
- Guaranteed for One Full Year
- High Capacity 3200 mAh 3.7V Battery
- Works in NOOK Color eReaders
- Comes with Battery, Tools, and DVD Video Instructions
- Kit Includes Everything You Need to Revive Your Barnes & Noble NOOK Color
My only disappointments and thus the 4 stars: The connector lead from the battery might be a bit longer to facilitate working the connector. And the replacement battery shows it to be 3200mAh, while the original I removed showed it as 4000mAh. I'll reserve judgement on battery life, has to be better than the original. 2 years old and my wife only got 20 minutes without having to recharge on the original.
I did appreciate that the tools were perfect, particularly the magnetized screwdriver. Do be sure to test the buttons before final assembly, my power switch moved and had to be realigned!Since the day I got my Nook Color, I had problems with short battery charge. I didn't realize I got a new product with a bad battery until I replaced it with the NewPower99 battery. Even though this battery is rated with about 20% lower capacity than the official battery, my uptime more than doubled, and during periods of low use I'm getting roughly four times the life that I got with my original battery. Very nice upgrade.I was able to read the directions and install the battery in a fairly short time and it still works fine.Well, I'm just so proud of myself! My 15-month old Nook Tablet was dying (battery wouldn't hold a charge and it would suddenly do crazy things then turn off after 15 minutes, especially while watching streamed videos) and Barnes&Noble said this battery is not replaceable and I'd have to buy a whole new device--yeah, right. I bought this NewPower99 compatible battery and followed the video instructions they have online. The battery came with 44% charge, so I plugged it in and went out for dinner. When I returned home, it was at 98% charged!
Taking the device apart was the easiest part of the process. Getting the new battery installed was more challenging and took the longest amount of time. My electrical engineer brother would have been able to attach it as quickly as the guy in the instructional video. Me, it took about an hour total, and the device didn't come on the first try. I followed someone else's advice to turn on the device before putting it completely back together again. That saved me quite a lot of time.
Turns out I had the battery connector upside down. I wasn't really sure about the direction so flipped it over, worked again on getting it attached in place, and immediately the device turned on.
I had read what others posted about the original battery being taped to the device and that you really have to pry it off. That was very helpful, but I still panicked a few times when it sounded like I was breaking something trying to pull the battery out. It's just the sound of the very strong tape separating from the battery. I used the green plastic tool provided to get some leverage.
Note: I have a Nook Tablet, but the company's website showed the Nook Color as the battery that is used. It is smaller than the original battery I replaced, but it seems to be working fine on the Tablet.
My first test to confirm that the battery was indeed working was to play a Netflix movie. This is the app that had the worst experience with the Nook battery issues. The NewPower99 battery installed, there are no problems watching a movie. So I'd say this compatible replacement battery is doing the trick.
Will update if I notice any issues in the future. But for now, I'm happy with my purchase.My nook died and was in need of this product to make it work again. Every tool needed was incl. in box. The dvd didn't work that good for me. I was happy to find tutorial online on youtube. Within 10 minutes I had my nook working again.


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