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It's still deplorable. Your comments of android being a work in progress may be true on a philosophical level, but the device, as sold, with AndroidOS 2.3 as modified by B&N is the product being discussed. It doesn't have multi-user accounts.

Reset the unit to factory standard and put it in the box, it is an option under 'settings' and will return it to the "as-purchased state" with all data wiped. Then decide if you're returning it or wrapping it to give to your your wife. In the future, consider letting the person receiving the...

By design, yes - most apps are not programmed to fully stop themselves - they remain resident in memory in case you return to that app - it reduces load times and allows content viewing sites (news readers, downloading the newest emails, periodic alerting tools, etc) to work in the background so...

It sounds like you want to have some form of screen locker in place so when you power back up (or unsleep) you have to enter a code or a pattern. This prevents unauthorized access to your personal tablet. You should be able to activate it from the settings menu. Concerning multiple logins...

Close in spec? x2 the memory x2 the storage +uSD card +microphone

There are utilities that boost the volume of the speaker, and provided you don't move the slider all the way to the right - they work very well. Alternatively, use headphones.

When I log into the forums, I usually go to the "Tablet" link in order to get to the B&N NC forums (the search doesn't always work at the kiosks I use). Can this forum (B&N NT) also be added to the tablets page?

I can sideload my epub library to the Nook without an issue. I cannot inject anything into the Kindle Fire, I have to buy it from Amazon. There is also the 'hidden' cost of Amazon Prime. Each device has to have a person with an Amazon Prime account. If you don't already have such an account...

B&N Nook Color Data/Charging Cable: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/s/nook-color-cable?keyword=nook+color+cable&store=ebook

Don't have Swype, but have had good luck with the FlexT9 keyboard, which has a swype-like option (among others).

One household member needs a prime account in order for the entire household to benefit from A-Prime. Once you get to an individual electronic device, such as a Fire, you suddenly need one A-Prime account per person. Therefor it is entirely appropriate to include the price of A-Prime in the...

Be aware: If you plan on keeping the B&N Nook funcitonality, it won't work so well in Europe since purchases need to be made in the US borders and with a US account. If you plan on just flashing CM7 to the emmc, you'll be fine.

You have to install it separately from CM7, which is as hard as going to the market and downlaoding it.

Amazon's prices seem too good to be true, until you do some math. First, for the Touches, they only advertise the 'with special offers' (aka advertising) models. Tack on $40 for a Kindle that doesn't act like a billboard. Second, for the Fire, everyone seems to be overlooking the $79/year...

Indeed Market DID update on its own, so reverting (a few times actually) did the trick eventually. Do we know why the market claims the nook color cannot run the B&N Nook app?

I recently installed CM7.1/n198 on an SD card (Sandisc 16G class 2) and have been happy wih everything except one thing. I am unable to download the Nook App (2.7.2) from the market, which claims I am not installing from a compatible device. Since this is a clean install (gapps...

That isn't really how Android 'thinks'. Are you in Nook Stock or in some form of modification? If you are in Nook Stock, you might be able to put documents into the reader similar to a sideloaded book. Otherwise, in order to open a document (data), you first need to be in the application that...

I routely see Craigslistings in my area of people offering prebuilt dualbooting ROMs for $50. A little sad if you ask me.

Still no invite,is there something we have to set on our end?

Yes please: [email protected] (if that wasn't obvious...)

I'm wary of the 1 amp output, though that looks useful for when you're on the go or travelling. The 2.1 amp permenant household solution means I can create a charging dock in my office with very little fuss.

Thinkgeek recently reviewed a replacement wall plug that can supply up to 2.1 amps over a USB port. Seems like a perfect fit for where you charge your nook color! http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/travelpower/e81a/?pfm=Search&t=U-Socket%20USB%20Wallplug

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=914690

When you burn an OS to a card, you are actually burning the OS to one partition of many on that physical card. Typically you'll still have a large partition called 'SDCARD' which acts like an SD card, but is still on the same physical card. So moving files from 'phone' to 'SDCARD' just changes...

B&N isn't authorized to sell outside of the USA, so I doubt it. If you try and they do, please check in and let us know.

After having two of these break, I have now put a piece of shrink tube around the connector to give it some strength and stability, and have had no issue since doing so.

In the settings of the application you can put in multiple email accounts. Poke around the options section, it should be readily apparent.

B&N is a licensed bookseller only in the United States, and that's pretty clearly spelled out in their User Guide, Appendix B: http://img1.imagesbn.com/PImages/nook/encore/apps/mediakit/userguide_NOOKcolor_110425.pdf (page 121) The big requirement is that you have a billing address in the...

If you're running CM7 and they haven't fixed the 'battery sleep' issue (not sure if they have yet or not) then there's not much of a difference. If you want to guarentee that the 'n' doesn't wake the machine up, the only real way to do that is via a full powerdown of the system. Alternatively...

Turn the nook 180 degrees in the cover?

Every app that runs on my Android devices that forces to landscape does it in the orientation where the power button is 'down' (and the nook 'n' is to the right). I believe that is an app thing, not an OS thing. How is one any different from another?

All Nooks have wifi, some have 3G. You can sideload books from your PC with the cable. Can you be more specific about not being 'allowed' to have wifi? If this is an employer then they will likely have similar issues with a computer in their space.

What ROM are you using? What programs have 'keep screen alive' do you run? How bright is your screen? Screen/wifi burn most of the power in this - so minimizing them helps battery life considerably. I had one game (HexDefense) that prefers to run in maximum brightness and burned through the...

I don't know that you can stop one of the 4 inputs from waking up the hardware, but... You can define the 'n' button to do something that doesn't offend you and set your screen to sleep after a very brief moment (15 seconds). Why do you want to change the hardward button behavior?

That was my plan too, but Win32DiskImager did NOT make a clean, bootable image for me on my 64 bit Windows Vista PC. I consider it unreliable now. Great for burning known good images to the card, but I don't trust it making an image of an existing card. -=-=- As to backing up - Titanium and...

Radio Shack has ALL of the SanDisk cards on sale until 5/14.

I decided to take the burned ROM from my experiment and build it up. I lose some Angry Birds levels but all of the important stuff is cloud-stored and I'll have to re-enter wireless passwords when I find hot spots, but that's ok. I also pulled down Titanium Backup/Dropbox, but wasn't able to...

I can post the benchmarks later (assuming I actually saved them) but the difference between a SanDisk 8GB/4 and a Transcend 8GB/6 is night and day. When I benchmarked both cards, the difference was about x60, which means that operations that used to take minutes now take seconds. Thank you for...

UPDATE: Formatted SD card and tried again - fail. Formatted SD card and flashed my original ROM as published - SUCCESS Of course, now I have nothing installed, but it's a start and it's not the card. Conclusion: Win32DiskImager is not creating a proper image for me on the Vista 64 PC. Sigh...

That thread is on my watchlist and when/if the CM7 sleep issue and battery life while resting issues are ironed out, I'll probably make the jump. In the meantime, I have a short time to get a 'good enough' solution in place that I can rely on. Once I have such a card built, I can start...

Interesting news with Windows Installer, I'll probably give that a try. Of course I'm planning on recapping this machine into a Windows 7 environment (and blowing away a lot of the slow clagginess it's developed lately) but that's another story. In the meantime, if I do the repartitioning...

I'll give that a try when I'm with the machines again. For the record, I tried to image to the card: 1) Without formatting it 2) After formatting it from the Windows Vista 64 PC 3) After formatting it from the Nook Color I came very close to booting Ubuntu on the PC and checking the partitions...

I've done this for a number of different ROMs, all on SD card installs in the same Nook color unit. If I've paid for it (or "paid" for it due to the freebie of the day from Amazon) from either Amazon or Google's markets then I can download the app again without issue. If it was a FREE App...

Old card: Transcend 8GB/Class 6 New card: SanDisk 8GB/Class 4 {purchased sealed from Radio Shack} I am trying to 'downgrade' the card class based on another thread indicating that higher random Write numbers are preferrable. I've benchmarked both of these cards and the SanDisk (new) has a much...

I have a working copy of Nook Froyo Customized (0.6.8/v4) on an uSD card (Transcend 8GB/class 6). It is a dual boot enabled image so I can press 'n' to boot onto the card and not press 'n' to boot onto the emmc. I use Win32DiskImager (v 0.2) to read an image of the card to my PC. I use...

I had the same thing happen to my Nook, and I've been fairly regular at the local brick and mortar B&N the last month or two (1 hour book read and various purchases and stuff). So I took the cable in and showed it to them. They took that one and handed me a new cable. 'tis my suspicion that...

Which cache? In order to get market working I deleted the google frameworks / market information. Is there a different cache to clear? Do you mean Dalvik? On v4 there was the nookie-froyo tool to let me clear the 'dalvik-cache' - haven't been able to find that in the v6 release. The updated...

I hope this isn't a death knell for NFYC 0.6.8! :eek: I like the look and feel of NFYC SD v6, but the reboots and widget errors mean I can't use it as a standard application. I've also noticed that 'Cell Standby' is chewing up a lot of battery power (at least in the battery report), which is...

I'm finally able to post in the dev section! I too am having some issues (including a boot back to stock), as detailed here in the Q&A section: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1060671 I'm running on a Transcend 8GB/class 6, but I don't think the card is the problem. I'm about...

My wireless and display usually duked it out for top honors of battery usage. Of course I tend to run with my display all the way down in brightness and I'm banging on the wireless a lot when I'm doing set up (and having to redownload 20-30 apps from Market and Amazon). I'm still wrestling...