[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] nmyshkin:
I have to say...I didn't think you would get there, so good for you! Not giving up is the key to a lot of this stuff (along with the right SD card...).

So the next stuff is just housekeeping, getting ready for flashing xposed and assembling the the microG components.

Please bear with me. I don't know how much Android experience you have and any new ROM is always a little mysterious at first glance, so this is just general stuff to get you off to a good start.

1. Format one of your spare 16 GB sdcards with Windows, as before. Set this aside. It will be your external storage since there is very limited user storage space internally.

2. Turn on the tablet. When boot is complete, drag everything on the screen (except the "dock" icon--white circle with dots) to the trash. Just press and hold until you see a trash can at the left side (landscape) and drag the item to the trash. Do this until the screen is clear. There is also a second page to the home screen. Removing all that stuff should make it go away.

3. The wallpaper choices are pretty awful, IMHO. The screen size is 1024x600 px and you can Google for wallpapers of that size (or larger and crop) if you want something else.The Nook Color has the same screen size so you can search for wallpapers for either model and see what's out there. Place any wallpapers you want to try in /storage/0/Pictures/Wallpapers. To change the wallpaper....

4. To access the launcher settings, from the home screen long-press on the screen somewhere. You'll get a reduced image size of the screen with Wallpaper, Widgets, etc. as options and somewhere on the screen is a little dotted "caret" (^) sort of symbol (see screenshot below). Tap on that to access the homescreen/launcher and app drawer settings. Be aware that changing icon size, positions, etc. can cause anything you have put in place to disappear again, so it's best to try a few things out before populating the screen with icons.

5. Settings (just suggestions)

-Display & Lights

--Rotation 0, 90, 270

--Font size HUGE

-Buttons

--Power menu: check Reboot and Screenshot

-Lock Screen

--Screen lock SWIPE

--Lock screen shortcuts (used to clear phone, camera, etc. from lock screen)

-Security

--Unknown sources (check)

-Apps

--Scroll down to "Touch Screen Firmware Flasher", tap there and tap on "disable". This is a known problem and really for gaming (the tablet is too slow for gaming). Better to disable it lest you tap on it accidentally.

-About tablet (the screen you showed me!)

--tap 7 times on "Build Number"; this will enable Developer Options

-Developer Options

--Root access: Apps and ADB

--Debugging: check Android debugging and debug notify

Back to the home screen. Take the

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sdcard you formatted and place it in the card slot of the tablet. You get a notification on the top left of the screen. Pull that down and choose to set up the card. Select "portable storage".

From the app drawer, tap on File Manager. Tap on the "hamburger menu" (three lines) at the upper left and select "General Settings". You do not want to "compute folder statistics" and under "Advanced" you want "Root Access mode".

Generally you will be working with the contents of your sdcard so it makes sense to set that as "home". To do that, open the hamburger menu again and note the name of the sdcard. It's usually alpha-numeric. For example, mine is A4B9-1213. Write yours down. Then tap on the little pencil icon next to "Home" and enter the initial folder (something like /storage/A4B9-1213). Now when you open the file manager you'll see the contents of the sdcard, but the root and internal storage is available via the hamburger menu.

To transfer files from your PC to the tablet (like wallpapers?), attach the tablet with the USB cable. You'll see a notification icon in the upper left of the tablet screen. Pull that down. The second notification is that you are in charging mode. Tap this and select "file transfer mode". Hopefully your PC will eventually detect the tablet and you can transfer to either internal or external storage.

OK, that's the setup to get you ready for the next flashing, etc. Hopefully no problems with this :)