![]() ![]() I love it and glad I rooted it, but I know computers fairly well. Otherwise I'd have have to drag a tablet round with me too. I can read spreadsheets and take copius notes as well as browse and read, all in one device. Its e-ink screen provides one of the most paper-like experiences. The Nook Simple Touch has the same 6 inch, 167 PPI Pearl E Ink display found in the latest Kindle and Kobo E Ink readers. It has 2 gigs of internal storage with 236 megs available for your side-loaded files (via USB cable, it mounts as a removable drive on PCs and Macs). At least, that was my experience.Īpart from that, it's great. The NOOK Simple Touch eReader is a pretty decent bit of hardware right out of the box. The Nook Simple Touch has a microSD card slot so you can carry hundreds of titles with you (we found the reader bogged down when we exceeded a thousand titles on a card). But you have to get rid of the cell standby process or you will have no battery life. Overall, I'd say rooting a Nook is not that easy. I can't be bothered downgrading fiirmware or re-compiling kernels to get it to work. I've only managed to get it running a couple of times and then it deactivated itself. I tried to get norefresh working but it doesn't really work for v.1.2. Also I installed an app to force the reader to go into deep sleep mode when sleeping. It was eating the battery even in sleep mode. The NOOK Simple Touch eReader allows you to read numerous eBooks as it features its 6-inch touchscreen display. My battery life was terrible until I renamed a couple of. ![]() If your NST is the non-Glow model, and is still running the older firmware v1.1.2 and which you happen to be content/happy with and have no desire to upgrade to a newer firmware, there is an older rooting tool MinimalTouch (v1.1beta5) posted at which entails a bit more tedious rooting process, but the resulting firmware+rooting combo yields a setup that is ready for download and installation of Google Market apps without the need of a separate G-app installation tool.īefore attempting to root your NST, you should consider backing up the NST's entire internal storage as a disk image (nearly 2GB) using the method described at or also at. After your NST is rooted with the NM tool, you will need to use the NTGAppsAttack tool to install apps from Google Market (aka Google Play in newer Android versions). ![]() So, is it fairly simple, or should I keep my sticky hands off?If your NST is running firmware versions 1.1.5 and later, see for an automated backup/restore/rooting tool "Nook Manager". I maaged the Kindle jailbreak by slavishly following simple detailled instructions, but am struggling with gathering the information for the Nook ST. Anyone done a Nook root and a Kindle jailbreak here? I would like to root a simple touch but am somewhat electron challenged. ![]()
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