Hey guys, I think this should be a pretty simple question to answer but I can't find anything specific when I search google. I've been having trouble running different builds of Honeycomb on my nookColor: v2, 2a, and honeybunches all would not let me connect to wifi. Everytime it would go to connect, the signal would drop to zero and nothing would happen. Any thoughts on this?
Also, since I only have 2 microSD cards I would use Easeus to delete the partitions on the disks and then use SD formatter to reformat the cards so I could install a new build of Honeycomb to check the wireless. However, the capacity of my 8GB card has gone from ~7.6-7.8GB to 7.46GB when i am trying to format it for the next time. Easeus shows a 7.647GB unallocated partition, but the formatter wants to format it to 7.46GB. I don't understand why it has gone down, and it makes me worry that I unwittingly lost space on my SD card. Have I screwed up my cards, or can I get this mystery space back? Please help!
Remove SD card from Nook and boot into stock. Insert SD card, go to settings, Device Info, SD card, unmount sd card, then format sd card. This will/should delete all partitions, format and restore all usable space on the sd card. From here, download and burn the honeycomb image to your sd card. (I recommend ubuntu, dd command. Open terminal, navigate to the directory that contains your nookhoney image. Once there type; "sudo dd if=nookhoney02.img of=/dev/mmcblk0 bs=1M" without the quotes. Note that nookhoney02.img could be nookhoney02a.img or the honeybunches image depending on which you are using and mmcblk0 could be mmcblk1 etc. depending on what the name of your sdcard drive is.) After the image is done writing, power Nook down, insert sd card and boot Nook. Also, the burning process can be done from windows using winimage and what not, the whole ubuntu thing was just my recommendation. Hope this works for you, any more questions, just feel free to ask. Also, I apologize if this is repeat information, just giving the full experience.
just use dd command in linux or osx will erase all the partition, don't need format or erase the card first.if you do so the sd size will not decrease.
RileyGrant said:
Remove SD card from Nook and boot into stock. Insert SD card, go to settings, Device Info, SD card, unmount sd card, then format sd card. This will/should delete all partitions, format and restore all usable space on the sd card. From here, download and burn the honeycomb image to your sd card. (I recommend ubuntu, dd command. Open terminal, navigate to the directory that contains your nookhoney image. Once there type; "sudo dd if=nookhoney02.img of=/dev/mmcblk0 bs=1M" without the quotes. Note that nookhoney02.img could be nookhoney02a.img or the honeybunches image depending on which you are using and mmcblk0 could be mmcblk1 etc. depending on what the name of your sdcard drive is.) After the image is done writing, power Nook down, insert sd card and boot Nook. Also, the burning process can be done from windows using winimage and what not, the whole ubuntu thing was just my recommendation. Hope this works for you, any more questions, just feel free to ask. Also, I apologize if this is repeat information, just giving the full experience.
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I'm having issues deleting the partition on the SD. You were successful using the instructions above?
RileyGrant said:
Remove SD card from Nook and boot into stock. Insert SD card, go to settings, Device Info, SD card, unmount sd card, then format sd card. This will/should delete all partitions, format and restore all usable space on the sd card. From here, download and burn the honeycomb image to your sd card. (I recommend ubuntu, dd command. Open terminal, navigate to the directory that contains your nookhoney image. Once there type; "sudo dd if=nookhoney02.img of=/dev/mmcblk0 bs=1M" without the quotes. Note that nookhoney02.img could be nookhoney02a.img or the honeybunches image depending on which you are using and mmcblk0 could be mmcblk1 etc. depending on what the name of your sdcard drive is.) After the image is done writing, power Nook down, insert sd card and boot Nook. Also, the burning process can be done from windows using winimage and what not, the whole ubuntu thing was just my recommendation. Hope this works for you, any more questions, just feel free to ask. Also, I apologize if this is repeat information, just giving the full experience.
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Nevermind I got it to work.
Thanks!
ok so anyone have any ideas about the wifi problem? I have tried 4 different builds of honeycomb and whenever I go to connect to a network, the reception drops to zero and it gets stuck on connecting. IDK whats up. I type in my password and everything but it just doesnt work.
DZ469 said:
ok so anyone have any ideas about the wifi problem? I have tried 4 different builds of honeycomb and whenever I go to connect to a network, the reception drops to zero and it gets stuck on connecting. IDK whats up. I type in my password and everything but it just doesnt work.
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Have you tried turning WiFi off and then on again? This seems to work for me when wifi is acting weird.
by turn off, do you just mean press the wifi button in "Wireless & Networks" or the enable disable buttons in the dev tools? i've tried the first solution to no avail. I guess I could try messing around with the dev tools.
The nook doesnt have to be rooted for me to run this off my SD card right?
EDIT: I just went over to B&N to check if their wifi works. It does, so i don't know what the issue is. Possibly because my university uses 802.1x EAP for their network? The only thing that is fishy is that my nook at stock would connect fine.
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by turn off, do you just mean press the wifi button in "Wireless & Networks" or the enable disable buttons in the dev tools? i've tried the first solution to no avail. I guess I could try messing around with the dev tools.
The nook doesnt have to be rooted for me to run this off my SD card right?
EDIT: I just went over to B&N to check if their wifi works. It does, so i don't know what the issue is. Possibly because my university uses 802.1x EAP for their network? The only thing that is fishy is that my nook at stock would connect fine.
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Answer to your first question yes turning off and back on in Settings>Wireless.
I know I had mine working on my uni's network which has 802.1x but can't remember if it was stock, Froyo, or HC. Not currently on campus so I can't try it for you.
Google "SD formatter" and download the application. It's free and very easy to use and will format your SD cards.
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Google "SD formatter" and download the application. It's free and very easy to use and will format your SD cards.
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That's what I was using, but the size seems to keep getting smaller and smaller. I'm losing about .01GB per format.
EDIT: Okay now the wifi is working in the dorms, and i hate to say this, because it's so humiliating, but I think i was using the wrong password to log into my wireless network. Which is probably why it hung on connecting. Which makes me feel dumb.
DZ469 said:
That's what I was using, but the size seems to keep getting smaller and smaller. I'm losing about .01GB per format.
EDIT: Okay now the wifi is working in the dorms, and i hate to say this, because it's so humiliating, but I think i was using the wrong password to log into my wireless network. Which is probably why it hung on connecting. Which makes me feel dumb.
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Well at least the wifi is working for you.
Have you tried formatting the SD with the Nook itself (assuming you're running off stock ROM?
Settings>Device Info>SD Card> Unmount SD Card>Format SD Card
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I bought a topram 16gb class 4 HDSC Micro Sd card and it i've only had it for a a little under a month and one night I had a completely moronic idea to go into recovery and wipe out system and cache, rotation, battery, ext, all of em. When I rebooted I ended up stuck in a boot loop. For the life of my phone I wasn't able to get out of this loop so I ended up trying anything I could including popping the sd card in the pc to see what was going on there since I ultilize apps2sd. I then wanted to start clean, so I was trying to format my sd card and I was attempting to accomplish this through windows, I would open my computer and then right click on the mounted drive and click format, no such luck, I get an error. I tried deleting the files from the sd by selecting and choosing delete, it would initially work, however then I would pop the card back in the phone/computer and the files would still be there, as if I had never deleted them.
Whats strange, the files appear to be working, atleast the pictures and movies, music; they all work when opened on a computer, they'll play as they're expected to.
I've tried various options, low level formats, paragon partition manager; I tried to delete each partition, swap,ext,fat32 to have unformatted space however, no such luck. The processes would succeed only to all still be there once I put back in a phone or computer.
The ways i'm accessing the hdsc card is with a USB card reader which was provided with the card, as well as through the phone by mounting the sd card and plugged in with a usb cable. I'm truely stumped and very uphappy about this. I really don't understand whats going on, usually I can conquer stubborn task such as this, this time it seems to be getting the best of me. Anyone have some insight on my situation? Thank you, -B
Are you saying that after you format the files are still there?
In that case, you aren't formatting.
Or are you saying that after you copy the files back, it is corrupt? In that case, one of the files has become corrupt.
derekwilkinson said:
Are you saying that after you format the files are still there?
In that case, you aren't formatting.
Or are you saying that after you copy the files back, it is corrupt? In that case, one of the files has become corrupt.
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I'm saying that when I select the files when the sd card is mounted, and select delete, after the delete process appears successful, I open the sd card and the files are still on the sd card.
Format is not suceeding and I am now getting I/O errors (read/write) when formatting with paragon.
When I put the sd card into the phone, I'll just constantly loop with a dancing alien (fresh's rom 2.1.1) <- whichever is newest
Funny thing is, the files on the card are readable when I can get the sd card to mount and I can open say the image files or whatever.
So, can someone please help me, and point me in some sort of direction? I'd really appreciate some guidance. Thanks.
Sounds dead to me, man. I'd have to to witness what you're seeing to officially pronounce it dead, but from what you're describing... it's dead, Jim. I'm sorry for your loss.
so i either don't fully understand how images work in the SDCard itself (not on the nook), or i did something wrong and don't know how to fix the card, but at any rate, i managed to burn a 128meg image onto my 8gig sd card, didn't like the image, and now can't figure out how to get the card back to a regular 8gig card!
would love some direction. tried to search but must not be using right keywords.
didn't see any kind of format or clear option in the winimg program we're using.
thanks!
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so i either don't fully understand how images work in the SDCard itself (not on the nook), or i did something wrong and don't know how to fix the card, but at any rate, i managed to burn a 128meg image onto my 8gig sd card, didn't like the image, and now can't figure out how to get the card back to a regular 8gig card!
would love some direction. tried to search but must not be using right keywords.
didn't see any kind of format or clear option in the winimg program we're using.
thanks!
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On your Nook I believe you can go to Settings, Device Info, Mount the SD card if it's not mounted and then format it. It'll erase it and you'll have a blank SD card. If you're going to put a different image on the card I don't know if you even need to bother formatting, but I' not sure about that stuff.
does the nook format work differently than a computer format? because i burned a 128meg image onto an 8gig card and now even a computer format won't get the whole 8gigs back... just the 128 megs. it's like it's got invisible partitions on it or something.
Partition
Try EASEUS Partition Manager to change the partition size/format card.
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so i either don't fully understand how images work in the SDCard itself (not on the nook), or i did something wrong and don't know how to fix the card, but at any rate, i managed to burn a 128meg image onto my 8gig sd card, didn't like the image, and now can't figure out how to get the card back to a regular 8gig card!
would love some direction. tried to search but must not be using right keywords.
didn't see any kind of format or clear option in the winimg program we're using.
thanks!
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byproxy... here is the easy way...
1) Go and download "EASEUS Partition Master 7.0.1 Home Edition" --- just google it (the home edition is free and downloadable)
2) Put your microSD card into a card reader and plug into your computer
3) install EASEUS onto your computer and run the app
4) Once app is started, located your microSD card amongst the list of drives listed
5) select each one of the partitions on the SD card, and delete them individually
6) Once all partitions are deleted, make sure that you are still selecting the microSD card, and select the option to create partition (it may just say create)
7) Make sure you select FAT 32
8) Then select FORMAT
9) Lastly, click on APPLY and it will do all the things above. So in short you select all the actions that you want... and only in step 9 will it execute all those actions.
Please make sure that any changes you make are to the SD card and not any of your other drives. Last thing I would want is for you to accidentally format your Computer, NAS, or your non-SD card. =)
Enjoy...
sweet. exactly what i was looking for. thanks gents!!!
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byproxy... here is the easy way...
Enjoy...
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OK, but isn't it easier just to do it in the Nook or am I missing something here?
...worst case there's a low level SD card formatter from Panasonic (IIRC might be Toshiba) that will do a complete low level format and has recovered uSDs for people using them with Nintendo DS dev carts...
A Google search should turn it up, or a thread on a DS site which might have a link to it. It'll be a little windows program...
(I believe that windows and most devices just do sort of a quick format of the uSD, and so can't recover from some problems like re-partitioning of the card... so monkeying around with a partition editor and assigning the card to be one big partition then re-fromatting under windows or some other device MIGHT work as well...)
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oops, I see post #5 has the re-partitioning solution as well... another way to do it would be to backup an image of the card BEFORE burning something like autonooter on it then restore that original image to card once finished with whatever you were trying out... it's what I did when I tried autonooter w/my old 128MB card, in linux in my case a
dd if=/path/to/sd/card of=./somefilename
dd if=./autonooter.img of=/path/to/sd/card
then later
dd if=./somefilename of=/path/to/sd/card
sd card path under linux is likely to be /dev/memc<device ref characters?>
You should also be able to do this under windows with the utility recommended for windows users to use with the autonooter image, as I'm guessing that it's just a GUI wrapper and a windows compiled version of the dd utility...
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BarryR1 said:
OK, but isn't it easier just to do it in the Nook or am I missing something here?
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Some believe that there are issues with formatting on Nook... depending which ROM you are running. The surefire and safe way, is to do it from a PC.
Nook should format, but may not partition correctly.
hvuong2 said:
Some believe that there are issues with formatting on Nook... depending which ROM you are running. The surefire and safe way, is to do it from a PC.
Nook should format, but may not partition correctly.
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No, the Nook will format the *device* and not a partition, so it always works. But you don't want to do it if you've installed NC or HC to eMMC.
If you're using Stock rooted, just boot without the card in the device, put it in, format. Done.
Or if you're on a real os just format the device... mkfs.vfat /dev/sdX
Hi I would seriously appreciate any help! I am at a lost after hours of reading.
I had started off with autonooter, and now looking to install CM7. I had been told that I need to have the monster rootingpack. So I'm trying to go from autonooter to CM7.
I had tried to write monster clockwork... and did the 8gb clockwork, says its done but nothing shows up on my sd card. I then proceeded to format my sd card and still no luck.
I then tried to go into Rom manager and reboot into recovery but now there is an error! I'm so frustrated, I don't know what I am suppose to do.
Please let me know if you can offer help! Thanks in advanced.
Difficult to say without more - I assume you are using WinImage (run as adminstrator) to "Restore Virtual Hard Disk on physical drive"? If done correctly, there should only be four files on the drive (at which point, you need to drag and drop the zipped ROM to the drive.
Dumb question - is the flash card an 8 GB flash card?
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Difficult to say without more - I assume you are using WinImage (run as adminstrator) to "Restore Virtual Hard Disk on physical drive"? If done correctly, there should only be four files on the drive (at which point, you need to drag and drop the zipped ROM to the drive.
Dumb question - is the flash card an 8 GB flash card?
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I yeah I used winimage as adminstrator and put the img file on and chose the drive the 8g sd card was on, click write, bar went up and it said done. looked at my sd card and there is absolutely ZERO files on it....
Appreciate asking, any thoughts?
Are you using a card slot that came with your computer? If so go get a true card reader, that may be the issue.
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Are you using a card slot that came with your computer? If so go get a true card reader, that may be the issue.
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This is an interesting idea... is this usually an issue? I was putting my microsd card in a SD converter card and putting into a built in SDcard reader in my lenovo.
Is there a way to get my pc to read my sd card from my nook?
tmac4life said:
Hi I would seriously appreciate any help! I am at a lost after hours of reading.
I had started off with autonooter, and now looking to install CM7. I had been told that I need to have the monster rootingpack. So I'm trying to go from autonooter to CM7.
I had tried to write monster clockwork... and did the 8gb clockwork, says its done but nothing shows up on my sd card. I then proceeded to format my sd card and still no luck.
I then tried to go into Rom manager and reboot into recovery but now there is an error! I'm so frustrated, I don't know what I am suppose to do.
Please let me know if you can offer help! Thanks in advanced.
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In order to flash CM7 you need to use the EXT4 Compatiable CWR
So I have installed the Rom on the SDCard and I can see the Rom Manager but I took the SD Card out and put the Google App zip from here http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/index.php?title=Latest_Version on the SD Card booted the nook back and then went into Rom Manager to "Boot Into Recovery" but nothing happens the system just reboots and I don't get that screen with the orange text to let me install the apps from the SD card.
Keep in mind that I rooted the nook the soft way buy making a bootable SD card.
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So I have installed the Rom on the SDCard and I can see the Rom Manager but I took the SD Card out and put the Google App zip from here http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/index.php?title=Latest_Version on the SD Card booted the nook back and then went into Rom Manager to "Boot Into Recovery" but nothing happens the system just reboots and I don't get that screen with the orange text to let me install the apps from the SD card.
Keep in mind that I rooted the nook the soft way buy making a bootable SD card.
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It doesn't sound like you've actually rooted the nook - you've just booted into an alternate ROM on the SD card. If you want to get into CWM, you can either create an SD card which has CWM and will launch it when you boot with the SD card in, or you can install it to internal memory so the SD card isn't necessary.
Thanks for the notes. I basically figured out I didn't really need it if I used the trick of turning the unit on while holding the N button. As a follow up question. Now that I have everything setup can I make an image of this SD Card and put that image on a bigger faster card? Or will I need to start over?
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Thanks for the notes. I basically figured out I didn't really need it if I used the trick of turning the unit on while holding the N button. As a follow up question. Now that I have everything setup can I make an image of this SD Card and put that image on a bigger faster card? Or will I need to start over?
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If you use dd just to copy the raw data on the SD card, you'll get the advantages of faster speed, but the partition will be the exact same size. If you want to take advantage of the bigger space, you'll need to partition the SD card and copy the files manually.
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If you use dd just to copy the raw data on the SD card, you'll get the advantages of faster speed, but the partition will be the exact same size. If you want to take advantage of the bigger space, you'll need to partition the SD card and copy the files manually.
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So I don't know much about dd although I have seen it on the site before so I can look that up. As for the partitioning tool I know the first partition has to be 'boot' not sure on what size it has to be or any other specifics do you know any of that data? Also thanks for taking the time to answer all of this. I am hoping that this will stop some of the Force Close issues I am seeing.
The easiest way is to use http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1000957 to install CM7 to your SD card. The image takes care of creating the partitions of the appropriate size. As for writing the image itself, you can follow any guide for dd, or use WinImage on Windows which is probably a bit easier to follow.
Yeah but I wanted to know if I could copy all my date over. Just by like copy and paste sort of thing. In other words I dont want to get to carried away on installing all this stuff then have to redo everything once I get a better card.
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Please respond to the following. I tried a lot to look the answer to my problem in the forums, but could not find it (or did not get the right forum)
I dual booted my NC with CM7.1.0. It was working fine without any problem, but suddenly stopped entering into the main screen. Whenever i on the nook the Cyanogen loading ... screen comes and then screen flashes and turns lit black.. the NC is not off but it does not reach to the main system. I tried to use update the CM by copying a new file to usd, but it did not let me do so.. computer hanged. I do not want to format it as it has some .xls files in documents folder in the 4th partition of usd. Can someone please tell me how to extract those files using computer's sd car slot ( I can not use nook usb option as it is not booting CM) and how to recover the older working condition.
I assume you have stock working on emmc. I have a flash file that you can temporarily flash to stock to make it read the fourth partition of the SD as 'sdcard'. Go to my tips thread linked in my signature and item B3 in the second post (last paragraph). It tells you how to modify stock to read that partition. If your stock is rooted, you can just edit the file yourself. If not rooted, you need to flash one of the files attached to the post. Instructions are there. After retrieving your files you can revert stock back to normal by re-editing the file or by flashing a second zip, or just keep it that way and use partition four for both systems. Then you can start over with your verygreen SD and reinstall CM7.
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leapinlar said:
I assume you have stock working on emmc. I have a flash file that you can temporarily flash to stock to make it read the fourth partition of the SD as 'sdcard'. Go to my tips thread linked in my signature and item B3 in the second post (last paragraph). It tells you how to modify stock to read that partition. If your stock is rooted, you can just edit the file yourself. If not rooted, you need to flash one of the files attached to the post. Instructions are there. After retrieving your files you can revert stock back to normal by re-editing the file or by flashing a second zip, or just keep it that way and use partition four for both systems. Then you can start over with your verygreen SD and reinstall CM7.
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Dear,
I am new to Android.. .sod could not understand many things that you wrote in your posts... but thanks a lot for finding the time and writing me back..I did not get it how can i solve my problem. I just want to copy one of my files from the sd card and then I will format and install all dual boot files from start... Please let me know if you can give me any simpler way to access and copy my .xls file and restore the cm in previous working condition( this will save me from installing from the start).... rgds
sanshri57 said:
Dear,
I am new to Android.. .sod could not understand many things that you wrote in your posts... but thanks a lot for finding the time and writing me back..I did not get it how can i solve my problem. I just want to copy one of my files from the sd card and then I will format and install all dual boot files from start... Please let me know if you can give me any simpler way to access and copy my .xls file and restore the cm in previous working condition( this will save me from installing from the start).... rgds
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We'll take this one step at a time. Do you have stock nook still on your internal memory? And if you do, is it rooted or just virgin stock?
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leapinlar said:
We'll take this one step at a time. Do you have stock nook still on your internal memory? And if you do, is it rooted or just virgin stock?
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Thanks for being so patient. I dont think it is rooted and the stock nook is touched as i follow a link provided in this forum to boot usd and dual boot nook without losing warranty to install cm7 on a usd.
When i use boot the nc, i see following responses
1. boot without usd: boots to original nc, all files and applications are there and work perfectly fine.
2. boot with usd without going to boot menu: cyanogen loading banner shows up and then screen flashes. .then a lit black screen .. nothing happens after that
3. boot with usd and selecting emmc in boot menu: boots to original nc but hangs at home screen
4. boot with usd and selecting sd (external storage) in boot menu: cyanogen loading banner shows up and then screen flashes. .then a lit black screen .. nothing happens after that
sanshri57 said:
Thanks for being so patient. I dont think it is rooted and the stock nook is touched as i follow a link provided in this forum to boot usd and dual boot nook without losing warranty to install cm7 on a usd.
When i use boot the nc, i see following responses
1. boot without usd: boots to original nc, all files and applications are there and work perfectly fine.
2. boot with usd without going to boot menu: cyanogen loading banner shows up and then screen flashes. .then a lit black screen .. nothing happens after that
3. boot with usd and selecting emmc in boot menu: boots to original nc but hangs at home screen
4. boot with usd and selecting sd (external storage) in boot menu: cyanogen loading banner shows up and then screen flashes. .then a lit black screen .. nothing happens after that
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Your SD is definitely messed up. You will need to reinstall after we get your file saved that you want.
You will need a spare SD card that you can put my bootable CWM recovery on.
Go to my tips thread linked in my signature and download to your PC three files attached there. The one that starts CWM... and the two that start update-stock...
Extract the CWM zip. It will have a 200Mb .img file in it. Burn that to the spare SD just like you did when you made the verygreen SD. Once that is burned and you can see it on your PC, copy the two update-stock... zips to it.
Remove that SD from the PC and put in the nook. Boot. The CWM menu will come up. Select 'install zip from sdcard '. Then select 'choose zip from sdcard'. Scroll through the list and pick 'update-stockemmc-vold-fstab-modified-for-partition4.zip'. Then confirm the selection. It will flash the zip. Remove the CWM card and reboot to stock.
Insert the verygreen SD and you should be able to connect your USB and see partition 4 on the PC as 'sdcard'.
To return your stock to original after retrieving your file, just go through the process of flashing the other update file with CWM. But most people like leaving it modified so that they can always use just one SD for both systems.
leapinlar said:
Your SD is definitely messed up. You will need to reinstall after we get your file saved that you want.
You will need a spare SD card that you can put my bootable CWM recovery on.
Go to my tips thread linked in my signature and download to your PC three files attached there. The one that starts CWM... and the two that start update-stock...
Extract the CWM zip. It will have a 200Mb .img file in it. Burn that to the spare SD just like you did when you made the verygreen SD. Once that is burned and you can see it on your PC, copy the two update-stock... zips to it.
Remove that SD from the PC and put in the nook. Boot. The CWM menu will come up. Select 'install zip from sdcard '. Then select 'choose zip from sdcard'. Scroll through the list and pick 'update-stockemmc-vold-fstab-modified-for-partition4.zip'. Then confirm the selection. It will flash the zip. Remove the CWM card and reboot to stock.
Insert the verygreen SD and you should be able to connect your USB and see partition 4 on the PC as 'sdcard'.
To return your stock to original after retrieving your file, just go through the process of flashing the other update file with CWM. But most people like leaving it modified so that they can always use just one SD for both systems.
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I did exactly same, but could not see partition 4 on the pc as 'sdcard'. I see two drives 1. mynookcolor ( i can access all files in it), and 2. a removable disk drive I:/ ( that i can not access). I do not see my files (see pic below) those are on the 4th partition of sd card.
You need to mount the card in settings. Go to settings, device info, SD card. And choose 'mount SD card'.
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You need to mount the card in settings. Go to settings, device info, SD card. And choose 'mount SD card'.
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It is already mounted. It shows sd card memory (not available), unmount SD card (\unmount the sd card for safe removal), and format sd card (format (erase) the sd card). However, only third option is active others are grey/inactive.
sanshri57 said:
It is already mounted. It shows sd card memory (not available), unmount SD card (\unmount the sd card for safe removal), and format sd card (format (erase) the sd card). However, only third option is active others are grey/inactive.
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If it says unavailable and the first two are greyed out, that means it is not mounted. Pull it out and put it back in... wait you had the cable unplugged when you checked that didn't you? You should have.
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leapinlar said:
If it says unavailable and the first two are greyed out, that means it is not mounted. Pull it out and put it back in... wait you had the cable unplugged when you checked that didn't you? You should have.
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I tried as told... number of times.. but same result.. I do not see any drive for sdcard. I see a removable drive F:/ (that i cant access) other than mynookcolor e:/ all time.
leapinlar said:
If it says unavailable and the first two are greyed out, that means it is not mounted. Pull it out and put it back in... wait you had the cable unplugged when you checked that didn't you? You should have.
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I did it number of times.. the results are same. the nc detects a sd card but two areas a re grey..Everytime when i plug usb my nc to laptop, it shows a mynookcolor drive and a removable disk f:\ drive which can not be accessed. I have used another laptop but it is same...
sanshri57 said:
I tried as told... number of times.. but same result.. I do not see any drive for sdcard. I see a removable drive F:/ (that i cant access) other than mynookcolor e:/ all time.
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What I am asking is with the USB cable removed, what does the settings show? If you remove and replace the SD with the settings window open, is there any difference? You say it detects it, how do you know that?
Edit: I have been searching for a solution for you. There are two ways to see those files with your PC. To view it in Windows, you must make several complicated changes to your drivers. I'm sure you do not want to do that. The other way is to use Linux. It has the ability to see and mount multiple partitions on an SD. You can either find someone who has a Linux system to do it for you or you can make yourself a Ubuntu Live CD that you can boot with your PC. None of these options are easy, which is why I was trying to do it the other way on your nook.
I don't know why your system is not mounting that SD properly. Even if those changes I had you make were not there, it should at least mount partition one on the nook.
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What I am asking is with the USB cable removed, what does the settings show? If you remove and replace the SD with the settings window open, is there any difference? You say it detects it, how do you know that?
Edit: I have been searching for a solution for you. There are two ways to see those files with your PC. To view it in Windows, you must make several complicated changes to your drivers. I'm sure you do not want to do that. The other way is to use Linux. It has the ability to see and mount multiple partitions on an SD. You can either find someone who has a Linux system to do it for you or you can make yourself a Ubuntu Live CD that you can boot with your PC. None of these options are easy, which is why I was trying to do it the other way on your nook.
I don't know why your system is not mounting that SD properly. Even if those changes I had you make were not there, it should at least mount partition one on the nook.
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without usb cable,
1. sd card removed
sd card memory (not available)
Unmount SD card (unmount the sd card for safe removal)
Format sd card (format (erase) the sd card
All are grey/inactive
2. sd card inserted
sd card memory (not available)
Unmount SD card (unmount the sd card for safe removal)
Format sd card (format (erase) the sd card
Now top 2 are inactive, but the third one (format) is active
whenever i insert a card it shows small box flash that shows sd with tick mark, and when i remove it again shows the sd flash box with cross mark.
sanshri57 said:
without usb cable,
1. sd card removed
sd card memory (not available)
Unmount SD card (unmount the sd card for safe removal)
Format sd card (format (erase) the sd card
All are grey/inactive
2. sd card inserted
sd card memory (not available)
Unmount SD card (unmount the sd card for safe removal)
Format sd card (format (erase) the sd card
Now top 2 are inactive, but the third one (format) is active
whenever i insert a card it shows small box flash that shows sd with tick mark, and when i remove it again shows the sd flash box with cross mark.
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The card is not written correctly... if you format it in the nook... you will see it on your computer... then you can remove it... and try writing the uSDcard image again with win32diskimager
DizzyDen said:
The card is not written correctly... if you format it in the nook... you will see it on your computer... then you can remove it... and try writing the uSDcard image again with win32diskimager
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Dizz, he was trying to figure out how to get his data off of partition 4 before he reformats and starts again. I was hoping he could do it with the nook, but it is not reading it. I had him modify emmc so it can see partition 4, but no luck here. Do you have any ideas?
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I just had another thought. Put the card in the PC and open with your partition software. Delete partition one, two and three. Then maybe windows can see partition 4, since it is now partition one. You may have to move it to the beginning of the SD, but I don't think you have to.
Edit: I was able to test this on my spare SD card with the EaseUS partition program and it works. Be sure to give it a drive letter.
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leapinlar said:
I just had another thought. Put the card in the PC and open with your partition software. Delete partition one, two and three. Then maybe windows can see partition 4, since it is now partition one. You may have to move it to the beginning of the SD, but I don't think you have to.
Edit: I was able to test this on my spare SD card with the EaseUS partition program and it works. Be sure to give it a drive letter.
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so, if i do that .. will i be able to get all my applications back and running..i have some paid google apps on my usd. i also tried to make an image of the usd and tried to use boot from this new image written usd.. but it is not booting from the new one..
sanshri57 said:
so, if i do that .. will i be able to get all my applications back and running..i have some paid google apps on my usd. i also tried to make an image of the usd and tried to use boot from this new image written usd.. but it is not booting from the new one..
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No, your installed apps are stored on partition 3. But if you bought them, google lets you redownload and install to as many devices as you want, as long as you are logged in to your Google Play account. What you will get back is things you had stored on 'sdcard' (pictures, books, music and other files like your xls files you wanted, what you saw in that screenshot you posted.)
leapinlar said:
I just had another thought. Put the card in the PC and open with your partition software. Delete partition one, two and three. Then maybe windows can see partition 4, since it is now partition one. You may have to move it to the beginning of the SD, but I don't think you have to.
Edit: I was able to test this on my spare SD card with the EaseUS partition program and it works. Be sure to give it a drive letter.
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I had thought of this before I commented about the SD being not formatted correctly... should only have to delete partition 1 ("boot") since windows should use the first fat partition....
However...
Since the nook doesn't show "unmount" or ""sd card memory" active... it is certainly not reading partition 1 correctly.
He can flash my B&N 1.4.1 with SASD vold.fstab edits to see partition 4 (if it can read it) and transfer everything from that partition.