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Several minor improvements #5

Open filbo opened 10 years ago

filbo commented 10 years ago

Most notably, faster backup creation in cases where the Nook internal storage is mostly empty (or indeed any cases where it hasn't had a lot of filesystem churn).

See commit logs for the rest.

filbo commented 6 years ago

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Shortly after posting this, I was hired by Google and felt that I should not touch this project without going through whatever internal process Google would require for an employee wishing to contribute to an open source project; and that approval would be unlikely since this was patching Google-related code owned by a third party [Amazon].

So I didn't touch it. Left Google some time after that, but didn't look back at this.

Yesterday, someone posted an unrelated request about NookManager onto this PR; today, they deleted it without apparently reposting anywhere more appropriate. Anyway, that woke up the PR and brought me here.

I haven't touched any of this code since posting this, except having used my patched version a couple of times to root my own Nook Simple Touch With Glowlight.

If @doozan wants to use any of the changes, that's fine, but seems pretty apparent he does not. I'm not in a position to build, much less test, any of it, so I don't think I can usefully contribute. )

Looking back over the commits, I think you should accept all except perhaps commit 9d376ef, but really even that one. If 40% is sufficient while not charging, initial 20% ought to be sufficient while on charge even if the activity is eating battery faster than it charges. For it to be insufficient, the activity would have to eat charge at twice the charging rate, which seems improbable.

And if the phantom commenter is right -- if B&N are no longer providing the server back-end for Nook Simple Touch units to be activated -- then none of this matters, does it? :( I haven't tried recently, but one of my kids' units is in some sort of bad state so I forcibly need to find out soon. Blah.

aricooperdavis commented 1 year ago

Hey @filbo, are you aware of this NookManager update that makes some slightly different modifications? You could potentially include them in your branch?

filbo commented 1 year ago

Hey @filbo, are you aware of this NookManager update that makes some slightly different modifications? You could potentially include them in your branch?

Hi Ari ... I haven't continued work on this and although I still have my NST/G and it is still in the state it was left in by my modified version of NookManager, I haven't done anything else with any part of NM since then. There doesn't seem to be any sort of active maintenance / work on this by anyone.