well that was fun and by fun I mean ABSOLUTE BALLS
So this weekend was extremely nerdy!
I went to see Sherlock Holmes (Christ I'm still blinking up at the ceiling and realizing there's another part of the movie that was stealth-gay, or well, not stealth-gay but less gay until you think about it. SEBASTIAN MORAN, I AM LOOKING AT YOU, YOU CREEPER.)
Then I went out with Amy and Dude three times. The first time it was 'oh you're going to the Bagdad on Thursday? BEER. CHRIST ALMIGHTY, JUST GIVE ME BEER.', the second time was Friday and we Always Go On Friday and Dude and I are dismal creatures of habit like that (Amy is basically dating Male Me) [insert sudden frantic googling by creepers in the audience here -- although I'll tell you right now I won't be there this week, I'll be in Cottage Grove, so if you try you will only get slow blinked by Amy] and on Saturday I ran over because I promised Dude I'd show him --
Okay this is going to get a involved and if you're not interested in doing weird things to electronics I apologize, but anyway! I managed to get CM7 to run on my Nook Color's SD card and he'd never seen it done in the wild, so I ran over to show it to him. THEN I ran over to Fred Meyer to get a faster micro-SD card, because Jesus Christ, it was the slowest. By that time of course I had done this process three times and counting, so it went really well, and it is amaaazing.
CM7 is Cyangenmod7, an Android aftermarket firmware put out by the opensource dudes of http://www.cyanogenmod.com/. You can, with surprisingly little trauma, install it to run on an microSD card on a Nook Color, which has the advantages of a) making a Nook Color into a pretty decent midrange Android Tablet and b) not voiding your warranty, because basically it runs on top of the Nook Color like Windows did on MS-DOS and when you take the micro-SD out it's like, Oh right, this is what I run.
There's a lot of instructions for it, but uhhh FYI it took me two complete format-burn-runs to discover that most of the instructions floating around are not for the latest version. In the older ones you wrote a bootable micro-SD card and then put the zips for CM7 and the Google Apps we all know and love and it just ran both. For the current version, you have to write the bootable micro-SD card, put the CM7 zip on it, put in in the device, let it run all the way through install, and THEN shut down, remove the card, put the Google Apps zip on the boot section of the SD, put it back in, power up, and then reboot in recovery mode, when it automagically discovers the GApps thing and runs it.
It's not as hard as it sounds, it's just an amazing pain in the ass and I thought I was going crazy when I did all the steps correctly and it STILL booted into the Nook firmware. I did actually independently decide to try just running the CM7 zip and figuring out how to add the GApps thing later, and felt all smug and justified after I read the note about doing it separately.
Most people recommend a Class 6 or 10 card for it -- I'm kind of making the 'baroo?' face myself at the different classes, but as far as I can tell, the lower the class the lower the read/write speed on the card. Originally I bought one on sale for like nine bucks, which turned out to be because it was a class 4 and it was glacial trying to run the programs. I went back after I'd proved the concept to myself and bought a class 10 one instead -- I think they're the fastest ones on the market right now -- and it's blazing.
I'm running Aldiko right now for epubs, although I have the B&N app (have to figure out if they show magazines there or if I'll have to go into the Nook side for my Natl Geo and retarded knitting mags) for the stuff I bought there. I'm NOT looking forward to adding new books after all the ones I just added; Calibre will send them to the device but I can't figure out a good way in Aldiko to just add new files. I'm sure I'll find it eventually or go crazy. Probably both.
The one thing I don't like about it is that the icons are still sized for phones and not tablets so I'm pretty much squinting desperately. (Internet is like HAHAHA GUESS WHAT YOU GET TO DO so I'm thinking I'm just going to roll with it as opposed to fucking around in root.)
*rubs paws* I has PINDROID on it. I has teh interwebs if I'm within wifi. Basically I will never fear running out of fic to read, ever again.
By the way I named it Canary. N-no reason.
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I went to see Sherlock Holmes (Christ I'm still blinking up at the ceiling and realizing there's another part of the movie that was stealth-gay, or well, not stealth-gay but less gay until you think about it. SEBASTIAN MORAN, I AM LOOKING AT YOU, YOU CREEPER.)
Then I went out with Amy and Dude three times. The first time it was 'oh you're going to the Bagdad on Thursday? BEER. CHRIST ALMIGHTY, JUST GIVE ME BEER.', the second time was Friday and we Always Go On Friday and Dude and I are dismal creatures of habit like that (Amy is basically dating Male Me) [insert sudden frantic googling by creepers in the audience here -- although I'll tell you right now I won't be there this week, I'll be in Cottage Grove, so if you try you will only get slow blinked by Amy] and on Saturday I ran over because I promised Dude I'd show him --
Okay this is going to get a involved and if you're not interested in doing weird things to electronics I apologize, but anyway! I managed to get CM7 to run on my Nook Color's SD card and he'd never seen it done in the wild, so I ran over to show it to him. THEN I ran over to Fred Meyer to get a faster micro-SD card, because Jesus Christ, it was the slowest. By that time of course I had done this process three times and counting, so it went really well, and it is amaaazing.
CM7 is Cyangenmod7, an Android aftermarket firmware put out by the opensource dudes of http://www.cyanogenmod.com/. You can, with surprisingly little trauma, install it to run on an microSD card on a Nook Color, which has the advantages of a) making a Nook Color into a pretty decent midrange Android Tablet and b) not voiding your warranty, because basically it runs on top of the Nook Color like Windows did on MS-DOS and when you take the micro-SD out it's like, Oh right, this is what I run.
There's a lot of instructions for it, but uhhh FYI it took me two complete format-burn-runs to discover that most of the instructions floating around are not for the latest version. In the older ones you wrote a bootable micro-SD card and then put the zips for CM7 and the Google Apps we all know and love and it just ran both. For the current version, you have to write the bootable micro-SD card, put the CM7 zip on it, put in in the device, let it run all the way through install, and THEN shut down, remove the card, put the Google Apps zip on the boot section of the SD, put it back in, power up, and then reboot in recovery mode, when it automagically discovers the GApps thing and runs it.
It's not as hard as it sounds, it's just an amazing pain in the ass and I thought I was going crazy when I did all the steps correctly and it STILL booted into the Nook firmware. I did actually independently decide to try just running the CM7 zip and figuring out how to add the GApps thing later, and felt all smug and justified after I read the note about doing it separately.
Most people recommend a Class 6 or 10 card for it -- I'm kind of making the 'baroo?' face myself at the different classes, but as far as I can tell, the lower the class the lower the read/write speed on the card. Originally I bought one on sale for like nine bucks, which turned out to be because it was a class 4 and it was glacial trying to run the programs. I went back after I'd proved the concept to myself and bought a class 10 one instead -- I think they're the fastest ones on the market right now -- and it's blazing.
I'm running Aldiko right now for epubs, although I have the B&N app (have to figure out if they show magazines there or if I'll have to go into the Nook side for my Natl Geo and retarded knitting mags) for the stuff I bought there. I'm NOT looking forward to adding new books after all the ones I just added; Calibre will send them to the device but I can't figure out a good way in Aldiko to just add new files. I'm sure I'll find it eventually or go crazy. Probably both.
The one thing I don't like about it is that the icons are still sized for phones and not tablets so I'm pretty much squinting desperately. (Internet is like HAHAHA GUESS WHAT YOU GET TO DO so I'm thinking I'm just going to roll with it as opposed to fucking around in root.)
*rubs paws* I has PINDROID on it. I has teh interwebs if I'm within wifi. Basically I will never fear running out of fic to read, ever again.
By the way I named it Canary. N-no reason.
This entry was originally posted at http://lazulisong.dreamwidth.org/154958.html. Please comment there using OpenID.