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CM7 to SD Card Update Issues

I followed [ROM][CM7] [v1.3] Size-agnostic SD Card image and CM7 installer for SD Cards and got to the installation of GApps. When I reboot the nook into recovery, it doesn't work(both through the key button combos and through the reboot into recovery option once its booted up)
Has anyone else had this issue? I've tried it several times and even with the OC kernels I can never get it into recovery.
Sorry i would have posted this in the dev section but I am fairly new.
Thanks,
extremepizza

If all else fails add a boot menu. It couldn't hurt anything.
Open the attached file and copy the uboot.bin onto the boot partition of your sd card AFTER BACKING UP THE UBOOT FILE THAT YOU FIND THERE. You will now have a boot menu that will let you choose to boot sd to recovery. It will be overwritten any time you flash but you can always reinstall it AFTER BACKING UP THE FILE ALREADY ON THE CARD. After you're done installing you can either leave the menu uboot in place or replace it with the original file that you backed up. So far it hasn't caused me any problems during installations.
Thanks j4mm3r for the super handy piece of code.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=11512863&postcount=1

I frequently have the same issue. The combination and timing that I found to work most of the time is below. This is when first using the CM7 SDCard image. If your device already boots with the green CM logo then this doesn't apply.
Press and hold the 'n' key
Press and hold the power key
Wait for Loading... to appear (or whatever it says in your version)
Count to 3 and release the power key
Count to 3 and release the 'n' key
Wait for the Linux Penguin to appear
toddz

irisclara said:
If all else fails add a boot menu. It couldn't hurt anything.
Open the attached file and copy the uboot.bin onto the boot partition of your sd card AFTER BACKING UP THE UBOOT FILE THAT YOU FIND THERE. You will now have a boot menu that will let you choose to boot sd to recovery. It will be overwritten any time you flash but you can always reinstall it AFTER BACKING UP THE FILE ALREADY ON THE CARD. After you're done installing you can either leave the menu uboot in place or replace it with the original file that you backed up. So far it hasn't caused me any problems during installations.
Thanks j4mm3r for the super handy piece of code.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=11512863&postcount=1
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Maybe you can help me out with this:
I am using the boot menu program.
My NC currently has 7.0.3-encore-signed and I tried to do an update to one of the newer nightlies.
I placed the cm zip file in the boot directory on the sd card and then on the boot menu selected sd and recovery but all it does is hang. Am I doing something wrong? I really would like to update to the new 7.1.0-RC1-encore-signed.

What i found out was that the installer v1.3 has an issue when using the 7.0.3 stable release. I instead restarted the process but installed the latest nightly and now i can use recovery fine to install gapps and newer nightlies.
Thanks for the help though.

If you need to install gapps, just put the gapps file with the Rom image and it will be install at the same time. you don't need to boot into recovery again. Btw, Im using the installer v1.3 and 7.0.3 stable release after a long time playing with nightly builds. Since 136 build, it can't boot from sdcard anymore.

Stuck in [email protected] and Boot screen.

I was getting fed up with touchwiz and a few other things and decided to flash my phone.
I was trying exynos 7.1.5.
SO as per instructions I flashed CF-Root-SGS2_XX_OXA_KF2-v4.0-CWM4.tar with odin.
And it seemed ok, booted into os, used CWM to load custom rom.
Put the rom on the root of internal sd card.
rebooted into cwm and flash seemed to go ok.
Now it's just playing the startup chime and looping the boot animation, left it running for twenty mins.
When I try to start cwm (vol down, power, menu) to get the original rom back it is stuck in "odin mode" and I can't access any menus to re-flash.
If I plug it in it connects and I can access it and reflash with odin. but I'm still unable to access anything to fix the rom.
Any ideas?
Thanks.

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I was getting fed up with touchwiz and a few other things and decided to flash my phone.
I was trying exynos 7.1.5.
SO as per instructions I flashed CF-Root-SGS2_XX_OXA_KF2-v4.0-CWM4.tar with odin.
And it seemed ok, booted into os, used CWM to load custom rom.
Put the rom on the root of internal sd card.
rebooted into cwm and flash seemed to go ok.
Now it's just playing the startup chime and looping the boot animation, left it running for twenty mins.
When I try to start cwm (vol down, power, menu) to get the original rom back it is stuck in "odin mode" and I can't access any menus to re-flash.
If I plug it in it connects and I can access it and reflash with odin. but I'm still unable to access anything to fix the rom.
Any ideas?
Thanks.
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Well you have forgotten to flash base sytem first. Exynos 3.5
read, read, read....
Just start over m8.
HOW TO INSTALL EXYNOS: (WIPE)
1. First of all download Exynos Base System: (this will wipe all your data)
2. Download EXYNOS Update
3. Put those files in your internal SD
3. Flash from CWM -> EXYNOS3.X_Base_System.zip (base system)
4. Let the system boot up until you see the homescreen
5. Put the phone in RECOVERY MODE
6. Flash from CWM -> ExynosX.X_update.zip
7. Reboot and enjoy
How to update from older Exynos System:
1. Download Exynos Update
2. Put the zip in your internal SD
3. Put the phone in RECOVERY MODE
4. Flash from CWM -> ExynosX.X_update.zip
5. Reboot and enjoy
All downloads here

I cant access anything to put the base xenos on.
I can't access cwm to flash rom
The only thing I seem to be able to do is load odin.
Is there anyway to use odin to flash a rom?
I get ding-a-ling of a device being plugged in when I connect the phone, and the drives appear, but I can't drop the 3.5 zip file in, the flash drives appear but can't be connected to. And if I could put the zip files in the internal card, I can't access cwm to change the rom.
THanks btw

Find different rom that is Odin flashable. Flash to this one and than start over.
Sent from my GT-I9100 using Tapatalk

Thanks mate.
I'm trying to find one now, but not having much luck.
could you point me tpwards one please mate
thanks

mega_bite said:
I was getting fed up with touchwiz and a few other things and decided to flash my phone.
I was trying exynos 7.1.5.
SO as per instructions I flashed CF-Root-SGS2_XX_OXA_KF2-v4.0-CWM4.tar with odin.
And it seemed ok, booted into os, used CWM to load custom rom.
Put the rom on the root of internal sd card.
rebooted into cwm and flash seemed to go ok.
Now it's just playing the startup chime and looping the boot animation, left it running for twenty mins.
When I try to start cwm (vol down, power, menu) to get the original rom back it is stuck in "odin mode" and I can't access any menus to re-flash.
If I plug it in it connects and I can access it and reflash with odin. but I'm still unable to access anything to fix the rom.
Any ideas?
Thanks.
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start cwm (vol down, power, menu)...you say this!!! Cwm is vol up,not down.
Sent from my GT-I9100 using XDA App

well thats embarassing.
fixed now.

[Q] lost cm7 sd install!

I had CM7 SD running on my 4gb sandisk. today I decided to try MIUI on emmc. to install it I did wipe/factory reset. now my CM7 SD doesn't run after the green logo.
on mounting I saw the following:
mmcblk1p1: all boot files present (THIS IS SDCARD ON MIUI)
mmcblk1p2:EMPTY
mmcblk1p3:EMPTY
mmcblk1p4: CM7 sdcard files present.
I did saw it show "formatting sd-ext" in CWM when doing factory reset.
now I don't have any SD card reader. is there any way to copy files of verygreens method back to sdcard from within MIUI as all partitions are already present.
Please help! my dad works on this nook. :|
P.S. through miui I'm also unable to boot into CWM emmc. tried using reboot into recovery and 5sec home button method.
thanks again. without you guys I'm pretty doomed.
UPDATE
I thought flashing MIUI caused problems with CWM so I tried to install CWM using ROM manager in MIUI but it cannot flash.

Looks like you wiped ur /system and /data partitions on ur SDcard rom. Only suggestion is to reinstall ur CM7 setup from scratch using verygreens method. It seems that your boot partition is still intact so you should be able to reinstall your CM7 through recovery mode as stated in his thread here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1000957
How to update to a new build:
put the new build you want to try on the first partition. (the name must be update-cm-*.zip or cm_encore_full*.zip or just update-*.zip)
Boot from the SDcard in the recovery mode (see below) and the new snapshot would be installed.
The partition layout would be preserved, filesystems are NOT reformatted, so your data should be safe.
Insert the uSD card back into the NOOK and boot into "Recovery mode" (hold nook N key and then press and hold power until the "Loading..." message appears and then disappears with screen going blank. Release power button, then press it again and hold for ~5 seconds, the bootloader "Loading..." message should be on the screen for three seconds or so before you release power button, keep holding N button until screen blanks again. If the screen went off while you were holding the power key, that means you were holding it for too long).
Alternatively if you do not want to fight the timing, 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.
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. And boot into "recovery mode" (see above)
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Just boot into your MIUI rom and mount the /boot partition of the SDcard rom, which would be SDcard in MIUI to your PC/Mac/Linux and follow the directions above to reinstall your CM7-SDrom using verygreens method.
-Racks

Thank you!
I got it to work using your steps.
But there's a weird thing. Even though the mmcblk1p2/p3 partitions were empty when I mounted them in MIUI, but my settings/apps/launcer/widgets were all intact. And its not like I just booted into CM7. I did see that tux penguin install script (verygreen) install CM7.
Anyways, thanks again.
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I think I blabbered too fast.
Today I found out that even though the wallpaper/apps were the same, I lost the app data and had to again add my Google acc.
Any idea which partition mmcblk1p2 or mmcblk1p3 was wiped out? Just curious to know what does CWM wipe out when it says "wiping sd-ext"?
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How to install Google Apps custom ?

Hi, I have this ROM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQvrEH74dgI, my question is how to install the google apps (2nd link). Thanks.

Boot into recovery (power on holding the Power and Volume Down button) and in the recovery screen, select "install zip from sd".
Select internal or external storage/sd and browse to the file, select it with the power button. It'll do its thing and after, I would clean the dalvik cache and reboot.
I assume you've got a custom recovery already installed, since you've got the custom rom already installed.

I did this
Before proceeding, please keep in mind that your handset will be wiped clean of all data so make a backup of your data. Also, the steps below require your handset to be rooted with a custom recovery installed. If your handset is not rooted, I’d recommend you not to flash this ROM since its not meant for amateurs.
Step 1: Download CM9 Alpha 4 for Epic 4G from here or here. Also download the supplementary Google Apps package from here.
Step 2: Boot into CWM Recovery, and select the ‘Wipe data/Factory Reset’ option. Then navigate to Mounts and Storage and select the ‘format /system’ option.
Step 3: After you have formatted all the partitions on your Epic 4G, select the ‘install zip from SD card’ option, and then select the CM9 Alpha 4 zip file. Once the CM9 file has been flashed, again select the ‘install zip from SD card’ option, and this time select the Google Apps zip file package.
When the flashing process is complete, simply reboot your phone and wait for it to boot into CM9. Keep in mind that the first boot might take sometime, so please be patient.
Do NOT restore your app data backup. Doing so can lead to instabilities, and other issues. Also, please don't complain about feature X or Y not working. The ROM is in Alpha for a particular reason.
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But my phone is still stucked at its starting window for more than 20 minutes :?

My phone got stucked ! It stucks at the staring window, and doesnt want to load

define "starting window"

Like this, but instead of all the things it says, mine says just "Unlocked" in the upper left corner. I have tryed this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQvrEH74dgI (rom + gapps), and this guide http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1302423 + this for the apps http://knowmydroid.com/blog/install-android-4-ice-cream-sandwich-cm9-on-samsung-epic-4g.

[Q] L7 Cyanogenmod10 BOOTLOOP

okay so i have rooted my p700, installed CWM, and flashed cm10... after that i rebooted my phone (i needed to in order to get link2sd to recognize my external sd), after that the CM went into a bootloop!! which got me very angry (considering it came at a very bad time)... so i reflashed it a number of times even tried older builds...still all i get is a hot processor and a bootloop....i have gone through so many forums, scavenged the whole internet for methods on fixing it but still no luck...anybody have anyway of fixing this? and one more thing after i formated my sd (trying to make partitions for link2sd i lost my backup )

try download latest CM10 and reflash it . Make sure follow the steps correctly
How to Install::
Download the ROM
Put it on your phone root
Reboot In Recovery(MAKE A BACKUP BEFORE DOING ANYTHING!)
Wipe Data/Cache,Wipe Cache,Wipe Dalvik Cache(Which you can find in Advanced)
Select Install ZIP from SDCard
Select the ROM and let it install,then also Install GAPPS.

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slingswish said:
try download latest CM10 and reflash it . Make sure follow the steps correctly
How to Install::
Download the ROM
Put it on your phone root
Reboot In Recovery(MAKE A BACKUP BEFORE DOING ANYTHING!)
Wipe Data/Cache,Wipe Cache,Wipe Dalvik Cache(Which you can find in Advanced)
Select Install ZIP from SDCard
Select the ROM and let it install,then also Install GAPPS.
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I did that and i got a blck screen with both the menu and back button lighten up,rebooted 2 and now i got the CM animation screen, not sure but i think its in a bootloop again been there for 3mins

Wierd
I just noticed that if i pull my sd-card out during the booting process the bootloop ends! wierd huh, anyway around it?