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Is a rooted NC like a big Android Phone?

Minus the phone obviously...
But what I mean is the OS just like the phones OS? like browser, market etc?
I only got to play with one in bestbuy for like 30 seconds...

DroidHam said:
Minus the phone obviously...
But what I mean is the OS just like the phones OS? like browser, market etc?
I only got to play with one in bestbuy for like 30 seconds...
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No camera or gps cababilities

In many ways it is like a big phone with the obvious thing left out, but if you want to read (books, email, or anything) it holds many advantages. I have had mine for a week and I love it!

As stated, yes for the jist of it, it is like an Android phone without cellular capability. But the screen is much larger, the display blows the phone away, the speed surprisingly seems faster, mainly because you aren't on a phone you are on a device you can stretch your hand out on. The density is much larger so more icon capability on the screen, not limited like on a phone. It just freaking is insane how much nicer it is. I had no idea I would love it as much as I do, haven't even looked at the EVO threads in awhile heh.

But Android 2.1 is the same on phones/NC right? I've only used my incredible, so im not sure. Like the same settings I set on my phone as far as display and the apps I use can be used on the NC?

DroidHam said:
But Android 2.1 is the same on phones/NC right? I've only used my incredible, so im not sure. Like the same settings I set on my phone as far as display and the apps I use can be used on the NC?
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Stock software is 2.1, most likely your Incredible is 2.2, the only noticeable difference between 2.1 and 2.2 is Flash support and 2.2 is a little faster normally when it is fully setup properly, but doubt you will notice that on the NC it is very fast for what it is. Other than that I highly doubt you will notice too much difference between them. There are apps that won't show up in the market cuz you aren't 2.2 but that doesn't mean you can't manually download and install them.

No GPS, no BT, no cellular capabilities. That's it. The screen is bigger and it reeks of win. I'll be honest, I laughed when the iPad came out because it just looked like an oversized iTouch and who in their right mind would want one of those. I was obviously dead wrong (happens frequently to me) and the NC is a better tablet IMO.

Actually the NC has BT chipset just not enabled, the devs are working on that. And making headway! So ideally we will have BT capability before long hopefully!

cflynt said:
As stated, yes for the jist of it, it is like an Android phone without cellular capability. But the screen is much larger, the display blows the phone away, the speed surprisingly seems faster, mainly because you aren't on a phone you are on a device you can stretch your hand out on. The density is much larger so more icon capability on the screen, not limited like on a phone. It just freaking is insane how much nicer it is. I had no idea I would love it as much as I do, haven't even looked at the EVO threads in awhile heh.
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Personally, I think the NC & the Evo go hand in hand!!! BTW, I haven't looked at the Evo thread in a while either!!!

It acts almost completely like a cellphone minus the actual phone. So if youre comfortable with an android phone you will be comfortable here too. If youre not, the NC is a fairly good device to get used to it as there is a ton of support here and the bigger screen is pretty nice.

Just get used to not having a camera (no barcoding), no GPS (at least there's wifi location), BT (for now its unavailable), flashlight (big whoop), microphone (no secretly recording people or making voice commands), no Wireless data besides wifi (tether!).
But that's why everyone should have a ROOTED Android phone (preferably HTC) to accompany their ROOTED NC.

It just doesnt have flash support which makes video watching somewhat of a hassle

There is Flash support? I went to facebook and tried playing a video straight from there, it says i need flash. So i was actually able to click the link to Adobe and it opened and i selected to dnld the file. It isn't finding a program though to open the file so that's where i'm stuck.
Also, i was on other sites and clicked video links to youtube, the tube site won't play videos either, it gives the same link to Adobe where i have dnld'd the flash file. Is this the correct way on N.C. to get flash? If yes, how should i dnld flash. The extension was strange also. Aaaaaand of course i can't find where the file is. Can't get on wi-fi here at office to go grab Astro real fast to find it. I can reply later with that detail if need be.
thanks in advance if anyone has solution to getting Flash.

mg00000 said:
There is Flash support?
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There is for Nookie Froyo, stock which is 2.1 doesn't/hasn't/can't do flash, the whole reason people were after 2.2 for everything.
Now the flash isn't good lol but overclocked to 1.1ghz its watchable.
sent From a NC on eMMC Froyo

It'll be cool when B&N gives us a stock 2.2 ROM so that we can get froyo (and flash) and keep all the B&N features.
Also, when we get a full version of honeycomb when that is officially released, there is no stopping this little guy. The fact that this community has made this much progress in such a short time with so little to work with is truly amazing.

camwinnn said:
There is for Nookie Froyo, stock which is 2.1 doesn't/hasn't/can't do flash, the whole reason people were after 2.2 for everything.
Now the flash isn't good lol but overclocked to 1.1ghz its watchable.
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That's what i have, via auto nooter process. Now i'm not at the heights of overclocking yet, but should flash be available to me without having to grab it from the web? thx for replying.

CM7 w/TabTweaks is....HOLY AWESOMENESS DROIDMAN!

Here's the story of how a once forgotten Nook Color got it's mojo back.
I pretty much gave up on my NC as a useable device a couple months ago. I need a back button always available. I tried softkeys but it never really worked right. It was just too cumbersome. I did the dual boot and actually liked the Honeycomb solution of always having the status bar on the bottom. But it was still just a hack job dual boot bleah...and HC doesn't really have that much app support.
I have a Windows 7 64bit box so creating those bootable SD cards was pretty much impossible...so I was stuck.
I purchased a woo-Tab (a woot G-Tablet). ROMing it was really easy and I plowed around for a couple days until I discovered CM7 with tablet tweaks. Holly Schmolly...what a revolution! froyo-like app support, and the conveniences of always having the back and menu buttons available .... right there...at the bottom ....where it belongs.
I stumbled across this thread in the NC development forum while looking for another CM7TabTweaker ROM for my gTab. hmmmm ... tablet tweaks...on the NC...I had a mission...and my NC will self destruct in 7 seconds.
So I went on a mission to get CM7TabTweaks on my NC. tried the bootable SDcard crap again like 5 times...no joy...then I found a thread that gives 5 (or so) easy ADB steps to get the new CWMod with the proper ext-4 stuff......so I tried it....and it worked.....
ALMOST HOME!
I can't tell you how excited I was....my hands were shaking...I was having the flop sweats, as those beautiful words came across my screen
CM tablet tweaks [tt.RC2] 07.04.2011#2 is installing
it seemed like and hour....then it booted...and that beautiful skateboarding blue boy came across my screen....being a pretty long toothed ROMer, I was patient, first boots always take some time...but 20 minutes! CRAP! I'm bootloopy!
back into recovery I go..."DOCTOR, DATA WIPE! STAT!.....and get me 200 cc's of Delv cache wipe..."
"The patient is wide open doc....should we just replace the heart?"
"It couldn't hurt nurse....RE-INSTALL!"
"but doctor....we didn't backup!"
"SCOTTIE! I NEED MORE POWER!"
ok now i'm mixing my movie/daytime drama metaphors....but you get the point....
so I reinstalled the ROM again....the skateboarding blue beauty came up...and.....the wife walks in and starts yammering on about something. Now all you ROMers know, that our wives pretty much think we love our devices more than them. I now try to put the device down when my better half walks in the room.
So when the Beautiful Janny is came in and started telling me a story...I put down the NC with the blue skateboarding Andy. I listened intently, trying VERY hard not to look down at the device.
When I looked down....it was like I could hear angles singing. A soft glow, was emanating from my Nook Color....there it was....a home screen....with that beautiful Tablet Tweak status bar on the bottom.
I mean...holy usefulness DroidMan ...
The moral of this story.
EVERYONE.........GET YOUR TABLET TWEAKS NOW!
It's worth any pain and suffering and wifey stories you have to endure.
Thanks for listening. Just had to share.

sudermatt said:
Here's the story of how a once forgotten Nook Color got it's mojo back.
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Thanks for listening. Just had to share.
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thanks for the narrative lol, but how about more stepbystep of the actual install process dude? im thinkin about getting a NC to overclock and load up honeycomb, but it just seems laggy even oc'd...
i love how responsive my phone is.. so even with a bigger screen, lots of lag would just piss me off. so how well does it work with the tabtweaks?

I'll add step by steps in a while...gotta get some work done

infotechsailor said:
thanks for the narrative lol, but how about more stepbystep of the actual install process dude? im thinkin about getting a NC to overclock and load up honeycomb, but it just seems laggy even oc'd...
i love how responsive my phone is.. so even with a bigger screen, lots of lag would just piss me off. so how well does it work with the tabtweaks?
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Here's what I did. Works like a charm. Next to no lag. I love it.

I don't mean any disrespect, but I guess i never got all the hype about the "Tablet Tweaks" mod. I am running it right now, and yes, it adds some nice buttons, but certainly doesn't revolutionize the device. I mean, it does nothing more than put button savior into the toolbar, and allow you to hide it in some cases.
That said, i guess i can't complain about any good dev effort on the nook; the community here is great, and I will take whatever we can get..

I think it's really just more the principle that it makes it one more step closer to being a full fledged tablet. Is it 100% need? Not really, but it does help keep the device looking cleaner and in some cases running smoother.
I like it a lot and feel like it's a very good alternative to Honeycomb.

Divine_Madcat said:
I don't mean any disrespect, but I guess i never got all the hype about the "Tablet Tweaks" mod. I am running it right now, and yes, it adds some nice buttons, but certainly doesn't revolutionize the device. I mean, it does nothing more than put button savior into the toolbar, and allow you to hide it in some cases.
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Personally I wasn't a fan of Button Savior or Softkeys. They never worked quite right on my NC and I was constantly calling up the buttons by accident when I meant to hit something on the edge of the screen.
CM7 initially having the extra buttons at the top was a godsend for me; all the other CM7 goodies were just frosting on the cake. Mad-Murdock's implementation of the buttons and moving them to the bottom pretty much ensured CM7 will be the only ROM I need until Honeycomb officially shows up.

sudermatt said:
Now all you ROMers know, that our wives pretty much think we love our devices more than them.
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Ain't that the truth.
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I guess there's a debate about how useful TabTweaks is....
I'll tell you this...I never would have handed my NC to The Beautiful Janny for her to use. She would have been soooooo frustrated after about 10 seconds. The Beautiful Janny is a techno phobe...it's takes all of my "head of household" power to keep her from going *choke* *cough* *gag* *apple*.
But I still want her to enjoy this amazing device.
Now, I just have to point to the back button, the home button and the menu key and say.
- Press that to go Back,
- That one to go to the main page,
- This one to get options where-ever you are.
Now I can hand her the device, give her those three simple instructions, and let her explore.
I'm very excited for The Beautiful Janny...and for me....and everyone else who TabTweaks their NC.
LONG LIVE CM7TabTweaks!

Anyone who thinks the CM7 tablet tweaks is just Button Savior on the status bar should delete their xda account.

RoboRay said:
Anyone who thinks the CM7 tablet tweaks is just Button Savior on the status bar should delete their xda account.
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Obviously directed at me, so i will respond. Aside from adding perm soft buttons (like button savior), the ability to hide/show soft buttons on top of full screen apps (like button savior), the only new functionality is the ability to move the bar to the bottom (ok, but not earth shattering). The softkeys being added to the power menu is worthless to me, but i guess also worth a mention.
I am not trying to be rude to the dev, but people making this out to be earth shattering are crazy to me. Button Savior has been doing this for me for months, so i just don't get the excitement. Yes, i use RC2 of TT, simply because its the newest in code, and i like to keep up. But CM7 felt great before, and this really didn't rock my world... sorry.

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Anyone who thinks the CM7 tablet tweaks is just Button Savior ...
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Yeah, tbh, I don't get it either. I hated using both button savior and softkeys.
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It always felt like a burden, even if only a slight one, to have to pop-out the softkeys and then finally press the button I want. I could never place the pop out button where I wanted it and I was constantly accidentally hitting it. Since this really was one of the few things that constantly reminded me that I wasn't using a device meant to be a tablet (sounds silly, perhaps but still true) I was extraordinarily excited to have all those issues fixed in one fell swoop.
These mods fit like a glove. By comparison, Button Savior and Softkeys fit like a cloth tied around your hand (no disrespect to their authors).

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Obviously directed at me, so i will respond. Aside from adding perm soft buttons (like button savior), the ability to hide/show soft buttons on top of full screen apps (like button savior), the only new functionality is the ability to move the bar to the bottom (ok, but not earth shattering). The softkeys being added to the power menu is worthless to me, but i guess also worth a mention.
I am not trying to be rude to the dev, but people making this out to be earth shattering are crazy to me. Button Savior has been doing this for me for months, so i just don't get the excitement. Yes, i use RC2 of TT, simply because its the newest in code, and i like to keep up. But CM7 felt great before, and this really didn't rock my world... sorry.
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I feel the same way but perhaps I'm a little biased

dalingrin said:
I feel the same way but perhaps I'm a little biased
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I ditched button savior for the tweaks. Was kinda confused. BS was closed-source, but based on softkeys which is GPL'd? Or am I smokin' crack?

I will agree with the OP (great narrative by the way, you must be in sales).
CM7TT makes the Nook feel like a turn key tablet for me. I was using softkeys on rooted stock and it felt cumbersome to operate.
AdamT.

What's battery life on it?
Sent from my NC using XDA App

awtenterprise said:
I will agree with the OP (great narrative by the way, you must be in sales).
CM7TT makes the Nook feel like a turn key tablet for me. I was using softkeys on rooted stock and it felt cumbersome to operate.
AdamT.
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I'm a geek...project manager...and you, sir, are clearly brilliant because
CM7TabTweaks Rock the House!

I've always hated SoftKeys. Button Savior was a relatively clean workaround, but pressing two buttons to get the one I wanted gets to be a little more bothersome than I like. Tablet Tweaks just feels natural, as if that's how it was supposed to be the whole time.
Further, there's more to TT than just the softkeys. The long-press hardware button mapping is great. I can't wait 'til the Volume Button mapping comes back since it was just plain handy in a variety of situations that you wouldn't think of until they came up.

the best part for me is that now everything is completely under my control.
i can have lots of buttons or none, have a status bar at all times or toggle it on and off while in full screen apps. it completely replaces a third party solution and i don't even have to map my volume keys... although if i want to map them the option will be right there without having to install anything.
not to mention all of this was done quickly and with user input. i'm also sure that this is just the beginning of something much bigger
thanks again to MM and all the people here making the nook better.

I'm blown away at how much I like this NC...

I have to say, my experience so far with getting my NC up and running with CM7 has been very positive so far. I'm running it from the SD and OC @ 1.1ghz. Just a great experience all around. I'm still considering a Xoom somewhere down the road but no rush now.
I wasn't going to buy it as I had a Kindle but I have to say, this really has so much more potential, I just couldn't say no.
Anyways, just wanted to pass along my positive experience and look forward to learning a bunch more from all the smart people around here.

I'm gonna add a question here as I don't want to make another thread.
One thing I'm slightly frustrated with, and really it's very minor, I have some difficulty with swiping through menus and accidentally selecting whatever happens to be at the location I start my swipe.
For example: When I'm scrolling through a web page, I'll press somewhere close to the bottom and drag up to scroll down the page. For some reason, this typically will launch a link if that happens to be around where my finger touches the screen initially. Or if I'm in 'Settings' and scrolling through the screen to go further down, this usually opens a misc option or checks/unchecks a box, etc. I don't know what else to do but is there a setting or something that will stall the OS from reacting so quickly?
If I click and hold, then drag, it seems to work ok. But this is something that's not really natural to me. I'll say now that I've used an iPhone and iPad and never had this type of quirky/touchy response. Is it just me?

Yea BN missed the boat. They could if given it full aosp android and probbley spent less software development money and charged more money.
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Do you use your stock BN home? It is laggy but I overclocked with Dal's 1.1 oc kernel for bn 1.2 and now things are snappy! I also use Phiremod 6.2 from sd which is a rocket!
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Kadin said:
I'm gonna add a question here as I don't want to make another thread.
One thing I'm slightly frustrated with, and really it's very minor, I have some difficulty with swiping through menus and accidentally selecting whatever happens to be at the location I start my swipe.
For example: When I'm scrolling through a web page, I'll press somewhere close to the bottom and drag up to scroll down the page. For some reason, this typically will launch a link if that happens to be around where my finger touches the screen initially. Or if I'm in 'Settings' and scrolling through the screen to go further down, this usually opens a misc option or checks/unchecks a box, etc. I don't know what else to do but is there a setting or something that will stall the OS from reacting so quickly?
If I click and hold, then drag, it seems to work ok. But this is something that's not really natural to me. I'll say now that I've used an iPhone and iPad and never had this type of quirky/touchy response. Is it just me?
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I had this same problem until I installed a screen protector and it solved all of my touch screen issues!

Jimbo67 said:
I had this same problem until I installed a screen protector and it solved all of my touch screen issues!
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Interesting... I never thought about that. If I may ask, where did you get it and how much was it? Does it take away much from the image quality?
Garoto1973 said:
Do you use your stock BN home? It is laggy but I overclocked with Dal's 1.1 oc kernel for bn 1.2 and now things are snappy! I also use Phiremod 6.2 from sd which is a rocket!
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I use the stock 1.2 without any type of modifications. I haven't found the need to do much to it as it runs pretty smooth. Although I maybe only run that mode 10% of the time, if that...

Kadin said:
Interesting... I never thought about that. If I may ask, where did you get it and how much was it? Does it take away much from the image quality?
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I picked up an anti-glare screen protector on Amazon.com, but I can't remember which one it was. I bought it mainly to just protect the screen from scratches, but it really cuts the glare and doesn't show fingerprints as easily as the bare screen.
It doesn't degrade image quality at all, although I bumped up the screen's brightness just a hair to compensate.
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tjsooley said:
Yea BN missed the boat. They could if given it full aosp android and probbley spent less software development money and charged more money.
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IDK, the stock interface is accessible for the computer-illiterate and the hardware configuration is equally accessible for all levels of power-users. I pretty much forgive all shortcomings in the stock OS because B&N made no effort to lock me into using it, aside from withholding the magazine and kids book functionality in their Android Market app.

Bang Bang Racing-please support developer with comments!

Hey Xoomers! Just spoke with the developer of Bang Bang Racing, the game has recently been updated again to fix the control looseness as we requested, and they are really spot on now, I have no issues at all now! They have also lowered the asking price to $3.98..which some people seem to be complaining over if you read the comments in the marketplace. The Developer has been really helpful in making the game work as we requested, and all developers drop prices on their games to attract new buyers etc so I dont know why some people are crying over a price drop. The developer has asked that members of XDA show our support by helping with some positive feedback in the marketplace, so please take two minutes just to acknowledge the fact that they have really been listening to all of our requests. We need to keep developers like these working on android...please pass the word and thank you guys!!
Also, if you have any suggestions, post them on the marketplace...they are open to all ideas to really make this game enjoyable for us all!

i am very happy to hear this.
i love the graphics and style of the game, the controls are the only thing holding it back.
im glad the company realizes this.
i am not expert on gaming and development but maybe just a simple left and rigth button at the bottom of the screen will do. maybe even throw in automatic acceleration to make it simpler?
thats what ive been thinking.
id love to hear about what the developers are throwing around in terms of new controlls. anyword?

crackmulah said:
i am very happy to hear this.
i love the graphics and style of the game, the controls are the only thing holding it back.
im glad the company realizes this.
i am not expert on gaming and development but maybe just a simple left and rigth button at the bottom of the screen will do. maybe even throw in automatic acceleration to make it simpler?
thats what ive been thinking.
id love to hear about what the developers are throwing around in terms of new controlls. anyword?
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hey there..nothing solid yet, but from our chat we may have more than one additional control option, one option may be the tank-like control option in reckless racing or something very similar. This game would be a blast to play and look at once the controls are fixed and our fingers are not blocking the screen. I will pass our info to the developer with your screen name

You can tell them that I love it. It's the first game besides Fruit Ninja that I've found entertaining enough to actually play.
The current controls are a little odd, but I've started using a stylus and that works pretty good.

Offering a different control scheme would take a great looking game with just okay controls to a downright awesome game. Bring it!

"Graphics look cartoonish, but at the same time an absolute eye-candy." - erzhik
Controls do take time getting used to, and I would also love to have a mini map displayed in the corner to see when the corner is coming.

Dyyryath said:
You can tell them that I love it. It's the first game besides Fruit Ninja that I've found entertaining enough to actually play.
The current controls are a little odd, but I've started using a stylus and that works pretty good.
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Will do man, thank you

gerbick said:
Offering a different control scheme would take a great looking game with just okay controls to a downright awesome game. Bring it!
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Good one!! ill pass this along also with ur username

erzhik said:
"Graphics look cartoonish, but at the same time an absolute eye-candy." - erzhik
Controls do take time getting used to, and I would also love to have a mini map displayed in the corner to see when the corner is coming.
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I will submit your quote also

Tell them to take a look at Reckless Racing for how to do the controls. If they can match the level of customization in RR I'd be hugely impressed.
Also maybe ask them if they would like us to beta test their future games because if they had done that I'm pretty sure BBR wouldn't of hit the market with the glaring problem we've all recognised straight away. It's surely better to be proactive rather than reactive.

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Tell them to take a look at Reckless Racing for how to do the controls. If they can match the level of customization in RR I'd be hugely impressed.
Also maybe ask them if they would like us to beta test their future games because if they had done that I'm pretty sure BBR wouldn't of hit the market with the glaring problem we've all recognised straight away. It's surely better to be proactive rather than reactive.
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I had informed the developer when the game was released to implement Reckless Racing controls. He stated that been though he personally hate RR's controls, he would look into adding that as an option. Good try on the beta testing though, but they have people doing that already
Once we have additional control options, I could not recommend this game enough! Looking forward to more tracks being added and maybe multiplayer support!!

MRCANNADY said:
I had informed the developer when the game was released to implement Reckless Racing controls. He stated that been though he personally hate RR's controls, he would look into adding that as an option. Good try on the beta testing though, but they have people doing that already
Once we have additional control options, I could not recommend this game enough! Looking forward to more tracks being added and maybe multiplayer support!!
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2 points
1. If this game was produced for monetary gain (obviously it was) the developer was a little silly putting what he preferred into the game, it should be what the mass market would expect/prefer if their going for sales.
2. The beta testers failed big time if they never noticed how poor the game played with the current control scheme and/or weren't able to convince the developer his course of action was wrong.
The oversight has caused the game to be a 3-star game on release when imo it would easily been 4.5 stars but hats off to them for trying to fix it.

Yeah, this is a game that is just crying out for networked multiplayer.
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Will there be a lite version? It's a little pricey if you end up not liking it.
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ihtfp69 said:
Will there be a lite version? It's a little pricey if you end up not liking it.
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Not according to the developer, but I will suggest it

mug2k said:
2 points
1. If this game was produced for monetary gain (obviously it was) the developer was a little silly putting what he preferred into the game, it should be what the mass market would expect/prefer if their going for sales.
2. The beta testers failed big time if they never noticed how poor the game played with the current control scheme and/or weren't able to convince the developer his course of action was wrong.
The oversight has caused the game to be a 3-star game on release when imo it would easily been 4.5 stars but hats off to them for trying to fix it.
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I couldn't agree more. I bought this game, played it for 5 minutes (or tried to) and couldn't control the car at all. Refunded. The game looks great but the controls are not intuitive at all. I would not recommend this game to anyone unless the controls are completely changed.

Anybody tried the new controls ?, I'm holding off for a review or two before I repurchase.

Just got the update... there's four control schemes now.
From right to left:
Full Control - acceleration, brake on the right side, turn left/right on the left side
Auto Acceleration Control - brake on the right, turn left/right on the left side
Split Screen Control - left/right on opposite sides of the tablet, not grouped as above
Point Control - the old method of controlling​
Won't lie, so far I'm falling into the Auto Acceleration Control, only braking when I have to, but Full Control does well too. The Split Screen mode is fine, but no braking kills me in the curves. But it's evenly spaced out, unlike the full control layout - the staggered layout of left/right is a bit unintuitive at first, but makes perfect sense a bit later.
Definite improvement. Have had a couple of FC's, but not sure why. This is a 4.5 out of 5.0 now in my eyes.

gerbick said:
Just got the update... there's four control schemes now.
From right to left:
Full Control - acceleration, brake on the right side, turn left/right on the left side
Auto Acceleration Control - brake on the right, turn left/right on the left side
Split Screen Control - left/right on opposite sides of the tablet, not grouped as above
Point Control - the old method of controlling​
Won't lie, so far I'm falling into the Auto Acceleration Control, only braking when I have to, but Full Control does well too. The Split Screen mode is fine, but no braking kills me in the curves. But it's evenly spaced out, unlike the full control layout - the staggered layout of left/right is a bit unintuitive at first, but makes perfect sense a bit later.
Definite improvement. Have had a couple of FC's, but not sure why. This is a 4.5 out of 5.0 now in my eyes.
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Glad you like the new controls. The force close seems to happen when you try to start the game from the android market after downloading. Please post all recommendations/feedback as the developer really wants to hear from us. I appreciate the fact that they actually listened to their customers, unlike some developers who make you wait months before updating, these guys got right to work on an update this monday! They will now have my full support as they are going to continue to support Android and Tegra!!

Addendum: The Split Screen method is my favorite. Hands down.
You get to control the car with the turns on either side - like I tend to hold my Xoom - and if you want to brake, slide your thumbs down. 4.75 out of 5.0 now. Having fun and actually getting into the top 5 now easier.

How does Android (CM9) run on this tablet?

I am looking at buying a refurbished HP touchpad (16GB version)...what doesn't work if I put Android on it? I saw a reference to the Mic, but that wouldn't be a big deal to me. Does most everything else work on this unit? Thanks!
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P.S. I did do some reading, but wasn't finding a lot of info...

muzicman0 said:
I am looking at buying a refurbished HP touchpad (16GB version)...what doesn't work if I put Android on it? I saw a reference to the Mic, but that wouldn't be a big deal to me. Does most everything else work on this unit? Thanks!
mm0
P.S. I did do some reading, but wasn't finding a lot of info...
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A little more reading should help you make up your mind.
In the mean time, CM9, which is what I am running, runs beautifully on TP. Other than the camera and the mike issue you mentioned, everything else works fine. There are a few people with sporadic wifi issues but I am not complaining with my TP's performance.

Nowadays just camera and mic don't work. Wifi can be buggy at times but its been getting better in the latest nightlies, I don't really have issues anymore.

Even with the wifi issue, most people have had success switching their routers not to use high channels, keeping them on 6 and under.
Another thing to note is that the speakers dont work so well if the screen is turned off, having a bit of a garbled sound to them. So dont plan on listening to music on it with the screen off.

Jotokun said:
Even with the wifi issue, most people have had success switching their routers not to use high channels, keeping them on 6 and under.
Another thing to note is that the speakers dont work so well if the screen is turned off, having a bit of a garbled sound to them. So dont plan on listening to music on it with the screen off.
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for the issue with speaker dont work (or fart) when screen is off...classicnerd's dev has found the fix and it works perfectly....but they are still working on HD fix...

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for the issue with speaker dont work (or fart) when screen is off...classicnerd's dev has found the fix and it works perfectly....but they are still working on HD fix...
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Is this sound fix available anywhere? Or do we just have to wait until the next release?

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Is this sound fix available anywhere? Or do we just have to wait until the next release?
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the rom with the sound fix is released on thier website...see the latest version..

and maybe some games don't work (gameloft, riptide, ea games) but everything else works for me.

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and maybe some games don't work (gameloft, riptide, ea games) but everything else works for me.
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Riptide works just fine. Most gameloft games work if you spoof another device in build.prop. Some EA games can be made to work with Chainfire 3D.

I got it delivered yesterday...so far cm9 works great...I had one issue with wifi, but changing the channel to 3 seems to have fixed it...pretty happy so far.

there is also software at google play that will help with the wifi issues. look up wifi fixer, free and does the trick
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Riptide works just fine. Most gameloft games work if you spoof another device in build.prop. Some EA games can be made to work with Chainfire 3D.
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thats why i said maybe, cuz right now i'm too lazy to edit the build.prop or work with chainfire 3d, i am aware of it though thanks anyways
apart from that i can't think of much else wrong with cm9 android on the touchpad

It is honestly the most stable alpha I have ever used on any device, using it for a month and not a single fc/freeze.

if you can afford a tablet that comes with android, your better off with that
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It's perfect. Best Android ROM on any device I've had. No mic and camera, but minor, minor details.

I've just had battery 'issues' with CM9. Not really an issue, but my battery just seems to drain more rapidly than CM7 does. IE: When reading on CM9 with Aldiko for an hour, in airplane mode, it seems to drain about 20%. I guess that's normal?

CM9 works great for me on the touchpad. Only issue I personally had was not being able to hide the status bar for certain games I'd prefer fullscreen, but there are apps out there that can get rid of it.
Overall best android experience for me so far, I've got cm9 running on my Atrix as well, but that's still a bit buggy compared to this!

the magnetometer/compass doesnt work. it worked wonderful in webos, but it gets no love in android.

The2max said:
Overall best android experience for me so far, I've got cm9 running on my Atrix as well, but that's still a bit buggy compared to this!
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Sorry to veer off topic, but what do you like better in CM9 on the Atrix, compared to the current stock Gingerbread?
Back on topic, I thought that Alpha 0.6 was pretty good, then I thought Alpha 2 was awesome, and now with a recent nightly build, I think it's damn near perfect. The front camera would be nice at some point, but I don't need it right now.

awesome
I've been using android since the CM7 alpha 1 and playing around with different roms along the way since then.
I recently switched to OAT's light and tasty from the forums (CM9 based) and my TP now works just as well you'd would expect any fancy android tablet to work (without a mic or camera). Since this finally fixed my wifi issues, the tablet is now super smooth and flawless to use. Plus it has faster community updates than even the high end android tablets.
to the dude above me who's getting 2 hours of battery life, that is not normal, I can read books on aldiko for much longer than that, you should try making a backup and installing one of the most up to date releases.