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Following verygreen's directions, I got his installer image onto the sd card (but had to rename it to end in ".img". I removed the card and put it back in the PC, and when I try to put the CM7 file on it, it says card needs to be formatted to use it. I think if I format, it will remove the installer image. Should I have formatted it first? I'm sorry if this sounds really basic (and stupid), but, please help.
So I formatted the card, and put verygreen's image installer back on, removed the card and inserted it again and again get formatting message. It's a sandisk 8gb, new.
According to the directions, I need the image installer on the card and then the CM7 file? I've read and re-read directions and searched links for information on what to do next ???
I think you messed up on the very first step. The file ending .gz is a zip file. I used WinRar to unzip it. There is a .img file inside that you flash to your card.
SonicClang said:
I think you messed up on the very first step. The file ending .gz is a zip file. I used WinRar to unzip it. There is a .img file inside that you flash to your card.
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Thank you, and you're absolutely right, I messed up from the git go. I did finally learn I needed to unzip it, and things went well from there. Quite amazing! Now I need to do a search for the Netflix fast forward (chipmunks) fix.
There's plenty out there on the Netflix thing
Ok I wrote the generic image file to sd card through winimage or whatever its called. Then I went here: http://download.cyanogenmod.com/?device=encore. I downloaded the first one dated 7/8/12 and put it on the sd card also. I installed sd card in nook and turned on. It went through a bunch of installing but the last few sentences say:
"Looking for the install images...
Initial install files not found.
Please download it from nook.linuxhacker.ru
and put on first partition of this SD Card
the name should start with updatei-cm and end with .zip"
What does this mean and what am I doing wrong? Right now looking at the SD card file on my computer i see files: MLO, u-boot, uImage, URamdsk, and a zip folder that says: cm-7-20120701-NIGHTLY-encore. I did not unzip the file, all I did was download it right to the computer and dragged to SD card and I even tried downloading straight to to SD Card and no luck.
You can download CM7 RC 3 from the same source and try to add itfirst. If it loads,then rename your other zip with an update_ prefix, put it on your boot partition, boot into recovery and you should be where you want to be. (You'll prolly need to install GAPPS zip after first load of RC3 to get google apps, too).
Follow advice on lepanlar's tip site and you won't go wrong.
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Ok I wrote the generic image file to sd card through winimage or whatever its called. Then I went here: http://download.cyanogenmod.com/?device=encore. I downloaded the first one dated 7/8/12 and put it on the sd card also. I installed sd card in nook and turned on. It went through a bunch of installing but the last few sentences say:
"Looking for the install images...
Initial install files not found.
Please download it from nook.linuxhacker.ru
and put on first partition of this SD Card
the name should start with updatei-cm and end with .zip"
What does this mean and what am I doing wrong? Right now looking at the SD card file on my computer i see files: MLO, u-boot, uImage, URamdsk, and a zip folder that says: cm-7-20120701-NIGHTLY-encore. I did not unzip the file, all I did was download it right to the computer and dragged to SD card and I even tried downloading straight to to SD Card and no luck.
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Just make sure the file name starts with update- instead of cm- and all will be well.
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leapinlar said:
Just make sure the file name starts with update- instead of cm- and all will be well.
Sent from my Nook Color running ParanoidAndroid and Tapatalk
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Thank you so much, that worked. Yay!!!
leapinlar said:
Just make sure the file name starts with update- instead of cm- and all will be well.
Sent from my Nook Color running ParanoidAndroid and Tapatalk
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I couldn't believe this was such an easy solution to such a frustrating problem. All I had to do was change a file name from "cm" to "updat". Thank you!
Hi, i am an absolute noob! I tried updating to CM10 from CM7 on my Nook Color. I got the same error message and did also try update instead of cm. But I keep getting the same message. Additionally the message also says "Please put on first partition of this SD card." I tried this with an 8 GB class 4 Strontium card. After I first burnt the image onto the SD card, after that the SD card reads as "boot" with 297 mb of 297 mb remaining. By the time I burn the image again and then load the update/cm.zip and gapps-jb.zip there is only 50.1 mb remaining. What could be the problem?
Also, I note that after an unsuccessful attempt only the image remains when I view the SD card on the computer. I have to then again copy the update/cm.zip and gapps.zip file. Any assistance would be much appreciated! Cheers,,
leapinlar said:
Just make sure the file name starts with update- instead of cm- and all will be well.
Sent from my Nook Color running ParanoidAndroid and Tapatalk
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Hi, i am an absolute noob! I tried updating to CM10 from CM7 on my Nook Color. I got the same error message and did also try update instead of cm. But I keep getting the same message. Additionally the message also says "Please put on first partition of this SD card." I tried this with an 8 GB class 4 Strontium card. After I first burnt the image onto the SD card, after that the SD card reads as "boot" with 297 mb of 297 mb remaining. By the time I burn the image again and then load the update/cm.zip and gapps-jb.zip there is only 50.1 mb remaining. What could be the problem?
Also, I note that after an unsuccessful attempt only the image remains when I view the SD card on the computer. I have to then again copy the update/cm.zip and gapps.zip file. Any assistance would be much appreciated! Cheers,,
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It needs to be update-, with the dash.
Also, if going to CM10 from CM7, you need to reburn your SD with the new image from my updated instruction thread linked in my signature. The old image will not work properly with CM10.
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Thanks for the quick response. I did use update- . Also, the thread you mentioned was the one I used to attempt the upgrade. Somehow it isn't working. This is the full message
"it appears that the sd card is already properly formatted initial install files not found"
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It needs to be update-, with the dash.
Also, if going to CM10 from CM7, you need to reburn your SD with the new image from my updated instruction thread linked in my signature. The old image will not work properly with CM10.
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Thanks for the quick response. I did use update- . Also, the thread you mentioned was the one I used to attempt the upgrade. Somehow it isn't working. This is the full message
"it appears that the sd card is already properly formatted initial install files not found"
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And when you put the SD in the PC, you can see the cm- zip? It needs to be named just right, beginning with cm- or update- and ending in .zip
You have gotten past the hard part, getting it to boot in the first place. You just are not getting the files right. If it is on the card and named right it would try to install. And since you put both the cm zip and the gapps zip there, one or both should try to install. They must not be on the card right.
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The strange thing is that after I put back the SD after an unsuccessful install, I can no longer seem the cm-.zip and gapps-,zip files. I can see that they are successfully copied onto the SD card after first burning the image and taking out the SD card and then copying those two files like you mention in your post.
After I first burned the image onto the SD card and then deleted it after the first unsuccessful attempt, the SD card shows up as a boot drive and only shows 297 MB space available and after the image and the two files are copied as above then only 50.1 MB space is left available.
Can't figure out where it's going wrong.
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And when you put the SD in the PC, you can see the cm- zip? It needs to be named just right, beginning with cm- or update- and ending in .zip
You have gotten past the hard part, getting it to boot in the first place. You just are not getting the files right. If it is on the card and named right it would try to install. And since you put both the cm zip and the gapps zip there, one or both should try to install. They must not be on the card right.
Sent from my Nook HD+ Running CM10 on SD
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"lost page write due to i/o error on mmcblkp1" this also shows up before the program does the "inflating" and finally boots
also during this process, an error something along "unzip: write no space left on drive" also appears
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The strange thing is that after I put back the SD after an unsuccessful install, I can no longer seem the cm-.zip and gapps-,zip files. I can see that they are successfully copied onto the SD card after first burning the image and taking out the SD card and then copying those two files like you mention in your post.
After I first burned the image onto the SD card and then deleted it after the first unsuccessful attempt, the SD card shows up as a boot drive and only shows 297 MB space available and after the image and the two files are copied as above then only 50.1 MB space is left available.
Can't figure out where it's going wrong.
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The strange thing is that after I put back the SD after an unsuccessful install, I can no longer seem the cm-.zip and gapps-,zip files. I can see that they are successfully copied onto the SD card after first burning the image and taking out the SD card and then copying those two files like you mention in your post.
After I first burned the image onto the SD card and then deleted it after the first unsuccessful attempt, the SD card shows up as a boot drive and only shows 297 MB space available and after the image and the two files are copied as above then only 50.1 MB space is left available.
Can't figure out where it's going wrong.
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"lost page write due to i/o error on mmcblkp1" this also shows up before the program does the "inflating" and finally boots
also during this process, an error something along "unzip: write no space left on drive" also appears
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Alright, I know what is wrong. It is that strontium card. You need to use a SanDisk class 4 card. You are getting read/write errors on that card. I had that happen to me when I used a cheap card. Find a quality SanDisk.
And those file sizes are correct. That is what it is supposed to say.
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Thanks. Will try that and update.
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Alright, I know what is wrong. It is that strontium card. You need to use a SanDisk class 4 card. You are getting read/write errors on that card. I had that happen to me when I used a cheap card. Find a quality SanDisk.
And those file sizes are correct. That is what it is supposed to say.
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Similar problems here. I'll explain step by step what I did and maybe someone can tell me where I went wrong.
I'm using a MacBook Air running 10.8.3 (not that it makes a difference, but I am using Terminal and DiskUtility for some of these operations).
I'm trying to install Cyanogenmod on a Nook Color 1.4.3 following the directions given here.
1. Downloaded generic-sdcard-v1.3.img and cm-10.1-20130521-NIGHTLY-encore.zip
2. Installed the .img on a SanDisk 4GB microSD card. Ejected it, remounted it, it mounts as a single partition named "boot" that's 121 MB in size with 112 MB available. The files on "boot" are MLO, u-boot.bin, uImage, uRamdisk.
3. Tried to copy cm-10.1-20130521-NIGHTLY-encore.zip to "boot" but there is not enough space.
In a previous attempt, I forgot to copy the cm-10 file to "boot" and was able to get the linux sdcard image to temporarily mount on my Nook, but then received the error mentioned earlier by someone else:
Initial install files not found.
Please download it from nook.linuxhacker.ru
and put on first partition of this SD Card
the name should start with updatei-cm and end with .zip
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Then, when I ejected "boot" and mounted it on the Airbook, I saw two partitions: "boot" and "CM7 SDCARD." The latter partition had plenty of room for the cm-10.1-20130521-NIGHTLY-encore.zip file, so I put it on there. But it didn't matter if I leave the filename as "cm-" or change it to either "updatei-cm-" or "update-cm" or whatever; the same error occurs.
What am I doing wrong? I assume there is a way to force the sdcard image to create a "boot" with plenty of room for the cm-10 zip file. But how? And do I rename the cm-10 to updatei-cm-10 or what?
Thanks in advance.
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Similar problems here. I'll explain step by step what I did and maybe someone can tell me where I went wrong.
I'm using a MacBook Air running 10.8.3 (not that it makes a difference, but I am using Terminal and DiskUtility for some of these operations).
I'm trying to install Cyanogenmod on a Nook Color 1.4.3 following the directions given here.
1. Downloaded generic-sdcard-v1.3.img and cm-10.1-20130521-NIGHTLY-encore.zip
2. Installed the .img on a SanDisk 4GB microSD card. Ejected it, remounted it, it mounts as a single partition named "boot" that's 121 MB in size with 112 MB available. The files on "boot" are MLO, u-boot.bin, uImage, uRamdisk.
3. Tried to copy cm-10.1-20130521-NIGHTLY-encore.zip to "boot" but there is not enough space.
In a previous attempt, I forgot to copy the cm-10 file to "boot" and was able to get the linux sdcard image to temporarily mount on my Nook, but then received the error mentioned earlier by someone else:
Then, when I ejected "boot" and mounted it on the Airbook, I saw two partitions: "boot" and "CM7 SDCARD." The latter partition had plenty of room for the cm-10.1-20130521-NIGHTLY-encore.zip file, so I put it on there. But it didn't matter if I leave the filename as "cm-" or change it to either "updatei-cm-" or "update-cm" or whatever; the same error occurs.
What am I doing wrong? I assume there is a way to force the sdcard image to create a "boot" with plenty of room for the cm-10 zip file. But how? And do I rename the cm-10 to updatei-cm-10 or what?
Thanks in advance.
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The problem is you are using an old image zip that was made for CM7. You need to get my image updated for CM10 from my NC updated SD install instruction thread linked in my signature. Follow the directions there.
Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10.1 on emmc.
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The problem is you are using an old image zip that was made for CM7. You need to get my image updated for CM10 from my NC updated SD install instruction thread linked in my signature. Follow the directions there.
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Thank you, this was very helpful. I'm not sure how I overlooked the CM7/CM10 issue -- another pair of eyes is always useful.
Hi xda, my nook won't boot up at all after I tried to restore to stock from autonooter 1.01. I read as many threads as I could and tried to make a bootable sd from leapinLar's tips page. The stock recovery with cwr and without. I used winimage and win32. With winImage I get an error "reading from file". win32 seems to write the file but it doesn't boot up the nook. When I try and open the sd with windows to see if anything is on the sd it says "not formatted would you like to format it now". I downloaded file, unzipped, then wrote to sd. I must be doing something wrong creating the sd but I can't find any info as to what. Thanks for any help
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Hi xda, my nook won't boot up at all after I tried to restore to stock from autonooter 1.01. I read as many threads as I could and tried to make a bootable sd from leapinLar's tips page. The stock recovery with cwr and without. I used winimage and win32. With winImage I get an error "reading from file". win32 seems to write the file but it doesn't boot up the nook. When I try and open the sd with windows to see if anything is on the sd it says "not formatted would you like to format it now". I downloaded file, unzipped, then wrote to sd. I must be doing something wrong creating the sd but I can't find any info as to what. Thanks for any help
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Are you unzipping the right file? You said something about with stock recovery and without. Those are not image files that can be burned. When you unzip my image zip file, you should end up with a 300MB .img file. That is what you burn with win32diskimager. And take the card out of the PC and put it back in before you try to look at it. And be sure to use an external card reader, not one built into your PC.
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Thanks Leapinlar. I downloaded your nook color emmc stock recovery zip with and without the cwr. I am using external sd reader. I downloaded and tried cwm-6.0.1.2 bootable sd zip and tried that in the nook and nothing happens. Also tried the 5.5.0.4 version too. I removed the card reader and reinserted it in the pc and when I click on the drive letter it ask me if I want to format it. I used win32diskimager and it said write successful, so I put it in the nook and then plugged nook into computer with the stock usb cable and nothing happens. If I hold the power button down the pc does ding as if when you plug in an external device. I'm either trying to burn the wrong file or I'm not making the bootable. Thank you for your help.
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Thanks Leapinlar. I downloaded your nook color emmc stock recovery zip with and without the cwr. I am using external sd reader. I downloaded and tried cwm-6.0.1.2 bootable sd zip and tried that in the nook and nothing happens. Also tried the 5.5.0.4 version too. I removed the card reader and reinserted it in the pc and when I click on the drive letter it ask me if I want to format it. I used win32diskimager and it said write successful, so I put it in the nook and then plugged nook into computer with the stock usb cable and nothing happens. If I hold the power button down the pc does ding as if when you plug in an external device. I'm either trying to burn the wrong file or I'm not making the bootable. Thank you for your help.
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You don't say, but you are unzipping those image files before you burn them, right? Should be 300MB .img file. Other than that just look at my A10 tip in my tips thread and follow exactly.
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You don't say, but you are unzipping those image files before you burn them, right? Should be 300MB .img file. Other than that just look at my A10 tip in my tips thread and follow exactly.
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Yes I did unzip the image file before I burned it. I ended up finding a cwr zip that was for a 4 gig card, probably an older way of doing it, and that worked for some reason. I did use your stock 1.4.3 zip though and all seems well. Your tips page is great, thank you, you're very helpful now I can play around and brick it again with some other stuff.
Hey guys.
I am somewhat a noob. I bought a brand new 8gb nook color from wallmart on black friday. I heard about how you can put CM onto the sd card and boot from that without altering the device itself. I have tried for HOURS to do this. I have looked up COUNTLESS walk throughs and done everything they say, done alternations, and used different cards ranging from 2gb sandisk (class 1?) to 32 gb sandisk this is a class 4. I've used winimage and burned the image to the card, then dragged over cyanogenmod and done this task in countless different ways. Every time I shut down the nook, put in the card, then re-boot, the nook does NOT boot from the card. It boots normal, then I can actually browse the card after it boots up. I have done it EXACTLY how it says here and read tutorials so its not a question of whether or not I have followed standard proceedure. My firmware version is 1.4.3. Ive searched online to this and to no avail. My sister bought the exact same one at the exact same time and it does not boot the sd either. I have done about 8 straight hours of research on this guys, so I'm no pro but I have a basic understanding of how it works now. My questions are this:
1: Did Barns and Noble put restrictions on the newest nook color or on the newest software version? And if so is there a way around this?
and
2: If NOT, is there an alternate way/installation onto the card that I can do (such as an image pre loaded with CM etc.) that I might be able to try instead of the conventional way?
Thanks guys! Sorry for the uber long post : S
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Hey guys.
I am somewhat a noob. I bought a brand new 8gb nook color from wallmart on black friday. I heard about how you can put CM onto the sd card and boot from that without altering the device itself. I have tried for HOURS to do this. I have looked up COUNTLESS walk throughs and done everything they say, done alternations, and used different cards ranging from 2gb sandisk (class 1?) to 32 gb sandisk this is a class 4. I've used winimage and burned the image to the card, then dragged over cyanogenmod and done this task in countless different ways. Every time I shut down the nook, put in the card, then re-boot, the nook does NOT boot from the card. It boots normal, then I can actually browse the card after it boots up. I have done it EXACTLY how it says here and read tutorials so its not a question of whether or not I have followed standard proceedure. My firmware version is 1.4.3. Ive searched online to this and to no avail. My sister bought the exact same one at the exact same time and it does not boot the sd either. I have done about 8 straight hours of research on this guys, so I'm no pro but I have a basic understanding of how it works now. My questions are this:
1: Did Barns and Noble put restrictions on the newest nook color or on the newest software version? And if so is there a way around this?
and
2: If NOT, is there an alternate way/installation onto the card that I can do (such as an image pre loaded with CM etc.) that I might be able to try instead of the conventional way?
Thanks guys! Sorry for the uber long post : S
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No nothing was done by B&N. It is how you are burning the card. It will not boot in the nook unless burned perfectly. Look at my tips thread linked in my signature and read items A9 and A10.
There not any easy was not to use a bootable recovery card. Just keep trying, using different software, different cards, different PC s, different card readers.
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Hey guys.
I am somewhat a noob. I bought a brand new 8gb nook color from wallmart on black friday. I heard about how you can put CM onto the sd card and boot from that without altering the device itself. I have tried for HOURS to do this. I have looked up COUNTLESS walk throughs and done everything they say, done alternations, and used different cards ranging from 2gb sandisk (class 1?) to 32 gb sandisk this is a class 4. I've used winimage and burned the image to the card, then dragged over cyanogenmod and done this task in countless different ways. Every time I shut down the nook, put in the card, then re-boot, the nook does NOT boot from the card. It boots normal, then I can actually browse the card after it boots up. I have done it EXACTLY how it says here and read tutorials so its not a question of whether or not I have followed standard proceedure. My firmware version is 1.4.3. Ive searched online to this and to no avail. My sister bought the exact same one at the exact same time and it does not boot the sd either. I have done about 8 straight hours of research on this guys, so I'm no pro but I have a basic understanding of how it works now. My questions are this:
1: Did Barns and Noble put restrictions on the newest nook color or on the newest software version? And if so is there a way around this?
and
2: If NOT, is there an alternate way/installation onto the card that I can do (such as an image pre loaded with CM etc.) that I might be able to try instead of the conventional way?
Thanks guys! Sorry for the uber long post : S
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Use win32diskimager instead and use an external card writer. The image is approximately 300mb with the Rev5 file. Then copy the CM10 and 2021011 GApps zips to SD card. Insert in Nook Color. Wait for setup to finish and shut down. Start Nook. Enjoy.
I've tried to do a search for this but can't find it. I'm such a complete novice I may have run across it and not even known I did. I tried to make a bootable SD to be able to use the google app store. I've seen so many instructions now I don't even know where the first one I used is. I think I used CM7 (my Nook Color is version 1.4.1...don't know if that matters). So far, nothing I've done has added the shopping cart but first things first.
Evidently I must have really screwed things up because the cyanogenmod is now on my nook instead of the SD card (which explains why I had so many problems when I tried to redo it). The first thread I found doing a google search was this one: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=931720&highlight=restore+to+stock.
After reading through it on the last page someone posted that it was a very old thread and to go here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=25354258#post25354258 and go down to 15A. But, having the technical skills of a pencil eraser, I can't even figure out which software to download, let alone how to accomplish the restoration. I actually managed to jailbreak my iphone but that was just a matter of downloading software and running it. This doesn't appear to be as simple.
I did manage to find all the files required by the first thread to do the restore, but then I got to this: Select "Restore virtual hard disk image" from the "Disk" menu. My winimage doesn't say that. I am using a new SD card so perhaps that's why. It's at that point that I read all the way through the thread to discover that method? or the firmware? was obsolete.
All I really want is to know which file(s) to download and, if possible, a link to instructions a 5 year old could follow. If I knew a 6th grader I'd just ask them because I'm pretty sure this is hard wired into their DNA. I'm 53 so that's probably half my problem. I can usually figure these things out but this has me completely stumped.
Thanks so much for your time.
You probably used ROM Manager and told it to install CWM and update to a new ROM. The problem is, ROM Manager only works on internal memory installations, not SD installations, so it installed CM to internal memory.
Don't use that old thread to flash stock back on to internal memory, even if you did find the files.
And age is not an excuse for not learning, I'm 68.
Go to my thread referenced above and download the stock 1.4.3 zip file from A15. It is linked in the text of A15.
Make a bootable CWM SD. Use that to flash the stock ROM. Download the file CWM-6.0.1.2-bootable_SD.zip and extract it somewhere on your PC. You should end up with approximately a 300MB .img file. Burn that image to your SD using Win32diskimager per the directions quoted here:
To use Win32DiskImager, find it on the web (here, it's free) and install it on your Windows PC. Open it (be sure to run it as administrator) and select the drive (device) that has your card reader with your SD inserted. Then in the image file box put the location where you have the extracted img file. Then when everything is set right, click on the write button. A warning will pop up asking if you want to proceed. When you have verified that you are going to write to the correct device, click on Yes. (One user overwrote their external USB hard drive by not verifying first). If you get an error message about access denied, it means you are looking at the drive with Windows Explorer. Close Windows Explorer and try again. In fact, it is a good idea to close all unnecessary windows when burning, even your browser.
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Once the SD is burned, temporarily remove the SD from the PC and then reinsert in your PC. Then copy the Stock zip you downloaded earlier to the SD. Insert the SD into your Nook and boot. Once CWM appears, use the volume up/down keys to move the cursor and highlight "Install zip from SD". Then use the n key to activate it. Select the zip you copied to the SD. Go ahead and flash it.
When it is complete, take the SD out and boot. It should boot to stock.
Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10.1 on emmc.
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You probably used ROM Manager and told it to install CWM and update to a new ROM. The problem is, ROM Manager only works on internal memory installations, not SD installations.
Don't use that old thread to flash stock back on to internal memory, even if you did find the files.
And age is not an excuse for not learning, I'm 68.
Go to my thread referenced above and download the zip file from A15. It is linked in the text of A15.
Make a bootable CWM SD. Use that to flash the stock ROM. Download the file CWM-5.5.0.4-bootable_SD.zip and extract it somewhere on your PC. You should end up with approximately a 200MB .img file. Burn that image to your SD using Win32diskimager per the directions quoted here:
Once the SD is burned, temporarily remove the SD from the PC and then reinsert in your PC. Then copy the Stock zip you downloaded earlier to the SD. Insert the SD into your Nook and boot. Once CWM appears, use the volume up/down keys to move the cursor and highlight "Install zip from SD". Then use the n key to activate it. Select the zip you copied to the SD. Go ahead and flash it.
When it is complete, take the SD out and boot. It should boot to stock.
Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10.1 on emmc.
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Thank you, I'll try again! It's not that I don't want to learn. I'm asking because I trying to learn. I think I've probably confused myself by reading too much on too many websites and it takes me a little while to figure out technical things. I do appreciate the help. I probably just need to take some deep breaths and clear my brain so I can start over. I just want to make sure I don't really mess it up to the point it's completely unrepairable.
DelilahM said:
Thank you, I'll try again! It's not that I don't want to learn. I'm asking because I trying to learn. I think I've probably confused myself by reading too much on too many websites and it takes me a little while to figure out technical things. I do appreciate the help. I probably just need to take some deep breaths and clear my brain so I can start over. I just want to make sure I don't really mess it up to the point it's completely unrepairable.
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Notice I changed which CWM you should download. Use 6.0.1.2, it works better for stock.
leapinlar said:
Notice I changed which CWM you should download. Use 6.0.1.2, it works better for stock.
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Oh, thank you, thank you, thank you!!! It works perfectly!
Sorry to be a bother, I don't know whether this is related. Everything loaded perfectly and it looks just as it did when I first turned it on but now every time I try to use the keyboard, it pops up for probably less than a second and then goes back down. I've tried to "catch" it to see if I could get a letter/digit each time to try and put in but it just goes up and down, up and down. I tried doing the set up with the boot disk in because I know nook reads the sd card first but that didn't help.
However, the version I originally had on the nook color was 1.4.1. Would it make a difference if I used the 1.4.3 instead?
Thanks
DelilahM said:
Sorry to be a bother, I don't know whether this is related. Everything loaded perfectly and it looks just as it did when I first turned it on but now every time I try to use the keyboard, it pops up for probably less than a second and then goes back down. I've tried to "catch" it to see if I could get a letter/digit each time to try and put in but it just goes up and down, up and down. I tried doing the set up with the boot disk in because I know nook reads the sd card first but that didn't help.
However, the version I originally had on the nook color was 1.4.1. Would it make a difference if I used the 1.4.3 instead?
Thanks
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Did you follow the instructions in the thread where you were supposed to flash a format zip? I forgot to add that in the above instructions. It is not to late to do it. Boot to CWM and flash the format zip and boot back to stock and re-register again. That may be the cause of the keyboard problem.
And being 1.4.3 should make no difference.
Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10.1 on emmc.
leapinlar said:
Did you follow the instructions in the thread where you were supposed to flash a format zip? I forgot to add that in the above instructions. It is not to late to do it. Boot to CWM and flash the format zip and boot back to stock and re-register again. That may be the cause of the keyboard problem.
And being 1.4.3 should make no difference.
Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10.1 on emmc.
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Yes. Installed that as well. However, I did notice when I put the sd card in my computer a few times windows said "disk might be corrupt do you want to continue?" So that might be the problem. I'll go into town tomorrow and get a new one to see if that makes a difference.
Well, I got a new SD card and it's still doing the same thing, the keyboard just goes up and down, up and down so I don't know what to do now.
Cindie
fix it?
Did you ever get it fixed? I did (probably) the exact same thing as you did (installed flashable ROM in eMMC), and it took me hours to get it straightened out
Although I can't say for sure... since I wasn't really taking notes with what I was trying... I think what eventually got me going was using a different bootable (step 1), b/c my microsd card was an off brand (lexar 8gb).
What I did was...
1) made bootable SD card with [generic-sdcard-v1.3-CM7-9-10-larger-Rev5.zip] rather than "so&so size gb card CWR.img"
2) added [nookcolor_1_4_3_signed.zip]
Before I got it to work properly, I had various types of failures-
stuck at "n" screen,
wifi wouldnt work (so I didnt get past nook first start-up process),
appeared to work ok but screen would flash all the time (your keyboard problem)
Eventually I got it sorted, and through all this trial and error, was able to properly put CM10 on sd card whilst leaving nook "original". Lol.
*I'm a newbie at this stuff so please make corrections if I jacked my post up! This was a few days ago and I'm at work... so I can't reference my home 'puter
Hey guys, I'm having a tough time getting the Mirage CM7 ROM to work on my Nook Color via SD.
First I went to the Mirage thread I found: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1344873
I downloaded the ROM from the first post. I heard there's a more recent build, 11102012, but I can't find it :\ (some help finding it would be nice). Also
Since Eyeballer's guide that was listed is for eMMC only, I went to the other thread, verygreen's guide, that was linked in his guide: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1000957
I got the .GZ from there, unpacked, and wrote the IMG on the SD card (using Win32DiskImager). Then I copied and pasted the ROM directly onto the SD.
I proceeded to boot my Nook with the SD card, and now all I get is
"Initial install files not found. Please download it from nook.linuxhacker.ru and put on first partition of this SD card the name should start with updatei-cm and end with .zip"
I also downloaded the file from the "How to update if you already installed using older version of the installer and don't want to reinstall (understandably):" part of verygreen's thread but no success