I have been trying to put CyanogenMod 7 on my Verizon Fascinate.
It was fresh out of the box, unrooted, no fancy widgets or programs installed,
when it suddenly decided to erase my Contacts.
No matter how much I backup through Verizon, the contacts will erase,
NOT backup with Verizon, and even better, not save any contacts.
I had it factory reset couple of times, but the problem kept coming up.
(Maybe there's something wrong with the SD Card??)
Well, so I decided to install CyanogenMod 7.
I first installed SuperOneClick, and rooted my phone that way.
I also installed ROM Manager.
I was in the ClockworkMod Recovery
when I went into "install from SD Card" trying to install CM7.zip,
my phone starts going on a "waiting for SD card to mount" loop.
It will keep going forever and ever,
phone will not turn off unless I take the battery out,
no matter which way I try to turn it back on,
it starts giving me that loop again.
One of my family members have a Verizon fascinate as well,
but without CyanogenMod (is rooted though).
I put the same two files (CM7.zip and gapps.zip) at the root folder,
plug it into my SD Card slot, with no luck..
same "waiting for.." loop.
As I have been searching on this forum for two hours,
everyone seemed to suggest that the SD card was the problem.
But I'm kind of ignorant on this type of subject,
1. I have searched that a smaller GB SD Card is better? True or False..?
1a. Let's say I bought a 2 GB SD Card. What do I do with it?
Put the two files into the SD card and plug it in?
1b. Will I be able to use a bigger sized SD Card later on
after the installation is finished?
2. Is the SD Card the problem or is there a way I can work it out?
P.S. By the way, I followed the steps from the Wiki,
and had a hard time at "Boot into the ClockworkMod Recovery" step.
I didn't know how to boot into it all, and I searched that
pressing the volume down button and the power button does the trick.
My phone didn't.
So I ended up going to ROM Manager
and pressing the "reboot into ClockworkMod Recovery" button.
Pressing that button froze up the phone.
I had to reboot the phone several times because
the phone will freeze every time I pressed that button.
And then on a random reboot,
the phone decided to boot into ClockworkMod Recovery mode.
So if I had to do that again, I have no idea how to do it.
Was there a bug in the program or am I doing it wrong?
saeromida said:
I have been trying to put CyanogenMod 7 on my Verizon Fascinate.
It was fresh out of the box, unrooted, no fancy widgets or programs installed,
when it suddenly decided to erase my Contacts.
No matter how much I backup through Verizon, the contacts will erase,
NOT backup with Verizon, and even better, not save any contacts.
I had it factory reset couple of times, but the problem kept coming up.
(Maybe there's something wrong with the SD Card??)
Well, so I decided to install CyanogenMod 7.
I first installed SuperOneClick, and rooted my phone that way.
I also installed ROM Manager.
I was in the ClockworkMod Recovery
when I went into "install from SD Card" trying to install CM7.zip,
my phone starts going on a "waiting for SD card to mount" loop.
It will keep going forever and ever,
phone will not turn off unless I take the battery out,
no matter which way I try to turn it back on,
it starts giving me that loop again.
One of my family members have a Verizon fascinate as well,
but without CyanogenMod (is rooted though).
I put the same two files (CM7.zip and gapps.zip) at the root folder,
plug it into my SD Card slot, with no luck..
same "waiting for.." loop.
As I have been searching on this forum for two hours,
everyone seemed to suggest that the SD card was the problem.
But I'm kind of ignorant on this type of subject,
1. I have searched that a smaller GB SD Card is better? True or False..?
1a. Let's say I bought a 2 GB SD Card. What do I do with it?
Put the two files into the SD card and plug it in?
1b. Will I be able to use a bigger sized SD Card later on
after the installation is finished?
2. Is the SD Card the problem or is there a way I can work it out?
P.S. By the way, I followed the steps from the Wiki,
and had a hard time at "Boot into the ClockworkMod Recovery" step.
I didn't know how to boot into it all, and I searched that
pressing the volume down button and the power button does the trick.
My phone didn't.
So I ended up going to ROM Manager
and pressing the "reboot into ClockworkMod Recovery" button.
Pressing that button froze up the phone.
I had to reboot the phone several times because
the phone will freeze every time I pressed that button.
And then on a random reboot,
the phone decided to boot into ClockworkMod Recovery mode.
So if I had to do that again, I have no idea how to do it.
Was there a bug in the program or am I doing it wrong?
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Ok first, 99% of your custom roms will already be pre-rooted. 2nd, to boot into recovery, you have to hold volume up,down and power button (also known as 3 button recovery) 3rd, I've never had a problem getting into CM7 HOWEVER, you do need to Odin a special recovery to install it. I'm on the xda app and can't post links but I do know towards the bottom of the cm7 post it does say you need to have the new recovery installed
Sent from my SCH-I500
thanks
After hours and hours of frustration,
I decided to call it a day and start fresh the next morning..
and I saw your reply-
Volume Up + Volume Down + Power Button did the trick.
It sent me straight to the recovery mode..
I took another SD card with the two files I want to install at the root folder.
Plugged it in, and it worked!!
So it's safe to assume that the problem was in the SD card,
and not the hardware, or the software, or any mistaken procedures.
Thank you! Saved my day!
No problem, glad I could help man.
Sent from my SCH-I500
if you need all the files and a straight forward tutorial...check my guide out! I think some of the other guides can be confusing...refer to section 3 when you find it! good luck!!
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I have a Viewsonic GTablet. I have used it very little and know nothing about rooting or ROM's or anything. I picked it up one day and turned it on and it's in a loop while booting...it goes from "viewsonic" to "Gtablet" to "TapNTap" then sticks there for several minutes then turns off. I have tried holding down the power and Vol. + and It comes in the upper left hand corner saying "Detect Recovery Key Pressed" and then "Booting recovery Kernal Image". Then the "unpacking box" appears...nothing happens but when I press the "HOME" button it says "Formatting MISC" and then "Rebooting" then the loop again. Called Tech support they laughed and said send it in...not sure about all that but would rather figure something out before doing that...thanks in advance...remember I am a NOVICE...so simple instructions please LOL
You need a data wipe/factory reset. Can be done from stock recovery. I recommend method I from the following thread...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1030915
K J Rad said:
You need a data wipe/factory reset. Can be done from stock recovery. I recommend method I from the following thread...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1030915
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Did that it came up with the first 2 "Detect Recovery Key Pressed" and "Booting Recovery Kernal Image" then to the "upacking box" for about 5 seconds then to the loop again. Still lost...thanks for trying to help any more suggestions?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1008245
Look for the links about installing clockworkmod. Once installed you'll need to try the data wipe and possibly repartition your internal storage. That will cause any data stored there to be lost.
tried all of them and the tablet will not recognize the SD card or being connected to the computer
A little more than tried all of them would be helpful...
Did you get CWM installed?
Were you able to wipe data?
Did you partition?
What was the result of each of those actions?
Is the tablet still looping?
Can you still get into recovery?
If not, what exactly is it doing when you turn it on?
No..I put that on the SD card and put the SD card in the tablet. Booted up and it goes through the same cycle. It will not even boot from the SD card. It never brings up a menu to cycle through with the Vol + or -....if I connect it through the USB it never recognizes it because it never comes out of the boot loop.
Thanks for all your help...I am really a novice with this thing
Well... It doesn't boot from the SD Card. Recovery looks at the SD Card to see if there is anything for it to do. Back to basics...
Install ClockworkMod: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=865245
The first part of that post describes how to do it. Use the MicroSD card version which you will find at the bottom of the first post. You'll need to download it, extract it and put the recovery folder and update.zip at the root of your MicroSD card using your computer. Then put the MicroSD card in your tablet. Turn the tablet on while holding down the Volume Up key. You should boot into recovery and see the little box, arrow and progress bar. When it finishes you want to reboot it while holding down the Volume Up key again. That will get you into ClockworkMod (CWM).
From CWM main menu you can wipe data. Try that and see if it helps. If not then reboot while holding the Volume Up and go into CWM again. Select "Advanced" menu and you'll find the partitioning command. Select it and answer the two questions with 2048 and 0. This will erase everything stored on your tablet in the user storage space but should fix the problem.
Tried it
Tried it and this time it worked like......clockwork LOL...thanks so much...any more advice to have an awesome butt kicking machine?
Glad to hear it. Hang out around here for a bit and read up on the custom ROMs and stuff. You can turn these tablets into some pretty kick butt machines without too much effort. Just take your time and make sure you understand the process before you get started.
i rooted my thunderbolt and have CWM 4.0.1.4
Apparently verizon released an update today and my phone tried to update on its own. when i work up my phone is in CWM saying
E:signature verification failed
Instillation aborted
If i reboot it just immediately tries to run the update again and fails, so i'm in this loop.
what can i do?
thanks for any help!
I'm a newby myself so others correct me if I stumble, but I think you can pull out your micro SD card, connect to your PC, and download a working rom image to the root of the card (not in a folder). It will have a name like PG05IMG.zip
Put the sd card back in, hold the volume down button as you hold the power button to turn it on to get into the bootloader, press the power button again, and it will look for the PG05IMG.zip and install it.
is there anyway to correct the current issue w/o installing a new ROM?
i would prefer not to have to install a custom ROM and wipe my data if possible
That is a good question, above my pay grade, but I am guessing what happened was the Verizon release you got today was corrupt. I would guess you can pull your SD card, and look if it downloaded a PG05IMG.zip file to it, and just delete it. Or try rebooting without the SD card installed just to see what happens?
This post had the solution, no data wipe and even kept root
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1402898
pray59 said:
I'm a newby myself so others correct me if I stumble, but I think you can pull out your micro SD card, connect to your PC, and download a working rom image to the root of the card (not in a folder). It will have a name like PG05IMG.zip
Put the sd card back in, hold the volume down button as you hold the power button to turn it on to get into the bootloader, press the power button again, and it will look for the PG05IMG.zip and install it.
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Anything with a PG05IMG.zip is for a new radio, not a new ROM. Many people have been having this problem, but the solution is also above my paygrade
So I will tell you my story, it all started like this.
The other day I wanted to trade my iPhone 4s for a Galaxy note, So i met up with this guy from craigslist, He had the device, I checked it out, It looked fine and workeed fine, so I took the trade. I saw that he had some personal backgrounds, profiles, etc on the phone do I decided to do a factory reset. I went to settings and followed through with the factory reset. The phone was on the samsung flashing logo, and the battery fell out, I put it back in and powered back on and went straight to the samsung logo, so I assumed it would just pick up from where it left off. I waited about an hour to an hour and a half and it was still on the samsung logo, so I called samsung customer service. I had to do a Hard factory reset, (Hold the 2 volume buttons, and the power button, then let go of the power button) it brought me to some screen that it wasnt suppose to, the Screen was "Team Win Recovery Project v.2.2.1.1" Then it gave me all these on screen buttons to push " Install, Wipe, Backup, Restore, Mount, Settings, Advanced, Reboot" So I clicked install, but there is nothing on the device to install, I have no OS to install, I was just screwing around with it, I click "reboot" and then "System" then it says "No OS installed!Are you sure you wish to reboot?" so I just swipe to reboot, and the phone just gets stuck again and in ittle print at the bottom of the phone it says " E: System is not installed - preventing reboot" so it just stayed there for a while. So then I did some reasearch and I Held the "Volume down button and power button" I that brought me to some thing that was like " WARNING Custom OS can damage the phone or something like that" then it said "Volume Up to continue" or "Volume Down to Cancel (restart phone) so I clicked volume down, and It got stuck at the blinking samsung logo again,I held the same buttons again and Instead of clicking volume down, I clicked the volume up this time, It got stuck on some Android screen, with the big Green android guy. I just took the battery out, now Im back at a black screen. So Now I have this useless paper weight, no cell phone, and I dont have the guys number that sold me the phone.
(PLEASE HELP)
If anyone has some idea of for me what to do, Please post, anything Im desperate!!!
XDA is no longer worth my time.
Daviddag16 said:
So I will tell you my story, it all started like this.
The other day I wanted to trade my iPhone 4s for a Galaxy note, So i met up with this guy from craigslist, He had the device, I checked it out, It looked fine and workeed fine, so I took the trade. I saw that he had some personal backgrounds, profiles, etc on the phone do I decided to do a factory reset. I went to settings and followed through with the factory reset. The phone was on the samsung flashing logo, and the battery fell out, I put it back in and powered back on and went straight to the samsung logo, so I assumed it would just pick up from where it left off. I waited about an hour to an hour and a half and it was still on the samsung logo, so I called samsung customer service. I had to do a Hard factory reset, (Hold the 2 volume buttons, and the power button, then let go of the power button) it brought me to some screen that it wasnt suppose to, the Screen was "Team Win Recovery Project v.2.2.1.1" Then it gave me all these on screen buttons to push " Install, Wipe, Backup, Restore, Mount, Settings, Advanced, Reboot" So I clicked install, but there is nothing on the device to install, I have no OS to install, I was just screwing around with it, I click "reboot" and then "System" then it says "No OS installed!Are you sure you wish to reboot?" so I just swipe to reboot, and the phone just gets stuck again and in ittle print at the bottom of the phone it says " E: System is not installed - preventing reboot" so it just stayed there for a while. So then I did some reasearch and I Held the "Volume down button and power button" I that brought me to some thing that was like " WARNING Custom OS can damage the phone or something like that" then it said "Volume Up to continue" or "Volume Down to Cancel (restart phone) so I clicked volume down, and It got stuck at the blinking samsung logo again,I held the same buttons again and Instead of clicking volume down, I clicked the volume up this time, It got stuck on some Android screen, with the big Green android guy. I just took the battery out, now Im back at a black screen. So Now I have this useless paper weight, no cell phone, and I dont have the guys number that sold me the phone.
(PLEASE HELP)
If anyone has some idea of for me what to do, Please post, anything Im desperate!!!
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Well, if I were you I would install the stock (although rooted) ICS ROM as found here
If you have a microsd card and laptop/home computer I would download a ROM onto the microsd then reinstall it on your NOTE then you can reboot into the "Team Win Recovery" thing as you did before and install according to the instructions found in the thread below.
1) Download the pure ROM as found here in the first post.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1766933
2) move the zip file to your microsd and then insert to your NOTE (you have to remove the battery to do so).
3) As mentioned, do what you did before to get to the "Team Win Recovery".
4) Follow the instructions for the ROM to install...basically Wipe Data then Factory Reset and then INSTALL the ROM. You will have to look for it on your external card.
andrawer said:
Well, if I were you I would install the stock (although rooted) ICS ROM as found here
If you have a microsd card and laptop/home computer I would download a ROM onto the microsd then reinstall it on your NOTE then you can reboot into the "Team Win Recovery" thing as you did before and install according to the instructions found in the thread below.
1) Download the pure ROM as found here in the first post.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1766933
2) move the zip file to your microsd and then insert to your NOTE (you have to remove the battery to do so).
3) As mentioned, do what you did before to get to the "Team Win Recovery".
4) Follow the instructions for the ROM to install...basically Wipe Data then Factory Reset and then INSTALL the ROM. You will have to look for it on your external card.
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THANKS SO MUCH, But I need to find away to get the Micro Sd Card into my Mac, and then how to transfer the data
your gonna need to get a card reader to put that micro sd card.
get one of those usb card reader. then connect to your mac.
mac should recognize that with no problem.
So here is what I have done so far, I downloaded the Zip file "SGH-I717-UCLF6PS.zip" to my mac, From there I connected my Galaxy Note to My iMac via USB cable, I kept the micro sd inside the phone. The mac recgonized the Galaxy Note, so I dragged and dropped the file into the folder of the Note, and let in download, Then I open Team Win Recovery Project, hit install, then located the "SGH-I717-UCLF6PS.zip" file, clicked on it, then "Swiped to confirm flash" I did that then I get an error "Unable to open zip file"
Everything seems to go wrong :crying::crying::crying::crying::crying::crying:
i have had that happen when my download was corrupt or didnt finish
leo5111 said:
i have had that happen when my download was corrupt or didnt finish
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I have a mac also and purchased a cheap card reader that plugs into my usb port.
BUT, if your mac recognized your Note as a device then that should work.
Just got to redownload the zip file and "eject" it after you transfered to the note's microsd.
You actually dont need a card reader or anything. If you plug your phone into your PC and then boot into recovery holding the 2 volume buttons. then choose mounts and storage (i believe thats the catagory, im copying music to my phone so i dont want to reboot right now) in there you want to mount the USB storage, your computer will download the drivers and then ask you if you want to view the files in it. Just copy over a ROM to your SD card or internal storage and install it and your good to go.
Daviddag16 said:
THANKS SO MUCH, But I need to find away to get the Micro Sd Card into my Mac, and then how to transfer the data
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So I attempted to root my NT using Ray Waldo's Jelly Bean & Root for Nook Tablet 1.4.3
(here's the link so you know what the process was: http://raywaldo.com/2012/09/root-for-nook-tablet-1-4-3/ )
and I got as far as booting the NT from the SD card that contained CWM recovery on it, and it began the process. It then decided to just shut completely off after it seemed to be either almost finished or finished with the boot process. Either way, the problem now is I cannot turn it on. I have used every button press combo, as well as several attempts to boot off of recovery SD cards. I have tried connecting the NT to the computer via usb while holding down the power and home buttons, and all that jazz. No matter what I do, my NT will NOT turn on for ANYTHING. Although the battery seems to be fine, since after plugging in the power cord (after attempting to press buttons or whatever else) it turns orange for a few seconds to a few minutes (depending on how much I mess with it) and turns green. I am starting to think that any method that uses the SD card to boot into recovery or flash to stock or anything is simply not going to work, as my most recent attempt was to boot it into Ubuntu Recovery using Adam Outler's [UnBrick]TOTAL WIPE and reflash back to 1.4.0 via Ubuntu Recovery --Now Easier!!!! (here's the link: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1470910 )
and after following the instructions for both Ubuntu AND windows, the card will not make the NT boot into recovery. Considering Adam Outler's method is supposed to completely set everything to 0, I am pretty sure that anything regarding booting from an SD card is NOT going to work.
Is there any way that I could connect the NT to the computer and fix it through that? If anyone has any MEANINGFUL and USEFUL tips regarding this dilemma, PLEASE help me out. I am aware of the possibility that my NT could be fried beyond repair, but at the same time I can't help but think that there's GOT to be a way I can fix it. I don't care about saving anything on there, or what ROM I flash it to, or anything like that. I just don't want to be a paperweight anymore. I would like to at least figure out why it won't turn on, if nothing else.
Like I said, I have already tried several methods regarding booting to recovery through the SD card, and none have worked. Again, NOTHING is making it turn on at all. Please help me!
I would try the repart.imgdecribed here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1663836 before attempting anything else. I think your trouble stems from TWRP, but either way, try the repart.img before you start messing with anything else.
I know you say it's impossible to boot from sd card, but I still think it's worth a try. Insert the card. then insert powered charging cable. If it still seems dead, hold power button for 10 seconds. Remove and reinsert powered cable.
The fact that the charging cable is green does not automatically means it's charged. It just means it's not taking any power, and that could be because of whatever makes it not turn on. I think it may not actually have been dead when you thought it was at first, and then it could have drained completely. It needs to get some juice, so try keeping the chargging cable inserted when experimenting with buttons.
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE.......this is my first post but I have spent ALOT of time reading on here and i dont know where to go from here....I bought my nook Tablet from a friend and it came stock with 4.4.2. KIt Kat and somehow my son got my SD card that had my recovery and back ups on it and well to make a long story short, I went through a few endless boot loops, ROMS, sleepless nights on XDA and just about anything you can imagine untill it hit its 8th consecutive "loop" and here we are......biggest problem is though that I cant get into admin account on my computer sooooo....short of having to find a friends house to drag my kids off to to fix "Mommies toy" I really need some help if at all possible. My computer doesn't read this "new" nook because it was an Android the other day and I know what it feels like.....it was pretty hard having to wake up to a TOTALLY STOCK Nook from a 4.4 with TWRP and Paranoid Android.
Ps....if nothing else if anyone can point me in a real direction to reset my admin password on a HP running Windows 7 that would be great also, I would factory reset it but the settings require the password....its pretty crazy....Thank you in advance
Noob Mom :fingers-crossed
Does your SD card contain the CWM recovery and ROM backup and is still intact?
If so then you should be able to boot off the SD card into recovery (by inserting a powered USB into the NT while it's in power-off state) and and restore from back up.
digixmax said:
Does your SD card contain the CWM recovery and ROM backup and is still intact?
If so then you should be able to boot off the SD card into recovery (by inserting a powered USB into the NT while it's in power-off state) and and restore from back up.
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Please forgive me but tell me exactly where and what I need to look for to make sure, I have a wifi file explorer opened up on my nook because I cant re-install the drivers on my Win7 pc because of the stupid ADMIN password. So can i just add\delete\move....whatever files necessary around to make it work or am i going to have to be able to connect it to my pc?? Also, when you say for me to just restore from back up, how would i do that because i cant seem to be able to boot into anything except Factory "N".
The process for restoring from SD card using SD-based CWM recovery is as follows:
Put the SD card into the NT, and boot from its power off by inserting a powered USB cable. Press and hold the N button as soon as CyanoBoot comes up to get the boot menu to display. Use volume up/down buttons to navigate, N button to select, and Power button to return to a parent menu.
Select "SDC Recovery" to load CWM recovery.
Select "Backup and restore".
Select "Restore from SD card".
...
Select "Reboot".
digixmax said:
The process for restoring from SD card using SD-based CWM recovery is as follows:
Put the SD card into the NT, and boot from its power off by inserting a powered USB cable. Press and hold the N button as soon as CyanoBoot comes up to get the boot menu to display. Use volume up/down buttons to navigate, N button to select, and Power button to return to a parent menu.
Select "SDC Recovery" to load CWM recovery.
Select "Backup and restore".
Select "Restore from SD card".
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Select "Reboot".
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Gosh...I only wish it was that easy....I cant get it to the CyanoBoot menu anymore.....I guess the factory reset wiped it all off....and i have back ups and recoveries all over the place Im just not sure if everything is where it needs to be or if I just need to try and start over....if so, where should I start because most of the forums I have found are older and the links dont work.....
tarachristina31 said:
Gosh...I only wish it was that easy....I cant get it to the CyanoBoot menu anymore.....I guess the factory reset wiped it all off....and i have back ups and recoveries all over the place Im just not sure if everything is where it needs to be or if I just need to try and start over....if so, where should I start because most of the forums I have found are older and the links dont work.....
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Oh yea, I almost forgot.....my Windows 7 PC will now recognize my nook,I am just unable to install anything to the computer or run anything as an administrator.....also.....my first problem really still is that I cant get into the hidden settings to allow 3rd party apps....I must just be missing something because it really shouldn't be this hard.....Thanks
tarachristina31 said:
Gosh...I only wish it was that easy....I cant get it to the CyanoBoot menu anymore.....I guess the factory reset wiped it all off....and i have back ups and recoveries all over the place Im just not sure if everything is where it needs to be or if I just need to try and start over....if so, where should I start because most of the forums I have found are older and the links dont work.....
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See http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=51377882&postcount=163 for how to install CM10.x internally on emmc.
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tarachristina31 said:
Oh yea, I almost forgot.....my Windows 7 PC will now recognize my nook,I am just unable to install anything to the computer or run anything as an administrator.....also.....my first problem really still is that I cant get into the hidden settings to allow 3rd party apps....I must just be missing something because it really shouldn't be this hard.....Thanks
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It should be in Settings->Security->Unknown Source.