slacker!

ongoing personal adjustments and issues have prevented (for lack of a better word) my geek from coming out to play.

I have faith that she will return.. and soon.

I use Ubuntu over Win7- hardly ever reboot into Win7, unless I need a program or familiarity. in Linux, we've been working on setting up a file server... to do this and not screw up my system (or sift through fake users to log in), I'm running Ubuntu by VirtualBox within Ubuntu.

have a project due tomorrow on rooting and bootloaders.

four more days of classes, and the semester is over! Spring 2011 semester was a weird one for me, and certainly not my best work.

as excited as I was to get the Nook, I have found that a tablet really doesn't fit into my life all that much, and I want/need/can use a netbook more. haven't even turned the darn thing on in over a month. over break, I'll do all the updates and see if I can get my thumb keyboard to work, and test Google Docs again- if I'm satisfied, that might change my mind for a little while... if not, I'm selling it on XDA or craigslist.

I've had it with the HP in Rylie's room. it is not allowed to be connected to the internet anymore- Time Warner shuts us down due to spam-sending or viruses.. or it could have been the PS3 a few days ago.. anyhoo.. I'll make sure all our stuff is backed up and I'm wiping her out and loading Ubuntu. I wish I had a bigger work area.

5/13/11

Nook is back to stock and updated, all cleaned up and my Hardware instructor is sending me a check for it- I'm getting a netbook soon, the ASUS Eee 1015PEM-MU17

5/15/11

I'm not getting a netbook quite yet. too many things up in the air money-wise. maybe in a few months.

Saturday project- dual boot stock+CM7 - ongoing

one of the best things about the NC- boots from sd card first. virtually non-brickable. I like rooted stock, and official Froyo with Flash is coming later this month, they say. I like CM7, I like Honeycomb. and I like the idea of being able to boot into one or the other from sd when I want to.

I'll keep on the lookout for CM7 bootable from sd, but I'm gonna give it a go on my own too. this is going to take a while- semester projects are coming due soon, but my allotted "geek-out" time will be spent working on this.

edit: totally changed my mind on bootable CM7 sd once I looked over the dual boot instructions again.

first step: 
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=914690
not sure if I'll reflash a recovery of rooted stock or start from scratch and use titanium backup.
(the only way to use Titanium Backup with rooted stock is to move the apk's to /system/app and reboot. fix permissions in CWR first and mount in root explorer R/W (toggle button at the top). root explorer is certainly worth the ~$4.19)

I could have saved myself some panic by going back to mounts and storage and unmounting the sd card before rebooting. rebooted into CWR to see ahead of time what needed to be done and how to get there. tried to reboot to put the .zip on the card and go through the actual process. I took the card out during the reboot so it wouldn't keep rebooting into CWR and had a "dead" NC for a few minutes after putting the card back in. now I'm going through the stuck on n screen reboots. 8 failed boots gets me to the install, but it gets stuck on n afterwards.. need a recovery sd and start over.

well frikin duh.. wish it didn't take me all day to come across this... (I spent far too much time trying to make the Froyo sd and get all that to work)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=11374824&postcount=29
copied 1.01 full install (my original version) to the sd, used CWR to install from .zip on sd and hooray! back to stock NookColor. back to recovery sd on hand.

auto-nooter next:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=872490
a word on auto-nooter: the instructions say that the NC will boot when plugged into the computer and will reboot when it is done. when I plug in my NC, nothing happens.. for a while.. after about 5 minutes, then it rebooted and all was well. have patience, or a repeat will be necessary.

I miss CM7 and widgets. but it's fast again, everything works again, internal and sd storage are available. I'll see how dual boot goes. that could be better. at least now I have a recovery sd ready and the auto-nooter sd, and know to hold onto them.

dual boot is where it's at. left stock where it was and CM7 is on secondary (power+n to boot in)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=959461

got gapps installed.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=11455117&postcount=11
(I don't suggest flashing the gapps.zip from CRW- made Market go away in stock and I had to re-nooter.. and the Market still didn't work in CM7, so it was a waste of time altogether)

fix the framework.jar file for CM7.. I assume through the OP's instructions that I needed to mount and push to correct partition, 1o9 in my case, which worked. (though another post for pushing something else says 0p9)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=965301
is it possible to find the AndroidID on the stock side and mirror for other ROMs?

all set up, most apps work (to be expected), tethering from the G2 works on both sides. dual boot is better than running from sd, but still no "mountable" access to internal storage from CM7, and now to figure out how to make a CM7 ROM into a version that can be flashed to the correct boot partition. (I like phiremod, and there's bound to be newer ROMs that come out, and I'd rather have actual versions than nightlies)

can I just make a new zip with phiremod's ramdisk and other files with the same u-boot files from the verified dual boot file? gonna try this after confirmation:
make a .zip file with these files from the OP for CM7 dual-boot file:
        u-boot.altimg
        u-boot.altram
        u-boot.bin
and add from phiremod's ROM:
        ramdisk.img
        kernel
        system folder
        META-INF folder

and I assume I need to remove dual and go through the process again to get this going, as from what I understand, phiremod v4 uses ext3 instead of ext4.

hhmm... this is going to take some more fiddling.. removed dual-boot, did the prep again, loaded my zip, boot loop on stock rooted no matter if just power or power+n. doing a complete restore again. the kernel from phiremod is OC, and I did not include the ext4.sh, as the post says it is ext3. so we'll try a zip with the CM7 kernel and if that doesn't work, include the ext4.sh as well. no reply on the dual-boot thread yet. learning process!

someone was kind enough to post this response:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=11892456&postcount=306
maybe take a look at that next Saturday.

HA! CM7 nightly12 has access to internal storage. dual boot zip made. throwing this on now. phiremod is now unnecessary. (but I'll still tinker with building the dual boot ROM)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=11836160&postcount=255
not so much... perhaps due to being dual-boot? I was also under the impress that the framework patch/hack was included. the research continues.. I need to get some homework done.

for reference:   http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=11905694&postcount=314

awesome: completely powered down, NC turns on by itself randomly, even before I started messing with it, known comment. since dual-boot, stays off as it should. no more random start ups.

NC's been getting all the attention lately. next Saturday: G2 gets an update (too).

Nook Goodness- ongoing

2/22/11 @ 5:06pm -- working on CM7 port.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=11452450&postcount=22
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=954902

loving Gingerbread on a tablet.  still waiting for Honeycomb stability, though I know it will be a few weeks. I wanted to keep the B&N NC stock Eclair on the internal memory, but rooted. it is proven stable, and I wanted something to go back to if/when things went wonky.. and eventually they will. but I trust CM builds, I love CM builds, and so far so good. this is my first taste of Gingerbread, too. if experience goes well, the G2 will be getting a ROM upgrade soon.

one question I want a true answer to: WTF happened to all my internal memory? the NC is 8GB on it's own.. Settings is only showing 0.92GB total space and 881MB free. also says I can erase the SD card that isn't in it.
update: well duh.. the Nook's internal storage is /media, and untouched from the work I did from the threads above. perhaps I can mount /media through ADB or Ubuntu terminal and copy files over? won't ever show under an Android build, but it will be there.
update again: can use File Manager on the NC to see the contents of the /media/My Files/ but can't get the photos folder to show up in the Gallery app. I marked the folder "include in media scan" but ...
update 2/23/11: terminal app will not let me change permissions of the /media folder. says even sudo is denied. want my rooted stock back and run this from SD.I don't know if it even is a command, but I tried $ sudo mount /media and I was told "denied"... actually any sudo cmd I run on /media is denied. I tried to enter the bootlaoder/recovery to see if I could mount from there, as there were other folder that were mountable on a list, but I think I have to have the ext4 sd card in when I do that, or it will just boot normally, like it did.

8:59pm: xda app force closes every time I click to read a thread. I swear I saw an AndroidID in Settings, but now I can't find it. applying this fix shortly:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=965301
update: fix worked.

2/23/11 @ 6:26pm: finding a way to revert ext4 back to run rooted stock, and run CM7 from the SD. I'm searching for the thread on how to go back..
and there's this:  http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=11472094&postcount=3 but I've never "built from source" before, and I'm not sure if now is the time.. that seems like a 2-week-school-break project, seeing as I should be doing homework for the rest of the week.

2/24/11 @ 10:16am: here's an idea.. when you make the EXT4 sd card to boot from with CWR, you have a choice of what size sd card you're using. I used the 1GB image on a 2GB card, and I was left with about 1GB of "internal storage". if I use an 8GB card and the 8GB image, will I regain the NC's 8GB of internal storage?
7:32pm: verified that this is not the issue. then why the different sizes?