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Okay, so I *just* bought a nook color with the express intent of ending up with an android tablet. I've powered it up and determined I'm running 1.1.0, at which point I have turned off the wireless to avoid updating.
Now, I'm looking for instructions to get from this point to "Hey look at my android 2.2 (or better) tablet!"? I mean, most things I've seen seem to pick up somewhere in the middle (i.e. "just flash this ROM" etc). I'm not sure if I should update to 1.2 from B&N, or stay where I'm at and work from there, or what.
I *did* pick up a class 10 PNY micro SD card, but I would prefer to boot from the device, not the SD card.
So, if anyone can point me in the direction of a "box to done", or at least list out links for threads in the order I should do them, I would appreciate it very greatly.
Thank you in advance!
BAM!
And you're done. Get some!
Wow, quick response, thanks!
...or at least a thread dedicated to A7+
The A7+ is out there and it is different. How much is different I dont know, other then official specs. Maybe its still to new or the type of buyers (shopnbc) just dont visit forums like this. Is the A7+ even available anywhere else?
Anyway, i'm sure people are going to be interested in what applies to them and what is just exclusive to original A7, are any of the mods needed/wanted, etc.?
Shopnbc just did another bundle sale, so im guessing there are a lot out there, other thing is elocity mentions XDA so more of us "not to tech incined newb's" may be comming
A7+ to update or not?
just got my A7+ at Christmas. There is an update available from 2.2 to 3.1 at the elocity site. has anyone tried it successfully yet?
I just tried yesterday with no luck, download failed (directly on my A7+)
Probably better for me anyway as I often open a can of worms when trying stuff like that without some guidance
I noticed for the A7 updates there are detailed instructions and you go through yor PC or Mac but no instructions for the 7+
Do I need to prep and save before an update? Also they don't decribe what update included
i called the elocity help lline because i was unable to download the update to the tablet> they said it had to be downloaded to the a micro sd card and the installed from there.
A7+
I really like this A7+. I updated to the new firmware -- it was painless. I'm not sure what was updated. It's still froyo.
It would be nice to have some mods for the A7+ to get the android market, google apps, etc. It sounds like people who used the A7 mods ran into trouble. Has anyone had success on the plus?
i may give it a shot this Fri, it's my next day off that way i will have the whole day to devote to making the update work and not create a brick.
Wow am I glad to find this page, I just purchased this tablet 7+ and already need help, btw it arrived yesterday from shopnbc after having a nook tablet, and hope someone can help me want to get my kindle books have the app however it says sync failed and there is no place to get my book from archive like I can on my Iphone. Secondly what is this new update and is it possible that I have it if so how would I find out. Thanks everyone will for sure be reading all I can about the tablet fron here love the developers.
Yes please, I want to love my new tablet so bad, but Froyo is keeping me from this, and firmwares ported over for the A7 don't work on the A7+. I would love to have Honeycomb or better yet Ice Cream Sandwich for this device. My wife has one of the cheap Allwinner A10 tablets and there are a ton of different firmwares for it. It will also play HD video, which is an issue for the Tegra 2 chip running less than Honeycomb 3.1
At last, an inexpensive multitouch tablet
I just picked up a factory refurbished A7+ for $120 (Toronto, Canada) today and I must say, its touch screen is just about on par with an iPad. I would love to be able to upgrade the unit past v2.2 and at least to Gingerbread but there doesn't seem to be anyone looking at this device on XDA at the moment.
I'd be more than happy to help with hardware mods for the device.
Might creating an A7+ section in parallel to the A7 help differentiate the two devices and prompt some work on the OS?
If you want to have a look at the guts of the unit, go to the FCC-ID OET site, plug in the FCCID (GKR-NAZ10WB) and select the "detail" list.
I noticed that the docking connector is actually on a daughter board that plugs in to the main board. There is no docking connector on the A7+ but there is on the A7.
I also saw there is a slot for a GSM card in the photos!!!
I'll have to open up my unit and verify if my A7+ has the GSM card slot.
Stay tuned
hey bigbop,
did you also notice in those pictures that the board has a netbook style ssd connector ?
I am willing to bet that it has a 4GB ssd attached to it instead of 4GB of flash soldered to the board..
hummm I wonder ... 64GB A7+ anyone ? plus whatever microSD card you jam in the top.
comments from any of the more system savvy people about ghosting the original system to a different size "drive" ?????
Well, unfortunately the A7+ motherboard is different from the A7 in that the internal gsm card slot has been removed and the connector that the docking station daughterboard plugs in to is not installed (the pads are there so you might be able to hack together a cable to bring out the signals for an additional interface)
Actually, does anyone have the specs on the A7 dock? What external ports does it provide?
The chap I bought my A7+ from told me that his wholesale guy (in Canada) had bought five hundred units (at $50 a pop) and they were officially designated as "Factory Refurbished" - he sold them all in two weeks. I've seen them in other places too lately, popping up around the $110 mark. It is a fantastic device, touchscreen is great, Netflix runs great. Easy to McGyver into markets or Apps. I know that Elocity have released the A7 and A7+ kernel information (the A7 package is 432mb and the A7+ is 115mb for some reason) so we can hope that a developer picks it up and runs. If the parent company are jumping ship on the market we can see 50,000 of these units in the hands of people hungry for Honeycomb, well, we can all dream I suppose...
IMHO the A7+ would be a great tablet IF Elocity would release an Ice Cream Sandwich ROM for it. As long as the A7+ is stuck at 2.2 you are better off saving your money and buying an Allwinner A10 based tablet. The A7+ hardware is great, but the OS is garbage. Mine never wakes from sleep, and can't play ANY HD video smoothly. I paid more for the A7+ then I did for my iview TPC760 or my Kindle Fire, and the A7+ is defiantly the biggest turd of them all.
play store 3.5.16 working like a charm on A7+
will repost this on end of get market working on a7+ thread
I followed the destructions provided here (use at own risk, worked perfect for me)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1431967
Thank you Destron5683
with a few exceptions, as noted in the reply's most people had to manually reboot
I bought root explorer on amazon market, required for getting base market working.
Once you get that up and running it's fairly straight forward to install
play Vending-3.5.16.apk (destructions below) which is available from this thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1582422
scroll to bottom of first post and look for the attached files, I used the non mod version, save this file to root of an sd card
Thank you Deeco7
Again follow at your own risk, this process worked for me, it may not work for you...
I kept an sd card in so I could backup the file in a place that won't get overwritten/deleted if I have to factory reset at some point
open root explorer, make sure your at / in upper left corner, next navigate to /system/app scroll down list to Vending.apk
, long press, copy, hit back twice so your at / again, navigate to /storage/sdcard-disk0 (or wherever you prefer to save backup)
press paste, now rename file to Vending.bak (or whatever you will remember)
rename the Vending-3.5.16.apk to Vending.apk
long press it and select copy, navigate back to /system/app , hit Mount R/W , delete Vending.apk , then paste your new Vending.apk into folder.
hit back button untill root explorer exits, then shut off and restart
you should have Play Store icon in app bin, press it and enjoy.
not sure if it was my router or isp or tablet, apps didn't want to start downloading in play store,
as soon as I exited from play store it had downloaded 1 app and was getting the second one,
they installed fine, hope this helps people (next time I ran play it worked fine so likely isp)
Non Mod version
Hello Ryan,
What is the difference from the Mod version and the Non Mod Version? I have rooted using Z4root and I would like not to install any Mod on it since at this point it breaks camera on Mods that I seen. This Market (Non Mod verision) does it allow to install software that it would not normally install on the system or do I need to edit the buildprop in order to do that? I am looking for older versions of Netflix and Skype to go around the issue (hopefully that works) so I can have a fuller working tablet without changing much on it. I know that video does not work on skype, but the voice and chat should work on version 2.0.45 apk. I also heard that netflix version 1.3 would work.
Hello Folks!
I guess my question will make me sound dumber than a box of rocks, but here goes. A bit of history before I make myself an idiot. I've only been fooling with computers and these new tech. machines for about a year and a half now and for the most part been having an enjoyable time. I'm 70 years old and I'm not the sharpest crayon in the box anymore, time has dulled my tip a bit. I've been given a Nook Tablet as a Christmas gift by 2 of my grandsons, I intend to change the Android on it to the Ice Cream version but before I do I want to practice on something else first. So I bought a used Nook Color from a lady at church for $50 and I want to try and make a SD card to run the new Android from. The reason I want to use SD card is that there are over 200 books on the Nook and I would like to eventually read a lot of them. I guess I'm just greedy.
I've spent most of the weekend reading this forum information, but unfortunately the more I read the more confused I get. There is a tremendous amount of information to try and digest here and sometimes some of it seems to contradict itself. What are the different types of modified Androids that can be used? Can the Andriod that is installed on the SD card be modified so that more applications can be stored on it? How difficult is it to install the software that allows you to speed up the Nooks processor, that is, can a raw noob do it?
I'm sorry if I've yacked too much. I'm still learning how to correctly ask the questions.
Hey, knock off the old man stuff. I am 67 and my crayon tip is still sharp (although there are some here that would disagree with that, LOL). This nook color stuff is not that hard. I would recommend putting cm7 on sd first to get your feet wet. Then if you feel like experimenting move on to cm9. You can get the rom at cyanogenmod.com (for the encore - Nook Color). I recommend 7.2 RC3. It comes already rooted and overclocked so you can speed it up. And it has plenty of room for apps if you put it on a 4Gb card or larger. If you can afford it, I recommend 16GB (and Sandisk, class 4). Follow this guide to set it up:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=12240928
But look at my tips thread linked in my signature to get an updated image to use instead of the one in the thread above. Also read all of section B in my tips, as it all applies to the sd installation. If you need more help, just come back here.
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Hello Folks!
I guess my question will make me sound dumber than a box of rocks, but here goes. A bit of history before I make myself an idiot. I've only been fooling with computers and these new tech. machines for about a year and a half now and for the most part been having an enjoyable time. I'm 70 years old and I'm not the sharpest crayon in the box anymore, time has dulled my tip a bit. I've been given a Nook Tablet as a Christmas gift by 2 of my grandsons, I intend to change the Android on it to the Ice Cream version but before I do I want to practice on something else first. So I bought a used Nook Color from a lady at church for $50 and I want to try and make a SD card to run the new Android from. The reason I want to use SD card is that there are over 200 books on the Nook and I would like to eventually read a lot of them. I guess I'm just greedy.
I've spent most of the weekend reading this forum information, but unfortunately the more I read the more confused I get. There is a tremendous amount of information to try and digest here and sometimes some of it seems to contradict itself. What are the different types of modified Androids that can be used? Can the Andriod that is installed on the SD card be modified so that more applications can be stored on it? How difficult is it to install the software that allows you to speed up the Nooks processor, that is, can a raw noob do it?
I'm sorry if I've yacked too much. I'm still learning how to correctly ask the questions.
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And in keeping with the older guy thread concept (66), you're talking about two different devices, the Nook Tablet (NT) and the Nook Color (NC). The newer NT is much more difficult to deal with than the older NC. It's not as straightforward to install anything on the NT as it is for the NC. Also try to differentiate between the device hardware and the operating system software. The software will get the most out of a particular devices' hardware. The NC's processor is single core; the NT is dual core. The Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS) Android operating system applications are pretty much the same between the two devices, but the operating system interface between the applications and the hardware (the kernel) is different, so overclocking, over/undervolting, etc. will be different, too.
Just keep reading; that's how to sharpen the tip. It's never permanently dull until everything else is.
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And in keeping with the older guy thread concept (66), you're talking about two different devices, the Nook Tablet (NT) and the Nook Color (NC). The newer NT is much more difficult to deal with than the older NC. It's not as straightforward to install anything on the NT as it is for the NC. Also try to differentiate between the device hardware and the operating system software. The software will get the most out of a particular devices' hardware. The NC's processor is single core; the NT is dual core. The Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS) Android operating system applications are pretty much the same between the two devices, but the operating system interface between the applications and the hardware (the kernel) is different, so overclocking, over/undervolting, etc. will be different, too.
Just keep reading; that's how to sharpen the tip. It's never permanently dull until everything else is.
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You're right of course. I was talking about how to update his NC. I also have an NT and it is much more difficult to deal with on modding.
Actually, after playing with the rooted 1.4.2 stock NT, I see no reason to move to CM yet on it (BT is the only thing missing on stock), even though I have CM7/CM9 on dual boot SD. After CM gets more stable on the NT, maybe.
Sent from my Nook Color running ICS and Tapatalk
Old age
Gentlemen,
Thanks for the replies. I don't feel old most of the time, just when I have some of the youngsters whizzing past me. Computers, smart cell phones, and Nooks are fairly new to me, never touched one until after my wife passed a year and a half ago. Now I need one to keep in touch with my family (4 kids, 12 grandkids(and 3 more on the way), and 4 greatgrand kids (and 2 more coming).
Due to a accident last fall the old brain sometimes has a bit of a hard time comprehending things now and then, so I get a bit frustrated and I may ask questions that seem to be a repeat. Hope you all can forgive that.
Thanks!
The tablet my grandsons gave me is a Lenovo A1 not a Nook tablet. It is running Android 2.3 and I want to upgrade to Ice Cream Sandwich when I'm confident enough in my abilities.
Well done, gentlemen.
These two will have you building your own Android OS before you're done, GrampaBear.
GrampaBear said:
The tablet my grandsons gave me is a Lenovo A1 not a Nook tablet. It is running Android 2.3 and I want to upgrade to Ice Cream Sandwich when I'm confident enough in my abilities.
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You might want to check out these for information on the Lenovo Ideapad A1:
http://androidforums.com/lenovo-ideapad-a1/
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1355319
There's very little activity for this device on xdadevelopers, and what we know is primarily for the Nook Color.
Well, I started the process of making an SD card with Android on it. I am now thoroughly convinced I am near as dumb as a box of rocks. I download the agnostic sd card image and the win32imager. I didn't realise I needed to uncompress the files ( this was a first for me, never had to do it before ). I finally figured out I needed WinZip and I downloaded the trial version and ran the program. I took a old Kingston 4 GB class4 micro sd card (I have ordered a Sandisk from newegg but didn't want to wait to try) and formatted it to fat32 with a sd formatting program. I then ran Winimage (with my fingers crossed for I was not sure of what I was doing) and I think I have the image on the sd card, at least when I look at the card it windows it says boot on the sd icon. I went to the site where the C7 images are kept, but could not get one to download ( this was around 11 pm last night ). One problem I have is that I have no idea what I'm looking for when I pick a file. Could you tell me which one I should be using? It says I should write the image to the card, put the card in the nook and boot it. OK! I'll give that a shot, but how exactly do I get the Nook to boot off the sd card and how exactly does the Nook know what to do with the program? Will this mess up the Nook and the programs on it?
I knew that this would be a project, but after 12 hours of reading and trying I've become a bit frustrated. Maybe someone would take on a project and write a forum called The Big Dummy's Guide to Installing CM7 to a SD card and do a step by step instruction that tells us dummys what we should be seeing as we do this.
Funny you should ask about the dummies guide to SD installs. Taosaur just gave me a link to his here:
http://taosaur.blogspot.com/2011/09/running-cyanogenmod-7-from-sd-nook.html
He gives links for the CM7 files. Pick the CM 7.2 RC3.
Once you get the SD set up right and the CM zip on it, just put in your nook and boot. Everything is automatic and does not harm your stock install at all.
Sent from my Nook Color running ICS and Tapatalk
Thanks for answering my post. Looks like I'll be starting all over with the process again later this evening. You must have been doing this work for quite a while with the knowledge you have.
Well, for now I'm taking my 6 1/2 year old great-granddaughter, a couple of fishin poles, a can of worms, and we're walking down to the pond to catch us some bluegills for dinner. Need to have a little grandpa fun and let the ole brain relax for a bit.
GrampaBear said:
Well, I started the process of making an SD card with Android on it. I am now thoroughly convinced I am near as dumb as a box of rocks. I download the agnostic sd card image and the win32imager. I didn't realise I needed to uncompress the files ( this was a first for me, never had to do it before ). I finally figured out I needed WinZip and I downloaded the trial version and ran the program. I took a old Kingston 4 GB class4 micro sd card (I have ordered a Sandisk from newegg but didn't want to wait to try) and formatted it to fat32 with a sd formatting program. I then ran Winimage (with my fingers crossed for I was not sure of what I was doing) and I think I have the image on the sd card, at least when I look at the card it windows it says boot on the sd icon. I went to the site where the C7 images are kept, but could not get one to download ( this was around 11 pm last night ). One problem I have is that I have no idea what I'm looking for when I pick a file. Could you tell me which one I should be using? It says I should write the image to the card, put the card in the nook and boot it. OK! I'll give that a shot, but how exactly do I get the Nook to boot off the sd card and how exactly does the Nook know what to do with the program? Will this mess up the Nook and the programs on it?
I knew that this would be a project, but after 12 hours of reading and trying I've become a bit frustrated. Maybe someone would take on a project and write a forum called The Big Dummy's Guide to Installing CM7 to a SD card and do a step by step instruction that tells us dummys what we should be seeing as we do this.
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Leapinlar's post will answer your questions, but here's a few things to watch for that may concern you:
1. It takes a while for the initial install, and you may see a black screen without any indication of activity. Don't panic! If it lasts more than 20 minutes or so, turn the Nook off, pull the sdcard out, and start again. Don't be afraid to redo everything.
2. The first time it successfully boots into Android, you will see the introductory splash screen for what seems an inordinately long time. It's setting up files and processes so just let it run. Once again, if it takes more that 20 minutes or so, there's most likely some problem.
2. The Kingston card may be sloooow, so my comment above is even more possible. Because the Kingston card is so slow, when you finally boot into Android on it, you may think that the system is too slow or error-prone to run on an sdcard. You may get popups during boot up, when you're running programs, or when its just sitting there, saying something to the effect that so and so program has a problem or had a fault or whatever, and asking you to wait or "force close" (FC). This is probably caused by the card. Your Sandisk card will generally not have those problems (I've been running for over a year on an 8gb Sandisk card with no problems and very snappy response).
Thank you
Shumash,
Thank you for the information. I tried my first try at making a card tonight, it appears to be a no go. Left the Nook alone for an hour and 15 minutes with nothing apparently happening. I will reformat the card and try again tomorrow. I want to thank all who have written to help me along. I know what a pain in the kester having to work with absolute beginners can be.
GrampaBear said:
Shumash,
Thank you for the information. I tried my first try at making a card tonight, it appears to be a no go. Left the Nook alone for an hour and 15 minutes with nothing apparently happening. I will reformat the card and try again tomorrow. I want to thank all who have written to help me along. I know what a pain in the kester having to work with absolute beginners can be.
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I see you used winimage to burn. Do not use 'write disk' to burn it. Use 'Restore Virtual Disk Image to physical drive' in the same menu. That's why I recommended win32diskimager. It is simpler to use for noobs.
Sent from my Nook Color running ICS and Tapatalk
Shumash,
I did use win32diskimager but I apparently did something wrongin the process. I will try again tomorrow it's late and I'm a bit tired.One thing that I will be doing also is trying to learn as much about Android as I can, though it may need to be in a bit simplified format. If anyone can suggest available information this old geezer will appreciate any guides to it.
I finally did it!
It took me 6 trys and I'm not sure what I did right this time, but I finally had success. The first 5 trys all I would get on the screen were 3 lines going across the screen about 40% of the way up and nothing else. The last time it booted and took a bit of time probably 12 - 15 minutes working and then shut itself down. I was thinking it was another failure and held the power button down for a few seconds to restart and Bingo! up came the Android window. I messed around a bit and set up the wireless and pulled up the internet. I LIKE IT!!
It is a bit slow and I'm assuming the Sandisk card will fix that when it finally arrives. It didn't freeze up or anything just ran a bit slow. The Lenovo A1 that my grandsons gave me is always locking up.
The only other thing that I have a worry about is the micro sd card reader in the Nook. I did have a pretty hard time getting the card in and out of the reader slot. I've labored with my hands all of my life and I have developed rather thick and calloused fingers and a bit of arthritis doesn't help either. I can not physically fit the tip of my finger into the little open loop area for the SD card reader. I had to use a tweezer from my fly tying kit to insert and remove the card from the Nook. After I get this type of card down pat I'd like to see if there is a way to leave the card in all of the time and be able to boot from the card or the nook reader software.
THANKS AGAIN! I wouldn't have succeeded without all of you gentlemens help.
While I was finishing typing this message my 13 year old grandson has been fooling around with the Android on the Nook. He said to tell you, that you all are AWESOME!
GrampaBear said:
Shumash,
I did use win32diskimager but I apparently did something wrongin the process. I will try again tomorrow it's late and I'm a bit tired.One thing that I will be doing also is trying to learn as much about Android as I can, though it may need to be in a bit simplified format. If anyone can suggest available information this old geezer will appreciate any guides to it.
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If you're using windiskimager, getting everything straight can be a bit confusing. Make sure that you're doing the following four steps on your PC, not the Nook!
1. To the right of the box that says "Image File", there is a blue folder picture. Click on it and select the image file. It should be something like "generic-sdcard.img". It's easiest if the image file is in the same directory/folder as the win32diskimager software.
2. To the right of the blue folder looking picture is the selection box for the location where this image will be written. It says "Device" right above it. If it is the wrong drive letter, click on the arrow at the right of the box. Select the letter of the sdcard. Use a file manager or windows explorer to find out which drive letter the sdcard is. Make absolutely sure you know which drive it is!
3. After you have properly selected the image file and the correct drive letter, click "write" and wait for it to complete.
4. After the image has been written, you will have to put the CM7 (Gingerbread) or CM9 (ICS) flashable zip on the sdcard in its root directory (called "/boot" in a file manager or windows explorer). Copy the one you want onto the sdcard.
Once the above is done, remove the sdcard from the PC and put it in your Nook. Boot the Nook up, and it will do everything else automatically.
GrampaBear said:
The only other thing that I have a worry about is the micro sd card reader in the Nook. I did have a pretty hard time getting the card in and out of the reader slot. I've labored with my hands all of my life and I have developed rather thick and calloused fingers and a bit of arthritis doesn't help either. I can not physically fit the tip of my finger into the little open loop area for the SD card reader. I had to use a tweezer from my fly tying kit to insert and remove the card from the Nook. After I get this type of card down pat I'd like to see if there is a way to leave the card in all of the time and be able to boot from the card or the nook reader software.
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It's funny you should mention old hands and micro chips. I have always had a hard time with the chip and that darned slot. Yesterday I was changing the chip and it popped out. I was sitting in my big recliner, you know the kind all old folks have, LOL. Anyway, the chip went down the crack in the chair. I could not find it. I finally turned the chair on it's side and shook it. It came tumbling out. LOL.
So you will be glad to hear there is a way to set up your stock so that you can use the same SDcard. The only complication is your stock must be rooted first. But that is simple to do. But maybe you want wait on that till you are more confident. Once it is rooted you can look at my tips thread, item B3, and I tell you how to set up stock to use the same SD so you don't have to keep changing cards. There is another method of setting it up without rooting first, but it is more complex to do. If you want me to reference that thread, let me know.
Leapinlar,
I know what you mean about the old folks and recliner thing. I have a big old style chair with a foot stool that my wife bought me at a garage sale 38 years ago. It was well over 20 years old when she bought it. She re-upholstered it and made it into the most comfortable chair for a large man ever. I'm kinda like Archie Bunker with that chair, it's my chair and you don't sit in it unless I offer it to you.
I appreciate all the help you all have given me, this is all new to me and sometimes I get to feeling a bit flumoxed. I'm having a bit of a problem getting the Android gapps program to work at the moment. Think I may be copying it to the wrong spot, but Windows only seems to show me one spot to copy to. I'll get it figured out it'll just take time. It may be a bit before I feel brave enough to root the Nook.
Still waiting for the Sandisk card to arrive. The Kingston card seems to work but is really slow at times.
You're copying it right. As you turn the nook on with the card in the slot, hold down the n key and choose to boot into the SD recovery partition.
Sent from my NookColor using XDA
Hello all: posted this elsewhere, perhaps on wrong page. lots of views, alas no replies. Perhaps nobody loves me....
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After a bit of research I've just bought a Nook ST Glow in the UK. I've read forums and watched YouTube videos of rooting these devices by various methods.
I then came across some forums about CM7.
Now if I understand this correctly, and apologies if I don't (I'm very new to Nook and Android), you can prepare a microSD card with a version of Android OS, pop it into the Nook and boot from that card to access the Android Market etc. The big advantage (for me at least) is to be able to remove the card and boot the Nook back into standard ebook reader functionality.
I have spent a couple of hours reading through XDA posts but haven't stumbled upon any posts about Nook ST Glow and CM7.
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So, my noobie question is simple: Can I configure a microSD card with an OS and files that will boot my Nook ST Glow into the unlocked Android world.
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Any advice or pointing in the right direction much appreciated.
Craig
You are probably reading about the bootable CM7/CM9 uSD cards for the NOOK Tablet and/or NOOK Color. Those, sadly, are not for the NOOK Simple Touch or the NSTG, which you have.
Rooting your NSTG will give you access to the Android Market. Keep in mind, the device only runs Android 2.1 Eclair, so a lot of software simply won't work. BE SURE to only follow procedures for the NSTG. The procedures for rooting the NSTG are not the same as for the NC, NT or even the NST.
Be sure to back up your device before you try anything. If you screw up badly, it can be very difficult to recover some of the device-specific info.
bobstro said:
You are probably reading about the bootable CM7/CM9 uSD cards for the NOOK Tablet and/or NOOK Color. Those, sadly, are not for the NOOK Simple Touch or the NSTG, which you have.
Rooting your NSTG will give you access to the Android Market. Keep in mind, the device only runs Android 2.1 Eclair, so a lot of software simply won't work. BE SURE to only follow procedures for the NSTG. The procedures for rooting the NSTG are not the same as for the NC, NT or even the NST.
Be sure to back up your device before you try anything. If you screw up badly, it can be very difficult to recover some of the device-specific info.
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Thanks for the reply Bobstro. I've read a lot about rooting the GLow, and have downloaded what I think I need from a couple of excellent articles on it (using Glownooter).
To be honest, I'm only after Sudoku and perhaps a good chess program. nothing much else (I have an excellent Blackberry for all other comms etc) so the risks involved with rooting (it all seems to "cluncky") seem to outweigh the benefits.
Thats why the option of a bootable MicroSD card seemed so attractive. Ah well, thanks for the information.....
Rooting is not all that big a deal if you're cautious and follow instructions well. I've rooted my two NSTs several times each with few problems. I have only loaded a few additional apps myself. My rooting focus was more on power savings (running Tasker) and time sync (using ClockSync) when I travel.
Hello,
I thought I would reach out here as Nook support could not help me and said someone would contact me within a week. I was given a brand new glowlight plus. I charged it, updated it, and tried to sideload books on it but it was not recognized by either of my computer's. Tried diff cords, ect. Took it back to B&N and they had no idea so they exchanged it for a new one. I get this one home, plug it in and boom.. it shows up on the computer and I am able to drag and drop a few books into the files directory. ..... Then it updated.... Once again, now it is not recognized on either computer. Called support, they had me reset it (the update auto installed this tim right away after the reset too... Before I signed in)... Like I said, they were not able to fix it. I really like the size and feel of this ereader, and that it is waterproof, but now I am probably juat going to return it and get something else, which I am bummed about as the Kobo waterproof readers are twice the price. Anyone have any ideas?
Thank you!
Marie