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[Q] Installing CWR on nook

I'm trying to find out if there is a way to install clockwork recovery on to the nook itself. I can boot it up with an sd card, but since I want to put muiu on the nook, it seems like a good idea to have recovery on the nook.
There don't seem to be any link to the latest version of cwr in the development thread, and it has been a couple of weeks since someone posted there asking for a link, but never got a reply.
I guess what I'm really looking for is a .zip of the latest clockwork recovery that I can install on the nook through the clockwork recovery I have on my sd card.
Any help, as always, is greatly appreciated!

Go to ROM manager in applications and select Flash CWM Recovery. It'll install to the emmc.

416inversed said:
Go to ROM manager in applications and select Flash CWM Recovery. It'll install to the emmc.
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He's running off an SD card. ROM Manager only works with internal installations.
To the original poster: Once you flash CWR to the eMMC you no longer have a stock Nook for the purposes of warranty. Why not just go all the way and put CM7 on the eMMC? You can follow the directions here: http://mrm3.net/nook-color-how-to-install-cyanogenmod-nightlies/
Make sure you choose the newest version of CWR (v3.2.0.1) when you do this!

patruns said:
He's running off an SD card. ROM Manager only works with internal installations.
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Yeah, but CM7 on SD still has ROM Manager installed. OP wants to put CWM on the emmc. Hitting the "Flash CWM Recovery" selection in ROM Manager will put the latest CWM on their emmc. (I know it does, because I was noob enough to accidentally do it to my own Nook).
But that's what Crwly was asking about, right?

I am dual-booting CWR and CM7, both off the microSD. I used verygreen's installer to put CM7 on the microSD first, then installed racks11479's modified CWR. This does not satisfy ROM Manager, but it does let you backup, restore, and install zip packages off your 4th partition.
EDIT: Oh, and you do need another microSD to boot CWR, before you could use it to "flash" CWM SD Dualboot 0.1 to your current microSD.

[Q] Need Recovery Help!

OK, so I flashed one of the new leaked ICS stock ROMs and it appears that everything is ok. I'm digging all of the features including the panoramic camera. I decide that I want to put on Taboonay for a little flavor. I try to boot into recovery and this is what I get:
Erasing cache before SD update
SD update cmd: recovery
--update_Package=SDCARD:update.zip
Booting recovery kernel image
(IN RED) Recovery verified failed
Yes, I tried to flash a recovery image through the ACER recovery install and the ROM Manager. Both of them flashed an image with no problem, until I actually tried to flash an image.
My question is this: How do I flash a recovery image if my bootloader is busted?
I do have ADB access , so it there a way I can copy a recovery image file directly onto the A500?
I appreciate the help!

xodus1914 said:
OK, so I flashed one of the new leaked ICS stock ROMs and it appears that everything is ok. I'm digging all of the features including the panoramic camera. I decide that I want to put on Taboonay for a little flavor. I try to boot into recovery and this is what I get:
Erasing cache before SD update
SD update cmd: recovery
--update_Package=SDCARD:update.zip
Booting recovery kernel image
(IN RED) Recovery verified failed
Yes, I tried to flash a recovery image through the ACER recovery install and the ROM Manager. Both of them flashed an image with no problem, until I actually tried to flash an image.
My question is this: How do I flash a recovery image if my bootloader is busted?
I do have ADB access , so it there a way I can copy a recovery image file directly onto the A500?
I appreciate the help!
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Well, not sure if I can get you up and running. This is going to depend on if you followed traditional installation instructions that are posted on every thread that contains a Rom.
But first, let's cover where you went wrong. And that would probably be when you went back to Recovery. It seems, you didn't hit Vol - and PWR, but instead selected Vol + and PWR. And as such, it tried to run an update.zip file, which is a no-no. This resulted in a corrupted image.
Secondly, Rom Manager is a phone app. This will in most cases, bork your tab.
First, I would try Acer Installer (newest version) and try to install RA Recovery. If you were using CWM before, you probably can't flash it again.
If that doesn't work, then you will have to roll back from ICS, and you will need your original UID number. Hopefully you wrote this down somewhere. If you were using RA Recovery, you will find the UID number in the UID.txt on your SD Card in the Recovery folder (if you made a system backup before flashing ICS roms). If you were using CWM, well, it might be buried in one of the .img files in the clockwork folder (again, if you made a backup before flashing ICS). You will have to de-compile the image files to find it (hopefully).
If your ADB seems to be working, you may want to push the RA Recovery;
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1459821
If you have your original UID number, then you may want to try this;
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1522384
or this;
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1516012
Hope you get it going. From what I have seen, mostly when the people lose their recovery, they were using CWM. Haven't heard of any losing it when using RA Recovery. But anyhow, use Acer Recovery first, and try the RA Recovery.

[Q] CWM/TWRP EMMC Recovery Questions

I have run my NC using a dualboot sdcard since I got it. I decided to jump in and flash CM7.2 to the emmc and, to make a long story short, trashed the stock recovery partition and used LeapinLar's helpful advice and recovery fixes to get it all working. Now I have some questions that remain:
a) I have LeapinLar's CWM 5.5.0.4 installed as alternate boot; stock recovery as recovery boot. I was under the impression that one could flash either CWM or TWRP to the emmc recovery partition without problem, but I now think that's unwise since you can get into a recovery bootloop that can't be fixed without the stock recovery in place. True or false?
b) If a) is true, can one flash either a current CWM or TWRP recovery to the emmc alternate partition or does that always have to be done from a bootable sd?
Thanks for any advice.

shumash said:
I have run my NC using a dualboot sdcard since I got it. I decided to jump in and flash CM7.2 to the emmc and, to make a long story short, trashed the stock recovery partition and used LeapinLar's helpful advice and recovery fixes to get it all working. Now I have some questions that remain:
a) I have LeapinLar's CWM 5.5.0.4 installed as alternate boot; stock recovery as recovery boot. I was under the impression that one could flash either CWM or TWRP to the emmc recovery partition without problem, but I now think that's unwise since you can get into a recovery bootloop that can't be fixed without the stock recovery in place. True or false?
b) If a) is true, can one flash either a current CWM or TWRP recovery to the emmc alternate partition or does that always have to be done from a bootable sd?
Thanks for any advice.
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a) it is true, but a lot do it. To be safe leave stock as primary recovery.
b) It is not really an alternate partition. The boot partition just has files named differently. There is no reason you can't replace my alternate 5.5.0.4 CWM with TWRP. All you have to do is put the normal TWRP files on the boot partition of emmc and make sure the two TWRP files are named uAltImg and uAltRam. Probably the easiest way to make that happen is to download the TWRP zip that you usually flash to make it the normal recovery. Then open that zip with an archive program and rename two files. Rename uRecImg to uAltImg and uRecRam to uAltRam. Once renamed, save the zip. Flash my zip first, putting stock as primary recovery and CWM as alternate. Then flash the modified TWRP zip and it will replace my alternate CWM with TWRP as the alternate.

This is sort of related to a question I was gonna ask...
I have a full CWM backup (made with 3.2.01 actually) of my stock nook. If I flash the emmc with cm7 or whatever, can I use this backup to restore *everything* later if I need to including recovery?

doncaruana said:
This is sort of related to a question I was gonna ask...
I have a full CWM backup (made with 3.2.01 actually) of my stock nook. If I flash the emmc with cm7 or whatever, can I use this backup to restore *everything* later if I need to including recovery?
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Yes. It will restore whatever you had on emmc when you backed it up, including recovery.

leapinlar said:
Yes. It will restore whatever you had on emmc when you backed it up, including recovery.
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Thank you! Not only for this answer but for all the other "stuff" around here (images, instructions, etc) that you do in the Nook world!

Flash CWM Recovery using ADB to bootlooped NC running stock 1.4.3

I've got a NC running stock 1.4.3 that's stuck in a boot loop. I've tried everything to either (1) root it to CM7.2 or (2) restore stock Nook os, including trying to fix the partitions as suggested by leapinlar. I think the problem is that there is no eMMC recovery, so when I try to reboot to recovery to fix the partitions, I get bounced back into the bootloop. I tried installing CWM recovery to eMMC using a bootable microSD with CM7 and RomMgr premium, as well as using CWM with some of the eMMC recovery .zip files found in other posts, and it looks like it gets flashed, but when I then try to boot into recovery I get an error "Install Failed (with an icon of the NC and !). I was thinking of trying to flash recovery to eMMC using adb. When I boot with the CM7 microSD, I'm able to access adb from my desktop. Can't seem to find the right files or instructions on how to flash CWM recovery to eMMC using adb. Any suggestions?

judgerey said:
I've got a NC running stock 1.4.3 that's stuck in a boot loop. I've tried everything to either (1) root it to CM7.2 or (2) restore stock Nook os, including trying to fix the partitions as suggested by leapinlar. I think the problem is that there is no eMMC recovery, so when I try to reboot to recovery to fix the partitions, I get bounced back into the bootloop. I tried installing CWM recovery to eMMC using a bootable microSD with CM7 and RomMgr premium, as well as using CWM with some of the eMMC recovery .zip files found in other posts, and it looks like it gets flashed, but when I then try to boot into recovery I get an error "Install Failed (with an icon of the NC and !). I was thinking of trying to flash recovery to eMMC using adb. When I boot with the CM7 microSD, I'm able to access adb from my desktop. Can't seem to find the right files or instructions on how to flash CWM recovery to eMMC using adb. Any suggestions?
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You need to get my bootable CWM card from my tips thread linked in my signature. Then you can flash a new 1.4.3 that I have also in my tips thread. I also have flashable CWM zips there to put CWM on emmc. And if that does not fix it run my partition repair zips using my CWM. ROM Manager does not always install the CWM to emmc properly.
Sent from my HD+ running CM10 on SD with XDA Premium

judgerey said:
I've got a NC running stock 1.4.3 that's stuck in a boot loop. I've tried everything to either (1) root it to CM7.2 or (2) restore stock Nook os, including trying to fix the partitions as suggested by leapinlar. I think the problem is that there is no eMMC recovery, so when I try to reboot to recovery to fix the partitions, I get bounced back into the bootloop. I tried installing CWM recovery to eMMC using a bootable microSD with CM7 and RomMgr premium, as well as using CWM with some of the eMMC recovery .zip files found in other posts, and it looks like it gets flashed, but when I then try to boot into recovery I get an error "Install Failed (with an icon of the NC and !). I was thinking of trying to flash recovery to eMMC using adb. When I boot with the CM7 microSD, I'm able to access adb from my desktop. Can't seem to find the right files or instructions on how to flash CWM recovery to eMMC using adb. Any suggestions?
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You ever get it working? This is my underlying issue EXACTLY except I have working ADB when booted from SD card.

40Glock said:
You ever get it working? This is my underlying issue EXACTLY except I have working ADB when booted from SD card.
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Nope. Never got it working.

How to switch from TWRP to CWM

I'm currently trying out TWRP 2.4.1.0 from the development section running internally. Should I decide to return to CWM, what is the best method for doing so?

Download the IMG file, put it in your platform-tools folder and put tab in bootloader. Check for connection by typing 'adb devices', then fastboot flash recovery *name of recovery*
From my Evo LTE, yup.

I'd hate to hear the hard way :silly:

Does that mean there isn't a flashable zip that can be loaded via a bootable CWM SD card?

Bonnie_Raitt said:
Does that mean there isn't a flashable zip that can be loaded via a bootable CWM SD card?
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There is one in my Nook Color Tips thread. Just flash it with anything, even your existing TWRP, and it will put CWM back on internal.
Edit: if you have a newer TWRP, it may refuse to flash my zip because the new TWRP does not like one of the components on my old zips. It gives an error 02. Just use my bootable CWM to do it.
Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10 on Hybrid SD