Can't download books from B&N - Nook Color General

Just tried to download a book from B&N and it will not get past the enter pw screen. Is there something i need to do to get this working? I'm rooted on 1.0.0.
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I HATE to ask this, but you are totally 100% positive you've got the correct Barnes & Noble login in info?

Yes, I'm sure. I'm wondering if something was wrong earlier because I just tried again and it's working fine now. When it didn't work earlier, I never got an error message or anything so went on my computer and the B&N site was reeeeeally slow. Things seem back to normal now. Merry Christmas!

Pretty sure they were overloaded from all the new Nook owners.

Bobb_o said:
Pretty sure they were overloaded from all the new Nook owners.
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Their site has been dog slow all day. Bad for trying to get wife's gift card used up. Good for having all these new nook/nook color owners, because this would increase the chances of the devices being supported well for a while.

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Full ROM?

How long before we have a full blown ROM that wipes the BN stuff completely out and makes this a full time Android tablet?
I would think they will become available right after we get a custom recovery.
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11ty Billion Years
If you looked over this section of the forum you would see this has been asked and answered more than once.
I think your numbering is off...
NetLogic said:
11ty Billion Years
If you looked over this section of the forum you would see this has been asked and answered more than once.
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11ty billion is not a valid number to my recollection. I believe it should be 11ty brazillion.
Actually, if you're willing to run a bootable µSD card, you don't need a custom recovery at all. There's an version of Froyo in-work for the NC.
I think the NC will do very well. I've seen another well known ROM Dev mention it and thought it was very interesting. Now If I could just that dev a NC. I'm in for $10 to help him out, after all it would all hep us out as well...
Perhaps after B&N drops their Froyo 2.2 update (without the Google Apps / Market, of course) sometime next year.
Why why why!
The Barnes & Noble stuff is not that bad.. Just get a launcher to cover it up. I would like to see some type of port.. I purchased about 13 nook kids interactive books. I have a Nook and 2 viewsonic G tables and an Elocity tablet. I have the nook app running on the other tablets however it won't allow me to access the interactive books that I already paid for and it won't give me access to my magazines.. This sucks..... Guess I may have to return the Viewsonic G tablets and purchase another Nook.. This is bad business.

[Q] Flash on the Nook Color?

I'm quite content with the idea of getting a Nook Color for my birthday, but I think I'd fall in love with it if it had flash capabilities.
Does it?
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Not as of yet but neither does the ipad. You will do fine without it unless you play those annoying flash games
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jaydon34 said:
Not as of yet but neither does the ipad. You will do fine without it unless you play those annoying flash games
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One great use is flash video. >.>
Doesn't the Nook Color have ARM 7?
And comparing an iPad to a Nook Color is like comparing apples and oranges...
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I thought the lack of flash would be a bummer too. The only thing that sucks is trying to do flash videos as you were saying. This won't be possible until the NC gets a 2.2 upgrade. I think I read somewhere that it should be in the next month or so, can anyone confirm this?
You can still watch flash videos through various apps like skyfire... i think
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mmarsman said:
I thought the lack of flash would be a bummer too. The only thing that sucks is trying to do flash videos as you were saying. This won't be possible until the NC gets a 2.2 upgrade. I think I read somewhere that it should be in the next month or so, can anyone confirm this?
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Actually I can confirm a 2.2 release.
Engadget:
"And, thankfully, there might be a much easier way coming, with Barnes & Noble reportedly telling Smartphone Mag that Android 2.2 will be officially coming to the Nook Color in January. Yes, Android 2.3 is what's happening, but this is still an exciting upgrade as it will finally also allow access to a traditional Android home screen and even enable the Android Market."
But in the same article, it says that froyo has already been hacked on...
Edit: Here's the link. http://www.engadget.com/2010/12/14/nook-color-getting-android-2-2-and-market-in-january-current-ha/
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That's not a confirmation, it's just the rumor we were all talking about a couple of weeks ago that's been subsequently debunked by B&N.
RoboRay said:
That's not a confirmation, it's just the rumor we were all talking about a couple of weeks ago that's been subsequently debunked by B&N.
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Yeah, you're probably right. >_<
B&N has said that 2.2 will come in 2011 at some point.
Patience young Jedi.
In Devs we trust...they will get it done....
Relatively speaking the development on the NC has been quite active given the low user base, and short amount of time it has been on the scene.
mmarsman said:
I thought the lack of flash would be a bummer too. The only thing that sucks is trying to do flash videos as you were saying. This won't be possible until the NC gets a 2.2 upgrade. I think I read somewhere that it should be in the next month or so, can anyone confirm this?
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getting 2.2 doesn't necessarily mean nook will support flash. I have a feeling it won't be fully supported and may be like the archos with choppy flash playback.
but will be interesting to see what happens.
i think people need to realize that the device is meant to be an ereader and I don't think B&N is going to spend money to make the device into a tablet.
Well flash has already been proven to work based on the 2.2 build here.
While it may not be completely smooth, it will be useful for sure.
My netbook doesn't even run flash video completely smooth either but its perfectly acceptable.

Nook App Store & 2.2 update

I purchased a Nook last Friday at BN. The BN employee was giving me his entire sales pitch which I let him because I wanted to look at it before I was going to buy it. He went through the usual stuff of being an awesome e-reader but then went through another tangent that it will be able to moonlight as tablet.
He showed me some of the extra apps and web browser then he said that the nook will be getting an update later this month and that you will be able to install apps. (I remember hearing about the Nook rumors and denial. ) I asked him you mean the Nook will get the Google market place? He said no, it will be a more controlled environment by Barnes and Noble. We want to prevent things like porn and malware going to your device. So that means a Nook App Store? Interesting, huh? I would rather have Google market place but for the average consumer this would be huge.
I guess this already known: (You can delete the post)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=916932
http://nookdeveloper.barnesandnoble.com/
This has pretty much been known from the beginning. It will be an update, but it will not be a 2.2 update...
I really see no point for B&N to ever got to 2.2 if they are going to keep a closed type of App store.
I don't know anything about Android, other than 2.2 has flash. That's the biggest reason I want 2.2. To me the web without flash is very 10 years ago.
s52m3 said:
I don't know anything about Android, other than 2.2 has flash. That's the biggest reason I want 2.2. To me the web without flash is very 10 years ago.
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s52 engines are very 10 yrs ago, yet they are still amazing so im sure u can live without flash for a little longer
bassrebel said:
s52 engines are very 10 yrs ago, yet they are still amazing so im sure u can live without flash for a little longer
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This is a B&N thread, not a BMW thread.
Still prefer the S50 myself though.
s52m3 said:
I don't know anything about Android, other than 2.2 has flash. That's the biggest reason I want 2.2. To me the web without flash is very 10 years ago.
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Understandable.
I have been hearing something about a switchover from Flash to WebM..Not sure what its all about.
I am certain at some point the Nook is going to get Flash with 2.2 or 2.3, but probably later than sooner...
Croak said:
This is a B&N thread, not a BMW thread.
Still prefer the S50 myself though.
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S52 + N54 present, kind sir, both happily tweaked.
Bimboy said:
S52 + N54 present, kind sir, both happily tweaked.
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Sheesh! You even rooted your cars!
Homer

In store with a rooted NC

FWIW, and to provide a semi-definitive answer to questions some people have posed: I am currently in the cafe of my local Barnes & Noble, enjoying a coffee, a biscotti (two, actually... bad, bad boy) and borrowing a book with my Autonootered (3.0) Nook Color. The store Wifi did recognize my NC when I powered up.
Only change I've made to the system is turning off auto updates with sqlite.
(Update: I may have broken the in-store function. More when I get home. zGotta run)
OK, so here's the full story:
Went to B&N to verify for myself whether rooting Nook Color (Autonooter 3.0) locked you out of in-store goodies such as browsing books for an hour.
To my delight, I was able to borrow a book and browse, no problem. So I figured: hey, let's press my luck and see what sort's of activities could potentially kill that ability. First thing I did was launch Opera 11 and start surfing. Came back to the book I was browsing and all was still good. Then I decided to download an app from the Android App store. So I downloaded Autodesk Sketchbook Mobile (OMG, I cannot believe this wonderful app runs a mere .99 cents. Bargain of the century, if you ask me.) So far so good. Everything is still working. I can still browse the book in-store. But at one point Opera started feeling a bit sluggish. I decided to use Advanced Task Killer Free edition to free us some resources. I went ahead and nuked a couple of processes and then tried to come back to the borrowed book using the "keep reading" icon in the task bar. Now I got a message saying "this resource is no longer available" or something to that effect. So launched the Barnes and Noble hoping to browse another book. Now, however, none of the books had the "in-store" label on them. So I restarted the Nook (turned it off and back on). When the Nook re-connected to WiFi I was recognized as a Nook, and books in the store did show the "in-store" label, but when I tried to browse one I was stock at the "processing" screen and saw no movement on the progress bar. That's when something came up and I had to go.
Now, coming back home I decided to launch the store again and see if I could buy a title. I tried a magazine, but this time, even buying the magazine I was stuck at the "processing" screen with no movement on the progress bar. So I re-booted the Nook and tried again. First time it failed, but the second time it downloaded the magazine. I suspect that the first time I may simply have entered my password wrong.
Next I'll try going back to Barnes and Noble and see if I'm still locked out of in-store browsing.
The lack of in-store browsing is not a huge deal, to be honest. But if I'd managed to break the store altogether (not be able to buy books) that would be a stock-rooted deal-breaker for me. I'd probably dump the stock image and start playing with some of the fancy new ROMs that people are developing over in the development forum. no way would I go back to stock un-rooted, though. This device is just astonishingly cool once you've got full access to the Android Market and the myriad applications available there. I used to think that I'd be happy with Barnes and Noble's offerings once they opened their store, but honestly, I doubt they're going to offer stuff like the "IPCONFIG" and "PING" apps, or half the games I've downloaded.
Ok, quick update: I'm back at Barnes& Noble. It's not the same store, but FWIW, in-storr borrowing is working for me. In addition, I was able to buy a book (Works of David Hume, in case you're curious.) So, yeah, rooting by itself will not compromise your ability to enjoy in-store features.
That's all. Bye, bye.
Thanks for the write up. Just got mine on Saturday. That was one thing I was wondering about with rooting it. What all I can't do. I know there's alot I can't do now unrooted, but I didn't get this for a tablet, I wanted an e reader. I live around the corner from B&N, and have been a member for a couple yrs. Just having fun now unrooted still learning this thing.
boborone said:
Thanks for the write up. Just got mine on Saturday. That was one thing I was wondering about with rooting it. What all I can't do. I know there's alot I can't do now unrooted, but I didn't get this for a tablet, I wanted an e reader. I live around the corner from B&N, and have been a member for a couple yrs. Just having fun now unrooted still learning this thing.
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If you can wait a couple of weeks, you should be able to start buying Apps from the Barnes & Noble app store. Should suffice for most casual users.
dsf3g said:
If you can wait a couple of weeks, you should be able to start buying Apps from the Barnes & Noble app store. Should suffice for most casual users.
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Yeah, so far a couple games and dolphin hd are about all I miss from my phone. I can do anything I want on my phone. But dam do I hate the stock browser on this thing. I'll see what the update brings.
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So I downloaded Autodesk Sketchbook Mobile (OMG, I cannot believe this wonderful app runs a mere .99 cents. Bargain of the century, if you ask me.)
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I've been searching for an app like this! Thanks for mentioning it!!!
Now to get a proper pen/stylus and I can do some great work!
dsf3g said:
FWIW, and to provide a semi-definitive answer to questions some people have posed: I am currently in the cafe of my local Barnes & Noble, enjoying a coffee, a biscotti (two, actually... bad, bad boy) and borrowing a book with my Autonootered (3.0) Nook Color. The store Wifi did recognize my NC when I powered up.
Only change I've made to the system is turning off auto updates with sqlite.
(Update: I may have broken the in-store function. More when I get home. zGotta run)
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This thread has the answer for rooted stock NC
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=12053605&postcount=213
jonstar said:
I've been searching for an app like this! Thanks for mentioning it!!!
Now to get a proper pen/stylus and I can do some great work!
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when you find one let us know! I've got boxwave stylus, which I think is the same as the one sold by griffin and targus and it's just not that great for detailed work.
n8w said:
when you find one let us know! I've got boxwave stylus, which I think is the same as the one sold by griffin and targus and it's just not that great for detailed work.
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Off-topic question for you: Is it good enough for hand writing? I want a stylus to go with a notepad app (really just a glorified paint I guess), to make taking notes easier, but I am hesitant to buy one from all the negative reviews I've seen here and elsewhere. Thanks!
Craine
I bought a cheap $4.00 capacitive stylus off ebay and it's basically worthless. So I'm on the hunt for one also.

Barnes and noble tracking what we're doing?

So after registering the nook, then rooting it....can Barnes see what we're doing?
Or is all what they of us is what we registered in the beginning?
domwin said:
So after registering the nook, then rooting it....can Barnes see what we're doing?
Or is all what they of us is what we registered in the beginning?
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I don't think so.... Good thing NC doesn't have front camera. Or they will be watching us rooting their devices.
It would be against our privacy if B&N was doing this.
But it wouldn't necessarily be illegal.
The most straightforward thing to do is for some users to monitor their WiFi firewalls for unexpected communication with B&N (or anywhere else).
Of course that doesn't help if tracking information is stored and later transmitted to B&N during user-initiated actions (buying books and apps, updates, etc.).
This is not paranoia at all -- we've gone through this again and again with every computing platform since dial-up modems were prevalent.
They know what is going on. Heck, most of the BN staff I met at two stores over here have rooted. NCs. All that BN can do is ban rooted devices from their service. IMHO, so what? I can install a BN app as I installed a Kindle app to read my Kindle books (gave away my Kindle when I got this NC.
However, it might not be wise on their part as I do buy books and subscribe to magazines on my NC.
Rooted Nook Color
Magazines are the best part. I havent read a paper one in months.
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I bought a Nook Color and had it for about 10 days and then returned it. I had no intention of owning it, I was merely curious to root it. In that time I rooted it and restored ir to stock four or five times. I returned the Nook Color with the stock firmware to B&N without a hitch. If they are aware of the rooting nook color subculture, from my experience I don't think they care.
domwin said:
So after registering the nook, then rooting it....can Barnes see what we're doing?
Or is all what they of us is what we registered in the beginning?
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What B & N needs to do is hurry up with this software upgrade so we can enhance our NC experience!!! If they do this, then more and more people will buy the famed eBook reader/Hacked Tablet!!!
cicero77 said:
I bought a Nook Color and had it for about 10 days and then returned it. I had no intention of owning it, I was merely curious to root it.
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Strange hobby you have.
There is no reason that B&N would put out this type of device, with this good of screen, and these specs if they didn't know people would root it. It's android after all, it's not like rooting an android device is new!
They know what's going on and I even think they are doing it on purpose to get their devices sold. Heck, I'd have never bought it for just strictly an ereader! Although the 2.2 update seems like it may make more people want it for non-root reasons. (and yes, I use it a lot to read now, ironically.)

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