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ibex333 said:
I hope someone comes in and tells me I misunderstood completely and its actually a lot easier than I think.
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You're partially misunderstanding. What you're saying is true currently of CM10.1 (4.2) but completely untrue about CM10 (4.1)

I've been running CM10 on my HD+ for a month now. It boots off the SD card in a hybrid mode. There's some debate on xda about which cards are best, but for me a 32gig class 10 SanDisk card runs snappier than the bloated stock.

Setting up the SD card took all of five minutes, no complication to it at all. To my knowledge the main limitations with the device that keep devs (so far) from further internal hacks is B&N built in a function where the device will reset itself if certain system files are modified.
 
Ravynmagi said:
XDA Forums sure picked a bad time to die. I'm trying to make a CM10 SD card and having to use this guide I found here...
http://doitanyway.co.uk/installing-cm10-0-standard-android-on-a-nook-hd/

Unfortunately the CWM card I created won't boot. Nook HD+ shows a loading progress bar, then loads the stock OS as normal. Not sure why it isn't booting from the SD. I used to do this with my Nook Color, I assume it should still work with the HD+.
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Are you running the latest stock with Play Store access?

If so, my guess would be B&N may have closed the exploits needed to make that method work with the latest update. I hope I'm wrong about that though. xda currently down so can't check there.

CM10 hybrid still works for me even on the latest B&N version with Play Store, but I installed it prior to the update.
 
Yeah, have the 2.1 update with Google apps. I flashed that CWM image the SD card, but it oddly doesn't boot. Hopefully it's something I'm doing wrong.
 
If you're booting off of the SD card, in general you'll want a Sandisk Class 4 card.

The class 4 cards give vastly superior random 4KB read/writes which is essentially for running CM on.

The "faster" class 6/10 cards gives better large file performance but abysmal 4KB performance - they often don't work well ( or at all ) when used for CM on the HD+.
 
I'm curious what difference it really makes in performance. I'm using a SanDisk class 10 card and everything is nice and snappy. I guess I'll have to try a class 4 and see what noticeable difference it makes.
 
I picked one up on Sunday and another one yesterday for my mother. I haven't gotten around to trying out CM yet but I'm fairly satisfied with stock. Using Apex launcher there are some performance hiccups but overall its not half bad. Chrome is near perfectly smooth for me while browsing and the 720p h264 videos I've tried played back fine. I need to try some games. I'm interested in how they deal with such a high-res screen.

Overall, you really can't beat it for $179-$199. Also is anyone else really impressed by the mono speaker on the back? If only there was a second one.
 
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CuriousMike said:
If you're booting off of the SD card, in general you'll want a Sandisk Class 4 card.

The class 4 cards give vastly superior random 4KB read/writes which is essentially for running CM on.

The "faster" class 6/10 cards gives better large file performance but abysmal 4KB performance - they often don't work well ( or at all ) when used for CM on the HD+.
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I tried two cards so far. A 32GB Sandisk class 4 and a 64GB Sandisk Ultra 1.
 
I'm trying to use CM10.0 myself. It should be more stable. And I figure once I get that working, I can then try CM10.1 with another SD card.
 
Yeah, that was the second one I tried. And that is the method I'd prefer over the Hybrid (don't like the idea of this installing stuff to the eMMC).

I finally figured out my problem though with the CWM SD card not booting. For some reason it won't boot. But if I let it load all the way to the stock OS with the SD card in, then shut it down again, now on the second boot it does boot from the SD card.

So I finally got CWM to boot and have CM10.0 installed on the SD card.
 
Ravynmagi said:
Yeah, that was the second one I tried. And that is the method I'd prefer over the Hybrid (don't like the idea of this installing stuff to the eMMC).

I finally figured out my problem though with the CWM SD card not booting. For some reason it won't boot. But if I let it load all the way to the stock OS with the SD card in, then shut it down again, now on the second boot it does boot from the SD card.

So I finally got CWM to boot and have CM10.0 installed on the SD card.
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Worth it??? Unless it's fully functional....hmmm
 
I'm still trying to decide. I have it installed on a Sandisk 64GB SDXC UHS-1 card. But CM10.0 seems pretty slow on the Nook HD+ so far. Screen rotation is really slow, takes 10 to 15 seconds before it'll rotate. Chrome seems okay, but I'm not sure I'd say it's any faster than the stock OS Chrome.

I'm on a crappy wifi connection at work too. So I'll play with it more at home.
 
Ravynmagi said:
Screen rotation is really slow, takes 10 to 15 seconds before it'll rotate. Chrome seems okay, but I'm not sure I'd say it's any faster than the stock OS Chrome.
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Something is screwy. I have a 2 or 3 second for rotate. I actually don't mind it as I don't like the device to switch orientations on me all the time when I shift position for a second or so. But 10 to 15 is excessive. Maybe your sd card class, or the speed difference between the hybrid and sd boot methods.
 
Just received an HD+ today. A very nice tablet. The screen is pretty and overall I'm pleased so far. Just stock so far with apex launcher. Really have no need for CM as it is right now.
 
Ravynmagi said:
I'm still trying to decide. I have it installed on a Sandisk 64GB SDXC UHS-1 card. But CM10.0 seems pretty slow on the Nook HD+ so far. Screen rotation is really slow, takes 10 to 15 seconds before it'll rotate. Chrome seems okay, but I'm not sure I'd say it's any faster than the stock OS Chrome.

I'm on a crappy wifi connection at work too. So I'll play with it more at home.
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Yeah that's not right at all. Even stock is faster than that. I mean the device is pretty clunky compared to all the modern phones and such, but that still sounds like something is wrong.
 
I flashed CM10.0 to different SD card, a Sandisk 32GB class 4 this time. But I'm still having the same problem with the rotation being extremely slow (yes, even much slower than stock). And oddly I'm having a new problem this time, I can't set a new wallpaper, keep getting an error unable to save cropped image (didn't have that problem with the other CM card). Bleh.

Maybe the Hybrid install will perform better, but since I've only had the tablet a couple days, I'm not going to mess with something that alters the stock OS just yet. So I'll just keep it stock. The performance is pretty decent anyway.
 
Oh, and I think I really need to get a screen protector. This glass is a freaking fingerprint magnet. Not sure I've seen something absorb and hold on to fingerprints so much.

I wiped some Rain-X on this (happened to have some around because the Nook Color had this same problem). And it helps a little at least I'm able to wipe the fingerprints off easier. But I recall eventually putting a screen protector on my Nook Color and that being a big improvement, so I'll probably do that again.
 
Picked up the 32gb from Best Buy Yesterday for $199. Have no need for the default Nook interface so I flashed verygreen's native CM10.1 to the internal memory from here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2263553.

Worked out great. I actually used leapinlar's small clockworkmod recovery found here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2062613 to format a 2gb mSD card, then used Easus partition manager to expand his 211mb partition to the full size of the card. That gave me enough room to not only back up the Nook ROM, but also still had space to copy over the CM10.1 ROM and gapps to the card so I could do everything with one card in one go.

Procedure:
Created mSD card image from lapinlar
Re-sized mSD partion with Easus to full size of card, 2Gb in my case
Copied verygreen's CM10.1 and latest gapps over to mSD
Booted Nook from mSD card (took 3 attempts)
Backed up existing ROM/data (no real data as i had only turned it on and ran updates)
Did a data wipe/factory reset
Flashed CM10.1 and gapps
Took out mSD card rebooted Nook
PROFIT!!!!


Been great so far, loaded a bunch of my apps from Google Play and Amazon App Store, ran everything I've thrown at it so far. I'm very impressed with the screen. The MOD is great, very fluid, no hiccups or delays. When I get home from work I'll try out my BT headphones and see what the battery looks like after 12 hours of sleep.
 
CuriousMike said:
If you're booting off of the SD card, in general you'll want a Sandisk Class 4 card.

The class 4 cards give vastly superior random 4KB read/writes which is essentially for running CM on.

The "faster" class 6/10 cards gives better large file performance but abysmal 4KB performance - they often don't work well ( or at all ) when used for CM on the HD+.
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Well shit, i had absolutely no idea about this... DAMMMMMMMMMMN. I'm using a 64GB Class 10 sandisk card, guess i have to change it? 🙁
 
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