Hey guys, well I just picked me up a Nook Color this past Wednesday and I'm already in love with it! I've had a couple other tablets before - iPad and tried out the Kindle Fire - but neither seemed to really give me what I wanted. iPad was too big and bulky, wanted something smaller and more portable. Tried the Kindle Fire, but wasn't impressed with it at all, returned it within 12 hours of purchasing it from WalMart. It was a good e-reader, but that was about it. Of course, I guess that's it's main purpose.
So I decided to give the Nook Color a try. Even as a simple e-reader it was already better than the Kindle Fire in so many ways. And the nerd in me couldn't wait to get online and search out some "secrets" of what I could do with it. Within a few hours of purchasing the NC, I learned about the ability to "root" or change the OS to make it a full function tablet. I'm techy, but I'm not familiar with Android devices at all - I have primarily always used iPhone and this would be my second Android device (after using the Infuse 4G for maybe a month). So instead of doing the whole root thing myself, I decided to go the easy (maybe the noob) route and order the sd card off Amazon for about 14 bucks and do the dual boot. It came in the mail today, and I've been having a ball with it! To be able to do everything a Tab or Xoom can do (minus the camera of course) at more than half the price was definitely something I got excited about. And then of course, when I wanna go back to normal e-reader mode and read some of the books I loaded previously, just gotta reboot and *BAM* I'm back on stock with an amazing e-reader.
I'm very very very VERY happy with my investment here, and I really love this device more than I can say, and it's barely been two days! I do, however have a couple of questions that maybe you can help me with ...
1. I've noticed that sometimes when I wake the NC back up, after it's been off a while, it'll give me a "Failure to Authenticate with Google Talk" notification, and after that the Market won't download any apps. I've searched a little and kinda found a work around that I have to clear the data on Google Service Framework and then reboot device and it'll work again. That kinda seems like an annoying workaround to have to do a lot -- does anyone know a permanent fix to this issue? I'm running 2.3.7 on CM7 is that helps any.
2. Before I used the sd card to do this, I loaded about 15 books on the Nook Color via usb from my laptop and I have them all stored on the internal memory of the Nook. I tried to sideload them to the memory card earlier, but it says unable to open. They're epub file format. They're not purchased from B&N so they're not on the Nook App if I download that from the Market. Is there any ways to access those 15 or so books when I'm in Android mode from the internal memory? If so, how can I view them?
3. Same situation as #2 except with documents (word files). I'm a youth pastor, and one of the main reasons I wanted a small portable tablet was to upload my sermon notes on there and just read them off of the Nook while I preach rather than carry a bunch of papers with me. While using the e-reader stock OS, it's very beautifully done - but when I attempt to view a document in the Android OS, it also says cannot be viewed.
#2 and #3 aren't really BIG deals, because since I have the dual boot, I can always just reboot to stock and access those files/books anytime I want with the way it was intended and get exactly what I want out of the tablet. I was just wondering if there was an easy way to do that without having to reboot.
But aside from those three questions, are there any suggestions or advice anyone can give me to do with this tablet that would make it even more awesome? lol. Pardon my noob'ness, and I'm sorry for the extremely long post here, haha. Thanks in advance!!
So I decided to give the Nook Color a try. Even as a simple e-reader it was already better than the Kindle Fire in so many ways. And the nerd in me couldn't wait to get online and search out some "secrets" of what I could do with it. Within a few hours of purchasing the NC, I learned about the ability to "root" or change the OS to make it a full function tablet. I'm techy, but I'm not familiar with Android devices at all - I have primarily always used iPhone and this would be my second Android device (after using the Infuse 4G for maybe a month). So instead of doing the whole root thing myself, I decided to go the easy (maybe the noob) route and order the sd card off Amazon for about 14 bucks and do the dual boot. It came in the mail today, and I've been having a ball with it! To be able to do everything a Tab or Xoom can do (minus the camera of course) at more than half the price was definitely something I got excited about. And then of course, when I wanna go back to normal e-reader mode and read some of the books I loaded previously, just gotta reboot and *BAM* I'm back on stock with an amazing e-reader.
I'm very very very VERY happy with my investment here, and I really love this device more than I can say, and it's barely been two days! I do, however have a couple of questions that maybe you can help me with ...
1. I've noticed that sometimes when I wake the NC back up, after it's been off a while, it'll give me a "Failure to Authenticate with Google Talk" notification, and after that the Market won't download any apps. I've searched a little and kinda found a work around that I have to clear the data on Google Service Framework and then reboot device and it'll work again. That kinda seems like an annoying workaround to have to do a lot -- does anyone know a permanent fix to this issue? I'm running 2.3.7 on CM7 is that helps any.
2. Before I used the sd card to do this, I loaded about 15 books on the Nook Color via usb from my laptop and I have them all stored on the internal memory of the Nook. I tried to sideload them to the memory card earlier, but it says unable to open. They're epub file format. They're not purchased from B&N so they're not on the Nook App if I download that from the Market. Is there any ways to access those 15 or so books when I'm in Android mode from the internal memory? If so, how can I view them?
3. Same situation as #2 except with documents (word files). I'm a youth pastor, and one of the main reasons I wanted a small portable tablet was to upload my sermon notes on there and just read them off of the Nook while I preach rather than carry a bunch of papers with me. While using the e-reader stock OS, it's very beautifully done - but when I attempt to view a document in the Android OS, it also says cannot be viewed.
#2 and #3 aren't really BIG deals, because since I have the dual boot, I can always just reboot to stock and access those files/books anytime I want with the way it was intended and get exactly what I want out of the tablet. I was just wondering if there was an easy way to do that without having to reboot.
But aside from those three questions, are there any suggestions or advice anyone can give me to do with this tablet that would make it even more awesome? lol. Pardon my noob'ness, and I'm sorry for the extremely long post here, haha. Thanks in advance!!
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