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How to Root Nook Glowlight plus 7.8 BNRV700

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The Nook Glowlight plus BNRV700 is a fantastic e-ink reader with a 300 dpi resolution in a 7.8 screen. It is also waterproof and battery lasts so you can read for weeks on a single charge. It has Wi-Fi connection and you can copy eBooks from your computer to the internal 8Gb storage. And there is also audio you can stream to an external speaker or your car to connect a wireless headset or connect a wired headset via the audio jack. You may want to root it to install other applications and use it as a tablet for it runs under Android 4.4 What you need to root adb (Android Debug Bridge) installed ( https://www.xda-developers.com/install-adb-windows-macos-linux/ ) rootGLP.zip ( https://xdaforums.com/t/how-to-root-and-set-up-a-new-nook-glowlight-3.3802331/ ) Before you start the process, you should keep in mind that rooting the Nook very likely voids the warranty. When you make after-market modifications to the embedded software on a consumer electronics device, there are always risk
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Root Nook Simple Touch with updated NookManager

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I have just rooted my Nook Simple Touch and it works really well. The screen quality is better than some other android readers which are really expensive on the market. After rooting everything flows and works fine, even browsing with Opera Mini. Upgrade the firmware to 1.2.2 With the old firmware 1.1.0 the wifi network does not work, so to upgrade the firmware you have to side download it to the reader and once it gets in sleep mode it will begin to upgrade itself Go to the page: https://help.barnesandnoble.com/hc/en-us/articles/5379840873371-Having-trouble-connecting-to-your-NOOK-#ManualDL and follow the instructions, then download the file: https://su.barnesandnoble.com/nook/nook2/1.2.2/351e26527e80156183e74be2da2ce89f/nook_1_2_update.zip Upgrade the firmware Register your Nook Simple Touch Root the Nook Simple Touch This update is only for firmware 1.2.2, I was impatient and tried to do it on the old firmware and it does not work well as you cannot install apk files or have Wi
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Rowenta Instant Comfort Aqua Fan Heater Stops Working

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 The Rowenta Instant Comfort Fan Heater is a wonderful heater for the bathroom. It has a plastic cover over the buttons to keep it dry while you are taking a shower. But a few weeks ago it stoped for no reason after only about five minutes working.  At first I thought that it was some kind of security system which started when the air is too humid and I tried to start it up over and over but it did not work. The Rowenta Instant Comfort Aqua I could say that I was ready to buy a new fan heater for the bathroom for showers in winter need some heat for sure. But I though that I would give it a try to repair it so I decided to open it and use the vacuum cleaner to clean it. The heater has two Phillips screws and two torks screws in the back. The heater opened You can see all that dirt inside, so I cleaned as much as I could. And I put a special attention to the thermostat part, it was really dirty and dusty at that precise spot. I cleaned it and also squeezed together the two diodes contac
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Restore a Swiza D03 Pocket Knife

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I recently bought a second hand Swiza D03 pocket knife to clean it and repair it. The knife was in a shameful state, dirty and with the blade badly deformed because of very bad sharpening. I paid 7 euros for it and I wanted to restore it with simple tools. All I have used is a small file and sand paper 600, 1500 and at the end 2000 grit, along with four hours of work. The Swiza D03 to restore The blade was in a poor state. As you can see in the picture the tip of the reamer was also broken. The first thing I did was to take the scales apart. To do so, I used my Victorinox pocket knife Camper can opening tool, so here you have a Victorinox repairing a Swiza pocket knife. I washed it with a brush in hot water and soap and then disinfected the thing with bleach. Then I rinsed it throughly very well. The Swiza D03 with the scales off and tweezers. I had to reshape the reamer with a file to give it the minimum operation state, which I did. Then I reshaped the tip of the blade with the file
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Squire Strat guitar lower and level frets

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I have got my new pack with the Squire Fender Stratocaster electric guitar and the 10G amplifier. I found this guitar fantastic for the price I have paid, about 100 euros along with a bag, a strap and the cable. For such a cheap instrument one can expect to find things to improve, like the neck of the guitar which was hard to play with because the height of the frets. So I decided to loose the strings and lower the frets with 600 grits sand paper. Well I started with 600 grits paper sticked to a wooden box to make it flat, but the procedure was too slow, so I changed to 280 grits first. I went over and over the frets to remove material until I thought they would be more comfortable to play. But this is a delicate thing because if frets are too low or not well leveled then your guitar may sound buzzing or out of tune. Once the frets were low enough I leveled them by putting a cutter blade on the first three frets, then moved the blade up and down always touching the middle fret. If I he
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Insulate garage door with pipe foam

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 To insulate the bottom of the garage door in a very easily and cheap way I just bought 3 meters of pipe insulating foam for 3 euros. The pipe insulation foam is very flexible and light and a very cheap material to keep the pipes from freezing in winter and comes as tubes with an opening in the side to easily adapt them to the pipe. I though of using this opening side or pre-slit to put it on the bottom of the garage door. This is not a complete insulation method for a garage door but it helps a lot to keep the cold away. It took me less than five minutes to adapt the foam to the bottom of the door. Here is a short video on how I did it
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Repair a wash machine drum paddle

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How to easily replace a broken wash machine drum paddle. A drum paddle is a plastic piece inside the drum of the washing machine used to guide or push clothes while washing. If one of these paddles is broken the replace piece can easily be found for the wash machine model. In my case I ordered a set of three pieces for less than seven euros each. It was easy to replace it, at least for my wash machine model, once I have put the piece into the six holes position I just pushed towards the inside of the drum. I paused the video to use both hands for more precision but it was really easy to do. There is also a small metal tab that should be lifted up to keep the paddle in the good position. Some will tell you that you will need a special tool, but believe me, it is much more simple than that as I have just used my finger to do so. After placing the piece I have just wash my clothes and they are clean and fine. So I saved lots of money today by not calling a technician and repairing this by
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