I am wondering if the NookHWTest app is a native B&N app. If so, why can we not see it in the Apps screen?
I have a Nook Tablet running 1.4.0 and have sideloaded Android Market and Go Launcher EX. They seem to work fine and I found the NookHWTest app listed in the apps that Go Launcher EX found on the tablet.
I am new at Android operating systems and the Nook Tablet.
Thank you in advance.
Have you opened it? To me it seems like a program for in-store diagnostic testing to make sure everything works. It's probably hidden because the normal user would have no need for it. That's my theory at least...
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pbolwahnn said:
I am wondering if the NookHWTest app is a native B&N app. If so, why can we not see it in the Apps screen?
I have a Nook Tablet running 1.4.0 and have sideloaded Android Market and Go Launcher EX. They seem to work fine and I found the NookHWTest app listed in the apps that Go Launcher EX found on the tablet.
I am new at Android operating systems and the Nook Tablet.
Thank you in advance.
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yea its a native bn app
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I have a fully rooted dual boot Nook Color and love it. I am interested in the Nook Tablet as well. I understand it has a locked bootloader so dual boot and custom ROMs aren't possible right now. I also understand it can be rooted and apps sideloaded.
Does anyone know if these apps will work on a Nook Tablet, rooted or otherwise?
Zinio
Pressreader
Spotify
Kindle for Android
NY Times and LA Times apps
Overdrive
Dropbox
Facebook
OfficeSuite
Slacker Radio
Hootsuite or Twitter
I am just trying to figure out if the Nook Tablet is worth upgrading to or if I am better off sticking with my Nook Color. Thank you!
ETA: I'm forced to wait 5 minutes to fix a typo? I understand the need to block spam, but that's really user unfriendly.
I have a non-rooted NT that I've tweaked to accept 3rd party apps. I've installed the Zinio, Kindle, Overdrive, and Dropbox apps on it, and they seem to run just fine. I say seem to because I haven't done a lot with them yet other than see if they'll open and run. They do and look like they'll run just fine.
Thanks for the reply! How did you tweak your NT?
SueW said:
Thanks for the reply! How did you tweak your NT?
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By following the directions in an article at liliputing.com ["How to Sideload Apps on the NOOK Tablet (Amazon Appstore, GO Launcher EX)"]
No rooting involved; just uncovering and enabling a setting. Pretty easy. From there, I either downloaded some apps from Amazon's app store or sideloaded them by copying the app files off my smartphone, sending them to my gmail account, and accessing my gmail account via the web browser. A bit time-consuming, but not very difficult to do.
Very helpful! Thanks so much.
When I rooted my Wife's NT it broke the stock email app. Is the APK floating around anywhere so I can re-install it?
Also, has anyone figured out how to get apps from the App Market or Amazon Market to show up in the Nook Library?
My wife like the Nook stock GUI but I can not seem to added new apps to it that are not purchased through the B&N Market...
I meant to post this in Q&A. Feel free to move it! Thanks!
bobapunk said:
When I rooted my Wife's NT it broke the stock email app. Is the APK floating around anywhere so I can re-install it?
Also, has anyone figured out how to get apps from the App Market or Amazon Market to show up in the Nook Library?
My wife like the Nook stock GUI but I can not seem to added new apps to it that are not purchased through the B&N Market...
I meant to post this in Q&A. Feel free to move it! Thanks!
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For the second part, yes.
Download Nook Color App Manager from the Market and launch it once. This will add it to your Nook Apps screen. You can then move it to one of the home screens (this, unfortunately, you have to do) and launch it from there. After that, you can select anything you've installed and add it to the stock Apps screen.
The only down side is that Market installed apps will not run from the My Apps screen. They have to be copied to one of the homescreens first.
Thanks the the tip on the "App Manager"
Strange that the app icons have to be launched from the home screen and not the "library". Any idea why it works that way?
I have rooted NT OS 1.4.0 with only the stock platform installed. How can I access third party appear EASILY? preferably from the home screen. Im able to access them through the browser but with difficulty. Please help
Sane116 said:
I have rooted NT OS 1.4.0 with only the stock platform installed. How can I access third party appear EASILY? preferably from the home screen. Im able to access them through the browser but with difficulty. Please help
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There is an app called AppManager which was used with the Nook Color which will put 3rd party apps on your default launcher home screen for the nook tablet without the use of a 3rd party launcher such as ADWlauncher for Go Launcher EX.
Download Nook Color App Manager from the Android Market. This will allow you to place 3rd party apps on the home screens.
or if you've installed apps and can't find them, hit the "n" key to bring up the menu bar and choose "search". Then start typing in the name of the app and it should come up, allowing you to start it that way.
merlot2k1 said:
Download Nook Color App Manager from the Android Market. This will allow you to place 3rd party apps on the home screens.
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is there another place we can get this, it is no longer available on the market.
I hate to revive an old thread. But I was reading through the NT how-to's and stuff and I came across the App Manager reference but it's not available on the market anymore. Is there another app or something we can do to get app shortcuts on the NT home screen?
A couple of seconds on Google gave me http://www.appszoom.com/android_applications/tools/nook-color-app-manager_ykey.html
It doesn't work on 1.4.3 though. 1.4.2 is fine.
That links back to the google play store that doesn't have it anymore. Anyone have the APK? The NT I have has 1.4.2 on it.
MadMikeSS said:
That links back to the google play store that doesn't have it anymore. Anyone have the APK? The NT I have has 1.4.2 on it.
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Ooops! Sorry! But do a Google and explore some search results and I'm confident you'll find it. I know I did last week without too much difficulty.
I received my Nook Tablet for Christmas, and of course the first thing I do is root it (using Nook&Zergy). Now that I have access to the market, I ask myself"wheres all the apps?" I assume that it was the Android market filter hiding incompatible apps. So later on I try to side load and get errors. So now I just want to know how to get apps to work? I also blocked OTA's.
[In a nutshell]
What I know:
-Nook runs tweaked Gingerbread
-Honeycomb app I try to install get a parseing error when I try to install(most likely do to api's)
-Market has limited app selection.
What I want to know:
- Is it possible to get Honey comb apps to run(for example adobe touch apps, sketchbook pro hd ect...)
-Why is the android market selection so limited
-What is a parsing error?
- If you have any more advice feel free to share
Thank you!
I'm having same issue
Im having the same problem. Google maps, Evernote, Facebook all do not show up in market. When I use the browser to access the market it says these apps are incompatible. Also words with friends installs and opens but doesn't show properly, the chat window overlaps the game board so you can't see it. Is this a dpi issue? I've seen other posts that maybe dpi needs to be changed to 160. If so, How is this done?
northcutt1023 said:
I received my Nook Tablet for Christmas, and of course the first thing I do is root it (using Nook&Zergy). Now that I have access to the market, I ask myself"wheres all the apps?" I assume that it was the Android market filter hiding incompatible apps. So later on I try to side load and get errors. So now I just want to know how to get apps to work? I also blocked OTA's.
[In a nutshell]
What I know:
-Nook runs tweaked Gingerbread
-Honeycomb app I try to install get a parseing error when I try to install(most likely do to api's)
-Market has limited app selection.
What I want to know:
- Is it possible to get Honey comb apps to run(for example adobe touch apps, sketchbook pro hd ect...)
-Why is the android market selection so limited
-What is a parsing error?
- If you have any more advice feel free to share
Thank you!
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Gingerbread can't run honeycomb apps. I have evernote and some other apps I have found through other sites, however i have not got facebook to run yet.
The apps are limited because of the fingerprint of the device, but people have spoofed the build.prop file to gain access to more of the market. See other threads.
I have facebook and twitter running on my rooted nook right now. I took the apks from my phone backups and put them in dropbox, downloaded and installed. (That was actually before I rooted) but they are working fine and the widgets work on the homescreens. I did that with all of the apps I wanted from my phone.
If this helps, I created a tutorial on how to download apps not showing up in the Marketplace.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1419382
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I have facebook and twitter running on my rooted nook right now. I took the apks from my phone backups and put them in dropbox, downloaded and installed. (That was actually before I rooted) but they are working fine and the widgets work on the homescreens. I did that with all of the apps I wanted from my phone.
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If you can share the apk for facebook, it would be greatly appreciated.
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HMG10 said:
If you can share the apk for facebook, it would be greatly appreciated.
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In the link posted by torrential below you can find what you need in the firsts posts of the thread
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so after i rooted my NT, i uninstalled all of B&N apps, because i thought i don't use them at all
but i recently remember the read-to-me feature on the nook tablet, it's really cool, and now i want to use it, but i don't know what app do i need to re-install to get it back?
i can get the apps from B&N here http://www.mediafire.com/?8ozuzhvke0jnf9q
but i don't know what apps i need to install. i installed home.apk, but it's just the default launcher, when i open a book, nothing happen, because there's no app to read book
help please
nooktablet said:
so after i rooted my NT, i uninstalled all of B&N apps, because i thought i don't use them at all
but i recently remember the read-to-me feature on the nook tablet, it's really cool, and now i want to use it, but i don't know what app do i need to re-install to get it back?
i can get the apps from B&N here http://www.mediafire.com/?8ozuzhvke0jnf9q
but i don't know what apps i need to install. i installed home.apk, but it's just the default launcher, when i open a book, nothing happen, because there's no app to read book
help please
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You could get another app to read books from the market. But I think B&N's default app was just called Reader.
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You could get another app to read books from the market. But I think B&N's default app was just called Reader.
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i can't find an app that has the feature "read to me" (NOOK Kids)
do you have any apps similar, i really like this feature,
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You could get another app to read books from the market. But I think B&N's default app was just called Reader.
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i just tried that Reader app. it works.
thank you very much