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ClockworkMod Recovery for the NOOK Tablet (backup, restore, install updates) – Liliputing

January 23rd, 2012

ClockworkMod Recovery for the NOOK Tablet (backup, restore, install updates) – Liliputing.

I have to share this as it is almost unprecedented how cool this is!

Liliputing to the rescue for delivering this great news.

ClockworkMod Recovery is a utility that allows Android phone and tablet users to completely backup or restore their device, erase data, or install custom software. Up until recently there was no easy way to install ClockworkMod or any custom recovery on the Barnes & Noble NOOK Tablet, but hackers have made great progress working around the tablet’s locked bootloader recently — and now there’s a simple one-click tool for installing ClockworkMod.
ClockworkMod Recovery NOOK Tablet

A hint about Indirect’s recovery installer app.

Go to Liliputing.com to read the rest of this fantastic story!

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Posted in Apps, Mobile

Tags: android applications Google NOOK tablet

The Popularity of Cyanogen has given these developers a taste of power

January 22nd, 2012

If you didn’t know it, Cyanogen is a group of exceptional developers that are focused on wringing every ounce of performance and customisability out of the Android platform. With the creation of custom ROMs for numerous Android devices, Cyanogen has generated a kind of cult status among those who would like to tell the Mobile Phone Service Providers with their locked devices and sub-par performance…to FUCK-OFF!

Cyanogen recently announced over 1 million installs of their wildly popular CM7.

CM7 is basically a retooled Android GingerBread (Android 2.3.X) that is capable of making your old, outdated Android phone scream with performance…so to speak.

Here is a quote from a recent PC World article pointing out some of the interesting aspects to this popularity.

One of the biggest reasons, if not perhaps the biggest reason, that owners of Android and iPhone phones “root” or “jailbreak” their device to install custom firmware and operating systems is so they can install unofficial tethering and hotspot services. Perhaps the most popular unofficial system, CyanogenMod, is at the point where it not only pushes Google to offer some of its features in their official Android builds, but is considering its own Android app store, to provide apps like ClockworkMod Tether.

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Tags: android cyanogenMod Google ROM smartphone tablet

Devs load early Android 4.0 build on the NOOK Tablet – Liliputing

January 13th, 2012

Devs load early Android 4.0 build on the NOOK Tablet – Liliputing.

Yes that’s right! You are looking at a Nook Tablet booting I.C.S. Android 4.0x

The Nook Tablet signed boot loader has apparently been cracked and development on porting CM9 (CyanogenMod 9) to the device is underway.

from nemith on XDA

So now that we have found the leaking crack in the bootloader and proved it’s usefulness fat-tire and others are going to start work on a couple of key projects that I could use a little help on.
This will also keep conspiracy theorists at bay who call me “extremely low IQ male rooster with social development issues” (Also I have no pies)
Here is how i see the next steps:
Strip down uboot (or other bootloader) and teach it boot from it’s own partition.
For example install 2nduboot in /boot, hijacking the signature check and then setting a 1MB offset to look for the real, unsigned boot.img. Repeat for recovery.
This is the real hold up and why there is nothing to “flash” as of yet. (still no pies)
Finish CWM. 100% done.
Completed. See recovery.img here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/show….php?t=1440645
Work on CM9 for both SDcard and internal booting

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Posted in Apps, Gadgets, Mobile

Tags: android Google NOOK tablet

Asus MeMo Pad: Hands-on pictures with the $249 Tegra 3 tablet – Recombu

January 12th, 2012

Asus MeMo Pad: Hands-on pictures with the $249 Tegra 3 tablet – Recombu.

This is the King of 7″ tablets right now! …and it isn’t even available for purchase. ($249)
I’ve seen some forums indicating that people will ditch other affordable 7″ options (read Nook, Fire) to get their Tegra 3, Android 4.0 fix.

There’s a 5-megapixel main camera unit on the back and a 1.2-megapixel front facer for video calls. That main camera is capable of shooting 1080p HD video which would no doubt look a treat when played back on the screen – we weren’t able to test the camea out on this model though.
Running on Nvidia’s Tegra 3 chip and coming in 16GB and 32GB versions the Asus Memo will be arriving on shelves Stateside in the second quarter of this year and will ship with Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich.