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Getting Nook apps back on Froyo/Honeycomb?

So I've been playing around with the Honeycomb previews, and was wondering if anyone's been able to get the stock nook reading/lending/etc.. apps working in Honeycomb.
I was able to transfer the games over via adb, although the layout is off on chess and the sensor at the edge doesn't pick up all presses on crossword.
Specifically, I really like the default reading app and side-loading epubs and would like to get that working.
Has anyone done this already or know which dependent apk's different components of the stock nook software use?
TIA

I also would like to get the B&N apps to run properly in Honeycomb. I am currently running rooted 1.1, because I want the B&N apps. My son use Nookbooks for kids and I prefer the default Nook app when I read. I don't purchase many books, but the ones I do buy are from B&N because I want to support them. If we don't support B&N they will stop making great devices like the original Nook and the Nook Color.
I do realize I can run the Android app and buy books via the web, but Nookbooks for kids is not available in the Android market.

Yeah, I'm playing around with it and seeing if I can get anything working with it.
I really like the stock Android apps, but like how much better honeycomb is designed for tablets (vs. froyo/eclair or the stock bn that can only have books in the home screen).
Will post back if I have any success... and I think it's a dumb rule that you need 10 posts to put anything in the dev forum. Supposedly this area is for noobs asking about how to install nookie etc.. and the other is for "dev" but half the posts over in dev are people talking about installation trouble and half the posts here are people posting things that would be better suited to the dev section. /rant

So I adb pushed everything bn over to honeycomb, but nothing shows up. Try to install Reader.apk and get error that it's missing required bncloudapi.
I have the jar file in frameworks, and the permissions files, but not sure if there's something else I should be looking for. TIA

[Q] Seeking Android 2.3 with OC run on SD that can display PDF....

I love the fact I can drop a SD card into my Nook and change the whole thing. But one thing I could use a help. I want to put something on that will mainly allow me to read PDF's I possess, keep notes and if I could, even write on the PDFs. But it's got to be all on the SD card, I don't want to flash my nook. I figure there's something that fits this description, I could just use a little help pointing me in the right direction.
I'm still learning a lot about all this Android business. Including the market place and such. I'm very new to all this. Thank you everyone.

That's exactly why i FIRST got my NC - just for PDF. About a day later i started hacking it but that's beside the point ;-)
NC's stock PDf reader is definately nicer than kindle (ha ha) but leaves a lot to be desired. I tried umpteen readers, but by FAR the best is ezPDF (it is a pay for app, but really, for a couple of bucks). the only issue is that default is fullscreen which nixes the soft buttons (but then again you only need these to get out of reading a file), and this behavior can be altered in the settings, or you can use softkeys (which really you need anyways for other naught fullscreen apps)
I have a huge library of PDFs that i need to keep synced for work - I use a PC program called viceversa for syncing across desktop, laptop, encypted portable drive etc. I also use this program in combination with SAMBA on the NC to sync PDFs between my PC and the NC over wireless. This preserves folder structure and everything, It's a beautiful seamless solution.

There are now instructions surfacing for transferring CM7 to an SD boot - but with the speed this is changing that might be premature.
I use Nookie Froyoy as my stable backup. It is very easy to transfer apps and settings between the installs using titanium backup and samba (slower, but easier!!!). the disadvanatage of Froyo is that it does not work on anything bigger than an 8gb card, and you lose some space to the system.

Sentack said:
I love the fact I can drop a SD card into my Nook and change the whole thing. But one thing I could use a help. I want to put something on that will mainly allow me to read PDF's I possess, keep notes and if I could, even write on the PDFs. But it's got to be all on the SD card, I don't want to flash my nook. I figure there's something that fits this description, I could just use a little help pointing me in the right direction.
I'm still learning a lot about all this Android business. Including the market place and such. I'm very new to all this. Thank you everyone.
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I' also a happy user of the Ezpdf reader. You can add notes, underline or cross out portions of the text and save them to the actual pdf. Very stable and easy to use.

I'll have to look at ezPDF then. A friend of mine was showing me a PDF reader that allowed him to write notes on the PDF and I forgot what it was called but it was also on the iPad, not Android. Figures that Android would have an equivalent or at best, it's the same app just ported to both platforms.
The main issue I'm having now is that I'm currently using this image on my nook but I'm finding that I'm having problems with email and GChat (chat doesn't seem to work at all and email is erratic at best)
I like honeycomb but it seems like it's still not quite ready for prime time. Plus the one SD build available (This one) Hasn't been updated in a couple weeks, not that it needs to be, but I had problems with it as well.
In general, I like the idea of a Nook color running custom android software but I'm still new to all of this, period, so I'm stumbling over a lot of things.
Hopefully the CM7 I've been reading about will come with a SD version I can test drive soon.

I use the same SD bootable image with no problem whatsoever. Very stable [and fast if you use the overclocked kernel-1.1Ghz is fine]. Email works without problem though I haven't tried GChat yet.
Btw be sure to try RepliGo Reader too. It's a bit faster than the Ezpdf but lacks the nice interface.

Nook App vs. Nook Home

So working with the CM7 nightly builds and the nook app for android, I'm struck by how much I'm finding I like the nook app better than the nookcolor home and reader. I can read my bought books, sideload books and everything else. On top of that I get pageturn animations that don't exist on the stock reader. The font selection is a bit more limited and some of the interface doesn't seem as refined, but it really doesn't seem that much of a tradeoff.
Anybody else running CM7? What are your impressions of the nook app?

I use the nook app on my phone, so that is what I was already used to. It did run sluggish on the NC the first time I used it, but I realoaded it and it is fine now.. mainly slow page turns.

does the Nook App have the same features as the Home one - Notes, Look Up, Highlight? what are the real limitations comparing to stock? that's the only thing that stops me from upgrade now, the whole reader integration on stock.

Does the nook app require you to import your sideloaded books like aldiko or is it like the nook home, and uses a file manager to locate books?
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I only did a quick try using the Nook App, but the one major downside I noticed is no support for magazine subscriptions. However, not much of a problem for those of you who don't have them. Also the look up, notes, highlighting etc built into the NC stock aren't available in the app. Everyone is entitiled to their opinion, but the only thing I consider better on the Nook App are the page turn animations and that really doesn't improve the use as much as the additional support and features available on the stock app. That's why I'm waiting for CM7 sd image, guess I'll have to stick with my stock emmc for reading and nookie froyo sd for tablet features until them.

I wish you could tap to turn the page in the app (or am I doing something wrong?).

With the Android Nook App (not the Nook Color Stock Reader/Library) - is there a way to move sideloaded books to the "Library" ?
Or do they just remain as "My Files".

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I wish you could tap to turn the page in the app (or am I doing something wrong?).
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I am able to tap to turn the page.
I like the look and feel of the stock Nook Home but I definitely prefer the performance increases in CM7 vs stock Eclair.

I much prefer the Market Nook app. In fact when I first used the nook my wife commented on how "slow" the stock reader went through pages.
I don't really use the nook app either way myself (prefer Amazon), but I must admit that without the Market Nook app I couldn't tell people I have a tablet because the first thing they ask for (to demonstrate) is page turn animations. iPad set the bar there, and B&N out of the box didn't deliver....

I am having a problem importing epub files into the Nook app I am running phiremod nook V4.1 rom. I copied a epub file into the my files folder but it doesn't show up in the apps my files.

I don't really get the page turn animations? What's the point? Doesn't it slow down page turns?

I used the stock rooted setup for a few days, and then installed rom along with Nook App.
I didnt like the Nook App because of the lack of magazine/newspaper support.
The stock Nook setup is better IMO, it just feels better overall in terms of really getting the most out of your nookcolor. Magazines, newspapers, etc..
Oh and turn page animation? really? LOL c'mon ppl. I'm going to pay an extra $300 for page turn feature??

Is there anyway to use the stock nook setup with a custom rom?

"Also the look up, notes, highlighting etc built into the NC stock aren't available in the app."
I just tried these things and they work fine in the app. It would be nice to have the dictionary built in but hey, I have the dicitonary.com app if I really need to know. (On CM7)

jamesjhare said:
So working with the CM7 nightly builds and the nook app for android, I'm struck by how much I'm finding I like the nook app better than the nookcolor home and reader. I can read my bought books, sideload books and everything else. On top of that I get pageturn animations that don't exist on the stock reader. The font selection is a bit more limited and some of the interface doesn't seem as refined, but it really doesn't seem that much of a tradeoff.
Anybody else running CM7? What are your impressions of the nook app?
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How are you getting the app to work on the nightly builds? I am able to get in the app click stuff but if i download a book it just says file not supported. Also I had a couple of books on my sd card and moved them to the books folder for the app and it doesnt work either. Would you mins telling me how you got it to work? Thanks

I admit that of the Nook App for Android versus the Nook App for Stock that I much preferred the stock one.
But I really love the Nook as a tablet rather than a simple eReader, so I cancelled my magazine subscriptions this last week rather than having to go back to stock to read them.
b&n, if you actually read these forums, PLEASE give us magazine and newspaper subscriptions with the Nook for Android app, I promise that I will subscribe if you do!!

The Nook app won't download the "Read to me" children's books I bought. Otherwise I'd stop using the ROM on SD.

I too like using the Nook App on CM7 but has anyone figured out how to get the covers to show up for sideloaded content? Most of my stuff is copied over from my Calibre library, all covers show up fine in Aldiko but in the Nook app, no covers. Not a big deal really but just thought I would throw it out there in case someone has a fix.

bobzdar said:
I don't really get the page turn animations? What's the point? Doesn't it slow down page turns?
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It gives you that nostalgic feeling of yonder days I know we are trying to save trees here but some of us still want that feeling of flipping through pages.

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I figured it out..

[Q] Noob: Moving personal ePub files to NC Froyo on SD Card

I am running the customized Nookie Froyo 0.6.8 on a SD Card and have the Nook eReader installed. I am not sure how I move my personal ePub files - free books downloaded, no DRM - to be read on the Nook eReader. I tried to connect to my PC with a USB cable, then enabled USB on the NC. Then in Windows Explorer I tried moving the files to various directories like Nook, Nook/My Documents, My Files etc., but no matter where I put the files when I go into the Nook eReader it does not see the files (I am looking in My Files section). I even tried using Aldiko - that did not work either. Calibre says the files are transferred to the SD Card.
Any ideas? Would appreciate any help. Thanks.

Never mind I found the answer here. Interesting that you have to use ADB to push ePub files and you cannot transfer them using Calibre or Windows Explorer. I thought ADB was for programs only.
Thanks to all you guys for the fantastic job in making the NC a working Android tablet.

I use dropbox for this as well. GIven that I had updated 4 or 5 different builds and ran on SD card for each of them, it was handy to just download the dropbox.apk and have all of my personal epubs available each time.

Thats a great solution! Can you tell me where I can get more information on how to use Dropbox? I see I already have the app.

janus2000 said:
Thats a great solution! Can you tell me where I can get more information on how to use Dropbox? I see I already have the app.
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+1 for this. Running the same config and haven't messed around with adb at all.

Disclaimer : I don't use the nook app; I use fbreader, so ymmv with this.
Anyways, the way I get epubs out of Calibre onto the nook is via the Calibre webserver. Turn it on on your pc (In Calibre, Preferences->Sharing->Sharing over the net, set up what you need, then hit the Start Server button), then access it via your nook color's web browser (make sure you use the port you set up in the url, that that port isn't blocked by a firewall, etc).
From there, you can just click to download the epubs. On mine (nookie froyo), it asks whether I want to complete the action with the browser or with fbreader. I choose fbreader and it will download it and add it to its library (if you're curious where the files get dropped, on mine it's /mnt/sdcard/Books/<ip address of my desktop>/get/EPUB).
FBReader can also talk to OPDS servers for network libraries, which the calibre web server also talks (it's just a specifically formatted) xml feed). Go into Network Library, then click the Add Catalog link. The OPDS url to use:
http colon slash slash <your server ip>:<port you setup>/opds/
(gotta love new user link protection)
The resaon I go through the nook browser instead of the network library is because the calibre web server allows actual searching. The OPDS feed doesn't allow searching (though it does allow you to get at your library through a number of different categorizations, which might be sufficient for you). Fair warning, too, that since I haven't used OPDS much, there may be something I'm missing about it.

Thanks very much for the detailed response. Just got back in town - will try it this weekend.

[Q] How to change Nook Touch homescreen

The original homescreen is made for Barnes & Noble and I would like to personilize it for my own needs. It would be great if I could launch Dropbox from that screen so it would add my own books to my library.
The best scenario would be removing "What to read next" and use that space to add shortcuts to other apps (I would only need Dropbox)
Of course I can access Dropbox from the Android launcher that was installed when I rooted but I want to offer a Nook to my Mom and it would be much easier for her to use it if she had everything she would need on the homescreen.

It would probably be pretty difficult for someone to modify the stock B&N launcher to work with other apps, sadly. I would like to have a stock-styled apps launcher for the nook too.
However, as for your mom, I think your best bet would be to give your mom an unrooted N2E and install Adobe Digital Editions (Google it for info) on her computer--it makes adding ebooks nearly as seamless as iTunes makes syncing iPods. And the standard B&N launcher picks up on the added ebooks and adds them to your library automatically (so you don't have to guess and shift the files to the right folder). A customized launcher with dropbox is probably still going to be a lot more complex than this.