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How do you fix Apps and Games that don't stretch full screen in Landscape Mode?

How do you fix Apps and Games that don't stretch full screen in Landscape Mode on Nook Color? I installed Mini Squadron and Shoot U and when I try to view them in Landscape Mode, they don't stretch full screen like for instance, Angry Birds. Is there a setting I have to change on the Nook Color? Do I have to do the Spare Parts trick like the Samsung Galaxy Tab? Just curious if anyone found the solution to this. Kinda sucks because I like that game Shoot U
UPDATE: I fixed the issue. I researched the Fullscreen Compatibility Mode fix for the Samsung Galaxy Tab on YouTube using Spare Parts and followed the steps to fix my landscape issues for some apps/games. Here is the link to the YouTube video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zasSIA7sexM
Be sure to follow the steps completely which include the 2 reboots. Do not skip any steps in the video because it won't work if you do. List of games that I got fix:
- Robo Defense - Before fix, the screen would stay in 4:3 aspect ratio mode and I couldn't see my robots to drag on the screen. After fix, the screen loads full screen with robots accessible.
- Shoot U - Before fix, the screen would stay 4:3 aspect ratio. After fix, the screen utilizes the whole screen.
- etc.

Apps can set whether they do automatic stretching or not in the manifest file of the apk.
You could try to use APK manager (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=695701) play around with the manifest file and repackage.

Fixed the issue
Full Screen Compatibility Mode fix with Spare Parts
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zasSIA7sexM
Fixed the issue. Folllow the steps in the YouTube video. Now, I just need to get the button re-mapping configuration setup and the Nook Color will be COMPLETE =)

This fix does not seem to fix the remote control on the xbmc app. Anybody get that to work?

Nevermind -- found it:
I can't seem to find a spare parts with the compatibility tick box. If it's copacetic, would someone post the apk here?

quietglow said:
I can't seem to find a spare parts with the compatibility tick box. If it's copacetic, would someone post the apk here?
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http://www.freewarelovers.com/android/app/spare-parts

jerrygon,
I haven't used the XBMC app yet. I'll try to install it and see if I get the same issues like you. Again, follow the directions in the YouTube video step-by-step. Don't skip on any of the steps. It won't work if you skip steps. That is what I did first and it did not work until I followed the instructions completely.

califrag said:
http://www.freewarelovers.com/android/app/spare-parts
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DOH! I wish I would have read this full thread for a link
I ended up pulling the spareparts apk from the 2.1 system image that's included with the Android SDK (2.2 version wouldn't install).
Oh well, whatever works.

still buggy
i did this on my nc but brickbreaker still is a smaill screen not sure what i've done wrong. i followed the procedures correctly, still no go i'll try your apps when i get home maybe its just a doomed app

I've also tried this and still have many games run in a small screen and it doesn't stretch to the edges. Any ideas?

Same here
go0nie said:
I've also tried this and still have many games run in a small screen and it doesn't stretch to the edges. Any ideas?
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I did this too and my apps (read: games) are stretch, but instead of taking 50% of the screen, they take up 70% of the screen...

Thanks for the tips everyone, seems to do the trick for a few apps.

Worked great for robo defense, thanks!

Did anyone encounter this problem with Droid Comic Viewer (AVZ)? I am not with the nook now to try this solution but it seems like some people say AVZ works great and they didn't mention having to fix it to expand to full screen.
My mint.com app is also tiny.
I'm wondering if I can't get AVZ to work what method of viewing comics as either CBR or EPUB (by way of calibre) is best - I tried aldiko but I can't zoom in on any pages to read the small text.

What about the home screen in portrait mode? The widget icons on the sides are cut off? Is there a thread for resolution?

Just want to say the method in this video fixed the issue! At least for the comic book reader and for mint.com app which were very small. Much better. Well the comic book reader isn't exactly thrilling me, but at least I can try it out now.

Reading Comics on the Nook Color

So I've read up and tried out a bunch of different comic viewers on the Nook Color, but was wondering what everyone else is using on XDA.
I'm also curious how you read your comics. Do you keep it zoomed in and scroll across and down to read the panels, or do you fit to the page and read the tiny text? Anyone have any solutions to make reading comics easier?
That's one thing I really enjoyed about my iPad....full screen comics with no small text. I would love to replicate that experience on my nook.
Thanks ahead of time, guys!

Perfect viewer, full page unless its a two page layout, then its zoomed by height

Do you have any issues reading the text when it's full page? Maybe I'm just getting old. hahah

i have used acv and perfect viewer. not sure which one i like more. i dont read comics that much.

I typically read em full screen with no issue, 7 inches seems huge after getting used to my 4 inch phone screen. If something is double screen I just rotate my nook and continue.
I use perfect viewer, It has quick page loads, smooth transitions (if you enable them) and around 11 hotspots on the screen that can be customized to make navigation quick and easy. I used to use ACV but when i rotated to landscape the app confined the image to a frame of 600 px wide. They may have fixed it now but it is too late.
The only thing that is not ideal is that the nook screen is widescreen, better for tv shows movies and other video, and comic pages are typically fatter than that so they require black bars at the top and bottom.

I've used ACV - it works very well for me.
For other apps, I'm not fond of the Ave!Comics viewer - but Comixology works pretty well and Graphic.ly isn't bad.

while i dont read comics, there's two apps i have installed that work great. Comics and Vintage Comics.

dcontrol said:
Perfect viewer, full page unless its a two page layout, then its zoomed by height
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I 2nd perfect viewer app. I've had compatibility issues with acv and other comic readers reading cbr format, perfect viewer has worked best for me. the controls feel good and you can zoom in/out and fit page to screen etc.

Running Honeycomb off the SDcard and I had problems with ACV being slow and having Force-Closes.
I found Perfect viewer, and it's name is spot on! It is FAST and clear. I changed the default settings so two page layouts auto-split and I just toggle back and forth between the pages as needed. The zoned touch locations threw me off at first, but as with anything, once you learn the interface, it becomes second nature.

+1 for Perfect Viewer

danootz said:
+1 for Perfect Viewer
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What he said!

I use manga watcher and am very satisfied. On a nook size screen I prefer landscape mode and just scroll down the page as I read the panels. Manga watcher does everything I need and has big free libraries that come with it. Of course you can side load comics off the SD also if you want to.
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Perfect Viewer +1

I've always used ACV, not too many problems anymore. It used to have the memory issues so I switched to Perfect Viewer, but I hate having to touch one point on the screen instead of flipping through like pages. (I dunno if this has changed.)
I would also recommend Manga Watcher, haven't tried comics on it, but for easily downloadable (free!) mangas, it's awesome.

I've installed Perfect Viewer on my rooted NC (cm7 on sd-card) but can't access the menu! What button should I hit to get to the menu?
Please help!)

and where do buy the comics from or where do you download them.>?

I love perfect viewer. Works well for me. I like the option to use the volume buttons to turn pages. The full screen view is perfectly fine for me. Text doesn't seem small to me.

I use ACV, but most of my cbr would crash and get error. jjcomics viewer seems to do better. The size is readable unless it is a two page, then I have to zoom in. I think jjcomics viewer you can set it to automatically cut it in half to only show one page each.
But the best thing to prevent the crashing and errors is just convert all of your files to cbz format. I use Jomic to batch convert on my mac. I don't know which program works best for PC but I know there are a lot of them
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and where do buy the comics from or where do you download them.>?
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i dont know where you would legally get comics in cbr/cbz format as I doubt any comics distribution would want to sell it in this format. CBR /CBZ are essentially just rar or zip files of pictures. They probably want some kind of protection on it or have some proprietary software to view them. But I know Marvel has an app on the iphone/ipad and chrome browser that you can use to buy comics and read them. Other than that, the usual suspects for cbr/cbz- torrents, rapidshare, megaupload, etc.
Jarek_s said:
I've installed Perfect Viewer on my rooted NC (cm7 on sd-card) but can't access the menu! What button should I hit to get to the menu?
Please help!)
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I don't have this app, but as with all apps on nook color - make sure softkey is running to be able to access the back and menu buttons. If you press the softkey circle (somewhere on your screen) the soft menu button should show up on the screen. This should bring up a menu if the app has one. If you are running CM7, you might not need to run softkey as it might be integrated already in there? If you dont have it, I think it's in the app store

I use perfect viewer also. But one problem I have is when I finish one comic and go to open another for some reason it just keeps returning to the one I just read. Anyone have any idea why it would do that?
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jj comic viewer works great for me, I zip all the pics together and it reads the zip

[Q] Nook Color Display Color Depth only 65K colors?

Is the nook color limited to 65K colors? This seems to be an issue for some android phones, and I'm wondering if the NC has the same issue. I certainly notice it on mine whether running stock, CM7 or phiremod.
To test for yourself, load this image:
http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/press/spirit/20050610a/sunset_a489_gamma_2sub_800.jpg
You'll likely notice banding in the areas where the sunlight fades. Is mine defective, or are they all like this?
My old eris, running CM7 has a similar issue, but it's better at dithering the image than the nook (more likely a result of a smaller screen).
Some discussions point to the default 3d gallery limiting to 16-bit color for performance, and other discussions say Gingerbread is supposed to switch between 32 and 16 bit color on the fly for OpenGL and standard 2D rendering.
I did search the forums, and found the following threads:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=14665031
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1126542
So it looks like others are noticing the issue. Are there any known workarounds, or are we stuck with this?

Two things:
1. The overclock kernel is 16bit on purpose to help gaming performance. If you overclock you are stuck at 16bits period.
2. In stock Froyo/Stock CM7 most programs still just show things in 16bit (like the default Gallery program). Here is an app that does 24bit for pictures:
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.alensw.PicFolder&hl=en
For videos there is no "solution" except to accept it.

Thanks for the response.
I wasn't running the overclock kernel, just the standard one that ships with CM7 Nightly. Regardless, the same issue was present running stock 1.2.
I had tried QuickPic with the same results - maybe there's still banding in the image under 24 bit and that's what I'm seeing?
It's understandable about switching to 16 when doing 3D for performance, it's just a shame such a beautiful display is limited for 2D image viewing.

I looked at that picture and didn't really see what you were taking about banding. Then I tried to download it to view it with QuickPic. I was using Opera Mobile and I couldn't figure out how to save the file so I tried FireFox and it looked awful. I managed to save with Opera mini,which also looked okay. QuickPic looked horrible, with lots of banding. PerfectViewer looked good.
I'm using FroYo on SD. I tried the OC kernel but went back because I wasn't really using it and I wanted to see if the color depth mattered. It seems like its hard to tell what's doing what. Is QuickPic really 24 bit?

WP 7.5 Apps compatibility with WP8

Hello there,
I recently started developing a puzzle game in Silverlight and I'm ready to upload it to the Marketplace, only a few twinks here and there are necessary.
Anyway, the pictures I use for the puzzle are sized exactly to the screen resolution of the phone, 800x480(landspace).
What should I do to make the game look good enough on the increased resolutions on WP8? Should I just make the default pictures bigger to accommodate for that, or should I somehow figure a way to re-size the pictures depending on the platform without completely annihilating the performance of the app? Will dual core processors help with this?
Basically, i use an algorithm to cut the picture in 20 pieces and then scatter them all over the screen. The 20 pieces are now dynamic, they will re-size depending on the screen size and resolution, and the 20 crops are set to "UniformToFill" stretch. Will this be enough to fix the issue?
And another question: All pages seem to be limited to 480 x 800 size in the design XAML. How will this affect the entire layout?

Wait for official words from Microsoft.

i guess you would want to make game have several resolutions depending on the version of the windows phone, as it would be easier for the game to be compatible later on once the windows phone 8 launch on the new phones

The problem right now is that the pictures are scaled exactly to the resolution. I guess i could make an algorithm to make em fit the resolution, and take advantage of the dual core to do that.

[Q] Video quality issues with Netflix and movie players?

Got the Nook HD+ rooted and installed the Play Store
After that I installed a file explorer and Netflix.
It was on playing Netflix that I noticed a big problem, the videos are distorted and pixelated massively. Having done some small web design projects I know that one issue with the retina displays on the newer Ipads etc is the DPI is increased and so normal pictures and videos tend to look washed out a bit. Is that an issue with the HD+?
If not that, could it also be that Netflix itself is thinking I am reaching them from a smaller screen device and streaming the smaller file/screen size which the Nook is expanding to fill the screen making it get pixelated (as happens when you zoom into a video)?
Regardless, I looked in other threads for this issue as I do not believe I am the only person to ever experience this - did not find anything. One last test, I logged into my own home file server and tried to play a movie in one of the folders. Sure enough, it looks fine on the TV and computer monitor but looks a little grainy by comparison - so I have to believe part of this is a DPI issue? Is there a suggestion to resolve this?
Would installing the "real" Netflix from the HD+ market solve this for at least Netflix? (I am going to assume that logging into the B&N site and installing an app that way does not endanger my root or access to GApps/Playstore?) Is there an easy way to get to the B&N app market from the modified dashboard (not CM10) or should I stay away from that if it makes the HD+ more apt to update/modify my current settings?
That is a lot of questions to solve a single problem so is there an existing solution I am overlooking? Or is this just the price of having the greater resolution screen?

That distortion and pixelating happens on all my devices with Netflix. It goes away after a minute or so. It is like the buffer has to fill up before it gets clear.
And I don't think it matters where you get the app, I think they are the same. And getting something from the B&N store has no effect on root or Play Store or vice versa. You are no more likely to get updated. You are already automatically logged in. That happened when you registered your device.
Sent from my Nook HD+ running rooted stock