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[Q] Random Freezing

I'm currently having intermittent problems with random freezes. My nook freezes up and becomes unresponsive to input. I'm forced to manually shut down the nook by holding the power button for 4-5 seconds, and restart.
The last time the nook froze was when I tried to download the doubletwist player app from the market. After it froze, i restarted, and then the installation went on just fine.
I'm currently running CM 7.1 stable on a sandisk 32gb class 4 card using verygreen's method. I got the latest gapps (i think 0828), and the market is at version 3.3.11. I don't have much loaded on the nook just yet since it's still new to me, so it's strange that I'm having instability issues so early. I have also tried fixing permissions by using ROM Manager without much effect.
Also, on a side note, it seems like my nook does not update any accounts (gmail, imap email, facebook, etc) when my screen is off - is that normal? My wifi is always on and active, but the accounts don't update/sync until the screen is turned on.

Hmmm... so no one has experienced freezing issues for the Nook Color? My nook seems to freeze at least once a day - it ranges from downloading apps, playing games, all the way to typing an email...
Any insight would be greatly appreciated!

I rooted and had my Nook all for a day, but rooted it immediately.
Only thing I can think of:
1. Are you OCing?
2. Did you format data before installing the rom?
3. Did you flash a different kernel?
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About the syncing issues, I don't know if the nook is setup to sync like that? It has wifi but I don't believe it is on all the time to save battery... in all honesty its all new to me, but we can learn together.
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Well it does seem like it syncs some data now... for instance my yahoo mail, and my work's exchange mail. But it doesn't seem to be very frequent... i guess maybe that's just how it is?
It still does freeze on me though, but to answer your questions:
1. Are you OCing - Yes, I do have it OC'ed to 1200mhz
2. Did you format data before installing the rom? - I'm back onto MIrage's 7.2 RC, but i did not format the data beforehand... maybe that's it.
3. Did you flash a different kernel? - Yes, i flashed to the new kernel that fixes SOD.
It's all new to me too, but i'm beginning to think you get what you paid for in this instance.

switch81 said:
Well it does seem like it syncs some data now... for instance my yahoo mail, and my work's exchange mail. But it doesn't seem to be very frequent... i guess maybe that's just how it is?
It still does freeze on me though, but to answer your questions:
1. Are you OCing - Yes, I do have it OC'ed to 1200mhz
2. Did you format data before installing the rom? - I'm back onto MIrage's 7.2 RC, but i did not format the data beforehand... maybe that's it.
3. Did you flash a different kernel? - Yes, i flashed to the new kernel that fixes SOD.
It's all new to me too, but i'm beginning to think you get what you paid for in this instance.
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1. OC to 1100. OC'ing to 1200 has no noticeable increase in performance, it overheats the device, and burns through battery like no tomorrow. I also suggest setting your minimum frequency to 1100. It sounds counter-intuitive, but the minimum frequency shows no real effect on battery. LeslieAnn (Harmonia dev) linked to a thread about the effects of overclocking on the battery (The OP was testing on the LG Optimus V to be precise). This person benchmarked and tested at different clocking speeds and found that if you set your CPU to it's highest stable clock speed (806 for the Optimus, 1100 for the Nook) it's actually better on battery life. So, my suggestion is set it to 1100/1100 min/max.
2. *facepalm* Tsk, tsk, tsk. I tried the Mirage port for the Nook and found it to be very buggy. The keyboard was always glitching, apps FC'd, etc. I'm not necessarily putting Mirage down, but it has quite a way to go before it's ready to be run on Nook. ATM I'm running Dalingrin & Fattire's CM9/ICS build (though it's only an early build, an RC maybe an alpha build at most at this point), it is amazing, aside from some bugs (you have to use a bootable microSD to utilize recovery) it's superb. If you feel a need to change ROMs, I'd go with either CM9/ICS: http://tinyurl.com/7ny5r5c Or one of the CM7 nightlies (they are fairly stable for nightlies and include plenty of goodies).
3. SOD... never had that. So I have no advice there, apparently you got it patched. I'm running Fattire's 2.6.32.9 kernel for ICS (comes standard with the ROM), no problems so far.
Edit: Clock to 1100/1100 on the interactive or interactiveX governor. Forgot to write that.
Edit #2: I'm a bit unattentive today (3.5 hours of sleep...). To address your email sync issue, I'd go into settings and see what your sync interval is (mine is set to every 15 minutes, screenshot here: http://tinyurl.com/cgkjnxe). If you have it set to something low like that and still have sync issues, it may be due to ROM bugs, or a plethora of other reasons (possibly WiFi speed?). If setting it to a lower sync interval helps, so be it, but if not, I'll look further into the problem. And by the way, check out that sexy ICS interface. This shall be my last edit.

worldindo1 - do you run CM9 off of your emmc? or a sdcard? I'm thinking about moving over to the emmc, and wondering what the benefits would be.

switch81 said:
worldindo1 - do you run CM9 off of your emmc? or a sdcard? I'm thinking about moving over to the emmc, and wondering what the benefits would be.
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By default, the way Dal and Fattire have it set up, it automatically installs the boot to eMMC. Which means the loss of 5GB of storage space. But with another .9GB on internal, and up to 32GB of external, app and media storage should be no problem. So there is a con, but the pro is that you never have to worry about inserting SD to get into it.
Take heed to a few warnings:
1. Don't try to boot into recovery by using ROM manager or by Power+Home button. Use a CWR bootable. Otherwise, you corrupt your boot and have to restart.
2. GApps is still a bit buggy (unless you build straight off from their most current source) so it can/will FC on you.
3. Make sure you flash the proper version of GApps: http://db.tt/ujcVWK1U All other versions of GApps for ICS have nfc (Nook doesn't have nfc) which leaves you with a completely unusable device due to cont.force close of nfc service.
4. USB transfer DOES NOT WORK! D: If you want to put files on your SD, either use a phone or use a microSD adapter.
Note: Took down the link because something in the ZIP (not quite sure what) may have corrupted. Now I say this, but don't freak out if you already downloaded it. Whatever happened within the ZIP wont harm your Nook so don't worry about it.

The CM9 zip can either install to emmc or SD depending on which installation method you use.
Which you choose to do is entirely dependent on your usage of the device and whether the NC is a working tablet or an experimental device. Some are OK with current state of CM9 and put it on the emmc for convenience.
At the moment I chose to leave CM7 on the emmc for normal usage and swap in a CM9 SD card to play with the current state of play in its development.
On the subject of OC I have pretty much always run at 1200 On Demand with the default minumum. I do tweak the voltages down to the value originally suggested by Dalingrin. I have no overheating and battery life is great.
For freezing it maybe be worth upping the version or trying out the KANG MiRaGe which has all known fixes in.

bobtidey said:
The CM9 zip can either install to emmc or SD depending on which installation method you use.
Which you choose to do is entirely dependent on your usage of the device and whether the NC is a working tablet or an experimental device. Some are OK with current state of CM9 and put it on the emmc for convenience.
At the moment I chose to leave CM7 on the emmc for normal usage and swap in a CM9 SD card to play with the current state of play in its development.
On the subject of OC I have pretty much always run at 1200 On Demand with the default minumum. I do tweak the voltages down to the value originally suggested by Dalingrin. I have no overheating and battery life is great.
For freezing it maybe be worth upping the version or trying out the KANG MiRaGe which has all known fixes in.
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I've found it to be more stable on eMMC. Installing via recovery menu by default put it on my eMMC. The loss of space doesn't bother me, even on other ROMs. There is actually a way to trick the device into thinking that eMMC is an SD card (basically the ability to install apps on "SD" without a mounted SD card, as well as media storage)

So I have not yet tried CM9, or putting the OS on the emmc... however I did switch over to LauncherPro recently.
I have to say... I've been having a lot less issues with LauncherPro... and not to mention, there is a HUGE performance difference. The scrolling of the home screens are so much smoother with LauncherPro than ADW. So I would recommend anyone to give that a shot!

Workaround for Slow Data transfer speeds to SD card in AOSP Roms.

I recently ran into a problem when I was trying to transfer 13GB of Music to my EVO running MIUI. I had the phone hooked via USB cable to my laptop and was only seeing about 800k/s in transfer speeds on a class 4 micro sd card. Eff that I say.
So I did some digging and this seems to be a known issue with AOSP roms with no real fix.
There are a couple work arounds though.
1. Turn off the phone and pull the card to transfer directly.. this sucks.
2. Reboot into recovery mode and mount the sd card. This still sucks.
3. (This is what I did) Install "Dual Mount SD" from the market. I think there's a similar version that's free but the reviews weren't that great. This will allow your phone keep the sdcard mounted in Android and allow your computer to mount it too. The app has a setting that will force Android to rescan the card when you unmount from the computer. This work around get's me back up to the expected 3.8Mb/s transfer on the micro sd card.
Hope this helps someone else out there.

Its the version of Linux they use for the kernels which causes the issue. I'm not sure which kernel doesn't do this (I want to say it was savaged-zen) not possitive but with that kernel the speed vamp up to what you would expect.
It could be any kernel but I have only used savaged-zen, tiamat, and godmode. So one of those is the key to faster transfer speed. Figured I throw that out there, goes with your post
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I'm running tiamat 4.0.8 and still see the issue.

I'm using GoDm0dE and have pretty fast data transfers don't remember the speeds from my last backup but 7gb only took about 3mins or so to transfer
Edit: I'm gonna be backing up my card later tonight or tomorrow so I will note my xfer speeds and post em here when I'm done

Running tiamat and seeing this getting about 1.1 mb a second which really is bs

I had this problem also..A while back I ran into a topic where someone found a fix on the cyanogen bug tracker or something.
I really can't remember but I can tell you flashing these two files worked for me on every cm7 variant I ran. I didn't notice any bad effects and have no idea what it changes but it works.
http://db.tt/PFoHqQsQ

You guys can also try using a micro SD adapter
PC36100

Royalfox said:
You guys can also try using a micro SD adapter
PC36100
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Yeah because turning your phone off then opening it then removing the battery then removing the SD card then putting it in an adapter then transferring then all that in reverse is faster than 1.1 mbs lol
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ressurecting...
MrDSL said:
I had this problem also..A while back I ran into a topic where someone found a fix on the cyanogen bug tracker or something.
I really can't remember but I can tell you flashing these two files worked for me on every cm7 variant I ran. I didn't notice any bad effects and have no idea what it changes but it works.
http://db.tt/PFoHqQsQ
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Hi, do you know if this would work with Deck's 1.3 [2.3.7]? I'm having terrible speeds, my only "fix" thus far was rebooting into recovery and mounting usb from there. That gives me around 2x the speed.
TIA

[Q] New A500 owner, couple of noob questions

Hi folks, got my A500 refurb for 200 bucks last night. Its mint, and so far awesome. I am coming from a Nook Color as my last tablet so this is a huge jump. Updated OTA to ICS this morning.
Couple of simple questions:
1. How do I turn off haptic feedback? It wasn't on when it was on HC, but in ICS it has it, the vibrate on this thing is strong enough for it to be annoying. I looked under keyboard settings which is where it is on any of my old devices, and its not there, unless I missed it?
2. Does this thing go to sleep if you leave the screen off for an extended period, like shut off the wifi and go low power? my Nook does that, not sure if theres a setting I need to set. I left for work this morning and left it on my desk, on and connected to WiFi, am I gonna come home to 50% battery?
3. Tried the Hero of Sparta game on it last night while still on HC. Played great but the sound was choppy, I have heard some attribute sound issues to Dolby Mobile, is that the case? Should I try again with Dolby turned off?
4. I believe I read that you can't move apps to the SD card with ICS? Is that the case, because I bought an 8gb tab which means I'm gonna run out of space real quick. Can rooting fix that?

Rogue Leader said:
Hi folks, got my A500 refurb for 200 bucks last night. Its mint, and so far awesome. I am coming from a Nook Color as my last tablet so this is a huge jump. Updated OTA to ICS this morning.
Couple of simple questions:
1. How do I turn off haptic feedback? It wasn't on when it was on HC, but in ICS it has it, the vibrate on this thing is strong enough for it to be annoying. I looked under keyboard settings which is where it is on any of my old devices, and its not there, unless I missed it?
2. Does this thing go to sleep if you leave the screen off for an extended period, like shut off the wifi and go low power? my Nook does that, not sure if theres a setting I need to set. I left for work this morning and left it on my desk, on and connected to WiFi, am I gonna come home to 50% battery?
3. Tried the Hero of Sparta game on it last night while still on HC. Played great but the sound was choppy, I have heard some attribute sound issues to Dolby Mobile, is that the case? Should I try again with Dolby turned off?
4. I believe I read that you can't move apps to the SD card with ICS? Is that the case, because I bought an 8gb tab which means I'm gonna run out of space real quick. Can rooting fix that?
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1. In sound settings
2. I'd be worried if I came home to find my battery at 50 per cent, you be fine
2. Check advanced wifi settings- can tell wifi when to sleep
3. Cant help with this, experiment and find out
4. Not heard of anyone running out - that usb port comes in mighty handy!!!
5. Welcome to the forum

dibb_nz said:
1. In sound settings
2. I'd be worried if I came home to find my battery at 50 per cent, you be fine
2. Check advanced wifi settings- can tell wifi when to sleep
3. Cant help with this, experiment and find out
4. Not heard of anyone running out - that usb port comes in mighty handy!!!
5. Welcome to the forum
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Thanks for the tips, I came home and it was at 92 percent
Shutting off Dolby did fix the sound problem
I put a 32 GB micro SD in it. I was concerned games wouldn't install to it, and apparently they don't. I don't have a lot installed and yet I have less than 1.5gb remaining.
Thanks for the welcome

Rogue Leader said:
Thanks for the tips, I came home and it was at 92 percent
Shutting off Dolby did fix the sound problem
I put a 32 GB micro SD in it. I was concerned games wouldn't install to it, and apparently they don't. I don't have a lot installed and yet I have less than 1.5gb remaining.
Thanks for the welcome
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awesome you're welcome Hows that 32GB Card working, had any issues apart from being too small what brand and class is it m8???

dibb_nz said:
awesome you're welcome Hows that 32GB Card working, had any issues apart from being too small what brand and class is it m8???
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I got a sandisk class 4. It seems to work fine but the fact there's no way to move apps to it makes it a bit useless. I'm not much of a music/movie guy I usually use streaming so media space is wasted on me. Is there a fix for that yet?

app2sd
You might want to try App2sd from the google play store. The app won't move all apps to SD card, only apps that are moveable. So this app won't totally solve your problem but it should help.

partzman2 said:
You might want to try App2sd from the google play store. The app won't move all apps to SD card, only apps that are moveable. So this app won't totally solve your problem but it should help.
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Yeah I have that but it apparently doesn't work with ICS. I read somewhere else here someone complained about this as well. The button doesn't even show up to move apps to SD.

Rogue Leader said:
Yeah I have that but it apparently doesn't work with ICS. I read somewhere else here someone complained about this as well. The button doesn't even show up to move apps to SD.
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A lot of games and other Database apps usually save the Data to the Ext SD Card by default, or give you an option for location. At least what I've come across.

Rogue Leader said:
I got a sandisk class 4. It seems to work fine but the fact there's no way to move apps to it makes it a bit useless. I'm not much of a music/movie guy I usually use streaming so media space is wasted on me. Is there a fix for that yet?
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A Class 4 is a hair on the slow side, anyways. You would likely see a real world performance hit running apps off a class 4 card.

Moscow Desire said:
A lot of games and other Database apps usually save the Data to the Ext SD Card by default, or give you an option for location. At least what I've come across.
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Yeah the games do save there, but you can't move the actual app to the SD card which is nice to do. I bought an 8 gb tab and with only about 10 games on there and whatever apps I have I'm down to only 1.5 gb.
EDIT: I am wrong. The games do not save there. If I look in ES File Explorer the /mnt/sdcard folder shows a bunch of stuff, yet when I pull the SD card and put it in my PC, its blank except a couple of android insertd folders. I believe ICS DOES NOT save to the SD card? Can anyone else check? In ES File explorer, the sd card I inserted is shown as folder "external_sd" while theres a separate sdcard folder of which nothing in there is on the sd card.
I am wondering if I can just copy the data to the SD card, delete the "sdcard" folder and rename external to "sdcard"
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A Class 4 is a hair on the slow side, anyways. You would likely see a real world performance hit running apps off a class 4 card.
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Class 4 is the go to card on many many phones, the higher classes suffer on performance for many phone tasks which are I/O but work great for recording video or taking pictures. Class 10 especially really is made for digital cameras and actually performs worse than a 4 on a phone/tablet.

[Q] CM7 Music Playback Problems

I apologize if this question has come up elsewhere. I spent about 45min searching these forums and couldn't find it. Not saying I'm special, just not smart enough to find the answer if it is out there.
I downloaded a couple free music players to try. No matter which one I use (including the one that came in the CM7 build) I get a horrible playback experience. For those of you old enough to remember cassette tapes, it sounds like the playback when either the tape is about to get "eaten" or the battery is really low. There is static, and often the song actually slows down like an old tape going bad.
Here is what I have already tried (none of which changed anything):
1. I made sure I was running only one player at a time.
2. I plugged the NC into my computer and played the files on the SD card with my computer. They played great, so it isn't a file corruption issue.
3. I tried moving files from the SD card to the emmc.
4. The files are regular mp3's
5. Went into the cyanogen mod settings, and changed the CPU governor to "Performance" (it was previously conservative). I also changed the Max CPU to 1200.
5. I tried the player that came with the build; I also tried WinAmp and JetAudio.
My current system:
Nook Color running Cyanogen Mod 7-20120603 Nightly encore from an SD card
Kernel 2.6.32.9
Thanks for your help
SHEESH! WHAT A NOOB I AM!
I just rebooted, and everything works fine -- all three players in fact. I don't know if I needed a reboot after installing them, or if the reboot kicked the CPU clock-changes in.
Now my only question is how to delete stupid posts I make...

You might want to set max CPU speed to 1100 mHz... several users have experienced issues with it set above that.

Nook Color with CM10.1.2 having SD card Read Only issue

I've posted this in two separate forums in the hopes of finding an answer. After much searching and reading i've noticed a few others with similar issues, but with no answers. Heres my problem: I've installed cm-10.1.2-encore.zip and gapps-jb-20130812-signed.zip on my Nook Color with TWRP and everything seemed to work fine. Once i tried D/Ling apps from the store though i ran into the SD card error. Found the info saying to unmount, install app, then remount and that seemed to work. However i now realize that i've run into a larger issue with the SD card being marked as read only. It an 8gb Kingston that has served me well. The Nook seems to randomly decide that its now read only and when viewed under storage it will often show the card as either full or with an impossible amount of data (32.27 GB out of 7.4GB used). This is causing numerous problems with apps that are demanding to use the SD card and also with the Barnes and Noble Nook app which opens and keeps force restarting. I get only get glimpses of the error message and i think it says something about "sd card is full or corrupted. I've also noticed a couple of times that my sd card had garbled looking files on it that made no sense, weird characters and all. When the SD goes read only i can't do anything to it unless i remove it from the Nook, then it seems to function fine. Connecting with the cable and trying to write to it only gives me an error message about it having "stopped". Please, can anyone help me with this? Is it my card or something else? And i have tried SDformatter, ROM Manager, and multiple reformats to fix it.
15th August 2013 06:54 AM

More data......
On a second note, all was supposedly working well this morning until i tried to access a pdf text book. It told me that it couldn't open it so i plugged my nook into the computer and found tons of garbled/corrupted files on the sd card. Is the Nook or software doing this somehow? These files are garbled names/extension and all zero bit.

Sounds like a busted microSD card. Try using another one.

Arcanux said:
On a second note, all was supposedly working well this morning until i tried to access a pdf text book. It told me that it couldn't open it so i plugged my nook into the computer and found tons of garbled/corrupted files on the sd card. Is the Nook or software doing this somehow? These files are garbled names/extension and all zero bit.
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It is the Kingston SD card and the CM10 finickyness. Get a Sandisk class 4 and everything will be good.
Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10.1 on emmc.

Thank You!
leapinlar said:
It is the Kingston SD card and the CM10 finickyness. Get a Sandisk class 4 and everything will be good.
Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10.1 on emmc.
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Thank you so much! I went out a bought a SanDisk 8gb Class 10 and it seems to be working flawlessly!
Lesson learned, and a bit of new info for those out there with similar issues: You MUST use a SanDisk, and the class 10s will word as well as the class 4s.
Thanks again Leapinlar, I knew I could count on your advice.

Thanks, I also just hit this. I just rebuilt my old Nook Color for my daughter to use, with CM10.2. Weird things where happening like when I tried to download the amazon app store app, Chrome browser just refused with a little message briefly saying "no SD Card". I eventually found this post and tried formatting another micro sd card and everything is working. You posting this message really helped. Thanks.