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Originally Posted by beartard
The apps are appealing only if you don't have a good smartphone that handles such things already. The performance issues (such as the recent battery drain issue) don't make a good case for softrooting.
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Yes, there are some users experiencing battery issues. But this happens on both sides (stock firmware and softroot). Since the softrooted firmware isn't any kind of magic, just the stock firmware without the lock-out and with a few additional apps, any bug in the stock firmware will also remain in the softrooted firmware (except from bugs in particular apps, which you won't use anymore since one of the additional apps offers a better solution). Most likely these issues are caused by an crashed app or process. Rebooting the nook will fix this, until the process crashes again.
Currently, there's a bug in Trook, causing an active WiFi connection as long as Trook runs. You need to exit Trook properly, to avoid draining the battery.
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Originally Posted by beartard
As with all Android bases, the best reasons for rooting is to get rid of "bloatware" put on the device by a carrier or manufacturer or to enable wi-fi tethering....which the nook user doesn't have to worry with in the first place.
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Most users are complaining about the poor managing features the stock library offers and the separation between "B&N Documents" and "My Documents". Alone by the fact that the Nookdevs-Library offers managing functions as well as one listing for all documents (and a cover flow even for sideloaded content), it's worth for most users to softroot their nook.
Or, to put it differently, where is the advantage of using the stock firmware? With softroot you can use any function the stock firmware offers, cause softroot is build on the current stock firmware, but if you like, you can use additional apps (Trook, File Manager, ...) or simply just much better apps (Nookdevs-Library).