[Q] Multiple Nook Color problems, please help. - Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Sorry if this is long but Ive spent the last two days reading posts trying to figure out what I'm doing wrong. Ive found similar problems but nothing right on. Ive tried installing CM10 on a Nook Color and everything has been a problem. It started when I tried putting the files on my SD card. I downloaded the 3 files (img,cm,jb) and followed the instructions to load them to my class 4 San disc 4Gb micro SD. I unzipped the image file and using Win32 placed them on the card.(using an new external card reader) This is where it started.
I didn't know if I was supposed to use Win32 to load the other 2 zipped files so I tried it. It said they loaded but it wouldn't boot in the nook. I tried it again and when ever I would try to see if the files where there I got a "disc is not formatted would you like to format" message. I used SDFormatter to format the disc and tried to just copy the remaining 2 files to the disc. Now I was getting a " cannot write disc is full" message. When I finally thought all 3 files were on the card I tried it in the Nook and this time it booted and seemed to go well but then it stopped. It was saying It couldn't locate an img file, and I should download it from a place I couldn't find. I reloaded the img file and placed it in the nook and it said something about not recognizing the card or something like that. Ive tried everything and nothing would work. I then found I couldn't even shut down the nook. It ended up running out of power, and that is where my second problem began. It now says "Battery to low to power on every time I try to power up. Ive tried the stock power cord and the one to my phone. Used strait power and USB. from my PC. It is charged, it just doesn't seem to know it. I'm frustrated and sick of the whole ordeal. Please tell me what I did wrong and if I can fix it.

You only unzip the image zip and burn it to the card. The other two get copied without unzipping. And what version of the image zip are you using? It needs to be rev5 from my updated NC installation instructions linked in my signature. If the message said to go to an .ru site, it is an old version.
And you just use Windows Explorer to copy the other two files to the card.
If you use SDFormatter, be sure to do a full format, not just quick. And only do that before you burn the image and copy the files.
The battery must charge for a good 15 minutes with the stock cable and charging block before it can power up.
Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10 on Hybrid SD

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leapinlar said:
You only unzip the image zip and burn it to the card. The other two get copied without unzipping. And what version of the image zip are you using? It needs to be rev5 from my updated NC installation instructions linked in my signature. If the message said to go to an .ru site, it is an old version.
And you just use Windows Explorer to copy the other two files to the card.
If you use SDFormatter, be sure to do a full format, not just quick. And only do that before you burn the image and copy the files.
The battery must charge for a good 15 minutes with the stock cable and charging block before it can power up.
Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10 on Hybrid SD
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Thanks for getting back to me so soon, I understand I need to be a little more specific.
I don't know if it matters but I'm using windows XP sp3.
Starting with the SD card, I did use the latest SDFormater to do a full erase and format each time.
I finally did use win32 for just the image file, But every time I would get a "not enough room on disk message" when copying the other 2 zipped files to the card. (using windows explorer) I tried it 3 or 4 times.
The Nook has been charging of and on for 2 days and I still get the message. As I said Ive tried using the charger that came with the nook and another one that fit. Ive plugged it into my wall socket and my USB ports.
I should also mention that I'm working with 2 Nook colors and have had the same result on both, except one of them is now working. I don't know what I did or why but it all of a sudden booted normally and I did an immediate reset.
I hope this helps you understand my confusion. I couldn't find any posts with the exact same problem.

DYERMMAN said:
Thanks for getting back to me so soon, I understand I need to be a little more specific.
I don't know if it matters but I'm using windows XP sp3.
Starting with the SD card, I did use the latest SDFormater to do a full erase and format each time.
I finally did use win32 for just the image file, But every time I would get a "not enough room on disk message" when copying the other 2 zipped files to the card. (using windows explorer) I tried it 3 or 4 times.
The Nook has been charging of and on for 2 days and I still get the message. As I said Ive tried using the charger that came with the nook and another one that fit. Ive plugged it into my wall socket and my USB ports.
I should also mention that I'm working with 2 Nook colors and have had the same result on both, except one of them is now working. I don't know what I did or why but it all of a sudden booted normally and I did an immediate reset.
I hope this helps you understand my confusion. I couldn't find any posts with the exact same problem.
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You still did not confirm you were using my rev5 image. Using an earlier version of the image would give those not enough room errors.
If you were having the same charging problem, how did you get one to work?
Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10 on Hybrid SD

leapinlar said:
You only unzip the image zip and burn it to the card. The other two get copied without unzipping. And what version of the image zip are you using? It needs to be rev5 from my updated NC installation instructions linked in my signature. If the message said to go to an .ru site, it is an old version.
And you just use Windows Explorer to copy the other two files to the card.
If you use SDFormatter, be sure to do a full format, not just quick. And only do that before you burn the image and copy the files.
The battery must charge for a good 15 minutes with the stock cable and charging block before it can power up.
Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10 on Hybrid SD
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leapinlar said:
You still did not confirm you were using my rev5 image. Using an earlier version of the image would give those not enough room errors.
If you were having the same charging problem, how did you get one to work?
Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10 on Hybrid SD
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Sorry,
Good news, My other Nook has finally started up. I tried a travel charger I had bought and after 10 min it just started up.
As tp your question, I tried a couple of different img files while I was trying just to get all the files loaded on the SD, One was generic 1.3, and the other I believe was labeled ramdisc?
Please help me understand why I cant seem to load all 3 files to my SD card. That is where it all started and I haven't been able to figure out why. As i said I am using a 4 Gb micro SD card. It loads the img file but then I cant load the other 2 after. I get the not enough space on disc message.
Thank you
Got it. The problem was the way I was copying the zip files to the SD card.. Once I did the copy and paste it worked fine.

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[Q] Noob question: How to boot from SD?

I tried to create a CM7 bootable SD card per the thread entitled "Size-agnostic SD Card image and CM7 installer for SD Cards. with updater."
I used WinImage to create the supposedly bootable SD card with the installer, placed it into my Nook which was fully off, and the Nook booted as usual instead of from the SD card.
Am I missing something? How do you boot from an SD card?
Is there such a thing as a boot choice menu like on my PC or is the default always to boot from the SD card?
Does the Nook have to be rooted for this to work?
Thanks
ETA: My PC shows the uSD card as nearly full, but my Nook shows the SD card as nearly empty (1.74 out of 1.84 GB available).
When you bought your Nook, did it have a blue sticker on the box? And does internal storage show 1GB or 5GB for you?
Also, you did drop an update CM7 zip file onto the imaged uSD before you tried booting off it right?
angomy said:
When you bought your Nook, did it have a blue sticker on the box? And does internal storage show 1GB or 5GB for you?
Also, you did drop an update CM7 zip file onto the imaged uSD before you tried booting off it right?
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No blue sticker was on the box. The internal storage shows 5GB.
Yes, I had a CM7 zip file on the imaged card. (The latest encore nightly)
Interestingly, my PC shows the uSD (2 GB) as nearly full. The Nook shows it as nearly empty (1.74 out of 1.84 available).
JowBe said:
No blue sticker was on the box. The internal storage shows 5GB.
Yes, I had a CM7 zip file on the imaged card. (The latest encore nightly)
Interestingly, my PC shows the uSD (2 GB) as nearly full. The Nook shows it as nearly empty (1.74 out of 1.84 available).
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When you burned the installer img, did you run WinImage as administrator? Also, when you put it in your reader it comes up as boot (drive letter in Windows, with files like uImage, uRamdisk, mlo, u-boot.bin, right?
angomy said:
When you burned the installer img, did you run WinImage as administrator? Also, when you put it in your reader it comes up as boot (drive letter in Windows, with files like uImage, uRamdisk, mlo, u-boot.bin, right?
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Yes, I ran WinImage as administrator. And yes, it shows up in Windows explorer as boot and yes those files are there.
Could it be because my Nook operates in "factory mode," in order to skip initial registration?
You should run it and register it and setup wifi and everything first. Get the stock software working fine and dandy (its not half bad actually). Then, checkout this guide for installing CM7 onto an SD card:
http://clubnook.com/forum/showthread.php?953-Rooting-Instructions
It has worked for some rooting rookies so far and includes both windows and mac guides specific to SD cards.
JowBe said:
Could it be because my Nook operates in "factory mode," in order to skip initial registration?
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I'm not sure, because I ran through initial registration on stock prior to running CM7 off SD --- I used the same image (verygreen's agnostic at http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1000957) as you did without a hitch.
If you decide to run CM7 off internal sometime you're going to need to register the nook anyway.
You could try an alternate bootable SD (e.g., using an image from here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=13283643&postcount=34) to eliminate one of the two: a) your nook having issues booting from SD or b) your SD install is not set up correctly.
An update: I decided to try to create a bootable SD from another bootable image (MonsterRootPack with CWR). This time the nook wouldn't even turn on. I'm going to try to create a third bootable SD as angomy has suggested to see what happens.
I need to add that when I removed the uSD card, it booted normally.
Also, when I create the bootable SD with winimage, I get a dialog box that tells me that the format of the SD card is not right and asks me if I want to resize the image. But this happened on both the images. I don't know if this has anything to do with it.
angomy said:
You could try an alternate bootable SD (e.g., using an image from here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=13283643&postcount=34) to eliminate one of the two: a) your nook having issues booting from SD or b) your SD install is not set up correctly.
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Ok, I tried the CWR image in the link you gave. Same problem - no-go. Just sits there dead. I remove the uSD and it boots normally.
FWIW you do not have to boot into stock B&N at all before you setup and install to CM7 SD card. One of my NCs has never ever booted into stock ROM at all, I installed CM7 onto SD card and running off that from the moment it was unboxed.
The NC will always boot off the SD card first, so if it's booting off eMMC instead then there must be something wrong with the img that you wrote to your SD card.
Make sure that you have a freshly formatted SD card, preferably one with good small random block r/w speeds (eg Sandisk class 4 8G). Follow the instructions in verygreen's "Size Agnostic..." OP to the letter. Re-download all the files as you may have a corrupted one. Make sure to check MD5 this time. Try using Win32diskimager instead, the 0.1 version works better.
It should work. Good luck.
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You should run it and register it and setup wifi and everything first. Get the stock software working fine and dandy (its not half bad actually). Then, checkout this guide for installing CM7 onto an SD card:
http://clubnook.com/forum/showthread.php?953-Rooting-Instructions
It has worked for some rooting rookies so far and includes both windows and mac guides specific to SD cards.
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Thanks for the link. I have given this some thought, and it doesn't seem reasonable that booting from an SD card should depend upon the state of registration of the device because the whole idea of booting from an SD card means that the content of the SD card is loaded in the place of the stock software.
robot8 said:
FWIW you do not have to boot into stock B&N at all before you setup and install to CM7 SD card. One of my NCs has never ever booted into stock ROM at all, I installed CM7 onto SD card and running off that from the moment it was unboxed.
The NC will always boot off the SD card first, so if it's booting off eMMC instead then there must be something wrong with the img that you wrote to your SD card.
Make sure that you have a freshly formatted SD card, preferably one with good small random block r/w speeds (eg Sandisk class 4 8G). Follow the instructions in verygreen's "Size Agnostic..." OP to the letter. Re-download all the files as you may have a corrupted one. Make sure to check MD5 this time. Try using Win32diskimager instead, the 0.1 version works better.
It should work. Good luck.
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Thanks. Yes, I just replied to another poster that I didn't think that the state of registration of the device should matter since the whole purpose of a bootable SD card is to load the contents of the SD in place of the stock.
I have followed the instructions in verygreen's thread to the letter - several times. Also, I have tried to make other bootable SDs without success. But that's a good idea about trying Win32diskimager. Also, I will try a Sandisk class 4 card SD as soon as I can get to a store.
I do have a question. When I format the SD card what "allocation unit size" should I be using? (formatting through Windows) The default is 32 kb.
PROBLEM SOLVED!
Thanks to everyone for trying to help me figure this out. The winning idea belongs to robot8.
When I switched from using WinImage to using Win32diskimager, it worked immediately. I am now running CM7 on my Nook Color! Took forever and a day to boot though.
Congrats!
Re: allocation unit size, do you mean cluster size? Depends on how big the FAT32 partition is --- larger clusters used means more actual space used but too large a size can reduce access speed. Generally Windows defaults to suggested 4k for up to 8GB, 8GB-16GB = 8k, 16-32GB = 16k, and 32+ = 32kb.
Also the first boot is the longest --- shouldn't take as long after that. Welcome to CM7 - I don't regret installing it over stock after waffling for weeks on whether or not I'd use stock at some point -- CM7 is just too much faster with too many more options and tweaks for my impatience to deal with stock Froyo.
THANK YOU OP!
I had the same issue, tried 20x various ways, 2 different computers, 2 different SD readers, and it was WinImage that wasnt working correctly. Win32DiskImager solved it.
Thanks.
JowBe said:
PROBLEM SOLVED!
Thanks to everyone for trying to help me figure this out. The winning idea belongs to robot8.
When I switched from using WinImage to using Win32diskimager, it worked immediately. I am now running CM7 on my Nook Color! Took forever and a day to boot though.
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Thanks so much! This finally got it to work for me too. Loving my new Android tablet
FWIW, WinImage does not work. Maybe it used to work, but it does not now. I posted about this a few days ago here.

[Q] Help w/CM7 sd card install on new NC

Hello, Just got a refurbished NC with version 1.2 (read forever). Works great from stock system, but I'm trying to install CM7 on SanDisk 8gb card via post directions on:
[ROM][CM7] [v1.3] Size-agnostic SD Card image and CM7 installer for SD Cards
I've tried the 2 latest stable updates 7.1.0 and 7.0.3 and everything seems to install fine with the last lines saying "all steps complete...flushing caches...shutting down"
When I restart, it goes to the last 20 or so lines of the install and shuts down again (same messages at the end...all steps etc) I've redownloaded both the green 1.3 installer image and the stable roms. When I tried a "nightly" the install stopped on a line saying "looking for file starting with update..." or something like that and it sat there until I held the power button for a looong time.
I did try searching for a solution but couldn't find one like this problem. Any ideas what I'm doing wrong or not doing? Thanks
One thought...the 8gb card doesn't show what class... it only says Sandisk Micro HC
Are you certain you are dropping the CM7 files on the root of the boot partition on the SD?
You seem to describe doing it right but we need step-by-step how you get it done in order to maybe figure out where the culprit is.
I would suggest RECREATE the bootable uSD first.
Note: redownload the image file if needed.
Thanks for replying. Here's what I've done:
formatted 8gb micro via windows 7
downloaded image installer 1.3 via xda
downloaded winimage
restored sd card from image (generic...)
I saw boot disk w/4 files
downloaded latest stable cm7 and copied directly (zipped)to boot partition on sd
inserted sd in NC
it loaded and started updating for about 60 secs like mentioned above
it automatically shut down
When I restart NC, there is a quick white screen it goes to loading and redoes the last 20-30 lines of update and shuts down again. The lines go by so quick I can't read it (or more accurately remember them)
I've redownloaded both install image and stable updates with same results. When I tried downloading a niightly, the installer stopped midway with last line saying something like...looking for file starting with update...
Any help is appreciated
I have the same device as you (refurb NC 1.2 from the recent dailysteals sale) and did the exact things that you did except use win32diskimager instead of winimage, and it installed the cm7 nightly 240 without any issues. It's only afterward that I ran into trouble, trying to install gapps (read about it here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1332441)
same device, same procedure, different results.
You might want to re-download cm7 zip file... you can use 7-zip or winrar to "Test archive" to see if it is corrupt before copying it to the boot partition of the uSD.
Like jh mentioned, I would give win32diskimager a try, there were many reported of winimage didn't work well.
Search for the win32diskimager, older version is better for some reason, 0.15 or something. If you can't find, let me know, I'll host the file.
Again, redownload all files, make sure no hiccup in the middle of downloading process.
What you did was correct, just to let you know.
Work-around works---next question
update!
I took out the micro 2gb sandisk from my phone and tried it again doing the normal install. It works! So, next question. Can I make an image of the 2gb sd and restore it on the 8gb sd and via some procedure maximize the rest of the sd?
Any ideas why 8gb didn't work in first place? I had done a full format via windows explorer before trying the first time. Even tried formatting via NC and still no luck. The 8gb was being used in my rooted Eris phone with no problems.
By any chance you got the counterfeit one? the 8GB
not counterfeit...I think...because when fully formatted it was 7.4+ gb
Found another 8gb sandisk micro and used it. Worked perfectly. I should have tried that first and saved a whole lot of time and energy! Thanks to all that chimed in with suggestions.
hmthomas said:
Found another 8gb sandisk micro and used it. Worked perfectly. I should have tried that first and saved a whole lot of time and energy! Thanks to all that chimed in with suggestions.
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You have to use at least a class 4 card and that still works pretty pokey. I have my nook overclocked and running on internal and it is almost as fast as a stock Atrix
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[Q] Having trouble creating bootable sd card

Hi xda, my nook won't boot up at all after I tried to restore to stock from autonooter 1.01. I read as many threads as I could and tried to make a bootable sd from leapinLar's tips page. The stock recovery with cwr and without. I used winimage and win32. With winImage I get an error "reading from file". win32 seems to write the file but it doesn't boot up the nook. When I try and open the sd with windows to see if anything is on the sd it says "not formatted would you like to format it now". I downloaded file, unzipped, then wrote to sd. I must be doing something wrong creating the sd but I can't find any info as to what. Thanks for any help
Stjpa said:
Hi xda, my nook won't boot up at all after I tried to restore to stock from autonooter 1.01. I read as many threads as I could and tried to make a bootable sd from leapinLar's tips page. The stock recovery with cwr and without. I used winimage and win32. With winImage I get an error "reading from file". win32 seems to write the file but it doesn't boot up the nook. When I try and open the sd with windows to see if anything is on the sd it says "not formatted would you like to format it now". I downloaded file, unzipped, then wrote to sd. I must be doing something wrong creating the sd but I can't find any info as to what. Thanks for any help
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Are you unzipping the right file? You said something about with stock recovery and without. Those are not image files that can be burned. When you unzip my image zip file, you should end up with a 300MB .img file. That is what you burn with win32diskimager. And take the card out of the PC and put it back in before you try to look at it. And be sure to use an external card reader, not one built into your PC.
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Thanks Leapinlar. I downloaded your nook color emmc stock recovery zip with and without the cwr. I am using external sd reader. I downloaded and tried cwm-6.0.1.2 bootable sd zip and tried that in the nook and nothing happens. Also tried the 5.5.0.4 version too. I removed the card reader and reinserted it in the pc and when I click on the drive letter it ask me if I want to format it. I used win32diskimager and it said write successful, so I put it in the nook and then plugged nook into computer with the stock usb cable and nothing happens. If I hold the power button down the pc does ding as if when you plug in an external device. I'm either trying to burn the wrong file or I'm not making the bootable. Thank you for your help.
Stjpa said:
Thanks Leapinlar. I downloaded your nook color emmc stock recovery zip with and without the cwr. I am using external sd reader. I downloaded and tried cwm-6.0.1.2 bootable sd zip and tried that in the nook and nothing happens. Also tried the 5.5.0.4 version too. I removed the card reader and reinserted it in the pc and when I click on the drive letter it ask me if I want to format it. I used win32diskimager and it said write successful, so I put it in the nook and then plugged nook into computer with the stock usb cable and nothing happens. If I hold the power button down the pc does ding as if when you plug in an external device. I'm either trying to burn the wrong file or I'm not making the bootable. Thank you for your help.
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You don't say, but you are unzipping those image files before you burn them, right? Should be 300MB .img file. Other than that just look at my A10 tip in my tips thread and follow exactly.
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leapinlar said:
You don't say, but you are unzipping those image files before you burn them, right? Should be 300MB .img file. Other than that just look at my A10 tip in my tips thread and follow exactly.
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Yes I did unzip the image file before I burned it. I ended up finding a cwr zip that was for a 4 gig card, probably an older way of doing it, and that worked for some reason. I did use your stock 1.4.3 zip though and all seems well. Your tips page is great, thank you, you're very helpful now I can play around and brick it again with some other stuff.
Hey guys.
I am somewhat a noob. I bought a brand new 8gb nook color from wallmart on black friday. I heard about how you can put CM onto the sd card and boot from that without altering the device itself. I have tried for HOURS to do this. I have looked up COUNTLESS walk throughs and done everything they say, done alternations, and used different cards ranging from 2gb sandisk (class 1?) to 32 gb sandisk this is a class 4. I've used winimage and burned the image to the card, then dragged over cyanogenmod and done this task in countless different ways. Every time I shut down the nook, put in the card, then re-boot, the nook does NOT boot from the card. It boots normal, then I can actually browse the card after it boots up. I have done it EXACTLY how it says here and read tutorials so its not a question of whether or not I have followed standard proceedure. My firmware version is 1.4.3. Ive searched online to this and to no avail. My sister bought the exact same one at the exact same time and it does not boot the sd either. I have done about 8 straight hours of research on this guys, so I'm no pro but I have a basic understanding of how it works now. My questions are this:
1: Did Barns and Noble put restrictions on the newest nook color or on the newest software version? And if so is there a way around this?
and
2: If NOT, is there an alternate way/installation onto the card that I can do (such as an image pre loaded with CM etc.) that I might be able to try instead of the conventional way?
Thanks guys! Sorry for the uber long post : S
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Hey guys.
I am somewhat a noob. I bought a brand new 8gb nook color from wallmart on black friday. I heard about how you can put CM onto the sd card and boot from that without altering the device itself. I have tried for HOURS to do this. I have looked up COUNTLESS walk throughs and done everything they say, done alternations, and used different cards ranging from 2gb sandisk (class 1?) to 32 gb sandisk this is a class 4. I've used winimage and burned the image to the card, then dragged over cyanogenmod and done this task in countless different ways. Every time I shut down the nook, put in the card, then re-boot, the nook does NOT boot from the card. It boots normal, then I can actually browse the card after it boots up. I have done it EXACTLY how it says here and read tutorials so its not a question of whether or not I have followed standard proceedure. My firmware version is 1.4.3. Ive searched online to this and to no avail. My sister bought the exact same one at the exact same time and it does not boot the sd either. I have done about 8 straight hours of research on this guys, so I'm no pro but I have a basic understanding of how it works now. My questions are this:
1: Did Barns and Noble put restrictions on the newest nook color or on the newest software version? And if so is there a way around this?
and
2: If NOT, is there an alternate way/installation onto the card that I can do (such as an image pre loaded with CM etc.) that I might be able to try instead of the conventional way?
Thanks guys! Sorry for the uber long post : S
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No nothing was done by B&N. It is how you are burning the card. It will not boot in the nook unless burned perfectly. Look at my tips thread linked in my signature and read items A9 and A10.
There not any easy was not to use a bootable recovery card. Just keep trying, using different software, different cards, different PC s, different card readers.
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ronin8knight said:
Hey guys.
I am somewhat a noob. I bought a brand new 8gb nook color from wallmart on black friday. I heard about how you can put CM onto the sd card and boot from that without altering the device itself. I have tried for HOURS to do this. I have looked up COUNTLESS walk throughs and done everything they say, done alternations, and used different cards ranging from 2gb sandisk (class 1?) to 32 gb sandisk this is a class 4. I've used winimage and burned the image to the card, then dragged over cyanogenmod and done this task in countless different ways. Every time I shut down the nook, put in the card, then re-boot, the nook does NOT boot from the card. It boots normal, then I can actually browse the card after it boots up. I have done it EXACTLY how it says here and read tutorials so its not a question of whether or not I have followed standard proceedure. My firmware version is 1.4.3. Ive searched online to this and to no avail. My sister bought the exact same one at the exact same time and it does not boot the sd either. I have done about 8 straight hours of research on this guys, so I'm no pro but I have a basic understanding of how it works now. My questions are this:
1: Did Barns and Noble put restrictions on the newest nook color or on the newest software version? And if so is there a way around this?
and
2: If NOT, is there an alternate way/installation onto the card that I can do (such as an image pre loaded with CM etc.) that I might be able to try instead of the conventional way?
Thanks guys! Sorry for the uber long post : S
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Use win32diskimager instead and use an external card writer. The image is approximately 300mb with the Rev5 file. Then copy the CM10 and 2021011 GApps zips to SD card. Insert in Nook Color. Wait for setup to finish and shut down. Start Nook. Enjoy.

[Q] SD Somehow transferred cyanogenmod to Nook Color

I've tried to do a search for this but can't find it. I'm such a complete novice I may have run across it and not even known I did. I tried to make a bootable SD to be able to use the google app store. I've seen so many instructions now I don't even know where the first one I used is. I think I used CM7 (my Nook Color is version 1.4.1...don't know if that matters). So far, nothing I've done has added the shopping cart but first things first.
Evidently I must have really screwed things up because the cyanogenmod is now on my nook instead of the SD card (which explains why I had so many problems when I tried to redo it). The first thread I found doing a google search was this one: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=931720&highlight=restore+to+stock.
After reading through it on the last page someone posted that it was a very old thread and to go here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=25354258#post25354258 and go down to 15A. But, having the technical skills of a pencil eraser, I can't even figure out which software to download, let alone how to accomplish the restoration. I actually managed to jailbreak my iphone but that was just a matter of downloading software and running it. This doesn't appear to be as simple.
I did manage to find all the files required by the first thread to do the restore, but then I got to this: Select "Restore virtual hard disk image" from the "Disk" menu. My winimage doesn't say that. I am using a new SD card so perhaps that's why. It's at that point that I read all the way through the thread to discover that method? or the firmware? was obsolete.
All I really want is to know which file(s) to download and, if possible, a link to instructions a 5 year old could follow. If I knew a 6th grader I'd just ask them because I'm pretty sure this is hard wired into their DNA. I'm 53 so that's probably half my problem. I can usually figure these things out but this has me completely stumped.
Thanks so much for your time.
You probably used ROM Manager and told it to install CWM and update to a new ROM. The problem is, ROM Manager only works on internal memory installations, not SD installations, so it installed CM to internal memory.
Don't use that old thread to flash stock back on to internal memory, even if you did find the files.
And age is not an excuse for not learning, I'm 68.
Go to my thread referenced above and download the stock 1.4.3 zip file from A15. It is linked in the text of A15.
Make a bootable CWM SD. Use that to flash the stock ROM. Download the file CWM-6.0.1.2-bootable_SD.zip and extract it somewhere on your PC. You should end up with approximately a 300MB .img file. Burn that image to your SD using Win32diskimager per the directions quoted here:
To use Win32DiskImager, find it on the web (here, it's free) and install it on your Windows PC. Open it (be sure to run it as administrator) and select the drive (device) that has your card reader with your SD inserted. Then in the image file box put the location where you have the extracted img file. Then when everything is set right, click on the write button. A warning will pop up asking if you want to proceed. When you have verified that you are going to write to the correct device, click on Yes. (One user overwrote their external USB hard drive by not verifying first). If you get an error message about access denied, it means you are looking at the drive with Windows Explorer. Close Windows Explorer and try again. In fact, it is a good idea to close all unnecessary windows when burning, even your browser.
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Once the SD is burned, temporarily remove the SD from the PC and then reinsert in your PC. Then copy the Stock zip you downloaded earlier to the SD. Insert the SD into your Nook and boot. Once CWM appears, use the volume up/down keys to move the cursor and highlight "Install zip from SD". Then use the n key to activate it. Select the zip you copied to the SD. Go ahead and flash it.
When it is complete, take the SD out and boot. It should boot to stock.
Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10.1 on emmc.
leapinlar said:
You probably used ROM Manager and told it to install CWM and update to a new ROM. The problem is, ROM Manager only works on internal memory installations, not SD installations.
Don't use that old thread to flash stock back on to internal memory, even if you did find the files.
And age is not an excuse for not learning, I'm 68.
Go to my thread referenced above and download the zip file from A15. It is linked in the text of A15.
Make a bootable CWM SD. Use that to flash the stock ROM. Download the file CWM-5.5.0.4-bootable_SD.zip and extract it somewhere on your PC. You should end up with approximately a 200MB .img file. Burn that image to your SD using Win32diskimager per the directions quoted here:
Once the SD is burned, temporarily remove the SD from the PC and then reinsert in your PC. Then copy the Stock zip you downloaded earlier to the SD. Insert the SD into your Nook and boot. Once CWM appears, use the volume up/down keys to move the cursor and highlight "Install zip from SD". Then use the n key to activate it. Select the zip you copied to the SD. Go ahead and flash it.
When it is complete, take the SD out and boot. It should boot to stock.
Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10.1 on emmc.
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Thank you, I'll try again! It's not that I don't want to learn. I'm asking because I trying to learn. I think I've probably confused myself by reading too much on too many websites and it takes me a little while to figure out technical things. I do appreciate the help. I probably just need to take some deep breaths and clear my brain so I can start over. I just want to make sure I don't really mess it up to the point it's completely unrepairable.
DelilahM said:
Thank you, I'll try again! It's not that I don't want to learn. I'm asking because I trying to learn. I think I've probably confused myself by reading too much on too many websites and it takes me a little while to figure out technical things. I do appreciate the help. I probably just need to take some deep breaths and clear my brain so I can start over. I just want to make sure I don't really mess it up to the point it's completely unrepairable.
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Notice I changed which CWM you should download. Use 6.0.1.2, it works better for stock.
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Notice I changed which CWM you should download. Use 6.0.1.2, it works better for stock.
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Oh, thank you, thank you, thank you!!! It works perfectly!
Sorry to be a bother, I don't know whether this is related. Everything loaded perfectly and it looks just as it did when I first turned it on but now every time I try to use the keyboard, it pops up for probably less than a second and then goes back down. I've tried to "catch" it to see if I could get a letter/digit each time to try and put in but it just goes up and down, up and down. I tried doing the set up with the boot disk in because I know nook reads the sd card first but that didn't help.
However, the version I originally had on the nook color was 1.4.1. Would it make a difference if I used the 1.4.3 instead?
Thanks
DelilahM said:
Sorry to be a bother, I don't know whether this is related. Everything loaded perfectly and it looks just as it did when I first turned it on but now every time I try to use the keyboard, it pops up for probably less than a second and then goes back down. I've tried to "catch" it to see if I could get a letter/digit each time to try and put in but it just goes up and down, up and down. I tried doing the set up with the boot disk in because I know nook reads the sd card first but that didn't help.
However, the version I originally had on the nook color was 1.4.1. Would it make a difference if I used the 1.4.3 instead?
Thanks
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Did you follow the instructions in the thread where you were supposed to flash a format zip? I forgot to add that in the above instructions. It is not to late to do it. Boot to CWM and flash the format zip and boot back to stock and re-register again. That may be the cause of the keyboard problem.
And being 1.4.3 should make no difference.
Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10.1 on emmc.
leapinlar said:
Did you follow the instructions in the thread where you were supposed to flash a format zip? I forgot to add that in the above instructions. It is not to late to do it. Boot to CWM and flash the format zip and boot back to stock and re-register again. That may be the cause of the keyboard problem.
And being 1.4.3 should make no difference.
Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10.1 on emmc.
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Yes. Installed that as well. However, I did notice when I put the sd card in my computer a few times windows said "disk might be corrupt do you want to continue?" So that might be the problem. I'll go into town tomorrow and get a new one to see if that makes a difference.
Well, I got a new SD card and it's still doing the same thing, the keyboard just goes up and down, up and down so I don't know what to do now.
Cindie
fix it?
Did you ever get it fixed? I did (probably) the exact same thing as you did (installed flashable ROM in eMMC), and it took me hours to get it straightened out
Although I can't say for sure... since I wasn't really taking notes with what I was trying... I think what eventually got me going was using a different bootable (step 1), b/c my microsd card was an off brand (lexar 8gb).
What I did was...
1) made bootable SD card with [generic-sdcard-v1.3-CM7-9-10-larger-Rev5.zip] rather than "so&so size gb card CWR.img"
2) added [nookcolor_1_4_3_signed.zip]
Before I got it to work properly, I had various types of failures-
stuck at "n" screen,
wifi wouldnt work (so I didnt get past nook first start-up process),
appeared to work ok but screen would flash all the time (your keyboard problem)
Eventually I got it sorted, and through all this trial and error, was able to properly put CM10 on sd card whilst leaving nook "original". Lol.
*I'm a newbie at this stuff so please make corrections if I jacked my post up! This was a few days ago and I'm at work... so I can't reference my home 'puter

[Q] Can't boot Nook Color from disk

I'm trying to root my nook color using the instructions here. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1000957 I've spent hours trying to troubleshoot this on my own searching and reading other threads and I am well and truly stuck. Hoping someone here can help. My laptop is Windows 7. I have a Lexar Class 6, 8 Gb micro SD card. I am using an external reader that plugs into the usb port which came with the card, not the laptop reader. I downloaded the gz image file from the thread referenced above. I unzipped it and wrote it to the card using Win32Image. When I look at it in Windows, it shows it as "boot (G" with 4 files, uRamdisk, uimage, u-boot.bin and MLO. I then downloaded the latest stable image zip from CM (cm-10.1.3-encore.zip). I drag the zip file from the folder I saved it to, to the G drive (my micro card). It won't copy because it says there's not enough room. When WinImage wrote the file, the size of my card is changed. It's got G boot as 117 MB and the rest is "unallocated". To try and fix this I downloaded Mini Tool Partition wizard and expanded the drive. I am now able to copy the CM zip file. I get the little penquin in the corner. Looks like it's doing it's thing and then it stops. The last few lines where the error appears to be happening are as follows:
Mounting /dev/mmcblk1p1 as /boot
EXT4-fs (mmcblk1p2): recovery complete
EXT4-fs (mmcblk1p2): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode
Looking for the install images...
Initial install files not found.
Please download it from nook.linuxhacker.ru
and put on first partition of this SD card
the name should start with updatei-cm and end with .zip.
The nook.linuxhacker.ru proved to be a dead end for me. Please help. I'm just trying to convert this for my kids to play on so they'll leave my new tablet alone. The app availability on B&N seriously sucks.
progress...but still not working
gruvychic said:
I'm trying to root my nook color using the instructions here. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1000957 I've spent hours trying to troubleshoot this on my own searching and reading other threads and I am well and truly stuck. Hoping someone here can help. My laptop is Windows 7. I have a Lexar Class 6, 8 Gb micro SD card. I am using an external reader that plugs into the usb port which came with the card, not the laptop reader. I downloaded the gz image file from the thread referenced above. I unzipped it and wrote it to the card using Win32Image. When I look at it in Windows, it shows it as "boot (G" with 4 files, uRamdisk, uimage, u-boot.bin and MLO. I then downloaded the latest stable image zip from CM (cm-10.1.3-encore.zip). I drag the zip file from the folder I saved it to, to the G drive (my micro card). It won't copy because it says there's not enough room. When WinImage wrote the file, the size of my card is changed. It's got G boot as 117 MB and the rest is "unallocated". To try and fix this I downloaded Mini Tool Partition wizard and expanded the drive. I am now able to copy the CM zip file. I get the little penquin in the corner. Looks like it's doing it's thing and then it stops. The last few lines where the error appears to be happening are as follows:
Mounting /dev/mmcblk1p1 as /boot
EXT4-fs (mmcblk1p2): recovery complete
EXT4-fs (mmcblk1p2): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode
Looking for the install images...
Initial install files not found.
Please download it from nook.linuxhacker.ru
and put on first partition of this SD card
the name should start with updatei-cm and end with .zip.
The nook.linuxhacker.ru proved to be a dead end for me. Please help. I'm just trying to convert this for my kids to play on so they'll leave my new tablet alone. The app availability on B&N seriously sucks.
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after doing some more searching and reading I added "update-" to the front of the CM zip file. It went thru everything, then went back and turned off. I turned it on again. I get a "cynogenboot" (I think that's what it said) splash screen, then it goes blank and boots the regular Nook operating system. grrrr.....this is so frustrating. Guess I'll keep searching while I wait.
gruvychic said:
after doing some more searching and reading I added "update-" to the front of the CM zip file. It went thru everything, then went back and turned off. I turned it on again. I get a "cynogenboot" (I think that's what it said) splash screen, then it goes blank and boots the regular Nook operating system. grrrr.....this is so frustrating. Guess I'll keep searching while I wait.
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You need to go to my NC updated SD install guide linked in my signature. It has updated image files and updated instructions.
Sent from my BN NookHD+ using XDA Premium HD app
thanks!
leapinlar said:
You need to go to my NC updated SD install guide linked in my signature. It has updated image files and updated instructions.
Sent from my BN NookHD+ using XDA Premium HD app
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found it a while reading thru your tips page. Seems to be working ok. Now how do I access Android Market place. Or do I just use Google play to download apps. I have an ipod the kids usually play apps on, so android/google is all new to me.
gruvychic said:
found it a while reading thru your tips page. Seems to be working ok. Now how do I access Android Market place. Or do I just use Google play to download apps. I have an ipod the kids usually play apps on, so android/google is all new to me.
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Android Marketplace is now called Google Play. So yes, use it.
Sent from my SCH-i705 using XDA Premium HD app

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