Roms for the Nook Tablet 8gb with 1gb ram?
ok i guess im new here, i decided to pick up one of these nook tablets 8gb 1gb of ram, mostly to root rom and what not... i see that CyMod 10 is out on nightly and that was my plan... but i see that it may only support the nook tablet with 8gb of ram and 512 of memory... welp the tablet is on the way... i just hope i can find a rom that will support it.. i hope the 8gb ram and 1gb memory ones are not orphan... meaning there is no on going roms and kernals and stuff for them...
i already have a rooted tf101
and a rooted Minix x5 android tv box so im not completely clueless... but i just did not research the nook tablet with 8gb 1gb ram well enough to know for shure.
edit: posted this in the wrong section before... dont ya hate newbs?
I wasn't even aware there existed an 8GB with 1GB RAM. Are you sure that's what you have? If it's indeed has 1 GB RAM it should be a 16 GB model. CHeck your model no again. BN250 is the 16GB and BN250A is the 8GB.
asawi said:
I wasn't even aware there existed an 8GB with 1GB RAM. Are you sure that's what you have? If it's indeed has 1 GB RAM it should be a 16 GB model. CHeck your model no again. BN250 is the 16GB and BN250A is the 8GB.
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Nope,
BN250A=16gb/1gb ram
BN250=8gb/512mb ram
demetris_I said:
Nope,
BN250A=16gb/1gb ram
BN250=8gb/512mb ram
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I''m pretty sure it's the other way around with 250 being the 16GB and 250A being the 8GB.
asawi said:
I''m pretty sure it's the other way around with 250 being the 16GB and 250A being the 8GB.
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Yeap you are right
I re-read the back it has the 250-A on it but under them model is without the -A so 250!
Sorry for missinforming.
demetris_I said:
Yeap you are right
I re-read the back it has the 250-A on it but under them model is without the -A so 250!
Sorry for missinforming.
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well, seems the advert was in error... i decided to hunt a bit and see if i could find a 16gb for around the same price... it was 10 bucks more but heck... i wanted 1 gb of ram and i just wanted something to wait out the release of the new nexus 7... and i wanted to have something that had a dev community behind it.... so.. no sale 1saleaday.... i got my money back...they did not even argue!!! just refund... i cannot stand it when some online store gets the specs wrong on a device... i will never use them again... looking forward to the new old tablet though... and all the rooting and romming stuff..
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greetings, i am a noob *sorry newb*! so go ahead and scream at me if you wish (that video had me rotfl), i bet you can't say anything to me that i haven't heard allready from people in Everquest, World of Warcraft, and League of Legends.
A friend introduced me to Xda when I was consitering buying a nook and he explained the concept of rooting.
Anyway, my question revolves around the half the ram on the new nook tablet. Assuming that there is no problems with rooting it, how much will half the ram effect the system?
I thought seeing the $50 price slash was a godsend, 8gig of storage i can live without, besides, its upgradeable if i really need it, but half the ram? whats the point of sticking on a faster processer if your gonna gut the ram?
can anyone give me an opinon as to if this is worth the price slash? or is $50 worth the extra ram?
its not half the RAM... its half the Storage. Which unless you are going to do some advanced partitioning you probably won't get much use out of anyway.
You pretty much have to get an external micro-SD card for these anyway as B&N only makes 1GB of the internal storage easily available.
Short answer... yeah its pretty much worth it. You can find 32gb cards online For $35 so you won't be missing much.
Sent from my Atrix 4G running CM9.
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I cannot say whether or not it is worth it, because I have no experience with any other Android tablets besides the Nook, but I can confirm according to its website that is does have half the ram as well as half the storage. 8 GB storage and 512k ram.
Beldan4 said:
greetings, i am a noob *sorry newb*! so go ahead and scream at me if you wish (that video had me rotfl), i bet you can't say anything to me that i haven't heard allready from people in Everquest, World of Warcraft, and League of Legends.
A friend introduced me to Xda when I was consitering buying a nook and he explained the concept of rooting.
Anyway, my question revolves around the half the ram on the new nook tablet. Assuming that there is no problems with rooting it, how much will half the ram effect the system?
I thought seeing the $50 price slash was a godsend, 8gig of storage i can live without, besides, its upgradeable if i really need it, but half the ram? whats the point of sticking on a faster processer if your gonna gut the ram?
can anyone give me an opinon as to if this is worth the price slash? or is $50 worth the extra ram?
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You may have noticed in the video that this forum is stricter than others. It's mainly to keep things from getting repeated and to save people time, though, and it works nicely that way. Developing is hard work. BTW, no one's head is gonna explode about this, but questions like this are probably best off in the Q&A section.
So, to answer your question, the RAM is halved, the storage is more readily accessible but also halved... is it worth the $50 dollars you save? Sure! It has the same specs and price of the Kindle fire, but with SD storage as well, and the Fire works just fine with 512 mb of RAM.
beatphreek said:
its not half the RAM... its half the Storage. Which unless you are going to do some advanced partitioning you probably won't get much use out of anyway.
You pretty much have to get an external micro-SD card for these anyway as B&N only makes 1GB of the internal storage easily available.
Short answer... yeah its pretty much worth it. You can find 32gb cards online For $35 so you won't be missing much.
Sent from my Atrix 4G running CM9.
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No the RAM is indeed halved. All of the mainstream tech sites are reporting this, it's not a rumor.
As for partitioning, Nook Tabs are veeery picky about partition schemes,nso that's kinda dangerous. But the current alpha of CM7 gets you better access to the storage, and future releases are planned to allow full access.
my appolgies. tis a problem i usualy have figuring out which forum to post in, this seemed like the likely canidate since there were allready so many posts about the nook tablet 8gb. I will try to keep in mind that this is for tech questions only.
Thank-you very much for the feedback.
For $50 twice the ram and more storage (at least when you put CM7 on it). it seems easily worth it.
My opinion - definitely not worth it.
I got CM7 running on it, and I can see just how important it is.
You won't be running BN's ROM forever, and when you switch to CM7 (with CM9 coming soon, it seems), you really gonna wish you had that RAM, trust me.
I bought a NT last week on Ebay from B&N for $199. Not sure if they are still on sale, but you might check.
If it was a 1GB RAM / 8 GB storage deal, I'd have said the Kindle Fire had some real competition.
As it is, I'd definitely go for the 16 GB version. Not because of the extra storage, but those extra 512 MB in RAM are going to make a difference down the road. What was B&N thinking? Their real advantage over the Fire (RAM) is now gone!
Personally I'd shell out the extra few bucks for the RAM as well. If it were just the storage being reduced, I'd go with it, but the RAM is too important, imo.
fjhuerta said:
If it was a 1GB RAM / 8 GB storage deal, I'd have said the Kindle Fire had some real competition.
As it is, I'd definitely go for the 16 GB version. Not because of the extra storage, but those extra 512 MB in RAM are going to make a difference down the road. What was B&N thinking? Their real advantage over the Fire (RAM) is now gone!
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They're thinking that many consumers don't seem to know or care about the RAM (or other advantages of the Nook hardware), they just look at the price tag and $199 for the Fire beats $249. I hope it helps, though they've got a mountain to climb to overcome the Amazon ecosystem and Appstore.
With half the RAM and half the storage, NT loses most of it's advantages over Kindle Fire. The only advantage left is the microsd slot.
If I had to pick between 8GB NT and Kindle Fire, I'd take the fire because it offers more 'out of the box' content.
I totally stand corrected. I only saw the storage was being halved... yeah if the RAM is indeed halved then $50 is not a good enough discount for both of those hits.
If only I'd known this 2 days ago when I bought an 8GB version while being in the USA... Figured the 8GB less flash wasn't a big deal if you're using an SD card anyway, and not knowing about the RAM I "saved" some bucks. Now I'm back in Belgium with an 8GB Nook, with half the RAM too, and at the moment unable to run CM... Great
Anyway, I hope someone can get it to root and/or run CM soon!
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rootability (at least currently) also looks questionable
I certainly don't know the NT well, but I just helped my father in law get a 8GB tablet configured for its basic functionality. I'd like to be able to set it up to run non-BN sanctioned android apps, and from what I have found there is currently no known way to put go launcher or something similar in place that will allow it to be used for general android apps. This is a huge drawback, IMO. Hopefully in a reasonable time there will be some workarounds, but from the searches I have done, this is not currently doable. If anyone knows otherwise, please let me know.
My father-in-law didn't want to put up the extra 50 bucks and I didn't realize at the time that there was much difference other than the extra storage. I had just assumed that with a 32GB SD card that it would be more than enough memory, but it seems there are other issues since it uses the new 1.4.2 OS too. It looks like B&N is deadset to make sure users can't use it for anything other than their apps. I'm thinking that he should just return the 8GB NT and go for the 16GB version instead.
They have figured out how to boot off an SD card for the 8G, now they are moving that over to the rooting SD versions and the recovery versions.
It will take a little bit of time but I think we will see a lot of progress in this next week.
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I certainly don't know the NT well, but I just helped my father in law get a 8GB tablet configured for its basic functionality. I'd like to be able to set it up to run non-BN sanctioned android apps, and from what I have found there is currently no known way to put go launcher or something similar in place that will allow it to be used for general android apps. This is a huge drawback, IMO. Hopefully in a reasonable time there will be some workarounds, but from the searches I have done, this is not currently doable. If anyone knows otherwise, please let me know.
My father-in-law didn't want to put up the extra 50 bucks and I didn't realize at the time that there was much difference other than the extra storage. I had just assumed that with a 32GB SD card that it would be more than enough memory, but it seems there are other issues since it uses the new 1.4.2 OS too. It looks like B&N is deadset to make sure users can't use it for anything other than their apps. I'm thinking that he should just return the 8GB NT and go for the 16GB version instead.
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Lychii said:
With half the RAM and half the storage, NT loses most of it's advantages over Kindle Fire. The only advantage left is the microsd slot.
If I had to pick between 8GB NT and Kindle Fire, I'd take the fire because it offers more 'out of the box' content.
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I actually agree very much with this. The Kindle Fire's also ahead in terms of custom ROMs since it's not locked up. I chose the Nook Tablet (16 GB version) because I could buy it from my school bookstore and also use it with textbooks from my school.
If you have to choose between 8GB Nook Tab and 16GB Nook Tab, go with the 16 GB one. But if you're choosing between an 8GB Nook Tab and a Kindle Fire, I'd go with the Fire.
RAM use vs storage??
beatphreek said:
I totally stand corrected. I only saw the storage was being halved... yeah if the RAM is indeed halved then $50 is not a good enough discount for both of those hits.
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What is the issue with ram vs storage? Sorry for such a newb question (I am a brand new B), but I don't know what the ram is dedicated for. Is it for OS only?
drt4nrg said:
What is the issue with ram vs storage? Sorry for such a newb question (I am a brand new B), but I don't know what the ram is dedicated for. Is it for OS only?
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Okay, this is a common misconception about computer storage vs. memory. They're not really the same thing, although the words used to describe them are very similar.
RAM/Memory = How much your computer can keep loaded up temporarily. Think of it as how much someone could be thinking about at once - RAM is important for a computer or device to be able to multi-task.
Storage/Disk space = How much information a computer can recall. Think of it as how much someone could remember.
Now, storage allows you to have more files on your device, but RAM allows your device to be more powerful and run more applications at once.
Is the phone reserving space for system files?:0
Actually your internal is 8 gb.
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justcookiesncream said:
Is the phone reserving space for system files?:0
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Yes, from what i read at other sections, your phone specs says 16gb internal memory but 8gb is being used as your phone partition. So yea, you can only use 8gb of it.
xy7z said:
Yes, from what i read at other sections, your phone specs says 16gb internal memory but 8gb is being used as your phone partition. So yea, you can only use 8gb of it.
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Ahhhhhh.. That explains:0 But half is quite an amount to take away from us
justcookiesncream said:
Ahhhhhh.. That explains:0 But half is quite an amount to take away from us
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Indeed it is. On the Droid 3, which has 16GB of space, around 11GB of it is usable if I remember correctly (too lazy to boot my D3 up right now and check. I think it's dead and needs to be charged anyways...).
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Ahhhhhh.. That explains:0 But half is quite an amount to take away from us
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I assume most of that was used on webtop, but since ICS webtop it's just ICS in tablet mode so... Why don't repartition and give us 10 - 11 GB?
Aelyus said:
I assume most of that was used on webtop, but since ICS webtop it's just ICS in tablet mode so... Why don't repartition and give us 10 - 11 GB?
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I also wonder why. 10 or 11 gb could be nice for gamer like me.:thumbup:
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Just keep in mind that your phone supports the newish 64gb micro-sdxc cards. Shop around, keep an eye out and you'll find it on sale. They were at best Buy for $50 a few weeks ago. I paid $70 for mine a couple months back
stoopid partitions
Aelyus said:
I assume most of that was used on webtop, but since ICS webtop it's just ICS in tablet mode so... Why don't repartition and give us 10 - 11 GB?
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Actually, Motorola partitioned the RAZR to use up almost 1/2 of the internal space for the OS and applications. Then they "generously" give you the rest as storage. I personally don't mind it because I barely use the 32GB on my phone, but if I didn't have that space, I would be rather upset.
Hello, i recently bought a certified pre owned nook tablet from ebay. B&N was selling it on ebay. It was advertised as 16 gb. So i just got it today and the box does say that it is 16 gb. And also, in the about info of the nook it says that it is BNTV250. But when i check the storage info it says that 5.91 gb is for B&N content while it says 8gb is for other content. So my question is, is my nook tablet 8gb or 16gb. And how do i know if it has 1gb of ram. Thats the important thing to me anyway and not much the storage capacity. Hope someone can help. Thanks. On the back of the device it says model no: BNTV250, IC: 8961A-BNTV250A, FFC ID: XHHBNTV250-A.
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Hello, i recently bought a certified pre owned nook tablet from ebay. B&N was selling it on ebay. It was advertised as 16 gb. So i just got it today and the box does say that it is 16 gb. And also, in the about info of the nook it says that it is BNTV250. But when i check the storage info it says that 5.91 gb is for B&N content while it says 8gb is for other content. So my question is, is my nook tablet 8gb or 16gb. And how do i know if it has 1gb of ram. Thats the important thing to me anyway and not much the storage capacity. Hope someone can help. Thanks. On the back of the device it says model no: BNTV250, IC: 8961A-BNTV250A, FFC ID: XHHBNTV250-A.
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You have a 16GB tablet with 1GB RAM. The other ~2GB or so of storage is being used up by the many other partitions that are necessary to make the device function.
Solar.Plexus said:
You have a 16GB tablet with 1GB RAM. The other ~2GB or so of storage is being used up by the many other partitions that are necessary to make the device function.
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yeah man i also read on B&N support site that 5gb for B&N, and 8GB for other content setup means that it was re partitioned at B&N stores.
Thanks, so yeah to everyone else who has a similar issue. I do have a 16GB nook tablet thanks!
I got 2 nook tablet offers, one 8 gig for 8, one 16 gig for 105, what's the better deal? I just want to install android and read kindle books and light browsing, no major work.
I'd go for the 16 GB. It's not just the storage that's different, it's RAM memory as well.
asawi said:
I'd go for the 16 GB. It's not just the storage that's different, it's RAM memory as well.
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Owner doesn't know the version he bought, how can I tell if it's the 8 or 16 gig version by looking at the box?
He wants 70 bucks for it.
please help
I bought a pantech element for 160 but if the nook is better I'll take it back.
I don't have my box any more, so I don't know where info is. Probably on a label at the back, if it's not clearly stated on the front.
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I don't have my box any more, so I don't know where info is. Probably on a label at the back, if it's not clearly stated on the front.
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crap!!
What do you think about the pantech element? I know it's not popular but you think I should return in and get this guy's nook tablet?
I don't know anything about the Pantech, but looking at specs it looks good to me. I like the actual look of it as well.
asawi said:
I don't know anything about the Pantech, but looking at specs it looks good to me. I like the actual look of it as well.
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thanks, I may just keep it then, the guy didn't have a nook tablet he had a nook color and was trying to sell it.
Craigslist people smh
128 or 512?
What exactly do you mean? Both are available but I suppose the 128GB version is much more widely used due to the 200$ surcharge for the 512GB version.
regenwurm16 said:
What exactly do you mean? Both are available but I suppose the 128GB version is much more widely used due to the 200$ surcharge for the 512GB version.
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sorry, I'm Spanish, I wanted to ask only what is the model we have? of 128 or 512?
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sorry, I'm Spanish, I wanted to ask only what is the model we have? of 128 or 512?
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I believe you are curious what model others have. I think most buy the 128. What model do you have?
Tesla74 said:
I believe you are curious what model others have. I think most buy the 128. What model do you have?
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Me 128
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sorry, I'm Spanish, I wanted to ask only what is the model we have? of 128 or 512?
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As I tried to point out, I suppose the majority will most probably have the 128 GB model because the 512 GB costs 200$ more and offers no real added value because who needs 512 GB of storage on a phone?
Additionally the 512 GB version wasn't in stock at first/released later I think
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i opted to get the 512GB. i knew 128 gigs wasn't going to be enough for me. unfortunately i destroyed my screen while out to eat and am waiting on getting it repaired.
Mine is 128gb.
Last phone was s7 with 128 memory, and the whole 2 years I had it, it didn't reach 100 gb mark, so i think more than 128 for me is overkill.
I would suggest just using a flash drive and otg it
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As I tried to point out, I suppose the majority will most probably have the 128 GB model because the 512 GB costs 200$ more and offers no real added value because who needs 512 GB of storage on a phone?
Additionally the 512 GB version wasn't in stock at first/released later I think
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Thanks friend
Idunnowhyimhere said:
i opted to get the 512GB. i knew 128 gigs wasn't going to be enough for me. unfortunately i destroyed my screen while out to eat and am waiting on getting it repaired.
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Is it that fragile?
128GB
128GB for me too, don't think I'll need more than that. I'll just store stuff off on the cloud if I do need more later on. Or maybe get that dock that has the SD card attachment.
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Is it that fragile?
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honestly i dont know. the drop punched a circle through my glass screen protector and completely shattered and destroyed what i assume to be my digitizer. and the nearest asus repair center is three states away from where i am in the USA
Everything I do on the phone is mainly streamed or stored in the cloud I just went for the 128gb version as the only things taking up a little space are the handful of games. Always been fine with the 128gb iPhones and iPads so never needed more.