Nook Tablet owners, get ready for that feeling of redemption you can only get from finding out your money was well spent on an Android device that is getting official support from the CyanogenMOD crew. That is exactly the case with this little tidbit we just stumbled upon. I’d like to direct your attention to the Alpha 0 release of CM9 for the Nook tablet — the “Don’t Try To Sell This… You’ll Regret It” Edition.
This was posted by chrmhoffmann and then shared with the world on the official CyanogenMOD Google+ page, so this is the real deal here, kids. If you own a Nook Tablet, you can actually head over to the original post and install an early look of the Ice Cream Sandwich-based CyanogenMOD 9 on your device. Before you do ANYTHING, we strongly suggest you save yourself a headache and a lot of stress by reading the entire post first. Remember, this is a highly-experimental version of a custom ROM. Tread lightly.
That being said, here’s a look at the ins and outs. It looks like there are a few bugs that need to be addressed, but for a first Alpha release, the project looks very promising.
WHAT WORKS
- display
- brightness control
- touchscreen
- sound
- updated 1.8 egl driver
- new “CyanoBoot†menu bootloader
- accelerometer
- data statistics
- additional kernel tweaks/improvements/history
- mass storage
- MTP/PTP
- bootcount/battery updates & other acclaim peculiarities addressed
WHAT DOESN’T WORK
- microphone (see below for discussion)
- hw composition (see below too)
- hw video decoding (basically all TI ducati features are not working)
- Bluetooth (we need the GPIO pin # for .nshutdown. *If anyone has it, let us know)
- FM radio (it should in theory exist, but if like the Nook Color there is no antenna wired up)
- Occasional SOD to be addressed in new kernel
Interestingly enough, this ROM is running a Gingerbread kernel for the time being. The developers wanted to go with a 3.x kernel, but nagging WiFi issues made the decide to opt with a 2.6.35 kernel, just to give the public an early view of what the future has in store for them.
If you would like said early view, head over to the original post for more details.
