Install Android Market on HoneyComb Nook Color

I already show you how to install the android 3.0 in Nook Color to make your Nook Color as a android tablet. This time, I will show you how to install the android market in your android nook color. Before you get it start, you need to know ADB, Android Debug Bridge. You can find it in android developer site. You may also need to know how to enable ADB USB drivers for NVIDIA Tegra and Tegra 2 based devices. After that, we can start our tutorial now.
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Android 3.0 Tablet: Install Android 3.0 in Nook Color

Nook Color can install Android 3.0 now. It’s not exactly official, but you can follow the steps to get a prefect Android 3.0 tablet.

If you want to install android 3.0 in Nook color, please backup your nook data first. Then, what u need is a Nook color ebook reader, a 4GB MicroSD Card (8GB microSD Card is preferred). Then, let’s step by step, to get our honeycomb in Nook color.

  • Download Patched Android 3.0 System Image, and unzip the image  on your computer.

Http Download (3.5GB): nookhoney04.img.zip

Torrent(3.5GB): nookhoney04.img.zip

  • Insert your SD card in the computer. The preferred size is 8GB. Some say 4GB card get problem during burning image, but it still works.
  • Burn the Android 3.0 image in sd-card.

PC Users:

Download WinImage, and under ‘Disk’ choose “Restore Virtual Image to Physical Drive.” Change the files shown at the bottom to “all files” and select the android image file.

Mac Users:

Unmount the SD driver by below command in terminal window:

diskutil unmountDisk /dev/disk#
(replace # with your number. Do NOT use the disk#s)

The computer should say: Unmount of all volumes on disk was successful. Then type the below command to write the image to sd card:

dd if=nookhoney04.img of=/dev/rdisk# bs=1m

  • Turn off the Nook Color, and insert the sd-card. Then, it will boot into Android 3.0.

In next post, I will show you how to install the Android Market in you Nook Color Android 3.0 Tablet.