Hey I'm not ashamed, sometimes you got to have the right motivation. For me it was a better nook experience. As a browser and an eReader a rooted nook is okay, but is still very lacking. B&N has made it an effort to really cripple the OS making it hard to get around the OS and made it difficult for standard OS apps to work.
So finally I decided to give "nookie"(Android Froyo 2.2 for the nook) a try and see if it could make the nook a pleasant experience.
It's made it an awesome experience. Things just work, stuff I struggled/tweaked on the to get to work on nook stock just work out of the box.
Anyhow I grabbed an extra SD Micro card, just in case I still could fall back to the root nook. And followed NookDevs Nookie instructions to the "T"
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Burning a bootable SD card. (Not needed for those that know how)
Off the bat Android will work and setting up a WIFI connection is very easy.
Nookie Froyo Tips to get the following items to work on my nook.
- Softkeys
- Google Apps (Market, Gmail, Contacts, Calendar, Facebook, Tweeter, Maps...)
- Adobe Flash
- Access to a longer list of apps
- more...
Now I'm loving my new nook. Truly this is what I was hoping to get with the slew of new Android tablets. Except I've got mine for only $250.
Also those who have been hesitant, they can try "Nookie" out w/o rooting their nook.
*Actually the only change to this is that I used Root Explorer instead of using "ADB" ( I could not get "ADB" to work) to get the Google Apps to work I had to copy them over with Root Explorer and change the permissions for each file.
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