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HC official SDK out, where is HC 5?

The official SDK for Android 3.0 has been out there for a day or two (cf Android developers website)
And still no port of this release on the NC
Can't wait for the HC v05 image for NC !

SDK only helps you develop apps, they need the asop code to better port hc.
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Source needs to be dropped for us to have better builds.
So by Google's open source platform is open source when the first consumer product gets sold right so when the zoom comes out look for it then

I can't wait til we have a fully ported version of HC, it will be awesome. I never expected to have it on the NC when I bought it. I wanted something inexpensive that I could root and use for web browsing, gmail, google voice, running flash, and playing a few games. I didn't think it would ever be running HC and I was ok with that. Everyone has done an amazing job and there is much more to come. This Nook is a cool device for sure.

Could the B&N update actually be Honeycomb???

Okay gang - here's a twist for you...
On the Nook Facebook page, they posted this on March 24th:
You asked, we listened. This spring, use your NOOK Color to send e-mail and explore popular apps like Angry Birds, Drawing Pad, Lonely Planet Phrasebooks, and Wine PhD. Stay tuned here for news about these exciting new features and when the firmware update will be ready. (P.S. Yes! We said Angry Birds!) What apps would you love to see on your NOOK Color?
Now - go take a gander at Drawing Pad - the minimum is Android 3.0.
Hmmmmm.....

Very, very unlikely. The Nook does not meet the hardware requirements mandated by Google.
http://www.mytabletlife.com/2011/04/15/google-hardware-requirements-honeycomb/

Those min requirements arent from google, they were stated by lg I think it was as an excuse not to update their products.
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Honeycomb isn't really ready at this point (Xoom aside). It's been announced several times that the update will be Froyo, although Gingerbread would be nice (but there is always CM7 for that).

the B&N update may just be 2.1
On Apr 6, BN posted this on the Nook developer site:
"What version of Android is supported for development?
Simon Walker posted this on Apr-06 18:43
Your application should be optimized for Google Android SDK Platform 2.1 API 7"
This would imply that the update is a most likely a patch with a very restrictive BN apps market.
However, some very smart guys on XDA think that it's 2.2.

fpga_guy said:
On Apr 6, BN posted this on the Nook developer site:
"What version of Android is supported for development?
Simon Walker posted this on Apr-06 18:43
Your application should be optimized for Google Android SDK Platform 2.1 API 7"
This would imply that the update is a most likely a patch with a very restrictive BN apps market.
However, some very smart guys on XDA think that it's 2.2.
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the reason why people believe it to be 2.2 is because b&n have announced that it will have flash support along with the b&n market.

knaries2000 said:
the reason why people believe it to be 2.2 is because b&n have announced that it will have flash support along with the b&n market.
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BN has NOT announced. Perhaps you can provide a link to the BN announcement. HSN is NOT BN. In fact, HSN has removed flash from their NC ads.

The streak 10 pro is out

So the dell streak 10 pro launched today, and it's based off the same tegra chipset as the s7.
In the highly unlikely event that someone in china makes a full dump of the rom mabye it would mean a slightly closer to stock 3.1 rom.
Though the xoom dump is 3.2 and this might still be a step backwards.
The S10 will get 3.2 reasonably soon though, as the dev team has had 3.2 for nearly a month now, they musta gotten it too late to ship with it though.

I have had the Streak 10 Pro in hand for days, it's amazing.
I'd like to dump the 3.1 rom for you guys but someone has to provide proper tools first.
Maybe you can give me some guide?

Who here knows how to do this?

TheManii said:
The S10 will get 3.2 reasonably soon though
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'Reasonably soon' in Dell-speak means 6 months after everyone else is using Ice Cream Sandwich - if you're lucky !

Dell has had 3.2 in the works since early july, if it's launch had been pushed back a couple weeks it likely would have shipped with 3.2 installed
Beany said:
I have had the Streak 10 Pro in hand for days, it's amazing.
I'd like to dump the 3.1 rom for you guys but someone has to provide proper tools first.
Maybe you can give me some guide?
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either you can root and dump every partition manually,
or you can use whatever method they used to dump all the partitions on the streak 7, you should check out the threads regarding the stock rom backups for the s7

Try gingerbreak. I know it was confirmed that it rooted the acer a500. Which has 3.1
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gingerbreak is not working for Streak 10, I tried several times....

TheManii said:
So the dell streak 10 pro launched today, and it's based off the same tegra chipset as the s7.
In the highly unlikely event that someone in china makes a full dump of the rom mabye it would mean a slightly closer to stock 3.1 rom.
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Actually, just to correct you a bit, the Streak 10 Pro has the same Terga CPU as the Iconia A500 and other newer tablets. The Streak 7 uses the older "Harmony" version of the Tegra 2, which AFAIK has NO devices running an official Honeycomb release, yet.
Also, just because it's from Dell as well doesn't mean the S10Pro is closer in hardware to the S7 than the Xoom is.
The best idea for the S7 is just to wait a couple weeks until the official release of HoneyComb on the WiFi version of the S7 and then just add the 3G services back in.
One last thing: anyone can easily make a ROM dump with a rooted device.
Sent from Vera, my Iconia A500; All dressed up going places!

Hellzya said:
Try gingerbreak. I know it was confirmed that it rooted the acer a500. Which has 3.1
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Actually, Gingerbreak does not work on the Iconia running 3.1. I think it may have worked on one of the earlier 3.0 releases though.
We have a tool specifically for rooting the Iconia A500 over in the Iconia forum.
Sent from Vera, my Iconia A500; All dressed up going places!

My bad that it was the 3.0 builds.
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Gingerbreak requires a SD card but the OS of Streak 10 is 3.1, which cannot read SD card yet......

What do you mean 3.1 can't read SD cards? My Iconia running 3.1 reads my SD card just fine?
But AFAIK, Google fixed the Gingerbreak exploit in Gingerbread 2.3.3 and Honeycomb 3.1
Sent from Vera, my Iconia A500; All dressed up going places!

Dell says that, and it's true.

Anyone know when the pro 10 is making its way to the states?
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Actually there's no way to root this device for now
We are not able to this, is there any dev can give us some guide?

Got it
Had one of my friends bring me one back from China.
It seems strangely locked down. No Android market or even a option to add a google account.
I'll happily assist XDA in anyway possible, just let me know what you want
In the meantime, is there any way that I can get Market on (should be possible to side-load it from somewhere, right?)
Dell Streak 10 Pro
Andriod 3.1
Kernel 2.6.36.3-00003-g9e0ffef
Build 201107220948
OEM ver GALLO1A154615

it's been stated that the s10 wont have any gapps included, you will need to manually sideload market and it's dependencies into it to make it work
Could you make a NV flash dump before playing around with it? I intend to myself when i recieve mine (which may be a while) but if something goes wrong it couldnt hurt to make one asap

No android devices from China come with the Google Apps.
No surprise there.
Sent from Vera, my Iconia A500; All dressed up going places!

TheManii said:
Could you make a NV flash dump before playing around with it? I intend to myself when i recieve mine (which may be a while) but if something goes wrong it couldnt hurt to make one asap
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Good call. Any ideas on how I actually do that?
I assume that i need to "nvflash --getpartitiontable" and "nvflash --read [partition] [partitionfile]", but I'm stuck at "USB device not found" and guessing I need to get it into recovery mode, but the usual tricks doesn't help (vol- nothing, vol+ nothing, vol[both] "safe mode"??)
Tried some goggling, but not much to go on (A-ROM noob - used to play with WME)

You'll just have to read up on how to do it on the s10, I dont have any tegra 2 devices myself so i've never used nvflash. Follow the directions for the s7 as it's more or less the same device but larger
If it's stuck because it cant find the drivers, try manually force installing the s7 ones. It will complain but for the moment it should work. If you're only doing reads and no writes worst case it should merely make bad dumps and shouldnt harm your device.
When 3.2 comes out for the s10 I'll dump the contents of the pkg (assuming it still uses pkgs) and prep a recovery image. But preinstalled roms (especially the initial rom) are not available as pkgs. A nv flash backup is the only way to properly back it up. (A nandroid comes close, but it doesnt dump everything, just as much a custom recovery isnt available yet anyway)

The NC v.1.4

OK so it seems we are getting a new version 1.4.
what do we know.......

Well it seems both Nook Tablet and Nook Color are getting 1.4.
Would that mean that it could be based on something higher than Froyo.
Since B&N is marketing theit new product as a tablet that could probably link to a tablet os for both devices.
Maybe...

How does 1.4 effect...
While the news sites are touting the new "stuff" in NC 1.4, how will this effect those of us with Rooted NC's? ( remeber the problem the 1.3 upgrade had )
I look forward to some of the new apps, mostly the HuluPlus app... I wonder if that means they will be unblocking regular Hulu from us too?
Tom
Proud user of a rooted NC ( manual nooter )

tomsheeley said:
While the news sites are touting the new "stuff" in NC 1.4, how will this effect those of us with Rooted NC's? ( remeber the problem the 1.3 upgrade had )
I look forward to some of the new apps, mostly the HuluPlus app... I wonder if that means they will be unblocking regular Hulu from us too?
Tom
Proud user of a rooted NC ( manual nooter )
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I would say to hold off on updating if you can until xda either gives the go-ahead or has a procedure to follow.
As for Hulu -- I would assume regular Hulu will still be blocked, unfortunately. They seem to have a stance that everything but a PC is a mobile device and subject to different rules.

No idea about whether its going to be gingerbread.
The update is not out and wouldn't be surprised if it doesn't until nooktablet launch. The 1.1 update for the simple touch is out.
From what I can tell, there is going to be some sort of 'account management' app so you can handle gift cards and credit cards without the need of the browser. Netflix will be available as a download from the press quotes I'm seeing.
Does gingerbread give any DRM security that froyo doesn't? Because that might be the only reason why it would get bumped up to a new andoird version, to appease Hulu and Netflix (and their evil masters)

i think the most interesting thing is wether they updated the kernel version.....

I'm impressed with B&N's support of the NC. You don't see this many updates on phones.

It is easier to update a device if you don't have a third party in between the developers and the users (i.e. cellular carriers)

Good news is that it does actually apear to be Gingerbread, on the other hand BN decided to delay it until December.
And the delay appears to be a marketing decision, according to what people are saying on the bn forums.

Thanks for the advice, but how can I stop the update until XDA has help for us?

Netflix blocking chromecast for devices older than 4.0 with screen of hate

In its latest anti-consumer move Netflix has deemed that only those with Android devices greater than version 4.0 should be allowed to cast videos to chromecast.
While my streaming streaming service worked fine last night, I went to watch some netflix this morning on my chromecast and was met with only the screen of hate:
Please update the Netflix application on our mobile device to continue casting Netflix to this TV.
Netflix works with Android 4.0 and later, iOS 6.0 and later, and the latest version of Chrome.
For more information, visit www.netflix.com/chromecasthelp
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I have no intention of replacing my android device at the minute, and will probably just end up using an android RDP app to start the streaming from a pc, but maybe I will give my $8 a month to Cruntchyroll or Hulu+ or someone who still wants to provide service to my devices.
so, here is my plea to netflix from the internet:
dear reed hastings,
I can haz chromecast streamings back plz?
kthanks

I like backwards compatibility, but are you really laden with devices that have 4.0 on them still? No access to a desktop so you can install Chrome on it?
I prefer Swedish Netflix...

Sorry, but Android 4.0 its already more then 3 years old, and it has been replaced with versions 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4 and 5.0. I think, that they hold backward compatibility for good amount of time. Google himself are desperately trying to replace 2.x versions of Android, which is a 4 years old system, so I don't see anything wrong on compatibility with just 4.0+ system.

Srandista said:
Sorry, but Android 4.0 its already more then 3 years old, and it has been replaced with versions 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4 and 5.0. I think, that they hold backward compatibility for good amount of time. Google himself are desperately trying to replace 2.x versions of Android, which is a 4 years old system, so I don't see anything wrong on compatibility with just 4.0+ system.
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I agree but I also understand the frustration of anyone still stuck on Gingerbread.
What is likely the case here is Netflix app is now using google code to do ccasting where before it may have been built into the app itself.
While it sucks to have to go buy a new device just to get Netflix support it really is time for the OP to look at upgrading.