A couple years ago I got a Nook Color HD+ tablet from Barnes and Noble. I'd had a first generation Kindle Fire which was okay but kind of small, didn't have external volume controls and didn't have much storage or an SD card slot. The Nook has always been a disappointment to me. It wasn't much faster than the Kindle Fire even though on paper it ought to be. Finally it got to the point that it was barely usable and I had enough. Unfortunately 9" tablets are kind of expensive, the low end market is only really in the 7" units. In the past I'd looked at rooting the tablet, that is establishing root user so I could put whatever OS I wanted on it. I was hoping that the problem was the horrible implementation of Android that B&N had used. Turns out I was right. Right now its running Cyanomod 10.2.1 which equates to Android 4.3.1 which isn't the newest version but isn't terribly old. Its also the base version with no extra crap loaded in. Its SUPER fast and reports that I have around twice the available RAM that before which has to be why. Its not for the faint of heart, it took me probably 6 hours today, messing around downloading files and reading how-tos. If I were to do it again I'd spend a day or two figuring out HOW exactly to do it before I gave it a try. Still a lot better than $400 for a new tablet. -Curt _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com
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