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Nook using MIUI

Hello,
I am using MIUI on my Nook and i am feeling dumb not using this for so many months! This is super!
However i have some questions:
- is there a way to have the status bar at the bottom andhace the soft buttons on it, as in CM7?
- battery drains super fast.. any reccommendations for this?
- is there a was to install the official nook reader on this? I cant find a reader to replace it yet!
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I suppose no solutions for this
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1) I don't know about MIUI interface, so I can't say
2) Make sure you're using a kernel of .32 for deep sleep. .29 Didn't support this and caused the battery to drain in a couple days, even standing by.
3) You should be able to install the Nook app from the market.

I have been using Miui for awhile now. Love this rom!
No, no status bar at the bottom. Use button savior or soft keys. I have heard others use zmooth, but button savior is my personnal choice.
What do you mean by bad battery life? If I leave my nook on standby, the battery hardly drains at all. You could try a re-install and see if that helps. Also a few reboots help the rom settle in.
I am using the nook app from the market. works fine. I don't think there is a way to use the original reader on a custom rom.
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Great thanks for the tips
I use zmooth, is the only one that is a bit out of the way of the screen. It would have been super if we could have bar at bottom, and also keys on it..
I downloaded Nook also, but i would use it, if i was able to include also my sdcard content on it, and synchronise these with all my devices...
Should we wait for the topic update, or just update MIUI when an update exists in the official MIUI program?
How do i find my kernel?
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For the ebook reader I like Alkido and fbreader. have you tried either of those out yet?

Give Mantano Reader a try, as well.

gsutton said:
Give Mantano Reader a try, as well.
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+1 for Mantano
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Yes, thanks!
Mantano is super, and especially for PDF's i was amazed!
I was using ezPDF until now and the lag in turning page by page was a lot, but with Mantano i was surprised, amazed etc etc!!!
It will definitely remain on my Nook for a long time!
However does any one know if Mantano creates a copy of the file in another folder of Nook? Because it takes sometime in importing any books or pdf's to the program...

I recently discovered MIUI as well, and wow. Troubles be gone! Works great once you set the DPI to the standard DPI again and replace the default launcher. I think this may replace my nightlies permanently.
The method for softkeys, however, needs some work. At 160DPI, I found it hard to press the tiny button on button savior, and sometimes the button gets in the way. I may look into that zmooth at some point, but reviews on that state it gets in the way as well. Wish they'd implement a true honeycomb style one with a bigger button we could stick in the bottom corner.
All my ebooks are Kindle, as they seem to be the cheapest, so I don't know what the best PDF reader is. I kind of like the new Google Apps one in the browser, but probably not what you're looking for.
Battery drain is worse than the nightlies, but it's not terrible. I can go a full day on a single charge. The one thing that worries me is that my charge at night doesn't seem to be charging as quickly which means my NC hardly ever has a full charge in the morning. Something is seriously wrong with that.

I've had miui on an sdcard for awhile now. It is very nice looking but I'm leery of moving away from cm7.
zmooth and button savior work great but take some getting used to.
Are you guys using the paid for or free version of Mantano? $7.49 is a lot to pay for a reader.
Anyone hear anything about when andmers might put out another update?

majorpay said:
I recently discovered MIUI as well, and wow. Troubles be gone! Works great once you set the DPI to the standard DPI again and replace the default launcher. I think this may replace my nightlies permanently.
The method for softkeys, however, needs some work. At 160DPI, I found it hard to press the tiny button on button savior, and sometimes the button gets in the way. I may look into that zmooth at some point, but reviews on that state it gets in the way as well. Wish they'd implement a true honeycomb style one with a bigger button we could stick in the bottom corner.
All my ebooks are Kindle, as they seem to be the cheapest, so I don't know what the best PDF reader is. I kind of like the new Google Apps one in the browser, but probably not what you're looking for.
Battery drain is worse than the nightlies, but it's not terrible. I can go a full day on a single charge. The one thing that worries me is that my charge at night doesn't seem to be charging as quickly which means my NC hardly ever has a full charge in the morning. Something is seriously wrong with that.
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recalibrate the battery and it should fix the fast drain
i had the same problem on CM7 and it fixed it right away im still at 75% after 13 hours of light usage

My Nook was out of battery last night. Thus i charged it last night, and today it cannot turn on!
Anynone experienced this in the past?
Thanks

luigi90210 said:
recalibrate the battery and it should fix the fast drain
i had the same problem on CM7 and it fixed it right away im still at 75% after 13 hours of light usage
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How do you recalibrate the battery?

Ok, i had to hold N button and power button to wake up my nook.
I use a progran from market to calibrate mine...
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If i unistall the phone application would it cause ay problems? As it seems that it drains sime battery on my Nook...
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Fekish said:
If i unistall the phone application would it cause ay problems? As it seems that it drains sime battery on my Nook...
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I have always removed all the telephony apps on my nook, just do not remove any of the storage components as many apps access these.
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luigi90210 said:
recalibrate the battery and it should fix the fast drain
i had the same problem on CM7 and it fixed it right away im still at 75% after 13 hours of light usage
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Yes, that made a huge difference.
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davidr415 said:
How do you recalibrate the battery?
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Look up calibration on the Market - that's the easiest way.

Running the newest version of Nook Color MUI off the website 1.11.4, some reason I can't get either Nook or Kindle software to download my books to the SD card. Keeps saying "download interrupted".

MoCoTerp said:
Running the newest version of Nook Color MUI off the website 1.11.4, some reason I can't get either Nook or Kindle software to download my books to the SD card. Keeps saying "download interrupted".
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I am running both apps just fine on my version 1.11.4. Try reflashing the rom?
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new to xoom

Hello,
I have just bought Xoom and selling my IPad 2
However, I found it abit unfinished OS and hard to find things around.
How do I disable my xoom scanning all internal memory and SD card folders and let it scan only Pictures and Videos folders?
Is there an app to lock other apps? Tried privacy guard, but doesn't seem to work on the xoom?
Is there a way to create folders on screens?
Is there a way to have the Xoom charging when connected to usb?
thanks

shemeri said:
Hello,
I have just bought Xoom and selling my IPad 2
However, I found it abit unfinished OS and hard to find things around.
How do I disable my xoom scanning all internal memory and SD card folders and let it scan only Pictures and Videos folders?
Is there an app to lock other apps? Tried privacy guard, but doesn't seem to work on the xoom?
Is there a way to create folders on screens?
Is there a way to have the Xoom charging when connected to usb?
thanks
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Hi, and welcome to the Xoom community here. I'll tackle the last two questions.
As for making folders (and generally having the smoothest scrolling experience on the Xoom) I would suggest you get the ADW Launcher EX. You can also customize it like crazy. Anyway, the newest version previews the upcoming Android 4 (Ice Cream Sandwich) OS's launcher, but ADW is always better than stock. Folders are easy to make (too easy, imho) and lots of resizable widgets, too.
About charging from USB...no go. The Xoom has two powerful Lion batteries that would charge way too slowly via USB. On the other hand, it takes almost no time to fully charge the Xoom from zero with the wall charger, and it holds a charge for a good long time, depending on how you use it (mainly screen brightness eats up the charge).

shemeri said:
How do I disable my xoom scanning all internal memory and SD card folders and let it scan only Pictures and Videos folders?
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If you are talking about stopping a particular folder from showing up in the gallery, you can use a file browser such as ES File Explorer or Astro to either rename the folder to start with a full stop (that's a period for you 'Merkins ) or create a new file in the folder with the name of ".nomedia" (without quotes).
Alternatively, if you download QuickPic (a Gallery alternative) it has settings within the app which allows you to choose which folders you want to show up.
Hope this helps.

In my opinion I use Go Launcher. It's awesome and has tons of customizations. It's free in the Market so there's no need to worry. ADW is a paid app. I own almost all the mainstream launchers and I stick with Go Launcher on my SGSII and Xoom.
You can create folders with Go Launcher by dragging an app on top of another (Example: Fieldrunners on top of Tetris and then rename it to Games).
Don't go by reviews to much in the Market because not everyone has the know how or patience on spending the time it takes to customize the screen to his/her liking.
Good luck.

okantomi said:
Hi, and welcome to the Xoom community here. I'll tackle the last two questions.
As for making folders (and generally having the smoothest scrolling experience on the Xoom) I would suggest you get the ADW Launcher EX. You can also customize it like crazy. Anyway, the newest version previews the upcoming Android 4 (Ice Cream Sandwich) OS's launcher, but ADW is always better than stock. Folders are easy to make (too easy, imho) and lots of resizable widgets, too.
About charging from USB...no go. The Xoom has two powerful Lion batteries that would charge way too slowly via USB. On the other hand, it takes almost no time to fully charge the Xoom from zero with the wall charger, and it holds a charge for a good long time, depending on how you use it (mainly screen brightness eats up the charge).
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I tried LauncherPro and it seems to be okay! Is ADW Launcher EX much better?
I would say here the IPad wins. It does charge from USB when IPad not in use, simply by having the display off. This is an advantage since I don't want to carry my charger with me if I want to charge. These tablets use standard usb port, so it would be easy to get. Having one at work, home, friends have etc..

burden010 said:
If you are talking about stopping a particular folder from showing up in the gallery, you can use a file browser such as ES File Explorer or Astro to either rename the folder to start with a full stop (that's a period for you 'Merkins ) or create a new file in the folder with the name of ".nomedia" (without quotes).
Alternatively, if you download QuickPic (a Gallery alternative) it has settings within the app which allows you to choose which folders you want to show up.
Hope this helps.
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I tried the .nomedia file but it simply didn't work! I tried it in the root of my unwanted image files, but they keep coming. So the .nomedia solution is not working which I would say it is best!
Having a period for in front of a folder name, would hide the folder from listing unless I show all hidden folders/files.
If I use QuickPic, does it then do the trick for the Gallery app too??
Why isn't there just a simple solutions just like my phone, where it is possible to hide unwanted folders from the scanner :-(

Android300ZX said:
In my opinion I use Go Launcher. It's awesome and has tons of customizations. It's free in the Market so there's no need to worry. ADW is a paid app. I own almost all the mainstream launchers and I stick with Go Launcher on my SGSII and Xoom.
You can create folders with Go Launcher by dragging an app on top of another (Example: Fieldrunners on top of Tetris and then rename it to Games).
Don't go by reviews to much in the Market because not everyone has the know how or patience on spending the time it takes to customize the screen to his/her liking.
Good luck.
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I will give it a try
thanks

shemeri said:
I tried the .nomedia file but it simply didn't work! I tried it in the root of my unwanted image files, but they keep coming. So the .nomedia solution is not working which I would say it is best!
Having a period for in front of a folder name, would hide the folder from listing unless I show all hidden folders/files.
If I use QuickPic, does it then do the trick for the Gallery app too??
Why isn't there just a simple solutions just like my phone, where it is possible to hide unwanted folders from the scanner :-(
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Not sure why the .nomedia file didn't work. To be fair I always use the folder rename option so I don't think I've actually tested this.
QuickPic will, unfortunately, only govern it's own settings.

burden010 said:
Not sure why the .nomedia file didn't work. To be fair I always use the folder rename option so I don't think I've actually tested this.
QuickPic will, unfortunately, only govern it's own settings.
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I dont know :-(
If it is generally doesnt work with .nomedia or only me?
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shemeri said:
...If it is generally doesnt work with .nomedia or only me?...
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You might have to restart your Xoom, or find another way for it to refresh its database of what is supposed to be visiable and what isn't.
I seem to remember having the same issue after adding the .nomedia file, and a restart fixed it.

Great choice buying a xoom and selling your ipad:-D .
I'm also getting a xoom soon (although i didnt have an ipad)

Hi I will be getting a xoom in the next couple days too im just seeing if the price will drop after crimbo, just a little question how do you find the weight of this device as it seemed a little heavy when I had a little play in the shops.

deeman said:
Hi I will be getting a xoom in the next couple days too im just seeing if the price will drop after crimbo, just a little question how do you find the weight of this device as it seemed a little heavy when I had a little play in the shops.
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No question that the Xoom has a bit more heft to it than some other tablets but tbh, I haven't found it a factor. I actually think it's reassuring, the transformer, for instance, feels a bit flimsy to me.
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laredo7mm said:
You might have to restart your Xoom, or find another way for it to refresh its database of what is supposed to be visiable and what isn't.
I seem to remember having the same issue after adding the .nomedia file, and a restart fixed it.
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Well I did try to start my xoom but you did not help. I also tried to clear gallery app data and cache,nsame thing,nit just read them again.
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Humpie said:
Great choice buying a xoom and selling your ipad:-D .
I'm also getting a xoom soon (although i didnt have an ipad)
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Yeah, just sold my ipad so I will never go back to ipad, hated that I didnt have control at all.
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shemeri said:
I tried LauncherPro and it seems to be okay! Is ADW Launcher EX much better?
I would say here the IPad wins. It does charge from USB when IPad not in use, simply by having the display off. This is an advantage since I don't want to carry my charger with me if I want to charge. These tablets use standard usb port, so it would be easy to get. Having one at work, home, friends have etc..
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Yes but the iPad is very slow to charge even with a wall charger compared to the xoom,and the usb charge for the ipad is just a trickle charge i'm sure.

boyzie said:
Yes but the iPad is very slow to charge even with a wall charger compared to the xoom,and the usb charge for the ipad is just a trickle charge i'm sure.
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^^ True that!
Im brand new to the zooom but the charge time is amazing, I was worried about the charger size but it charges so quickly Id rather carry that then the iPads USB wire.
Id also agree with another bloke who said it to use Go Launcher - I've yet to install it on the Xoom but its great on my HTC Sensation!

It right, the ipad charger is an apple charger but smaller than the one used in xoom. It can be faster to charge the xoom but the ipad do last longer than the xoom. The screen is brighter in the ipad.
I am not trying to make the ipad best but just trying to be fair in comparison
I still prefer xoom over ipad even I can see that ipad lasted longer in one full charge.
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shemeri said:
It right, the ipad charger is an apple charger but smaller than the one used in xoom. It can be faster to charge the xoom but the ipad do last longer than the xoom. The screen is brighter in the ipad.
I am not trying to make the ipad best but just trying to be fair in comparison
I still prefer xoom over ipad even I can see that ipad lasted longer in one full charge.
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Fair enough, but there are ways you can make your charge last longer...if you're rooted you can set cpu profiles and you can even undervolt.

okantomi said:
Fair enough, but there are ways you can make your charge last longer...if you're rooted you can set cpu profiles and you can even undervolt.
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Mine is not rooted, but what advantages do I gain when rooted apart from setting cpu profile?
Mine last at most 2 days but my ipad lasted for more than 4 days same usage.
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[Q] A500 Has Horrible PDF performance. Any solutions?

Viewing PDFs on the A500 would seem to be a proper use of the tablet and the Tegra2 processor should provide a lag-free experience but in my opinion, the ability of the A500 to display PDFs is severely lacking.
Reading just about any PDF other than those that are text only will start off good but, after reading 20 pages or so, the change to the next page will begin to lag and basically freeze or display the page in an unresolved state (blurry) until it finally pops in to focus. This can take 10-15 seconds or more sometimes.
The only solution is to reboot.
I've been reading several magazines and it happens on all of them from Maximum PC, Scientific American, etc. Note that all the magazines I read are my own personal subscriptions or are archives as provided by the vendor in PDF format so these are not warez copies.
I'm using Adobe Acrobat, Documents to Go, Quickoffice, and the LumiReader. All perform poorly so it's got to be the hardware. These PDFs display quickly on my main PC.
Does everyone see this crappy PDF performance or have a solution?

Can you upload a troublesome .PDF for others to test.

I currently use ezPDF reader (I think it was one of those 10-cent sale deals in the Market). It does great even on complicated PDFs. That being said, I've never had any problem with Docs2Go either.
One of the first things I do when I buy something that's semi-complicated/sophisticated is see if there's a manual for it in PDF format, and then I have it on my tablet for future reference. I used to do the same with my phone, and prior to that with my Palm PDA. It wasn't until this tablet that it was remotely reasonable to read some of those manuals, as they're pretty complicated with text, graphics, diagrams, screenshots, etc. One or two are almost 400 pages long each.
I'm willing to try any "problem" PDF on ezPDF reader. Just link to it somewhere and I'll let you know.

I too agree with the above poster: ezPDF is plenty fast and it works when nothing else does. Perhaps it's worth trying?

qhorque said:
Viewing PDFs on the A500 would seem to be a proper use of the tablet and the Tegra2 processor should provide a lag-free experience but in my opinion, the ability of the A500 to display PDFs is severely lacking.
Reading just about any PDF other than those that are text only will start off good but, after reading 20 pages or so, the change to the next page will begin to lag and basically freeze or display the page in an unresolved state (blurry) until it finally pops in to focus. This can take 10-15 seconds or more sometimes.
The only solution is to reboot.
I've been reading several magazines and it happens on all of them from Maximum PC, Scientific American, etc. Note that all the magazines I read are my own personal subscriptions or are archives as provided by the vendor in PDF format so these are not warez copies.
I'm using Adobe Acrobat, Documents to Go, Quickoffice, and the LumiReader. All perform poorly so it's got to be the hardware. These PDFs display quickly on my main PC.
Does everyone see this crappy PDF performance or have a solution?
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I use the A500 daily to show clients catalogs showing products from heavy graphics PDF files using EzPDF. Never a problemn nor any perception of lag.
I properly index and bookmark my files and after the customers do some viewing on their own the reaction is usually "cool, where do I get one of these"... Sure beats fumbling through paper.

I have a lot of schematics/service manuals in PDF form on my tablet and have never had a problem with viewing them with Docs2Go. I will admit that usually I just read the relevant pages I need and don't ever read more than 20 or so, that may be why I don't have any issues. I'll try to flip through some of my thicker manuals and see if it starts to hang with me.

Common problematic PDFs are, for example, CPU Magazine or Maximum PC here:
http://www.computerpoweruser.com/DigitalIssues/ComputerPowerUser/CP____1202__/ Unfortunately, you have to load this display page first then click the download arrow on the left side.
http://dl.maximumpc.com/Archives/MPC_2011_11-web.pdf This is a direct link to the PDF.
Feel free to browse to those pages manually if you don't want to simply click on a link in a posting!
Either of those will start off good but, by page 20 or so, they really start to lag and make reading the second half of the magazine a chore.
I'll take a look at ezPDF and see how it does. Thanks for the suggestion.

I've pretty slick performance with Adobe Reader. Is your PDF non-standard?

I downloaded the Maximum PC pdf from your link.....Tested in lumiread, Officesuite,
PDF to Go and QuickOffice Pro....
Not seeing the lag your getting ....Ive went page by page and worst case --only takes maybe 2-3 seconds to load a full page ad on any of the readers. Tried it in both landscape and portrait using full screen and zoom...
If you haven't tried it....reboot your machine and test it again.
Another thought is if you have them stored on a sd card or usb stick that is faulty may be causing a problem.
Also I found that if I up the CPU to 1400MHz from the stock 1000MHz it does seem to speed load time for each page.
I'm on a stock 3.2.1 rooted rom with a custom kernel for over-clocking when needed.

WereCatf said:
I too agree with the above poster: ezPDF is plenty fast and it works when nothing else does. Perhaps it's worth trying?
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++ ezPdf is both cheap and works exceptionally well.

For real use adobe reader.....
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qhorque said:
http://dl.maximumpc.com/Archives/MPC_2011_11-web.pdf This is a direct link to the PDF.
Feel free to browse to those pages manually if you don't want to simply click on a link in a posting!
Either of those will start off good but, by page 20 or so, they really start to lag and make reading the second half of the magazine a chore.
I'll take a look at ezPDF and see how it does. Thanks for the suggestion.
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Using ezPDF I scrolled/paged all the way through page 60 of Maximum PC with no real significant lag. Going through the full page images in the NAS reviews was the slowest, but that only meant it would take a full second to load the page, which I wouldn't call that lag as it would've likely taken longer if viewing the same on a web page.
I would try ezPDF, and if you still get lag then there's something wrong with your tablet. I'm currently running a rooted but otherwise stock HC 3.2.1 ROM. I did remove some bloat apps myself, but I'm running the stock kernel so it's not overclocked.

qhorque said:
Viewing PDFs on the A500 would seem to be a proper use of the tablet and the Tegra2 processor should provide a lag-free experience but in my opinion, the ability of the A500 to display PDFs is severely lacking.
Reading just about any PDF other than those that are text only will start off good but, after reading 20 pages or so, the change to the next page will begin to lag and basically freeze or display the page in an unresolved state (blurry) until it finally pops in to focus. This can take 10-15 seconds or more sometimes.
The only solution is to reboot.
I've been reading several magazines and it happens on all of them from Maximum PC, Scientific American, etc. Note that all the magazines I read are my own personal subscriptions or are archives as provided by the vendor in PDF format so these are not warez copies.
I'm using Adobe Acrobat, Documents to Go, Quickoffice, and the LumiReader. All perform poorly so it's got to be the hardware. These PDFs display quickly on my main PC.
Does everyone see this crappy PDF performance or have a solution?
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Ive been pdf reading on the iconia a500 for some time now, using lumiread, adobe and ezpdf and even the document reader for ICS and no lag here.
I'm thinking there is a rogue process slowing ur sys over time. Factory reset ur sys, run all the official updates (if ur rooted, used the rooted official updates not the custom ones)
Then install just your pdf apps and try reading, see what happens, if it runs lag free, start reinstalling your apps, with the most essential ones first and keep and eye open for performance degradation.

I just downloaded your trouble PDF but I had no difficulty at all. It have to agree that it is most likely a software issue. Are you rooted? If so you may want to do a dirty flash (install your ROM again without wiping data or cache). It may be a ROM bug too, but then the devs would likely have a lot of people submitting the same issue. However, if its an app conflict a dirty flash probably won't fix it.

RepliGo Reader is also great for PDF. It even let you full screen your PDF.

I've had no trouble at all with adobe PDF reader. It loads up my textbooks which are usually over 500 pages without any sort of problem.
I can scroll through them or search to find whatever I need and its always smooth.
I'm using the stock ota 3.2.1 w/out root.
The A500 is perfect. In my opinion
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a_rocklobster said:
I've had no trouble at all with adobe PDF reader. It loads up my textbooks which are usually over 500 pages without any sort of problem.
I can scroll through them or search to find whatever I need and its always smooth.
I'm using the stock ota 3.2.1 w/out root.
The A500 is perfect. In my opinion
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Just tested with Doc's to Go Paid. Playboy with Lutzy Lo-pans. Works fine, although wanted to bail out with the "viewing her pics". I think my tab has better standards. Da_n she's ugly.....
I think you need to re-do your tab. Or think about what other apps you might have running in processes. Seems like you may have some memory hogs.
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I think you guys dont have an ipad. I can tell you, its horrible compared with an ipad

sollie said:
I think you guys dont have an ipad. I can tell you, its horrible compared with an ipad
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I purchased an original iPad for my son and an iPad2 for my daughter. Getting those two iCraps to do even half of what my A500 can do has been a ridiculous chore, and I'm a career network engineer.
Is the iPad smoother in some circumstances? Sure. But it better be -- it's at least 2x the price and it's not like you can change anything (mod, ROM, tweak, etc.) if you don't like the performance.
No thanks! I'll happily keep my A500.

What do you use your KFire for?

I know there are plenty of posts about this, kewl thing is that's ok.
Feel free to comment and specify.
I use my KFire for most of these, but mainly gaming. Currently obsessing on Words with Friends. Just finished Shadowgun. Good game.

I use mine as a tablet . Everything I can want electronically that cant be done on another device
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Is it ironic that I use it to read about uses for it?
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cgilstrap said:
I know there are plenty of posts about this, kewl thing is that's ok.
Feel free to comment and specify.
I use my KFire for most of these, but mainly gaming. Currently obsessing on Words with Friends. Just finished Shadowgun. Good game.
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I don't really use it for much since my glaxy nexus is pretty much used for everything
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Porn... It streams like a champ.

i read books on it. I play games on it. occasionally browse the web. Pretty much exactly what it was designed for.

Reading, note taking, drawing, music consumption, photo editing, gaming.

I used to use it for reading books - and it appears that ever since I came across this site, I use it to flash roms

Got if for my little kid, great for streaming videos, my lap and phone will saty safe for a while...

I use it for Pornography.
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porn really? Sorry screen is too small for me. Use my 50" lcd for that. Forgot to put reading as an option lol... guess that'll count as other. Just find reading a book on a tablet or e reader to take a lot away from the experience of reading a book for me. I need a book book. If we could get a fully fuctional rom out there that'd be great. Just seems all the ICS roms and misc other ones floating around have one or two major bugs still.

cgilstrap said:
porn really? Sorry screen is too small for me. Use my 50" lcd for that. Forgot to put reading as an option lol... guess that'll count as other. Just find reading a book on a tablet or e reader to take a lot away from the experience of reading a book for me. I need a book book. If we could get a fully fuctional rom out there that'd be great. Just seems all the ICS roms and misc other ones floating around have one or two major bugs still.
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CM7 has been working flawlessly for me, I don't have any bugs at all with it.

wheres the "all of the above" option?

I bought mine with the intention of using it for school. A couple of the textbooks I needed were available in PDF form, and I actually saved money by buying a new gadget... win/win!
Realistically I've mostly been using it for development. I'm currently working on an app for tablets, and I don't have a tablet other than this one. I've also been trying to help out with the ICS development, and frankly this post is to help get me to the 10-post threshold so I can answer someone's question in a development thread (kind of silly if you ask me).

Web browsing, music, reading, planner, and some other stuff. Although I have to agree about the screen being too small for porn. Perhaps in an emergency situation...

RawRmon said:
Web browsing, music, reading, planner, and some other stuff. Although I have to agree about the screen being too small for porn. Perhaps in an emergency situation...
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Have you tried in portrait rather than in landscape?

For messing with Android. It's cheap enough that bricking it is really not an issue.

pretty useful in class to look at the powerpoint when I can't see the projector screen
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un4givn85 said:
wheres the "all of the above" option?
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+1 on that... I use them all.

xmtsystems said:
Porn... It streams like a champ.
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Lol
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Any tricks to faster PDFs on the Nook?

Hello,
I absolutely love my rooted Nook and it's been great as my first "tablet". But one thing that is quite frustrating is reading PDFs. I have several PDF magazines ranging in size from 11MB to 80MB. Simply turning a page can last for upwards of 10 seconds. Considering the number of ads in these things, it could be a full minute just to get to a page with real content.
Is there anything I can do to improve the performance like tweak the Nook or even convert the files into something friendlier while keeping the layout? I've set my idle speed at 600MHz but it's not really noticeable.
Any help would be appreciated.

What software are you using? I just downloaded a 34MB Consumer Reports PDF and flipped through it with ezPDF Reader. It flips pages quickly and smoothly. Never more an a second or two.
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One more Thumb up for EZpdf.
Fast and nice pdf viewer.
Produced by NookColor at ICS AOKP 4.0.4

RASTAVIPER said:
One more Thumb up for EZpdf.
Fast and nice pdf viewer.
Produced by NookColor at ICS AOKP 4.0.4
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One more for ezpdf.
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Man oh man. Me thinks I'm going insane! I should have specified I was using ezPDF, (v1.4.2.1). I since tried using the actual Adobe Reader and it's just night and day. When you are all using ezPDF, are you "turning" the pages or is it set to scroll down?

DlickSeals said:
Man oh man. Me thinks I'm going insane! I should have specified I was using ezPDF, (v1.4.2.1). I since tried using the actual Adobe Reader and it's just night and day. When you are all using ezPDF, are you "turning" the pages or is it set to scroll down?
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With me I am turning pages. If you aren't in a big hurry to flip thru a bunch of pages, it loads the next page while you are reading the page you are on. If you want to move through the document quickly, use the page icons on the bottom. Flipping too many pages at once slows it down.
And I am on ezPdf Pro version 1.6.0.0. 1.4.2.1 is pretty old. They said they improved performance with newer versions.
And night and day meaning which is better?

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With me I am turning pages. If you aren't in a big hurry to flip thru a bunch of pages, it loads the next page while you are reading the page you are on. If you want to move through the document quickly, use the page icons on the bottom. Flipping too many pages at once slows it down.
And I am on ezPdf Pro version 1.6.0.0. 1.4.2.1 is pretty old. They said they improved performance with newer versions.
And night and day meaning which is better?
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Hey All,
Sorry about that - meant night/day in the sense that Adobe is muuuuch faster. Even the option of using ezPDF's scroll icons takes forever to load. I realize that I'm referring more to "eMags" than PDF books, but the performance in this video is ideal and sort of sounds like it's what you are all experiencing:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPNqa8cS0Sw
I want to use this so badly...

Mantano Reader > Adobe Reader > Ezpdf reader (Really not that good)

Gin1212 said:
Mantano Reader > Adobe Reader > Ezpdf reader (Really not that good)
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+1

leapinlar said:
And I am on ezPdf Pro version 1.6.0.0. 1.4.2.1 is pretty old. They said they improved performance with newer versions.
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Even 1.6.0.0 is old. I'm up to 1.9.4.0.
I think its faster if you turn off the page turn animation. I don't have a problem but mostly I'm looking at books, not magazines.

I could never get ezpdf to be even close to usable. I wanted the functions, but couldn't stand looking at that loading circle any longer.
If you want to try a somewhat out of the box suggestion, try Perfect Viewer with the pdf plug-in. It is primarily an image viewer, so if you want highlighting or whatever, it is not going to be for you.
But with the option to fit page to width in landscape, it is perfect for reading pdf books, I think. There are a bunch of different fit page options.
Full features are free, there is a donate version which is just for those who want to give.

DlickSeals said:
Hello,
I absolutely love my rooted Nook and it's been great as my first "tablet". But one thing that is quite frustrating is reading PDFs. I have several PDF magazines ranging in size from 11MB to 80MB. Simply turning a page can last for upwards of 10 seconds. Considering the number of ads in these things, it could be a full minute just to get to a page with real content.
Is there anything I can do to improve the performance like tweak the Nook or even convert the files into something friendlier while keeping the layout? I've set my idle speed at 600MHz but it's not really noticeable.
Any help would be appreciated.
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I actually agree with you and I prefer using ezPDF. Everyone I've talked to so far says to get a better-performing SD card so I made a post about which SD card is the fastest here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=29158973
I'm the same as you--I have a lot of large .pdf files, but there's a bigger problem almost nobody has mentioned on any forum and it exists in every version of ezPDF I've tried so far, including 1.9.5.0 and the latest which I'm using now, 1.9.5.3. The problem is when searching for a book, you can't read the text--only a picture of the cover (if you have one) comes up. Here's a screenshot directly from my Nook Tablet:
http://home.comcast.net/~nirvgorilla/nook ezpdf.png
There is nothing you can do about speed except find the fastest SD card and the speed has nothing to do apparently with Class 4 or Class 10. I don't know the real answer so I'm not going to spread misinformation, but if you find the best information, be sure to let us know because I definitely want better-performing pdfs even if it is a 32GB card.

I tryed every pdf/epub reader that is on the market, and im surprised no one here suggest repligo. For PDF reading, be it scanned pdf or normal but heavier (30mb+) pdf, it's the fastest and the one with better and best looking text reflow. ezPDF it's a lot worse.
Let's just say that repligo is the only one that read everything i throw at it, and even on my old little lgp500 i can read bulky pdf. On the nook it's perfect. Give it a go!

Adobe Reader
I have the same issue with ez pdf - loading the next page takes forrreeeeevvvveerrr. i found that adobe reader loads the entire pdf at once and you can scroll with no lag.