I have been flashing CM7 onto a SD card and booting it from there since I got it when they first came out. With that being said, I have no idea what I initially loaded on the card to get it to boot but it has worked great all this time.
Since CM7 is not really updating and I like to keep up to date, can someone please tell me in very easy, step-by-step instructions or a place where it is how to change from what I have now to get to Mirage's Kang build?
I need to know what all needs to be changed on the SD card and also how to keep all my apps, etc. without having to re-install everything.
Thank you so much!
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... Since CM7 is not really updating and I like to keep up to date, can someone please tell me in very easy, step-by-step instructions or a place where it is how to change from what I have now to get to Mirage's Kang build?...
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Quick and dirty Kang. See my sig.
I usually to a Ti:backup of all apps+system data then copy the file over to the PC before dropping the ROM on the card for the update. I've never had a case where the apps weren't preserved on the upgrade, but in case they aren't you have another copy. To restore it, re-install Ti:backup, drop the backup file onto the nook and point Ti:backup to restore from the file.
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Thank you both for the help!!!
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I've been a happy owner of a rooted Nook Color now for several weeks. I've played around with it and got it running the way I want and it is stable and speedy. If I wanted to pack up my current rom, clean off personal data and slap it onto a self-booting SD card, how would I do this? I've gotten a friend interested in this now and would like to generate a rom that would boot up that nook with the configuration I've setup.
Any information or pointers in the right direction would be great. I've done some research and seen existing roms that can be used for self booting but I'm hoping to find a way to put my own together.
But what you ask is the standard.
If you have ready card with rom and its inserted, it will start booting from there
Unleashed from Nook Color on Cm7 Nightly 162 @1.200Mhz
Yes I personally have a nook that boots up from a card. What I would like to do is clone what I have and put it on another card so that somebody else can boot up a nook color from it.
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Yes I personally have a nook that boots up from a card. What I would like to do is clone what I have and put it on another card so that somebody else can boot up a nook color from it.
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I think I get what you're shooting for. You essentially want a base image you can load onto other NCs that contains everything on your current system, minus personal info.
I don't know if you could just remove the account associated to the NC, create a backup, then load it onto another card for restoring.
Additionally, if you are using the stock OS, but rooted, I think your B&N registration information will still be attached. I don't know if you can clear this from the ROM, or if there is any device specific information associated in the ROM elsewhere.
Pretty much you want a deployable image of what you have currently, similar to deployable images companies use on PC systems.
Yes that's basically it. I'd like clone what I have, boot it up, strip out any personal data like contacts, my netflix login, etc and give the card out so that the nook can be booted up. I'll try the method of backing up the rom, moving the back up to the new SD card and doing a restore.
The OS isn't a stock one. It was previously phiremod that I changed over to CM7 build 150.
I have searched diligently and have yet to find specific instruction for creating a bootable SD card for my NC with MIUI Nook Color 1.9.16 (or any version of MIUI for that matter).
I am currently running a fully rooted version of 1.3 on the emmc and "all is well" and I need it left that way so as to continue having access to "in store reading" which I use quite a bit.
Have previously had CM7 and Phiremod running both internally and on an SD card at various times and tried to do a previous version of MIUI on the card using the same process without any luck.
Thanks in advance.
You can use verygreens method here -
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1000957
Important part is to rename the miui zip like this -
'How to update to a new build:
put the new build you want to try on the first partition. (the name must be update-cm-*.zip or cm_encore_full*.zip or just update-*.zip)'
..and it should work fine
cheers,
Many thanks as that did the trick!
Loaded and running from SD card.
It installed/is using the new Market interface (3.1.3?).
Where are/is "My Apps" as I do not seem to be able to find it.
D/L Netflix and it runs just as it should but the soundlevel at max is quite a bit lower than on rooted 1.3.
Free Koi living wallpaper looks beautiful.
My Apps - strangely there isn't one, but this works nicely -
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1154299
Sound level - Download nook tweaks from market and change settings in that
Cheers,
What did you rename the MIUI file? I've tried it a couple different ways and checked the MD5's, but keep getting errors. Unless my SD card has been corrupted somehow (I used it for other SD boots before this, so not too likely), I can't think of anything else causing the problem.
Hi. I tried putting the MIUI zip in the root of the sd card and booted into recovery as stated. It was renamed as one of the cm7 updates and installation went as per normal. However, when I did boot up the nook was stuck looping the MIUI animation and did not finish. What did I do wrong?
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Hi. I tried putting the MIUI zip in the root of the sd card and booted into recovery as stated. It was renamed as one of the cm7 updates and installation went as per normal. However, when I did boot up the nook was stuck looping the MIUI animation and did not finish. What did I do wrong?
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Maybe just didn't wait long enough... the first boot takes a long time since the update script clears cache and dalvik cache.
Of course... this is just a wild guess since you didn't provide a whole lot of information... more information may yeild different feedback.
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Maybe just didn't wait long enough... the first boot takes a long time since the update script clears cache and dalvik cache.
Of course... this is just a wild guess since you didn't provide a whole lot of information... more information may yeild different feedback.
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What kind of information? My nook color originally had the latest CM7 nightly on the sd card. I followed verygreen's method when I installed that. I used the NC normally. Then, I followed this thread and applied verygreen's method. I downloaded the MIUI rom from the miui thread, renamed it like the cm7 nightly zip ("cm_encore_full-253.zip") and put it in the root of the sd card. I put the sd card back in and booted via recovery. It installed and shut down. I turned it on again, and reached the MIUI globe thing. It was looping and stuck there for 30 minutes.
I've been thinking of trying miui.
If anybody has got.it running from SD please give the step-by-step procedure for the rest of us.
Thanks
A search would show you....
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1271982&highlight=Miui+sd
I hate to revive a dead thread, but I have been trying everything I could read or download.
I am using the Size-agnostic installer from this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1000957
I am trying to flash MIUI 1.9.16 (MIUI.us_encore_1.9.16_Eng_Deo_ZipA_Signed_andmer) (http://goo-inside.me/miui/encore/)
I successfully installed CM7 to this Sandisk Class4 16gig microSD. Every time I try to flash MIUI, I re-burn the size agnostic card image, copy over the cm7-renamed MIUI ROM, and boot.
The installer seems to work, just like my CM7 installs. Then, when I try to reboot, it goes back to the installer (linux penguin at the top, goes through the motions of trying to flash another rom, when not finding anything, it shuts down).
I know I am missing something simple.
Am I to install CM7, then MIUI on top of it (without reburning the card)? Am I just using an SD-incompatible ROM? For those who were successful, where did you download the ROM from?
I know I have lots of questions, I hope you guys see my effort (that I don't just want someone to give me a quick fix), and I thank you in advance for your help.
Kind regards!
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Many thanks as that did the trick!
Loaded and running from SD card.
It installed/is using the new Market interface (3.1.3?).
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I'm certainly no expert, but I have flashed two different versions of MiUi to micro SD cards adn then worked fine. You do not need to do i over CM7. Like you, I prepared a clean SD and used the size agnostic procedure. I renamed the MiUi file to some that started with update-cm-
I got my MiUi file here:
http://roms.miui.us/
I used a program called SD Formatter to format the card.. then I used the 1.3 version installer. I sometimes had problems using winimage to create this sd card . You have to select the drive letter for the sd card and then use the "restore" choice on the menu.
David, thanks for your response. I had already wiped it and installed CM7, but when I saw your post, I gave MIUI one last try. I downloaded from that site, and BAM, it installed perfectly! Thanks heaps!
I have a brand new Nook Color the Software Version (in about my Nook) says 1.2.0. what is the easyest way to go about rooting? is there a specific version of CM7 that I should use? What is the best rooting method or system to use? I am totally new to all this so some step by step instructions or detailed informatio would be great!!! Thanks for all you guys help!!!
There are several decisions you need to make before you start. Do you want to have dual boot (meaning that you can switch between stock rom and another rom of your choosing? In these case you would be running the non stock rom from the sd card. Or, do you want to go full non stock rom (emmc)? There are different methods for each.
After you decide this, you need to decide which custom rom you would like. The most used are CM7, phiremod and MIUI. CM7 is the most update one and has a lot of following and development.
If like you mention on your post you are looking at using cm7, then I suggest you start with the latest stable version 7.1 (which was released a couple of days ago). You can find the files and instructions in this post and the detail instructions here
Hopefully this can help you, you could also look around in the android development section in the forums for further info and/or wait for more detailed info from more experienced rooter than me
Thanks for the Advise/ information, so if I go dual is it very complicated to switch from one to the other? is there an advantage to being able to switch back and forth? I currently have a 2gb sd card that should be big enough right? Once again thnks for the help..........
Does anyone else have input or feedback???
Just last week I installed CM7 on an SD card in my Nook Color. It's been great so far. I figure I'll try it on the SD card for a while before I do anything more permanent like installing to the internal memory.
When you install to the SD card, you boot back into the "stock" OS by just removing the card.
As for the size of your SD card, I think 2GB is large enough, but that depends on how many apps, etc. you plan to have on it.
When you install to the SD card, you boot back into the "stock" OS by just removing the card.
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I would not recommend doing that. The Nook card slot is a little fragile and excessive swapping will likely damage it. Mine gave out and I rarely remove the card as I have CM7 on the eMMC and only use the card for backups and upgrades. I had a hell of a time restoring the stock ROM so I could return it under warranty. If you are going to run from the card, set it up for dual boot so that you just pick which ROM you want to use when you boot up.
Gr, I have at this for hours.
I wanted to get the ICS sneakpeek running up on my nook. I had CM7 running on it. Here's exactly what I did.
1. I had CM7 on the SD card, using verygreens image. I've been using it for months, no problem, but decided I wanted ICS on it. So I backed up my apps and copied important stuff to my laptop.
2. Plugged the SD card into my laptop, and ran win32diskimager. I was planning on picking "Read" instead of "write", but it wanted me to write it to an image file.. Stupidly, I wrote it to verygreen's "generic_sdcard" image file. It probably won't work to reflash, but who care, I can just start over.
3. I put the SD card into the nook, to see what happened. It booted up, the linux penguin showed, couldn't find install image (obviously), blah blah blah...
4. Popped the SD card into the computer, and dropped sneakpeek fullofbugs1 on there. Booted up, fine, got into ICS.
5. Shutdown, SD card back in the computer, dropped fullofbugs2 on there. "Not enough space on the SD card".
6. Started Easus partition manager, with the intentions of resizing the BOOT partition. However, this is where the problems started. It would not let me resize it. I tried everything, and I could not, for the life of me, get it to resize. Is there something special I have to do? resize before placing CM9 on there? before ever placing it in the nook? I'm worried I'll mess it up and just have a normal nook again.
I'm no noob, I wrote this awhile ago. I'm pretty experienced in android.
Can anyone suggest anything? I'm pretty sure I probably need to resize before running the card in the nook.
TL;DR How can I expand the boot partition of my verygreen SD card? Do I have to do it before first inserting it into the nook after the image is written?
Thanks for any help!
I think you have to do it before
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I think you have to do it before
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Thanks! Got it running this morning! Its pretty sweet.
Tapatalkin it from my IHO CM7.1'd, MIUI Themed Optimus V
kcls said:
Thanks! Got it running this morning! Its pretty sweet.
Tapatalkin it from my IHO CM7.1'd, MIUI Themed Optimus V
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I would also like to do as you have done. What size did you have to make the boot partition for ics to fit properly? This is new for me since I didn't have to resize at all for cm7. I've been using cm7 for a few months but would really like to try ics on another micro sd I got just for this. Do I follow verygreens instructions except for adding sneekpeak as the nightly?
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I would also like to do as you have done. What size did you have to make the boot partition for ics to fit properly? This is new for me since I didn't have to resize at all for cm7. I've been using cm7 for a few months but would really like to try ics on another micro sd I got just for this. Do I follow verygreens instructions except for adding sneekpeak as the nightly?
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Make the boot partition about 200mbs, if I remember correctly the image defaults it to 117mbs. It only needs a little more space.
Also, yes you can follow verygreens instructions to make a bootable ICS micro card. I made and ran ics this way for about a week before commiting to the emmc install with nightly build 14 which is still rocking as my daily driver!
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I would also like to do as you have done. What size did you have to make the boot partition for ics to fit properly? This is new for me since I didn't have to resize at all for cm7. I've been using cm7 for a few months but would really like to try ics on another micro sd I got just for this. Do I follow verygreens instructions except for adding sneekpeak as the nightly?
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I believe that in the ICS Nightly thread, there is a modified version of the image file with all that pre done for the SD card.
Tapatalkin it from my IHO CM7.1'd, MIUI Themed Optimus V
hey guys, i browsed quite a while to see if there was a thread with a similar question but couldn't get a solid answer.
just got a nook color, version 1.3.0. my goal was to get [CM7.2-RC1] MiRaGe - KANG build of CyanogenMod on it, so my first step was putting UNooter on my micro sd.
after rebooting my nook color with the unooted sd, my nook still looked stock, but there was a menu asking me to choose "Home" or "Zeam Launcher." every time i
hit my N button, i get the complete action using Home or Zeam Launcher as well. I took out the sd card, and my options are the same- did i install completely internally? Was i not supposed to UNoot at all, and just put the CM Mod zip on my sd?
not sure where to go from here- maybe make a recovery card and retry? any suggestions would be appreciated.
thanks!
So you got the NC 1.3.0. First step, MAKE SURE it is the NC, not the NT.
You want to get CM7.2-RC1 KANG. OK, next step, where do you intend to run that custom ROM from? eMMC or uSD?
When you decided to run a custom ROM, there is NO NEED to root it first.
Instructions or help will follow when you provide enough info and what you try to accomplish.
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So you got the NC 1.3.0. First step, MAKE SURE it is the NC, not the NT.
You want to get CM7.2-RC1 KANG. OK, next step, where do you intend to run that custom ROM from? eMMC or uSD?
When you decided to run a custom ROM, there is NO NEED to root it first.
Instructions or help will follow when you provide enough info and what you try to accomplish.
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thanks for the quick response! i was trying to get CM7.2-RC1 KANG on my uSD. so i can just put the cm7 file on my sd card and reboot and forget UNooter altogether? eventually i'd like to get eMMC back to stock, but i'm not really concerned about that right now.
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thanks for the quick response! i was trying to get CM7.2-RC1 KANG on my uSD. so i can just put the cm7 file on my sd card and reboot and forget UNooter altogether? eventually i'd like to get eMMC back to stock, but i'm not really concerned about that right now.
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If you are just looking to run KANG on your SD card, then just follow the directions HERE. You will need to rename the KANG zip file to update-cm- when you put it on your SD card.
That's it.
GMpower has provided the link.
Following it and you should be good to go.
Note:leapinar (spelling?) does have a better (more storage) version of the image. Search in that thread.