Been out of the game for awhile and wanted to get some input. I have an existing NC that I am replacing with an 8GB Nook Tablet I just bought on eBay. (Touch screen of NC has become unresponsive.)
We use the tablet as an "information station" in the kitchen - time, calendar, weather, news, etc. - so there aren't many apps used besides various widgets and Chrome. Needs to be stable and responsive with a fairly recent version of Android. Any thoughts on the best/easiest ROM for my needs?
Decent ROM for 8gb Nook Tablet
christoman said:
Been out of the game for awhile and wanted to get some input. I have an existing NC that I am replacing with an 8GB Nook Tablet I just bought on eBay. (Touch screen of NC has become unresponsive.)
We use the tablet as an "information station" in the kitchen - time, calendar, weather, news, etc. - so there aren't many apps used besides various widgets and Chrome. Needs to be stable and responsive with a fairly recent version of Android. Any thoughts on the best/easiest ROM for my needs?
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cm-11-20141112-SNAPSHOT-M12-acclaim.zip is pretty decent
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I was surprised by how little apps were available for Android Tablets.
I know Honeycomb hasn't been out long, but it is somewhat disappointed to see that few newspapers and other video streaming gigs haven't really taken advantage of the larger screen. The Android market is not doing a good job either at pointing out the best for Tablet. There is just a little section in the Homepage.
My personal list of requests for the Tablet S:
-Netflix
-HBO GO (choppy on dolphin broswer with flash)
-The Economist for Tablets
-whathappened to the stock Weather/News Widget?
Need to be improved in resolution/layout
-Watch ESPN
-NY Times App is far too simple
Please share.
Have a look here http://www.androidtablets.net/forum/honeycomb/15096-optimized-honeycomb-apps-list.html
Nice, thanks.
I'm still hoping for a few big names.
Its silly that Netflix worked on my 10.1 but not my Tablet S, obviously one is Android 3.1 and the other 3.2. I really miss using it though.
The only reason to get an iOS device. I want to get a Honeycomb tablet
I'm looking forward to cm7. (I need adhock networking support built in.) I only have the 16gb model touchpad. I probably will run cm7 exclusively due to space limitations.
I haven't used android/cm7. I'm curious what I'm likely to miss from webos if anything? Maybe someone who has cm7 on the nook color maybe be able to offer some insight?
Games are a lower priority for me. Right now I use the tablet mostly for web surfing with flash, email, calendar, google docs, and google music beta. Does CM7/android offer better a better user experience my purposes?
got my hp touchpad earlier this week, like webos a lot tbh, but decided to dual boot with alpha 3, being new to android on a tablet i dont know what apps are worth downloading and what works?
any tips on some good apps to make me use the android side of the dual boot?
sadly cm7 is android 2.3 which is a phone os and everything that i would want the tablet version of just runs a high pixel density version of the phone app. unlike honeycomb, ics is open sauce so maybe theres hope for a true android tablet yet.
Oh, there are plenty of apps that are tuned for a tablet display even under 2.3. Here's a list of some of the ones I have installed:
Browsers
Dolphin HD
Opera Mobile
Apps
Evernote
Kaiten (tablet-friendly SMTP/POP/IMAP client)
Business Calendar
Nook (offers two-page reading view in landscape orientation)
Zinio
Netflix
News Readers
Pulse
Taptu
gReader
feedly
YourVersion Tablet
News Republic
Additionally lots of games either have tablet-specific layouts or take advantage of the extra real-estate:
250+ Solitaire
Angry Birds HD/Seasons/Rio (pinch zoom to see the full level)
Cut the Rope
Peggle
Stupid Zombies
Dabble HD
Pocket Legends
Random Mahjong
Majesty
Pinball Ride
There are a few launchers that give a better tablet experience as well, in particular VTL and ADW EX. Both offer dock bars that rotate with the orientation to the bottom of the screen and can be fitted with more than just four or five icons.
Even though they don't have tablet-specific UIs, many other apps do scale up to the larger screen very nicely:
Facebook/Twitter/Google+
Quickoffice/Documents to Go/OfficeSuite
Kindle/Google Books (unlike Nook, landscape view is single page but still very crisp)
WebEx
Anyway, you get the idea. While there are many apps that use the new Android 3.0+ APIs and therefore won't be available to us until ICS, there are plenty of other apps that give the full tablet experience even on 2.3.
tragictramp said:
got my hp touchpad earlier this week, like webos a lot tbh, but decided to dual boot with alpha 3, being new to android on a tablet i dont know what apps are worth downloading and what works?
any tips on some good apps to make me use the android side of the dual boot?
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Muffin knight and officesuite.
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The Jack of Clubs said:
unlike honeycomb, ics is open sauce so maybe theres hope for a true android tablet yet.
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but u do know, that HC sources were released along with ICS sources..?
Hi. Do any of you have the Facebook version with the slide out left pane like iOS devices?
- Sent from my HP TouchPad
nomadman said:
Hi. Do any of you have the Facebook version with the slide out left pane like iOS devices?
- Sent from my HP TouchPad
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AFAIK there's not a tablet-specific version of Facebook for Android yet, even for 3.0+. There are alternative Facebook clients for Android that may offer a more tablet-like experience, but I think that webOS was the first to get a tablet Facebook app, and then recently they released one for iOS. Nothing for Android yet...
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AFAIK there's not a tablet-specific version of Facebook for Android yet, even for 3.0+. There are alternative Facebook clients for Android that may offer a more tablet-like experience, but I think that webOS was the first to get a tablet Facebook app, and then recently they released one for iOS. Nothing for Android yet...
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That's what I thought also. Until I got out my old china made hundred dollar tablet with Facebook installed. Sure enough it does have the sliding navigation pane on the left side just like the ios version. I copied the apk on the touchpad and I lost the left pane navigation. I think fb app see the touchpad as a phone, so it doesn't show the left nav pane.
- Sent from my HP TouchPad
Puenos said:
but u do know, that HC sources were released along with ICS sources..?
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no i didnt. i thought it was still closed source.
i still want alot of tablet versions of apps that dont appear. such as swype and googles apps. honeycomb and ics also give better understanding to a tablet without home menus and back buttons.
Don't use facebook app, it's fat. Friend caster for facebook has a tablet view!
i did install netflix and evernote and both are running tablet versions different from the phone. the tablet version of evernote is actually quite impressive. its amazing that netflix is plays video so smooth compared to the strange laggyness of everything else.
Just got CM on my Touchpad and noticed Netflix has a tablet UI on the Touchpad different from the UI I get on my phone with the same version. The Touchpad has a nice working tablet UI. Pretty nice considering there is no Netflix support in WebOS.
Also Firefox just released an update with a new tablet UI. By default it goes to a phone UI, but any Firefox user knows its easy to change settings. Simply go to "about:config" in the address bar and change "browser.ui.layout.tablet" from "-1" (Auto) to 1 (Enabled). This will force Firefox to use the tablet UI even though it auto-detected a phone. Also useful is adding the string "general.useragent.override" with value "User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:9.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/9.0.1" to spoof a desktop user agent.
Here's the story, I have a CM7 Nook Color and love the hell out of it. Its my main ereader, I use it 4-5 hours a day and you couldn't pry it out of my hands.
I bought my wife a Nook Tablet for Christmas because her old eBookWise reader was starting to die. All I want for her on her NT is the following:
1) Facebook (I can't believe this isn't even in the BN store. I didn't even consider this possible when I bought the NT)
2) Amazon Kindle (I have it side-loaded now but its got the white menu problem which is annoying. Lots of Kindle Content in our library.)
3) A decent browser, Dolphin or Opera Mobile. The BN Browser is an affront against webpages.
Is there any way to reasonably simply do this? I don't want to add complexity or instability. She doesn't have the patience to have the thing crashing or needing attention all the time. I don't mind that I have to reboot CM7 on my NC once in a while but that'll just peeve her off. She doesn't need the app store or to run the latest droid games, just those few things and she'll love her NT rather than grudgingly use it as a mildly annoying e-reader.
Is there a relatively easy way to get these things sideloaded? Trying to weed through the forums here seems to be mostly about full on hacking and CM type modification.
Thanks folks!
Adamoutler posted some links to basic apps that are needed for sideloading:
nook1.adamoutler.com
nook2.adamoutler.com
nook3.adamoutler.com
Other than that, search in the apps and themes section of the forum for other goodies (like a facebook apk), and I believe the general forum has some how-to guides. Good luck!
Edit: nooktabletapks.com is another good resource, the type i believe you are looking for. It doesn't have much that isn't already on xda, but it's still a pretty good reference.
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I am very interested in modifying my NT as far as I can but still access the books I have purchased. How far can I go before I lose those books? Thanks!
As far as installing a new os on the emmc.
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Anti1 said:
I am very interested in modifying my NT as far as I can but still access the books I have purchased. How far can I go before I lose those books? Thanks!
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You won't lose access. They are tied to your account. If you decide to install CM7 or CM9 or another rom, you can simply get the nook for android app, log in with your account, sync up and bam, all your books will be there.
Your books will be available with the Nook Android App, but not all magazines if you have any. Just a caution in case it applies.
Magazines and the Sunday paper are the reason I rooted my nook and installed another launcher. Homeswitcher will allow you to get back to the nook interface. I use zeam launcher for a tablet interface.
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Thank you!
Folks, you are fantastic. This is exactly what I was looking for. I do not use any of the apps, magazines, or papers. Just the book reader function. This means I will hopefully get some real useability out of this thing! Thanks a ton! How do you decide which launcher to go with? Is there a central resource to compare them?
If it's just for reading books, I blew away all the B&N stuff on the tablet. I never was a fan of how the Nook reader displayed all my personal epub files.
I loaded the PC version of the Nook reader on my Win 7 machine. There are add-ins to Calbre ebook converter which will read your B&N purchases. I then re-save those files without the DRM and read the books with any number of Android based epub readers. I personally like Aldiko. But Moon Reader is pretty good too.
I haven't missed the B&N apps at all.
Anti1 said:
Folks, you are fantastic. This is exactly what I was looking for. I do not use any of the apps, magazines, or papers. Just the book reader function. This means I will hopefully get some real useability out of this thing! Thanks a ton! How do you decide which launcher to go with? Is there a central resource to compare them?
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Since no one else has replied about launcher, I'll try.
This is a personal thing and the only way to decide is try several. Otherwise you are just seeing opinions.
If you don't want to mess with that then choose "go launcher ex" as it is the most used launcher. I don't use go, I prefer adw ex. Remember that there is a small learning curve on any you choose. If you like ice cream and cake with hot fudge topping and have fifteen dollars then try spb 3d shell. It has all the fluff anyone could want. I tried a demo from the web and it has all of the sparkle, bells, and whistle. It appears slower in real use but you have to pay for that overhead.
Zeam is quick and easy. I want slightly more control.
Good luck!