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Need help with NookColor USB ADB

I've been trying to install a few APK's on my NC but I haven't been successful with NookColor USB ADB instructions listed here: http://nookdevs.com/NookColor_USB_ADB
First of all i'm using Win7 64bit. I've gone all though the steps and did everything fine, the problem is when I get to the last step it doesn't bring up my NC serial number.
I did the troubleshooting and the adb_usb.ini is exactly what it needs to be 0x2080, I also tried to let Win7 update the nook automatically but that failed.
The one odd thing I did find is after I force the driver onto the nook it shows up in my device manager as Android Phone, and Android ADB Device not Android Composite ADB Device like the tutorial says it should.
Any help would be appreciated, thanks.

I couldn't get mine to work properly until I got my device manager to say Android Composite ADB Device - that is your clue that it is still using the wrong driver.
I found that a reboot, and changing/updating the driver worked for me - after about 3 tries!

Thanks ill give that a try.

When I plug in my NC in the device manager it shows up under portable devices. Is that the one I need to force the driver to or the USB Mass Storage Device under Universal Serial Bus Controllers?
It won't let updated the NookColor entry under portable devices so I'm assuming the correct one is under Universal Serial Bus Controllers. I can't seem to get it working. Not sure what the problem is. I've rebooted about 10 times now with no luck.

ADB not showing up??

Sorry guys, I am new here and am having a problem getting ubuntu to work on my NC. I am trying to get it to boot using adb but it will not show up on my PC. I have tried 3 different PCs (2 win7 64bit and 1 vista 32bit), installed the nook drivers but it will never show up in the command prompt. I have tried enabling and disabling development mode and I disabled USB mount. I don't know what else to try. I am on 1.1.0 of the system software if that matters. I got ubuntu to work once using terminal emulator but am having problems getting the script to work. But my main objective is getting adb to see my nook. If you could help, I'd appreciate it. Thanks

I dont follow you very well, what's your problem? Your PC doesn't see NC or something else?
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ADB does not see it is what I'm saying. I will say that I am not using the stock USB cable that came with the nook as I don't have that cable anymore. Could it be that the cable I'm using doesn't work properly? It see's everything fine when I tell it to mount the SD card. I just using a froyo card in it and adb saw it although it said offline. Could the cable be a reason why it wouldn't work?

It's possible, but not likely as I am using diiferent cable for communication between PC and NC all the time... My original is connected to a charger from the purchase of NC...

did you install the right drivers for it? It depends which OS flavor you have on your nook. Honeycomb uses different drivers vs Froyo

edein said:
did you install the right drivers for it? It depends which OS flavor you have on your nook. Honeycomb uses different drivers vs Froyo
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I'm having the same issues. I'm on a Windows 7 Box and I can not see the NC.
In Device Drivers under <Other> I find the NC but the driver is invalid. I have DL'ed the Android SDK with the USB drivers and I have tried pointing to the driver manualy. No Joy.
Any Help would be greatly apreciated.
TY
-NJ

have you tried this? http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=882751 ...run the .bat and follow it's instructions.
Also: it's very important that you reboot your Nook at least once after your first OS installation.

[Q] No adb access.....

Once i got my new nook color i rooted it with auto nooter, and im running 1.0.1, on my previous nook i rooted it and adb worked right then, now i cant get adb access, im using the same computer and everything, all thats diferent is its a new nook. I have full root access and can install apps and everything. Any help?

Seems to be a common problem. You can launch NookColorTools and fix it temporarily. Go to "Development" and then unchecked and then recheck the USB Debugging box.

Ok I've been doing that for a while and finnaly got the message that USB debugging is only for development. It works now......
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Get ADB wireless, it works great.

I've had zero luck using usb adb, but adb wireless works great!

I was having similar issues so after many many attempts I just decided to go with adb wireless and would definitely recommend going that route if you can't get it working over usb.

Yeah, getting ADB to work requires a lot of uninstalling/reinstalling drivers and unplugging/replugging the device, it's very temperamental.

can someone link me to a link on how to use/setup adb wireless

beezy69 said:
can someone link me to a link on how to use/setup adb wireless
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https://market.android.com/details?id=siir.es.adbWireless
it's free in the market and once you download it set up is easy. i've used it through my mac terminal as well as through ubuntu. like the posters above i had the hardest time getting adb to work via usb.

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https://market.android.com/details?id=siir.es.adbWireless
it's free in the market and once you download it set up is easy. i've used it through my mac terminal as well as through ubuntu. like the posters above i had the hardest time getting adb to work via usb.
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is there any tutorials on how to use it and what commands i need to install apps?

beezy69 said:
is there any tutorials on how to use it and what commands i need to install apps?
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once you've installed adb on your computer type "adb" at your terminal prompt and you should list of commands there.
here's the link to Android Developer's ADB website (this also lists commands):
http://developer.android.com/guide/developing/tools/adb.html
files and installation directions can be found here:
http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html
Good luck!

Ok so me being my dumb self forgot to install the adb drivers for the nook....... im dumb haha, but i cant get them to install, every time i uninstall the mass storage driver so i can install the proper driver it automatically re-installs it....... HELPPPPPPP

Is there any way to download this to the SD and install it from there? I've upgraded to a version of froyo, which doesn't have the market, and my command line won't work after swapping nooks.

I can't seem to get mine to work with either adbwireless or via usb.
Using USB I get this:
C:\android-sdk-windows\platform-tools>adb devices
* daemon not running. starting it now on port 5037 *
* daemon started successfully *
List of devices attached
C:\android-sdk-windows\platform-tools>
Here is what I get if I try to connect using adbwireless:
C:\android-sdk-windows\platform-tools>adb connect 192.168.2.4:5555
already connected to 192.168.2.4:5555
C:\android-sdk-windows\platform-tools>adb devices
List of devices attached
192.168.2.4:5555 device
C:\android-sdk-windows\platform-tools>
But it doesn't show a serial number like all the HowTo's says it should. What am I missing?
EDIT: HALLELUJAH!!
I fixed it. Actually I didn't fix it, I just followed some instructions from another user that was having the same problem and finally figured out the very weird thing that installing the drivers did. Anyway, here is the solution from hacku:
Originally Posted by hacku View Post
Thanks for this...
EDIT 1:
I followed your instructions to a T and I still can't get ADB to see my NC. After uninstalling all instances of Nook in my device manager, unplugging it and plugging it back in, it adds all the same devices:
Under Disk Drives it lists B&N Ebook Disk USB Device (twice)
Under Portable Devices it lists MyNookColor
Under USB Controllers it lists USB Mass Storage Device
My PC is Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit. Running Nook Color 1.1.0 rooted and overclocked to 1.1Ghz. Any help will be greatly appreciated.
EDIT 2:
So I decided to pull the MicroSD card to simplify things. Uninstalled all instances of Nook from Device Manager and scanned for new hardware. This time I noticed that Windows detected it as a Nook, but then would install the drivers and it would show the same USB Mass Storage Device and the two instances of B&N Disk USB Device. I also noticed that by uninstalling the driver of the USB Mass Storage Device automatically deleted the other two instances under Disk Drives. So I updated the USB Mass Storage Device driver and this time I was able to install the drivers provided, but now it only shows up as an Android Phone > Android ADB Interface (not Composite), but I'm still not able to see it under adb devices.
Help?
EDIT 3:
GOT IT WORKING!!!
For those of you having this same problem this is what I did:
1. Right Click Android ADB Interface (it won't say Composite)
2. Select Update Update Driver Software
3. Click on Browse My Computer For Driver Software
4. Click on Let me pick from a list of device drivers on my computer
5. In the box that pops up click on USB Composite Device
6. Click Next
It now installed the USB Composite Device driver and changes your Android Phone to Android Composite ADB Device.
Open up Command Prompt and type adb kill-server then adb devices and your Nook Color will now show up.
Hope this helps some of you out.

This thing really needs to be pinned somewhere, preferably with IOMonster's first post. There's so many of us starting on this from scratch not able to get adb to see the device. har02's crosspost of hacku's post is what finally got it to work for me. there's a ton of junk out there that just doesn't make sense, and the installing the second driver on the "android interface" is a step that is completely missing from just about every post on this topic.
Aside from that, this forum is what got me buying a nook and happily learning all sorts of cool new things!

THANK you so much har02052, this marks the end of a 6 hour nook-fixing marathong....ahhhhh

[Q] Nook, ADB problems

For some reason my nook won't show up in windows 7 device manager as anything but a storage device (both the nook and sdcard). It doesn't show up under "other hardware" like all the tutorials show. I am at a loss?
Should I reset my device (unroot, wipe clean, etc)? And try again or am I missing something.
I am looking to get ad hoc working and am stuck in the mud

Depending on what ROM you're running... you may need to go into nook color tools and toggle usb debugging mode... it is a known issue in some ROMs....
You may also need to edit %userprofile$\.android\adb_usb.ini so the only line in it is:
0x2080

anyone have problems in ubuntu 10.04 can't get it :'(

I figuered it might be that I had tried some different kerenels recently. I did eventually return to stock. I have toggled debugging mode to no avail.
I will follow the other instructions you provided and if all else fails wipe her clean and try that.
Thanks.
Sent from my rooted nook color using Tapatalk

I have the same problem and am using the stock kernal. I have even tried two different computers (one with Win 7 and the other with XP) and get the same result. The first time it I tried with XP it showed "NookColor" under Other Devices with a ? mark. In just a second, it reloaded Device Manager and would never showed up again. I have tried all suggestions including the USB Debugging toggle with no positive results. By the way, I rooted using auto-nooter 3.0 for Nook Version 1.1. Everything seems to work well and I am using ADW Laucher EX. I am familiar with ADB as I used it root my Motorola Droid. In that case, I had no problems with it seeing my Droid.
Any suggestions would be helpful. I also have Ubuntu on a test computer that I may try if no solutions are found.

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anyone have problems in ubuntu 10.04 can't get it :'(
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I had the same issue in Ubuntu 10.04. My Evo would show up fine. My NookColor I could not get to show up though. No matter what I tried (I tried all the walk throughs on forums, Nookdevs.com, etc).
I finally just gave up. I've just been moving APK's from my Evo to my Nook to install them. There are many other things I'd wish to do through ADB other then install apps though so I may give it another shot sometime soon.

If it worked in some ROM versions and not in others... you need to check the device ID in windows device manager... get the PID for the device listed.... then you will need to add the device PID to the .inf file for the drivers so it will know to use the drivers that work for the "new" device (not really new.. just HWID change in some new kernels/ROMs

I had a world of trouble getting getting my computer to recognize the nook so that ADB would recognize the device. I mean HOURS of debugging.
However.. good news!... The answer that can help you is...: screw it and just download adbwireless app. All you do is run the app while connected to your home network and then on your computer run the the command "adb connect 192.168.1.xxx:5555" and you are connected and can run adb just like you were USB'd up
I hope this helps

Recommend installing the easy ADB install for Windows from the developers forum.
On Win7, sometimes you need to force the driver to use "USB Composite device" or "Android composite USB device", even after doing the easy ADB installer above.

Managed to get ADB working after Autonooker 3.0, Nook 1.1
Hi, All,
I had similar problems. I managed after a bit of fuss on my mac to get ADB up and running.
The main problem seemed to be getting USB debugging working. I went into nook color tools, from ADW launcher. I went to All Settings : Development, and saw that USB debugging was checked, but I didn't believe it was running.
So, I unchecked both Auto Mount (to simplify what the heck was going on over USB) and USB debugging, and hit back, to save the settings. Then I went back into debugging, and re-checked USB debugging.
Then, I made sure that ~/.android/adb_usb.ini contained the line:
0x2080
I killed the adb server and restarted it, and voila, ADB.
Hope this helps some folks.
Dave

I am in the same boat, adb works fine on my other android device, but won't see my nook for anything.
I have tried every permutation I have seen of the rules file, still nothing.

[Q] USB and ADB not working on 10.1.3-RC2

Yesterday I flashed cm-10.1.3-RC2 over a relatively recent nightly on my nook HD+, wiped cache and dalvik-cache and rebooted and all seems well except I can't access the nook from my Windows 7 laptop over USB.
When the USB cable is connected between the nook and my laptop, the laptop continually beeps like it does when you plug or unplug the USB even though the cable is plugged in all the time and windows explorer flashes a window open and immediately it closes. I tried setting USB to both MTP and PTP on the nook and neither works.
ADB doesn't work either - it says device not found.
On the nook I still have notifications that USB is connected and ADB is enabled even though the cable has been disconnected all night.
Anyone else experienced this?
Thanks!

You need to uncheck Android Debugging in developers options. But first you need to activate developer options. Go to settings, about tablet and tap the build number several times. Then you can access developer options in settings.
Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10.1 on emmc.

leapinlar said:
You need to uncheck Android Debugging in developers options. But first you need to activate developer options. Go to settings, about tablet and tap the build number several times. Then you can access developer options in settings.
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That fixed not being able to access the nook over USB but ADB still doesn't work. The message I get is:
C:\sdk\platform-tools>adb.exe shell
error: device not found
it used to work before I flashed RC2
Thanks!

BuddyP1952 said:
That fixed not being able to access the nook over USB but ADB still doesn't work. The message I get is:
C:\sdk\platform-tools>adb.exe shell
error: device not found
it used to work before I flashed RC2
Thanks!
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ADB is not easy to set up for windows. Just because it worked before does not mean it will work later. The device id keeps changing in your device driver. The solution is to not use ADB over USB, use wifi. There is a setting in developer options (ADB over network) that is much easier than USB. Just type adb connect and the IP address shown in the developer options. Much easier.
Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10.1 on emmc.

leapinlar said:
ADB is not easy to set up for windows. Just because it worked before does not mean it will work later. The device id keeps changing in your device driver. The solution is to not use ADB over USB, use wifi. There is a setting in developer options (ADB over network) that is much easier than USB. Just type adb connect and the IP address shown in the developer options. Much easier.
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Thanks. I was able to accomplish what I needed to using adb over IP