I am sorry if this falls in the "dumb question" category, but I am wondering if anyone has created an image of the Unrooted NookColor system that could be booted up from the SD. This would allow me to attempt a boot from SD when I want the Nook to look/act like it did before rooting without the hassle of unrooting and re-rooting.
I wouldn't say dumb, but the answer is "no" though I would love it myself, as well as a bunch of others too.
This would be very handy. To run the Nook fully rooted and eventually all nookied up running all internally it would be ace to slip in an SD card and get all the deals from B&N and occasionally read a book
Jsorvik said:
I am sorry if this falls in the "dumb question" category, but I am wondering if anyone has created an image of the Unrooted NookColor system that could be booted up from the SD. This would allow me to attempt a boot from SD when I want the Nook to look/act like it did before rooting without the hassle of unrooting and re-rooting.
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I attempted to do this some time ago, changing all instances of mmcblk0 to mmcblk1 in init.rc in the ram disk. The SD card image was unregistered (you had to go through the first start steps of putting in your B&N account) and the image on the internal flash had been started and registered.
If I remember correctly, I was able to boot and register from the SD card. However, when I removed the SD card and booted the internal flash, it acted as though I was unregistered, and there were other troubles as well. I restored it, and didn't pursue it further.
This indicates that there are other places where you need to switch from internal flash to SD card so that your internal flash doesn't get written to.
I made the backup using auto-nooter-2-12-15.img.zip where I modified the ramdisk not to actually run the auto nooter script. (you just remove it from /etc/init.d/) I could then log in via SSH and dd the internal flash to the SD card.
The idea about changing mmcblk0 to mmcblk1 was in this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=873243
-Mysteryvortex
Bump to the top. . . just because I am curious if anyone is still working on this. Any takers? With the ability to flash Froyo to the EMMC, it would be really nice to have a non-rooted version of the original NC that we could boot from SD when doing the B&N Reader thang. . . .
I was reading this thread [RECOVERY] Monster RootPack 0.7 / Clockwork Recovery 3.0.0.5 SD (1.1 Compatible!). But, since I am new to this forum I couldn't post there. I hope this is the right place to ask for help.
I upgraded my NC to 1.1.0 successfully. I put Autonooter 3.0.0 on a MicroSD card. With my NC off, I inserted the card and then plugged the NC into my PC. I got a black screen for over 5 minutes. It looked like nothing was happening, so, I disconnected the NC, removed the SD card and tired to turn the NC on. No joy, it won't turn on and won't boot at all. I think my Nook is bricked. Any ideas what went wrong?
I've read some other threads about similar problems. It seems there is a fix to get it back to stock (1.1.0). I hope the Recovery thread I mentioned above is where the answer lies. But, I'm a bit confused and don't want to make any more mistakes. I only have one 4GB SD card at my disposal right now.
My questions are as follows:
1. Is my NC bricked beyond hope of recovery?
2. If I follow the procedures in this post can I get it to boot from the sd card even though it won't turn on at all?
3. What is the difference between the Rootpack and the Clockwork Recovery Image?
4. This is the confusing part. Should I download the RootPack? Or, should I download a bootable Clockwork SD card (128mb, 1gb, 2gb, 4gb, 8gb)
5. Since I only have a 4GB card, what should I choose?
6. Should I opt for 1.0.1, or 1.1.0 where it was still working.
7. Can I get all of this on one 4GB card?
8. Is there anything else I should be weary of before starting this procedure?
If i have posted this in the wrong place, I am sorry. But, I hope someone can clear things up for me. Thanks.
This is the right place to ask general questions.
1. Most certainly not.
2. Yes, using a bootable CWR SD is the way to go.
3. Totally different. The Rootpack is the name given to a package that helps you root your Nook. CWR image is a recovery image. That means you can boot to this recovery utility and apply changes to you NC (like repairing stuff, making backups, etc.).
4. An image will adapt to the drive. If you have a 4GB SD and burn (dd) a 1GB image to it, your SD will suddenly present itself as a 1GB SD. If you format it with the right tool, your SD will be 4GB again. So don't panick, if it says 1GB after burning, it's jut "adapted to the image". You haven't lost any disk space.
5. 1GB would be enough, but you can go up to 4GB image with a 4GB.. It could sometimes be a problem to apply an image which is the exact same size as the drive. I would use th 1GB, which is plenty for what you are going to do.
6. That's up to you. Both should work.
7. Yes.
8. Just read threads exhaustively before attempting anything..
So what you need to do is read threads about this CWR Bootable img to learn how to burn it to your SD.
Then, find the appropriate .zip files to flash (apply) (1.1 recovery and 1.0.1 are available in dev section.
Copy them to root of SD.
Boot with the SD Card and apply zip files from SD.
If your NC should still have problems booting, you can also apply a boot repair zip file, that you will find on my Nook Color restore to stock tread in dev..
Sam
His Rootpack wont work on 1.1.0 You should have seen that in his instructions. It will only block 1.1.0 and fake it. You need to see this thread to fix your nook. It is 100% NOT bricked, just messed up atm. You can fix it tho. Read here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=949699
Thanks for thr quick reponse Sam. I'm at work now, but will be able to use your suggestions later this afternoon\tonight. So, if I get a 1gb CWR image on my 4gb sd card, plus the 1.1.0 zip file and put it in the root of the sd card, the Nook should boot up even though I can't turn it on now? How long typacally will it take to boot up? What should I expect to see?
I will post results after I try the procedure. Thanks again!!
Thanks Thiboi69. I have printed out the instructions from the link you sent and will follow them to the T. I'll post results later.
It will work. I have never heard of a 100%bricked NookColor to date. And I have read 1,000's of posts here over the past 4 months. IT is just your boot partition that is messed up and B&N made it check the sdcard first for a Boot partition, then fall back to eMMC. Thank you B&N !!!
I downloaded all the files, wrote them to my sd card, and put it in the Nook. When I connected the Nook to my pc, I got a messaage the the battery was too low to turn on. So, I took the sd card out, and put the Nook on charge. After a while, it turned on, booted up and when I checked my OS, I found that I had
version 1.1.0. Apparently, my attempt to root with autonooter 3, never got installed, partially or completely. And, my battery probably got to low to turn the nook on. So, I didn't need to use CWR after all. I apologize to all who have tried to help me. But, all replies were good and contained useful info.
Now, my question is: Should I try to use Autonooter 3 again, or is there an easier
(more foolproof) way to root v1.1.0?
I just got a nook last night with the sole intention of hacking it - and did so in a matter of minutes. Autonooter couldnt be easier! When you get to the part of putting the SD card in the nook and connecting it to USB to make it boot, just plug it in and go get a cup of coffee. Don't unplug or touch anything until it boots up by itself. At 1st I thought it wasn't doing anything as I didn't see a clockwork mod screen come up or anything, but just be patient and it'll tell you when it's done. Just make sure it's pretty well charged when you do it - mine was about 80% or so.
Honestly after less than a day of the rooted stock 2.1 Eclair OS, I'm ready to drop a fully customized Froyo or Gingerbread image on this thing. Autonooter it 1st and run it for a few days 1st and see what you think. I'm still learning the ins and outs of tinkering with this thing, but so far it seems much easier than the Epic and Moment I've been beating on. Seems pretty well unbrickable too thanks to the boot to SD 1st option B&N baked into this puppy.
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I was reading this thread [RECOVERY] Monster RootPack 0.7 / Clockwork Recovery 3.0.0.5 SD (1.1 Compatible!). But, since I am new to this forum I couldn't post there. I hope this is the right place to ask for help.
I upgraded my NC to 1.1.0 successfully. I put Autonooter 3.0.0 on a MicroSD card. With my NC off, I inserted the card and then plugged the NC into my PC. I got a black screen for over 5 minutes. It looked like nothing was happening, so, I disconnected the NC, removed the SD card and tired to turn the NC on. No joy, it won't turn on and won't boot at all. I think my Nook is bricked. Any ideas what went wrong?
I've read some other threads about similar problems. It seems there is a fix to get it back to stock (1.1.0). I hope the Recovery thread I mentioned above is where the answer lies. But, I'm a bit confused and don't want to make any more mistakes. I only have one 4GB SD card at my disposal right now.
My questions are as follows:
1. Is my NC bricked beyond hope of recovery?
2. If I follow the procedures in this post can I get it to boot from the sd card even though it won't turn on at all?
3. What is the difference between the Rootpack and the Clockwork Recovery Image?
4. This is the confusing part. Should I download the RootPack? Or, should I download a bootable Clockwork SD card (128mb, 1gb, 2gb, 4gb, 8gb)
5. Since I only have a 4GB card, what should I choose?
6. Should I opt for 1.0.1, or 1.1.0 where it was still working.
7. Can I get all of this on one 4GB card?
8. Is there anything else I should be weary of before starting this procedure?
If i have posted this in the wrong place, I am sorry. But, I hope someone can clear things up for me. Thanks.
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Joe, I would recommend downloading the 1gb rootpack image and a restore to stock file. Make your bootable clockwork recovery image, place the resotre to stock file on the sdcard, turn your nook off, insert the sdcard, power on and flash the file. All this info and more can be found in my thread here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=949699
Thanks for your suggestion Riley, please take a look at my post # 7 above. Seemd my NC
had a low battery. When I charged it, all was ok. It booted up and I was back in 1.1.0.
But, I just now tried autonooter 3.0.0 again. When I pluged thr NC inyo my PC, I got some sort or warning message. I hit cancel and waited a few minutes. The message came up again. It said the device was not recognized. I unplugged, removed the card, and my fully charged NV won't turn on. And, windows explorer can not read the sd card. This is basically what happened yesterday to cause my panic. The sd card had all the files befor I inserted it into the NC. Now, it's unreadable and I can't turn on or boot the NC again.
Is it autonooter 3.0.0, or the card, or the Nook, or me?????
One correction to post # 10. I can read the sd card in windows explorer. But my NC won't turn on.
With sd card out of the Nook, I get a "Welcome to the Found New Hardware Wizzard"
What does this tell anyone about the condition of my Nook?
I am having a problem and don't really know what to do. When I start my NC its stops at the N screen and goes no further. I've tried a lot of the different ways to get it back to stock with no luck. When I try to write CWM to my SD card with win32 it either doesn't have enough room to put the stock file on the zip with it or when I open the SD card it says the card needs to be formatted. The file is a tr.gz or something like that is there a step between that I am missing or just download the CWM and write to SD using win32? I also tried adb with no luck. I am very new to rooting so any super dumbed down instructions would be greatly appreciated.
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You can put the rom image to a separate SD card. Just swap it after you boot up from cwr. I did it before for flashing froyo to emmc.
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I am having a problem and don't really know what to do. When I start my NC its stops at the N screen and goes no further. I've tried a lot of the different ways to get it back to stock with no luck. When I try to write CWM to my SD card with win32 it either doesn't have enough room to put the stock file on the zip with it or when I open the SD card it says the card needs to be formatted. The file is a tr.gz or something like that is there a step between that I am missing or just download the CWM and write to SD using win32? I also tried adb with no luck. I am very new to rooting so any super dumbed down instructions would be greatly appreciated.
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Have you followed the restore-to-stock procedure outlined in this thread?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=914690
Just a noobish advise!
After configure everything and become accustomed to some of the NC behaviors this should not matter, but I remember at my first attempts at rooting the NC, using a Win7 PC was much easier than using Win XP or iOS devices. Might fix your 'not recognized' problems, sd card recognition and formatting problems etc.
It has CWM on it. I can get it to recovery but it will not recognize the SD or not mount it and I go to mount it in the menu and it says something like can not mount SD card so I have been trying to do the CWM SD burn but I keep getting the above errors I am on a vista computer so I will try it on my windows 7 one and see how that goes. And the different SD card one I will try that as well after work thank you for the help.
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Have you followed the restore-to-stock procedure outlined in this thread?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=914690
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Yes I did try that one I put the nookie froyo on the SD and put it I'm my turned off NC and plugged it in to my computer and it sat at the N screen forever and after a while I took it off and it was still in the same state could the CWM be the problem?
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I'm not sure what posts 13 thru 18 have to do with my problem???
Just didn't feel like starting a new thread for the couple of questions I had along the same line as yours.
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So I did what I wasn't supposed to do: I rooted my Nook and decided I wanted CM7. So I went into CWR, rom zip in hand, and that's when the trouble started. My plan was to format everything, so I started with boot. CWR froze and it hasn't turned on since.
Now, I've searched and read everything about this exact situation. I need a bootable CWR sdcard and then flash the repartition boot zip.
That would be great except every CWR sdcard I burn, never works. Nothing can get this thing to come to life. I burn the sdcard, put it in the Nook, plug it to the PC and nothing happens.
I have a 2GB and 16GB card, and I've tried the 2GB images, 8GB images, 128 MB images, everything.
I really don't know what is going on, but I believe I have the world's first bricked Nook.
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So I did what I wasn't supposed to do: I rooted my Nook and decided I wanted CM7. So I went into CWR, rom zip in hand, and that's when the trouble started. My plan was to format everything, so I started with boot. CWR froze and it hasn't turned on since.
Now, I've searched and read everything about this exact situation. I need a bootable CWR sdcard and then flash the repartition boot zip.
That would be great except every CWR sdcard I burn, never works. Nothing can get this thing to come to life. I burn the sdcard, put it in the Nook, plug it to the PC and nothing happens.
I have a 2GB and 16GB card, and I've tried the 2GB images, 8GB images, 128 MB images, everything.
I really don't know what is going on, but I believe I have the world's first bricked Nook.
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I had similar problems early on. Found out app i used wasnt burning image. Try older version of win32 disk imager. If the burn is bad, nook wont power on till sd card is removed.
Absolute NooB to the NC here, so please be gentle!
I've got four issues that should be no-brainers but they are beating me up. I've split them into four separate posts to keep things clean.
3. I have CM7 RC4 installed on eMMC (would have preferred to run it from uSDcard but that's another story).
After I got CM7 installed, wireless configured and then gApps installed, I noticed that the uSDcard wasn't mounted. No problem, popped into Setup, Storage and mounted the card.
But this card had been around the block a couple of times, so I figured it would be best to freshen it, partitions and all.
Started ROM Manager and tried to partition the card. But ROM Manager wouldn't partition without installing CWR.
No problem... went ahead and installed CWR, then partitioned the card.
But now I have a problem.
No matter what I do now, I can't boot to CM7 if the uSDcard is installed it boots into CWR. Even if I unmount the card before rebooting, still goes to CWR.
The only way I can get to CM7 now is to physically remove the card, boot, insert the card then mount it manually.
Surely this can't be right.
What have I done wrong?
CWM doesn't work correctly if installed from ROM Manager...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1024616
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Thanks, danger-rat, for the pointer to CWR 3.0.1.0.
Unfortunately, I flashed it and still have the same problem. No matter what I do, boots to CWR if uSDcard is in place.
Format your sd card in your computer. download the attached sdformatter (found it on these forums somewhere) and use it. it will delete any funky partitions on the card. it sounds like that card has cwm on it, and the nook will always boot SD card first.
Please make sure you take the sd card out of your nook, and put it in a card reader to perform this step. not sure if would work right if you tried it in the nook.
I have had to do this a few times to fix cards that have been modified to be bootable on the nook.
Hi,
The Nook Color will try and boot first from an external uSD card. If there is
a bootable image on it, it will boot from it. Unmounting (but not removing)
the uSD before rebooting does not change if the uSD is detected on
rebooting.
From what you say, if you have your external uSD in the slot, you say
you always boot into CWM - I assume this is running on the external uSD.
It sounds like you need to reformat and possibly repartition your uSD to all
fat32. There are several threads discussing restoring a uSD to a single
large partition.
One of them referenced this tool to run on a PC (I haven't used it)
http://www.sdcard.org/consumers/formatter_3/
This will delete the contents of the uSD, so make sure there is nothing
you want on it!
I have been keeping several uSD cards around, one for flashing from time
to time and one for data and backups.
Hope this helps,
Peter
adealey said:
Thanks, danger-rat, for the pointer to CWR 3.0.1.0.
Unfortunately, I flashed it and still have the same problem. No matter what I do, boots to CWR if uSDcard is in place.
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danger-rat said:
CWM doesn't work correctly if installed from ROM Manager...
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all you should have to do is flash the cwm zip with the ext4 kernel (cwmr_3.0.1.0.zip) from this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=971197
For me all i did was install with Rommanger, then reboot into cwm and installed the zip. works like a charm
Have had NC rooted w CM7 since April w no problems.
As of month ago, SD card has not stayed in. Seems spring that locks card in is junk. Tried other cards and same thing so has to be hardware.
Because of this, can't download any files, update CM7, CWM, etc. Total bummer.
Can I flash CWM and CM7 directly to emmc or is that impossible w/o SD card?
Have searched multiple forums for resolutions to this issue but no one else seems to have this problem.
Would hate to lose this functionality and have a crippled NC.
Thanks in advance
I never done that but according to my read, you have 2 options
1. Flash CwMR (aka ROM Manager) into eMMC and using it.
2. If you can get ADB working, you can push stuff over.
I had exactly that problem and it happened right in the middle of an update and would not reboot at all. Here is what I did:
Fished out my original, bootable SD card with Nightly 86 and the apps pack, put it in the slot and held it all the way in. Booted up and reinstalled CM7 to the eMMC. (I did not wipe anything but Davlik so I still had all my apps and settings. Then, rebooted into CM7 while holding my regular SD card in place, opened ROM Manager and reinstalled Nightly 201. (I had to hold the SD card in throughout this process to complete which was very strenuous.) Now I am back to where I was, except the SD card slot is basically useless. I called in under warranty and a new Nook is on the way. When I get it I will go through this tiresome process one more time to revert the current Nook to stock before i return it.
If you were only running CM7 off the SD card and still have a functioning stock Nook, forget everything i just said and call them up to request a replacement under warranty. If your warranty is over, you are either stuck with stock or you will have to root the way I just mentioned above.