Introduction: Hack Your Pandigital E-Reader Into an Android Tablet!

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NOTICE 02/01/2013:
due to the nature of this instructable and the many failures that have been had by many fellow makers, i will no longer be providing support for you if you mess up your pandigital tablet. i have now in the last year alone not even have owned one of these silly things, so let it be made known, if you continue, your on your own!, so sucsess of failure will be determined on your comprehension and exact execution of these instructions.


so it occured to me yesterday that this stupid pandigital e-reader was actually a super locked down version of andriod that lacked the regular interface, i mean Heck, it said it ran on android right on the side of the box!  but since it was supposed to be a "e-reader" the manufacture locked down the front end of the system (not cool guys) so it would preform one task and one task only, but were gonna change that and this is how: 

btw: your gonna need a sd card:]

UPDATE!
after a large community response to the flaws with pandigital's download site and their android open platform , and a desire to have the android market place, the ability to change the background, retain the ability to read E-books, and many other features its lacked, i have done extensive research into how to add this functionality back in, but in doing so i have discovered someone who has already done so, this individual goes by the name jackbox he is a member of the slatedroid forum he released 3 versions of his work all of which i have briefly tested and the best one is his second version which you can download from media fire here their is only one problem with it is that you still cant change the background easily but i found an app called AndroPaint Lite which can be installed by just copying it to the sd card and selecting it through the file browser to install it, this should give you the ability to change the background which you can download from this instructable. thanks goes out to slatedroid member jackbox!
UPDATE!
due to users being fruskrated with thier device regardless what they try to do to it, i am including a list of urls that will tell how to restore the device back to factory settings so they can return it and get their money back cause ill admit it the pandigital novel is a complete piece of crap not worth the money.

WHERE TO GET FACTORY FIRMWARE AND HOW TO USE IT :http://www.pandigital.net/?PageID=391


Please note, this update is for Pandigital Novel 7" Color Multimedia eReaders only!!!!

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Step 1: GET ZE SOFTWARE!

so first you'll need the new firmware download it from this(( link: this is the crappy manufacturers version)) ((jackbox version much better))  this is the new firmware the manufacturer released once they discovered that people were doing bare installs of android without any difficulty trust me, its much better than a bare install. once you have downloaded the file, copy it to your sd card and then your almost half way now! 

Step 2: Prep the Tablet

now, power off your E-reader for the last time, then use a towel or something soft to rest it on, place the E-reader face down on the surface and use a credit card/library card/ piece of plastic and run it through the crease in the back of the E-reader to open the back panel

Step 3: Prep the Tablet Cont'

now take out the internal micro sd card by pushing the metal tab covering the micro sd card towards the top of the tablet and then lifting up the retainer and then remove the card 

Step 4: Install the Software !

now take the memory card you copied the file to and insert it into the tablet and now hold the volume + button and the power switch for 30 seconds then, let it do its thing, the entire install is automatic, so soon you should have a working tablet, once finished, you may install the internal memory card back in place if you wish

Step 5: Third Party Apps!

so once your finished you'll want to get some apps, at this point in time the best website ive found is this: http://www.freewarelovers.com/android normally you would use the android market, but ive yet to find the market app install so for now this is how we have to get apps. 

Step 6: Enjoy!

now your done! enjoy your new android tablet:]

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