[HOW-TO] Download/Install Honeycomb to Nook Color (SD card)

[SpenserS]

Im assuming there is no other way to get the market...I know very little about adb and was wondering if I could get the market another way...

 

[zepper#AC]

I have downloaded WinImage under "disk" there is no Restore Virtual Image to Physical Drive. There is restore virtual hard disk image on Physical drive.

 

[Bullfrog527]

is this actually 3.0, or a ROM that looks like 3.0?

 

[Froalskiner#WN]

Since this isn't rooted do we need softkeys since there are no dedicated capacitive control buttons?

sent from my rooted NookColor

 

[Froalskiner#WN]

Full 3.0...less sound and root. Also this was built with a preview sdk. When the full sdk is released we should get more functionality.

This is awesome work by the way.

sent from my rooted NookColor

 

[SpenserS]

HELP! I keep getting "no such file or directory" but clearly it is unzipped and on my desktop. Any suggestions?

 

[y2jdmbfan]

Anyone else having a problem extracting the image file?

 

[TKEMerph]

Im in command prompt, but when i input the first line it says Device not found.. I have the nook hooked up through USB.

on the Nook - there isn't any notification that my NC is connected to PC..

Keep Getting device not found

 

[Froalskiner#WN]

Check the how to root thread. There are some extra troubleshooting steps in it.

 

[Froalskiner#WN]

The key is to run WinImage as an administrator.

 

[jonapga]

I have a question on where to put the market and Google services apks

The main folder for android sdk is "android-sdk-windows"
in there there is a "Tools" folder but adb.exe is not in there
adb.exe is located in "android-sdk-windows\platform-tools"

quoting form the instructions step 3 "Place the files in your adb tools folder"

where should i place the files?

 

[jonapga]

This one: android-sdk-windows\platform-tools

At least that's where I put them and they worked for me

thanks, I was actually going to post that thats what worked for me, you beat me to it.

I love honeycomb, this is what android needed, a better UI!

 

[DNicolasL]

So I should get an 8GB Micro sdhc. What brand and class card should I buy?

 

[aludal]

Will Shanklin:

....Making items on your screen larger:

The LCD Density is 133, so everything will be pretty small. You can change this manually by editing your build.prop file, but when I tried, anything larger than 160 or so caused crashes. 150 works well for me. If you want, you can simply download this build.prop preset at 150, place it in your sdk tools directory and, with your nook connected, type:

adb shell mount -o remount,rw /dev/block/mmcblk1p2 /system

adb push build.prop system/build.prop

adb reboot

Quite interesting observation, Will, thank you.
My take on this is this build's 133 dpi density has somehow "hard-coded" into Honeycomb of deeper-blue. Hopefully a re-build of the same with "correct" 169.3333 dpi may improve not only GUI looks, but actually help with turning the HW acceleration on. My theory (and I could be 100 times wrong in this) is the present NC framebuffer driver has also a hardcoded "169.3333" dpi value in it, and not only that, but it's indicated in TWO values in build.prop: one for "x", another the same for "y". Looks to me as an attempt to engage hardware acceleration.
In other words, if physical pixel density (and not imaginary dithered) is important, I would give up on any "LCD density changer" any day, and go with HW acceleration if its availability depends on real screen parameters taken into account.
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[vegeta_2123]

it wont let me extract the file

 

[Froalskiner#WN]

it wont let me extract the file

Use Winrar to extract and WinImage (running as administrator) to write the image. 7zip and winzip don't work well with it for some reason.

 

[Will Shanklin]

I added overclocking instructions to OP!

 

[Froalskiner#WN]

The only thing that's not working for me is the Market. I can get into it and authenticate, but I can't actually install anything. Is there a fix that I may have missed?

 

[chadly48]

Is there anywhere else to get the Market and GoogleServicesFramework.apk? When I click on the links to download these files nothing happens, it seems like the site is down or the links aren't working.

 

[Will Shanklin]

Is there anywhere else to get the Market and GoogleServicesFramework.apk? When I click on the links to download these files nothing happens, it seems like the site is down or the links aren't working.

Working fine for me. It's my account, but I don't think that matters here.