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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.
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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:
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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.
Guys, noticed a few people having trouble with the sd card fix so I ran it and took screenshots. Each screenshot is what you should see after running the command listed above the screenshot. (I am not going to post screenshots of how to open the command prompt.. if you made it this far you should already know)
Disclaimer: This formats your SD Card.
This requires busybox. I utilized the busybox installer found at https://play.google.com/store/apps/...usybox&feature=nav_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwyLDNd
1. adb shell
{
"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"
}
2. busybox fdisk /dev/block/mmcblk1
3. type the letter "o"
4. type the letter "w"
5. busybox fdisk /dev/block/mmcblk1
6. Type the letter "n"
7. Type the letter "p" for primary
8. Type the number "1" for first partition
9. Press the enter key for default size.
10. Press the enter key for default size.
11. Type the letter "w"
12. busybox mkfs.vfat /dev/block/mmcblk1p1
Edit: Step 13.. On your phone, click on the Notification that states "Blank SD Card" and choose format, the card should then format and mount properly.
This is my first How-to so if something does not make sense please let me know. Hope this helps guys.
Nicely done. I'll add this to my FAQ thread. Great guide.
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Somebody tipped me off to the "adb shell" and then proceed portion prior to this walkthrough, but I know others struggled with this issue as well. I'm sure they'll appreciate this info, thanks!
Im getting this after entering the letter "w"
fdisk: WARNING: rereading partition table failed, kernel still uses old table: D
evice or resource busy
nnnnr14 said:
Im getting this after entering the letter "w"
fdisk: WARNING: rereading partition table failed, kernel still uses old table: D
evice or resource busy
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Hmm, never got that before. Do you have your device mounted as Charge only? Also may reboot the device see if that resolves it.. Last would be to run it through the terminal emulator on the phone (that is how I fixed mine the first time, its a pain but it worked).
When doing it through the terminal emulator on the phone though you do not need to use the adb shell command, just the busybox commands.
sindroidx said:
Hmm, never got that before. Do you have your device mounted as Charge only? Also may reboot the device see if that resolves it.. Last would be to run it through the terminal emulator on the phone (that is how I fixed mine the first time, its a pain but it worked).
When doing it through the terminal emulator on the phone though you do not need to use the adb shell command, just the busybox commands.
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what radio are you using? like are you on the new leak or the old one..
nnnnr14 said:
what radio are you using? like are you on the new leak or the old one..
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First time (when I ran it on my phone) I was on the ICS leak. When I took the screenshots for this post I had downgraded to the GB RUU so I could install the eng hboot.
I'll add this to my OP in the S-Off Instructions thread. Thanks a lot.
i i followed the instructions to the t but i never got the [email protected] prompt is sh-3.2#, i didnt have any errors or anything but it still is not recognized when i plug it into the computer, i also tried it from the emulator on the phone and i get the warning about the kernel still uses old table, device or resource busy, any thoughts?
hoebag said:
i i followed the instructions to the t but i never got the [email protected] prompt is sh-3.2#, i didnt have any errors or anything but it still is not recognized when i plug it into the computer, i also tried it from the emulator on the phone and i get the warning about the kernel still uses old table, device or resource busy, any thoughts?
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Did you format the SD card at the end? Don't have a screenshot for that one since I had already got mine working but if no errors happened, you should be able to click on the notification that states "Blank SD Card" and choose format and it should format then mount.
Edit: Just modified OP for step 13.
yes i did, my phone said the sd was blank and i formatted it, it said checking sd card, then preparing sd card, but when i plug it into the computer if only shows the internal sd card as a few kilobytes and no ext sd comes up, on my rom i open the camera and it says insert and ad card to use the camera
edit: just tried running it again and on the last step i get cant open /dev/block/mmcblk1p1 no such file or directory
hoebag said:
yes i did, my phone said the sd was blank and i formatted it, it said checking sd card, then preparing sd card, but when i plug it into the computer if only shows the internal sd card as a few kilobytes and no ext sd comes up, on my rom i open the camera and it says insert and ad card to use the camera
edit: just tried running it again and on the last step i get cant open /dev/block/mmcblk1p1 no such file or directory
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Strange, the last command is what makes the file system for mmcblk1p1.. does recovery or fastboot recognize the sd?
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im actually having the same problem right now.... im running the 2.01.605.11 firmware using scotts clean rom de 1.2 with the firmware patch. it wouldnt install anything onto the sd card so i rebooted to recovery unmounted sd card and remounted it. enabled usb-ms and made a back up of my sd card, rebooted and tried the fix and i get the same issues the other guy does....
sindroidx said:
Strange, the last command is what makes the file system for mmcblk1p1.. does recovery or fastboot recognize the sd?
Sent from my ADR6425LVW using xda premium
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it seems that recovery sees it, windows certainly does when i format it using windows, the phone just cant see it, and the rom im using isnt helping as the settings to storage are force closing so i cant get into them but the camera still says to insert and sd card, im going to try and format the card using my thunderbolt real quick and see if that helps, ill post back and let you know
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i have no idea what i really did to fix it but its working now, i put the card in my computer, formatted it with windows, copied all of my backed up files to the card and put it back in the phone, it still didnt read it but recovery did so i flashed newts onexxx rc2 rom and bam it read everything from the first boot, internal and external cards, must have been the rom
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This is my first How-to so if something does not make sense please let me know. Hope this helps guys.
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Dude. I dont know how to thank you enough for this post.
Thanks for the post but still a no go. Will try again tomorrow.. somehow going to try to flashy a rom and see if it works..
RDxxASSASSINxx said:
im actually having the same problem right now.... im running the 2.01.605.11 firmware using scotts clean rom de 1.2 with the firmware patch. it wouldnt install anything onto the sd card so i rebooted to recovery unmounted sd card and remounted it. enabled usb-ms and made a back up of my sd card, rebooted and tried the fix and i get the same issues the other guy does....
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I would try a couple things if you haven't already gotten this resolved. If showing in recovery I would try to re-apply the firmware patch. If that does not work I would try a clean install of your ROM once more. Looks like the other issue was resolved by a different ROM, so it would be a suggestion (if the card shows in recovery) to try at least a clean install of the same ROM.
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Dude. I dont know how to thank you enough for this post.
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Not a problem man, just trying to do what I can to help out the community.
Still no go
I have tried again tonight to give the sd card fix a try. Formatted sd card with windows and ran fix. After typing w the outcome was Fdisk: WARNING rereading partition table failed: Kernel still uses old table: device or resource busy
Hope that give an idea for an answer.. Thanks
FYI..my phone won't install busybox (Stericson) cause of sd card not mounted or not reading. Had to use jrummy's. I tried to force busy box to work through my rom with titanium but that didn't work.
My sd card works in ra recovery. When I go into root explorer sdcard2 is in read only. Is there a way to change that?
droidrev71 said:
I have tried again tonight to give the sd card fix a try. Formatted sd card with windows and ran fix. After typing w the outcome was Fdisk: WARNING rereading partition table failed: Kernel still uses old table: device or resource busy
Hope that give an idea for an answer.. Thanks
FYI..my phone won't install busybox (Stericson) cause of sd card not mounted or not reading. Had to use jrummy's. I tried to force busy box to work through my rom with titanium but that didn't work.
My sd card works in ra recovery. When I go into root explorer sdcard2 is in read only. Is there a way to change that?
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Hmm shows in recovery but R/O in root explorer.. I would try a couple things. First, if it shows in recovery, what firmware are you? If your on the GB firmware I would try the patch released (you can find it in almost all ICS ROM posts). If that does not work I would next try to format the SD Card in recovery, (not sure if that will work but I have heard that formatting in Windows fixed some so its worth a try). Last I would try flashing a new ROM (not saying you have to stay on it but another fix I have heard is new ROM).
If none of those work, I would grab another SD Card and try running to fix to see if maybe there is an issue with the SD card.
sindroidx said:
Hmm shows in recovery but R/O in root explorer.. I would try a couple things. First, if it shows in recovery, what firmware are you? If your on the GB firmware I would try the patch released (you can find it in almost all ICS ROM posts). If that does not work I would next try to format the SD Card in recovery, (not sure if that will work but I have heard that formatting in Windows fixed some so its worth a try). Last I would try flashing a new ROM (not saying you have to stay on it but another fix I have heard is new ROM).
If none of those work, I would grab another SD Card and try running to fix to see if maybe there is an issue with the SD card.
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i have success.. i'm guessing the main fix was flashing newts rc2. that was the original rom i was on when i did the s-off. i lost my data on sd after using the external sd card fix. so didn't have a back up. i had cleanrom 3.7 on laptop and that is what i flashed to try to fix the first time(different rom which i thought would fix). so glad to be normal again.. exept with data loss which i didn't have much.. thanks for you patience and help
i can't believe the fix was that simple..what a trip..lol
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
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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:
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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.
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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.
I recently bought a Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 8GB. With only 4GB of actual space, I needed more. I bought a mini-sd card today. I tried to partition it to move app data, but nothing worked. I reformatted the sd card in my tablet and then tried to put it in my pc. Nothing happened except the "external disk found" notification in the task bar. When I clicked it to see the sd card, nothing showed. Screenshot here:
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"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
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"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
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}
My tablet still reads it perfectly. I tried using the "Format" option on the tablet over and over. When I try it with my pc, nothing happens except that. No drive letter, no notification other than what is shown in the screenshot. I tried about twenty recovery programs and not one could see the sd card. Minitool Partition can see it, but calls it a bad disk and will not allow me to use any operations (cannot delete partition, create, edit). I don't want to buy another sd card so soon. Can ANYONE help me with this?
tidalwave12 said:
I recently bought a Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 8GB. With only 4GB of actual space, I needed more. I bought a mini-sd card today. I tried to partition it to move app data, but nothing worked. I reformatted the sd card in my tablet and then tried to put it in my pc. Nothing happened except the "external disk found" notification in the task bar. When I clicked it to see the sd card, nothing showed. Screenshot here: View attachment 1876849
My tablet still reads it perfectly. I tried using the "Format" option on the tablet over and over. When I try it with my pc, nothing happens except that. No drive letter, no notification other than what is shown in the screenshot. I tried about twenty recovery programs and not one could see the sd card. Minitool Partition can see it, but calls it a bad disk and will not allow me to use any operations (cannot delete partition, create, edit). I don't want to buy another sd card so soon. Can ANYONE help me with this?
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Try using gparted live cd. If it recognizes it, reformat it to fat32.
chromium96 said:
Try using gparted live cd. If it recognizes it, reformat it to fat32.
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I don't know how to use that and the iso won't boot.
tidalwave12 said:
I don't know how to use that and the iso won't boot.
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You should probably read a bit and do some googling.
Burn the iso to a cd, make sure your bios is set to boot from optical drive, and it should boot fine.
chromium96 said:
You should probably read a bit and do some googling.
Burn the iso to a cd, make sure your bios is set to boot from optical drive, and it should boot fine.
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I have. I kept trying and it won't work. I burned the program to three cds and a virtual drive. None worked.
But is there any other way of finding the SD-Card?
tidalwave12 said:
I have. I kept trying and it won't work. I burned the program to three cds and a virtual drive. None worked.
But is there any other way of finding the SD-Card?
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Are you sure your downloading the right one?
If its not working you could try formatting it in a camera, or using a Linux distro like Ubuntu. They have gparted built in.
chromium96 said:
Are you sure your downloading the right one?
If its not working you could try formatting it in a camera, or using a Linux distro like Ubuntu. They have gparted built in.
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I have no camera. I could borrow one from someone, but that'd be long from now. I was looking for a way to restore the partition and drive letter, but from all the forums I've read, no one has a clue.
tidalwave12 said:
I have no camera. I could borrow one from someone, but that'd be long from now. I was looking for a way to restore the partition and drive letter, but from all the forums I've read, no one has a clue.
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Like I said. Gparted will very likely be able to read and format the card. Go find a guide on how to get the livecd working, its your best bet.
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Like I said. Gparted will very likely be able to read and format the card. Go find a guide on how to get the livecd working, its your best bet.
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The website says that I must run Gparted in the SD-card partition first, which I cannot do. Can't even read the sd card correctly.
What?!?
You download the gparted iso.
Put a CD into your PC
Right click on the iso and burn it to the disc
Put the SD card into your PC
Reboot your PC
Gparted should boot. If not make sure your bios boot sequence boots optical drive first
In gparted your SD card should appear
Format it. MAKE SURE U DONT FORMAT YOUR HARD DRIVE
If gparted doesn't see the card, its probably damaged to a point where no software can fix it, and you will have to buy a new one.
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chromium96 said:
What?!?
You download the gparted iso.
Put a CD into your PC
Right click on the iso and burn it to the disc
Put the SD card into your PC
Reboot your PC
Gparted should boot. If not make sure your bios boot sequence boots optical drive first
In gparted your SD card should appear
Format it. MAKE SURE U DONT FORMAT YOUR HARD DRIVE
If gparted doesn't see the card, its probably damaged to a point where no software can fix it, and you will have to buy a new one.
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I got it to work. And no, it didn't even see it. I'll just return it tomorrow. Thanks for your help. ~thumbs up~