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Why don't you do an Nook Color 1.2 sd version ?
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I second that request, would like to experiment with 1.2 without having to mess up my CM7 install.
I third the request, request passes
I am very interested in this thing you speak of in this thread
You could just do a full backup in Clockwork Recovery, then flash 1.2 and play around. Once your board use an Bootable SD Clockwork and restore from your backup. Should work ok like that with no loss of data or anything.
Backup FULL CARD CM7
I have created CM7 bootable SD for my Nook Color. Of course the partitions other than boot are not seen by windows. They ARE seen in Manage Computer but you cannot do anything with them.
Is there a program that will let me save an image of the ENTIRE card including these partitions other than the boot so that I have a backup of all my downloaded apps and data?
I would rather do this on my Windows machine rather than try to learn the process of clockwork or what ever it is that runs on Android as I do not have that on the card and until I do and learn more about it a windows image creator would make me more comfortable.
Is this even possible?
Thanks.
I realize Titanium backup and Clockwork do a backup but the backup is on the SD card , right? The SD card is really what I am trying to back up so that seems to make no sense? I would like to back up to my Windows harddrive or another SD on my PC.
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Hello Folks (Long time no see ... last time I was on here was for windows phone stuff in 2008)
So I got in on the Nook Color BN ebay deal ($199) plus tax ...and I have been reading quite a bit (but barley scratched the surface on all the reading). So I thought I would ask something simple...
I want to backup my Stock Nook Color ...no changes made to it no nothing ...I did root it with a 2g Mico SD card last night that was super slow and the 2 part restore to factory just takes forever in my book (8 reboots with the factory wipe etc).
So here is my question ...Is there a way to backup the stock BN nook color (1.01 firm ware) with all your settings etc so all you would have to do is load that on an SD card put it in hook up the nook to the computer and your done ...basically a reverse auto-nooter-2.12.25 type of file ? with a step by step instructions
Thanks in advance to any one that responds/read ...sorry Im back to being a Noob ...
If an admin reads this and thinks that this is addressed some place else please let me know where and please delete this thread.
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Hello Folks (Long time no see ... last time I was on here was for windows phone stuff in 2008)
So I got in on the Nook Color BN ebay deal ($199) plus tax ...and I have been reading quite a bit (but barley scratched the surface on all the reading). So I thought I would ask something simple...
I want to backup my Stock Nook Color ...no changes made to it no nothing ...I did root it with a 2g Mico SD card last night that was super slow and the 2 part restore to factory just takes forever in my book (8 reboots with the factory wipe etc).
So here is my question ...Is there a way to backup the stock BN nook color (1.01 firm ware) with all your settings etc so all you would have to do is load that on an SD card put it in hook up the nook to the computer and your done ...basically a reverse auto-nooter-2.12.25 type of file ? with a step by step instructions
Thanks in advance to any one that responds/read ...sorry Im back to being a Noob ...
If an admin reads this and thinks that this is addressed some place else please let me know where and please delete this thread.
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Your options as the way I see it:
1. Use a rooted ROM by booting off the SD card and keep the internal (eMMC stock) in tact.
OR
2. In the development section, there should be a thread on the first page about Dual booting. This may require some workarounds but flashing a second partition with a rooted OS through CWM and keeping the first partition stock might be another option. You may need to do this by booting up CWM through an SD because you might not be able to install CWM if you keep the first partition stock.
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Your options as the way I see it:
1. Use a rooted ROM by booting off the SD card and keep the internal (eMMC stock) in tact.
OR
2. In the development section, there should be a thread on the first page about Dual booting. This may require some workarounds but flashing a second partition with a rooted OS through CWM and keeping the first partition stock might be another option. You may need to do this by booting up CWM through an SD because you might not be able to install CWM if you keep the first partition stock.
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Thanks for the reply Eddog4DROID
I was thinking more like I have 2 Micro SD cards (2 8gb class 6 Micro SD) and on SD card "A" I would have the stock as I got it from BN and use the technique where one connects it to the PC and let the SD card do its magic for it going back to stock ...SD card "B" would be used for my normal adroid stuff ...so not only dual booting but for applications pictures etc ...basically all that is fun to do with your full android.
I will check out the dual booting thing in the dev thread as you instructed because I see that as a good option ...hopefully I can have it so if the SD card is in then it boots to the hacked android and if the SD card is not in then it boots to normal standered nook color.
The one thing I am still searching for is the HTC Home type of screen (the old school flipping clock with the current time and weather and the windshiled wipers etc) for the Nook Color to display on the lock screen ...but I plan to look for that in the threads later on.
Can't you just flash back to stock with the posted stock ROM?
wgarrido said:
Can't you just flash back to stock with the posted stock ROM?
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That i guess would workd but how do I back up my Own rom ? and is the stock rom actually in ROM ? for some reason (and please correct me if I am wrong on this part) I thought that the Sock "rom" was actually on the SD card.
I am basically wanting to do away with the count to 8 before the rom kicks in ....maybe a cool thing would be to have an application that allows you to auto "flash" to the stock "rom" from a rooted machine ...like it would be an option and once done you would just have to manually reboot with out the SD card ( humm for to look more at the devfourms)
geekserver said:
I am basically wanting to do away with the count to 8 before the rom kicks in ....maybe a cool thing would be to have an application that allows you to auto "flash" to the stock "rom" from a rooted machine ...like it would be an option and once done you would just have to manually reboot with out the SD card ( humm for to look more at the devfourms)
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Check out MonsterRoot by IOMonster. Using his image, you can boot CWM from the SD card and backup your configuration to the SD. And of course restore.
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Check out MonsterRoot by IOMonster. Using his image, you can boot CWM from the SD card and backup your configuration to the SD. And of course restore.
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Intresting ... time to look for MonsterRoot.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=922870
Here comes a noob question, so bare with me here....
If I wanted to backup my stock 1.2.0 Nook (non-rooted), could I do this?
1. Boot from my SD card that has CWR 3.0.2.8 loaded.
2. Select the backup option in the menu.
3. After it's done, remove my sd card and put in my computer.
4. Copy the*.img in the backup directory to a safe spot!
Is it really that easy? Will that do a complete backup of everything (all partitions) on my nook? Then if I ever want to go back from being rooted, just restore that *.img and I'm good to go?
*almost* that easy
One thing you need to be aware of is that the CWR boot environment needs (in my experience) the full path to the backups it made to be able to see them again.
So you need to grab the /clockworkmod tree intact and save it, rather than fishing out the .IMG files.
To restore, recreate your CWR disk and drop the tree in.
Also, I've seen some things happen with either 1.2 or a diff between the CWR on the device and the CWR on the card where a restore that looked fine and took a long time ultimately wound up not succeeding.
So this is one you'd want to test before you built out a zillion bookshelves.
But this worked flawlessly for me when I was running 1.1, and I suspect the issue is I have a CWR 3.1 card and 3.2 something on the device (and making the backups by default.)
I've wondered this too, but since getting CM7 on my uSD have kind of forgotten about trying. Be sure to update if you give it a go!
Seminoobie, please help. I successfully made a Nook CM7 uSD with the Size-Agnostic instructions using 7.0.2 (thanks dev). Transcend 8gb card. Worked great for three days, now it is stuck on the circle-skater screen. I let it run for a half-hour, no dice.
Running Autnootered 3.0 emmc in 1.1, that works fine. I don't have CWM installed on emmc (I want to avoid this for now to make factory restore/1.2 upgrade easier for autonooter 4), so I have no current access to Rom Manager, if that matters. I've seen some posts suggesting to clear caches with Rom Manager but I assume the uSD caches aren't in internal memory, are they? Other posts suggest partition corruption but the card worked fine before I turned it off and rebooted, and the boot partion shows up on the computer with a card reader just as you would expect.
The last thing I did before this happened was run Titanium Backup to pull the 200 existing apps on emmc onto the CM7 card. I did this by copying the entire full Backup file from a standard sd backup to the computer, then copied that file back to the /sd partition after putting cm7 into usb mode, then running Titanium in CM7. That worked fine, and I even was able to move some of the apps to the virtual SD and they worked.
I could take an hour and burn another card but wondered if I am just missing something to fix this, also if I do burn another card whether I did something wrong in applying Titanium that I should avoid again.
Also wondering if it is worth waiting for a future stable build that addresses the Nook deep sleep/battery drain issue, which seems to be in the works.
If I burn another card and get the same freeze happiness will elude me. Thanks in advance.
I assume you powered down and rebooted. I have had that happen to me and after a fresh reboot everything loaded.
Hey Guys. I have a rooted Nexus One running CyanogenMod 7.2.0-RC0-N1-KANG. Sometime back I had my SD card connected to my PC via a memory card reader. I was deleting a video file but while the file was being deleted, my SD card got unmounted. I have no idea as to what happened but now it looks like I have considerable part of that space lost.
I did scan my SD card using Windows disk check but it found no errors. Now I am thinking of formatting my SD card. I have a 1 GB EXT3 partitioned 16 GB Sandisk SD card. Most of my apps are installed on the SD card. Which is the best way to format my SD card? Also I do have Rom Manager & Titanium Backup installed. How can I ensure that I back up all my data and do an easy restore? Alternately is there any way I can recover the lost space without formatting?
Any help will be greatly appreciated
there are some programs out there to retrieve lost disk data--i have not used any but a search may help
i bu all sdcard to pc then reformat with sdformatter with full erase and size adj ON, then repartition inside phone--0 swap
nandroid first
Thanks for replying rugmankc. Do you have a direct link to sdformatter? Also do you use rom manager for the partitioning? In case if I do backup my entire rom and then format my sd card, can I simply restore everything by loading up the backup? Can you give me some simple step by step procedure of backup & format? Thanks again for your help.
Sd formatter: https://www.sdcard.org/downloads/formatter_3/eula_windows
Nandroid backup
Backup to pc
Format sd card
Create partition (either wid pc or in recovery)
Copyback to sd card
PS: hv read ppl complaining abt rom manager aka cwm creating bad partitions.
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Hey n1newbie. Thanks a lot for your reply. Sorry for being noobish but which is the best way to make a Nandroid backup and how can I partition with PC and recovery? Also once I copy back the backup on to my sd card, how do I restore the backup?
sorry for my late reply--nite here
i use this one--but shouldn't matter--just make sure you use full erase on and size adj on--you want complete format, not partial as phone does
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/28338566/SDFormatter 2.0.mht
the steps n1newbie gave you are good ones
i use amonra so don't know cwr steps
the partition steps are done inside phone for me, as i mentioned, thru recovery and should be straight forward, including steps to bu and restore
there is no best way to nandroid an that term/folder won't be seen in cwr, just cw backups. the options should all be there in cw or rom mgr, including restore
i bu sdcard regularly and titanium too
Hi y2jamit, its a pleasure to help u
Choosing recovery is ur preference (clockworkmod,amonra,4ext)
As rugmankc said, Making a nandroid backup and restoring is done via recovery mode and is jus straight forward. Remember to use the same recovery for safer side
To format in PC try any partition tools (mini tool parition wizard )
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rugmankc & n1newbie, I really appreciate your help guys. Thank for making this so much more easier. I guess I now have the confidence to take the plunge
good luck
just read a lot on whatever you do so you have a good idea on it and then you can ask specific questions on the process--
ICS is still alpha so fairly unstable for a lot
Hello fellas, so I followed one of Leapinlar's guides on how to install CM11 onto my Nook HD+ 16gb. Everything went great and my Nook has been performing flawlessly all this time. I happen so have two Nook HD+ devices, and now that I know how much better CyanogenMod is compared to the stock OS, I want to install CM11 on the second one as well. I still have the bootable 2GB SD card I used to install CM11 on the Nook (used same card to backup stock B&N OS). At this stage, I plan on using the Nook until it dies on me, gets broken, or stolen. I don't see why I would go back to the stock OS.
1. Could I use the same bootable SD card to install CM11 onto the second Nook? was the serial # or anything of that sort saved onto the SD card making it unique to the device or something?
2. I have already done a Full baseline backup of my Nook on a FAT32-formatted SD card that isn't bootable. Is this backup better than the original bootable backup SD I made originally? Why would I still need the original stock B&N OS backup?
I couldn't find any threads on the subject, so I'm kind of hesitant to try it myself. Don't want to brick the Nook. Maybe one of you has tried it. Well, Happy Holidays to all of you. Thanks for the great forum.
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Merazomo said:
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1. Could I use the same bootable SD card to install CM11 onto the second Nook? was the serial # or anything of that sort saved onto the SD card making it unique to the device or something?
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My understanding is that even bootable variants of CM11 still go to the Nook's internal storage to get device serial #, MAC address, etc. So, one bootable SD card should be portable between devices.
I originally created a bootable SDcard variant of CM11 and liked it so much, that I decided to install it internally. Before I did that, however, I did back up the entire device (in case I decide to sell it). I then (search for the thread) made a bootable SDcard with B&N's OS v2.20. That way, if there's ever a reason you want to go back to the B&N OS, you can.
Merazomo said:
Hello fellas, so I followed one of Leapinlar's guides on how to install CM11 onto my Nook HD+ 16gb. Everything went great and my Nook has been performing flawlessly all this time. I happen so have two Nook HD+ devices, and now that I know how much better CyanogenMod is compared to the stock OS, I want to install CM11 on the second one as well. I still have the bootable 2GB SD card I used to install CM11 on the Nook (used same card to backup stock B&N OS). At this stage, I plan on using the Nook until it dies on me, gets broken, or stolen. I don't see why I would go back to the stock OS.
1. Could I use the same bootable SD card to install CM11 onto the second Nook? was the serial # or anything of that sort saved onto the SD card making it unique to the device or something?
2. I have already done a Full baseline backup of my Nook on a FAT32-formatted SD card that isn't bootable. Is this backup better than the original bootable backup SD I made originally? Why would I still need the original stock B&N OS backup?
I couldn't find any threads on the subject, so I'm kind of hesitant to try it myself. Don't want to brick the Nook. Maybe one of you has tried it. Well, Happy Holidays to all of you. Thanks for the great forum.
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Yes the same bootable SD can be used on multiple HD+ devices. But the backup files from the first device should be moved somewhere else since there is not room for two different backups on a 2GB card. And that first backup is unique to that device and should not be used on the second device, but the basic CWM is ok to use.
The original stock backup is useful if you want to go back to the way it was before installing CM. But it is not really necessary since you can flash the stock ROM from my HD/HD+ CWM thread linked in my signature (item 6) to get back to original out of the box condition. This might be useful if you need to return the device to B&N under warranty. Having CM installed on it when you return it voids the warranty.
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leapinlar said:
Yes the same bootable SD can be used on multiple HD+ devices. But the backup files from the first device should be moved somewhere else since there is not room for two different backups on a 2GB card. And that first backup is unique to that device and should not be used on the second device, but the basic CWM is ok to use.
The original stock backup is useful if you want to go back to the way it was before installing CM. But it is not really necessary since you can flash the stock ROM from my HD/HD+ CWM thread linked in my signature (item 6) to get back to original out of the box condition. This might be useful if you need to return the device to B&N under warranty. Having CM installed on it when you return it voids the warranty.
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I'm sorry, one last question. Would it be accurate to say that I can drag and drop the original B&N backup file I have in my 2GB sd card to my computer, zip it, save it, delete it from the sd card, and then do the same process for the second Nook HD+? Zip, save, and delete the original backup. Would the sd card still be bootable to install CM if I were to play around with only the backup and nothing else? DeanGibson and you leapinlar have pretty much answered my question completely. At this point I just want to pick my brain, all of this was pretty interesting. I won't bother you guys with any more questions regarding this subject, so thank you very much for the help.
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Merazomo said:
I'm sorry, one last question. ...
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Actually, you had two questions ... However, the answer to both is yes.
Merazomo said:
I'm sorry, one last question. Would it be accurate to say that I can drag and drop the original B&N backup file I have in my 2GB sd card to my computer, zip it, save it, delete it from the sd card, and then do the same process for the second Nook HD+? Zip, save, and delete the original backup. Would the sd card still be bootable to install CM if I were to play around with only the backup and nothing else? DeanGibson and you leapinlar have pretty much answered my question completely. At this point I just want to pick my brain, all of this was pretty interesting. I won't bother you guys with any more questions regarding this subject, so thank you very much for the help.
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Yes you can copy the backup files to your PC and delete the originals, but there is no need to zip them since they are already compressed and it is best to leave them native since they need to retain their md5 sums. The card will still be bootable.
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