Rooting question - Nook Color General

I had read through many of the root threads and for the first time rooter it is very confusing. Seems easy enough but when I go to links etc. they are not the same or broken. I would just like to be able to do a step by step so I understand the process and some of the other terms etc. that others throw out will be more understood. I have built computers and overclocked so I am should be able to walk through something this easy but apparently not. I have a 1.2 Nook Color. Didn't know if I should update to 1.4 then root or just go at it from here. I have read the nook developers site, here in the android developement section and none of them seem to actually work as the tutorial says. I have a 16GB class 10 card as well.
If anyone could give me a hand...I would sincerely appreciate it.

I would stay with BN version 1.2 and use manual nooter from there. Did you try that yet?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1054027

If you are thinking about a custom rom check out the guide in my sig otherwise I would suggest just staying on 1.2.
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So if I deregister and wipe will it go back to 1.2? I wanted to run from an SD card but I thought I read Class 6 or better and now all I see is Class 2 or 4 MSDC...very confusing.
I do like the two links and are better than what I had found so far. Added in little things that seem obvious to most...and probably are.
Perhaps the issue from running off the card came from the fact I was trying to do it off 1.41 and no one has done it for that yet?
In any event thanks for the information and puts me closer than I have been thusfar.

Blindbart said:
So if I deregister and wipe will it go back to 1.2? I wanted to run from an SD card but I thought I read Class 6 or better and now all I see is Class 2 or 4 MSDC...very confusing.
I do like the two links and are better than what I had found so far. Added in little things that seem obvious to most...and probably are.
Perhaps the issue from running off the card came from the fact I was trying to do it off 1.41 and no one has done it for that yet?
In any event thanks for the information and puts me closer than I have been thusfar.
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You can run from an SD card on 1.4 but you will not get good results unless you use a Sandisk brand class 2 or 4 8GB or above.
The only thing that 1.4 doesn't have is a working MN root.
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So it sounds like my struggles are just from the mSDC? That sucks...I am sure I will use it for something though.

Since I don't even have a B&N account I said screw it. Gave up on the dual boot and put the latest CM7 on there. I got the kindle app and lots of apps. It really turned out nice. Don't know why I hesitated just going with the CM7 in the first place.
In any event thanks for the help and my kid is gonna dig the Christmas gift.

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Need help on if i should go from Official 1.5 (Cupcake) to other builds...

i am really new to this g1 root stuff, i have cupcake 1.5, and i see that alot of the custom builds have some pretty cool stuff. but am wondering if they are better than cupcake, how do i go about changing, and also i have no idea how to "root" my phone, so if anyone has time to explain in detail how to do this, i would really appreciate it. i need to know step by step how to go from cupcake to jf1.51ADP(best ive seen) without making it look hard...lol
Step 1. Search.
Step 2. Read through the 2534 threads that cover this exact question.
Example: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=442480
here ya go
http://www.lmgtfy.com/?q=xda+how+to+root
http://allshadow.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=5692&p=40417#p40417
Info on the builds
litterally follow the instructions, step by step without missing anything out
I only moved across from 1.5 to jv1.5 adp last week and thought it would be hard to do, but actually found it very easy once i read the instructions, downloaded everything first, and then went through it step by step...
walkerx said:
litterally follow the instructions, step by step without missing anything out
I only moved across from 1.5 to jv1.5 adp last week and thought it would be hard to do, but actually found it very easy once i read the instructions, downloaded everything first, and then went through it step by step...
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yup same thing i did when i got my phone at the beginning of the year.. i thought it was so much to do, which it was. i wanted to make my phone better then the IPhone.. so i read, read without much question asked.
xda dream fourm was clean and had only 3 pages of thread when i i first joined.
anddep said:
yup same thing i did when i got my phone at the beginning of the year.. i thought it was so much to do, which it was. i wanted to make my phone better then the IPhone.. so i read, read without much question asked.
xda dream fourm was clean and had only 3 pages of thread when i i first joined.
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since then already read on how to change bootimages, got the files working under vista64 and updated the images, then found out doing themes is same as updating firmware and as long as remember to use theme for build it shouldn't be too hard to do..
Only thing I've noticed is down to about 46mb compared to normal 1.5, but would guess this is because of all the other features so not too bothered about it
Can I do all of this with a 1g sd card or do I need to get larger one first
caleoss said:
Can I do all of this with a 1g sd card or do I need to get larger one first
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yes u can, but what do u think?
i had to grab a 4gig for my music, mp4's, wallpaper, and APP2SD. i need to get an 8gig so i can add more mp4's.
i was lucky i got an 8gb plus standard 2gb when i got my phone via t-mobile uk. Only thing is the 8gb is a class 2 card, so just ordered a class 6 with adapter for £20, could have paid about £12 more for a 16gb with adapter (may still get it) as daughter as DS so should work in that

massive ammount of problems on JFS 1.51

getting read to just swich to one of the hero roms at this point but figured before i do i'll see if any of these can be fixed.
This all started right shortly after the 1.51 update
First of all, I've wipped the phone and reinstalled twice now and left the battery out and did formats and tried new SD cards and all that and these are the problems i'm having.
-Camera will not save once finished. It takes the picture but it never saves to the SD card.
-Screen randomly changes orientation by itself when the phone is not moving at all. on a table
-Lots of random crashes
-and the worst. Certain apps will only download 50% of the file size when i download them making them never work, If this happens it's impossible to ever download it. Even after wiping and reloading the phone the same thing happened again. It also happens in updates as well. Killed mybackup pro and i had to go download it off rapidshare because i needed to make backups and the market download would never download properly.
So basically, is there any way to fix all these problems or am i better off just going through everything and flashing to a new rom now.
very strange, never had problems on JF1.5 or 1.51. Have you tried flashing JF1.5? If that's still causing problems I'd try Cyanogens build. Sorry I can't help much, but you've already tried everything I would have suggested
yeah i've posted on a few forums and did everything there. then figured i might as well post here as a last resort.
I did try going back to 1.5 and things worked fine, then went to 1.51 again and everything happened again. I'd like to be running the latest release of any custom rom, and hero looks awesome so i'm thinking that if i can't fix this i'll just go through everything to upgrade to hero
There are no major changes from my JFv1.50 release, except a few new kernel modules.
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Hardly anything to update for, but whatever, have fun with hero Don't flash the SPL without the Radio (seems obvious but loads of people are spamming looking for a nonexistent solution to unbrick :< )
yeah i guess. Just me being myself wanting the lastest things. And don't worry i won't do that. been reading all about it for the last few days after i decided to give up on jfs 1.51
thanks!
neok44 said:
yeah i guess. Just me being myself wanting the lastest things. And don't worry i won't do that. been reading all about it for the last few days after i decided to give up on jfs 1.51
thanks!
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The Hero build certainly looks nice, but it might take you a while to get used to the slight slowness compared to the non-Rosie builds. Still... very pretty, keeps me mesmerized while I wait for my stuff to load... j/k
I've been using aHome for 5 months, i'm used to lag. lol.
nothing prepares you for Hero lag!!! just kidding, with linux-swap or compcache, its pretty snappy, but not comparable to non-hero builds.
well i'll find out soon enough. If it ends up being really bad then i may just go to some other ROM but i'm really hoping to have hero run good. Unfortountly i just have a normal Micro SD 2GB which has no class distinction so hopefully it'll be alright. If not i may have to go get another 8GB.
When i tried to format the last 8GB to get apps2sd working one program destroyed the card. shows up as 8MB now instead of GB. lol.
use cyns rom. most fastes freshes bestes cupcake ever. even tastes better. and his recovery also.
neok44 said:
well i'll find out soon enough. If it ends up being really bad then i may just go to some other ROM but i'm really hoping to have hero run good. Unfortountly i just have a normal Micro SD 2GB which has no class distinction so hopefully it'll be alright. If not i may have to go get another 8GB.
When i tried to format the last 8GB to get apps2sd working one program destroyed the card. shows up as 8MB now instead of GB. lol.
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there is a way to fix that on linux mentioned somewhere here on the forums...
it involves just writing 0's through the card
B-man007 said:
there is a way to fix that on linux mentioned somewhere here on the forums...
it involves just writing 0's through the card
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yeah, unfortountly i have no machine with Linux and i have no spare room on my PC right now to do another partition. I'm using up like 750GB of about 850 total lol.
RE- massive ammount of problems on JFS 1.51
neok44 said:
yeah, unfortountly i have no machine with Linux and i have no spare room on my PC right now to do another partition. I'm using up like 750GB of about 850 total lol.
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You can run linix right from cd-rom.
UBUNTU
I too noticed alot of lagging in jf1.51 after moving all apps to sd so I took off Ahome and openhome and it runs alot better. I also need to get a class 6 sd card which will help speed things up. currious...does anyone know if there are limitations on the size of the sd card for G1? I looked on HTC's site and T-mobile's as well it just says micro sd 2.0.
didn't know that. guess i'm gonna have to grab that and try to fix my 8GB
and i thought that the G1 was capped at 8GB but i've seen people say they have 16GB cards so i guess you can go up to 16gb. which i think is the largest they make in micro sd
neok44 said:
didn't know that. guess i'm gonna have to grab that and try to fix my 8GB
and i thought that the G1 was capped at 8GB but i've seen people say they have 16GB cards so i guess you can go up to 16gb. which i think is the largest they make in micro sd
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Seen people with 32gb lol
damn why the hell would you even need 32GB thats just crazy.
neok44 said:
damn why the hell would you even need 32GB thats just crazy.
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Lol the more space you have the more you will fill it. its like buying a 160gb ipod.... ur never gonna use all of it

I has a Nook Tablet!

Stopped by the local REI for gear. On the way home, stopped by B&N to see when they'd have a Nook Tablet for me to play with. Manager states they have one in back....I have a geekgasm (tm), she says: "This was ordered by someone and then cancelled...so *technically* its already sold. Long story short: I just brought it home!
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.273968819306633.58242.100000805518855&type=1&l=c92faa2225
Ok, out for beer and then back for play.
So is the charger the same for it and the nook color?
Charger
miniaturepeddler said:
So is the charger the same for it and the nook color?
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Appears to be identical.
Front bezel is rubberized like the back - much better grip.
Speaker slightly louder, microphone hole nearly invisible.
Screen clearly better.
thats cool!
I didn't know that they were available yet.
I just got a nook color for my wife and I am in the process of reading lots before I root it.
It is going to be an xmas gift for her.
I figured I would take a little bit of time to work out all of the kinks before I give it to her...lol
What kernel version does it have?
She'll love it: my Nook Color has been awesome and its kinda sad to retire it.
Chippykiller said:
thats cool!
I didn't know that they were available yet.
I just got a nook color for my wife and I am in the process of reading lots before I root it.
It is going to be an xmas gift for her.
I figured I would take a little bit of time to work out all of the kinks before I give it to her...lol
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sark666 said:
What kernel version does it have?
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Can't find any place in the stock ROM that tells me, do you know where to find it?
Will it boot from a bootable SD card?? (..at least to CWR to verify hacking will be as easy as the original)
The title of this thread cracks me up
goldenu said:
Can't find any place in the stock ROM that tells me, do you know where to find it?
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If you go to settings there is a line to touch that displays the software info, at least that is how it works in the NC. I don't have a stock one with me to verify.
travisn000 said:
Will it boot from a bootable SD card?? (..at least to CWR to verify hacking will be as easy as the original)
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^^^This
Grats on getting your NT!
CWM
try this link to create a bootable CWM sd card....worse case scenario nothing happens.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=987735
Also it be pretty cool if you found the kernel version. Could possibly help us nook color owners expedite the ICS/HC update process.
so you like the nook color more then the Kindle Fire?
travisn000 said:
Will it boot from a bootable SD card?? (..at least to CWR to verify hacking will be as easy as the original)
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Check out this post on the nook tablet forums.
No software info - closest is device info and that doesn't have it.
Software version is 1.4.0
00jt said:
so you like the nook color more then the Kindle Fire?
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I can't really answer that, as I've never used a Kindle Fire. I did consider both before purchasing, but the Fire lost my interest when I found out it had no microSD slot. Additionally, I *really* love my rooted NC, and the NT just adds more speedy goodness to a platform I already love.
To all that asked about SD card booting - I tried the CWM sd from my NC and the tablet completely ignored it. As it has been pointed out that CWM is built for each device, this result is unsurprising.
NOTE: despite having 16gb of on-board storage, stock ROM only allows you access to 1gb. While this will, without question, change once rooted and ROM'd, it is somewhat disappointing.
Just an update: installing other launchers and sideloading/usb debugging achieved. No luck yet with Gingerbreak or Super One-click.
So far, according to this thread from the NT forum, the Tablet appears to require a signed bootloader
goldenu:
What do you mean "Screen clearly better." I thought it was the same.
Confused,
kev

What's going on?!! HELP!

Hey guys. I'm pretty new at this rooting on NC. But I got everything to work on my Nook for such as like having CM7.1 On my SD card and stuff like that. I have the default kernel on there running on 1.1 Ghz, but it seems like everything keeps crashing. I can't do anything without it screwing up on me. I have most updated stuff but nothing seems to work. I have a 16Gb C10 working so I believe is that but I just don't know...
...Anyone please have any advice or suggestion on like CPU settings or anything?
Thanks!
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AlxMunz said:
Hey guys. I'm pretty new at this rooting on NC. But I got everything to work on my Nook for such as like having CM7.1 On my SD card and stuff like that. I have the default kernel on there running on 1.1 Ghz, but it seems like everything keeps crashing. I can't do anything without it screwing up on me. I have most updated stuff but nothing seems to work. I have a 16Gb C10 working so I believe is that but I just don't know...
...Anyone please have any advice or suggestion on like CPU settings or anything?
Thanks!
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If that 16 GB class 10 is the card you're using... it is most likely your culprit. Sandisk class 2 or 4 are by far the best cards for running android os' from.
The reason is that class 10 cards have much higher sustained thru-put... but the android os' (especially) utilize much more small read/write cycles.. which is where the class 2 and 4's exceed the performance of class 10 cards.
So what should I do afterwards? Once I buy a class 4 should I just reflash on the SD with CM7 and start over? Or should I back up from this one and flash it on the card?
I appreciate the help
Running on NookColor CM7.1 Using TapaT
Always, recommending doing a fresh installation.
It won't take long.
So I leave the Nook as is? Just flash the new image?
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So I leave the Nook as is? Just flash the new image?
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Yes. The install and run on SD method does not touch your standard Nook install.
Just repeat the install method on your new card. If you had put a lot of apps on and organised your desktop screens then you could back those up (Titanium for the apps and ADW settings back up for the desktop), save the folders away first then restore once you had the new card working.
One of the benefits of the emmc installation method is that it makes updates, backups and restores a bit easier as the SD card is just user memory.

16gb being "seen" by MIUI as FIVE gb - HELP !!!!

I sort of went down the rooting route due to everyone saying it was a MUST - even though the LG ran well, everything worked well and battery life was OK if not groundbreaking. So I was kind of half-hearted to start with.
Well, after 2 days of having to keep re-romming after this didn't work and that didn't work (Bluetooth in particular) I just can't get MIUI to see the 16gb card as the 16gb it is, it shows as 5. Now I had read this before. But that the LG software had this problem not the rooted stock. I even tried to go back to LG's original - It didn't work. The download on here (UK version of original Optimus 2x) doesn't install. Says "aborted" - this after horrendously slow download speeds. Keeps saying it's part of a multi-pack on my PC. Put them both on, but....
Anyways. The 16gb card. Ive tried another 16gb card with the same end result.
Can anyone PLEASE help me. Ive got no help on the MIUI site, and just lost. I tried to install Navfree and another navigation prog (Navfree UK maps don't download properly - keeps demanding more and more downloads. Ridiculously so - had to be uninstalled) tried another one, and it said it needed a 750mb download and there wasn't enough room - there was a MOUNTAIN of room. But its showing as 5. (Even there, theres not close to 5gb used)
Can anyone PLEASE help ?
All Ive got so far asking on half a dozen sites, is silence so far in 4 days
I doubt what is 'seen' as 5 gb by your phone is your SD card. I haven't ever heard of such problems. Big chances are, which often happens, that you're mistaking the internal memory as the sd card.
Stock MIUI mounts the internal and external cards the same way as stock LG ROM, but there could be a chance you used a swap mount mod without knowing.
I actually wanted to laugh, here i upload a file just for you
Here is the link for the sd mod.
http://www.box.com/s/7pl04u9onk76d80yb5tl
Credits goes too this thread : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1263311
Lol nice heading of miui. 16/miui = 5 kidding, never mind
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Excellent !!!!!
crankyboy said:
I actually wanted to laugh, here i upload a file just for you
Here is the link for the sd mod.
http://www.box.com/s/7pl04u9onk76d80yb5tl
Credits goes too this thread : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1263311
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You sir, are a gentleman and a scholar. It's solved my irritating problem and thats an understatement - now I have a proper 16gb sd micro in and all the room that invokes !
spica1234 said:
Lol nice heading of miui. 16/miui = 5 kidding, never mind
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And where was that ? Not in the heading. Check again.
Click the _______ button. (Fill in the blanks) Hint*"when somebody did a favour you should ?":
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You might have fake memory, memory thats been hacked to look like it has more than it does....the chinese do stupid s**t like that. Sometimes when the card is formatted the true memory capacity is revealed.
He is using MIUI ROM
Miui only uses the internel sd card ~~
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Click the _______ button. (Fill in the blanks) Hint*"when somebody did a favour you should ?":
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Er.....I checked, and yes, a big thanks given to you for your help. Quite profuse, actually. Ive just noticed the "thanks" button - but you could have done it with a LOT more grace.
Clearly, being thanked profusely didn't do it for you ?
Hard man to please.
I'll click the button then that I missed until er.....reminded of it a little too grumpily for me - hopefully that'll tick the box for you.
Still, while being a little miffed at the attitude, Im still very grateful for your help, for all that.

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