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[Q] Problem installing gapps using cyanogenmod 7 on nook color sd card boot

If anyone can help I would appreciate it.
I followed this post about installing cyanogenmod 7 onto an SD card to boot my nook color off of the SD card.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1000957
Everything worked great and it has been up and running for several days, very happy with the results.
Now I was trying to put gapps on the SD card and I followed the instructions shown below:
How to install market and gapps:
After you have booted into the CM7 on SD card for the first time and set up wifi access (important!)
Go to http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/index.ph...Latest_Version and at the end there is a table with various google apps versions. Get the one suitable for your cyanogen version (CM7 is the latest for now). The file is named gapps-....zip
shutdown your nook and take the SD card out, insert it into your computer.
Copy the gapps-... file to the SD card on the first partition (titled boot) without changing the file name.
Insert the uSD card back into the NOOK and boot into "Recovery mode." To boot into recovery mode: Boot normally into Android, then from desktop hold power key until a poweroff menu appears, In the poweroff menu choose "reboot", in the next menu choose "recovery" and press "OK". The nook would reboot straight into recovery.​
So i have tried this several times and DL the file twice just to be sure but every time I reboot the system just comes up normally. I wonder if the gapps install package is named wrong? I don't know how to make this work.
Any suggestions?
Thank A LOT for your help!

Steveolio said:
So i have tried this several times and DL the file twice just to be sure but every time I reboot the system just comes up normally. I wonder if the gapps install package is named wrong? I don't know how to make this work.
Any suggestions?
Thank A LOT for your help!
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That's the problem.
You want it boot into Recovery, not Normally.

Steveolio said:
If anyone can help I would appreciate it.
I followed this post about installing cyanogenmod 7 onto an SD card to boot my nook color off of the SD card.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1000957
Everything worked great and it has been up and running for several days, very happy with the results.
Now I was trying to put gapps on the SD card and I followed the instructions shown below:
How to install market and gapps:
After you have booted into the CM7 on SD card for the first time and set up wifi access (important!)
Go to http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/index.ph...Latest_Version and at the end there is a table with various google apps versions. Get the one suitable for your cyanogen version (CM7 is the latest for now). The file is named gapps-....zip
shutdown your nook and take the SD card out, insert it into your computer.
Copy the gapps-... file to the SD card on the first partition (titled boot) without changing the file name.
Insert the uSD card back into the NOOK and boot into "Recovery mode." To boot into recovery mode: Boot normally into Android, then from desktop hold power key until a poweroff menu appears, In the poweroff menu choose "reboot", in the next menu choose "recovery" and press "OK". The nook would reboot straight into recovery.​
So i have tried this several times and DL the file twice just to be sure but every time I reboot the system just comes up normally. I wonder if the gapps install package is named wrong? I don't know how to make this work.
Any suggestions?
Thank A LOT for your help!
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turn on the NC, like normal, then power down, then you'll get option to reboot, reboot to recovery.

I'm sorry if my original post didn't make this clear, but I was trying to boot into recovery. I held down the power button until I got the shut down options and pressed restart then pressed recover mode. Every time I try this the nook just restarts in normal mode. I'm not sure if I've done something wrong or if this method doesn't work.
Just to give more information the file I used was:
gapps-gb-20110613-signed.zip
I didn't unzip the file I just copied it to the SD card BOOT partition.

Seems like you've done what eggnoodle suggested and if it didn't work, the only choice is using combination of N & power button. It needs some skills.
Try that, won't hurt.

I tried that several times, and it didn't work.
Is there a way to verify if I am in recovery mode? I'm not sure I am actually making it into recovery mode.
Further down in the instructions it says that to install other stuff anything with the name "update-***.zip" will install on recovery mode. So I will try renaming the gapps file to this and give it a try.

If you see the "Penguin" with scrolling text running horizontally on the NC screen, then it is in the Recovery mode.
If you see the Android guy or CM7 logo, you are in the normal booting mode.

Ok, so my problem is that I can never get the nook color in recovery mode. Perhaps the instructions on the forum are kinda flawed.
This is what I am doing:
Hold down Nook button.
Hold down power button
Loading screen appears then goes blank
Release power button for less than a second
Hold down power button again.
Wait for loading screen to appear
Release power button
Wait for screen to go blank
Release the Nook button
Then the NC just boots up like normal. Is this the correct process?
The NC boots up normal if I choose restart in recover mode from the shutdown menu also.
Any suggestions?

As I said, you need some skills.
Don't panic!
After a few tries and when you get it in, you will mumble "hmm, it's nothing like the instructions, it's much simply than that, wheewwww"

Steveolio said:
Ok, so my problem is that I can never get the nook color in recovery mode. Perhaps the instructions on the forum are kinda flawed.
This is what I am doing:
Hold down Nook button.
Hold down power button
Loading screen appears then goes blank
Release power button for less than a second
Hold down power button again.
Wait for loading screen to appear
Release power button
Wait for screen to go blank
Release the Nook button
Then the NC just boots up like normal. Is this the correct process?
The NC boots up normal if I choose restart in recover mode from the shutdown menu also.
Any suggestions?
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Did you try going into recovery while in CM7 by powering it off and selecting reboot>reboot to recovery?

I did try that, just boots up in normal mode.
I cannot get this thing to work, I have also tried several different ways to boot up using the home button and power button I can find a combination that works.
so frustrating!

Maybe start over fresh with Cm7 and gapps install?
I intall CM7 and gapps at the same time...

Just to be clear I didn't try this because the instructions said do not do it.
Ok, so I reinstalled with gapps and cyanogenmod zip files both on the boot SD before it was installed and it took, but there were a few hang ups like it kept bringing in stuff from my phone when I linked to my google account. So I think I should be good.
Thanks for the suggestions.

That happen to me too. It installed a wallpaper that was on my phone that I no longer use. Strange? But as long as it worked, that what I cared about!

Yup same thing to me, it installed the wallpaper and some other apps.
Why won't it install angry birds, the market says it's not compatible? What the heck's up with that?

If you are having issues booting into recovery when booting onto the SD card. This post should help
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=962708
The new market has issues with nook color. Market is looking for a 160 density level when the nook color is set to 161 to avoid panics.
Ive been using LCDDensity from the market and choosing Density 160 and changing the drop down to killall and click apply (reboot)
after it reboots go into manage applications and do a force stop on the market and clear the data/cache
it will reload and you will see all the options until the market resets itself. very annoying i know but its a temp fix until someone figures out how to fix this

Forget that stupid method with the buttons, it's a waste of time.
I tried it both ways and it doesn't work.
Use this instead, works like a charm.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=947698&highlight=boot

Sineira said:
Forget that stupid method with the buttons, it's a waste of time.
I tried it both ways and it doesn't work.
Use this instead, works like a charm.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=947698&highlight=boot
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You mean you couldn't get it to work... works just fine.

Same problem as Steveolio - error message during recovery
Steveolio said:
Just to be clear I didn't try this because the instructions said do not do it.
Ok, so I reinstalled with gapps and cyanogenmod zip files both on the boot SD before it was installed and it took, but there were a few hang ups like it kept bringing in stuff from my phone when I linked to my google account. So I think I should be good.
Thanks for the suggestions.
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I have the same problem as Steveolio and followed exactly the same procedures. Maybe these error messages from recovery boot help some experts with a good idea:
Penguin
""rcS!
Populating /dev using udev: done
Initializing random number generator....done
modprobe: chdir(2.6.32.9): No such file or directory
Starting network...
Detected standard B&N nook layout, emmc first
It appears the SD card is already properly formatted
Skiping format
Mounting /dev/mmcblklp1 as /boot
Looking for the install images....
Lets see if you have gapps installer too.
Gapps installer not found, skipping installation.
Flashing caches
Clearing recovery flag
1+0 records in
1+0 records out
All steps complete, flashing again
Preparing to shutdown
""
Does that possibly mean gapps file is not in the right location?
thank you

fatalfuryy said:
If you are having issues booting into recovery when booting onto the SD card. This post should help
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=962708
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There is no "Thanks" option so I just wanted to say Thank you! The button combo for booting into recovery has been kicking my butt and this was simple and worked flawlessly!

Need Help with SD Card booting...

I setup my memory card through WinImage to install size agnostic 1.3. I put CM7 Nightly #177 on my Boot partition of memory card and then put memory card in Nook and it installed and shutdown when completed. I turn on my Nook and it begins with the Read Forever Logo and boots off emmc... It doesn't even try to boot of the Memory card.... I noticed this after I updated my stock Nook on the emmc to B&N 1.3??? Any Ideas why my nook wont boot up Cyanogenmod boot able card? Before B&N 1.3 I would see the Cyanogenmod Logo and I could hold the home key to boot up the boot menu and select either memory card or Stock... But I can't get it too from the memory card? Any Ideas?
Thanks In Advance,
Jer

Any Ideas or Suggestions... What if I copied the u-boot.bin from the boot of the sdcard to the emmc... maybe then I could get it to boot into the cyanogenmod boot and choose the sd to boot.... I don't understand it booted up on the sd card to install the nightly(for the first time that is) and then it just doesn't boot again... it just goes directly to the stock... I know the memory slot works because I used a different memory card and it installed the nightly.... I even tried a different nightly and it install just fine but it wont boot from the memory card again.???

Power the NC off, remove the uSD, insert it back in the NC again, power on.
Try a couple times.
If still having problem, do a fresh clean install again.

Tried what you said... it still shows "Read Forever" instantly after turning it on... no cyanogenmod logo... so it is obviously not even trying to load the SD card. When you say fresh clean install, on what do I do it on... A new memory card and install the latest nightly or Factory reset on stock nook?
votinh said:
Power the NC off, remove the uSD, insert it back in the NC again, power on.
Try a couple times.
If still having problem, do a fresh clean install again.
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Press and hold the N button, then press the power button. Hold them until the green Cyangenmod logo shows AND "booting into recovery" shows up. Then release both.
It will explode CM7 the display will dim (around a 1 minute).
Watch the backlight and when it goes off, reboot the same way. It will flash the green Cyangenmod and the display will go back off (normal.)
Reboot again the same way and then instant you see the green Cyanogenmod logo release both buttons and let it boot up. It will take about 30 seconds for the CMy guy to show up and about a minute total to get to the main screen.

The problem still remains... I don't get to see the Cyanogenmod Logo... It shows the Read Forever logo and boots into Nook stock??? Its like I don't have a memory card in there.... When In stock nook it show the memory card logo in the bottom left and I can click on it it displays the files on it ... u-boot.bin file and all the others.... I just don't understand why it wont boot when turned on.
I wonder if it has anything to do with that I had Clockwork Mod on my emmc and I used the Clockwork Mod remover to get it back to stock recovery??? Maybe this messed up the boot sequence??? It s weird though when I put Cynogenmod on the memorycard the first time... it boots up the card correctly and begins the Linux Penguin install... So obvious it boots from the memory card.... I don't know what to do.
Help!!!

Just curious, but did you try to read the card in the card reader?
If you wrote it in Windows, you might have to check via disk management that a boot partition was made.

winimage sucks. Many, including myself, have had the same issue. Use win32diskimager instead. That's what worked for me.

Thank you Thank you
Win32Diskimager was the key... and too easy to use.... Thank you so much.... It took so long to find out the answer... Thanks to all that tried to help!!!

After several agonizing hours of writing image, formatting, reading, and panicking, I have finally installed CM7 via verygreen's method.
Thanks for the tip about win32diskimager. this made all the difference!

amp3d said:
After several agonizing hours of writing image, formatting, reading, and panicking, I have finally installed CM7 via verygreen's method.
Thanks for the tip about win32diskimager. this made all the difference!
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Check your stock Nook. Did you end up with Clockwork Recovery on it?

how do i check?
as far as i know, there wasnt a CWM on verygreen's method, was there?
When I wrote the image using WinImage, the NC always booted up stock. nothing out of the ordinary.
When I wrote it with Win32, it immediately loaded the installer.
but now after turning the device off, taking out the sd, booting stock, and powering off to put the sd card in, cm7 can't seem to get a wifi connection... hope to find the answer soon

[Q] Custom ROM, stuck at boot animation...

I wanted to run a custom ROM on my A500 (first attempt at installing custom ROM), but i'm now stuck at the boot animation.
I downgraded my A500 to 3.0.1, rooted, installed clockwork mod, upgraded cwm to 1.5. So far so good.
Then i downloaded thor rom v12, copied it to the external sd card (by putting it on USB thumb drive, transfer to tablet, copy to external SD using file explorer - something tells me I'm going to need to pick up an sd card reader for my computer)
Rebooted into recovery, wiped everything (had nothing of value installed yet), and then chose to install zip file, chose thor_rom_v12.zip on external SD card, it started installing - looked like it succeeded.
Reboot tablet, and i've been staring at the boot animation (electric blue pulsating android with spinning gears on it) for about 45 minutes.
How should I proceed from here? Any idea what I did wrong?
Thanks

Hold the power button down and see if you can force it to shut down. I dont think itll turn off but its worth a try. You could also try the hard reset button (pin hole on the side of the tab) if the reset works than you should be able to boot back into recovery. If not than youll just have to wait till the battery dies.
Once you eventually get it turned off than try booting into recovery and do a full wipe and reflash the rom. I have a feeling the file you downloaded is corrupted though. if this is so than your tab probally wont boot up again.
At this point id redownload the thor or another rom and than try flashing that. You'd have to get an sd reader since you won't be able to transfer the files through your iconia again. If you can manage to get a clean download on your micro sd somehow than i'd skip straight to this step and start redownloading the rom right now.
BTW these are just the things i would try from knowing what I do about android. I haven't had any issues with my tab yet so I havent looked for solutions for this it, but ive dealt with other boot looped and soft bricked devices.
I'm sure if you do a search you'll find something.

Fixed bootloop, back in bootloop. Crap.

How it started: I use a NC with mirage 7.2 flashed to the emmc in my car. It runs Torque to display engine data, and is switched in and out of sleep with the ignition. Two days ago I started the car and got the low-battery "exclamation point" icon thing, so I figured the charging cable must have come loose*. I took it all out and left it charging overnight, but when I went to boot it in the morning it was stuck in a cyanoboot loop. I couldn't power the device down or enter emmc recovery. When I completely unplug the NC I can't do anything, the screen remains black no matter what I press, except it flashes white every 5 seconds or so. If I manage to plug it on, get to the cyanoboot loading screen and unplug it while holding the power button down at the right time, I can sometimes get it to power off completely.
What I have done so far: Tried various recovery SD methods, none of which worked. Wiped cache/data/system, factory reset, tried loading 7.2 again over the top of whatever is left in there, lol. Basically after it first happened I probably made a big mess of the file system in a desperate attempt for some kind of stability. I tried this recovery SD: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=25354258#post25354258 ; section A10, and managed to get into CWR. I've never felt such joy in my life.
What finally worked: I repaired the 2nd partition with the help of this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1759558 . I did not repair or format any other partitions though. After repairing the partition, I did a factory reset and flashed mirage 7.2 and gapps back onto the emmc. Before I rebooted, I swapped a clean SD in but it still went back into the bootloop..BUT...when I put my recovery SD back in it booted into 7.2! I set everything up and was happy to have it running again. Battery level was at 88%.
What made it stop working: I was testing to make sure the NC would enter sleep mode when disconnected from power, so I unplugged it. Everything went black, no "sleeping" screen, just a hard shut-down. I powered it back on and I'm now back in a cyanomod boot loop.
So...any ideas? If there's a way to completely wipe and reinstall everything I'm OK with that. I've never used ADB before but I'll give it a shot if someone can lead me in the right direction. Thanks in advance.
*I'm using a 2amp USB car charger with a modified data-looped cable for a/c style charging in the car. I know the supplied nook cables are prone to going bad, and this may have happened with the vibration of the car and all. Not sure.

Little update: I can sometimes get into TWRP by selecting the "normal emmc" boot from the cyanoboot screen. I don't understand how that's possible, as I flashed that on my original install of 7.2 months ago. Guess I need to figure out how to completely wipe and re-flash everything.

SPLEclipse said:
Little update: I can sometimes get into TWRP by selecting the "normal emmc" boot from the cyanoboot screen. I don't understand how that's possible, as I flashed that on my original install of 7.2 months ago. Guess I need to figure out how to completely wipe and re-flash everything.
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To completely wipe and reflash everything, do the other two zips that you said you did not do from my partition repair thread.
Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10 on Hybrid SD

No luck with that. Here's exactly what I did, so tell me where I might be going wrong:
1) Burned an image of the 6.1.0.2 recovery onto SD, then put the (2) recovery zips and the (1) format zip as well as the mirage 7.2 and gapp zips onto the SD.
2) Booted into cyanoboot, it took a few tries to get out of the loop and into CWM. Note that I can't power on at all unless it's plugged in. As soon as I unplug the NC it turns of except the screen will flash every 5 seconds or so. Once I got into CWM, I installed both partition repair zips, starting with the 1-4-5-6-7-8, followed by the 2. Rebooted. There were no errors at all.
3) Again it took a few tries to get out of the bootloop and into CWM. Installed the format zip and rebooted again.
4) Installed Mirage 7.2 and gapps and restarted, but went straight back into bootloop. I know that the rom requires a clean formated SD card, so before rebooting after I installed the zips I took out the SD card, formatted with SDFormatter and reinserted in into the NC.
I'm beginning to think this is something hardware related. :crying:

Sounds like there might be some bad data in emmc, I had this problem before and fixed it by formatting everything , even emmc and wiping dalvik cache. Then boot off a SD card using the latest cwm.
Sent from my NookColor using xda app-developers app

SPLEclipse said:
No luck with that. Here's exactly what I did, so tell me where I might be going wrong:
1) Burned an image of the 6.1.0.2 recovery onto SD, then put the (2) recovery zips and the (1) format zip as well as the mirage 7.2 and gapp zips onto the SD.
2) Booted into cyanoboot, it took a few tries to get out of the loop and into CWM. Note that I can't power on at all unless it's plugged in. As soon as I unplug the NC it turns of except the screen will flash every 5 seconds or so. Once I got into CWM, I installed both partition repair zips, starting with the 1-4-5-6-7-8, followed by the 2. Rebooted. There were no errors at all.
3) Again it took a few tries to get out of the bootloop and into CWM. Installed the format zip and rebooted again.
4) Installed Mirage 7.2 and gapps and restarted, but went straight back into bootloop. I know that the rom requires a clean formated SD card, so before rebooting after I installed the zips I took out the SD card, formatted with SDFormatter and reinserted in into the NC.
I'm beginning to think this is something hardware related. :crying:
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It is possible that your partition table is messed up. The only way to find out is to boot to recovery, connect your USB cable to the PC and run ADB. It is also possible to make a CM bootable SD and use terminal emulator to check it out.
Once you get ADB shell or terminal emulator working, type the following command:
fdisk -l /dev/block/mmcblk0
It should say 965 cylinders, 4 heads, 63 sectors.
If it does not, we need to do a manual repair.
You can also abandon emmc and just run off SD.
Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10 on Hybrid SD

[Q] Nook CM-7 boot loops

I've read the other posts, and there are some similarities, but I still don't get a clear picture... So here goes...
I've had my Nook Color for about two years and created a SD card boot to CM7 that worked like a charm for these last two years, then...
the system a few days ago went into a boot mode automatically, and just looped. All I could do was turn it off by long press on the power button.
I removed the SD card and booted to the Nook operating system and all went fine.
Re-installed the SD card and started the boot process, it again went to continuous CM7 logo looping.
Tried recovery mode, which seemed to go well, although it shut itself down without completing the boot process.
I have tried every imaginable switch combination (volume, power, n), all to no avail. Depleted power, full power, power connected, etc. Nothing breaks the cycle.
Recent app installations were Netflix, a word document processor, a speaker amplification. Titanium backup was running sometime in the near past. Most apps were loaded to the SD card.
I would like to be able to save some documents on the SD card, but now what to do?
Reload a fresh copy of CM7?
Load a new triple boot of basic, CM7 and CM9?
Just jump to a altogether new CM10.1?
Any suggestions (remember the forum rules, now...).
Thanks a million.
Well, here's what I've done.
Burnt another SD card with CM10.1 - works like a charm but don't have any of my old files on the card -started all new.
Downloaded CWM on another card, booted to it, but got menu choices I wasn't sure about, so chose "SD boot". removed the CWM card, put in my old CM5.7 card, pressed the "N" (to start the reboot), and got the same old loop.
I guess I just don't know enough, and don't know where to go to get smarter.
And the rest of the story...
CM10.1 ran fine for two days, then this morning on power-on, I got a message of "Trebuchet" error - no matter what I did, the error message prevented starting any other program or a normal power off. So...on restart, got LOOPING AGAIN! CWMod doesn't help.
Back to Google and forums.

Problem solved! (But, other than getting a good installation, I don't remember exactly HOW!)