Down the rabbit hole - CM7 has my vote

[JonnyG]

Hard to believe but trust me the specific SD card does make all the difference. Picked up the Sandisk 8GB Class 4 and CM7 on the SD booted no problem at all.

Thanks to all for the tips on this forum!

Ok, now my basic (I suppose) CM7 questions from my initial journey

1) How do you get different wall papers on your 5 different panels? I went ahead and bought ADW EX but so far I can only get one wall paper up that is repeated on each panel. Downloaded HD wallpapers and multipicture live but couldn't figure this out. Any other wallpaper suggestions?

2) So somebody had a cool calendar kinda of over-layed on their main screen. How do you do that.

Thanks,
Jon

[ilovejedd]

Originally Posted by JonnyG

Hard to believe but trust me the specific SD card does make all the difference. Picked up the Sandisk 8GB Class 4 and CM7 on the SD booted no problem at all.

*sigh* I'm currently running CM7 off a Kingston 4GB that I was using for my phone and it's unbearably slow. Trying to decide if I should go with 2x16GB or 1x32GB (Sandisk, of course). I'm using it for manga so I definitely need the storage capacity.

[goldberry]

Couple of specific threads there that will be very helpful re wallpapers and screen looks

http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=865

[taosaur]

Originally Posted by ilovejedd

*sigh* I'm currently running CM7 off a Kingston 4GB that I was using for my phone and it's unbearably slow. Trying to decide if I should go with 2x16GB or 1x32GB (Sandisk, of course). I'm using it for manga so I definitely need the storage capacity.

2x16 would add another layer of complexity in keeping the OSes synced on both cards but having separate data, and remembering what's on which. There's not a lot of data about 32GB cards, though I believe one Transcend 32GB came in above 1.0 on 4kb random writes, which is better than many Sandisk 8/16GB. Honestly, if CM7 is your daily driver, I would consider moving it to eMMC (which frees you to get a higher class 32GB card for faster data transfers) and setting up an 8GB SD of the stock OS if you still have use for it. Turn your current 4GB card into a bootable ClockworkMod Recovery disk.

As long as you don't install CWM to the eMMC recovery partition, you can still go back to stock by interrupting boot-up 8 times.

[ilovejedd]

Originally Posted by taosaur

2x16 would add another layer of complexity in keeping the OSes synced on both cards but having separate data, and remembering what's on which. There's not a lot of data about 32GB cards, though I believe one Transcend 32GB came in above 1.0 on 4kb random writes, which is better than many Sandisk 8/16GB. Honestly, if CM7 is your daily driver, I would consider moving it to eMMC (which frees you to get a higher class 32GB card for faster data transfers) and setting up an 8GB SD of the stock OS if you still have use for it. Turn your current 4GB card into a bootable ClockworkMod Recovery disk.

Actually, the reason I was planning on getting 2x16GB was so I could continue using Nook CM7 while I'm loading up additional data on the other microSD card via card reader. Caveat, that means needing to reboot when I switch cards/content. It completely escaped my mind that I could just connect the Nook to the computer via cable to copy files. I don't plan on installing CM7 to internal memory until the warranty period ends.

That said, I only have a $25 gift card from Amazon so I just bought a 16GB card for now. I'll see if I can make do with a smaller card. Even with only 14GiB usable space, that's still over 150 volumes worth.

[taosaur]

You could also use an app like File Expert to download files from your PC in the background while you go about your business on the NC.

[ilovejedd]

Originally Posted by taosaur

You could also use an app like File Expert to download files from your PC in the background while you go about your business on the NC.

Thanks for the suggestion. Will definitely look into that. I think the programmer of ComicGlass (my favorite manga reader on iOS) is planning on porting his application to Android. ComicGlass already has this functionality built-in, sort of. Until it gets ported, though, I'd have to make do with Perfect Viewer and either copy files via USB or use File Expert as you suggested.