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How do I partition my sd card to make Apps to SD work? I searched the forums and i cant find it?
BM1515 said:
How do I partition my sd card to make Apps to SD work? I searched the forums and i cant find it?
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yeah I hate to be a noob but ive been looking everywhere for this info as well. would be nice if it was in the sapphire hacking wiki...
i just rooted and installed cyanogenMod 3.9.11.2 yesterday and SD partition and Apps2Sd is the inly thing I cant figure out.......
use sdparted - see this thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=543985
If your sd card is blank or if youve backed up its contents then you can just power on using home + power and you will see the option there to setup your partitions
Cant find it
Not with cyanogen recovery 1.4 I did it through g parted live cd with my screen flickering like crazy because i failed to notice the resolution icon...but any way I am appd to sd'd up
I used Amon_RA recovery image to partition my SD. Now my question is how do I know it is partitioned and know that my apps are automatically being installed there.
Also I had apps on my phone prior to partitioning and I noticed an option in the recovery to move apps to SD, is that all you need to do to move them?
Thanks guys
Partition
After u format it they will copy over automatically
1.4 Does not seem to have that option...
Johnny Blaze said:
If your sd card is blank or if youve backed up its contents then you can just power on using home + power and you will see the option there to setup your partitions
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1.4 Does not seem to have that option, and since this is the first time I have used it, I have nothing to compare it to. I see " [Alt+F] repair ext filesystems", that can't be it, can it?
First of all let me say hello to everyone as I am new to here and that if there is a thread about this please point me there as I have searched far and wide and tried everything imaginable and nothing helped whatso ever.
I recently got myself the HTC touch with these specs
sapphire pvt 32b ship s-on g
hboot-1.33.0006 (sapp10000)
cpld-10
radio-2.22.19.261
I tried a tutorial I had found on how to flash it (Sorry in my frustration I lost the link for it) everything went well I know I had to get a file manager to activate an apk program for it then type in a code...after that it prompted to restart which I did and now it wont go past the vodafone loading screen.
its not bricked as I can get to the hboot screen still and I can go to the other screen the black one where you can wipe the card/ use the update.zip etc.
I took the sd card out of my phone to put the files needed onto it as my phone couldn't be mounted anymore and now when I put it back in I get the
can't mount SD card error (cant mount /dev/block/mmcblk0p1 or /dev/block/mmcblk0) (no such file or directory)
so now it seems like I am royaly screwed here as my phone doesnt even read its own sd card...could I have accidently removed something from the SDcard which was needed for it to be recognized or is there a way to work around this
please can someone help me as I have been searching for a good 14 hours straight as I need my phone for work...
thanks in advance
Is the sdcard formatted as FAT32? Most come partitioned as FAT but all the tutorials say updating rom requires FAT32.
sorry I forgot to mention that yes it is formatted to FAT32, I did the format on the pc so I lost all the files that were on it, but as it is an sd card and not the internal memory it shouldn't have had any information on it required to mount it otherwise if I would get a new sd card it wouldn't work
the sd card that came with mine btw is an 8gb micro SD HC
I have a normal 2gb Micro SD but it doesn't read that one either.
so in otherwords I have just flashed my phone with the flashrec-20090815.apk which then asked to restart...I did that and then wiped before the backup, which should only mean I cannot go back to the stock settings unless some other dutch vodafone magic user would be so kind as to send me his nandroid backup
but other than that I would really like to figure out why my phone can't mount the SD card, either of them
EDIT: When I searched around the net about can't mount SD card error (cant mount /dev/block/mmcblk0p1 or /dev/block/mmcblk0) (no such file or directory)
I found that every other person that has this problem is a HTC dream user which makes me think I accidently got a Dream file flashed to my phone, yet wouldn't just the right sappimg.nbh be able to return things to normal? Or is this just wishful thinking...
Well second this story from me. I have the exact problem as you have. Hope someone will stumble upon this thread and give us guidance..
//N
well I don't know how much of a difference it makes but I just got both fastboot AND ADB to work, at first only fastboot worked for me, so now when I am in the recovery screen I can put adb commands in even though it is not started up fully (Cant get past loading screen yet)
hmm...latest update, I think I did something horribly wrong now...it no longer goes into the recovery-RAv1.2.1G screen (The black screen with green words) it now brings me to a different recovery screen, the one with the phone and the exclamation (!) mark
As long as you can go into fastbood hope is not lost.
Did you already do an SPL update? if yes you can just install any rom you want.
try to put an rom (lets say cyanogenmod) via microsd to usb adapter on the drive and call it update.zip.
Get this tools: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=EZU065GP
You need to install the USB driver for the phone if you not already have.
Connect the phone to the PC and boot you phone by holding "Back" and "On" into fastboot.
then run the "Boot Modified Recovery" script. Select "Apply sdcard:update.zip", make an wipe and the Phone start normally with the rom you selected.
It would be very helpful if you write would you already did to the phone.
ok, first things first...tired the program you sent me (Awesome by the way thanks) but the SPL I am using is a non engineerings spl meaning I cannot actually DO anything in fastboot
so without being able to start my phone up fully or use adb (I Lost that option once the recovery part disapeared for some reason) it would be great to know if I can still change the spl to an engineering one.
and now for a long list of what I did in the order I did it in so you can tell me just where I went wrong and tell me if I screwed up my phone completey or not (if not I have a special insurance on this that I pay extra for and might...JUST might cover this problem)
anyways.
At first I looked for a theme for the phone when realizing it wasn't going to be easy, I needed to flash them which is nothing I had done before (Should have realized then an there not to do it, knowing my luck)
anyways.
I turned on the usage of unkown applications and turned USB debugging on.
I put the flashrec-20090815.apk and recovery-RAv1.2.1G onto my sd card as told by the tutorial I downloaded linda file manager (Or something around those lines) to activate the flashrec thingy...followed by using the recovery thing and then it said it needed to be restarted.
I restarted it into the recovery like it told me to do, everything was going perfect.
This tutorial did not say to make a backup first so I never did (ARGH i hate that part the most) it told me to do a wipe, so I did...followed by sending the update.zip (This part confused me as they did not tell me to have the update.zip on it.
So I popped the sd card out (This may be where I went horribly wrong) put it into the SD card reader and put the update.zip rom on it I wanted to use.
Put the SD card back into my phone, and then it went wrong, I tried to run the update.zip and it said that it could not mount the sd card do to the dev/block thingy I posted above.
I have tried everything against that, I wiped the card...tried to format it through the phone (Same thing, could not mount) I formatted it on the pc to FAT32 (I made sure it was 32) and still, no matter what I do it wont mount...
strangely though someone suggested using the sappimg.nbh somewhere else, I got it...put it onto my SD card, started up hboot and it read it, tried to apply it but it said something about my CID or something being incorrect...but that DOES mean that the phone reads my SD cards (Since I have a 2gb sd and an 8gb sd HC (The one it came with)) and both of them work for doing that, but the sappimg part doesnt work.
after trying that sappimg.zip one though also with no good results, I tried to get back into the recovery part for the adb so that I could try something someone suggested about mounting the sd card image thingy through that...but when I booted up the recovery I got the normal android recovery (the one with only three choices and the phone with the exclamation mark) meaning I somehow lost my recovery RAv.......
so that is what has been done, please, please, please tell me I didnt horribly screw things up...if someone can help me I promise never to mess around with things I don't know about...
odanion said:
hmm...latest update, I think I did something horribly wrong now...it no longer goes into the recovery-RAv1.2.1G screen (The black screen with green words) it now brings me to a different recovery screen, the one with the phone and the exclamation (!) mark
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I was wondering what happen when you press both Home and Power buttons at this moment. What the phone shows. Is there any menu we can use?
Is the ADB recognizes the phone in recovery mode in this moment?
I am also having similar problems with my sapphire. I can fastboot to recovery rom but cannot mount the SD card I can use adb
/dev/block/mmcblk0p1 no such file or directory when I try to access sdcard.
I have tried 4 different sd cards with different partitions on them but it will not read any of them.
I have tried to restore a nandroid backup by using adb push to put the img files in /sdcard. I assume it is just using the phone internal memory as the sdcard does not mount. I have used adb shell to flash_image the nandroid img files but it still does boot up succesfully. Just hangs at vodafone screen...
I used the root method at unlockr.com, and i have #root# access in the terminal emu app. When i get to the part at unlockr about flashing recovery, (thru terminal emulator) i get an error reading /sdcard/recovery-RA-heroc-v1.5.2.iso
I have RUU'd the phone at least 5 times... I have also tried using the cmd using the guide here, and get an error at basically the same spot.
my hero is 1.56.651.2. i have spent over 15 hours across 2 days searching forums and trying different methods, but i guess i must be doing something wrong.
btw.. the very first time i tried using the method from unlockr (root through cmd, flash recovery through terminal emu) it *almost* worked. It tried and got a ton of messages and an error regarding too little memory. after i looked it up and realized i could have just freed up memory in the PHONE(not sdcard) it was too late, i had already RUU'd again. It hasnt come close to flashing since, only the error reading message.
i get an error reading /sdcard/recovery-RA-heroc-v1.5.2.iso
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this isn't your issue is it?
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settings>sd card and phone storeage>unmount sd card
settings>sd card and phone storeage>format sd card
do a RUU to go back to bone stock, same version you have
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=608434
follow this
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=583291
EDIT: and when it get to this part about "flash_image recovery recovery-RA-heroc-v1.5.2.img" give it an extra min after you hit enter and it "looks" like it's done before proceeding
let me know if you get stuck, i'll keep an eye on this thread also let me know at exactly which step "looks weird"
oops that was just a typo. I have been using .img for the file ext like you are supposed to. I have formatted the sd before trying, and the same error. The guide you pointed me to also did not work, I always get a flash error at (step 18). I have RUU'd at least 5 times to start over, and it didnt help any.
and about giving it an extra minute after the flash command, it instantly tells me
"error reading /sdcard/recovery-RA-heroc-v1.5.2.img"
so i cant really do that.
What should i do
I have ran into that same issue. I would guess you have upgraded the stock sd card. If you have, it is formated to fat32 not fat like the original. Try formating the card fat then try again. Good luck to you.
Dave
EDIT: I see you have formated the card. I believe the card has to be fat not fat 32 (someone correct me if im wrong). When I was rooting my phone I had same error til I formated it fat. May the force be with you.
What do you mean by upgraded the sd card? I didnt ever do that...at least not on purpose. So how would i check the format?
Put the card into a card reader in a pc, right click on drive and hit properties.
crap, i dont have a reader for this type of card. no way to do it through the phone?
and this problem couldnt be from anything else, could it?
cweezyf said:
crap, i dont have a reader for this type of card. no way to do it through the phone?
and this problem couldnt be from anything else, could it?
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you can mount the card from the notifications bar when you plug your phone in usb. then just right click on the removable disk in my computer (mine's drive H: ) then click "properties"
it will bring up this window
if it says FAT32 then there's the (assumed) problem.
Okay!
it IS fat32.
cweezyf said:
Okay!
it IS fat32.
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do you know how to format?
before you format be sure to save anything you have on your sd card that you want/need as it will erase everything.
1. move anything you like to save to your computer from your sd card
2. right click on the removable disk in my computer
3. click on "format"
4. in the little window that pops up chose "FAT" leave everything else alone
5. click start.
6. thats it!
damn its not working.
As soon as i click format it unmounts...any idea?
BTW thanks for the help
cweezyf said:
damn its not working.
As soon as i click format it unmounts...any idea?
BTW thanks for the help
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i've never tried it that way, but you will probably have to go the card reader option, or use...
GParted
windows disk management
but those tools give you the power to seriously mess up your computer. so i recommend running these on someone's computer you don't like.
or the card reader option
You can format the card under "SDCard and Phone storage"
Just unmount then format.
Okay well modchipper said he had the same problem, and the sd has to be formatted to FAT,not Fat32.
Gparted and the other tool, how can they mess up my computer?
The format option in the phone formats to FAT32...
If you're not careful you can accidentally nuke your hard drive, instead of your sdcard.
Well i tried windows disk management and it didnt see the drive. Gives me a feeling that gparted wont work either. does anyone know for fact that sdcard format has to be FAT?
Well once again I'm at my mom's, and her USB ports are screwed up, so I couldn't tel you what mine is formatted as.
Well i have multiple SDCards, but the one that is currently in my phone is formatted in FAT32 & I believe that was the one I used to root & flash the recovery originally...
Well this just seems impossible it seems ive hit a wall...
Im trying to use Fresh pre kitchen, but that wont work either because i have windows 7.
The Fresh Pre-kitchen works fine on Win7.
I'm running B&N 1.2 rooted with ManualNooter 4.4.28 and I saw a couple posts where people said they dropped some apks into their system/app folders to install apps that wouldn't install from the market. When I plugged my Nook into the computer, I don't have access to the system folder in order to copy the apk over. I tried just putting it on the sd card and using the Astro file manager and the ES file explorer to copy and paste into that folder, but it won't let me. What do I need to do in order to do that?
You need to remount the /system as read/write, it's read-only by default.
You'll probably need a terminal emulator, or preferably get adb setup. A little googling of the "mount" command and/or adb should get you there.
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You need to remount the /system as read/write, it's read-only by default.
You'll probably need a terminal emulator, or preferably get adb setup. A little googling of the "mount" command and/or adb should get you there.
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Thanx for the info. I installed adb and got it working with my Nook now. Remounting the /system was easy after i searched for the command to use.
FWIW Root Explorer works great. Best four bucks I've spent so far for Market progs.
skeeterpro said:
FWIW Root Explorer works great. Best four bucks I've spent so far for Market progs.
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I agree, best $4 I spent too. I got the Amazon App Store installed using it, also Angry Birds, Angry Birds Seasons, and Angry Birds Rio.
Hey i'm having trouble with something similar. A real challenge though, as I have 1) no non-adhoc wireless network 2) no genuine nook cable so ADB is not an option. I need to get access to the file system so I can apply the Ad-hoc fix, but I can't find any way to do so without a file manager, and I can't find a way to install an apk without ADB or market. (i'm running 1.2 rooted) Any genius ideas would be much appreciated!
Warder52 said:
I'm running B&N 1.2 rooted with ManualNooter 4.4.28 and I saw a couple posts where people said they dropped some apks into their system/app folders to install apps that wouldn't install from the market. When I plugged my Nook into the computer, I don't have access to the system folder in order to copy the apk over. I tried just putting it on the sd card and using the Astro file manager and the ES file explorer to copy and paste into that folder, but it won't let me. What do I need to do in order to do that?
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Search "SU File Manager & Terminal" on Android Market. It's the best app working till now. It has "Mount System/Data RW" option, makes it easier to mount the partitions as RW without executing any commands and copy the APKs from SD card to any System or Data partitions.
It has quick option to mount the partitions as RO.
skgtheblij said:
Hey i'm having trouble with something similar. A real challenge though, as I have 1) no non-adhoc wireless network 2) no genuine nook cable so ADB is not an option. I need to get access to the file system so I can apply the Ad-hoc fix, but I can't find any way to do so without a file manager, and I can't find a way to install an apk without ADB or market. (i'm running 1.2 rooted) Any genius ideas would be much appreciated!
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Do you have any microUSB cable that you can connect to a computer with? You don't need the genuine cable... if you don't have market, and can't install any apks via terminal/connectbot or ADB, then i'm not sure what you can do...
edit: maybe you could dual boot CWM and go through that to install files?
Thanks for the reply. I've tried a micro USB cable but it didn't seem to recognize the NC, and in 1.2 there was no notification that USB was connected. Perhaps I have something wrong with my USB port? Also, I don't really know how I would install files through CWM; I have it on SD, which is how I've been making changes. Could you point me in the right direction on that?
Thanks!
Those using Root Explorer, I'm running CM7 from an SD card using verygreen's method, but don't have any SD reader other than the NC, so I can't install gapps/market. I have sideloaded Root Explorer, but can't find anywhere to drop the gapps...zip where it will install on a recovery boot. I don't even have a way to format my one-and-only SD card to attempt a root of the stock OS and get more functionality out of CWM.
I don't mean to thread-hijack, but it seems quite related, and I can't post in the dev forum yet.
Taosaur said:
Those using Root Explorer, I'm running CM7 from an SD card using verygreen's method, but don't have any SD reader other than the NC, so I can't install gapps/market. I have sideloaded Root Explorer, but can't find anywhere to drop the gapps...zip where it will install on a recovery boot. I don't even have a way to format my one-and-only SD card to attempt a root of the stock OS and get more functionality out of CWM.
I don't mean to thread-hijack, but it seems quite related, and I can't post in the dev forum yet.
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The gapps.zip is what U need?
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The gapps.zip is what U need?
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The specific package is gapps-gb-20110307-signed.zip, for CM7 7.0.2. I have the file, and normally you would use a PC to drop it in the SD card's boot partition, but like I said, the only means I have of getting at the SD is over USB to the Nook, and I can't access the boot partition that way. I'm wondering if I can reach the boot partition via Root Explorer, or is it totally off limits while CM7 is running off the SD?
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The specific package is gapps-gb-20110307-signed.zip, for CM7 7.0.2. I have the file, and normally you would use a PC to drop it in the SD card's boot partition, but like I said, the only means I have of getting at the SD is over USB to the Nook, and I can't access the boot partition that way. I'm wondering if I can reach the boot partition via Root Explorer, or is it totally off limits while CM7 is running off the SD?
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I think with changing read/write U can do this with Root Explorer.
skgtheblij said:
Thanks for the reply. I've tried a micro USB cable but it didn't seem to recognize the NC, and in 1.2 there was no notification that USB was connected. Perhaps I have something wrong with my USB port? Also, I don't really know how I would install files through CWM; I have it on SD, which is how I've been making changes. Could you point me in the right direction on that?
Thanks!
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yeah, i haven't played any with CWM / sdcard boots, so i'm no help. sorry...
as for the micro USB cable and such - i'm using a generic one, which is working. is it not even reading as a storage device? have you tried removing and reinstalling the drivers? do you have nook color tools installed so that you can toggle 'debugging'?
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I think with changing read/write U can do this with Root Explorer.
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I'll try to clarify:
1) Running CM7.0.2 from SD, will the SD card's boot partition be visible in Root Explorer?
2) If so, in what specific directory do I need to place the zip file for the system to recognize and install it on a recovery boot?
Perhaps I'll start a more specific thread on the matter. If I end up having to get a card reader, so be it, but I've overspent my gadget allowance for at least a week or two, so I'm trying to get as far as possible with what I have. I do have the Amazon app store set up, and even minus the Google market, CM7 is preferable to stock.
In case anyone is interested, I found a simple solution: CMW. Verygreen's SD-install allows you to flash CMW to the Nook's eMMC without affecting the stock OS, and from CMW you can mount the SD card with USB plugged in and Windows will see the boot partition. I initially wanted to get CMW on the NC without rooting, anyway, so things worked out perfectly
Taosaur said:
In case anyone is interested, I found a simple solution: CMW. Verygreen's SD-install allows you to flash CMW to the Nook's eMMC without affecting the stock OS, and from CMW you can mount the SD card with USB plugged in and Windows will see the boot partition. I initially wanted to get CMW on the NC without rooting, anyway, so things worked out perfectly
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That's a terrible idea. Installing CMW to the NC internal memory wipes the nooks built-in recovery. Getting CMW on an sd card is very simple, more functional, and can even be installed alongside verygreen's setup.
Better yet every person who doesn't do this is one less person showing up on the forums going "omg, i messed up and now my nook won't boot, it just keeps going to CMW."
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That's a terrible idea. Installing CMW to the NC internal memory wipes the nooks built-in recovery. Getting CMW on an sd card is very simple, more functional, and can even be installed alongside verygreen's setup.
Better yet every person who doesn't do this is one less person showing up on the forums going "omg, i messed up and now my nook won't boot, it just keeps going to CMW."
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Any elaboration on why it's a terrible idea to replace the NC's built-in recovery with something more full-featured? It's advised or assumed in pretty much any dev thread for writing any ROM to eMMC, except most of them say "root first," which appears unnecessary. I did think I'd wiped the stock OS at first, but basically decided to deal with it later and finished installing gapps, after which the stock OS suddenly reappeared. It was perplexing, but after some more fiddling, I puzzled out the boot behavior and it is consistent:
1) power on with SD card inserted, and I get CM7.0.2.
2) hold home key and power on with SD card inserted, and ROM Manager will check for new ROMs/zips.
3) power on with SD card ejected (not necessarily removed) and I get stock 1.2.
4) hold home key and power on with SD card ejected, and I get CWM
I'm new to all of this, so I welcome feedback, but "It's bad, mmkay?" doesn't go far. Will having CWM in place of "factory mode" cause instability? Would a CWM install on the SD allow me to mount the SD boot part to USB? Why do we all keep wanting to write it "CMW?"
@taosaur
It's actually kind of a pet peeve of mine, along with the root first mentality you mentioned.
It won't cause instability, but it locks you out of doing a factory reset, and can lock you into recovery mode.
If things go wrong, you can't reset your device, can't get out of a bootcount induced bootloop, can't (in theory) take it in for warranty, etc.
Honestly it's the easiest thing in the world to switch between the two, or just fix the problems from cwm--if you know what you are doing. BUT!
I really can't count how many threads I've seen with people who've installed clockworkmod and have run into issues and have absolutely no idea what to do. They are just screwed and pissed off (rightly so) because they read somewhere that they needed CWM. Which they didn't. And now none of the howtos for fixing it work because they just have CWM, not the stock recovery mode...
And really there is no reason whatsoever to do this to begin with. I mean in order to get CWM on your nook, you have to have a spare sd card, and you have to know how to burn an image. So why not just make an sd with CWM and save the headache, keep the builtin functionality, not worry about getting locked into recovery mode, and still have all the benefits of CWM?
Maybe i should do a writeup howto on how to add CWM to the size-agnostic cards....
Would CWM's "factory reset" option only wipe the data in the stock OS, then, and not restore the old recovery? I see where you're coming from--obviously there's value in keeping idiotproof recovery on the table, and why risk your warranty if you're running from external media anyway? But again, the original problem that CWM solved for me was getting the gapps package into the SD card's boot partition. I had 1 card and 0 card readers at my disposal. Would CWM have been able to mount the SD card's boot partition if it were installed to the card itself?
I would definitely be interested to learn how to integrate CWM into one of verygreen's "size-agnostic" cards, especially if it would still be able to mount the CM7 boot partition over USB. As is, Flash CWM installs on eMMC by default, and the Boot to Recovery commands within CM7 don't work from SD--they just reboot.
I had CM7 running on my NC following instructions in this thread. Then I installed rom manager and with it the latest clockworkmod. I tried to make a backup but I did not think it worked. I also tried to install the latest nightly and again it does not seem to work. It boots into recovery but there are only a few instructions that scroll down the screen and then it reboots.
Is ROM Manager not compatible with an SD card installation perhaps?
Is there a log that gets captured or does that just scroll by? Can it be turned on?
How can I make a backup? When I boot into recovery it just shuts down after a few messages. If I try to use ROM manager to backup same thing.
I did download the nightly that I wanted to try and installed it by copying the zip to the SD card and booting into recovery.
I hope this is the right place to get some help with this, else please tell me where to go.
Regards,
Rich
I see the thread by jtbnet and I tried to add the alt boot configuration but when I try to boot to the alt image it seems to go into std recovery and shuts down. I'm missing something
Unfortunately I am not able to post in the right thread since I don't have enough posts under my belt.
I hope I only need 5 posts and not 10 to ba able to post
Bummer, it is 10 posts...
Related question... is there a way to resize partitions to increase the size of the boot partition, under windows? Or under linux parted? Partition 2 and 3 are etx3(?) type and I don't know what program can deal with these
I just burned a parted CD and hope this works
gparted did work but somehow I managed to mess up the boot partition in the process it seems - no longer does anything with the SD card.
Would anyone know where I can find a copy of Nook-2GB-SDCard-CW3010-VGCM7InstallerAsALTinMultiBoot-v6.zip ? It's on a dropbox account that's locked because of high traffinc and supposedly on a mirror that I am unable to reach.