I'm running CM7 on my NC but my GF doesn't want me to upgrade hers because she'll lose access to her magazines (Cosmo, etc).
Is there a way of reading those magazines on CM7?
Paul22000 said:
I'm running CM7 on my NC but my GF doesn't want me to upgrade hers because she'll lose access to her magazines (Cosmo, etc).
Is there a way of reading those magazines on CM7?
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Nope, not until Barnes and Noble makes an android app that includes magazines. Until then you are better off dual booting cm7 and nook's OS
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Just got a NC a few weeks ago cause my wife wanted an ereader and I figured this would be a good opportunity to try an android device!
I would like to load CM7 as from my reading that appears the best rom for the NC. I have also read that running from SD cards provides mixed results regarding performance, so I was thinking I should load it to the emmc.
So my questions are
Can I load CM7 and still use the BN ereader app? My wife might kill me if she can't read her books! If so can someone point me to an android newb friendly guide?
If I cannot use the app what do you recommend I do? Is the kindle app any good compared to the BN native app?
Simply using the Nook app from the Android Marketplace will be the easiest way to get ereader functionality back.
Though keep in mind the Android Nook app is absolutely not the same experience as the NC is with the stock firmware. The Nook app will let you read ebooks from your B&N account, but the interface and capability is completely different.
nitrobass24 said:
Just got a NC a few weeks ago cause my wife wanted an ereader and I figured this would be a good opportunity to try an android device!
I would like to load CM7 as from my reading that appears the best rom for the NC. I have also read that running from SD cards provides mixed results regarding performance, so I was thinking I should load it to the emmc.
So my questions are
Can I load CM7 and still use the BN ereader app? My wife might kill me if she can't read her books! If so can someone point me to an android newb friendly guide?
If I cannot use the app what do you recommend I do? Is the kindle app any good compared to the BN native app?
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The Nook app from Market is not the same, your wife will not be able to read her magazine subscriptions and it's also missing some other stuff like Children's books.
IMHO, if you want to mess around and "try an android device" but at the same time avoid a scenario of "wife might kill me if she can't read her books!", or even worse, wife kills you because you wiped the Nook, then go get verygreen's installer and put CM7 on an SD card.
So long as you install onto a compatible SD card, you will get similar performance as to eMMC. No "mixed results" here, I guarantee you that you won't even be able to tell the difference.
You can mess around all you want, try out the stables and nightlys, overclock to your heart's content, fill it up with apps, browse and dl all the pr0n you can find, and when your wife wants to use the Nook, just take out the card and she'll have a completely stock Nook.
I'm in the same situation. Bought the wife a NC for mother's day, and want to expand the capability, but maintain the stock functionality. Kid's books are a must to keep around, one of the reasons I bought it in the first place.
What I'm looking at is using the manual nooter http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1054027 to root and add gapps. This should maintain the stock reader functionality and open the device up to more apps, and to do things like youtube etc.
So far this seems like the best way to open things up a bit, and give the device some additional functionality without completely changing the experience or losing some functionality. While *I'd* like to go in and install CM7 or one of the 3.0 ROMs, it's her toy, not mine so I need to keep things as close to stock as possible.
Can anyone confirm this approach is going to get me where I want to be, or refute it? Is there something I might be missing which would end up wiping any points I gained for the gift?
I'm in the same boat. Any one have an opinion on deeperblues hc on sd? I'm probably one of the few that's not a fan of cm7. I just want to keep stock NC, with the option of a tablet experience.
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sagerox said:
I'm in the same boat. Any one have an opinion on deeperblues hc on sd? I'm probably one of the few that's not a fan of cm7. I just want to keep stock NC, with the option of a tablet experience.
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I used Deeper-Blue's version of HC 2 days after i got my NC. I've been using it for roughly 2 months now. I didn't like the Nook app since it was first released last year i was unable to sync from my LG Ally so i couldn't use it on my PC as well, so i went with the Kindle App.
I switched over to MadCat's update Saturday and outside of a few quirks i like it a lot. It runs the latest version of the Kindle app as well.
nitrobass24 said:
Just got a NC a few weeks ago cause my wife wanted an ereader and I figured this would be a good opportunity to try an android device!
I would like to load CM7 as from my reading that appears the best rom for the NC. I have also read that running from SD cards provides mixed results regarding performance, so I was thinking I should load it to the emmc.
So my questions are
Can I load CM7 and still use the BN ereader app? My wife might kill me if she can't read her books! If so can someone point me to an android newb friendly guide?
If I cannot use the app what do you recommend I do? Is the kindle app any good compared to the BN native app?
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if you have a 8 gb micro sd card you can back up the whole stock rom and ut would run just like anything else on your sd card.
Nice choice since some of us like the magazine supprt that only the bn rom has.
Right now im dual booting rooted stock 1.2 and CM7 Nightly's on eMMC
works great and I love not having to switch out SD cards and being able to access the contents of the SD on both OS's.
If I Use Manual Nooter will my nook apps such as the angry birds that i can get the mighty eagle by going to the nook store stay backed up on my account or do i have to buy them again i know i can just get the apps from the market for free but i payed for these so ya please give me an answer i would like to have some other apps then the 300 something nook apps that there is available.
I would assume that anything you purchase via B&N--including NC apps--would remain available for you to re-download at any time from your account. It wouldn't make good business sense for BN to charge someone to re-download something they've already paid for. To be certain, I'd check BN website or give them a call! HTH
Bearnut2 said:
I would assume that anything you purchase via B&N--including NC apps--would remain available for you to re-download at any time from your account. It wouldn't make good business sense for BN to charge someone to re-download something they've already paid for. To be certain, I'd check BN website or give them a call! HTH
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i sent them an email if no response i will call thank you!
From my experience on using Manual Nooter yesterday on my gf's Nook Color all it did was root the phone and install a few additional apps(gapps, zeam launche, etc). It didn't erase anything already on the Nook Color.
gqkevyn said:
From my experience on using Manual Nooter yesterday on my gf's Nook Color all it did was root the phone and install a few additional apps(gapps, zeam launche, etc). It didn't erase anything already on the Nook Color.
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Thanks so much for clearing this up for me!
Also can you give me instructions on what exactly you did and was there apps already on there? like angry birds or something like that?
I already posted a question in one of the ongoing threads, hut wanted to ask a couple more things and figured a new topic would be appropriate.
First of all, are you able to assign side loaded apps to a child's profile in stock, or does it only "see" apps that were downloaded from b&n?
My MIL has offered to buy a Galaxy tab 2 for my son's 7th birthday. But I'm wondering if the HD might not be a better deal, especially if i can root it and install gapps on it.
How do the parental controls work on that. Both on stock and possibly on cm10.1, if i decided to do that to his HD.
I think that the Galaxy only comes with jelly bean 4.1, so wouldn't include profiles. Does anybody know what, if any parental controls are available on that?
Also, it might be possible to go with a specifically " kids" tablet like nabi, or something. Are there any recommendations regarding that, or is this question out of the scope of this forum?
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bpaulien said:
I already posted a question in one of the ongoing threads, hut wanted to ask a couple more things and figured a new topic would be appropriate.
First of all, are you able to assign side loaded apps to a child's profile in stock, or does it only "see" apps that were downloaded from b&n?
My MIL has offered to buy a Galaxy tab 2 for my son's 7th birthday. But I'm wondering if the HD might not be a better deal, especially if i can root it and install gapps on it.
How do the parental controls work on that. Both on stock and possibly on cm10.1, if i decided to do that to his HD.
I think that the Galaxy only comes with jelly bean 4.1, so wouldn't include profiles. Does anybody know what, if any parental controls are available on that?
Also, it might be possible to go with a specifically " kids" tablet like nabi, or something. Are there any recommendations regarding that, or is this question out of the scope of this forum?
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I couldn't get sideloaded apps to be controlled by Nook profiles, only nook apps.
Once rooted/gapped, there aren't any parental controls unless you download an app for that, e.g. kids place, to do that for you. No idea on other tablets.
dbh369 said:
I couldn't get sideloaded apps to be controlled by Nook profiles, only nook apps.
Once rooted/gapped, there aren't any parental controls unless you download an app for that, e.g. kids place, to do that for you. No idea on other tablets.
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Oh, that's interesting.... I didn't realize that rooting it would lose the parental controls. I might look into that other app you mentioned and see if it looks appropriate.
Thanks for your input.
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bpaulien said:
Oh, that's interesting.... I didn't realize that rooting it would lose the parental controls. I might look into that other app you mentioned and see if it looks appropriate.
Thanks for your input.
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It is not the rooting that causes the problem, it is installing third party apps not from B&N that the B&N parental controls cannot hide.
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I recently purchased a Nook HD and this is the first tablet I have owned. I am not sure what any of this lingo is about rooting and what. I know that two of my sisters have a really good amazon game on their nexus and I would like to have it. There is a version for Nook but its a terribly bastardized version. Is there a way for me to install amazon play store on this thing?
MonkeysUncleByMarriage said:
I recently purchased a Nook HD and this is the first tablet I have owned. I am not sure what any of this lingo is about rooting and what. I know that two of my sisters have a really good amazon game on their nexus and I would like to have it. There is a version for Nook but its a terribly bastardized version. Is there a way for me to install amazon play store on this thing?
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Yes, you need to go to my HD/HD+ CWM thread linked in my signature and install the gapps + extras zip. That will allow you to get apps from the Google Play Store and later, if you want, the Amazon Store. No need to root. Read item 1 and 3.
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leapinlar said:
Yes, you need to go to my HD/HD+ CWM thread linked in my signature and install the gapps + extras zip. That will allow you to get apps from the Google Play Store and later, if you want, the Amazon Store. No need to root. Read item 1 and 3.
Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10 on Hybri
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Thanks Leap, I read over it earlier today. Sounds like a pretty intensive process and I do lack your knowledge of how these work but I plan on trying it soon enough. Thanks so much for your help!
I'm new to the NST, but I'd love to get a time left to read customization like the Kindle has. Is this even possible?
blakeschiafone said:
I'm new to the NST, but I'd love to get a time left to read customization like the Kindle has. Is this even possible?
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the kindle app for android has that feature, it works in my tablet, try it in your rooted NST
Surely Kindle isn't the only option we have. I found an app on the Play store, Moon+ that has the feature you are asking for blackeschiafone. It is currently not available for Android 2.1 though. Does it normally take the Kindle app >15 minutes to scan my Nook library? I only have 8 books.
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