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[Q] Stuck at blue android_ booting froyo 0.6.8 from SD

I just got my "new" nook and tried to boot Froyo 0.6.8 from an SD card. It just gets stuck at the blue ANDROID_ screen. I tried Froyo 0.6.7 and redoing 0.6.8 but it never got past ANDROID_. I'm using a new Transcend 4GB class 6 card. I first tried writing it using WinImage and my laptop's built in card reader, but when that card didn't boot I tried using a USB card reader and Win32diskimager. The Nook came with 1.1 on it and I haven't done anything to the internal rom.
Any ideas? How long should it stay on the Android_ screen if its working?

Did you figure this out?

This sounds like the classic failure described with 16GB cards on multiple threads. There's a nice consolidated thread on cards that are known to work. I'd check that. I have froyo working beuatifully on an 8Gb class6 transcend card.
Most likely you have some glitch on the card. I would do a complete deep wipe of the card (e.g. using SDformatter, all options). Then reflash with win32diskimager, then expand the SDcard partition with EASUS
it should boot in a couple of minutes tops the first time round.

I looked at those threads about cards before I bought one and the Transcend 4gb, class 6 I got is one that seemed to work.
I haven't been able to get the nook to boot off any card. I tried doing the format suggested and tried another 1gb PNY card with the bootable clockwork. I've tried writing with the internal SD writer in my laptop and with a Kodak (sakar) usb writer and with Win32DiskImager and WinImage.
I suppose the USB writer I have might not be good, but I don't want to get another one without knowing its one that works. So far I don't know whether the problem is with the cards I'm writing or for some reason this nook won't boot off SD card.
Thanks for the suggestions.

I probably had a flaky 4gb card. Now it won't format or write whatever I do.

dumb Q, but is the 1gb card you ahve also flaky now too... in which case it might well be the reader?
Will your nook stock OS read the SD card? (e.g. throw some photos ont here and see if the nook will show them) that way eliminate the nook.
There's some older threads that suggest first formatting the SD card with the nook stock OS, but I've never needed to do that.
I'd persevere - there's definately some plusses of froyo over the rooted B&N (especially if you use adhoc networks a lot), and you absolutely need nookie froyo as a backup incase you fry something when you take the plunge to CM7 (which is phenomenal, despite being so early in its release)

The 1gb I borrowed seems ok. I managed to boot a card with a bootable clockwork on it. I didn't do anything to Nook stock OS yet. I want to be clear that I can recover if I do first. I did get another reader, but I think it was probably the card. I wasn't able to boot of the 1gb at first because I was making a mistake in unzipping the .tar.gz files.
Do you have any pointers of where to find out about how to use Clockwork recovery?

I am using 0.6.7 on a 8gb class 6 Transcend... it's working great, no issues with booting.

[Q] Unable to boot off of bootable CWM SD Card

I formatted and re-imaged my nook today from 1.0.1 Rooted to stock.
I then manually updated to 2.1 for flash capability.
Now I want my Root back.
For some reason the NOOK won't boot off of the SD Card anymore, it just ignores it until it's booted and I can see the files on the SD card.
I've imaged my SD Card with multiple versions of CWM, shut off my nook, inserted the SD card and plugged in a USB cable to initiate the process.
Is it possible that it requires the "Nook" USB cable to start the boot off of SD Card process or will the cable for my Droid Incredible work as well?
It's the only thing i can think of at this point that is causing the problem.
I won't get my nook cable till tomorrow so i can't test it.
Thanks,
Turmith

You don't need the cable to boot off the sd card, all the cable does is turn the thing on.
You are probably not flashing your card right, it's not simply a matter of copying files over, there is data that needs to be put on the card that isn't part of the files you can see.
If you are using an old nooter or autonooter card, it's probably corrupted or something. You don't want to use those old rooting processes anyhow.
The rooting process is also different now than in previous releases. You should do some reading on how to make a bootable cwm card and what the new rooting process for 1.2 is.

Thanks,
I believe you are right, the sd card isn't being flashed correctly.
I tried following the instructions here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1054027
Still got the issue where the nook would completely ignore the sdcard yet read it once it was booted.
So i tried formatting the sdcard with my Droid Incredible, then flashed it using windiskimger using the instructions provided in the link above.
Now when i try to boot off the card i get a blank black screen(never gets to "Read Forever" screen.
I have to remove SD Card, hold power button in(10 sec), release and then hold Power button in again(10 Sec) to get the nook to boot back into 1.2
I'm considering doing the 8 failed boot thing and seeing if it will restore 1.0.0 or something at this point.
Any suggestions?

Well that's progress ;-) at least it's trying to boot from the sd card now even if it's not succeeding.
are you using your droid as a uSD adapter for your computer, or do you have a dedicated uSD reader? that might be your problem. I'd try using a separate card reader.
You can get something like this basically anywhere for under $10. Try target/walmart/kmart/staples or like i said basically anywhere ;-)
I don't use windows for flashing but i've noticed some people saying they have luck with some programs for flashing more than others, try reading around, maybe you'll find an alternative to windiskimager that works better for you.
P.S. Formatting before flashing doesn't do anything at all. The flash should erase anything on the card and replace it exactly with the contents of the image you are flashing, regardless of whether it's freshly formatted or filled with 10 years of irreplaceable photographs

I'm not so sure it's the sdcard reader(which is internal to my Dell Laptop)
I switched from a 8gb sd card to a 2gb sd card(to make sure the SD card wasn't causing a problem) and pulled down a SD version of Nookie Froyo 2gb(to make sure CWM wasn't the issue either) just to see if i could get the thing to boot.
Same thing as occurred again.
It's become apparent that Winimage is either not doing it's job or I've somehow miss-configured the thing to not work correctly.
Winimage seems to only be writing one partition to the sdcard. In addition the Nook won't even attempt to boot off the sd card unless it's been formatted by either the nook or my droid prior to imaging. To me this indicates winimage isn't actually writing a image as much as it is copying files(and only the 1st partition at that).
Next step is to Uninstall Winimage, removing an left over configuration files and re-installing. If that doesn't work I'm going to try switching computers.
If that doesn't work then i'm going to look for a new Imaging program.
If anyone has any insight, it'd be welcome.

Well I can officially state my opinion that WinImage sucks...
I downloaded WinDiskImage and within 5 minutes I had my Nook 2.1 Rooted.
Thanks for your help.

[Q] Nook 1.2.0 with 1g not allowing boot from sd card

I have a new 1.2.0 nook color that is preventing me from booting from sd. Tried multiple manual nooter images. The symptom I face is the system does not boot atall, no display, nothing when I have the microsd that is a boot image in the slot. If I take out the microsd, after a few attempts it powers on. With the sd in place, it just does not power up. Tried pressing power, connecting to pc, connecting to power from the wall, all behave the same. It looks like Barnes and Noble went out of their way to block using nook to its full potential . Anyone work around this issue? I have read some of the other posts already, but it seems this problem is happening with only the most recent versions out there.
I can use the same micro sd fine with regular files. if there is a bootable image it stops booting. It looks like the firmware is checking the sd and if there is a boot image there, just suspending the device. Any help will be appreciated. I want to keep the original os on the nook, but need the flexibility of having another android install on a sd.

Maybe an obvious question, have you tried the latest clockworkmod recovery (3.0.2.8) as a bootable image on your sd card? I would first try if you can boot into recovery from the sd card before adding manual nooter into the mix. Manual Nooter is *not* a bootable image.
If all of this is old news for you, ignore my post.
Good luck with your new Nook Color.

Tried multiple versions including 3.0.2.8.
On your recommendation, tried just a bootable disk. That did not work either. I just cannot turn it on. No display at all.. I can only boot it up again if I remove the micro sd card. I tried the 8 gb image first then trying 1 gb image file nookdev-clockwork-0.7 on an 8 gb card then copying the uImage and uRamdisk files. Any problems with this approach? I am fairly new to nook/android, but tech savvy..

Have you tried different models/sizes of uSD cards? How about trying different software, card readers, or PCs to write the IMGs to the cards? At the bare minimum those should be attempted before blaming the Nook.

here is why I thought it may be a nook issue. I may be wrong, but here is the logic. I created the boot disk with win32diskimager-RELEASE-0.3-r27-binary. I can put the same card into the nook when it is already booted and can read these files. When i do this, the nook is creating the standard folders in addition to these files. So I am assuming that the card, writing software, etc may not be the issue since the nook is able to read. Is this assumption wrong? I don't have other size cards handy. I will order some and try in a few days. Meanwhile, if anyone else is facing this issue, please weigh in. Experts, please suggest if I can try something else.

nandsaa said:
On your recommendation, tried just a bootable disk. That did not work either. I just cannot turn it on. No display at all.. I can only boot it up again if I remove the micro sd card. I tried the 8 gb image first then trying 1 gb image file nookdev-clockwork-0.7 on an 8 gb card then copying the uImage and uRamdisk files. Any problems with this approach? I am fairly new to nook/android, but tech savvy..
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There is an image for a bootable SD with CWM and the correct uImage and uRamdisk files (thanks to DizzyDen). That may be your problem. The SC card you created while it has the correct file structure may not have the correct boot information.

Yeah it's been my experience that the NC is more particular about what it will boot off of vs. what it will read from in normal use. Plenty of posts about this but in general you'll find most Sandisks just work so if you pick one up or borrow a card, try to get a Sandisk just to be on the safe side. Since no one else seems to be having the problem, I suspect it's probably just a card the NC doesn't like or a mostly good card with a bad sector in the wrong place.

Thanks a lot! I used the 2gb image and was able to do it with a 2gb card and 2gb_clockwork-3.0.2.8.rar file.

Can't get the Nook Color to recognize boot SD card

Hey fellas,
I followed all the steps in http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1030227 that link up until step 8, where my Nook would not recognize the SD card as a boot disk. My laptop does, however, which means the burning of cwm3.2.0.1 worked fine. The Nook just starts up as it normally would without automatically booting into recovery. The SD card is recognized as a standard SD card in the Nook, and all the files are seen (but can't be opened because they're not recognized...I'm not sure if I missed something or what, but I can't figure it out. It's running stock 1.2 and the SD card is a class 10 Samsung 32G, which works just fine. Any advice?

monkor said:
... Any advice?
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Get a Sandisk class 4 card.

MISRy said:
Get a Sandisk class 4 card.
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Is that actually why it's not going to boot? I think I have a 2GB class 4 in my phone...

Sandisk. It's important that it be a Sandisk class 4.

Somehow your card is not burned properly. It could be your card like misry said. But it could also be the steps you took. Pay attention to what eyeballer said in his first post. 'Run as administrator' and use external usb readers instead of built in readers.
The Nook is very finicky about how a card is formatted before it will boot from it. Your PC can read it, but the Nook will not boot from it. If the image from eyeballer is burned properly, it will boot.

Now that he mentions it I think leapinlar has a better handle on this one.

Alright I'll give it a try and Jerry you guys know! Thanks!
Sent from my HTC Sensation Z710e using XDA

MISRy said:
Get a Sandisk class 4 card.
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i actually have the same problem...
i have a sandisk 32gb class 10-doesnt boot from that
i have a sandisk 16gb class 4-doesnt boot from that
i know my nook can boot from sd because i have been dual booting for a couple days now until i could find the correct tutorial for my nook (no green or blue sticker, 1.4.2, 8gb model)
what do you think i should do?
edit:when i do the dual boot, it works with either card

Edo526 said:
i actually have the same problem...
i have a sandisk 32gb class 10-doesnt boot from that
i have a sandisk 16gb class 4-doesnt boot from that
i know my nook can boot from sd because i have been dual booting for a couple days now until i could find the correct tutorial for my nook (no green or blue sticker, 1.4.2, 8gb model)
what do you think i should do?
edit:when i do the dual boot, it works with either card
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What are you booting? The trick is to get the card formatted so it will boot in the first place.
Also if your dual boot sd is a cm, boot to that and go to ROM Manager and flash CWM to emmc using the first menu choice. Then you have CWM on internal memory you can use for flashing, backing up, etc.
Edit: I just added a section to my tips thread linked in my signature to help users understand about bootable SDs.

leapinlar said:
What are you booting? The trick is to get the card formatted so it will boot in the first place. Once you have done that, you can put the card in the PC and put any files you want there. Back up by renaming to .bak all the existing files on the boot partition of the working sd and put eyeballers cwm files there (all of them, including mlo, uImage, uRamdisk, etc.) See if that boots into cwm. If not, just remove eyeballers files and restore the original files.
Also if your dual boot sd is a cm, boot to that and go to ROM Manager and flash CWM to emmc. Then you have CWM on internal memory you can use for rooting, etc.
Edit: I just added a section to my tips thread linked in my signature to help users understand about bootable SDs.
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i run Team-B-CM7SD-Alpha_final on my dual boot, but when i put the emmc .zip into my sd and booted i couldnt find it in the rom manager, only shows folders

Edo526 said:
i run Team-B-CM7SD-Alpha_final on my dual boot, but when i put the emmc .zip into my sd and booted i couldnt find it in the rom manager, only shows folders
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First you are running on a Nook Tablet, not a Nook Color. You will never get eyeballers CWM card to run on that. That is for Nook Color. Second, that is not how you flash CWM with ROM Manager. You use the first two menu choices. But you will find no CWM for the Nook Tablet listed there. I suggest you start reading the Nook Tablet forums, this is Nook Color.

I think my not being able to boot is an issue with the Nook. On my first Nook that I got around Christmas, the root worked just fine. But the one I was recently asked to root, with the same card (32GB class 10), no success. I'm trying to find a backdoor into recovery so I can circumvent this issue. there has to be a way to manually boot into stock recovery and work from there
Sent from my HTC Sensation Z710e using XDA

leapinlar said:
First you are running on a Nook Tablet, not a Nook Color. You will never get eyeballers CWM card to run on that. That is for Nook Color. Second, that is not how you flash CWM with ROM Manager. You use the first two menu choices. But you will find no CWM for the Nook Tablet listed there. I suggest you start reading the Nook Tablet forums, this is Nook Color.
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Wow thanks man, ill check out the tablet forums on here, you've been a great deal of help

monkor said:
I think my not being able to boot is an issue with the Nook. On my first Nook that I got around Christmas, the root worked just fine. But the one I was recently asked to root, with the same card (32GB class 10), no success. I'm trying to find a backdoor into recovery so I can circumvent this issue. there has to be a way to manually boot into stock recovery and work from there
Sent from my HTC Sensation Z710e using XDA
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You say you got the card to boot to the CWM card on your other nook. Will it still boot it? If you have prepared the card fresh, see if you can boot it with either nook. And you are sure this second nook is a Nook Color, not a Nook Tablet like the other user above? They look very much alike.
Edit: You say root, do you mean you want to root the stock on emmc or do you mean flash CM on emmc?
Edit 2: If you are using winimage to burn, be sure to select "Restore Virtual Hard Disk Image on Physical Drive" rather than "write disk".
Sent from my Nook Color running ICS and Tapatalk

Nook HD+ willl not boot from SD

I created a CWM SD card (SanDisk 8GB Class 4) and it booted CWM just fine, I backed up and installed Gapps and rooted it. Everything was working fine except I wanted to get "incompatible" apps to work from the Play store so I edited the build.prop (it worked for me in the past).
Then the next time it booted it would just loop the nook boot logo, so I ended up resetting the whole thing (back to 2.0.2). Then I registered it and updated it and it works fine (just no root or gapps).
But the only problem is now it won't boot from the SD card no matter what image I use. It just boots normally as if there was no SD card. The only reaction I got was from using the boot files from N2A (last ditch effort) and all that did was go to a blank screen after the nook logo.
So that's where I'm at, I can still use the nook for what it is, but I'd rather have root and the play store
Thanks

Read my HD/HD+ Tips thread and you will understand why your edit to the build.prop did not work. You cannot modify any /system file without it resetting itself. In fact, I think I told you that in my universal root thread.
It can sometimes be difficult to get the CWM SD to boot from a cold start (powered off). Maybe yry reburning the card again. I find sometimes I have to just keep trying, reinserting the card and powering off immediately when you see it is not going to boot to the SD, and starting again. But don't do this more than 8 times in a row without letting it boot to stock successfully at least once or it will reset.
Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10 on Hybrid SD

leapinlar said:
Read my HD/HD+ Tips thread and you will understand why your edit to the build.prop did not work. You cannot modify any /system file without it resetting itself. In fact, I think I told you that in my universal root thread.
It can sometimes be difficult to get the CWM SD to boot from a cold start (powered off). Maybe yry reburning the card again. I find sometimes I have to just keep trying, reinserting the card and powering off immediately when you see it is not going to boot to the SD, and starting again. But don't do this more than 8 times in a row without letting it boot to stock successfully at least once or it will reset.
Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10 on Hybrid SD
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Funny you should say that, because I just tried over and over and reburning and eventually it took! haha I was trying all day and finally got it working.
Everything is going good now, is there any way to fix the incompatible app issue on the play store? For now I can just download them elsewhere, but it would be nice to get em from the store

Topper59 said:
Funny you should say that, because I just tried over and over and reburning and eventually it took! haha I was trying all day and finally got it working.
Everything is going good now, is there any way to fix the incompatible app issue on the play store? For now I can just download them elsewhere, but it would be nice to get em from the store
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Nope. Just get them from 1mobile.com or Amazon, etc.
Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10 on Hybrid SD

I was having a hell of a time trying to get the new HD+ to boot. Finally got it working everytime on boot using a 2GB card. I was previously using a 16GB class 10 card. I'm fortunate to still have these old 4GB and 2GB cards laying around. So if any of you are having issues I recommended trying that.

I'm having a similar issue. I put the CWM image onto a 16GB class 2 sandisk card and my nook hd+ just ignores it and boots normally. I used winimage. Has anyone had success with the 16gb class 2 sandisk? I have a 1gb card but that did not work either.
I'm following the instructions in this thread.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2087988
When I try reading the sdcard in my laptop after putting CWM on it the laptop tells me it needs to be formatted. Is that normal?
Thanks

scott46 said:
I'm having a similar issue. I put the CWM image onto a 16GB class 2 sandisk card and my nook hd+ just ignores it and boots normally. I used winimage. Has anyone had success with the 16gb class 2 sandisk? I have a 1gb card but that did not work either.
I'm following the instructions in this thread.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2087988
When I try reading the sdcard in my laptop after putting CWM on it the laptop tells me it needs to be formatted. Is that normal?
Thanks
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Follow the directions in my HD/HD+ CWM thread linked in my signature. That is for stock CWM, but the procedure is the same.
It is not normal for Windows to say it needs to be formatted.
Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10.1 on emmc.

I formatted the card in the nook and made some progress with the rev6 sdcard tool, but the nook still ignores it when booting. The sdcard can be read on my laptop. I have lost.dir, mlo, u-boot, uImage, and uRamDisk. Only 8.3mb of the sdcard is used.

I noticed that when I tried to root the nook from the sd card, it will continuously boot regularly. I remember trying like 7-8 times and thought maybe it one on the nooks that would not boot from sd card no matter what.
I decided to format the sd card again and re-added all the needed files and somehow it just booted into the cwm screen. You would not believe how relieved I was not having to return it for another one.
I can only say be persistent and the sd card will get loaded.

scott46 said:
I formatted the card in the nook and made some progress with the rev6 sdcard tool, but the nook still ignores it when booting. The sdcard can be read on my laptop. I have lost.dir, mlo, u-boot, uImage, and uRamDisk. Only 8.3mb of the sdcard is used.
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Rev6? On an HD/HD+? That sounds like my Nook Color version. Are you sure you went to the right thread? HD/HD+ CWM thread?
Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10.1 on emmc.

ciris said:
I was having a hell of a time trying to get the new HD+ to boot. Finally got it working everytime on boot using a 2GB card. I was previously using a 16GB class 10 card. I'm fortunate to still have these old 4GB and 2GB cards laying around. So if any of you are having issues I recommended trying that.
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I spent a couple hours trying to get my brand new HD+ to boot from a new SanDisk 64gb or an older Samsung 32gb. Neither booted - it'd always just boot to stock. For $9.99 @best Buy I got a PNY 4gb card with adapter. Formatted with SDFormatter, marked the partition active with MiniTool Partition Wizard. Copied the files linked in this thread. Under the "Obsolete Zips" section, I used the file:
NookHDplus-bootable-CWM-6028-for-stock-BOOTFILES-r4-(05.15.13).rar​
Extracted, copied to the SD.
Booted first try and several subsequent times. Enough to get my recovery & CM 10.1 all set.

Oops, I was looking at the nook color thread. I got it to work today on my 1gb card. I quickly ran out of storage, but I saw enough to be convinced to install CM10 on the internal memory. Thanks for your help.