So Long...
Update 3/22: Autopatcher is updated for CM10.1 and should be working for all devices. Check our dedicated TabletUI thread maintained by Caldair.
I was about to post this in the CM10 user thread, but figured I would give it it's own thread to make it easy to find.
I have seen a couple people request combined bars and/or tabletUI for the CM10 build. You can get true tabletUI by using my tool the auto-patcher. It is linked in my sig and runs on Linux or OSX terminals and Windows actually has a GUI.
It just outputs a flashable zip that you install directly over the ROM, as well as a restore.zip.
The command in the terminal would look like this (the cm stands for Cyanogen and due to some irregular build.prop entries in the build, it is required:
Code:
./auto_patcher cm-fullofbugsETC.zip tabletUI cm
The attachments from this thread have been taken down as they were for the beta builds. Now that the Nook Color has Official CM10 builds, those zips no longer apply (Thanks to our encore CM10 team!)
If you want tabletUI on a CM10 Official Nightly Build, you have two options that I know of:
You can use my tool the Autopatcher to apply tabletUI to any build, for any rom/device that doesn't come with Tablet as stock.
Works on Linux, OSX and Windows
Windows has a GUI
One command outputs a flashable zip.
works for emmc and sdcard installs.
./auto_patcher CM10-encore.zip voice (for those of you who want to use the command line)
You can use the ParanoidAndroid build (also nightly!) for the Nook Color- All the work and code from the CM10 kernel and device tree are used in these, so all the benefits are there as well.
Allows choice of Tablet, Phablet, Phone or combination thereof.
If someone is regularly making TabletUI zips for the CM10 nightlies and wants to maintain a post in this thread with download links, I can link to it in this space, but you should trust me that it is better just leave it up to individuals. The zips go out of date pretty often, and the Auto-Patcher is easy to use...
Since this is all just a little over my head, I for one thank you for the zip!
Edit- tried this out. Love the tablet UI, but it split my wallpaper into 4 sections, didn't like my apex launcher (app drawer came up narrow and took a long time to load) and overall made my nook run very slow and the screen became very unresponsive. I ran the restore and ran the update again, just to be sure. Same problems.
Maybe it's just my nook. I'm interested to see how others fare.
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This is really cool and I had gotten use to the tabletUI on my Nexus7.......thanks for posting this!!!!!
@k8108, I am running Nova Launcher....IDK if that makes a difference or not.
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What happens when the NC is held in portrait direction.. still a tablet interface, or back to the familiar one that comes stock with the alpha build?
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What happens when the NC is held in portrait direction.. still a tablet interface, or back to the familiar one that comes stock with the alpha build?
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It goes back to portrait mode. The notification bar stays at the bottom. But you still get the cool split screens in the settings menu.
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k8108 said:
Since this is all just a little over my head, I for one thank you for the zip!
Edit- tried this out. Love the tablet UI, but it split my wallpaper into 4 sections, didn't like my apex launcher (app drawer came up narrow and took a long time to load) and overall made my nook run very slow and the screen became very unresponsive. I ran the restore and ran the update again, just to be sure. Same problems.
Maybe it's just my nook. I'm interested to see how others fare.
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I am not one to discount user experience, but these are VERY minor edits. VERY, lol.
Not much here that would impact response time or anything of that nature. You can look at the patches here. Go ahead and ignore the framework-res patch, since it isn't applied as lockscreen rotation is already merged into this build.
As far as I know, you should be okay with most launchers, but I haven't tried Apex. I do know that Nova and Trebuchet work fine.
Works like a charm. Thanks man.
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Still a noob. Sorry but I don't know how to use the zips. Do I run it from an sd?
Edit: duh... answered my own question.
Thanks! I love the tablet UI!
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Thanks mateorod!
So, from all of these kudos, I must be doing something wrong. I install it over CM10 alpha, and Trebuchet gets very ill, can't start, and reports closing continually. I pop into settings/apps and clear Trebuchet's data, and it's stable for just a little while as I set up my homescreen again, then dies continuously again.
I reflash the alpha and gapps (because I wasn't paranoid enough download the restore zip first), download the restore zip, flash alpha, gapps, and update all at once, and I get the same behavior. I wiped both caches each time.
I flash restore, and all is well.
Any ideas?
Tablet UI looks perfect, though!
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stolenmoment said:
So, from all of these kudos, I must be doing something wrong. I install it over CM10 alpha, and Trebuchet gets very ill, can't start, and reports closing continually. I pop into settings/apps and clear Trebuchet's data, and it's stable for just a little while as I set up my homescreen again, then dies continuously again.
I reflash the alpha and gapps (because I wasn't paranoid enough download the restore zip first), download the restore zip, flash alpha, gapps, and update all at once, and I get the same behavior. I wiped both caches each time.
I flash restore, and all is well.
Any ideas?
Tablet UI looks perfect, though!
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Hmm...for some reason my subscription to this thread isn't working. I hadn't seen any of the recent comments.
To be honest, I don't know why you are seeing this. Have you been running CM10 for awhile? There is possibly some setting interfering. But I have seen a lot of people use this for a bunch of devices, with almost no problems. Like I said earlier, the actual changes are quite minor. The source code just blocks access to tabletUI at certain settings, and I unblock them. That's it, it is stuff that is already in the code and meant to work.
My recommendation would be to try and install a different launcher and see what happens. If that works, then reinstall Trebuchet from Play or another source and see how that goes.
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Hmm...for some reason my subscription to this thread isn't working. I hadn't seen any of the recent comments.
To be honest, I don't know why you are seeing this. Have you been running CM10 for awhile?
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No, only the alpha.
The source code just blocks access to tabletUI at certain settings, and I unblock them. That's it, it is stuff that is already in the code and meant to work.
My recommendation would be to try and install a different launcher and see what happens. If that works, then reinstall Trebuchet from Play or another source and see how that goes.
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I restored ADW from my CM9 Titanium backup and it works just fine. I like it a lot better than Trebuchet, in fact, but I was trying to go with the flow. EDIT: The background scrolls, which Trebuchet never managed to do.
As a test, I cleared ADW's default and tried Trebuchet again, and it fails unless I force stop and delete its data. I'll try adding things to the homescreen when I get time, but work and kids push that back on my list.
I really like having the tablet UI back! I do miss the power widget in the notifications, though. Is there a way to add it?
Thanks for this. It was one of only 2 issues I had with the CM10 build (the other is no openGL, so no chrome). Works great, but I can confirm it doesn't play nice with the Apex Launcher app drawer - the icons are zoomed in cutting off the label and side of the icons. It's not big deal for me though, as I rarely use my app drawer, and I can still identify the apps. Just thought I'd report it on this thread as a known issue. No other issues at all.
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IDK how tied in to your Launchers you folks are, but this works great with Nova.
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Tablet UI update.zip constantly crashing - possible solution
stolenmoment said:
So, from all of these kudos, I must be doing something wrong. I install it over CM10 alpha, and Trebuchet gets very ill, can't start, and reports closing continually. I pop into settings/apps and clear Trebuchet's data, and it's stable for just a little while as I set up my homescreen again, then dies continuously again.
I reflash the alpha and gapps (because I wasn't paranoid enough download the restore zip first), download the restore zip, flash alpha, gapps, and update all at once, and I get the same behavior. I wiped both caches each time.
I flash restore, and all is well.
Any ideas?
Tablet UI looks perfect, though!
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I may have found a solution for your issue of Trebuchet crashing after flashing the tablet UI update.zip file.
I was having the exact same problem as you described it, and it was your post that helped me to fix it on my NC.
This is what I did:
1. Wiped everything
2. Installed CM10 Alpha + GAPPs (I didn't install the tablet UI update.zip yet)
3. REBOOTED-
4 .I bypassed setting up WIFI and my account, and went straight to Settings>Apps> and cleared Trebuchet's data cache.
5. REBOOTED into Recovery, and flashed the tablet UI update.zip file, and cleared caches once more for good measure.
After Android booted, I got a single FC from 'Google', not Trebuchet.
6. Went straight back to >SettingsApps> and cleared Trebuchet's cache one last time, and rebooted one last time.
My Nook is now running the tablet UI, and is stable. It may be that one or two of the steps I took were superfluous, but it working for me now.
You helped, because I was unaware that Trebuchet had a data cache that could be cleared by the user- something you pointed out.
I'd really like to know if this works for you because this is my very first forum post, and it would make my day to know I actually helped.
Thanks to Mateorod for posting the file, and the XDA community for breathing new life into the NookColor.
[ I watched XDA's 'Noob Video', now I need a therapist!]
Just an update on my experience with the tablet ui. Almost everything works well except Hotmail (no headers), and swiftkey (doesn't think I have a tablet). Also can't get the swipe to work to adjust brightness.
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Has anyone successfully installed this patch to CM10 Alpha1 running on an SD card?
I have tried and get a boot loop. I even tried cmdralpha's trick about doing a fresh install and clearing Trebuchet's cache before installing the patch. No joy.
I don't think I can run Clockwork Recovery from the same SD card I am booting my ROM from, so this makes updating and restoring a pain.
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Has anyone successfully installed this patch to CM10 Alpha1 running on an SD card?
I have tried and get a boot loop. I even tried cmdralpha's trick about doing a fresh install and clearing Trebuchet's cache before installing the patch. No joy.
I don't think I can run Clockwork Recovery from the same SD card I am booting my ROM from, so this makes updating and restoring a pain.
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You cannot use his zip to install the patch to SD using CWM. He has it hard coded to flash to emmc. I will look at it to see if there is something I can do to make it work on SD.
EDIT: So far I have not been successful in getting a zip to work on my SD install. Theoretically you should be able to just rename to update-.zip and put it into your boot partition and boot to the SD recovery. It loads ok, but hangs on boot animation on booting. It could be because have my resolution set to phone gui and using ADW launcher.
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You cannot use his zip to install the patch to SD using CWM. He has it hard coded to flash to emmc. I will look at it to see if there is something I can do to make it work on SD.
EDIT: So far I have not been successful in getting a zip to work on my SD install. Theoretically you should be able to just rename to update-.zip and put it into your boot partition and boot to the SD recovery. It loads ok, but hangs on boot animation on booting. It could be because have my resolution set to phone gui and using ADW launcher.
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Hmmm...interesting. The updater-script that is used is just a cat if the existing one from the ROM. But I will admit, this patcher is a general tool, used by all devices and the Nook is the first I know of to try and use it with a sdcard install. If one of you sdcard folks would pull a logcat, I will look at it.
I can't think of why it would matter, this is the same thing we did with Botbrew, for instance, and sdcard installs worked no problem. Might just be a tabletUI issue, although again, I can't imagine why...
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I hope mods will find this thread informative and not remove it as I think I have few things to share that people can really use and be aware of when getting their Nook Color rooted and stup with CM7 ROMs.
Reason I am writing my experience is that I feel there was some info that could have been more informative and straight forward (other than confusing minor parts that wasted some of my time )...
I started without much of the knowledge about how to root Nook, etc and read several stickies on "how to" stuff... After all I managed to get following flashed onto my nook color:
CM7 (7.0.2 stable ROM version)
Gapps
Dalingrin's OC kernel (4/24/11)
Clockworkmod (updated it through the ROM Manager at the later time).
Here is several advices I think you should know about;
1. Do go and check "How to videos" on Youtube in regards to installing CM7 on your Nook Color!
2. If you are going for CM7 ROM, there is no need to root your Nook with "manual nooter" ... you can use MN only if you want to keep all options but gain Market app and other apps as well... I recommend going CM7 since it is rooted already and everything gets taken care of in three simple steps:
a) Burn bootable SD Card with Win32DiskImager and use 1GB Clockworkmod Image you can find here at xda forums.
b) Once done, copy ROM and Gapps and Kernel .zip archives onto the root of yor SD Card (do not rename any files at any time)
c) Insert SD Card into Nook and boot it, it will go into Clockwork mode and do the following:
***FIRST go to "Mount/Storage" and format SYSTEM, then format DATA and then format CACHE
***Select Install from SD Card and then install files in this order:
-1- CM7 ROM
-2- Gapps pack
-3- OC Kernel
3. Once done with everything shut down Nook, take out SD Card and place it back into SD Card reader (do not use any phones to do this - SD Card readers are preferable... if you ask me, yes I did use my phone and it worked just fine).
4. Find Panasonic SD Formatter v2 (or v3) online, install it and then format the SD Card to wipe all of the stuff on it... I formatted the old fashioned way and it worked just fine... either or you go for it's up to you.
5. Place back formatted SD Card into the Nook and boot it.
Note: CM7 uses SD Card for a storage and that's why format was necessary
IMPORTANT 1: CM7 comes pre-loaded with ADWLauncher (regular non-EX version) and I have to say it was bit choppy (even with OCing CPU to 1.2GHz)... I went and installed LauncherPro to test it and have to say MUCH SMOOTHER... yes, iPad smooth if you are asking me when it comes to sliding home screens (video is pending update, you will see it for yourself).
IMPORTANT 2: Lots of people is talking about battery life, renaming Phone apk and Telephony service apk ... IT IS SIMPE: when you are using WiFi have Airplane mode OFF; when you are done with WiFi, simply turn Airplane Mode ON and that will (as made to do) disable phone services. Just one button more to press BUT it saves you whole lots of battery. I charged it about 2hrs ago and since then used tablet for about 10 minutes on Wifi and that was it. Phone idle is 5%!!! until I figured to try with airplane mode... and it works...
UPDATE - Important Note: I forgot to mention that kernel does allow OCing but currently I am testing it under regular clock (800MHz and 300MHz) - launcher scroll home screens works just as smooth and I turned off fade-in/out when clicking on App Drawer just because I am not big on eye-candy.
Try it for yourself and report back - I would be glad to hear this worked for others and not only me
Great post. I personally found Zeam Launcher to be the snappiest luancher for my device but YMMV. To add to the original post I made a thread concerning the volume settings for the Nook that can be found HERE. I have mine overclocked to 1.3Ghz and I can get a full day of heavy use out of it as long as I turn off WIFI when it is not needed. Just add a shortcut to your notification bar under the Cyanogen Tablet Settings option. Also add a brightness shortcut to it and keep it as low as possible. Make sure to turn off auto-brightness in the display menu that's found under Settings.
If you posted this a few months back, it would be great.
Now, it's a bit outdated.
Thanks for the effort.
There's really no reason to be using 7.0.3, much less 7.0.2. Grab a recent nightly (I can vouch for 176, but have seen some trouble reports on 177, haven't looked into the just released 197) and up-to-date gapps (bottom of this page). Dal's overclock kernel is built-in, along with other features designed to work with the Nook Tweaks app.
The problem with battery life in older versions of CM7 is that the device will not deep sleep. That was solved with the move to 7.1.
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There's really no reason to be using 7.0.3, much less 7.0.2. Grab a recent nightly (I can vouch for 176, but have seen some trouble reports on 177, haven't looked into the just released 197) and up-to-date gapps (bottom of this page). Dal's overclock kernel is built-in, along with other features designed to work with the Nook Tweaks app.
The problem with battery life in older versions of CM7 is that the device will not deep sleep. That was solved with the move to 7.1.
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This.
Stables are so far behind its not even funny.
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votinh said:
If you posted this a few months back, it would be great.
Now, it's a bit outdated.
Thanks for the effort.
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Did you REALLY have to post that? Outdated for who? You? Maybe a few months ago this would have been outdated for me but its helpful and useful.
Congrats Mo on 602!
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Did you REALLY have to post that? Outdated for who? You? Maybe a few months ago this would have been outdated for me but its helpful and useful.
Congrats Mo on 602!
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Why did you jump on too hard?
Did you see I posted "thanks for the effort"?
You don't see it's outdated?
Have you seen any threads asking why format /data yielded problem?
If you install lately nightly build, would you recommend others to install OC kernels version 04/21/2011?
I just pointed out for new comers that if they have their NC, mostly likely version 1.2, this instructions are outdated and they should NOT go out and hunting for old stuff. That's all.
Looks like the TurboTax 2011 Android Tablet app has a free to file deal – normally $67 for federal and state – going on this weekend. I’m getting a ‘This item is not compatible with your device’ error.
I’m running CM 7.1.0 – an article on phandroid says that you need an ‘Android 3.2+ tablet or Amazon Kindle Fire” to run the app.
Any ideas of a workaround? Is it possible to pretend you are using a different tablet?
Thanks for any ideas…
After a little searching, I installed root browser lite and edited the build.prop file (in the system folder).
ro.product.model=Xoom
ro.product.brand=verizon
ro.product.name=trygon
ro.product.device=stingray
ro.product.board=
where the ro.product.board line is blank.
Followed by a reboot and then this:
Settings -> Manage Applications -> All -> Market
Clear Cache then Force Stop -- DO NOT clear data
Settings -> Manage Applications -> All -> Google Services Framework
Clear data then Force Stop
I’m now seeing a Motorola Xoom device show up in the yellow ‘your devices’ box, but TurboTax is listing the Xoom as incompatible. Strange as there are a few positive reviews from Xoom users, so I must be doing something wrong.
I also tried to edit the build.prop file with values for a Kindle Fire, but could not get the market to launch. Will prob try to play with this a little more.
Android 3.x is Honeycomb. CM7 is gingerbread. Big differences there. Even if you found the apk, it might not be able to install.
my brain was all kinds of stupid when I read the 2.3.7 version number as 3.2.something.
thanks. maybe i'll try an ics build this weekend.
I'm dualbooting with cm9 worked for me. It is worth to do a nandroid backup and then install cm9, do your taxes and go back to cm7. Best deal on Turbo tax. This is legit. Free federal and state efiling. I already had the pc version but didn't file yet. Glad I didn't.
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Thanks, zires, for letting me know that it works under CM9.
FYI, I'm running CM7 internally, and installed CM9 to an SD card.
Everything you need (ICS build, Gapps, and SD installer) can be found here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1444943
Thanks that is the easiest way. Forgot about booting off of SD.Gotta love our nook color.
MrPib said:
Thanks, zires, for letting me know that it works under CM9.
FYI, I'm running CM7 internally, and installed CM9 to an SD card.
Everything you need (ICS build, Gapps, and SD installer) can be found here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1444943
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Don't know it this is a setting somewhere or what, but I have a question on using the Kindle app on the Nook Color running cmod 7 (7.20 stable). The app runs okay, but I seem to be missing a navigation bar once I start reading a book. It only shows the title and where I am - no options to go back to the Kindle menu (like if I want to read a different book). The only way I can get back to the Kindle menu is to reboot.
I've searched the forum and the closest thread to this problem talks about changing the settings - I don't seem to have any settings to adjust. Even if I go to settings/applications/manage applications/downloaded/kindle there still aren't any changable options.
Sorry for so many questions - I'm a noob. I've searched the net on this and searched this forum with no luck.
any help is greatly appreciated!
Thanks in advance!
Dave
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Don't know it this is a setting somewhere or what, but I have a question on using the Kindle app on the Nook Color running cmod 7 (7.20 stable). The app runs okay, but I seem to be missing a navigation bar once I start reading a book. It only shows the title and where I am - no options to go back to the Kindle menu (like if I want to read a different book). The only way I can get back to the Kindle menu is to reboot.
I've searched the forum and the closest thread to this problem talks about changing the settings - I don't seem to have any settings to adjust. Even if I go to settings/applications/manage applications/downloaded/kindle there still aren't any changable options.
Sorry for so many questions - I'm a noob. I've searched the net on this and searched this forum with no luck.
any help is greatly appreciated!
Thanks in advance!
Dave
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On my device I only have to tap the middle of the page and the menus all pop up.
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Still no go......
Tried that - I still only get the title at the top and the how much I've read meter at the bottom - no menu.
Thanks for replying!
Dave
dweaton said:
Tried that - I still only get the title at the top and the how much I've read meter at the bottom - no menu.
Thanks for replying!
Dave
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What version of the Kindle app are you using? Try updating to the latest version.
Also try playing with the settings in cm. Go to settings, cyanogenmod settings, tablet tweaks, and play with checking and unchecking disable full screen.
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uh.....I'm not sure
Thanks for the reply! I downloaded the Kindle app via Amazon, so hopefully it is whatever is their latest. I sure didn't know about the settings, so I'll give the go and see what happens! I do get the drop down from the top stating the title, and the pull-up from the bottom, but the bottom only has how much I've read so far.
Thanks again!
Dave
EDIT: Well, I don't have the tablet options. Everything in there is for a phone! Seems kind of weird on a device that doesn't have a phone.
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I tried the cyanogenmod settings, and while everything there was for a phone, I turned off things like vibrate, etc. - pretty much everything dealing with a phone. Now when I try to go back to cyanogenmod settings, the app aborts.
I also look in the dev settings and see a config file in there that set s default resolutions, etc., and includes an option that looks like it hides the menu bar, so I used terminal (I am familiar with Linux) and checked for such a file for the system but wasn't able to locate one. I'm wondering if there's a setting like that somewhere, as I don't get any back arrows, menu, etc., just on the pages, and was wondering if that was also stopping me from getting the full menu bar in the Kindle app?
So you do NOT see the word Kindle in orange Aa, magnifying glass and three vertical dots and a bookmark icon as well as the blue dot and position in book at the bottom of screen when you touch anywhere that is NOT the far left and far right of the screen?
And you do NOT see the back, home, recent apps and "menu" button in the bar at the bottom of the screen outside of the kindle window?
Dev settings? no such beast in CM7 or CM9
There is a Developer options which has nothing to do with any sort of resolutions..
I suggest you reinstall CM7.2 release from the official site, stay out of ADB, and stay away from all the various "work in progress" roms until you can actually navigate the default device...
I think you probably got a bit happy and broke something .. there is a setting in CM7 settings to disable fullscreen apps from hiding the "menubar" at the far bottom of the screen and that should be under tablet tweaks in the system settings app.
Yep, none of those
Yep - none of those. This was just after getting 7.0 stable installed and loading in the gapps, since the gapps file was dated just slightly after that release. Immediately went and got Kindle and Nook reader apps. Tried them to be sure they looked like they were working and then applied the zip of 7.2 stable. I didn't try the cyanogenmod settings until later when it was posted in this thread. Again, there are no options in there for a tablet - only a phone. I don't mind going back and doing everything over, just as long as I don't end up in that deadly embrace of things aborting and google market not working. I'll let you know what happens.
If I flush out the Kindle cache I can get back to seeing my titles, but that really defeats the purpose of reading on the device.
Something is not right
Okay, I downloaded everything again and made the microSD. I booted the microSD, did the format data/system reset, went to mounts and did the format /system, while there I tried the format /data - it fails. I had noticed before that when the data/system reset is run and completes, I can no longer do anything - I have to manually power off, wait a while, and power back on. Did all that, went to advance and cleared the kelvich or whatever it's call cash. Installed the cmod7.20 stable. Took out the microSD and rebooted. All of my old apps, etc., are still there. I also was looking at settings and see that the settings I changed were under "phone", not using the cyanomod settings app - it still just aborts.
So, what have I got to do to completely clean all this stuff off and then try installing again? As you can imagine, the number of attempts, partial successes, successes (at least I thought it was only the Kindle app that wasn't showing the menu), etc., we're talking all kinds of hours starting Monday night - probably at least 10 hours each day. Now I'm no further than when I started. For now I'm going to load the old 1.4.1 image again for the umpteenth time and hope someone can tell me how to clear this all up, or else recommend a different android that will run on the Nook Color without problems.
I still think if I can clear EVERYTHING (well, not /boot, obviously) so I'm starting with a CLEAN slate again it may help. I just don't have a clue how to do that using cwm recovery.
Still no good
I redownloaded everything again, created the microsd and tried to install 1.4.1 just to get back to a clean starting point. Can't get beyond where it asks for B&N userid/password as the keyboard shows for about 1/2 a second, no matter what I do. So, I tried the format data/system reset again and just loaded in the cmod 7.20 stable. Again, after booting, everything is still there - the google apps and all. How do I get rid of all this stuff so I can try an install from a clean slate? Right now I've been going thru all the data folders I can find and manually removing everything there. I would like to delete a lot of apps, but I never seem to be able to "uninstall".
So, before I start over again, can someone tell me how to clear EVERYTHING (except /boot, /emmc [unless I need to],/sd*) so I have a clean system first?
Thanks!
Dave
dweaton said:
I redownloaded everything again, created the microsd and tried to install 1.4.1 just to get back to a clean starting point. Can't get beyond where it asks for B&N userid/password as the keyboard shows for about 1/2 a second, no matter what I do. So, I tried the format data/system reset again and just loaded in the cmod 7.20 stable. Again, after booting, everything is still there - the google apps and all. How do I get rid of all this stuff so I can try an install from a clean slate? Right now I've been going thru all the data folders I can find and manually removing everything there. I would like to delete a lot of apps, but I never seem to be able to "uninstall".
So, before I start over again, can someone tell me how to clear EVERYTHING (except /boot, /emmc [unless I need to],/sd*) so I have a clean system first?
Thanks!
Dave
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Boot to CWM and do a factory reset. If you don't have CWM on emmc, make a bootable CWM SD. You can get one on my tips thread linked in my signature. A factory reset clears /data, /cache and clears any apps you may have installed to SD. It does not touch boot, system or emmc media.
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leapinlar said:
Boot to CWM and do a factory reset. If you don't have CWM on emmc, make a bootable CWM SD. You can get one on my tips thread linked in my signature. A factory reset clears /data, /cache and clears any apps you may have installed to SD. It does not touch boot, system or emmc media.
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That's what I've been doing - format data/factory reset option from cwm. Before rebuilding the entire microSD on my Windows PC I have also done a complete format of the media. I then boot CWM from the microSD and install the cmod7 7.20 stable zip - I always assumed this was going straight to the device since when I remove the microSD and boot cmod7 is there. However, none of the pre-existing apps are gone - everything is still there.
I've tried using CWM, advanced options, and format /data - it always fails. So I'm wondering if perhaps the format of /data the is part of the factory reset also fails but the script doesn't error out. Right now I'm going through an extremely time consuming task of manually removing the files and folders in /data via the terminal and su so I get the permissions. If there is another quicker way to clear /data I'd sure appreciate knowing. I've tried some of the treed removes from my Linux experience but they don't seem to work.
Thanks!
Dave
EDIT: forgot to mention - I'm trying your partition restores from the link in your signature - only the "safe" ones - I don't to do that partition 2 stuff and really mess up. Perhaps this will clean everything off.
Thank you thank you thank you!!!!!
leapinlar said:
Boot to CWM and do a factory reset. If you don't have CWM on emmc, make a bootable CWM SD. You can get one on my tips thread linked in my signature. A factory reset clears /data, /cache and clears any apps you may have installed to SD. It does not touch boot, system or emmc media.
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I followed the link and did the repartitioning and formating with the first 2 scripts (left partition 2 alone!). Installed 7.20 stable - I now have the bar at the bottom of my screens. I'm waiting to format a 16gb microSD then I'm going to try the Kindle app out again, but I'd say this looks REALLY promising! Your scripts did what I wanted to do - they cleared everything out!
Thank you SO much!!!!!
Dave
Thank to everyone!
I just wanted to post a big THANK YOU to all the people who made cwm and cmod 7 so this whole thing would even be possible. Thanks to everyone here who helped me! Now "all" I have to do is just try to learn this! Maybe some place down the road I might try some programming, but I don't know how different it will be from my C using GTK++ on Linux. But first, to learn!
Thank you everyone SO much!
Dave
dweaton said:
That's what I've been doing - format data/factory reset option from cwm. Before rebuilding the entire microSD on my Windows PC I have also done a complete format of the media. I then boot CWM from the microSD and install the cmod7 7.20 stable zip - I always assumed this was going straight to the device since when I remove the microSD and boot cmod7 is there. However, none of the pre-existing apps are gone - everything is still there.
I've tried using CWM, advanced options, and format /data - it always fails. So I'm wondering if perhaps the format of /data the is part of the factory reset also fails but the script doesn't error out.
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I know you got it all working and I am glad, but just for future reference, the problem you were having probably stemmed from using an old version of CWM. You have to use version 3.2.0.1 or newer or the format of data will fail on the newer nooks. The one in my tips thread is the newest version.
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leapinlar said:
I know you got it all working and I am glad, but just for future reference, the problem you were having probably stemmed from using an old version of CWM. You have to use version 3.2.0.1 or newer or the format of data will fail on the newer nooks. The one in my tips thread is the newest version.
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I did look at the the tar file I downloaded when I was trying to install from a 4gb microSD - it does say only 3.0.2.8, so I'm sure the 16gb I ended up installing from was probably the same, so I'll go grab what you recommended!
Since I don't want to have the problem again, I'm DEFINITELY going to follow your advise!
I had another suspicion for what may have happened, and why I had so much problem from the get-go with cmod 7 - I tried someone else's "put android on your nook" thing, which I know tried to root the nook and then dump some stuff in, and that didn't end up working.
I'm just glad your posts have gotten me going correctly!! BTW - the Kindle app works fine now, too!
Again, thank you SO much!!
Dave
Want to make sure I get this all right
You've been such a great help - I hope you don't mind a couple of more questions:
- The new CWM you recommend is the 5.x.x.x that's on the link, correct?
- Are there any newer releases of Android for the Nook Color? Right now I don't know anything about Android (complete noob [LOVE the movie on the registration page!] ). I know someone who is quite versed in all of this he mentioned that I'm running some name (honeycomb or something like that) and that there are newer ones out there (maybe that was honeycomb). At any rate, are there some updates I could run to make this any "better"? I know the version I'm running also seems to think it's a phone - is there one where it actually thinks it's a tablet?
Again, thank you SO much!
Dave :good:
dweaton said:
You've been such a great help - I hope you don't mind a couple of more questions:
- The new CWM you recommend is the 5.x.x.x that's on the link, correct?
- Are there any newer releases of Android for the Nook Color? Right now I don't know anything about Android (complete noob [LOVE the movie on the registration page!] ). I know someone who is quite versed in all of this he mentioned that I'm running some name (honeycomb or something like that) and that there are newer ones out there (maybe that was honeycomb). At any rate, are there some updates I could run to make this any "better"? I know the version I'm running also seems to think it's a phone - is there one where it actually thinks it's a tablet?
Again, thank you SO much!
Dave :good:
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Yes that CWM is attached to my tips thread linked in my signature.
You can try CM9 which is tablet based, but it is still in alpha and not as stable as CM7. Don't use honeycomb, it is old and very buggy.
Thanks!
Thanks again for the info! I'll get that copy of cwm right away. Since CM9 is still early, I'll wait on any updates. I really don't know anything yet, but I am having fun with the Nook Color being all Android now. It's nice having the Kindle app and the Nook app - this way have all my books on 1 device, and that works great!
Thanks again!
Dave :good:
I have gotten to a point where I have a tri-boot of AOKP, CM10, and WebOS in my moboot. How can I best clean up my TP, and Install FatnCreamy? I just need basic instructions. I have the acmeinstallers and gapps files, as well as the FatnCreamy rom. I plan on doing wipes to achieve a clean start. Thanks, I have to work today, but will check back later.
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totally wrong section man, this needs to be in Q&A. the only thing you need to remove are the uimages from the boot folder. if you search on you tube there is a great video that shows you the easiest way to do it. i actually found it and used it yesterday. you will want to be in whatever rom you want to be running and make sure you have es file explorer. the video will take you the rest of the way. just search clean moboot uimage or something like that and you should find it. good luck
Thanks, found it, did it, worked fine. Shoulda known RevKyle would have it covered. LOL:highfive:
That rom cleans the /boot folder on install
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That rom cleans the /boot folder on install
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If you're referring to fatncreamy, I didn't end up going to that, at least not yet. Staying with the CM10 for now. Thanks
Please find at the URL below my copy of the stock ROM (Version C) for the D415, with my modifications included.
The D415 is a great phone for the price, and it came with many cool features. However, the phone still has an amateur streak running the stock ROM. Some of LG's apps are great on this phone, but some of them are downright useless for most of us. T-Mobile added their own pushy bloatware to the mix as well. The end result, as we all know, is a usually fluid, but at times clunky and awkward experience using the device. I was impressed the first day I had it, but I wanted to make it better that first day as well. I wanted to get rid of all the useless stuff, and polish it into something I wouldn't be embarrassed to pull out in front of a client. I liked a lot of what LG did here, and wanted to hold on to that, but I also wanted a few changes:
Root:
FOTAkill
SuperSU installed on first boot
Polish:
Small UI sounds changes
Boot Animation
Replaced Flashlight App (thanks to xbmi, consider a donation in the app)
Added Heads Up
Removed foo foo themes
Added Bookmarks Sync
Replaced Stock Messenger with AOSP MMS
Debloat:
LG Memo & Widget moved to user apps
LG Music & Widget moved to user apps
Visual Voicemail moved to user apps
Weather widget moved to user apps
Apps removed completely:
LG Contacts widget
TMobile TV
Lookout
CarrierIQ
Maps
Mobile Life
Streetview
Talkback
T-Mobile My Account
T-Mobile Name ID
Voice Dialer
Youtube
Amazon
Chrome
Cloud Print
Drive
Easy Home
Gmail
Google Plus
Google Calendar
Play News Stand
Play Books
Play Game
Play Movies & TV
Play Music
Google Search
Google TTS
Hangouts
Stock Calendar
To do:
AOSP Keyboard (IDK what I'm doing here yet. It's crashing when I put it in now).
Version E (need to learn how to extract KDZ)
Instructions:
Download zip to SD
Reboot to Recovery
Wipe Dalvik, cache, data, system.
Install zip
Reboot and enjoy
Thanks to @Daisuke1988 for the original flashable stock rom.
Feedback welcome in replies!
I just got this phone today. I hate it but this should make it much better. Thanks guys!!
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Keep poking around with it. There are a lot of hidden gems sprinkled in by lg that will really cause you to like this phone. I came off of a nexus 5 to this. I chose it for the price tag, you can't beat $7 a month and get the build quality and battery life. I would buy again. The only thing I miss is a decent camera. But the stock camera app helps with auto focus mode.
Will it work on d405?
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Will it work on d405?
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Good question, it would be nice
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I guess I have to try this evening, if nobody's trying till then I will report back
If the pure stock ROM works in the 405, this one should as well. I'm not sure myself without looking it up.
I have a D41510c and when I tried to install this rom, it failed. I'm restoring a backup, but I will try again in a while.
Sorry to hear that, I tried very hard to make the cuts fine in this. Without further info I'm gonna guess the download got corrupted. The zip itself is really straightforward (simple script, boot and system imgs.) The only part I would have thought would have failed the installer was that I repacked the system IMG (saved a few hundred MBs) instead of simply unmounting it after my changes. Otherwise, if its going to break, it should be upon first boot. Let me know what happened if it doesn't work again.
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Sorry to hear that, I tried very hard to make the cuts fine in this. Without further info I'm gonna guess the download got corrupted. The zip itself is really straightforward (simple script, boot and system imgs.) The only part I would have thought would have failed the installer was that I repacked the system IMG (saved a few hundred MBs) instead of simply unmounting it after my changes. Otherwise, if its going to break, it should be upon first boot. Let me know what happened if it doesn't work again.
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I'm re-downloading, hopefully this will work!
I can deodex this but you will have to wait till Tuesday for me to upload it. or is it already deodexed?
I had thought about it but honestly haven't learned how to yet. Was I mistaken to think the payoff would not have been that great? Either way, I can wait til Tue, I know others will want it deodexed. Thanks!
I tried again, but it failed...
E:Error executing updater binary in zip
E:Unable to mount '/system'
EDIT: I was able to boot into the rom, but it's extremely slow
Wondering if it has to do with first botched install now that it went. Were you able to format /system again? My other thought was repairing permissions. When it failed the first time, was it before "Setting permissions for root" was displayed? If so it was in the middle of flashing /system. I flashed this on mine using twrp. IDK that I will be much help but I think if we can figure out the variables Google should at least point us in the right direction...
Before I get too far down the rabbit hole can anyone confirm they have successfully flashed this and its working out for them?
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Wondering if it has to do with first botched install now that it went. Were you able to format /system again? My other thought was repairing permissions. When it failed the first time, was it before "Setting permissions for root" was displayed? If so it was in the middle of flashing /system. I flashed this on mine using twrp. IDK that I will be much help but I think if we can figure out the variables Google should at least point us in the right direction...
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Well, I rebooted and it's faster now. I used towelroot to get root. Nohing appeared about the permissions. I was able to update the binaries using TWRP.
It's should have already had root and SuperSU installs on first boot. Did that not happen? I'm glad your phone is doing better! So many weird things going on there!
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It's should have already had root and SuperSU installs on first boot. Did that not happen? I'm glad your phone is doing better! So many weird things going on there!
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I use ROM Toolbox Pro, and when I went to start it the first time, it said root check had failed. That's why I used towelroot. I'll continue to test things and report back to you. So far, it's pretty smooth.
Weird. Can you tell me if the SuperSU apk is to be found in /system/apps/bootup?
I'm doing a backup so i can wipe and install fresh again. I'd like to mess around with the root stuff and see if I can figure that out. Did you happen to get a listing of which files are missing?