Re: [MBZ] OT: Tablet revived
You should write up a detailed process with all the steps and files and whatnot. Are those things available cheap? I was thinking to get some cheap tablet for the kitchen to use for recipes and such and to act as a remote viewer for a door cam using an old Android phone. My cousin had some app running on an old phone that streamed video you could then watch off some web site, or maybe directly, I can't remember, but he used it for a security camera and could watch it on his ifone. I see the crap 7 units for $50 or less but sounds like this thing would be bigger and better when rooted. --R On 5/11/15 8:07 PM, Curt Raymond via Mercedes wrote: 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 BN 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 To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] OT: Tablet revived
Looks like the 32GB version runs about $125 on eBay. They've been out of production for a year or two (guess I've had mine 3 years) so they're harder to find. Now that I know which set of instructions to follow I don't need to do a write up: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2317500 So far I'm finding mod 10.2.1 to be excellent. 11 might be a little better but I'm well pleased with what I've got. A GoPro camera can be setup with wifi for a confidence monitor although I'm sure there are cheaper solutions. -Curt From: Rich Thomas via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com To: mercedes@okiebenz.com Cc: Rich Thomas richthomas79td...@constructivity.net Sent: Tuesday, May 12, 2015 9:26 AM Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT: Tablet revived You should write up a detailed process with all the steps and files and whatnot. Are those things available cheap? I was thinking to get some cheap tablet for the kitchen to use for recipes and such and to act as a remote viewer for a door cam using an old Android phone. My cousin had some app running on an old phone that streamed video you could then watch off some web site, or maybe directly, I can't remember, but he used it for a security camera and could watch it on his ifone. I see the crap 7 units for $50 or less but sounds like this thing would be bigger and better when rooted. --R On 5/11/15 8:07 PM, Curt Raymond via Mercedes wrote: 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 BN 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 To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] OT: Tablet revived
You don't need a write up. The Cyanogen guys have done it already for almost every device imaginable. That's one of the things that makes it great - they have already blazed the trail, and made it super easy to root stuff. Dan Sent from my iPad On May 12, 2015, at 9:26 AM, Rich Thomas via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote: You should write up a detailed process with all the steps and files and whatnot. Are those things available cheap? I was thinking to get some cheap tablet for the kitchen to use for recipes and such and to act as a remote viewer for a door cam using an old Android phone. My cousin had some app running on an old phone that streamed video you could then watch off some web site, or maybe directly, I can't remember, but he used it for a security camera and could watch it on his ifone. I see the crap 7 units for $50 or less but sounds like this thing would be bigger and better when rooted. --R On 5/11/15 8:07 PM, Curt Raymond via Mercedes wrote: 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 BN 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 To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] OT: Tablet revived
ATTABOY for retasking otherwise worthless hardware!! I have rooted a Nook Color with Cyanomod as well as an HP tablet. It was super easy to do and really added to the value of both. I only wish the Nook had bluetooth, as I really wanted to have a dedicated tablet in the car to run the Android based diagnostic/performance application (I can’t recall the name of it…) I ended up giving it to my Mom to play games on. I trimmed everything down so the only things she could get to were her solitaire and mahjongg games. Dan On May 11, 2015, at 8:07 PM, Curt Raymond via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote: 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 BN 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 To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] OT: Tablet revived
Yeah, that was it. I got the Nook back after my Mom passed last year. I fired it up once to see if it worked. It did. Put it back in the box. The Cyanogen folks are simply amazing with how easy they make it to root a device. When I had some HP tablets I rooted them, as the HP OS was a total POS that was based on Palm OS, I believe. Rooting it to Android made it a totally functional device. Dan On May 11, 2015, at 8:40 PM, Curt Raymond via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote: Torque? I was thinking of trying my Kindle Fire for it but that doesn't have bluetooth either. I've got a DroidX that does though... I'm positively stunned by how fast the Nook is with Cyanomod, I can't believe I almost bought another tablet. -Curt ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] OT: Tablet revived
Did those have an SD card slot? I was considering trying to root my Kindle Fire but it has no card slot... -Curt From: Dan Penoff via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com To: Okie Benz mercedes@okiebenz.com Cc: Dan Penoff d...@penoff.com Sent: Monday, May 11, 2015 9:07 PM Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT: Tablet revived Yeah, that was it. I got the Nook back after my Mom passed last year. I fired it up once to see if it worked. It did. Put it back in the box. The Cyanogen folks are simply amazing with how easy they make it to root a device. When I had some HP tablets I rooted them, as the HP OS was a total POS that was based on Palm OS, I believe. Rooting it to Android made it a totally functional device. Dan On May 11, 2015, at 8:40 PM, Curt Raymond via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote: Torque? I was thinking of trying my Kindle Fire for it but that doesn't have bluetooth either. I've got a DroidX that does though... I'm positively stunned by how fast the Nook is with Cyanomod, I can't believe I almost bought another tablet. -Curt ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] OT: Tablet revived
Torque? I was thinking of trying my Kindle Fire for it but that doesn't have bluetooth either. I've got a DroidX that does though... I'm positively stunned by how fast the Nook is with Cyanomod, I can't believe I almost bought another tablet. -Curt From: Dan Penoff via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com To: Okie Benz mercedes@okiebenz.com Cc: Dan Penoff d...@penoff.com Sent: Monday, May 11, 2015 8:16 PM Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT: Tablet revived ATTABOY for retasking otherwise worthless hardware!! I have rooted a Nook Color with Cyanomod as well as an HP tablet. It was super easy to do and really added to the value of both. I only wish the Nook had bluetooth, as I really wanted to have a dedicated tablet in the car to run the Android based diagnostic/performance application (I can’t recall the name of it…) I ended up giving it to my Mom to play games on. I trimmed everything down so the only things she could get to were her solitaire and mahjongg games. Dan On May 11, 2015, at 8:07 PM, Curt Raymond via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote: 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 BN 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 To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] OT: Tablet revived
We have 2 Nook HD+ units here, both now have N2A SD cards inserted so that they can boot either KitKat flavor of Android or native Nook mode. N2A is the easy way to root without actually rooting. Greg -Original Message- From: Mercedes [mailto:mercedes-boun...@okiebenz.com] On Behalf Of Curt Raymond via Mercedes Sent: Monday, May 11, 2015 5:08 PM To: Mercedes Discussion List Cc: Curt Raymond Subject: [MBZ] OT: Tablet revived 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 BN 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 To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] OT: Tablet revived
Mine has a slot for the “mini” SD cards lie they used in phones. Dan On May 11, 2015, at 9:16 PM, Curt Raymond via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote: Did those have an SD card slot? I was considering trying to root my Kindle Fire but it has no card slot... -Curt ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
