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[Q] [CM7] Diagnosing constant freezes...

All...
Looking for some guidance before I go complete wipe/reinstall.
After months of rock solid performance, I'm getting constant total freezes with CM7. I don't have a whole lot of apps, maybe 30, and don't use Beautiful Widgets (I believe I've seen that mentioned as a possible culprit.) It seemed to be somewhere around when I flashed the newest version of Gapps (0828,) but I can't confirm.
Just to try, I flashed the newest nightly of CM7 and reflashed the older (06xx) version of Gapps. Same problem. Thought it might be a bad SDcard, but removing the card still gets freezes.
Nothing consistent - sometime it'll go for hours with no problem. Sometimes it's 2 minutes after I reboot.
So I'm looking to clear and restart. Any suggestions? Should I backup and restore the apps from Titanium Backup, or is it safer just to reflash and reinstall everything fresh from the market.
Any other recommendations?
Many thanks!
Adam

Have you tried fixing permissions?
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koopakid08 said:
Have you tried fixing permissions?
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Yes, and should have mentioned that. Have also taken overclocking from 1200 On Demand down to 1100 Conservative, though 1200 was completely stable for quite a while. No dice.
Thanks.
Adam

Thought it might be a bad SDcard, but removing the card still gets freezes.
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I assume that means you are running CM7 off the eMMC, correct?
How are you flashing? ROM Manager? Download the .zip to the SD card and boot into CWR? When you flash a ROM do you wipe Davlik? What version of CWR is on your device?

patruns said:
I assume that means you are running CM7 off the eMMC, correct?
How are you flashing? ROM Manager? Download the .zip to the SD card and boot into CWR? When you flash a ROM do you wipe Davlik? What version of CWR is on your device?
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Yes, running of emmc.
Originally flashed a nightly (current as of, maybe, 2-3 months ago) using bootable SD card into CWM. I updated early last week using a flashed CWM but with CM7 image on a card. Also updated to the latest nightly yesterday using ROM Manager.
Current Version: 0930 (207, I believe)
Yes, wiped Davlik each time.
Thanks.
Adam

Actually, after many months of rock solid Nook performance using CM7 and Phiremod and MIUI I've experienced a lot of random freezes the past couple of weeks no matter what ROM I'm using. I wonder if my hardware is becoming unreliable. I've scrubbed and wiped every element of the device before doing new ROM installs, changed SD cards, re-downloaded ROMs. Installed CM7.03, CM7RC1, CM7 nightlies, various MIUI iterations, all to internal memory. My Nook will run anything smoothly for a few days and then start freezing no matter what I do. I do use Beautiful Widgets so I'm not running that right now, just in case. In fact at the moment I have NO widgets, shortcuts or anything else on my homescreens, just to see if that helps. Yes, I've tried fixing permissions too. A head scratcher.

lesdense said:
Actually, after many months of rock solid Nook performance using CM7 and Phiremod and MIUI I've experienced a lot of random freezes the past couple of weeks no matter what ROM I'm using.
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Well that's not promising. Hopefully I don't have whatever syndrome you do.
I'm going to do the full wipe this afternoon and see what happens with a fresh install.
Adam

I have come to believe that my problem was NOT with whichever ROM I was using but with Beautiful Widget. Using the usual trial and error method I found that, if I did not install Beautiful Widget I didn't have a freeze problem either with MIUI 1.8.5 or CM7.1RC1. Its a shame because I like that widget but I switched to Fancy Widget (a lot less flexible but gets the job done) and I'm fine now.

For some reason certain apps just don't play well with the Nook. They will freeze it regardless whether they are running or not. Simply having them installed will cause frequent freezes from my experience. Everytime I encounter more than two freezes I will delete the last 5 or so most recently installed apps.

@stir fry alot,
Is there an app that keeps track of installs?

I had a similar freezing issue..I had to reformat my SD card and reload my apps...took care of it.

Thanks guys!
I'm running 7.1 stable that i installed from scratch on SD and kept getting freeze ups too and stumbled across this thread and wanted to say THANK YOU! I uninstalled beautiful widgets and no more freezing! Whoohoo!

[Q] Cold weather returned my NC to stock !!

I purchased my NC used and with CM7 installed. I loved it the way it was except for the outdated flash player.
I forgot it in my car at work and it was all of 7* that night. Once I got home it took an hour to start up and now its just a regular NC, no Android. When I try to do the introduction registration, it connects to WiFi but tells me it cannot register at this time and gives a number to call.
I didnt mod the Nook what so ever but with the help of this site I did mod my HTC Incredible with excellent results. Id like to have Android on my NC like before but Id like to run a updated verison with Flash 11 if possible.
Please help a Nook Newbie !!! I know there is a TON of info on this device here but it gets pretty confusing pretty fast.

Was CM running on eMMC? I don't know why it wouldn't connect, but maybe something cold related caused the device to boot and continuously fail, doing the 8 failed boot restore?

You can't register it probably because the person you bought it from never de-registered it. Time to do a full reinstall of CM7. There are a ton of posts that describe how to do it in detail. Just use the search function.

LOL
You left your NC running CM7 (just to make fun, I assume it's installed in eMMC) in the car with temp. around 7 and after a nite, it automatically reverses back to bone stock, LOL
Man, if it's true, it gotta be an EASIEST way to restore stock ROM, crackinggg
Back to your case, for some reason, I do think your NC running CM7 off uSD and when it booted up, couldn't get into uSD so it booted directly to eMMC. Hope that's the case.

I bought it without an SD card so the mod was already installed on the NC internal memory. V
Ive read thru alot of info on here but still a bit confused. Im also wondering if having CM7 previously installed will cause me any problems trying to flash a different ROM.

pwrshft99 said:
Im also wondering if having CM7 previously installed will cause me any problems trying to flash a different ROM.
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It won't if you wipe the caches for a full reload. Keep in mind that if you are the least bit hesitant you could just as easily make a bootable SD card and have no worries.

pwrshft99 said:
I bought it without an SD card so the mod was already installed on the NC internal memory.
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For real???
How can that be possible?
I don't mean to not believing in you but it's too odd.

[Q] CM7 & CM9 Dual Boot Thanks and Questions

I joined the site about a year ago when I first got my TMobile G2 with the intent of modding it. Since I used it mainly for work, I decided to leave it alone and became a lurker since I didn't have much to offer (info wise). Recently I picked up a Nook Color, and after reading about several different mods, decided on Rack's Dual Boot.
Being a noob to Android Systems (but not to computers), I reread the directions a few times. When I got the gist of what to do, I ran through it with no issues. Turned out to be unbelievably easy. Many Thanks to Racks and everyone else that worked so hard to bring us this awesome information (as a side note F**K those douches that are selling cards on fleabay).
Now to the point; There are a couple of questions/issues I have that maybe someone can help with:
1. Occasionally, when I try and download apps from Play, I get an "error in processing purchase" message. When I power down, then boot back and flash the ICS gapps, everything is fine. I have tried clearing cache and data and get the same error message.
2. In CM7, the Nook Tweak App does absolute wonders for the volume of the crappy little speaker. Anything for ICS?
3. I have LG HBS700 Bluetooth Headphones. They work great in GB CM7, but nothing in ICS CM9.
4. Netflix works like a charm in GB CM7 but bogs and freezes in ICS CM9. Same for Youtube. I have downloaded Flash Player with same results.
5. Lastly, is there any way to get sound INTO the NC? That way I can use the Dolphin Voice Browser, Google Voice Search, etc.
Not big on flashing nightlies. Prefer to get system doing what I want and being stable, then sticking to it.
Many Thanks in advance - Mike

UPDATE:
#1 happened again, and reflashed GAPPS. Got the same error message again. Now, I can't download anything from Play Store in ICS CM9.
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Mike

gollumses said:
UPDATE:
#1 happened again, and reflashed GAPPS. Got the same error message again. Now, I can't download anything from Play Store in ICS CM9.
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Mike
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Sorry to hear ur having issues. Only suggestion I would have is to backup whatever apps you have on CM9 with Titanium Backup or any other app that is capable of doing so. Then download a more recent update of a DualbootSD CM9 from the techerrata server. Copy the zip over to the /sdcard partition of the DualbootSD rom and boot into the CWM that is included with the DualbootSD. Then go to "mounts & storage" and choose to format /system & /data then flash the update you just downloaded. That should fix whatever issues you are having with market.
-Racks

gollumses said:
Now to the point; There are a couple of questions/issues I have that maybe someone can help with:
5. Lastly, is there any way to get sound INTO the NC? That way I can use the Dolphin Voice Browser, Google Voice Search, etc.
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No. The nook has no microphone and bluetooth Mike inputs don't work either. Sorry.

Thanks Leapinlar.
I pretty much already knew the answer to 5, but asked just in case anyone had gotten something to work.
The rest aren't horrible problems. Thanks to the dual boot card, I just reboot into CM7 to watch Netflix. And by the way, the range with my BT Headset is in feet not inches. I was pretty impressed for having no antenna.
The recent Play thing is a pain though. I will walk through your recommendation and get back.
Thanks - Mike
Attached is what I get with Netflix via ICS

Sorry
Meant my last to say "Thanks Racks and Leapinlars"
Mike

racks11479 said:
Sorry to hear ur having issues. Only suggestion I would have is to backup whatever apps you have on CM9 with Titanium Backup or any other app that is capable of doing so. Then download a more recent update of a DualbootSD CM9 from the techerrata server. Copy the zip over to the /sdcard partition of the DualbootSD rom and boot into the CWM that is included with the DualbootSD. Then go to "mounts & storage" and choose to format /system & /data then flash the update you just downloaded. That should fix whatever issues you are having with market.
-Racks
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Hey Racks,
Okay, I downloaded the MIUI Updates for the Dual Boot Card and put them on the SD Card. I then booted to recovery and open chose zips from SD Card. Installed both GB and ICS Updates. Rebooted into ICS, and everything looked fine. Tried booting into GB and got a nice MIUI.us Boot Screen, then splash screen looks nice, and as soon as I unlock the device I get: "The application launcher (process com.android.launcher) has stopped unexpectedly" and the same with "media" and "acore"
I tried reflashing the old GAPPS, and nothing. My only two options are "FORCE CLOSE" and "REPORT TO MIUI"
Any suggestions?
Thanks Again - Mike

Okay, now I reflashed CM7 MIUI and can't boot into GB. Stuck at MIUI Boot Screen.
On the good news side; I can now download files from Google Play in ICS. WOW! If it's not one, it's the other. HAHAHA
Issues get fixed, and it's still better than the stock Nook Color.
Can I go back to standard Mirage CM7 and keep MIUI CM9, or is it "all or nothing?"
Thanks Again - Mike

gollumses said:
UPDATE:
#1 happened again, and reflashed GAPPS. Got the same error message again. Now, I can't download anything from Play Store in ICS CM9.
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Mike
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Try going into Settings, Applications, Manage Applications, All. Find the Google Playstore app. Clear cache. Playstore will then reload your apps when you start it next. If that doesn't work, clear cache and data. You'll have go through the registration process again, but it may work.

Thanks Shumash.
I finally got Google Play working after installing MIUI Update 03252012 (ICS). My big issue now is with CM7.
After doing the update, as soon as I do the unlock, I start getting error messages (see above). I can't get into anything. I can only reboot or turn off power.
I know I can go back to factory settings, reformat and setup the SD Card, and start all over with Mirage CM7 and CM9. Is there a shorter way? Ideally, I would like to revert MIUI CM7 back to the original Mirage, and leave it be (everything worked fine HAHAHA) until someone comes out with a stable HW accelerator, so I can have my Netflix and YouTube in ICS.
Thanks Again - Mike

Convert2Dualboot-SD Tool
Racks,
I've been using your triple-boot for a couple weeks (works great, by the way--thanks!), and I decided to try your Convert2Dualboot-SD Tool (mainly so that I could have ICS CM9 as my primary). Previously I've had Mirage CM7.2-RC1 from 3-23-2012 in primary and ICS CM9 non-OpenGL from 3-25-2012 in secondary. I downloaded everything, including your newest ICS CM9 non-OpenGL (the 5-1-2012 version), to the Nook, extracted, dropped the ICS CM9 zip into the rom-to-modify folder and the ICS gapps file into the gapps-to-modify folder, opened a terminal session and ran the Android script. Everything seems to have been created fine--the new files were in Primary-Mod. I then went into recovery, formatted system1 & data1, then flashed both the ICS CM9 zip and ICS gapps zip.
When I tried to boot into primary, nothing happened. I then booted into secondary and discovered that the secondary partition had been updated to the new ICS version (5-1-2012). It was flaky, so I went back into recovery and re-applied gapps (this time using the non-modified version). It seems to be working fine now, but is in the secondary partition. My primary is apparently currently empty because of the formatting.
So unless CM9 should never be placed in the primary partition, there seems to be a bug somewhere (at least in the Android version). I did see something in the script that appears to be a problem. Within the "ga" leg, it has this coding:
mv gapps_DualbootSD_alternate_${DATE}.zip ../Primary-Mod/gapps_DualbootSD_alternate_${DATE}.zip
I'm not a programmer, but having "Primary-Mod" intermixed with "alternate" would seem to be problematic. But since this is the "ga" leg, I don't know that this would have caused CM9 to be applied to the secondary partition instead of the primary, so there may be a problem somewhere else.
Do you know if anyone else has successfully applied your modded version of the CM9 rom to primary using the Android script? Or should the existing modded version only be placed in the secondary partition?
Thanks,
oldfolkie

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Racks,
I've been using your triple-boot for a couple weeks (works great, by the way--thanks!), and I decided to try your Convert2Dualboot-SD Tool (mainly so that I could have ICS CM9 as my primary). Previously I've had Mirage CM7.2-RC1 from 3-23-2012 in primary and ICS CM9 non-OpenGL from 3-25-2012 in secondary. I downloaded everything, including your newest ICS CM9 non-OpenGL (the 5-1-2012 version), to the Nook, extracted, dropped the ICS CM9 zip into the rom-to-modify folder and the ICS gapps file into the gapps-to-modify folder, opened a terminal session and ran the Android script. Everything seems to have been created fine--the new files were in Primary-Mod. I then went into recovery, formatted system1 & data1, then flashed both the ICS CM9 zip and ICS gapps zip.
When I tried to boot into primary, nothing happened. I then booted into secondary and discovered that the secondary partition had been updated to the new ICS version (5-1-2012). It was flaky, so I went back into recovery and re-applied gapps (this time using the non-modified version). It seems to be working fine now, but is in the secondary partition. My primary is apparently currently empty because of the formatting.
So unless CM9 should never be placed in the primary partition, there seems to be a bug somewhere (at least in the Android version). I did see something in the script that appears to be a problem. Within the "ga" leg, it has this coding:
mv gapps_DualbootSD_alternate_${DATE}.zip ../Primary-Mod/gapps_DualbootSD_alternate_${DATE}.zip
I'm not a programmer, but having "Primary-Mod" intermixed with "alternate" would seem to be problematic. But since this is the "ga" leg, I don't know that this would have caused CM9 to be applied to the secondary partition instead of the primary, so there may be a problem somewhere else.
Do you know if anyone else has successfully applied your modded version of the CM9 rom to primary using the Android script? Or should the existing modded version only be placed in the secondary partition?
Thanks,
oldfolkie
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Goodness! Gotta check my script! But that should have been moved to Alternate-Mod. But as in the appended filename. It should flash to alternate boot. Will correct on next update.
Regarding ur issue, you shouldnt be using my modded zips for conversion as it is already prepped specifically for Primary or Alternate boot.
The script is for converting standard .zips. like a regular nightly. Also note if ur flashing a new rom over default setup. It is recommended to format /system1, /data1 for primary & /system2, /data2 for alternate.
Thanks again for pointing out that error!
Sent from my NookColor using Tapatalk

I figured the issue might be with using the modded zips, but I wasn't sure. Thanks!

[Q] From Stock Root to - ?

Hey all,
I'm interested in moving over from Stock Root to something a bit more effective? I know there isn't a ton of power in this thing, but I'd like something that's a bit faster and snapier. I thought I'd like to stay on stock for the B&N reader, but I just recently learned that there's a B&N app, so...
CM7 is the most stable release out there, correct? I know there are a few options to choose from, but I'm not sure which to switch to, so I'm asking the community. I've done a good bit of looking, and I know there are some pros and cons to everything, but what do you think I should go to if I'm looking for speed, and it's not stock root?

IceCatraz said:
Hey all,
I'm interested in moving over from Stock Root to something a bit more effective? I know there isn't a ton of power in this thing, but I'd like something that's a bit faster and snapier. I thought I'd like to stay on stock for the B&N reader, but I just recently learned that there's a B&N app, so...
CM7 is the most stable release out there, correct? I know there are a few options to choose from, but I'm not sure which to switch to, so I'm asking the community. I've done a good bit of looking, and I know there are some pros and cons to everything, but what do you think I should go to if I'm looking for speed, and it's not stock root?
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The B&N app does let you read your B&N books. But it does not let you read children's interactive books and some say it limits you to only certain magazines and newspapers. But I have noticed no limitations.
I run CM7.2 stable and it is quite snappy. CM9 and CM10 are both too laggy and not stable yet. Some like CM7 Mirage as the author has tweaked a lot of things to try to speed it up. But I personally have not tried it.

Ah, alright, thanks. I'll try my hand at 7.2, then.
Yeah, I just want to be able to read my epub files and my cafescribe content for school. Nothing special to run 7.2, correct? Just put the files on the sd card, nandroid, wipe, fresh install? Do you still have the link to the topic that you used? I see quite a few different builds here, and quite a bit on Cyanogenmod's website. I downloaded cm-7.2.0-encore.zip, but I don't want to install it if it's not the right one.
I also see Mirage, which I'm not sure about.

IceCatraz said:
Ah, alright, thanks. I'll try my hand at 7.2, then.
Yeah, I just want to be able to read my epub files and my cafescribe content for school. Nothing special to run 7.2, correct? Just put the files on the sd card, nandroid, wipe, fresh install? Do you still have the link to the topic that you used? I see quite a few different builds here, and quite a bit on Cyanogenmod's website. I downloaded cm-7.2.0-encore.zip, but I don't want to install it if it's not the right one.
I also see Mirage, which I'm not sure about.
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That is the right file. And your procedure is right as long as the CWM is version 3.2.0.1 or higher. You can also use TWRP.
Oh, you need to install gapps too. Get the gb version at goo.im

Alright, awesome, thanks! Which version of gapps am I getting? Not entirely sure what GB this runs on.

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Alright, awesome, thanks! Which version of gapps am I getting? Not entirely sure what GB this runs on.
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Get the gapps-gb- version. The newest one available that starts with that. That means gingerbread which is what CM7 is.

Thanks a lot. You've been very helpful, as usual. The only issue I'm having at the moment is actually getting into Recovery Mode. I used MN to get to stock root, and holding down power + N just shuts the device off. Upon turning back on, it asks me if I want to factory reset.

IceCatraz said:
Thanks a lot. You've been very helpful, as usual. The only issue I'm having at the moment is actually getting into Recovery Mode. I used MN to get to stock root, and holding down power + N just shuts the device off. Upon turning back on, it asks me if I want to factory reset.
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That is stock recovery you are booting to. You need to make a bootable CWM SD to do the flashing. Look at my tips thread linked in my signature and look at items A9 and A10.
Sent from my Nook Color running CM10 and Tapatalk.

Got it up and running. Thanks a lot! This runs a TON faster than stock root. Thank you very, very much.

Returning to CM7 and Nook won't access Market

Hello XDA peeps.
I've had my Nook color for about 3+ years. Have had both my wife and mine running old versions of CM7 on the SD card without issue.
I recently dug mine out to set up for the kids (for a trip we're taking starting this weekend) and first installed CM10 (10.3 I think). loaded and was able to get apps running w/o issue but the poor old Nook and CM10 was so sluggish I felt it was just too much for this legacy device, so I reflashed to the CM7.2.0 [stable]
loaded just fine, but when I went to install GAPPS it installed fine, but will not allow me to access my account now.
no matter how many times I try, it tells me the password does not match for my account.
I know for a fact the password is the right one, and I can get on the Play store just fine on my Galaxy S3 using the same credentials.
I even reflashed the GAPPS to an older version and no luck.
Any thoughts? Really stuck here, since we're leaving Saturday morning and I want to have both Nooks up and running current versions of our boys fav games to pass the time. right now it has no app store, so it's pretty much a stripped Android tablet.

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Hello XDA peeps.
I've had my Nook color for about 3+ years. Have had both my wife and mine running old versions of CM7 on the SD card without issue.
I recently dug mine out to set up for the kids (for a trip we're taking starting this weekend) and first installed CM10 (10.3 I think). loaded and was able to get apps running w/o issue but the poor old Nook and CM10 was so sluggish I felt it was just too much for this legacy device, so I reflashed to the CM7.2.0 [stable]
loaded just fine, but when I went to install GAPPS it installed fine, but will not allow me to access my account now.
no matter how many times I try, it tells me the password does not match for my account.
I know for a fact the password is the right one, and I can get on the Play store just fine on my Galaxy S3 using the same credentials.
I even reflashed the GAPPS to an older version and no luck.
Any thoughts? Really stuck here, since we're leaving Saturday morning and I want to have both Nooks up and running current versions of our boys fav games to pass the time. right now it has no app store, so it's pretty much a stripped Android tablet.
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You said you were running CM7 on SD. How did you install the CM10? Then what did you do to get back to CM7? What wiping did you do?
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leapinlar said:
You said you were running CM7 on SD. How did you install the CM10? Then what did you do to get back to CM7? What wiping did you do?
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I actually have the CM10 on the root of the device. I thought I had put it on the SD card, but didn't. (just found this out by accidentally powering on the tablet w/o the card in it)
So, currently downloading the CM 10.2.1 update (from 10.1.3), and perhaps it will fix the sluggishness.
I have a third stock Nook that I have not touched in years that I'm going to flash on the SD card...see if I can't get it to CM7.2 w/o any issues.
but previously I had wiped the card twice and attempted to Reinstall CM7.2.
I think the fault lies in the steps I was following to burn the SD card.
Told me to add the gapps AFTER installing CM7
I was pretty sure in the past I put both on the same SD at the same time.
or it is possible the Google two-step verification/authorization is not compatible with the older Market app. I can get on the Play store just fine on CM10 (but it did have me open in the browser to verify the device).

~poz said:
I actually have the CM10 on the root of the device. I thought I had put it on the SD card, but didn't. (just found this out by accidentally powering on the tablet w/o the card in it)
So, currently downloading the CM 10.2.1 update (from 10.1.3), and perhaps it will fix the sluggishness.
I have a third stock Nook that I have not touched in years that I'm going to flash on the SD card...see if I can't get it to CM7.2 w/o any issues.
but previously I had wiped the card twice and attempted to Reinstall CM7.2.
I think the fault lies in the steps I was following to burn the SD card.
Told me to add the gapps AFTER installing CM7
I was pretty sure in the past I put both on the same SD at the same time.
or it is possible the Google two-step verification/authorization is not compatible with the older Market app. I can get on the Play store just fine on CM10 (but it did have me open in the browser to verify the device).
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I don't think CM10.2 is going to help. CM7 is the best for NC. I would wipe the internal CM10 you have on there and install CM7 to internal. Be sure to put the right gingerbread gapps on there too.
Sent from my BN NookHD+ using XDA Premium HD app

leapinlar said:
I don't think CM10.2 is going to help. CM7 is the best for NC. I would wipe the internal CM10 you have on there and install CM7 to internal. Be sure to put the right gingerbread gapps on there too.
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yes, thank you. I feel anything higher than CM7 just boggs the processor on these dated tablets. For a kids' tablet, it's just fine and will run most of their games/books and it remains snappy. CM10 just feels overloaded. It is sluggish and slow to respond. I'll try to get it moved back to CM7.
I've been trying to flash the other Nook, but after much effort, I have not been able to get it to boot into recovery.
I have the same card set-up, but I cannot get it to start with the card....constantly goes to the B&N root.

~poz said:
I've been trying to flash the other Nook, but after much effort, I have not been able to get it to boot into recovery.
I have the same card set-up, but I cannot get it to start with the card....constantly goes to the B&N root.
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Sometimes it is difficult to get the NC to boot from an SD. See my NC Tips thread linked in my signature and read section A9.
Sent from my BN NookHD+ using XDA Premium HD app

leapinlar said:
Sometimes it is difficult to get the NC to boot from an SD. See my NC Tips thread linked in my signature and read section A9.
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Thanks Leapinlar,
Still running into issues. now on BOTH Nooks.
I was pretty sure I remember something about an updated B&N ROM that was signaled with a Green sticker on the box, which the troublesome boot one has.
I am using the generic_sdcard_v1.3.img + cm-7.2.0-encore.zip + gapps-gb-20110828-signed.zip all being burned via Terminal on Mac.
The only thing that has changed since I was dabbling with these in the past was the CM release.
I am not able to find my original bookmark of the tutorial I used to use (2+ years ago) so I think there might be a flaw in the instructions I'm following now. (for instance, the instructions I'm following now, the dd= command isn't proceeded by 'sudo' and without the sudo command, it errors out when trying to write the generic SD image to the disc (says disc is not available or locked).
gonna keep trying, because I want to get these up and working for our trip...we have 36+ hours of driving over the course of a week, so I know they'll get bored of looking at sights, reading books, watching DVDs, etc. Mainly for my own sanity, since I'll be driving.
**EDIT* i found the original tutorial I used years ago in my trove of bookmarks. It was the original GlassKeys tutorial. gonna give that a shot and report back with my success/errors.

Well, one thing, if you are going to use that old original image file you need to rename the CM zip to begin with update-. That will not help with the booting issue, but will make it so that image will recognize the CM zip.
I have an updated image zip in my updated instructions for NC SD installs linked in my signature.
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leapinlar said:
Well, one thing, if you are going to use that old original image file you need to rename the CM zip to begin with update-. That will not help with the booting issue, but will make it so that image will recognize the CM zip.
I have an updated image zip in my updated instructions for NC SD installs linked in my signature.
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Thanks. should have mentioned that I did rename the file to "update"
got my old CM10 to boot into Linux penguin and it seemed to be doing it's thing, after formatting the SD card following the GlassKeys instructions, but it is now booting to CM10 still by default and if I hold the "n" key for the boot menu on Cyanoboot and try to boot from SD card (normal or recovery) it just stays on that screen until I power it down.
as for the second, untouched Nook, I did the GlassKeys instructions to the SD card for that and it loaded to Penguin and went through all the install procedures, but now it still boots to the B&N emm setup screen.
wish I had never taken the other to CM10. now I have two Nooks that aren't acting properly.
thing that bugs me is the first one was running fine, just market wouldn't recognize my sign-in...now both are jacked.:silly:

SUCCESS!!!
So thank you goes out to leapinlar!!!
I dropped what I had been doing on my system as far as the files I was burning and read over all your FAQ and tutorial.
I downloaded the files in your how-to and had the tricky OE ROM flashed in a jiff!
The second one is installing now on the peguin screen and JUST now loaded to the CM7.2 bootloader screen.
Still used the GlassKeys instrucitons on how to burn via Terminal on OS X, but used your files (generic-sdcard-v1.3-CM7-9-10-10.1-10.2-11-largest-Rev8c.zip )
My original issue, I have found through all this, was that the Market wouldn't allow me to sign in...well that is an issue with the 2-step verification for my Google account I had activated (someone tried to hack my account, so I had it on). Once I turned it off, I was able to open the market and sign in.
Thanks again for your help leapinlar....check this one off!
Going to update both tonight with our boys' fav apps and games and get ready to hit the road first thing Sat morning! :laugh:

If you want something newer I found that cm10.0 was pretty fast on nook color. Better than cm7. Anything newer I also found was to slow and laggy 10.1+. If interested the last nightly cm10.0 rom and gapps are over in the development fourm.

retrobot said:
If you want something newer I found that cm10.0 was pretty fast on nook color. Better than cm7. Anything newer I also found was to slow and laggy 10.1+. If interested the last nightly cm10.0 rom and gapps are over in the development fourm.
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Thanks! but pretty happy with CM7. any more seems to be a bit much for these processors. both are up, loaded full of games/books and ready for the road trip. :highfive: