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Hey, this is awesome. I've been wanting to do something like this but have never had the gumption to dig through like 30 github projects to get my bearings as to where to even start. Here you have just a small handful of source repositories that are close to another project, so it's not too hard...

Loving it. This is a great rom. For no good reason I'm digging it a lot more than cyanogen or pa. For all the people concerned about double tap to wake, check out gravity screen, it's actually better and available in the app store. i don't even think it requires root. I do have a minor bug...

I've been maintaining a guide as I have time. Arch has some issues though. Mostly it needs a new kernel. Speaking of which... Tassadar, I wonder if you could tell us where you got the kernel for your Arch image? Did you recycle an android kernel or use vanilla linux? In either case if you built...

bluetooth I've got Bluetooth working. I even have it pairing automatically on boot with a keyboard. Its an ugly solution but it works. The guide has been updated. I'll tackle X next

bluetooth I have bluetooth (almost) working. I've put instructions in the guide. They aren't really a final solution, but maybe people who are running gui's can tell me if they work. I know I have the hardware working because I can see my keyboard when I scan for it, but I can't figure out how...

What distribution are you using on your PC? Also you can pm me the link for the xorg configuration and I'll post it for you

Thanks for the feedback :) I don't have arch on my pc at the moment, so it's not a given, but i think you are right that people are probably more likely to have arch if they are looking at this guide. I updated the guide with info on how to install the tools from AUR. Also added links to wicd...

I put up a guide for getting arch working. It still needs work but it should cover the basics and i'll improve it over time. I started a new thread so i won't clutter up this one.

Todo/Bugs Problems/Bugs/Todo The following is a list of things that need to be addressed or that I want to address. These things will be tackled in no particular order but hopefully over time the number bugs and problems will go down relative to the number of features I want to add. Feel free...

Changelog ======== 2013-07-20 --Added instructions for installing the platform tools on an arch host pc --Added references to wicd and network manager as alternatives to netctl 2013-10-20 --Updated instructions to reflect new *-grouper.zip naming scheme for MultiROM files --Added instructions...

I've began to write up a guide for getting Arch usable on the Nexus 7. I just threw it up on google docs because I'm too lazy to try to do the wiki thing until it's more complete. Hopefully it is far enough along to get things rolling for people who are looking to experiment with arch. Anyway...

you can edit it from within arch using "nano /etc/X11/xorg.conf". Or use vi instead of nano ;)

I haven't had much time to play with it on mine (grouper) yet but it does come with a /etc/X11/xorg.conf that didn't work for me. I commented out every line in the server layout section for "HDMI" in that file (by adding # to the beginning of each line and uncommented (remove the #s ) in from of...

I thought it was gone too but I found it http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/raring/release/ The installer is broken. Couldn't get it to work even by manually downloading the files. Manual fastboot works fine though

I also got the "android.process.media has stopped" message after a clean install. I didn't wipe system but i did wipe data and cache. However that isn't the main issue. Many apps that work on the 1/02/2013 aosp don't work on this build. They come up with a blank screen and say warning the app...

eh. flashing another rom is about the same amount of work as odin. if flashing aokp would actually work. i was just wondering if anyone else had the same issue.

That may be so, but this lag is a separate issue i think. It gets worse over time and lags on things its doing in the background that have nothing to do with video. Like installing apps or updating charging status when you plug/unplug it. It feels like a really massive memory leak to me but idk...

I'm pretty happy with my apple keyboard heh. It's full size for typing, and small for throwing in my bag and my favorite feel for a keyboard next to my Model M. I bought it for my nook color when there weren't even decent android keyboards to buy if you wanted to. It was good to my nook, and...

The fix to enable chrome and whatnot as described in this post isn't included. Adding that line to your build.prop should enable those apps.

I got a chroot of gentoo running just fine. I'm sure ubuntu or debian or whatever would be just as easy.

Orange is when it's charging. It turns green when it's fully charged.

Aaaah, the horror! Avoid C++ at all costs imho! It's just way too much complication with absolutely no gain. My straight C code is always much cleaner, better organized, more portable, simpler, more readable, less side effecty, more object oriented, etc... I'd actually reccomend going bottom...

Ever try running zergRush on a device rooted with zergRush, just to get adb running under root? You can't, you have to su to do it. At least I can't on my nook. Usually rooted devices are more secure imho ;-) If they were secure to begin with then they couldn't be rooted, odds are rooting...

I have the Tasume. The button's aren't as easy to hit as when out of the case, but it isn't bad. The power buttion isn't covered by the case as it's on the side you slide it into the case. The stand up in any direction feature is really slick imho, and the reason I bought it. There is no hole...

That doesn't mean the bluetooth hardware is there. I have yet to see any information on what specific wireless chip we have. Until someone figures that out, it's safest to just say no. For sure the chip is different from the one in the NC which happened to have bluetooth.

Drivers are a nonissue. Im sure youve noticed the nook comes with support for it's storage and filesystems and networking out of the box. If the nook didnt come with working linux drivers we wouldnt have a working nook. The difference between gnu/linux amd android is just the userland. So put a...

I'm pissed off about the bootloader too. But here's the thing. You said you didn't like the kindle, and you love your NT. You list the things that it excels at, and say you love those things. And then say that's all it can give you. The implication being that somehow having ICS on your tablet...

We are running linux kernel, so as long as chroot is there (it is) then we can run (almost) any linux distro. This stuff is (relatively) easy and there interwebs are instructions on it dating back to the g1 days that still work. Gentoo works for sure, i'm sure ubuntu does as would debian no...

The title of the thread specifically mentions booting, which means specifically running an operating system from the card. Your suggestion is horribly wrong. Objectively, very very very wrong.

Wait...so you are saying that your friends are as likely to want to use your computer to bang out something in geany as they are to check facebook?

If you are running windows, check out Indirects rooting thread in the development forum. If you have an Apple computer, check out t-r-i-c-k's rooting thread. And on the off chance you have linux, you can check out my thread on the subject. Indirect and t-r-i-c-k have both put together some...

Without a doubt. It has to do with sandisk class 2 and 4 cards providing random access to small amounts of data at speeds that are 10-100 times any other brand. All the other brands are trying to make really big chunks of data write faster (think copying over movies faster) so I don't see...

try this? chmod a+x go.sh then the ./go.sh thing

The market is fine for my uses. Apparently there are a few apps that don't show up but meh. You can surf the web with the thing out of the box, no rooting or side loading required. And yes the difference between the color and the tab is speed and the mic. The color is alright speedwise if you...

It's what the browser tells the website it is. Some pages redirect you to a mobile site if you pick android. I usually like ipad as that seems to be the best for the 7" form factor. Sometimes though that still redirects you to the crap mobile site. Same with desktop, usually good, but...

Wait what? So you are saying, the nook is actually better for left handed people? About time corporate america started paying attention to this very important demographic imho.

omg it's *bo*e*pert! he caused a bunch of drama back in the day on the nook color forums when he started selling instructions or sd cards or some ****. Honestly though. We are just bumping him up on google rank when we link to him. So don't do that. But really, who cares? Let the people that...

run your finger from right to left along the status bar on the bottom of the screen. that's how you go "back" since there is no real "back" button like most android devices have.

Honestly most of this stuff has deep roots in the *nix world. I'd say try installing gentoo, or "linux from scratch", or arch linux, or freebsd on your computer. Or if that gets you in over your head then try linux mint, or ubuntu, or fedora to start easy. Do some google searches on "getting...

Tbh, that is kind of my vision for our device. Since the bootloader will probably never be unlocked, and I see no reason to mess with the internal memory . I envision booting the device into B&N land and then running an apk program that will load kexec or 2ndboot or whatever and do a reboot (all...

I blame M$? Seriously though, i dunno why he had so many troubles but coming from windows land and looking at this stuff is just apples and oranges and begging for problems you don't understand. *nix for life (including apple). represent.

I get the same thing, but it only comes up when i reboot, and everything seems to work fine. I haven't really given it much thought ;-) Don't fix it if it isn't (horribly) broken?

twodollaz: research is awesome. digging that crap up is a giant pita. loglud: did you guys get kexec-mod compiling and loading? i haven't had time to look at it much, but all the sources i've found require a huge amount of work to compile, let alone load and run. do y'all have more information...

If do the step by step instructions and stop after the zergRush step, and then install the market manually, your root will go away after your next reboot, as long as you don't install su. At that point though, you might as well finish the root process. The difference between root and not root...

Even more useful would be a link to the thread where they originated ;-) A link to the source is always more useful than a mystery file. Especially since said files never come with documentation and may be out of date an hour after they are posted. My 2 cents anyhow

I'm throwing together this little guide to help jumpstart people who are new to linux/android/kernel development. This guide is for Linux. If you are running Windows or Mac and get this working please show us your ways. I'll update the guide with info for those platforms. Do yourself a favor...

That's what i did. easier than installing it by hand and yeah, xbin is correct, at least that's what everyone seems to do

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I did some research on adbd. Apparently by default it runs as a "shell" user, not root. This is pretty standard for stock roms apparently. There are a few ways around this. For more information, see this thread Honestly, I forgot the step to remove zergRush from /data/local, so the easiest...

I call, and raise you a kernel. Stock, compiled with B&N defconfig, unsigned. Now that you have your kernel, I expect a video, of this kernel loading, and some independent verification, or the title of this thread needs to be changed so it doesn't imply that we have kexec, much less kexec working.