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[Nook Touch Themes and Apps] captfl:
Root Uninstaller Pro

Root uninstaller pro, fom android market or amazon app store. Used it to backup and then unistall gapps that make no sence on NST like MUSIC and others that just dont apply to e ink device with out speakers. Have used on Xperia x10 in the past to kill sony and AT&T bloatware that runs in the background.
[Nook Touch Themes and Apps] johnciaccio:
It seems to me we are missing some android backend modules. Probably removed to increase battery like. Anything that syncs or is a scheduler will hurt your battery life. Something to think about before going crazy with the android stuff on a ereader.
[Nook Touch Themes and Apps] apeine:
Johnciaccio,

Maybe that's on pre-installed stuff, because on several different apps that do sync from time to time (K9, market!, tweetdeck, linkedin - the ones I've seen so far) do sync on the STR.
[Nook Touch Themes and Apps] Carrick1973:
Hey phanmo - I got Tasker to work just fine on my NST. The only profile I have set right now is to turn on wifi when the browser, opera, market, shop, News and Weather and Word Feud are opened, and then turn wifi off when they close.

I figure the overhead of Tasker running in the background should be more than offset by having wifi off most of the time except for when needed.
[Nook Touch Themes and Apps] earthabbey:
My List

Okay here we go... ;)

I got my B&N Nook Simple Touch v1.1 yesterday and have spent the better part of the last 30 hours hacking, breaking, fixing, & playing with it. For me, I am interested in my Nook for reading not games, calendar, etc. I have an Android phone for that :)

First of all, in the interest of people who may land on this post in Google searches trying to figure out how to install their first few apps: if the Android Market does not work for you when you first root your Nook (you get an error like "no content" or something) DO NOT WORRY. By the next day your Market should be working and in the meantime you can install via the market.android.com website on your computer. If your device is not recognized the first time you go on your computer, do what I did and visit the website on the Nook itself and log in, that worked for me.

Okay now, here we go. Here are the list of apps that work for me:

eReaders:

- Aldiko

- FBReader (my fav)

- Kobo (kinda buggy)

- Kindle

- Overdrive (for getting books from your library)

- and of course the pre-installed B&N Reader app

* I didn't try any pdf readers because I'm happy with what's already installed

Web Reading:

- CNN

- gReader

- Instafetch (but I'm no longer using them since they reduced their free version to only 10 articles...psst let me know if you know of an alternative!)

- Read Later (syncs with Instapaper account)

- Send to Instapaper (just a tool to send articles to your Instapaper web account)

Dictionaries/Reference:

- ColorDict

- Miriam-Webster Dictionary

- Wikidroid

- ChromeMarks Lite (syncing your Chrome bookmarks)

- QuickDict (offline translation too)

Editing / Writing:

- Olive Office Premium (this is a free app which gets local files plus google docs & dropbox)

- Evernote

- ColorNote

Productivity

- Google Task Organizer Lite

- Everstudent Student Planner

- Chore Master (tracks & times your chores)

- Gleeo Time Tracker (project time tracking)

- Time Recording (same as above)

- Time Sheet (same as above)

File Management:

- ES File..something... (can't remember I already uninstalled it)

- Dropbox

- Downloader for Dropbox (this allows you to access & d/l individual files rather than syncing your whole folder)

- OI File Manager

Maps:

- Google Maps (and all the extra apps that automatically come with it)

- Locus Free

- Maps (-) *offline maps

Misc:

- Basichords

- Ukulele Fretboard

- Wordsearch
[Nook Touch Themes and Apps] Googie2149:
I rooted using MinimalTouch 1.1beta5 by eded333, which I think will have the most compatibility for apps. In addition to all the other apps mentioned in this post, so far I have found these:

Apps:

Agenda

Inkpad

Dropbox

Google Docs (it doesn't seem to be able to view the actual documents, but I'm still experimenting)

Maxthon Browser (still testing, but seems to work fine)

Orbot

Games:

Angry Birds (You have to set it to portrait and turn off the background in the title screen)

Tetris Free (turn off the sparks)

Unblock Me Free
[Nook Touch Themes and Apps] cceerrtt:
GoContacts - side buttons works for contact list scrolling.
[Nook Touch Themes and Apps] phanmo:
Cool! I agree with you about the overhead, I'm just way too used to having Tasker to ever have another Android device without it. Do you have the new Tasker with Scenes? Do they seem to work?
[Nook Touch Themes and Apps] ChrisTheNerd:
The new Wikipedia app won't install from the market. Can anybody see of they can bypass the restrictions and sideload it on the NST?
[Nook Touch Themes and Apps] tazzix:
According to the market entry, the app requires 2.2 (froyo) or better. The features in froyo compared to eclipse (2.1) are too tempting for developers to go for it, they may have their eyes on C2D (cloud to device) messaging or something like that, even when it does not take much to have an alternate APK without it since market is supporting that, but as a developer I might not see the benefit when pre froyo devices don't make 5% of all devices as per the statistics.

BTW Apps that I am using:

- Mantano Reader (theme modified but original is usable too, best library management and anotation features)

- Andoku 2 (new version is even better on EInk devices and a game that actual makes sense on paper besides tic-tac-toe)

- ColorDict (the popup kind interface is good but quality and phrase lookup is not)

- Fora Dictionary (with clipboard scanner, built-in thesaurus is useful)

- FreeNote (great for freehand notes, EInk and the size of the device is perfect for taking anywhere and jotting down things which I will always be able to find later)

- FriendCaster (only for sharing excerpts, have issues sharing from Mantano with original Facebook)

- iQuran (the background is annoying though)

I tried FBReader and CoolReader but both need to improve:

- They show page numbers according to font size, hence I can not refer to my colleagues using tablets or phones

- Library and management is horrible to say the least when using with Calibre's nested folders

- Annotation features are lack luster, I need highlighting, notes, and bookmarks as separate features and not a mix

- Sharing is also not quite there, need book name, author, and page number in subject while highlighted matter in body so that others can cross reference, well page numbers are dynamic anyways.
[Nook Touch Themes and Apps] earthabbey:
Ryan did you get Jorte to work on the Simple Touch? I can not get it to open at all :( In fact I have not found any calendar apps, which sync with GCal, that will work. Have you?

Chris, I use WikiDroid on both my phone and the Simple Touch. If that doesn't work, ColorDict will work on the Simple Touch and you can select Wikipedia as one of the dictionaries (though you'll find ColorDict to be slow and annoying probably).
[Nook Touch Themes and Apps] CSX321:
You might try the procedure I found for getting sync to work on the Nook Tablet, of course substituting the proper versions of the calendar apks.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1436397

I'm not sure if the problem is the same on the Simple Touch, but it's worth looking into.
[Nook Touch Themes and Apps] ryanpl:
earthabby, I've gotten calengoo to work, got it on amazon for free :o). I've also tried checkmark calendar and it works with sync. When B&N rolled out the 1.1 update they made some changes is the system which effects calendar sync
[Nook Touch Themes and Apps] earthabbey:
Ryan thanks for sharing this. This is so stupid but I don't have a credit card so I can't do paid apps...and I'm in Canada so Amazon doesn't let us download from the app store (i.e. no daily freebies).

CSX321 I'm going to look into your suggestion. I am new to rooting and I've just finally got my Nook perfect so I'm not sure I want to risk trying something I don't know will work lol

If anyone else tries CSX321's suggestion please post! :)
[Nook Touch Themes and Apps] cceerrtt:
Hi, I am happy with Calendar Pad, give it a try.
[Nook Touch Themes and Apps] earthabbey:
I did install it, and it works as a calendar, but I have looked and looked and looked and I see no way to sync it with Google Calendar. Honest. I'll probably feel pretty stupid when you reply and show me how easy it is but seriously, I can't figure it out.
[Nook Touch Themes and Apps] cceerrtt:
Yeah, I can't find it too. But mine is synced. I thing that what I did was setting up the calendars using the standard calendar app (that one with ugly sd card icon over the display). In that app you can check/uncheck your callendars and under "agenda" check that your items were properly synced. Same items would appear in Calendar pad too.

I used synker to sync with google. Now, when also my contacts are synced, I believe it is done automatically, but that is a different story.
[Nook Touch Themes and Apps] earthabbey:
ah okay, yah I was looking for another way because I don't know how to do apk file stuff & there was no calendar included in the method I used for the rooting. I can learn, I was just hoping to be able to find something I could install via the market because I don't want to **** it all up and have to start again, it took me HOURS to get it rooted & the apps installed lol
[Nook Touch Themes and Apps] cceerrtt:
Well, if calendar app was not included in the nooter (or whatherver) you've used for rooting, that the sync would not work. Check your /system/app directory for

Calendar.apk, CalendarProvider.apk files. The first one is the app itself, the second one is necessary for the sync with google.

I am attaching those two files, it should be enough to copy them to /system/app and reboot, but I can't tell for 100%.
[Nook Touch Themes and Apps] CSX321:
I think you copy Calendar.apk to /system/app then install the other apk.

Installing works, but you should copy to /system/app instead.
[Nook Touch Themes and Apps] cceerrtt:
no, contactsprovides should go to /system/app.
[Nook Touch Themes and Apps] CSX321:
That's not the way I did it on my Nook Tablet. I installed it using ADB. Maybe it works either way.

Edit...And I just checked, and it's not in /system/apps on my Tablet now, but sync still works.
[Nook Touch Themes and Apps] cceerrtt:
If you install it, the app would go into data partition and thus reduce available space for data & apps. On my phone and nook touch both of them are under /system (on touch because touchnooter installs it there). I really believe copy should be enough, I just cant say that those two apk file are enough to make it work.
[Nook Touch Themes and Apps] Wiltuz:
Battery Solo Widget works fine for me
[Nook Touch Themes and Apps] CSX321:
You're right, better to copy it to /system/apps. I've updated my post above to reflect this.

After copying those two files, setting permissions on them, and rebooting, you probably also need to modify packages.xml as per the link in my earlier post in order for calendar sync to work. DeanGibson has provided a script to make the modification, if you have busybox installed.
[Nook Touch Themes and Apps] pls_vic_me:
Ankidroid on N2E

Hello xda forum users and happy rooted N2E owners!

I've got my N2E rooted following the great information provided on this forum. It's awesome! Back to the topic:

coolreader 2 and fbreader are fantastic apps. They include some great peace of code which detects NST, N2E and other eink devices. Ankidroid is another great app that I regularly used for years (although the PC and Maemo5 version of anki).

Unfortunately Ankidroid does not support partial refresh on our beloved device (NST/N2E) I created an issue on the tracker of this app, and I ask the users of this forum that also use Ankidroid, or would like to have another great app for N2E to subscribe to this issue. Click on the blank star to the left of the title. Hopefully the more supporters it has, the sooner this feature will be included!

Link is code.google.com/p/ankidroid/issues/detail?id=971

Thanks!
[Nook Touch Themes and Apps] bobstro:
Shortyz crosswords work well. You will want to use the system keyboard.

Math Workout works reasonably well. There is some flicker on countdown animations at the start of each quiz, and the results headers are a bit difficult to read.

Overdrive works for downloading library books, but the built-in reader is very basic.

Maildroid works for Exchange email.

Wikidroid works but with tiny text.

I copied over the apk for the Crossword game from a Nook Color and it installed and seems to work. Haven't tried Sudoku or Chess yet.
[Nook Touch Themes and Apps] brendan10211:
Any good IRC apps?

I would like to know. Also, ANDchat does not seem to appear in the market.
[Nook Touch Themes and Apps] aknas22:
Default App Manager

I've found Default App Manager very useful, I've used to switch between launchers. Couldn't find out how to do it any other way.
[Nook Touch Themes and Apps] gadget1999:
Email.apk for NST

My friend helped to build one from stock Email.apk with some minor tweaks. Enclosed please find a copy. Enjoy :)
[Nook Touch Themes and Apps] Googie2149:
So what is it you changed? I don't have my nook on hand to try it currently. (Sorry, haven't been following this thread very closely)
[Nook Touch Themes and Apps] brendan10211:
How does one use this?
[Nook Touch Themes and Apps] Googie2149:
There's an apk inside the zip. Either install it using ADB or drop it onto a mSD and install it using a file explorer.
[Nook Touch Themes and Apps] brendan10211:
Gonna have to learn how to use ADB then.
[Nook Touch Themes and Apps] gadget1999:
or upload to your Dropbox folder and open that from NSE

the changes are:

bigger font

light theme

re-arranged position of buttons for easier navigation between emails
[Nook Touch Themes and Apps] katsrevenge:
Working for me:

Cool Reader

Moon+reader

MobiManga

NutsNBolts

Antivirus Free (Creative Apps)

AdFree Android (bigtincan)

Minimalist (the one with the white squared icon in market. Looks great on the eInk.)

Fancy Widgets

inkpad notepad

Opera mini

Battery Saver

File Manager (Rhythm Software)

Battery Saver - Power Defender (android Dev)

Permissions Denied

Games

Chess Free (AI Factory, has ghosting. Open to a simpler program?)

Suduko Free (genina)

Mahjong (magma.. has ghosting but not bad)

Word Search (meliots)

Choice of the Dragon

Four in a Row HD

Crimson Feilds

PG Calculator

NOT WORKING

Internet Firewall (root) (webmobs)

Droidwall.

Each says something akin to the nook lacking iptables or a resource needed to run correctly. If anyone has a working firewall.. do share!
[Nook Touch Themes and Apps] osowiecki:
Apps that work on my Nook Touch :

- Shift puzzle game

- Tacticon (turn-based strategy game)

- AnDrawing

- AnkiDroid flashcards

- Concise Oxford English Dictionary

- FreeNote

- RealCalc

- SetCPU (300-800 MHz)

- Black White Board Game

- Landrule (turn-based strategy game)

- Mindjet for Android (Mindmapping software)

- Reversi (Blind Logic)

-Chess (Tojo) [IMO the best chess app for Nook. {2 player hotseat!}]

- Ebooka PDF , ezPDF Reader (IMO best pdf viewers. Tested every pdf viewer in the Market)

Also ... this is my first post here.

Hi
[Nook Touch Themes and Apps] jncrft:
Free42 works

Free42 is version of the HP42s scientific calculator. It has hundreds of built-in functions, is programmable, and allows printouts to text and graphic files (gif). It's rpn, which takes getting used to, but it works great on the N2E. The only downside is that the face of the app is slightly distorted due to stretching to fit the 800x600 resolution of the Nook.

Jon
[Nook Touch Themes and Apps] Soea:
The best app so far for me is FreeNote. It enables to handwrite notes on nook in such an excelent way its mindblowing for me xD

Everyone I show it to is like :O

It has a cool widget and with a little adjustment it look and works just great. I've attached some screenshots. Check it out.

Mantano Reader - for books. It reads pdf,epubs,mobi and couple more. Prety good and fast with pdfs.

Advance task killer- with widget you can close all open aps with one click. There's a possibility to add ignore list.

Cool reader- for txt and word. Very fast.

Pocket manga- it can downlosd manga from most popular sites and then they can be read by Perfect Viewer.

Perfect Viever- excelent for jpgs. Reading mangas on it is a pleasure.

Opera mini-best browser so far. Fast.

Hacker keyboard-cool keyboard with autocorrection and dictionary. There's a version on nook, google it.

Es file explorer- file manager.

XDA- I've just noticed that this app deletes first image I upload by it as an atachment. Shame on You developers ;P

Screenshot (by kastor soft) - im using it or screenshots, the con is they are in color, not B&W xD jk thats not a con ;)
[Nook Touch Themes and Apps] Areinu:
Did anyone try to use comic reader mobi on rooter Nook? I know most people suggest Perfect Viewer, but I find 6'' 800x600 screen to be just a little bit too small for comfortable reading, and on Comic reader mobi I could read comfortably even on HTC Kaiser.

@Soea: that notes app looks simply amazing.
[Nook Touch Themes and Apps] Vrekk:
Can you link to this? I can't find it in the Android market nor the Amazon one.

EDIT: And does anybody know of a good reader with a page sync option? I read on my phone ever I don't have my nook on me and its a pain remembering what page I'm always on.
[Nook Touch Themes and Apps] Soea:
google "pocketmanga"

there are two links but i think i have this one (im not sure where did i get it xD, it was one of the first app i installed, week ago)

http://pocketmanga.en.softonic.com/android
[Nook Touch Themes and Apps] Vrekk:
Graphicly "works" on the NST. You can't sign in using a google account but you can sign in using an email and password (If you created an account using google/facebook, sign in on the web and create a password) The comics themselves are slightly off center though, and it can be really annoying. In the end your probably better off finding a cbr of the comic you want and using Perfect Viewer, but if you (like me) have a large collection of comics on Graphicly (from the Nook color days) this will work pretty well.
[Nook Touch Themes and Apps] quiritius:
I didn't see anyone mention these apps:

Script Manager & SMWidgets.

IMO it is a must. I found at least one useful script which cleans the cr3 .cache folder.

Also autostarts app helps to stop stuff loading which I don't want to load.
[Nook Touch Themes and Apps] stephen.george.west:
Twisty Nook version

I grabbed the source, and modified for this very reason. Its rather hacked, but it works. I modified the layout and recompiled. The main text is a normal size, but the header text wouldn't increase much. I also modified the open dialog. I couldn't get the text to show up properly, so I inserted a "spinner" that lists the same order.

Now I just need to get the buttons to page up/down, and attach a usb keyboard.
[Nook Touch Themes and Apps] mrWax:
FX Explorer is great - supports Dropbox, SFTP, SSH-FTP ..., EBOOKDroid has cropping and works with both PDF, DJVU and lot more
[Nook Touch Themes and Apps] danmanx:
xbmc

XBMC Remote works great on the Nook Touch!

For those who don't know what XBMC is about. Please google it! Open source, plays everything, complete customization of your media libraries.

For those of you who use XBMC on your computers/media boxes this is an absolute godsend b/c the remote can stay active for up to 60 mins max due to the screensaver timeout. I'm sure there's an app to turn that off as well. Turning the Nook Touch into a remote is much more power efficient than your cellphone.

I have been using this for about a week now and the only problem I had with it was inputting letters and numbers in the initial setup. The text was white in it. Ha! But, I remembered what and where to type..........
[Nook Touch Themes and Apps] Renate:
Even though keycodes above 91 are theoretically not supported in API level 7 (rev 2.1),

it appears that some of the View types support them correctly.

For instance, a 92 sent to a ListView will cause page up, 93, page down.
[Nook Touch Themes and Apps] usb7:
I find that read it later doesn't work very well.

(It scrolls up when I try to scroll down)

Anyone else experiencing this?

Also has anyone been able to install Adobe's PDF Reader?

Finally, is there a way to increase the nook's display contrast so that the blacks are blacker?
[Nook Touch Themes and Apps] fiftyclick:
AirDroid works very well! Can handle all device settings, file management, settings, etc... from a desktop web browser.
[Nook Touch Themes and Apps] Renate:
The problem is with Nook's "borrowed" key codes.

The left upper key is Nook's next page key which is everybody else's PAGE UP.

The left lower key is Nook's previous page key which is everybody else's PAGE DOWN.

See: http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=24632564&postcount=7
[Nook Touch Themes and Apps] Rafsen:
Hello!

Does anyone tried Tapatalk? I can't search my forums. I can only choose forums from the catalog. Is it normal?
[Nook Touch Themes and Apps] Larrivee013:
Anyone got Google Play Books to work, somehow?

Thanks.
[Nook Touch Themes and Apps] domi.nos:
Great keyboard with working predictions is Jelly Bean Keyboard, now it supports much more languages.
[Nook Touch Themes and Apps] drmxmyt:
i have google books installed on my nst, and its working ok. my app version is 1.5.2

dont remember where i got it but definitely not from play sotre. search it as apk.
[Nook Touch Themes and Apps] Rafsen:
Another great keyboard is A.I.type Keyboard. Use default theme and disable pop-ups over keys. Looks very nice on eInk and has a lof of nice features.
[Nook Touch Themes and Apps] yeubacgiang:
when will we get ICS for nook simple touch? :o
[Nook Touch Themes and Apps] meminfil:
How can I change my keyboard? There is no such a setting like android. Btw thanks for all your great works, u are doing great.

Opps. Ok, i've got my answer :).
[Nook Touch Themes and Apps] Rafsen:
There's somewhere a guide... I can't find a link right now, but I remember how to do this.

1) Install keybord just like a normal app.

2) DON'T RUN IT! If you do, just unistall and try one more time.

3) In file explorer (which enables root) go to /data/app/ and find on the list your keyboard. Filename could be a little bit different, but you should easly figure it out which one is the keyboard.

4) Copy this file to /system/app/.

5) Reboot.

6) Open NookColor Tools, click 'Choose keyboard' and on the list should be your brand new keyboard ;)
[Nook Touch Themes and Apps] meminfil:
Thanks anyway I have just read in anoher topic

:)
[Nook Touch Themes and Apps] domi.nos:
Hi guys, I've made a theme for Go Keyboard, and it works also with Jelly Bean keyboard.

Generally it is black and white only, because i was annoyed by all those blinking while typing, and NoRefresh kept on activating and disactivating while typing in Opera Mobile.

Eventually NoRefresh in Opera still activates. So im looking for an advice.

Oh, and on Nook it is all black.

It is based on newest Go Neon skin, but I hope it is not a problem.

If is, please just PM me

PS. I did not test it with Go Keyboard itself :P
[Nook Touch Themes and Apps] ffarber:
I have Shortyz installed and it just blinks during startup. I can see that it is downloading the first batch of puzzles but the screen never switches to the Shortyz screen. What OS was the Color running when you lifted the apk?

Thanks,

Fred
[Nook Touch Themes and Apps] pleymobilette:
working version of moon reader

Hi guys !

I've tried to install moon+ reader on my rooted Nook ST but it seems that the last version is not working on android 2.1 :confused:

Can anyone with a working moon+ reader app can confirm if reading position sync with dropbox is working on his version ?

If so, would you be kind enough to upload the apk file ? :fingers-crossed:

Thx a lot !
[Nook Touch Themes and Apps] myself11:
Edit: I found the answer to my doubt.