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[Q] Going to root wife's nook, what do you suggest?

So we just bought a nook color and she is still new to it. Obviously, she reads lots of books and I... well, want to make this into a tab and play w/ it. She might want to do web browsing and install some games/apps, but primarily will be used as an e-reader.
What rom (if any) do you suggest I flash? Or will I be better off just rooting the device and leaving it as is (w/ market)? She has no patience for developmental stuff so looking for something stable but also something I can play with

stevedawg85 said:
So we just bought a nook color and she is still new to it. Obviously, she reads lots of books and I... well, want to make this into a tab and play w/ it. She might want to do web browsing and install some games/apps, but primarily will be used as an e-reader.
What rom (if any) do you suggest I flash? Or will I be better off just rooting the device and leaving it as is (w/ market)? She has no patience for developmental stuff so looking for something stable but also something I can play with
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Root the Stock and leave it. its the most stable rom.

Make your own SD card, running Nookie Froyo or CyanogenMod. When you take the card out and reboot, her machine is completely back to normal, or so I'm told. You both get to have what you want.

I can run CM from SD card w/o rooting the device!? if so... sweet, I saw sum tuts but still educating myself. Rooting and leaving stock is also a good idea, however I heard B&N is able to update your device thus losing root... Is this true?

For her, it sounds like just rooting would be the best option, since it has the market, all of the B&N features, and is stable. As mentioned above, running a ROM from the sd card is a good option for you. After rooting it, you could format the sd card used to root, and then load a ROM such as CM7, Froyo, or Honeycomb from the SD card to play with.
This way, she has her mostly stock setup, and you have your tablet setup that you can load by just popping in the sd card and rebooting. When you're done playing with it, power down, pop the sd card out, reboot, and it's back to her setup.
If you do decide to run a ROM from the sd card, make sure to get at least a class 4 (sandisk class 4 4GB works well for me). Then, if you find something that would work for both of you, you could look at flashing to internal EMMC for better speed/performance. Another option is dual-booting between ROMs, which you can find more about in the development section.

stevedawg85 said:
I can run CM from SD card w/o rooting the device!? if so... sweet, I saw sum tuts but still educating myself. Rooting and leaving stock is also a good idea, however I heard B&N is able to update your device thus losing root... Is this true?
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There is a thread in the dev section on how to block the updates. Here's a link to the sd card version of CM7 you asked about. You don't have to root first, but you can.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=989637
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As suggested I'd root the stock software for the wife, and when you want to play choose a ROM that can run from the sdcard and you will be good to go.
Currently I run 4 different setups. Stock rooted on internal mem. Then I setup 3 different sdcards to mess around with Honeycomb, CM7, and Froyo from time to time.

C Dippa said:
There is a thread in the dev section on how to block the updates. Here's a link to the sd card version of CM7 you asked about. You don't have to root first, but you can.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=989637
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You do not have to root it first. All you have to do is create a live SDcard with Clockwork ROM manager put the SDCard in and boot it up holding the n and the power button in > wipe > flash CM7.
With this device reading off the SD first you do not have "antonoot" first.
I've ran CM7, Honeycomb and a few others. My personal choice is stock rooted device is perfect.

stevedawg85 said:
I can run CM from SD card w/o rooting the device!?
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I know! I couldn't believe it was that easy either. I'm going to add a notice to my signature. This kind of great capability should be right in people's faces..

Nookiefroyo runs great off an SD card for me.
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Thanks for everyone's input...
She gonna be using it 75% of the time, so I decided to root and leave it as is. Everything works good. I tried to do nookie froyo off SD card but had too much trouble w/ adb, i'll save it for another week. But for now, stock root works good. Got Zeam and Home switcher to help both of us out

I wanted to point out the only downside of rooted stock is that she cannot use in the in-store B&N features! If she plans on using that (i've heard they have not only the hour of reading free, but also sometimes offer deals and events) then you might wanna not be rooted and use the SD card. I know this is a little late to tell you as you already did it, but I thought I'd let you know anyway.

stevedawg85 said:
Thanks for everyone's input...
She gonna be using it 75% of the time, so I decided to root and leave it as is. Everything works good. I tried to do nookie froyo off SD card but had too much trouble w/ adb, i'll save it for another week. But for now, stock root works good. Got Zeam and Home switcher to help both of us out
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I'll throw this in for whenever you feel like creating a bootable SD CARD to play with. I've found that higher class sd cards make a much bigger difference in how fast/well the rom operates than you might think.

For those who are running cm7.0.3

What version of CWM did you use to flash 7.0.3, cuz I heard some people had issues flashing nightlys with older versions of CWM. I currently have a 3.0.0.5, I think, bootable CWM SD card and am wondering if I should update it before trying to flash 7.0.3
On a side note I have always kept CWM on an SD card versus on the emmc. Is it better to keep it that way or should I flash CWM to my emmc?
Thanks for any info.

dabiddabird said:
What version of CWM did you use to flash 7.0.3, cuz I heard some people had issues flashing nightlys with older versions of CWM. I currently have a 3.0.0.5, I think, bootable CWM SD card and am wondering if I should update it before trying to flash 7.0.3
On a side note I have always kept CWM on an SD card versus on the emmc. Is it better to keep it that way or should I flash CWM to my emmc?
Thanks for any info.
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You shoul update your recovery. If you don't have problems yet, you will!!! I was on CWM 3.0.1 and could not flash any of the recent nightlies. Current version of CWM is 3.0.2.8

Thought so. Will update my CWM SD card to the latest before I move to 7.0.3.
Thanks
If I am just updating to a newer version of the same software my apps and what not will remain correct?

dabiddabird said:
Thought so. Will update my CWM SD card to the latest before I move to 7.0.3.
Thanks
If I am just updating to a newer version of the same software my apps and what not will remain correct?
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Yes sir, you're just updating your recovery.

hockeyfamily737 said:
Yes sir, you're just updating your recovery.
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Sorry I missed part of your question. Here is my preference.....
I flash clockwork recovery to my EMMC, because it makes switching ROM'S much easier. I also keep and emergency 2GB SD card imaged with CWM and a stable version of CM7, gapps, & OC kernel......for those occasional emergency oh $hit situations.

Cool thanks for the suggestion. I haven't had any of those moments yet but its best to be prepared.
I think i didn't make my question clear. When i asked if my apps and what not will remain, i was talking about when i update my nook not CWM. Will all my apps and data be on my nook still after i update to 7.0.3 from 7.0.2?

dabiddabird said:
Cool thanks for the suggestion. I haven't had any of those moments yet but its best to be prepared.
I think i didn't make my question clear. When i asked if my apps and what not will remain, i was talking about when i update my nook not CWM. Will all my apps and data be on my nook still after i update to 7.0.3 from 7.0.2?
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If you go from 7.0.2 to 7.0.3 and only wipe cache & dalvik your apps will remain, but it's still not a bad idea to use an app like Titanium to back up your apps & data. Sometimes things just plain go wrong when enhancing our devices.
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Thanks for all your help I now have my updated cwm SD card, flashed 7.0.3, and flashed the of kernel. Looks like I'm golden for now.

What is the exact process to upgrade from 7.0.2 to 7.0.3 on a CM7 SD installation with a stock 1.2 on eMMC?
I was notified of the update on my NC but when I try to install it, it will NEVER get into Recovery on its own. The only way it works is if I remove the SD card upon reboot, it then asks for a SD card, and then it says the file can't be found yet I can see it's right where it should be.
Is there a manual way to update it on my SD card via my computer to where I don't lose any apps and/or settings? Still quite new to this obviously...
Thanks!

Questions about rooting

I have been lurking and reading for a couple of weeks now. I bought a used NC with 1.1 and used Autonooter to root it. Works great.
I bought a second NC which had the 1.2 s/w on it. I used the manualnooter process to root it. That works pretty well.
Now I'm thinking about getting into the nightly CM7 game. I'm wondering is there anything I need to watch out for with the 2 NC's I have if I do this. Do I have to take them back to stock? Can I just follow the CM7 instructions?
Any insight and guidance would be appreciated

50 views and no replies. If you read this and can help I would really appreciate some info. I'm reluctant to proceed until I hear from someone who has traveled the road before. Thanks

You can run CM7, stable or nightly, off of an SD card. You don't have to change anything on your Nooks to do this. In fact, they don't even need to be rooted. Running CM7 on the SD card will not change anything on the built-in memory of the Nook.
Look for the "size agnostic" thread, follow the directions, and you're good to go.
ps. I enjoy your music.

yeah, just follow the instructions on flashing cm7 for the first time. and make sure you understand the CWM instructions. you may want to try a stable rom for now. there are lots of battery and kernel issues right now with the nightly builds. but not to fear the devs are working hard to fix them. just stay with the stable's and your be fine. I hope this was helpful...

boxcar8028 said:
yeah, just follow the instructions on flashing cm7 for the first time. and make sure you understand the CWM instructions. you may want to try a stable rom for now. there are lots of battery and kernel issues right now with the nightly builds. but not to fear the devs are working hard to fix them. just stay with the stable's and your be fine. I hope this was helpful...
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is this the one you mean?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=11452450&postcount=19

Well, I went ahead figuring "How hard could it be anyway?".
I did the nand backup with CWM 3.0.2.8
I then ran ROM manager V4.2.0.2 from internal memory.
I choose the option that allows me to download ROMS.
I chose CyanogenMod, and then chose 7.0.3.
I downloaded the ROM
I then chose Install ROM from SD card
It asked me about clearing caches, etc and I chose the default values already checked.
It installed without errors.
I rebooted and it got to the last part of the boot process where the word "color" is rapidly changing and stayed there indefinitely,
I rebooted with CWM on the SD card and tried to reinstall the Manualnooter I loaded on this NC a week ago.
Rebooted. Still hung up.
I copied my nand backup to the CWN SD card and chose restore.
It booted back to my manualnooter install successfully.
So I'm successfully back where I started.
Can someone help me understand what I did wrong on what I need to do to make it work? Thanks

Not sure what went wrong, but I would also suggest trying verygreen's size-agnostic approach. You keep your manual nooter and can run CM7 from an SD card to see if you want to go all the way and remove the stock BN software.
Try this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1000957
Or, if you want to go crazy, you could try racks' dual boot SD card image of Phiremod 6.2 (a variation of CM7) and Honeycomb. That's what I'm using and Phiremod works great (aside from battery life ) and honeycomb is just plain slick to use.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1045018

I loaded CM7 7.0.2 stable and was able to get it going. Thanks

[Q] Nooked. Some help flashing CWM though..

Hi there
I finally got ahold of a Nook Color. It came with stock 1.2
Now I need to flash CWM and then start venturing with ROMs. I am a little confused reading through all the threads, keep reading about emmc flashing, SD card flashing etc and it started to get overflowingly confusing.
So, a headstart would be super, thank you
PS. Already in love with this cute little devil.

rbmk said:
Hi there
I finally got ahold of a Nook Color. It came with stock 1.2
Now I need to flash CWM and then start venturing with ROMs. I am a little confused reading through all the threads, keep reading about emmc flashing, SD card flashing etc and it started to get overflowingly confusing.
So, a headstart would be super, thank you
PS. Already in love with this cute little devil.
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Ok, so you want to try custom ROMs? Do you want to install it on the Nook or run the ROM on the SD first to try out?
Flashing to eMMC will erase your current ROM, say your 1.2 stock on the NC.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1030227
Flashing to SD means you are not touching your NC's system and will boot via the SD card and run the ROM from there.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1000957

I would want to run ROMs from the internal memory.
Thank you Shutter

rbmk said:
I would want to run ROMs from the internal memory.
Thank you Shutter
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You're welcome (there's always a Thanks button ) .
That means you will be flashing to the eMMC. Make sure to check if your NC has the new partitioning. You'll have some extra steps to re-partition before flashing so you can make full use of the built in sd space for media.

Follow this thread word for word and you will be golden!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1030227
You really don't need to worry about the whole blue dot thing. If you repartition you will get more internal storage, but it is not necessary.

Best option for NC 1.4.3 unrooted

I apologize in advance if this has been asked before, but I searched and couldn't find anything.
I never rooted my Nook Color (firmware 1.4.3) because I like the simplicity of it and I only really wanted to read books on it.
However now I wanted to install other readers so that I could read other formats without having to convert to epub or pdf.
I tried downgrading to 1.2.0 but it still doesn't let me install other apps.
What would be my best option?
Is there any way to do this without rooting?
I'm not afraid of tweaking, I just prefer the stock firmware to use as an ebook reader.
Best regards,
Rita

Best Option According to me
Rita,
Sincerely the best option for you right now is to run CyanogenMod 7 off an SD Card, a port of Android 2.3 for your device. I have a Nook Color too. I used to love stock but the lack of functionality made me install CM7. There are many easy to follow guides available on the internet. If you would like I can tell you how to install CM7 on an SD Card. That way you can enjoy both stock and CM7. Cheers!

ritibelle said:
I apologize in advance if this has been asked before, but I searched and couldn't find anything.
I never rooted my Nook Color (firmware 1.4.3) because I like the simplicity of it and I only really wanted to read books on it.
However now I wanted to install other readers so that I could read other formats without having to convert to epub or pdf.
I tried downgrading to 1.2.0 but it still doesn't let me install other apps.
What would be my best option?
Is there any way to do this without rooting?
I'm not afraid of tweaking, I just prefer the stock firmware to use as an ebook reader.
Best regards,
Rita
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You can do what the prior user recommended (CM7 on SD) and also go back to the latest stock software on internal memory and root it. Then you can decide which you want to use. If you look in my tips thread linked in my signature you will see how to flash the lastest unrooted stock software with CWM recovery. Look at my item A12. Then you can root it with Manual Nooter 5.08.20. You can add other apps with unrooted stock but only from the B&N app store. If you want more apps than that, you must root.

@satya-1998: I've already tried installing CM7 on a sd card and I liked it, just not for reading. As an ebook reader I really enjoy the simplicity of the stock firmware.
@leapinlar: I've already put the latest firmware on the nook (1.4.3) and I think rooting will be my best option. Will rooting and using manual nooter 5.8.20 keep the B&N functions and allow me to install other apps?
Do you think following this thread (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1494901) would be the way to go?
Thank you both for your help, Rita

ritibelle said:
@leapinlar: I've already put the latest firmware on the nook (1.4.3) and I think rooting will be my best option. Will rooting and using manual nooter 5.8.20 keep the B&N functions and allow me to install other apps?
Do you think following this thread (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1494901) would be the way to go?
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Yes to both.

I did it!!!
And as far as I can tell everythig is working great.
Now I just have to learn how to work with the android part of it.
Thank you very much for the help, Rita

What did you do? Bootable uSD or root?

bobstro said:
What did you do? Bootable uSD or root?
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I followed the instructions in this thread (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=22480277), so rooted and used manual nooter 5.8.20.

Ok, now that you have rooted your nook, you can keep it at stock and also keep CM7 on the SD card. If you like the B&N reading, download the Nook app for android onto cm7. Cheers...

ritibelle said:
I did it!!!
And as far as I can tell everythig is working great.
Now I just have to learn how to work with the android part of it.
Thank you very much for the help, Rita
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Congrats!!!! You will never go back to straight stock!!!!

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satya-1998 said:
Rita,
Sincerely the best option for you right now is to run CyanogenMod 7 off an SD Card, a port of Android 2.3 for your device. I have a Nook Color too. I used to love stock but the lack of functionality made me install CM7. There are many easy to follow guides available on the internet. If you would like I can tell you how to install CM7 on an SD Card. That way you can enjoy both stock and CM7. Cheers!
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do you have a link for loading cm7 on a sd card so you could boot between stock and cm7. my firmware is 1.4.3

hotelbeehive69 said:
do you have a link for loading cm7 on a sd card so you could boot between stock and cm7. my firmware is 1.4.3
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Use this simplified guide.
http://taosaur.blogspot.com/2011/09/running-cyanogenmod-7-from-sd-nook.html

You can try a dual boot from
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=959461&page=1
But I recommend going with booting off an SD card. Much easier, and although it can be a PITA swapping SD cards, you dont run the risk of losing partition space, or having a problem if you have to go to BN for whatever reason.