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Hallo,
i cooked many ROMs and every time i try to flash using SD Card (8GB), but without any sucess, it does not find any ROM to flash!
I renamed the cooked ROM to blacimg.nbh (also tried blackimg.nbh), copy to SD Card, Rebo0t into Bootloader mode (Power + Volume Down), it reboots and search for ROM then change to serial (usb)
I used search but no answer found
What am i doing wrong?
Thnax in Advance
WBR
Siemens Lover
SiemensLover said:
Hallo,
i cooked many ROMs and every time i try to flash using SD Card (8GB), but without any sucess, it does not find any ROM to flash!
I renamed the cooked ROM to blacimg.nbh (also tried blackimg.nbh), copy to SD Card, Rebo0t into Bootloader mode (Power + Volume Down), it reboots and search for ROM then change to serial (usb)
I used search but no answer found
What am i doing wrong?
Thnax in Advance
WBR
Siemens Lover
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Which file did you rename to blacimg.nbh (that's correct and not blackimg.nbh)? Did you save it to the root of the sd card as suggested (although mine is in a folder and this also works)? Because the steps you are describing are correct and should work (work like that for me). The only thing I can think is that there is possibly something wrong with the file you are using. Is it one of your own cooked roms?
ClydeB1 said:
Which file did you rename to blacimg.nbh (that's correct and not blackimg.nbh)? Did you save it to the root of the sd card as suggested (although mine is in a folder and this also works)? Because the steps you are describing are correct and should work (work like that for me). The only thing I can think is that there is possibly something wrong with the file you are using. Is it one of your own cooked roms?
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Thanx for ur reply
Yes, i cook my own clean ROMs, the ruu_signned.nbh is renamed to blacimg.nbh and is directly copyed to the root of my SD Card
I do not know what is wrong!
WBR
Siemens Lover
faced the same prob long time ago with a old 4 Gb card...no matter what i've did was not able to flash. However I sugest to reformat your sd card (FAT 32 and not on your pc/laptop, do it with your phone) and then try again after formating, altough it may not help. to be sure that you are not doing wrong try another SD card if possible.
Another option to check your self is flashing with ActiveSync after formating.
Good Luck
p.s. It seems this is happening often if you used your SD card in another device
I'd a similar problem while flashing on my old P3300
To avoid the problem, I'm using a 1gb micro sd dedicate only to rom flashing but with a single partition of 256MB.
dunno if this could help u
cheers
I was having exactly same problem today when I tried to flash - mine's 8gb mini SD which came as a part of package from Orange, U.K.. I ended up using normal USB cable but I was wondering why it didn't work...
zephyr said:
I was having exactly same problem today when I tried to flash - mine's 8gb mini SD which came as a part of package from Orange, U.K.. I ended up using normal USB cable but I was wondering why it didn't work...
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Fashing with some big SD >4gb could generate some issue. Use one small dedicated to that and format it first in Fat32.
Hi Carl, thanks for your advice - it actually worked like a charm. I didn't really thing 8gb would cause this problem. I used just a plain 2gb ScanDisk card, formatted in Fat 32 and put only blacimg.nbh following normal procedures - thank you very much again!
My 2 cents
I had a similar problem not long ago with my 8Gb Micro SD that came with the card. I'd re-formatted it via the PC and altered the default settings based on a thread I read on here which was supposed to speed up access to the card. If I remember correctly it was changing the default allocation size.
Long story short, reformatted back to default settings and I was able to flash again from SD. IMO it's moreso the format of the card, not so much it's size as I never had a problem with flashing from card before tweaking it's format settings.
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I always flash from my SD card.
My latest card is a 16Gb class4 SanDisk, and I must have flashed more than 50 times from this. I always put my blacimg.nbh file in the root of the card.
Size of the card is not important, it just have to be formated in FAT32.
There are several reports that some brands of card do not work very well with Windows Mobile.
One time I purchased a Kingston card that simply would not work.
I just got my class 10 micro SD in the mail today and want to swap out my old one. Is the process as easy as copying everything over to the new card, or is there something else I need to do? Also, when I plug my Nook into my pc, I get two drives. One is a removeable disk, the other is mynookcolor. So yeah, now Im really confused. My rom is installed on the internal memory.
DozeBeatS said:
I just got my class 10 micro SD in the mail today and want to swap out my old one. Is the process as easy as copying everything over to the new card, or is there something else I need to do? Also, when I plug my Nook into my pc, I get two drives. One is a removeable disk, the other is mynookcolor. So yeah, now Im really confused. My rom is installed on the internal memory.
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If your running off of EMMC then it's pretty simple if the Old card is just 1 big fat32 partition with normal Android data files and other things. I reccomend using a seperate card reader however. Now just Plug the Old card into your PC and copy all of the files to a Folder on said PC. Now plugin New card in and copy the files to the New Card. Enjoy.
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Done. What was throwing me off was the partition the system automatically creates. I wasnt sure if I needed to copy that as well. Once I popped the new card in it automatically created those files. Everything is good. Time to test speeds.
Thanks!
Could someone point me toward a guide that include the step by step instructions on how to reformat your microSD card after a CWM image has been burnt onto it to get it back to it's original size/recognizable in the Nook/PC.
This to me is the most frustrating part of loading ROMs on the Nook and I don't believe it's laid out step by step in any guides. They simply leave it at downloading a partition manager software tool, but not what do to within that tool.
Thanks!
I would actually recommend just buying a cheap card that you use just for flashing images. Rather than backing up, image burning, then reformatting your card each time you want to do something in CWM, spend the $6 online and buy a cheap 2GB card that you use only for this purpose. I know it isn't required, but I still use a bootable SD card with CWM recovery on it to flash new nightlies or really anything else.
I know this doesn't answer your question, but it is my solution to this problem.
While I agree you should consider a new card in case things ever go south, you should be able to put it into a card reader and format it with Windows. You can also wait until the NC is booted up and then insert the card and format it with the NC.
I actually do have a dedicated cheap card with CWM loaded on it. The problem I ran into this time was that someone had approached me with a stock nook wanting a ROM loaded onto it. So I needed yet another card to burn a root image onto. So I was stuck having to burn that image on an 8GB not so cheap card and then could never get it back to 8GB or recognizable in my PC/Nook by using various software packages.
It also causes all sorts of FCs when inserted into the Nook running MIUI. Once it's removed they go away.
Regardless, if anyone knows of a guide or the steps to doing so that actually works, it would be appreciated and I have to imagine I'm not the only one who runs into this extremely frustrating issue.
i could be wrong
but cant you boot into default nook, not booting off the microSD card and reformat the microSD card?
even if you rooted/formatted the built-in memory for android/cm7 over the nook color OS, you should be able to format the card.
the other question that i have the the OP
have you tried to access the card from all os (win, mac, linux) both through a usb adapter and through the nook directly connected to the pc/mac?
I have not had that issue with either a USB card reader or with the Nook. Do you have access to a camera that uses micro SDHC cards? You can usually format it there as well. After that, Windows should recognize the card in a reader and let you delete any folders the camera placed on it.
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Could someone point me toward a guide that include the step by step instructions on how to reformat your microSD card after a CWM image has been burnt onto it to get it back to it's original size/recognizable in the Nook/PC.
This to me is the most frustrating part of loading ROMs on the Nook and I don't believe it's laid out step by step in any guides. They simply leave it at downloading a partition manager software tool, but not what do to within that tool.
Thanks!
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I think we need a little more information about what you are trying to achieve?
If you are looking to get your uSD back to its "fresh off the rack from the store" state, the easiest thing to do would be to just use your NC to reformat the card from within it's "Settings" area.
But, if you have loaded CM7 (or whichever ROM) onto the eMMC of your nook, then you would need to use Android's tools to do this.
When using an imaging tool to prepare the uSD, I would recommend Image Writer for Windows to write your ROM images to the uSD. It is pretty easy to use, and way better than WinImage. Use the 0.3 (Lost) release.
In my case, I just used verygreens solution of installing CM7 to my uSD, it is a one time set up and I only have to drop new nightlies onto the /boot partition whenever I want to upgrade (which is everytime a new nightly comes out, heh). I never take my uSD out of the NC anymore.
If you are looking to repartition your uSD card to get a bigger /boot partition so you can rest assured that the bigger nightlies will fit (essential if you have alternate image and ramdisk files for the alternate boot scenario), then I would follow this post in verygreen's guide.
In response to some of the questions, I am trying to get my SD card back to off the shelf so it can be used in the Nook for storage.
I have not tried on another OS to format the card. I only have Windows XP on my laptop. I could try on my Windows 7 desktop but would be very surprised if that solves the issue. I cannot see it when it is plugged in via USB adapter to my PC.
I have MIUI 1.7.22 ROM loaded on the eMMC of my Nook and using Android's format option does not work as it is greyed out.
Nothing recognizes it except for Easus Partition Manager, but I've tried everything under the sun (Deleting Partition/Wiping Partition/Assigning Drive Letter/Increasing size) and can't get it to return to a usable state.
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In response to some of the questions, I am trying to get my SD card back to off the shelf so it can be used in the Nook for storage. [snip...]
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In Android, I think you have to unmount the uSD before you can "erase" it (thus effectively re-formating it to it's maximum size).
I would do it this way if you are able to, because you are guaranteed a uSD card that Android will recognize every time. Devices that use removable cards this way know how to properly format them. Desktop OSs treat them as removable media (i.e. like disks/discs) and do not always format them properly using a a USB adapter.
When formating SD/uSD cards on your PC, your best bet is to use an actual card reader that connects to your PC via a USB cable (like the multi-card readers).
Here is a formatting tool specifically for SD/uSD cards from the SD Association website (https://www.sdcard.org/consumers/formatter_3/). Instructions are at their website too.
Incidently, if you have access to a Mac system running OS X, the Disk Utility app in Applications > Utilities will also format your uSD and get it back to stock where Win machines have problems. I know this from personal experience.
Here is another thread, Read All About it: WP7 SD-card format working., with more formatting info that may or may not be helpful...
Short of a Mac system, you could install Linux (I recommend Ubuntu currently) in a VirtualBox virtual machine environment and give that a go in your Win7 environment. If you go this route, you also want to install the Extention Pack for USB 2.0 support. Then you end up with a more versatile OS for tinkering around in all within your Win7 evironment....
Hi, i am stuck with this phone on WP7.1, the matter is that i need to change the ROM because T-Mobile ROM does not have this language.
I have read the tutorials how to downgrade the SPL and ROM form asnar and by goldcard method, but none of them are working, i have made everything as the tutorial say here in forum but i can not downgrade this device.
Every time i try by goldcard method after booting into usb host mode(volume down + camera + power) i get the screen loading...
After this the phone goes it a reboot loop and keeps showing usb host mode, then loading... screen and then reboot again
This are the details of my HD7:
OS : 7.10.8107.79
FW : 2250.21.51202.531
Radio : 5.71.09.02a_22.51.50.21U
Bootloader : 5.12.2250.0 (135916)
I have tried to flash with this files :
RUU_Schubert_HTC_Europe_5.10.401.04_SLSPL_Signed_by_ansar
RUU_Schubert_TMOUS_1.18.531.01_Radio_5.51.09.11a_22.31.50.09_Signed_SCHUBERT_RELEASE
RUU_Schubert_TMOUS_3.01.531.02_Radio_5.65.09.25a_22.45.50.21_Signed_SCHUBERT_RELEASE
RUU_Schubert_HTC_Europe_1.69.401.01_Radio_5.54.09.21_22.33b.50.10_Signed_SCHUBERT_RELEASE
But i keep on the reboot loop
Hope you can help me to solve this matter
Thanks in advance
Br,
Tito Millo
When the device goes to "Loading" and then gets stuck in a boot loop, that means that is started to read the file but then failed.
The most common cause of this are -
1. The SD card reader. Try a different card reader. Make sure that it's not a multi card reader as these seem to have the most problems.
I tried 3 different card readers before my flash/downgrade was successful and have heard of others trying 5 or more different card readers before it worked.
2. If the SD card reader uses a USB cable (like a standard PC printer USB cable) try a different USB cable to connect from the SD card reader to the Y cable.
3. Try switching around the connections on the Y cable between the SD card reader and the phone.
4. Sometimes the camera button will get stuck pushed in when entering USB host mode and prevent the device from flashing.
Try the above and see if it will work for you... I'm pretty sure it's the SD card reader though.
Since it's a T-Mobile device I would also recommend using a T-Mobile Pre-NoDo/NoDo rom to avoid any errors and if you need to return to stock for any reason you have it.
This is a good rom to use, I used it to downgrade my device and the 5.65 radio that is included with it, seems to have better reception and battery life..at least for my device.
RUU_Schubert_TMOUS_3.01.531.02_Radio_5.65.09.25a_2 2.45.50.21_Signed_SCHUBERT_RELEASE
Don't forget to use a 1GB sdcard because 2GB gives some problems with the goldcard method...
I have a TMobile like yours and the goldcard made it possible.
xdrc45 said:
When the device goes to "Loading" and then gets stuck in a boot loop, that means that is started to read the file but then failed.
The most common cause of this are -
1. The SD card reader. Try a different card reader. Make sure that it's not a multi card reader as these seem to have the most problems.
I tried 3 different card readers before my flash/downgrade was successful and have heard of others trying 5 or more different card readers before it worked.
2. If the SD card reader uses a USB cable (like a standard PC printer USB cable) try a different USB cable to connect from the SD card reader to the Y cable.
3. Try switching around the connections on the Y cable between the SD card reader and the phone.
4. Sometimes the camera button will get stuck pushed in when entering USB host mode and prevent the device from flashing.
Try the above and see if it will work for you... I'm pretty sure it's the SD card reader though.
Since it's a T-Mobile device I would also recommend using a T-Mobile Pre-NoDo/NoDo rom to avoid any errors and if you need to return to stock for any reason you have it.
This is a good rom to use, I used it to downgrade my device and the 5.65 radio that is included with it, seems to have better reception and battery life..at least for my device.
RUU_Schubert_TMOUS_3.01.531.02_Radio_5.65.09.25a_2 2.45.50.21_Signed_SCHUBERT_RELEASE
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Thanks for your kindly help, i was trying with 5 card readers and none worked finally went to a store and got a new one, and a SD 1GB, made the gold card and downloaded the NoDo ROM, and with this SD card and SD card reader i have been able to downgrade the device, now i am happy i can install any rom on my device
Thanks a lot for your kindly help all was about the SD reader and SD card
Br,
Tito Millo
Hell YEAH!!!
tito millo said:
Thanks for your kindly help, i was trying with 5 card readers and none worked finally went to a store and got a new one, and a SD 1GB, made the gold card and downloaded the NoDo ROM, and with this SD card and SD card reader i have been able to downgrade the device, now i am happy i can install any rom on my device
Thanks a lot for your kindly help all was about the SD reader and SD card
Br,
Tito Millo
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Goldcard + 1GB all the way!!!!
I recommend you Deepshining, I'm sending you the link.
I recently had MobileTechVideos repair my Galaxy Tab 7 by remapping the internal memory to the external SD card. They were very professional and did a great job in restoring my tab to a functioning unit. The only issue I have is that now when I plug the device into my computer to transfer files, it says it needs to be formatted. So far I have only been able to transfer files via wifi, which for a 2gb movie takes forever. Is there something I need to do in order to transfer files to and from my SD card? Thanks in advance.