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[Q] Nandroid Restore on New Nook Color?

I need to swap out my NC due to screen issues. I have a setup I like with NF 0.6.7 on eMMC. Is it safe to do a nandroid backup of my setup through CWM (or make images of my partitions using dd commands through ADB) to restore to my new NC? Or am I better off just starting from scratch? It's not a big deal either way, but I could save a few hours of work.

As far as I understand, Clockwork mod doesn't work as it should with Froyo. I've tried booting into a CWM bootable sd card, then swaping it out with another sd card because of storage issues. I then tried a backup and it failed to work. I kept getting errors.
If you can get CWM to backup a Froyo install please share how you did this.
You may be able to dd your eMMC partitions, then make your own CWM flashable zip to restore. How reliable this might be is above me.
All in all, it's not that complicated nor time consuming to just redo everything on your new nook.
Best of luck.

woot1524 said:
As far as I understand, Clockwork mod doesn't work as it should with Froyo. I've tried booting into a CWM bootable sd card, then swaping it out with another sd card because of storage issues. I then tried a backup and it failed to work. I kept getting errors.
If you can get CWM to backup a Froyo install please share how you did this.
You may be able to dd your eMMC partitions, then make your own CWM flashable zip to restore. How reliable this might be is above me.
All in all, it's not that complicated nor time consuming to just redo everything on your new nook.
Best of luck.
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Your are probably right. Better to just set everything up again. Just hope I don't run to problems like some others have been reporting with the market, etc.
I attempted to perform a backup of NF on internal memory using CWM from SD, and it failed to work. I installed CWM through Rom Manager (rebooted immediately after flashing) because it did not install with the flashable zip. I booted into recovery via Rom Manager and performed a nandroid backup. It took about 8 minutes and produced a 252Mb backup. I have no idea how reliable it is. Perhaps I will attempt to flash back to rooted 1.1 or 1.0.1, then restore the NF nandroid before I return the NC to see if it works or not.

You actualy got CWM to boot after flashing it with rom manager to the eMMC? I've always read that, that's not possible with Froyo on the eMMC.

I have flashed at least two different backups of 2.2 and stock 2.1.
didn't do anything special.
-edit- i suppose i should mention this was with cwm on emmc.

woot1524 said:
You actualy got CWM to boot after flashing it with rom manager to the eMMC? I've always read that, that's not possible with Froyo on the eMMC.
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I was a bit leery since I read about folks getting into bootloops installing CWM, but figured it was supposed to be installed with the flashable NF 0.6.7 zip, so thought how much trouble could I get into?
I also read that you must reboot immediately after flashing CWM through Rom Manager to avoid bootloops (this advice seemed related to NC's Eclair 1.0.1 or 1.1) - I have no idea if that was necessary, but figured there was no harm in following the directions.
I thought I should be able to nandroid off of the CWM running from SD (it is possible I was using Monster's CWM image, which I understand will not nandroid from SD?), but didn't have success so figured I would try flashing it to eMMC.

lafester said:
I have flashed at least two different backups of 2.2 and stock 2.1.
didn't do anything special.
-edit- i suppose i should mention this was with cwm on emmc.
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How were you able to make backups of 2.2? I have froyo 6.7 on eMMC with CWM flashed via rom manager and I'm completly unable to boot into it. I've tried using the option in rom manager to boot into recovery, I also tried holding menu+PWR at boot and that did not work.

[Q] Honeycomb emmc formatting /boot?

Just a heads up: The instructions for @samuelhalff 's Honeycomb emmc ROM include this:
Boot with SD inserted, go to 'mounts and storage', and:
- format system, then data and THEN format boot (CWR may crash, simply hard reboot, format should have worked).
If you do format /boot, you will lose the ability to boot into CWR. That may be okay with you, but after trying Honeycomb on my emmc I went back to Froyo, and couldn't figure out why I couldn't boot into recovery.
See this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=883175&page=103
if you want to restore the original /boot files.
Q: do I have to start over per the thread above or can I just push files to my /boot via ADB? or just boot from SD and restore that way if files are available?
Thanks!

you can boot to cwr via sdcard. that's how those of us on HC do it to make backups and such. works perfect.

Yep I *can* boot to CWR on SD. That's how I installed Honeycomb to the emmc. What I'd like is to restore CWR to /boot
Thanks though.

ahh. sorry, misunderstood.
you could try it... though from what i've read, it's risky. they say it's safer to just run it from the sd card.
if it works out well for you, please post up!

Ran it for a day. Too many force closes for me, but really cool that it runs at all!
Sent from my Nook Color (zoom2) using Tapatalk

My main concern is that I followed the instructions to install Honeycomb via CWR and it worked fine, but I didn't know that reinstalling from scratch ie. nook 1.x would be required since just reinstalling @cicada's Froyo port does not replace all of /boot
No tragedy. Restore just takes a bit longer.
If anybody can tell me how to restore /boot without wiping my current Froyo install that would be pretty nifty.

@xawen to the rescue!
Thanks!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=958748

[Nook Color] Cannot return to stock from Cyanogen

So I rooted my Nook with autonooter 3.0.0, I followed all the directions entirely. It worked perfectly, I liked it but wanted to try other stuff. Then I successfully installed Honeycomb v4 on my Nook, I tried it out, but didn't like it, I'll wait until later as its more developed. Then I installed CM7 on my Nook. Its nice, but for some reason a lot of my important apps force close on me. So I thought would just return to stock and then go to autonooter. I tried the method found here - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=914690
So I don't know if it matters, but I remember formatting boot, system, and data in CWR during the installations of Honeycomb, and also formatting the system and data in CM7 and also in trying to return to stock. So in each of the installations I followed all of the directions perfectly.
Ok, so here is my problem. After I try to return to stock, I try to boot up my Nook, it goes to the Touch the Future of Reading screen, then to the screen with the 'n' on it and the adobe message at the bottom comes up. However, it will not go passed this. It hangs and I cannot fix it. I have tried the 8 reboots which does reinstall the original firmware, however when its complete and reboots it does not boot, it does the same thing I just described.
Please help, if I have left out any information just ask and I will fill in the details.

There is a recovery zip on the development forum. Boot into cwr and flash... that should do the trick... hopefully.
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ext3 / ext4
Doesnt he need to format the partions with a ext3 cwr before flashing or will the recovery do that?

vtx67 said:
Doesnt he need to format the partions with a ext3 cwr before flashing or will the recovery do that?
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Yeah, I'm beginning to think I do have to fix up the partitions because everything I do is just giving me more hang.
Can anyone help with that?

Get CWR 3.0.5...
Write the SD card image to your uSD...
Copy repartition-boot-with-stock.zip to the root of the SD card...
Decide if you want to restore to 1.0.0 or 1.0.1 and copy the appropriate nook-complete-restore-1.0.x.zip to root of the SD card....
Boot off the SD card in your NC
since you say you have formatted boot... shouldn't ever need to do that btw...
Format Boot... System... Data... and cache...
Install the repartition boot zip file... then the complete system restore from SD card.

yeah.. once you reformat with CWR 3.0.0.5 you should be able to do the re-partition boot flash and then restore the image.
I just got back that way as well.

DizzyDen said:
Get CWR 3.0.5...
Write the SD card image to your uSD...
Copy repartition-boot-with-stock.zip to the root of the SD card...
Decide if you want to restore to 1.0.0 or 1.0.1 and copy the appropriate nook-complete-restore-1.0.x.zip to root of the SD card....
Boot off the SD card in your NC
since you say you have formatted boot... shouldn't ever need to do that btw...
Format Boot... System... Data... and cache...
Install the repartition boot zip file... then the complete system restore from SD card.
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Thanks for all the help! I'm going to try this now. And I'm guessing it is, but will it be ok to use CWR 3.0.0.6 and boot with that from the SD card?

It needs to be CWR 3.0.0.5 in my experience.
3.0.0.6 supports EXT4 partitions and won't format them back to EXT3.. as long as they are EXT4, the nook will not boot into the stock rom.
The stock kernel doesn't support EXT4.. so it hangs just before it loads the system files..
If you wipe the partitions using 3.0.0.5 and install the full recovery image for 1.01 you should be a-ok.

Alright I got it! You guys are the best! Thanks for the help! Now I just need to re-root and I'm good to go! Thanks again!
Oh and yeah I used 3.0.0.5, that may have been the problem all along because I kept trying to fix with 3.0.0.6. Thanks!

[Q] is there a CWR-flashable stock+auto-nooker image out there?

I have been playing with HC, CM7 etc on my Nook color and decided to go back to running auto-nooker on top of stock, but I want to keep the SD CWR image I made, which has a lot of free space for me to play with future ROM. Has someone packed an CWR zip for auto-nooker?
Thanks.

mathfeel said:
I have been playing with HC, CM7 etc on my Nook color and decided to go back to running auto-nooker on top of stock, but I want to keep the SD CWR image I made, which has a lot of free space for me to play with future ROM. Has someone packed an CWR zip for auto-nooker?
Thanks.
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BOOM Wining.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=932145

therealguppy said:
BOOM Wining.
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LOL. Thanks.
My current ROM is phiremod nook V4.1. After flashing this and reboot. The Nook U picture flashes, then it's flashing "A N D R O I D _" prompt at the lower left and nothing...

There are three of us currently stuck on that damned android_ screen right now. As I posted in the other one if you get out of this please post your steps!

I reflashed phiremod nook V4.1. That boots pass ANDROID_.

Hmm maybe this is due to CM7 using EXT4 and stock using EXT3,
after flashing the Stock restore also try flash the Restore Boot Partition..
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=914690
At the bottom of the first post on this one you can find the Restore Boot. which restores Stock B&N boot.

I already did that. Right now as I turn it on, it displays the "Touch the Future of Reading" line instead of the "Loading..." line from CWR. Or do you think this is not sufficient?
There is message when installing repartition-boot-with-stock.zip:
"This will install stock boot 1.0.1 Eclaire --- This won't boot with Froyo!"
Can this the issue too?
EDIT: During the 5 minutes delay b/t post, I installed repartition-boot-with-stock.zip and Nook Color-v1.1.0-r2.zip, now it boots and stucked at the Nook icon with the "Contain Reader Mobile by Adobe" line.

Okay, so I restore stock image, albeit 1.0.1 using images form this page:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=919353
Steps:
1. download/extract boot.img and system.img to bootable sdcard (with CWRv3.0.0.6)
2. boot using sdcard, mount /sdcards
3. use adb to dd the image as described in article.
4. repeat failed boot to force recovery.
I thought this would restore /system and /boot ext3 again, but it doesn't...still getting stuck at "ANDROID_" prompt after reflashing the Nook Color v1.1 above. I am going back to CM7...sigh...
EDIT: Actually, it DID work! My problem was when I reflashed Nook Color v1.1-r2.zip, I wiped system and data, which I shouldn't have.

therealguppy said:
Hmm maybe this is due to CM7 using EXT4 and stock using EXT3,
after flashing the Stock restore also try flash the Restore Boot Partition..
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=914690
At the bottom of the first post on this one you can find the Restore Boot. which restores Stock B&N boot.
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FYI I've been in the same boat as you a couple of times now with my Nook not wanting to boot. And it seems it gets to different points each time before locking up and not booting. I'm starting to think the same thing as your comments here. This whole ext4 stuff is what seems to be causing issues for a lot of folks specially when wanting to go back to a different ROM or stock. To further compound it is the fact the newest CWR is 3.0.1.0 and all bootable sdcard files are still 3.0.0.6 or 3.0.0.5. With that said I can tell you making a backup using the 3.0.1.0 CWR that is on the internal mem and then getting stuck booting is no good. Reason being from wha tI've found so far is if you take your 3.0.1.0 backup and put it on a bootable sdcard that has 3.0.0.6 so you can restore, it does not work right from what I've found. The only way I've found to fix it easily so far is to first flash the " Remove CWR * .zip from the link posted here. After that then flash the repartition-boot-with-stock.zip file. Once I've flash those 2 files I'm able to flash a new ROM and have it boot like it should.
Another way I've got around it was to power the device on into recovery with no sdcard in the device. Once it booted into recovery ( ie CWR 3.0.1.0 ) I put the sdcard in the device that had my 3.0.1.0 CWR backup. I restored that backup using the actual 3.0.1.0 recovery from internal mem. Once finished tried to boot and it got stuck. When it did I then powered it down and fire it back up but this time booting to the sdcard and then I flashed the repartition-boot-with-stock.zip and it would finally boot up like it should.
Bottom line IMO at least is it seems to be hit or miss on what is the best way to get it back up and running after the boot partition gets hosed. And that can make it a bit frustrating.

Sorry I don't have time to read all of this. Just keep in mind that > 3.0.0.6 formats to ext4 (ie CM). For stock and froyo, use 3.0.0.5 to format to ext2 and 3..
System, data and cache need formatting before flashing a new rom.
Repartitioning boot is only useful if your NC doesn't boot.
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thought 3.0.1.0 was supposed to work for everything.

[Q] Stuck at Nookie 'N'

Having successfully been using Froyo for a while, I decided to try the CM7 RC. After the flashing the ROM the Nook got stuck in a boot loop, after several attempts, I tried to go back to Froyo. Formatted the System and data under mounts and storage then flashed froyo, now stuck at the Nook N. Repartitioned the boot partition and tried to restore to stock no luck any help would be much appreciated.
- Stuck at Nookie 'N'

A couple questions first; did you reformat your eMMC to EXT-4 by formating system, data, and cache with CWM 3.0.1.0.? Which is required before flashing CM7. If you did then you cannot go back to froyo without reverting back to EXT-3, by formating system/data/cache with CWM 3.0.0.5.
You also may have a messed up boot partition, try flashing one of dalingrin's kernels for froyo or CM7, whichever one you're trying to recover. they are located here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=925451
That's about all I can say without knowing if you went to EXT-4

This will fix your problem....
Make a bootable SD immage of CWR. Burn it with a tool of your choice.
After that is done: Open up the sd card and toss the ROM that you want to flash in the root folder. (Hell, or make folders, thats what I do)
Next insert the SD card and restart your nook. You will have booted into CWR where you can then flash the Rom you stored on the SD card.
EDIT: Here is the link of the CWR images: http://legacyschool.us.to/nookdev/clockwork/0.7/

Thanks for the quick response, I am currently using CWM 3.0.0.6, I tried your suggestion of using dalingrin's kernel, no luck. One thing I failed to mention is when I attempted to flash froyo it aborted every time.
btw colbur87 I am using a bootable uSD card...

fpacheco1960 said:
Thanks for the quick response, I am currently using CWM 3.0.0.6, I tried your suggestion of using dalingrin's kernel, no luck. One thing I failed to mention is when I attempted to flash froyo it aborted every time.
btw colbur87 I am using a bootable uSD card...
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Try getting the 3.0.5.0 CWM from this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=922870
Then flash it to your uSD card.
Boot to said uSD card
Format /data, /system, /cache
Flash Froyo.zip
Clear Davik-cache
reboot
install OC kernel
clear Dalvik-cache
reboot
I think when you formated with 3.0.6.0 you upgraded your eMMC to EXT-4, and froyo can only run on EXT-3. I may be wrong, but this should set you back up with froyo anyways.
If you're still stuck at the 'n' screen after this, then your /boot partition may be corupted, and someone might have to supply you with a proper one.

This helped a lot it turned out to be the incompatible file systems EXT-3 EXT-4.
I was able to restore my nook to stock. Now I will start over, again thanks a lot....