First, a tip of the cap to everyone who has contributed to all the progress on the NT so far.
I made the mistake of not allowing Google to determine my location based on my wireless when I first set up my Gapps. Now (unsurprisingly) I cannot find a way to access this portion of the standard Android settings to change this. I remember with a rooted stock NC there was an app named "NookColorTools" that provided access to most of the standard Android settings that aren't available in the stock B&N experience.
Is there any way to access these settings from my rooted NT, or is there any chance of something similar to "NookColorTools" coming along for the NT any time soon? If not I suppose I can just do a factory reset and start again from scratch, but I hate to do that at this point after spending a couple hours setting everything up.
Thanks!
When you are able to access the root, it asks you a bunch of questions. (someone please post the screenshot, I cant find it.) It asks to what extent of debloating do you want. Debloat a little, debloat everything but keep nook features, debloat all nook to make it 100% android tablet.
What did everyone pick? any problems with the 100% android tablet?
Since our Nook is technically my wife's and she likes the Nook stock setup, I would choose no debloating, then use Ti Backup to remove only what I don't want.
If it were mine, I would do a full debloat and have an Android tab...
I chose the debloat that took out the second most information. First root ever for me, went fairly well. In hindsight, I wish I chose the "debloat-to-the-max" option.
Also I need to do more research, but I don't want my NT to run a launcher...I want a true, complete Honeycomb (ICS when available) tablet.
Yes, I would like to see some comments on that too.
For example, the Nook comes with an installed app for Pandora. Works fine. Now I know that I can install an "ad free" version but the ads are tiny and since I'm only listening it doesn't matter.
Someone please correct me if I I am missing the point.
I am rooted and have installed a bbunch of apps including alternate readers but I have not uninstalled anything.
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I chose the full debloat the first time, but decided that it was potentially too much, and chose to not debloat at all the second time.
After a few hours of bricking, bootlooping and rerooting, I've eventually settled on the "standard" debloat, a.k.a. option 1, where it takes out the trivial stuff. I think I would be happier with all the rest of the B&N apps gone (it's not like I have money to go and buy anything on them), but that's easy enough to fix with root.
I chose to not debloat as those BN apps not really bother me.
I chose the full debloating option. Everything works fine for me as I don't use any B&N content.
bobapunk said:
Since our Nook is technically mywife's and she likes thw Nook stock setup, I would choose no debloating, then use Ti Backup to remove only what I don't want.
If it were mine, I would do a full debloat and have an Android tab...
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When you say Nook's stock setup do you mean the stock OS "launcher" Are you able to see the Android Market and android apps in the stock Nook Tablet OS app view?
I ask b/c my first go at I installed the honeycomb launcher and my girl didn't like this. She wanted the Nook to look the same but just have the android market app/icon alongside the nook app store icon. And any apps she downloads from the Android Market will show up in the stock nook app view. Is this how your setup works?
I don't debloat since I use mine as a book reader. For me it is too small for browsing and video, I use my transformer for those tasks.
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When you say Nook's stock setup do you mean the stock OS "launcher" Are you able to see the Android Market and android apps in the stock Nook Tablet OS app view?
I ask b/c my first go at I installed the honeycomb launcher and my girl didn't like this. She wanted the Nook to look the same but just have the android market app/icon alongside the nook app store icon. And any apps she downloads from the Android Market will show up in the stock nook app view. Is this how your setup works?
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I replied to your PM, but in short, no, side loaded Apps and Apps DLed from Android Market and Amazon App Market do not show up in the Nook "Library" so the can not be added the stock Nook home pages. I have some ideas to try, but it might be a few more days before my wife lets me experiment again!
I originally rooted about 3 weeks ago before debloating. Last night I re-rooted and choose the "standard" debloat, a.k.a. option 1, as that still gives me access to the B&N store as I do like to read and occasionally buy a book from there when I can't check it out from the library using Overdrive.
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I rooted, minimal debloat (buhbye netflix / pandora, kept the reader stuff. I love this tablet more than any gadget I own.
CAPSLOCK IS HOW I FEEL INSIDE
I used Media de-bloat (Pandora, Netflix) but those apps are still installed on my NT
I tried all of the methods and ended up with max debloat.
I didn't debloat, but use Indirect's post on debloater, and manually uninstall each on titanium backup. You can probably uninstall a few more if you like, ie google talk, cartalk, and some various services that you don't think you need. I do notice that once you debloat, your owner/account name will show "Unavailable", fyi.
I chose option 2. Press enter to continue. Any other to abort. Gotta love the hackers.
No de-bloat. Just rooted and blocked with gapps and every app from my phone that made sense. Used the backup on phone and restore on nook with Titanium.
No de-bloat, as I want the standard Nook setup with the freedom to download what I want. I used the Nook Color App Manager and now have all my 3rd party apps on my Nook home screen. I'm thinking of scraping the Homecatcher program, since I can easily launch the Go Launcher EX from my homescreen.
I have my Samsung Galaxy Nexus and my Asus Transformer Prime, and I generally have the same games on both, and I just wondered if there was a method / app to sync saved data / progress between my devices so I could pick up one one device where I left off on the other?
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Stewart
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Titanium Backup and Dropbox sync should do the trick
I’ve used Titanium Backup for exactly this over a couple of device changes, most recently to my shiny new Transformer Prime. It’s worked perfectly for all games I play except Paradise Island, the game data restored successfully and I can do almost everything except use any of the network features. Although I was registered it now tells me I am not but will not let me sign up again because it has restored my existing profile….. So it half thinks I’m registered… Oh well, as I said it has worked a treat for everything else.
OK maybe I am being really stupid, but I can't seem to figure out how to upload my backups to Dropbox?
Also, is there a way to do this auto-magically whenever I play something?
Can this be used without Root? I have Titanium Backup Pro on my phone (fully rooted etc) can I still copy my game saves onto my stock unrooted prime? Mainly Deadspace, I just completed it and want to play again on newgame+
I saw on Android Police that the app "DataSync" came out I think last week. It requires root and busybox.
AP: http://www.androidpolice.com/2012/0...our-app-data-in-sync-across-multiple-devices/
Market: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.quintstoffers.DataSync
I haven't used it but it looks easier to use then TB.
TehH4rRy said:
Can this be used without Root? I have Titanium Backup Pro on my phone (fully rooted etc) can I still copy my game saves onto my stock unrooted prime? Mainly Deadspace, I just completed it and want to play again on newgame+
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No Titanium Backup won't work unless you root your Prime too. I don't know about dropbox, I've never used it because TB does all I need to do.
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I saw on Android Police that the app "DataSync" came out I think last week. It requires root and busybox.
AP: http://www.androidpolice.com/2012/0...our-app-data-in-sync-across-multiple-devices/
Market: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.quintstoffers.DataSync
I haven't used it but it looks easier to use then TB.
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Yeah that works great, its not automatic, but seems to work quite well!!
For some games you can transfer the save file saved on your sd card, so root won't be necessary. However it will be annoying to do everytime you want to play between twwo devices.
SaveShare is another app very similar to DataSync that doesn't require root (though the syncing of some games' files do require root). I'm curious to hear people's impressions who have used both.
Typically, the only game which I want to sync across devices (Where's My Water?) needs root - but none of my devices are rooted
To throw another option into the mix, I've recently developed the app 'GameSync' for this purpose. It also requires root and is more focused on the game side of things, unlike DataSync. As a result, it offers 'automatic synchronization' where possible, keeping the tablet and phone in sync without interaction.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.appliedanalog.gamesync
Hey guys,
I'm quite new to Android (only a fews days with my Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1). I previously had an iPhone which I always jailbroke, because I was more of a hacking & tweaker without any deep technical knowledge.
Some stuff reg. Android is still a little confusing:
I. If I buy an additional Android phone like the upcoming Sony Xperia Z, can I just sign into my Google account or use Titantium Backup to restore all my apps and settings or will that only partially works as my other device is a tablet?
II. Is there someway I can let Android update all the apps autocratically and in the backup? Or am I doing something wrong?
Just so you know, I've already manged to root my tablet and install a custom ROM, even though the process is more complicated than a simple jailbreak
I. Your Google account will keep track of apps you buy so you don't have to buy them again and you can install them on as many devices as you register on your account. If you factory reset your tablet Google Play would download the apps you had before, but it would consider your phone a new separate device. You could however use Titanium Backup to backup apps plus data to a cloud storage like dropbox, box, etc and then restore that data using Titanium Backup on your new device. You'll have to be rooted to use Titanium backup.
II. Google Play has an option to download updates automatically and for phones you can choose whether you want to use wifi only, in case you are on a limited data plan. Titanium backup allows you to schedule automatic backups. IMO the best time to run these is at night when your device is being charged.
I'd like to see Google come up with their own way of syncing app data between devices, so you could for example start playing a game on your tablet and pick up where you left off later on your phone.
Hey everyone,
My friend and I have the same phone (Motorola Razr I XT890). He's not very good when it comes to setting up his phone whereas my phone is set up pretty well with a specific launcher and specific apps for each task and then the settings of each app customised pretty deep. We use our phones in a similar enough way so rather than having to spend hours setting his phone up the way mine is, I was wondering is it at all possible to do a "template" of my phone that I can just put on his phone and it will give him the same apps with the same settings, but just have none of the actual user data, so it would be as if he's using my phone, just with his data? I don't have a lot of apps at all and use a very minimalist approach both in terms of the amount of apps I use (the less the better) and the style of my set up, yet it still takes me about 5 hours to go through everything any time I've started fresh.
I'm not very good with the technical side of things and don't want to have to go install a load of apps and pc programs etc which I may not be able to use to achieve this so if there's any simple way to do this, please share I would of course still settle on having to customise some of the apps, but it would just be nice if I could do it on his phone and when he turns his phone on for the first time after, it would look like mine with the homescreen layout, app icons etc.
We both paid some guy to root and unlock our phones and I believe we have clockworkmod if this makes anything easier?