So I have been using the stock reader to read books since I rooted my NST, but have no way of going back in it I have the top left page turn button configured for back in Android, but the library app doesn't recognize this. I also have lost the software back button in the bar at the top of the screen. Any ideas?
try to fix permission or remap buttons through nook touch tools and then reboot
I'm guessing that you don't use Button Savior, then? Well, if you can get to the Nook Touch Tools, you can set one of the other physical buttons to home.
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I'm an amateur at all this I've managed to get my nook color rooted, and I've installed a few apps. I've tried softkeys, but I'm not 100% happy with the result. First it wouldn't start on its own after a reboot. I reconfigured it following some directions form another user, and it starts now, but it's still too "busy", with bars and buttons popping up all over.
ALL I WANT is an app or some way to configure a "back" button and "menu" button in the lower black bar where the clock, bettery meter, etc are? Any ideas?
Either that, or is there a way to turn off ALL THE OTHER FUNCTIONS AND DISPLAYS of softkeys EXCEPT the ability to go "back" when pressing the physical "N"/home button, which is how I have it now.
In the end, I don't want any "back" or "menu" buttons on the actual viewable screen except the lower black bar.
THANKS a million!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
not quite what you asked for but i remapped my volume keys for menu and back. works great for my needs. i control volume with a widget now.
hxxp://nookdevs.com/NookColor_Remap_volume_buttons_for_back_and_menu
hope this solves your frustrations with hotkeys.
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Well, if all you want is a back button on the notification bar..... you have one. Not talking about the back button that appears on there either. Just swipe left on the notification bar and it should always work as a back button.
Other than that, there's an app you can try called Button Savior you can get from the Market. It has a small launcher button that appears on the edge of the screen. You can move it around a limited range as you see fit. It's not as complicated or as "busy" as Softkeys.
If you find the visible button not to your liking, you can try this modded version of Button Savior. The button is invisible. You can see where the button actually lies by switching to the Sense UI theme. Then back to the default or Froyo theme to make it invisible once more. The modded version of Button Savior can be found here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=897253
I suggest you try the Market version of Button Savior first.
I'm going to second Button Savior. It hasn't let me down once
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g-costanza said:
I'm an amateur at all this I've managed to get my nook color rooted, and I've installed a few apps. I've tried softkeys, but I'm not 100% happy with the result. First it wouldn't start on its own after a reboot. I reconfigured it following some directions form another user, and it starts now, but it's still too "busy", with bars and buttons popping up all over.
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You don't have Softkeys set up properly..
http://nookdevs.com/NookColor_Default_Launcher
I understand what you are looking for. I would like the same thing, but I do not believe there is anything out there for us..
I may end up remapping the volume keys myself.
spikey911 said:
I understand what you are looking for. I would like the same thing, but I do not believe there is anything out there for us..
I may end up remapping the volume keys myself.
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With SoftKeys you can put the menu and back buttons in the notification area, since ver. 1.0.8 I believe. Then, disable the popper, and you are good to go.
Hi guys, I didn't see this asked anywhere else. If I missed it, feel free to lock or delete this post.
Rooted my Nook with AutoNooter, all has been perfect for days. Now, all of a sudden, none of my apps will rotate to landscape: Market, Gmail, built in browser, Opera, nothing. The weird thing is my homescreens will rotate (I'm using Zeam), and things like angry birds that load in landscape are fine. Any suggestions?
Have you checked your settings? There is a setting that can be toggled under display to enable auto rotation. I would give you the specifics but my NC is at home.
I saw that option in the Zeam settings, and it is enabled, that's why my homescreen still rotates. I can't find a setting that would control the apps rotation. I don't know if this is a Zeam issue, since everything on my homescreen is okay. And it happened all of a sudden, I hadn't changed any settings or fiddled with anything anywhere else. All I did yesterday was check my email and play angry birds
It should be a setting for your Nook Color not Zeam. In your apps drawer find NookColorTools. Then look for a display setting.
Okay, here is another stupid question... when I go into my nook color tools, my "back" and "menu" buttons dissappear from the bottom of my screen, so how do I back out of a menu? The only thing I can do is hit my n button to go back to the home screen, and when I go BACK into nook color tools, it is still in the same menu I was at before. I can't find a way to get to the main color tools menu. I've killed all my running apps, and color tools still wont go back to it's main menu. Shutting the nook off works, but that's a pain in the butt. I don't want to remap my volume buttons, because I use them all the time. Is that my only option? I don't have this problem with any other app, just nook color tools.
Thanks guys!
Edit: Found the setting in Color tools, so that problem is fixed. I don't know how that setting got "unchecked" I haven't been in the settings recently???? oh well, it's fixed.
...but I still don't know how to back out of a menu in nook color tools without shutting down the device.
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Okay, here is another stupid question... when I go into my nook color tools, my "back" and "menu" buttons dissappear from the bottom of my screen, so how do I back out of a menu? The only thing I can do is hit my n button to go back to the home screen, and when I go BACK into nook color tools, it is still in the same menu I was at before. I can't find a way to get to the main color tools menu. I've killed all my running apps, and color tools still wont go back to it's main menu. Shutting the nook off works, but that's a pain in the butt. I don't want to remap my volume buttons, because I use them all the time. Is that my only option? I don't have this problem with any other app, just nook color tools.
Thanks guys!
Edit: Found the setting in Color tools, so that problem is fixed. I don't know how that setting got "unchecked" I haven't been in the settings recently???? oh well, it's fixed.
...but I still don't know how to back out of a menu in nook color tools without shutting down the device.
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You can go back a screen anywhere as long as you can see the black bar on the bottom of the screen. All you have to do is swipe your finger from right to left and it will go back. You can also get Button Savior or SoftKeys from the market and they will allow you to have buttons display over the top on the screen so they are always there
Thanks! I forgot about the swipe feature. I have softkeys but i don't like the additional buttons hovering. I just use the back and menu buttons on my status bar and have my n button programmed to go to my launchers homescreen. Nice and clean and simple. Just the way i like it
Thanks again everyone!!
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Hi, is there a way to change the buttons in the bottom black menu on a stock rooted nook? Not sure what the proper term for that menu is. But it needs a back button. I don't like having softkeys running and would prefer to just add the button to the strip at the bottom of the screen.
Thanks.
Personally, I don't get everyone's fascination with soft keys on a stock-rooted nook. You can just swipe right to left on that bar you are talking about and it *is* a 'back' key. I shut off soft keys right away and have yet to actually need it.
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Personally, I don't get everyone's fascination with soft keys on a stock-rooted nook. You can just swipe right to left on that bar you are talking about and it *is* a 'back' key. I shut off soft keys right away and have yet to actually need it.
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I think it's mainly for apps that use full screen. Since you have access to the Market, and there are so many apps that use full screen, it's a must have. For example, Angry Birds. With just the hardware key, you would not be able to go back or use the menu. Also, any non native nook apps lose their menu without them. For things that came with the nook, it doesn't matter.
i wiped my device, and then reinstalled the 1.1.0 version and then used the 3.0 version to auto-noot the device.
all seems to have gone fine, except now my "n" doesnt work so i cannot close applications and go back to my desktop.
can anyone please assist me with fixing this?
thank you.
I had the same problem. I found it to be soft keys. Get rid of soft keys, downlad button savior, and reset your launcher. That at least worked for me.
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thank you.
will do.
is that downloadable in the market?
i use maemo devices, so not to familiar yet with this. but will get it.
cigarsnscotch said:
I had the same problem. I found it to be soft keys. Get rid of soft keys, downlad button savior, and reset your launcher. That at least worked for me.
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would you mins sharing how to reset the launcher?
i thought it was the soft keys after tapping the circle to bring up the menu and the tapping the house brought the desktop.
i looked for some way to reverse using the sofkeys, but could not find it.
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I am running Nookie Froyo 0.6.8 SD Card Rom. On the development forum it says that you push "N" once for Launcher Pro. You push "N" twice for softkeys and long press for recent task. Whenever I push "N" once it just goes back to the home screen. I am new to launcher pro so my question is what is suppose to happen when I push "N" once. Is the launcher pro app suppose to load up? Is launcher pro just my home screen so if I push "N" it always goes back to homescreen? What is suppose to happen? I am new.
If softkeys is set up wrong, yeah it'll do the wrong thing
http://nookdevs.com/index.php?title=NookColor_Default_Launcher
Read the above, then read below....
Personally I have made "Single Tap: Softkeys" because it's more often I'm popping that up than going Home, but it's a little messy when you first boot, so I still suggest most folks set it as per the Wiki.
And long press doesn't exist in Softkeys except for the VIRTUAL OVERLAY which pops up at the bottom of the screen. Long-press of the hardware button doesn't do anything. Be nice if it would, then we could put 3 actions on it
I just rooted my Nook HD using the CWM Universal Root with version 2.0.5, and where I *love* the zeam launcher and the way it moves and everything, I can't seem to get to the library or reader. I know it's there, if I open one of my books from the file manager it opens into the reader, but having to hunt through there to get to a book is a bit much.
This is likely a stupid question and there's an obvious/easy solution, but I've been trying to work it out for over an hour and can't figure it out.
Thanks for any help
Push the Nook button and it should give you the option to go Home which is the nook home screen with the reader and all.
diajohn said:
Push the Nook button and it should give you the option to go Home which is the nook home screen with the reader and all.
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zeam is the default for when I press the nook button, so it doesn't give me that option. Not sure how to change that either. Could do it no problem on my phone but I'm still getting used to the ins and outs of the nook xP
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zeam is the default for when I press the nook button, so it doesn't give me that option. Not sure how to change that either. Could do it no problem on my phone but I'm still getting used to the ins and outs of the nook xP
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Use anycut to put a home shortcut on your zeam screen.
Long press the screen, choose shortcut, choose anycut, choose activity and scroll to home. Then finish. There will now be a shortcut to get back to the stock home.
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There are instructions on this forum about making a Home button on your Zune home screen.
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Use anycut to put a home shortcut on your zeam screen.
Long press the screen, choose shortcut, choose anycut, choose activity and scroll to home. Then finish. There will now be a shortcut to get back to the stock home.
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Derp. Got it. Like I said, I knew there was likely an obvious/easy solution xP Thanks a bunch :3
BTW, another quick way to do this. The recent drawer on Nook if fairly useless, so if you go to settings, applications, home and uncheck quick action corner, you'll get a hotlink to the reader in the lower right corner instead of the recent drawer