Cool when I get my nook if they havent updated it to my satisfaction then I will Root my nook too
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Guide to rooting the Nook with C7 OS just thought I would give people an update on the functionality of the Nookcolor. Utilizing the C7 Rom, I am getting twice the functionality that I had back in January when I initially purchased the tablet.
Since then I have gone from the initial Nook OS, to Adroid 2.2. Tinkered with Android 3.0, and finally found the cynogenmod OS that I linked above.
Robyn (Proud owner and user of a nookcolor)
Guide to rooting the Nook with C7 OS just thought I would give people an update on the functionality of the Nookcolor. Utilizing the C7 Rom, I am getting twice the functionality that I had back in January when I initially purchased the tablet.
Since then I have gone from the initial Nook OS, to Adroid 2.2. Tinkered with Android 3.0, and finally found the cynogenmod OS that I linked above.
Robyn (Proud owner and user of a nookcolor)
Further update. NOOKcolors now all run on Android 2.2, and there is a pretty nice PDF reader app that you can purchase from the NOOK APPs Store which handles Paizo PDFs way better than the built-in PDF reader. Much faster and more user friendly.
And all without having to do any rooting at all! ;-)
Further update. NOOKcolors now all run on Android 2.2, and there is a pretty nice PDF reader app that you can purchase from the NOOK APPs Store which handles Paizo PDFs way better than the built-in PDF reader. Much faster and more user friendly.And all without having to do any rooting at all! ;-)
Is that the ezPDF app or somesuch, I was gonna buy it myself to compare on my nook color. Also wondering if this will open some of the goodman pdf's correctly as they have been made with jpeg2000 compression.
If not, im hoping Foxit (to my knowledge the only mobile pdf reader with jpeg2000 capability) will soon show up as an app for the nook color. Foxit works on android, but not sure about how much functionality is on an unrooted nook color as opposed to a rooted one.
Is that the ezPDF app or somesuch, I was gonna buy it myself to compare on my nook color. Also wondering if this will open some of the goodman pdf's correctly as they have been made with jpeg2000 compression.
If not, im hoping Foxit (to my knowledge the only mobile pdf reader with jpeg2000 capability) will soon show up as an app for the nook color. Foxit works on android, but not sure about how much functionality is on an unrooted nook color as opposed to a rooted one.
Yeah, the ezPDF. One slight annoyance to keep in mind. As of right now, that app is not capable of reading PDFs off of the NOOK's internal memory. It will only read PDFs off of a microSD card. I knew this before I purchased it because people had mentioned it in the reviews, so there's your heads up.
Thanks Joseph Wilson :)
I'll hold off on the ezPDF for now and continue using my iPhone for most of my PDF reading. Goodreader is fantastic, iBooks is ok but neither read PDFs correctly with jpeg2000. Hopefully we'll see an app like Foxit Reader for iPhone/iPad soon.
Currently the nook colors built in reader is ok for Paizo PDFs so I'm happy overall. I hope the next incarnation PF the nook color will have more processing power. The tiny iPhone is faster with PDFs in general.
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Yeah, the ezPDF. One slight annoyance to keep in mind. As of right now, that app is not capable of reading PDFs off of the NOOK's internal memory. It will only read PDFs off of a microSD card. I knew this before I purchased it because people had mentioned it in the reviews, so there's your heads up.
Really? I never noticed. Then again, I don't store anything on the Nook Color's internal memory. I guess I wouldn't consider this an annoyance simply because there's no reason you have to run off of internal memory as even a 4GB SD card is about $5. Everything can be popped over to the SD card with absolutely zero effort and it's no problem to read it.
Sunderstone, if this is why you're holding off. Don't.
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one thing that you need to keep in mind is that the Nook simply does not have the hardware power of the upper end tablets, it runs a strip-down device who's main purpose is to sell B&N epubs which typically have little to no text and graphics, very much like the Kindle. As I also understand it the Nook runs a heavily modified.. i.e. stripped down version of the Android OS, a deficiency that rooting it will not bypass.
Nook software is also available as a standalone download on the Android market.
While I understand that the processing power of the Nook Color isn't spectacular, the problem isn't Nook Color specific. Reading a PDF on any of the mobile device processors is an effort in pain these days. I also have a Tegra 2 dual processor device and trying to read Chapter 3 of the Inner Sea World Guide is probably the most painful thing I've ever experienced on a mobile device.
As it stands, processing power is not yet up to snuff in trying to read the graphics heavy PDFs Paizo puts out. Just look at how slow a reasonable laptop with a mid-range processor can be in reading PDFs, the mobile processors are going to be factors worse, regardless of whether they're "underpowered" or not.
Now, as for the processor, yes this is sort-of true. While it's not possible to wipe the device clean, it's perfectly possible to stick CyanogenMod over on the SD card and run the entire OS from that, so the OS itself isn't the problem.