Yesterday I was tasked by my gf with the task of seeing if I could "make her tablet work like her other tablet" (ie the Nook HD+ needed to work like the Nexus 7 she had, because she cracked the screen on that one and now had to have access to her calendar).
I got it and my first response was to get to XDA-developers.com. I have an old Nook Color running CM7, and the girls are using Nook Tablets that are rooted and have just a standard generic Android tablet interface now, so I had done this before.
The typical process involves coming here, reading around, trying different things, lots of profanity because things never work right for me the first time, and then finally getting things right by reading a lot of the posts due to the hours of work put in by the developers and moderators contributing to this site.
Then I happily download everything, install it, and run off to put all kinds of things on it using the Google Play app once that is enabled.
It occurred to me I never thanked all the people that spent so much time and effort answering questions, dealing with the frustration, and putting threads together - because people like me read the threads of you helping other people so we never really need to post.
But I really appreciate the hours and days of work the moderators and people like verygreen and leapinlar (did I get the name right?) put into making it possible for people like myself to get all the value out of devices they (or their loved ones) have purchased.
The good news is that I got the tablet rooted and working, though I am still confused as to whether there is a version of Cyanogen that can be flashed to run on the internal ROM as the default OS, or whether we are currently all running that off sdcards for now and you are pretty much stuck using the default Nook HD+ OS with root and GApps enabled as the closest option for now. Is there an easy way to make that transition or do I have to remove root and everything else to go to CM10/equiv?
Thanks again for everything regardless,
Mike
I got it and my first response was to get to XDA-developers.com. I have an old Nook Color running CM7, and the girls are using Nook Tablets that are rooted and have just a standard generic Android tablet interface now, so I had done this before.
The typical process involves coming here, reading around, trying different things, lots of profanity because things never work right for me the first time, and then finally getting things right by reading a lot of the posts due to the hours of work put in by the developers and moderators contributing to this site.
Then I happily download everything, install it, and run off to put all kinds of things on it using the Google Play app once that is enabled.
It occurred to me I never thanked all the people that spent so much time and effort answering questions, dealing with the frustration, and putting threads together - because people like me read the threads of you helping other people so we never really need to post.
But I really appreciate the hours and days of work the moderators and people like verygreen and leapinlar (did I get the name right?) put into making it possible for people like myself to get all the value out of devices they (or their loved ones) have purchased.
The good news is that I got the tablet rooted and working, though I am still confused as to whether there is a version of Cyanogen that can be flashed to run on the internal ROM as the default OS, or whether we are currently all running that off sdcards for now and you are pretty much stuck using the default Nook HD+ OS with root and GApps enabled as the closest option for now. Is there an easy way to make that transition or do I have to remove root and everything else to go to CM10/equiv?
Thanks again for everything regardless,
Mike
