NOOK Hacking
Ryan Latham
“The army of kernel and OS wizards at xda-developers.com have managed to get both android 2.2(froyo) and android 3.0(Honeycomb) to boot on the nook color. Normally with most android devices, you need to first root the device, get super user access, and then flash a ROM/custom kernel combo if you want to mess with the devices booting OS. “
“This is not the case on the Nook though, as strangely enough B&N designed it to first check the microSD card for a bootable image before loading the EMMC. This allows custom android OSs to be flashed on microSDs and then booted directly off the microSD on the Nook Color. Doing so does NOT void your warranty and allows you to go back to stock B&N OS at any time by removing the microSD. Furthermore the XDA guys extracted an image of android 3.0 from the new android SDK and have it in a microSD flash able form, making the Nook the first device currently released in the world, to run android 3.0. I happen to have the image on my microSD card and its completely bootable. I also have customized windows drivers for the Nook allowing Google's android SDK Eclipse plug in, to connect directly with the Nook. The drivers can also be used to ADB Shell directly into the Nook's protected partitions.”
“I myself and the XDA guys have been very careful to make sure none of it is done illegally or in such a way that the Nook's warranty is voided. If you are interested in android development, using a microSD card and the custom drivers, you can make apps for android and test them out on your Nook.”
Here are the links where you can find everything.
xda-developers where you can find pretty much everything you need with a little bit of digging.
http://www.xda-developers.com/
Here are the android developer forums
http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=864
You can get the current android image here.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=936995
Nookdevs who started the nook project and have the drivers for it.
http://nookdevs.com/Portal:NookColor
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