Do you own a Barnes & Noble Nook Color or Nook Tablet? If so, perhaps you've wished for a way to stretch beyond Barnes & Noble's custom OS to enjoy a more traditional tablet experience -- and run whatever apps you want to run, not just those curated by B&N.
N2A Cards has long offered such a way: a bootable microSD card that transforms the Nook into a real Android tablet, complete with the Google Play store and everything.
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Originally, that option limited you to Android 2.3, aka Gingerbread, but N2A Cards now offers a bootable Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean) card for both the Nook Color and the Nook Tablet. Even better, you can download an image file to create your own bootable card, an option that should save you money -- and possibly some time, as well.
For example, it costs $29.99 for an 8GB N2A Card, $39.99 for the 16GB version, $64.99 for the 32GB version, and $84.99 for the 64GB card.
But the N2A Card download costs only $19.99. Then all you need is a compatible microSD card of your own, which can usually be had for much less. (Note: According to the developer, PNY and Kingston cards are not compatible. You'll need an A-Data Class 10, SanDisk Class 4/10, or Transcend Class 10 card.) Thus, if you don't mind the extra step of imaging your card, you stand to save some cash. And you won't have to wait for your N2A Card to be delivered; you can get up and running in an hour or so.
I just test-drove the download option on a SanDisk 8GB card. Although the setup instructions recommend using your Nook as the card reader, I popped mine into an SD adapter and plugged it directly into my PC's SD slot. The N2A Cards installer worked just fine with that configuration.
After maybe 30 minutes, it finished writing the image to the card. I then inserted it into my Nook Tablet, powered up (while holding down the 'N' button), and waited a few minutes for the initial setup to complete. When it did, presto: my Nook was now running Android 4.1, with nearly all the bells and whistles therein.
I'm sure many readers will point out (rightly so) that you can accomplish much the same thing on your own for free. But that takes some know-how, and there's little support to be had if things go wrong. Here you're getting a bootable card (which you can remove if you want to return to the Nook OS, no harm done) that's already configured with the popular CyanogenMod version of Android. It's literally a plug-and-play solution.
Whether you buy one of the preconfigured cards or create one yourself using the download option, I think you'll really like running Jelly Bean on your Nook. Minus a few hardware bells and whistles, it's the equivalent of having a Google Nexus 7.
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Nook Color, which is an Android e-book reader which is worth approximately $250 can now be rooted so that you can now install advanced applications and games as per your needs and that too without any limitations. So let’s proceed for a step by step rooting process of Nook color. Before we proceed for rooting this device, make sure that you have Nook Color, a minimum of 64MB or higher microSD card with a USB cable for connecting Nook color with your computer.
Procedure to Root the Nook Color:
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- Now, after extracting the files with WinRAR or even WinZip, insert microSD card to your PC and write the extracted image content on to the microSD card.
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- For Windows Users :Write using Winimage
- For Linux Users follow the below mentioned procedure:
– Firstly, Launch the terminal and un mounts the microSD card preferably run as root.
– Now, navigate to the directory where you have extracted the zip contents of the downloaded file,
# umount /dev/<sdcard>
Where <sdcard> stands for microSD card. Now, just replace with your card’s name in this is it. Also, most importantly make sure that you’re writing to your sd card and not on your hard disk!
# dd if=nooter_sdcard_40mb.img of=/dev/<sdcard>
- After done with the writing, simply eject the microSD card from your PC.
- Now, after ejecting the sd card safely you will have to shut down your Nook completely and then insert microSD card into your Nook Color device.
- Now, you will have to connect the Nook color with your computer with the help of USB cable.
- After connecting, Nook will boot the microSD and then you will see that your computer recognizes the new USB device and will automatically start installing it. Also, note that in Windows, your PC may say about missing drivers. Just ignore it and just wait for 30 seconds so that script makes the necessary changes which will enable ADB.
- Now, unplug the USB cable from your Nook, remove microSD card and just reboot Nook Color by holding down the power button continuously for 15 seconds.
- Now again connect the USB cable to Nook and computer and you will find that firmware will get modified so that it enables ADB connections. Since Nook is newer than ADB, you will need to update the ADB ini files before ADB detects the same. Note that the NC vendor id is 0×2080.To update the drivers just follow the below mentioned simple instructions.
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For Linux and Mac: Put the Nook Color vendor id in the adb_usb file with the following command as mentioned below:
sudo sh -c “mkdir -p ~/.android; echo 0×2080 > ~/.android/adb_usb.ini; adb kill-server; adb devices”
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This is it, you can now go ahead and install the apk files on your Nook color using ADB in the SDK without any hassles. So to install the applications and games on your Nook color next time, just run the command using ADB that is adb install package.apk where package .apk of the app is the app which you wish to install.