Nook Tablet or Nook Color?

by **lotus** » November 22nd, 2011, 8:09 pm

Anyone know if the Nook color can be rooted for Android? Going to be looking at one of these very soon, figured I might go for the tablet since it has twice the memory built in and already has Netflix and other apps ready to go.

by **Lambshot23** » November 22nd, 2011, 9:18 pm

Yes the Nook color can be rooted .... I believe Rabb has rooted his

by **rabb** » November 22nd, 2011, 10:46 pm

Yep, its easy as hell....love it

by **lotus** » November 23rd, 2011, 9:52 am

I may still go with the tablet because it has twice the memory built in and is more expandable. I'm guessing that it's probably also possible to jailbreak the tablet to a better version of Android as well. Pretty sure the tablet also has a faster processor.

by **mort1mer** » November 23rd, 2011, 10:26 am

Which tablet are you looking at?

I've read some places the Asus Transformer is going to be on sale over the holidays since the 2nd gen version is coming out soon.

I bought the transformer over the summer and have been happy so far.

by **lotus** » November 23rd, 2011, 10:40 am

Pretty sure I am only thinking about the Nook tablet at this point. It's smaller, cheaper and does pretty much all the things I want to do. Not to mention there is one of those giant B&N stores practically walking distance from here and they do lots of stuff in-store with Nook owners, including free support.

by **rabb** » November 23rd, 2011, 10:43 am

Lots of free books as well

by **rabb** » November 23rd, 2011, 11:40 am

Moving this to the Books forum, but here you go Lotus:

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthr ... ?t=1354487

It's a little more difficult than the rooting process for the Nook Color but it's been done

by **lotus** » November 23rd, 2011, 11:44 am

Awesome, thanks!

I will have to check it out to see if I really even need to do it since it runs some version of Android already. It's probably locked into their own marketplace and such, so I will likely want to offer it its freedom.

by **rabb** » November 23rd, 2011, 11:49 am

Yeah exactly, in my case I couldn't get certain apps I wanted so I did

by **lotus** » November 25th, 2011, 6:03 pm

I'm assuming this is a warranty-voiding act, correct?

by **YEM** » November 25th, 2011, 6:55 pm

I'm not as tech savvy as you fine, upstanding fellows when it comes to this rooting business. What exactly could I do if I rooted my nook? Surf the web and what else?

by **rabb** » November 25th, 2011, 7:20 pm

YEM wrote:I'm not as tech savvy as you fine, upstanding fellows when it comes to this rooting business. What exactly could I do if I rooted my nook? Surf the web and what else?

you get full access to the android market place, that's the real biggie. There are some other things, but this is the main draw for me since I can get apps on there I cannot get on the B&N marketplace.

And Lotus, yes you assume that risk.

by **lotus** » November 25th, 2011, 7:22 pm

I'm tinkering with it now. Looks like it blocks access to some popular apps like Facebook and Twitter, presumably to force you to use their browser or some such thing. I was reading over the instructions for rooting the Tablet and it looks like a manageable process but I will probably hold off for a while to see if I can live with what they offer. Already has netflix, hulu plus, web browser, etc installed.

by **rabb** » November 25th, 2011, 7:27 pm

also read a lot on what happens after for sure, I know I cannot get Netflix to work on my Nook Color yet but I haven't tried in a while

web worked fine for me before I rooted it, but what pissed me off was the pricing on B&N

Angry Birds for example was $2.99 when on the Android market it's $0