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I got a Nook Color for Christmas, and my dd got a Kindle Fire. So we have been having fun comparing the two. They are very similar but there seems to be more free books and apps available for the Kindle than for the Nook. So I'm just wondering if it would be worth it to root it so I could download the Kindle app. I have never even owned a smartphone, so I'm not very technically savvy. ;)
My kids got Nook Colors for Christmas. We set them up to boot off of an SD Card (we did it ourselves). We had to troubleshoot a little bit, but got them to work. We didn't root them by overwriting the nook interface and if we take out the memory card they still boot up as a stock Nook Color.
My daughter can text her friends using Google voice and the kids have access to Android Market apps as well as the Amazon app store. They can check out library books over WiFi and use both the Nook and Kindle apps to read books. They also can watch Netflix, check email, update Goodreads and do math flashcards.
The OS that we used (CM7) can be a little unstable at times, but nothing that hasn't been fixed by restarting. I understand that rooting them is more stable and most of the issues are caused from booting from the sd card, but rooting voids the warranty and we wanted to see how it worked from the sd card first.
I rooted dw's Nook Color, so she could install the Kindle app and any other app from the Google Market. However, she missed the animation of the pages she had with the stock version, and made me switch it back. :glare:
we have 2 rooted nooks. i bought one SD card from rootmynook.com & the other one we purchase for about half the cost at amazon. both SD cards work great (the format is a little different, but they do the same thing). the benefit of rooting your nook is that it turns it into an android tablet. we can still read books on it, but we also can download apps from the amazon market or android market. we also have access to netflix and youtube. it's just fun. if i ever want to revert back to the nook color operating system, i simply can take out the SD card.
Our kids play Plants vs Zombies and Peggle on my rooted Nook. I check email on it. I also run the Kindle app on it :lol: DH tried it first with the android OS on the SD card but it ran too slow that way so he went all the way with it.
I rooted my new Nook tablet. Once you root and block the OTA's, you don't have access to the Nook store on your device anymore. I buy my books online and side load to my Nook. I have full access to Android Market, Kindle apps and reader, as well as the Kobo reader app, which I must say is WAY better than B&N content. I wanted it for the incredible fast processor and OS. I installed different launcher and debloated it as well.
The Kindle is a tablet. After comparing the two (NC and Fire) the main differences to *me* seem to be that there are more apps/books available on Amazon than on Barnes & Noble, and the NC has an SC card and the Fire doesn't. The Fire instead has extra "Cloud" storage which of course you must be online to access.
This gives you the ability to purchase Android Market apps, use Gingerbread (Android 2.3), and lets you take advantage of the working bluetooth chip hidden from users and disabled on the hobbled flavour of Android installed by default on the Nook Color.
I read many sources of information and grateful for the information learned from members of these incredible communities: CyanogenMod Wiki, XDAdevelopers, and NookDevs. The install method I formulated is an amalgamation from information found on the Nookdevs and XDAdevelopers pages and forums.
Another hardware requirement is a way to write data to the micro SD card if your computer does not have a slot, the solution is a USB to micro SD adapter. Although I used an adapter that came bundled with another card I had purchased in the past, this and this were found on Amazon within minutes, these adapters are available at virtually all shops that carry micro SD cards, or usually bundled with a card as mine was. Cost is usually very cheap, especially if purchased online.
After the three files have been downloaded, place all of them in the same folder. If using Mac OS X, place the files in a new folder named cm7 in your home folder, and if using windows place the files in a folder with the path of C:\cm7.
Now you may eject the sdcard, ensuring that your Nook Color is powered completely off and insert the card in the corner slot of your Nook Color, turn on and begin to finalise installation of CyanogenMod 7.
You may think that the system is hung at the Flushing caches step, this delay is normal on the first boot, shortly afterword the CM7 install will be finished and the system will power down. Turn your Nook Color back on, it will now boot CM7 and so you can setup your Google Market account:
It appears that the Dalingren kernel supports overclocking: It is supported in three main flavours: 1.1 GHz, 1.2 ghz, & normal 800mhz. Then there is a experimental low-voltage version of the 1.1 GHz kernel.
Thanks for this, followed it step-by-step and booted my Nook Color with an SD card, leaving my Nook intact. Was really impressed with the speed of the card based OS. Thanks for this and thanks to all the folks who worked hard to make it available.
Stephen, thanks for your prompt responses, i was fiddling around in the CM7 menues and came across the CPU processor settings. So could I bump this thing up to 900 mhz right within cyanogen, and if so does the voltage have to change?
The install appeared to work correctly and completed. The Nook powered down automatically. Then, when I pressed and held the power button the Nook would not power on (no sign of power on at all). When I remove the SD card the Nook will power on to the BN OS as expected.
Did everything above ran sd card in nook, installed and shut down. When i turned it back on, it says loading and then goes to a black screen that says android in the bottom left with a flashing underscript after it. Tried turning off and on several times. Same thing. Help!
SharetheWeb,
Thank you for the kind sentiments, if you want to help the tablet community with a donation, I would suggest donating on the XDA Developers site. Often times, money is needed for tablet tear-downs when a new device arrives on the scene, these tear-downs give the CyanogenMod and other dev groups info on chipsets, hardware capabilities, and other technical info required to take full advantage of hardware and/or helps to figure out an approach to get Android on a hobbled device. The Nook Color is a perfect example of this situation.
I had a similar experience. everything worked great for a while and then it would work but crash after @ 10 minutes. I did the wipe and re install and it is fine now. I am running Nook 1.3 and upgraded to the dual boot process (now I can switch back and forth with out taking the SD card out!
I am having the same problem with the looping CM7 logo after what looked like a successful install. Any ideas? I purchased a preloaded 8GB card, and it worked fine the first time before beginning the looping problem. I followed your directions and I am having the same problem now.
UGH. I cant do it. I have a headache from trying. I wish I would have just bought the N2A card like I have read to. I tried doing what you said above. But I have no clue what is wrong. I dont see how to copy to the boot file of the SD card besdies just copy and paste method or drag and drop. Then I dont extract the 2 other files ever? I have all these files on my SD card but yet my nook color powers on to regular os as usual without any change. I just copy this over I used win image and sent over but that didnt help me.
I think Im totally clueless here.
Hi Sophia,
I tried a 16GB card. I had my Nook rooted, so I restored it to factory settings after the issue. I did remove the card to do so, since it was the only way it would turn back on.
I tried again and still got the same result.
thanks
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Now that I think about it, once time during the original install (before I resized the partition), I think a message about running out of disk space was printed out, but it flashed by pretty quick. It probably ran out every time I tried this but I just missed it.
This is real good info. Thanks for the feedback Jay. I am also thinking that the technique you implemented could be saved to match the two sizes of cards, 8GB & 16GB image files for use with versions newer than 7.0.3. I could place them up on Wuala like the other file.
Having the same problem as George.. after everything seems to install it then shuts down corectly i think.then every time i power back up it goes through a couple of seconds of finishing up saying card is formatted for boot up,but after it powers down i get the same finishing up, card is ready powering down.
Change the screen density from 161 to 160 and it will work. I had the same problems with Facebook and other apps. There is an app that comes with the conversion. Launch it and change the density to 160 then download the apps. Facebook still crashes, but that is the only one.
i am having the same prob,ec, i think that the cm7 ver 7.1 .0 from 10/10/2011
is the last stable ver recommended for nook , so i am going to remake my card with that version. that should fix that prob
You might try re-formatting the sdcard before using WinImage to write the .img file. In my case, I previously had another version of Android (Honeycomb, which seemed slow to me) on the sdcard and needed to do the re-format. But I tried with/without the gapps file several times and results were consistent (with gapps, NC booted from sdcard the first time, but not the second; without gapps, NC booted from sdcard first and second time and ran fine sans gapps).
I just got my nook color, and root this onto a 16G micro sd card, then turned on the nook. It completed all the steps and powered down. After that, I was unable to power the nook up again. Took out the sd card and had to push the power button a while for the original nook to turn on. Check the sd card, all the files are there.; Can anybody help and tell me what is the problem?
Thanks.