Trying to access some of the hidden settings on rooted Nook HD (2.06)? Does Nook Color Tools work or anything like that app? I want to, for example, make the lock screen go away and other stuff like that.
docfreed said:
Trying to access some of the hidden settings on rooted Nook HD (2.06)? Does Nook Color Tools work or anything like that app? I want to, for example, make the lock screen go away and other stuff like that.
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There is no app like Nook Color Tools for the HD/HD+. But you can manually explore some of them with zeam and anycut. Long press the home screen of zeam and select install shortcut, followed by anycut. Hit activity in anycut and a long list of options will show. Some of these are hidden settings. Just experiment. As far as making the lock screen go away, you can use third party apps like 'no lock' from Play Store. It prevents the lock when waking from sleep, but not the first time after booting.
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leapinlar said:
There is no app like Nook Color Tools for the HD/HD+. But you can manually explore some of them with zeam and anycut. Long press the home screen of zeam and select install shortcut, followed by anycut. Hit activity in anycut and a long list of options will show. Some of these are hidden settings. Just experiment. As far as making the lock screen go away, you can use third party apps like 'no lock' from Play Store. It prevents the lock when waking from sleep, but not the first time after booting.
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Thanks very much - I completely forgot about "No Lock" since I've been using CM10.1 on so many other devices!
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Hi and good morning.
So i had successfully rooted my nook at the start of this year, had it all setup with my apps, etc.. and well i also had a ton of apps for my 4 yr old on there. She was using the hell out of it and last night i looked over at her and i noticed that the Nook was rebooting. I didnt think much of it but then i saw it booting back up to the original OS, not the screens I have gotten familiar with seeing. Im not 100% sure, but im 99% sure that somehow she navigated to the settings of the NOOk and selected "Erase & Deregister Device". Ugh, im crushed.
But just wanted to check a few things before i root again:
1. I have to imagine it is okay to root again, correct?
2. What software could i have been using to have a nice little backup of the items that i had been using? Is there any you are using?
3. My next step will also be find an app that only allows certain programs to be open by my daughter.
I guess I should maybe take advantage of it being set back to the original today and go over to B&N and read for free for the hour..
Thanks --- Aaron
Hi there
1. Yes
2. I use either appmonster or titanium backup. Which if you like it is worth paying for paid version. That way if you have to do a restore you don't have to constantly click install.
3. Anyone have an idea about this one?
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3. Try using a separate launcher for your daughter. i.e. Use Zeam/ADW/LP for your home screen, then use one of the others for your daughter. You can setup her screens the way you want and "hide" the settings icon as well. You wouldn't be able to have a default launcher but it would give you the ability to limit what your daughter can and can't use.
Thanks for the quick replies on this, much appreciated!
- Aaron
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3. Try using a separate launcher for your daughter. i.e. Use Zeam/ADW/LP for your home screen, then use one of the others for your daughter. You can setup her screens the way you want and "hide" the settings icon as well. You wouldn't be able to have a default launcher but it would give you the ability to limit what your daughter can and can't use.
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Can't hide the stupid B&N shortcut button in the status bar though..
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Can't hide the stupid B&N shortcut button in the status bar though..
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You can hide the entire status bar with zeam, there is a widget for full screen mode.
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You can hide the entire status bar with zeam, there is a widget for full screen mode.
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Can hide the status bar with ADW, as well.
Buy her one of her own!
We do have nandroid backups working now, that may be the way to go.
Thank you,
Joe
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You can hide the entire status bar with zeam, there is a widget for full screen mode.
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Good for the launcher but it returns in the apps. My biggest issue with it is when I'm typing I accidentally hit it constantly when I'm trying to REALLY type in landscape mode. Very annoying and frustrating.
They way they handle the softkeys and toolbar in Customized Nookie Froyo rocks
How to Remove the Softkeys of nook hd to use the whole Screen? I've rooted my Nook HD,But the softkeys (white side at the bottom of the screen)taking up the screen, Most apps from google play are not able to se the whole screen.How to remove the SoftKeys from the bottom of the screen, therefore I'll be able to use the whole screen for veiwing!
thanks
Update:I found the solution: GMD Gesture Control From google play(paid version)
longlivezq said:
How to Remove the Softkeys of nook hd to use the whole Screen? I've rooted my Nook HD,But the softkeys (white side at the bottom of the screen)taking up the screen, Most apps from google play are not able to se the whole screen.How to remove the SoftKeys from the bottom of the screen, therefore I'll be able to use the whole screen for veiwing!
thanks
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You can't. They are permanently there by design by B&N.
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leapinlar said:
You can't. They are permanently there by design by B&N.
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They are not. The native B&N ebook reader can hide it and go completely fullscreen.We just need to find out how it is done.
EDIT: I have searched B&N developer documentation for some API how to enable/disable bottom system bar and found only following message
Note NOOK HD and NOOK HD+ do not support true full screen mode. The bottom system bar always displays. Therefore, the NOOK "n" key is the home button and not the back key since the system bar contains a back key that always displays.
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from https://nookdeveloper.zendesk.com/entries/22006856-nook-developer-reference-manual#_SysStatBar
This means it will be either unsupported hack or the documentation is wrong. At least the "back key that always displays" part is not true. I've seen the bar without back button
Additionally it appears that both home launcher and ebook reader can also add search box to the bottom system bar so it is not ordinary android system bar (or is it?). OTOH when media player is playing the design of system bar is same as stock ICS (black bar with dots in usual places).
fanoush said:
They are not. The native B&N ebook reader can hide it and go completely fullscreen.We just need to find out how it is done.
EDIT: I have searched B&N developer documentation for some API how to enable/disable bottom system bar and found only following message
from https://nookdeveloper.zendesk.com/entries/22006856-nook-developer-reference-manual#_SysStatBar
This means it will be either unsupported hack or the documentation is wrong. At least the "back key that always displays" part is not true. I've seen the bar without back button
Additionally it appears that both home launcher and ebook reader can also add search box to the bottom system bar so it is not ordinary android system bar (or is it?). OTOH when media player is playing the design of system bar is same as stock ICS (black bar with dots in usual places).
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I'm sure it can be modified, but are you sure you want to? It can be painful to have to "home" for every "back". Anyway, it will have to be a hack in /system, which means recompiling, putting in the /data/su directory and symlinking, and hoping it doesn't bork the system!
Part of the reason I got the nook hd is that you get the whole screen while reading. It is quite annoying to have the bar but in every android device I've used, you don't get the full screen. But the Nook HD screen is 16:10 so in landscape movies are ok as 16:9 is the typical encoding.
fanoush said:
They are not. The native B&N ebook reader can hide it and go completely fullscreen.We just need to find out how it is done.
EDIT: I have searched B&N developer documentation for some API how to enable/disable bottom system bar and found only following message
from https://nookdeveloper.zendesk.com/entries/22006856-nook-developer-reference-manual#_SysStatBar
This means it will be either unsupported hack or the documentation is wrong. At least the "back key that always displays" part is not true. I've seen the bar without back button
Additionally it appears that both home launcher and ebook reader can also add search box to the bottom system bar so it is not ordinary android system bar (or is it?). OTOH when media player is playing the design of system bar is same as stock ICS (black bar with dots in usual places).
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I found that GMD GestureControl ★ root can slove the problem . You can hide status bar and enjoy full screen in your favorite games or while browsing.
longlivezq said:
I found that GMD GestureControl ★ root can slove the problem . You can hide status bar and enjoy full screen in your favorite games or while browsing.
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Status bar or navigation bar or both?
Sent from my Nook HD+ Running CM10 on SD
leapinlar said:
You can't. They are permanently there by design by B&N.
Sent from my Nook HD+ Running CM10 on SD
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I found that GMD GestureControl ★ root from Google Play can slove the problem . You can hide status bar and enjoy full screen in your favorite games or while browsing.
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Status bar or navigation bar or both?
Sent from my Nook HD+ Running CM10 on SD
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Both
this app needs root authorization. Did you confirm that it didn't install anything in /system and don't goes to 8 reboot faild?
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Both
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I can confirm this app does work. But you need the paid version. Status bar hiding only works in the paid version. And I had trouble with the multitouch gestures, so I switched it to phone mode instead of tablet and single finger geatures were enabled. And that made it work well. And nothing apparently was written to /system to cause a reset.
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full!screen freeware to hide both status and softkey bars
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I can confirm this app does work. But you need the paid version. Status bar hiding only works in the paid version. And I had trouble with the multitouch gestures, so I switched it to phone mode instead of tablet and single finger geatures were enabled. And that made it work well. And nothing apparently was written to /system to cause a reset.
Sent from my BNTV600 using Tapatalk
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I have just found from google play a freeware full!screen to hide and show both the status and softkey bars, and downloaded and installed on my rooted Nook HDPlus. Worked flawlessly. It didn't reset my system even its use requires root.
My rooting has been done with the set of files and steps you provided, for which I am very appreciative. Thank you.
cool2know said:
I have just found from google play a freeware full!screen to hide and show both the status and softkey bars, and downloaded and installed on my rooted Nook HDPlus. Worked flawlessly. It didn't reset my system even its use requires root.
My rooting has been done with the set of files and steps you provided, for which I am very appreciative. Thank you.
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Yes, I have used it. It is an awesome app.
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The GMD gesture control works fine. Only drawback is that every time I use it to hide the bar it also removes the wallpaper from both stock and apex launchers.
Also, just found that Asphalt 7 from play store, that normally crashed before loading, plays fine with the bar hidden.
You loose the wallpaper because the way that GMD uses to hide the bar is kill the SystemUI service.
I used that method before on my Touchpad and it did work, but it is a little nasty.
Since CM10 you can hide the bar (Expanded Desktop) so it is a better alternative than GMD.
I use an app called Hide Bottom Bar. Much easier to activate than GMD. You can activate it from the notification panel or via widget. Also it doesn't kill your wallpaper. And you can access a soft key pop up with a one finger swipe from the bottom similar to Button Savior but without a persistent visible toggle. Very convenient. Only drawback is that it is not free.
I tested all previously recommended possibilities. No one suits for my needs. But ... i used TSF Shell launcher and TSF MIUI theme for starting theming phone my way. TSF Shell have possibilities to hide all stuff, that you get blank screen. I dont tested it yet on Nook but i will do this on next week.
Actually i have not ended my Nook HD+ theming (based on original Nook HD+ theme), running on CM10 and CM10.1. I hope i have time to end it this week and post it here too.
geomez said:
I use an app called Hide Bottom Bar. Much easier to activate than GMD. You can activate it from the notification panel or via widget. Also it doesn't kill your wallpaper. And you can access a soft key pop up with a one finger swipe from the bottom similar to Button Savior but without a persistent visible toggle. Very convenient. Only drawback is that it is not free.
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I just gave this a try. Found that unfortunately it does kill the wallpaper when I tried it.
Is there a way to add a "Home" soft key to the navigation bar (as in CM or standard Android navigation bars)?
Use Handy Soft Keys instead
Handy Soft Keys: It is a free app using which you will get navigation bar at any convenient position along the edges of the screen by drag and drop.
I have had a savage hatred for Google's idea of softkeys (while loving Button Saviour's) ever since HC dropped on us with the Xoom. Is this method of getting rid of the navigation bar viable on the Nook HD? I read from the guides that the Nook was "sensitive" but am too dumb to know what this means.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1985592
Currently on 2.0.5 rooted with GApps but no location.
Do not try. Will do 8 boot, restore. Seems most anything related to /system will cause this.
Despite this limitation I still hate the Nexus 7 enough to stick with the NookHD
I have the same/similar problem with the grey toolbar. I have used LeapinLar's excellent guide for getting CWM on the nook and it works very well indeed. The only problem is that when running BSplayer/Moboplayer/Mxplayer etc the nook home grey bar doesn't disappear when playing a video.
The grey bar does go black but the screen doesn't expand to make use of the extra space that the stock nook video player uses. Is there a setting that makes the grey bar slide away like on the stock video player? If one player can do it hopefully the other player can be made to do the same, but I can't find a setting that allow this?
Cheers
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I have the same/similar problem with the grey toolbar. I have used LeapinLar's excellent guide for getting CWM on the nook and it works very well indeed. The only problem is that when running BSplayer/Moboplayer/Mxplayer etc the nook home grey bar doesn't disappear when playing a video.
The grey bar does go black but the screen doesn't expand to make use of the extra space that the stock nook video player uses. Is there a setting that makes the grey bar slide away like on the stock video player? If one player can do it hopefully the other player can be made to do the same, but I can't find a setting that allow this?
Cheers
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There is no setting to do what you want. And the bar turning black with tiny white dots is called "lights out" mode. It is to fool you into thinking it is gone. It is a "feature".
They only way to get the bar to disappear is with third party software like "GMD gesture control". That particular one is a paid software.
Sent from my HD+ running CM10 on SD with XDA Premium
You can try a free application called "full!screen" to hide the gray toolbar.
This should work with any CM10. I wrote it for my TouchPad and it also works on my HD2
ToggleBarCM10.apk
http://forum.xda-developers.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=1555097&d=1355245239
full!screen needs access to system tools. Will this result in me never being able to let the tablet die for want of battery or rebooting? GMD GestureControl also requests the access to "modify system settings".
I'm fine with never turning it off but I am wondering if there are other ways that the 8loop bootloop can occur. I mostly use the Nook for satisfying an 18 year old habit of reading TIME magazine so I would prefer to be on stock rather than switch back and forth.
It really is weird...I can't eat cereal without reading last week's news on TIME
Man, I messed up that edit!
I will repeat.
It is ok to change system settings, just not /system. System settings is in /data.
Neither GMD or full!screen change /system.
Earlier I found full!screen did not work, but now it does.
Oh, it is a new version, that's is why it works now... and I just rebooted and no issues. It is awesome.
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CM10 already contains the code to switch the bar on and off, it is call expanded desktop.
It is usually accessed through the power menu but some builds don't have that option enabled, still the "logic" (finishAnimationLw()) inside the android.policy.jar is always there and can be "activated" using a simple setting on the system database.
Not sure about the "new" fullscreen app, but the way GMD used to hide the bar was killing the systemui service.
"ToggleBarCM10.apk" just updates the setting db switching the value on and off, it doesn't do anything else. It's not going to affect /system.
I've been doing that for quite a long time on the TouchPad and other devices with CM9 and CM10.
Search for "No way to hide the bottom bar in CM9" and you will would find the thread in Rootzwiki with a lot of more info about it
I've tried Apex Launcher & Nova Launcher and I noticed that when apps are launched anywhere but from inside the stock launcher it wont show up in the recent apps list -- anyone know how to fix this or have a workaround?
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I've tried Apex Launcher & Nova Launcher and I noticed that when apps are launched anywhere but from inside the stock launcher it wont show up in the recent apps list -- anyone know how to fix this or have a workaround?
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Yes, get recents plus on the Play Store. It will not make them show in the stock recents, but you can get to them another way.
Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10.1 on emmc.
Pie Control
leapinlar said:
Yes, get recents plus on the Play Store. It will not make them show in the stock recents, but you can get to them another way.
Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10.1 on emmc.
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This along with pie control are great. The only thing missing now is back and menu without root
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This along with pie control are great. The only thing missing now is back and menu without root
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You can install third party software that gives you soft keys for back and menu without root.
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You can install third party software that gives you soft keys for back and menu without root.
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Have searched for this but can't find it.
Can you point me to the third party software which does this?
Thanks
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Have searched for this but can't find it.
Can you point me to the third party software which does this?
Thanks
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I found a few programs that seem to let you assign certain areas of the screen to certain functions but none of them seem to do remapping of the actual softkey, which seems like a cleaner solution.
So... ditto on the question.
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I found a few programs that seem to let you assign certain areas of the screen to certain functions but none of them seem to do remapping of the actual softkey, which seems like a cleaner solution.
So... ditto on the question.
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I did not say remapping the softkey, I said an app that will put softkeys on the screen. They float and are movable. Some require root and some do not. Like Button Savior.
Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10.1 on emmc.
Im having the same problem as the opening poster. I have tried the apps mentioned and when they open the recents tab it still only lists the apps that were opened in the default home launcher.
Am I missing something in the settings perhaps? Ive searched and searched, but no success.
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Im having the same problem as the opening poster. I have tried the apps mentioned and when they open the recents tab it still only lists the apps that were opened in the default home launcher.
Am I missing something in the settings perhaps? Ive searched and searched, but no success.
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You tried 'recents plus' and it did not show apps started by other launchers? Those other apps discussed here were not recents apps, but softkey apps. And it does not modify the stock recents tab, it introduces its own recents screen that you actuate.
Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10.1 on emmc.
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You tried 'recents plus' and it did not show apps started by other launchers? Those other apps discussed here were not recents apps, but softkey apps. And it does not modify the stock recents tab, it introduces its own recents screen that you actuate.
Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10.1 on emmc.
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Correct, "Recents Plus" merely opened the window showing apps that were launched within the "home" Nook launcher. I finally found an app last night that worked for me. It is called Simple Task Switcher.
I was able to map it to double tapping the screen, and it shows all recently opened apps, or apps currently running. I have the option to kill the apps, or quickly switch back to them.
Its not the most elegant solution, but does work better than the previous choices.
I've settled on Pie Control with apps drawer as one of the buttons. It's not a recent apps window, it works more like launchpad in osx, but it works great (so far).
Hi All,
I have a Fire 7 which i am using solely for a media and smart home remote. I specifically chose this device as it is cheap and had the alexa built into the home button.
I have made some changes to the device but not rooted it as don't want to completely loose some of the amazon features i.e. home button press for alexa.
I have installed play store and hijack launcher and have nova launcher installed. I find that some some widgets work and some don't. I am struggling with IFTTT widget and beautiful widgets at the mo. basically i install them either via the app store or an .apk and when click on the widget and try to place it on the homescreen it throws up the tablet settings menu, if i exit this it does not add the widget? can anyone advise why this is or if it can be solved. If i add a RM pluggin tasker widget it lets me and allows me to setup the button but but for the other two it doesn't?
any help appreciated.
regards jon
Hi All.
Well I have manager to find a link on her to sort widgets out which was a great find so thanks to dragonfire1024. so thank you very much for the info on the following link
https://forum.xda-developers.com/hd...d-launcher-t3637813/post73056260#post73056260
I have one further question and I am not sure what i have changed to cause this. The screen never goes to sleep just remains permanently on.
if i go to settings, display, i have a setting called display sleep mode which you can set but this only dims the screen and does not turn it off? an suggestions?