Mac OSX root Nook Color - Nook Color Android Development

Adapted from pokey9000's original instructions and the instructions of macndroid along with many others posts and just expand on some areas for the inexperienced like myself. Some was also lifted from the nookdevs site too. This was just my detailed step by step process that worked.
1. Get any sized microsd card that you don't mind trashing the data on.
2. Download pokey9000's micro sd .img files from here:
http://www.mediafire.com/?cfddu9wt9d8dunl
3. To install .img onto sd card, put micro sd card into a reader into your usb port (not sure the steps if you are just using your Nook Color to write the image onto the micro sd.
4. To write images to disk on mac osx, you need to do the following:
-Find which drive the sd card is mapped to: type in the terminal this:
diskutil list
-Now unmount that drive typing this:
diskutil unmountDisk /dev/disk<#> (My computer is was disk2)
-It should say: Unmount of all volumes on disk<#> was successful
-Type: dd if= nooter_sdcard_40mb.img of=/dev/disk<#>
-Everything needed should copy right over to the card.
3. Plug the usb cable from your NC (Nook Color) into your computer. Make sure your NC is powered on and you see the drive mounted normally.
4. Take card out of the sd reader and put it into your NC.
5. Hold down the power button for 15 seconds.
6. Let go and wait 2 seconds then hold the power button for 2 more seconds. Let go.
7. After a little bit you will get a window that says, "New network interfaces have been detected". The image is as follows:
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
8. Hit Cancel.
9. Once the devices show up, wait 30 seconds and remove the card from the NC device.
10. Hold down the power button for 15 seconds again, let go, wait 2 seconds and then hold the power button for 2 more seconds, then let go again.
11. Everything should now be installed and you should be at your normal screen and your NC volume will be mounted normally.
12. Now you need to install android SDK onto you mac if you don't already have it.
13. Download it from the following site: http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html
14. To get adb working on my terminal, I just went to the directory android-sdk-mac_x86/tools I double clicked android and it opened the terminal and seemed to install what I needed. (somebody more experienced can edit this area if there is a better way to install what is needed for the computer to run adb commands)
15. I was now able to use adb commands in the terminal.
16. For the computer to recognize my NC as a device I typed the following into the terminal:
sudo sh -c "mkdir -p ~/.android; echo 0x2080 > ~/.android/adb_usb.ini; adb kill-server; adb devices"
17. To verify if I was now connected, I typed in: adb devices and it showed me a number for the device.
18. Now that the device is recognized, I installed an .apk file.
19. I typed:
adb install /<full directory to file>/<file name>.apk
20. I ejected the mounted disk like I normally would from finder.
21. I rebooted my nook once unplugged.
22. Check the extras area of NC and the program was now installed.
23. To remove a program first plug your NC in like normal until disk mounts
24. I first had to find out the exact name of the .apk file installed.
-Type: adb shell ls /data/app (This gives a list of all .apk files installed and their exact names)
25. Once I had the exact name I could remove the file.
-Type: adb shell rm -r /data/app/<full name of file>.apk
26. The file should now be gone. I didn't have to reboot, I just unmounted the drive and checked the extras section of the NC. It was gone. Some suggestions were to reboot to make sure the file was gone. Might be required but I didn't have to)
27. I now feel fully confident to install and uninstall .apk files as I like.
This all worked for me and everything is running smooth. It took me a few hours to get all this together as I have very little experience with this and had to seek out info for every little step. I tried to keep it as dumb as possible so people like myself would be able to do this.

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Thanks for putting everyhing together. Anyway to cut the complication of uninstall apps through ADB out, I would recommend doing in through Astro File Manager. It's capable of Application Management too.

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Great tutorial. I am a total noob and you have helped me successfully root my nook...so big ups. Next question I have is that there is a thread on how to install apk's without ADB. I believe it can be done simply through the browser. They have posted how to do it but not for Mac. Can someone post how to do that via OSX in a very detailed manner as done above for the root process? Thank you soooo much!

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This was going great until I had to install the Android SDK. My only computer is a PPC, & apparently the SDK only works on an Intel machine.

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Wow. I had no idea that it didn't work with PPC and only with Intel.

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so my issue...
sudo sh -c "mkdir -p ~/.android; echo 0x2080 > ~/.android/adb_usb.ini; adb kill-server; adb devices"
when I type this into terminal it asks for my password
and then comes back and says that
sh: adb: command not found
sh :adb: command not found
Am I supposed to edit that command with some paths? I can't tell if I'm being daft. Thanks!

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lanfearl said:
sudo sh -c "mkdir -p ~/.android; echo 0x2080 > ~/.android/adb_usb.ini; adb kill-server; adb devices"
when I type this into terminal it asks for my password
and then comes back and says that
sh: adb: command not found
sh :adb: command not found
Am I supposed to edit that command with some paths? I can't tell if I'm being daft. Thanks!
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You can go into the AndroidSDK/tools directory and replace "adb" with "./adb" in the commands listed. This is if you don't have the path added already which seems like what's happening.

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thanks for the step by step!

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scratchfury said:
You can go into the AndroidSDK/tools directory and replace "adb" with "./adb" in the commands listed. This is if you don't have the path added already which seems like what's happening.
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I'm having the same problem. Cannot get past the ADB step (step 16 listed above).
What on earth am I doing wrong? (BTW, I'm not a terminal kind of guy, so cardboard book-type direction is appreciated)...
http://i51.tinypic.com/2vtuuxi.png

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ericshmerick said:
I'm having the same problem. Cannot get past the ADB step (step 16 listed above).
What on earth am I doing wrong? (BTW, I'm not a terminal kind of guy, so cardboard book-type direction is appreciated)...
http://i51.tinypic.com/2vtuuxi.png
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so here was my way around the adb step.
you type in the sudo sh command as normal untill you get to the adb kill-server and adb devices part.
in your finder navigate to the folder that the adb file is in. it supposed to be where ever you extracted the android sdk.
android/tools/
Instead of typing adb kill-server you are going to drag and drop the adb file it self from the finder to the terminal window. in my case it looks something like this.
/Users/<my home folder>/android/tools/adb
your path will look different depending on where in the drive you have it located.
so now step 16 is going to look something like this.
sudo sh -c "mkdir -p ~/.android; echo 0x2080 > ~/.android/adb_usb.ini; /Users/<my home folder>/android/tools/adb kill-server; /Users/<my home folder>/android/tools/adb devices"
so every time you use the adb command you have to link it to the path on your hard drive. i know theres a way to change directories so that you just type adb and it finds it. but im not that knowledgeable with linux. and im sure someone that is could help us out with that.

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rluzania said:
so here was my way around the adb step.
you type in the sudo sh command as normal untill you get to the adb kill-server and adb devices part.
in your finder navigate to the folder that the adb file is in. it supposed to be where ever you extracted the android sdk.
android/tools/
Instead of typing adb kill-server you are going to drag and drop the adb file it self from the finder to the terminal window. in my case it looks something like this.
/Users/<my home folder>/android/tools/adb
your path will look different depending on where in the drive you have it located.
so now step 16 is going to look something like this.
sudo sh -c "mkdir -p ~/.android; echo 0x2080 > ~/.android/adb_usb.ini; /Users/<my home folder>/android/tools/adb kill-server; /Users/<my home folder>/android/tools/adb devices"
so every time you use the adb command you have to link it to the path on your hard drive. i know theres a way to change directories so that you just type adb and it finds it. but im not that knowledgeable with linux. and im sure someone that is could help us out with that.
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hmmm im stuck on the same step too... it seems when i do that it doesn't respond at all. and when i type in adb devices to check whether it's connect, it won't do anything.... sry..im a total noob ~_~

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i would love to help you but if nothing is coming up i have no idea where to begin. i almost want to say that maybe the sd card didnt work on the nook. but im not sure if thats it either. or do you have the android sdk app launched? i know that opens up another terminal window that when you type in to doesn't do anything. umm let me know what you find.

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r8? no adb
sdk is now at r8, not sure if that has anything to do with it. But in tools folder there is no adb.

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newton1666 said:
sdk is now at r8, not sure if that has anything to do with it. But in tools folder there is no adb.
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It has been moved to a new folder named "platform-tools" instead of "tools".

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scratchfury said:
It has been moved to a new folder named "platform-tools" instead of "tools".
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Thanks for that, I feel very silly.

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rluzania said:
so here was my way around the adb step.
you type in the sudo sh command as normal untill you get to the adb kill-server and adb devices part.
in your finder navigate to the folder that the adb file is in. it supposed to be where ever you extracted the android sdk.
android/tools/
Instead of typing adb kill-server you are going to drag and drop the adb file it self from the finder to the terminal window. in my case it looks something like this.
/Users/<my home folder>/android/tools/adb
your path will look different depending on where in the drive you have it located.
so now step 16 is going to look something like this.
sudo sh -c "mkdir -p ~/.android; echo 0x2080 > ~/.android/adb_usb.ini; /Users/<my home folder>/android/tools/adb kill-server; /Users/<my home folder>/android/tools/adb devices"
so every time you use the adb command you have to link it to the path on your hard drive. i know theres a way to change directories so that you just type adb and it finds it. but im not that knowledgeable with linux. and im sure someone that is could help us out with that.
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I wanted to thank you for this, as I was getting frustrated changing my bash profile. Anyone else in this boat don't forget you need to drill down (cd) to where the adb is, in my case downloaded sdk just recently it's in platform-tools folder, to do the adb install.
If you just upgraded from an earlier version of the sdk and don't see adb, even in platform-tools, just run an Update All... under Installed packages. Hopes this helps others.

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hey people. I really appreciate the work that has been done so far.
I'm trying to format a micro SD card with dd. Here's the problem: I was able to unmount the SD card in terminal but then it won't find the nooter disk img:
Code:
sh-3.2# diskutil unmountDisk /dev/disk1
Unmount of all volumes on disk1 was successful
sh-3.2# dd if=nooter_sdcard_40mb.img of=/dev/disk1
dd: nooter_sdcard_40mb.img: No such file or directory
what am I doing wrong? I have the file in question, and this isn't a complicated step. Thanks for any help.

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plariers said:
what am I doing wrong? I have the file in question, and this isn't a complicated step. Thanks for any help.
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My bad, figured it out. In case anyone else runs into this, in OSX you can drag and drop files into terminal to insert accurate file paths
worked perfectly

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You are my hero!!!!!!!
I've been banging my head against a wall for HOURS UPON HOURS trying to get the adb to work. And you fixed me up in a few minutes. I love you so much right now. Seriously.

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It lists my device # after step 16, but I can't install the packages then.
I got this far, and then when I try the command to adb install the app, I get
-bash:adb: command not found
any tips?