My Rooted 8GB Nook Journey and Kudos to jichauan89. - Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet

Here are my thoughts on the Nook Tablet and my rooting process. I try to write to be as friendly as possible for the newbies to rooting devices. This is really just a reflection of my experience with the device and my rooting effort thus far .
If money is no issue, by all means go with the 16GB. But if you really want the best bang for the buck, go with the new 8GB version over the 16. The main difference is the RAM but since we are not talking about a true multitasking device, the extra RAM does little. Even if you root and hack and upgrade and tweak the hell out of it, you'll never really do more than one thing at a time on the device itself so 512MB is usually plenty. I have found that the Nook is the perfect companion device (for references and reading) to go with my netbook (which is the pefect portable productivity device) and my rooted android cell (universal connectivity device with tether hack). Those three things working in tandum mean that I can get online anytime, anywhere, and work comfortably. Now, if I can just find an Android phone that has a battery that lasts for more than 4 hours with the wi-fi/tethering/mobile hostpot turned on.
I have successfully used jichauan89's Root for Nook Tablet 8GB (w/ Android Market) root method number 1 (the SD image). Thank you jichauan89! It was easy and worked great the first time. His procedure...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1529553
Here was my specific procedure and thoughts.
Prior to the attempt. Make sure that the device has plenty of battery power or is plugged in the wall adapter. This is a good practice for all rooting/hacking attempts on these types of devices, including cell phones and media players. I backed up the data on my SD card by simply copying all the files to a folder on my netbook's desktop.
Used Sandisk 8GB microSDHC card I had in my old Samsung Captivate. I used the SC card adapter it came with orginally to insert it into the built in SD Card reader in my Windows XP netbook.
Downloaded the SD card image from exactly where jichauan89 described.
Used Win32DiskImage.exe to format and write the image to the SD card. Worked without error. I used the safely remove hardware option in Windows to disconnect the hardware before removing the card from the reader.
Powered off the Nook Tablet 8GB.
Inserted the freshly formatted and imaged SD card into the Nook.
Held the power in until it powered on.
Saw a cardboard box. It reminded me of Amazon's frustration-free packaging.
Waited.
Saw the "Read Forever" Nook logo.
Waited exactly 3 minutes.
Held the power button in until the powered off.
Removed the SD card and set it aside. It's mission is complete.
Held the power button in until it powered on.
Routine booting began.
Upon boot completion, I clicked the n button and selected "search". I searched for "market". It found the Android Market. Don't look for "play". The hack itself uses an old version of the market that will upgrade itself to Google Play after you run it (as long as you are connected to WiFi).
At this point, your device is rooted successfully. Anything else you do is really just gravy. I suggest doing the NT Hidden Settings to allow sideloading and I also suggesting doing the hack to stop updates so that you get to keep all your hard (not really) rooting working in tact if and when B&N rolls out 1.4.3 of the Nook's firmware. Here are the additional steps that I took, again, this is all thanks to jichauan89's simple instructions and the feedback given in his thread. Also note, when I did have issues, I kept reading the thread rather than jumping the gun and posting my own questions. All the answers were already there...
I installed NT Hidden Settings from the market.
I immediately used the hack to allow 3rd party apps. There was some confusion and error here. I ran it a few times and it didn't appear to do anything, but then I pressed the n button once and a super user screen appeared asking me to give NT Hidden Settings rights, which I allowed. I tried the 3rd party hack a few more times to no avail. I rebooted the device and tried and tried and it wasn't working and the check mark on the previous screen for allowing Uknown Sources simply seemed to uncheck itself. I was watching the new episode of South Park on TV and at one point I reran the hack for about the 300th time it felt, a message came up that the app had been given SU rights, and I moved my attention to South Park for several minutes. When my eyes came back to the Nook, I checked the Unknown sources setting again, and it was checked, all by itslef. Lesson, I believe that the 3rd party app hack takes a few minutes to actually do anything after it is granted SU rights but doesn't give any notification that it is successful (or I missed it while grandma was trying to make Butters eat a urinal cake). I believe the app checks the Unknown Sources box itself as a part of its script and all the other times I had run the hack, I was just being impatient. After several reboots, the check now stays.
I then ran the NT Hidden Settings hack to keep updates from being installed. I was notified almost immediately that the installation was successful.
I then installed Go Launcher and HomeCatcher. I got Homecatcher from an XDA forum post and not from the Android Market. After running HomeCatcher, I clicked the n button and selected home and I was prompted to choose between a little andorid guy and the stock nook launcher. I made sure that put a check in the box to make this decision default (which i kind of wish i didn't, but it should be easily undone) and then selected the Andorid icon. Now whenever I select home, it goes to the Go Launcher app, awesome.
I also immediately installed File Expert and Titanium Backup and everything seems to work perfectly.
I then installed the Amazon App Market from Amazon.com in the Nook's stock browser. Every app from their seems to fail and says "SD card required" or some such thing. I am assuming that if I put the SD card back in everthing would work fine, but I'm not sure why this is an issue. Shouldn't it be able to use the Nook Tablet's internal memory? I'll keep testing.
The only thing I'm thinking about now is that I want to find the fastest way to switch back and forth between the stock B&N launcher and Go Launcher. I like B&N's ecosystem, even though it is limited, but I enjoy the advantages I get from walking in the store and getting to read books and even though the user interface of their digital store is one of the dumbest things I have ever seen, I find myself wanting to us it because I support Barnes & Noble a lot and wish them the best. I do, however, wish they would listen to all of us who are *****ing about their Market's limitations and ridiculous pricing and either treat the device more like a tablet like the name implies. But I'm preaching to the choir, right?

Try installing adw launcher, it should break the default status of go launcher, I'm not positive if there is a way to disable it other than that.
Sent from my Nook Tablet using XDA

You can actually go into the application settings and clear the cache and clear the defaults for HomeCatcher and then do a force stop. Run it again in the app drawer and the next time you click the n button it will ask wich launcher to run again. I made sure I didn't select the default action checkbox this time. Now everytime i hit n, it asks which launcher I want to use. I like it! Quick access to my wonderful root stuff and just as quick access to to an (essentially) stock Nook environment.

I have read it and did not find anything about pre-requisites. So am I totally safe doing this from a stock 8gb 1.4.2 nook tablet with no prior mods installed?
I understand the risks involved of course.

Piercing Heavens said:
I have read it and did not find anything about pre-requisites. So am I totally safe doing this from a stock 8gb 1.4.2 nook tablet with no prior mods installed?
I understand the risks involved of course.
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If you're just looking to root, then yes, use the method linked in this thread.

The "N" button
I rooted mine and everything worked fine.
I installed Button Savior and use that when I wanna be in Android tablet mode for going to the home screen and I just leave the Barnes & Noble 'n' as it is so when I press it I can go straight to the B&N look. It's pretty easy.
But this thread has been a great help to me.
Thanks

I followed a very similar procedure and everything worked great the first time, thanks to this board!

Thanks
I wanted to throw a thanks out to you as well.
I read your post as well as jichuan's post before I even tried anything.
The only issue I have had is the "unknown sources" not staying checked.
Like you, I tried and tried to get it to stick, finally looked away for a bit, and poof! Magically it's checked. Maybe patience is indeed a virtue! However, I can not for the life of me get HomeCatcher to install. I am rooted obviously as I was able to download NT Hidden Settings from the Play store. Any ideas, or did I overlook something?

I had a lot of problems with unknown sources but it just happened all by itself

1.4.3
Doesn't seem to be working with 1.4.3. I installed NT Hidden settings and some apps from the play store but they are nowhere to be seen.

THANK YOU!!!!!
Thank you!!! I did this to my NOOK Table and it's working fine!! Thanks!! :laugh:

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I'm hoping someone can help me.
I rooted my NT last week (using these tips and tricks) and installed a bunch of stuff on it. And just today I installed the BEATS AUDIO on it and it asked me to reset the device... upon resetting it, it started up like a stock NT and I had to re-register it. Does that mean my device is no longer rooted?
I have an SD card on there and I did a backup using Titanium, but I'm not able to access the apps or get to NT Hidden Settings to download anything. When I navigate the web to the play store I'm able to see that it recognizes some of the apps as installed, but I cannot even download an apk or get anything to download through the play store even though it says a download will begin soon. Also, in the SEARCH option I do not get an option to choose where to search, it's just a general nook search.
I hope this is enough information. I want to try to re-root it but am afraid I might brick it.
PLEASE HELP!

Was your NT running 1.4.2? If so check to see if it's now on 1.4.3 in which case you had an OTA update which un-rooted your tablet.

digixmax said:
Was your NT running 1.4.2? If so check to see if it's now on 1.4.3 in which case you had an OTA update which un-rooted your tablet.
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still on 1.4.2.
I guess somehow it reset itself and I lost the root. I had to reroot it and use titanium to get most of my files back. So glad I had set up a backup right before I downloaded the app. I ended up deleting the beats installer and just installed Volume+.
I'm still not sure what went wrong.

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[Q] Cannot access Nook viewer after rooting Tablet

Hi,
I followed the very good instructions to move my Tablet's firmware to 1.4.0 (was 1.4.1 out of the box) and to then root it. (Much thanks to Indirect and AdamOutler and everyone else!)
During the root script, I chose NOT to debloat and to go with the ADW launcher.
Everything went smoothly and I've rebooted it several times now. However, I can't seem to access the (B&N installed) nook reader anymore. I do have an icon for "NookViewer" in my apps, but when I select it I get a white screen that does nothing. I also tried downloading the "B&N Nook" app from the Android Marketplace, which installed correctly (it says), but when I select it, I get sent to the ADW home page and nothing else happens.
Does anyone have any idea how to get either one to work, short of me wiping it back to 1.4.0 and starting over again?
Thanks,
Peter
Hi Peter,
I might have had a similar issue, and it involves the defaults for home launching. When you were choosing whether to launch the "home" (which is nook home) and "ADWLauncher", did you check the box to launch ADWLauncher by default? I did that with GoLauncher and could not get back to the nook home screen.
The way this issue is solved is by finding the application settings for your launcher (in your case ADWLauncher, in mine it was GoLauncher) and clearing the defaults. When you go back to the rooted home screen and double click the n button, you should see the prompt for your launcher or the home launcher. Select home and you will be back to the nook reader.
I hope this helps.
In the video it looked very easy to switch back and forth without any prompts. I am curious how that was performed.
I'm having the same issue as the OP. I'll let him chime in but if I understand correctly this is not an issue with being able to see the B&N default launcher. As I understand the issue is that the NookViewer, which does appear in the AWD Launcher (or other launcher), is non-functional. When selected all you get is a blank white screen.
Ok, I took this as the issue:
However, I can't seem to access the (B&N installed) nook reader anymore.
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Otherwise I am seeing the same issue with NookViewer where a blank screen is open. I provided a way to get back to the nook reader, although I'm sure there is a more elegant procedure. I have no idea what the issue with NookViewer is or what NookViewer is supposed to do.
Dito here
I have rooted, de-bloated, and went with the ADW. I too have the exact same issue, when you click on the reader icon, I get a completely blank white screen.
I have not tried any type of fix, because I am having greater issues with the MarketPlace saying the N.T. is not compatible with most apps.
Mark Read said:
I have rooted, de-bloated, and went with the ADW. I too have the exact same issue, when you click on the reader icon, I get a completely blank white screen.
I have not tried any type of fix, because I am having greater issues with the MarketPlace saying the N.T. is not compatible with most apps.
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Have you tried this for apps compatibility
lavero.burgos said:
Have you tried this for apps compatibility
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I will have to try this out. The market used to let me download more than it does now. In fact one app that I downloaded to the market now has an update. When I go to update it says that my device isn't compatible! I would assume this would correct that. Are there any potential drawback to modifying the build.prop?
I am not sure, but I don't think you can click on the reader to make it work. You need to go to the library. From the library, you select what you want to read, that brings up the nook reader. I have links to download the reader and the library; you have to have both, but the library is the executable.
http://www.makingitdigital.net/android/index.html
If you went with snoball-mod it removes all B&N apps including the reader from the device and depending on which Debloat option you choose in indirects root script it can remove all B&N apps as well
gr8wing said:
I am not sure, but I don't think you can click on the reader to make it work. You need to go to the library. From the library, you select what you want to read, that brings up the nook reader. I have links to download the reader and the library; you have to have both, but the library is the executable.
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That makes sense and going to the library is what I do to access and read my B&N material. So even though it doesn't impact the ability to read B&N material I guess it's more of a "why is it doing that?" issue. I know after I rooted my Nook the first thing I did was click on every icon to see what it was. The Nook Viewer was the only one that seemed to not work (but again your explaination makes sense).

[NEW] NT CM7 support thread

Now that we've released CM7 again for the NT I thought I'd best start up a proper support thread. Pleas keep it as back reports and help.
Please use this thread to post feedback and to ask questions. The Dev thread is for exactly that, development and not support! Please keep the development thread clear of support and feedback posts.
Live support may be available on irc.freenode.net irc channel #nook-tablet-chat, if any of us are around we'll be happy to help but don't bug people if they are busy please. A web version of irc is available here http://webchat.freenode.net?channels=nook-tablet-chat
When posting a bug or issue please use the following format
Which install are you using (Internal or SD):
What version is your CM7 download that you are using (should be alpha final now):
Do you have any mods on your NT (updates or system modifications)
If yes to above what have you installed
Where is this bug (main system or which application):
Can this bug be easily replicated:
If yes to above how can we replicate it to check:
Description of the bug
Any other information we may find useful
Know bugs for Internal version will be in post #2
Known Bugs for SD version will be in post #3
I'm awaiting a Mod cleanup of this thread and all previous bugs up until the new release will be removed from this thread, should knock it back down to about 2 or 3 pages and give me the 2nd and 3rd posts I mention above.
Bugs / Issues from the internal version
Market will not work properly after the update unless you install the GApps (follow link in Dev thread)
Wifi sometimes does no reconnect after sleep, simply tap on the status bar to get notification up and toggle wifi off / on and it should reconnect.
There is currently no Reboot to Recovery option in the power menu, you can do this instead by going to rom manager (make sure it's updated via Market / Play)
Mounts aren't working properly due to a typo on 2 lines in build.prop. update zip to be flashed via CWM available HERE
There is still a possible issue with formatting. A member has said that asking the software to format the /media partition totally wiped his entire device completely removing the partition table creating a paperweight. As has been mentioned many times in both thread about CM7, if any formatting needs to be done please do it from a computer and if in the case of the Media partition that's not possible just delete files instead of formatting. Due to the risk involved we have not yet attempted to recreate this issue on our own devices!
Bugs / Issues from the SD version
System will reboot if you remove the SD card, this is completely normal and you should not remove the SD while device is running from it.
Market will not work properly after the update unless you install the GApps (follow link in Dev thread)
Wifi sometimes does no reconnect after sleep, simply tap on the status bar to get notification up and toggle wifi off / on and it should reconnect.
There is currently no Reboot to Recovery option in the power menu, you can do this instead by going to rom manager (make sure it's updated via Market / Play)
Mounts aren't working properly due to a typo on 2 lines in build.prop. search this thread for how to fix the issue on SD release
There is still a possible issue with formatting. A member has said that asking the software to format the /media partition totally wiped his entire device completely removing the partition table creating a paperweight. As has been mentioned many times in both thread about CM7, if any formatting needs to be done please do it from a computer and if in the case of the Media partition that's not possible just delete files instead of formatting. Due to the risk involved we have not yet attempted to recreate this issue on our own devices!
CelticWebSolutions is one of the prime devs for sure. Integrity and great attitude towards us obnoxious (sometimes) users. Kudos to you sir, and we wait patiently--well, kind of .
Birdsbeaks said:
Just reading the official B&N FAQ for the nook tablet, it indicates "Do NOT turn off your NOOK while it is charging; just allow it to go into sleep mode automatically".
I'd been turning it off to charge also, I think i'll follow their directions and see if it charges faster.
The question i'm quoting is: "How long does it take to fully charge my NOOK?" In the "hardware" category.
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I997 using Tapatalk
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Thanks for the link. I'll try to charge it without turning the nook off. if it does charge faster, the question would be, "is there any way for it to charge quickly while off?"
On a side note,I did wonder why the nook would always boot up when I plug in the charger after the nook powered down from low battery.
Thank you sir
Just a quick thanks to Celtic & the rest of the people working on the Nook Tablet... thanks!!! Btw, on one of your forum thread pictures I've noted that your screen is quite smudgy. If you need a screen protector for your nook or any of your newer 8 GB models, let me know, at your service.
And as a side note, I've got absolutely no issues w/ your Alpha CM7 release. No wifi issues, nada. Perhaps this is because my wifi network is password less and only authentication method is via wireless mac filter. Only thing if anything is that sometimes (seldomly) when I swap SD Cards while it's powered on, the device will display the Cyanogen 7 boot animation while booted. A quick rotation from portrait to landscape mode fixes this and allows you to press the home button and "home on out" of this.
*** Btw, if you need a screen protector for any of your nooks, w/o hesitation let me know!! Thanks!
CelticWebSolutions said:
The wifi freezing / disconnecting and needing rebooting is the most well known bug of all. It's posted many times through this thread, it's also stated on the dev thread a few times. I don't mean to sound like many of the other grumpy Devs but please there is a search button! You can search a thread and see every mention of wifi quite easily!
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I feel ashamed :-(
BangDK said:
I feel ashamed :-(
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Once isnt something to be ashamed of. You have nine posts. I dont know how much time you have spent on other forums, but searching isnt second nature for young folks new to sites like these.
Now, so long as you do your best not to let it happen again, Im sure no one will castrate you.
Lol, prolly feels a lot like walking into a church with a cowboy hat on.
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Celtic, I have been thinking, now that you have a new version up, (By the way, you rock) are you going to start a new support thread? This one is VERY long and a little bit daunting, and I am sure that the new rom will bring with it new bugs. This one is almost excessively about video playback and wifi, and the new rom (As I understand) fixes both.
Who would have thought that casually asking if CM7 would be easier and less time consuming could have led to this well polished and very impressive result?
The_Joe said:
Celtic, I have been thinking, now that you have a new version up, (By the way, you rock) are you going to start a new support thread? This one is VERY long and a little bit daunting, and I am sure that the new rom will bring with it new bugs. This one is almost excessively about video playback and wifi, and the new rom (As I understand) fixes both.
Who would have thought that casually asking if CM7 would be easier and less time consuming could have led to this well polished and very impressive result?
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I agree, I'll sort something later I will probably just clear out this thread leaving 3 posts at the start which I can populate with known issues, tips and that sort of thing.
Watch this space
hi guys, just wanted to say about 2 issues that i saw on my NT.
1. The sleep issue - I've saw that was already posted about 5 pages ago, just wanted to tell i got it too ... after closing the NT the second day could not start it up... had to long press power button a couple of times (didn't knew about shortcut PWR + N button)
2. somehow related to the first one. While playing music, after approx 15 min the sounds stops . I've pressed the Pwr on NT and the playlist is on screen and a song appear to be playing but no sound. I've tried to go to running applications too force kill the app but a get a error message about Force/wait/ ... After that I tried to restart with long press and selected restart/shutdown but it doesn't do anything , again had to long press to shut it down.
Hope this helps, i could try to get some logs if that helps.
Thanks.
sangahm said:
Thanks for responding. So there must be an issue with my configuration. I'll have to mess around with it some more (already deleted cache and uninstalled/reinstalled).
At least I know it can work.
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Well I finally had to downgrade to v2.6 before it would work correctly. It's not as feature-rich as the latest version, but it does work now.
Just noticed something...doesn't the first post normally have a link to the software being discussed?
I have been running your first release since its inception, and it has IMO, ran fantastic compared to the first release of CM7 for the old Nook Color at this current point. That NC unit and its early CM7 was a great way to learn to troubleshoot bootloops and SOD's!
Anyway, I downloaded your updated CM7 Alpha 12 straight to the tablet and installed. I wanted to try install with only a cache and dalvik wipe first. This went surprisingly well and has been running smooth for several hours now. So far so good!
The first glitch I had on install was the old Market and updated Google play seemed to fight each other with their update. Once the browser was up, I downloaded the new Google Play apk and installed overwritting the old Market directly. Then it took well. After a reboot, all apps were restored using Titanium Backup, and another reboot. I did have one point where I had to pop the SD and reinsert as expected but no prob there.
I want to thank you and all other Team B Devs for this great work. Donation inbound!
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Just noticed something...doesn't the first post normally have a link to the software being discussed?
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Good point!
This thread will be almost completely wiped soon when the new internal verison is released, its' getting rather long now and people don't read when it's only a few pages so with 65 pages theres no chance!
When the thread is cleared I'll add in links to the software at the begining too. I'll also be requesting that people post in a set manor. Something like
CM7 build download number (e.g. alpha 12)
Device version (8gb or 16gb)
Install type (sd or internal)
How long have you been running the build?
Short description of bug:
Have you had this bug more than once ?
Can this bug be reproduced on demand, if so how?
Hopefully that will make things easier for everyone ! Although I fully expect many people won't do it like that because they won't have even bothered reading the read to know to do it!
Celtic, do you still plan to release an SD card version also?
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Celtic, do you still plan to release an SD card version also?
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Oh dear oh dear.... Do keep up lol
It's already released go look at the dev thread.
Just Flashed Rom
Ok, so this was a bit daunting for me. I've rooted my EVO several times, with several roms and had little difficulty. The NT, however was an horse of a different color.
I first used Nook and Zergy a month or so ago. Never got it working good, but good enough (better than stock B&N)
Then I tried using CMW_SD_flash_and_exe. After much frustration yesterday, I finally figured out that the NT won't boot from the SD card unless the power cable is plugged in. I could finally get into a boot loader program, but kept getting installation aborted when trying to install the ZIP. The CM7_NT_Alpha12_Public1.zip was too big once I made my SD card a boot loader, so I ended up copying this Zip to the tablet's internal memory and installing from there.
I don't know if i'm truly "rooted" in the sense that I can now boot the nook into recovery mode any time, or if I will need to use the SD card to load new ROMs.
My phone is working such that I can reboot into recovery mode any time I want without an SD card. Not sure how I would do that with the NT, or if I'm comparing apples to oranges as it were.
Anyway, all seems to be working, I wiped cache/dalvik cache/data and rebooted. CM7 seems to have loaded, I put in my google account and it's off to the races. After sharing my phones WiFi (thanks to being rooted) my NT is now dl all my installed apps. I think I upgraded to Play from Market so for now I think all is well! Sorry for the long post, but wanted to share my defeats and my success!
BBJon said:
Ok, so this was a bit daunting for me. I've rooted my EVO several times, with several roms and had little difficulty. The NT, however was an horse of a different color.
I first used Nook and Zergy a month or so ago. Never got it working good, but good enough (better than stock B&N)
Then I tried using CMW_SD_flash_and_exe. After much frustration yesterday, I finally figured out that the NT won't boot from the SD card unless the power cable is plugged in. I could finally get into a boot loader program, but kept getting installation aborted when trying to install the ZIP. The CM7_NT_Alpha12_Public1.zip was too big once I made my SD card a boot loader, so I ended up copying this Zip to the tablet's internal memory and installing from there.
I don't know if i'm truly "rooted" in the sense that I can now boot the nook into recovery mode any time, or if I will need to use the SD card to load new ROMs.
My phone is working such that I can reboot into recovery mode any time I want without an SD card. Not sure how I would do that with the NT, or if I'm comparing apples to oranges as it were.
Anyway, all seems to be working, I wiped cache/dalvik cache/data and rebooted. CM7 seems to have loaded, I put in my google account and it's off to the races. After sharing my phones WiFi (thanks to being rooted) my NT is now dl all my installed apps. I think I upgraded to Play from Market so for now I think all is well! Sorry for the long post, but wanted to share my defeats and my success!
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Get Indirects CWM App. It will perm install CWM so you can get to it by holding down Power + N (without need for SDcard).
Link in a second
BBJon said:
My phone is working such that I can reboot into recovery mode any time I want without an SD card. Not sure how I would do that with the NT, or if I'm comparing apples to oranges as it were.
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You need to flash CWM internally if you want to be able to get to recovery like you do with your phone.
Check out indirects app
CelticWebSolutions said:
Oh dear oh dear.... Do keep up lol
It's already released go look at the dev thread.
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OK, sorry about that. I have just been reading THIS thread as I am not a developer, so had missed it. Did not even see it mentioned in here! Largest apologies.
For everyone else, it is here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=22199348&postcount=1

[Q] Rooted Nook Tablet BN Home Issues

I have 3 nook tablets amongst my family that I rooted from 1.4.0 using indirect's method that have been running flawlessly since Christmas. That said, my mother's tablet today decided that it wanted to basically semi-wipe the nook OS and deleted all of the home screen icons, app history, and ebooks from the tablet. After rebooting I was able to get the apps back, but none of the BN ebooks want to re-download and the BN store doesn't even mention that any of her purchased books even exist. I was finally able to get them back on by copying the epub files from the desktop client, but they have no cover art, just list the titles as a bunch of numbers, and all of the extra features such as lending and recommendations are disabled. Anyone have any ideas as to what I can do to reset or regegister the BN portion of the tablet without wiping and rerooting the whole thing?
My mother mostly uses her tablet for reading ebooks and games and as such still uses the default nook OS (she insists its better, so unfortunately CM7 isn't an option). I mostly rooted to get her access to amazon content for the occasional app and the kindle book store, but I'm pretty sure it's not the root at fault for this glitch. I've seen several threads about similar problems on the official forums, but nobody there has a solution (or a clue it seems) so I figured I'd ask here.
There is one way, prepare an sdcard with CWM, download any of the stock roms with root and B&N content in development section and copy the file to your sdcard, boot into CWM , format system and only system from Mount&Storage then install the ROM you downloaded following the instructions of the respective thread.
~ Veronica
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Hmmm, that sounds like it might just work. I'll have to propose the idea to her and see what she thinks. I offered to back everything up and do a full wipe and reroot earlier but she refused and said she would live with it as she didn't want to risk losing her game saves... Wish she didn't prefer the BN home screen over the others as I've had nothing but problems with it. I've tried to get her to use a third party launcher, but she hated them all because she couldn't put books straight on the home screen.
Are there any apps or home screens out there that would allow this (books on home screen)? Also, does anyone know if the BN reader on the android store has an identical layout to the stock tablet version? Maybe I can convert her if I can come up with something similar to the BN launcher.
FergyA said:
Hmmm, that sounds like it might just work. I'll have to propose the idea to her and see what she thinks. I offered to back everything up and do a full wipe and reroot earlier but she refused and said she would live with it as she didn't want to risk losing her game saves... Wish she didn't prefer the BN home screen over the others as I've had nothing but problems with it. I've tried to get her to use a third party launcher, but she hated them all because she couldn't put books straight on the home screen.
Are there any apps or home screens out there that would allow this (books on home screen)? Also, does anyone know if the BN reader on the android store has an identical layout to the stock tablet version? Maybe I can convert her if I can come up with something similar to the BN launcher.
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B&N Market app is nothing compared to original, apart that if you change to CM7 or other it's totally different interface if she likes B&N as is then is because she likes the interface too and all the B&N apps can't be run from other OS because they are dependent of the stock framework. If you get CWM up and running you could easily backup her data and do what i told you. It will safe you time and headaches.
Take a look here - METHOD#1 and here
When you restore your system you could install the app to install CWM internal, which is always good to have.
~ Veronica

[Q] Arnova Childpad: some issues I'm not happy with

Hi folks,
I just bought the Arnova childpad for my kid, it seemed a better toy for my kid then the LighInTheBox 7" pad that I bought. (It isn't that powerfull even after hacking the system)
The childpad is very responsive. Although the screen is not easy to control, scrolling through a list for example, always makes you select the first item when you touch the screen.
I have some issues with the Childpad, could anybody advice:
- In ICS, how can I move apps to the SD card, any software to move doesn't allow that. Nor in the app settings, there's no button Move To SD. Is there a way in ICS
- The Childpad can't access the PLAY store, nor does it let you setup a google account. Could it be fixed?
- How can I move nice game apps from my other tablet to this tablet by SD card. What software is suitable for it?
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Godyn said:
Hi folks,
I just bought the Arnova childpad for my kid, it seemed a better toy for my kid then the LighInTheBox 7" pad that I bought. (It isn't that powerfull even after hacking the system)
The childpad is very responsive. Although the screen is not easy to control, scrolling through a list for example, always makes you select the first item when you touch the screen.
I have some issues with the Childpad, could anybody advice:
- In ICS, how can I move apps to the SD card, any software to move doesn't allow that. Nor in the app settings, there's no button Move To SD. Is there a way in ICS
- The Childpad can't access the PLAY store, nor does it let you setup a google account. Could it be fixed?
- How can I move nice game apps from my other tablet to this tablet by SD card. What software is suitable for it?
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I'm in the same boat as you, I bought one for our little guy... Netflix doesn't work properly and no market. I'm trying to root/market it as we speak...
You can sideload the apk for amazon market to get most apps on it, but you can't do much about the issues with the rom without root...
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Got it rooted using unlockroot 2.3 (Actually I had superuser installed and it never would prompt for root access, I ran unlockroot and suddenly could get root.) Now if I could get netflix going this thing would be ready for action.
I think that's the way they have set it up. Although it must be possible to put a new Android rom on it, I'm sure.
The child market is intresting, but because the screen is so sensitive, it's hard to select from it. Plus it's intresting to get other Play-apps.
Did you find a way to load apps from the SD? I managed with the backup app from my phone to get some apps loaded, but not all.
Seems there aren't many users for this tablet.
Any idea how I could install a new clean Android on it?
Godyn said:
Seems there aren't many users for this tablet.
Any idea how I could install a new clean Android on it?
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No, but I'm wondering the same thing as well. IF CM9 could be easily ported (shouldn't be hard considering it is already running ics) or worst case scenario even CM7 would suffice. I wouldn't mind the rom so much if I could just get netflix, because my son isn't quite as OS critical as I am.
I'm very intrested as well. There's not much A in this Q section here :-D
Maybe we should ask elsewhere?
There must be an easy way to reinstall the system, I'm sure .
Godyn said:
- In ICS, how can I move apps to the SD card, any software to move doesn't allow that. Nor in the app settings, there's no button Move To SD. Is there a way in ICS
- The Childpad can't access the PLAY store, nor does it let you setup a google account. Could it be fixed?
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I have the same problem. If you have a good idea, I want well to know it
From what I read about the childpad on the Arctablet.com "The ChildPad shares its design with the Arnova 7d G3, the only difference are the colors. While Arnova 7d G3 is just black, the ChildPad is painted in nice-looking white and blue colors" So presumably any thing that comes out for it should, in theory, work on the childpad. I haven't seen much in the way of rom development for it either, but there are some promises of roms coming. I thing we are in one of those spots where it is a waiting game to see if anyone picks up development on either of these devices.
I bought the tablet for my grand daughter. I have installed only a few apps and the tablet is already running out of space. So I am very much interested in learning how to load apps onto the SD card. I found this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1590807 and was wondering if this could also be apply to a rooted Childpad?
Those with Childpads - could you please help me by letting me know how much storage the device shows - ie either the Internal settings -> storage or when you plug in to a PC and view properties.
My two both show 2gb of total storage - is this correct?
The devices are labelled as 4gb and find it hard to believe that 2gb of the advertised storage is inaccessible to users.
Many thanks
little_evs said:
Those with Childpads - could you please help me by letting me know how much storage the device shows - ie either the Internal settings -> storage or when you plug in to a PC and view properties.
My two both show 2gb of total storage - is this correct?
The devices are labelled as 4gb and find it hard to believe that 2gb of the advertised storage is inaccessible to users.
Many thanks
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The device is 4 gigs of storage. The 2gb is free. Yes 2gigs is all the preloaded CRAP on the device. There are a bunch of videos as well as audio and preloaded apps.
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So I got one of these for my 3 year old this last weekend, here's my observations:
- I could not root, everytime I put the device in USB debugging mode it would not detect on my PC.
- Sideloaded google play store. Installed fine, every time I launch it minimizes itself and doesn't load.
- Sideloaded Angry Birds Space and it worked great
- Apps with adult adds....really? Does my son need a dating site add? Planning on installing ad blocker once i can get root.
- Screen is weird. Not as capable as a standard tablet. I have to use my finger nail and/or press really hard.
If anyone finds a more reliable form of rooting the Child Pad please send me the link.
-Magic
Thanks -
The supplied apps and videos etc are (on mine) all in the accessible "Internal storage", ie what you see when you connect to a PC.
When I do a properties I get xMB free of 2.05GB. Therefore if I delete ALL of this supplied content, the maximum storage I am going to get is 2.05GB which is far from the advertised 4GB.
Is this what other people see - 2GB available?
Silly question, maybe I missed it in this thread, but how did you install the google apps on those childpads. I bought 2 of them for my kids and I started installing their gmail account on it. Now it's via the exchange function, but I rather like to use the official gmail app. Also gtalk would be handy as they now use gtalk on the PC to talk to me when I'm working in the office.
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Silly question, maybe I missed it in this thread, but how did you install the google apps on those childpads. I bought 2 of them for my kids and I started installing their gmail account on it. Now it's via the exchange function, but I rather like to use the official gmail app. Also gtalk would be handy as they now use gtalk on the PC to talk to me when I'm working in the office.
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Simply download the .apk from the web. However, these apps do not function as they are locked out in this version of ICS. Currently there is a custom ROM in the works with root and play store enabled.
this is probably what you are looking for
http://www.arctablet.com/blog/featured/arnova-childpad-custom-firmware-google-play-root/
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hey, i also have one of these for my 4 year old but hi broke off the MICRO USB PORT so in the begining it was out of service so i screwd it open to connect a USB cable derectly to the battery and so charge it trouh my pc i removed the broken part with my solder iron and its working again now
Now i like to connect to pc again anyone know a sulution i cant idententfie the original part to order a new and it will be a hard job soldering the thiny component any alternated point on the board maybe or how i can find out any help would be great
thx
Thx, worked perfect !!! Anyone an idea how to move the apps to the SD, since there is only 400Mb available for the apps, it's almost filled by now with some regular games...
you people who fell victim to this bad device like me might want to check out
http://www.freaktab.com/showthread.php?1881-NEOCM10-Version-1-25&p=36054#post36054
thats the best firmware currently it runs really fast and without problems except for one gamebreaking bug sadly.
the screen is mirrored after flash meaning its unusable but they are working on it and it should be fixed soon
(if anyone has a tip on how to get into the screen calibration thing in 4.1 android , or force it to do the calibration at next startup please help)
https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/android-x86/uNo7a39-s3I
The mirrored screen problem also happened with other devices and this is kernel based.
The link above is a dirty trick to fix the issue. But it requires a recompile of the kernel.
Exelletor on the Arctablet forum told me that recompilong this rk29xx based kernel waa not that easy.
I had a look to the info provided and i could more or less pinpoint the things that needed to be changed, but currently I did not find the time to perform the compile.
Hope this can already help?

1.4.3 Update rolling out?

Looks like B&N will be sending out an OTA update to version 1.4.3 starting today.
A post here about a deal with DC Comics mentions the following:
To use 'Zoom View' you will need a small update to the software in your Nook Tablet or Nook Color: software version 1.4.3 and you can get it for the Nook Tablet at www.nook.com/tablet/update or for the Nook Color at www.nookcolor.com/update. A free automated over the air update will bring this to your device beginning June 27th (that's tomorrow!) if you don't manually get the update.
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Thought y'all might appreciate a heads-up.
We appreciate, thank you sir.
Okay, color me confused. Isn't "Zoom View" where you use two fingers and pinch them together to make things smaller, and un-pinch to make things bigger ? Ah, this is broken ?
old_fart said:
Okay, color me confused. Isn't "Zoom View" where you use two fingers and pinch them together to make things smaller, and un-pinch to make things bigger ? Ah, this is broken ?
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From B&N:
The NOOK Tablet Ver1.4.3 update contains new features and enhancements, including:
• Zoom view in comics and graphic novels
• 2-Page mode in landscape for viewing PagePerfect™ and PDF documents
• Other minor system enhancements
Sent from my Nook Color running ICS and Tapatalk
old_fart said:
Okay, color me confused. Isn't "Zoom View" where you use two fingers and pinch them together to make things smaller, and un-pinch to make things bigger ? Ah, this is broken ?
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I haven't seen this in action, but I'm guessing it's similar to how other 3rd party comic viewing apps can detect and automatically zoom and advance through panels on a page without you having to "drive." The Dark Horse Comic app and (to a lesser, tunable degree) ComicViewer both have this. You still have the freedom to pinch-zoom and double-click to do full page views, but you can mostly just sit back and tap on the right side of the screen, and the app will maximize the viewability of a portion of the page. Very handy for smaller (7" or less) screens.
Different systems do it different ways. I doubt it panel by panel guided view, since the Nook Comics do not seem to have the required panel dimension information, but actually, it doesn't require it.
All it needs is the ability to lock the zoom at the level you want through page turns, starting at the top left corner of the page (left to right) or top right corner (right to left) and the pan and scan would be fine with me. Keep It Simple.
Anyway, this is definitely a change that I'll let go through and then run the manual rooter again afterward.
Changes made by update
Well bn updated my NT to 1.4.3 last night.
Now any app that i had pinned to the home page that was not gotten from BN will not open from the icon. These were pinned to the homepage using app manager.
I have to search for the adw launcher and get into them that way
Any body else have any issues.
1.4.3 is a nook killer
krier32 said:
Well bn updated my NT to 1.4.3 last night.
Now any app that i had pinned to the home page that was not gotten from BN will not open from the icon. These were pinned to the homepage using app manager.
I have to search for the adw launcher and get into them that way
Any body else have any issues.
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Same issue here. Had root but lost it to OTA for 1.42. Never bothered to re-root because I got 95% of the apps I cared about installed. Now 1.4.3 basically broke all of my apps and is not really usable anymore until I root again. Hoping SD card root works on 1.43. B&N are really making the move to CM7 seem smarter than ever.
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So, my nook also updated to the 1.4.3 last night.
I can verify that my device is no longer rooted, however I can still install applications from Google Play, and Amazon's app store. All of my previous applications are still working however not from the Nook home screens.
I haven't tried re-rooting with the sdcard method again yet.
The problem is that the API's changed that App Manager used to give access to the apps. The developer is aware of the issue and is trying to find a different way to achieve the same results. I just changed my default launcher to Go Launcher so I have access to all my apps, at least until App Manger starts working again.
I actually hadnt used mine in a while, but noticed yesterday the keyboard was back to default and realized something was up. Most of my apps still work, but the Play store asks me to login with an account, and when I click ok it just closes. Any ideas?
I don't remember how the sdcard root method pushed the play store, but if it pushed it to /system/apps, then play store is going to be screwed until you clear it out and install it again (reroot).
Edit: Just looked at the root zip file and it pushes all the gapps to /system/apps. The OTA update would wipe these out (as well as superuser).
Any tried Rerooting using the SDcard?
Having the same problem with Google Play.
Has anyone tried using the SD Card to reroot their device?
I think I will try it an see what happens.
SD Root
So, I backed up my nook, and took the plunge and used the SDcard I made to root 1.4.2 to root 1.4.3 and it worked flawlessly.
I had to re-login to Google Play, but I expected that.
The apps installed to the home screen of course still don't work, but opening them with another launcher or the App manager works fine.
I thought the SD card root method was designed to block OTA updates? Checking under the NT hidden settings showed an OTA block, though it now shows that I'm missing superuser since the new update unrooted my NT. Did this update have something different to defeat the block? I guess I need to seach for a new method to block updates (I seem to recall looking at some other posts on that topic).
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Rooting in itself does not block OTA I believe. It simply gives you the ability to do so (either by changing the version to 9.9.9 or blocking B&N services entirely).
Understood, thanks. I'm a noob and just thought I remembered that being one of the "features" on the SD card along with a bunch of other apps (superuser, gapps, ADW, busy box, etc.). That was an issue at the time because 1.4.2 had just been published and was different than the prior versions for rooting. Thanks for the clarification!
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I manually installed the 1.4.3 update and the SD Card root worked perfectly. One problem I've had since rooting though is that after updating apps from the Android Market/Play Store, the download arrows in the status bar stay active after the last app is 100% updated. The arrows go away after a reboot, but it's a little weird. I don't know if it's a market problem or has to do with 1.4.3., but everything else I had installed and loaded before the update is working flawlessly.
Supposedly when you actually install CWM on the device itself, not just on SD Card, you will not get updates due to factory recovery not being there. I do know that with CWM being internally installed + using the OTA blocker (999 one or Brian's) works. That is the way mine is and I've not gotten any updates.
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I was using the sdcard root method here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=23591839
And only using CM7. It worked great and I wanted to check out CM9 so I wiped the card and started over to create the dual boot card on the same post. While doing that, 1.4.3 updated on my NT and now the sdcard wont boot into cyanoboot. Does anyone know if this is a problem with 1.4.3 or am I just screwing something up?
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