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Pros/Cons of installing Froyo vs Rooted 1.1 or Rooted 1.01

I have a stock 1.0.0 NC. Haven't rooted it yet. I had it rooted on 1.1 with the autonooter 3.0, but I ended up getting the black screen of death (this is another story altogether). Anyway, I want to root again but I haven't decided if I want to go ahead and try Froyo or just do 1.0.1 rooted or maybe 1.1. I just want to know what the pros/cons of going to froyo or staying with rooted 1.0.1 or 1.1? And then wait until Honeycomb is better put together. My main reason I want to go to Froyo is that I am a medical student and I couldn't get epocrates to work with rooted 1.1. It kept saying my log on info wasn't correct and I found others with the same problem, but I have seen many saying that it works fine in Froyo. Other than that, I just need to surf, gmail, google voice, calender and not much else.
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

I have done both. If you do Froyo, you do lose the BN software. But you can download Android Nook which is almost the same. It does take a little bit of work to get it almost fully functional as well. Some people have said flash didn't work good for them, it works flawless for me. Couldn't go without it. Some apps don't work though. When I was on rooted stock, Homerun Battle was my go to game. But I can't play it since I've upgraded.
There's no more black bar at the bottom so I remapped the volume keys to Menu and Back. I don't know how people do without it, it's great. The last thing that kinda bothers me about Froyo, is for some reason my touch screen is slightly less responsive. Not a big deal, but wish I had a fix. Keep in mind though, that CM7 stuff is coming out I guess soon so you might want to hold out a little longer.

Sooooo, what is CM7? and why should I wait? Is it a build of Honeycomb? Maybe I should just try to get someone to help me with epocrates?

har02052 said:
Sooooo, what is CM7? and why should I wait? Is it a build of Honeycomb? Maybe I should just try to get someone to help me with epocrates?
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If you are not familiar with android, clockwork recovery, or bootable cwr I would hold off on cm7 or froyo for now. Autonooter would be the best place for you to start with rooting. Androidtablets.net is a good resource also for nook.
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I'm using rooted 1.1 and i can't see any reason to change. Imo, its perfect!
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har02052 said:
Sooooo, what is CM7? and why should I wait? Is it a build of Honeycomb? Maybe I should just try to get someone to help me with epocrates?
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Cm7 is gingerbread build so its like froyo but a bit faster. If you want to change your nooks os i suggest you change it to honeycomb preview v4. All you have to do is burn the provided image to a 4gb sd card and put that into your nook, it keeps your nook stock(in case you dont want to root) but allows you to have honeycomb. To boot back into stock nook just remove the sd card while the nook is off and power it on
Hope this helps
Luigi90210
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I stick with 1.1 because it have working cifs.ko for cifsmanager. I just love that app. I stream books, movies, musics, etc from my computers.

[Q] Ideal Setup For The Non-Techie?

My wife loves my NC, she wants one for herself but doesn't want all the glitches I keep hitting due to my constantly trying the newest thing posted here on XDA.
So my question is what would be a great setup on a new NC for a non-techie type to use that is rock stable, has B&N/Android Markets, can play games like Angry Birds, still function as an eReader and if possible play Youtube videos?

Atahachi said:
My wife loves my NC, she wants one for herself but doesn't want all the glitches I keep hitting due to my constantly trying the newest thing posted here on XDA.
So my question is what would be a great setup on a new NC for a non-techie type to use that is rock stable, has B&N/Android Markets, can play games like Angry Birds, still function as an eReader and if possible play Youtube videos?
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Stock 1.1.0. rooted /Overclocked 1100mhz for a non techie.
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Imho Autonooter 3.0.0. The only issue for me was the wifi-dead-after-sleep-thingy.

Just use the nookie froyo or honeycomb builds that run off a Microsd card and leave the stock nook software as it is for the lady. Just boot off the microsd card when ever you use it and boot the stock off the emmc for the wifey.
or
You can also get another nook color. If you are like me, you don't like to share or hear complaints.
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runhopskipjump said:
Just use the nookie froyo or honeycomb builds that run off a Microsd card and leave the stock nook software as it is for the lady. Just boot off the microsd card when ever you use it and boot the stock off the emmc for the wifey.
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You can also get another nook color. If you are like me, you don't like to share or hear complaints.
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Picked up a second NC yesterday. Had to drive 45 miles to do it but I wasn't giving mine up...lol

I'd actually suggest 1.0.1 rooted, since I've found it has greater compatability than 1.1.0 and theres no real reasons to upgrade to 1.1.0 (you can get pinch zoom without it)

I'd suggest Stock 1.0.1 rooted (or 1.1.0 rooted if you prefer), with overclock.
MattJ951 said:
I'd actually suggest 1.0.1 rooted, since I've found it has greater compatability than 1.1.0 and theres no real reasons to upgrade to 1.1.0 (you can get pinch zoom without it)
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What are the compatability issues MattJ951? Can you point me to a thread discussing these?

[Q] Just bought nookColor - Root or Wait?

I just bought my nookColor yesterday and loving it so far. That said, I'd definitely prefer to have the Android marketplace on it and have more games, utilities, etc.
So I was going to root it later today, once I pick up a microSD card, but then I watched one of the 'I rooted my Nook' videos on youtube and the guy in the video mentioned that Barnes & Noble will be coming out with an update to FroYo in March.
So...should I wait to root? I'm assuming that BN's update will likely interfere or delete the root. I'm okay with having to re-root but wanted to see what people's thoughts were regarding the possibility of BN being jerks and if their update can sense a root and brick the Nook or cause problems?

I rooted my Nook and that's basically all I use it for now... The only reason to go to stock is to have the ability to use "read-to-me" books. You can't go wrong! But I can't give you advice on how the rooting will affect updates. Worst case scenario will be that you have to re-root.
Hope that helps; I'm a newbie too but haven't been disappointed yet!

I always thought there are ways to unroot and go back stock.
Check it out in development forum.
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Personally I bought my NC specifically TO root it. Got it about a month ago and within an hour of purchase it was rooted and I never looked back.
I'm using just a basic root with stock eclair. Works for me just great. I run an overclocked kernel and launcher pro as my default launcher. Loving this thing!
Nookie froyo off of an SD card is good too and something you can setupt dual boot easily using guides in the dev forum.
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Or just burn an android to SD card. And run totally base on it,
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vista1984 said:
Or just burn an android to SD card. And run totally base on it,
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Can you please point us to the right thread? I've gone on there and there are a few options to choose from. Which one would give me Froyo and is the simplest to do?
TIA

try the customized froyo 0.68 for SD card
I am not using PC, so sorry I am not be more detail
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I would start slow. just rooting opens up a lot of options with market/google apps and overclocking that should keep you busy while you read up on the other options. I don't like running firmware from the sd card but thats just me. you can also dual boot from internal memory which doesn't wipe your stock rom either.
what ever you do you can always go back to bone stock easily so don't worry about that.

Root it. I got mine 2 weeks ago... I'm not a software guy, I don't know any programming languages, and I've never rooted anything before (Nexus One is still plain vanilla) I tried Nookie Froyo and Honeycomb off of the SD card, but they weren't really all that functional. Neat, yes, but not much more than a novelty.
I went the AutoNooter route 2 days ago, and things are looking good. Working Youtube, Gmail, and other apps.

CTMechE said:
Root it. I got mine 2 weeks ago... I'm not a software guy, I don't know any programming languages, and I've never rooted anything before (Nexus One is still plain vanilla) I tried Nookie Froyo and Honeycomb off of the SD card, but they weren't really all that functional. Neat, yes, but not much more than a novelty.
I went the AutoNooter route 2 days ago, and things are looking good. Working Youtube, Gmail, and other apps.
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What was not functional about them? Also what is the downside of loading off of the SD card as opposed to internal memory, I mean other than having to purchase a large SD card I suppose?
I'm a complete 0 when it comes to Android.

Bought mine this morning, did the Nookie Froyo on the sdcard to run android, and it works wonderful! I bought it specifically to root. 249 for an android tablet? Why not!

vlucchetti said:
Bought mine this morning, did the Nookie Froyo on the sdcard to run android, and it works wonderful! I bought it specifically to root. 249 for an android tablet? Why not!
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Why Froyo and not Gingerbread?

s52m3 said:
Why Froyo and not Gingerbread?
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Got to have something to do on Sunday!

What runs smoother? Froyo on SD or AutoNooter?
I'm buying a Nook today and going to root it and make it an Android tablet but there's sooooo many threads out there about this (and being updated every second), so I just wanted to know the basic - which is faster?
I don't like a choppy, sluggish OS...

Root it now. It is not much of a big deal anyway. You can return to stock in minutes if you like. I don't think that we have to wait for something better from B & N, even if they update to 2.2 (i don't think they would...). They don't want to sell a tablet but an e-reader with some extra capability( and they did it well), you can read your books, surf the net, listen to music, play videos.

They already announced bandmaster will release a version of honeycomb in the future.
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[Q] Running BN software on CM7

Hi,
Just installed CM7 and it's nice. Feel a bit slower than autonoot but the overall experience is nicer. So I'd like to make it permanent. Only thing is: I do use the original Nook color reader app, well my son does for those "read it to me" children books. So it would be nice to be able to run it in CM7. Anybody has experience?
Thanks,

fow99 said:
Hi,
Just installed CM7 and it's nice. Feel a bit slower than autonoot but the overall experience is nicer. So I'd like to make it permanent. Only thing is: I do use the original Nook color reader app, well my son does for those "read it to me" children books. So it would be nice to be able to run it in CM7. Anybody has experience?
Thanks,
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If you just installed cm7, it will run a lot better if you over clock it. And it will run even faster if you flash DALs newest kernel on it. That being said, you can download the nook software straight from the android market.

Unfortunately, the nook software in the market is quite different than the software which ships with the stock nook.
My understanding is that someone on here is working on extracting the nook software from the stock rom, but don't know how well that effort is going.

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Unfortunately, the nook software in the market is quite different than the software which ships with the stock nook.
My understanding is that someone on here is working on extracting the nook software from the stock rom, but don't know how well that effort is going.
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First thing I did when I got my nook was registering it then powering it off to root it lol. So i did not know it was any different.
Honestly what other features are you looking for out of it. The nook app on android will allow you to read your ebooks and manage your library.

colbur87 said:
First thing I did when I got my nook was registering it then powering it off to root it lol. So i did not know it was any different.
Honestly what other features are you looking for out of it. The nook app on android will allow you to read your ebooks and manage your library.
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It doesn't allow magazines, newspapers, some of the enhanced nook color content such as the reading of children's books, reading free in store, and the lend me feature as far as i know

hmmmm. I forgot to mention: I couldn't download nook reader for Android. On the pad, it's simply not shown. On the PC, NC is listed as not supported. So I never know how good/bad it is.
The original read has a nicer feature for reading children's book by itself, which looks like proprietary stuff.

I can't go without the stock reader (children's books mostly), so I loaded CM7 to the sdcard and can run it from there. Overclocked, it runs pretty well, and I get all the features of gingerbread that are missing from eclair.
I'd rather it be the other way around (stock on SD card), but I don't think anyone is trying to get that to work, at least as far as I can tell.

fow99 said:
Hi,
Just installed CM7 and it's nice. Feel a bit slower than autonoot but the overall experience is nicer. So I'd like to make it permanent. Only thing is: I do use the original Nook color reader app, well my son does for those "read it to me" children books. So it would be nice to be able to run it in CM7. Anybody has experience?
Thanks,
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You could run CM7 on SDCard and keep stock rom so you can have the best of both worlds, remove SDCard and reboot when you want to read the children's books.
migrax

Last I saw they are waiting for BN's official froyo release. They were having too many troubles with the eclair version and expect the froyo version to be more compatible. I'm hoping for stock reader on CM7 too!

Great! If the stock reader can be ported to CM7, all would be for the best in the best of all possible worlds (--Candide).

Who uses NC as Tablet?

Im kinda curious... how do you guys use your Nook?
Did you ditch retail os for cm? Do you use both?
I did, running on nothing but cm.
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CM only, waiting for CM9

I emmc dual boot stock and CM7. Only reason I still have stock at all is for the kids interactive books.

CM only. Been running ICS since the source were first pushed/I learned to compile.

Dual booting BN 1.4.1 on eMMC for subscriptions and Conde Nast pubs, with CM (Mirage) on SD. Probably going back to CM on eMMC soon.

After many variations on my emmc and sd card, I finally settled for MN 1.3 which allows full BN software access (especially "read in store" which I use to offset no ebook discounts or coupons) and relatively unimpeded Market access on the "Zeam" side.
I recently updated it with 5.12.20 which (though designed for 1.4.1) installed with no problems and has not caused any issues.
One major plus with it is that I can now use HBO Go! The image is not quite as good as Netflix but is certainly acceptable.
Use very few apps on the BN side with almost all app usage on the "Zeam" side.
Very pleased with the current setup.
Now, if I could just figure out how to stretch the screen to 8.9 inches all would be right with the world!

Having never set up MN, how do you switch from Zeam to stock when in use?

Comes up as option (which side do you want to use type of thing) when you finish booting or whenever you press the "N" button.

From 12/2010 until around 8/2011 I used my NC as my tablet, but also read quite a bit on it, using CM7 most of that time. I got a Dell Streak 7 in August, and mostly the NC got dusty in the meanwhile.
But now I've been playing with it again quite a bit with ICS on it.

khaytsus said:
From 12/2010 until around 8/2011 I used my NC as my tablet, but also read quite a bit on it, using CM7 most of that time. I got a Dell Streak 7 in August, and mostly the NC got dusty in the meanwhile.
But now I've been playing with it again quite a bit with ICS on it.
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Been using the ICS Kang from fattire and dalingrin?
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I got my nook yesterday and it's already rid of stock.
I couldn't find any use for it, JUST books. And I can download an Android e-reader so why bother? I love mine on CM, I'm waiting on a second memory stick to convert my mom's as well. She's made because mine is hacked and has so many more functions and hers isn't

CM only on mine. I'm pretty sure most of the other people here are using CM as well.
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I purchased a refurbished NC a month ago for $119 (?) and on first boot installed CM7 on emmc.
Use it primarily as a reader with Kindle, Zinio, news via browser and a weekly publication i get in PDF format.
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Boy, I use my nook for everything. I have run every rom out there. Currently running MIUI. Read news, Facebook, books, play games, listen/watch podcasts, watch Netflix and TV.com, use it as a personal planner - email, calendar and task list, use educational apps for my kids and grandkids, surf pinterest, and on and on. I have so many apps that i had to expand my data image to 2 GB. My whole life is on my nook! I'm a 53 year old grandma and feel pretty proud that at my age I've hacked nooks for myself and 4 others. They are as hooked on their nooks as I am.
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I use mines as an oversized remote controlled controlling my xbmc setup =D
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Miui rom with Zeam launcher from SD, but I will install CM or Miui to emmc since we can't use the B&N store in Europe.
My family members are using the Nook as an ereader, checking mail and for Facebook. I use it also as my portfolio for clients showing still photographs and 360° panorama images.

redhawk79 said:
Been using the ICS Kang from fattire and dalingrin?
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I've been using the ICS Cyanogen repository and building it per their instructions, yes.

khaytsus said:
I've been using the ICS Cyanogen repository and building it per their instructions, yes.
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So I have been away from the forums for a few months (maybe more, heh). Where can I find more info on this build?

I've had my Nook for a year, and although it's been rooted, I only used it as an ereader. I just installed CM7 on it today, and I still plan to use only reader apps on the device. I like the freedom of being able to customize the device any way I want. CM7 is great, but my NC will still be used mainly as a reader.

I am dual-booting Nook 1.4.1 and CM7, but I spend most of my time on CM7