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Hello,
Could you please help me for a couple of questions?
- do i need an sd card to root my NC?
- is there a way to install .apk without rooting my NC?
- what is a basic and stable rom to start with? I am using CM7 on my Motorola Milestone
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And here I was thinking the Nook Q&A section was pretty obvious...
Please post there. Or better yet, use the SEARCH function.

ace7196 said:
And here I was thinking the Nook Q&A section was pretty obvious...
Please post there. Or better yet, use the SEARCH function.
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He has almost 400 post... He doesn't need to use the right sections =\.

Fekish said:
Hello,
Could you please help me for a couple of questions?
- do i need an sd card to root my NC?
- is there a way to install .apk without rooting my NC?
- what is a basic and stable rom to start with? I am using CM7 on my Motorola Milestone
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1. Yes, you need a 64gb card to root
2. yes, but you will need a 64gb card for this too.
3. At this time all roms have to be imaged to a 64gb card to run.

Sorry i was using my phone to post and i thought that i was in Q&A already... and beleive me i went through a lot of pages through Tapatalk but didn't find anything!
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DomSim said:
1. Yes, you need a 64gb card to root
2. yes, but you will need a 64gb card for this too.
3. At this time all roms have to be imaged to a 64gb card to run.
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Ok thanks. But why 64gb and not smaller?
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Fekish said:
Ok thanks. But why 64gb and not smaller?
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He's joking.
All you need is a 2gb micro sdcard or larger and you should be fine.
Their flaming you because you posted a general question in the dev forum. . Lol.
Don't take it personal, happens to the best of us.
-Racks
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Fekish said:
Ok thanks. But why 64gb and not smaller?
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I have no idea what he's talking about. You can use any SD card 2gb or bigger. The ROMs currently available are CM7, honeycomb (based off the SDK), and stock 1.2 rooted. For honeycomb and CM7, you can install it on the eMMC or run it off the SD card.
Here are a few links:
1.2 rooted
SD Card installs (ROMs)
Dual Boot ROMs (eMMC)
NookDevs Wiki - Tutorials and other info.
Between those and this forum, you should be set. Extra bits are Netflix on the Nook, and running Tegra 2 Apps. I'd recommend overclocking if you do any of those though - once you overclock to 1.1ghz then everything is fast as can be.

Honestly guys sorry!
I used Tapatalk and wasnt able to understand where exactly i should have posted!
OK thanks i'll check it out. I was reading last week that you can have a ROM on th SD Card and just reboot through that, and if you dont want that, just take out the sd card and you have the stock ROM. Is that true, or not so much?
Because i live in Europe, i dont want to mess so much with NC, as if anything goes wrong i wont have a store near me to go and get some help!

Fekish said:
Honestly guys sorry!
I used Tapatalk and wasnt able to understand where exactly i should have posted!
OK thanks i'll check it out. I was reading last week that you can have a ROM on th SD Card and just reboot through that, and if you dont want that, just take out the sd card and you have the stock ROM. Is that true, or not so much?
Because i live in Europe, i dont want to mess so much with NC, as if anything goes wrong i wont have a store near me to go and get some help!
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The Nook will automatically boot from the SD card, so I would just pick up a spare sd card to try out one of the ROMs. If you like it, you could install it on the internal memory, eMMC, or dual boot.
The great thing with the Nook Color is it's almost impossible to brick, and everything I posted is completely reversible. Worst case is you take the SD card and run clockwork recovery to restore it.
Just to get the full experience, I would root stock 1.2 with Manual Nooter (look at the link I posted before), so you get the full Android experience with B&N's mods -- best for reading btw. Also, most of the apps on B&N are paid apps, but, on the market they're free. That's an incentive to root right there.

ok thanks for your time!
Great to be also in the Nook family of users now!
Will try it with my 2gb card first and then will buy a bigger one. Would the class of the card have any material differences on the Nook performance?

Fekish said:
ok thanks for your time!
Great to be also in the Nook family of users now!
Will try it with my 2gb card first and then will buy a bigger one. Would the class of the card have any material differences on the Nook performance?
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Check out this thread for the best cards to run from. tl;dr version: any SanDisk class 4, 8GB or 16GB seems to be the best bet.

[Q] what is best rooting method for me??

hi, im new signing up here and i've been look all over this site but i just can't find out what i wanna Really know
I'm looking into Rooting my B&N Nook Color (1.2.0) with a 8GB Class 6 Micro SD and i have looked all over to find out what rooting method & program is best but i still can't figure it out. so can anyone give me some Real In-Depth details to this.....
here is what i wanna do:
1-Watch Online Videos(youtube and so-on)
2-Message people online (i.e.: IM's, text message or yahoo mail messenger)
3-Play Music (online or mp3s)
4-Play Apps/Games
5-and of course Web Browsing
if someone can please provide some In-Depth Details to what is the best rooting method for what i wanna do i will be very thankful and i will Rep
Please and thanks!

When you said "Rooting my B&N Nook Color (1.2.0)", you actually have no choice but only one option, that is using ManuallyNook, with whatever version, sorry can't help since I didn't root my device.
Other options are installing and running CM7 or the a-like onto eMMC (aka internal memory) or from an external uSD card.

votinh said:
When you said "Rooting my B&N Nook Color (1.2.0)", you actually have no choice but only one option, that is using ManuallyNook, with whatever version, sorry can't help since I didn't root my device.
Other options are installing and running CM7 or the a-like onto eMMC (aka internal memory) or from an external uSD card.
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thank you for your reply and i did say thanks/rep
but i know there are things like.....
Froyo (Android 2.2), Honeycomb (Android 3.0 & 3.1), CM7 and ManualNooter 4.6.16 and i just have no idea what would work best for what i want

If you don't care about the stock OS cm7 is the best way to go.
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Use the SD card method by verygreen. Get yourself a class 2. 8 gig sandisk and boot cm7. This way here if ( and I use if lightly) you want to revert back to stock just remove the card. Verygreens post can be found on the development page under size agnostic.
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Just ordered mine yesterday but I plan on using this method:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1160424
It looks the same as this one so take your pick:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1030227

AACThaKid said:
thank you for your reply and i did say thanks/rep
but i know there are things like.....
Froyo (Android 2.2), Honeycomb (Android 3.0 & 3.1), CM7 and ManualNooter 4.6.16 and i just have no idea what would work best for what i want
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1. Froyo, HC are OS
2. CM7 is Gingerbread-based OS, custom ROM.
3. ManualNooter is a tool to unlock the NC stock OS
So, if you want to keep and use the stock OS (in this case, Froyo) and want to utilize its full capability, you then "unlock" it using ManualNooter.
If you don't care about the stock OS, you then can install/running other custom ROM such CM7, HC, ...

[Q] Help

I am a noob at all of this, I have a nook color and I was hoping someone could help me root it and put honeycomb on it. I don't know where to begin. I have read about cyanogen mod and deeper blue but I don't know where to download them or which one I should use?

If you want CM7 on the nook (not the SD card) I would suggest reading thru my post asking the same thing, helped me a lot and you can see the end result.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1442509
1. go thru the directions that CobyHoff posted on the first page to just get rooted
2. after that use my wiki link that I posted on the last page to get CM7 installed
Hope that helps

Long story short, you don't want Honeycomb. Install the mirage-kang CM7.2.
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MISRy said:
Long story short, you don't want Honeycomb. Install the mirage-kang CM7.2.
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+1
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[Q] Please help advanced user get back to CM7 from Stock 1.0.1

I had my Original Nook Color Since the 1.0.1 days. I rooted it and had it running everything for over a year. I went through the early froyo days and PhireMod days ect.... Recently I been running CM7 via sdcard. Well I tried some stupid things with my boot loader and messed up both loaders on the uSD and emmmc. Anyways ... after reading close to 100 messages and following many many old broken links, I have finally (via adb) got my nook back to stock 1.0.1 and running.
I am tech savy and know a bit about linux. And a lot about how the nook works. But my mind is fried after all this. SO I am asking for some help. Like I said, I currently have a working nook running stock 1.0.1 (with old broken wifi even) So my router is wide open so I can have wifi that works on nook. Anyway Please advise me were to go from here.
I would like to get CM7 running again via my sd-card. I would also like to update to Stock Nook 1.4.1 (on emmc) (so I can use their new comic reader) but that is not my main focus. If I can do that and dual boot then fine. But my real goal is just to get back to CM7 nightlies.
Do I need to nooter again ? Can some kind sole please point me in the correct direction or just walk me through what I need to do... I am tech savy so you could spell it out quickly if needed. I do have adb working and I have 2 empty sdcards.
ANYTHING would help my brain from overloading LOL.
Thank you so much.
PS... I have helped many many many people over the last 2 years both here in the Nook world and in the ANdroid forums.
Peace

Come on guys.... 75 views and not 1 bit of help. : (
I'll just keep waiting...
Thanks again

Thibor69 said:
Come on guys.... 75 views and not 1 bit of help. : (
I'll just keep waiting...
Thanks again
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You have double posted and were answered on the other thread. You don't expect people to answer the same question twice do you? Or do you think they are different questions?
Eyeballer told you how to get to stock 1.2 in his guide. If you have wifi working, I would think it would update by itself from there.
The guide for making CM7 bootable SD is here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=12240928
And you don't have to root emmc to do it.

leapinlar said:
Eyeballer told you how to get to stock 1.2 in his guide. If you have wifi working, I would think it would update by itself from there.
The guide for making CM7 bootable SD is here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=12240928
And you don't have to root emmc to do it.
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Yeah ... thanks I got it.
Thread should be closed.................

cm9 question

is it possible that cm9 will get HD streaming on YouTube and Netflix working soon?

As soon as they get HW acceleration working. Devs are working on it
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redhawk79 said:
As soon as they get HW acceleration working. Devs are working on it
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do you know how long they have been working on it?

Neku_Sakuraba said:
do you know how long they have been working on it?
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Quite a while. It won't happen until they get the 3.0 kernel done. You can follow the development here, but don't ask them for an estimated completion date:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1677219

leapinlar said:
Quite a while. It won't happen until they get the 3.0 kernel done. You can follow the development here, but don't ask them for an estimated completion date:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1677219
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thanks. i am pretty new to the nook color hacking scene and had no idea what is going on

Hello, I've been trying to run cm9 off an SD card. The problem is I can get the first part to start "the cyanoboot screen" then when it goes to fire up cm9, it goes to a black screen. Am I losing my mind? Thanks
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purpleurkle said:
Hello, I've been trying to run cm9 off an SD card. The problem is I can get the first part to start "the cyanoboot screen" then when it goes to fire up cm9, it goes to a black screen. Am I losing my mind? Thanks
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Which method did you follow for installing CM9?
Is it new or upgrade from other rom?
Produced by NookColor at ICS 4.0.4

Not sure, its one of eyeballers nightlies. And I'm guessing I'm not putting the correct cm9 program on my card, are their different mods for your hard drive then their are for the bootable sd card? Now my problem is that when I put my sd card with cm7 back in, the nook had to reload its stock rom I guess cause when I turned it back on it said something like it was reloadIng original image. Then I had to register it again. What's freaking me out is that now when I run My cm7 sd card, its running choppy, things are force closing in every direction, when before it ran perfectly. Have I somehow shot myself in the foot or is there some way to fix this? Thankyou for your help
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Both Cm7 and Cm 9 are running from SD?
Like Dualboot?

purpleurkle said:
Hello, I've been trying to run cm9 off an SD card. The problem is I can get the first part to start "the cyanoboot screen" then when it goes to fire up cm9, it goes to a black screen. Am I losing my mind? Thanks
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Purple-you should look here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1696400
Did you use an open GL cm9? I'd almost bet you did. Follow the instructions given by dizzy and leap and it should get you going. I tried updating from cm7.2 to cm9 open GL (I think June 11th) and mine blew up pretty bad. Not even a restore from a back up helped.

CM9 on SDcard install
I've been running CM9 for a couple months now. I installed a fresh image on a Sandisk 16Gb class 4 card using Samiam303's variation on Verygreen's procedure and update occasionally using CM9 nightlies from http://techerrata.com/browse/nightly_kangs/encore (see [ROM][NC] Unofficial CM9 Nightly builds - with/without OpenGL). It's been pretty stable, a bit slow at times, but mostly works with the notable exception of Netflix and USB/UMS.
I did run into one other glitch when going from the 6/13 to the 6/20 nightly OpenGL update. MTP stopped working. I tried several different driver configs on my XP machine without success. Going back to the 6/13 nightly brought it back and that's where I am now. LeapinLar solved the problem for ADB by modifying the .inf file which might give a clue to how to get MTP working, but that's stretching my capability. This and many other useful tips are in his post [USER][TIPS]CM7/CM9 User Tips From LeapinLar.

drhunt55 said:
I've been running CM9 for a couple months now. I installed a fresh image on a Sandisk 16Gb class 4 card using Samiam303's variation on Verygreen's procedure and update occasionally using CM9 nightlies from http://techerrata.com/browse/nightly_kangs/encore (see [ROM][NC] Unofficial CM9 Nightly builds - with/without OpenGL). It's been pretty stable, a bit slow at times, but mostly works with the notable exception of Netflix and USB/UMS.
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Netflix does not work for anyone. But UMS and MTP should work. For MTP, but sure USB debugging is off in development settings. For UMS, it needs to be checked in settings and when you plug the cable into the PC, a dialog should pop up saying to turn on USB Storage. Be sure to select that.
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I was under the impression we were never to expect HW acceleration to work? Has this changed?