jcwren

I personally can't see ANY justification in removing the ability to download a match. In this day and age, I think the security around last names on USPSA is a joke. For PractiScore, the match is available so many other ways that by making it not possible to download from the website, all you've succeeded in doing is pissing people off, and degrading the customer experience. There is absolutely no valid argument that can be presented as to why competitors shouldn't be able to download any existing match and play "what-if" or whatever else they choose to do.

"Lithium-ion suffers from stress when exposed to heat, so does keeping a cell at a high charge voltage. A battery dwelling above 30°C (86°F) is considered elevated temperature and for most Li-ion, a voltage above 4.10V/cell is deemed as high voltage. Exposing the battery to high temperature and dwelling in a full state-of-charge for an extended time can be more stressful than cycling." I can tell you with absolute certainty that NOOKs *can* get warm while charging. I have a toolbox that I put some tear-out foam in, and I charged them once while in the foam cutouts. The NOOKs were definitely warm, although I can't say what the actual temperature was. They're definitely a lot warmer than when they're sitting on the counter charging, and have good ventilation. If they weren't above 86F, they were pretty close to it. The entire point is there's ABSOLUTELY NO POINT IS NEEDLESSLY CHARGING THEM. An overnight charge before a match is all they need, and leaving them connected subjects them to the possibility of damage from a lightning strike or other power event, and it's a waste of electricity. Furthermore, if the power goes out for whatever reason, the NOOKs will discharge through the un-powered charger. Don't believe me? Charge three, leave one connected to a powered charger, one to an un-powered charger, and the other disconnected. You'll find the second one will be discharged after a while (don't know the exact time, could be a day, could be five). And since NOOKs are getting on the endangered species list, *I* intend to do whatever I can to avoid replacing them any sooner than necessary, regardless if 300 cycles is 9 years worth of matches or not.

Turn OFF the WiFi if you have dedicated WiFi? That would seem to defeat the purpose of pulling scores during the match for backup, to verify progress, and to allow other competitors to pull in-match results... In fact, if one of mine disappears off the WiFi network at a match, I'm visiting that device to find out why, and get it back online.

Just don't put them down your pants. After that, no one wants to touch them

You'll need to restart it for 1.2.14 shortly https://practiscore.com/bugs/view.php?id=338 (annoying) https://practiscore.com/bugs/view.php?id=339 (deal breaker)

Actually it's there. Click on "App Info" at the top of the page and you'll find collapsible change logs on the resulting page. Well, *that's* certainly not intuitive.

Well, here's the problem. When they're asleep, they're only sort of asleep. The WiFi still wakes up periodically to poll the time servers, and PractiScore doesn't really stop running when it's moved into the background. You can prove this to yourself by going to the Sync screen on another device and you'll see a supposedly sleeping NOOK show up. The WiFi being on is a power-eater. I have never seen a NOOK not wake up from being powered off. My policy goes like this: The night before a match, I plug them in to charge. The next morning, as I disconnect them, I turn them off (I charge 12 at once, we typically only use 8). I turn them off primarily so they don't accidently get waken up by a button being pressed or the touch screen getting confused. At the range, about 15 minutes before registration closes, I power them all on, make sure they're on the network. Sync the match, pass them out, shoot the match. Collect them at the end, and do a final sync. After I do, I turn them off again. This is primarily an accounting function. Turned-off NOOKs are known to have been synced from. Sometimes it takes 1/2 an hour for the NOOKs to get to the shack, since some squads finish slower than others. There are some people that believe no damage will occur to NOOKs leaving them charging all the time. I do not concur with this opinion, on several accounts. Heat is a killer of batteries. LiPo batteries have a finite number of times they can be charged. When plugged in, if the charge bleeds down below 95%, the charging circuitry will top it off again. Batteries warm up, and ultimately contributes to the battery failing sometime sooner. Sooner than what? The heat death of the universe? Maybe. But why needlessly charge them? More importantly, they're plugged into a wall socket through a charger. A nearby lightning strike may induce enough voltage to damage the charger or the NOOK. So what was the point of leaving them plugged in? It's not like a SHTF go-bag. You don't need to grab your NOOKs and tear out the door in the event of an emergency. Matches are planned months, weeks and days in advance. Plenty of time to put them on a charger for 4 to 8 hours.

And they were fully turned off, with the "Your NOOK has powered off completely" screen, or whatever it exactly says?

Yes, and in fact, in the "new & improved" website layout, the change log is no longer present at all. The only way to find was through the Play app, which is not generally used on the NOOKs.

If you have an SD card installed in the NOOK, when you plug it in, it may show up as two drives. One is labeled NOOK, the other (on my system) is called "Unlabeled". I double-click on the NOOK drive letter, and I see three directories, "LOST.DIR", "My Files", and "screensavers". Double click on "screensavers", create your directory, and drop your .png files in there. If you don't have an SD card installed, it will only appear as one drive.

Dunno about changing wall paper, never wanted to do that. As far as screen savers, create an 800x600 .png file. Color is okay, but see 16 levels of gray is all you have to work with. Put the file in /media/screensavers/<some-name>, then go to Settings->Screen and under screen savers, you should see <some-name>. Select test and it will use it. You can multiple insides in the <some-name> directory, and it'll rotate though them. For <some-name>, use a name like USPSA or the abbreviation of your club (in capital letters). To create the directory and to copy the files, plug the NOOK into the PC with the USB cable, and use Explorer in Windows.

Extremely low information density, largely numeric only. http://www.gs1.org/barcodes/technical/bar_code_types

Well, as you may surmise from the website, the IDEA was to put lots of help material up there, and try to cover from complete novice to Experienced Old Guy. But like a ferret on meth distracted by shiny objects, I haven't finished it. Yet. Gots lots of pictures to put up showing various screens, and a bunch of text that needs writing, but everything else keeps distracting me.

The ridges on either side of the bezel that the arrows point to are the actual buttons to press. Because of the rooting system used, the actual touch screen isn't functional. When not actually running from the rooting SD card, the NOOK is running Android. When booting from the SD card, you're running a very small Linux kernel that doesn't have touch screen support.

Jim, Unfortunately, it's not as simple as just a .zip file. The SD card has to have a specific format so that when the NOOK tries to boot from it, it recognizes it and can use it. Win32DiskImager from SourceForge.net is the same tool I use. I've just de-installed and re-installed, and there's no toolbars or virus warnings about it from my systems. First, you need to double-click on the 'RootnScoreIt_PS1.2.11.zip' file, which should be in your Downloads folder. Click 'Extract all files', and click 'Extract' in the window that opens. This will leave you with a 'RootnScoreIt_PS1.2.11.img' file in the Downloads->RootnScoreIt_PS1.2.11 folder. Win32DiskImager installs into the folder at Start->All Programs->Image Writer, and from there you select Win32DiskImager (I don't know why the didn't name the program folder name the same as the utility). This should bring up the program, and the current version is 0.9.5. Click the folder icon to the right of the empty input box, and navigate to the folder where you extracted the Root'n-Score-It image to (which should be in the Downloads->RootnScoreIt_PS1.2.11 folder). Double-click on the 'RootnScoreIt_PS1.2.11.img' file name, the window should close, and you should now see the full path to the file in the box to the left of the folder icon in Win32 Disk Imager. The icon next to the folder icon shows a drive letter, and this should be set to the drive letter that your SD card adapter uses. If you're not sure which one that is, you can click Start->Computer and you should see a drive listed in the 'Devices with Removable Storage' section and it should show a drive labeled 'Removable Disk', and the size should be approximately the size of your SD card. After you select the correct drive letter for your SD card adapter, click 'Write', and it should take off running. It's going to take a while to write the image. Right at this moment, I can't tell you if there's any additional dialogs after clicking the 'Write' button. My SD card adapter is at work, and I don't have a spare I can lay my hands on. After that completes, you can remove the SD card, make sure the NOOK is turned all the way off, install the SD card in the NOOK, and then power it on. From there, you should be good to go.

Just to be clear here -- Root'n-Score-It is only for NOOK Simple Touch and NST w/ Glowlight. (Someone may misread this thinking RASI can be used to avoid factory reset dances on other devices).

Nah, you'll be fine. Where'd you find the older Nexus? What I *don't* like about the new ones is they put the USB connector on one end, and the audio connector on the other, so now both cables don't come off in the same direction. Very irritating if you want to use it in your car with a dash mount and pipe the audio into the aux in on the stereo.

Between that and the larger fonts, even Ray Charles could score a match!

No brainer. Buy the NOOKs. Buy a couple extras, and there will be more offerings by the time you need to replace them. And even if you have to replace one, you don't need to replace them all.

Sucks! Well, the GlowLight (BNRV350), although more expensive, seems to be very similar. It's still an 800MHz processor, 256MB, 4 GB flash, WiFi. It's still running the same version of Android (2.1 Eclair), which is unfortunate. You can run up to Gingerbread 2.3.7 with 256MB, but to go Honeycomb (3.x) and above, you need 512MB. The loss of the SD card is an inconvenience, but not a deal-breaker. The ridge buttons on the side are gone, which I really liked for scrolling through lists. There are some people who have rooted it, and I guess I'll have to pick one up and try it. The e-Ink is what makes the device so readable in sunlight, but at that price, it's time to start looking for alternatives. I wonder if there's going to be huge run to buy the old NSTs, and they'll command high prices, or if we'll see a massive dump on eBay, and they can be had for a song.

They do. Go to Settings->About Your Nook, and it shows the MAC address. They all start with 58:67:1a

I doubt your S4 will find master on your network setup much faster if you assign it the same ip addresses as your nooks. You managed to put master far enough from the nook in ip range to miss the first batch of 100 scanned ip addresses. The next batch normally kicks off in about 20 sec, due to socket timeouts to make reliable connection to the idle devices. If you put your masters within 32 addresses before nooks or within 68 addresses after, you'll see them in the scan results before you get to taping the sync codes. That very well may be the case. I believe our iPads come up at 0180 (192.168.1.128), while the NOOKs come up at 0101..0110 (192.168.1.1 .. 192.168.1.16). Why within 68 after? That's a curious number.

Are you still running like an ancient version of PS onbyour Nooks? How long is "a while" there? Have you yried it with something more recent? If "ancient" == 1.2.12, then yes, it's ancient. It's fast enough on my phone (Galaxy S4), but a NOOK will never keep pace with an S4 When we close registration and get ready to sync from the master, I do it production line style. We lay out 8 NOOKs side by side, and literally go across each one and tap the Practiscore icon. Then go across each one and tap Sync, repeat for Sync With Other Devices, repeat for tapping the Sync With Other Devices field, repeat for the '123' button on the keypad to get the numbers, repeat for tapping in the sync code and tapping Sync, repeat for Accept, repeat for tapping the 'Back' icon, repeat again, repeat again, repeat for touch 'Enter Scores', repeat for tapping each the stage that each device is going to. And I'm done. This style works nicely because I don't have to wait for screen updates before changing, and it's more error proof since all the NOOKs should look identical as I run across them. I can sync 8 NOOKs in 30 to 40 seconds.

I don't want to derail this thread, but I am really interested how long does it take your Nooks to sync. Have you measured it or compared with other devices? Also, what version of the PractiScore app? For us, if you enter the sync code of the iPad, the NOOKs sync under 2 seconds. Now, if you let them search for the master device, it can take them a while to discover the other devices. We don't bother with that, and in fact, our DHCP servers are set up to assign sync codes (IP addresses) by MAC address. So when we have 12 devices, the stage 1 device is 0101, the stage 9 device is 0109, the stage 10 device is 0110 (that way you don't have shift in and out of alpha mode to enter letters). Our iPads (masters) are configured to come up at predictable addresses also, so 0180 is my iPad, 0181 is Bilal's, etc.

You can also create your own subdirectory under /system/media/screensaver, and it's available from the pick list under Settings. The author images that come with the system are creeeepy! We used the nature images at first, and the Bill Noyes figured out how to add custom screens. We've got custom ones for South River Gun Club, Cherokee Gun Club, River Bend Gun Club, East Alabama Gun Club, and Atlanta 3-Gun. http://www.tinymicros.com/wiki/NOOK_Simple_Touch_(NST)_Rooting_For_Practiscore#Load_Custom_Screen_Saver