So here is my situation
I got my NC in February and rooted it before updating to B&N 1.1
I would like to get it running CM7 but also be Dual Boot.
How should i go about this, do i need to Erase deregister and reroot? im sure this has been asked before somewhere in the back pages of this forum, any help or even a link to help would be great. i also don't want to lose my data.
Thanks
If you just want to try something new, use Rom Manager from the Market to backup your system to your sdcard. Then you can install CM7 using Rom Manager and restore what you have now when done. Dual booting is a little harder, what I used to do was make a bootable sdcard. Dualboot Phiremod / Honeycomb Image for SDcard is a good way to go, here is a link http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1045018
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Hey guys i've been on the forums for the longest but just never posted, long time reader though. Ok so i'm new to android and love it , i have a nexus one and have had it for about 4 months now, bought it from someone on craigslist for about 450 brand new, worth every penny and is treated as my firs born. Rooted but never installed a custom rom, was nervous i would ruin something. Seeing how there are so many options in custom roms, i really want to install cyanogen now, only problem is that i updated to frg83d, so can i still install cyanogen? if so can someone give me a link or a little help? i know gb will be here soon but not sure when and i'd like to add enhance my phone a little, also if i were to install a custom rom how hard would it be to then install gb would it need to be reflashed back to the stock rom? tia.
If you updated to FRG83D and rooted...(not rooted and updated, for updating OS will unroot your phone)
1. Using ROM Manager is the easiest way for starters.
- Download ROM Manager from Market.
- Run ROM Manager, then flash Clockwork Recovery into your device.
- Once it is done, make your nandroid backup first by choosing 'Backup Current ROM'. It's a 'must', so you can restore everything when flashing custom ROM goes wrong.
- Backup your account, application & data. You'll need to restore them after installing custom ROM(when rooted, backup tools like My Backup Pro can backup application data).
- Dump everything in your SD card to HDD in case.
- Now partition your SD card. It's optional, but needed for A2SD+. SD card will be formatted during partitioning. Once it is done, copy your backups to SD card.(backup is always a must)
- Download custom ROM you want, copy it to root of SD card.
- In ROM Manager, choose 'Install ROM from SD Card'. Then Clockwork Recovery will do the things.
- Done!
2. If you downloaded and flashed other recovery like Amon Ra's, you'll need to do all the job in the recovery mode. However, it's not much harder than using Clockwork Recovery and ROM Manager.
**Currently, many custom ROMs(which are still developing) are based on FRG83(D). Once 'completely' working Gingerbread(current build: GRH55) ROM is out, such custom ROMs will be updated.
**Read other topics, especially pinned ones. Usually they cover things you want to know.
Thanks for the quick response lfact, but i'm having a problem, whenever i try to install rom from sd card and it goes to install i get a screen with the android and an exclmanation point, any reason why?
Make sure you flashed custom recovery on your device. Oh, and.... If you have any question, post that on Q&A, not general.
Got everything working lfact thanks alot, mods sorry if this was in the wrong section.
Hello,
First time posting, so thanks for the great forum. Found lots of info, that usually take care of my questions, but not this time.
A bit of info before my questions:
I have a dual-boot setup, stock not rooted image on emmc and uSD with CM7 RC4. The CWR was installed unintentionally after I was playing with he ROM Manager. Thought that CWR would be installed in uSD but it got installed on emmc. After an update I am now on CWR 3.0.2.8. I only go into the stock B&N image if I remove my uSD card.
I would like to update to 1.2 (I do use the stock reader app, mostly for magazines) but as far as I understood from other threads, this is only possible if CWR is not installed.
1 - Is it only possible to use the official update to 1.2 if CWR is not installed?
2 - Is there any way that I can remove the CWR without having to erase and register my nook again? I'm out of the USA, so it may be tricky, or it may not work at all.
I did saw several ways of removing CWR and going back to stock, but I just want to remove CWR and not touch the stock image.
Thanks!
i believe there's a mod to the 1.2 update in the development section that allows you to load 1.2 stock via CWR.
I did the same thing as you! Can't get it off.
Try this thread here in the nc development section:
[UPDATE ZIP] Stock 1.2 update.zip flashable from CWM
http://http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1050520
Credit goes to chibucks.
@JamesEcht, chibucks
Thanks for the info. I had already spotted it, but I was wondering about removing the CWR and using the official update as well as boot recovery. There is a mention in that thread "Assuming you haven't fooked up any paritioning by using the "dual-boot" stuff ...", which I am not sure if I didn't.
I also spotted http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=914690 part2 "File to remove CWR and restore stock recovery (2):"
But I simple can't figure out if after removing CWR I have to do the 8 failed boots or if it simply removes CWR and the nook is back at default. Anybody knows?
Edit: Can I just use the boot.img from this post http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=919353 and adb?
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@JamesEcht, chibucks
Thanks for the info. I had already spotted it, but I was wondering about removing the CWR and using the official update as well as boot recovery. There is a mention in that thread "Assuming you haven't fooked up any paritioning by using the "dual-boot" stuff ...", which I am not sure if I didn't.
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you didnt, in fact, you dont really have dual boot, that is when you have both roms installed in your main memory, so there is a partition trick you need to do.
CWR is nice, keep it , i would go for than method with the CWR, but i'm waiting for the "autonootered" version
Thanks for the reply don_ernesto. I have been reading a lot these couple of days and now I understand what a true dual boot is (with the changes in partitions, etc).
I figured out two ways of getting 1.2 onboard.
1 - Use the image for CWR
2 - Use the image from point 3 from here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=914690 to remove CWR and install 1.2 as if it was an untouched nook!
But first I'll just back up all of my nook for good measure!
Hey.
I've been rolling with a rooted version of 1.0.0 since right after NC came out, but I've begun getting boot issues, lagginess, and general slowness.
I want to go back to a fresh system and then install stable CM7 via emmc. What's the best way to go about doing this? I vaguely remember a way to wipe the system and go back to complete stock, but then will it auto download the OTA updates and troll me?
A little advice would be much appreciated.
You guys are the best.
I just did this over the weekend, so here are some links:
To run cm7 on the emmc (this is the one I did):
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1030227&highlight=cm7+emmc
Just in case, if you want to run cm7 on the sd card:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1000957
There are flashable zips stock versions somewhere on the forum. The trick is to have a bootable sd card with cwm and the zips on it (instruction in the first link if you need them).
Good luck,
--FrakMe
I am used to rooting and nandroiding ROMs, at least on my phones: Hero, OG Evo and 3D Evo, but at this point I'm not rooting my NC. I want to back up my stock NC, which presumably has 1.3 on it, as I got it for Christmas. I ran roustabout's script to stop OTA updates. I might want to try the update, eventually. Hence I'd like to back up the stock ROM I have now, and be able to restore it, in case I don't like 1.4.1. Thanks for any help in advance. I did search, but since I'm not rooting, wasn't sure how to do it.
BTW, using Racks' multi-boot from SD card, I can boot into either CM 7.2 (Kang) or ICS. It does what I want, and runs pretty fast from my SD card. And, if I'm at B & N, I can remove my SD card, boot into the stock ROM and still read for free!
Just make a bootable clockwork card and use the backup option and you will get a nandroid of your current set up.
Sent from space
I've got a nook color that I originally set up for my sister around a year ago. It's got an old version of miui installed directly to the internal memory. (android version 2.3.4) She never used it, and now it seems like it is way out of date, and can't get anything worthwhile on the market for it, not even angry birds for her kids to play. There is nothing worthwhile on the tablet, so I don't care about losing any data on it. I am trying to update it with a newer rom and running into nothing but problems. It's rooted and I know I put clockwork mod on it, but if I boot into recover the screen just goes black. I try to download clockwork mod from the market to make sure it is up to date but it won't cope up when I search for it. I try to put anything bootable on the SD card and the nook won't power on. Can anyone help me get this thing straightened out?
You will not find clockworkmod recovery on the market. Try opening ROM Manager from your apps drawer. It should find an up to date clockworkmod for the nook color and download and install it for you. If you cannot find ROM Manager, you can install that from the market. Use ROM Manager to boot to clockworkmod. Then you can flash other roms.
Sent from my Nook Color running ParanoidAndroid and Tapatalk
Check this thread here. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1700105
Basically it says that the 'playstore' has stopped working on MIUI. I would suggest downloading the lastest stable of cyanogenMod for your nook color and the latest .gapps for it. Make sure you are using Clockworkmod 3.2.0.1 for the nook color , all of these files are available through a google search.
Here on the forums here is the link for Recovering your eMMC. DO NOT layer a cyanogenMod build over a MIUI build, it will hose out your kernel base. That means you will have to backup your data with clockworkmod as a nandroid backup and wiping your data and caches on that eMMC. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1759558