NookHD-bootable-CWM-6027-for-emmc-stock-4GB-rev3-(02.03.13).zip - this is a ‘bootloader’, something that lets you get the whole process started. cm_- this is Android 7.1, in a zip format, courtesy of a gentleman named Andrei Măceș, someone very active and respected in this sphere. They’re curated from various Android forums, and are: Let’s start by downloading three files from my dropbox folder. This blog post is for people who want to move their Nook HD device to Android 7 quickly and with as little fuss as possible. If you see the term ‘cyanogenmod’ bandied around, that’s one group that ports Android to various devices. Some enterprising folks have therefore ported the code to the Nook HD and HD+. It so happens that Android is an open-source platform, which means Google releases the source code for anyone to modify. There’s a very active community that makes current custom ‘images’ of Android that run on a variety of devices. These items are very inexpensive these days. To do this you’ll need a microSD card, at least 8 GB in size, and a card reader that lets you read/write to it from a PC. It turns out you can upgrade the Nook to the latest (as of February 2017) Android OS, version 7.1 (‘Nougat’). So if you have one laying around, what to do? It may not have all the bells and whistles as the latest Android tablets but it has plenty of horsepower to run most apps. 
The Nook HD has a dual core chip and 1 GB of RAM, roughly comparable to what the latest Kindle Fire HD uses today. That’s not because the hardware is obsolete. If you go to the Google Play store on the Nook you’ll find more and more apps that claim they’re ‘not supported’ on the device.
The trouble is, the OS on the device is a customized version of Android 4.0, several years old and which is rapidly being phased out. I also have a video tutorial of this on youtube, which you can see hereĭo you have a Barnes and Noble Nook HD and are wondering what to do now that B&N has essentially abandoned support for it? Y ou don’t need to be a full-fledged hacker to do this, not at all, and if you have 30 minutes to spare you can breathe new life into your tablet. (If you want to upgrade a Nook HD+ instead, please look at my other blog post, here.)
Synopsis: This is a quick guide on how to install Android 7 (‘Nougat’) on a Barnes and Noble Nook HD device. (Update 01/2019– I have posted a review of the new Nook tablet 10.1, if anyone is interested.)
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