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What is uNooter?

I just got my Nook Color and am looking into how to go about rooting it for CM7. I checked out CM's Wiki page on it here and it mentioned using uNooter. I haven't read about this tool anywhere else and Google searches for it turn up practically nothing. Is this not the right tool to use? The forums mostly seem to mention ManualNooter, Auto-Nooter, etc. Also is it possible to flash CM7 on the internal memory and avoid using an SD card altogether?

Never heard of unooter and I've been reading theses forums since December. Auto mooter was to root the older firmware 1.0 ,1.01,and 1.1. Manualnooter is for the newer froyo firmware.

Rooting stock is not required to install CM7.
You simply need to create a Clockworkmod recovery microSD card and you can then flash CM7 (which is pre-rooted) from Clockworkmod.

martian21 said:
Rooting stock is not required to install CM7.
You simply need to create a Clockworkmod recovery microSD card and you can then flash CM7 (which is pre-rooted) from Clockworkmod.
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Thanks. I figured this would be relatively easy compared to rooting and putting CM7 on my EVO but reading on here there seemed to be a few different approaches. Will that method allow me to flash CM7 to the eMMC, and after that point will I no longer need the SD card to boot? I ask because I don't have a card on hand and am considering backing up the contents from my phone's card and using that.

xdp said:
Thanks. I figured this would be relatively easy compared to rooting and putting CM7 on my EVO but reading on here there seemed to be a few different approaches. Will that method allow me to flash CM7 to the eMMC, and after that point will I no longer need the SD card to boot? I ask because I don't have a card on hand and am considering backing up the contents from my phone's card and using that.
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Correct.
You only need the SD to install a bootable CWM then you can flash CM7 from that. After words when CM7 is installed to eMMC you are able to use Rom Manager to install CWM to eMMC as well, so everything will be set up on the device's internal memory. SD is needed only for the initial boot of CWM to install CM7.

Nburnes said:
Correct.
You only need the SD to install a bootable CWM then you can flash CM7 from that. After words when CM7 is installed to eMMC you are able to use Rom Manager to install CWM to eMMC as well, so everything will be set up on the device's internal memory. SD is needed only for the initial boot of CWM to install CM7.
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Thanks. From reading around it seems you can't use a phone or the Nook to mount the card and write the image, so I'll have to buy a reader and might as well get a card for the Nook at the same time. Since I'll be flashing CM7 to eMMC does it really matter if I get a class 4 or above card like many suggest? I'm not sure what's in my EVO but that is my benchmark. Class 2 seems to be what comes up in searches the most.

The general consensus it's to stick with Sandisk SD cards for the Nook. There are others that work as well but Sandisk it's pretty much a guarantee of zero issues. You can usually score an 8 GB class 4 Sandisk at Wal-mart for a Jackson.
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martian21 said:
The general consensus it's to stick with Sandisk SD cards for the Nook. There are others that work as well but Sandisk it's pretty much a guarantee of zero issues. You can usually score an 8 GB class 4 Sandisk at Wal-mart for a Jackson.
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Transcend 8 GBs have worked beautifully on all 3 NC's in my house.

xdp said:
I just got my Nook Color and am looking into how to go about rooting it for CM7. I checked out CM's Wiki page on it here and it mentioned using uNooter. I haven't read about this tool anywhere else and Google searches for it turn up practically nothing. Is this not the right tool to use? The forums mostly seem to mention ManualNooter, Auto-Nooter, etc. Also is it possible to flash CM7 on the internal memory and avoid using an SD card altogether?
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I was the one that put together uNooter after being contacted by the individual that maintains the CyanogenMod wiki. They wanted a universal Nooter that would only root the device, install Superuser, ADB, RomManger, and work on all versions of the NC software. They asked that it be called uNooter. It is not released anywhere else, so that is why you did not see any mention of it on a Google search.

martian21 said:
The general consensus it's to stick with Sandisk SD cards for the Nook. There are others that work as well but Sandisk it's pretty much a guarantee of zero issues. You can usually score an 8 GB class 4 Sandisk at Wal-mart for a Jackson.
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That information is really only relevant to running a ROM from the SD card. If you're only using the card for storage, or to get CM7 on eMMC, manufacturer and card class don't matter.
xdp said:
Thanks. From reading around it seems you can't use a phone or the Nook to mount the card and write the image, so I'll have to buy a reader and might as well get a card for the Nook at the same time. Since I'll be flashing CM7 to eMMC does it really matter if I get a class 4 or above card like many suggest? I'm not sure what's in my EVO but that is my benchmark. Class 2 seems to be what comes up in searches the most.
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I wrote my image over USB to a card in the NC without a card reader. I've seen wiki guides saying there's a greater chance of the write getting interrupted, rendering the card unusable at least in the short term, but it worked for me. It was only when I wanted to revert the card to storage that I ended up needing a card reader. The links in my sig have a little more info about using the NC as your card reader, but you're probably better off just grabbing one.
Also, while CM7 does not require an SD card, many apps do. Your experience will be somewhat limited without one.

GMPOWER said:
I was the one that put together uNooter after being contacted by the individual that maintains the CyanogenMod wiki. They wanted a universal Nooter that would only root the device, install Superuser, ADB, RomManger, and work on all versions of the NC software. They asked that it be called uNooter. It is not released anywhere else, so that is why you did not see any mention of it on a Google search.
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Great to hear directly from the source, thanks! I'm surprised more people don't point to your tool on the forums given that it's right on the CM Wiki. At this point I'm a little confused about the various approaches to do this. Does your tool install ROM Manager directly into the stock Nook interface, and then I flash from there, versus booting CWM off the SD as people mentioned earlier in the thread? Sorry if that's completely off-base.
Taosaur said:
That information is really only relevant to running a ROM from the SD card. If you're only using the card for storage, or to get CM7 on eMMC, manufacturer and card class don't matter.
I wrote my image over USB to a card in the NC without a card reader. I've seen wiki guides saying there's a greater chance of the write getting interrupted, rendering the card unusable at least in the short term, but it worked for me. It was only when I wanted to revert the card to storage that I ended up needing a card reader. The links in my sig have a little more info about using the NC as your card reader, but you're probably better off just grabbing one.
Also, while CM7 does not require an SD card, many apps do. Your experience will be somewhat limited without one.
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Yeah, I thought about this as well and figured I'd want a full-time card for the device so I ordered a card with SD adapter. I figured the specs didn't matter at all for a data card but picked up a class 4 Sandisk anyway.

xdp said:
Great to hear directly from the source, thanks! I'm surprised more people don't point to your tool on the forums given that it's right on the CM Wiki. At this point I'm a little confused about the various approaches to do this. Does your tool install ROM Manager directly into the stock Nook interface, and then I flash from there, versus booting CWM off the SD as people mentioned earlier in the thread? Sorry if that's completely off-base.
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I received notice this past Monday that the cleaned up version of the CyanogenMod wiki was online, so not a whole lot of exposure for people to talk about it. I believe the old wiki had listed the different Auto-Nooter and Manual-Nooter that went with each software version, thus taking up a lot of space and confusion. AN and MN are more tailored to people that want to stick with the stock software, but enable full Android Market access. People that want to go from stock to CyanogenMod don’t need all the extra software that is bundled with AN and MN just to be able to flash CyanogenMod. By eliminating all the version specific software I was able to create a version that would work on all current, and hopefully future, software versions.
Yes, my versions will install Rom Manager directly into the interface. You would then allow Rom Manger to install CWM Recovery, and then you can download and install CyanogenMod from the device. You could also take a full backup of your current stock rom. Using uNooter or bootable CWM will both get you to where you want to go, it is really up to you on how you want to get there.

Instructions for installing CM7 to the eMMC using CWM on a SD card (which can later be reformatted for storage) is in this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1030227.

GMPOWER and bigbob23: Thanks for the info, that was exactly what I needed to clear everything up. I suppose backing up the stock ROM would be useful in case I ever needed to restore it for warranty purposes or anything. I'm not sure which approach I'll go with, my SD card came today so I'll be reading over both techniques and giving one a shot!
Thanks again.

I went through the process with uNooter as outlined on the CM Wiki and it went perfectly. The only thing was I had to use SD Formatter and the earliest 0.1 version of Win32 Disk Imager to get the image to write to the SD card. Not sure if that problem is specific to Win7 64-bit but maybe I can mention it on the wiki.

xdp said:
I went through the process with uNooter as outlined on the CM Wiki and it went perfectly. The only thing was I had to use SD Formatter and the earliest 0.1 version of Win32 Disk Imager to get the image to write to the SD card. Not sure if that problem is specific to Win7 64-bit but maybe I can mention it on the wiki.
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I am glad that you got everything to work right. I think the problems that you might have experienced are more associated with win7 x64. My replacement laptop with win7 x64 will not be here for another two weeks for me to test it on, but in the past I have had to use Unlocker almost every time to unlock the usb drive before I could proceed with flashing using Win32 disk imager. On my current windows 7 x86 setup, I have yet had to use Unlocker to be able to flash an image with the win32 program. HERE is a post with people having problems in the past with win32 disk imager on win7 x64, they took the same path that you did with Panasonic SD Card Formatter to fix it.

uNooter
I guess this worked for the latest firmware of 1.2.0? (I am about to root one soon!) thanks in advance!)

AF9210 said:
I guess this worked for the latest firmware of 1.2.0? (I am about to root one soon!) thanks in advance!)
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I just got my nook last week so I'm assuming I had the latest factory firmware when rooting, but I didn't check.

xdp said:
I just got my nook last week so I'm assuming I had the latest factory firmware when rooting, but I didn't check.
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If you see "Read Forever" when booting (stock) then "Yes" you have the latest firmware.

ADB after uNooter?
Above, GMPOWER mentioned ADB as one of the items uNooter installed. I've rooted with uNooter in part because *nothing* *else* I could find would actually boot on my NC and in part because I liked the idea of a relatively minimal root. I figured I could then push any apk's I wanted to add with adb.
Unfortunately, that doesn't seem to be working. I used "NookColor Tools -> All Settings -> Development" to enable USB debugging, but 'adb devices' shows nothing. If I plug in my G2 with CM7, adb finds it just fine, so I'm pretty sure I've got the computer side of things working. Any hints about getting the NC to play nice?

[Q] CM7 boot from SD card - Problems!

Wish I could post this to the "Size agnostic SD Boot" thread, but as a Noob, I can't.
Have: New NC, had 1.2, updated to 1.3. Created bootable CM7.1 stable card on a new Sandisk 4GB, Class 4 card as per instructions in that thread. All seemed to go well. Upon start up, I see my new Android home page. After several seconds, I get an error: "Sorry! Process system is not responding". Gives me a choice between "Force Close", and "Wait". Choosing either seems to not make a difference. I have no WiFi connection, and going to settings I can't seem to enable it. After about 3 minutes, it freezes. But before so, I can interact with my new (impressive!) system.
Tried:
1. Numerous reboots.
2. Re-flash SD card. Three times. No good.
3. Went from 7.1 stable to latest Nightly.
Symptoms are always the same, right down to the time it takes to freeze.
If I don't interact with it after boot, the screen goes blank, but I detect a slight background light - is this perhaps the SOD problem?
Ideas?

What brand is your SD card?
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Sandisk 4GB, Class 4 card
I've read a bit about a Wifi driver patch, but I can't get the NC to run long enough to try and patch it in.

I recently bought a refurb Nook and install CM 7.1 Stable on a Sandisk Class 4 8gb card without issue. I'm actually shocked at how well it runs.
Maybe you got a bad card?
I'm sure somewhere you might find a utility to see if the card has issues? Check the SANDISK website.

Installing CM7 on the 4GB card was a temporary move, as I just had to try it. I have a 16GB card that should show up today. So, given that....
I installed CWM on the 4GB card, and it seems to work fine. However, I doubt that CWM "stresses" the card to the extent that running full Android would.
Keeping fingers crossed that a different card may work.
Hans.

I am using a 4gb class 2 Sandisk card and it works great. I have 8gb class 6 Transcend cards and they are not as good. I get force closes using them with certain apps.

Update: New SD card - *exactly* the same symptoms. Same error immediately after Home screen loads: "Sorry! Process system is not responding", and then it freezes solid in about 3 minutes regardless what I'm doing. And no Wifi.
Just as before.......

Try downloading the images again and start over.

"Try downloading the images again and start over. "
Well, in effect I did. I tried a couple of different versions of CM7. Also tried redoing the .img loader/boot file.
In every case, I get exactly the same symptoms.

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"Try downloading the images again and start over. "
Well, in effect I did. I tried a couple of different versions of CM7. Also tried redoing the .img loader/boot file.
In every case, I get exactly the same symptoms.
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Did you ever download the SASD image file again?
Also... since you don't specify... did you download the 1.3 image and not the 1.2 or the update?

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Did you ever download the SASD image file again?
Also... since you don't specify... did you download the 1.3 image and not the 1.2 or the update?
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Yes, tried once to download the .img file. I'm reasonably sure it's 1.3, as that is in the file name. It took FOREVER to decompress - like an hour. Used gzip for the heavy lifting.
Just curious.... Would an even slightly corrupt .img loader file even work? I mean, it seems that it's job is to load CM7, and then after that is done, the rest is up to CM7. Is it possible that a bad .img file would basically work, but load a slightly corrupted CM7?
Don't know if it's an issue with the Nook itself. Has been running B&N 1.3 super stable, and for the last couple of days (with ~8 hours/day), I've been on a ManualNootered 1.3 with no problems or instabilities whatsoever. Did the MN install (as well as a bootable CWM) with the same SD, USB adapter, and PC with no problems.
Really scratching my head over this one.
Thanks.

Use this search on Google....there is some interesting stuff out there. One guy tracked it down to being an ALARM set on his clock.
Search google with this :
Sorry! Process system is not responding cyanogen

4regt4 said:
Yes, tried once to download the .img file. I'm reasonably sure it's 1.3, as that is in the file name. It took FOREVER to decompress - like an hour. Used gzip for the heavy lifting.
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This is the part that gets me. I've made a few of these cards and all I ever did was unzip the image file with winzip and write the image to an sdcard with winimage. The unzipping process only took a few seconds.

4regt4 said:
Yes, tried once to download the .img file. I'm reasonably sure it's 1.3, as that is in the file name. It took FOREVER to decompress - like an hour. Used gzip for the heavy lifting.
Thanks.
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Something wrong with that I just tested how long it takes to take the generic-sdcard-v1.1.img.gz file and decompress it to generic-sdcard.img and it took 15 seconds
What are you using I am using winrar 3.41 and my PC is like about 4 years old so not a fast processor.
Download winrar trial and start again

Again, I appreciate all the help. Here is what I've done:
1. Read a bunch of the stuff from the suggested Google search. (doh! - should have done this first). There is little Nook specific, but it seems that some apps on some devices seem to be the guilty culprit. I had only loaded 2 apps (Tweek and Priceline) on my NC before trying CM7.1, so if it is an app, it would have to be one of those, as the rest of the apps are pre-installed B&N, which (I assume...) the rest of you have. (Note: being new to all this, I'm surprised that their is no obvious way to uninstall an app. Seems I remember some sort of app manager on Market. I'll look.)
1a. There are several reports of alarms being set on alarm clock apps causing problems. On my fresh CM7.1 install, the clock did indeed have 2 alarms set. I deleted them and rebooted. No good.
2. Since there is a possibility of this being app related, I cleared the caches from CWM. Reinstall. It appears that this is a moot point, because I noticed in the install routine that it says "clearing caches". Oh well.
3. Got fresh copy of 1.3 .img file, and installed WinRAR. The unzip was a lot faster, but still not super speedy - about 1 minute (1GHz PC, WinXP)
4. Redid the SD chip again with my fresh files. Getting good at this. Win32Imager, safe remove, reinsert, copy CM7.zip, save remove, boot in NC.
5. No good. "Sorry! Process system is not responding". I've heard conflicting info whether "Wait" or "F/C" is better, but it doesn't seem to matter in my case.
So, short version: Tried new SD, new file downloads, new unzip utility. Meanwhile, over in eMMC land, rooted B&N 1.3 is cruising along just fine, with no errors or crashes.
Sure would like to try CM7, though.

At this point the only thing I can think of is that the sd card boot is conflicting with your rooted emmc. I've only created cm7 cards for stock nooks and never ran into any problems.

Malave said:
At this point the only thing I can think of is that the sd card boot is conflicting with your rooted emmc. I've only created cm7 cards for stock nooks and never ran into any problems.
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Well, as I mentioned earlier, I did most of this messing around before rooting 1.3. I only applied ManualNooter after it was becoming clear that CM7 might be a long drawn out process. I was needing Market access. FWIW, the boot manager that you can boot into from the card (enabling selection of SD or eMMC) has been working with both 1.3 and rooted 1.3 - which I suppose it should. I mean, nothing got broke in that department.
Anyway, I really appreciate the comments.

Just a thought ----
Is the v1.3.img file shown in the original procedure compatible with B&N 1.3 and blue dot partitioning? Or does it even matter? I'm guessing that it shouldn't matter, as CM7 is supposed to be running from SD, but perhaps the partition sizes on the SD are mimicked from eMMC, and incompatible?
Boy, I'm really grasping at straws here.......

Ok last one, did you try formatting the sdcard?
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Ok last one, did you try formatting the sdcard?
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Yes, no, kinda, and sorta. The various cards that I used were new. So I basically assumed they had a fresh 'virgin' chip that would tolarate most anything. Again, assume. However, burning an .img file I think would render a format moot. Don't know that, just making another assumption.

[Q] rooted Nook 2.0.4 external SD issue

Anyone else experiencing an issue with the micro sd slot after rooting? it wont read the cards, but it does notice when you remove an sd card. Is there a fix for that issue and has anyone else encountered it?

dcoke said:
Anyone else experiencing an issue with the micro sd slot after rooting? it wont read the cards, but it does notice when you remove an sd card. Is there a fix for that issue and has anyone else encountered it?
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How do you know it is not reading the card? Have you looked at ext_sdcard to see of it is there?
And how did you root 2.0.4? Most folks get automatically updated to 2.0.5.
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leapinlar said:
How do you know it is not reading the card? Have you looked at ext_sdcard to see of it is there?
And how did you root 2.0.4? Most folks get automatically updated to 2.0.5.
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feel free to steal this little tip from me:
When starting from scratch after purposefully activating the 8 Boot Fail Safe, when it gets to the part where it's looking for an update, while its looking hold down "Power" and select OK to turn the device off interrupting the update process. When you turn it back on, you'll have to start the whole thing over again, but when it gets to the Update step it bypasses it thus cancelling out the 2.0.5 mandatory update. Now that you have 2.0.4 you can run your all-in-one and update cancel program before it has a chance to try updating again.
-Another helpful hint after reverting to stock firmware, turn off your internet until you run all the rooting software.
No I didn't check to see if it showed up in a root explorer.I'll check that out.
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Just checked and no it doesn't come up. I even removed and reinserted the microSD in question and still nothing. The little SD logo pops up on the screen (the big blue vector image one) but it never gets read in the device in system or root explorer.
Is there a way to fix it on test disk for windows?

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feel free to steal this little tip from me:
When starting from scratch after purposefully activating the 8 Boot Fail Safe, when it gets to the part where it's looking for an update, while its looking hold down "Power" and select OK to turn the device off interrupting the update process. When you turn it back on, you'll have to start the whole thing over again, but when it gets to the Update step it bypasses it thus cancelling out the 2.0.5 mandatory update. Now that you have 2.0.4 you can run your all-in-one and update cancel program before it has a chance to try updating again.
-Another helpful hint after reverting to stock firmware, turn off your internet until you run all the rooting software.
No I didn't check to see if it showed up in a root explorer.I'll check that out.
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Just checked and no it doesn't come up. I even removed and reinserted the microSD in question and still nothing. The little SD logo pops up on the screen (the big blue vector image one) but it never gets read in the device in system or root explorer.
Is there a way to fix it on test disk for windows?
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Your system after an 8 failed boot reset and before an update is 2.0.4? If it is, PM me as I would like to get a copy of your factory zip.
And you looked for ext_sdcard in /mnt?
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leapinlar said:
Your system after an 8 failed boot reset and before an update is 2.0.4? If it is, PM me as I would like to get a copy of your factory zip.
And you looked for ext_sdcard in /mnt?
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I found it in mnt, man they really do everything strange on Nooks, haven't had one since the original Color. I see the problem. It's lacking any sort of permissions (read, write or anything). How do I get those to stick? since I've noticed things in Root tend to not stay permanent. and as for the PM, I'll get right on that. Thanks for all of your help.

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I found it in mnt, man they really do everything strange on Nooks, haven't had one since the original Color. I see the problem. It's lacking any sort of permissions (read, write or anything). How do I get those to stick? since I've noticed things in Root tend to not stay permanent. and as for the PM, I'll get right on that. Thanks for all of your help.
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SD cards do not let you make permission changes. I'm not sure why. Are you sure it does not have read write permissions? Can you create a file there?
Read my section on data structures in my HD/HD+ tips thread linked in my signature. It explains why the HD's are structured the way they are.
And thanks for working on the PM.

Fixed?
leapinlar said:
SD cards do not let you make permission changes. I'm not sure why. Are you sure it does not have read write permissions? Can you create a file there?
Read my section on data structures in my HD/HD+ tips thread linked in my signature. It explains why the HD's are structured the way they are.
And thanks for working on the PM.
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I think I figured it out. It seems that the cwmearly builds damage the sd cards, but once reflashed with the ones on your post it gets read just fine. I wanted it fixed since I couldn't find my other SD cards and had to resort into turning a 32gb into a 4gb card to install some zips (lame) and I wanted to get it back to its 32gb glory. So by rewriting my card with your 4gb image and putting it in my nook it got read and then I just formatted it on the nook and it was back to normal, though I had another card with the cwmearly img on it and it was going back to its old ways and repeated the previous steps and it was fine. so CWMearly was the problem.
I don't know how to make a clean back up without my data on it so this one will have my personal info (no credit card info, obviously) but maybe with your skills you can scrub it out of it. I'm not that well versed in this kind of stuff. I have an above average knowledge of android, but not any real knowledge of developing or ADB.

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I think I figured it out. It seems that the cwmearly builds damage the sd cards, but once reflashed with the ones on your post it gets read just fine. I wanted it fixed since I couldn't find my other SD cards and had to resort into turning a 32gb into a 4gb card to install some zips (lame) and I wanted to get it back to its 32gb glory. So by rewriting my card with your 4gb image and putting it in my nook it got read and then I just formatted it on the nook and it was back to normal, though I had another card with the cwmearly img on it and it was going back to its old ways and repeated the previous steps and it was fine. so CWMearly was the problem.
I don't know how to make a clean back up without my data on it so this one will have my personal info (no credit card info, obviously) but maybe with your skills you can scrub it out of it. I'm not that well versed in this kind of stuff. I have an above average knowledge of android, but not any real knowledge of developing or ADB.
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No I don't want your backup, I want your factory.zip from partition 7. It won't have any of your stuff on it, it is just what comes from the factory. If you don't know how to get that, I can give you instructions.
Sent with XDA Premium from my Nook HD+ running CM10 on SD

Are you sure it's 2.0.4? Any particular reason you don't want to update to 2.0.5?

leapinlar said:
No I don't want your backup, I want your factory.zip from partition 7. It won't have any of your stuff on it, it is just what comes from the factory. If you don't know how to get that, I can give you instructions.
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Any progress on getting that factory.zip? BTW, you did not say which device you have.
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SD Card not booting CM 10.1 install

I have an Nook HD+ that will not boot up in to the CWM recovery screen after setting up the SD card. I set up another one (8gb PNY Class 10) and that card works fine in two different Nooks. Now I bought a Samsung 32gb Class 10 card and it will not boot when set up the exact same way. Anyone know if I am doing something wrong with the larger SD card? Thank you

avengence said:
I have an Nook HD+ that will not boot up in to the CWM recovery screen after setting up the SD card. I set up another one (8gb PNY Class 10) and that card works fine in two different Nooks. Now I bought a Samsung 32gb Class 10 card and it will not boot when set up the exact same way. Anyone know if I am doing something wrong with the larger SD card? Thank you
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What do you mean after setting up? You mean after burning it? Some specific devices are hard to get them to boot to SD. I have two and the first boots fine the first time. My other one takes many, many attempts to boot the same card.
Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10.1 on emmc.

leapinlar said:
What do you mean after setting up? You mean after burning it? Some specific devices are hard to get them to boot to SD. I have two and the first boots fine the first time. My other one takes many, many attempts to boot the same card.
Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10.1 on emmc.
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After using Win32 Disk Imager and writing the img file to the SD card. I have tried re burning it multiple times and rebooting it many times. I am not sure if I am doing something wrong or maybe one of my readers doesnt work well with the card?

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After using Win32 Disk Imager and writing the img file to the SD card. I have tried re burning it multiple times and rebooting it many times. I am not sure if I am doing something wrong or maybe one of my readers doesnt work well with the card?
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If the card boots on another HD+, you did it right. But if it has never booted, you could have something not right. Bad adapter (you should not be using your built in PC card reader, user an external reader), not using administrator mode running the software, maybe the specific card. It is sometimes difficult to get it burned so that it will boot, and then sometimes the specific device is just hard to boot.
Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10.1 on emmc.

leapinlar said:
If the card boots on another HD+, you did it right. But if it has never booted, you could have something not right. Bad adapter (you should not be using your built in PC card reader, user an external reader), not using administrator mode running the software, maybe the specific card. It is sometimes difficult to get it burned so that it will boot, and then sometimes the specific device is just hard to boot.
Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10.1 on emmc.
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Having had a similar problem yesterday using an old version of disk imager, I'd recommend down loading the version from leapinlar's post which solved my problem straight away. I couldn't discern any difference between the data actually on the card but it worked, so worth a try. I was using a Sandisk 8gb class 4 card which is usually the card recommended. Hope this helps.
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Mind if I ask another quick q about memory cards? I got a pny 8 gig card especially to burn this image. When I burnednit last last nihht using win32image, it showed up as only 115 megabytes in size. There wasnt even room to transfer the other images.
Has this ever happened before to anyone?
Very strange. Can I rescue the card?

jicjoc said:
Mind if I ask another quick q about memory cards? I got a pny 8 gig card especially to burn this image. When I burnednit last last nihht using win32image, it showed up as only 115 megabytes in size. There wasnt even room to transfer the other images.
Has this ever happened before to anyone?
Very strange. Can I rescue the card?
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It is not strange, it is the way it is supposed to be. After it boots, it repartitions the card so it can be used for running CM. You are not supposed to be copying the ROM zips there.
Edit: I have an easy install guide for putting CM10/10.1 on SD linked in my signature. Maybe that will help you.
Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10.1 on emmc.

leapinlar said:
It is not strange, it is the way it is supposed to be. After it boots, it repartitions the card so it can be used for running CM. You are not supposed to be copying the ROM zips there.
Edit: I have an easy install guide for putting CM10/10.1 on SD linked in my signature. Maybe that will help you.
Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10.1 on emmc.
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Thanks, i am finding nothing easy about rooting the Nook!!
Ive done 10s of android phones and never any problems!

jicjoc said:
Thanks, i am finding nothing easy about rooting the Nook!!
Ive done 10s of android phones and never any problems!
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Are you wanting to root stock or put a custom rooted rom on it? Both are easy if you know what you want.
Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10.1 on emmc.

Preferably both leap but mainly cm. I think my prob is that im using my laptop sd card slot to write my bootabe sdcard. Is there any way to avoid usng an sdcard completely as per most phones?
Ill buy a cheap usb adapter anyway. Any should work right?

jicjoc said:
Preferably both leap but mainly cm. I think my prob is that im using my laptop sd card slot to write my bootabe sdcard. Is there any way to avoid usng an sdcard completely as per most phones?
Ill buy a cheap usb adapter anyway. Any should work right?
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There is no way to root stock or install a custom rom without a bootable SD.
If you want to root stock, the easiest way is to make a bootable CWM SD per my new procedure in my HD/HD+ CWM thread linked in my signature.
If you want to replace stock on internal memory with CM10.1, then use that CWM SD to flash verygreen's emmc version of CM10.1 from his thread.
If you want just to add an SD version of CM10.1 and not replace stock, go to my HD+ Hybrid thread also linked in my signature.
And when you get a USB card reader, try to get one that will read a micro SD without an adapter.
Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10.1 on emmc.

Finally got into cwm recovery using NookHDplus-image-for-original-verygreen-CM-SD-cwm-6028-rev0-(02.27.13).img
But it wont let me backup anything
I just get the error. 'Cant mount /system'
Any ideas?
Ive nothing else on the card right now. Should i have?
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Just booted to Cyanogenmod there from sd card. Happy with that...
But ive not backed up the original B&N firmware. Any help doing that appreciated...
As i say it wouldnt allow me mount /system.
Is that because ive not rooted it yet?
Is running cm10 from the external sd card slower than from the internal memory?
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Jaysus, this cm is awful. very slow, laggy. browser app continually crashing... what have i done wrong?
cm-10-20130511-UNOFFICIAL-ovation-sdcard.zip

jicjoc said:
Finally got into cwm recovery using NookHDplus-image-for-original-verygreen-CM-SD-cwm-6028-rev0-(02.27.13).img
But it wont let me backup anything
I just get the error. 'Cant mount /system'
Any ideas?
Ive nothing else on the card right now. Should i have?
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Just booted to Cyanogenmod there from sd card. Happy with that...
But ive not backed up the original B&N firmware. Any help doing that appreciated...
As i say it wouldnt allow me mount /system.
Is that because ive not rooted it yet?
Is running cm10 from the external sd card slower than from the internal memory?
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Jaysus, this cm is awful. very slow, laggy. browser app continually crashing... what have i done wrong?
cm-10-20130511-UNOFFICIAL-ovation-sdcard.zip
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That CWM will only let you backup the sdcard installation, not stock internal. And it won't even do that until you install it.
If you want to modify or backup stock see my HD/HD+ CWM thread linked in my signature.
And it is slow and awful because you have a slow SD. Use my Hybrid SD setup to improve things. See the link also in my signature.
You can also replace stock with CM10.1 on internal. Use my CWM for stock in the second paragraph above to do that. And flash verygreen's emmc version of CM10.1.
Edit: I guess I said all that in my post above.
Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10.1 on emmc.

Thanks Leap.
You reference a lot of threads in your post that you say are linked in your sig. But which thread you mean isnt clear most times to me... Sorry!
If you want to backup stock see my HD/HD+ CWM thread linked in my signature.
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Yes i want to do this
Is this the thread that you mean? http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=38572483#post38572483
Because that is where i got that cm image from, and it wouldnt let me back up stock.
I basically want to backup stock (so i can roll back eventually) and then format the internal drive and put cm 10 on it forever.
Sorry, this is as frustrating for me as you. All these threads and images are almost the same name, and it gets very confusing. It may seem like its all simple and straight forward but there is no clear, straight forward guide anywhere here. There should be a sticky or youtube maybe. Or else im just stupid... But ive read lots of frustrated posts of noobies like me... Its not this hard for any other device!

jicjoc said:
Thanks Leap.
You reference a lot of threads in your post that you say are linked in your sig. But which thread you mean isnt clear most times to me... Sorry!
Yes i want to do this
Is this the thread that you mean? http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=38572483#post38572483
Because that is where i got that cm image from, and it wouldnt let me back up stock.
I basically want to backup stock (so i can roll back eventually) and then format the internal drive and put cm 10 on it forever.
Sorry, this is as frustrating for me as you. All these threads and images are almost the same name, and it gets very confusing. It may seem like its all simple and straight forward but there is no clear, straight forward guide anywhere here. There should be a sticky or youtube maybe. Or else im just stupid... But ive read lots of frustrated posts of noobies like me... Its not this hard for any other device!
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No, that is not the right one. Look for CWM in the title in the signature.
Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10.1 on emmc.

Woo hoo - got there. And it wasnt hard at all, looking back!
Delighted with my nook hd+ running CM10.1

cm10.1 or 10.2

1. I've been running cm10.1 from August 1 (the latest version I could find) and have had no issues except for one -i get at least 3 random reboots a day. I'm wondering if this is a common problem and if there are other versions that offer more stability, namely cm10.2. I want to use my tablet for light word processing so I really don't want to risk a random reboot in the middle of typing..
2. If I decide to flash 10.2, would it require a complete overwrite or can I dirty flash it over my current ROM?
3. Have nightlies after august 1 stopped for cm10.1?

dykim5 said:
3. Have nightlies after august 1 stopped for cm10.1?
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I am assuming you mean for the HD+. Go here:
http://goo.im/devs/cm/ovation/nightly
Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10.1 on emmc.

Just make it work right
I was wondering if any body had problems with N2A download software. I went out and pay for a SanDisk 32GB micro sdhc card and can't get it to come on my windows 8 computer or xp computer to downloard to the microsdhc card. it says something about it didn't have a time allotted to allow it to work. I just want to run android on my Nook.

techcepter said:
I was wondering if any body had problems with N2A download software. I went out and pay for a SanDisk 32GB micro sdhc card and can't get it to come on my windows 8 computer or xp computer to downloard to the microsdhc card. it says something about it didn't have a time allotted to allow it to work. I just want to run android on my Nook.
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I doubt if you'll find anyone on these XDA forums who use products peddled by N2A.
You'd have better luck posting your question on N2A forums or help line.