Hi guys.
Yesterday I installed this firmware. Thanks to Darkker, Twll, Nomad and all friends that make nook such a good reader. Without you passing the knowledge, it would not be the same.
The installation is simple enough.
1) You need a rooted Nook. Mine was originally 1.5 (September 2010) which was upgraded to 1.7 and then rooted. The browser hack at NookDevs is easy enough to perform.
2) Get the 1.7 bravo update file from here
http://runserver.net/temp/bravo_update_1.7.0k.zip Unzip it to the root directory of Nook
3) Get the update application from here
http://runserver.net/nook/nookUpdate.apk
4) Connect to the nook by adb. Install nookUpdate.apk by "adb install nookUpdate.apk"
5) On the nook interface find the Update application and start it. It will begin the installation.
None of my books were lost. But my former rooted applications got lost.
Tips:
New library is ... not to my tastes. If you also think that way install library from Nookdevs. Again with adb install NookLibrary.apk
-You can put the fonts you want under /my fonts into three directories. I like Ubuntu font, it looks very good on Nook.
Detailed installation steps are here
http://twll.blogspot.com/p/nook-firm...rovements.html . Just put them according to the format, you need not change any system files.
-Whenever you open a file to read, you have two choices, Nomad Reader or (regular) Reader.
Nomad reader has many advantages:
-Finer font control. You may chose among 4 fonts.
-Finer font size/line space control. Finally you can chose your exact typography, playing with font sizes and types. You still have additonal five size selection to all these.
-Configurable full screen. In my setup full screen lets me have +3 lines (which is very good I think)
Problem:
With all these improvements, I have a problem.
Nomad reader interferes with book format. I could not understand why but once in ten pages or so it makes an unnecessary line feed.
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This may and may not be a show stopper for you. But times and times the effects are bigger, like a page break that was uncalled.
In a book I even came across missing pictures, which showed just fine with the regular reader while totally missing in the Nomad application.
You may come up with a middle way, like installing the Twll's version of reader, which also has full screen + configurable (but not as much as Nomad's) fonts.
Final words:
Total responsiveness and page refresh rate has improved.
Nomad is a very good reader. If anyone knows how to overcome the problem mentioned above, needless to use the regular one.
Thanks again for being such a nice community.