FroYo/2.2 Coming Week of April 11?

[J515OP]

the new update is 2.2 froyo.

I'm most interested in the status bar and how the nook will handle full screen apps like angry birds etc.

These are good points since the original Nook layout has no provisions for the Android navigation buttons. It will be interesting to see how they have addressed this.

 

[bluewhite79]

exactly, i posted this on xda, but it appears that a screen shot of the pulse app, shows honeycomb style navigation buttons.

i'm betting its photochopped.

Explore - Barnes & Noble

 

[J515OP]

exactly, i posted this on xda, but it appears that a screen shot of the pulse app, shows honeycomb style navigation buttons.

i'm betting its photochopped.

Explore - Barnes & Noble

I'm thinking they took a stock photo from pulse off of like the xoom and put that on the nook screen ("screen images simulated" type of thing). This happened a while back where the Verizon iPhones had a AT&T screen on them in early promotional materials.

The buttons are missing in the mycast weather shot.

Edit: Definitely no honeycomb buttons. You can see it in the pics in the engadget link that was posted. There is a little green 'n' in the notification area that may launch buttons (will have to watch the video and see).

Edit2: Nope, no Android soft buttons. Big bummer after seeing the newest CM7 tablet tweaks and how well they work. Also seems to be pretty laggy in the video. I am not sure that seeing a video like that is going to sell many people on the nook. It actually seemed worse that the current versions running Android 2.1 which doesn't make a lot of sense. Of course we all know with a little love and some OC this ting actually flies.

 

[bluewhite79]

what video? engadget video?

 

[bluewhite79]

one person on XDA is saying this update breaks root even with CWM installed. trying to get answers on what happens, because i'm at work and can't get to my nook.

i'm wondering if i come home to a messed up nook (CWM on there or did it go back to stock recovery?). Did it push me to stock 1.2? or did it leave me with CM7, but with S broken all over the place.

 

[J515OP]

what video? engadget video?

Yes, short video and pics on engadget. Already a quick hands on by jonesygirl from here sayig she'd rather keep rooted 1.1 at this point.

 

[jonesygirl]

Just my opinion from what I saw so far. Quick! Somebody root it! Lol.

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[rokky]

But it seems to have arrived - guess this article from PCWorld makes it "independently veriifed": Nook Color Update Sends E-Reader Wars into Overdrive - PCWorld

Now they expect Amazon to respond with a color eReader (seemingly Android-based).

I might actually get one now if the Bluetooth is supported for keyboards/tethering/GPS...

 

[Candlestick]

But it seems to have arrived - guess this article from PCWorld makes it "independently veriifed": Nook Color Update Sends E-Reader Wars into Overdrive - PCWorld

Now they expect Amazon to respond with a color eReader (seemingly Android-based).

Click the " HOME " page of this website.

There is a story linked to rumor of Samsung building an Amazon Color Android tablet in the works. Been there for about a week now.

 

[bluewhite79]

i'm trying to verify.

If you are autnootered, the update might break root. So to fix this, I think you have to downgrade back to 1.1 and reflash autonooter. Or, if you have CWM installed, I think you can just flash a NAND backup.

But i'm not sure....

If you're on Nookiefroyo (or variant) or CM7 (or variant) on eMMC, I don't htink it breaks anything. again, trying to verify.

 

[darmeen]

If you are on a custom ROM there is nothing to break since you don't have the b&n version installed anymore...the only ones who might be at risk are those just running autonooter

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[Calanthe42]

Noob here. Upgraded NC this morning when it first came out...not impressed. The addition of flash to stock NC is nice and for some reason the 30+ books I had in Documents got moved to books (including cover art!) Over on B&N Forums several people said it happened to them too. But going back to sd card Nookie Froyo. Apps are very expensive and limited...mostly kid's things. Nookie Froyo works fine.