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This method uses the files and method to install CWM from Goncezilla I just threw together the method to flash superuser and I'll work on getting rid of
Features of this root: It installs su, superuser apk, gapps
Future Features: Suggest something.
Note: Windows instructions are in this post
Changelog:
2.2: Removed all additions, sticking with basics for now.
2.1: Removed unknown source fix, removed adw and homecatcher due to problems with Gapps.
2.0: Sets unknown sources to be allowed since B&N wanted to play "hard to get" with that. Enjoy guys.
1.5: Included adw and homecatcher apk's, NTHidden settings as well.
1.0 Initial zip / method release.
Linux only instructions (unless you substitute the instructions with a known windows equivalent)
1. Setup SDCard
Using a new SDCard (not one you have info stored on) make a new MSDOS partition table and add a 50 MB FAT32 partition as the first primary partition. Then make sure you enable to boot and lda flags.
Any SDCARD larger than 50 MB should work but I used an extra 2GB laying around. You can add other partitions to the card if you want, but it is not necessary to allocate the entire card. Any added partitions would need to be manually mounted on your Nook anyway.
I used GParted on my Ubuntu machine to do this but any formating tool should work.
2. Copy Files onto SDCard
You can grab the files I used here:
http://www.mediafire.com/?dr6bqau194389te
Just UnZip the files directly to the root of the boot partition you created above (make sure flashing_boot.img, u-boot.bin, and boot.img are on the root not the folder SDCARD)
3. Insert SDCARD into NT
Now, with your NT powered off, eject the SDCARD you just created from your computer and insert it into the tablet. Then just turn it on and VOLA! You should now be in CWM!
Now you just need to download this zip file:
http://goo-inside.me/apps/Indirect/Nook_tablet/Flashable_Zips/Gapps_and_root.zip
just put onto the /mnt/media/ directory or you can push to /emmc/ while in CWM.
Credits:
loglud for taking the time to write instructions for windows.
ChainsDD for superuser and SU
Bauwkz for the exploit to be able to make a bootable sdcard
Nemith for the recovery
Goncezilla for the sdcard method (I didn't feel like typing it all out.)
Myself for the flashable zip.
Note: If anyone has 1.4.1 installed and uses this, I need a tester to see if the old package manager will work or not (it should.)
Don't mirror my files because I only use goo-inside to track download stats.
Proof it works (Screenshots)
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
I've been looking for something like this for a long time, haha. Thank you soooo much. Question: how do you partition, and what exactly is the root part of said partition?
...it tells you to use something like gparted...
Indirect said:
...it tells you to use something like gparted...
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And my next question is if i have stuff on my card, can i just delete all of it to make it work?
Just format it.
will film this first chance I get and post here.
Update: As promised
Indirect said:
Just format it.
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Alrighty! Thanks so much!
If you don't have Linux installed, you can burn gparted to a live CD and then just use that to set flags and partition. No, I will not offer support. This is as simple as I can make it, be happy. Just burn gparted to a live CD, and add files to a USB so then you can still access the 2nd partition. This method isn't figured out in windows and that is a hell of a lot of work especially for an OS I don't use. Sorry guys. If someone knows a windows freeware solution, I can add it to the open.
Sent from my Nexus S 4G using xda premium
I haven't had any luck rooting from CWM. I have CWM loaded on SD card. I tried with Gapps_and_root.zip both on internal and external SD card. After message "Installing update" I get "E:Error in /emmc/Gapps_and_root.zip (Status 0) Installation aborted.
Any thoughts on the problem? Thanks.
Note: Tablet is running version 1.4.0
hmm...I'll take a look at that zip.
edit: OOPS! Lol, I was using an outdated update-binary. Fixed zip is being uploaded right now. ^)^
edit2: Uploaded the fix. Same link as before.
Sent from my Nexus S 4G using xda premium
Also if it matters (not sure how many version of CWM may be out there) I have v5.5.0.4 of CWM on the sdcard.
It didn't matter. It was a bad update-binary in the file. I fixed it, just redownload.
New file worked fine. Thanks.
Description:This is a image, and flasher for windows designed to make it so that anyone can flash make a magic SD card to load up CWM, and root their device. THIS IS A UNIVERSAL ROOT, AND CAN BE DONE ON ANY FIRMWARE.
Why:
There are way to many rooting methods out there for this device, and with so many rooting methods, it is very hard to help trouble shoot a device, and make it so that rooting is available to everyone. Also with the 1.4.1 breaking normal root, it is very hard to teach people how to flash back to the previous 1.4.0, without stepping them through it, and then they have to beat the gun, and root and block OTA's. Also there is a lot of "geometry" involved in making a bootable SD.
What is it?:
There are two things in this package, the first is a flasher, and an image. These can be used to flash an SD card from windows with CWM, as a bootable SD. The second package is a CWM flashable zip that will add su, superuser, gapps, and the side loading package to your Nook.
What do I need?:
You will need:
SD Card >2GB (all information will be lost, so back it up)
Windows
Nook Tablet (any Firmware)
Credits:
Loglud
Indirect
Nemith
Bauwks
Instructions:
Download the packages listed in the download folder, and extract them to your desktop.
extract ALL the files from the single zip.
NOTE: Do not extract the .zip with superuser and su.
Open the image flasher .exe, and browse for the .img that you extracted from the same zip
Put your SD Card into your nook or reader, and select the drive letter from the drop down on the right.
Press write, and wait
Once it has completed open the SD Card from the Windows browser and place the .zip in the root of the SD card.
Turn your Nook off.
Turn your Nook on while holding both the N+Power button. Your device will turn on, and then turn off after holding it.
NOTE: Do not let go of either button until your device has powered on and off again.
Put the SD Card into your nook.
NOTE: If it is already in there eject it and then put it back in.
Power your Nook on normally.
You will see a picture of N on the screen followed by a box with a white background followed by CWM booting up.
Select flash update.zip.
Select Select from SD card.
Select your .zip
Reboot device
NOTE: Remove the SD card after your device reboots as if you don't it will continue to boot from the SD card.
Downloads:
http://www.mediafire.com/?dwwhzaixwwh2015
Doesn't work here, but ...
Indirect said:
...
1. Setup SDCard
Using a new SDCard (not one you have info stored on) make a new MSDOS partition table and add a 50 MB FAT32 partition as the first primary partition. Then make sure you enable to boot and lda flags.
Any SDCARD larger than 50 MB should work but I used an extra 2GB laying around. You can add other partitions to the card if you want, but it is not necessary to allocate the entire card. Any added partitions would need to be manually mounted on your Nook anyway.
I used GParted on my Ubuntu machine to do this but any formating tool should work.
2. Copy Files onto SDCard
You can grab the files I used here:
http://www.mediafire.com/?dr6bqau194389te
Just UnZip the files directly to the root of the boot partition you created above (make sure flashing_boot.img, u-boot.bin, and boot.img are on the root not the folder SDCARD)
3. Insert SDCARD into NT
Now, with your NT powered off, eject the SDCARD you just created from your computer and insert it into the tablet. Then just turn it on and VOLA! You should now be in CWM!
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Ever since I created the "v1.4.1 minimal root" procedure, I have been looking for a technique to "side-boot" the NT. A few days ago I saw "bauwks" method, but try as I might, I could not get that to work (using 1.4.1 u-boot.bin). So, when I saw yours this morning and saw that it uses the 1.4.0 u-boot.bin, I thought I'd give it a try. Didn't work. I even used "dd" to clear 5MB of the SDcard, reestablished the desired disk geometry (255 heads, 63 sectors/track), and created a LBA/bootable partition at the beginning of the SDcard, all with "fdisk" (via busybox). Still no SDcard boot.
Symptoms:
With the SDcard (from above) inserted and the NT powered on, the NT shows a black screen for about 3 minutes, and then boots the internal memory.
Removing MLO from the SDcard causes normal NT internal memory booting, so clearly the NT boot process is looking at the correct place on the SDcard (note that the MLO for 1.4.0 and 1.4.1 are identical).
I tried this with both 1.4.1 and 1.4.0 (reverted) installed on the internal memory.
Note that this is my 2nd NT (bought Dec 9th). The 1st one (bought Nov 15th) was able to side-boot using an SDcard created per pokey9000's instructions, but when I tried to recreate that card for the 2nd NT, it didn't work. Both NTs came with 1.4.0 installed, but only the 2nd NT was ever updated to 1.4.1.
So, unless I am doing something really stupid, there's something different between the two NTs I've owned. Note that "bauwks" had a problem booting from the SDcard, unless he had the USB cable connected, but others have not seen that symptom.
Note to Indirect: I don't expect you to fix this; I'm just posting it here as information.
disregard this post.
DeanGibson said:
Ever since I created the "v1.4.1 minimal root" procedure, I have been looking for a technique to "side-boot" the NT. A few days ago I saw "bauwks" method, but try as I might, I could not get that to work (using 1.4.1 u-boot.bin). So, when I saw yours this morning and saw that it uses the 1.4.0 u-boot.bin, I thought I'd give it a try. Didn't work. I even used "dd" to clear 5MB of the SDcard, reestablished the desired disk geometry (255 heads, 63 sectors/track), and created a LBA/bootable partition at the beginning of the SDcard, all with "fdisk" (via busybox). Still no SDcard boot.
Symptoms:
With the SDcard (from above) inserted and the NT powered on, the NT shows a black screen for about 3 minutes, and then boots the internal memory.
Removing MLO from the SDcard causes normal NT internal memory booting, so clearly the NT boot process is looking at the correct place on the SDcard (note that the MLO for 1.4.0 and 1.4.1 are identical).
I tried this with both 1.4.1 and 1.4.0 (reverted) installed on the internal memory.
Note that this is my 2nd NT (bought Dec 9th). The 1st one (bought Nov 15th) was able to side-boot using an SDcard created per pokey9000's instructions, but when I tried to recreate that card for the 2nd NT, it didn't work. Both NTs came with 1.4.0 installed, but only the 2nd NT was ever updated to 1.4.1.
So, unless I am doing something really stupid, there's something different between the two NTs I've owned. Note that "bauwks" had a problem booting from the SDcard, unless he had the USB cable connected, but others have not seen that symptom.
Note to Indirect: I don't expect you to fix this; I'm just posting it here as information.
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Dean;
Try the post right above this, and dont change anything, just format using the flasher(will automatically write all of the partitions as they should be), and see if it works. (Though im about 90% sure it should)
uploading a new version of the Gapps and Root zip that include several things, such as homecatcher and adw (for the next important part):
including NT Hidden settings app which will actually allow you to sideload apps.
Indirect said:
Description:This is a image, and flasher for windows designed to make it so that anyone can flash make a magic SD card to load up CWM, and root their device. THIS IS A UNIVERSAL ROOT, AND CAN BE DONE ON ANY FIRMWARE.
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Indirect does it again, thank you a million times!
MAC INSTRUCTIONS:
1. Insert the SD card into your Mac
2. Open "Disk Utility" and click on the SD card on the right
3. Click "Info" and note the disk identifier (in my case disk3)
4. Unmount partitions of sd card by clicking unmount
5. open Terminal.app
6. Navigate to folder containing cwm_sd_flashing_boot.img (requires knowledge of basic unix commands)
7. Type "sudo dd if=cwm_sd_flashing_boot.img of=/dev/[disk indentifier] bs=1m" which in my case read "sudo dd if=cwm_sd_flashing_boot.img of=/dev/disk3 bs=1m"
8. Wait as this process takes a while to complete (sometimes 10 minutes to write 2GB). You can type ctrl-t to get a status update, the number before records out represents MBs transfered (should end at 2048)
9. Eject the SD card and follow the instructions in other posts
Since i am on 1.4.1 , i couldnt able to root via .apk installation method , which is blocked on 1.4.1
Today i am going to purchase a microSD card to root and install CM7 or CM9 (anything other than stock ROM). Many tutorials i read says that i have to format the SD card to make it as bootable Rooter or something. My question is
- Do i need 2 SD cards , one to root and another as external storage ?
- Or 1 is enough to root and install , then later reformat it to use it as external storage for nook ?
- Which method / tutorial should i follow ? CM7 threads says to look at rooting and CMW installation threads . But these thread are little confusing me on SD card part.
Can anyone give an idea on how to proceed ? Again i am on 1.4.1 , unrooted , STOCK ROM and dont have a microSD card yet , going to buy today , so how much should i buy or 1 is enough to get me on CM7
Need urgent reply , as i am leaving to buy stuffs
I think there's only one micro sd port, so you'll only want to get one micro sd. There's no reason to get two. Just get the largest one you can buy. That's what I did. 32GB micro sd with CM7 installed. Afterward you'll need to run a partition program to resize the last partition to use up the entire space of the card. I ran into a little issue with that with windows partition program and have to boot ubuntu and run gparted.
I've rooted, booted in recovery, stored apps and media, flashed different mods and roms, and booted another NT into recovery all from the same 32gb card. Hope that answers your question. i personally wouldn't go with anything less than 16gb of space just due to the fact that anything else seems a bit of a waste of the sd card slot. IMO not the law
One sd card is sufficient for rooting the device. It really depends on how you want to root it now, internally (so you can use the internal memory but lose stock os) or bootable sd card (easier to revert but everything will be stored on the sd card)
Thanks for all the reply. Had some work come up , so didnt find time.
anyway got a 8GB card, is that enough ? i am not planning to watch movies on it.
I am planning to give this nook to my brother later , so i dont want to mess up with the stock OS. Can i root/install cm7 right from the SD card itself ? and if i remove , will the stock OS be intact ?
Also please let me know how to revert (once rooted/installed and if it did change the internal stock OS) back to stock OS.
With SD card , can i skip the registration process of stock OS ? recently i restored to factory setting , and i dont want it to update OTA to 1.4.1 and above if i am again going to go through the process . the device has not been turned on for a while.
help me here guys
naveen_reloaded said:
Thanks for all the reply. Had some work come up , so didnt find time.
anyway got a 8GB card, is that enough ? i am not planning to watch movies on it.
I am planning to give this nook to my brother later , so i dont want to mess up with the stock OS. Can i root/install cm7 right from the SD card itself ? and if i remove , will the stock OS be intact ?
Also please let me know how to revert (once rooted/installed and if it did change the internal stock OS) back to stock OS.
With SD card , can i skip the registration process of stock OS ? recently i restored to factory setting , and i dont want it to update OTA to 1.4.1 and above if i am again going to go through the process . the device has not been turned on for a while.
help me here guys
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You should make a CM7 SD card, directions can be found here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1481826
This way, when you put the SD card in and boot up, you will boot into CM7.
When you take the SD card out and boot up, you will boot into the untouched Barnes and Noble stock ROM.
Solar.Plexus said:
You should make a CM7 SD card, directions can be found here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1481826
This way, when you put the SD card in and boot up, you will boot into CM7.
When you take the SD card out and boot up, you will boot into the untouched Barnes and Noble stock ROM.
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thanks a lot. how much space will i have ? I saw in a video that i need to reformat the card to get space. can you help me on that ?
also do i need to register in the stock OS , or can i leave it the current state ? (restored to factory settings )
I have a 8GB SD card.
added :
I dont have a SD card reader , can i use nook to mount the card and write the image file using the windows software ? or even in linux ?
naveen_reloaded said:
thanks a lot. how much space will i have ? I saw in a video that i need to reformat the card to get space. can you help me on that ?
also do i need to register in the stock OS , or can i leave it the current state ? (restored to factory settings )
I have a 8GB SD card.
added :
I dont have a SD card reader , can i use nook to mount the card and write the image file using the windows software ? or even in linux ?
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After you write the .img to your card and after you extend the last partition of your SD card, you should have about 5.5GB for user data storage.
I don't believe you have to register your NT.
To be on the safe side, I would definitely recommend that you use an SD adapter when writing the image, but you should be able to do it when the card is inside of your NT, but mounted on your computer.
Solar.Plexus said:
After you write the .img to your card and after you extend the last partition of your SD card, you should have about 5.5GB for user data storage.
I don't believe you have to register your NT.
To be on the safe side, I would definitely recommend that you use an SD adapter when writing the image, but you should be able to do it when the card is inside of your NT, but mounted on your computer.
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thanks a lot. its midnight now , will try it first thing tomorrow
Alright, come back if you run into any problems.
I am just downloading the image file.
Planning to skip the registration process with that trick and load the sd card > connect it to system and burn the image on the SD card.
Hope it works
I skipped the registration process and inserted the SD card and currently running the disk imager to write that image file to h: (SD CARD)
hope i am doing it right.
It worked !!!!!
here is the storage details :
SD CARD
total : 1.3GB
Avail :1.3GB
Internal :
Total : 1.3
Avail : 1.17
Additional storage : /system
unvailable
Additional Storage : mnt/storage
Unvailable
Additional storage : /mnt/media
T : 1GB
A : 1GB
ok how to extend the partition now ? Also is there anything i should remember regarding these mnt/storage and /media ? I mean moving apps , stuffs like that ?
Okay, so the 4th partition is the only partition you want to change. If running Windows, download and install either:
Minitool Partition Wizard: http://www.partitionwizard.com/download.html
OR
EASEUS Partition Master: http://www.partition-tool.com/download.htm
Doesn't matter which, they're basically the same software.
Mount the SD card and remember the letter drive for your SD card (very important!)
You should see 4 partitions on your SD card drive, followed by unallocated space. Select the 4th partition and choose Move/Resize. From here you should be able to extend that partition to consume the rest of the unallocated space.
Now, double check to make sure the changes you made to your SD card are correct. When you are satisfied, hit Apply, and wait for the changes to take place.
When it's finished close to software and mount the SD card on your NT and check the storage settings again to make sure you are able to use the rest of your space.
As you know , i have been using nook to mount the SD card. Will this work with my setting ?
also when i try to mount this is what it shows
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
Open up one of the partitioning softwares and make sure your J: Drive has 4 partitions on it. If not, then you'll need to mount your SD card on the PC with an adapter or card reader.
http://i.imgur.com/DjJAX.jpg
i cant figure it out. I mounted and it is showing this . And J: is shown as BAD DISK
may be i should use an adapter.. or am i doing something wrong ?
sorry for the delay in replying , i am on a slow speed net and taking screenshot , editing takes some time.
Try using an SD reader or adapter. It should solve this problem.
Solar.Plexus said:
Try using an SD reader or adapter. It should solve this problem.
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will buy and try it.
meanwhile , is there any way i can install B&N reader ? i am outside of U.S .
The Nook app is available in the Play Store.
If you mean the Barnes and Noble stock reading app, I believe you can extract the app from the stock ROM. The app is simply called Reader, and should be listed in /system/app.
THIS GUIDE IS ONLY FOR ICS USERS WHO HAVE ENCOUNTERED THE ENCRYPTION UNSUCCESSFUL SCREEN ON THEIR PHONE. If you have no idea what the ENCRYPTION UNSUCCESSFUL screen is disregard this guide.
First and foremost I would like to thank and give credit to 'cgugino' for his guide over at the Captivate forums. Thanks to tabthelab and Woodrube for their helpful advice and guidence.
cgugino's guide (captivate)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1447303
This is a similar guide if not identical to his guide for "fixing" the Encryption Unsuccessful bug that occurs in certain ICS roms (DocMasters V5 confirmed). Not sure about other ICS roms.Here is a screenshot of the "Encryption Unsuccessful" screen that will eventually appear on your ICS rom.
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
If you have already selected reset phone well don't panic just proceed. It will not make a difference regardless.
Note: If you still have access to CWM not stock recovery proceed to step 6 and create your new partition. But REMEMBER TO BACK UP YOUR SD CARD AS IT WILL BE WIPED COMPLETELY. Do this by going under 'mounts and storage' > 'mount /emmc' or 'mount usb storage' in CWM
DO THIS GUIDE ONLY IF YOU HAVE ALREADY FLASHED BACK TO STOCK JFD THROUGH ODIN OR IF YOU NO LONGER HAVE ACCESS TO CWM. OTHERWISE READ THE NOTE ABOVE
WITH THAT BEING SAID THIS GUIDE DOES NOT FIX THE BUG. IT IS A WORKAROUND TO CREATE A PARTITION ON YOUR SD CARD TO BE ABLE TO USE YOUR "BRICKED" PHONE AGAIN
So lets begin:
Tools/Files Needed
-ADB (Android Debugging Bridge) and Android SDK must be set up on your PC.
Here is a guide that shows how to setup ADB and SDK with the necessary drivers:
http://theunlockr.com/2009/10/06/how-to-set-up-adb-usb-drivers-for-android-devices/
-You need the latest ODIN 1.7 or whatever the latest version is along with the .pit file found here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=848737
-Download this froyo .tar and extract it to the same directory where you have odin.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=833024&page=49
-Download CWM from here:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/stockodinjfd/files/update.zip/download
-Download any ICS rom Yes an ICS rom. You will use later to flash in CWM.
-You need a microSD card 8gb or larger which you will use to create the partition.
Thats it I think.
Here are the steps:
1. Enter download mode. Remove your battery/Then insert your battery/ hold both Volume Up and Down rocker and plug in your usb cable. You should now see the yellow android dude and it should say "Downloading".
2. Open odin and select the .pit file along with the froyo .tar file you've downloaded from above. Make sure "Re-Partition" is checked under options in odin. Click start and patiently wait for the process to be completed. DO NOT UNPLUG YOUR PHONE YET
Once odin finishes wait till the phone boots up with the new froyo rom youve just flashed.
3. Once your phone boots up and is setup copy CWM update.zip to the root of your external SD card. Do this by selecting the "mount usb storage" option in the notification bar.
Or
You can also copy the update.zip using a sd card adapter (only if your pc has an sd card reader).
You can use another phone or device which has a micro sd card slot. Just insert the sd card and plug in that phone via usb and copy update.zip.
You can also use adb to copy the update.zip.
adb remount
adb push update.zip /mnt/emmc
You must have the update.zip in the "platform-tools" folder in the android-sdk before executing the commands above.
4. BACKUP YOUR EXTERNAL SD CARD WHILE YOU CAN. IT WILL BE ERASED WHEN CREATING THE NEW PARTITION
5. Unplug your phone. Enter recovery mode using the 3 button combo or through adb using the following command: adb reboot recovery
Hit reinstall packages in recovery if CWM is not set yet. It will eventually install just keep clicking reinstall packages.
6. Once your are in CWM create the partition by going to 'advanced' > 'Partition SD Card' > Choose your data partition size 2gb is fine > Swap size 0M > You will get an error but just ignore it.
WAIT WAIT and WAIT it will take more than 5mins to create the partition. Just be patient it will eventually finish.
7. Connect your phone and while still in CWM mount your "USB Storage" under 'mounts and storage' > 'Mount USB Storage'. Then copy your ICS rom along with the update.zip (just incase) to flash. Don't flash update.zip though just keep it on your sd for future use.
8. Now while still in CWM umount your USB Storage. Go Back and select Wipe data factory rest / clear cache. Then install the ICS rom you've downloaded and flash it. (I used ICS Passion v13) Again be patient and wait till it finishes flashing and ignore any errors.
9. Once it has finished flashing it will eventually reboot. Or select 'reboot system now' in CWM if it already hasn't. Now this part you will have to be extremely patient. It may take up to 10mins or more to boot up. Once finished just set up your system using the setup wizard on your phone if there is one.
10. Check to see if your new partition has been successfully created by going to: Settings/Storage. You may see that your new partition is still 'unavailable' or it may say something like 00 for available storage. Don't worry just proceed to the next step.
11. Now to see if your partition is mounted properly. (Most likely not)Open the camera app and check to see if you get a message saying "Insert an SD card before using the camera." or something along those lines. If you get this message proceed to the following step. If not well you are lucky And you are now finished.
12. Now get ready to use adb so make sure adb debugging is enabled in Settings/Developer Options/ Android debugging [checked]
Open a command prompt on your pc in directory in which you installed your android sdk package. It should be something like this
C:\android-sdk\platform-tools
While in the platform-tools folder click on a blank space and Hold the SHIFT key + RIGHT CLICK > and select 'Open Command Window Here'. Now a command window should show up. If it doesnt show up well you didnt set up the SDK package properly go back to the guide which i suggested and make sure you have it set up properly or else you will not be able to issue commands.
13. With the command window open and your phone plugged in. Enter these commands to swap your external sdcard with your internal storage. This is the part where you will now use your new partition as your primary storage or internal storage.
Type in the following code into the command window or copy and paste it (easier) Remember to press the enter key after every command:
1) adb devices "This is to check if your device is properly attached"
2) adb remount "This is to check if your device is properly mounted"
3) adb pull /system/etc/vold.fstab "This will copy the vold.fstab file to the platform-tools folder on your PC."
3a) Now open the vold.fstab file you've just copied to your PC located in platform-tools. Right click vold.fstab and open it with notepad for editing.
Or you can also use a root explorer type of app on your phone
to edit the vold.fstab file. This might be the easier option. Just
remember to reboot your phone after editing the file.
3b) With the vold.fstab file open in notepad edit the following lines:
(They should be at the very end of the file and look something like this)
Line 1:
internal sdcarddev_mount sdcard /mnt/sdcard 1 /devices/platform/s3c-sdhci.0/mmc_host/mmc0#
Replace both instances of sdcard with emmc
Line 2:
external sdcarddev_mount emmc /mnt/emmc auto /devices/platform/s3c-sdhci.2/mmc_host/mmc2
Replace both instances of emmc with sdcard
Now that you have finished editing vold.fstab save the file close it and proceed to the next step.
3c) Now copy the edited vold.fstab file to your new partition by using the following commands:
adb remount "Followed by"
adb push vold.fstab /system/etc/vold.fstab "The file should now be overwritten."
REBOOT YOUR PHONE IF YOU DON'T GET ANY ERRORS WHEN EXECUTING THE COMMAND ABOVE.
(READ BELOW "IN RED" BEFORE REBOOTING IF YOU GET AN ERROR IN THE COMMAND WINDOW)
YOU ARE NOW FINISHED. AND SHOULD BE ABLE TO USE YOUR PHONE AGAIN WITH THE NEW PARTITION MOUNTED PROPERLY
IF YOU GET AN ERROR IN THE COMMAND WINDOW saying permission denied or something enter the following commands.
adb push vold.fstab /emmc/vold.fstab
adb shell
su
mount -o remount rw /system
cp /emmc/vold.fstab /system/etc/vold.fstab
chmod 644 /system/etc/vold.fstab
mount -o remount ro /system
exit
exit
adb reboot "This command will reboot your device so don't panic."
Once you have entered the commands above. Your phone will reboot. And the new vold.fstab file will be programmed to mount your new partition as your primary storage. And you should be finished by now. Now to test it open the camera app once again and see if you get any error messages. If so repeat step(s) 13. Otherwise You should now see that you have 1.88gb internal storage for apps etc and about 13 gb for the user (Assuming you have a 16gb) It should look something like this:
(Continued)
YOUR ARE NOW FINISHED AND SHOULD BE ABLE TO USE YOUR PHONE ONCE AGAIN. DOWNLOAD AN APP FROM THE MARKET TO SEE IF EVERYTHING WENT WELL. ALSO MOUNT YOUR PHONE TO YOUR PC TO SEE IF THE NEW PARTITION IS BEING RECOGNIZED.
Notes:
-Those of you who are new to ADB remember to hit enter after every command. dont just copy and paste all of them and expect them to work.
-You must perform step(s) 13 everytime after flashing a new rom. Reason for this is because the new vold.fstab file in the new rom will overwrite the old one you have edited in step 13. So keep that in mind.
-I have only tried this with the latest build of ICS Passion v13. It may work for other ICS roms aswell but i cannot confirm. I have tried it with a froyo rom but was unable to successfully mount the new partition. As for GB roms well you are going to have to try that your self. All you have to do is edit the vold.fstab file (Step 13) they should be identical if not similar.
-You can also edit the vold.fstab file using "Root explorer" app on your phone if you have it.
-Remember you no longer have access to your old internal memory since it is gone and I don't know what happened to it. SO SAY GOODBYE TO YOUR OLD INTERNAL STORAGE.
-Do not remove your SD CARD while your phone is on. It contains all of your system files and will probably make your phone blow up if you do so.
-If you haven't already flashed back to stock 2.1 and still have access to CWM you can skip to step 6 and create the partition from there. But remember to BACKUP YOUR SD CARD because it will be wiped.
I haven't tried this method but i assume it will work the same. Give it a try and let me know what happens
Good Luck and feel free to ask me any questions. I will be more than happy to assist you if you need any help.
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I just read comment about the bug and your thread pops up. Great work!
Just for clarification, does this mean you must rely on the SD indefinitely to utilize the phone?
ast32 said:
I just read comment about the bug and your thread pops up. Great work!
Just for clarification, does this mean you must rely on the SD indefinitely to utilize the phone?
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Yes... Once you've completed this guide your EXTERNAL SD CARD will then act as the INTERNAL SD CARD that was previously there prior to the bug. So in other words your sdcard will be your primary storage for the OS and other things such as music photos apps etc.
Merio90 said:
-Do not remove your SD CARD while your phone is on. It contains all of your system files and will probably make your phone blow up if you do so.
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This also means that if you ever want to swap out any SD card, you will have to repartition your new one to fit exactly the same "smaller" partition and also find some program that will be able to pull your data from your 2g partition, save it to your desktop and then copy it over to your new partition on your new card. Or you may have to reflash whatever ROM you are wanting/restoring from scratch. You are new essentially SDcard branded to your phone.
My old phone had 2.1 with no upgrade EVER from the manufacturer. So me and a few others began building/kanging 2.2 and with 2.2's ability of app2sd we had to figure out a way to do that for it to work. Long story short, with a few init hijacks at boot and some ADB we were able to get apps to install directly to a partition that we created on our SD cards. Went from 170mb internal to "you pick the size" partition on the external. I still have that phone and do some dev-ing on it and have brought a 2.1 all the way to CM9.
If anyone needs help with the partitioning, just ask. Also, 2gb is the standard but 2gb is a ton of space. Figure that your biggest app is going to be around 20-30mb executable. 1gb is 1024mb, you can do the math but it is also your call.
Problemo
So, this guide is great, but one of the initial problems was connecting to my SD card, when I plug in via usb my computer doesn't even recognize I plugged in. How am I to get the "update.zip" and the CFW on to it? also, when I use Clockwork, I can't seem to make my partition work... I've done it many many times, but nothing. it's almost like it doesn't even work... I just have the standard 2gb micro SD, so I make a partition of 1024mb. But it doesn't seem to work.
tabthelab said:
So, this guide is great, but one of the initial problems was connecting to my SD card, when I plug in via usb my computer doesn't even recognize I plugged in. How am I to get the "update.zip" and the CFW on to it? also, when I use Clockwork, I can't seem to make my partition work... I've done it many many times, but nothing. it's almost like it doesn't even work... I just have the standard 2gb micro SD, so I make a partition of 1024mb. But it doesn't seem to work.
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Try using the sd card adapter that came with your phone to copy the update.zip. That's if your computer has an sd card slot. Or simply use another phone to copy it by inserting the sd into that phone and plugging in the usb cable.
Right when you finish flashing the 2.2 .tar it should mount properly to your pc. Just select usb storage from the notification bar.
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using XDA
Merio90 said:
Try using the sd card adapter that came with your phone to copy the update.zip. That's if your computer has an sd card slot. Or simply use another phone to copy it by inserting the sd into that phone and plugging in the usb cable.
Right when you finish flashing the 2.2 .tar it should mount properly to your pc. Just select usb storage from the notification bar.
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using XDA
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I'm getting the same problem as him. and when i flash the 2.2 tar, it goes straight to stock recovery. it doesn't boot up android. even in cwm, my phone instantly "partitions" the sd card. and it only has a 1024mb option. no 2gb. And when you press mount usb, it does nothing at all. my computer shows two devices that haven't been mounted. Any ideas? i've been trying to fix this phone for almost a week straight and nothing works....
EDIT:I have no idea what just happened but i rebooted a few times and its starting to boot up.
Yep.
Exactly the same thing. I do have another phone that I can do all of that on, but it matters not it I can't even recognize the SD card to partition. I think it could (which doesn't really makes sense to me) be the fact we're using the standard 2gb one, I should go get a bit of a bigger one.
Either way, if it works or not, I can just give it to my fiance to use on her phone :\
I will keep tinkering though, and I'll of course post my results, if I have any.
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I just used my ladys phone to partition my sd card. ICS Passion makes me so angry, so instead of partitioning the SD CARD, it partitioned her internal memory, yay. phone is all clean. ffs.
Okay, so I figured out how to fix the problem with the partitioning. If you are able to install a zip file from recovery, install the ICS Passion kernel with CWM 5.x.x.x http://dl.dropbox.com/u/33572867/ICS_Passion_v13_cleanup.zip
You might have to rename it to update.zip but I think it should work for everyone. From there reboot recovery into the new kernel CWM. Now when you try to partition the sd card, it should take a long time and it should work.
tabthelab said:
Exactly the same thing. I do have another phone that I can do all of that on, but it matters not it I can't even recognize the SD card to partition. I think it could (which doesn't really makes sense to me) be the fact we're using the standard 2gb one, I should go get a bit of a bigger one.
Either way, if it works or not, I can just give it to my fiance to use on her phone :\
I will keep tinkering though, and I'll of course post my results, if I have any.
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I just used my ladys phone to partition my sd card. ICS Passion makes me so angry, so instead of partitioning the SD CARD, it partitioned her internal memory, yay. phone is all clean. ffs.
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Your mistake sorry. The only reason why I suggested using another phone was to simply copy CWM while having the already partitioned sd card in your lady's phone. Now i don't why you decided to create the partition on your lady's phone a second time...this was obviously going to wipe the internal memory since it is still intact.
Try this
For those of you having trouble copying CWM to the sd card try the following commands. You can execute these commands through stock recovery or with the phone already set up and going. Just remember you must have usb debugging enabled on your phone.
check to see if the phone is mounted: adb devices
now copy CWM to your sdcard: adb push update.zip /emmc/update.zip Just make sure that CWM is named
update.zip
To be honest the easiest way to copy CWM to your sd card is to use another phone or device which has a microsd card slot. Or if your computer happens to have sdcard slot simply use an sdcard adapter and copy CWM.
maybe it's not meant to be
So, I've done nearly everything I can even think of. I got the ICS installed but I keep getting the "power reset" or "unknown upload mode" now. I swear.... haha.
did you get the sd card partitioned? if so, odin back to froyo eugenes rom, install cwm, factory reset, wipe cache, and reinstall the passion 13 rom. I had the same problem and i think thats what i did to fix it.
alright. I see. Let me try that.
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did you have "re-partition" checked though??
yes i did.
Nirmalspeed said:
did you get the sd card partitioned? if so, odin back to froyo eugenes rom, install cwm, factory reset, wipe cache, and reinstall the passion 13 rom. I had the same problem and i think thats what i did to fix it.
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@Nirmalspeed...Did you successfully partition the sdcard? I'm just wondering if your were able to successfully complete the guide. How did you manage to copy CWM to your sdcard? By any chance did you try anything different?
trying something now, I might have fudged up for a very obvious reason...
Merio90 said:
@Nirmalspeed...Did you successfully partition the sdcard? I'm just wondering if your were able to successfully complete the guide. How did you manage to copy CWM to your sdcard? By any chance did you try anything different?
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what i did was that i flashed the ICS Kiss kernel that i linked on page one of this thread. And from there i was able to partition the sd card no problem. After i partitioned it, i had to redo everything from step 1 except i skip the partitioning. If i don't redo those steps, the rom gives me an error for some reason.
I'm getting a boot load!?!?! XX XX X fingers and toes crossed.
The 16GB Nook Tablet was released in the United States on Nov 17, 2011 (about 6 months ago). It is reasonably well-documented and a great deal of progress has been made on getting it to do cool stuff that its developers did not intend.
On February 21, 2012 (about 2 months ago) Barnes and Noble released an 8GB version of the Nook Tablet. It is much newer and most of the developers on XDA who were going to work with the Nook Tablet had already purchased 16GB devices by the time the 8GB was released; therefore, it is not documented nearly as well and many of its quirks are not as well known.
The purpose of this thread is to begin the process of documenting the differences between the two tablets. I spent a lot of time messing around with unsuccessful processes and asking questions to people who didn't know answers, and would like to contribute by saving that time for others.
By following this guide, you will be able to take an 8GB Nook Tablet out of the box and get it running an alpha version of CM9.
As of 04/25, CM9 for the Nook Tablet is an alpha state and many, many things do not work. I urge you not to try this yet unless you want to contribute to the development process, because you might irreversibly mess up your $200 toy. I am not responsible if you do this. Please, please do not try this unless you know what you are doing!
You will need:
8GB Nook Tablet (duh)
1 MicroSD card that you don't mind wiping
Linux (I only know how to flash images to an SD card using Linux, if someone else wants to add Windows instructions it's appreciated, but honestly if you can't find your way around Linux you shouldn't do this)
ADB properly set up (there are other guides on how to do this, I will add it in later if necessary)
Some way of writing to a MicroSD (an SD reader preferably, you could use an android device but I would feel much safer with just an SD reader)
The recovery image from the bottom of this post (ignore the instructions, just get the image. Meghdoot please let me know if I can just include the direct link in this post.)
CM9 Alpha 0.03 zipped package from this post (filename: update-cm9-acclaim-alpha0.03-fullofbugs.zip)
Google Apps ICS flashable zip (optional, find it somewhere if you want it)
Actually flashing CM9 is not that hard. The problem is that we want to make sure we have a way out of any problems we might cause (maybe you get sick of CM9 for example.) There are slight differences between the 8 and 16GB versions of the NT. These differences make a lot of the recovery methods for the 16GB not work on the 8GB. Do NOT flash anything to your tablet unless you are sure it works for the 8GB model!
Overview: What We Are Going To Do To Your Tablet
Create ClockWork Mod Recovery SD card
Back up your existing stock system
Save rombackup.zip, which contains files that are critical to the Stock OS
Flash CM9
Step 1: Create CWM Recovery SD Card
This step is the most important because it lets us do just about everything else. It is very important that you follow this step precisely and not cut corners; for example, it is tempting to use xIndirect's Nook Tab Recovery Flasher app because it downloads CWM and flashes it to your tablet so you don't have to mess with an SD; the CWM version it flashes will not work on the 8GB tablet, and once you realize this and use the app to "revert to stock recovery", you will find that you have reverted to a 16GB stock recovery. I made this mistake, and so far don't know how to undo it (hopefully I won't have to).
1) Get your SD card readable in your computer
Alternate, perhaps easier method: Copy the contents of this file onto the sd card. Either do this or steps 2-4 below, whichever you prefer.
2) Unmount your SD card, but do not remove it
3) Unzip the CWM image you downloaded above, which should contain myrecovery.img
4)In Linux, do the following:
Code:
sudo dd if=myrecovery.img of=WhateverTheMountPointofSDCardIs bs=1M
Don't know how to find what your SD card's mount point is? TURN BACK.
In Windows, do the following:
lavero.burgos said:
- Format your sdcard with SDFormatter (recommended) or any other but not windows native.
- Download latest Win32DiskImage-binary.zip from https://launchpad.net/win32-image-writer/+download
- Unzip the file
- Run Win32DiskImage.exe - Right click "run as administrator"
- Click the folder button and navigate to select the .img file you just unzipped.
- Click on the disk drive letter label on the right, and choose the letter that corresponds to your SD card.
- Press Write. When it finishes, press Exit.
- Safely eject/remove your sdcard and put it back to your NT
- Plug your device to the a/c power or PC using the USB cable, let it power on by itself do not press any button.
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Once this is done you should be able to place the SD card into your Nook Tablet, power it down, plug the USB cable while it is off, and it will turn on, show the Nook logo, a white screen with a cardboard box, and then load up CWM recovery.
Step 2: Nandroid Backup
This should be the simplest way to have a plan B - if you want to go back to stock ever, this should do it.
1) In ClockworkMod Recovery, press volume down until Backup and Restore is highlighted; press the home key to select it.
2) Choose "Backup to Internal Sdcard"
3) After a few minutes, verify that the backup was successfully completed.
You should have about 3.5GB free on your eMMC before the backup, and the backup will likely take about 800MB. (Please chime in if your backup is bigger / smaller.)
Step 3: Get Rombackup.zip
This file is very important. In the event that your tablet is completely borked, we could try flashing an image of a stock OS to it; however, there is a file in the stock OS called rombackup.zip which identifies your Nook when it tries to connect to BN's services. If you flash someone else's image you will have someone else's rombackup.zip and BN will not let you in.
1) On Ubuntu, with your tablet in CWM Recovery, do
Code:
$ adb shell
This will open up a terminal to your tablet, where you must type these commands VERY PRECISELY (!!!!):
Code:
mkdir /mnt
mkdir /mnt/factory
mount -t ext4 /dev/block/mmcblk0p7 /mnt/factory
exit
2)After "exit", you will be returned to your Ubuntu terminal; from there do
Code:
adb pull /mnt/factory/rombackup.zip
3) Put that file somewhere safe! Dropbox is a good idea.
Step 4: Flash CM9
1) Reboot your tablet into stock OS one last time.
2) Mount your nook's storage to your PC
3) Place the cm9 update zip file you downloaded above onto the nook's storage
4) Reboot into CWM Recovery
5) Choose "Install zip from sdcard"
6) Choose "Choose zip from internal sdcard"
7) Find the CM9 zip, flash it
8) Find gapps (if you got it), flash it
9) NOT OPTIONALChoose "wipe data/factory reset" (if not visible, press power button to go back)
10) Reboot, pray
Your tablet should boot into a shiny new operating system. If you get tired of it, just restore stock using nandroid (takes seconds and works without a problem.) The experience within CM9 is not so different from the 16GB; however you will find since it only has 512MB of ram instead of 1GB, apps have to restart a lot more frequently than you would hope, because they are killed by Android's memory management if you hop to too many other apps. That's the tradeoff for the $50 you saved, cheapskate.
MANY THANKS TO:
The entire CM9 Nook Tablet team (too many to list)
Meghdoot for producing a working 8GB recovery + answering some ?s
fattire, bauwks, etc - for cracking the **** out of the security on these things
Anybody else I left out - this dev community just amazes me
Lastly - this is my first attempt at being useful on XDA, so please let me know if I made any mistakes, or if there is something you think I should add.
Worked perfectly. Thank you for taking the time to do this.
Windows Instructions
- Power off your NT and remove sdcard
- Put your sdcard into a card reader (preferably)
- Format your sdcard with SDFormatter (recommended) or any other but not windows native.
- Download latest Win32DiskImage-binary.zip from https://launchpad.net/win32-image-writer/+download
- Unzip the file
- Run Win32DiskImage.exe - Right click "run as administrator"
- Click the folder button and navigate to select the .img file you just unzipped.
- Click on the disk drive letter label on the right, and choose the letter that corresponds to your SD card.
- Press Write. When it finishes, press Exit.
- Safely eject/remove your sdcard and put it back to your NT
- Plug your device to the a/c power or PC using the USB cable, let it power on by itself do not press any button.
~ Veronica
lost101 said:
Worked perfectly. Thank you for taking the time to do this.
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what have you noticed working vs not working?
jshields1986 said:
what have you noticed working vs not working?
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It's very impressive. Anything said here about the rom running on 16gb NT applies.
lost101 in a PM said:
Download "8gb-16gb_cwm_sdcard.zip" from here.
Follow instructions and put SD card in Nook Tablet.
In CyanoBoot Menu > Boot from SD Card Normal.
Perhaps some people might find it of value if you added this to your tutorial as the current method of accessing CWM on a 8gb Nook Tablet.
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I suppose; however, I'm still able to easily get to CWM from the same SD card I used to flash CM9, either by booting while holding the N key (I guess this doesn't work for everyone?) or shutting off the device and plugging it in. Either way seems to get CWM going from the SD card, though I suppose you could also do cyanoboot; my understanding is that that should work without any additional files as well.
Download "8gb-16gb_cwm_sdcard.zip" from here.
1 - Follow instructions and put SD card in Nook Tablet.
2 - In CyanoBoot Menu > Boot from SD Card Normal.
Perhaps some people might find it of value if you added this to your tutorial as the current method of accessing CWM on a 8gb Nook Tablet.
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That's with working a link.
You can also skip step one and put these files onto an SD card.
So I've followed the directions precisely, but can't seem to boot into recovery. Plugging in while powered off just boots normal, and holding "n" and power just gives the factory reset options. I want to check one step in the OP's instructions:
Code:
sudo dd if=myrecovery.img of=WhateverTheMountPointofSDCardIs bs=1M
By mount point do you mean the /media/XXXXXX folder it mounts to, or the /dev/sdx? I tried both, but neither seemed to work.
Also, by SDcard, you do mean an external microsd card, yes? Or are you talking internal storage?
And finally, what's the output supposed to look like from the above line of code?
AbbaSou said:
So I've followed the directions precisely, but can't seem to boot into recovery. Plugging in while powered off just boots normal, and holding "n" and power just gives the factory reset options. I want to check one step in the OP's instructions:
Code:
sudo dd if=myrecovery.img of=WhateverTheMountPointofSDCardIs bs=1M
By mount point do you mean the /media/XXXXXX folder it mounts to, or the /dev/sdx? I tried both, but neither seemed to work.
Also, by SDcard, you do mean an external microsd card, yes? Or are you talking internal storage?
And finally, what's the output supposed to look like from the above line of code?
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I personally used the win32 method, but I suspect there would be no output unless an error occurred.
FYI, I updated to the latest build of CM9 by wiping in CWM and flashing it. No need for a *special* 512mb build.
AbbaSou said:
So I've followed the directions precisely, but can't seem to boot into recovery. Plugging in while powered off just boots normal, and holding "n" and power just gives the factory reset options. I want to check one step in the OP's instructions:
Code:
sudo dd if=myrecovery.img of=WhateverTheMountPointofSDCardIs bs=1M
By mount point do you mean the /media/XXXXXX folder it mounts to, or the /dev/sdx? I tried both, but neither seemed to work.
Also, by SDcard, you do mean an external microsd card, yes? Or are you talking internal storage?
And finally, what's the output supposed to look like from the above line of code?
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On my desktop computer, the argument I used read "of=/dev/sdc". This will likely not work on your computer, as the mount point won't be /dev/sdc on yours, but that's the format you should follow.
Make sure all three arguments are there and it should work, after about 3-4 seconds you should see a message saying how long it took and how many bytes were copied.
And yes, what this step does is to copy on to an external microSD card; if you instead use the mount point of the user-accessible storage partition of your Nook's eMMC, it won't work.
If it doesn't work, double check that you are flashing the correct file, and perhaps redownload it (not sure if meghdoot made md5sums available or not but that may be worth a check.)
lost101 said:
That's with working a link.
You can also skip step one and put these files onto an SD card.
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I guess I may be misunderstanding what you are looking to accomplish; are you trying to make it so you can get into recovery without plugging the tablet in? If so that can be accomplished without any extra steps, once CM9 is succesfully installed:
Power the tablet on while holding the home key (doesn't work on every NT apparently)
At Cyanoboot prompt, which should come up whenever you power the tablet on without holding the home key, you can THERE hold the home key and select "SD Card Normal" (not "SD Card Recovery")
RomBackup.Zip
In the O.P., your step 3 says...
"Save rombackup.zip, which contains files that are critical to the Stock OS"
Could you make a copy of that file available for download?
I was one of the early testers who tried to flash CWM & CM7a onto the internal EMMC memory. Of course, it bricked my NT8 and now I can ONLY boot from a (bootable) SDCard.
I am running CM7a from an SDCard now and it works fine. But, I would like to get my NT8 back to working (something) on the EMMC.
Perhaps, if I could push (or flash, or backup) the rombackup file to my device, it would restore the missing "critical" files? I can do ADB & CWM works from SDCard. I figure that it is worth a shot since I am pretty sure that I have tried every other "solution" on XDA - all failed.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
raywaldo said:
In the O.P., your step 3 says...
"Save rombackup.zip, which contains files that are critical to the Stock OS"
Could you make a copy of that file available for download?
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This is the contents, however the values in some of the files are unique to each device. Maybe changing some of the values in the files would work for you.
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
RomBackup.Zip
lost101 said:
This is the contents, however the values in some of the files are unique to each device. Maybe changing some of the values in the files would work for you.
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Thanks. I see what you mean about the unique values. I don't know how I could do much with this data however.
Interestingly, my s/n is still intact. When I do ADB, it displays properly. But SOMETHING is still missing and it will not boot internally.
Thanks again for the response.
Your article is well-written and would have been a great help to me BEFORE I bricked it.
raywaldo said:
Thanks. I see what you mean about the unique values. I don't know how I could do much with this data however.
Interestingly, my s/n is still intact. When I do ADB, it displays properly. But SOMETHING is still missing and it will not boot internally.
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Have you tried creating a Rombackup.zip as described? It sounds like you may still have all the files.
raywaldo said:
In the O.P., your step 3 says...
"Save rombackup.zip, which contains files that are critical to the Stock OS"
Could you make a copy of that file available for download?
I was one of the early testers who tried to flash CWM & CM7a onto the internal EMMC memory. Of course, it bricked my NT8 and now I can ONLY boot from a (bootable) SDCard.
I am running CM7a from an SDCard now and it works fine. But, I would like to get my NT8 back to working (something) on the EMMC.
Perhaps, if I could push (or flash, or backup) the rombackup file to my device, it would restore the missing "critical" files? I can do ADB & CWM works from SDCard. I figure that it is worth a shot since I am pretty sure that I have tried every other "solution" on XDA - all failed.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
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After 3 weeks just been able to boot CM7 from sd I succesfully installed CM9 in EMMC on my NT8. I wasn't able to restore anything else into the EMMC after I bricked it trying to install CM7.
I'm very satisfied with CM9. Fo me is more responsive than running CM7 from sd.
RomBackup.Zip
lost101 said:
Have you tried creating a Rombackup.zip as described? It sounds like you may still have all the files.
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I was able to create the backup file... Rombackup.zip
Attached is a screen shot of the contents. Notice that it is down a few layers of directories: /rom/devconf/ Is that correct?
However, I have not had any success in getting CM9 (or any other ROM) to run on the EMMC.
raywaldo said:
I was able to create the backup file... Rombackup.zip
Attached is a screen shot of the contents. Notice that it is down a few layers of directories: /rom/devconf/ Is that correct?
However, I have not had any success in getting CM9 (or any other ROM) to run on the EMMC.
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Yes, everything is correct. What method are you using to install CM9? Have you tried installing 0.03 using CWM?
lost101 said:
Yes, everything is correct. What method are you using to install CM9? Have you tried installing 0.03 using CWM?
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Be aware that after you install CM9 and reboot into Cyanoboot it will try to boot from the alternate partition by default so you'll get an error message. You need to force Cyanoboot menu by pressing the n while booting and then select boot from eMMC normal (where CM9 is located).
Later you can change default boot in /bootdata by following instructions from fattire about
Cyanoboot .
Sent from my NT8 with CM9.
lumav said:
Be aware that after you install CM9 and reboot into Cyanoboot it will try to boot from the alternate partition by default so you'll get an error message. You need to force Cyanoboot menu by pressing the n while booting and then select boot from eMMC normal (where CM9 is located).
Later you can change default boot in /bootdata by following instructions from fattire about
Cyanoboot .
Sent from my NT8 with CM9.
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I have no such problem with NT8, Cyanoboot boots from eMMC automatically. But then I still have the nook partition and never tried to flash CWM internally.
HI folks,
Total newbie here looking for advice. With the excellent instructions on the site, I was able to quickly and easily burn CM7 to a class 4 SD card and boot my 16 gb nook table w/ no problem. I love CM7 and it blows away the Nook OS and the absurd limitations B&N has placed on the tablet.
Here's the question: I now want to open up additional storage and want to know if it is worth rooting the Nook internally?
I also wonder if it would run a little faster vs. running from the SD card?
I see no reason to ever go back to the B&N environment. On other hand, don't want to accidentally brick it in the process when it is running fine from the card.
If I choose to go with internal root, I am also bit confused on the best (most sound) way to go ahead and load CM7 internally, given that it is running now from the card. Do I just move it over or do I have to do something with CWM?
Thanks!
David
Easiest way to get a rom on the internal:
1. Make a bootable clockworkmod sd card (similar to your CM7 card, but this card will allow you to boot into a custom recovery).
2. Transfer desired rom (zip file) to local memory of the nook.
3. Boot into clockworkmod recovery via the card.
4. Make a backup of the current rom.
5. Install zip from sd -> choose the zip file you placed on the local memory.
6. Wipe data/cache.
7. Reboot into your new internal rom. If you would like, you can use indirect's app to flash clockworkmod to the internal memory and then format the bootable sdcard so you can use it as media storage.
If you ever need to return to stock, you can simply restore your backup via recovery.
Thank you very much!
That helps. I guess I am still trying to decide if it is worth doing that.
Will I have memory free on the device that I do not now and will it run any more efficiently or faster (vs. running off the SD card)?
Thanks again.
I think you'll have full access but it won't be mounted when you plug it into a PC.
If you want it to be mounted, you'll need to repartition. There is a guide for that or you can go to B&N and have them do it. Though, the B&N repartition is only half and half; doing it on your own you can get a lot more.
This is only for CM7 based roms though. CM9 does not have the internal memory mounting yet (I'm sure eventually it will).
jericho ishipatb
Hmmm I need to search for a guide to mount the internal memory again.
I have done what the OP is thinking about doing on my Nook Tablet 16gb.
It works flawlessly but I don't see the internal memory when hooking the nook up to a PC. I just get an exclamation mark in my device manager. I can browse the internal memory through cm7, and it shows that I have nearly 12 gigs of free space on the device itself, but I cannot drop content from my pc on there.
/me searches how to mount internal memory
Try modifying your build.prop file as shown in this post
Unable to mount "/bootdata"
I got an error msg (Unable to mount "/bootdata") when performing 4. What did I do wrong? I use TWRP to backup the ROM on bootable SD Card.
Cubanluke88 said:
Easiest way to get a rom on the internal:
1. Make a bootable clockworkmod sd card (similar to your CM7 card, but this card will allow you to boot into a custom recovery).
2. Transfer desired rom (zip file) to local memory of the nook.
3. Boot into clockworkmod recovery via the card.
4. Make a backup of the current rom.
5. Install zip from sd -> choose the zip file you placed on the local memory.
6. Wipe data/cache.
7. Reboot into your new internal rom. If you would like, you can use indirect's app to flash clockworkmod to the internal memory and then format the bootable sdcard so you can use it as media storage.
If you ever need to return to stock, you can simply restore your backup via recovery.
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anitafagina said:
I got an error msg (Unable to mount "/bootdata") when performing 4. What did I do wrong? I use TWRP to backup the ROM on bootable SD Card.
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Which version of TWRP did you use?
digixmax said:
Which version of TWRP did you use?
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The screen says 2.3.3.0
It came with the SD Card image: hxxp://iamafanof.wordpress.com/2012/11/18/cm10-0-jellybean-sdcard-img-for-nook-tablet/#comment-2948
Thanks.
anitafagina said:
I got an error msg (Unable to mount "/bootdata") when performing 4. What did I do wrong? I use TWRP to backup the ROM on bootable SD Card.
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If you are trying to backup stock ROM and then install CM internally on emmc, I'd suggest taking a look at http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=35669871 for info/pointers.
digixmax said:
If you are trying to backup stock ROM and then install CM internally on emmc, I'd suggest taking a look at http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=35669871 for info/pointers.
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Thanks a million! The instructions are simple to follow and it just works! :victory: