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Why is the Nook Color so different?

I just ordered a Nook Color from eBay with the $50 off... happy yes I am!
I've been with Android since the G1, now I have a droid... how come flashing ROMS and SD cards are so different? You have to put it internally on the Nook instead of on the SD card? Flashing off SD card causes problems? CWR doesn't work? Can anyone explain? It seems much tougher than my droid, just putting the file on my sd card then going to recovery and hitting update, or same with the gTab or Adam.

Unlike most phones, flashing a majority of ROMs (not all) for the NC wipes the Recovery -- ie, wipes it off the device.
So you create a Recovery SD card (the NC auto-boots into it) and then flash ROMs just like you would for a phone. Then take out the SD card when done with Recovery.

It wipes only the recovery correct? Not anything on the sd card? Ill search up how to make partition for recovery sd. Thanks.
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tekthebeast said:
It wipes only the recovery correct? Not anything on the sd card? Ill search up how to make partition for recovery sd. Thanks.
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Yeah, it'll wipe everything on the NC only, and not touch the SD card.
Here's the thread for creating a 3.0.0.6 Recovery SD Card (needed for CM7 Gingerbread ROM):
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=959240
See post #19 for detailed instructions.
For FroYo I believe you need to use 3.0.0.5, found elsewhere.

just ordered my NC off ebay too. i'm reading up all i can as fast as i can. coming from an evo where wiping is too easy, this is going to be a bit more complicated, i can't wait!!!

More complicated, maybe, but also much safer since you basically cannot brick an NC... No matter how badly you screw up the internal flash, you can always boot from SD to fix things.

I bought 3 Nook Colors yesterday and rooted every one of them and installed HoneyComb on one, all in less that 2 hours start to finish including downloading images and making the SD card. I made one SD card with CWR with images for the stock ROM, CyanogenMod 7 and HC eMMC v4. It all works flawlessly. This thing really is simple to manipulate. I had more trouble making a gold card and rooting my HTC Inspire!

Well I want to chime in on this too now because I'm new to this as well. What are the advantages/disadvantages of nookie froyo on the sd card vs flashing a rom to the internal?
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Droidicus said:
Well I want to chime in on this too now because I'm new to this as well. What are the advantages/disadvantages of nookie froyo on the sd card vs flashing a rom to the internal?
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well sd cards are slow and internal memory(eemc) is fast
if you install froyo/cm7/HC on your eemc it will run much faster vs running from sd card, running from sd card is good though if you want to try out a rom without losing your current setup

[Q] SD won't boot

I want to root my Nook 1.1.0 but it looks like it doesn't boot from SD card.
I tried couple SDs (2Gb and 4Gb) and burn them with couple images for Autonooter 3 (and 2 too as act of desperation).
I can see files on the SDs in Windows and in Nook.
I power off Nook completely with SD inside and plug it into the PC usb.
It supposed to run some script... I waited an hour and nothing happen.
Then Nook boots in regular Nook mode.
I assume that it's something with my SDs.
4Gb is class 4 SD. I burned it with different burner programs - result is the same.
Is there some way to determine that Nook boots from SD?
Maybe MBR is erased or something like this?
I formatted card in Windows and never did it in Nook.
So, I hope MBR (is it even used?) is OK but I want to be sure somehow.
Any suggestions?

What software are you using to burn the image onto the sd card?
You should be using winimage running in administrator mode.

akizub said:
I want to root my Nook 1.1.0 but it looks like it doesn't boot from SD card.
I tried couple SDs (2Gb and 4Gb) and burn them with couple images for Autonooter 3 (and 2 too as act of desperation).
I can see files on the SDs in Windows and in Nook.
I power off Nook completely with SD inside and plug it into the PC usb.
It supposed to run some script... I waited an hour and nothing happen.
Then Nook boots in regular Nook mode.
I assume that it's something with my SDs.
4Gb is class 4 SD. I burned it with different burner programs - result is the same.
Is there some way to determine that Nook boots from SD?
Maybe MBR is erased or something like this?
I formatted card in Windows and never did it in Nook.
So, I hope MBR (is it even used?) is OK but I want to be sure somehow.
Any suggestions?
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Um you say the nook didn't do anything and then booted normally..... that sounds like it did everything right. Autonooter dose not show anything on the screen when you boot from it. you will get a blank screen for a bit and then it will boot to normal..... Have you checked to see if your nook is rooted?

I used winimage. I can see files in Windows and Nook.
Funny thing is that *.img file is so big but real files on SD are small.
I assume it's empty space what is in img file.

therealguppy said:
Have you checked to see if your nook is rooted?
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I assume it should show some Android stuff. Correct?
What I see is regular Nook screens.

therealguppy has a point. You may be rooted and not know it yet. Go into the apps drawer and look for the super user app. If it's there, you're rooted. Autonooter doesn't change your launcher or anything else so obvious.

woot1524 said:
Go into the apps drawer and look for the super user app.
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You mean EXTRAS?
There is nothing new here. 8 apps from Chess to Sudoku.
No super user app.

hmmmm... that is strange. As unlikely as you may think it would be, you must have goofed up a step. The nook color is, by way of hardware, hard-coded to boot to the Micro SD-card if a bootable partition exists.
It's crazy unlikely that your nook is somehow flawed and cannot boot to a sd-card.
I would first try and download and burn one of the SD-card bootable roms just to make sure that you are able to boot off of it.
Try this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=989637
OR
Burn a bootable Clockworkmod SD-card to also test that you're able to boot.
go here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=922870
and get one of the "Download a bootable Clockwork SD card (128mb, 1gb, 2gb, 4gb, 8gb) here:"
If you want another set of step-by-step instructions, I have the time to write one up.

hi, im having the same problem as akizub and i think it may be booting from the sd card. ive tried rooting from all the different firmwares, ive tried different images, winimage, win32diskimage, ubuntu dd, ive even tried buying a new micro sd. i cant figure out whats wrong. ive seen all the youtube videos and instructions

Same Problem here with 1.1/auto-nooter 3.0.0
I'm having the same problem.
Don't think it's an issue with the SD card as I can see the SD files from the Nook after it boots
Wrote the SD using Win32diskimager. This must be working as I can see the files on the SD on both the Nook and the PC. Don't see how a block copy can miss anything!
I'm using auto-nooter 3.0.0
The Nook nook boot looks identical with or without the SD.
Maybe another level of security by BN ?

Just a crazy thought....are you making sure to have the correct versions?
Autonooter 3 NEEDS to be run on stock 1.1.... not 1.0.1 or 1.0.0.
Just thinking that would explain things.
Sent from my rooted stock 1.1 Nook with XDA Premium.
When all else fails, RTFM.

Versions OK
Yep .. Nook is at 1.1.0. autonooter 3.0.0
SD card is a 4GB SanDisk which other people seem to have used.
I'm assuming there is a low level loader in the Nook that attempts to load a boot block in a certain device order. Is it possible they changed that?

Yeah I am running into the same problem, I returned my nook for a few defects and now my new one won't boot from the sd card. Its running 1.1.0... one thing I have noticed that is different is that it seems to boot up faster than my old one did...
Edit:
Its working now, it wasn't partitioning the sd card for boot, was using my phone as card reader, switch to an actual card reader and new sd card and it worked.

Problem was solved.
It was fact that my SD was not bootable.
I tried something simple and reliable like CW recovery. Win32diskimager didn't want to burn disk complaining that it was too small. I tried to burn 1Gb to 2Gb, 4Gb and 16 Gb SDs and it was telling me - not enough disk space.
Then I used winiamge and was fine.
After I saw that CW was booting fine I burned autonooker again and then it started to work.
So, make sure that your SD is bootable by doing some simple and reliable image burning.

CM7 on eMMC, stock 1.2 on SD...how do I make a nandroid of CM7?

I followed the like here to put a copy of stock 1.2 on my sdcard http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1061523
I am about to replace CM7 back on my eMMC, but I was slightly confused about how to make nandroids of CM7. Given the fact that CM7 requires an sdcard for storage, do I have to have a separate sdcard in order to make nandroid backups or can I simply use the sdcard with stock 1.2 now on it? Thank you for the clarification.

mikey4226 said:
I followed the like here to put a copy of stock 1.2 on my sdcard http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1061523
I am about to replace CM7 back on my eMMC, but I was slightly confused about how to make nandroids of CM7. Given the fact that CM7 requires an sdcard for storage, do I have to have a separate sdcard in order to make nandroid backups or can I simply use the sdcard with stock 1.2 now on it? Thank you for the clarification.
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How many cards do you have. If you have only one you will either have to buy a new one or wipe the one you have just to do the install. I kept my original card with the install image on it in the event I ever totally screw the Nook up and have to start from scratch and just bought another card for use with CM7 on the eMMC. You can always wipe the card clean again after your install and use it, but you are probably better off buying an additional card "just in case". You can't leave the card as is because if it is in the Nook when you start up the Nook will automatically boot from the card. You don't want to keep switching it in and out every time you use the Nook as eventually the card door will probably fall off and ultimately the contacts will stop working. Cards are cheap.

patruns said:
How many cards do you have. If you have only one you will either have to buy a new one or wipe the one you have just to do the install. I kept my original card with the install image on it in the event I ever totally screw the Nook up and have to start from scratch and just bought another card for use with CM7 on the eMMC. You can always wipe the card clean again after your install and use it, but you are probably better off buying an additional card "just in case". You can't leave the card as is because if it is in the Nook when you start up the Nook will automatically boot from the card. You don't want to keep switching it in and out every time you use the Nook as eventually the card door will probably fall off and ultimately the contacts will stop working. Cards are cheap.
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As of now, I have 2 cards: one with stock 1.2 on it, and another used as storage for CM7 for nandroid backups and whatever else. If possible, I would like to just have the one to serve both of those purposes, but I wasn't sure if that was possible.
As far as keeping the stock 1.2 card in the slot...someone in the aforementioned thread made a comment about replacing the u-boot.bin file with the one from this thread for a boot menu. I gave it a try and it worked. I was able to leave the stock 1.2 card in the slot, power on, and select to either boot to CM7 on emmc or boot to stock 1.2 on the sdcard. But I switched it back to the original u-boot.bin file, since I needed a storage card for CM7, which is what I run 90% of the time.
Is there any hope for using the stock 1.2 card as the CM7 storage card, as well?

You can't use a bootable card for storage unless you want to keep taking it out when you boot up first. The NOOK will always boot from a bootable card if it is in the slot unless you use a dual boot system. Even then it is booting from the card first and then switching to the eMMC.

cm7 on bootable sd card

I already have cm7 on my nook color emmc
buddy wanted a bootable sd card, so i thought i ll grab verygreen image and put latest cm7 on it
the problem is, when i pop in the card, nothing happens
it boots cm7 from my nook
it thinks that everything is already installed so it doesnt even ask me to install anything on sd card
am i going crazy?

mrkkk said:
I already have cm7 on my nook color emmc
buddy wanted a bootable sd card, so i thought i ll grab verygreen image and put latest cm7 on it
the problem is, when i pop in the card, nothing happens
it boots cm7 from my nook
it thinks that everything is already installed so it doesnt even ask me to install anything on sd card
am i going crazy?
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If you don't tell us how how you did it we can't offer any suggestions....

Need help to restore to stock 1.3

I bought a nook color for my 9 year old son as a gift, mainly for him to read more books. After browsed this site, I was able to create a bootable SD of CM7, and then I rooted the NC. Now I am thinking maybe it is not a good idea to give my son a rooted NC because he can load game on it.
I did a factory reset, everything back to stock 1.3, but when I use the bootable SD to try to boot to CM7, always failed, even I made a new CM7 SD, first it will boot to SD and install CM7, but after restart, it always goes to nook stock rom, did something wrong?
Thanks for your help.

even I made a new CM7 SD, first it will boot to SD and install CM7,
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Please explain all the steps.....

Sounds like your Nook CM7 "install" SD card is actually a bootable SD card.....
Will CM load with the card in? Is CM not loading only when you take the card out?
If these statements are true, its because CM is actually installed on your SD card and running from there, nothing is actually being installed to your nooks internal memory.
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Hi, thanks for your replay. After tried lots of flushing, I finally found what's wrong. Yes, my SD is a bootable, what I like is, most time NC just run stock rom, only books, no games, for my son. When I use it, I can plug in sd card and run CM7, and use it as a regular tablet (poor kid).
I put CM7 install zip and google apps zip on the bootable SD, it flashed the rom and the gapps no problem, but after a reboot, it never be able to boot from SD card again. The problem is, I shouldn't put both zip at the same time, has to be flash CM7 first, then reboot to CWM again to flash gapps.