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I have a Nook Color. Somehow (and I really can't recall how), I can no longer get to the B&N side of my Nook. Even with the micro-SD out, I still go directly into CYANOGEN. To make matters worse, every single app I try to get from the market will not download. Once I 'Accept & download', the app starts to download then I get an Error overlay screen: "name-of-software" could not be downloaded due to an error.
So I have a V--E--R--Y generic tablet that can't do much. Please help.
Thanx in advance...................................
How did you go about installing CM7? Did you install it to the internal storage?
Please help!!! Noobie messed up NC (big time)
That's part of the problem. I did not consciously install to internal memory, I wanted it to boot from the SD card.
That's what I did...
That's what I did once. I unwittingly installed it onto the internal memory. It also happened to be really buggy. I restored it to stock using Clockworkmod Recovery. Did you use the installer for the SD card?
On a 16GB microSD, I used Win32DiskImager to write 1gb_clockwork-3.2.0.1-eyeballer to a newly-formatted SD card.
I put the ZIP file for: gapps-gb-20110828-signedgapps-gb-20110828-signed, and gapps-gb-20110828-newtalk-signed.
I tried the home-power key combo. It asks me if I'm sure that I want to restore to the factory. I say "Yes" but when the Nook starts up, I'm still in cyanogen mod.
Should I (re-)format the MicroSD, write 1gb_clockwork-3.2.0.1-eyeballer (or another version) then move recovery-clockwork-3.2.0.1-encore?
Aside from not being able to get back to B&N-supplied software, I can't do anything with the NC as an Android tablet.
OP, do you intend to install CM7 into the internal memory?
All I'm trying to accomplish is to get back to the factory NC settings. Once I can get there, I'll decide.
How to hard reset and Factory Default Nook Color - http://goo.gl/pSFui
Power down your NC. Wait approximately 10 seconds or so-- just give it a bit of a break between shut down and factory reset.
Press and hold power button and your "N" home button almost simultaneously-- press Power first and then the N.
Hold these until your screen flashes the "Touch the future of reading" message; hold for a second or two afterward, then release. You will then get a prompt asking if you want to reset your nook to factory. Press the home button to continue. It will ask you to confirm. Press the home key again. Your nook will deregister, reset, and when it reboots, you will see "Kate" in her tutorial video, as if you'd never registered it in the first place.
(Obviously your account info will still be valid-- simply register with your email/pw combo instead of creating a new account.)
Hope this helps- if so please click thanks
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I did this (more than once - grrrrrrrrrrrrr!). I never see the "touch the future....." message. Instead, I get a cyanogen mod 7 screen with the message "Booting into Recovery". Then I get a sickly yellow-greenish screen that asks (twice) if I want to teset. I confirm both times then it "wipes" the data. It then boots into a cyanogen mod 7 screen (and the skateboarding 'droid) and I go through the registration process.
Now, when I select a Google app, the downloading (Google Maps) seems to be taking forever, but at least I'm not getting the error I got before.
Also, I do not see the progress of the download that I'm used to seeing on my phone. All I see is "movement" under the "Downloading..." message. How long do I leave it before I abort the download?
Your micro sd card is removed right?
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mike11050 said:
On a 16GB microSD, I used Win32DiskImager to write 1gb_clockwork-3.2.0.1-eyeballer to a newly-formatted SD card.
I put the ZIP file for: gapps-gb-20110828-signedgapps-gb-20110828-signed, and gapps-gb-20110828-newtalk-signed.
I tried the home-power key combo. It asks me if I'm sure that I want to restore to the factory. I say "Yes" but when the Nook starts up, I'm still in cyanogen mod.
Should I (re-)format the MicroSD, write 1gb_clockwork-3.2.0.1-eyeballer (or another version) then move recovery-clockwork-3.2.0.1-encore?
Aside from not being able to get back to B&N-supplied software, I can't do anything with the NC as an Android tablet.
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Eyeballer is a clockwork recovery bootable SD image which is used to install stuff (e.g. CM7) to internal memory.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1030227
VeryGreen (size agnostic thread) is the SD image which creates a full OS on the SD card itself leaving the internal memory alone.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1000957
You have used the Eyeballer method and have therefore done an internal install. You must also have installed a CM7 zip not just the gapps zip as they are just google apps and not an actual ROM.
You have 2 ways forward.
The simplest is if you want to end up with internal CM7 and are not interested in running the B & N ROM. Start again by creating the Eyeballer SD card using win32diskImager. Make sure you use a real USB SD adapter and not a card slot on a laptop. Put onto the card the CM7 ROM zip. I recommend the one from the KANG MiRaGe thread in the development forum. It is the most up to date and stable version available at the moment. Also put on one gapps zip (20110828). Now put the card in Nook, Power up and when in recovery then use the menus to format system, data and cache. Do NOT format boot. Then flash the CM7 ROM zip, then the gapps zip. Power down and prepare a clean SD card either by reformatting the eyeballer card with something like the HP USB card utility or a partition manager in the PC like miniTools. You could also use a different SD card if you want to keep the eyeballer one for future use. Put the card back in, power up and you should now be in a stable CM7 environment where you can set up wifi, register with the Google market and download apps.
The second way if you really want to return to stock on the internal and run CM7 of the SD card then use the eyeballer method but instead of flashing CM7 and gapps you now use a return to stock zip. Make sure you still format the partitions as before.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=914690
Once you have it back to stock and upgraded to whatever stock you want then follow the VeryGreen method from the link above. Once the SD card has put CM7 on itself, do not worry that there is only a 114MB space if you ever put the card back in the PC. That is normal; it is just the boot partition that the PC sees. The rest of the card can be seen if you USB connect the Nook to the PC.
Yes it is. Also, even though I'm not getting an error, no apps are loading.
You absolutely rock!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I'm back at the NC "baseline". I tried to go back to a 1.2 (which is what it came with) using "update-nc-stock-1.2-signed". Once I re-booted, it kept returning to the NOOK COLOR screen. Then I used a 1.0.1 from your last post. It came back fine with 2 exceptions. 1) I now have a message that I need to install a SD card. When I do, my (Windows Explorer) "Computer" screen only recognizes the SD card and not the Nook. These are piddly little issues, but if I can get them fixed, great! (Right now, I cannot upgrade the NC or move any books or load any apps.
Thanks again!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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That's part of the problem. I did not consciously install to internal memory, I wanted it to boot from the SD card.
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I had this same problem. Since I am a new member, and can't post links, I'm going to try to help.
Install Clockwork Recovery to an SD card. Yes, the same way you did when installing clockwork to the SD the first time.
There are some threads on other fourms (google is your friend) that have links to Update files that allow you to update while keeping clockwork recovery, and some that will remove clockwork recovery. If you can remove the SD card and boot into the Stock Nook OS, then don't worry about installing 1.0.0 or 1.0.1 like some of the forms say. Just place the .ZIP file of the hacked update (usually 1.3 or 1.4 I think) into the root folder of the SD card, then Install it on your NC just like installing CM7 onto the internal memory. Your nook should start working again. It restored mine to full functionality. I can now pay 3 Dollars for angry birds, but at least its not as terribly slow and laggy as it was with CM7.
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You absolutely rock!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
When I do, my (Windows Explorer) "Computer" screen only recognizes the SD card and not the Nook. These are piddly little issues, but if I can get them fixed, great! (Right now, I cannot upgrade the NC or move any books or load any apps.
Thanks again!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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I had the same issue last weekend, somehow my internal memory had become unrecognizable to anything, and the local Barnes and Noble store had a SD card that repartitioned the internal memory, and I was back in business. And as an added bonus I now have the 4 GB app/BN partition and the 1 GB mostly useless partition.
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On a 16GB microSD, I used Win32DiskImager to write 1gb_clockwork-3.2.0.1-eyeballer to a newly-formatted SD card. ...
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The instructions I see when googling around where I see that image mentioned are instructions for installing onto the Nook Color internal memory.
In the simplest case, making an n2a card is much less complicated than that ~ all you need is on the PC, write the size agnostic image, then drop in the CM7 build you want to use, then put the card in the Nook and it creates itself. There are upsides and downsides to different n2a methods, but that one seems to be the easiest ~ I've done it successfully several times, and I'm certainly nothing like an expert when it comes to these Android systems.
A recovery card image will make a bootable recovery card ... and while that might not have been what you needed to get what you want, its what you need to get the nook back to stock.
You might want to go to
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=22809801&postcount=148
... to get a version of the 1.4.1 upgrade that your recovery card can install. You'll probably have to wipe all sorts of partitions, which means you'll have to sign in with the B&N store again and you'll get to download you B&N apps again, but that's pretty straightforward.
This OP in this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=10623716&postcount=1
... says that it will be necessary to format ("wipe") the /data and /system partitions, but it doesn't seem like you'll lose anything you want to keep. After all, you've either overwritten or completely tangled up your stock B&N info.
That post above has 1.4.1. There should be a signed 1.4.2 lying around somewhere, but if not, once its back to stock, you can update to 1.4.2 the normal way, download the B&N update file, drop it in the root of the Nook, make sure its at least 30% charged, and let it go to sleep, which will run the update file.
I've worked ever so hard trying to configure and get the aesthetics of my cm7 rom up and running and apps in my testing might have triangulated and caused this error, I don't know.
Whenever I try to install a rom, boot into recovery, do a backup-- basically my clockwork is broken. Not broken, it still tries. It just pops this up on the screen:
Populating /dev using udev: done
Initializing random number generator....done
modprobe: chdir (2.6.32.9): No such file or directory
Starting network...
Detected Standard B&N nook layout, emmc first
It appears the SD card is already properly formatted
Skipping format
Mounting /dev/mmcblk1p1 as /boot
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
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I'm using a recently nightly build of CM7.
I really love how I have it set-up, but if I don't have anyway to ever back it up my results are effortless.
How can I fix this situation without removal of the system. anyone, please?
First of all, have you done a nandroid backup in CWM? If so you can definitely recover.
Second it looks like your boot file is corrupted, always sending you to recover rather than a normal boot. What boot setup are you using?
echoedge said:
I've worked ever so hard trying to configure and get the aesthetics of my cm7 rom up and running and apps in my testing might have triangulated and caused this error, I don't know.
Whenever I try to install a rom, boot into recovery, do a backup-- basically my clockwork is broken. Not broken, it still tries. It just pops this up on the screen:
I'm using a recently nightly build of CM7.
I really love how I have it set-up, but if I don't have anyway to ever back it up my results are effortless.
How can I fix this situation without removal of the system. anyone, please?
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You have installed your ROM to SD. There is no CWM recovery on SD installs. You cannot do a nandroid backup with the SD recovery.
See my post here for an explanation of the difference between emmc installs and SD installs:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=25354258
However, there is a way to back it up. Keep reading further down in my post.
thank you.
but how do i get access to uAltRam and uAltImg.
Multi SD Mount APP isn't working.
R/W permission difficulties in root explorer..
Using the 4202012 nightly build..
please help,
this shouldn't be too hard, don't let it drive me crazy
echoedge said:
thank you.
but how do i get access to uAltRam and uAltImg.
Multi SD Mount APP isn't working.
R/W permission difficulties in root explorer..
Using the 4202012 nightly build..
please help,
this shouldn't be too hard, don't let it drive me crazy
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Take the card out and put in your PC. It will see the boot partition and you can copy the files there.
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Take the card out and put in your PC. It will see the boot partition and you can copy the files there.
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Hmm.. somehow I got it doing that. I of course tried that before and only the two partitions were loading. This time I was messing with it and clicking the multi sd mount widget and somehow the boot drive came up and I transferred the files on there.
So now I can do a nandroid backup as usual? Or sense it's an (Alt) instead of a recovery thing must it be different?
I'll try some things in the mean time..
Okay, so I have to boot into recovery and choose alternative and do it manually.
Can't do it with Rom Manager/Rom Tool Kit. Tried and it did the same error as in the OP.
Off to try now.
This is really strange though.
I've been messing with Nooks for a while and always used rom manager and the recovery console just fine.. but i've always ever done dual sd boots.This is my first time really doing a single one.
I'm in the boot menu (encore u-boot menu by j4mm3r), 1.2 port + extras.
It's been at
'Booting. One Moment'..." for at least a minute. Assuming it's frozen itself..
edit: Yeah, the Alt files didn't work.. I reset and pressed the N button, went to alternate and SD card. Nothing.
Reset it and it works as usual, but still no ability to backup..
echoedge said:
Okay, so I have to boot into recovery and choose alternative and do it manually.
Can't do it with Rom Manager/Rom Tool Kit. Tried and it did the same error as in the OP.
Off to try now.
This is really strange though.
I've been messing with Nooks for a while and always used rom manager and the recovery console just fine.. but i've always ever done dual sd boots.This is my first time really doing a single one.
I'm in the boot menu (encore u-boot menu by j4mm3r), 1.2 port + extras.
It's been at
'Booting. One Moment'..." for at least a minute. Assuming it's frozen itself..
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Do not use ROM Manager with the verygreen SD installation. It does not work. Use the boot menu to boot into the alternate. Hold the n key while booting. Choose sd, alt.
Edit: you said two partitions showed up. Did you physically take the card out and insert into a card reader in your PC? It should see just one drive. Make sure those two files are there or it will hang when you choose it in the boot menu. I suspect you put the files on emmc boot since you used that strange program to do it.
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No,
it's something with the multi mount sd app widget.
I hook mini usb to usb.
then hit the widget.
and JUST the boot partition comes up.
It says something about disk F: is not formatted correctly as well.
Just plugging it in without the multi mount app the outward sd card partition and the nook color come up, just those two.
And can't believe I didn't think to take the mini SD out and use an adapter. I'll try it again with that.
You're right I did mess something up with my EMMC.
Before I had it on a stock nook.
Now it goes to the cyanomod thing.
I took the miniSD card out, plugged it in for power and it turned on.
Went to that, had a bunch of force closed issues nothing worked, dry and empty, etc.
Any suggestions?
I'm gonna check out the miniSD card partitions now and try to get something going with that.
echoedge said:
You're right I did mess something up with my EMMC.
Before I had it on a stock nook.
Now it goes to the cyanomod thing.
I took the miniSD card out, plugged it in for power and it turned on.
Went to that, had a bunch of force closed issues nothing worked, dry and empty, etc.
Any suggestions?
I'm gonna check out the miniSD card partitions now and try to get something going with that.
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There are many threads here that will tell you how to restore stock to emmc. Search for them.
But to get the SD working, do what I said. And I would suggest getting rid of that mount program so you don't mess it up again.
Edit: The problem with those mount programs is, if you mount the wrong partition, windows can only read fat partitions and will ask you to format. System and data are ext4 which windows cannot read.
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Thanks a bunch.
In ubuntu once the sd card is inserted all 4 partititions automatically came up so I was able to copy and paste the Alt images.
Am backing up right now
And yeah getting the emmc back to stop np.
One thing i'm confused about.. you're saying one cannot update rom's if booting from an SD card?
also, i assume all in eed to do to make a back-up on my hard drive or usb (so its not just inclusive to the minisd), i can just root browser into mnt/sdcard/clockworkmod/backup and and create a zip of the 2012.5.5.etc.etc.etc. made folder and trnasfer it onto external device? If needed all I would need to do is a transfer back?
echoedge said:
One thing i'm confused about.. you're saying one cannot update rom's if booting from an SD card?
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Yes you can update the ROM. Just not with CWM. You place the update-...zip in the boot partition of the SD and then using the boot menu (hold n during boot) select SD and recovery. The script in the boot partition will install the ROM for you. You need to read the first post in the agnostic image thread. It tells you all this.
On the second question, you can do it that way, but the files are already compressed there so just copy the folder to your PC to archive them.
is it okay to just boot into alternative (power + vol up/down) instead of going through the manual booting with the 'N' on start-up?
echoedge said:
is it okay to just boot into alternative (power + vol up/down) instead of going through the manual booting with the 'N' on start-up?
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Yes. I didn't know you could do it that way. See, you taught me something. LOL. As long as you are getting into the 3.0.2.8 CWM recovery it's OK.
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[Q] Chronic "Unexpected Lack of Boot Partition on the SD card! Please Report"
Hi,
First let me say - YES, i have searched all of the forums here (and a number of other sites) and seem to have tried almost every option.
I have Chronic "Unexpected Lack of Boot Partition on the SD card! Please Report" problems. The farthest I get guaranteed is the cyanogenmod boot and menu (if I try and bring it up). I'm simply trying to get the SD card with cm7 to boot reliably and not eventually loose the boot partition.
Off and on since spring I was able to burn a CM7 image (verygreen's size agnostic, and one or two others I have since lost track of) to a SD card; have had it boot to cm7 and it work for awhile - but then eventual degraded into the no partition found error. the majority of the time it just doesn't work and results in that annoying purple black screen.
When it does work, it only works for awhile and then the boot partition can't be found; a few very small 3 of times - if I copied a new update it woke back up ad worked for a couple of reboots then lost the partition again.
Anybody got time to take pity on my melted brain and take a few guesses?
Clearly I'm not only missing something - but as things have gotten worse, am now missing more (if that is possible) as I'm going backwards to see why it no longer works at all.
At this point wrong has happened so often, I'm just lost on what even worked way back when I started.
I'm trying to backtrack to where it at least worked a little for a few days...but noob world is decaying into worse world.
I tried a couple of other, older processes and a multiboot menu one that seemed promising (plus could handle the new naming conventions for 7.2 CM7); but that one never even got past the missing boot partition.
I have tried approx 10 2gb SDCards, Sandisk, Kingston, Unknown; Class 4 and mixed.
I have tried 3 8GB SD Cards, Sandisk, class 4
I have tried 1 16gb SD Card, Sandisk, class 4
I have tried a Vivitar Micro SD Card Reader
I have tried the micro SD card Adapters in a laptop, and then in a sandisk USB adapter.
I even tried doing it all using the Nook color via a USB cable.
I even tried leaving the nook color off and connecting the USB cable to the PC to initiate a boot.
Using Windskimager
Using SD formatter
Have formatted Full erase and overwrite.
Tried leaving partition size alone
Tried partition resizing up to 250mb
Tried cm7 zip alone and with gapps
WinXP on 2 desktops and a laptop
It sounds like you have run the gamut of attempted resolutions.
That message is part of the verygreen partitioning script that runs every time the verygreen recovery is run. So, that means the normal boot kernel for CM7 is not loading.
The way the verygreen SD should operate is it starts with uImage and uRamdisk on the boot partition. Those are verygreen's recovery files. The first time it is booted, it looks at your emmc to be sure it is a nook. Then it looks at the SD to see if it has been partitioned yet. If it is not, it partitions it into those partitions necessary for installing ROMs. After partitioning, it looks for a zip to install. If it does not find one, it shuts down and the next time it boots it does the same thing until it finds the first ROM zip to install. If it finds one, it installs it. The first time it installs a ROM, it renames those uImage and uRamdisk verygreen files to uRecImg and uRecRam and they become the verygreen recovery files. And it installs new uImage and uRamdisk files from the zip to become your CM kernel and ramdisk. These are what normally will load in the future to start CM.
Now, with the disk partitioned and CM installed, ordinarily, after the cyanomod logo comes up, it boots by default to CM via the uImage and uRamdisk files. If you intercede with the boot menu and tell it to boot to SD recovery, it looks for uRecImg and uRecRam to load the verygreen recovery. If that is loaded, the verygreen script does all its checking again, it verifies that emmc is a nook, then tries to verify if the SD is partitioned. If it is, it looks for a new zip to install. If, in checking to see if it is partitioned, it cannot find partition 1, it gives that message that has been bugging you.
So I see two things that are happening to you.
First, it is booting to the verygreen recovery first instead of CM. That could be due to a recovery bootloop happening. Look at my tips thread linked in my signature to see an explanation as to what that is and how to possibly get out of it.
Second, after it boots to the verygreen recovery, it does its checking and cannot find partition 1 of the SD and gives you that message.
What I cannot understand is, if you have no partition 1 on your SD, how is it booting to the verygreen recovery?
What you have not told us is what you have on emmc. Stock? Does it boot properly without the SD installed? Or does it go to stock recovery?
After this happens to you again, take the card out and put it in the PC. Tell us what you see. What files are there? Maybe look at it with Mini-Tool Partition Manager and see what partitions it reports.
leapinlar said:
What you have not told us is what you have on emmc. Stock? Does it boot properly without the SD installed? Or does it go to stock recovery?
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Ditto on that - especially as it boots happily to that error message time after time after the green cyanomod screen appears and I can also do the menu trick to get it to go into recovery.
Just as a clarifier: A number of times it tried to do the install (text flowing by) and at the end claims it can't find the boot partition - odd (unless I have less of an idea of what I am doing than I think) as isn't all that running from that partition? A fairly even number of times it doesn't even run the install and just errors out right up front.
Once in a great while it all works, and I'm good for a few days - but eventually upon rebooting to get it back to normal (either by menu choice or by pulling the sd card) - all I get is that lack of partition again.
leapinlar said:
What you have not told us is what you have on emmc. Stock? Does it boot properly without the SD installed? Or does it go to stock recovery?
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Yes with the SD card out it boots to stock, although a few time what looked like the CWMod menu came up after I shut down and started up without the SD card installed. Maybe only 2 or 3 times out of WAY to many boots to stock so the kids could read their books while I went to work.
I have even tried resetting the nook to factory on the off chance I did something dumb while mucking about to cause that.
leapinlar said:
After this happens to you again, take the card out and put it in the PC. Tell us what you see. What files are there? Maybe look at it with Mini-Tool Partition Manager and see what partitions it reports.
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Will do so later tonight and will read the notes in your signature as well.
I saw something go by about the boot partition having to start at the 63 block or something - I can't believe ALL my SDcard adapters / writers are bad, but could the nook reader be screwy? Anyway to do a real test? I've been using the Easeus Partition Manager, but will try the Mini-Tool Partition Manager.
Thanks for the step by step explanation of exactly what happens in the process so I can again get a handle on what it's all doing. That all makes sense to what it looks like it tries to do. Deeply appreciate the time!.
You know, I am beginning to suspect something is wrong with your card reader built into the nook. Some sort of intermittent thing like a pin not making a good connection to the card. Put an ordinary SD in it and see if your stock can consistently read it.
Is your unit still under warranty? You might want to explore seeing if you can get it replaced.
Your downloaded verygreen image might be corrupted. Have you tried re-downloading it?
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leapinlar said:
You know, I am beginning to suspect something is wrong with your card reader built into the nook. Some sort of intermittent thing like a pin not making a good connection to the card. Put an ordinary SD in it and see if your stock can consistently read it.
Is your unit still under warranty? You might want to explore seeing if you can get it replaced.
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I had thought of that too - at stock it seems to have no problems reading consistently; I've done surface tests using partition manager - but haven't located any real other options of hard testing like once done for hard drives.
Plus the fact that sometimes, it will work for days before it craps out.
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Your downloaded verygreen image might be corrupted. Have you tried re-downloading it?
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A number of times - I went through and wiped all my downloads for the latest try.
Okay So As I mentioned I went back and wiped everything I had downloaded and restarted (again).
Current status is it's working BUT:
suspiciously too easy this time, worked first shot
- (having said that, I've had looking stupid and asking suddenly means it all starts working - so if it's that I'm good with this)
I've only rebooted into CM7, not back to stock at any time
Have not removed the SD card
I've not had time to load up the apps I like, just the kids games
- (sometimes I think it's the more wanted, the less reliable)
Obviously because I haven't removed the SD card, i haven't been able to retry things enough to recreate the other problems of boots right, yet can't find the partition when it really counts.
Changes (listing stupid things too, just because):
-Went back to my sandisk class 4 16gb HC card
-changed USB adapter back to sandisk one, using a sandisk micro to SD adapter that specifically says sdhc (although I think that is really just marketing
-Formatted the SD in the Nook x2, and did not use SDformatter
-Looked at the partition on the card with MiniTool not Easeus partition manager
-There is a step in verygreen's where you pop the card out and reconnect to the PC BEFORE adding the cm zip, made sure to do that - but could swear I had done it before.
Full painful boring steps that SO far has gotten it past the first stage of creation (again the full test is when I boot into stock a few times, or remove the SDcard for anything, or load my really wanted apps on the android side):
--Also note my lack of class 4 Sandisk cards, I only had one after all. BUT I have had this all work to this point with the 16gb only to have it go south.--
Painful details is so I can catch what is really worthwhile different as even WHEN I get it to work, I'm going back to try all the other cards because it worked so oddly and failed so oddly and differently - but that's just me.
> The 2GBs are:
6 Sandisk SD, don't see any class Rating
2 no brand SD, don't see any class Rating
1 Kingston SD, don't see any class Rating
> The 8gb are SDHC "Adata" Class 4 SDHC
> The 16gb is a Sandisk Class 4 SDHC
Using the 16GB Sandisk Class 4
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> Nook booted to stock
Inserted SD Card
Unmounted
Formatted sucessfully
unmounted and removed
> Put in Red SD / SDHC Adapter
Put in Sandisk MicroMate SDHC to USB Adapter
Put in Front USB spot
> Mounted as E Drive
E Drive shows standard Nook Folders:
.amdroid_secure
B&N Downloads
LOST.DIR
My files
> MiniTool Partition Wizard
Surface test = all good.
>Write the image on your SD card
Used Win 32 Disk Imager
After done with writing, eject and then re-insert the uSD card into your computer.
Two Partitions - 118 and 14.72gb
>Copied to card:
update-cm-7.1.0-encore-signed.zip
Installed correctly
configured wireless
Rebooted = OK
Rebooted = OK
>Turned off
Removed SD Card
Put in Red SD / SDHC Adapter
Put in Sandisk MicroMate SDHC to USB Adapter
Put in Front USB spot
copied gapps
>Boot into Recovery
Gapps installed
> boot
all good
did all set ups like before
added apps (7 games for kids)
rebooted twice
started using
added one app I really like (newshog)
Listening for drumming... nothing so far (Dr. Who reference)
I'm going to go the weekend before rebooting to stock as I can do some adding, and rebooting to android.
Maybe backup the droid side this time around.
THEN the death tests on Monday
-thanks for listening_
p.s. - Yes, I still suspect the card reader somewhat as REMOVING may be where it breaks down.
However, once or twice when I had the Unexpected lack of boot partition error - I was able to bring it back by doing a CM7 update via recovery, despite it refusing to find the boot partiton immediately previously - of course that means the SDcard was removed and reinserted. Most time reinsertion = no help.
You do not need to remove the SD to test booting to emmc. Just press and hold the n button during the boot until the boot menu comes up. Then select emmc/normal and boot. It will boot to stock. The only problem with doing that is now your SD boot partition is 'sdcard'. But should work for testing stock.
leapinlar said:
You do not need to remove the SD to test booting to emmc. Just press and hold the n button during the boot until the boot menu comes up. Then select emmc/normal and boot. It will boot to stock. The only problem with doing that is now your SD boot partition is 'sdcard'. But should work for testing stock.
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Yes, I know - but it's two separate tests to see which one caused the problem.
Turns out that neither was needed - it was easier to create; my son simply turned it off (not a reboot cycle as I had been doing which worked).
When it was turned on, it no longer boots - it goes straight to BSOD (actually deep purple).
Booting into recovery gets me:
Penguin Logo
rcS!
Populating /dev using udev: done
Initializing random number generator.... done.
modprobe: chdir(2.6.32.9): No such file or directory
Starting Network...
Detected Standard B&N nook layout, emmc first
Error! Unexpected lack of boot partition on the SDCARD!
Please Report!
Poweroff when ready
Since I'm till held to the noob reposting limit of once every 5 minutes and the captha I can barely read - I'll post MiniTool result in about 5 minutes. I'll link a screen capture if i can here.
I tried to boot per menu to the EMMC stock; Clockworkmod Recovery v3.2.0.1 came up. I know I did emmc and what ever the second default is (which should be normal) - I'm pretty sure it was normal.
I offed it and did the same and confirmed it was the default; THIS time it came up Nook stock.
Is there some way I installed something to the stock NOOK and didn't remove it when I restored to factory? The other day I did the restore from that same clockworkmod screen NOT from the stock Nook environment.
I'm wondering if I somehow created my own monster way back when I first started this and was playing in the android environment.
I just edited what I wrote a few seconds ago. The reason it went to emmc recovery is because the recovery flag was not reset when that SD Recovery told you that error. Did you read my tips about recovery bootloops? When you exited 3.2.0.1, it cleared the flag and booted normally.
I still suspect hardware issues.
Just for Ha, Ha's I hooked the Nook via USB to the PC.
G Drive "Removable Disk G" (wants a disk to be inserted)
E Drive "MyNookColor" ( Lots of what I assume to be standard Nook folders.
See my edit above.
Attachement # 1 SD Card from Mycomputer:
Attachment # 2 MiniTool View of SD Card
Boot Partition
Properties using Minitool Partition Wizard (attached):
Used
Partition Info
File System Info
Surface Test of Boot Partition:
Perfect - so no picture.
This is SO aggravating - I almost would accept just knowing why rebooting wrecks something if I knew WHAT).
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I just edited what I wrote a few seconds ago. The reason it went to emmc recovery is because the recovery flag was not reset when that SD Recovery told you that error. Did you read my tips about recovery bootloops? When you exited 3.2.0.1, it cleared the flag and booted normally.
I still suspect hardware issues.
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Sorry, apparently not closely enough - got lots of time again.
....didn't expect that anyone would be watching, was busy posting pictures so I could go away and read and think...
Probably is hardware - wish I had some way to vigorously test that, I get that basic use in Nook Stock doesn't really prove everything is good.
Plus I bought refurbished and I have to go dig up the warranty, it was months ago, so not too hopeful and boxes long gone. Don't know how nice B&N is, free replacement charger and cord is one thing - whole another refurb unit is different if I can't show stock SD card reading is an issue, not sure how much they check, but I don't think they care about CM7 off a SDcard not working!
Everything looks perfect on that card. All the right files, partition sizes, etc. You have stock on emmc, CWM 3.2.0.1 on emmc recovery.
I still suspect hardware issues. Powering off makes card semi-unreadable. Can still boot to it but when checking for partition information on SD fails.
If you registered your nook, the serial number is all you need. Refurbished usually have a one year warranty. Mine did. Just tell them card reading is intermittent. Which it is. They are pretty generous. You still have stock on there.
Edit: Try just an ordinary SD and power off, reboot, and repeat many times and in between check card reading ability.
leapinlar said:
Everything looks perfect on that card. All the right files, partition sizes, etc. You have stock on emmc, CWM 3.2.0.1 on emmc recovery.
I still suspect hardware issues. Powering off makes card semi-unreadable. Can still boot to it but when checking for partition information on SD fails.
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Yup, it's really the only thing that hasn't been able to be changed through all of this.
I've mostly gotten these results - I've managed to make it worse as I redid things and apparently got sloppy. But when going back to methodically following instructions I have what I had months ago. I had hoped buying other cards would make it at least act differently.
Thanks for all of the reviews and double checking, at least I now it's not something obvious (but wasn't obvious to me) that I missed along the way!
I'll have to call B&N and see how strict they are and if they take the "It just has trouble reading any SD card consecutively".
Now where was that review of the Nexxus 7.... and I wonder how all the tablet prices are going to drop especially for the Galaxy Tab. Buying is not as fun but I am completely beat with modding failures.
We are too fast with each other. Lol. See my edit above.
Alright, some of you may remember me because I show up once every few months trying to fix my Nook STR.
what happened:
I have the first gen Nook STR 1.0 bought it when it came out
used one of the first TouchNooters and had a permanent "Rooted Forever" screen
used some recovery tools but nothing worked other than me being able to have "Read Forever" back
I can boot some stuff from the sd card like Clockwork recovery and even the TouchNooter but can't get past that. Touchnooter does not "flash black" and I never get past the "starting up..." screen no matter what I do.
I have tried the 8 failed boots (several times) but no menu EVER comes up. I even tried a tool that used to be on here that simulated the 8 failed boots. Nothing.
It's 1.0 right now and I'm not sure if it can be updated to 1.1 just via sdcard. It'd be awesome if I could flash 1.1 on there and try that out though
Anyways, I would appreciate any help. If nothing works out, I'm willing to just ship to whomever wants to try it out, fix it up, and sell it.
With ADB over USB using CWR you can do some forensics and see what the damage is.
You may need to repartition and format some parts of the internal SD card.
The important thing is not to make things worse and destroy the personalized info in the /rom (p2) or /factory (p3) partitions.
Then you can fix up what is damaged, install the 1.1.2 update and restore the /rom
Renate NST said:
With ADB over USB using CWR you can do some forensics and see what the damage is.
You may need to repartition and format some parts of the internal SD card.
The important thing is not to make things worse and destroy the personalized info in the /rom (p2) or /factory (p3) partitions.
Then you can fix up what is damaged, install the 1.1.2 update and restore the /rom
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I tried mounting USB via clockwork recovery but it didn't work. is that what you were referring to or is there a different method?
I mean ADB:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/wiki/BN_Nook_Simple_Touch/Installing_ADB
http://forum.xda-developers.com/wiki/Android_Debug_Bridge
If you have a Linux system you can also mount the internal SD card over USB.
Alright, I'm giving it a shot right now
Actually, I have a question. The guide says that I need to have an adb daemon installed on the Nook and that the stock Nook doesn't come with it. Does CWR provide the adb daemon running on it?
There are a couple of versions of CWR floating around.
They all have adbd and have it enabled.
Some use ADB over WiFi, which is problematical, there being no way to select an Access Point.
The ADB over USB needs a driver installation on the host and cinfiguration.
I'm trying to figure out where my adbd came from.
This does not seem to be in any of the update images from B&N.
In any case, installing adbd is one thing.
It must also be enabled in init.rc and default.prop (inside uRamdisk).
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.
leapinlar said:
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