[NEW] NT CM7 support thread

twofish · Apr 24, 2012

CelticWebSolutions said:
Access to the entire internal memory hasn't been worked on yet, there aer a couple of ways we could do it but currently we want to get the main system fully functional and stable first. We had though about giving access the the internal area as SDCard then the real sdcard as sd-ext but like I say we just haven't got around to that yet and probably won't for at least another week or two.

Thanks for an awesome ROM guys! Been happily running since day 1.

Just curious if the internal memory access has been set up yet?

Tel864 · Apr 25, 2012

old_fart said:
only one... ah, darn... its just that some brands/classes of sd cards are very good at 'sequential' thruput, but then stink at 'random'. And you really need the later. This is 'only' my guess that the physical characteristics of the sd card is the problem maker. ( just my guess )

I can second that. I just dumped at class 10 card for a Sandisk Class 4 and it solved several problems I was having with CM7.

fiddler17 · Apr 25, 2012

tmlee51 said:
For SD card larger than 4 GB, the 'not allocated' space is at the end of the SD card (the 5th partition). The idea is to move 2nd, 3rd and 4th partitions to the very end of the SD card, so the 'not allocated' space is between 1st and 2nd partition. Then increase the size of the 1st partition by merging 1st partition and the 'not allocated' space together. These are steps I used with MiniTool:
1. Insert SD card into Windows 7 PC
2. You should see the partition allocations of SD in MiniTool
3. Mine has five partitions - (1) FAT32; (2) Ext3; (3) Ext3; (4) FAT32; (5) not allocated
4. The first four take totally around 4GB and remaining 4 GB to the 'not allocated' space.
5. Select/highlight the 4th partition and select "Move/Resize" from the menu bar
6. A popup window shows this partition alone. Point the mouse to the end of the partition and if the cursor turns into a cross, this is for moving the partition. If the cursor changes to a railroad, this is for resizing.
7. We need to move the 4th partition toward the end of the SD, so drag the partition toward right until hit the end while the cross cursor is at the right end of the SD. When you are done, the 'not allocated' space should be now between partition 3 and partition 4.
8. Repeat 7 for partition 3 and 2 until the 'not allocated' space is between partition 1 and 2
9. Select partition/highlight partition 1 and select "Move/Resize" from the menu bar. And this time do resize.
10. Resize - point a mouse to the right side of 1st partition and make sure the cursor changes to a railroad. Drag the railroad toward right until all the 'not allocated' space is all filled and left no empty space between partition 1 and partition 2.
11. Now you just allocate all unallocated space to partition 1 which Windows 7 can see.
12. You can sideload books to this SD partition (as Card A) with Calibre and native NT's Library will recognize those books just as from a SD card without CM7 partitions.

When I try expanding the 1st partition on my 32 GB card to include all of the unallocated space I can not boot into CM7. It even takes several minutes before it will boot into the Nook OS. It works great if I add the unallocated space to the 4th partition but I really would prefer to have it on the first so that the space will still be available for storage on the Nook side as well. Any ideas why this is happening or how to make this work?

By the way, I'm using a Nook Tablet, purchased early December 2011.

Thanks,

movrshakr · Apr 25, 2012

Would one of you please explain why we would want the added space to be an expanded 1st partition rather than the 4th?

If we put it on the 4th, is it unusable?

fiddler17 · Apr 25, 2012

movrshakr said:
Would one of you please explain why we would want the added space to be an expanded 1st partition rather than the 4th?

If we put it on the 4th, is it unusable?

The reason that I personally want it that way is because I want the extra space available to the Nook stock OS, which only reads the first partition. It seems to me that if the extra space is on the first partition it should be accessible to both CM7 and Nook.

Someone somewhere offered another suggestion, which involved rooting into the Nook configuration and changing it so that the stock OS will read the 4th partition by default instead of the first, but as that involves changing the stock OS, I'd rather avoid it if possible. I don't want to void my warranty just yet.

If you've got another way of accomplishing this please let me know.

movrshakr · Apr 25, 2012

No, I know of no way to do ANYTHING

.

Part of my lack of understanding is that when something is to be saved, I never get asked "which partition do you want to store it on?"

Also, when I am looking at folders in a file manager, nothing there shows what partition the folder in "on."

Thus, I have seen no way to connect anything to anything else. If I expand partition 1 or 4, I have no idea where the expanded space "went."

Solar.Plexus · Apr 25, 2012

movrshakr said:
No, I know of no way to do ANYTHING .

Part of my lack of understanding is that when something is to be saved, I never get asked "which partition do you want to store it on?"

Also, when I am looking at folders in a file manager, nothing there shows what partition the folder in "on."

Thus, I have seen no way to connect anything to anything else. If I expand partition 1 or 4, I have no idea where the expanded space "went."

Your NT will automatically mount only the first partition of your SD card unless you tell it to do otherwise.

Prof. Penguin · Apr 25, 2012

Is "telling it otherwise" an edit to the fstab or is there an app/setting for it?

old_fart · Apr 25, 2012

on my other devices, ( when i hook up ) i see two drives but on the NT, i see only one ( the external storage ).
Veronica mentioned "Multi Mount SD-Card" as an interim fix to this loss of functionality. hth.

fiddler17 · Apr 25, 2012

Prof. Penguin said:
Is "telling it otherwise" an edit to the fstab or is there an app/setting for it?

My brother showed me a link that tells you how to have the Nook mount the 4th partition. I'm hesitant to try it but I may give it a shot if I can't figure out anything else. The only thing is that the "file expert" app that they reference in the link below does not give you the root access capability for free. You have to pay extra now. Someone on another thread suggested Ghost Commander.

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=13668471&postcount=529

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movrshakr said:
No, I know of no way to do ANYTHING .

Part of my lack of understanding is that when something is to be saved, I never get asked "which partition do you want to store it on?"

Also, when I am looking at folders in a file manager, nothing there shows what partition the folder in "on."

Thus, I have seen no way to connect anything to anything else. If I expand partition 1 or 4, I have no idea where the expanded space "went."

It seems very difficult to tell to me also. I found someplace in the settings that let me look at the available space but I wasn't completely sure what I was looking at. But I looked at my sd card on my PC using the MiniTool Partition Wizard (free download for PC). If you select the 4th partition and then on the sidebar on the left you should be able to select "Explore Partition" it will let you see the files that are on that partition. If I remember correctly those files seemed to correspond to the contents of /mnt/sdcard when I was browsing in the CM7 file manager. So, someone correct me if I'm wrong but I believe that the 4th partition is what CM7 is calling SDCard.

Solar.Plexus · Apr 25, 2012

Prof. Penguin said:
Is "telling it otherwise" an edit to the fstab or is there an app/setting for it?

That's correct. Just change "auto" to "4" so that your NT knows to mount the 4th partition of the SD card. The file is vold.fstab located in /etc.

Voyaging · Apr 26, 2012

Wifi issues

First of all. THANK YOU for your solid work on this alpha CM7...best alpha i've ever dealt with for sure.

I'm really sorry if this has already been addressed somewhere else and i've just missed it. My wife's NT has to be rebooted everytime she walks away from it for any period of time just to get wifi working. Is there a fix for this?
Thanks,
Voyaging

movrshakr · Apr 26, 2012

Voyaging said:
..I'm really sorry if this has already been addressed somewhere else and i've just missed it. My wife's NT has to be rebooted everytime she walks away from it for any period of time just to get wifi working. Is there a fix for this?

It has been discussed in many posts. Did you do any reading or searching?

Your description sounds more extreme than others however. Are you sure it needs rebooting?

Have you tried just turning wifi off then back on? Also, Some have reported that also using an app called Wifi Analyzer (open/close) speeds up the wifi getting into connected state.

But it is true that when it goes to sleep, it usually loses the wifi connection and that has to be re-established.

The_Joe · Apr 26, 2012

Voyaging said:
First of all. THANK YOU for your solid work on this alpha CM7...best alpha i've ever dealt with for sure.

I'm really sorry if this has already been addressed somewhere else and i've just missed it. My wife's NT has to be rebooted everytime she walks away from it for any period of time just to get wifi working. Is there a fix for this?
Thanks,
Voyaging

The fix is to not have Wi-Fi sleep when the screen is off. I warn you, this will reduce battery life GREATLY. I turn Wi-Fi off when I am setting the nook down overnight. The benefit is that it always re-connects easily.

Wi-Fi Settings->Menu button->Advanced->Wi-Fi Sleep policy.

Hope this helps!

old_fart · Apr 26, 2012

please give us more info about 'what has been done' to the nook. what alteration made the problem show up ? thx.

The_Joe · Apr 26, 2012

old_fart said:
please give us more info about 'what has been done' to the nook. what alteration made the problem show up ? thx.

This is because our Wifi drivers are not awesome yet. This problem existed in stock 1.4.0 also.

Celtic is very busy right now with his wife and job, so this is what we have until ICS is finished. Once its complete its highly likely Wifi will be more stable.

fiddler17 · Apr 26, 2012

Solar.Plexus said:
That's correct. Just change "auto" to "4" so that your NT knows to mount the 4th partition of the SD card. The file is vold.fstab located in /etc.

Sorry to be so dense but can you please direct me to where this particular vold.fstab file is? The one that is easily located in /etc appears to be the one that CM7 is using and it's already mounting partition 4 as "sdcard". How do you get to the vold.fstab file that the stock OS is using? I've tried, as suggested elsewhere to do as root:

mkdir /mnt/nooksys
mount /dev/block/mmcblk0p5 /mnt/nooksys

but I get an error that says that the device or resource is busy.

Thanks,

The_Joe · Apr 27, 2012

So, I gave a NT to my Grand Father, and he is running the internal CM7. He is elderly and having trouble with the text sizes, is there a way to adjust the text size across the whole device?

ShinnAsuka · Apr 27, 2012

Depending on the launcher u are using u can change the font size for example go launcher visual settings can change the font size.

Sent from my Nook Tablet using xda premium

The_Joe · Apr 27, 2012

Well, not just the Launcher, but across all the aps. I know most of these aps work on my phone, and the text is larger by comparison to the screen.

I figure there aught to be a way to make text across the device in all the aps larger....?

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