
6) When you need to read a different book or mag, use the "Library" shortcut in your drawer to select the book. The Open book icon should recognize the change as long as you are opening the books from the library.
At least this is how it has been working for me.
Hope this helps.
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Sweet thanks! I'll try this!
So does the button work "permanently" after that sequence? Can you reboot, unlock, press the book icon and have it go to your current book?
j.a said:
It's working fine on my Nook with ADW EX set as the default home app.
Try this:
1) In NookColor Tools clear the defaults for ADW (or your home app)
2) Click your Nook home button and choose the NC home (Do Not set any as default yet)
3) Open any book or magazine so that the Open Book Icon appears in your tray
4) Click the Nook Home button, this time select ADW (or your home app) as the default
5) Click the Open Book Icon in the tray and it should open your last book
6) When you need to read a different book or mag, use the "Library" shortcut in your drawer to select the book. The Open book icon should recognize the change as long as you are opening the books from the library.
At least this is how it has been working for me.
Hope this helps.
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Tried this and it worked great for me. Thanks!
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Sweet thanks! I'll try this!
So does the button work "permanently" after that sequence? Can you reboot, unlock, press the book icon and have it go to your current book?
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ok, so I tried this and it doesn't retain settings after a reboot... which means the original problem remains.
hmmmmm....
so is it possible to have it boot to nook-home but then have the 'n' button always invoke an alternate launcher? I just put soft-keys back on there, but I don't see how to set it up to do that. Hmmmm....
Same here, after reboot it loses it's setting.
Played around with it a bit further, same happens here. I haven't had any reason to reboot after nootering so never noticed
Is there a way to disable the icon to get more notification space?
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Played around with it a bit further, same happens here. I haven't had any reason to reboot after nootering so never noticed
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Yeah, same.
Question is what is the variable/state that's getting init'd by the nook home? And how can we get it to set otherwise....
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Same here, after reboot it loses it's setting.
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It took me 2 weeks to find out how to avoid that. It's quite complicated though.
I am currently using 2.12.25 AN and 1.1gHz OC, which I don't think the OC is the issue, but when reading a book, if I click Home and start to do something else, normally I can press the "Book" looking icon and it takes me to the reader.
I press it now and it doesn't do anything, so when I want to go back to my book I have to click "Library" and then the book name, which is a pain.
Anyone else have this issue?
In my experience, the book icon in the status bar does not work if you are in a non-nook launcher.
Configure your softkeys virtual home button long press to load the native nook home. Then you can access your last read book with that button.
Example. From Zeam, double click n, long press virtual home, press book icon in status bar.
Not sure if that's any more convenient than just loading the library app, but it does work.
Sent from my 1.1GHz Nook color and XDA app
Been asked a bunch of times that I can recall. Found two of 'em in about 15 seconds...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=911020
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=899748
i was wondering what that button was for sense it has not done anything on mine sense i bough it. may have something to do with the fact i rooted it before i even started playing with it but yea.