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

[MoggSquad]

Apps keep crashing on me like crazy. I am excited of the potential, but will stay on Froyo until apps can run in a more stable manner.

 

[Froalskiner#WN]

Still hopeful the network issues will be resolved at some point. Even with this new build, taking 12 hours to download Angry Birds is not going to work for me.

 

[dmartin1972]

I do not have google talk in the apps? did it not get installed? How can I get it on here. I also didnt have gmail, or google maps, etc?
Or did I do someting wrong?

 

[duppenthalerj]

How to install apps without Market

I'm very grateful to deeper-blue, the developer of this cool developmental port of Honeycomb to the Nookcolor for us all to play with, and to Will Shanklin for sharing it with us here. It's so great to be able to go back and forth so easily?without disturbing the existing setup on the Nookcolor!

While I'm doing battle to get Market installed, I have found a way of installing apps on the Nookcolor without it. So far I've installed the B&N Nook reader, 8pen, and Angry Birds this way, and they all work fine. I could download and read a book from B&N.

Here's how: Locate (or place) on the web a copy of the apk file of the app you want to install and download it using the browser on the Nookcolor running Honeycomb. You can then install it directly using the Downloads application. That's it.

It's not always so easy to find apk files on the web. You might get lucky googling for it (e.g., 8pen.apk). If you have a rooted device with a functioning market you can get an app's apk file by installing the app and then copying the apk file from the /system/app folder. To get them up on the web I used HotFile.

I also tried sending the apk file as an email attachment and downloading it onto the Nookcolor, but that didn't work for me?I couldn't find where those downloads go, but if someone does know that would be an improvement on this method.

 

[jcarley0830]

I'm very grateful to deeper-blue, the developer of this cool developmental port of Honeycomb to the Nookcolor for us all to play with, and to Will Shanklin for sharing it with us here. It's so great to be able to go back and forth so easily—without disturbing the existing setup on the Nookcolor!

While I'm doing battle to get Market installed, I have found a way of installing apps on the Nookcolor without it. So far I've installed the B&N Nook reader, 8pen, and Angry Birds this way, and they all work fine. I could download and read a book from B&N.

Here's how: Locate (or place) on the web a copy of the apk file of the app you want to install and download it using the browser on the Nookcolor running Honeycomb. You can then install it directly using the Downloads application. That's it.

It's not always so easy to find apk files on the web. You might get lucky googling for it (e.g., 8pen.apk). If you have a rooted device with a functioning market you can get an app's apk file by installing the app and then copying the apk file from the /system/app folder. To get them up on the web I used HotFile.

I also tried sending the apk file as an email attachment and downloading it onto the Nookcolor, but that didn't work for me—I couldn't find where those downloads go, but if someone does know that would be an improvement on this method.

While I didn't have luck with the browser installation method noted above, I noticed that I was able to essentially do the same thing after adb installation of dropbox.

Once installed, I could download apks from my phone that I put on dropbox and install them with no problems.

 

[WHYCHUK]

Hey, don't know if this has been answered yet, but when I format my SDCard the capacity of the card goes from 8Gig down to about 115Mb. Any way that I can keep the card's capacity and use it for storing music, etc. on my Honeycomb NOOKcolor?

 

[Niirs]

What network problems are you having? My Honeycomb is very fast on the network, stream video etc..

 

[Niirs]

I just got it working with a 4gb sd. Still some lag & not as sensitive to the touch as my ipad, but still slicker than snot on a door knob. well done.

If your screen is slow/lags - turn off screen and turn back on to fix.

 

[Breakthecycle2]

How long should it be on the boot screen that says Android at the bottom? It's been about 10 mins so far

 

[jerrykur]

Hey, don't know if this has been answered yet, but when I format my SDCard the capacity of the card goes from 8Gig down to about 115Mb. Any way that I can keep the card's capacity and use it for storing music, etc. on my Honeycomb NOOKcolor?

First make sure you are only formatting on your computer, not on the Nook. If it shows 115MB on your Windows computer perform a quick format of the card. Then remove it and reinsert it. Select to format the card. It will probably still show 115MB, but there will be a FAT32 option. Select that and you should see something around 7.5 GB. Do a quick format and you should now have a 7.5 GB card.

 

[Chuck4Noles]

Having Trouble Getting Honeycomb 3.0 on Nook Color

I have a rooted Nook that I followed directions from this webiste NookColor Rooting - nookDevs. I have followed the steps perfectly to put HoneyComb 3.0 on but when I reboot my Nook with the sd card put back in... nothing happens. Not sure what I'm doing wrong. I checked off every step.

 

[sboeckman]

First make sure you are only formatting on your computer, not on the Nook. If it shows 115MB on your Windows computer perform a quick format of the card. Then remove it and reinsert it. Select to format the card. It will probably still show 115MB, but there will be a FAT32 option. Select that and you should see something around 7.5 GB. Do a quick format and you should now have a 7.5 GB card.

I tried the above and it didn't work I had to download EASEUS Partition Master to be able to fix the partition table. Windows Disk Manager couldn't do the job and it would only format to the same 115mb. Anyway, I fixed the SD card back to 16 GB using partition master and reinstalled honeycomb with WinImage and it did it again! I am back to square one. Suggestions anyone? I tried to partition the unallocated space as another drive in hopes of utilizing that way but that doesn't work either WinImage really screws it up.

BTW: Honeycomb boots fine, my only issue is the sd card only having 115mb of space out of 16gb

 

[WHYCHUK]

First make sure you are only formatting on your computer, not on the Nook. If it shows 115MB on your Windows computer perform a quick format of the card. Then remove it and reinsert it. Select to format the card. It will probably still show 115MB, but there will be a FAT32 option. Select that and you should see something around 7.5 GB. Do a quick format and you should now have a 7.5 GB card.

Oh, I know. But I was wanting to boot from the Honeycomb from the same sd card that I keep my media on. Any way this is possible? When I write the disk image to the card, it reformats it WAY below it's actual capacity.

 

[dmartin1972]

When i put honeycomb on my nook, i do not have gtalk or any other google apps ecept for the market. Did i do something wrong, or do i need another ile for those? PLEASE HELP>

 

[Breakthecycle2]

I tried the above and it didn't work I had to download EASEUS Partition Master to be able to fix the partition table. Windows Disk Manager couldn't do the job and it would only format to the same 115mb. Anyway, I fixed the SD card back to 16 GB using partition master and reinstalled honeycomb with WinImage and it did it again! I am back to square one. Suggestions anyone? I tried to partition the unallocated space as another drive in hopes of utilizing that way but that doesn't work either WinImage really screws it up.

Im also having the same issue and mine will not boot. It stays at the android start up screen.

 

[pceasar]

When i put honeycomb on my nook, i do not have gtalk or any other google apps ecept for the market. Did i do something wrong, or do i need another ile for those? PLEASE HELP>

Yep other ile, its a legal issue they can't package with the ROM

 

[pceasar]

Sure - it's still an early build and there's the occasional bug. We're going ga-ga as if it's a 100% stable ROM because, well, it's Honeycomb before Honeycomb is launched.

Thanks Will, that's the same I expect, I just wanted to make sure I wasn't the only one, its pretty good now and fast, imagine when the the real code is released!!!

Btw, anyone using flash on this thing? can't find it in the Market I think I need to change some codes?

 

[dmartin1972]

Where can I find the file to put on the google apps? Like gtalk and such?
Thanks.

 

[Froalskiner#WN]

What network problems are you having? My Honeycomb is very fast on the network, stream video etc..

Takes hours to install any app through the market. 4hrs to install the Kindle App for example. I gave up and started to upload the apks to my dropbox then install from there. Downloading the apps in Dropbox is really fast. It's just something in the market that sucks. The problem is there are a few people having the same issue but so far nobody has a solution since there are so few of us having the issue. I even tried taking the vending and googleservicesframework apks from my Fascinate, uploading them to Dropbox then installing them to the nook.

So far nothing I've tried works. It's been slow since v1 which is leading me to believe there are differences in hardware between nooks that haven't been figured out yet.

At random times I'll get Gtalk authentication errors when I'm not in it even though it comes up properly when I open Talk.

Streaming is fine...

 

[bluecamel]

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

This doesn't appear to be true anymore. The build.prop with nookhoney03 has LCD density set to 140 (which seems to be better than 150 anyway). Besides, the "ro.sf.hwrotation=270" completely freezes the touchscreen, so I'd recommend not using the attached build.prop.

The attached build.prop also changes the heapSize from 48m to 128m. Does anyone know if there is any advantage to that, aside form saving some card space?