NP99spBattery Kit for Barnes and Noble Nook Color with Tools, How-to Video and Long Life Battery from NewPower99

This worked pretty much as advertised. From watching the video, I thought that separating and putting the contacts back together would be the most frustrating and longest part of the process, but for me it took a while to get all of the screws out (I had them unscrewed, but they wouldn't just fall out of the holes, so I had to sort of wiggle and pry them out with the prying took because they are so tiny I couldn't use my fingers). Also, as I was moving the Nook around to try to get the contacts apart, it kept turning on! As long as the left contact is still attached, it can turn on and apparently the on/off switch on my Nook is super sensitive to any pressure, so I kept having to wait for it to boot up, then shut it down, then keep working on separating the layers of the Nook and replacing the battery. It eventually ended up in two halves (the power button was just fitted into a slot, and once the two contacts were separated, that was the only thing bridging the half holding the battery and the half with the screen). Like another reviewer noted, some Nook batteries are taped underneath with strong double-stick tape. Mine was one of those. There were two horizontal strips of the stuff, so I was using the screwdriver to hold the battery up while I kind of sliced at the sticky stuff with the prying tool. The old battery got pretty bent up at the edges -- I thought that I was going to keep it in case I needed it in a pinch, but that is not possible. It was kind of fortunate that the Nook came completely apart into the two halves, because I could work at the taped-down battery without endangering the screen. Hopefully NewPower99 will keep making these kits for years to come. As long as you know that the contacts pull up and click back down into place, that part is easy -- the prying tool is great for pressing those tiny things into their holders.If you haven't taken apart any of your electronics before, you may want to hand the kit to someone who has. While the process overall just takes patience and great care, it could be a little intimidating or nerve-wracking if you haven't opened something up before -- and there is, of course, a real chance of messing up the device, so you have to keep that in mind... Before I used the kit, my Nook was loosing a lot of battery life when I wasn't even using it... I got about 2 hours reading time a day and then had to charge it every 24 hours to the battery alive. Now it is holding power a lot better and is lasting a lot longer than before... so it definitely feels refreshed. According to the stickers inside, my Nook is about 3.5 years old.

All negative stars are because (1). the battery is smaller (2). its only 3200mAh not 4000mAh like OEM. (3.) Battery life is slightly lower. Well, you find me an OEM battery NOT from the manufactorer ($80 dollars) that is set at this price buy it. But THERE ISN'T one! So my review. OUTSTANDING. DVD was easy to follow. Literally took me 10 minutes to fix my Nook Color.Now my issue was the battery wouldn't hold a charge (3 years old duh) and go figure the Nook Cable (my 4th one) no longer worked. So this is a review for those troubleshooting why their Nook Color is Acting retarded.1. The Nook Cable is "special". It is a 12 pin micro hdmi cable that dumps a rapid charge into the battery. All your other micro hdmi cables (smartphone, tablets, so on) are ONLY 5 pin. Why more pins? well it charges faster with MORE mAh's silly.2. Issue. People push and throw and disturb the cable while its charging. Causing the pins to break or arc causing cable failure.3. ANY micro hdmi cable will charge the Nook Color, but the tablet won't register it's charging as these charges "trickle" charge the tablet much slower. (same result just takes longer)4. My particular situation I had to do TWO steps to get my Nook Color back to life. (after installation of my battery, not everyone's story is the same as mine, but this is WORST case scenerio and this is for my particular issue as my wife did a factory reset and the "old" battery died during install of factory software, bad, very bad) FIRST. I had to trick Nook into an 8 failed start situation. I repeatedly had to turn the nook on and off 8 times to make it know there is a "boot" issue. Nook goes into a "software update" mode to repair. SECOND. After software update repair, I had to "factory reset" the Nook to OEM. Immediately after "software update" had finished it reboots. HOLD the POWER button and the "N" button at the same time for 10 or so seconds..release after the beginning message disappears. "reading if forever or whatever it says at the beginning". A yellow screen jumps up and it does the "factory reset"...Final note. Im not a NASA engineer. I'm just trying to let people know YOU CAN REPAIR YOUR NOOK IF ITS WON'T CHARGE OR BOOT UP. This is 9 out of 10 reasons a NEW battery is needed. The 1 out of 10 reason is exactly why Barnes and Noble will no longer be making e-readers and their Nook HD+ line will be the end of their run as an e-reader provider. I loved my Nook and in 5 years when batteries are no longer available I'm going to have to get a Kindle :(

The video is pretty straight forward and easy to follow. It is very difficult to actually attach the battery once it is in place. I found through trial an error that it is easier to attach battery before slipping it into place. It takes patience and a light hand to get the plastic case to snap back in place. It was well worth it to preserve the 500 books I have on my nook.

This is for the NOOK Color BNRV200 replacement battery. While the video for installing the battery was pretty good, if failed at the critical point of opening the case around the area of the magnetically held flap where the optional Micro-SD card goes. As a result I broke both straps holding the cover flap to the body. I had watched the video twice and did not catch exactly where to put the special included tool to pry to two halves of the case apart in this area. Other than this problem the opening of the case, removal of the the old battery, installation of the new battery and closing of the case came off with no problems. The SD card cover strap problem is not a huge deal since I rarely take the NOOK Color out of the house. I do wonder why the replacement battery has a lower power capacity than the original battery. It is not my much, but it is lower.

This battery took over 14 hours to reach a full charge. It only lasts 4 to 5 hours. The original battery used to get 6 to 8 hours on a full charge, but it was getting old so I replaced it. Unfortunately, I threw the old one out without checking the specs on the new battery. The OEM battery is 4000Mah while the new one is only 3200Mah, 1/3 less power than the original battery. So, this is not OEM specs like it says it is. Very disappointed.