What's the better way to have the tablet/ereader combo? - Nook Color General

So I want to use my Nook as an ereader but I also want to use it as a tablet. I quite like the ebook reader on the stock firmware but if there's a standalone app that's just as good I wouldn't see a reason to not use CM7. I guess my real question is should I use the stock firmware to have the best ereading experience I've had and have it rooted to run different apps or use CM7 with some other ereading app that will give me good experience reading while being a "full" Android tablet?

The Nook App with CM7 is really a nice experience. I, for one, really dig the page turn animations on the Nook App.

dsf3g said:
The Nook App with CM7 is really a nice experience. I, for one, really dig the page turn animations on the Nook App.
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It's a nice experience but it still has it's bugs and serious ones at that. You have to be prepared for occasional freezes.

use CM7 off a SD card...That is what I do and it works really well. I like the stock nook for reading, looking at color mags and for going into BN store to read the freebies...

jacjar1 said:
use CM7 off a SD card...That is what I do and it works really well. I like the stock nook for reading, looking at color mags and for going into BN store to read the freebies...
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I finally surrendered with the CM7 on SD, a few bothersome bugs; I went with the rooted Ver 1.2.0 which gives me the advantages of stock and lots of enhancements, and the battery lasts longer too.
jim

Running Phirrmod 6.2 with Nook app and have no issues.Page turn animations actually work unlike the stock reader.In my opinion this is by far the most stable rom for the Nook.Reading,games,Netflix & movies.No force closes or freezes.
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[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?

Is Flash Working Yet??

So what's the story on a rooted NC running/installing flash? Is it working yet?
Also on the topic of the browser, I've seen a lot of NC's running the browser but loading mobile sites. Is it possible to modify a file like on the GTablet to make it the website think it's a PC? I believe it's in the forum here for the GTablet about getting Netflix/Fancast/Hulu to work.
I was under the impression I could root the NC and have a full blown tablet but I'm thinking I might have jumped the gun on my ebay purchase ($50 off).
In order to run flash, you need either Nookie Froyo (Android 2.2), HC builds, or CM7. Flash is not supported on the device with stock rooted software, as Flash support was not introduced until Android 2.2, and the stock version is Android 2.1 (Eclair). You can run Nookie Froyo from an SD card and access flash content.
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Throw Nookie Froyo on there and you have a Flash enabled tablet.
Check your browser settings some can turn off mobile sites. Dolphin I believe is one of them.
CM7 has a glitchie flash right now. I have head Froyo handles it pretty well. Everything takes a little time.
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EhudBenjamin said:
Check your browser settings some can turn off mobile sites. Dolphin I believe is one of them.
CM7 has a glitchie flash right now. I have head Froyo handles it pretty well. Everything takes a little time.
Sent from my KaosFroyo V39 Eris using XDA
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CM7 runs flash alright on my nook. I still use tubemate and rockplayer, though.
But if I run anything other than rooted stock I'll lose the stock b&n book app and the share/lend and public library feature right?
Yes, that's true. Check out the dual boot thread or running froyo or CM7 off a uSD card to avoid losing your stock setup.
Kayak83 said:
But if I run anything other than rooted stock I'll lose the stock b&n book app and the share/lend and public library feature right?
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Any of the uSD (sdcard versions) keeps you stock firmware. Shut down remove the sdcard boot up to a "standard" NC. I believe you can do what you want through the Nook app also, from the market.
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Droiderific said:
CM7 runs flash alright on my nook. I still use tubemate and rockplayer, though.
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How did you fix re-installing flash every time you reboot?
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EhudBenjamin said:
Any of the uSD (sdcard versions) keeps you stock firmware. Shut down remove the sdcard boot up to a "standard" NC. I believe you can do what you want through the Nook app also, from the market.
Sent from my KaosFroyo V39 Eris using XDA
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Seems pretty good go me. I heard the nook app doesn't do magazines and isn't as robust. Although I still would like to try both myself and see what I like. Not sure how I feel about digital magazines yet aside from their lower price. The public library feature has me most concerned. I will be reading on this thing after all...
Nook is pretty bullet proof, a little reading on the dev forum will save a lot of frustration. If all else fails there are recovery threads that can revive any "brick" issue. The first day I had my wifes I killed it and revived it three times. But I learned a lot. I keep a sdcard with recovery files near by, I like to push the limits.
Take a look at this
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=922324
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Yes and No. Flash 10.1 works on 2.2 but now with 10.2 out it because somewhat useless. I don't think any tablet can run Flash 10.2 yet, including the Xoom.
On nookie froyo, does it play flash content from websites fine? I was planning to watch videos/ anime etc
Dear all,
I've searched for days but I still cannot run flash on my nook color (using nookie froyo 0.6.8) with neither dolphin nor browser although flash player has already been installed in this rom.
Can anybody help me?
swedenboy said:
Dear all,
I've searched for days but I still cannot run flash on my nook color (using nookie froyo 0.6.8) with neither dolphin nor browser although flash player has already been installed in this rom.
Can anybody help me?
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If you are running the SD card image remove the Adobe flash that was installed, then re-download from the market. that work for me.
Thanks, I'll when I come back home today. However, I intend to update to Phiremod because I have problem with booting NC with uSD card inside (I formatted the card inside Froyo after flashing the eMMC).
bigamp said:
If you are running the SD card image remove the Adobe flash that was installed, then re-download from the market. that work for me.
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I've came up with the same idea yesterday and it worked for me too.
library
Kayak83 said:
Seems pretty good go me. I heard the nook app doesn't do magazines and isn't as robust. Although I still would like to try both myself and see what I like. Not sure how I feel about digital magazines yet aside from their lower price. The public library feature has me most concerned. I will be reading on this thing after all...
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kayak, most libraries lend through Adobe digital editions software. you download it to your pc, which then "authenticates" the supported device, of which stock NC is one. However, the Aldiko e-reader app also supports digital editions, so even if you lose the NC support, you can (most likely) still borrow through aldiko. In this case, the PC version will authenticate the app on the device, rather than the device itself.
In any case, this is what I am going to be putting in place...
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I can confirm that aldiko does indeed work just fine with ADE, and in fact better than ADE itself with the nook! (had license-access issues with the adobe software, but aldiko picked it up just fine). aldiko also seems to be a much better reading app than stock nook reader as well. I have a new favorite.

[Q] CM7 & Nook Kids Books

For those of you running CyanogenMod, do you still have the full B&N Reader experience? I'd love to run CM but my kids have books on the Nook Color. Not regular books but the nook kids books that only run on Nook Color and iPad.
unfortunately you have to stay on auto-nooter (rooted stock eclair rom) to keep the B&N stuff.
Right now the NOOKcolor app that comes with the stock OS and supports newspapers, magazines, and kids books does not work on anything but the stock OS. There is ongoing work to try to get it going under alternative ROMs. Subscribe to this thread for more info:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=976270
Unfortunately the best you can do right now is set up dual-boot between CM7 and stock.
SCWells72 said:
Right now the NOOKcolor app that comes with the stock OS and supports newspapers, magazines, and kids books does not work on anything but the stock OS. There is ongoing work to try to get it going under alternative ROMs. Subscribe to this thread for more info:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=976270
Unfortunately the best you can do right now is set up dual-boot between CM7 and stock.
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Thank you for pointing that thread out to me. I absolutely will subscribe to it. That is exactly the kind of think I wanted to see. I very much appreciate it.
Let me make sure I get this right. Say you abandon B&N stock and run something like NookieFroyo or CM7 then download the B&N app from the market. The downloaded B&N app does not work on NF/CM7 ?!?!!
The Nook app works under CM7 but will not read magazines, newspapers, or books that self-read. This last one leaves out many good kids books.
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mwilli20 said:
The Nook app works under CM7 but will not read magazines, newspapers, or books that self-read. This last one leaves out many good kids books.
Sent from my Nook Color using the XDA Premium App
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The videos of CM7 I've seen on Youtube look fantastic, but if I can't read my Economist subscription, then it's a deal breaker.
I just rooted my NC last night with Autonooter and it's a real thrill to suddenly feel like I finally own my Nook Color (an un-rooted Nook feels more like Barnes and Noble is lending you the device). I'd love to go full throttle with something like CM7, but honestly, I primarily bought the NC as an eReader+ so I'm just happy to be able to play the occasional game of Angry Birds. Now, if Popcap will just get off their butts and release Plants v. Zombies for Android all will be awesome in my world.

[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.
m2pilot said:
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.
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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.
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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

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