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New to the Forum. Just received my G tab last night (Woot deal). Loaded TNT 4.4. A few questions:
1. I can copy and paste in the gmail app but not in the browser, why?
2. How do you open new tabs in the browser (for instance by holding on an address like on my droid). I know you can open new tabs but I want to load them like the Droid if possible.
3. Menu Key does not work in browser but works elsewhere, why?
4. Some apps I have on my Droid do not appear in the market, why is this?
5. Can I set a password for the device?
Thanks in advance for any responses. Love the G Tab and TnT Lite, thank you all for developing such great upgrades for the G.
1. Ditto on the password.
2. I've been able to install 4 apps from the market. The angry bird series and Stupid Zombies. Everything else crashes the UI when it hits the install phase (firefox, openoffice viewer, connectbot, etc). The apps download fine, but when it tries to install I drop back to the booting animation (Xoom?) and then I'm back to the unlock screen.
I've searched the forums and haven't found anything on #2.
#2 is not related to 4.4.0. I opened another thread and solved it myself. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=12555057 (sorry for the hijack).
On #1, http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=12542977&postcount=3. The solution is to setup a link to the security pref screen that is hidden. No info on how to do that and I don't see it as an option on my tablet.
Installing apps
I don't have a problem installing apps. Just with the other things. Thanks for the link, will come in useful seeing as I have not installed a tons of apps yet and may still encounter this. Thanks for the replies!
any luck on #3? Mine doesnt work either
has anyone figured out how to setup the link to configure a password yet?
Anyone fix the menu button YET?
The browser that came with TNTL 4.4 was not very good in my opinion, so I installed Dolphin HD browser. It is much better and the menu button works on it giving you many options.
yes I have the same problem. I did the market fix and I still have missing applications. When I try to download online it says I dont have a device? doesn't recognize gtab-tnt-Lite.. the stock browser on this doesn't even let you select text, I couldn't even find dolphin hd browser :/ was there a new update that I missed?
you'll need to try to apply one of the numerous market fixes (search the forums and i'm sure you'll find several).
The one that finally seemed to work permanently for me was the "edit the build.prop" file method.
You are definitely going to want to grab Dolphin HD. MUCH better then the stock browser....
I have a dual Booted Tablet. When I hit the N button it usually asks me if I want to go home or ADW Launcher(The launcher I chose). Now it stays on the original Nook screen and randomly opens up different books on its own and flips pages on its own. Also, the option to open up ADW is gone. if I hit the N button it just opens up whatever book I was reading last. I turned the device and back on but it acts the same way. Can anyone help me?
I'm not sure what you mean by 'dual booted'. With CM7?
Similar behavior to what you describe (things opening randomly, pages flipping, etc.) usually happens when the battery is very low. I've also seen it happen trying to use USB power adapters that don't really work correctly for the NT. Make sure you're not operating on a very low charge or other power issue.
I used Indirect's Root. I was able to keep the original Nook look as well as boot into another launcher. It was working fine until yesterday. Now the Home button doesn't do what it should but the main thing is that the screen types and writes all on its own. I heard about the low power setting issues with some people. My Nook was at 60% so I don't know if that's considered low enough to be under that umbrella
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I used Indirect's Root. I was able to keep the original Nook look as well as boot into another launcher.
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I can't help you with your problem, but I want to make things clear.
You don't have dual boot or anything like that, you just installed alternative launcher application.
In general you have the same stock firmware you had before rooting with addition of a few apps, allowing you to do more, than B&N wants you to be able to do.
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You don't have dual boot or anything like that, you just installed alternative launcher application.
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This is correct.
Disclaimer: I am a noob. Please take the following suggestions with a grain of salt.
Perhaps, clearing the homecatcher defaults will clear things up?
Alternatively, you could try installing a different launcher, such as golauncher, and see if it behaves as strangely as your current configuration.
Sent from my BNTV250 running Team B's CM7 "don't format your sd" beta build.
Well I would just install another launcher but the problem is that I can't access the other launcher any longer. The Home button doesn't work like its supposed to but instead opens up the Nook's Book Library. The whole thing just started acting weird and randomly the keyboard would pop up and write by itself in addition to opening and closes the book Library. Its been acting like it has a virus. I factory reset it but unfortunately it didnt help. So I figure my screen is faulty
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Well I would just install another launcher but the problem is that I can't access the other launcher any longer. The Home button doesn't work like its supposed to but instead opens up the Nook's Book Library. The whole thing just started acting weird and randomly the keyboard would pop up and write by itself in addition to opening and closes the book Library. Its been acting like it has a virus. I factory reset it but unfortunately it didnt help. So I figure my screen is faulty
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I got the same few hours after I rooted but using go launcher, just clean your screan very very clean if you haven't put a screen protector on it, then make sure its charged. Now try to open anything in that you could find a link click on it so it opens the browser then go to the android.market.com and download another launcher. After that I took my tablet and removed all the B&N crap apps, ijust left the games. Don't forget to apply the OTA block again.
Advice: remove home catcher.
PS: you could also use adb to push a new launcher but as you factory reseted usb debugging must be disabled, you need can enable it again by downloading tgps_launcher.apk from indirects root thread using the Nook browser.
~ Veronica
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what should I use to wipe it down. Im thinking I wiped it down pretty good but its still doing it. I noticed the z, e, and s buttons on the keyboard get pressed a lot so maybe its in the lower right region of my device.
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what should I use to wipe it down. Im thinking I wiped it down pretty good but its still doing it. I noticed the z, e, and s buttons on the keyboard get pressed a lot so maybe its in the lower right region of my device.
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OK if you havent installed CWM you're good to make the wipes, to know how to... read my FAQ . Link in my signature.
~ Veronica
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Well I would just install another launcher but the problem is that I can't access the other launcher any longer. The Home button doesn't work like its supposed to but instead opens up the Nook's Book Library. The whole thing just started acting weird and randomly the keyboard would pop up and write by itself in addition to opening and closes the book Library. Its been acting like it has a virus. I factory reset it but unfortunately it didnt help. So I figure my screen is faulty
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Have you tried going in to manage apps and deselect the default for ADW, B&N's Home Launcher and Homecatcher if your using it? I use button savior so I have software buttons rather than the n button. by deselecting the default launcher you should get a window again asking which launcher do you want to use as home.
I have a rooted Nook Tablet with Go Launcher and have a problem creating shortcuts. Using Go Launcher, if I press and hold the home screen and select "shortcut", it just does nothing. If I use the lower menu and do add-->shortcut, it also does nothing. If I use Anycut-->New Shortcut-->Direct Call, I get a popup saying "The application Any Cut (process com.android.anycut) has stopped unexpectedly. Please retry again.) I've checked the root permissions on anycut, and they seem fine.
I've been using the rooted Nook Tablet for three months now with no real issues. I don't know if this problem is recent, or has been that way for a long time. I hadn't tried doing a shortcut until today. I appreciate any advice someone might have that has an insight into this problem.
I had the same issue on rooted stock. There seems to be no shortcut selection apk on the stock rom; maybe it can be ripped from another device. I was going to try yanking it from my phone but don't have the patience.
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Well at least someone else has experienced this. That's helpful. I read posts that indicated that people were able to use the shortcut feature of Go Launcher on a Nook Tablet, so I wonder if there's something related to my gapps installation, OTA block mod, or other tweaks I've made and have since forgotten. It's not a big deal, so I can easily await a stable CM9 release sometime in the future.
Ok so ive seen a few threads with this problem. My wife is on the nook tablet it updates and she selects B&N instead of go launcher. Ive seen to download the link tgps.apk but that link seems to be dead so i tried the nt hidden link. It tries to download for a long time and never finishs. Ive downloaded a browser thru the nook free browser and wondering if it the problem. Ive got the tgps file on the sd card from when i rooted it the first time, but im getting the message about not being able to open this type of file. So should i try another browser, or how do i get it to allow the use of the already downloaded file?
So the nook updated itself and you lost root and now can't get to your go launcher? If that's the case, you can check to see if go launcher is still installed by clicking on the 'N' button at the bottom and going to search, then search for go. If the app is still installed it should show up and you can run it. If you do not see the go launcher anymore I would suggest re-rooting it the same way you did the last time. Then make sure you have the homecatcher app installed so you can set your home button to the launcher you want.
go launcher updated i think sine i didnt see it. i know when go launcher on my phone updates the first time i i go to the main screen it ask me what i want to use. so im pretty sure its the same on the table. the n button doesnt bring the "old menus" like search up because its removed when it was rooted. i can still get to the tpgs.apk by another route but it wont run like the first post describes.
Looks like B&N will be sending out an OTA update to version 1.4.3 starting today.
A post here about a deal with DC Comics mentions the following:
To use 'Zoom View' you will need a small update to the software in your Nook Tablet or Nook Color: software version 1.4.3 and you can get it for the Nook Tablet at www.nook.com/tablet/update or for the Nook Color at www.nookcolor.com/update. A free automated over the air update will bring this to your device beginning June 27th (that's tomorrow!) if you don't manually get the update.
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Thought y'all might appreciate a heads-up.
We appreciate, thank you sir.
Okay, color me confused. Isn't "Zoom View" where you use two fingers and pinch them together to make things smaller, and un-pinch to make things bigger ? Ah, this is broken ?
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Okay, color me confused. Isn't "Zoom View" where you use two fingers and pinch them together to make things smaller, and un-pinch to make things bigger ? Ah, this is broken ?
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From B&N:
The NOOK Tablet Ver1.4.3 update contains new features and enhancements, including:
• Zoom view in comics and graphic novels
• 2-Page mode in landscape for viewing PagePerfect™ and PDF documents
• Other minor system enhancements
Sent from my Nook Color running ICS and Tapatalk
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Okay, color me confused. Isn't "Zoom View" where you use two fingers and pinch them together to make things smaller, and un-pinch to make things bigger ? Ah, this is broken ?
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I haven't seen this in action, but I'm guessing it's similar to how other 3rd party comic viewing apps can detect and automatically zoom and advance through panels on a page without you having to "drive." The Dark Horse Comic app and (to a lesser, tunable degree) ComicViewer both have this. You still have the freedom to pinch-zoom and double-click to do full page views, but you can mostly just sit back and tap on the right side of the screen, and the app will maximize the viewability of a portion of the page. Very handy for smaller (7" or less) screens.
Different systems do it different ways. I doubt it panel by panel guided view, since the Nook Comics do not seem to have the required panel dimension information, but actually, it doesn't require it.
All it needs is the ability to lock the zoom at the level you want through page turns, starting at the top left corner of the page (left to right) or top right corner (right to left) and the pan and scan would be fine with me. Keep It Simple.
Anyway, this is definitely a change that I'll let go through and then run the manual rooter again afterward.
Changes made by update
Well bn updated my NT to 1.4.3 last night.
Now any app that i had pinned to the home page that was not gotten from BN will not open from the icon. These were pinned to the homepage using app manager.
I have to search for the adw launcher and get into them that way
Any body else have any issues.
1.4.3 is a nook killer
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Well bn updated my NT to 1.4.3 last night.
Now any app that i had pinned to the home page that was not gotten from BN will not open from the icon. These were pinned to the homepage using app manager.
I have to search for the adw launcher and get into them that way
Any body else have any issues.
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Same issue here. Had root but lost it to OTA for 1.42. Never bothered to re-root because I got 95% of the apps I cared about installed. Now 1.4.3 basically broke all of my apps and is not really usable anymore until I root again. Hoping SD card root works on 1.43. B&N are really making the move to CM7 seem smarter than ever.
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So, my nook also updated to the 1.4.3 last night.
I can verify that my device is no longer rooted, however I can still install applications from Google Play, and Amazon's app store. All of my previous applications are still working however not from the Nook home screens.
I haven't tried re-rooting with the sdcard method again yet.
The problem is that the API's changed that App Manager used to give access to the apps. The developer is aware of the issue and is trying to find a different way to achieve the same results. I just changed my default launcher to Go Launcher so I have access to all my apps, at least until App Manger starts working again.
I actually hadnt used mine in a while, but noticed yesterday the keyboard was back to default and realized something was up. Most of my apps still work, but the Play store asks me to login with an account, and when I click ok it just closes. Any ideas?
I don't remember how the sdcard root method pushed the play store, but if it pushed it to /system/apps, then play store is going to be screwed until you clear it out and install it again (reroot).
Edit: Just looked at the root zip file and it pushes all the gapps to /system/apps. The OTA update would wipe these out (as well as superuser).
Any tried Rerooting using the SDcard?
Having the same problem with Google Play.
Has anyone tried using the SD Card to reroot their device?
I think I will try it an see what happens.
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So, I backed up my nook, and took the plunge and used the SDcard I made to root 1.4.2 to root 1.4.3 and it worked flawlessly.
I had to re-login to Google Play, but I expected that.
The apps installed to the home screen of course still don't work, but opening them with another launcher or the App manager works fine.
I thought the SD card root method was designed to block OTA updates? Checking under the NT hidden settings showed an OTA block, though it now shows that I'm missing superuser since the new update unrooted my NT. Did this update have something different to defeat the block? I guess I need to seach for a new method to block updates (I seem to recall looking at some other posts on that topic).
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Rooting in itself does not block OTA I believe. It simply gives you the ability to do so (either by changing the version to 9.9.9 or blocking B&N services entirely).
Understood, thanks. I'm a noob and just thought I remembered that being one of the "features" on the SD card along with a bunch of other apps (superuser, gapps, ADW, busy box, etc.). That was an issue at the time because 1.4.2 had just been published and was different than the prior versions for rooting. Thanks for the clarification!
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I manually installed the 1.4.3 update and the SD Card root worked perfectly. One problem I've had since rooting though is that after updating apps from the Android Market/Play Store, the download arrows in the status bar stay active after the last app is 100% updated. The arrows go away after a reboot, but it's a little weird. I don't know if it's a market problem or has to do with 1.4.3., but everything else I had installed and loaded before the update is working flawlessly.
Supposedly when you actually install CWM on the device itself, not just on SD Card, you will not get updates due to factory recovery not being there. I do know that with CWM being internally installed + using the OTA blocker (999 one or Brian's) works. That is the way mine is and I've not gotten any updates.
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I was using the sdcard root method here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=23591839
And only using CM7. It worked great and I wanted to check out CM9 so I wiped the card and started over to create the dual boot card on the same post. While doing that, 1.4.3 updated on my NT and now the sdcard wont boot into cyanoboot. Does anyone know if this is a problem with 1.4.3 or am I just screwing something up?
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