Thanks for the info. I'm not sure I really care about Market. One more question - do I need Gapps in order to install Google Maps? I think I tried and failed, but not sure if it was just a bad apk I got from somewhere.
Using an alternative keyboard could fix it, the major issue is finding an alternative keyboard that is e-ink friendly. This tends to be broken in the app itself, because I have noticed the Google Voice app will do the same exact thing on nook devices.
Unless those get updated they most likely won't work on the Glow Touch which is why I pulled them, they depend on replacement of framework JAR that tend to be version specific.NM found Nook Touch Tools
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1289894
Anybody have trouble with getting the Opera Mini that comes with this to work? It doesn't even open for me. I installed Dolphin Mini and it seems to work ok but I'd like to get Opera working.
Market is inherently broken because of Google's move to "Google Play". You however can go onto the Google Play website select the apps you want to install and they'll install via that method.I'm curious of if anyone has the Market working correctly? At this point, I have a very limited set of apps available and search basically does not work. Nothing I search ever comes up.
Is this where everyone is at or are others having different experiences?
I'm able to get the market working... but I can't search for any apps. When I search, it just sits there and does nothing.
I can browse apps just fine.
The default browser was stripped down and broken by B&N. They wanted it to do one thing really well, and that was allow for logging into Wifi Hotspots that have landing pages. Also had you followed the guide, you would of downloaded and flashed both parts of GlowNooter and market would of worked immediately.I don't know what is up, but I recently got my NST GL and I was actually quite scared about rooting it with this method since ALOT of people are complaining on bricked devices, and bad root installtions that only give partial support. I have rooted alot of Androids during the years and I feel confident with the Clockwork mod, ADB and such tools.
I didn't follow any guide, I just used linux command dd to move the clockwork mod files to the microSD using a SE Xperia Arc S as a card reader. Moved the two files to the root of the microSD card and rooted.
Everything went as it should, many apps didnt work at first, the built in Opera browser didn't work, the usual Browser didnt work, Market didnt work (even with the fix), I tried to rerun the rooting by flashing it again, nothing happend. So I just gave a **** about market and other stuff. The device didnt show up on play.google.com either.
The ****ed up thing is that the apps is starting to work, on by one, first the GMail app, then the browser is starting to get alot less buggy (I however use Opera Mobile). And last, market.
I read some using the stock reader, slept for 8h and started to fool around with ADW settings. In the theme menu I tried to "Get more themes" and the market started! I was thrilled, I imidiately went to play.google.com and my device was recognized.
****, I just love this nook. For $130 a complete tablet with battery life for a month. Kicks the **** out of iPad, for that price. And the E-Ink dispaly is gorgeus.
Hi,I'm close, but I must be doing something wrong.
have a working 1gig sd card with the cwm image, and the 2 zip files were on the internal SD card.
I got logged in to youtube OK, play store opens, but gmail never syncs, which Ii don't really care about, but I can't get play store to download/update. It keeps wanting to update superuser, but it just gets to "waiting to start", and then just sits there.
The device isn't showing up in play store either.
My BN account is the same email address as my google apps account, but they aren't "linked". if that's possible from the bn website.
I didn't see any errors in the flashing. But I'm not quite there yet.
Any help appreciated.
Hi,
The Glowworm uses Android 2.1 that predates Google Play which might explain the issues you're seeing. Most folks instead install a 3rd party Search Market app (search the forums and you'll find it) so as to make the existing Market operate correctly.
Hope this helps,
Ian
I'm able to get the market working... but I can't search for any apps. When I search, it just sits there and does nothing.
I can browse apps just fine.
The difference between this and tinynoot IS the fact it has Market on it, you can actually go to google.com/play now and install apps to the device. Other than that there is no major difference.Maybe I should take this opportunity to ask an additional question: what will this root let me do that tinynoot didn't, other than run the Market? What additional apps would it allow me to run that would actually run well?
One app I have partially working on tinynoot is Jabiru, a jabber chat client. The basic chat connection works, but the Conference function crashes the session. I doubt this other root would make a difference in something like that?
Thanks.
I'll try it. Really, all I want to get is the amazon kindle app, the rest of it Ii don't really care about. but when I bring up the amazon app-store, it won't show me the kindle app. For some reason it will show me most everything else.
I tried downloading an amazon kindle apk, but the sites that had it looked kinda scary.
And after messing around a bit more, I realized that my BN account info isn't in settings either. I'm going to try the whole mess again. Can I take a kindle apk from my phone and just copy it to the sdcard and install it?