If anyone is shopping for a Nook Color...

[MagickMan]

A friend of mine was thinking about that, upgrading the NC to Froyo, overclocking them, and then turning around and selling them for a $75 premium. Problem is warranty and support.

 

[KDOG]

Doesn't even have to be that. Just come up with a complete package you simply download to the card on your PC, put it in the nook, turn it on and let it go until its done.

 

[xCxStylex]

Got mine Friday, played with it all weekend. Ran some no hassle rom that included a ton of common apps I would have installed anyway.

It's the one from "xboxexpert" on youtube, where you can download the rom but he asks for a $50 (yeah WTF???) donation to his paypal for his installation instructions. You can, however, find his thread on XDA with the instructions, which are piss easy to follow and took me less than 10 minutes to do, excluding download time.

If anyone needs, I can dig up that thread.

Its running froyo and I've experienced no issues at all. The only issue I've experienced is with the nook's hardware (or im told, software) of how its kind of unresponsive when you click on corners.

Best $250 ever. I bought a screen protector in store, and had the guy who was selling nooks put it on for me.

 

[SunnyD]

I tried the eMMC for both the froyo and the CM7. Someone could make a mint off of people like me on upgrading these Nooks for a small fee...

Ah, ok. The eMMC one has to be flashed onto the nook itself. You'll need to root and install RomManager. I suggest trying NookieFroyo for SDCard first. Use WinImage to write to your MicroSD card, then pop it into your Nook and power it on. It will automatically boot to Froyo, and you won't need to worry about flashing your nook's internal memory at all. To get back to "stock", just power off, take the SD card out, and power on.

 

[senseamp]

for eMMC, is CM7 better than Nookie Froyo, since it's Gingerbread? Any major issues with CM7? Does it support all the apps and Flash?

 

[OrByte]

bought one of these from a seller on the FSFT board. This is a great piece of hardware for the price.

touch screen is a bit finnicky, but I'm sure that will be straightened out in future releases.

I'm learning all I can about Android OS (longtime apple/iphone user) it is a perfect blend of hands-on tweakability and smooth ui handling.

It is fun!

Before I go emmc I'll wait for CM7/HC to mature. Right now I've got Nookie Froyo running on SD.

 

[s44]

Before I go emmc I'll wait for CM7/HC to mature. Right now I've got Nookie Froyo running on SD.

Set up dual-boot and keep your experimental setup in the alternate slot.

 

[poofyhairguy]

for eMMC, is CM7 better than Nookie Froyo, since it's Gingerbread? Any major issues with CM7? Does it support all the apps and Flash?

The major problem with CM7 is that the DSP is broken. That means anything that needs more than CPU for video is broken (aka the HQ Youtube app, and that sample I posted earlier). Things that can rely on the CPU still work (aka Flash and playing divx).

The minor problem with CM7 is that its a fast moving target (almost daily updates) so there is no obvious "stable" version like with Froyo. Once the newer kernel is ported to CM7 I expect this to change, hopefully within a month.

 

[poofyhairguy]

Doesn't even have to be that. Just come up with a complete package you simply download to the card on your PC, put it in the nook, turn it on and let it go until its done.

You still have to support people though. First time they ran into an app that required some hacking to work you would be in trouble...

 

[MagickMan]

I wish the Nookie Froyo installer had a progress indicator.

It... takes... sooo... long...

 

[MagickMan]

Screw running from SD, go direct to eMMC! Damn the torpedoes, full steam ahead!

 

[poofyhairguy]

SD is slower anyway. It FLYES on eMMC.....

 

[SunnyD]

SD is slower anyway. It FLYES on eMMC.....

I'm using a class 4 2gb card. Boots right up in seconds, not seeing/feeling any lag. Why bother?

 

[poofyhairguy]

I'm using a class 4 2gb card. Boots right up in seconds, not seeing/feeling any lag. Why bother?

I had a 8GB Class 10 card I ran off of for a few days. Even with that highly rated card, once I installed to eMMC it was like night and day.

If you feel safer using the SD though there is no harm in that.

 

[slag]

A friend of mine was thinking about that, upgrading the NC to Froyo, overclocking them, and then turning around and selling them for a $75 premium. Problem is warranty and support.

There's a guy on our local craigslist who did that. Or is trying to do that. I laugh every time I see his "ad" for offering to root your nook color for $50.00 or selling one for $320. It takes literally 5 minutes to root a nook color using autonooter and then works great. I'm mostly retarded and did it without any issues. Maybe he's doing a lot of them, maybe not, but this is not something anyone should have to pay for.

 

[Ns1]

There's a guy on our local craigslist who did that. Or is trying to do that. I laugh every time I see his "ad" for offering to root your nook color for $50.00 or selling one for $320. It takes literally 5 minutes to root a nook color using autonooter and then works great. I'm mostly retarded and did it without any issues. Maybe he's doing a lot of them, maybe not, but this is not something anyone should have to pay for.

some guy is making a killing on eBay selling $50 SD cards



related:

Who wants to sell me a color nook for $200?

=D

 

[notposting]

Got mine today. Hopefully can get Froyo on it tonight before going to bed (ugh up at 4am everyday makes nights a lot shorter). Working on making a backup of the stock install and then the rooted stock install first.

 

[MagickMan]

I have it setup with Nookie Froyo, but the wireless keeps turning itself off and on. It's driving me ape shit.

 

[JD50]

I just upgraded from cm7 n12 to n13. After doing once I don't think it could possibly be any easier. Put the nightly .zip on my bootable microsd, put the microsd in the nook, reboot into cwr, wipe the cache, flash the .zip and reboot. I didnt even have to reinstall or reconfigure anything, but now the market works properly.

 

[poofyhairguy]

I have it setup with Nookie Froyo, but the wireless keeps turning itself off and on. It's driving me ape shit.

I use the free program soft-locker to fix that.

 

[MagickMan]

Anyone want to help an old guy out with a quick and easy overclock guide for eMMC Froyo? Most of those sites out there assume quite a bit, or think that everyone runs Linux.

 

[sciwizam]

I read during the initial setup process, there's a non mandatory step involving creating an Barnes and Noble account. What are the downsides of not doing it, as I doubt I'll ever buy anything related to the e-reader stuff.

 

[gorcorps]

I read during the initial setup process, there's a non mandatory step involving creating an Barnes and Noble account. What are the downsides of not doing it, as I doubt I'll ever buy anything related to the e-reader stuff.

The real question is, why try to circumvent it? It's a free account that is always logged in to your device (you don't have to log in to do stuff other that purchase things) and you just have to sign up once. It then makes things like warranty claims and such easier. Plus there's tons of free ebooks online that you may one day might want to use. If you lose it or it gets stolen they have your serial # on file which you can use to file a police report or w/e, but also it can help B&N track it down if the person who stole it tries to register it to their own account.

There's really no downside to doing it.

 

[AnitaPeterson]

I strongly suggest that we should create a sticky thread in this forum, with step-by-step instructions on how to tweak the Nook Color, compiled and written by the best and brightest minds of AT.

 

[poofyhairguy]

Anyone want to help an old guy out with a quick and easy overclock guide for eMMC Froyo? Most of those sites out there assume quite a bit, or think that everyone runs Linux.

If you use the eMMC version I linked to then you already have the overclocked kernel (installing that kernel is the hard part). All you need to do is install SetCPU (either install the free apk or buy the $2 version from the market), set the frequency to 1.1GHZ, then tell SetCPU to start on boot....