OK so I have a nook tablet and I wanna root it so I can blow out the ****ty B&N OS and put on CM7 or something. Last time I tried to do the zerg script root it didn't work. Can you guys help point me in the right direction for the root as well as the install for CM7? Would I just install clockworkmod and install from recovery like I do on my phone? Also how stable is the whole process, I don't wanna brick my tablet.
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howmydictate said:
OK so I have a nook tablet and I wanna root it so I can blow out the ****ty B&N OS and put on CM7 or something. Last time I tried to do the zerg script root it didn't work. Can you guys help point me in the right direction for the root as well as the install for CM7? Would I just install clockworkmod and install from recovery like I do on my phone? Also how stable is the whole process, I don't wanna brick my tablet.
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Search in the dev section. There are numerous threads in there about various ways to root and install any custom rom. As far as a brick, I have yet to see an actual case of a bricked NT that hasn't been able to be recovered. (not including any kind of hardware failure)
That's the point of me asking there are several topics on the subject, I wanna sort through all the crap and get the best tutorials.
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Yes, you would install CWM and install CM7 from CWM if you intend to run from internal. If Nook&Zergy isn't working for you, you could always make a bootable root SD card, as seen here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1488035
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That's the point of me asking there are several topics on the subject, I wanna sort through all the crap and get the best tutorials.
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The whole process has been trial and error. All of the information is available for the taking. What you mean to say is "I wanna be lazy and have someone do the searching for me".
Honestly, I have no problem at all helping someone. As long as they are willing to help themselves.
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The whole process has been trial and error. All of the information is available for the taking. What you mean to say is "I wanna be lazy and have someone do the searching for me".
Honestly, I have no problem at all helping someone. As long as they are willing to help themselves.
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I understand man..... I am just having toruble with this tutorial also I am on 1.4.1, does this matter to root/install CWM and CM7?
howmydictate said:
I understand man..... I am just having toruble with this tutorial also I am on 1.4.1, does this matter to root/install CWM and CM7?
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Not if you use the SD card method from the link posted in post #4.
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Not if you use the SD card method from the link posted in post #4.
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Solar, I tried that. Flashed the image to my 8GB SDcard powered down my nook tablet put sdcard in and booted, I was never prompted to apply update.zip from sdcard during boot....
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My issues are solved at this time.. yay for an amazing group on these forums!!! Thanks to kidserious for all the help so far!!
I rooted before I installed a recovery ... Is that good, bad? I'm confused with the Fascinate.. too many options!!
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I rooted before I installed a recovery ... Is that good, bad? I'm confused with the Fascinate.. too many options!!
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I will help you but I am in a meeting. I'll help you pimp out your fascinate. I'll be out around 10.
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kidserious said:
I will help you but I am in a meeting. I'll help you pimp out your fascinate. I'll be out around 10.
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Hey thanks a lot!! I've seen you around the forums on here.. pleased to meet you!
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Hey thanks a lot!! I've seen you around the forums on here.. pleased to meet you!
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You should look through the threads and find which rom you want and download it. Then put it on your SD card.
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Well I'm 4 days in as a Samsung Fascinate owner.. rooted the phone and removed a bunch of apps that were not necessary.. what's next? Kernel? ROM? ... I'm coming from the Eris where it seemed to be a bit simpler, especially with Kernel selection.. I think there was online one... but what's my next step to get the most out of my new awesome phone?!?! THANKS!!
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Google "Odin". Its a program, download it. You will need it. You have a PC right?
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Oh yeah.. PC and the lot.. Not the first time rooting and custom ROMS .. just the first time for the Fascinate..and "Odin" .. is that the Open Disk Imager for Windows?
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Well I'm 4 days in as a Samsung Fascinate owner.. rooted the phone and removed a bunch of apps that were not necessary.. what's next? Kernel? ROM? ... I'm coming from the Eris where it seemed to be a bit simpler, especially with Kernel selection.. I think there was online one... but what's my next step to get the most out of my new awesome phone?!?! THANKS!!
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i'm coming from an eris as well, it seemed so much simpler!! I havent even rooted my fascinate yet! I can't wait to get rid of Bing, for now i think i'll just do some more researching and lurking.
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Oh yeah.. PC and the lot.. Not the first time rooting and custom ROMS .. just the first time for the Fascinate..and "Odin" .. is that the Open Disk Imager for Windows?
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I think so. You will need Odin. Find the thread by GizmoDroid called "Erasing the clockworkmod confusion". It's under android development. In that thread you will find "cwm recovery all 3-30-fix. Download it. Have you downloaded your rom of choice yet and put it on your SD card?
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If you can't find cwm recovery all 3-30-fix then find the one by times infinity. CWM3 Voodoo.tar and download it.
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If you can't find cwm recovery all 3-30-fix then find the one by times infinity. CWM3 Voodoo.tar and download it.
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I found this.. correct?
Code:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1046905
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I found this.. correct?
Code:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1046905
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http://dl.dropbox.com/u/36791/CWM3_Voodoo.tar.md5
Yes, flash that with odin and then boot straight into recovery before you boot the phone normally. Let me know if you don't understand, I don't know how new you are to this.
I think I understand.. what the biggest difference so far is using ODIN to flash things.. Eris was much easier.. I'm going to read a bit more here before I ruin my new phone...
Currently I'm fighting a horrible Internet connection so I may be working from my phone a lot.. but I still haven't decided on a ROM... just unsure...
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Well I found this and have decided to install.. seems like a good ROM while a couple community developers work on CM7 ROMS...
Code:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1050453
I've also been using a step-by-step guide that seems a bit confusing on some levels.. should I follow or just keep to this thread with your help?
Code:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1053567
I'm all good now actually!! I dove right in and am installing ROMs ... Only question I have left is that I gained performance from completely formatting my SD card and installing the rom from there.. same here? Or if I format I will lose everything??
I have found that when I am within CWM ... when I mount the USB it comes up as a CD-ROM and does not allow me to copy/paste or format.. is there a fix for this or should I try and start over??
I know the answer is right under my nose and Ive been looking for a good bit so pardon this. But i am on .21, just did the unlock. How do i flash a recovery without being rooted?
no because to flash a rcovery you need root access no matter what way you do it fastboot terminal or rom manager sorry
tylermaciaszek said:
no because to flash a rcovery you need root access no matter what way you do it fastboot terminal or rom manager sorry
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Dont reply if you dont know what you're saying.
Op, check here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1576937
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Dont reply if you dont know what you're saying.
Op, check here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1576937
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I made a mistake not a big deal get over it
..just wondering why some people want to do all this custom stuff to their tablet like installing a custom recovery to flash ROMs/etc, but don't want to root the device..? Huh, I don't get it. Rooting is pretty harmless. Please no offense to the OP, I'm just curious is all. The first thing I do is give myself root access then I start thinking about what I want to do with my device
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Coreym said:
..just wondering why some people want to do all this custom stuff to their tablet like installing a custom recovery to flash ROMs/etc, but don't want to root the device..? Huh, I don't get it. Rooting is pretty harmless. Please no offense to the OP, I'm just curious is all. The first thing I do is give myself root access then I start thinking about what I want to do with my device
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Having actually read the OP, I think his issue is that he is on .21 for which there currently IS no root procedure, and he wants to know how, in the absence of root, he can flash recovery so that (perhaps) he can install a ROM which is rooted.
barryflanagan said:
Having actually read the OP, I think his issue is that he is on .21 for which there currently IS no root procedure, and he wants to know how, in the absence of root, he can flash recovery so that (perhaps) he can install a ROM which is rooted.
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I read the OP .. just didn't see what he was getting at is all. Thanks for the clarification
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I used the Asus unlock tool, then I flashed the ClockWork Recovery Official "TOUCH" recovery v5.8.1.8,
Cleaned, wiped everything, and formated...
Then installed
[ROM] [04/11/12] Primalicious 9.4.2.21 to get back on ICS .21
So playing with it now.....so to speak
Can anyone put into layman's terms the initial process of rooting a phone? I have the OTA and there's no root method, so I'd like to manually root via TWRP. Is busy box mandatory for root? If not, should I get it or pass on it? Where do I get the package to flash? Then for supersu....where do I get the binaries/zip package for that?
I want to ruu back to actual stock and then manually root, but the only thing I cab find is the root scripts, which don't work. I'm having issues with the 1.22 rooted Rom which I believe stem from stripping out firmware and or hboot and stuff. Since I'm already updated is prefer to work from the actual stock build.
This could be a great starting point for those with phone that are already updated... Anyone care to help?
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Can anyone put into layman's terms the initial process of rooting a phone? I have the OTA and there's no root method, so I'd like to manually root via TWRP. Is busy box mandatory for root? If not, should I get it or pass on it? Where do I get the package to flash? Then for supersu....where do I get the binaries/zip package for that?
I want to ruu back to actual stock and then manually root, but the only thing I cab find is the root scripts, which don't work. I'm having issues with the 1.22 rooted Rom which I believe stem from stripping out firmware and or hboot and stuff. Since I'm already updated is prefer to work from the actual stock build.
This could be a great starting point for those with phone that are already updated... Anyone care to help?
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well chill for one second xD you dont need and cant use any of that mess if you dont have root
what you did is whats preventing you from rooting, which was updating to 1.22, as far as i understand, the current methods dont work for getting you root, sooo, maybe im wrong but i believe theres a trick where u can RUU back to the old 1.33 or whatever, but look in the original development thread
Of course its still possible. Why couldn't I ruu (to 1.22)...run HTC unlock...flash twrp...flash supersu...flash busybox? Boom, I'm rooted on a stock build. I know the current scripts can't do it, bit I can definitely do it manually if I have all the right resources....or if I knew what I was doing... Right??
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kornface13 said:
Of course its still possible. Why couldn't I ruu (to 1.22)...run HTC unlock...flash twrp...flash supersu...flash busybox? Boom, I'm rooted on a stock build. I know the current scripts can't do it, bit I can definitely do it manually if I have all the right resources....or if I knew what I was doing... Right??
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if the htc site doesnt have it, and you know how, then you should post your method xD
otherwise idk what your saying...
If you want root and s-off use the links in my signature where it says ]ROOT] and [s-off]
Just concerned with root... It says it works up to 1.13. I've already done the OTA so I'm 1.22... Will it still work?
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Didn't you already answer your own question in the 3rd post in this thread. You seem to already have the answer.
However, I will say this is discussed in several other threads already just spend a little bit of time searching and you'll find the directions to help you. The time you'll spend searching is as much time as you've put into this thread already.
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Rocklee99 said:
if the htc site doesnt have it, and you know how, then you should post your method xD
otherwise idk what your saying...
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If I knew what I was doing I'd gladly post . Give me some time....I'll get there.
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Didn't you already answer your own question in the 3rd post in this thread. You seem to already have the answer.
However, I will say this is discussed in several other threads already just spend a little bit of time searching and you'll find the directions to help you. The time you'll spend searching is as much time as you've put into this thread already.
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I have been searching.....I've spent HOURS and HOURS on this forum the past few days. I guess I'm just looking for confirmation that what I want to do is in fact the right thing to do... Everyone is so set on all the root scripts, but noone says what that process actually is. And that's what I want. I want the process so I can start contributing without just taking everyone else's work. I think there's a ton of people in my same situation (htc unlocked, s-on, accepted the OTA) that wants a simple way to get back root without reflashing entire roms. So I guess my three big questions are...
1.) I understand that root requires an app (superuser or supersu) as well as the binaries. I have no idea where these binaries are. Where would I get the supersu ones? Is it flashable? Where do the "binaries" actually go?
2.) Busybox...do you have to be rooted to install it? It seems like you do if this is really a set of tools not included in stock android. Maybe I'm wrong though. And more importantly....where do you get it. I'll be honest, I haven't searched around on this issue yet, so maybe the answers already out there... I just wanted to ask in case someone felt like layin down some knowledge.
3.) The flashable zip. I guess I could unzip one and see what's inside, but I'm sure someone on here can explain so it makes more sense than I'd gather by just unzipping and looking around. Like for instance, so flashable zips are entire roms...some are just radios...some are simple tweaks. This leads me to believe there's a script inside defining what to actually do. Let's say I wanted to create my own flashable zip which included TWRP, the root binaries and supersu, as well as busybox. Do I create a perl script called your_moms_a_skank and include it with all the other files? Is there a certain filename (instructions) the android operating system looks for when you flash a zip? Shoot i dunno.....I guess I'll start ripping these apart and seeing whats inside....
If you can't answer all three, that's fine. Any information is better than none... You all are awesome and I would buy you all cupcakes if I knew where you lived... Don't actually tell me where you live because the cupcakes will never come. I'll eat them long before they make it to the post office. I'm just saying....I'd consider buying you a cupcake. And it's the thought that counts...so you have to be happy about this.
i have a nook tablet 8gig. with the software version 1.4.2
i would very much like to be able to install an android os onto the tablet i have heard that the jelly bean one was pretty good. but that is only what i have heard. if anybody has some suggestions it would be cool.
my question and request would be if there are any specific instructions to follow?
i have a 32g sd card and a micro sd adapter as tools to perform this.
i am assuming that this is the right place for this thread if it is not i am sorry.
and thanks in advance.
I3randon777 said:
i have a nook tablet 8gig. with the software version 1.4.2
i would very much like to be able to install an android os onto the tablet i have heard that the jelly bean one was pretty good. but that is only what i have heard. if anybody has some suggestions it would be cool.
my question and request would be if there are any specific instructions to follow?
i have a 32g sd card and a micro sd adapter as tools to perform this.
i am assuming that this is the right place for this thread if it is not i am sorry.
and thanks in advance.
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Welcome to XDA brandon! I'll point you in the right direction...make sure you put in the effort by reading up on things before you even attempt to modify your Nook. The results will be horrific if you don't do your homework.
First...take a look HERE to learn the basics. There are pretty great instructions to be had from this thread.
That will get you going...the rest is just defined by your preference. There are a few different ROMs out there to choose from. JellyBean is still in it's infant stages...so there are quirks. READ READ READ...see what other people say about a ROM before you give it a whirl.
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Welcome to XDA brandon! I'll point you in the right direction...make sure you put in the effort by reading up on things before you even attempt to modify your Nook. The results will be horrific if you don't do your homework.
First...take a look HERE to learn the basics. There are pretty great instructions to be had from this thread.
That will get you going...the rest is just defined by your preference. There are a few different ROMs out there to choose from. JellyBean is still in it's infant stages...so there are quirks. READ READ READ...see what other people say about a ROM before you give it a whirl.
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Just curious what exactly does rooting the nook tablet do? will it allow me to install 3rd party apps?
i am starting to think that really all i am wanting is to be able to install whatever i want on my nook and not be told otherwise.
I3randon777 said:
Just curious what exactly does rooting the nook tablet do? will it allow me to install 3rd party apps?
i am starting to think that really all i am wanting is to be able to install whatever i want on my nook and not be told otherwise.
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Rooting will allow you to install custom ROMs, such as CM9 (Android 4.0) and CM10 (4.1) etc. It's not necessary, but really improves the experience of your tablet.
I would go with THIS HERE or THIS ONE for basic modification.
If you want to use stuff other than what you can get in the Nook store, you will need to root it and install the full Android Market (Play Store). Follow the links I gave you.
I rooted my NT back in Dec. 2011 when I bought it, using instructions from this forum. (thank you!) I also used the fix to stop it from automatically getting the B&N updates.
I've been happy with the NT as it is now, but I'd like to be able to run things like Xbox Smartglass, and I see that we can use CM10 on the NT.
My questions are "should I? and can I?" Would I have to take the NT back to stock and then start over? Boot from SD or root? Is this even something a noob should be attempting?
As long as it's rooted, no you shouldn't have to take it to bone stock.
Do you already have a custom recovery installed? If so, it's super easy. If not, follow the instructions in the development forum on how to flash a custom recovery. Keep in mind you need CWM 6+ or TWRP 2.2+ (I think, never used twrp) to flash a jellybean rom.
Should you? Totally up to you. As long as you don't mess with the touch firmware (don't install 5 touch) then you can always go back to where you are now.
Every rom has some issues. I haven't found a single one that's issue free. Most of the newer ones run without any major issues.
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Keep in mind you need CWM 6+ or TWRP 2.2+ (I think, never used twrp) to flash a jellybean rom.
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TWRP 2.1.3 will handle ICS and JB ROMS... BUT WAIT! If you plan to update the touchpad firmware (which I highly recommend) and use one of the 5 touchpoint ROMS, make sure you are using CWM, not TWRP! Once you update the firmware, you won't be able to use TWRP (that is, you can still boot to recovery, and TWRP will load without problems, but it won't register any touches on the screen...)
This thread has the updated version of CWM, and will (eventually) have a link to the updated version of TWRP, once it's ready for prime time.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1966894
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TWRP 2.1.3 will handle ICS and JB ROMS... BUT WAIT! If you plan to update the touchpad firmware (which I highly recommend) and use one of the 5 touchpoint ROMS, make sure you are using CWM, not TWRP! Once you update the firmware, you won't be able to use TWRP (that is, you can still boot to recovery, and TWRP will load without problems, but it won't register any touches on the screen...)
This thread has the updated version of CWM, and will (eventually) have a link to the updated version of TWRP, once it's ready for prime time.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1966894
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Apparently I'm an even bigger Noob than I thought, b/c I have absolutely no idea what any of that means. Can you recommend good tutorials for really raw noobs?
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Apparently I'm an even bigger Noob than I thought, b/c I have absolutely no idea what any of that means. Can you recommend good tutorials for really raw noobs?
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There are a few excellent threads in the General forum that are a really good place to start. Here are three to start with that should give you a good grounding on what's going on when you root and flash your tablet, and step-by-step instructions on how to do it:
PLEASE READ! An Introduction to Android Rooting, Custom Recoveries, and Custom ROMs
FAQ:NT Reference Thread | Tips&Tricks | How to's | Videos | NEW USER? PLEASE READ!
SD Root 8gb AND 16gb: Consolidation Thread Using SD Boot by Albert Wertz
Thanx very much for your reply, and your patience, and the links! :good:
Oh, dear, will having Win8 on my computer make this all more difficult than it needs to be?
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Oh, dear, will having Win8 on my computer make this all more difficult than it needs to be?
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It shouldn't.