Older NOOB - Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting
Hello Folks!
I guess my question will make me sound dumber than a box of rocks, but here goes. A bit of history before I make myself an idiot. I've only been fooling with computers and these new tech. machines for about a year and a half now and for the most part been having an enjoyable time. I'm 70 years old and I'm not the sharpest crayon in the box anymore, time has dulled my tip a bit. I've been given a Nook Tablet as a Christmas gift by 2 of my grandsons, I intend to change the Android on it to the Ice Cream version but before I do I want to practice on something else first. So I bought a used Nook Color from a lady at church for $50 and I want to try and make a SD card to run the new Android from. The reason I want to use SD card is that there are over 200 books on the Nook and I would like to eventually read a lot of them. I guess I'm just greedy.
I've spent most of the weekend reading this forum information, but unfortunately the more I read the more confused I get. There is a tremendous amount of information to try and digest here and sometimes some of it seems to contradict itself. What are the different types of modified Androids that can be used? Can the Andriod that is installed on the SD card be modified so that more applications can be stored on it? How difficult is it to install the software that allows you to speed up the Nooks processor, that is, can a raw noob do it?
I'm sorry if I've yacked too much. I'm still learning how to correctly ask the questions.
Hey, knock off the old man stuff. I am 67 and my crayon tip is still sharp (although there are some here that would disagree with that, LOL). This nook color stuff is not that hard. I would recommend putting cm7 on sd first to get your feet wet. Then if you feel like experimenting move on to cm9. You can get the rom at cyanogenmod.com (for the encore - Nook Color). I recommend 7.2 RC3. It comes already rooted and overclocked so you can speed it up. And it has plenty of room for apps if you put it on a 4Gb card or larger. If you can afford it, I recommend 16GB (and Sandisk, class 4). Follow this guide to set it up:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=12240928
But look at my tips thread linked in my signature to get an updated image to use instead of the one in the thread above. Also read all of section B in my tips, as it all applies to the sd installation. If you need more help, just come back here.
GrampaBear said:
Hello Folks!
I guess my question will make me sound dumber than a box of rocks, but here goes. A bit of history before I make myself an idiot. I've only been fooling with computers and these new tech. machines for about a year and a half now and for the most part been having an enjoyable time. I'm 70 years old and I'm not the sharpest crayon in the box anymore, time has dulled my tip a bit. I've been given a Nook Tablet as a Christmas gift by 2 of my grandsons, I intend to change the Android on it to the Ice Cream version but before I do I want to practice on something else first. So I bought a used Nook Color from a lady at church for $50 and I want to try and make a SD card to run the new Android from. The reason I want to use SD card is that there are over 200 books on the Nook and I would like to eventually read a lot of them. I guess I'm just greedy.
I've spent most of the weekend reading this forum information, but unfortunately the more I read the more confused I get. There is a tremendous amount of information to try and digest here and sometimes some of it seems to contradict itself. What are the different types of modified Androids that can be used? Can the Andriod that is installed on the SD card be modified so that more applications can be stored on it? How difficult is it to install the software that allows you to speed up the Nooks processor, that is, can a raw noob do it?
I'm sorry if I've yacked too much. I'm still learning how to correctly ask the questions.
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And in keeping with the older guy thread concept (66), you're talking about two different devices, the Nook Tablet (NT) and the Nook Color (NC). The newer NT is much more difficult to deal with than the older NC. It's not as straightforward to install anything on the NT as it is for the NC. Also try to differentiate between the device hardware and the operating system software. The software will get the most out of a particular devices' hardware. The NC's processor is single core; the NT is dual core. The Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS) Android operating system applications are pretty much the same between the two devices, but the operating system interface between the applications and the hardware (the kernel) is different, so overclocking, over/undervolting, etc. will be different, too.
Just keep reading; that's how to sharpen the tip. It's never permanently dull until everything else is.
shumash said:
And in keeping with the older guy thread concept (66), you're talking about two different devices, the Nook Tablet (NT) and the Nook Color (NC). The newer NT is much more difficult to deal with than the older NC. It's not as straightforward to install anything on the NT as it is for the NC. Also try to differentiate between the device hardware and the operating system software. The software will get the most out of a particular devices' hardware. The NC's processor is single core; the NT is dual core. The Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS) Android operating system applications are pretty much the same between the two devices, but the operating system interface between the applications and the hardware (the kernel) is different, so overclocking, over/undervolting, etc. will be different, too.
Just keep reading; that's how to sharpen the tip. It's never permanently dull until everything else is.
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You're right of course. I was talking about how to update his NC. I also have an NT and it is much more difficult to deal with on modding.
Actually, after playing with the rooted 1.4.2 stock NT, I see no reason to move to CM yet on it (BT is the only thing missing on stock), even though I have CM7/CM9 on dual boot SD. After CM gets more stable on the NT, maybe.
Sent from my Nook Color running ICS and Tapatalk
Old age
Gentlemen,
Thanks for the replies. I don't feel old most of the time, just when I have some of the youngsters whizzing past me. Computers, smart cell phones, and Nooks are fairly new to me, never touched one until after my wife passed a year and a half ago. Now I need one to keep in touch with my family (4 kids, 12 grandkids(and 3 more on the way), and 4 greatgrand kids (and 2 more coming).
Due to a accident last fall the old brain sometimes has a bit of a hard time comprehending things now and then, so I get a bit frustrated and I may ask questions that seem to be a repeat. Hope you all can forgive that.
Thanks!
The tablet my grandsons gave me is a Lenovo A1 not a Nook tablet. It is running Android 2.3 and I want to upgrade to Ice Cream Sandwich when I'm confident enough in my abilities.
Well done, gentlemen.
These two will have you building your own Android OS before you're done, GrampaBear.
GrampaBear said:
The tablet my grandsons gave me is a Lenovo A1 not a Nook tablet. It is running Android 2.3 and I want to upgrade to Ice Cream Sandwich when I'm confident enough in my abilities.
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You might want to check out these for information on the Lenovo Ideapad A1:
http://androidforums.com/lenovo-ideapad-a1/
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1355319
There's very little activity for this device on xdadevelopers, and what we know is primarily for the Nook Color.
Well, I started the process of making an SD card with Android on it. I am now thoroughly convinced I am near as dumb as a box of rocks. I download the agnostic sd card image and the win32imager. I didn't realise I needed to uncompress the files ( this was a first for me, never had to do it before ). I finally figured out I needed WinZip and I downloaded the trial version and ran the program. I took a old Kingston 4 GB class4 micro sd card (I have ordered a Sandisk from newegg but didn't want to wait to try) and formatted it to fat32 with a sd formatting program. I then ran Winimage (with my fingers crossed for I was not sure of what I was doing) and I think I have the image on the sd card, at least when I look at the card it windows it says boot on the sd icon. I went to the site where the C7 images are kept, but could not get one to download ( this was around 11 pm last night ). One problem I have is that I have no idea what I'm looking for when I pick a file. Could you tell me which one I should be using? It says I should write the image to the card, put the card in the nook and boot it. OK! I'll give that a shot, but how exactly do I get the Nook to boot off the sd card and how exactly does the Nook know what to do with the program? Will this mess up the Nook and the programs on it?
I knew that this would be a project, but after 12 hours of reading and trying I've become a bit frustrated. Maybe someone would take on a project and write a forum called The Big Dummy's Guide to Installing CM7 to a SD card and do a step by step instruction that tells us dummys what we should be seeing as we do this.
Funny you should ask about the dummies guide to SD installs. Taosaur just gave me a link to his here:
http://taosaur.blogspot.com/2011/09/running-cyanogenmod-7-from-sd-nook.html
He gives links for the CM7 files. Pick the CM 7.2 RC3.
Once you get the SD set up right and the CM zip on it, just put in your nook and boot. Everything is automatic and does not harm your stock install at all.
Sent from my Nook Color running ICS and Tapatalk
Thanks for answering my post. Looks like I'll be starting all over with the process again later this evening. You must have been doing this work for quite a while with the knowledge you have.
Well, for now I'm taking my 6 1/2 year old great-granddaughter, a couple of fishin poles, a can of worms, and we're walking down to the pond to catch us some bluegills for dinner. Need to have a little grandpa fun and let the ole brain relax for a bit.
GrampaBear said:
Well, I started the process of making an SD card with Android on it. I am now thoroughly convinced I am near as dumb as a box of rocks. I download the agnostic sd card image and the win32imager. I didn't realise I needed to uncompress the files ( this was a first for me, never had to do it before ). I finally figured out I needed WinZip and I downloaded the trial version and ran the program. I took a old Kingston 4 GB class4 micro sd card (I have ordered a Sandisk from newegg but didn't want to wait to try) and formatted it to fat32 with a sd formatting program. I then ran Winimage (with my fingers crossed for I was not sure of what I was doing) and I think I have the image on the sd card, at least when I look at the card it windows it says boot on the sd icon. I went to the site where the C7 images are kept, but could not get one to download ( this was around 11 pm last night ). One problem I have is that I have no idea what I'm looking for when I pick a file. Could you tell me which one I should be using? It says I should write the image to the card, put the card in the nook and boot it. OK! I'll give that a shot, but how exactly do I get the Nook to boot off the sd card and how exactly does the Nook know what to do with the program? Will this mess up the Nook and the programs on it?
I knew that this would be a project, but after 12 hours of reading and trying I've become a bit frustrated. Maybe someone would take on a project and write a forum called The Big Dummy's Guide to Installing CM7 to a SD card and do a step by step instruction that tells us dummys what we should be seeing as we do this.
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Leapinlar's post will answer your questions, but here's a few things to watch for that may concern you:
1. It takes a while for the initial install, and you may see a black screen without any indication of activity. Don't panic! If it lasts more than 20 minutes or so, turn the Nook off, pull the sdcard out, and start again. Don't be afraid to redo everything.
2. The first time it successfully boots into Android, you will see the introductory splash screen for what seems an inordinately long time. It's setting up files and processes so just let it run. Once again, if it takes more that 20 minutes or so, there's most likely some problem.
2. The Kingston card may be sloooow, so my comment above is even more possible. Because the Kingston card is so slow, when you finally boot into Android on it, you may think that the system is too slow or error-prone to run on an sdcard. You may get popups during boot up, when you're running programs, or when its just sitting there, saying something to the effect that so and so program has a problem or had a fault or whatever, and asking you to wait or "force close" (FC). This is probably caused by the card. Your Sandisk card will generally not have those problems (I've been running for over a year on an 8gb Sandisk card with no problems and very snappy response).
Thank you
Shumash,
Thank you for the information. I tried my first try at making a card tonight, it appears to be a no go. Left the Nook alone for an hour and 15 minutes with nothing apparently happening. I will reformat the card and try again tomorrow. I want to thank all who have written to help me along. I know what a pain in the kester having to work with absolute beginners can be.
GrampaBear said:
Shumash,
Thank you for the information. I tried my first try at making a card tonight, it appears to be a no go. Left the Nook alone for an hour and 15 minutes with nothing apparently happening. I will reformat the card and try again tomorrow. I want to thank all who have written to help me along. I know what a pain in the kester having to work with absolute beginners can be.
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I see you used winimage to burn. Do not use 'write disk' to burn it. Use 'Restore Virtual Disk Image to physical drive' in the same menu. That's why I recommended win32diskimager. It is simpler to use for noobs.
Sent from my Nook Color running ICS and Tapatalk
Shumash,
I did use win32diskimager but I apparently did something wrongin the process. I will try again tomorrow it's late and I'm a bit tired.One thing that I will be doing also is trying to learn as much about Android as I can, though it may need to be in a bit simplified format. If anyone can suggest available information this old geezer will appreciate any guides to it.
I finally did it!
It took me 6 trys and I'm not sure what I did right this time, but I finally had success. The first 5 trys all I would get on the screen were 3 lines going across the screen about 40% of the way up and nothing else. The last time it booted and took a bit of time probably 12 - 15 minutes working and then shut itself down. I was thinking it was another failure and held the power button down for a few seconds to restart and Bingo! up came the Android window. I messed around a bit and set up the wireless and pulled up the internet. I LIKE IT!!
It is a bit slow and I'm assuming the Sandisk card will fix that when it finally arrives. It didn't freeze up or anything just ran a bit slow. The Lenovo A1 that my grandsons gave me is always locking up.
The only other thing that I have a worry about is the micro sd card reader in the Nook. I did have a pretty hard time getting the card in and out of the reader slot. I've labored with my hands all of my life and I have developed rather thick and calloused fingers and a bit of arthritis doesn't help either. I can not physically fit the tip of my finger into the little open loop area for the SD card reader. I had to use a tweezer from my fly tying kit to insert and remove the card from the Nook. After I get this type of card down pat I'd like to see if there is a way to leave the card in all of the time and be able to boot from the card or the nook reader software.
THANKS AGAIN! I wouldn't have succeeded without all of you gentlemens help.
While I was finishing typing this message my 13 year old grandson has been fooling around with the Android on the Nook. He said to tell you, that you all are AWESOME!
GrampaBear said:
Shumash,
I did use win32diskimager but I apparently did something wrongin the process. I will try again tomorrow it's late and I'm a bit tired.One thing that I will be doing also is trying to learn as much about Android as I can, though it may need to be in a bit simplified format. If anyone can suggest available information this old geezer will appreciate any guides to it.
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If you're using windiskimager, getting everything straight can be a bit confusing. Make sure that you're doing the following four steps on your PC, not the Nook!
1. To the right of the box that says "Image File", there is a blue folder picture. Click on it and select the image file. It should be something like "generic-sdcard.img". It's easiest if the image file is in the same directory/folder as the win32diskimager software.
2. To the right of the blue folder looking picture is the selection box for the location where this image will be written. It says "Device" right above it. If it is the wrong drive letter, click on the arrow at the right of the box. Select the letter of the sdcard. Use a file manager or windows explorer to find out which drive letter the sdcard is. Make absolutely sure you know which drive it is!
3. After you have properly selected the image file and the correct drive letter, click "write" and wait for it to complete.
4. After the image has been written, you will have to put the CM7 (Gingerbread) or CM9 (ICS) flashable zip on the sdcard in its root directory (called "/boot" in a file manager or windows explorer). Copy the one you want onto the sdcard.
Once the above is done, remove the sdcard from the PC and put it in your Nook. Boot the Nook up, and it will do everything else automatically.
GrampaBear said:
The only other thing that I have a worry about is the micro sd card reader in the Nook. I did have a pretty hard time getting the card in and out of the reader slot. I've labored with my hands all of my life and I have developed rather thick and calloused fingers and a bit of arthritis doesn't help either. I can not physically fit the tip of my finger into the little open loop area for the SD card reader. I had to use a tweezer from my fly tying kit to insert and remove the card from the Nook. After I get this type of card down pat I'd like to see if there is a way to leave the card in all of the time and be able to boot from the card or the nook reader software.
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It's funny you should mention old hands and micro chips. I have always had a hard time with the chip and that darned slot. Yesterday I was changing the chip and it popped out. I was sitting in my big recliner, you know the kind all old folks have, LOL. Anyway, the chip went down the crack in the chair. I could not find it. I finally turned the chair on it's side and shook it. It came tumbling out. LOL.
So you will be glad to hear there is a way to set up your stock so that you can use the same SDcard. The only complication is your stock must be rooted first. But that is simple to do. But maybe you want wait on that till you are more confident. Once it is rooted you can look at my tips thread, item B3, and I tell you how to set up stock to use the same SD so you don't have to keep changing cards. There is another method of setting it up without rooting first, but it is more complex to do. If you want me to reference that thread, let me know.
Leapinlar,
I know what you mean about the old folks and recliner thing. I have a big old style chair with a foot stool that my wife bought me at a garage sale 38 years ago. It was well over 20 years old when she bought it. She re-upholstered it and made it into the most comfortable chair for a large man ever. I'm kinda like Archie Bunker with that chair, it's my chair and you don't sit in it unless I offer it to you.
I appreciate all the help you all have given me, this is all new to me and sometimes I get to feeling a bit flumoxed. I'm having a bit of a problem getting the Android gapps program to work at the moment. Think I may be copying it to the wrong spot, but Windows only seems to show me one spot to copy to. I'll get it figured out it'll just take time. It may be a bit before I feel brave enough to root the Nook.
Still waiting for the Sandisk card to arrive. The Kingston card seems to work but is really slow at times.
You're copying it right. As you turn the nook on with the card in the slot, hold down the n key and choose to boot into the SD recovery partition.
Sent from my NookColor using XDA
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Help Required - Vertical Line Issue- Android Install
Hello people, I'm not new to the HD2 as I have had it for 10 months now, however I am new to customizing the bad boy. I love the look of android and want it installing but it always seems harder for me to put it on then any of you whizzes out there. I followed what I though to be the correct method (i.e put on chuckyROM and used HPSL3 to do something (think the word RADIO rings a bell 2.08 or something ??). Anyway, I put on a few different version of the android build and it booted linux but the on the left hand side of the screen there where a number of vertical white lines on the black background, and there they stayed. This happened for every version of android I found. I then fully formated the SD card (8Gig class 4) which took a good hour and placed FroyoStone on the card. Put in and booted for it to only get to the down a few lines when booting and stopped on something about opening kernal?? Can anyone give me some tips on how I can sort the issue. I have spent a fair few hours searching through the forums but there is just an information overload sometimes. Noob out
I guess you should modify startup.txt?
kavsternator said: Hello people, I'm not new to the HD2 as I have had it for 10 months now, however I am new to customizing the bad boy. I love the look of android and want it installing but it always seems harder for me to put it on then any of you whizzes out there. I followed what I though to be the correct method (i.e put on chuckyROM and used HPSL3 to do something (think the word RADIO rings a bell 2.08 or something ??). Anyway, I put on a few different version of the android build and it booted linux but the on the left hand side of the screen there where a number of vertical white lines on the black background, and there they stayed. This happened for every version of android I found. I then fully formated the SD card (8Gig class 4) which took a good hour and placed FroyoStone on the card. Put in and booted for it to only get to the down a few lines when booting and stopped on something about opening kernal?? Can anyone give me some tips on how I can sort the issue. I have spent a fair few hours searching through the forums but there is just an information overload sometimes. Noob out Click to expand... Click to collapse Do you mean the horixontal lines of white text? If so.... are you waiting long enough for it to finish loading??? FIRST BOOT WILL TAKE APPROX 5 MINS OR MAYBE LONGER ON SOME BUILDS. And if by 'opening kernel' you mean "Jumping to kernel".. then the guy above is probably right, you will more than likely have to edit startup.txt or delete the empty android folder, or put the install into the android folder instead of root. Search for "jumping to kernel" WITH Quote marks.... there are LOTS of posts on the subject... good luck
kavsternator said: Hello people, I'm not new to the HD2 as I have had it for 10 months now, however I am new to customizing the bad boy. I love the look of android and want it installing but it always seems harder for me to put it on then any of you whizzes out there. I followed what I though to be the correct method (i.e put on chuckyROM and used HPSL3 to do something (think the word RADIO rings a bell 2.08 or something ??). Anyway, I put on a few different version of the android build and it booted linux but the on the left hand side of the screen there where a number of vertical white lines on the black background, and there they stayed. This happened for every version of android I found. I then fully formated the SD card (8Gig class 4) which took a good hour and placed FroyoStone on the card. Put in and booted for it to only get to the down a few lines when booting and stopped on something about opening kernal?? Can anyone give me some tips on how I can sort the issue. I have spent a fair few hours searching through the forums but there is just an information overload sometimes. Noob out Click to expand... Click to collapse Information overload, what after a few hours? Why not post in the thread of who's release you're using, or keep reading and trying different methods? A few hours IMO is no way near enough for a noob with one post to start a new topic in main thread! This is the kind of thing that really puts ppl off and really annoys more experienced users. I bet you would ask and demand this and that and when all said and done you never once donated or said thankyou! I aint no dev or ROM cook but I sure feel put off by the lack of initiative and makes me feel less like donating to this site or devs. Ignorance aint bliss!
Don't think there is any need in such strong reactions, the OP has just posted in the wrong area when first using the forum. If you want to get anywhere with android (and to an extent this community and hobby) when starting off choose a popular ROM and stick with it till you know roughly what you are doing. It is then easy to see how others have got theirs set up and what problems people are having. Try to emulate someone else's working setup from their signature, particularly if a few people seem to be using the same combo. As you hit problems raise them in the thread relevant to the area that is causing you issue. At the moment you don't seem to know what radio you have installed which could be causing issues. I would suggest going back to the start and ensuring you take your time following everything, it gets easier as you go.
Do you have another SD card you could try with? 1 hour format sounds a bit long for 8gb. Also, you should try changing to a newer radio like 2.12.50.02. You can download it from here: http://www.vbnfiles.com/HD2 Common/Radios/ Make sure you put the Android folder at the root of you sdcard (d:\Android) Good luck and be careful with your HD2.
[Q] Nook Newbie, a bit lost
Okay, so I *just* bought a nook color with the express intent of ending up with an android tablet. I've powered it up and determined I'm running 1.1.0, at which point I have turned off the wireless to avoid updating. Now, I'm looking for instructions to get from this point to "Hey look at my android 2.2 (or better) tablet!"? I mean, most things I've seen seem to pick up somewhere in the middle (i.e. "just flash this ROM" etc). I'm not sure if I should update to 1.2 from B&N, or stay where I'm at and work from there, or what. I *did* pick up a class 10 PNY micro SD card, but I would prefer to boot from the device, not the SD card. So, if anyone can point me in the direction of a "box to done", or at least list out links for threads in the order I should do them, I would appreciate it very greatly. Thank you in advance!
BAM! And you're done. Get some!
Wow, quick response, thanks!
Micro SD card stopped working. PLEASE Help!
This weekend I was driving along and my CoPilot stopped working. Then I noticed that a couple of other apps weren't working and that the camera said it wouldn't take photo's until I inserted the SD card. I've had an 8GB card in there for the last 18 months. Taking the card out of the phone and putting it in the PC does nothing. The PC at first says the card needs formatting but if you say yes it just says, insert a card. I took some pictures at a friends Stag Party and I really need to get these pics off the card. I don't care about anything else. I've tried a few of these "recover your images from a corrupted or formatted card" programs but they all require the card to be visible to the PC for them to work. Has anyone get any ideas? Please help me
You could try a differnt card reader/different pc and hope that it works then, but tbo if its borked then with paying lots for data recovery, I'd say your out of luck
Sadly, I think you might be right. Looks like that card has gone to silicone heaven to be with all the calculators.
chimpsinties said: Sadly, I think you might be right. Looks like that card has gone to silicone heaven to be with all the calculators. Click to expand... Click to collapse Sent from my HTC Glacier using XDA App
I would try every usb plug you have on your computer. i had the same problem and i kept at it. it took me several days to finally get it to work & to be honest im not sure why/how it did but i was thankful none the less. i used this program & like i said i just kept trying. what worked 4 me was i held the card in the computer but only half way which the computer then was able to see the card. if you format the card you will lose everything on it so if you want pics off it & you format it you wont be able 2 recover them.
htccraze said: if you format the card you will lose everything on it so if you want pics off it & you format it you wont be able 2 recover them. Click to expand... Click to collapse Thanks for the advice I'll give it a shot. I thought at least if I could get it formatted then I could use some picture recovery software to get the pics back. It's so frustrating because there are only about 10 pics that I'm even bothered about. Everything else it backed up
hopefully that program will let you see that card, it did with mine eventhough though computer wouldnt. odd i know. i wouldnt apply or mess around to much with that program if you dont know what your doing because you can make it more difficult to regain your images. i gave the link 4 version 5 but i used version 6. i couldnt find it earlier 2 post, sorry. they do have a data recovery program that i used as well but ill have to hunt it down 1st & then i'll post the link. i bought a hacked 16gb memory stick off ebay (!%$#@&$) that became corrupted and i was able to recover some of my files using the programs below. hope this will help you out. MiniTool Partition Wizard Home Edition 6.0 MiniTool Power Data Recovery
Thanks a lot man. I'd managed to find those from your first link. In fact, Partition Wizard actually suggests the 2nd program if the first one doesn't find anything I've run Partition Wizard against it. It took all night after starting it at about 9pm it finished at 8am this morning. It thought my 8GB card was a 2TB drive but hey, at least it could see something which is more than any other tool. I didn't find anything using that one but I'm going to try the Power Data Recovery tonight. Fingers crossed.
Using larger than 8GB SD
I'm sorry to be bothering ya'll again but, I have a question in regards to usable SD card sizes to install CM7 on. Here is the issue I'm trying to work with. I'm going to be taking rather long bus ride fairly soon (southern Missouri to Copeland, Idaho) and I'm wanting to install a couple of compressed movies on my Nook to watch while traveling. I know I can just remove the CM7 SD card and install a card with movies on it and use the original Nook software, but I have problems ( big fat fingers ) removing and installing the cards in the Nook and I'm always nervous about breaking the Nook or a card. Are there any SD cards 16GB or larger that work reliably with CM7 and can the partition sections be made larger to hold a couple of movies? I would set this card up with CM7, make the partition for the movies larger and then install the movies I want to view. Is this even possible? I've been scanning the forum and don't seem to be seeing anything like I want to do.
GrampaBear said: I'm sorry to be bothering ya'll again but, I have a question in regards to usable SD card sizes to install CM7 on. Here is the issue I'm trying to work with. I'm going to be taking rather long bus ride fairly soon (southern Missouri to Copeland, Idaho) and I'm wanting to install a couple of compressed movies on my Nook to watch while traveling. I know I can just remove the CM7 SD card and install a card with movies on it and use the original Nook software, but I have problems ( big fat fingers ) removing and installing the cards in the Nook and I'm always nervous about breaking the Nook or a card. Are there any SD cards 16GB or larger that work reliably with CM7 and can the partition sections be made larger to hold a couple of movies? I would set this card up with CM7, make the partition for the movies larger and then install the movies I want to view. Is this even possible? I've been scanning the forum and don't seem to be seeing anything like I want to do. Click to expand... Click to collapse If you already have your CM7 set up on the 8GB card and you just want to run it on a bigger card so you can watch movies, I have an item on my tips thread linked in my signature on how to do just that. Look at item B9 in the second post of that thread. You can also use partitioning software to "clone" the 8GB card to a bigger card.
The cloning would be nice, that way could keep my calendar, e-mail, programs, and chess game as they are. The one thing is that are the 16 GB class 4 Sandisk SD cards reliable for the CM7 as the smaller recommended 4 and 8 GB cards? I tried with a install on a 16 GB Kingston class 4 SD card and had an issue with freezing and forced close, though it is a card my granddaughter had used in her phone and gave to me when she got a larger one. It could have issues I guess, though it was working OK in her phone.
GrampaBear said: The cloning would be nice, that way could keep my calendar, e-mail, programs, and chess game as they are. The one thing is that are the 16 GB class 4 Sandisk SD cards reliable for the CM7 as the smaller recommended 4 and 8 GB cards? I tried with a install on a 16 GB Kingston class 4 SD card and had an issue with freezing and forced close, though it is a card my granddaughter had used in her phone and gave to me when she got a larger one. It could have issues I guess, though it was working OK in her phone. Click to expand... Click to collapse The Kingston class 4 should have been ok, but the Sandisk 16 class 4 are great. No issues at all.
I have 2 class 4 Sandisk 32GB cards. I use these with no issues. I had no end of issues with non-Sandisk cards.
Back to pester again. leapinlar said: If you already have your CM7 set up on the 8GB card and you just want to run it on a bigger card so you can watch movies, I have an item on my tips thread linked in my signature on how to do just that. Look at item B9 in the second post of that thread. You can also use partitioning software to "clone" the 8GB card to a bigger card. Click to expand... Click to collapse I tried to copy the image from my working SD card to put it on a larger card before my trip but wasn't successful. I have been trying to finish the project since I returned with no success. I am using the Win32diskimager program but I am having a bit of a hitch. When I start up the program it will open up but all of the options ( cancel - read - write ) are grayed out and I cannot seem to make an image. I have redownloaded copies fresh and installed them into different folders, but I get the same result. Can anyone give me an idea of what I am doing wrong? I am doing all of this on a new desktop computer (well, new to me anyway) computer with Windows 7 and I'm using a USB card reader/writer as suggested. I thought maybe it was a problem with the card reader but I've tried 4 different brands, all with the same result. I've looked for more information but seem to be finding more porn sites than information. Sorry to be a pain in the backside
I am using a Sandisk 32 Gb Class 4 SD Card - I wrote Leapinlar's modification of the Verygreen Installer ("larger Version 4) using win32 disk imager, installed the Kanged CM7 build, and finally also installed the modded CWM recovery (the special one for SD Cards). I also made a nandroid backup to the card and CM7 on the SD card works flawlessly.
BTW, Amazon has a very good price on this 32 Gb card - got mine for $17.
GrampaBear said: I tried to copy the image from my working SD card to put it on a larger card before my trip but wasn't successful. I have been trying to finish the project since I returned with no success. I am using the Win32diskimager program but I am having a bit of a hitch. When I start up the program it will open up but all of the options ( cancel - read - write ) are grayed out and I cannot seem to make an image. I have redownloaded copies fresh and installed them into different folders, but I get the same result. Can anyone give me an idea of what I am doing wrong? I am doing all of this on a new desktop computer (well, new to me anyway) computer with Windows 7 and I'm using a USB card reader/writer as suggested. I thought maybe it was a problem with the card reader but I've tried 4 different brands, all with the same result. I've looked for more information but seem to be finding more porn sites than information. Sorry to be a pain in the backside Click to expand... Click to collapse GB. I think the problem with win32diskimager for you is you have not selected the card reader drive with the upper right hand box. Those lower boxes will stay greyed out until you have a drive selected in that box.
leapinlar said: GB. I think the problem with win32diskimager for you is you have not selected the card reader drive with the upper right hand box. Those lower boxes will stay greyed out until you have a drive selected in that box. Click to expand... Click to collapse You also have to give it a file name prior to reading or writing... you'd think you could read the SD then give it a file name... but it doesn't work that way with Win32DiskImager
It appears that the USB on my "new" desktop was bad and causing the problem. Found this out after a smart young fella I let hunt squirrel on my property took a look at what I was trying to do.Took it back to the store where I purchased it and they replaced the motherboard under warranty. They weren't very happy about it as the only board they had for the processor was a bit on the expensive side and I had to persuade them that it would be better to make me happy, then themselves. I picked it up yesterday afternoon and worked with it last night. After a couple of tries I made an image and after a couple more had the image on my new 16 GB SD card. This morning after chores I installed a free partition manger and expanded the SD partition to take up the rest of the space, put it in the Nook and it booted right up. I'm so happy, I fired up the wood burning oven in the yard and I'm going to have me some roast chicken and roasted fresh vegetables for dinner tonight with a big bottle of cold, home brewed mead. Thanks to everyone for your help. Gonna try to put a movie on the card later and see if it will work later, unless I have more than one bottle of mead that is. This Nook stuff aint always easy but its getting to be a bit fun.
Ya gotta give it up, the man knows how to party.
No recovery BSOD
(BLACK SCREEN OF DEATH) OK, I have a dead Nook on my hands - non-responsive completely. A coworker of mine bought one of those CM7 cards off of Ebay and it worked fine, but had some connection issues, so I suggested he make a move to PA. Of course, I was the one that was going to do this, so I installed CWR to the EMMC, rebooted, hit N, and booted to EMMC recovery no problem. Here's where things got stupid: In recovery, I attempted to install PA without removing the sd card and used the internal SD Card to grab the image. Yeah, I know... Browbeating not necessary... It was taking too long and appeared stuck, and then suddenly the unit just appeared to power down. That was it. No more recovery, the card no longer worked, NOTHING! Hooked it up to my PC and for a second or two when you hook it up, you can see in the device manager, the Motorola device pops up (I own a Motorola phone, so I assume the drivers are kicking in), and then it goes away. Long press power, do it again, same results. Still no screen, no nothing. So I figure the 16GB CM7 card (Sandisk SDHC) still has to be useful for creating a recovery card, right? After all, whoever created it originally was able to stuff a bootloader on there, right? So here's what I tried in terms of tools: win32diskimager .1 r15 win32diskimager .7 WinImage 8.5 with these, I have tried the following images: 16gb_clockwork-3.0.2.8.img generic-sdcard-v1.3.img TWRP-2.1.8-bootable-SD.img And I used MiniTool Partition Wizard to remove the partitions after each attempt and reformat back to its full 16GB. The only time a burn was unsuccessful was on the 16GB clockwork with Win32DiskImager - it gave an error stating it couldn't find sectors at 99%. I tried an 8GB image too, but while it burned successfully, no dice. Alright, so here we are, me at the end of my wits, you reading this tale of woe, and a coworker without a functioning device. The device has charged all night. I owned an NC for years and was mod-happy during that time, and although I had BSOD, I was able to fix it easily. This is a 1 year old BNRV200 (pretty sure they didn't switch up the models). Help? Advice? WT%#$%^? EDIT: ADB does not recognize the device when connected.
Go to my NC partition repair thread linked in my signature and follow the procedures there. Use SDFormatter free on the web for formatting your card before burning one of my bootable CWM images. Don't use partitioning software. The NC is real finicky about how cards are burned. Look at my NC Tips thread and read item A9. Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10.1 on emmc.
leapinlar said: Go to my NC partition repair thread linked in my signature and follow the procedures there. Use SDFormatter free on the web for formatting your card before burning one of my bootable CWM images. Don't use partitioning software. The NC is real finicky about how cards are burned. Look at my NC Tips thread and read item A9. Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10.1 on emmc. Click to expand... Click to collapse OK, so I used SD Formatter v3.1, size adjustment ON, Full Format (Erase) Then I used win32diskimager v.7 with CWM-6.0.1.2-bootable_SD - still no boot. Went back to SD Formatter, rinse, repeat. Then I used win32diskimager v.1 r15 with same image - still DOA. Anything I'm missing? I'm going to try 5.5.0.4 in the meantime, but I have my doubts that it will make a difference.
majorpay said: OK, so I used SD Formatter v3.1, size adjustment ON, Full Format (Erase) Then I used win32diskimager v.7 with CWM-6.0.1.2-bootable_SD - still no boot. Went back to SD Formatter, rinse, repeat. Then I used win32diskimager v.1 r15 with same image - still DOA. Anything I'm missing? I'm going to try 5.5.0.4 in the meantime, but I have my doubts that it will make a difference. Click to expand... Click to collapse sometimes difficult, keep trying. Edit, are you following advice in A9, like using external USB card reader? Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10.1 on emmc.
leapinlar said: sometimes difficult, keep trying. Edit, are you following advice in A9, like using external USB card reader? Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10.1 on emmc. Click to expand... Click to collapse I'm running W8 on all my PCs (doubt that matters?) Tried 5.5 - no luck. Switched to a 512mb SD Card, no luck. Switched to an external card reader (crap one), no luck. Switched to using external reader without sd-microsd adapter, no luck. Running out of options here. I gave my old Nook to my dad, so maybe I can go pick it up for sanity checking... I may try these cards in that one just to verify this isn't a full on hardware issue. That would seem strange and highly suspect given this just so happened to occur when I was attempting to install PA. If I can nail it down to that, I suspect it's somehow my fault, and I will need to replace it. If I can't, then I will need to buy a new CM 7 card from Ebay for the guy. How do you own a Nook for years with never a single problem you couldn't fix, and the one time you touch someone else's, it goes all to hell?
reply majorpay said: I'm running W8 on all my PCs (doubt that matters?) Tried 5.5 - no luck. Switched to a 512mb SD Card, no luck. Switched to an external card reader (crap one), no luck. Switched to using external reader without sd-microsd adapter, no luck. Running out of options here. I gave my old Nook to my dad, so maybe I can go pick it up for sanity checking... I may try these cards in that one just to verify this isn't a full on hardware issue. That would seem strange and highly suspect given this just so happened to occur when I was attempting to install PA. If I can nail it down to that, I suspect it's somehow my fault, and I will need to replace it. If I can't, then I will need to buy a new CM 7 card from Ebay for the guy. How do you own a Nook for years with never a single problem you couldn't fix, and the one time you touch someone else's, it goes all to hell? Click to expand... Click to collapse brother what to tell you my nook color is also dead similarly since last 3 weeks.i also tried everything under the roof like bootable sd card.i also opened a topic in help section but did not get a single reply.i wrote to lepinllair also but even he does not know what to do . i miss my nook everyday. i appeal to nook community to please help us get out of this mess. i also get similar trying to search divers issue when attached to a laptop.also mine is getting charged fully .so i guess both of us have a similar issue. brother please let me know if you find solution .thankyou
majorpay said: I'm running W8 on all my PCs (doubt that matters?) Tried 5.5 - no luck. Switched to a 512mb SD Card, no luck. Switched to an external card reader (crap one), no luck. Switched to using external reader without sd-microsd adapter, no luck. Running out of options here. I gave my old Nook to my dad, so maybe I can go pick it up for sanity checking... I may try these cards in that one just to verify this isn't a full on hardware issue. That would seem strange and highly suspect given this just so happened to occur when I was attempting to install PA. If I can nail it down to that, I suspect it's somehow my fault, and I will need to replace it. If I can't, then I will need to buy a new CM 7 card from Ebay for the guy. How do you own a Nook for years with never a single problem you couldn't fix, and the one time you touch someone else's, it goes all to hell? Click to expand... Click to collapse dajmaa said: brother what to tell you my nook color is also dead similarly since last 3 weeks.i also tried everything under the roof like bootable sd card.i also opened a topic in help section but did not get a single reply.i wrote to lepinllair also but even he does not know what to do . i miss my nook everyday. i appeal to nook community to please help us get out of this mess. i also get similar trying to search divers issue when attached to a laptop.also mine is getting charged fully .so i guess both of us have a similar issue. brother please let me know if you find solution .thankyou Click to expand... Click to collapse Well looks like their is Three of Us. I have been trying to fix my daughters Nook Color for about 2 weeks now. I have tried 6 different sd cards, my internal card reader and 2 external ones. I have used every version of cw recovery and twrp i can find. I have tried alot of guides. At least the ones that the downloads are still there for. Heres to pulling your hair out.
SHOOTEMUP2.0 said: Well looks like their is Three of Us. I have been trying to fix my daughters Nook Color for about 2 weeks now. I have tried 6 different sd cards, my internal card reader and 2 external ones. I have used every version of cw recovery and twrp i can find. I have tried alot of guides. At least the ones that the downloads are still there for. Heres to pulling your hair out. Click to expand... Click to collapse Well, here's what I can say (which may be saying nothing): Back in the day when I had a BSOD on my old device, I was able to fix it by using TheCube's methods. I don't think he hangs around these parts anymore, but I know it was a specific sized SD card you had to have, and a pretty old version of CWR you were flashing onto the card. I remember there was only ONE version of win32diskimager that would work and it was one of the V 0.1 variants (r?). Technology has changed, people have come and gone, and this may mean absolutely squat now. I just know I had this problem on my old one and I was able to fix it that way. All the links to those items are gone, all the files have been long since lost, and the server I used to use to house those files has long since become a thing of the past. Maybe B&N has set trip-wires for the modding community in their "newer" revisions? I cut the red wire, and the whole thing blew up.
majorpay said: Well, here's what I can say (which may be saying nothing): Back in the day when I had a BSOD on my old device, I was able to fix it by using TheCube's methods. I don't think he hangs around these parts anymore, but I know it was a specific sized SD card you had to have, and a pretty old version of CWR you were flashing onto the card. I remember there was only ONE version of win32diskimager that would work and it was one of the V 0.1 variants (r?). Technology has changed, people have come and gone, and this may mean absolutely squat now. I just know I had this problem on my old one and I was able to fix it that way. All the links to those items are gone, all the files have been long since lost, and the server I used to use to house those files has long since become a thing of the past. Maybe B&N has set trip-wires for the modding community in their "newer" revisions? I cut the red wire, and the whole thing blew up. Click to expand... Click to collapse Story of my life. always a Dollar Short and a Day Late. Well in this case a couple years late.
leapinlar said: sometimes difficult, keep trying. Edit, are you following advice in A9, like using external USB card reader? Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10.1 on emmc. Click to expand... Click to collapse Leap... Have you tested these methods? If so, can you give me a lead as to which SD reader you used? I'm not above believing that the problem is the multiple readers I have (one is internal, the other is a Chinese plastic knock-off). I was not able to get over to my parents house to test on their Nook yet.
majorpay said: Leap... Have you tested these methods? If so, can you give me a lead as to which SD reader you used? I'm not above believing that the problem is the multiple readers I have (one is internal, the other is a Chinese plastic knock-off). I was not able to get over to my parents house to test on their Nook yet. Click to expand... Click to collapse I use an external USB card reader made for micro SDs so I need no micro to SD adapter. A little red or grey one. I got it on eBay for $2. In fact, I bought several since they sometimes quit working. Then I use win32diskimager with no other windows open. Someone said they even had to update to the latest version (0.7, I think) from sourceforge. Any number of things could make it not boot. NCs can sometimes be very temperamental. But I have never had one I could not eventually get to boot to SD. Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10.1 on emmc.
leapinlar said: I use an external USB card reader made for micro SDs so I need no micro to SD adapter. A little red or grey one. I got it on eBay for $2. In fact, I bought several since they sometimes quit working. Then I use win32diskimager with no other windows open. Someone said they even had to update to the latest version (0.7, I think) from sourceforge. Any number of things could make it not boot. NCs can sometimes be very temperamental. But I have never had one I could not eventually get to boot to SD. Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10.1 on emmc. Click to expand... Click to collapse Alright... Well here's where we are at this point: Bought a Dynex 7 in 1 with specific port for MicroSD - burned v6 cwr bootable to 16GB SanDisc C4 SD using Laptop - Didn't work Switched to main PC and burned 5.5 to 512mb Nokia C4 SD - didn't work. Both were attempted with latest Win32DiskImager (.7) from SourceForge. At this point, I'd lean towards a hardware failure, BUT... it's too coincidental that this occurred during a standard CWR install of a ROM. My understanding is that the Nook is supposed to ALWAYS check the SD slot prior to booting internally. Now whether there is a partition block that tells it to do this or not, I've never dug that far, but I'd have to say that this sure makes it look that way. If that's the case, then the "unbrickable Nook" (which I once believed to be true) is a fairy tale. The fact that several others around here have met with the same fate, I'm almost inclined to believe it. I'm going to go on a hunt for the original files that fixed my first nook. If only I could remember what the heck I did with them.
Scratch that... I found the files, but now I have an entirely different issue. My copy of Win32DiskImager back then was very size specific, and although I have a copy of the 16gb_clockwork file I used back then, I can't burn it because Win32DI says the card isn't the right size.. Ugh... I'll keep you all posted.
majorpay said: Alright... Well here's where we are at this point: Bought a Dynex 7 in 1 with specific port for MicroSD - burned v6 cwr bootable to 16GB SanDisc C4 SD using Laptop - Didn't work Switched to main PC and burned 5.5 to 512mb Nokia C4 SD - didn't work. Both were attempted with latest Win32DiskImager (.7) from SourceForge. At this point, I'd lean towards a hardware failure, BUT... it's too coincidental that this occurred during a standard CWR install of a ROM. My understanding is that the Nook is supposed to ALWAYS check the SD slot prior to booting internally. Now whether there is a partition block that tells it to do this or not, I've never dug that far, but I'd have to say that this sure makes it look that way. If that's the case, then the "unbrickable Nook" (which I once believed to be true) is a fairy tale. The fact that several others around here have met with the same fate, I'm almost inclined to believe it. I'm going to go on a hunt for the original files that fixed my first nook. If only I could remember what the heck I did with them. Click to expand... Click to collapse It is possible that it is a hardware failure of the SD slot. Have you tried cleaning it? The booting to SD is built into the OMAP chip and is not effected by what you have in emmc. It automatically looks at the SD slot first to see if a bootable SD is there. But it looks for specific features of the SD found there to be sure it is bootable. If it is not bootable, it tries the emmc boot partition and if valid boot files are not there, it won't turn on. Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10.1 on emmc.
Alright, I ended up flashing the old image I used on my last Nook with the same version of win32diskimager I used back then, and still no signs of life. Unlike the previous issues I had on my first Nook, this one shows no signs of life. No backlit deep black that you can see in the dark, nothing. So I plugged it into my tower PC and held the power for 10 seconds. The install for the OMAP 36xx processor drivers went through the process, but when done, you could not find it in the device manager. So I held the power again for 10 seconds, it showed up for a second, then went away. I repeated this process several times, and same thing each time. Just to make sure I wasn't leaping to assumptions, I unplugged it and plugged it back into the PC, and no response. Not until I held the power down for 10 seconds again. So what can we conclude from this? Well, either it is normal for the Nook to show up for a split second on Windows, or the Nook is powering on, then down almost instantaneously. I'm inclined to believe the latter as ordinarily holding the power down for a few seconds wouldn't *reboot* the device, but instead, it would power it down, or power it up (if it was off). Also, unplugging and replugging it in to the PC should have activated the device driver if it was staying on (assuming that isn't a momentary thing on initial startup). What's the missing piece of the puzzle? I don't know if it's the same for all the other users that have commented, but I don't have the original cable for this device, so I cannot fast charge. A dead Nook will power on, even if drained, when the fast charge cable is used (I believe?). This is something else I will have to try when I get my hands on my dad's Nook. Is it possible that a trickle charge doesn't work below a certain point? This was kind of my thoughts back when this first occurred - that perhaps the Nook simply lost juice during the install. Grasping at straws? Perhaps, but straws are all I'm seeing at this point.
majorpay said: Alright, I ended up flashing the old image I used on my last Nook with the same version of win32diskimager I used back then, and still no signs of life. Unlike the previous issues I had on my first Nook, this one shows no signs of life. No backlit deep black that you can see in the dark, nothing. So I plugged it into my tower PC and held the power for 10 seconds. The install for the OMAP 36xx processor drivers went through the process, but when done, you could not find it in the device manager. So I held the power again for 10 seconds, it showed up for a second, then went away. I repeated this process several times, and same thing each time. Just to make sure I wasn't leaping to assumptions, I unplugged it and plugged it back into the PC, and no response. Not until I held the power down for 10 seconds again. So what can we conclude from this? Well, either it is normal for the Nook to show up for a split second on Windows, or the Nook is powering on, then down almost instantaneously. I'm inclined to believe the latter as ordinarily holding the power down for a few seconds wouldn't *reboot* the device, but instead, it would power it down, or power it up (if it was off). Also, unplugging and replugging it in to the PC should have activated the device driver if it was staying on (assuming that isn't a momentary thing on initial startup). What's the missing piece of the puzzle? I don't know if it's the same for all the other users that have commented, but I don't have the original cable for this device, so I cannot fast charge. A dead Nook will power on, even if drained, when the fast charge cable is used (I believe?). This is something else I will have to try when I get my hands on my dad's Nook. Is it possible that a trickle charge doesn't work below a certain point? This was kind of my thoughts back when this first occurred - that perhaps the Nook simply lost juice during the install. Grasping at straws? Perhaps, but straws are all I'm seeing at this point. Click to expand... Click to collapse I think what you are seeing is the device powering on with the screen off (like it normally does), looking for boot files in SD and emmc and when seeing none, immediately powering off. That is why the brief driver showing in windows. Ordinarily if it finds those boot files, it turns the screen on and continues the boot. Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10 on Hybrid SD
leapinlar said: I think what you are seeing is the device powering on with the screen off (like it normally does), looking for boot files in SD and emmc and when seeing none, immediately powering off. That is why the brief driver showing in windows. Ordinarily if it finds those boot files, it turns the screen on and continues the boot. Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10 on Hybrid SD Click to expand... Click to collapse Bit the bullet and grabbed my dads. It's confirmed, the SD card I recently burned works - CWR booted right up. Now for the stock cable test.
Stock cable confirms that the Nook will not power up at all - cable is green indicating full charge. This Nook is toast - so just coincidence that it was during flashing PA? Hard to believe, but haven't I ruled every other possibility out? EDIT - moved the cable and it turned orange. Coworker confirmed that his Nook charger he was using wouldn't even charge a phone I loaned him. May be on to something here. I'll wait until the cable turns green.
I'm done... I'm beat. Cable turned green again, and no dice. This Nook is headed for the scrap pile (unless I get a wild hair and tear it apart to re-solder some joints).
majorpay said: Stock cable confirms that the Nook will not power up at all - cable is green indicating full charge. This Nook is toast - so just coincidence that it was during flashing PA? Hard to believe, but haven't I ruled every other possibility out? EDIT - moved the cable and it turned orange. Coworker confirmed that his Nook charger he was using wouldn't even charge a phone I loaned him. May be on to something here. I'll wait until the cable turns green. Click to expand... Click to collapse I went back to your OP and re-read. It is very common for an installation to screw up and lock up, leaving the boot partition borked. But usually the user can boot to a bootable CWM and re-flash and it repairs it. Ordinarily I would say that the slot could have been messed up for a long time too, since a lot of users have CWM on emmc and would not know it until they needed a bootable card. But in your case the slot was working right up till after you put CWM on emmc. And your using internal memory to flash the zip from and leaving the SD in the slot is usually of no consequence. But it is remotely possible since you left the SD in and the software was running amouk, that it did something to the SD and the slot, like overcurrents or some such nonsense. I still think the not booting from SD is a slot hardware issue since your card boots on other devices and the booting code is in chip firmware. Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10.1 on emmc.