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Lack of auto-brightness on hd+???

I love the nook line, I really do. Got the nook color when it first came out; tossed it to the wife when the nook tablet was released and desperately waited til christmas for the hd+.
But the one thing that has frustrated me to no end is the lack of auto-brightness!

shredness said:
I love the nook line, I really do. Got the nook color when it first came out; tossed it to the wife when the nook tablet was released and desperately waited til christmas for the hd+.
But the one thing that has frustrated me to no end is the lack of auto-brightness!
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That is true on stock, but CM10 on HD+ has it.
Sent from my HD+ running CM10 on SD with XDA Premium

leapinlar said:
That is true on stock, but CM10 on HD+ has it.
Sent from my HD+ running CM10 on SD with XDA Premium
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CM10 shows auto-brightness, but it isn't selectable. Further, is there even a sensor on the HD+ to support auto-brightness?
Sent from my Barnes & Noble Nook HD+ using Tapatalk HD

curiousmike said:
CM10 shows auto-brightness, but it isn't selectable. Further, is there even a sensor on the HD+ to support auto-brightness?
Sent from my Barnes & Noble Nook HD+ using Tapatalk HD
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I think you are right that there is not a sensor. I manually toggled the setting in stock settings database and it did nothing.
Edit: I also just ran z-test on it and it says it has no light sensor.
Sent from my HD+ running CM10 on SD with XDA Premium

leapinlar said:
I think you are right that there is not a sensor. I manually toggled the setting in stock settings database and it did nothing.
Edit: I also just ran z-test on it and it says it has no light sensor.
Sent from my HD+ running CM10 on SD with XDA Premium
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I dont understand how an ereader cannot have a light sensor to automatically adjust the screen brightness, specially that the Android settings are not exactly a one touch adjust. Need to look for a widget now.

brooklynite said:
I dont understand how an ereader cannot have a light sensor to automatically adjust the screen brightness, specially that the Android settings are not exactly a one touch adjust. Need to look for a widget now.
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Well, it does not have one.
And you can put various brightness levels on the notification bar. So that when you tap it it changes level.
Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10.1 on emmc.

A couple of tricks.
If you have Tasker create a Task called Full Brightness, and set Display Brightness to 255.
Then if you have something like Nova Pro, in Settings go to Gestures and Buttons, then for say Swipe Up set a Shortcut to Task Shortcut, and here select Full Brightness.
Now all you need to do to see your Nook outdoors is ensure you are on the home screen and wipe up. Easier than trying to spot a widget or get to the Quick Settings.

NC vs Nook HD

I have a Nook Color, CM7.2 EMMC. Does the Nook HD have updated hardware internally, improved enough to justify replacing my NC?
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beaujack said:
I have a Nook Color, CM7.2 EMMC. Does the Nook HD have updated hardware internally, improved enough to justify replacing my NC?
Sent from my NookColor using xda app-developers app
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Yes. Much improved. The screen alone is worth it. Add to that, faster processor and double the ram.
Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10.1 on emmc.

Cm10.1 emmc - tapatalk issues on Nook HD+

Firstly many thanks to all for creating the cm installs for the nook hd+
I was running cm10 from sd for the last month and decided to move on to installing cm10.1 on emmc using the latest hd
Install was all rather smooth thanks to the great instructions, I've found a few apps I can't use go launcher ex being one of them showing as incompatible which seems strange, anyone else running it successfully? I did try installing from an apk but it ran rather sluggishly when moving between screens. Running with Nova launcher to at least have a dock
My other rather annoying issue is using tapatalk either 2 or 4 whenever I come out of a thread it says connecting to server and returns to the top of the forum rather than staying in the thread group - anyone else experiencing this, I didn't have this issue on cm10?
Thanks all...
Sent from my nookhdplus using Tapatalk 4 Beta

Anyone any thoughts on my tapatalk issues - do I need to reinstall from scratch. Hard one to search for with lots of messages with footer saying sent using tapatalk
Sent from my nookhdplus using Tapatalk 4 Beta

Well gladly I think I have resolved this myself , I had changed my device in build.prop to get Zinio to work but that seemed to affect tapatalk. Changing to the asus Nexus 7 it all seems to be working ok again like I was used to before.
Still not compatible with go launcher, but tapatalk being a pain was my main concern
Sent from my Nook HD+ running cm10.1 on emmc

Well spoke to soon , tapatalk is back to bumping me out after I read a thread... so any ideas would be gratefully accepted please
Sent from my Nook HD+ running cm10.1 on emmc

Well after more playing around I think I had been playing with some of the developer options that caused me the grief... all back to normal now and back loving cm10.1 tough I may apply the tablet ui mod
Sent from my Nook HD+ running cm10.1 on emmc

[Q] Most Stable build/ROM for HD+?

Hello all,
Sorry if this has been discussed elsewhere but I was wondering if there was a consensus on what the most stable/smoothest ROM currently available for the HD+? Currently running CM10.1.3 build based on the recommendation on an old thread re stability, but I bet it can be better. I don't need 4.3 or every feature, stability and smoothness is the most important thing for me.
What do you guys think? Thanks.

mikelav456 said:
Hello all,
Sorry if this has been discussed elsewhere but I was wondering if there was a consensus on what the most stable/smoothest ROM currently available for the HD+? Currently running CM10.1.3 build based on the recommendation on an old thread re stability, but I bet it can be better. I don't need 4.3 or every feature, stability and smoothness is the most important thing for me.
What do you guys think? Thanks.
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You have the best.
Sent from my BN NookHD+ using XDA Premium HD app

mikelav456 said:
Hello all,
Sorry if this has been discussed elsewhere but I was wondering if there was a consensus on what the most stable/smoothest ROM currently available for the HD+? Currently running CM10.1.3 build based on the recommendation on an old thread re stability, but I bet it can be better. I don't need 4.3 or every feature, stability and smoothness is the most important thing for me.
What do you guys think? Thanks.
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Does it lag much?

YevOmega said:
Does it lag much?
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Mine does not lag at all, but others have complained theirs does.
Sent from my BN NookHD+ using XDA Premium HD app

YevOmega said:
Does it lag much?
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Mine does, quite a bit. Once I am watching a video it's great, but navigating around the UI can be frustrating at times, but ok other times. Hit or miss. Better than the 4.3 builds I was on. I really hope the 4.4 builds assist the lag.
leapinlar said:
Mine does not lag at all, but others have complained theirs does.
Sent from my BN NookHD+ using XDA Premium HD app
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What build are you using exactly? Custom kernel? Are there any kernels I should be flashing? What are your performance settings set to? I don't need high-end game performance, I just want to get in and out of apps and navigate the UI without thinking about the sub-par internals.
Thanks leapinlar!

mikelav456 said:
Mine does, quite a bit. Once I am watching a video it's great, but navigating around the UI can be frustrating at times, but ok other times. Hit or miss. Better than the 4.3 builds I was on. I really hope the 4.4 builds assist the lag.
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I find that using Greenify helps lower the amount of lag. I'm running CarbonROM 10-31 build with buggy multiwindow. Previous CarbonROM build was roughly the same in performance. At times I'm fine, but at others, it takes a year to open something. I'm hoping that the new compiler, ART, will make things better.

mikelav456 said:
What build are you using exactly? Custom kernel? Are there any kernels I should be flashing? What are your performance settings set to? I don't need high-end game performance, I just want to get in and out of apps and navigate the UI without thinking about the sub-par internals.
Thanks leapinlar!
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I run CM10.1.3 stable, using the kernel that comes with it and standard performance settings.
But I run at 320 dpi and use ADW-EX as my launcher. I also run my swap zip so that media files get put on my SD instead of internal memory. I also have the SEM32G chip.
I suspect that a lot of users getting LAG are 16GB devices that put their media files on internal memory (the default) and they fill up internal memory (/data and /data/media) so that the device slows down when it needs to write to storage that has been previously used. After all, that is what LAG is.
Sent from my BN NookHD+ using XDA Premium HD app

YevOmega said:
I find that using Greenify helps lower the amount of lag. I'm running CarbonROM 10-31 build with buggy multiwindow. Previous CarbonROM build was roughly the same in performance. At times I'm fine, but at others, it takes a year to open something. I'm hoping that the new compiler, ART, will make things better.
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Yeah I was contemplating trying the carbon builds with the multiwindow but really want to make sure it's stable first. Might just wait for 4.4 builds before changing.
Sent from my BN NookHD+ using XDA Premium 4 mobile app

What is the earliest supported version of Cyangenmod for the Nook HD+?

I mean all hardware works and all patches applied. Since I have a Nook with the faulty Samsung flash, please keep that in mind too. I'm currently on Marshmallow and while I'm impressed with the technical achievement, I'm not personally happy with the performance.
I ended up doing something similar on my old Nook Color, reverting to CM7 for performance reasons and it extended my ability to use it for another year or so. I'd like to do that again with the Nook HD+.
Sent from my BN NookHD+ using Tapatalk

Then you need to go to CM 10.1.3 stable. It is mature, very fast, stable, and no worry of the trim bug hitting you. You can get it at the Cyanogenmod site. It does for the HD+ what CM 7 did for the NC.
Sent from my SM-T707V using XDA Premium HD app

leapinlar said:
Then you need to go to CM 10.1.3 stable. It is mature, very fast, stable, and no worry of the trim bug hitting you. You can get it at the Cyanogenmod site. It does for the HD+ what CM 7 did for the NC.
Sent from my SM-T707V using XDA Premium HD app
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Thank you!
I mean no disrespect to any of the developers who have done a phenomenal thing in porting the Nook HD+ to the latest version of Android, and it works impressively for such older hardware. I will probably try it again later in the future, but for now I just want to reset the device to work the way it did when I first got it and get back to doing my stuff on it.
Edit: This was absolutely the right choice for me. The Nook is now running much cooler to the touch and performance feels much faster.
Can anyone recommend a xposed version to me that works well with CM 10? Also which version of TWRP will be best for that version?

Latest twrp is what I would use. As for xposed, I would get the app, and let it do the dirty work of picking what works for what ROM for you. It will detect which sdk is used, and then default at the latest version available under that sdk.