I did a quick search of the Nook HD forums but didn't find anything about hiding the dock so started this thread. If there is another, please point me to it. Thanks.
Setting up a couple HD's with CM10.1 and lots of games & such kids, for Christmas. Kids are 6-10 years old. I'd like to hide the Dock. I don't think CM10.1 allows it to be hidden but I'm not sure. Anyone have any insight? How about a good alternate Launcher app that would allow it. Suggestions?
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Hello everyone! I just rooted my G1 an hour or so ago and now I'm playing around with all of the mods and roms and such and was just wondering, in a few of the videos I've seen around the internet, there are keyboard mods which change the on-screen keyboard, anyone know of any in particular?
Also, what are some other good mods people have used personally? Thanks for the help!
I'd offer suggestions if i used any of these, but I suggest searching
the Apps & Games subforum for "keyboard".
the only one I know of is called TouchPal and is in the Market
Betterkeyboard in the market. Probably should have searched a little more first. They don't like new post
If you've installed a new launcher, you may find the same thing I did: it's pretty much impossible to get an image to not distort when used for wallpaper. I messed with this for hours.
Then I discovered the app Wallpaper Set and Save. It runs on the NC, and it does one thing: set wallpaper so it's not distorted. Perfect.
Can you post the apk?
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Sure. Here 'tis.
Dolphin 4 set the wallpaper for me from an internet picture just fine, FYI.
This is only a work around though. I want undone whatever it was the launcher pro did or im going to flash my nook and start over.
I'd guess that Launcher Pro just undid whatever hackery B&N did to their rom to correct the natively terrible way android handles desktop images. This app just rehacks it.
Same issue
I had the same problem but what I did was just set launcher pro to show 1 col by 1 row then after the resize went back to 10 col by 10 rows. First pop-up the settings menu with the tiny little menu button between the battery and "U" buttons in the soft menu. Rows and columns are set in preferences>Homescreen settings.
Note this just got my icons back on screen but the wallpaper is still oversized.
Would a subforum for people who want to be LendMe friends be a good idea?
Or would it be better off here?
I think it would work out very well to separate the conversation so people can find people they want to lend books between. It didn't occur to me before for XDA because most of the forums have to do with phones that dont have this sort of social feature
just a thought
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Or would it be better off here?
I think it would work out very well to separate the conversation so people can find people they want to lend books between. It didn't occur to me before for XDA because most of the forums have to do with phones that dont have this sort of social feature
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A very good thought. We just have to find Nookers who share similar interests. Its own thread would be a good idea.
devis said:
A very good thought. We just have to find Nookers who share similar interests. Its own thread would be a good idea.
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I'm certain a whole new website/forum will crop up with people willing to lend books to one another. The great thing about lending through the Nook is that you know you'll get your book back! (That is until someone figures out how to hack it to keep the book )
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Sure. Here 'tis.
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When I use the app, the wallpapers end up super-pixellated.
Any other hackery to get the wallpaper issues fixed?
Ev3rM0r3 said:
This is only a work around though. I want undone whatever it was the launcher pro did or im going to flash my nook and start over.
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I agree... Any fixes?
It looks very nice and fluid on the xoom. I like the new lay out it has for Honeycomb. The new store front UI is very nice as well. I like the scrollable Recommended For You across the top, and layout in general. I do like how in the settings it now shows which device name it is labeled as so you can change it on the amazon website to correctly reflect which device is which. I think my only gripe is that you can't change the background to a sepia effect so its more comfortable to read on.
My xoom updated automatically. I went to my apps on my Nexus s and it wasn't showing it as available for update, I had to search for it manually to perform the update. So for anyone not seeing the update on possible other devices do try the manual search in the market.
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Nice, millions times better than before but it would be nice if they added page turning animation and soother scrolling.
Any screenshot ?
yeah, i played around with it for a while. its a little buggy still, but a definite improvement. at least there is negative space around text. it would be nice to have better animations, two column support, and better overall horizontal screen responsiveness. the store in particular is borderline useless in horizontal orientation. about 30% of the way there
APK please?
mobilehavoc said:
Nice, millions times better than before but it would be nice if they added page turning animation and soother scrolling.
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diaa08 said:
yeah, i played around with it for a while. its a little buggy still, but a definite improvement. at least there is negative space around text. it would be nice to have better animations, two column support, and better overall horizontal screen responsiveness. the store in particular is borderline useless in horizontal orientation. about 30% of the way there
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I do tend to agree with both of you, while one of my main loves for Honeycomb is its drive to be very functional in landscape it does leave much to be desired in any apps as far as portrait goes.
Animations would be nice as would the two pages per screen, I guess owning a kindle myself it seems like they try to keep the app geared more like the device itself. I'm still surprised there aren't color options to increase ease of readability and provide longer battery options, two things the device itself captures but while Amazon designs the app to be more device like not just software like, fails to capture here.
I'm guessing the lack of these features leads to desire to want a kindle. Wouldn't want all the creature comforts and selling points in an app that could potentially steal your devices thunder.
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It looks very nice and fluid on the xoom. I like the new lay out it has for Honeycomb. The new store front UI is very nice as well. I like the scrollable Recommended For You across the top, and layout in general. I do like how in the settings it now shows which device name it is labeled as so you can change it on the amazon website to correctly reflect which device is which. I think my only gripe is that you can't change the background to a sepia effect so its more comfortable to read on.
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There are option in setting for you to set your background colour (white / sepia / black).
Great app, got me to finally purchase kindle books!
dj_ghosie said:
There are option in setting for you to set your background colour (white / sepia / black).
Great app, got me to finally purchase kindle books!
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Under my settings all I see is Deregister This Device.
Device Name
And the option to use the volume buttons to change pages
No color controls. If I'm missing something please show me. I'd love to change this. I know some of the other readers in the market have this option.
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sirius b said:
Under my settings all I see is Deregister This Device.
Device Name
And the option to use the volume buttons to change pages
No color controls. If I'm missing something please show me. I'd love to change this. I know some of the other readers in the market have this option.
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You should have a brightness icon in the action bar, fourth from the right. Color options are there.
Can you sideload books into the Kindle app? I tried copying a mobi file to the kindle directory but it doesn't work..
Yes I have sideloaded books to kindle. Specifically some mobi files on android development from commonsware. I just dropped them in the kindle folder and they showed up.
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I'm not a huge fan of the layout now with the size of the gap around the text, there is a huge ammount of real estate wasted.
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I'm not a huge fan of the layout now with the size of the gap around the text, there is a huge ammount of real estate wasted.
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Me neither! So I wrote a quick email to Amazon and here's their reply:
Hello,
I'm sorry, currently the option to display 2 pages with adequate font size is not available in Kindle for Android.
I’ve forwarded your concern and suggestions to our development team and we'll consider your feedback as we plan further improvements. We regularly update our Kindle and Kindle application software with added features. I've let the Kindle team know you're interested in this feature.
We'll consider your feedback as we plan further improvements. It is always important for us to hear how customers react to all aspects. Your valuable feedback will help us to improve the selection and service we provide and we're glad you took time to write to us.
We do value the feedback of our customers and make every attempt to integrate their comments or suggestions into our stores and procedures.
As always, please feel free to contact us should you have future suggestions, questions or comments. We have team of experts who takes into consideration each and every feedback of our customers and brings them into practice.
Thank you for using Kindle.
Best regards,
Kaliraja M.
Amazon.com
Your feedback is helping us build Earth's Most Customer-Centric Company.
I can almost see the Xerox marks on that email response.
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Yes I have sideloaded books to kindle. Specifically some mobi files on android development from commonsware. I just dropped them in the kindle folder and they showed up.
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Ok finally got it working. I had to force stop the kindle app first and restarted it before it could see the new books.
Are you sure the kindle app automatically detects the books once you copy them over to the kindle folder?
nice app but I like more to read ebooks on my Kindle. better for my eyes
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Ok finally got it working. I had to force stop the kindle app first and restarted it before it could see the new books.
Are you sure the kindle app automatically detects the books once you copy them over to the kindle folder?
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No I am not sure of that. I may have not had the Kindle app running or I may have hit "sync and check for new items." I have a few books I need to add to my xoom so I will try again today and pay attention.
On a different note is anyone else having problems with text select? It used to be the kindle app had a magnification of the text so I could tell what was being selected. They did away with that but kept the crappy handles. If they shift to the honeycomb text select I am fine without the magnification but using the small (kindle specific) handles I can not tell where I am which makes it difficult to grab a precise section of text.
Edit: I should mention I am at the smallest font size. I read mostly technical books and the more text I can get on the screen at once the easier it is to follow. Particularly sample code. On large font sizes text selection is not as much of a problem.
Does anyone know if text to speech will come to the Android Kindle??
What Ver do you have? im on 3.2.0.35
Hello. Currently, I have CM9 A2 on my TouchPad. Trebuchet is amazingly simple and I love it, except one thing. There's no dock. Is there something I can do to get it? In launcher settings when I click dock it doesn't lead to a new menu... And I do NOT want to use a different launcher. Thanks!
Not yet there isn't. The Dock is something that's in the works for the launcher. That's why it doesn't go anywhere - because it's a stub until they put something there. Keep your eyes peeled, and something should happen at some point.
So far no dock support, I suggest the simple to use ADW launcher, there is a nice free version and even better paid version. It looks good on the touchpad screen without taking away from ice look, even lets you dock 3 or 5 apps
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So I went back to stock OS to play around for a bit. I've realized how used to I am to the Softkey bar in CM10.x/CM11 ROMs. Is ther anyway to replace the stupid Amazon softkey bar with Google's stock Android softkey bar?
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Maybe play around with the systemui.apk, would be kinda interesting because while I prefer cm, I do like the way Amazon's soft key bar hides itself in full screen mode, reclaims a bit more space for playing a video.
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Maybe play around with the systemui.apk, would be kinda interesting because while I prefer cm, I do like the way Amazon's soft key bar hides itself in full screen mode, reclaims a bit more space for playing a video.
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Yeah, it's nice to for videos and gaming. But still, I prefer to have my home button in the center. I'll play around with the SystemUI.apk a bit. I'm guessing I'll have to disable Amazon's SoftKeyBar.apk as well. It would also be nice to enable recent apps as well, but maybe that's biting off more than I can chew for right now. Anyways, I think I'll play around with it.