Making sure I had a recent apps package was one of the harder parts about getting my Nook up and running again, because if you don’t have a recent one, it just complains that Google Play Services needs to be updated-and won’t allow you to run the Play Store to update it until it is updated. As in the guide, I recommend the “mini” variant to have a fairly complete set of Google Play applications without adding things you don’t need like the camera app.
You can get that from OpenGAPPS be sure to choose the ARM platform and Android 6.0.
(Disregard the “aosp” package that’s a different Android distribution and I don’t have any experience with it).īut you also need a recent Google Apps package to go with it. As it turned out, a fairly recent Marshmallow package resides there now. I decided to go ahead and install the latest Cyanogenmod pack that I could find, so visited the box directory where the most recent Cyanogenmod releases reside, as mentioned in the guide. I had lately factory reset it in the hope that would improve performance, but never got around to doing much with it after that. Between my Nexus 7, Nexus 6, Amazon Fire, and iPad Mini, I’ve had more than enough devices to entertain me, and since I’d upgraded it to Lollipop I found the Nook HD hadn’t been working terribly well. It had been a while since I played with the old Nook HD when I finally got around to taking another look at it last night. Then when it comes time to grab the Cyanogenmod and Google Apps packages, use the links found here instead. If you’re installing Cyanogenmod on a stock Nook HD for the first time, you’ll need a boot loader and rescue package simply grab the latest versions of those from the sources listed in my guide and follow the instructions therein for applying them. I’ll go through and update it at some point, but for now I thought I’d simply go over what’s changed.
The guide I wrote to installing KitKat, then Lollipop, on the Nook HD via Cyanogenmod has been one of our more popular articles over the years, but it’s gotten a bit out of date now. Through no fault of my own, I managed to get Android 6.01 Marshmallow running on my Nook HD.