Hey all- I'm a new Nook Color convert, actually my wife will be the one as I'm getting this as a gift for her for Valentine's day. I just made the purchase online so that I could take advantage of the free case/cover deal with it (unfortunately they don't offer rainchecks per the ad's fine print otherwise I would have got one in store).
Just had a few questions for those of you who have gone before me on this and use this tablet daily:
1) I just bought this micro sd for running Nookie on the NC since it was a great price, had decent reviews, and is a class 10: Amazon.com: Kingmax 8GB MicroSDHC Class 10 High Performance Flash Memory Card 8 GB - Retail Package: Electronics I have had issues with 'cheap' cards in the past though that corrupted. Once I get a stable build of NC running with apps, screens, and accounts configured correctly, what is the best way to create a 1 to 1 exact backup of the card just in case the card corrupts at some point? I'm on OSX, can I use carbon copy cloner to do this, any suggestions?
2) What's the best way to ensure that BN updates are turned off on the device? I want to make sure that when I give this to my wife she won't accidentally have the device update and then ruin the Nookie SD card install. Is there any way to safeguard against this? When running Nookie vis SD do you even have to go through the intial B&N setup on the device or can you just pop the SD card in from the get go and have it work out of the gate?
3) A few main apps that I know my wife will use is WordFeud, YouVersion Bible (because it has offline versions now), OverDrive Media Console (for checking out books from local library digitally), Doodle Jump, Live Holdem, Rdio, Pandora, AudioGalaxy. Can any of you confirm that these work on the NC using Nookie? I'm especially interested in hearing if OverDrive works as this = tons of free ebooks and audiobooks since our local library is hooked in to it big time.
4) What are the major advantages of running Android natively on the internal memory over running it just via Nookie on the SD card? Obviously speed is probably the biggest thing, but is it THAT much faster then running it off of a Class 10 SD card? Would running it natively on the internal memory prevent it from receiving a B&N update?
Thanks guys and gals I really appreciate any help you can provide on this subject!
-S
Just had a few questions for those of you who have gone before me on this and use this tablet daily:
1) I just bought this micro sd for running Nookie on the NC since it was a great price, had decent reviews, and is a class 10: Amazon.com: Kingmax 8GB MicroSDHC Class 10 High Performance Flash Memory Card 8 GB - Retail Package: Electronics I have had issues with 'cheap' cards in the past though that corrupted. Once I get a stable build of NC running with apps, screens, and accounts configured correctly, what is the best way to create a 1 to 1 exact backup of the card just in case the card corrupts at some point? I'm on OSX, can I use carbon copy cloner to do this, any suggestions?
2) What's the best way to ensure that BN updates are turned off on the device? I want to make sure that when I give this to my wife she won't accidentally have the device update and then ruin the Nookie SD card install. Is there any way to safeguard against this? When running Nookie vis SD do you even have to go through the intial B&N setup on the device or can you just pop the SD card in from the get go and have it work out of the gate?
3) A few main apps that I know my wife will use is WordFeud, YouVersion Bible (because it has offline versions now), OverDrive Media Console (for checking out books from local library digitally), Doodle Jump, Live Holdem, Rdio, Pandora, AudioGalaxy. Can any of you confirm that these work on the NC using Nookie? I'm especially interested in hearing if OverDrive works as this = tons of free ebooks and audiobooks since our local library is hooked in to it big time.
4) What are the major advantages of running Android natively on the internal memory over running it just via Nookie on the SD card? Obviously speed is probably the biggest thing, but is it THAT much faster then running it off of a Class 10 SD card? Would running it natively on the internal memory prevent it from receiving a B&N update?
Thanks guys and gals I really appreciate any help you can provide on this subject!
-S