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I tried to create a CM7 bootable SD card per the thread entitled "Size-agnostic SD Card image and CM7 installer for SD Cards. with updater."
I used WinImage to create the supposedly bootable SD card with the installer, placed it into my Nook which was fully off, and the Nook booted as usual instead of from the SD card.
Am I missing something? How do you boot from an SD card?
Is there such a thing as a boot choice menu like on my PC or is the default always to boot from the SD card?
Does the Nook have to be rooted for this to work?
Thanks
ETA: My PC shows the uSD card as nearly full, but my Nook shows the SD card as nearly empty (1.74 out of 1.84 GB available).
When you bought your Nook, did it have a blue sticker on the box? And does internal storage show 1GB or 5GB for you?
Also, you did drop an update CM7 zip file onto the imaged uSD before you tried booting off it right?
angomy said:
When you bought your Nook, did it have a blue sticker on the box? And does internal storage show 1GB or 5GB for you?
Also, you did drop an update CM7 zip file onto the imaged uSD before you tried booting off it right?
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No blue sticker was on the box. The internal storage shows 5GB.
Yes, I had a CM7 zip file on the imaged card. (The latest encore nightly)
Interestingly, my PC shows the uSD (2 GB) as nearly full. The Nook shows it as nearly empty (1.74 out of 1.84 available).
JowBe said:
No blue sticker was on the box. The internal storage shows 5GB.
Yes, I had a CM7 zip file on the imaged card. (The latest encore nightly)
Interestingly, my PC shows the uSD (2 GB) as nearly full. The Nook shows it as nearly empty (1.74 out of 1.84 available).
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When you burned the installer img, did you run WinImage as administrator? Also, when you put it in your reader it comes up as boot (drive letter in Windows, with files like uImage, uRamdisk, mlo, u-boot.bin, right?
angomy said:
When you burned the installer img, did you run WinImage as administrator? Also, when you put it in your reader it comes up as boot (drive letter in Windows, with files like uImage, uRamdisk, mlo, u-boot.bin, right?
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Yes, I ran WinImage as administrator. And yes, it shows up in Windows explorer as boot and yes those files are there.
Could it be because my Nook operates in "factory mode," in order to skip initial registration?
You should run it and register it and setup wifi and everything first. Get the stock software working fine and dandy (its not half bad actually). Then, checkout this guide for installing CM7 onto an SD card:
http://clubnook.com/forum/showthread.php?953-Rooting-Instructions
It has worked for some rooting rookies so far and includes both windows and mac guides specific to SD cards.
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Could it be because my Nook operates in "factory mode," in order to skip initial registration?
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I'm not sure, because I ran through initial registration on stock prior to running CM7 off SD --- I used the same image (verygreen's agnostic at http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1000957) as you did without a hitch.
If you decide to run CM7 off internal sometime you're going to need to register the nook anyway.
You could try an alternate bootable SD (e.g., using an image from here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=13283643&postcount=34) to eliminate one of the two: a) your nook having issues booting from SD or b) your SD install is not set up correctly.
An update: I decided to try to create a bootable SD from another bootable image (MonsterRootPack with CWR). This time the nook wouldn't even turn on. I'm going to try to create a third bootable SD as angomy has suggested to see what happens.
I need to add that when I removed the uSD card, it booted normally.
Also, when I create the bootable SD with winimage, I get a dialog box that tells me that the format of the SD card is not right and asks me if I want to resize the image. But this happened on both the images. I don't know if this has anything to do with it.
angomy said:
You could try an alternate bootable SD (e.g., using an image from here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=13283643&postcount=34) to eliminate one of the two: a) your nook having issues booting from SD or b) your SD install is not set up correctly.
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Ok, I tried the CWR image in the link you gave. Same problem - no-go. Just sits there dead. I remove the uSD and it boots normally.
FWIW you do not have to boot into stock B&N at all before you setup and install to CM7 SD card. One of my NCs has never ever booted into stock ROM at all, I installed CM7 onto SD card and running off that from the moment it was unboxed.
The NC will always boot off the SD card first, so if it's booting off eMMC instead then there must be something wrong with the img that you wrote to your SD card.
Make sure that you have a freshly formatted SD card, preferably one with good small random block r/w speeds (eg Sandisk class 4 8G). Follow the instructions in verygreen's "Size Agnostic..." OP to the letter. Re-download all the files as you may have a corrupted one. Make sure to check MD5 this time. Try using Win32diskimager instead, the 0.1 version works better.
It should work. Good luck.
ebubar said:
You should run it and register it and setup wifi and everything first. Get the stock software working fine and dandy (its not half bad actually). Then, checkout this guide for installing CM7 onto an SD card:
http://clubnook.com/forum/showthread.php?953-Rooting-Instructions
It has worked for some rooting rookies so far and includes both windows and mac guides specific to SD cards.
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Thanks for the link. I have given this some thought, and it doesn't seem reasonable that booting from an SD card should depend upon the state of registration of the device because the whole idea of booting from an SD card means that the content of the SD card is loaded in the place of the stock software.
robot8 said:
FWIW you do not have to boot into stock B&N at all before you setup and install to CM7 SD card. One of my NCs has never ever booted into stock ROM at all, I installed CM7 onto SD card and running off that from the moment it was unboxed.
The NC will always boot off the SD card first, so if it's booting off eMMC instead then there must be something wrong with the img that you wrote to your SD card.
Make sure that you have a freshly formatted SD card, preferably one with good small random block r/w speeds (eg Sandisk class 4 8G). Follow the instructions in verygreen's "Size Agnostic..." OP to the letter. Re-download all the files as you may have a corrupted one. Make sure to check MD5 this time. Try using Win32diskimager instead, the 0.1 version works better.
It should work. Good luck.
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Thanks. Yes, I just replied to another poster that I didn't think that the state of registration of the device should matter since the whole purpose of a bootable SD card is to load the contents of the SD in place of the stock.
I have followed the instructions in verygreen's thread to the letter - several times. Also, I have tried to make other bootable SDs without success. But that's a good idea about trying Win32diskimager. Also, I will try a Sandisk class 4 card SD as soon as I can get to a store.
I do have a question. When I format the SD card what "allocation unit size" should I be using? (formatting through Windows) The default is 32 kb.
PROBLEM SOLVED!
Thanks to everyone for trying to help me figure this out. The winning idea belongs to robot8.
When I switched from using WinImage to using Win32diskimager, it worked immediately. I am now running CM7 on my Nook Color! Took forever and a day to boot though.
Congrats!
Re: allocation unit size, do you mean cluster size? Depends on how big the FAT32 partition is --- larger clusters used means more actual space used but too large a size can reduce access speed. Generally Windows defaults to suggested 4k for up to 8GB, 8GB-16GB = 8k, 16-32GB = 16k, and 32+ = 32kb.
Also the first boot is the longest --- shouldn't take as long after that. Welcome to CM7 - I don't regret installing it over stock after waffling for weeks on whether or not I'd use stock at some point -- CM7 is just too much faster with too many more options and tweaks for my impatience to deal with stock Froyo.
THANK YOU OP!
I had the same issue, tried 20x various ways, 2 different computers, 2 different SD readers, and it was WinImage that wasnt working correctly. Win32DiskImager solved it.
Thanks.
JowBe said:
PROBLEM SOLVED!
Thanks to everyone for trying to help me figure this out. The winning idea belongs to robot8.
When I switched from using WinImage to using Win32diskimager, it worked immediately. I am now running CM7 on my Nook Color! Took forever and a day to boot though.
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Thanks so much! This finally got it to work for me too. Loving my new Android tablet
FWIW, WinImage does not work. Maybe it used to work, but it does not now. I posted about this a few days ago here.
Hello first I want to say a big THANK YOU to everyone that has put time and effort into making the Nookie what it is today....but I have a noob question.
I recently got a 16gb micro SD and can successfully get the 0.6.8 Nookie to run on my nook color, my problems start when I try to "recover" my other 13gb's. Before I get burned and tossed aside I have checked
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=922324&page=92
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=883175&highlight=partition&page=103
and about 5 other pages and they all say the same thing..use EASEUS, grab the slide bar and voila. It appears to work but when I install it in the NC it either becomes very unstable or just boots to the NC as if the SD card was not there.
Anyone have any ideas?
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Hello first I want to say a big THANK YOU to everyone that has put time and effort into making the Nookie what it is today....but I have a noob question.
I recently got a 16gb micro SD and can successfully get the 0.6.8 Nookie to run on my nook color, my problems start when I try to "recover" my other 13gb's. Before I get burned and tossed aside I have checked
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=922324&page=92
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=883175&highlight=partition&page=103
and about 5 other pages and they all say the same thing..use EASEUS, grab the slide bar and voila. It appears to work but when I install it in the NC it either becomes very unstable or just boots to the NC as if the SD card was not there.
Anyone have any ideas?
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I use Lexar Bootit ....a free utility...to format and flip the bit that says its a removeable drive, then your windows pc drive management can see and format it as full capacity fat32.
Hey thanks for the tip, unfortunately it won't work. I forgot to mention that I followed this tutorial ..... and updated my driver (saved my original Windows just in case) to a hitachi driver and now I can switch my SD memory card forth "removable" to "logical" and back when needed. Once I get it as a logical drive I was EASEUS to increase the size of partition 4 (SD Card)..but again no dice!!!
Seeing that I am a noob I can't post the link to the tutorial but I'll say it worked like a charm and when I want to go back to the original I just need to "roll back" the driver.
Well, a couple of things:
Are you using a Sandisk card? Sandisk class 2 and 4 cards have been found much more stable than most others for running a ROM from SD, and problems with SD installs often go back to the card.
Any particular reason you went with Nookie Froyo? It has pretty much fallen out of use since the NC's stock OS was updated to Froyo in May. If you want an SD install, there's a simpler, size-agnostic method for CM7, which is also a more robust and capable OS and a more advanced version of Android (Gingerbread 2.3.4 rather than Froyo 2.2). I would recommend CM7.1 RC1, or if you're adventurous, Nightly 136.
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Well, a couple of things:
Are you using a Sandisk card? Sandisk class 2 and 4 cards have been found much more stable than most others for running a ROM from SD, and problems with SD installs often go back to the card.
Any particular reason you went with Nookie Froyo? It has pretty much fallen out of use since the NC's stock OS was updated to Froyo in May. If you want an SD install, there's a simpler, size-agnostic method for CM7, which is also a more robust and capable OS and a more advanced version of Android (Gingerbread 2.3.4 rather than Froyo 2.2). I would recommend CM7.1 RC1, or if you're adventurous, Nightly 136.
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Thanks for the info unfortunately I am using a 16gb PNY, class 4 and at $15 I couldn't pass it up...looks like I should have done some more reading first. Really I have no clue why I am using the Nookie, my wife said said that was the one she wanted. I think she just likes saying "Nookie", but I'll give the CM7 a go and see what trouble I can get into.
thanks again...
Taosaur...I was able to get the CM7 mod up and running in no time flat. Now the wife wants me to see if I can get bluetooth working.
You said "I was able to get the CM7 mod up and running ...." so I assume you got your problem fixed. That's good.
About bluetooth.
1. Turn off Wifi
2. Power off NC
3. Power on NC
4. Turn on bluetooth
5. Turn on wifi
votinh said:
You said "I was able to get the CM7 mod up and running ...." so I assume you got your problem fixed. That's good.
About bluetooth.
1. Turn off Wifi
2. Power off NC
3. Power on NC
4. Turn on bluetooth
5. Turn on wifi
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Yep, I had to do the above the first time I turned on bluetooth, but haven't had any trouble toggling it on and off since then. Just open notifications (that broken-circle-and-arrow button on the status bar) and you have toggles there for Wifi, bluetooth, and a couple other things.
@ Taosaur,
I've seen your signature indicate you are running nb136, any change or improvement (both slightly and/or significant) over the previous ones?
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Thanks for the info unfortunately I am using a 16gb PNY, class 4 and at $15 I couldn't pass it up...looks like I should have done some more reading first. Really I have no clue why I am using the Nookie, my wife said said that was the one she wanted. I think she just likes saying "Nookie", but I'll give the CM7 a go and see what trouble I can get into.
thanks again...
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Damn! My wife never says "nookie".
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@ Taosaur,
I've seen your signature indicate you are running nb136, any change or improvement (both slightly and/or significant) over the previous ones?
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I haven't done much but read and browse a little since I flashed it, but I haven't noticed any difference from 7.1 RC1, which wasn't really any different from Nightly 102 I had before that. I mostly just flashed this time for the integrated OC/Tweaks kernel, without the video/lag problems that were reported in 132-134.
Thanks for an update, m8
maybe someone can help me, i'm about to loose my mind here trying to figure this out. i'm using a Sandisk class 4 16gb card running CM7 with the OC kernal.Did all of this using the size agnostic install method. everything is working fine but i can't for the life of me figure out how to access the rest of the space on my SD, when i insert the sd card into my PC it just shows up as the 115mb partition. i've tried using EASeus, the lexar bootit, and some other partition tool with no luck. with Easeus i select the 13gb FAT32 partition and make it active and thats it right? does it need to be logical? and which partition am i resizing?
Dr. Light said:
maybe someone can help me, i'm about to loose my mind here trying to figure this out. i'm using a Sandisk class 4 16gb card running CM7 with the OC kernal.Did all of this using the size agnostic install method. everything is working fine but i can't for the life of me figure out how to access the rest of the space on my SD, when i insert the sd card into my PC it just shows up as the 115mb partition. i've tried using EASeus, the lexar bootit, and some other partition tool with no luck. with Easeus i select the 13gb FAT32 partition and make it active and thats it right? does it need to be logical? and which partition am i resizing?
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None of the above. Windows will only recognize the first partition on a SD card, and when you make a SD bootable, that first partition will be the boot partition. To access the larger storage partition, connect your NC with CM7 running to the PC over USB. Open notifications on the NC, tap through "USB connected" to the USB screen, and "Turn on USB storage." Windows will now detect two storage drives, NookColor (the system partition, where apps install) and SDcard (the large storage partition).
The only time you'll want to remove the card from the NC and plug it into your PC is when you want to put on a new cm...zip update file to flash a new ROM.
I used the size agnostic install method with a 16gb PNY calss 4 SD and after all the steps were completed I was showing 13.8gb free for my SD card when I looked at in on the NC. Not believing my eyes I pulled it out and looked at it with EASUS and it showed partition 4 as 13.8gb (utilizing all the cards remaining space). I then downloaded a few things and added a few books for my wife and the space shrank to 13.4gb. As stated above your computer wont show it.
In short have you looked on the NC under "Storage" (I think that is were I found it) and verified you don't have the full capacity already?
Also there is another method I needed to use when I was messing with an earlier version (Nookie) that allowed me to see an SD card as a "Local Device" so windows would let me see all partitions on the hard drive. I can't post a link until I have more posts but email me and I can send you the link if interested.
Taosaur said:
None of the above. Windows will only recognize the first partition on a SD card, and when you make a SD bootable, that first partition will be the boot partition. To access the larger storage partition, connect your NC with CM7 running to the PC over USB. Open notifications on the NC, tap through "USB connected" to the USB screen, and "Turn on USB storage." Windows will now detect two storage drives, NookColor (the system partition, where apps install) and SDcard (the large storage partition).
The only time you'll want to remove the card from the NC and plug it into your PC is when you want to put on a new cm...zip update file to flash a new ROM.
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thanks, well that got me some where. i connected nook to PC, turn on storage mode and it shows E/F drive. click either one and it says "Please insert disk into removable disk E/F" so then i turn off debugging and the nook color internal memory pops up as drive F, while clicking on drive E gives me the same error as above. any ideas? btw i'm on Windows 7 64bit, do i need any kind of special drivers or anything?
It is because windows will only allow you to manipulate the first partition on an SD card...even if it "sees" the other partition as another card it will not do anything with it. EASEUS will show you all the partitions on the SD.
The only way I got Windows to see all the partitions and do anything with them was to change my driver via the "Hitachi fix" If you google Hitachi driver SD card you will find it. I used this site and even though it is long it did exactly as advertised and now I install this driver when I need to format just the partition of an SD card and then "roll back" the driver when I'm done. It tricks windows into thinking it is a local device instead of removable. www/1src/com\forums\showthread.php?t=133718
change / to .
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I can't post a link as I'm still a noob...
Jeep_Lover said:
It is because windows will only allow you to manipulate the first partition on an SD card...even if it "sees" the other partition as another card it will not do anything with it. EASEUS will show you all the partitions on the SD.
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S/he really doesn't need Windows to do anything with those other partitions--I suspect messing with them was where s/he went wrong in the first place.
Dr. Light said:
thanks, well that got me some where. i connected nook to PC, turn on storage mode and it shows E/F drive. click either one and it says "Please insert disk into removable disk E/F" so then i turn off debugging and the nook color internal memory pops up as drive F, while clicking on drive E gives me the same error as above. any ideas? btw i'm on Windows 7 64bit, do i need any kind of special drivers or anything?
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I suggest you start over, because you probably damaged your install when you were messing with the partitions earlier. I'm also using Win7x64, and no, I didn't need any special drivers. Delete all partitions except "SDcard" in EASEUS, expand that partition to the whole card, then write verygreen's image to the card again and re-install. At that point, you should be able to access storage over USB from CM7 without turning off debugging or taking any other special steps other than "Turn on USB storage."
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S/he really doesn't need Windows to do anything with those other partitions--I suspect messing with them was where s/he went wrong in the first place.
I suggest you start over, because you probably damaged your install when you were messing with the partitions earlier. I'm also using Win7x64, and no, I didn't need any special drivers. Delete all partitions except "SDcard" in EASEUS, expand that partition to the whole card, then write verygreen's image to the card again and re-install. At that point, you should be able to access storage over USB from CM7 without turning off debugging or taking any other special steps other than "Turn on USB storage."
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alright i'll give it a shot when i get home from work. is the verygreen image the same one found in the CM7 size agnostic SD thread?
"http://crimea.edu/~green/nook/generic-sdcard-v1.3.img.gz"
and when i delete all partitions except for "SDCARD" do i need to make that partition logical or active or anything?
again thanks for your help.
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alright i'll give it a shot when i get home from work. is the verygreen image the same one found in the CM7 size agnostic SD thread?
"http://crimea.edu/~green/nook/generic-sdcard-v1.3.img.gz"
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Yep, verygreen is the author of that thread and image.
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and when i delete all partitions except for "SDCARD" do i need to make that partition logical or active or anything?
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No, in fact you might be able to write the image without messing around in EASEUS at all--I'm just not sure if WinImage (or whatever) would write to the whole card or just one partition. I know if you tried to format it, Windows would only format the boot partition.
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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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.
mike11050 said:
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.
help please:crying::crying::crying::crying:
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help please:crying::crying::crying::crying:
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If you want to run stock OS, but with Gapps etc. etc., read the first post on this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2062613
If you want to run CM10.1, read the first post on this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2063968
These are pretty easy to follow and should not cause any problems. Just remember, if you're running windows, it might be difficult to view the different folders once you install to SDcard. For that, you will need to setup ADB. It isn't too difficult, but if you run into any trouble, just search the forums, there are plenty of very helpful responses.
Thank you tarthenal, i will try this
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Is dr any easier way to root my nook hd?
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Is dr any easier way to root my nook hd?
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No, those are the only two ways for 2.0.6. And that first method does root it.
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It's actually very easy once you start doing it . Don't be overwhelmed, take it step by step and you'll be fine. The forums here are full of helpful people and most issues have been sorted out. I managed (using leapinlar's excellent thread) to get it done in a short time.
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It's actually very easy once you start doing it . Don't be overwhelmed, take it step by step and you'll be fine. The forums here are full of helpful people and most issues have been sorted out. I managed (using leapinlar's excellent thread) to get it done in a short time.
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Thank you very much for the links. I am a total newbie with rooting. Would one of you kindly answer the following questions for me. I have the HD+ w/ 16 GB and 2.0.6 software.
1. What size / class microSD card would you recommend I buy for rooting? Should I have more than one card available?
2. Does the rooted OS get installed to the internal memory, or to the SD card?
2a. If the latter, would it make sense to get a 32 GB card so I could have 16 GB for the Nook stock OS and 32 GB for the rooted OS?
3. When a Nook software update breaks root do I loose all of my data on the rooted OS?
Thank you!
seabrewed said:
Thank you very much for the links. I am a total newbie with rooting. Would one of you kindly answer the following questions for me. I have the HD+ w/ 16 GB and 2.0.6 software.
1. What size / class microSD card would you recommend I buy for rooting? Should I have more than one card available?
2. Does the rooted OS get installed to the internal memory, or to the SD card?
2a. If the latter, would it make sense to get a 32 GB card so I could have 16 GB for the Nook stock OS and 32 GB for the rooted OS?
3. When a Nook software update breaks root do I loose all of my data on the rooted OS?
Thank you!
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1. I am using the 16GB, Class 4 SandDisk card. Generally speaking, the SanDisk Class 4 ones seem to be the most stable and give the best results (most people on the forum use them). Either 16 or 32 GB should be fine.
2. It depends on which method of 'rooting' you use. If you want to 'root' stock B&N OS, you can just use leapinlar's thread here or if you want to run CM10 off the SD card, use verygreen's CM10 instructions here. I've found the 02/20 file he's posted in the first post on the thread to be extremely useful by the way. It's been stable for the past 24 hours and giving very good performance. If you want to run a 'hybrid' install, with CM10 on the internal memory use leapinlar's thread here.
I would suggest reading each method carefully and deciding which works best for you. I'm going with booting CM10 off the SD card (2nd method) as I don't want to fiddle with stock/internal memory too much and it's been relatively stable and smooth for me. But some people prefer the first method and some like the third. More knowledgeable posters should be able to tell you the 'best' option (if such a thing exists ).
2a. It really depends on how much data/media files/documents you have. I only use mine for reading ebooks/pdfs and have found 16gb SD card+16 Gb internal storage more than enough. BTW, running CM10 off the SD card does not mean you cannot use the internal memory for storage, similarly for the hybrid option.
3. Not to my knowledge, unless you wipe the whole partition. I think the /data and other folders remain intact (I could be wrong though).
Hope that helps. Enjoy your new found freedom
seabrewed said:
Thank you very much for the links. I am a total newbie with rooting. Would one of you kindly answer the following questions for me. I have the HD+ w/ 16 GB and 2.0.6 software.
1. What size / class microSD card would you recommend I buy for rooting? Should I have more than one card available?
2. Does the rooted OS get installed to the internal memory, or to the SD card?
2a. If the latter, would it make sense to get a 32 GB card so I could have 16 GB for the Nook stock OS and 32 GB for the rooted OS?
3. When a Nook software update breaks root do I loose all of my data on the rooted OS?
Thank you!
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1. Feedback says that best card is Sandisk 16GB class 4. I have Kingston 16GB class 4 and its very good too. Seems that class 4 cards are best.
If you want use Hybrid install (Hybrid SD for CM10/10.1 on the HDplus and Stock Dual Boot) then yes, you need two cards. But i think for starting is good run CM10 alone at SD. Later you can grow up.
2. You have available three choices:
- rooted os with availability install third party applications (for installing have good any class 4 sd card 4GB and bigger): HD/HDplus Stock Root and other Mods - via CWM flashable zips
- stock or rooted os and you go run Nook HD+ CM10 development (sdcard) Any 16GB class 4 sd card is good for it
- rooted os and you go use Hybrid SD for CM10/10.1 on the HDplus and Stock Dual Boot, which runs little bit smoother than sd version
3 If you run CM10 at sd then you dont loose root, because your stock wont be updated still you turn your nook to stock. But yes, new update to stock can brake old root. but if i look back, any change was hacked again by us devs
Hope you got finally your answers.
Sorry Tarthenal
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1. Feedback says that best card is Sandisk 16GB class 4. I have Kingston 16GB class 4 and its very good too. Seems that class 4 cards are best.
If you want use Hybrid install (Hybrid SD for CM10/10.1 on the HDplus and Stock Dual Boot) then yes, you need two cards. But i think for starting is good run CM10 alone at SD. Later you can grow up.
2. You have available three choices:
- rooted os with availability install third party applications (for installing have good any class 4 sd card 4GB and bigger): HD/HDplus Stock Root and other Mods - via CWM flashable zips
- stock or rooted os and you go run Nook HD+ CM10 development (sdcard) Any 16GB class 4 sd card is good for it
- rooted os and you go use Hybrid SD for CM10/10.1 on the HDplus and Stock Dual Boot, which runs little bit smoother than sd version
3 If you run CM10 at sd then you dont loose root, because your stock wont be updated still you turn your nook to stock. But yes, new update to stock can brake old root. but if i look back, any change was hacked again by us devs
Hope you got finally your answers.
Sorry Tarthenal
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Ha ha, no worries, two heads are better than one
datas0ft said:
1. Feedback says that best card is Sandisk 16GB class 4. I have Kingston 16GB class 4 and its very good too. Seems that class 4 cards are best.
If you want use Hybrid install (Hybrid SD for CM10/10.1 on the HDplus and Stock Dual Boot) then yes, you need two cards. But i think for starting is good run CM10 alone at SD. Later you can grow up.
2. You have available three choices:
- rooted os with availability install third party applications (for installing have good any class 4 sd card 4GB and bigger): HD/HDplus Stock Root and other Mods - via CWM flashable zips
- stock or rooted os and you go run Nook HD+ CM10 development (sdcard) Any 16GB class 4 sd card is good for it
- rooted os and you go use Hybrid SD for CM10/10.1 on the HDplus and Stock Dual Boot, which runs little bit smoother than sd version
3 If you run CM10 at sd then you dont loose root, because your stock wont be updated still you turn your nook to stock. But yes, new update to stock can brake old root. but if i look back, any change was hacked again by us devs
Hope you got finally your answers.
Sorry Tarthenal
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Thank you! I will stick with CM10 on SD for my first go at it. If the speed gets to me, I'll try the hybrid method. Really appreciate the response guys!
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1. I am using the 16GB, Class 4 SandDisk card. Generally speaking, the SanDisk Class 4 ones seem to be the most stable and give the best results (most people on the forum use them). Either 16 or 32 GB should be fine.
2. It depends on which method of 'rooting' you use. If you want to 'root' stock B&N OS, you can just use leapinlar's thread here or if you want to run CM10 off the SD card, use verygreen's CM10 instructions here. I've found the 02/20 file he's posted in the first post on the thread to be extremely useful by the way. It's been stable for the past 24 hours and giving very good performance. If you want to run a 'hybrid' install, with CM10 on the internal memory use leapinlar's thread here.
I would suggest reading each method carefully and deciding which works best for you. I'm going with booting CM10 off the SD card (2nd method) as I don't want to fiddle with stock/internal memory too much and it's been relatively stable and smooth for me. But some people prefer the first method and some like the third. More knowledgeable posters should be able to tell you the 'best' option (if such a thing exists ).
2a. It really depends on how much data/media files/documents you have. I only use mine for reading ebooks/pdfs and have found 16gb SD card+16 Gb internal storage more than enough. BTW, running CM10 off the SD card does not mean you cannot use the internal memory for storage, similarly for the hybrid option.
3. Not to my knowledge, unless you wipe the whole partition. I think the /data and other folders remain intact (I could be wrong though).
Hope that helps. Enjoy your new found freedom
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Thank you very much! I just ordered a 32 GB Sandisk class 4.
Ok, I am a bit stuck here. I have the 32 GB Sandisk Class 4 SD card. And the steps I have taken
1. Burned sdcard-cwm-early4.img.gz with Win32 Image Burner from the SD card on my laptop. Windows could only see a 118 MB partition, but nothing else.
2. I booted in a Linux Live CD and was able to see the other partitions on the SD card.
3. I copied over the cm-10-20130220-UNOFFICIAL-ovation.zip and GAPPS to the other partitions that were viewable on the live CD
4. Booted into CWM
5. Mounted /SDCARd
6. Went to install ZIP from /sdcard.
The message I received was the "no files were found".
Any help would be much appreciated.
Thanks,
Aaron
You should be able to see the files that were installed by the .img. If not then the burn did not occur correctly.
Once you can see them place the ROM file in the same folder that you can see in Windows and rename it to the name of the file that is installed by the .img.
seabrewed said:
Ok, I am a bit stuck here. I have the 32 GB Sandisk Class 4 SD card. And the steps I have taken
1. Burned sdcard-cwm-early4.img.gz with Win32 Image Burner from the SD card on my laptop. Windows could only see a 118 MB partition, but nothing else.
2. I booted in a Linux Live CD and was able to see the other partitions on the SD card.
3. I copied over the cm-10-20130220-UNOFFICIAL-ovation.zip and GAPPS to the other partitions that were viewable on the live CD
4. Booted into CWM
5. Mounted /SDCARd
6. Went to install ZIP from /sdcard.
The message I received was the "no files were found".
Any help would be much appreciated.
Thanks,
Aaron
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By "other partitions that were viewable on the live CD", what did you mean? Was there a very large partition that was fat32 formatted? It should be named CM10SDCARD. Did you find that one?
Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10 on Hybrid SD
leapinlar said:
By "other partitions that were viewable on the live CD", what did you mean? Was there a very large partition that was fat32 formatted? It should be named CM10SDCARD. Did you find that one?
Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10 on Hybrid SD
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Hi Leapinlar,
After burning the .img with Win32 IB, I could only see the 118 MB paritition as a drive letter. The remaining space was together in an unrecognized partition.
Here's what I can see from the respective OSes.
From Puppy Linux Live SD
mm0p1 vfat 117MB
mm0p2 vfat 770MB
mm0p3 ext4 2.0 GB
mm0p5 vfat 26.9 GB
From Windows
118 MB Fat32
Remaining space is in an unrecognized partition
What else should I try? Is it better to use linux to flash the SD card?
seabrewed said:
Hi Leapinlar,
After burning the .img with Win32 IB, I could only see the 118 MB paritition as a drive letter. The remaining space was together in an unrecognized partition.
Here's what I can see from the respective OSes.
From Puppy Linux Live SD
mm0p1 vfat 117MB
mm0p2 vfat 770MB
mm0p3 ext4 2.0 GB
mm0p5 vfat 26.9 GB
From Windows
118 MB Fat32
Remaining space is in an unrecognized partition
What else should I try? Is it better to use linux to flash the SD card?
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That is the way it is supposed to be in Windows. One drive. That is why you need to use the live CD.
The mm0p5 vfat 26.9 GB is the partition you want. Mount that with the file manager and copy those files to it.
Sent from my Nook HD running CM10.1 on Hybrid SD
leapinlar said:
That is the way it is supposed to be in Windows. One drive. That is why you need to use the live CD.
The mm0p5 vfat 26.9 GB is the partition you want. Mount that with the file manager and copy those files to it.
Sent from my Nook HD running CM10.1 on Hybrid SD
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I am sorry everyone, I have spent over ten hours on this and am no closer to getting the CM10 and GAPPS copied over to the SD card. No matter what I do, the first VFAT/FAT32 partition is 115-118 MB, which I believe is by design. The free space on this drive is 4 MB, so not enough room to move the .zip files over. As I understand there are three other partitions created, with the last paritiion being the remaining space in a VFAT/FAT32 parition. I can never access this last partition, so I can't copy over the ZIP files to load CM10 and GAPPS.
I have tried dozens of times burning with Win 32 Image Burner, and using dd from both Puppy Linux and an Ubunutu Live CD. I purchased a USB Micro SD HC reader because I read that the built-in SD card readers in laptops aren’t very well supported in Linux.
I have both a 32 and 16 GB Sandisk Class 4 card that I am using. Both cards have the same issue. In Windows, I made sure to run the SDFormatter tool before burning. I once attempted to to manually create the partitions in Mini Partition Tool and burn the image, but that partition information is overridden whenever applying the image to SD card.
In Windows I can “sometimes” see the remaining space on the 4th VFAT/FAT32 partition using the Mini Partition Tool. Windows is not able to read more than the first partition for removable media, so no luck in accessing the contents there.
Note that I was only able to see these additional partitions once in Puppy Linux and never on Ubuntu. Using gparted on the two Live CDs was not successful at distinguishing anything other than the first 118 MB partition. The remaining space in gparted for the SD card has a “Warning” icon saying that it can’t be accessed.
I am using a Dell Latitude 6320 to burn the SD card. I am so frustrated and really want to get this working. Any suggestions would be much appreciated. I feel so foolish!
seabrewed said:
I am sorry everyone, I have spent over ten hours on this and am no closer to getting the CM10 and GAPPS copied over to the SD card. No matter what I do, the first VFAT/FAT32 partition is 115-118 MB, which I believe is by design. The free space on this drive is 4 MB, so not enough room to move the .zip files over. As I understand there are three other partitions created, with the last paritiion being the remaining space in a VFAT/FAT32 parition. I can never access this last partition, so I can't copy over the ZIP files to load CM10 and GAPPS.
I have tried dozens of times burning with Win 32 Image Burner, and using dd from both Puppy Linux and an Ubunutu Live CD. I purchased a USB Micro SD HC reader because I read that the built-in SD card readers in laptops aren’t very well supported in Linux.
I have both a 32 and 16 GB Sandisk Class 4 card that I am using. Both cards have the same issue. In Windows, I made sure to run the SDFormatter tool before burning. I once attempted to to manually create the partitions in Mini Partition Tool and burn the image, but that partition information is overridden whenever applying the image to SD card.
In Windows I can “sometimes” see the remaining space on the 4th VFAT/FAT32 partition using the Mini Partition Tool. Windows is not able to read more than the first partition for removable media, so no luck in accessing the contents there.
Note that I was only able to see these additional partitions once in Puppy Linux and never on Ubuntu. Using gparted on the two Live CDs was not successful at distinguishing anything other than the first 118 MB partition. The remaining space in gparted for the SD card has a “Warning” icon saying that it can’t be accessed.
I am using a Dell Latitude 6320 to burn the SD card. I am so frustrated and really want to get this working. Any suggestions would be much appreciated. I feel so foolish!
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You will never see it in Windows no matter how many times you burn it. So stop trying.
You did see the partitions in Linux because you posted the output here. What you are failing to do is "mount" the partition so it becomes a drive letter in Linux. I do not know enough about Linux to tell you the specific commands to mount it, but I have done it somehow. If you look in gparted, it will tell you if the partition is mounted or not. If not, you must figure out how to mount it. If it is mounted, note the drive letter and look for that in your file manager. When you open the Linux file manager, do you see some drives in the upper left corner?
By the way, did you boot with your card in the nook once so those partitions get created? You have to. I know you did it earlier since you posted the Linux output. But every time you reburn it, you have to do it again as reburning destroys the partitions.
Edit: If you don't get it going soon, I recommend you abandon any more attempts at installing the standard SD method and go to my Hybrid approach. You do not have to do any of this ADB or Linux nonsense with my set up. Just copy the CM and gapps zips to internal memory and install with CWM from there.
Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10 on Hybrid SD
leapinlar said:
You will never see it in Windows no matter how many times you burn it. So stop trying
You did see the partitions in Linux because you posted the output here. What you are failing to do is "mount" the partition so it becomes a drive letter in Linux. I do not know enough about Linux to tell you the specific commands to mount it, but I have done it somehow. If you look in gparted, it will tell you if the partition is mounted or not. If not, you must figure out how to mount it. If it is mounted, note the drive letter and look for that in your file manager. When you open the Linux file manager, do you see some drives in the upper left corner?
By the way, did you boot with your card in the nook once so those partitions get created? You have to. I know you did it earlier since you posted the Linux output. But every time you reburn it, you have to do it again as reburning destroys the partitions.
Edit: If you don't get it going soon, I recommend you abandon any more attempts at installing the standard SD method and go to my Hybrid approach. You do not have to do any of this ADB or Linux nonsense with my set up. Just copy the CM and gapps zips to internal memory and install with CWM from there.
Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10 on Hybrid SD
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Thanks Leapinlar, I don't remember putting the SD card in the Nook after burning and then returning it to the computer to over the CM and gapps. I didn't realize that was a requirement (was that in the instructions from verygreen?). I'll try that once more and if it doesn't work, I'm giving up on that and trying your Hybrid route!
I'll let you know how it goes. I can't believe how limited the Nook store is and can't wait to get some more apps installed.
seabrewed said:
Thanks Leapinlar, I don't remember putting the SD card in the Nook after burning and then returning it to the computer to over the CM and gapps. I didn't realize that was a requirement (was that in the instructions from verygreen?)
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His instructions said to use ADB so you boot and connect the cable instead of remove and put back in the PC. Many people had trouble getting ADB to work so other users started to say to use Linux.
And you don't have to install CM10 to enjoy more apps. Just go to my HD/HD+ CWM thread and flash the gapps + extras zip and you can get all the apps you want on stock.
Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10 on Hybrid SD
UPDATE 05/28/13 - Now that verygreen has changed his SD scheme to his new version, this guide should not be used on his ROMs dated 5/27 or newer. Use his new image and follow his new instructions. If you want to see the old instructions click on the Show Content button below.
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Many users have had difficulty installing the HD+ CM10/10.1 ROMs using the Original/Legacy (verygreen) SD setup (especially Windows users). I have written this guide and have made some tools that should make it easier. No need for ADB or Linux. I have upgraded the CWM (clockworkmod) recovery to version 6.0.2.8 which includes larger fonts, a brighter screen and the ability to use the internal storage for installing zips and performing backups. It also uses verygreen's process from his early4 zip that aligns partitions at 2M. This guide and tools are for the Original/Legacy SD setup by verygreen, not the Hybrid. If you want the Hybrid, go here.
Setting up the SD
Begin by downloading the files you need either with stock or your PC. You will need my updated SD image file, attached below (do not use the early4 image from the verygreen thread), the CM ROM zip you want to install and the gapps zip to match it. Put the last two zips on your internal media sdcard built into the HD+. You can get the HD+ CM10 ROMs here and the HD+ CM10.1 ROMs here. You can get the gapps zips here, 20121011 for CM10 and 20130301 for CM10.1.
Extract the SD image zip and you will have a 117MB .img file. Burn that to your SD with Win32DiskImager in Windows or the dd command in Linux or OSX. The SD needs to be at least 4GB and preferably a SanDisk Class 4.
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.
When burning is complete, insert the SD into the Nook and boot. It should boot to the cyanoboot logo and sit there for a little while while it creates the other partitions on the SD and formats CM10SDCARD. Then it will end up in CWM for HD+ Original SD. If it does not leave the cyanoboot logo within a reasonable time (it hangs sometimes), just touch the power key and CWM should come up. To use CWM, press the volume up/down keys to move the cursor and the n key to select an item. The power key is the back button.
Installing ROMs
You can use the "install zip from SD/choose zip from internal memory" option to flash the CM ROM you downloaded earlier to your internal memory sdcard. Then you can flash the right version of gapps to match your ROM.
When you reboot (you need to leave the SD in the slot), the CM ROM should start. You will need to register with Google to set up Play Store.
If you later want to upgrade your ROM to another build, download it to your CM10SDCARD partition using CM. Then boot to CWM and flash it.
Backing Up
This version of CWM lets you back up and restore your setup. You can even back up to internal memory. It does not back up /boot, but does back up /system, /data and /cache.
Swapping EMMC and SDCARD
Some users have installed CM to a small SD card and want their apps to use the large internal media storage to store their data. I have developed a couple of zips to swap EMMC and SDCARD when booted to CM so that internal memory is available to your apps to store their files. One zip will add the swap and one will remove it. Get them attached below.
These zips can be flashed with CWM but will only install to the Original SD with CM. I just fixed a bug in the rev0 and rev1 zips. If you already flashed rev0 or rev1, you need to flash the remove zip before you flash the rev2 fixed version. No need to boot in between.
With rev2, both SDCARD and EMMC will show internal media storage, as will both MTP folders. A new folder, ext_sdcard, will show the external SD media partition.
Updating earlier versions of CWM
Updating prior installs of the Original SD installation to this new version of CWM is easy. Just download the ramdisk zip file attached below and extract the file. Put your old SD setup in your PC and rename the ramdisk.cwm to ramdisk.cwm.bak. Then copy the new ramdisk.cwm you just extracted to the card, replacing the version that was there. Next time you boot to CWM, the 6.0.2.8 version for HD+ Original SD will be there.
Change Log
Change Log
05/28/13 - guide is obsolete starting with the 5/27/13 ROM
05/15/13 - removed warning, resolved
04/10/13 - added warning running CM10.1.
03/09/13 - added rev2 of the swap zip, as it failed on CM10.1
03/08/13 - added rev1 of the swap zip to fix a permissions bug.
03/07/13 - retitled thread
03/03/13 - added CM10/10.1 SDswap zips
02/27/13 - Initial posting
OP Updated
Re: [GUIDE/TOOLS] HDplus CM10/10.1 Easy Install Guide and Tools for Original SD
For hd plus only?
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Re: [GUIDE/TOOLS] HDplus CM10/10.1 Easy Install Guide and Tools for Original SD
mrDAXpax said:
For hd plus only?
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Yes, you can use bokbokan's hybrid image to do it the same way for the HD. And I think his standard image does it too.
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question...
Sorry if this has been answered somewhere else but, I did this using a 32gb card and everything I running smooth. I have a 64gb card that I want to switch it out for. I know it won't be a problem doing the root and all of that again, but I was wondering if anybody knows how to change the 32gb SD card back to normal? When I stick it in my computer all it shows is the boot partition and when I try to format it, it only formats that's partition. Meaning that my 32gb card turns into a worthless 116 mb card. I've tried on windows and Ubuntu and get the same results...
So does anybody have any suggestion?
Re: [GUIDE/TOOLS] HDplus CM10/10.1 Easy Install Guide and Tools for Original SD
startoxic said:
Sorry if this has been answered somewhere else but, I did this using a 32gb card and everything I running smooth. I have a 64gb card that I want to switch it out for. I know it won't be a problem doing the root and all of that again, but I was wondering if anybody knows how to change the 32gb SD card back to normal? When I stick it in my computer all it shows is the boot partition and when I try to format it, it only formats that's partition. Meaning that my 32gb card turns into a worthless 116 mb card. I've tried on windows and Ubuntu and get the same results...
So does anybody have any suggestion?
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Yes, use SDFormatter free from the web. It will do it.
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Thank you, I will try that and let you know how it works
This is probably a stupid question, but once I've got the SD card set up properly, can I then go ahead and delete the ZIP files that I've installed? Or do I need to keep them kicking around? Figure if I can free up some space, I should.
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stormerider said:
This is probably a stupid question, but once I've got the SD card set up properly, can I then go ahead and delete the ZIP files that I've installed? Or do I need to keep them kicking around? Figure if I can free up some space, I should.
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You can delete them if you want, but I usually always keep them somewhere so I don't have to redownload them if I need to reflash, which very oftern I have to for various reasons. I can always delete them later if space becomes an issue.
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leapinlar said:
You can delete them if you want, but I usually always keep them somewhere so I don't have to redownload them if I need to reflash, which very oftern I have to for various reasons. I can always delete them later if space becomes an issue.
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*nod* I meant deleting them off the SD card (should have specified). I'd be keeping them on my fileserver to ensure that I can reflash the sdcard to the same version I started with if I need to.
leapinlar said:
Setting up the SD
Begin by downloading the files you need either with stock or your PC. You will need my updated SD image file, attached below, the CM ROM zip you want to install and the gapps zip to match it. Put the last two zips on your internal media sdcard.
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I'm confused by this, what are you referring to as "internal media sdcard"? I used win32 to burn the .img file, then booted into CWM...I'm clearly doing this wrong, because after that, the sdcard only has 117mb and no room to put ROMs on
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KamikazeChris said:
I'm confused by this, what are you referring to as "internal media sdcard"? I used win32 to burn the .img file, then booted into CWM...I'm clearly doing this wrong, because after that, the sdcard only has 117mb and no room to put ROMs on
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You are doing it right. 117MB is what it is supposed to have. You do not put the files on that card. You put them on the HD+ (on the internal sdcard).
If you could see that it only had 117 MB, you were not booted to CWM, you were looking at the SD while it was still inserted in the PC. Booted to CWM means it is in the Nook.
When you insert the burned SD into the powered off HD+, then turn it on, it boots to CWM. That is what I mean by booting to CWM.
The internal sdcard means the storage that is built into the HD+ (that is why I call it internal). Boot to stock and download the files with it. They get put on the internal sdcard or "sdcard" as it is called. After you insert the burned card into the HD+ and boot to it, CWM has the ability to flash the zips by reading them from the internal sdcard built into the HD+.
Edit: I just clarified that in the OP. It is hard to anticipate how users will interpret your words in advance.
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i dont seem to understand what file is supposed to amount to about 120mb. i extract "cm-10-20121231-UNOFFICIAL-ovation" and amounts to more than 200mb's but it also replaces other files.
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droidbot1337 said:
i dont seem to understand what file is supposed to amount to about 120mb. i extract "cm-10-20121231-UNOFFICIAL-ovation" and amounts to more than 200mb's but it also replaces other files.
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You do not extract the cm zip. You extract the image zip which is attached to the post. It is the one that is 120 MB and is the one you burn to the SD with win32diskimager.
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leapinlar said:
You do not extract the cm zip. You extract the image zip which is attached to the post. It is the one that is 120 MB and is the one you burn to the SD with win32diskimager.
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thank you for the help. i appreciate it! i can now use my new HD+ (bought it last night) to its full potential.
I just wanted to say that I was suffering from the dreaded "Nook refuses to boot from the SD card" syndrome. I tried three different SD cards burned using four different computers, to no avail. Tried this patch? Worked perfectly. Thanks! :laugh:
SDXC cards viable for this use?
Well, that registration video was a real interesting bit compared to most forums I've ever used. Somebody put a lot of work into that.
I'm noticing a lot of emphasis on Class 4 cards. Impetuous sort that I am, I already obtained a Sandisk Ultra 64 GB microSDXC (Class 10/UHS 1) card for this project. Best Buy had a good deal and I was hoping to have a lot of room to work with and it wasn't clear what access to the internal storage would be available or best left alone. Has anyone had success or great problems with this card?
Other than that issue before attempting to execute the install, this is a very helpful thread. Much clearer than verygreen's original. That shouldn't be taken as an insult to verygreen as technical writing for those outside a project is not a skill everyone has or should have. Asking those deep within a project to shift mental gears to operate at the outsider's level can be a waste of resources and is often better delegated to a specialist. And we should be thankful for those specialists when they volunteer like this.
Epobirs said:
I'm noticing a lot of emphasis on Class 4 cards. Impetuous sort that I am, I already obtained a Sandisk Ultra 64 GB microSDXC (Class 10/UHS 1) card for this project. Best Buy had a good deal and I was hoping to have a lot of room to work with and it wasn't clear what access to the internal storage would be available or best left alone. Has anyone had success or great problems with this card?
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Some have had good success with that card, especially if they use my Hybrid setup which uses less of the SD to operate from.
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Some have had good success with that card, especially if they use my Hybrid setup which uses less of the SD to operate from.
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It appears to be working on the first try. I'm currently syncing my app set from the Play store. It looks like this will be a huge value add for the Nook. I wouldn't have bought it if the full Android option weren't there. I just hope enough of us still buy books from B&N to keep them going.
Thanks.