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[Q] Viewing 360° Panorama in HTML5 or Flash on Nook Color?

Reading a recent article about the Nook Color on Anandtech I would like to ask if it's possible to view 360° spherical panorama images on the Nook Color with the CyanogenMod 7 - since the Nook's IPS display should be excellent.
With its price tag the Nook Color would be perfect for me as a personal ebook reader and a portable unit to showcase images and 360° panoramas to clients.
Perhaps some good soul could test a panorama on 360Cities.net or a panorama in HTML5 and Flash on my website and report if these images are visible on the Nook clicking on the image of this webpage:
_thomaskrueger.eu/600/caruggi-genova-labyrinth-altstadt-genua

I tried Panoramas.dk and 360cities.net on my Nook Color running Cyanogenmod 7.03 stable with Flash 10.3. It didn't work very well. I was able to view a few panoramas. I had trouble with some of the controls, particularly zooming and panning. In general all of the motion was jerky. After trying three or four panoramas the browser would not load any web pages, not even the Google home page. I had to restart the Nook Color to get the browser to work again.

Would none of these work?
http://www.androidzoom.com/android_applications/panorama

@brucemcl: Thanks a lot for testing. The jerky movement is probably related to a too large cubesize of the panorama which fills up the ram of the Nook.
@ace7196: Good and usable viewers for 360° panorama are actually:
Pano2VR
Krpano
FPP Flashpanorama Player
I just can't post the URL's as a new user.

This Flash panorama has reduced tile sizes for the screen resolution of the Nook, with the button on the right side of the icon bar you can switch to fullscreen resolution:
http thomaskrueger.eu/work/nook/index.html

ThomasKru said:
This Flash panorama has reduced tile sizes for the screen resolution of the Nook, with the button on the right side of the icon bar you can switch to fullscreen resolution:
http thomaskrueger.eu/work/nook/index.html
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Works nicely on my rooted NC with flash 10.3 with standard kernel and stock browser.
Switching from/to full screen works in both portrait and landscape.
You can use the n button as a back button in the browser to get out of full screen mode.
Movement is smooth.
You might have to space the buttons a bit further apart for a better "touchability".

Vielen Dank für das Feedback!!
Now, where can I get a Nook Color here in Italy....

[Q] Proper sizing of wallpapers

Im sure this has been addressed before, but I just cant seem to find it.
I am currently running phiremod nook 6.3, whenever I attempt to set a wallpaper it makes me resize it in the gallery, it then looks awful, i only get a portion of the picture. Back when I was running stock you could just use the wallpaper setting built into nook color and it would display the whole picture. Any sugestions on how to get this effect with CM7?

wyliefox said:
Im sure this has been addressed before, but I just cant seem to find it.
I am currently running phiremod nook 6.3, whenever I attempt to set a wallpaper it makes me resize it in the gallery, it then looks awful, i only get a portion of the picture. Back when I was running stock you could just use the wallpaper setting built into nook color and it would display the whole picture. Any sugestions on how to get this effect with CM7?
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QuickPic (marketplace) works great to get the most out of your wallpaper in portrait mode. For landscape, Wallpaper Wizardrii (also marketplace) works ok. (It works for portrait mode too, it's just not my first choice.)
If anyone has other suggestions for landscape mode wallpaper, I'd love to hear them. WW has a couple of quirks that annoy me.

[Q]CM7 Wallpaper display issue

I have been happily running CM 7.0.3 (with the default ADW launcher) for a month now and it was only now I thought about tempering with the wallpapers (hah !). Anyways, whenever I load a 1200 x 1024 wallpaper, it really zooms out in portrait and appears with two black stripes in the Landscape mode. Have gone through all kinds of solutions but to no avail namely:
- Apps like "Wallpaper set and save", Flickie etc. - all of them suffer with the same issue
- Restarted 5-6 times
- Saved the 1200 x 1024 .png files in EMMC / My Files / Wallpaper but doesn't help since CM7.0.3 doesn't have a "Home Launcher" or Settings > Home > Set Wallpaper or a direct Homescreen "Wallpaper Chooser" app like my Samsung Galaxy Pro for example.
Will be grateful if anybody can help me out - am also surprised I did not find this exact problem mentioned in the forums at all - I can't be that unique !
Thanks,
Ranjan

You can't just long press the home screen > Wallpapers > Select wallpaper from " " ?
Worked on every Android device I have owned, including my Nook Color. Perfect wallpaper size would be 600x1024.

Nburnes said:
You can't just long press the home screen > Wallpapers > Select wallpaper from " " ?
Worked on every Android device I have owned, including my Nook Color. Perfect wallpaper size would be 600x1024.
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No, CM7.0.3 doesn't give an option to "Select Wallpaper from"...Did you have a CM Nook color or stock-rooted one ? Wallpaper size I am sure of 1200x1024 works the best - have gone through multiple posts on this forum and others .

ronjan said:
No, CM7.0.3 doesn't give an option to "Select Wallpaper from"...Did you have a CM Nook color or stock-rooted one ? Wallpaper size I am sure of 1200x1024 works the best - have gone through multiple posts on this forum and others .
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Running CM7 nightlies. Have been since they were first released. Been setting wallpapers the same way for months now, even on regular android devices. It does give that option when you are holding down your finger on a blank spot on the home screen. It has too.

ronjan said:
Anyways, whenever I load a 1200 x 1024 wallpaper, it really zooms out in portrait and appears with two black stripes in the Landscape mode.
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That sounds like the behavior of the built-in gallery app. At some point when you set your wallpaper are you selecting Gallery? Or is Gallery the only picture viewer on your device?
QuickPic works a lot better for portrait mode, it lets you adjust the cropping. Iirc, it doesn't work well for landscape, because it puts in the black bars. Wallpaper Wizardrii is a little fiddly, but otherwise works well with both portrait and landscape.

This problem has been mentioned in the forums atleast once. I know because I asked it. lol No worries though its probably not tagged. Anyways like the poster above said Quick Pick does a much better job.

Nburnes said:
Running CM7 nightlies. Have been since they were first released. Been setting wallpapers the same way for months now, even on regular android devices. It does give that option when you are holding down your finger on a blank spot on the home screen. It has too.
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Dunno why its missing on my device, it only gives me option to set "Cyanogenmod Wallpapers" / "Gallery" / "Live Wallpapers" - both Gallery and Cyanogenmod suffer from the issue I laid out above.
@akaCat, IFLATLINEI: Thanks for the help, doesnt help me though , want good landscape display. I think the issue is somehow the Wallpaper is not scrolling in portrait mode as well (it used to earlier), even though the option is enabled in the ADW launcher settings. Since it is not scrolling it is essentially showing a 1 portrait page image which it rotates in landscape and hence the black screen. I wish this could be resolved !!

Ok I'm going to bring this one back because the same is happining to me now. It worked before! Is there a definitive fix for this anywhere? I see a lot of pleas for help but no answer???????

I started using the free app in the market: Wallpaper Set & Save. Goes in at the correct aspect ratio and resolution (assuming your wallpaper file is correct ahead of time and saved in png format).

[Q] Nexus 7 sensor coordinate system orientation? 90 degree offset like tablets?

Anyone who's had an Android tablet knows that a lot of poorly coded apps get flummoxed by the default 90 degree rotated, landscape orientation of the device.
Thus my question, is the sensor in the Nexus 7 rotated as well? Or is the default orientation set to portrait, the same as a phone?
Google "sensors-overview sensors-coords android" to find the relevant developer page. The specific orientation details are near the bottom: Sensor Coordinate System
"One Screen Turn Deserves Another" is an excellent article that explains the problem quite well.
If anyone who has a preview device could check to see what orientation the N7 uses, that'd be great. I'm hoping for portrait.

zinfinion said:
Anyone who's had an Android tablet knows that a lot of poorly coded apps get flummoxed by the default 90 degree rotated, landscape orientation of the device.
Thus my question, is the sensor in the Nexus 7 rotated as well? Or is the default orientation set to portrait, the same as a phone?
Google "sensors-overview sensors-coords android" to find the relevant developer page. The specific orientation details are near the bottom: Sensor Coordinate System
"One Screen Turn Deserves Another" is an excellent article that explains the problem quite well.
If anyone who has a preview device could check to see what orientation the N7 uses, that'd be great. I'm hoping for portrait.
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I'd assume it would be rotated since they're very intent on educating users on using a 7" tablet in portrait like a book.

Yea I'm gonna say that it's probably not in landscape since the whole UI is portrait based. Seems a bit counter productive to have to rotate the device every time you launch an app.
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DarkRyoushii said:
Yea I'm gonna say that it's probably not in landscape since the whole UI is portrait based. Seems a bit counter productive to have to rotate the device every time you launch an app.
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I'm fairly confident the sensors will be in portrait orientation by default, but confirmation would be nice.
The reason I ask is because my current Galaxy Tab 2 7.0 has the 90 degree offset sensor issue. 99% of the time it's fine. It boots up in portrait, apps launch in portrait (unless landscape only apps, which launch in landscape with no issues). Certain apps that are poorly coded and expect all devices to be portrait by default tend to do all sorts of odd things though. I've only run across a couple in the Play store, and one of those has been fixed.
The real problem lies with custom roms, as all of the ones I have tried default to the landscape sensor orientation (boot orientation when laid flat is landscape), rather than compensate for it (the stock Samsung rom is portrait by default when laid flat). This has led to all sorts of aggravating (and unintentionally hilarious) issues with the custom roms.
So hopefully Google thought this through and the N7 sensor orientation is portrait by default and basically acts like a large phone minus the phone bits.

(Help) 4.2 Keyboard not displaying fully

I'm running Sevenrock's Feb 9 build CM10 and I use 4.2 keyboard.
The problem is that, the keyboard doesn't display fully in landscape. Pic in attachment. Notice the bottom of the screen, where only the top row is visible partially.
Please help.

Using Quarx CM10 20130507 with keyboard and gallery from 4.2 and not having this issue.
You should backup, put a more recent Quarx release to check if it's an incompatibility issue or something more elusive (data/cache).