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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] Impacts of rooting for a noob...

So, I am somewhat knowledgeable (can follow directions without bricking other devices), and have searched these forums, but I think they noise has gotten to be too much. Here is what I am looking for:
What, if any, functionality is lost by rooting?
I just want to make sure I do not lose any abilities or features that I am not expecting.

No functionality is lost.

Pinesal said:
No functionality is lost.
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Actually, many people have reported that the B&N In-Store functionalities are lost (i.e. 1 hour free reading per book per day in store, free book/cafe offers, etc.)

I can also confirm that the loss of in-store and cafe offers is something I have experienced.

Lost functionality....
So I guess for now I will delay rooting until a way is discovered (if ever) to avoid not being able to get the free hour per day. I work near a B&N location, so it is convenient to spend my lunches there reading stuff I don't have to buy.

I've got that issue
peiziyu said:
Actually, many people have reported that the B&N In-Store functionalities are lost (i.e. 1 hour free reading per book per day in store, free book/cafe offers, etc.)
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After rooting, I cannot get Barnes and Noble "Shop" application to do anything. It just sits and spins.
When I look at Settings -> About Your NOOKcolor, it says both Owner and Account is "Unavailable"
Not sure how to get that part working. Would like to look at the ebooks and mags available from BN

rlkelley said:
So I guess for now I will delay rooting until a way is discovered (if ever) to avoid not being able to get the free hour per day. I work near a B&N location, so it is convenient to spend my lunches there reading stuff I don't have to buy.
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Note that "many" people have reported the in-store problem, but "not everyone" ... I for one, still have full in-store access and no problems with the "Shop" B&N features and downloading. Thus, there is something "funny" going on in the rooting process or differences in Nook Color versions of software or hardware that is causing various rooting quirks ... all the more reason, I mentioned in another thread, that auto-nooter or other rooting packages should be kept simple, e.g., a Vanilla version without add on keyboards, laychers, live wallpaper, etc, as it would be a lot easier to track any bugs

Silly question but, how do you know if in-store function is working? How can I choose, in my Nook, to read a book on my free one hour a day?
Sent from my rockin' rooted Nook Color using XDA App

Quick question:
I have rooted and everything is working fine (except YouTube, but that's not the reason for this post). I wondered if I installed LauncherPro on my NookColor if I would still be able to add books from my library to the home screen like the default home.
Thanks!

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Note that "many" people have reported the in-store problem, but "not everyone" ... I for one, still have full in-store access and no problems with the "Shop" B&N features and downloading. Thus, there is something "funny" going on in the rooting process or differences in Nook Color versions of software or hardware that is causing various rooting quirks ... all the more reason, I mentioned in another thread, that auto-nooter or other rooting packages should be kept simple, e.g., a Vanilla version without add on keyboards, laychers, live wallpaper, etc, as it would be a lot easier to track any bugs
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Could you enter the discussion on this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=860830
TO maybe help give some insight into why yours works and others do not?

argh, thanked the wrong post due to a browser glitch!
meant to thank rsptexas post and mention that i too have no issues launching the B&N store after rooting and agree that simpler is better for auto-rooting.
one thing these 'many people' don't mention is what firmware they were running originally, what method they used to 'root' their device, and what extra addons they put after cracking the thing open. way too many variables there to just say rooting breaks B&N store functionality.

The Nook Color is terrible for college.

As an Android Tablet the Nook is not that bad. It is rather cheap, but very well built. Even with its 850 processor, it runs like a champ as well as works great for games.
But...as an e-reader I am VERY disappointed. When I went to purchase my Nook Color, I asked one very simple and direct question that would make or break getting the Nook; "Can I use it to read textbooks?" for which I got a very strong, "Yes, and they look great." Well, I just got back to school for the winter term and tried downloading my books to my Nook Color and received an error telling me that there is a problem and to try again later. After a while, I called B&N support and was informed that you can NOT read or download textbooks on the Nook Color.
From here, I am out a $550 investment because it has been over 14 days thus I cannot return it, and I have bought over $300 of e-books. While I understand that I can still read them on my computer, the reason I got this was for the portability and not having to lug around my laptop (which is a 10 pound Toshiba Qosmio). So as a college student the Nook Color has become rather useless and not worth the money sadly.

I had a similar idea in mind when I bought mine. Just found pdf's of textbooks I needed and am using ezpdf to view them on my rooted Nook. Can also turn the pdf's into epubs and read with the stock viewer, but I found some books with strange formatting (math books) tended convert oddly.

What format are the books in? Worst case, you have to root the book to install the proper reader...
Rydsmith said:
As an Android Tablet the Nook is not that bad. It is rather cheap, but very well built. Even with its 850 processor, it runs like a champ as well as works great for games.
But...as an e-reader I am VERY disappointed. When I went to purchase my Nook Color, I asked one very simple and direct question that would make or break getting the Nook; "Can I use it to read textbooks?" for which I got a very strong, "Yes, and they look great." Well, I just got back to school for the winter term and tried downloading my books to my Nook Color and received an error telling me that there is a problem and to try again later. After a while, I called B&N support and was informed that you can NOT read or download textbooks on the Nook Color.
From here, I am out a $550 investment because it has been over 14 days thus I cannot return it, and I have bought over $300 of e-books. While I understand that I can still read them on my computer, the reason I got this was for the portability and not having to lug around my laptop (which is a 10 pound Toshiba Qosmio). So as a college student the Nook Color has become rather useless and not worth the money sadly.
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They are DRM protected PDF files for which I have been trying to have the DRM removed for the last few days with absolutely no luck. I have tried to drag and drop but of course that doesn't work (with Calibre) and says that the device isn't authorized even though it is registered with Adobe Editions.

Rydsmith said:
They are DRM protected PDF files for which I have been trying to have the DRM removed for the last few days with absolutely no luck. I have tried to drag and drop but of course that doesn't work (with Calibre) and says that the device isn't authorized even though it is registered with Adobe Editions.
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You used the calibre plugin for PDFs and it still doesn't work?

Rydsmith said:
They are DRM protected PDF files for which I have been trying to have the DRM removed for the last few days with absolutely no luck. I have tried to drag and drop but of course that doesn't work (with Calibre) and says that the device isn't authorized even though it is registered with Adobe Editions.
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If you root your color u can install overdrive media player or Aldiko reader. both apps will allow you to read Adobe DRM protected material.
I am using these to readAdobe protected epub and pdf books from my local and school library

I will try and install Aldiko tonight, but I still find it unacceptable that I have to root in order to use my item to read a book....especially for an e-reader.

Rydsmith said:
I will try and install Aldiko tonight, but I still find it unacceptable that I have to root in order to use my item to read a book....especially for an e-reader.
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The place that sold your ebooks didn't expect them to be read on an e-reader. They're protected so that you can only read them on your computer. Not B&N's fault at all.
What you can do, however, is get a program that will remove the encryption from your books. The more reliable ones are pay-for. But like I said, blame the store that sold you the encrypted e-books. I had to help a friend in a similar situation since she bought study materials that were encrypted and she was able to find a program that decrypted the files.
I think the person at the store was expecting you to buy textbooks from the B&N store, which should work fine without needing DRM removal.

KitF said:
The place that sold your ebooks didn't expect them to be read on an e-reader. They're protected so that you can only read them on your computer. Not B&N's fault at all.
What you can do, however, is get a program that will remove the encryption from your books. The more reliable ones are pay-for. But like I said, blame the store that sold you the encrypted e-books. I had to help a friend in a similar situation since she bought study materials that were encrypted and she was able to find a program that decrypted the files.
I think the person at the store was expecting you to buy textbooks from the B&N store, which should work fine without needing DRM removal.
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I have only bought books from the B&N store. All my textbooks were bought through them which is why I am very upset about this.

Rydsmith said:
I will try and install Aldiko tonight, but I still find it unacceptable that I have to root in order to use my item to read a book....especially for an e-reader.
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Well, the issue is not the E-reader...The issue is the anti-piracy measures that these companies use that interfere with legitimate owners of the material..
Should you have to root it? No....But....
Rooting will give you much better reading software than the stock Nook. Ezpdf reader is far better than the stock reader.

Also, I would say that it is B&N fault for this. If I'm buying a book on their site and see the words: Nook eBook available, and then am told that I can't use (not just THIS book but...) ANY textbooks on the Nook Color, that is a problem. Especially when I can load up the Amazon Kindle app and read ALL my textbooks.
Now one may ask why I'm complaining if I can use Kindle, the difference is that there are large price differences between the two sources.

Rydsmith said:
I will try and install Aldiko tonight, but I still find it unacceptable that I have to root in order to use my item to read a book....especially for an e-reader.
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Fact is this was sold as a B&N bookreader that can also webbrowse watchsome videos...
Now you are asking it to view DRM material not purchased on the device. In stock form it isn't suprising it won't.
But it is easily rootable and will do what you need.

Canadoc said:
Fact is this was sold as a B&N bookreader that can also webbrowse watchsome videos...
Now you are asking it to view DRM material not purchased on the device. In stock form it isn't suprising it won't.
But it is easily rootable and will do what you need.
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I think that you're completely missing the point that I bought the books from B&N by clicking on the Nook eBook button...not from a third party or from some other website.
That would be like buying a Playstation game via the PSN Market and then being told that you can't play it on your Playstation.

Thats a big fail on the barnes and nobles website. but dont let that discourage you from the excelent features the nook color has. ?Yes you have to root it, but once you do that you have so much more capabilitys. Just make sure next time you buy a textbook you get something that does not have drm. if amazon offers the books, you can load the kindle app on the nook and read them that way.
Good luck. Im sure you will figure it out. I would search out an app to remove the drm.

To the original poster.
The NOOKstudy program is only available on the computer for the time being; however, it is highly likely that it will make its way to the NOOKcolor via an app in the near future.
But textbooks that you download either from the publisher or your school will work on the NOOKcolor as long as they are epub or pdf.
The digital textbooks available from NOOKstudy are not available as of yet because they are still trying to work out the legal issues with the publishers. But it seems highly likely that once the NOOK application store opens in March they will become available.

Can you link this etextbook that supposedly said you could use it on your nook?

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I think that you're completely missing the point that I bought the books from B&N by clicking on the Nook eBook button...not from a third party or from some other website.
That would be like buying a Playstation game via the PSN Market and then being told that you can't play it on your Playstation.
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Oh I wasnt aware of that when I posted. Yeah not clear by them. I think they keep nook books as separate from Ebooks.That said they should have worked. Were they bought via the B&n website?
Maybe via the library feature u could do the sync and they will show up as archived books?

nookstudy etextbooks are not compatible with any e-readers, as they are "too large, and image intensive".
this is on B&N's site

Ok heres your answer to the problem.....
Ok so the Nook Color does read the pdfs well, the problem of course is that you have no way to do so until they are cracked....
Well I can help you remove the DRM simply PM me (as I'm not sure about the legality issues and I'm not going to risk me, this site, or the creators of the program getting in trouble by mass posting the link). I'll link you to the place to get the files. Lets just say once you have the programs installed properly the entire process from encrypted to readable takes less then 30 seconds....
Adan

Aldiko should solve your problem. Let us know orbit doesn't.
Sent from my Nooted friend...

Big Update Coming?

Something is brewing @ B&N me thinks....
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-20030475-1.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
and...speculate...........

Official Honeycomb to NC!
yeah right

I hope they're not going to close the loopholes we've been using to boot off the SD and get root.

My theory would be a quiet recall for defects.
Can't be for updates as that would require opening packages.
You can't tell me their inventory system is so bad that they have to send them all back.

Seems lots of folks are having problems with the microUSB, (one of mine is OK, the other kind a flaky) suspect the mfg made a 'running change' and now has run out of parts (the new USB part or something associated) .. but it could be almost anything

I would lean towards a hardware issue - I've had a few screen problems like burnt pixels and then off color spots on the screen. Add in that I'm afraid the microUSB connection will break off the mainboard because of it's angle (it's rather oddly angled, but just a few degrees.)

There cant be that many of us running android os's on this device. it certianly would stink if they removed the ability to boot off sd. im assuming tho that would only effect new nooks and not ours.

That same article has an update.
Update: The latest rumor, once again courtesy of Good E-Reader, is that the reason for the temporary unavailability is that Barnes & Noble is in the process of installing an anti-rooting "fix" for the Nook Color because people have been hacking the device to run a custom version of the Android-based firmware. That custom firmware allows users to access and download apps from the Android Marketplace, including competing e-reading apps such as Kindle and Kobo. If a significant percentage of Nook Color buyers are doing this, it presents a problem for Barnes & Noble (Sony doesn't like to talk about it but it had major issues with the PSP being hacked). Good E-Reader cites a "Barnes & Noble source" in mentioning the rumor, but to be clear, we don't know if there's any truth to it or not, and we're not sure how Barnes & Noble would truly be able to lock the device down.
Read more: http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-20030475-1.html#ixzz1CuIaHL20

one4thewings said:
That same article has an update.
Update: The latest rumor, once again courtesy of Good E-Reader, is that the reason for the temporary unavailability is that Barnes & Noble is in the process of installing an anti-rooting "fix" for the Nook Color because people have been hacking the device to run a custom version of the Android-based firmware. That custom firmware allows users to access and download apps from the Android Marketplace, including competing e-reading apps such as Kindle and Kobo. If a significant percentage of Nook Color buyers are doing this, it presents a problem for Barnes & Noble (Sony doesn't like to talk about it but it had major issues with the PSP being hacked). Good E-Reader cites a "Barnes & Noble source" in mentioning the rumor, but to be clear, we don't know if there's any truth to it or not, and we're not sure how Barnes & Noble would truly be able to lock the device down.
Read more: http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-20030475-1.html#ixzz1CuIaHL20
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That would suck for B&N as most people I knew who bout the Nook over other options bought it on the premise that it could be rooted.

I was on the phone with B&N concerning an RMA of my NC, the CS agent spoke to me about the delay. Saying:
"We got in a shipment of Nooks that was all but unusable, so while I am sorry for the delay, I would say that the wait is worth it. You couldn't do much of anything with the ones we got in."
Which seems more likely than anything to me. If you ask in store they will have very low stocks as well.

computerpro3 said:
I hope they're not going to close the loopholes we've been using to boot off the SD and get root.
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Easily done in HW unfortunately, but they couldn't do it in SW. However, if they're doing a hardware change they could very well make this change.
It would change the way we do some things but it would NOT block root. People would find a way, in fact I think z4 works as-is today.
DTgreat said:
I was on the phone with B&N concerning an RMA of my NC, the CS agent spoke to me about the delay. Saying:
"We got in a shipment of Nooks that was all but unusable, so while I am sorry for the delay, I would say that the wait is worth it. You couldn't do much of anything with the ones we got in."
Which seems more likely than anything to me. If you ask in store they will have very low stocks as well.
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What does that even mean? They're not usable or rooting? For general use?

one4thewings said:
That same article has an update.
Update: The latest rumor, once again courtesy of Good E-Reader, is that the reason for the temporary unavailability is that Barnes & Noble is in the process of installing an anti-rooting "fix" for the Nook Color because people have been hacking the device to run a custom version of the Android-based firmware. That custom firmware allows users to access and download apps from the Android Marketplace, including competing e-reading apps such as Kindle and Kobo. If a significant percentage of Nook Color buyers are doing this, it presents a problem for Barnes & Noble (Sony doesn't like to talk about it but it had major issues with the PSP being hacked). Good E-Reader cites a "Barnes & Noble source" in mentioning the rumor, but to be clear, we don't know if there's any truth to it or not, and we're not sure how Barnes & Noble would truly be able to lock the device down.
Read more: http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-20030475-1.html#ixzz1CuIaHL20
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If true, I would be going down to the store with my torch and pitchfork.

khaytsus said:
What does that even mean? They're not usable or rooting? For general use?
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General use makes more sense. Why would they recall Nooks for something they can OTA and save hundreds of thousands of dollars? It'd be a bit insane from a business standpoint. IMHO anyway.

khaytsus said:
Easily done in HW unfortunately, but they couldn't do it in SW. However, if they're doing a hardware change they could very well make this change.
The trick that lets us run the sd card image is the boot device order, usb>sdcard>internal memory. They should be able to change that in a software update, no?
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dougp.me said:
I would lean towards a hardware issue - I've had a few screen problems like burnt pixels and then off color spots on the screen. Add in that I'm afraid the microUSB connection will break off the mainboard because of it's angle (it's rather oddly angled, but just a few degrees.)
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We bought two NC yesterday at BN. One of the microUSB connections was skewed pretty bad. We couldn't connect the USB at all.

I checked several online vendors, including B&N and Amazon, and they say nothing about the Nook Color being out of stock. In fact, I went through the purchase proceedure at B&N (but didn't finish checkout), and nowhere was there a message saying there would be a delay on shipment.

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khaytsus said:
Easily done in HW unfortunately, but they couldn't do it in SW. However, if they're doing a hardware change they could very well make this change.
The trick that lets us run the sd card image is the boot device order, usb>sdcard>internal memory. They should be able to change that in a software update, no?
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No. It would require a hardware change to take USB or SD out of the boot order.
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one4thewings said:
That same article has an update.
Update: The latest rumor, once again courtesy of Good E-Reader, is that the reason for the temporary unavailability is that Barnes & Noble is in the process of installing an anti-rooting "fix" for the Nook Color because people have been hacking the device to run a custom version of the Android-based firmware. That custom firmware allows users to access and download apps from the Android Marketplace, including competing e-reading apps such as Kindle and Kobo. If a significant percentage of Nook Color buyers are doing this, it presents a problem for Barnes & Noble (Sony doesn't like to talk about it but it had major issues with the PSP being hacked). Good E-Reader cites a "Barnes & Noble source" in mentioning the rumor, but to be clear, we don't know if there's any truth to it or not, and we're not sure how Barnes & Noble would truly be able to lock the device down.
Read more: http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-20030475-1.html#ixzz1CuIaHL20
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Boo!!! Hiss!!!
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cameraz said:
I checked several online vendors, including B&N and Amazon, and they say nothing about the Nook Color being out of stock. In fact, I went through the purchase proceedure at B&N (but didn't finish checkout), and nowhere was there a message saying there would be a delay on shipment.
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When you get shipping information, you'd see the order would ship on the 15th as opposed to soon-ish.

There would have to be a hardware change.
The Ti Omap has a gpio bootstrap option. Tie a pin a certain way and it can boot from SD, etc. They aren’t going to remove the option. They use the option in manufacturing to image the device in the first place.
How do you think the Nook manufacturer installs the basic OS??
They boot from SD or USB to then dump the contnets to the internal memory.

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.

dsf3g said:
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.