Anyone want to run the Logos Android app on an E-Ink tablet or e-reader?

Yes, I've had it running for about two weeks now. I was looking for a way to run the Logos app on an E-Ink device so that I could use the Passage Guide and read Logos resources on E-Ink. This setup works well for me for those two purposes, so I am satisfied with it. I haven't tried other Logos features on this setup. I usually do any heavier research on my desktop Logos program. As a bonus, I wanted to be able to install a few other text-intensive apps on this setup. Instapaper works well. I don't use it for video or games, though crosswords and sudoku work fine. 

I installed a version of the Kindle app from someone on XDA developers who adapted the app to look a little better on an E-Ink device (he was using a rooted Nook Simple Touch). I installed that on this setup, and it works fine. I tried the regular Nook app. It installs and runs, but there is something odd about the appearance. When you're reading a page on a Nook book, it's as though there was a crack from the bottom left to the top right of the page. Every word that the crack runs through is slightly separated, like the two halves were tectonic plates that moved just a bit along the fault. Every page has this phenomenon. 

Yes, both highlighting and note-taking work well. When you add a note, the background of the note window is dark, but the text you type shows up well enough. Considering that we're talking E-Ink and a device that wasn't designed with such apps in mind, I'm impressed by how well it does work.

That's very odd. I did it on a MacBook Pro running Windows 8.1 on Fusion. Did you get any error messages when you tried to install WinImage on Windows? Try running Windows in full screen more (or whatever the equivalent is on Parallels). If you've tried that, or if that doesn't help, you might try this thread on mobilereads.com, as it is more active than Angor's blog: http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=231681

Try ejecting your sd card adapter from your Mac. Then reinsert it. See if that helps. Try MiniTool again. It looks like you could only see what Windows would see. If that doesn't work, redo the image with WinImage. There may have been an error in the image restore process. 

Okay. I'll see what I can do. I will redo this piece myself, using another microSD card, and take notes as I go. In this way, I won't miss some important step. Some people have had problems with certain brands of microSD cards. I have had the best luck with SanDisk Class 4 cards. Other cards do work, but those SanDisk ones have worked best for me. Your card should be at least 8 gigs. It can be as large as 32 gigs.

First of all, let's make sure we have the right image file. You should have 2014-02-28_Android_Kobo_Aura_HD.7z. I use WinRAR to unzip, but WinZip should work. When the file is unzipped, it should be 2014-02-28_Android_Kobo_Aura_HD.img. If that's what you have, we should be good. The img file should be almost 6.7 gigs once unzipped.

Now, go to WinImage. Choose Disk - Restore Virtual Hard Disk Image on physical drive. The next window that pops up should have Disk 1, and the approximate sixe of the microSD card you are using. Click the Disk 1 line to highlight it, then OK. Now, you need to tell Win Image where your file is. When you're in the right folder, you still won't see the image file. Near the bottom of the window, just to the right of "file name", is a drop-down menu that has Virtual hard Disks selected. Click this, and select All Files. Then select the img file. Click open. You'll get a warning - do you REALLY want to do this? Click OK and the writing process begins. Now you just wait a few minutes.

End of Part 1! Once my sd card is done, I'll write part 2!

Okay. On to Part 2!

Start MiniTool Partition Wizard. You have to select it again as it loads. Once it's loaded, you should see at least two disks - your hard drive and the microSD card. On the microSD card, you should see this, going from left to right: unallocated space of about 30 mb; the Kobo EXTSD partition (5.5 gb), Android Data (695 mb);  Android System (198 mb); and the remainder is more unallocated space. What you need to do is move the data and system partitions to the far right side, beginning with system. Hover the cursor over the system partition and right click. Choose move/resize from the menu. A window pops up. Move your cursor onto the partition. The cursor turns to a fancy cross (can't remember the formal name!). Click and hold, then drag the partition to the right end, and release. Then click OK. Do the same with the data partition. Then right click the Kobo EXTSD partition and select Extend. This is how you'll use all that extra unallocated space. When the extend window pops up, move your cursor to that virtual lever at the center of the bar in the middle, and slide it to the far right. Then click OK. You need to leave that 30 mb of unallocated space on the left alone. Your Kobo will not boot into Android without it. Then, eject your card, turn off your Kobo, and insert the card. Push and hold the light button, and then slide the red power button to on. The white light should come on and then brighten. When it brightens, you can release both buttons, and you should be booting into Android in a minute or two, if all goes well! 

Hope this helps.

When I put the first patch into that .kobo folder on my Kobo and then ejected the Kobo, it then restarted and did its thing very quickly. That patch basically allows your Aura HD to boot into Android. The second patch and reboot took longer, because what that does is make a backup of your Kobo firmware on your microSD card. That should take fifteen minutes. (Frankly, I don't see the point, because restoring from the sd card would be really hard.) When you first boot into Android, it will take longer. Then you'll need to do the usual setup. Oh, and some of it will be in Russian! There's a post on Angor's blog that tells you how to change the language to English.