Slow?

[mypupdaisy]

Wife just bought me a Nook Color Friday (3/12). I ran out and got a 4GB micro SD, put Honeycomb on it and really enjoy the whole experience.

Now the question: When I want to read email, load a app, or read Google RSS feeds from one of the apps, it is REALLY slow, this even includes the Nook Reader app. Will this get considerably faster if I move the OS from the SD to internal memory?

Next: Any way to setup dual booting from Nook OS vs Honeycomb on the SD so I don't have to pull the SD out all the time. It's very small and I'm old. Hard to get a good grip on it.

Thanks for the info in advance.

 

[dpakrr]

hey its usually recommended that you atleast use an 8gb microsd for HC. its alright that you managed to squeeze it onto a 4gb card.

the next question is the class of your card. minimum recommended is a class 6 card. the 'class' indicates the speed, so a class 4 is 4mb/s, 6 is 6mb/s and so on.

i wouldnt recommend HC on the eMMC. it isnt quite stable yet to be used as a daily driver. i would suggest just getting a better class microsd for HC, atleast till a stable HC comes out which can be used as a daily driver and flashed on the eMMC

 

[mypupdaisy]

What would you recommend if not HC?

 

[mypupdaisy]

Ok, I got a 8GB MicroSDHC Class 6 ($12.99... what a deal). Which Android works best right now on the Nook?

 

[dpakrr]

woah that is a great deal. good job!

since u got a better microsd now, you might as well run HC. let me know if you notice any speed difference.

if its still slow, my suggestion would be CyanogenMod 7 (the latest one even has got bluetooth working a little bit), and overclock it to 1.1GHz. android 2.1, 2.2 and 2.3 can be stably overclocked to 1.1GHz on the nookcolor (HC is a hit and a miss on overclock) and it will be breezing fast. but you know, HC has got its novelty factor

 

[mypupdaisy]

Thank you! Nice part is, as long as your running off the SD... try try again. If I don't like it, simply put a different image on the SD and boot up again.