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Nook wont boot off Sdcard..Boots normally

no matter how many times i make the sdcard image, my nook refuses to boot off of it. Ive tried with Mac, WIndows, and Ubuntu and all failed. When i pop in the sdcard the nook just boots up normally...please someone help me. Ive been trying to get this to work since the second the first instructions were posted on nook devs

I had this problem as well. I ended up using a different USB MicroSD card reader and it worked. Try using a different MicroSD card, usually ones less than 2GB are safest, as they are not SDHC, and thus are compatible with more SD card readers...

hharte said:
I had this problem as well. I ended up using a different USB MicroSD card reader and it worked. Try using a different MicroSD card, usually ones less than 2GB are safest, as they are not SDHC, and thus are compatible with more SD card readers...
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that might explain it lol..i've been using the 16gb that came with my galaxy s and using my phone as the sdreader
has one had success flashing the image through their phones or the nook itself?

Did you make the carding using winimage yet? For me, that was the method that worked the most consistently.
To check it, pop the card in your reader and see if there is a single ~40mb partition named nooter. That pretty much says the card is what it is supposed to be.
Unplug the nook, power it off by holding the power button until it turns off. put the card into the nook, plug it into your computer. In a little time, you should notice it saying about a new device connected, or some complaining about not being able to find the drivers. Let it go for about a minute after that and then remove the card and reboot the nook.
If it still boots normally with the card your just made, try using another card and see if that works. Also, if you have access to a mac, before you make the card with winimage (on the windows machine), use Disk utility to partition the card with 1 partition, free space.
It sounds kinda quirky, but it is how I got it to work.

I had to try 4 different computers before I found one that would work with either Winimage or Cygwin. Just keep trying different things and you'll eventually get it.

I originally tried using the Nook Color itself as the SD card reader, which did not work. Since the only USB card reader I had handy was not SDHC, I went down to a 2GB SD card, and it worked.

Help - Trouble w/Winimage
I'm using 64bit Vista and can open Winimage but when I try to install the 40Mb img file to the SD Card, all I get on the card is four files totaling about 11 Mb.
Could someone please post instruction for making an uSD image of Nooter 0.2
Thanks in advance

bobdude5 said:
that might explain it lol..i've been using the 16gb that came with my galaxy s and using my phone as the sdreader
has one had success flashing the image through their phones or the nook itself?
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[mbm] initially had trouble as well since he was using his Nook as a card reader. Generally only dedicated card readers will reliably work. I'll go add that to the wiki page.

pokey9000 said:
[mbm] initially had trouble as well since he was using his Nook as a card reader. Generally only dedicated card readers will reliably work. I'll go add that to the wiki page.
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did he end up using a card reader or did he get it to work?

My mistake was
Pokey9000 pointed out that I was making a simple mistake that stopped my card from working:
make sure your are writing to the whole disk, not a partition.
of = /dev/disk# (good)
of = /dev/disk#p# (bad)
I was adding the partition number to the end of my device string.

bobdude5 said:
did he end up using a card reader or did he get it to work?
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IIRC he switched to his laptop's SD reader with an adapter and got it working.

pokey9000 said:
IIRC he switched to his laptop's SD reader with an adapter and got it working.
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i just tried a 2gb sdcard..didnt work.. so its the reader. I hope a usb adapter will work

bobdude5 said:
i just tried a 2gb sdcard..didnt work.. so its the reader. I hope a usb adapter will work
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via the laptop SDcard slot, the image doesn't work, and I used a USB SDcard reader, it worked.

+1 request for help
docfreed said:
I'm using 64bit Vista and can open Winimage but when I try to install the 40Mb img file to the SD Card, all I get on the card is four files totaling about 11 Mb.
Could someone please post instruction for making an uSD image of Nooter 0.2
Thanks in advance
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+1 - despite searching and multiple efforts, I still am unable to get a useful microSD card to root the NC

docfreed said:
I'm using 64bit Vista and can open Winimage but when I try to install the 40Mb img file to the SD Card, all I get on the card is four files totaling about 11 Mb.
Could someone please post instruction for making an uSD image of Nooter 0.2
Thanks in advance
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drbowden said:
+1 - despite searching and multiple efforts, I still am unable to get a useful microSD card to root the NC
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That's OK!
After doing the winimage the microSD will have a 40MB partition with about 30MB free space and only about 7.5MB of files. It should work!

Finally Successful!
Finally got it done! Now on to loading useful apps and see how the NOOK holds up to work!

So excited to try and...
Grrr. both my sandisk and generic mini card readers suddenly all decide to fail/stop working and only found one of my 2gb sd cards after my move haha...
Murphy's law, such as life is..
-CC

Heya guys, Android n00b, but old time iphoney.
I to am having the same problem. I have been writing sd cards off multiple machines, bought more sd cards, etc.
Any help would be greatly appreciated! tx
Details:
Linux Mint 8 - Main
Windows 7 - tried and no success in results
Nook Color - Running firmware 1.0.1
8GB PNY HC uSD - image written sucessfully - Failed to boot in NC
2GB Sandisk uSD - image written sucessfully - Failed to boot in NC
1GB Kingston uSD - image written sucessfully - Failed to boot in NC
Latest nooter tried - auto-nooter-2.12.18.img - writes sucessfully - shows 2 partitions (NooterFiles,AutoNooter2)
Install notes:
I follow the directions to the letter. I have set up android sdk, and the other files needed from when this first became available. (I know they're not needed at the moment, but giving a history)
The image writes successfully. If I re-insert the card into my pc, then it reads as un-recognized. However, taking a leap of faith I put the card into the powered down NC. Plug in the usb cord, and it reboots just as normal.
Now after it boots. I swipe to open, and it goes into usb mode. Now my computer can see the 2 partitions listed through the nc.
Upon investigation I found that the partitions were not bootable. Aha! So I tried making them bootable. No success.
I'm at a loss, any help/points in the right direction would be greatly appreciated.

[Q] Honeycomb not booting from SD card.[1.1.0 issue?]

I have a 16 GB class 4 Sandisk card.
I ran the following command and successfully wrote the img to my SD Card
[email protected]:~$ umount /dev/sdg
[email protected]:~$ sudo dd if=nookhoney04.img of=/dev/sdg bs=1M
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The SD Card now has a system, boot, data, and sdcard partiton. So I assume it was finished. I also received a confirmation message stating that it successfully wrote 3.7 GB to the card.
All appears well, but when resetting the nook, it almost immediately boots into stock instead of the sd card.
Am I missing something, or is this a card issue?

it might be the card, class 4 is really slow for honeycomb

Would "really slow" cause it to entirely skip the boot.
People claim to have got it working with a class 2, even if it is slow, it should still boot...

I appologize for bumping this, but I would really like a more definitive answer than "slow".

MXIIA said:
I have a 16 GB class 4 Sandisk card.
I ran the following command and successfully wrote the img to my SD Card
The SD Card now has a system, boot, data, and sdcard partiton. So I assume it was finished. I also received a confirmation message stating that it successfully wrote 3.7 GB to the card.
All appears well, but when resetting the nook, it almost immediately boots into stock instead of the sd card.
Am I missing something, or is this a card issue?
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If they're in that order then somethings wrong. It should be Boot,System,Data,sdcard. Also a slow card shouldn't cause the boot sequence to be skipped but there could just be a compatability issue with your card
I suggest trying again to see if it works (btw I never use the BS=1M but that shouldn't cause any problems)

They're in the orter of boot, system, data, sdcard.
I used the bs=1M when I wrote autonooter, I guess I'll try it without that parameter since that's the only thing I can change.
It's kind of odd that the SD card would not boot... I've booted onto this SD card before when testing Froyo and doing some Clockwork recovery.
There are no buttons I have to hold to force a boot?
I am powering it on via plugging it into my computer, though I have tried a hard power on.

This maybe a card issue. So far all 16Gb cards I installed Froyo/Honeycomb booted successfully as long as you do not repartition the card with default head/sec/cyl (must be 255/63/the rest).
However at this moment neither Froyo nor Honeycomb work on any 16Gb card I tried. It installs fine, and boots ok, but after the first reboot the data partition gets corrupted almost immediately, and remounts read-only. If you eject the card, connect it to a Linux machine and run fsck.ext3 on /dev/sd?3 it will fix it, but it will be broken again during next reboot. Same images/files work fine on the same Nook on a 8Gb card.

No need to unmount the card. And normally your sd card is mmcblk0 or mmcblk1? Format your card, insert it into your computers sd card reader and in a terminal type "sudo fdisk -l" look for the device that is the same size as your card. Also, did you use your nook as the card reader for the computer? Most of the time, using the nook as your card reader when writing images doesnt work, you have to use the computers reader directly.
edit: Possible compatibility issues. 16gb's seem to have problems with corrupted partitions when writing sd images.

Hmm, that's interesting, is there any way to change the cyl-dead-sector data on linux?
If not, I guess I'll buy an 8GB class 6+ soon.
http://www.amazon.com/Transcend-microSDHC-Class-Memory-TS8GUSDHC6E/dp/B0026L7DG0
Would that card suffice?

Yes, that card seems to get really nice reviews as far as running HC goes. That or a Sandisk.

Well that card is under $20 dollars, so it works perfectly for me. Thank you for your feedback

I bought A-Data 8Gb class 10 microSD in Fry's, and it seem to work very well. $13.
Not sure how long it gonna last, but if it lasts a year, good enough for me.
The issue I mentioned, however, is not due to the card quality. 'badblocks' utility consistently showed all those cards having NO bad blocks, and I tested at least three different 16GB cards - Wintec, Patriot and A-Data.

RileyGrant said:
Yes, that card seems to get really nice reviews as far as running HC goes. That or a Sandisk.
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Well, the card came in.... and no luck, same thing... I'm going to try it on Windows instead of Linux, see if that changes anything...

After I "upgraded" to 1.1.0 it jacked up my ability to boot from external SD card. Lots of random process failures and can no longer read my class 10 card at all. Going to revert to 1.0.1 I think... or else flash a CFW on instead. Seems like they added something nasty to the update.

Just to give some newcomers my experiences with the following two cards:
Lexar Class 10 32GB:
Stuck forever at the black screen with the message "android_" at the lower left. Tried both v3 and v4 of the honeycomb SD image. Neither worked.
Transcend Class 6 16GB:
Tried v4. Same pronlem as the Lexar. Stuck forever at the "android_" screen. Switched to v3. Bingo, it booted!
I should be receiving a Patriots 16GB tomorrow and will put it to test.

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After I "upgraded" to 1.1.0 it jacked up my ability to boot from external SD card. Lots of random process failures and can no longer read my class 10 card at all. Going to revert to 1.0.1 I think... or else flash a CFW on instead. Seems like they added something nasty to the update.
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Hmmm... that seems interesting... can anyone else confirm this?

I have two SD cards. One gives me the infamous encrypted file system error and the other just sits there looping on the android splash screen. Before updating, both ran honeycomb fine (CL4 and CL10).

[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] Problem making Win32Imager image

I'd like to copy the contents on my CM7 on an 8G Transcend uSD card to a Sandisk 8G card using Win32DiskImager on my Win 7 64 bit laptop. I've verified with EASUS that the Transcend is using the full 8G but when I create an image file it's only 4G. If I to write that to the Sandisk the process finishes almost immediately and writes nothing to the card. I've rebooted and tried several different external card readers with the same result. I have successfully used these to create 8G backup images previously so am stumped why the process isn't working this time. Suggestions?

Are you running Win32DiskImager as "Administrator"?

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I'd like to copy the contents on my CM7 on an 8G Transcend uSD card to a Sandisk 8G card using Win32DiskImager on my Win 7 64 bit laptop. I've verified with EASUS that the Transcend is using the full 8G but when I create an image file it's only 4G. If I to write that to the Sandisk the process finishes almost immediately and writes nothing to the card. I've rebooted and tried several different external card readers with the same result. I have successfully used these to create 8G backup images previously so am stumped why the process isn't working this time. Suggestions?
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Which version of win32diskimager?
I find version "RELEASE-0.2-r23" to work best... it still always reads to about 4gig... bit it writes the image correctly.

Definitely make sure you're running with elevated priviledges (administrator). These disk imaging programs have the annoying habit of providing very little feedback when they fail due to an accounts rights issue. Took me a long time to figure this out when I first tried to install Phiremod and then again a month later when I decided to try an OC kernel (by this time I'd forgotten about the problem).

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Definitely make sure you're running with elevated priviledges (administrator). These disk imaging programs have the annoying habit of providing very little feedback when they fail due to an accounts rights issue. Took me a long time to figure this out when I first tried to install Phiremod and then again a month later when I decided to try an OC kernel (by this time I'd forgotten about the problem).
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Ahhh... as I have disabled profile to prevent the priviledges issue in win7.... I forgot about that requirement.

Jimbo67 said:
Are you running Win32DiskImager as "Administrator"?
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Yes I ran it on an administrator account. Will have to check the version when I get home.

I had a really old version of the program. Downloaded the current version. It still creates a 4G img file but when I write it back to the new card it's the full 8G image. The contents of the boot partition look correct but the Nook just skips the SD card when booting up.
Next, I'm going to use Easeus to reduce the total used on the card to 4G, image that, write to new card and see what happens.

i have encountered win32image problem before where it fails to write to disk with erorr but when i use earlier version 0.1 it works

Followed these steps and the new card boots correctly:
- Use EASEUS to reduce the last partition so the total used on the card is 4G or less
- Use Win32DiskImager to read old card and write new card
- Use EASEUS to increase the last partition to full size.
Of course this only works if you can do the first step.
As an aside: performance with the new Sandisk card is considerable faster than the old card.

for some reason the new version of windisk imager does not write the image to the card properly for me. i always get corrupt data. i use an older windisk and everything works great. i'm on windows 7 if that makes a difference.

[Q] How to transfer all data in a hybrid TF card to a new card

Hi everybody:
Now I have installed hybrid CM10.1 on Nook HD in a 8G TF card. Then I would like to replace it with a new 32G card.
My question is how to transfer all the data, use the extra space and does not broke the system.
Thanks

Use win32diskimager to read the 8GB card to a file. The file will be 8GB. Then use win32diskimager to write that file to your new 32GB card. Then use partitioning software like Mini-Tool Partition Wizard to expand the last partition to the full size of the card.
The data on internal memory will remain and be unchanged. You should be able to boot the new SD just like it was the old one. The only difference will be your CM10SDCARD will be much larger.
Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10 on Hybrid SD

leapinlar said:
Use win32diskimager to read the 8GB card to a file. The file will be 8GB. Then use win32diskimager to write that file to your new 32GB card. Then use partitioning software like Mini-Tool Partition Wizard to expand the last partition to the full size of the card.
The data on internal memory will remain and be unchanged. You should be able to boot the new SD just like it was the old one. The only difference will be your CM10SDCARD will be much larger.
Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10 on Hybrid SD
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Thank you! It works.

leapinlar said:
Use win32diskimager to read the 8GB card to a file. The file will be 8GB. Then use win32diskimager to write that file to your new 32GB card. Then use partitioning software like Mini-Tool Partition Wizard to expand the last partition to the full size of the card.
The data on internal memory will remain and be unchanged. You should be able to boot the new SD just like it was the old one. The only difference will be your CM10SDCARD will be much larger.
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If I use the win32diskimager utility to read my working 8GB MicroSD Class4 card it sees nothing because using read will only accept IMG files. There must be something that I am missing here, so please fill in the missing details.
I was going to post an image I created using Snagit of what I see when I attempt what you suggested, but the forum software won't let me.
I plan on trying a clone operation with GParted from the working 8GB SD card to the 32Gb SDHC card. I will post my results here

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If I use the win32diskimager utility to read my working 8GB MicroSD Class4 card it sees nothing because using read will only accept IMG files. There must be something that I am missing here, so please fill in the missing details.
I was going to post an image I created using Snagit of what I see when I attempt what you suggested, but the forum software won't let me.
I plan on trying a clone operation with GParted from the working 8GB SD card to the 32Gb SDHC card. I will post my results here
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I had made an empty ".txt" file, then rename it to ".img". It may solve the problem.

badger60 said:
If I use the win32diskimager utility to read my working 8GB MicroSD Class4 card it sees nothing because using read will only accept IMG files. There must be something that I am missing here, so please fill in the missing details.
I was going to post an image I created using Snagit of what I see when I attempt what you suggested, but the forum software won't let me.
I plan on trying a clone operation with GParted from the working 8GB SD card to the 32Gb SDHC card. I will post my results here
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Just type in a name. Like 8GB.img in the box. You do not have to actually create the file first, win32diskimager will create it. Then after it is done reading that write it back to your new card.
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leapinlar said:
Just type in a name. Like 8GB.img in the box. You do not have to actually create the file first, win32diskimager will create it. Then after it is done reading that write it back to your new card.
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OK. Thanks. I am giving that a shot. I am going to try it on the Sandisk 16GB class 4 card first and then on the Samsung 32 GB class 6 unit. I will post my results here.
The results were negative with theSandisk 16 GB class 4 and Samsung 32GB class 6 HDSC cards. The 32 GB card went into a loop with the appearance of the CWM graphics and back to the initial Nook image. I let it cycle perhaps 10 times. I then tried the 16 GB card and had the same results.

badger60 said:
OK. Thanks. I am giving that a shot. I am going to try it on the Sandisk 16GB class 4 card first and then on the Samsung 32 GB class 6 unit. I will post my results here.
The results were negative with theSandisk 16 GB class 4 and Samsung 32GB class 6 HDSC cards. The 32 GB card went into a loop with the appearance of the CWM graphics and back to the initial Nook image. I let it cycle perhaps 10 times. I then tried the 16 GB card and had the same results.
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Since that did not seem to work for you, another option is to make a nandroid backup with your old card to internal memory. You might also want to save your files that you have on CM10SDCARD. Then reburn the new card, let it set itself up, flash CM, the converter and gapps to it. Then before you reboot, restore the backup you made earlier. It should then be set up the same when you reboot. Then restore your CM10SDCARD files.
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leapinlar said:
Since that did not seem to work for you, another option is to make a nandroid backup with your old card to internal memory. You might also want to save your files that you have on CM10SDCARD. Then reburn the new card, let it set itself up, flash CM, the converter and gapps to it. Then before you reboot, restore the backup you made earlier. It should then be set up the same when you reboot. Then restore your CM10SDCARD files.
Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10.1 on Hybrid SD
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I do appreciate the advice, but it didn't work on either SDHC card.
Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10.0 on Hybrid

badger60 said:
I do appreciate the advice, but it didn't work on either SDHC card.
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What do you mean it didn't work? Where did it fail? During backup, during new SD creation or restore?
Edit: If somewhere along the line of your trying to fix this, you installed a new image to a card and booted with it before you did a nandroid backup of your old card, you wiped out the internal /data for the old card and it is not retrievable. If you did that, you just have to start over.
Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10 on Hybrid SD

leapinlar said:
What do you mean it didn't work? Where did it fail? During backup, during new SD creation or restore?
Edit: If somewhere along the line of your trying to fix this, you installed a new image to a card and booted with it before you did a nandroid backup of your old card, you wiped out the internal /data for the old card and it is not retrievable. If you did that, you just have to start over.
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I followed your advice exactly. It appeared to work the same way that it did with the working 8GB SDHC card. I still have a nandroid backup of the old card on my PC. It just doesn't work on the two higher capacity SD cards I have. I see that I am going to have to look through the list and find the exact model of a 32 GB card that someone got working. It works fine on the Sandisk 8GB Class 4 card. The two Samsung cards (class 6) of 16 & 32 GB capacity that I own don't work. They are OK for storage use, but trying to install Android on them was a waste of time. I tried so many times. I used your tutorials and others tutorials unsuccessfully. A bum SD card is a bum SD card. I am not exactly a newbie at installing ROMs on devices . I have been doing it on my HTC Desire HD for about a year ever since HTC abandoned us and decided to not give us ICS or Jellybean for our expensive devices. I have Venom DHD on my HTC Desire HD at the moment. I am waiting for my new Samsung Galaxy s4 to arrive this week.