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[nomadjim]

I just successfully created a boot sd with the Cyangen mod 7.1 Encore for the Nook Color and I have a couple of things that I can't figure out.

1. How do I do updated? I saw a tab or something once that looked like it did updates and can't remember where it was located.

2. How do you exit an app completely so it's not running and using up the battery?

That's all I can think of for now but Thanks in advance for your help.

Jim

For Question #1, I think I found the answer looking at some of the articles under here. I can use the Rom Manager and it'll check for updates. I think that is what I may have done, it sounds familar to me, if I wanted to go to 7.2 RC, do I just copy the zip to my sd and reboot into Recovery mode to install?

Edited by nomadjim, 11 June 2012 - 05:11 PM.

[bassmadrigal]

Yeah, to update, just put the new update on your sdcard and then reboot into recovery and flash it.

For point #2, Android is much different than windows and manages apps very differently. If you leave an app, most of the time Android will just freeze that app the way you left it and it won't use any more power (unless it does stuff in the background. Unfortunately, all apps aren't perfect and due to buggy coding, they can remain running in the background chewing up battery. There are a number of apps that can do this on the play store, but I use OSMonitor. It is like the windows task manager and can show processor utilization.

Be careful though. There are many task killers on the market who claim they free up additional memory. If you use these to auto-kill apps, you can actually hurt your performance of your device (there are quite a few articles that can be found through google on why you shouldn't use a task killer).

[nomadjim]

Thanks bassmadrigal, I was thinking the Android software may have been the same as the Apple OS. With it you have to kill apps or they drain your battery quicker.

Once again Thanks for all your help.

Jim