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Best Version of Honeycomb Port

Who in anyone’s opinion makes the best Honeycomb port for the Nook Color?
I know CM7 is out there and I use it for my phone, I think it’s awesome on my phone and will probably be great on the Nook as well.
Are their any other good ports for 2.3 or especially 3.0?

Right now, we have:
an official CM7 rom.
and HC rom from madcat & deeper blue.
I am endlessly happy that we have such awesome devs working on so few roms. I got sick of the G1 threads blowing up with roms that tended to break more things than they fixed.
Just look for the most recently updated threads in the dev section.
HC is based of sdk, btw.

ace7196 said:
Right now, we have:
an official CM7 rom.
and HC rom from madcat & deeper blue.
I am endlessly happy that we have such awesome devs working on so few roms. I got sick of the G1 threads blowing up with roms that tended to break more things than they fixed.
Just look for the most recently updated threads in the dev section.
HC is based of sdk, btw.
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Do you prefer one to the other? I was looking to install Honeycomb any advice one which one is most preferable?

IMO since BC is not officially released, you will always be dealing with a not fully ready version. The dev's are doing great work with it but it is not a daily driver unlike cm7
myers022 said:
Do you prefer one to the other? I was looking to install Honeycomb any advice one which one is most preferable?
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I would stick with CM7.

CM7 all the way. HC is amazing for what they have to work with, but for daily driver, cm7 is awesome. Wait for the next nightly, and all will be well

ace7196 said:
CM7 all the way. HC is amazing for what they have to work with, but for daily driver, cm7 is awesome. Wait for the next nightly, and all will be well
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Why, what's happening in the next nightly, something new?

myers022 said:
Why, what's happening in the next nightly, something new?
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Yes do tell.

I Am Marino said:
Yes do tell.
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Yeah. Seems the more recent nightlies are having trouble with wifi. Should be fixed.
Also, so everyone is on the same page, the bootloader will be flashed as well, so that should help a lot of people out.
Also audio and video hiccups will be fixed.
It's all here. Bookmark and read along!
http://cm-nightlies.appspot.com/?device=encore

I liked DB's HC version, and the version before the recent release of madcat's where the SD card stopped working personally, I couldn't get used to the softkeys from the other versions.

I'd like to echo the responses above that suggest sticking with CM7 as a daily driver for now. HC is coming along nicely, and I do install the latest on an SD card every now and then to check out the progress, but it's really not "done" enough to use every day. CM7 is. The occasional nightly hiccup aside, it's definitely feature-complete enough for daily use.

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Yeah. Seems the more recent nightlies are having trouble with wifi. Should be fixed.
Also, so everyone is on the same page, the bootloader will be flashed as well, so that should help a lot of people out.
Also audio and video hiccups will be fixed.
It's all here. Bookmark and read along!
http://cm-nightlies.appspot.com/?device=encore
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so its cm_encore_full-86.zip that has all these issues fixed? thanks

nolook said:
so its cm_encore_full-86.zip that has all these issues fixed? thanks
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Theoretically, yes......However it is still a "nightly" build and hasn't been labeled as stable....Some things could be fixed and other stuff could have broken in the process (don't know that's the case, just saying it's a possibilty.)

Honeycomb v3.1 vs CM 7.1.0 for nook

Hi Guys,
I'm planning to install my first custom ROM on nook color. However, I am wondering how good is honeycomb port on nook. Ideally and I know the right answer is to try it out myself both and find out, but I don't have enough time to try out both since I have to give away the nook to someone.
I have honeycomb on my EEE transformer and really love it...that's why i'm favoring for HC but still if anyone can anyone details pros and cons for both HC and CM7, regarding stability, battery life and overall quirks, bugs and performance, it would be really helpful..
Regards,

HC isn't really ready for the NC.. its very buggy and still has several issues running on the NC. cm7 is very stable and well running few problems at all. just my 2 cents

Since honeycomb isnt open source, the Nook port is made from the SDK rather than source. As such, its incredibly buggy and very slow. Dont get me wrong, its impressive that it works in the first place. But by no means is it a daily driver.
CM7 is the way to go unless you absolutely must have HC app compatibility. Even if you do, we'll have ICS in a few months.

Another vote for CM7. I tried an older release of the Honeycomb port and it was pretty bad -- very laggy and a lot of stuff didn't work. Several people have said that it's not really much better even now since we don't have an official release of HC's source. I ended up going back to stock for a long time until I tried CM7. They have done great work, and even though it's based on a "phone OS" (Gingerbread), it's adapted very well to the Nook.

Thanks for reply guys..
Actually I just saw some videos of NC running HC, so I got excited..didn't know it was that buggy..i'll put CM7 on it today

Mafioso said:
Thanks for reply guys..
Actually I just saw some videos of NC running HC, so I got excited..didn't know it was that buggy..i'll put CM7 on it today
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HC may be buggy, but some of the lag that a lot of people experience is because they install it to SD and their SD card is a low class giving it lower read speed. And the default launcher is terribly slow and buggy. If you decide to use it, use a lightweight launcher like zeam.
If you're still interested in trying it out, look into dual booting it and cm7. That's what I currently have set up.

I know this ROM was not included in your original question buy I highly recommend MIUI. I have found it to be incredibly stable and fast and the UI just looks great on the NC. I have tried CM7, Phiremod, and Honeycomb and to me the look and feel of MIUI just seems to fit the NC. Anyways, just my two cents : )

when i used to have my NC dual booted with Phiremod and Honeycomb i hated using the Honeycomb because it was glitchy and slow.. i went to using CM7 Nightly 150 and havent looked back.. it runs smooth as can be, is overclocked to 1.2 ghz, and battery life is with reading alot and searching the web ( 2-4 hrs of usage a day ) i can get a solid 4-5 days on one charge... if i only use it for an hour or so a day easily 9 days.. CM7 works great and you can theme it to look like honeycomb in alot of ways..

It's not even close. Honeycomb is pathetic. Go with CM7.
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I have a Transformer too and would love to see Honeycomb on the Nook but I'd rather wait for ICS on both
I have a feeling that ICS will run better on the Nook than HC does but that is just speculation.
These developer at XDA rock so I have faith they'll make it happen as soon as Google releases the code. Yeah, I believe in Santa, the Easter Bunny and the Tooth Fairy

I have a feeling that ICS will run better on the Nook than HC does but that is just speculation.
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Of course it will as long as the source code is available.

Which ICS rom will give the best experience?

I just got my broken charger replaced so I haven't really been following development. Which ICS rom is best developed and gives the best performance and experience?

As far as I understand it, there is just one at the moment. This one: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1370873
What can be confusing is that as it's still alpha, you don't see official Cyanogen nightlies for this development effort yet. However several wonderful individuals have stepped forward to fill this need for the interim.
The other choice is if you wish to have opengl rendering turned on or not.
Soon, I'm sure you'll have four choices as 3.x kernel development is going on as well, so you'll eventually need to choose between the 2.x kernel with or without opengl and 3.x kernel with or without opengl.
What fun! But all of them are excellent.

I've used the builds from here (both opengl and not) and have been quite happy.

gregc2009 said:
I've used the builds from here (both opengl and not) and have been quite happy.
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Yeah by best rom I really meant opengl vs non opengl. Which one is better?

EverythingNook said:
Yeah by best rom I really meant opengl vs non opengl. Which one is better?
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Non is more stable with snappier performance. But only plays flash with Opera Mobile.

Krylon360, with open communication from the Nook Devs, has released AOKP for the Nook Color.
It can be found here: http://goo.gl/9Z4BR
It's nice to have some more options, and that's what AOKP is all about.

12paq said:
Krylon360, with open communication from the Nook Devs, has released AOKP for the Nook Color.
It can be found here: http://goo.gl/9Z4BR
It's nice to have some more options, and that's what AOKP is all about.
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Thanks! I'm gonna try this one.

thanks for posting that link 12paq, I have been waiting for AOKP for the nook. I've been running it for the last few hours and its running pretty nice. a few glitches here and there but nothing major, and I haven't noticed any major difference performance wise compared to cm9. big thanks to Krylon360.

Cap18k said:
thanks for posting that link 12paq, I have been waiting for AOKP for the nook. I've been running it for the last few hours and its running pretty nice. a few glitches here and there but nothing major, and I haven't noticed any major difference performance wise compared to cm9. big thanks to Krylon360.
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It's a bit buggy, but so is CM9, but maybe just a bit less. I did get Hulu to play a "House" episode, Netflix is a no go. When and if the new kernel comes out then we will likely see some performance increases to CM9 based builds.
To be on topic, I'd reluctantly recommend CM7 for the best overall Nook build, even though CM9 is very functional and fun. The Nook is not my only tablet and I use it for light reading and hardcore experimenting (I am head test monkey for my dev friends of higher aptitude, lol) I always want to be on the cutting edge, however performance and options can suffer. This tablet has been a blast as well as a fantastic learning tool for me, but as a daily runner, not so much anymore.

12paq said:
To be on topic, I'd reluctantly recommend CM7 for the best overall Nook build, even though CM9 is very functional and fun.
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I second that! Cm7 is by far the most stable ROM on the nook color. Also, I have gotten used to having my "back" button on the bottom right corner that I'm not running CM9 until they can change that.

Do you use the same cm9 rom for bootable sd card as you would to flash?
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As a general rule yes... the "recovery mode" script on Verygreen's sd install will modify the way the installer script works to install correctly...
there is an exception:
Racks' tripple boot sd has to have the files modified prior to placing on SD... so it knows which to install as primary and alternate.

RedheadTarn said:
I second that! Cm7 is by far the most stable ROM on the nook color. Also, I have gotten used to having my "back" button on the bottom right corner that I'm not running CM9 until they can change that.
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For me, since I dont spend so much time on games anymore, I made CM9 as my daily system. For sure it lags a bit at speed, in comparison to CM7, but other than that is perfectly fine.

i tried the AOKP version listed earlier and i agree its nicer and smoother than the CM9 thats going right now but i have noticed with both its less responsive than my CM7..
anyone else having this issue or is it just because its a working progress?

bmar08 said:
i tried the AOKP version listed earlier and i agree its nicer and smoother than the CM9 thats going right now but i have noticed with both its less responsive than my CM7..
anyone else having this issue or is it just because its a working progress?
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snag build 40 from goo app off the store flash that...
krylon360 did some amazing work on it its fast ...

I have tried all the CM7 from the SD Card and now from the eMMC and although I love how they run, I'm very please and happy how my Nook is running with Samiam CM9 build from eMMC. I have tried eyeballer and krylon360 builds yet for some reason they both make my Nook freeze at times while with the Samiam build I don't have that problem. I have change the launcher to ADW Ex since the Trebuchet launcher do uses more RAM than ADW. I play many games, browse the internet and just about everything. I know that there's some features that are still not working but they are not so essentials for me anyway. I don't use Netflix, the Youtube HD work sometimes and sometimes it doesn't (can't explain how or why since there are reports that HD doesn't work on CM9 yet) but I can deal with that. Again, overall I'm sticking with CM9, hoping that sooner or later the will come with an official build. Thanks for all the hard work that everyone here does.

I have found krylon360's AOKP port for the Nook Color to be more responsive and smoother than the CM9 nightly builds. Being used to using AOKP on the Galaxy Nexus, it's nice to see those power features available on the Nook as well.
Definitely looking forward to krylon360's next AOKP release! :good:

CKTurbo128 said:
I have found krylon360's AOKP port for the Nook Color to be more responsive and smoother than the CM9 nightly builds. Being used to using AOKP on the Galaxy Nexus, it's nice to see those power features available on the Nook as well.
Definitely looking forward to krylon360's next AOKP release! :good:
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+1

I second/third Krylon's AOKP. I' ve neen tinkering with all the ROM's and this is the best I've experienced so far
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LGartrell said:
I second/third Krylon's AOKP. I' ve neen tinkering with all the ROM's and this is the best I've experienced so far
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I'll give this a try tonight.
I've been happily running CM 7.1 for a long time, waiting for the ICS release. Got tired of waiting and installed a CM9 nightly a couple days ago. It was sluggish and many freezes resulted; not ready for prime time yet.

[Q] What stable ROM would you recommend?

I recently purchased this 8.9 tablet and extremely surprised how lacking the developer community is, i come from the desire hd and im updating my phone weekly sometimes even faster, but i came here and aokp/cm are apparently buggy and the threads are outdated with some even months old!
Im used to seeing pages go into 1000 pages, but here theres not even 6!
Anyway.... its a surprising change and im skeptical if its worth even rooting at all! Any recommendations?

All the ICS Roms pretty much have the same bugs and will, until the Official Update. I've tried all of them and they're definitely faster and more customizable than stock obviously but if you're looking for a 'fully functional' Rom, either try Overcome (which is a really good HC Rom) or stick with stock for another month or two. I went back to stock, rooted, removed the bloatware and apps that I wouldn't use and I'm pretty happy with that setup until something more stable comes along.

deolol said:
I recently purchased this 8.9 tablet and extremely surprised how lacking the developer community is, i come from the desire hd and im updating my phone weekly sometimes even faster, but i came here and aokp/cm are apparently buggy and the threads are outdated with some even months old!
Im used to seeing pages go into 1000 pages, but here theres not even 6!
Anyway.... its a surprising change and im skeptical if its worth even rooting at all! Any recommendations?
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Since you want to complain about lack of devs I look forward to the rom you put out..
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knipp21 said:
Since you want to complain about lack of devs I look forward to the rom you put out..
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+1 instead of complaining be thankfull of what you have if you cant contribute to anything then just keep that to yourself because that wont help. .

Yes, definitely be thankful. Check out the gtab 7 plus community. Now that's lacking!
Anyhow I'll suggest kallt kaffe's cm9 june 8 build. The latest build I've read has some issues with the device powering itself off. All in all, I've been very impressed by kallt kaffe's cm9 build/ports!

Stock ROM is ok until ICS update. Just flash the motley's kernel, overclock it to 1.4-1.5 ghz and you will be very surprised by the speed of it. Also benchmark scores will increase significantly and touchwiz will be smooth.

magnus the bullmastiff said:
Stock ROM is ok until ICS update. Just flash the motley's kernel, overclock it to 1.4-1.5 ghz and you will be very surprised by the speed of it. Also benchmark scores will increase significantly and touchwiz will be smooth.
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Agreed. But instead of stock, I recommend Overcome 3.2.

Used HC stock rom for 2 days and it was very laggy. Went straight to the ICS ROMS which are much better. Didn't test Overcome 3.2 though. Performance between AOKP and CM9 are pretty much the same but CM9 has MUCH better batterylife. Would definitely go for CM9 which is official so you can flash nightlies all week long

deolol said:
I recently purchased this 8.9 tablet and extremely surprised how lacking the developer community is, i come from the desire hd and im updating my phone weekly sometimes even faster, but i came here and aokp/cm are apparently buggy and the threads are outdated with some even months old!
Im used to seeing pages go into 1000 pages, but here theres not even 6!
Anyway.... its a surprising change and im skeptical if its worth even rooting at all! Any recommendations?
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CM10 previews are the business right now......
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StarkCity said:
CM10 previews are the business right now......
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Anyone here tried CM10 Preview for GT-P7300 and experienced Wifi tethering issues? Ive just tried the "now defunct" AOSP 4.1.1 Port. I share my 3G all the time and i dont mind other bugs.

martin707 said:
Anyone here tried CM10 Preview for GT-P7300 and experienced Wifi tethering issues? Ive just tried the "now defunct" AOSP 4.1.1 Port. I share my 3G all the time and i dont mind other bugs.
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Can't confirm. I'm 7310. But ask in the dev section for our cm10 build. Someone will know.
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fastest ROm for Nook Color

Hello,
I have installed CM10 some time ago and i've notice that the device gets really slow to the point that it takes a few seconds from any app to come up once "clicked"
Anyone can recommend a fast ROM for this device?
Thanks.

Any CM7 flavor will get you there. It is up for debate as to whether the MCROM, Mirage, or official CM7.2 is faster, but I think it's mostly splitting hairs.
I don't know if CM10, when finally finished cooking, will ever be able to match the speed of CM7, but I doubt it.

PToN22 said:
Hello,
I have installed CM10 some time ago and i've notice that the device gets really slow to the point that it takes a few seconds from any app to come up once "clicked"
Anyone can recommend a fast ROM for this device?
Thanks.
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For me the CM10 seems faster than the CM7 - CM10 is stll being worked on, but for me it is stable and fast. Screen draws are quick.

PToN22 said:
Hello,
I have installed CM10 some time ago and i've notice that the device gets really slow to the point that it takes a few seconds from any app to come up once "clicked"
Anyone can recommend a fast ROM for this device?
Thanks.
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I'm currently running CM9 with V6 supercharge scripts enabled and it cooks along at a good clip. No lag or any issues at all.

The current CM10 Alpha is pretty fast
PToN22 said:
Hello,
I have installed CM10 some time ago and i've notice that the device gets really slow to the point that it takes a few seconds from any app to come up once "clicked"
Anyone can recommend a fast ROM for this device?
Thanks.
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I've been doing my own builds of CM10 for a while, and it's easily twice as fast as CM9 right now, even in alpha. Bit stuttery, though.

CM10 is a bit better than 9, but 7 is clearly the fastest. I think 512MB RAM is just not enough for Android 3/4, and these OSs are clearly also more demanding on the CPU and GPU.

I don't know which one is fastest and I recommend you try them all. We have many excellent developers working on ROMs for the Nook.
I seem to be having very good experiences with the latest MiRaGe build from here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1344873 and the updated Kernel from here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1649390.
M-Rom has some very nice eye-candy if that is what you prefer and of course CM9/CM10 add all kinds of nice features.
I hope this helps.

Personally, I'd actually recommend trying the newest CM10 Alpha that's been going around. It's quite stable, minus the lack of OpenGL (hardware acceleration), HD YouTube, and Netflix. Although, if you can, I'd build it from source. A lot of bugs have been fixed since they have gotten CM10 up and running, including the n button bug in the thread.
For me, it feels like every time I update my source code and build, it gets faster and faster each time.

First of all, great job to all the devs and all the people that are still working hard on the old but yet always renew Nook Color, I appreciate the non stop hard work.
I'm loving what this new baby CM10 alpha is doing with my Nook, it is faster, more responsive and so far more stable than the ICS builds that I have tried. Wonderful job guys. And I know it is just the beginning.
I'm running the eMMC dual boot by Taosaur. I'm running CM7 on the alternative partition and CM10 alpha on the primary partition and both are running great. It is the beat combo yet.
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