The Amazon Kindle Fire has gotten a lot more love than the Barnes and Noble Nook Tablet, in part because the Fire has just been so much friendlier to hack. Barnes & Noble has already issued one update making Rooting the tablet harder and now there is an easy way around that last update. However, the question I find my self asking is how long will it be before another update is issued undoing all this hard work.
Indirect, one of the most prominent NOOK Tablet hackers, has released a tool that lets you root a NOOK Tablet using a microSD card.
What you’ll need to do to the SD card is create a 50MB FAT32 partition and enable boot and lda flags. The easiest way to do this is using the GParted or Parted Magic.
Once you’ve got the SD card formatted, there are just a few more steps:
- Download the NT-CWM-SD.zip file and unzip the contents to the root directory of the microSD card.
- Turn off your NOOK Tablet and insert the microSD card.
- Turn on the tablet and you should boot into ClockworkMod Recovery.
- Download Indirect’s latest Gapps_and_root.zip file and copy it to the SD card (or push it to the SD card using adb).
- Flash the Gapps_and_root.zip update using ClockworkMod Recovery.
This will root your tablet and install the Google Android Market. If you didn’t follow that easily and don’t have a good grasp of Linux this might not be for you. Sadly if you’re just a beginner you might have to wait a few more weeks or months for an easy hack to become available.
Via Liliputing
