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Root NookViewer

dparrothead1

dparrothead1

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Since I rooted to MN 5.02.19, I have an app called NookViewer in my drawer. There's not really an icon with it.....just the little android guy..... When I click on it, all I get is a white screen. I can't find out what this is and I have to assume it came with the MN.

Does anyone know what this app does and how I can access it??
 
This is obviously vitally important. Please let us know what you find out. :)

Seriously, you've got to allow 24 hours for responses!

I've just looked through manualnooter-5.02.19.zip and don't see that file. I suspect it's a B&N app used internally and never meant to be directly accessed. NookReader is another "B&N mystery app". On mine, it just starts with a white screen, then quits. The Books shortcut (exposed via AnyCut) gives a nice little last read summary with B&N Top 100 scroller that I have never seen in using the B&N interface.

If you start poking about, do NOT ever, ever, ever create a shortcut for the 2nd "settings" option and launch it. It does a full factory reset on the device, including your microSD card. I guess that's the power of root!
 
Bear in mind your question is very specific and even our Stock rom expert, Bob, wasn't familiar with it.

I have no use for the stock rom so I can't help you. If it was a CM7 or CM9 issue, I would have been all over it.

A chunk of those 200 hits you got were also from search engines and other bots (like spam bots collecting email addresses), and they don't give us much help either.
 
Sorry about being impatient. It's just that if something is on my device...I like to know what it is and what it does.

It wasn't there in stock, autonooter, manual nooter 4.18 or CM7 but it appeared with manual nooter 5.02.19. I couldn't find it in Root Explorer or SQ Editor. I'm sort of afraid to uninstall because something else might be using it.....What do you guys think???
 
I think it, and the others I mentioned, are there in stock, but you just don't see them in the standard B&N interface. I've upgraded through several iterations of manualnooter and saw at least some of them in previous versions. I'm not about to roll all the way back to non-working mn versions to test though, so you'll have to try that yourself.

Since it's something more of us are seeing, I think it's safe to assume it's supposed to be there, and I'd leave it alone unless it is causing problems.

I do see dev.nookreader-1.apk in /data/app with a matching icon, so I assume that's it. Mine is date 02 Mar 2012 (when I ran mn) and sized at 4.49k. I don't see a corresponding entry in the mn zip file under /data/app, and I don't see any shenanigans in /META-INF/com/google/android/updater-script, so I don't think mn puts it there. I've also got a mysterious B3AndroidReader.apk in /system/app I forgot to mention before. You could always ask GMPOWER over on XDA if you're still concerned.

If you really want to know what's on your device, you need to forgo using proprietary software like the B&N firmware and stick with open source alternatives such as CyanogenMod. Though I've used it, colchiro's the licensed CM guide around here and can probably answer most of your questions.
 
Thanks, Bobstro.....guess I'll just leave it alone! I tried CM7 for a couple of months, but didn't really like it. I much prefer the MN that still allows access to the stock side.

Think I'll go root my Infuse now!!!! :-)
 
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