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
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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.
Hi
I purchased a nook yesterday and now I am eager to put a new rom on it. Unfortunately, during the autonooker process, something goes wrong and my nook boots straight up into the stock rom and then auto-mount the sd card to the computer. My nook is running 1.1 as I just got it yesterday.
I followed all the burning to SD steps and it appears to work as it burns with success and the files appear from the computer. I have also tried using an image of clockworkmod but I got the same result. I'm running Windows 7 64-bit.
Does anyone know what I may be missing or doing wrong? Much appreciated, thanks!
SOLUTION: Used a different microSD card reader for "flashing" the microSD card. Apparently my Samsung Epic cannot properly do this while my friend's can.
Alright so this is really odd and I've never seen this before and I couldn't find anything on it in the forums. So my problem is that I just got a 32gb micro sd card, I formatted it to FAT32 and it works just fine in Windows and in my Nook. So here's the problem... when I add files to the sd through windows they don't appear on the micro sd card on android. I believe they continue to go to the LOST dir on the sd card and in a very odd format. I know I should be able to do this because I have an 8gb micro sd card that I can do this with just fine. The really odd thing is, if I dropbox files to the sd card or copy files from the EMM to the micro sd card they show up just fine... Can anybody help me? This is a real pain in the ass as I would really like to just be able to connect the card or the nook to my computer and just throw files on it.
gets even stranger...
So now this is really really strange... so adding files to the card through the cable to the nook they won't show up in android and when I had the card hooked up to a card reader and added them they also wouldn't show up in android. I just tried the card reader that they supplied and then threw files on it and now the files show up in android. VERY VERY ODD, I can't think of a single explanation for this...
EDIT: I was wrong, so apparently its only if I transfer over folders this card has no idea how to handle them in android. If I put all the files in the root directory without folders its fine. Anybody know what would cause this?
Who formatted the card using what method? You want the tablet to do it using FAT32.