Nook Tablet might have been overshadowed in the media because of the amazing success of the Kindle Fire but we cannot deny the fact that its an equally powerful tablet and once the custom ROMs now start to pour in, it will for sure be an attractive choice for all the hackers/modders/tweakers out there – the same way once Nook Color was. With such an active community hard at work at XDA forum to unleash the new exciting features for Nook Tablet there is no doubt about the bright future of this tablet. We already brought you the guide to Read More >
Nook Tablet is the latest entry in the cheap Android tablets arena released by the B&N in an attempt to compete with the popular Kindle Fire. It’s the successor of the very popular but now obsolete Nook Color that we all used to love. Its available for only $249 and comes loaded with a 1GHz dual-core processor with a small 7-inch screen with 1024×600 resolution IPS display as well as 16GB internal storage. It comes packaged with B&N branded version of the Android 2.3 Gingerbread as well. We have already brought you a guide on how to root the Nook Read More >
Nook Color has to be one of the most popular tablets of the yester years long before we were hit by the awesome Kindle Fire. It was quick hit with the system tweakers and modders after its release, and since then we have seen a plethora of custom Android ROM installation guides ranging from Gingerbread, MIUI, CyanogenMod among other ROM and not to mention many system and performance tweaks. Although, more recently our beloved single-core and underpowered Nook Color has been overshadowed by the more recent competition – e.g. release of Kindle Fire which is dual-core and is available at Read More >
Amazon Kindle Fire is now available for quite some time and not doubt has gained a lot of love from Android users that needed an inexpensive yet full functional feature-rich tablet. Kindle Fire is an amazing dual-core tablet at a rather unbelievable price-point of $200. In fact, according to some recent reports it has become THE best sold Android tablet and overall second only to the industry benchmark Apple iPad. This really tells something to us – that users love quality tablets that cut minimal corners to meet the low price-points. No wonder that such a low price point for Read More >
Previously we brought you a detailed guide on rooting the Nook Color 1.2. Since then some further development has taken place and B&N has released a new 1.3 firmware for the Nook Color. And here is the updated guide for rooting this 1.3 firmware on the Nook Color. Note that apart from rooting this method also installs GApps and Market. Although there are still some issues here & there so keep them in mind (take a look in the issues section). Here is the step by step method to root your Nook Color on 1.3 (all credit goes to the Read More >
We all know and love the Nook Color from the B&N which has become extremely popular in the past and still is because of a number of reasons. But most important reason include a decent hardware packed in to a sleek 7-inch tablet for a very low price of around $250. And the other important thing going for it is the insane amount of rooting, customization etc. possibilities available for the Nook Color from the developers community to transform it to an ultimate Android powered tablet. If you look at the Nook Color section on our website you will see Read More >
MIUI is a customized version of the Android, developed originally by some Chinese developers aimed at the Chinese market. Originally it was only available for a handful of devices including the HTC Desire, but since then has been ported to many more with the English translated versions. It has been available both in Froyo (Android 2.2) and Gingerbread (Android 2.3) flavors. From the last few months interest in this heavily customized build of Android has grown considerably. Now there are ports available for many popular device including HTC Desire, HTC Desire HD, Motorola Droid, HTC HD2, HTC DesireZ, Samsung Galaxy Read More >
If you are trying to run the Netflix on your Nook Color then this is a God send. An application developed by the XDA forum member brianf21 for the CM7 (CyanogenMod 7) users. It will update the /system/build.prop file on your Nook Color. More specifically it changes the ro.product.manufacturer=bn to ro.product.manufacturer=HTC. It also allows to revert the change. Device must be rebooted for the change to take effect. SDCard users might have to update the Busybox in order to make it work. You can download this app called Nook Odds and Ends.apk from here. Actually its essentially a script wrapped Read More >
A few weeks has passed since the last time we talked about the newly released Nook Touch (NT) by the B&N and mentioned that it has been hacked by a guy named JesusFreke! The first thing that he did after the rooting was the installation of Angry Birds and have some fun! For those who don’t know Nook Touch is a cheap E-Reader with monochrome screen suitable for book reading in the same league as the Amazon Kindle. At that time the rooting process was manual and pretty complicated particularly for the novice users. But no more! as a new Read More >
Well, its not exactly something new but I only noticed it recently that xboxexpert from XDA forums has provided the Nookcolor USB drivers, and drivers for other components of the device to properly install and setup ADB in Windows (Windows XP, Vista, 7). Drivers are around 6MB in size. You can get the USB drivers file here. During Nookcolor setup you need to use the provided drivers. In the attached zip file a .bat file is present (after extraction) that you need to run and will provide all the instructions. Contents from the .bat file are also embedded below: @echo Read More >
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