Color Nook Color: Suggested Apps For Your Rooted NOOKcolor

[Gdzhlpr]

Originally Posted by zartemis

I've now tried many of my favorite android apps from my EVO (still testing many more, believe it or not), but here are some of my personal must-have apps that mostly seem to work on the NookColo

Thanks for the awesome list, I think I've just downloaded 4, in a rush because I need to get my plug for nc. battery is draining, I'm sure it will get worse because of all these apps. the 15 apps looks interesting but I think I'm going to have to bite the bullet and learn how to side install as I do not see it on appbrain.

I cant wait to try out the aquarium looks like it is a pay app after 2 days so I'm waiting to dl'd tomorrow. I want to show off at a meeting , I'm also hoping to find a program like the forum one you suggested that will let me download and work offline like the net used to be! OMG I think I dated myself bigtime with that one. Does anyone remember the offline readers? I had one on my old 286 I think that was in MB!

I also noticed that not all email downloads so I need to play with that and the calendar to make sure it syncs the way I need it to.

So thanks to you and Scion and the other Nook Experts here for SHARING! and you actually posted links to each app! now that is above and beyond! Karma to you

[zetlorf]

Originally Posted by Ankaa

Skype is not working. What a pitty. I notice that the NC doesn't have a microphone, but I primarily use Skype for texting and would love to do that on the bigger keyboard than my iphone

Try https://imo.im/ and select Skype. It's working on my Kindle.

[jenniren]

Advanced Task Killer Free!

A must have for Android! It automatically kills all open apps and helps save on battery usage. I had it on my phone, and it works well on the rooted NC too!

[zartemis]

Originally Posted by jenniren

Advanced Task Killer Free!

A must have for Android! It automatically kills all open apps and helps save on battery usage. I had it on my phone, and it works well on the rooted NC too!

Actually, with Android 2.1 and above (and arguably earlier), automated task killers really do more harm than good. Android manages memory quite well -- it purposefully uses as much memory as possible to pre-load apps so things open fast for you. Having bits in memory does not use CPU or battery. Changing those bits (like a task killer will) does! It's not good having a process pulling out apps from memory willy nilly (which is what 'killing an open app' does), especially since Android will just load them back again later. Causes unreproducible rare but random force closes and the like.

[jenniren]

Really? I have had it on my phone since I got it and never had problems, but something to think about. Thanks =)

[jtpryan]

How did you get teamview to work? When I go to connect, it just closes. No error, just goes away.

[pogophile]

I'm at the tipping point; my wallet is trying to open itself to spring for a NC. And of course, being a compulsive tinker, it will get rooted straightaway.

I've now read all 30-some pages of this thread, and learned so much thanks to the generous sharing most of you do. A fair amount of the discussion has dealt with reader apps, and of course that is still the core functionality of the device, and what I most want the NC for.

But I am also a consumer of media in general, and there has been little or no discussion about other forms. My questions:

- How does this device do as a video player? What apps, if any, expand its capabilities for video?

- How about audio quality? Winamp has been listed among apps here, but I'd like to know about subjective audio quality, especially from any audiophiles in the group. I now have moderate hearing loss, and quality is even more important to me now than it was before.

[GreenMonkey]

Originally Posted by pogophile

I'm at the tipping point; my wallet is trying to open itself to spring for a NC. And of course, being a compulsive tinker, it will get rooted straightaway.

I've now read all 30-some pages of this thread, and learned so much thanks to the generous sharing most of you do. A fair amount of the discussion has dealt with reader apps, and of course that is still the core functionality of the device, and what I most want the NC for.

But I am also a consumer of media in general, and there has been little or no discussion about other forms. My questions:

- How does this device do as a video player? What apps, if any, expand its capabilities for video?

- How about audio quality? Winamp has been listed among apps here, but I'd like to know about subjective audio quality, especially from any audiophiles in the group. I now have moderate hearing loss, and quality is even more important to me now than it was before.

Video is limited to m4v at basically 480p resolution (720x480 IIRC?) Extended codec support would take a different kernel / driver build, I believe, and that kind of thing is still in development at XDA. Unless I'm wrong (I haven't read up on the Honeycomb build much).

I like Winamp a lot on the NC. I'm no audiophile though, especially for PMPs. I'm a skeptical home theater enthusiast.

[therealguppy]

Originally Posted by pogophile

I'm at the tipping point; my wallet is trying to open itself to spring for a NC. And of course, being a compulsive tinker, it will get rooted straightaway.

I've now read all 30-some pages of this thread, and learned so much thanks to the generous sharing most of you do. A fair amount of the discussion has dealt with reader apps, and of course that is still the core functionality of the device, and what I most want the NC for.

But I am also a consumer of media in general, and there has been little or no discussion about other forms. My questions:

- How does this device do as a video player? What apps, if any, expand its capabilities for video?

- How about audio quality? Winamp has been listed among apps here, but I'd like to know about subjective audio quality, especially from any audiophiles in the group. I now have moderate hearing loss, and quality is even more important to me now than it was before.

Audio Quality is just ok. Pretty much on par with phones using same Chipset. Not nearly as good as dedicated Audio players. Using the Right Headphones and or Speakers is key to this,

Using my High End Headphones I get a Very loud Noticeable Hum, anytime the sound is engaged. however using my cheaper Headphones that came with one of my Mp3 players this hum is pretty much gone, if there is completely silence then i can almost hear it.

I honestly not smart enough when it comes to sound engineering to know what this hum is or why its there. I do know that my iPod can also show this type of hum when using my good headphones, but its barely noticeable in dead silence. I assume apple did alot to minimize this type of problem.

While I'm sure the makers of the nook cared very little about sound.

Bottom line is, Nook wont win over any audiophiles, but for normal uses its fine with the right headphones. I would not suggest high end headphones for the nook as most people are reporting this terrible hum with them.

[Pushka]

I have a number of movies on my iphone; I copied one of them into the video folder and they play perfectly on the nook. Now I am waiting for a very large SD card to arrive to put them all on.

[pogophile]

Originally Posted by GreenMonkey

Video is limited to m4v at basically 480p resolution (720x480 IIRC?) Extended codec support would take a different kernel / driver build, I believe, and that kind of thing is still in development at XDA. Unless I'm wrong (I haven't read up on the Honeycomb build much).

I like Winamp a lot on the NC. I'm no audiophile though, especially for PMPs. I'm a skeptical home theater enthusiast.

Thanks for the input! This is what I've been wanting to learn about. I also belatedly noticed there is another thread talking about video issues in greater detail. The consensus seems to be that if an MP4 is properly formatted, the Nookcolour does a really good job with it.

The good folks behind VLC (so brilliant on Windows) are apparently working on an Android version, but given the platform variables, who knows if or how it will work for the NC.

I'm a Winamp fan, so I'm glad to hear it works well here.

[pogophile]

Originally Posted by therealguppy

Audio Quality is just ok. Pretty much on par with phones using same Chipset. Not nearly as good as dedicated Audio players. Using the Right Headphones and or Speakers is key to this,

Using my High End Headphones I get a Very loud Noticeable Hum, anytime the sound is engaged. however using my cheaper Headphones that came with one of my Mp3 players this hum is pretty much gone, if there is completely silence then i can almost hear it.

I honestly not smart enough when it comes to sound engineering to know what this hum is or why its there. I do know that my iPod can also show this type of hum when using my good headphones, but its barely noticeable in dead silence. I assume apple did alot to minimize this type of problem.

While I'm sure the makers of the nook cared very little about sound.

Bottom line is, Nook wont win over any audiophiles, but for normal uses its fine with the right headphones. I would not suggest high end headphones for the nook as most people are reporting this terrible hum with them.

Thanks for the info. The hum sounds like an issue, but I don't think I'll be listening to this as an audio device very often, and when I do it'll probably be in the confines of a noisy environment like an airplane, where the hum would likely be overwhelmed by similar frequencies. I have an assortment of plugs/phones with differing efficiencies, so I'll probably be able to get the sort of volume I need to watch video happily.

[rogerperk]

Originally Posted by gtriever

I did a thread search and couldn't find it mentioned, so here's another little tidbit:

If your phone will support infrastructure mode (and for you Droid X users it does), Wireless Tether for Root 2.0.6 and the NOOKcolor work very well together... so I'm told.

I just drove from Utah to California across beautiful Nevada. I teathered my NC to my phone using the HTC HD2 Moble Hotspot and it worked fine. Very cool to surf while in the middle of nowhere.

[Sanborn32]

when you d/l the nooter file its inside a compressed file..you have to extract it to a folder.

Everywhere I see, others have been able to install N64oid and Cordy on their Nook's. Not me. Both apps are telling me installation failed. My nook is rooted and I have copied an app from my Droid 2 to the Nook before. Any thoughts?