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Done shopping and was really only looking. It's amazing when I look around a busy mall how many touch screen phones you see people using and then go into a verizon store and see 99% of the phones they offer are touch and the few with kb's , well the kb is really only for typing so touching is still necessary.
I played with a trophy(wm7) and a casio ruggedized commando android. I really liked the rugged style of the casio, but the touch screen is such a turn off. Damn apple really popularized those things. I must say tho that the windows phone is a breath of fresh air over the android. I hear the "mango" upgrade is really going to give these a boost. I came to my bold via a touch pro 2 which I liked alot and I'd be tempted by another device as sweet as that one running a faster system.
I'm hanging in for the BB bold touch to replace my quickly aging bold, but I wouldn't be adverse to a wm7 if this mango is all it is claimed to be. Oh and a real kb that actually allows screen nav and not just typing. Hopefully a 9930 will be here before xmas.
05-28-11 03:59 PM - There are lots of places out there that can walk you through it. I started here: http://forum.androidcentral.com/barn...le-nook-color/ . You'll need to make an account on Android Central in order to see the links. I used the same username there.Underway, I actually bought my Nook for a reading device
But seriously, how hard was it to root? And what flavor bread did you put on it? Ginger? Banana? Walnut? And now can you still use it as a reader or just as a tablet?
I used something called "manualnooter-4-5-25". That gives you the ability to use the stock BN OS while having access to the full Android Market. I use it because I can now look at my Kindle books on the Nook. Cool huh? The Nook app for Android is even better than the native Nook app. Go figure. I can also load anything I want onto the Nook, instead of just using what I get from BN.
Go explore.05-28-11 05:59 PM - Hey Ramblers!
Happy Memorial Day weekend!
Its been a full day of me living with 524 and I have to say I am liking the speed. I also did some housecleaning with my Battex skins...used to take almost 5 minutes to open the app (780 skins) and now with about 400 it opens in about 30 secs. I am freaking amazed that my berry can be so speedy.
I have been able to get back into one bbm group of my 4.
I am afraid I am lost to the others for good. My phone just wont create the new group properly. Tells me I am the only member.
Hamster is working on getting me back into one but I dunno what will become of me. What a pain. Upgrade and loss your groups forever?? Hardly seems right.
Have a great holiday weekend guys! I started drinking gun and tonics again this weekend so I may be calming down a bit. LOL
05-29-11 11:45 AM - Quiet around here, guess everybody is out enjoying the holiday weekend. When your retired it's a seven day weekend every week.
Jaydee, glad to hear your bold is working better. I guess I just don't understand the logic or need behind having so many diff skins and themes loaded on board. But glad to hear it's working better for you. So now maybe you can actually enjoy that gun+tonic instead of needing it.
Underway and middbrew or anyone else loaded up Kings "primetime" hybrid?
For whatever reason the past several hybrids I've loaded have always failed with an app loader error. Funny because the leaks and officials all load fine no problem. I'd like to kind of change things up a bit and give it a shot, but not expecting good results with the loading. the last time it failed I couldn;t even do the java swap because it gave me a 6.1 file incompatible error. So I dunno. I may give it a go later. The fail is always at the beginning so no harm done other than frustration and time wasted. Wish I knew what it was tho. I tried it with my usual shrinkage as I thought it was something I was removing, but it does it with no shrinkage as well and on both my laptops so it's not that. No clue why no one else seems bothered by it either. Any ideas guys?05-29-11 12:50 PM - I've not loaded the newest King hybrid. My Bold is running very well on the modified 524. Like you, I'm not sure that the hybrids really bring all that much to the table anymore.Quiet around here, guess everybody is out enjoying the holiday weekend. When your retired it's a seven day weekend every week.
Jaydee, glad to hear your bold is working better. I guess I just don't understand the logic or need behind having so many diff skins and themes loaded on board. But glad to hear it's working better for you. So now maybe you can actually enjoy that gun+tonic instead of needing it.
Underway and middbrew or anyone else loaded up Kings "primetime" hybrid?
For whatever reason the past several hybrids I've loaded have always failed with an app loader error. Funny because the leaks and officials all load fine no problem. I'd like to kind of change things up a bit and give it a shot, but not expecting good results with the loading. the last time it failed I couldn;t even do the java swap because it gave me a 6.1 file incompatible error. So I dunno. I may give it a go later. The fail is always at the beginning so no harm done other than frustration and time wasted. Wish I knew what it was tho. I tried it with my usual shrinkage as I thought it was something I was removing, but it does it with no shrinkage as well and on both my laptops so it's not that. No clue why no one else seems bothered by it either. Any ideas guys?
EDIT: Now, having said that I don't plan to load KV6, I downloaded it anyway. You just don't know if it will be available later.Last edited by Underway99; 05-29-11 at 04:29 PM.
05-29-11 02:50 PM - I appreciate the thanks, JayDee. The Navy in peacetime is a great career. I'd do all 24 years again in a heartbeat. PC was Navy, too, during the first Gulf War.
I have my Nook rooted, but I'm not running any of the modded stuff. I did what I think they call a stock root (I'm still learning the Android and rooting terminology). That means that my OS is open to just about anything that I want to install instead of just having access to whatever BN wants me to load. So far, I've installed the free versions of Angry Birds, Adobe Reader, and the Kindle app. It seems kind of like a finger in BN's eye when I open a Kindle book on the Nook.
The cool thing with rooting is that you can unroot the thing and reload the stock OS, just like running a hybrid on your Bold. You'll try it.
Oh, by the way, if you root your Nook, you can load THEMES!05-30-11 08:25 PM - I'm sure that Jim is just being thorough in making sure that the new Bold is the right device for him. I admit that I've thought about using one of my secondary upgrades on an Android device -- just to see how they really work.Hey! Did Jim say he was going to a Droid???
For a while?
How sad! I hope he doesn't like it! lol
Posted from my CrackBerry at wapforums.crackberry.com05-30-11 09:58 PM
Just read up on what's been going on. I hope this bad juju is not here to stay. I'm glad it worked out though. Geez what a pain.
