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If you do that, the options will be removed from the Settings screen, but not the QuickNav bar ("n" button), I believe.
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If you do that, the options will be removed from the Settings screen, but not the QuickNav bar ("n" button), I believe.
Oh ok, because the only thing really bothering me is the "shop" button in the quicknav bar (never used and never will).
Should I really be able to underclock the CPU as described in the first post of this thread? I've tried underclocking with both No Frills and SetCPU and either way stats still report the CPU running at 800MHz (or 1000MHz with the overclockable kernel) 15-30% of the time. I've tried this with multiple kernels and it never seems to work even though the setting is sticking in the program and apparently being set at boot.
The CPU runs at 300MHz most of the time anyway and I'm happy with the battery life, but I'm just a little curious about this.
I only recently got my Nook Touch and battery life wasn't great after initially rooting it, but I made the egl.cfg change mentioned in this thread and removed *ALL* of the stock APKs aside from Browser, globalsearch, PackageInstaller, ReaderRMSDK, and Settings/SettingProvider. I use ReLaunch instead of B&N Home/Library and I replaced the LatinIME keyboard with multiling. I get phenomenal battery life now. About 1% per 24 hours when sleeping and 1% per hour when reading PDFs in ezPDF.
That's great, but if I could squeeze out a tiny bit more by underclocking, I'd like to.
The CPU runs at 300MHz most of the time anyway and I'm happy with the battery life, but I'm just a little curious about this.
I only recently got my Nook Touch and battery life wasn't great after initially rooting it, but I made the egl.cfg change mentioned in this thread and removed *ALL* of the stock APKs aside from Browser, globalsearch, PackageInstaller, ReaderRMSDK, and Settings/SettingProvider. I use ReLaunch instead of B&N Home/Library and I replaced the LatinIME keyboard with multiling. I get phenomenal battery life now. About 1% per 24 hours when sleeping and 1% per hour when reading PDFs in ezPDF.
That's great, but if I could squeeze out a tiny bit more by underclocking, I'd like to.
The Mantano Reader (the only other reader installed) has nothing to clear (its "Clear Default" greyed out). I also tried uninstalling & reinstalling Mantano -- still no dice.
I am curious as to why there is no entry for BN Reader in "Manage applications".
With the app managers from both ADW Launcher and ES File Explorer I see the Reader and the fact that it is set as a default. Be sure to use the filter selection "All" with the managers.
Sent from my NST
That did the trick!!!
Without the "All" setting, only the Apps installed in /data/apps show up and none of the Apps in /system/apps do.
Is there any app for the Nook Simple Touch for copying/transferring files to/from PC over WiFi? I know that one can copy files using ADB-over-WiFi but I am hoping for a more user-friendly solution for people who are not inclined to go through the hassle of setting up ADB on their PC.
WiFi File Transfer. There are probably a few apps in the PlayStore called that. The one I use has a limit of 5 Mb for file size in the free version. Works great.
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The developer is smarterDroid.
Edit: I mistakenly added a hyphen in the app name in my post above (now corrected). For some reason it does not show up in SearchMarket any longer and even when I look at My Apps on the NST and try to go to the Market entry, it says it can't be found. Weird. Anyway, I've attached a copy below which I pulled from my NST using the app itself!
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thanks ... @gsms ...
this version installed alright ... but i have severe ghosting on the lower half of the page ... am i doing something wrong ... also the toolbar isn't visible at the bottom ... attached 2 images to show you the same !!!
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16Guide/HowTo/Tips'nTricks - The perfect Nook Simple Touch Setup
Nook Simple Touch (N2E) power management / battery optimization
Prerequisites:-
You know how to backup & restore,
You have a working backup
Unregister & wipe user data
(It is not required to register the device!)
Start with stock N2E running f/w v1.0.1/v1.1.0/v1.2.0
(If you have customized it somehow, please reset to stock)
Update to f/w v1.2.0
(This has the 1.1.0 kernel + some WiFi corrections)
Root the N2E device
Lets Begin:-
Uninstall the following stock apps:-
AFfileDownloadService.apk (Hint: disables book covers, skip it if you like book covers)
AccountAndSyncSettings.apk
BnAuthenticationService.apk
BnCloudRequestSvc.apk
CloudService.apk
DemoMode.apk
DeviceManager.apk
DeviceRegistrator.apk
Music.apk
NookCommunity.apk
Phone.apk
QuickStartActivity.apk
Shop.apk
Social.apk
TelephonyProvider.apk
WaveformDownloader.apk
(Hint: you can just delete the above apks from /system/app/ directory, then reboot)
In file /system/lib/egl/egl.cfg
Delete the line
0 0 android
(I suspect doing this forces h/w rendering, needs more testing)
Download & adb install CPU utility(easier way)
play[dot]google[dot]com/store/apps/details?id=it.sineo.android.noFrillsCPU
Set Min AND Max clock freq. To 300 MHz
Set CPU Governor to ondemand
Set I/O scheduler to noop
check “Apply on boot”
Click Apply
Click Exit
Press Nook “U”/reverse“U” Button> Settings> Screen>Screen Timeout
Choose 2 Minutes.
Exit
Charge the battery to 100%/Full
Reboot
Results:-
Your CPU is now running at max 300MHz
When you want the N2E device to sleep, remember
DO NOT PRESS Power Button to set the N2E device to sleep
DO NOT LONG PRESS the “U”/Reverse“U” Button to set the N2E device to sleep
If you leave the N2E device alone, it will AUTOMATICALLY go to sleep,
after the 2 minute timeout set by us.
After a overnight/12 hour period check the battery level indicator by waking up the N2E device,
if it automatically entered sleep state at 100% battery charge, it should wake up at 99%
(Ideally loses ~1% charge, and most certainly less than < 3%)
Before this process, it would lose battery charge at the rate of ~3%/hour of sleep.
Further customizations:-
Launcher:-
Best launcher seems to be ReLaunch v1.3.8
Also note: It seems to use ~20% CPU while idle, time to bug the developer
meanwhile best not to leave it running then huh?
Button reccommedations:
set the lower left page turn button mapping to Android back button
set the lower right page turn button mapping to Android menu button
App recommendations:-
Browsers:-
Both Opera Mini & Opera Mobile work great
(Perhaps if someone can point out how to disable all opera menu animations, they annoy a bit)
Note: browsers use CPU & GPU,
better set your CPU scaling
min 300 MHz
max 800 MHz
only while browsing, and then reset it back to 300 MHz max when finished with browsing
eReader App:-
Nook stock reader is the BEST ePub reader,
FBreader & coolreader are good
(Hint: disable all animations etc) these are useful to read *.mobi
mantano free/paid app
useful for reading PDFs (also reads epub/mobi/etc)
(Note: Nook's 6inch screen is problematic for reading PDFs )
Kindle App (v3.0.1.70) works w/ Nook android 2.1
(I need to figure out how to use it as a reader w/o registering with amazon, else its useless)
Firewall :-
One would assume iptables would be build-in to the linux kernel, but no that module is missing
netfilter.ko
x_tables.ko
xt_tcpudp.ko
nf_sockopt.ko
ip_tables.ko
ipt_addrtype.ko
iptable_filter.ko
I can't use Droidwall firewall, need to do something about net security
Device syncing options:-
Recommended to use calibre to sync your library to device'SDcard
Currently, I'm Rsyncing the SDCard to PC & back via Samba file sharing, Rsync running at PC end.
(If its possible to have Sdcard as EXT4 instead of FAT32 mounted, then simple Rsync at PC end will be best)
Hint: (ofcourse all this rsyncing & samba to avoid dropbox roundtrip)
Requests:-
Please try the above process to further narrow down the power management issues, so that it becomes
easier for all of us to set the NooK N2E to sleep properly.
After testing the process, perhaps it's best to host this content on the nook wiki here:-
nookdevs[dot]com/Portal:Nook_Simple_Touch
Also, would be nice to get a proper firewall for N2E, need kernel module
Screenshots:-
hxxp://i[dot]imgur[dot]com/q1a34.png
hxxp://i[dot]imgur[dot]com/EPcqH.png
hxxp://i[dot]imgur[dot]com/W6Zbw.png
hxxp://i[dot]imgur[dot]com/wK8z8.png
Post your feedback here!1
AFfileDownloadService.apk (Hint: disables book covers, skip it if you like book covers)
AccountAndSyncSettings.apk
AirRuntime.apk
BnAuthenticationService.apk
BnCloudRequestSvc.apk
Browser.apk
CloudService.apk
DemoMode.apk
DeviceManager.apk
DeviceRegistrator.apk
Gallery.apk
GoogleSearch.apk
Music.apk
NookCommunity.apk
Phone.apk
PicoTts.apk
QuickStartActivity.apk
Shop.apk
Social.apk
TelephonyProvider.apk
TtsService.apk
WaveformDownloader.apk
I have uninstalled them all in my NST, so far so good (quite a while)1
You need to enable "Mount R/W" in Root Explorer.
Also, instead of removing/deleting the targeted app, you can simply rename that app with a different file extension, e.g., "abc.apk" to "abc.apk.bak"; this way, you can revert the change if need-be down the road.1If you want to do this kind of stuff its really worth just setting up ADB on your PC.
Then just run "ADB Konnect" app on NST/NSTG hit on. Set screensaver to be longer (if it goes to sleep you break ADB connection)
On PC typeCode:adb connect [IP Adddress/Hostname]
Then you can alter files and push or pull files to and from your computer. If something goes wrong stick nookmanager on a sdcard and you can enable wireless / ADB from there to fix whatever you just did.
If you don't need the space in your /system partition (which most won't need) you can simply disable any of these system apps to something not .apk so you can easily undo it. I usually do the following as example using copy and paste from my guide files.
Code:adb shell mount -o remount,rw /dev/block/mmcblk0p5 /system cd /system/app mv Music.apk Music.disable mv Talk.apk Talk.disable mv TalkProvider.apk TalkProvider.disable mv TelephonyProvider.apk TelephonyProvider.disable mv HTMLViewer.apk HTMLViewer.disable mv Gallery.apk Gallery.disable mv PicoTts.apk PicoTts.disable mv TtsService.apk TtsService.disable exit adb disconnect
You don't need to make system read only again a reboot will fix that.1
The Mantano Reader (the only other reader installed) has nothing to clear (its "Clear Default" greyed out). I also tried uninstalling & reinstalling Mantano -- still no dice.
I am curious as to why there is no entry for BN Reader in "Manage applications".
