First time posting looking for help!
My nook will freeze when I am installing apps. Usually the problem starts right as the nook is beginning to download or immediately after the program has been installed. I have to hard reset twice to get back to be able to do anything (the first reset always freezes up). I tried reassigning permissions but that didn't seem to do anything I think the lock ups have to do with the SD card Read/write speed as Settings and some File Managers also cause it to freeze.
I am running CM7 7.1 stable on a 8gb class 4 Sandisk SD card.
Help!
Thank you!
I have similar problems.. any insight would be very helpful... maybe rooting the nook color and putting the OS on the emmc would help? I'm currently running a sandisk 32gb class 4.
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Anyone out there having the same experience as me?
After unlocking and rooting my N1 I now get frequent, if not regular, soft reboots. It seems that it only when reading or writing a lot of data to or from the SD card (e.g. search the SD card for applications, a full data or app backup to the SD card, reading a large playlist off the SD card etc). It seems to be easy to reproduce and certainly didn't happen before unlocking/rooting.
Part way though an operation the screen will go dark and the phone will reboot from the static Nexus logo.
Am using himem. Allocation problems?
Any thoughts?
Wipe , format sd card. Start over with latest stable ROM.
Thanks, I'll try that.
Is this advice offered because it's a known problem or because it's just the default advice for random problems?
Ive never had any random reboots on mine (running cyan latest right now) I did with some roms on my G1, what rom are you using?
Stock...
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I loaded cm7 on the sd card and put it in the nook color but when I loaded it all i haver is a little cyangen guy on the screen and nothing else. help
Please let us know what have you put on the microSD.
CM7 is too big to really tell us what is not working for you.
the latest installer image and the latest stable cm7 build
Is it the android with the surfboard? First boot after a fresh install can take several minutes at the boot animation to load.
Also did you install CM7 to SD or to EMMC?
yes it is the surfboard guy but I left him he was on for a good half-hour and i ran it from the SD card
Did you try a hard reboot? Sometimes I've flashed a nightly and it will hang at that screen, but it's never happened more than once. May have been me just jumping the gun.
how do you do a hard reboot and will it erase my regular nooks stored stuff
First thing first, what kind of microSD disk do you have?
A Sandisk 4/8/16/32 GB class 2/4 microSD is highly recommended.
Other brands may give you problems.
Second, which nightly or stable CM7 do you have on the microSD disk?
Please give us the specific number like "nightly #101" or "stable 7.0.3".
And if you have OC kernel, which one?
I have a Wintec 4G and I don't know the class. I have the 7.0.3 stable version
It may be wise to get a Sandisk 4/8 GB class 2/4 disk for this build.
8GB disk gives you more room to store stuff later on.
After you have the Sandisk, check to see if you have all these pieces:
-- generic-sdcard-v1.3.img
-- gapps-gb-20110307-signed
-- update-cm-7.0.3-encore-signed
Follow these steps to prepare your Sandisk:
-- use WinImage/Win32Image/win32diskimager to restore generic-sdcard-v1.3.img onto the Sandisk
-- copy the other two files (gapps-gb-20110307-signed and update-cm-7.0.3-encore-signed) onto the Sandisk
Now the final steps:
-- power off nook color
-- put the microSD in the nook color
-- power on nook color
Let us know if you have any problems.
Good luck.
thanks but I thought you had to run cm7 first to set up wifi before putting google apps on it
Either way will work.
This way you do not have to power off/on the nook color again.
What you need to do is to skip google account setup twice the first time around, and go ahead to set up you wifi first and then back to account setup (in settings) to set up the google account.
After all these, then you may want to reboot your system.
thanks but do you really think it is the sd card. i read the sd card strange results and that person had it going with a different sd card but it was slow. for me I can't get it at all
I am running cm7 nightlies 120 and Dals 6/30 kernel, but I've had this problem for a while now with previous nightlies. Everytime I boot up my nook I have to remove memory card or else it will freeze after boot. Any ideas?
Yes. You're card has something hosed on it, and for whatever reason the NC is trying to boot from it (when it should not). I had this happen to my first mircoSD, and I wonder if it wasn't something to do with reimaging it several times to flash various nightlys/updates/whatever. I never bothered to track it down as I upgraded to a higher capacity card.
OK. I thought it was something with the card. I will try to reformat it and start from scratch. Thnx for your help.
I am having a similar problem, my nook freezes on startup and shows a little SD card icon that looks like it is exploding then it changes to a exclamation point. It will also do this even after I remove the SD card and try to boot it.
It will eventually boot up and function if I keep restarting it.
Running cm 7.1.0-rc1-encore
Anyone experience this before?
Clean format your SD-Cards or try changing them.
gurs2323 said:
I am running cm7 nightlies 120 and Dals 6/30 kernel, but I've had this problem for a while now with previous nightlies. Everytime I boot up my nook I have to remove memory card or else it will freeze after boot. Any ideas?
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Next time, do indicate you boot off uSD card itself or from eMMC.
Assuming you did boot from eMMC, then remove your uSD, reformat it (FAT32)
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Clean format your SD-Cards or try changing them.
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I have tried formatting the card, this happens even if there is no SD card inserted. I wonder if it is something I have installed that is causing this issue.
w0nker said:
I have tried formatting the card, this happens even if there is no SD card inserted. I wonder if it is something I have installed that is causing this issue.
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Re-format your eMMC partition
votinh said:
Re-format your eMMC partition
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Alright, I think I completed this, I booted up with the clockwork mod and went to /format emmc....is that what you were talking about?
Anyway, the issue still exists, any other ideas? I appreciate your help so far.
Try that first, if still don't work then re-install OS, do a clean installation.
So I think Beautiful Widgets was causing the freezing, I uninstalled it and now when it boots, the little SD card symbol shows up for a few seconds and it does not freeze.
So who knows lol...anyway, thanks for the help
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w0nker said:
So I think Beautiful Widgets was causing the freezing, I uninstalled it and now when it boots, the little SD card symbol shows up for a few seconds and it does not freeze.
So who knows lol...anyway, thanks for the help
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Sorry I was out of station, so couldn't reply. and good u figured it out
I thought I was going nuts...god damn beautiful widgets!
I too have the same problem for past 3 days. my phone freeze after loading icons of the apps from the memory card
I tried formating the card twice, uninstalled the recent apps , but it didnt help
Without card the phone doesnt freeze, the few minutes after the card is inserted the app icons load and freezes my phone n i have to pull out battery again
I dont want to go through process of reinstalling all apps again .. could someone please help how to find which particular app freezes , if u have already met with dis type of prob
thanks in advance
Hi,
Having a with a Nook where it will not complete boot of CM7 which is installed on an SD card. Instead it boots into the Nook Color software.
I hold down the power button till I see the green Cyanogenmod logo with the Loading text, which I think means it is booting from the SD card (I can get it to boot into CM recover), then the screen goes blank and something goes wrong and the boot process continous with the 'n' screen and eventually loads the Nook boot animation and ends with the Nook software loaded. The nook software seems to be running fine except I can't get the SD card to boot all the way.
I've tried 2 known good SD cards, which boot without problems on my second nook, so I know it is not the SD card. I suspect something got corrupted with the boot process files, so I have been trying to find a way to overwrite the existing files with a virgin copy.
1) Can't get ADB running, I suspect the ADB route is only possible if I have the nook booting in a rooted CM7 in the first place (if some one could confirm that would help)
2) I have tried the x8 boot fail reset as well as the erase and deregister option in the nook software with no change in the above behaviour.
3) My last hope is to do an update back to stock using the recovery mode of the SD card. I can copy an updater file to the small partition of the SD card that is visible on Windows. I found a 1.2 stock updater, but it is ~200MB which is too big to fit on the SD card. If someone could point me to a smaller updater or a sd image with CWM and >200MB space that would be very helpful. TY!
What exactly are you trying to do? If you are just trying to set up dual-boot of CM off of your SD card, you don't need to do anything to the stock B&N internal install. I've had good luck using the procedure in the [ROM][CM7] [v1.3] Size-agnostic SD Card image and CM7 installer for SD Cards thread.
Are you sure the initial CM install on your SD card went well? It's known to be very particular (see top of that thread) about what SD cards work. The first few times I tried, I didn't realize there were error when CM was initially extracted which led to similar failures. From what you've described, the SD setup is failing. Normally, you don't need to worry too much about what's on the internal emmc setup of the Nook Color.
bobstro said:
What exactly are you trying to do? If you are just trying to set up dual-boot of CM off of your SD card, you don't need to do anything to the stock B&N internal install. I've had good luck using the procedure in the [ROM][CM7] [v1.3] Size-agnostic SD Card image and CM7 installer for SD Cards thread.
Are you sure the initial CM install on your SD card went well? It's known to be very particular (see top of that thread) about what SD cards work. The first few times I tried, I didn't realize there were error when CM was initially extracted which led to similar failures. From what you've described, the SD setup is failing. Normally, you don't need to worry too much about what's on the internal emmc setup of the Nook Color.
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Hi bobsto, some background. I've been using CM7 on a microSD for several weeks now. I dual boot between Nook SW and CM7 that way. I've been using the link you posted above to create the SD cards and so far I have not had to touch the eMMC files at all.
Then a friend messed around with the Nook I gave them with CM7 on an SD card. I don't what the friend did, but when I got the Nook back it would not boot into CM7. I pulled my SD card from my working Nook and it wouldn't work either. So I'm guessing someone screwed with the Nook internal files. So I am trying the factory restore of the Nook SW to see if that will fix the problem and allow me to load CM7 from the SD card again. Interestingly Nookie will boot from SD and CM7 won't. Still trying stuff to see what will fix the problem. Suggestions are welcome.
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Hi bobsto, some background. I've been using CM7 on a microSD for several weeks now. I dual boot between Nook SW and CM7 that way. I've been using the link you posted above to create the SD cards and so far I have not had to touch the eMMC files at all.
Then a friend messed around with the Nook I gave them with CM7 on an SD card. I don't what the friend did, but when I got the Nook back it would not boot into CM7. I pulled my SD card from my working Nook and it wouldn't work either. So I'm guessing someone screwed with the Nook internal files. So I am trying the factory restore of the Nook SW to see if that will fix the problem and allow me to load CM7 from the SD card again. Interestingly Nookie will boot from SD and CM7 won't. Still trying stuff to see what will fix the problem. Suggestions are welcome.
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Gosh, I wish someone could figure this out.
I restored original stock after a full CM7 root and it went fine but I can NOT get a dual boot sd card to work.
It seems to install but when I reboot it shows CM7 screen briefly then always boots to Nook OS.
Tried many many different cards and image writers and CM7's and even a card from my other Nook which I know works.
It will not boot into the CM7 from the SDcard.
Any help?
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Gosh, I wish someone could figure this out.
I restored original stock after a full CM7 root and it went fine but I can NOT get a dual boot sd card to work.
It seems to install but when I reboot it shows CM7 screen briefly then always boots to Nook OS.
Tried many many different cards and image writers and CM7's and even a card from my other Nook which I know works.
It will not boot into the CM7 from the SDcard.
Any help?
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Try this for CM7 - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1022786
Nookie also works - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=922324
Not sure what is going on, but it worked for me.
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Try this for CM7 - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1022786
Nookie also works - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=922324
Not sure what is going on, but it worked for me.
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Thanks, the first worked like a charm!
I made a 32gb CM7 sdcard.
Still wish I could have got the size-agnostic card to work, it bugs me when I can't figure stuff out.
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Still wish I could have got the size-agnostic card to work, it bugs me when I can't figure stuff out.
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I'm in the same boat, but after 1 day of research and trial and error I'm happy it works. Maybe someone smarter will see this and know the answer and solve my problem curiousity.
I've gone through 3 nook colors by now because the recharger cable continuously breaks and best buy refuses to simply replace the cable and instead replaces the ENTIRE SYSTEM (I guess it makes sense from their point of view), so I'm pretty experienced when it comes to rooting and un-rooting/factory resetting the nook, and when I received my latest one I decided to try a dual boot after being slightly impressed by the 1.4 update and enticed by the numerous comics now available on the nook store.
I used this method manually rooting the nook after repartitioning the internal data to the pre-blue dot packages, and finally booted up my old backup through a CWM flashable sd card, then unmounting the sd card while in CWM and then mounting my data SD card. Everything was working really well, and I was very pleased with my nook and it's improved performance and accessibility to the much better stock reading software, while still being able to access kindle and other games
But then, after leaving it alone for a couple of days, i booted it up to play some fruit ninja, and suddenly my nook was unable to read the sd card. It said the card needed to be formatted, and that unreadable file types were found, and oddly enough the stock OS said this as well. Then after a couple of reboots, it could read the SD card just fine. But then, many apps started either freezing on boot, or immediately closing on startup. I tried to boot into CWM recovery, but I kept getting an installation failed screen, and after flashing CWM i was finally able to boot into it just fine.
My only problem now is occasionally apps will again close or freeze, and occasionally the system will reboot by itself or simply force shutdown. Also, it says that my 8gb data SD card has no free space which conflicts with my 385 mb when I plug it into my computer. I'm a little confused.
If anyone could help with my app problems, that would be much appreciated.
Also, Can someone explain the differences between the Internal Storage, /mnt/emmc, and /mnt/usbdisk. I'm confused on what their purpose is considering their different data, and where the dual boot roms are stored.
Thanks and Cheers
-Meaty
You have mentioned about "dual boot".
What is the other ROM you are running now?
What is your uSD brand?