Post your Nook Color screens!

tabletfever said:

Thanks. I was avoiding the floating soft keys button. For most things, I have been able to rely solely on the notification toolbar. But for xda app and aldiko, it seems the button is necessary. I have it set to 80 percent transparent, so you barely know it's there.

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I set this up on another forum, and I thought it might help here as well since a lot of people are having difficulty with SoftKeys and not realizing it's full potential:

I think people are frustrated with SoftKeys because they aren't properly setting it up.

Yes, the softkeys super-imposed button dealie sucks. So does Button Savior, to be honest. With SoftKeys, you can disable the constantly floating "button". I instead have the "n" key setup to do the following:

Single Press- Bar appears over bottom home bar, in any program, with all of the necessary buttons

Double Press- Return to Home (within 200ms, so essentially double-click).

This is the key advantage of SoftKeys. In normal operation, there is nothing obscuring my screen, ever. As soon as I find it necessary to use one of the necessary keys (usually back), I hit the "n" button. Suddenly, a bar appears on the bottom with all of them there. I hit the one I want, and SoftKeys goes away and performs the action. No floating icon on top of everything all the time reminding me about how the nook color lacks android hardkeys.

As a bonus, when I hit the n button, to bring up the softkey toolbar, it also brings up my most recently used programs at the top, as if I held Home on a normal Android device.

To achieve this setup, make sure that SoftKeys is installed and your default action for the "n" key. Enter SoftKey settings by opening it as an App or whatever and set the following:

Options in order:

SoftKeys Service

1. Uncheck "Run Service"
2. *personal preference*
3. *personal preference* (should be pretty low)
4. *doesn't matter, the "popper" is turned off in #1
5. Check "Auto Hide"
6. Unchecked (*personal preference I assume, haven't tried it on*)

Virtual Home Button

1. Normal Press: set to your Preferred Home Launcher (In my case, Zeam is my favorite)
2. Long Press: SoftKeys
3. Unchecked

I'm not sure why these settings for the Virtual Home Button have an effect, but they seem to.

Physical Home Button

1. Single Tap = Softkeys, Doubletap = Zeam (preferred launcher)

Some people have to reboot after install to get their preferred launcher to appear here

2. *personal preference*

The rest of the options are personal preference, but this configuration seems to be to be rock-stable and incredibly convenient.

Once you set it up this way, download "Home Switcher" and use it to set SoftKeys to default. You may need to reboot after doing this.

I am posting this, despite it seeming obvious, because it seems as though some people aren't yet grasping the capabilities of SoftKeys as compared to Button Savior, and as in the above quoted, the immediate features of SoftKeys aren't well known. Hope this helps some people.

Yes, use a LIVE wallpaper called "MultiPicture Live Wallpaper"

https://market.android.com/details?id=org.tamanegi.wallpaper.multipicture&feature=search_result

The launcher (home replacement) I am using is Zeam. Its attached. Run it in full screen most to block out the default nook launcher. Its perfect with Softkeys.

The wallpaper is from http://interfacelift.com/

The best size to get is 1280x1024 for it to span all 3 screens.

xBryan said:

loving that background got a link?

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Here it is: Linky

A lot more here.

The wallpaper is Spectrum ICS LWP, I just made it a series of grays instead of the default rainbow.
The few big dots in the screenshot move and fade and stuff. The bars slide. Etc.

Some of those tile icons I found here on XDA, I think a few were from DeviantArt, and the rest I made myself.