I have been running CM7 off of my SD card for several weeks now, and it has been working very smoothly -- virtually no problems.
Today I installed the updated Barnes & Noble Nook app. It worked fine the first couple of times, but now every time I try to launch it I get the message:
"The application has stopped unexpectedly, please try again."
Then I am given the option to force close or report. The problem is that this is now happening with the majority of my apps. They are refusing to open. When I try to use any of my browsers, they open and shut in the blink of an eye.
The only two apps that appear to be working OK are Market and YouTube.
I tried rebooting, but that didn't fix anything.
Also, my Nook is showing a very low wifi signal, while at the same time my iPod Touch shows a strong signal.
Anybody have any ideas on how I can clear this all up? Is there any troubleshooting app I can run? Thanks.
Update: Market doesn't work now either. I can open it up, but it crashes when I try to download anything.
Dunno if it would cause this... but did you recently modify your build.prop file to install Netflix? If so, restore the original file, reboot, and see if it helps.
It could be oxidation on the microSD card connectors...
I have been messing around with Android on SD for some time, and I don't know what kind of microSD you are using but some of mine require periodic cleaning of the card edge connectors.
Just yesterday, one card I had started with the FCs and crashes and after cleaning the edge connectors it is working fine again.
I dunno, but that is what works for me...
RageAgain said:
It could be oxidation on the microSD card connectors...
I have been messing around with Android on SD for some time, and I don't know what kind of microSD you are using but some of mine require periodic cleaning of the card edge connectors.
Just yesterday, one card I had started with the FCs and crashes and after cleaning the edge connectors it is working fine again.
I dunno, but that is what works for me...
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Thanks for your suggestion. I took the card out and cleaned the contacts, but everything is still acting flaky. I tried to uninstall the nook app, which is the last thing I installed before everything started going haywire, but it force closes and won't let me uninstall it.
I'm afraid I'm going to have to wipe my sd card clean and reinstall CM7 all over again if somebody can't come up with a solution.
I have the market Nook app installed here on the 2.6.32 Beta 3.1, no problems..
khaytsus said:
I have the market Nook app installed here on the 2.6.32 Beta 3.1, no problems..
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Yeah, I really don't think it's the nook app that's causing all these problems, but what is? CM7 was working beautifully with no problems until today. Now, everything is force closing on me.
Probably somewhere down the line, corrupted SD card. Not all CM7/SD card installs play well, especially if you're using a Class 6/10 card as they have piss poor random small block writes. Read this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1005633
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Probably somewhere down the line, corrupted SD card. Not all CM7/SD card installs play well, especially if you're using a Class 6/10 card as they have piss poor random small block writes. Read this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1005633
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Wow, that's pretty amazing. Thanks. I am using a Class 6 card, thinking that it would be better. Who knew?
Do you have Bluetooth turned on? My FCs stopped when I turned it off.
I was having a problem with a lot of force closes as well and it ended up being the SD card. Started off with a Transcend Class 6. Force closes all the time. Then tried a Sandisk Class 4. Runs smooth. The difference was night and day.
kwyrt said:
I was having a problem with a lot of force closes as well and it ended up being the SD card. Started off with a Transcend Class 6. Force closes all the time. Then tried a Sandisk Class 4. Runs smooth. The difference was night and day.
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That's exactly what I'm using -- a Transcend Class 6. I will have to buy a Sandisk Class 4. Thanks for the tip!
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Do you have Bluetooth turned on? My FCs stopped when I turned it off.
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I'll have to give that a try. Thanks.
How could this be?
I have two Transcend 8GB Class 6 SD cards. On one of them I have froyo, on the other is CM7.
Yesterday, the CM7 card started going wacky, locking up or force closing practically every application I tried. I rebooted, but that didn't help.
Well, I turned my Nook off, took out the CM7 card and popped in the froyo card. I then powered up. Now the froyo card is acting the same way as the CM7 card did.
How could this be? Is this just a coincidence, or is something internally in the Nook causing this? I mean, before yesterday, both cards were working fine, and then one day they both go bad? Hmmmmm?
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I have two Transcend 8GB Class 6 SD cards. On one of them I have froyo, on the other is CM7.
Yesterday, the CM7 card started going wacky, locking up or force closing practically every application I tried. I rebooted, but that didn't help.
Well, I turned my Nook off, took out the CM7 card and popped in the froyo card. I then powered up. Now the froyo card is acting the same way as the CM7 card did.
How could this be? Is this just a coincidence, or is something internally in the Nook causing this? I mean, before yesterday, both cards were working fine, and then one day they both go bad? Hmmmmm?
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I at one point actually got something inside my microSD card slot, but I didn't know it until it got on my microSD card and came out...
Maybe the connectors inside your Nook need cleaning...
I am gonna scrape up some change and buy a 4GB CL4 card from the 'shack' and see how CM7 likes it...
On a side note, does anyone have a life expectancy for microSD cards that have Android run off of them?
Not to knock the SD, but not goto eMMC, then you wouldn't have to worry about bad SD card connections. There are plenty ways to go back to stock. I could see using SD for a beta test, of course that's just my opinion.
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Not to knock the SD, but not goto eMMC, then you wouldn't have to worry about bad SD card connections. There are plenty ways to go back to stock. I could see using SD for a beta test, of course that's just my opinion.
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Isn't it hard as hell to get things put on the eMMC now?
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Isn't it hard as hell to get things put on the eMMC now?
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Well, I got my nook back in March, didn't have any problems then. And haven't played with a newer one, mine was simple.
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like namely, neither one will boot.
Grabed the Nookie Froyo boot image, wrote it onto a card (8Gig AData Class 6 card) with my linux box then watched as whole lot of nothing happened.
Saw a "Loading..." screen for a bit then "ANDROID.." and it stops there.
Somewhat similar problem with CM7. The installer version never could finish. Froze just past the mkfs the first time, second time got past the extract process, third time it said it made it and to restart. Never made it past that and actually booted.
Found a pre-done CM7 image, just sat at the logo screen for a long time before I shut it off. (like ~15 minutes)
The honeycomb preview image I found also didn't work...
I've tried both ones I have avaliable right now. (they're both identical from a different (failed) project involving a PSP and a Mem Stick Pro Duo adapter)
Technically I do have a 4Gig Class 4 in my MP3 player but i'd rather avoid using it. (it's near full right now and i'd have to copy everything off of it)
Right now i'm just wondering what's going on?
ok, just tried the Kingston 4gb class 4 card
Used the win32 disk imager program to write the nookie froyo image to the sd card.
Works fine, if a bit sluggish (class 4 card, ~15MB/sec read, ~5-6 writes, what do I expect here)
so i'll make an assumption that the Adata cards aren't suitable for use? Really sucks if this is true, was hoping to avoid spending any more money on this.
Now my only problem is that SoftKeys is misbehaving "Unable to execute as root"
Should I just tough it out on 2.1 until the "official" 2.2 or CM7 comes out? (heard something about how sleep is broken)
Sorta sucks a little as there's a 2.2 only app I rather wanted to run.
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ok, just tried the Kingston 4gb class 4 card
Used the win32 disk imager program to write the nookie froyo image to the sd card.
Works fine, if a bit sluggish (class 4 card, ~15MB/sec read, ~5-6 writes, what do I expect here)
so i'll make an assumption that the Adata cards aren't suitable for use? Really sucks if this is true, was hoping to avoid spending any more money on this.
Now my only problem is that SoftKeys is misbehaving "Unable to execute as root"
Should I just tough it out on 2.1 until the "official" 2.2 or CM7 comes out? (heard something about how sleep is broken)
Sorta sucks a little as there's a 2.2 only app I rather wanted to run.
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Is softkeys the only app that cant get root privileges? I guess you could try to fix permisions in rom manager, it wont hurt anything
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Is softkeys the only app that cant get root privileges? I guess you could try to fix permisions in rom manager, it wont hurt anything
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I didn't play around with it much given it's somewhat sluggishness. I did see the superuser prompt for softkeys but it apparently didn't work. Not sure what you mean by "rom manager" though?
Am getting ready to try out CM7 RC4 though. Wondering what that's like. Launcher Pro on 2.1 is nice-ish but it's clearly made for a phone given the wide spacing between buttons on the NC's screen.
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I didn't play around with it much given it's somewhat sluggishness. I did see the superuser prompt for softkeys but it apparently didn't work. Not sure what you mean by "rom manager" though?
Am getting ready to try out CM7 RC4 though. Wondering what that's like. Launcher Pro on 2.1 is nice-ish but it's clearly made for a phone given the wide spacing between buttons on the NC's screen.
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Rom Manager is in settings, its part of CWM for flashing roms and stuff.
I am personally running Nookie Comb with no problems. For me it runs super smooth, wireless does not loop, and all my apps work just fine. I think I will probably switch to CM7 once the actual release is out, I am just having a really hard time switching to it now because Nookie Comb is working flawlessly for me.
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Rom Manager is in settings, its part of CWM for flashing roms and stuff.
I am personally running Nookie Comb with no problems. For me it runs super smooth, wireless does not loop, and all my apps work just fine. I think I will probably switch to CM7 once the actual release is out, I am just having a really hard time switching to it now because Nookie Comb is working flawlessly for me.
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Well, so far CM7 is running better off the card than Nookie Froyo did.
app downloads are slow as hell though, no clue why.
once CM7 is out and if the odd wireless issue is solved then I may install it to the internal memory.
A couple of days ago my dad got my sister and me nook colors. I installed honeycomb which ran off the sd card on both and rooted both. I was tired of not having YouTube flash and many other apps so I tried out froyo and cm7. After about 50 unsuccessful installs I have decided I must have a hardware problem because they will run on my sisters nook.
The problem is that after the install, it boots off the sd card and loads android completely but when it asks to complete with setup wizard or
Default action it freezes up for a second and shuts off. After I boot again it just says "Powering Down."
I don't know if I should try a native install or go return this one. I already restored it completely to factory conditions so they won't be able to tell. I have searched everywhere and cannot find this anywhere else (problem or solution).
I just find it so strange how it works on the other nook color but not mine. Even setting it up on hers and moving it to mine produces the same issue. I probably will return it unless someone can help me but I'm more curious to what the problem is than how to fix it, since I can simply go get a new one.
Any help is appreciated!
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Thats certainly a new one. I only have one nook so ive never tried them side by side. Ive never been able too successfully boot off an sd card and have it stable. I eventually just decided to go to cm7 internal and never looked back. I wonder if theres something different in the nook in how it reads from the sd card.
are you overclocking the image? or running it stock?
you said you set it up on your sisters nook then move it to yours and you have problems. did you try taking her good, working build and moving that sd card to your nook and seeing if the problems go away. Ive read alot about sd cards and different quality's of cards. maybe theres something up with the sd card you have.
I have problems no matter what. If i put it on hers to setup, it still has the problem. If i set it up on mine, still has the problem. I just tried phiremod v6.1 and it also had the problem (i expected this because it is still cm7). I probably will return it but i wish they would just update these things to android 2.2/2.3 and maybe even full honeycomb when it comes out and save all of us from these issues.
The image is the normal one. I have tried installing directly to the sd, using the "SD CARD TEMPLATE" files that you install and then boot from to install cm7, etc.
They all work on the other nook but mine is being stubborn for some reason.
I am at the airport getting ready to fly home and i might try installing it internally tomorrow. I just don't want to have this problem again and have to spend a bunch of time reinstalling the stock rom to return it.
I completely understand your frustration, especially since you have 2 and are not seeing the same thing on both. Are you experiencing any other problems with the device. based on what your telling me i would have to assume there is something wrong with the sd card slot.
but if you forget about your sisters nook for a min, what you are describing is exactly what i experienced on my nook. that's why i went for internal. I started with the dual boot, but found that i stopped using the stock rom pretty quickly, and with the slow ports of cm7 to dual boot, i just scrapped dual booting all together, and now im full cm7 and its great.
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I completely understand your frustration, especially since you have 2 and are not seeing the same thing on both. Are you experiencing any other problems with the device. based on what your telling me i would have to assume there is something wrong with the sd card slot.
but if you forget about your sisters nook for a min, what you are describing is exactly what i experienced on my nook. that's why i went for internal. I started with the dual boot, but found that i stopped using the stock rom pretty quickly, and with the slow ports of cm7 to dual boot, i just scrapped dual booting all together, and now im full cm7 and its great.
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I tried the internal install, but it is doing the same thing. I am recovering the stock image right now. Thanks for the help, but I am just going to take it back and get a new one and not root it or anything and just install it to the sd card.
I have the same problem too.
Just finished installing all the steps to the dual boot phiremod 6.2 and Madcat's honeycomb ( found here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1045018 ) and WOW! It absolutely ROCKS. I had it on a class 8 microSD card initially, and it was slower than frozen molasess. Moved it to a class 4, and the heavens opened. Ran just as fast as on the eemc, and is much better than the 1.1 autonooter.
So I just wanted to say a big THANK YOU to everyone who worked on this release. It is excellent, and worked on the very first try. Got all my programs reinstalled from the market and runs like a champ.
Thanks guys! Was a bit disappointed when my wife said she wanted a Amazon reader and wanted to give me her nook, but I have not looked back and have had a blast with it.
So I didn't ask the question I should have asked - How do I back up what is on my SD card so I don't have to go back and download every app again in the event something goes wrong?
Use Titanium Backup for your Apps
Just curious, does this run completely and totally off the SD card? I have a spare SD card and would like to try it, but I have a very nice build of CM7 on the internal memory that I don't want to mess up.
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Just curious, does this run completely and totally off the SD card? I have a spare SD card and would like to try it, but I have a very nice build of CM7 on the internal memory that I don't want to mess up.
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Completely off the SD card. You select at boot which you want to run. It doesn't touch the eemc on the Nook, so I could pop out the SD and be right back with my autorooted 1.1. Reboot and shazam! But for what I have seen so far, this is so much better.
I have also read that SD card choice makes a big difference in speed and performance off the SD vs emc. I believe this, as I had it installed on a class 10 16GB SD, and could not use it for as slow as it was. I got this card - a class 4 (I think, the text is so small) 16GB card, and it runs as fast as if it was installed on the eemc.
I am using an 8gb Sandisk class 4 card
I followed this guide:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1000957
I used cm_encore_full-253.zip as my firmware and I also put Gaps on my micro sd.
After making the bootable sd card I loaded it in my nook color and it loaded the android installer. Everything seemed to load fine and it finished and turned my nook color off. I turned it on and it loads the stock B&N firmware. What am I doing wrong? My nook color software version is 1.3.0 I have run into a ton of roadblocks with this and have been getting frustrated. I have modified a PS2, a couple PSP's, and about 10 Wii's. The Nook color has been the most difficult, but it should have been the easiest. Please help. Thanks
SD card madness
When this happens to me, and it does, I check the connectors on the SD card. Gold oxidizes, and my NC at least seems to have an issue with this. I have to periodically cleans the connectors, which also seems to attract particles of food and whatnot.
My card really seems to hate high humidity, and requires that I cleans it after exposure to same.
The more you handle them, the more likely these cards may be exposed to something that causes their function to conditionally deteriorate. I have found that when on the go, even a mild fingernail scraping across the contacts will restore functionality. Inserting and removing multiple times sometimes has the same effect.
Weird and weirder...
( p.s. I forgot to mention, sometimes these cards need their connectors cleaned BEFORE you use them - a malady of old game systems it seems that may have returned - although some people never have any such issues.... )
Since you didn't tell us how you got it done, I have to assume that you knew what and how to do.
Just a suggestion: do install ROM first then GApp.
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Since you didn't tell us how you got it done, I have to assume that you knew what and how to do.
Just a suggestion: do install ROM first then GApp.
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Yes that is what I did wrong, I tried to install both at once. Got it working now. thanks
This is a strange one. I bought one of these a few weeks back:
http://www.amazon.com/Silicon-Power...&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00
It's been working fine for me. Yesterday, my tablet just hung. Like I could barely click on anything, and then when I could, it only seemed to last for a few seconds, and right back to totally hung. I had to force reboot my tablet, but it was not very long upon reboot that the same thing started.
I turned to google for advice, and one site recommended un-mounting my sd card. Well. yeah, doing that seems to have resolved the problem. It has been running completely fine ever since.
My question: Does this mean I have a bad SDcard, or is the problem with the tablet? Is there a way to know. I don't have the same problem when I plug this sd card into my windows computer.
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Highly likely the sd card.
I bought one of those also and had the same problem. I returned it to Amazon for a refund.
Stick to decent cards like Samsung Evo.
Use cards which are U3 rated for fast writing.