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First of all let me say hello to everyone as I am new to here and that if there is a thread about this please point me there as I have searched far and wide and tried everything imaginable and nothing helped whatso ever.
I recently got myself the HTC touch with these specs
sapphire pvt 32b ship s-on g
hboot-1.33.0006 (sapp10000)
cpld-10
radio-2.22.19.261
I tried a tutorial I had found on how to flash it (Sorry in my frustration I lost the link for it) everything went well I know I had to get a file manager to activate an apk program for it then type in a code...after that it prompted to restart which I did and now it wont go past the vodafone loading screen.
its not bricked as I can get to the hboot screen still and I can go to the other screen the black one where you can wipe the card/ use the update.zip etc.
I took the sd card out of my phone to put the files needed onto it as my phone couldn't be mounted anymore and now when I put it back in I get the
can't mount SD card error (cant mount /dev/block/mmcblk0p1 or /dev/block/mmcblk0) (no such file or directory)
so now it seems like I am royaly screwed here as my phone doesnt even read its own sd card...could I have accidently removed something from the SDcard which was needed for it to be recognized or is there a way to work around this
please can someone help me as I have been searching for a good 14 hours straight as I need my phone for work...
thanks in advance
Is the sdcard formatted as FAT32? Most come partitioned as FAT but all the tutorials say updating rom requires FAT32.
sorry I forgot to mention that yes it is formatted to FAT32, I did the format on the pc so I lost all the files that were on it, but as it is an sd card and not the internal memory it shouldn't have had any information on it required to mount it otherwise if I would get a new sd card it wouldn't work
the sd card that came with mine btw is an 8gb micro SD HC
I have a normal 2gb Micro SD but it doesn't read that one either.
so in otherwords I have just flashed my phone with the flashrec-20090815.apk which then asked to restart...I did that and then wiped before the backup, which should only mean I cannot go back to the stock settings unless some other dutch vodafone magic user would be so kind as to send me his nandroid backup
but other than that I would really like to figure out why my phone can't mount the SD card, either of them
EDIT: When I searched around the net about can't mount SD card error (cant mount /dev/block/mmcblk0p1 or /dev/block/mmcblk0) (no such file or directory)
I found that every other person that has this problem is a HTC dream user which makes me think I accidently got a Dream file flashed to my phone, yet wouldn't just the right sappimg.nbh be able to return things to normal? Or is this just wishful thinking...
Well second this story from me. I have the exact problem as you have. Hope someone will stumble upon this thread and give us guidance..
//N
well I don't know how much of a difference it makes but I just got both fastboot AND ADB to work, at first only fastboot worked for me, so now when I am in the recovery screen I can put adb commands in even though it is not started up fully (Cant get past loading screen yet)
hmm...latest update, I think I did something horribly wrong now...it no longer goes into the recovery-RAv1.2.1G screen (The black screen with green words) it now brings me to a different recovery screen, the one with the phone and the exclamation (!) mark
As long as you can go into fastbood hope is not lost.
Did you already do an SPL update? if yes you can just install any rom you want.
try to put an rom (lets say cyanogenmod) via microsd to usb adapter on the drive and call it update.zip.
Get this tools: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=EZU065GP
You need to install the USB driver for the phone if you not already have.
Connect the phone to the PC and boot you phone by holding "Back" and "On" into fastboot.
then run the "Boot Modified Recovery" script. Select "Apply sdcard:update.zip", make an wipe and the Phone start normally with the rom you selected.
It would be very helpful if you write would you already did to the phone.
ok, first things first...tired the program you sent me (Awesome by the way thanks) but the SPL I am using is a non engineerings spl meaning I cannot actually DO anything in fastboot
so without being able to start my phone up fully or use adb (I Lost that option once the recovery part disapeared for some reason) it would be great to know if I can still change the spl to an engineering one.
and now for a long list of what I did in the order I did it in so you can tell me just where I went wrong and tell me if I screwed up my phone completey or not (if not I have a special insurance on this that I pay extra for and might...JUST might cover this problem)
anyways.
At first I looked for a theme for the phone when realizing it wasn't going to be easy, I needed to flash them which is nothing I had done before (Should have realized then an there not to do it, knowing my luck)
anyways.
I turned on the usage of unkown applications and turned USB debugging on.
I put the flashrec-20090815.apk and recovery-RAv1.2.1G onto my sd card as told by the tutorial I downloaded linda file manager (Or something around those lines) to activate the flashrec thingy...followed by using the recovery thing and then it said it needed to be restarted.
I restarted it into the recovery like it told me to do, everything was going perfect.
This tutorial did not say to make a backup first so I never did (ARGH i hate that part the most) it told me to do a wipe, so I did...followed by sending the update.zip (This part confused me as they did not tell me to have the update.zip on it.
So I popped the sd card out (This may be where I went horribly wrong) put it into the SD card reader and put the update.zip rom on it I wanted to use.
Put the SD card back into my phone, and then it went wrong, I tried to run the update.zip and it said that it could not mount the sd card do to the dev/block thingy I posted above.
I have tried everything against that, I wiped the card...tried to format it through the phone (Same thing, could not mount) I formatted it on the pc to FAT32 (I made sure it was 32) and still, no matter what I do it wont mount...
strangely though someone suggested using the sappimg.nbh somewhere else, I got it...put it onto my SD card, started up hboot and it read it, tried to apply it but it said something about my CID or something being incorrect...but that DOES mean that the phone reads my SD cards (Since I have a 2gb sd and an 8gb sd HC (The one it came with)) and both of them work for doing that, but the sappimg part doesnt work.
after trying that sappimg.zip one though also with no good results, I tried to get back into the recovery part for the adb so that I could try something someone suggested about mounting the sd card image thingy through that...but when I booted up the recovery I got the normal android recovery (the one with only three choices and the phone with the exclamation mark) meaning I somehow lost my recovery RAv.......
so that is what has been done, please, please, please tell me I didnt horribly screw things up...if someone can help me I promise never to mess around with things I don't know about...
odanion said:
hmm...latest update, I think I did something horribly wrong now...it no longer goes into the recovery-RAv1.2.1G screen (The black screen with green words) it now brings me to a different recovery screen, the one with the phone and the exclamation (!) mark
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I was wondering what happen when you press both Home and Power buttons at this moment. What the phone shows. Is there any menu we can use?
Is the ADB recognizes the phone in recovery mode in this moment?
I am also having similar problems with my sapphire. I can fastboot to recovery rom but cannot mount the SD card I can use adb
/dev/block/mmcblk0p1 no such file or directory when I try to access sdcard.
I have tried 4 different sd cards with different partitions on them but it will not read any of them.
I have tried to restore a nandroid backup by using adb push to put the img files in /sdcard. I assume it is just using the phone internal memory as the sdcard does not mount. I have used adb shell to flash_image the nandroid img files but it still does boot up succesfully. Just hangs at vodafone screen...
startup.txt is just fine that is not an issue. I booted up the first time and it worked b ut then after a restart it tells me that userdata.img and system.img could not be found however they are where they should be at.
I have Energy.Leo.21911.Sense2.5.Cookie.Aug.06 rom and I have shubCRAFT_v1.3_1GB android. I do not have the android files in android folder because that didn't work either so I just put them in the main sd card directory.
Ok so anyway once it gives me that error it continues on with the long string of numbers and I think RAAC and it goes like it's going to boot up but it takes forever. Anyone have any clue?
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startup.txt is just fine that is not an issue. I booted up the first time and it worked b ut then after a restart it tells me that userdata.img and system.img could not be found however they are where they should be at.
I have Energy.Leo.21911.Sense2.5.Cookie.Aug.06 rom and I have shubCRAFT_v1.3_1GB android. I do not have the android files in android folder because that didn't work either so I just put them in the main sd card directory.
Ok so anyway once it gives me that error it continues on with the long string of numbers and I think RAAC and it goes like it's going to boot up but it takes forever. Anyone have any clue?
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Put it all in an 'Android' folder AND change the startup.txt 'set cmd' line?
worth a try.
failing that, format and start again.
as said, reformat your card and try again. Oddly enough that happened on my sons phone until I formated within windows which is suppose to be a no no for sd cards...but desperate times called for desperate measures.
by the way, this isnt a development post.
If you store your Android files in the root of your SD card (haret, zimage, etc), then sometimes Android makes a folder called Android on your SD card and then tries to boot from there.
If your keep your Android files in the root of your SD card, just delete that Android folder, it should only have like one data file in it that gets rewritten anyway. That should let you boot up fine.
Well it was the Tom and the way I extracted it on my SD card
sent from my HTC HD2 running chuckydroidXrom and shubcraft 1.3 cm6
good afternoon
I have an ACER Iconia Tab to 500 HC 3.2 and using the second method of this post (Revert OTA 3.2 back to 3.0.1) and gets the android logo and a yellow triangle, someone might say it is?
Or if someone knows how to connect this tablet in Windows XP
thanks
Did you remember to extract the zip file that was in that post? The file that is to be extracted is update_not_stable.zip. Once you extract that, there should be a file that is called "update.zip". Make sure that is the file that is on your external SD card.
yes, I put the update.zip on the microsd and also have put the update.zip for content if that, but it works.
thanks
So does that mean you got it to work? I'm not sure if I fully understand your last post.
my English is disastrous to use a translator to express myself. Did not mean that workers but does not perform the recovery
Could you possibly outline the steps your performed so far, and perhaps I or someone more knowledgeable than I can offer better assistance.
I followed the steps are:
1 - I downloaded the file.
2 - I've extracted and copied to the microsd (update.zip) formatted to fat32
3 - I turned on the Iconium and has begun "erasing cache beforing SD update... booting recovery kernel image"
4 - android robot appears with a band and then carrying out erde a triangle with an exclamation in the middle of the icon.
Hmmmmm, I can't see anything that jumps out at me as being some wrong.
The update.zip is still zipped right? You right clicked on "downgrade_not_stable", extracted that, removed update.zip and out that file (which will be unzipped) into the root of your external SD card.
There is also the off chance that the file you downloaded got corrupted for whatever reason. If it won't work perhaps you can try to download it again and follow the steps.
hello,
i have the same problem. I did the same : unzipped, put on the external sdcard the file and I have the logo of the bot with the yellow triangle..
I downloaded again and again, restart from the beginning and I can't downgrade.
someone has an idea why it doesn't work ?
Thanks
same issue with mine... not too sure why i'm getting the error as I've been able to do things with the SD card before, so I don't think its an SD card problem.
Not SD problem
I already tried with differentes SD cards. They all work, but unable to start the downgrading !!
Maybe the file is not compatible with my tablet. How can we check ?
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I already tried with differentes SD cards. They all work, but unable to start the downgrading !!
Maybe the file is not compatible with my tablet. How can we check ?
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What tab to you have? The A500?
Make sure that it is the file "update.zip" that is on your sd card. Make sure this update.zip is still a zipped file.
Other than that, I don't know what could be wrong. I did the downgrade with no issues.
Thanks for the answer.
My tablet is an iconia A500.
I unzipped the file downloaded, that gave an update.zip. I put it on the SD card. The tablet recognized the file but stop just after find it.
I have no idea whatelse to do.
TRy and try again.
Finally it worked !!!
It was a download problem in fact for me.
I hope it can help.
maybe i'll try downloading on another computer (this one has XP?) and see if that makes a lick of difference. this is getting frustrating.
Still no go. Even did everything just on the iconia and still get the yield sign when trying to recover during boot.
Hi , I did it right now and it worked , installed iconiaroot and CWM and all went fine, but I have another problem now :
external miniSD can't be seen anymore and I'm not able to install any custom rom . If I go to recovery and pushing "install zip from" : it always goes to E: directory sdcard (and it 's not found)
Is there anyone that can help me ?
Thanks
Ramp
Hello,
I had this problem with the update of tabonay. The problem was a ";" at this end of the file :update.zip
Retry and check you have a .zip at the root of the external SD card
Hi
The problem is that I can't see neither micro sd external card nor USB pen anymore on my system
Please help
Thanks
Great that It worked for you, It doesn't work for me, do you think this will work with a USB since I can't get it to work with an SD
Hello XDA fourms, i have just today bought a nook color. I have been researching rooting it so i can read my manga and comics on it. I have decided to root it through a micro sd 4gb card so that if i want to use my nook regularly i can. now the problem is i can not understand half the things people say to do to achieve rooting my Nook color. can any one help me or redirect me to an easy place to teach me how to do this?
That's exactly how I started out. You can find instructions on the "[ROM][CM7] [v1.3] Size-agnostic SD Card image and CM7 installer for SD Cards." thread in the "Nook Color Android Development" forum. I'm no Android expert, being more a console Linux & C/Forth kind of guy, but it worked for me.
Since I spent most of my time in stock and only had a few apps I actually used on the card, I ended up rooting the stock nook with a manual nooter to install those apps in the Nook Color stock home page ... but using the SD card install for a month was quite useful in working out whether I wanted to root the stock B&N firmware or install a CM7 firmware instead.
ok so i tried to make an sd card out of my 4 gb but it didnt work so i decided to reformate it and now it only has 117 mb! wth? im so confused...
Tom32090 said:
ok so i tried to make an sd card out of my 4 gb but it didnt work so i decided to reformate it and now it only has 117 mb! wth? im so confused...
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when you write the image to the SD card the partition is 117mbs. windows can only see that partition (there is actually 4 on the card after the image is written) that's why when you hit reformat it reformatted it to 117mbs. boot your nook up into stock form with the SD card in it, then go into your settings and hit "unmount SD card" then hit "reformat". That'll get you back to 4gbs.
ok great! ill try that thank you very much! but now how do i get it rooted?
If you "want to root it through a micro sd 4gb card so that if i want to use my nook regularly i can" ... you aren't really rooting the device, you are just making an SD card that will boot up its own system and leave the stock system in the built-in flash alone. Then if the card is pulled out (or replaced with a non-bootable SD card), the bootloader skips the SD card and boots from the internal flash.
If you are using a Windows box, as nook711 explained, the regular Windows format will not change existing SD partitions, so it will just format one relatively small partition on the SD card. To reformat back to a single clean SD partition on the Windows side, google for Panasonic SDFormatter.
As far as how to get that card to work as an SD-boot card ~ its hard to say, since you didn't say what went wrong the first time you tried it: which imager program did you use? did you power the Nook down all the way before rebooting it? Did it hang, or did it fail to boot and start up as a stock Nook Color?
Unless of course I misread you: if you want to root it using a SD card in a way that allows it to also be used as a regular Nook ~ that is, the third party apps show up in what looks like a regular B&N Home page ~ that is a manual noot you want to do. The instructions for doing a manual noot are in the "[NC][1.2][1.3] ManualNooter 4.6.16" thread. However, those are instructions for a 1.2 or 1.3 version. Instead of using the manualnooter file described in the opening post, skip ahead to page 175, and look for GMPOWER's post #1745. The "LINK" downloads a manualnooter file that seems to work for a stock Nook Color 1.4.1 ~ at least, that's the one I've used and now I have what looks like a stock Nook Color, except with Crackle, Crunchyroll, YouTube, OpenIntents and DolphinMini apps showing up on the B&N home pages.
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If you "want to root it through a micro sd 4gb card so that if i want to use my nook regularly i can" ... you aren't really rooting the device, you are just making an SD card that will boot up its own system and leave the stock system in the built-in flash alone. Then if the card is pulled out (or replaced with a non-bootable SD card), the bootloader skips the SD card and boots from the internal flash
If you are using a Windows box, as nook711 explained, the regular Windows format will not change existing SD partitions, so it will just format one relatively small partition on the SD card. To reformat back to a single clean SD partition on the Windows side, google for Panasonic SDFormatter.
As far as how to get that card to work as an SD-boot card ~ its hard to say, since you didn't say what went wrong the first time you tried it.
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so what happen on my first try was i used winimage to write the genertic sd card file on to it. i than put update-cm-7.1.0-encore-signed.zip on the card. my nook was off and i turned it on. it did not boot from the sd card. i have not tried holding the n button to see if that worked yet. i do have the sd card formatted and i have already formatted the card back to 4 gb. Next i was going to do the same steps but try and hold the n button
update:so i tried the N button but it didnt boot the sd card... i just dont know what im doing wrong!?
if it did not boot from the sdcard then I would suspect that the image did not write to the sdcard correctly. the nook will automatically look at the sdcard boot first.
did you unzip the image file before writing it to the card?
did you write the image as admin in the winimage?
After writing the image to the sdcard remove it from your computer and then plug it back in the computer, if it wrote correctly it should now say "boot"
"my nook was off and i turned it on. it did not boot from the sd card"
It only boots if it is turned on from a powerdown. If it just went to sleep to save the battery, and a quick tap of the power button can wake it up, its not powered down, its only sleeping.
When its awake, hold the power button, wait for the "do you want to turn it off completely" dialog, keep holding the power button, and it will turn off. That is a complete power down. Then put in the bootable SD-card, and hold the power button until it turns on ~ it ought to boot off the card instead of off the Nook internal flash.
Like any Android device, it will take a while to go from the boot screen to the home screen on the first power-up, but you'll see the skaterboy droid in a couple of minutes and know that its grinding through the process of setting up the CM7 system.
And regarding the CM7 update file ~ looking in my PC file system, that's the same CM7 update file I used.
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After writing the image to the sdcard remove it from your computer and then plug it back in the computer, if it wrote correctly it should now say "boot"
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it does say "boot" but it still does not work
BruceMcF said:
"my nook was off and i turned it on. it did not boot from the sd card"
It only boots if it is turned on from a powerdown. If it just went to sleep to save the battery, and a quick tap of the power button can wake it up, its not powered down, its only sleeping.
When its awake, hold the power button, wait for the "do you want to turn it off completely" dialog, keep holding the power button, and it will turn off. That is a complete power down. Then put in the bootable SD-card, and hold the power button until it turns on ~ it ought to boot off the card instead of off the Nook internal flash.
Like any Android device, it will take a while to go from the boot screen to the home screen on the first power-up, but you'll see the skaterboy droid in a couple of minutes and know that its grinding through the process of setting up the CM7 system.
And regarding the CM7 update file ~ looking in my PC file system, that's the same CM7 update file I used.
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Yes i did shut it off and than turned it on but is still does not work?
i have also been looking at video on youtube. but every single one tells me something different. so far the one i found that seems to be the closest to what im trying to do is this one http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4nenR-mNo0 but even so i feel like the more i watch the more confused i get
There are only three things that come to my mind:
(1) What is the make and class of the microSD card? That's not from personal experience, but it shows up in multiple HowTo guides, both here and on other sites. I used a Kingston Class 4 8gb microSD card, but the preference seems to be for SanDisk Class 4.
(2) A generic image is likely to work best if its written onto a "like new" fully formatted SD card ~ I have seen a few YouTube clips of various rooting efforts where formatting it with the Panasonic SDFormatter Windows executable succeeded after the prior effort had failed.
Edit: the YouTube clip you posted is the first one where I saw advice to use the Panasonic SDFormatter. However, other than that, I mostly followed the xda How-To.
I'd note that even though the the CrashTechDummies YouTube clip is from April, 2011, they are using a HowTo guide for a image that is older than the "size-agnostic" image in the "Size-agnostic" How To guide, so they have to do several things by hand that are handled automatically by the "Size-agnostic" image.
(3) What is your hardware for writing SD images? USB-port card writers sometimes need to be safe-unmounted with the USB unmount tool before popped out. I've run into that before in a different context.
If its not one of those, then I got nothing, sorry. The part between copying the CM7 file onto the generic image and seeing the CM7 droid skaterboy "just worked" for me.
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There are only three things that come to my mind:
(1) What is the make and class of the microSD card? That's not from personal experience, but it shows up in multiple HowTo guides, both here and on other sites. I used a Kingston Class 4 8gb microSD card, but the preference seems to be for SanDisk Class 4.
(2) A generic image is likely to work best if its written onto a "like new" fully formatted SD card ~ I have seen a few YouTube clips of various rooting efforts where formatting it with the Panasonic SDFormatter Windows executable succeeded after the prior effort had failed.
(3) What is your hardware for writing SD images? USB-port card writers sometimes need to be safe-unmounted with the USB unmount tool before popped out. I've run into that before in a different context.
If its not one of those, then I got nothing, sorry. The part between copying the CM7 file onto the generic image and seeing the CM7 droid skaterboy "just worked" for me.
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ok i reformatted it with Panasonic reformat and i am using a 4 gbsandisk micro sd and it has a 2 with a circle around it
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i have also been looking at video on youtube. but every single one tells me something different. so far the one i found that seems to be the closest to what im trying to do is this one http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4nenR-mNo0 but even so i feel like the more i watch the more confused i get
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there's lots of ways to get to the end result, don't get confused we will help you through the process.
Now that being said:
This was my process
* reformat your SD card again using the stock nook
* download "windisk32 image writer" (easier I think then winimage)
* download "verygreens, genenric 1.3image.zip"
* unzip the image.zip to your desktop (using 7zip)
* open windisk32, click the blue folder and find the image file on your desktop for generic 1.3
* select your corresponding drive to your sdcard hit write
*when finished remove sdcard and reinsert it into computer
* download (cm7.1 or cm7.2)
* open up " my computer" on windows
* drag "cm7.1 or 7.2" to the corresponding drive for sdcard (should say boot)
* when finished right click hit eject when safe to do so remove sdcard
* insert sdcard into fully powered down nook
* turn nook on (after a few it should go to a little Linux penguin) and install scripts should be running
* when it's done it'll power off
* wait a few minutes and turn the nook on, should boot into cm7 but first you should see the android riding a skateboard.
*while that's working download the gapps file
after you set up cm7 for the first time, shut it down.
* remove sdcard and reinsert it into your computer
* open up "my computer" and drag the gapps file to the sdcard drive
* when finished hit eject and reinsert the card into the nook and while holding the "n" power up the nook (should see the little Linux penguin again)
* when its finished it should power down againbthen just turn it on and set up Google
hope this helps
** again this is just what works for me and I have successfully done several different nook for friends, family and myself.
uh is there any way you could supply some links ? i mean i think i have alot of these things but iv been gathering it from doing reaserch so i justwant to make sure i have the right files
Tom32090 said:
uh is there any way you could supply some links ? i mean i think i have alot of these things but iv been gathering it from doing reaserch so i justwant to make sure i have the right files
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verygreens image:
forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=12240928&postcount=1
windisk32:
www.askvg.com/win32-disk-imager-write-any-bootable-image-to-usb-drive-in-windows/
7zip:
download.cnet.com/7-Zip/3000-2250_4-10045185.html
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there's lots of ways to get to the end result, don't get confused we will help you through the process.
Now that being said:
This was my process
x reformat your SD card again using the stock nook
x download "windisk32 image writer" (easier I think then winimage)
xdownload "verygreens, genenric 1.3image.zip"
xunzip the image.zip to your desktop (using 7zip)
xopen windisk32, click the blue folder and find the image file on your desktop for generic 1.3
xselect your corresponding drive to your sdcard hit write
xwhen finished remove sdcard and reinsert it into computer
x download (cm7.1 or cm7.2)
x open up " my computer" on windows
xdrag "cm7.1 or 7.2" to the corresponding drive for sdcard (should say boot)
xwhen finished right click hit eject when safe to do so remove sdcard
xinsert sdcard into fully powered down nook
xturn nook on (after a few it should go to a little Linux penguin) and install scripts should be running
x when it's done it'll power off
* wait a few minutes and turn the nook on, should boot into cm7 but first you should see the android riding a skateboard.
*while that's working download the gapps file
after you set up cm7 for the first time, shut it down.
* remove sdcard and reinsert it into your computer
* open up "my computer" and drag the gapps file to the sdcard drive
* when finished hit eject and reinsert the card into the nook and while holding the "n" power up the nook (should see the little Linux penguin again)
* when its finished it should power down againbthen just turn it on and set up Google
hope this helps
** again this is just what works for me and I have successfully done several different nook for friends, family and myself.
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Ok so i have gotten up to the part where it shutdown and i have no restarted it yet. I downloaded the gapps and now i have another question. if i want to open up the memory on the sd card that isnt being used willl it mess anything up? the video talks about using MiniTool Partition Wizard Home Edition 5.2 and i just dont want to mess up anything iv already down
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Ok so i have gotten up to the part where it shutdown and i have no restarted it yet. I downloaded the gapps and now i have another question. if i want to open up the memory on the sd card that isnt being used willl it mess anything up? the video talks about using MiniTool Partition Wizard Home Edition 5.2 and i just dont want to mess up anything iv already down
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the unseen portion of the sdcard in windows will be seen in your nook
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the unseen portion of the sdcard in windows will be seen in your nook
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ok so if i want to put thing on the card how would i do it? would my computer pick up the unused memory?
Tom32090 said:
ok so if i want to put thing on the card how would i do it? would my computer pick up the unused memory?
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you can use the nook as a mass USB storage device. while on the nook plug the cord into your nook and then the USB side into your computer. the computer should pick it up as USB mass storage and show 2 drives, 1 for nook color and the other for sdcard. once connected you can put whatever you want on it.
This was my way of rooting. Is this the best way of doing things these days? It's here for reference because if someone new comes here it's easy to get lost (which rooter to use etc):
0) Backup using noogie from http://code.google.com/p/nst-recovery/downloads/list (whole root partition - should be ~2gb)
1) CWM boot loader:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1360994
2) Format:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1475613
3) Root it with MinimalTouch:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1346748
(skipping sign-in: top left screen touch, top right corner screen touch, bottom right, bottom left... then get youtube via the apps button in the centre bottom then swipe to the right)
I guessed MinimalTouch is a little better than TouchNooter because it allows us to choose USB only adb for better security. I wondered if this is the preferred way now...
If market isn't working then you can install some by adb install, including fdroid, a small alternative FOSS repository. (appbrain apk too?)
4) Then think about multitouch for pinch to zoom. Might as well use the intergrated USB host mode since it's disabled by default it shouldn't fry anything
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1570637
Let me know if I missed anything or got something wrong. Need to disable over the air updates too still?
How to boot noogie from the SD Card?
I have been trying to boot from the SD card but I can't seem to get it to work.
All that is needed is to write the noogie.img file to the SD card, put it into the Nook, and just turn the Nook on right?
Any info would be very appreciated. God Bless ya jago25_98.
I'll let someone else do a better job, but...
1. Acquire SD card, and reader.
2. Write noogie.img (win33diskimager) to the sd card and do the backup thingy. If you did it right, the file should be about 1.9gb in size (an image of the nook's internal storage)
3. Get another SD card (or use the same one) and write the CWM recovery tool (win32diskimager) to the sd card.
4. Place the root zips onto the SD card (anywhere is fine). Do not extract them.
5. Place the SD card in your nook and turn it on. You should get the clockwork boot screen.
6. (Check the CWM post for detailed info) Follow the rooting instructions for the rooting method of your choice.
7. For TouchNooter, wait 24 hours. For MinimalTouch, start playing with your new tablet!
Sorry if these steps are wrong or hard to follow, this is just what I've learned by hanging out here long enough. (someone correct me)
I installed with Nooter. Is it safe to reinstall with another method, like noogie? I want to get multitouch to work but dont know how it works for nooter without cwm.
How to force Nook to boot to noogie.img on SDcard?
brendan10211 said:
I'll let someone else do a better job, but...
1. Acquire SD card, and reader.
2. Write noogie.img (win33diskimager) to the sd card and do the backup thingy. If you did it right, the file should be about 1.9gb in size (an image of the nook's internal storage)
3. Get another SD card (or use the same one) and write the CWM recovery tool (win32diskimager) to the sd card.
4. Place the root zips onto the SD card (anywhere is fine). Do not extract them.
5. Place the SD card in your nook and turn it on. You should get the clockwork boot screen.
6. (Check the CWM post for detailed info) Follow the rooting instructions for the rooting method of your choice.
7. For TouchNooter, wait 24 hours. For MinimalTouch, start playing with your new tablet!
Sorry if these steps are wrong or hard to follow, this is just what I've learned by hanging out here long enough. (someone correct me)
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Thank you for the step by step! That will come in handy! but how to I get the Nook to boot from the SD card when trying to use the noogie.img? I am trying to make a back up (I am on the 1.1.2 firmware version)
I have tried just puting the card in the Nook with the noogie.img written to the card. Then turning it on. But it doesn't boot to the card. I know this because it asks me if I want to format the card so it can be used for storage. And I can cancel that and go to the library and see all my books on the internal storage.
I would really love to turn this into a much more capable tablet by rooting it. But I am at quite an empass with the "booting to noogie.img" issue.
I had the same problem with noogie when I wrote the image with roadkil's, then I wrote it with winimage and I could have the rooted forever screen and I could create my backup image.
I explained it there:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=26262575#post26262575
albertorrent said:
I had the same problem with noogie when I wrote the image with roadkil's, then I wrote it with winimage and I could have the rooted forever screen and I could create my backup image.
I explained it there:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=26262575#post26262575
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Thank you, the way its written could very well be my problem. But the only thing is, I only use Linux computers. So a Windows image writing program won't work.
I followed this tutorial for writing the image to the SD card in the terminal: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1142983
It uses an entirely Terminal / Command Line way of writing the image to the SD card for both Mac, and Linux. So I'm not sure what the difference is between that and the Winimage program. But at this point I am at a empass, because I can not boot from the noogie.img to be able to do a full back up.
Are there any other Linux users here that may have a solution?
the trick is that you have to write to the root of the SD card... not the first partition.
also, there are better ways to do this now after noogie. I recently blanked mine to experiment with minimal touch. with that you get a cwm recovery onto sdcard. I didn't even boot to bold power button plus 2 lower buttons either side of the screen to get it to boot. I keep that on a separate card now. with it you can Android backup but you need more than 2gb for that. minimal touch root is more what I'm familiar with than the touchnooter. boogie I did ages ago and cant remember the details now