So, I've just gotten a Nook Colour, with CyanogenMod7. I've also got a Mytouch 4G Slide. I use Moon+ Reader on my phone, and would like to set things up so that I can use the same program on my Nook.
However, I'd also like to set things up so that when I finish reading on my Nook and go out with my phone, I don't have to find my place in the book again.
So basically I'm looking to synchronize data specific to particular apps between my Nook and my phone. Anyone have any suggestions?
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I just received my G Tab yesterday (non-woot) and so far I love it. I installed CWM then flashed Vegan. Something about it didn't feel right, so I switched over to TNT Lite 4.4. I also installed Launcher Pro and have figured out how to use it to customize my "desktop" a little. Basically I have a few random questions.
1) Is there a way to disable the "dock" screen?
2) Is there a way to disable the lock screen that comes up after the screen has turned off?
3) Any recommendations on a good replacement for MS Office that can open, edit, and create documents that are compatible with Office?
4) Any recommendations on a good remote desktop app I can use to access files and software on my laptop?
5) Any recommendations on a compact, portable, hopefully inexpensive Bluetooth mouse?
6) How do I copy files from my laptop to my external micro SD card? Do I have to put the micro SD card into my laptop, or can I leave it in the tablet and copy them somehow? When I plug the tablet into my laptop it only appears to give me access to the internal SD.
7) Any other random apps I should look into getting? I plan to use my G Tab to basically replace my laptop, which I only ever use for surfing the web, email, facebook, etc.
8) In particular, any particular apps I should get for playing video/audio files?
9) Is there a tutorial somewhere I can read about how to find movies and get them onto my tablet to watch?
Sorry to barrage you with so many questions. Feel free to answer none, any, or all of them! Thanks in advance for your help!!!
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3) I use and really like Office suite Pro. Its 15 bucks but it is solid. You can try the demo version for 30 days for free and then decide how you like it.
4) I use "dropbox" to sync files between my tab and my two computers. Plus it backs everything up online so you can access them anywhere. Great App!!!
7) I also recommend the Mozilla web browser. I like it a lot better then the stock one it comes with. Also, Pulse is a great app if you like to read the news/bloggs often.
8) I have heard a lot of people use dolphin to play video but I have yet to try it. I have had trouble myself playing videos. Be sure you get the adobe 10.2 download so Youtube works.
Hope this helps.
A year I put cm7 on my NC, I really use it. I have spreadsheets on it for everything, including “what’s in my freezer”. The one ONLY thing that I have missed is the B&N Reader. I have all the other reader apps and none of them compare to the original. Loaded B&N app--can't get it to work on cm7.
Now I have my NT in a awkward stage. I have not been able to get the drivers changed so I can root it. (I have had a lot of help from this forum; and am ready to try 2 more methods that look hopeful) BUT, I have sideloaded all the apps that I use in my NC, can get around the home button nicely with ADB and with AppSwipe (terrible name for my favorite app!) I have the ability to pop back and forth from Dropbox to pick out a book choose reader (B&N). I haven’t touched the home button in a week since I loaded AppSwipe.
Finally, here’s the question: If I get the drivers changed, which I have a burning desire to do; will I lose the reader?
If you are just planning to root, then no, you'll still have the original reader there as well.
If you plan on using CM7 (when it's completed) then the reader will be gone.
If I recall correctly, after I rooted (indirect's method), I still had access to the entire B&N launcher and apps, including the stock reader. Homecatcher asks which launcher you want to launch, and if you choose the stock launcher, it works very much like out-of-the-box.
Unfortunately, I was reading a thread last night, indicating that the reader was not being restored from backup properly on the CM7 release.
Hope I helped!
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Nook app on Market
I've been on the CM7 alpha now for the past week with good success. I just went out to the Android Market and downloaded the Nook application. It is working fine for me. I've been reading on it all week.
It is good to know that the B&N reader works in CM7 on the Nook Tablet. I was wondering that myself. I knew from experience that the B&N reader from the market doesn't work on 1.4.0 rooted.
I can echo that rooting the Nook itself will not remove the reader (as long as you don't choose to "de-bloat"). Note, there are SD methods for rooting so you may not need to resolve your driver issue. So, regardless of your route (root, CM7) sounds like you are golden for reading your Nook books.
My thoughts are around an issue that is a bit more subtle: At the moment, I'm considering running CM7 on SD for a multi-boot experience. If I want a full tablet, I would boot to CM7 on SD. If I want a stock (or meta-stock) experience I would boot to the internal firmware whether it be root or stock. My reason for this? Whenever I try reading ebooks from the library (specifically ePub) and try to view them using the B&N reader on my phone, it won't work - I can't seem to read licensed content that I borrow from the library because I can't seem to sideload it: Adobe's tool (and others that I've tried) don't recognize my phone as a Nook.
Now, my need for a multi-boot would evaporate if someone tells me that Adobe's tool (and others) recognize a Nook Tablet running CM7 as a proper Nook - my problems would all go away and I would happily run CM7 internally and avoid multi-boot altogether. Anyone with input on this?
Thats exciting. Tell me, are you reading a book that you bought from B&N?
I have been cutting up (gasp) my favorite books and scanning them into epub, I can't get B&N to read them on my cm7 NC?
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PlacidCat said:
It is good to know that the B&N reader works in CM7 on the Nook Tablet. I was wondering that myself. I knew from experience that the B&N reader from the market doesn't work on 1.4.0 rooted.
I can echo that rooting the Nook itself will not remove the reader (as long as you don't choose to "de-bloat"). Note, there are SD methods for rooting so you may not need to resolve your driver issue. So, regardless of your route (root, CM7) sounds like you are golden for reading your Nook books.
My thoughts are around an issue that is a bit more subtle: At the moment, I'm considering running CM7 on SD for a multi-boot experience. If I want a full tablet, I would boot to CM7 on SD. If I want a stock (or meta-stock) experience I would boot to the internal firmware whether it be root or stock. My reason for this? Whenever I try reading ebooks from the library (specifically ePub) and try to view them using the B&N reader on my phone, it won't work - I can't seem to read licensed content that I borrow from the library because I can't seem to sideload it: Adobe's tool (and others that I've tried) don't recognize my phone as a Nook.
Now, my need for a multi-boot would evaporate if someone tells me that Adobe's tool (and others) recognize a Nook Tablet running CM7 as a proper Nook - my problems would all go away and I would happily run CM7 internally and avoid multi-boot altogether. Anyone with input on this?
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For library books, I use Overdrive Console app. It downloads into the Nook. It's great but they had no pg numbers. I ask why & they updated it but the pg numbers are only by the pgs in the chapter.
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The Nook app installs for me but I can't synchronize my account or make the 'shopping' or 'search' buttons work. However, I can read all of my .epub books on the sd card so I'm good.
The nook app from the Android store works. The reader app on the origjnal 1.4.0 nook firmware does not work.
Ok, I stand corrected. I uninstalled the previously Market version of the Nook app and reinstalled it and things work better now. The 'synchronize' and the 'shopping' buttons work now.
I was also successful in connecting to B&N severs, while downloading from Market and using B&N Nook app on the NT with CM7. The reader worked on stock with root but access to B&N account/server was wiped out for me. I tried some methods found on this forum but they didn't seem to work for me. I have heard that others have successfully succeeded in the attempt of connecting to the B&N severs on Stock while rooted. @Claudiaa you could try the root method and try different approaches to getting the B&N severs to recognized a rooted Tab, then you could use the un-rooter if unsuccessful. You could always start back at Stock software, I'm not sure if that is the case if you decide to go with ClockworkMod Recovery(void warranty, proof). If you do decide to use CWM Recovery their is Stock ROMs out there, that have root, certain hacks and apps preloaded. Info is always helpful, good luck on your decision.
So I've had my NT (16GB) since Christmas and have been rooted and OTA blocked since the beginning. Now that CM7 is available and relatively stable, CM9 is getting there I am soliciting some advice on how best to proceed. I have purchased several Children's Books from B&N and have, much to my chagrin, noticed that they are only viewable on the NT (probably NC too but I don't have one of those). I got the NT because I wanted a cheap good tablet, I also want to support B&N through purchases from them for content as much as possible, but let's face it I'm not buying the same apps multiple times. So what to do.....
Option 1. (Currently Evaluating) - I purchased a class 10 32gb SD card and put an ROM on there (CM7). I just completed this step last night and I am still playing about. There seems to be noticeable lag though in starting apps and browsing/playing around in general. This could be a early symptom of things just needing to settle out though as I haven't spent a whole lot of time on it yet. This would allow me to pop the SD card and boot stock when the kids want to view the books. A hassle but possible good alternative.
Option 2. Find some way to get the stock B&N reader programs on the custom ROM. I have no idea where to start with that and the brief searches that I've tried has suggested it isn't possible.
Option 3. Just live with Rooted Stock and the side loaded apps that I have now. This isn't as much fun, but does make for a fairly usable tablet with the full Nook capabilities. Just a few nits but none that are completely onerous. However no ICS and that might be a problem with apps in the near future.
Option 4. Bootable SD of a stock image. This would allow me to completely change the internal storage and have a separate bootable card for the stock needs. I haven't seen any of these offered in the Dev section yet but I'm willing to try to make one myself with a little more research. A couple of questions here though would be how/or if I can access the SD card from internal storage boot and share media on the card (movies, music, etc)? Can you default the boot internal with a special key press to boot from SD card? Ideas.
Option 5. Can you run a VM of the stock image from a normal boot? This one is way out there as I haven't seen VM options for Android yet.
So that's about all I can think of. Interested in hearing your thoughts and ideas. Thanks.
Your option 1 with CM 7 should allow you to load Google Play, which will allow you to download the Nook Reader app from there. It will allow you to read your books, and some other content as well, but not Nook apps. (You can't read some magazines except with native Nook, and although the apps you've gotten from B&N don't function here, you can download from Google Play most anything you want. Also, you can always boot back to stock Nook Tablet and do that. I flip back and forth between CM7 and native stock Nook Tablet all the time.)
I also boot back and forth between stock and CM7. I use both Nook & Kindle apps on CM7. I really only boot into stock when I'm in the Barnes & Noble store.
I basically stopped using my lapdock a few weeks ago due to the slowness of my webtop2sd setup (XFCE4 on a PNY 32GB Class 10 card), so for kicks I decided to click uninstall in the webtop2sd app to try out the stock webtop in the internal storage, and its actually not running too bad,considering I want to use it for work and most of what I do is web based, firefox is working fine. I can even still use the network printer where I work at.
I find that the dock,although not necessarily bad, is really annoying that it cant really be configured at all. I have an extra separator and nothing inbetween,where the awn manager and lx terminal were,that I removed due to them not working.
So here are the actual questions.
1. Should those 2 programs, which webtop2sd installs,work on the internal storage as well? Should I try using the app to reinstall them?
2. If they dont work, is there a way, like a config file or something,that I can manually add and move icons, or more specifically,unused seperators with? I feel that with any other dock I have ever used,I should be able to drag icons to move them,but this one seems a bit stubborn.
3. Should the dock and top notification bar be hiding randomly? I dont mind the dock hiding (not that a window will ever use that extra space),but I'd rather that top bar just stay there all the time incase I get a new notification from the phone. Can this also be configured to not do that?
I'm really not that unhappy with the stock webtop,it seems to run faster than webtop2sd, I would just like to be incontrol of the dock and the top bar and I'll be happy with it.
Stock/rooted/locked BL
I would recommend that you look into GenTop, it is a linux distro which works on the webtop. It's one of the top topics in the atrix general section.
It will only work with the blur roms and for that I would recommend Nottachtrix
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I've read the whole thread,and am turned off by the fact that it does not appear to be too user friendly to setup, considering the whole thread is basically a discussion on how to compile programs,which I lack complete knowledge of.
I just dont have the time to mess around with something I dont know much about. I didnt mind messing around with webtop2sd since I've basically turned it into Xubuntu which I've used before,but I dont know anything about Gentoo.
It would be a lot easier for me to try to mess around with this dock than try to reinstall the whole system again.All the basically need is firefox with the keyboard,and the ability to print, which I already have.
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I know this is possible, because webtop2sd adds 2 icons and a seperator to the dock for hacking before it copies the whole webtop to the sd card.
Basically, i would like to know where the config file is for the dock so i can manually configure the icons, i would use a file browser on the phone to copy the file off the phone, edit it on a pc then use the file browser in android to overwrite it.
If no one knows where that file is, does anyone know where i could start looking for it? Im not sure how the file system is really setup tbh, i dont know whats webtop or whats android.
I'm running into an interesting issue with my nook tablet. I have something like 2000 sideloaded books in my library, and i was trying to pare that down. i deleted them all, or rather, moved them off the device, and then tried to refresh my library, but they still show up, albeit with no size, and they won't open. I'm hoping one of you has the solution to my issue, to get the device to forget about these library items.
Mason
Rooted 16 gb nook tablet.