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ugh, here we go:
I am running cyanogenmod 4.04 with the latest recovery. I have the hard spl. I am not themed. I am using auto apps2sd with partions.
Soooo, this was working well until I had to take out my sd card for something. As soon as I did, the whole phone froze up, so I restarted. The first 'alert noise' that usually occurs after startup happpened at the end of the android screen. After this I was bombarded by a HELLUVA lotta force closes. I mean, all over the place. In these was included advanced launcher which I had my home set as as default. They would all loop, and I couldn't do anything. Oddly enough, the notification bar was still working, and I was able to view and answer an email!
My question is as follows:
1: what did I do wrong
2: what can I do to fix it.
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For several reasons, I would really like to avoid wiping at the moment, so if there are any alternatives, I'd appreciate it.
1) took out sd card
2) fix_permissions in recovery
evilkorn said:
1) took out sd card
2) fix_permissions in recovery
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Then I can put it back in and reboot?
EDIT: I did the above and nothing interesting happened.
It might be worth noting, however, that I rebooted without the sd card, installed ahome lite, and then didn't set a default home. I was able to use 'home' with the sd card in, and that works fine, as well as the apks packaged in cm (dialer, gmail, alarm clock ect.)
So basically it's like this with Apps2SD... say you are running Windows on your desktop, but you have all your programs installed to an external hard drive, you have a whole lot of programs up and running (not to mention you have your pagefile split across your drives - dalvik-cache), and you rip that external hard drive off. What do you expect to happen? Major system failure.
When you are running Apps2SD, the only time it is safe to remove your SD card is when the phone is NOT booted or booting. Meaning, it has to be off or in either the bootloader or recovery modes.
You may have to format the EXT partition of your SD card, wipe, and reflash your ROM.
daveid said:
So basically it's like this with Apps2SD... say you are running Windows on your desktop, but you have all your programs installed to an external hard drive, you have a whole lot of programs up and running (not to mention you have your pagefile split across your drives - dalvik-cache), and you rip that external hard drive off. What do you expect to happen? Major system failure.
When you are running Apps2SD, the only time it is safe to remove your SD card is when the phone is NOT booted or booting. Meaning, it has to be off or in either the bootloader or recovery modes.
You may have to format the EXT partition of your SD card, wipe, and reflash your ROM.
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****.....let me see if I an access my sd card with this adapter, hold on.
ugh, put the card in and reboot into recovery and go to the console and type 'fix_permissions', you have to have cyan recovery or use the one with more options like the RA, link in sig, i think there is even an option for it and you don't have to type it in console.
I have updated ClockworkMod Recovery for the G Tablet to support the internal SD card a bit better.
There is now an advanced option to partition the internal SD card. This can come in handy when the internal partitions get hosed (which seems to happen on occasion with this device). To keep it close to stock you can select a 2048MB Data Partition and the remaining ~13GB will go to the internal SD card. You also have an option to format the internal SD card space as well as mount it as /emmc. You can still format the external SD card using the existing advanced option.
This recovery still uses the external SD card as its primary mount for actions (install ROM, backup, restore, etc.). However, the recovery is configured to “fall back” to the internal SD card for these actions if (and only if) there is no external SD card available to be mounted.
As always, credit to Koush for creating ClockworkMod Recovery in the first place.
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This is the current BETA release of the CyanogenMod 6.1 port for the G Tablet. There are still several issues, but it is far enough along that I use it as my daily system. Please review issues and post new ones as needed at the Issues page linked below. Feel free to leave feedback in the forum, but I may not be able to follow up on it. The best option is to catch me in #tegratab on Freenode IRC.
CyanogenMod 6.1 Beta4
CyanogenMod 6.1 Beta4 - MD5
ClockworkMod Recovery
My site: bekit.net post
gapps does work, but I probably should not release that here. Just make sure it is the MDPI variety and has an update-binary compatible with tegra.
*Note:
This version now matches the standards for SD card mounting on devices with both internal and external SD card space. This means that the external SD card slot now mounts to /mnt/sdcard (symlink /sdcard) and the internal space mounts to /mnt/emmc (symlink /emmc). The device properly recognizes the internal vs. external space and allows proper unmounting and handling of the external SD card. This also means that some apps (if they were coded poorly) will not recognize the internal SD space as available SD card space and will require you ti insert an external SD card. I will see if I can do something about the default apps (read: camera) that have this problem; other apps will need to be fixed by the developers.
Changelog:
CM6.1 Beta4:
Updated SD mappings for internal/external SD space to match standards (see note above)
Using latest available source from the CyanogenMod repo
Updated kernel to latest G Tablet version (still waiting on source so we can build our own)
Updated to the lasted drivers available for the G Tablet
Included updated libGLESv2 from nvidia (Angry Birds!)
Proper setup of CPU values - this allows the folio Flash APK to install properly
Matched fingerprint and device settings to latest G Tablet values
ClockworkMod Recovery 2.5.1.3 (2010.12.11):
Added options for managing the internal SD card
Using latest available source from the CyanogenMod repo
ClockworkMod Recovery 2.5.1.2 (2010.11.24):
Updated SD mappings to match standards (see note above)
Using latest available source from the CyanogenMod repo
Enjoy!
-Brint (bekit)
Nice may try it on one of the other g tabs I picked up today.
Thanks for all the work
Happy Thanksgiving to you too!!! and I will enjoy this for desert.
Works like a charm! We all love you! Now wish this damn camera would work right >_<
Awesome, Thank you for putting this together!
Do you know if it addresses the slowdown problem that was present in cmb2? (After using it for a while,browsing etc would slow down till you did a reset)
As usual amazing work. Everything is rock steady. Only things I added were Spare Parts to maximize some apps and a certain keyboard replacement that starts with S.
titanium backup is not seeing my internal sd card, is this a known issue? also i'm unable to mount sd or external sd to computer, the window closes when i try to. the rom seems to run smoothly though.
Thank you Bekit!
First time posting here in ages. Is there a trick to getting the audio working? No audio here, except for a freak accident. Not sure how or why it started working out of the blue, rebooted now it's gone again.
happy turkey day!
Crimton said:
titanium backup is not seeing my internal sd card, is this a known issue? also i'm unable to mount sd or external sd to computer, the window closes when i try to. the rom seems to run smoothly though.
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Same here and Kobo wants /mnt/sdcard. I've uninstalled both and re-installed in case something changed with beta4 that they'd cached but it didn't change anything. I've found the Titanium Backup official support site (www.legendroid.com/forumdisplay.php?27-Titanium-Backup-Official-Support) but haven't done through it yet ... turkey'd almost ready so it may be a while. Folks out east (or north or anywhere that this isn't a holiday) may wanna check in there.
EDIT: Meant to thank you, bekit, for your work on this. Sorry, was distracted by the smell of nearly done turkey!
No SD card here as well. Do I need to install the newest recovery?
Will be kinda hard to download anything.
Thanks for this update! As with all releases, I will try this one out as well. It's great to have choices in firmware, and at this stage, these firmwares are really-REALLY nice.
Happy Thanksgiving to you, too!!!
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Thank you Bekit!
First time posting here in ages. Is there a trick to getting the audio working? No audio here, except for a freak accident, not sure how or why it started working out of the blue.
happy turkey day!
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Try plugging/unplugging the headphones, has worked for me in the past.
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Try plugging/unplugging the headphones, has worked for me in the past.
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Mind=BLOWN! Thanks!
I can't get the recovery installed. Can I get an update.zip?
I can't install anything from the market. I keep getting not enough room on card? I have internal card selected in CM settings.
I tried installing this, making sure to put on the new clockwork and clearing user data, and when I was all done and went to reboot I got "magic value mismatch" no matter what I did. I was able to get into nvrecovery but flashing the old clockwork wouldn't fix it. I finally gave up and flashed the stock image to get going again, blowing away my internal SD titanium backups. Not a huge loss, but if anyone else is thinking about trying this, copy anything important off the internal SD just in case.
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Whoops, scratch that, apparently the nvrecovery stock image install doesn't wipe the SD, everything was there when I was done and flashed Clockwork again.
This is running well and I am seeing very smooth scrolling in the browser. That has been my biggest complaint with the gtablet.
Spaztik said:
I tried installing this, making sure to put on the new clockwork and clearing user data, and when I was all done and went to reboot I got "magic value mismatch" no matter what I did. I was able to get into nvrecovery but flashing the old clockwork wouldn't fix it. I finally gave up and flashed the stock image to get going again, blowing away my internal SD titanium backups. Not a huge loss, but if anyone else is thinking about trying this, copy anything important off the internal SD just in case.
*edit*
Whoops, scratch that, apparently the nvrecovery stock image install doesn't wipe the SD, everything was there when I was done and flashed Clockwork again.
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Same thing happened to me. "magic value mismatch" It's not to magic, lol. Off to NVflash I go. (lost everything).
flashed new cwm 2.5.1.2, then flashed beta4... mismatch lameness
anyone figure this out yet?
puppyfarts said:
Thank you Bekit!
First time posting here in ages. Is there a trick to getting the audio working? No audio here, except for a freak accident. Not sure how or why it started working out of the blue, rebooted now it's gone again.
happy turkey day!
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Try pluging in headphones and then take them out.
Had the same exact problem.
(Oops... missed the fact that it was already answered!)
Thank you SO much! This is finally a usable ROM for this hardware-rich unit.
I have two questions:
1. Can anyone compile/provide a tun.ko file for this kernel? I would like to use VPN Connections on this device.
2. Is anyone else experiencing odd slowdowns after the device wakes up? When I first boot the device works smoothly. After the device is off and then turned back on, I sometimes experience an unbelievably laggy performance...
Thanks in advace!
I not sure if this is the right area, if not, i apologize, feel free to move and/or flame. lol
Anyway, I'm running fr008 liberated froyo and all of a sudden my apps stopped showing up in the app drawer. the ones i had an icon for on the home screen would show up, but be the default little gear icon thing, on click, nothing would happen (market also because that icon and wouldnt work). I tried wiping dalvik cache, cache, and finally ended up just trying to restore nandroid. Wellll.... Now the market is gone totally, but the strange thing, is that the apps show up under settings->applications, but not in the drawer at all.
I searched on this site, but honestly...I'm not even sure what words to use, everytnhing just wasnt relevant to my search. I'll be happy to continue searching (and i'm still browsing through pages), but maybe someone has had this issue and can either help me out, or point me in the right direction. Thanks.
Try a different home app. LauncherPro is the best so far in my opinion.
Well, Ideally I would like to keep sense. that's why i had chosen the rom that i did instead of CM. I just don't understand why they were there working just fine, then all of a sudden they werent. Worse comes to worse I just flash cm7 and start over, i'm just giving it a couple days before i do that.
Astro also didn't show up, and i tried doing the .zip update method through clockwork, but i move the files over, then reset the phone, and they don't show up on the sdcard...So i reboot and check for the gapp.zip on the sdcard, and its no longer there. Wtf is going on?
**edit: for some reason the phone reset and the market showed up again. Obviously my apps are in my market account, but they still show up under settings->application. I still don't know *WHY* this happened, and i dont want to reload everything on it and lose the info i had, especially if its going to be a recurring thing.
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Well, Ideally I would like to keep sense. that's why i had chosen the rom that i did instead of CM. I just don't understand why they were there working just fine, then all of a sudden they werent. Worse comes to worse I just flash cm7 and start over, i'm just giving it a couple days before i do that.
Astro also didn't show up, and i tried doing the .zip update method through clockwork, but i move the files over, then reset the phone, and they don't show up on the sdcard...So i reboot and check for the gapp.zip on the sdcard, and its no longer there. Wtf is going on?
**edit: for some reason the phone reset and the market showed up again. Obviously my apps are in my market account, but they still show up under settings->application. I still don't know *WHY* this happened, and i dont want to reload everything on it and lose the info i had, especially if its going to be a recurring thing.
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This is a total WTF! Since you are running FR008, are you using DT A2Sd to store your apps on the SD card? If not, you may want to look at this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=790786
Once you enable A2SD by creating a EXT partition on your SD card, you can use A2SD to check the apps that are installed.
Yeah, my sd card has the ext partition from when i had the stock rom (trying to use dt's a2sd with that, got fed up and flashed fr008, haha).
But I only had a couple apps on the SD card, and strangely enough, those were the only ones showing in my app drawer. (now they aren't...)
But I'll check that link and see whats going on with it, i'm just lost. haha.
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Yeah, my sd card has the ext partition from when i had the stock rom (trying to use dt's a2sd with that, got fed up and flashed fr008, haha).
But I only had a couple apps on the SD card, and strangely enough, those were the only ones showing in my app drawer. (now they aren't...)
But I'll check that link and see whats going on with it, i'm just lost. haha.
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If you had an EXT partition on the SD card when you flashed FR008 (which has DT A2SD built-in) will use it. Sounds like you may want to run the "a2sd check" command in the terminal emulator to see what's going on?
Hmm. I ran a2sd check:
it says "ext partition found, but not mounted, your rom may not be steup to run apps2sd. xxxxx
your partition may be ext4 but rom may not support ext4"
also, my apps are no longer showing up in market...i'm cursed. lol
a little update.
It seems my sd card was screwy. I swapped it for another one temporarily (copy/pasted the contents though, that didnt work, so i formatted it). The phone seems to work fine, but for some reason, my apps still show up in settings > applications. But no where else. I can't use astro to back them up, and I'm not sure what else i can possibly try (aside from wiping everything and installing a new rom, any suggestions on what rom, i'm thinking cm7, but i want sense ui still).
I'm just worried that its something *I* did and i dont want to do it again.
I had a similar issue before...and what I would do is:
1. Factory Wipe, Wipe Caches and Format both system and SDCard with an ext partition
2. Flash the ROM of your choice, then GAPPS
3. Start the process of setting everything up again.
It's the nature of the beast when using DT A2SD...when the card goes, so does everything on it, including your apps. It would be a great idea to back up everything on your phone (nandroid) then copy the nandroid backup (in the Clockworks folder on your SDCard) to a safe place (not on the SDCard) so that when this happens again you have a backup of your phone that doesn't die with the card. Don't worry this doesn't happen often, but a you see, it can happen.
Yeah, i sort of guessed it had to do with the sd card (had a small glitch about 3 days prior to this, with a program that was on the sd card). I just don't know why the apps that werent on the sd card went with the sd card, but showed up in settings -> applications still (though i could do nothing with them, and if i tried to "clear data" on them, it would fail). I flashed CM7 last night and started setting everything up again. I'm going to do the whole nandroid backup, and manual backup where i can pull the apks out of the backup, so i can have a script to reinstall everything quickly when I inevitably change roms again. lol (as you can see, i've been a member for some years now, started back with the titan/ppc6800)
anyway, if you didnt read all that above, i'll summarize:
THANKS.
i had the a similar problem my apps werent showing in my drawer and my widgets on my home screens kept saying problem loading widget so i wiped everything reinstalled my rom switched to adw ex and everything has been fine since
Well, i'm a noob to this forum, and to doing ANY rooting/flashing. There, thats out in the open XD
Heres the specs:
CM7 7.0.3 Stable
Nook Color (Blue Dot)
ADW Launcher
Onto the issue! I have searched ENDLESSLY for a solution to this, but have come up short. Nearly everytime I power off/on or reboot the Nook, all my widgets show "Problem Loading Widget". The ONLY way to get them running again is deleting and replacing them again on the screen.
Let me explain some things I have done and hopefully we can figure this out. I am assuming, that it may be due to me performing this - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1034939. Basically what that does is take the unused eMMC from the NC and tag it as the SDCard. The reason for doing that is because I don't have any ACTUAL decent sized SD cards and figured why not use the 5GB thats avail and unused on the Nook, and "simulate" it as being a 5GB SD card for apps and whatever else.
Nearly every post I have read says it has to do with having the apps for the widgets on the SD Card. Well, they're not, they're on internal memory. AND, if I do move them to my "simulated" SD Card, they don't even come up in the widget list, so that clears that option.
Also, since I had a Blue Dot Nook, I performed this - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1094371 and partitioned to the old style NC.
I have tried and tried to find out where the apps, if stored "internally", actually are. I cannot for the life of me find them, other than the default Google Apps in /system/app, as well as the ones I have downloaded on the "simulated" SD card under /mnt/asec & /mnt/sdcard/android.secure.
Also, when I plug the NC into my PC, I see whatever is on my "simulated" 5GB SD card (which is really the eMMC of the device). Is it possible to view the root of the device at all to see ALL the files/folders on it?
If someone can solve this, I will be eternally grateful, in a totally non gay way atleast. THANKS!
Hey there....
I'm new to the NookColor and rooting/flashing Android devices, too (though, I did run Linux on my Palm Tungsten T3, back in the day). I probably only partially understand your woes, but it seems to me that your problem stems from the faking microSD thing. Maybe it's not so much that Android wants to put something in the SD, as much as it's confused, when it probes for orthodoxy. I understand the want to use the internal memory, instead of buying a mSD, honestly.
Again, I'm totally new to this, but reading your post and many other posts in the last 48 hours, I think I might have a valid solution: start over. If I were you, I'd do the following, which, incidentally, is very much what I'm in the process of doing, too. I'm starting from "blue dot" scratch with two mSD's (2GB & 8GB) in-hand, though. By the way, and if it's any help to you, I bought my Class 4 SanDisk 8GB mSD at Office Depot yesterday for around $15 (on sale?).
1. Buy a microSD card.
2. Image the card with ClockworkMod.
3. Install TitaniumBackup Free.
4. Backup all of your apps/stuff to the microSD card with TitaniumBackup.
5. Save an image of your current setup with ClockworkMod (booting from mSD, backing up to mSD)
6. Repartition to the old (pre-"blue-dot") scheme, again, using the first mrm3.net link below as a guide.
7. Install the latest CM7 Nightly for "encore"...
8. Save an image of your current setup with ClockworkMod (booting from mSD, backing up to mSD)
9. Install TitaniumBackup Free.
10. Restore all of your apps to the microSD card with TitaniumBackup.
(Of course, I'm assuming a lot of things... I guess I'm just thinking aloud... Maybe some of this is of some use to you. Good luck!)
-v
p.s.... I had a few links I was going to share, but I'm not allowed to share external links until after my 8th post (and I understand why that's a rule)... lol..
There seems to be plenty of threads about these things around here. I just don't have them right now..
Thank you vulariter! It'd be great if when you finish getting everything set up, letting me know how it works out for you. I know people have been having some pretty weird things happening with the blue dot Nooks. Appreciate the info.
I"m happy to report that my internal CM7 Nightly install went well. I chose to go with a 2 GB apps / 4 GB media internal partitioning scheme. I like breathing room, on both sides..lol.. I also like doing things the difficult way, sometimes.. (just being honest)...
Minus the unnecessary convolution of my rooting the stock OS, 50+ complex character WPA2 key, static IP WIFI network, and email address fiasco, here's basically what I did. Again, I'd love to share the external links, but I don't think it will let me do so.
Oh, and always check MD5 sums on the files you download, wherever possible. Corruption in these files will surely eat your Nook alive, at least a little. lol.. Yes, be very scared of that.
Also, don't forget to backup your ClockworkMod backups to a better medium than the microSD card. I used 7zip to archive them on my laptop's internal drive. A cloud backup of them would probably be better (e.g. Dropbox). Just remember, you're putting potentially personal info out there, wherever you put these backups.
Thanks to all the people who figured this stuff out (see the links / websites below, to give them credit).
Bought a NookColor at my local B&N. (I later read about the "blue dot" thing and realized mine had the "blue dot" on the back of the box.)
SIDE NOTE: My understanding is that the "blue dot" signifies only a few important things. 1. a 5 GB apps / 1 GB media partitioning scheme... 2. U-Boot 1.2, with the "Read Forever" logo..... 3. Maybe an unlocking of a few more cylinders (about 250 MB)??? I've only read a little on this..... 4. Maybe a different chip revision or two, inside.
Bought a SanDisk Class 4 (class 6 would have been better) 8GB microSD card.
Located my microSD to SD adapter, which is a priceless item to me.
Located my USB many-in-one card reader, because my Lenovo R61's internal SD reader is unstable.
Located my 2GB class ? microSD card, which I once used in my old LG env2.
Connected my USB card reader to my laptop.
Inserted the 2GB mSD into my USB card reader.
Copied all of my old music, etc, on my 2GB microSD to a directory on my laptop for posterity.
Downloaded the latest version of Win32DiskImager. (Link 1)
Downloaded the latest version of ClockworkMod 2GB SD image. (Link 1)
Imaged my 2GB mSD with the ClockworkMod image.
Created "clockworkmod" and "clockworkmod\backup" directories, inside of the 2 GB mSD (whose disk label is now "boot").
Downloaded the "Custom: 2GB for Apps and 4GB for Media" partitioning file from mrm3.net and placed it in the root directory of my 2 GB mSD.
Downloaded the "Mandatory Data Format File" from mrm3.net and placed it in the root directory of my 2 GB mSD.
Downloaded the latest CM7 "encore" Nightly from cyanogenmod.com and placed it in the root directory of my 2 GB mSD.
Downloaded the latest "encore" Gapps from mrm3.net and placed it in the root directory of my 2 GB mSD.
Confirmed my Gmail and Youtube accounts were linked. This is also the same address which I'm using for my B&N account.
SIDE NOTE: I had to change my B&N account's non-Gmail email address to align my email addresses. I think this may have caused a problem with my obtained-at-Nook-purchase B&N Membership Card, because it no longer works... (I've contacted them about it...and their answer is unsatisfactory. Beware!)
Unboxed my NookColor and began charging it, via the wall plug.
Booted my stock NookColor, signed into my WIFI network and registered my device to my Gmail email address.
Played around with the stock OS and Nook apps, because I'll probably never ever see them again.. The Crossword game was awesome! I didn't allow myself to become attached to their reading apps, to be honest..lol.. (I would have probably been attached, had I not been proactive in my "hacking".)
Powered off my NookColor.
Inserted the 2 GB mSD into my NookColor.
Booted my NookColor into ClockworkMod.
Saved a backup of the stock system to the "backup" directory I created earlier.
Followed the instructions at mrm3.net to repartition my NookColor (rebooting, as directed).
Removed the 2 GB mSD card.
Rebooted again, allowing the Nook to recover from the repartitioning. I did not reregister the device in this step. I just waited for the woman's face to appear and shut it down.
Inserted the 2 GB mSD card.
Booted my NookColor into ClockworkMod.
Saved a backup of the NEWLY PARTITIONED stock system to the "backup" directory I created earlier.
I followed the mrm3.net CM7 Nook Nightlies instructions, but I'll paraphrase here. (Definitely seek this article out, and don't take my word for it.)
Still in ClockworkMod, I reformatted the "data", "system",and "cache"partitions.
Used "install from zip" to install "cm_encore_full-xx.zip"
Used "install from zip" to install "Nook_Color_Google_Apps.zip"
This may be a good time to obtain another backup, if you're paranoid. I did not and wasn't...
Removed the 2 GB mSD card.
Rebooted again, allowing CM7 to do its thing.
Signed into my WIFI network, using the menus.
Signed into the Google Market, selecting all of the Gapps, when prompted. (I figure I can uninstall them, if I find them totally useless.) (e.g. Facebook
app, since I quit it..lol)
Inserted my 8 GB mSD card in the NookColor for the first time and formatted it, from within CM7. I could have made a Win32DiskImage image of the 2 GB ClockworkMod mSD, wiped it out and formatted it for general use, but I like having my own data (media files / apps) separate from my "live recovery environment(s)." Point being, I could have gotten by with just a single mSD card, as tiny as 2 GB and the cheapest class, but I splurged, because I want to keep some music and things on tap, wherever I go.
Rejoiced in the open source goodness.
This would another good time to obtain another backup. I should go do that right now..
Please keep in mind that I might be taking some things for granted. My mind has been altered by being a *NIX System Administrator...
Good luck and let me know if you have any questions.
-v
Great stuff V! So this is what I have decided to do. I will keep my current system until the next stable version of CM is released. Once that happens, i'll go ahead and repartition, reformat, and of course reinstall following all of the proper procedures that i'm too lazy to write out here.
The only other issue I was having with my Nook is that it wasnt recognizing when an SD card was plugged in. I thought it may have been CM7, so I flashed back to the stock OS, and it still wouldnt recognize it plugged in. However, if I have the SD card plugged in, and reboot, it shows the SD card mounted fine. I need to do a check to make sure I can read/write to it, but i'm assuming it will be no problem if it sees it fine. If I were to remove the card, it would not say that the card is unplugged, so theres no instant feedback; it requires a reboot every time to notice if the card is plugged in or not. For me, all I need is it to be recognized and be accessible, as its not like I am going to be taking it out all the time, it will be in there pretty much for good.
Hey all...
I realize there have been several threads about this general topic, but I couldn't find my issues specifically. First, thanks to all the developers for all their work. I've had a blast with my ManNooter'd Nook.
Issues:
1. Using WinImager to an 8 gig Sandisk card. As expected, the "generic.img" supplied in the thread created only one visible partition (for Windows) of about 117 megs. However, I'm not able to resize the partition using any of three different partition managers I tried. I'm doing this before I install CM7. As far as the programs are concerned, I have a 117 card, period. I've tried deleting all partitions and reformatting to the full 7.x gigs, then reimaging, but still no dice.
2. If I do go ahead and install CM7 with the default partition, it works fine and I can boot into the OS. It shows that I've got almost 6 gigs free, so apparently it created the FAT partition. However, I can neither mount the SD card in Windows to copy over the Gapps, nor can I access the card via USB through the Nook. If I put the card in directly to the PC, I get "need to format". If I run it through the Nook's USB, I get two drives popping up in Windows that both say "Insert Disk". So short of downloading from the Internet directly to the Nook, I can't access the card at all.
3. Say I DID want to settle for just downloading. How can I access the "boot" partition to drop Gapps there? I don't see it in File Expert.
Any suggestions for any of these? Many thanks.
Adam
Are you trying to resize the partition BEFORE you put the imaged card in the nook?
If I undrstand what you are trying to do... create a larger boot partition... you MUST resize that before doing anything else.... put the image on the card... resize the only partition on it... then put it in the nook for it to setup the remaining partitions and install CM7...
As for the rest... buy a cheap usb card reader... several internal card readers have issues accessing these cards for some reason.
If you wanted to settle (3) above... you would do the following in terminal emulator on nook or adb shell on computer...
Code:
mkdir /sdcard/boot (only have to do this one time)
mount /dev/block/mmcblk1p1 /sdcard/boot (has to be done every time... lost on reboot)
That will allow you to access the boot partition via /sdcard/boot directory.
Yes, I'm trying to do this in the order you've mentioned. Blank Card -> Image -> Resize attempt. Prior to Nook. However, I am using the internal card reader. If I can find the cheapo one I've got lying around, I'll try that and see if it helps. On both prob #1 and #2.
Thanks for the command line stuff. I shouldn't need to access that partition often, so losing it on reboot is no big deal.
Many thanks!
Adam
Alpione said:
Yes, I'm trying to do this in the order you've mentioned. Blank Card -> Image -> Resize attempt. Prior to Nook. However, I am using the internal card reader. If I can find the cheapo one I've got lying around, I'll try that and see if it helps. On both prob #1 and #2.
Thanks for the command line stuff. I shouldn't need to access that partition often, so losing it on reboot is no big deal.
Many thanks!
Adam
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Don't use the internal card reader in the Nook. Use a USB reader on your PC, or any reader you might have built in on your PC.
EaseUs Partition Manager is free and can do what you want. That is how I resized mine when I was playing around with Honeycomb.
I actually just re-created my microSD layout with a bigger boot partition. Just make the first partition a FAT16/FAT32 volume and drop the files from VG's boot partition there. While you're at it, you might as well create the other partitions if you prefer to customize. A major gotcha for me was that the first partition had to start at sector 63, not 2048 as fdisk preferred.
In the "you've got to be kidding me" category, retrying the image/resize partition operation worked perfectly using my cheapo $2 card reader that came with a card I bought years ago. Neither the reader in my work PC nor the reader in my nearly new laptop would do this properly, and I used the exact same steps each time. Thanks for the suggestion, Dizzy.
My only problem now is getting Youtube on there. Twice during previous CM7 attempts, I tried flashing Gapps, selected a few of the apps to install including YT, and ended up with a bunch of "can't be found" errors. WiFi was up and running already. It installed Gmail and Talk about nothing else. This most recent try (after the successful resize and CM7 reinstall,) I selected nothing except the required Google Search. It installed without error, but now I can't get YouTube on there via the market.
Edit: I tried reflashing Gapps over itself. VG's recovery picks it up and looks to install it, but I don't get YT and it doesn't run the original setup screens again.
Any suggestions?
Thanks again for the input, all.
Adam
I assume you got your NC straighten out, so no more help, I guess.
As for the Youtube, you have 2 choices
a. Uninstall Market Updater OR reverse back to the older version of Market.
b. Sideloading the Youtube app.
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I assume you got your NC straighten out, so no more help, I guess.
As for the Youtube, you have 2 choices
a. Uninstall Market Updater OR reverse back to the older version of Market.
b. Sideloading the Youtube app.
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Yep. Good to go on CM7.
I went ahead and sideloaded the version of YouTube I had from my ManNooter'd ROM. The newest version on the Market always gave me problems and didn't seem to want to play any videos. I'm also good to go here.
Thanks again for the help, all. Still can't believe the key was to use the crappiest card reader I could find.
Adam