I have three Nook HD+. I've been able to boot all of them to CWM using leapinlar's guide to achieve root and allow unknown scorces. I've also been able to make a Hybrid SD boot card on one of them using win32diskimger and the guide on the Hybrid installation.
I'd like to make another of them a Hybrid install, but I cannot get it to boot from the SD card after installing the image. It will boot every time with the 8gig card I made to install root and the other stock extras, but I can't get it to boot to the SD card with the Hybrid image.
I have tried Quickboot and booting it while holding down every button with no success.
I have tried 4 different SD cards with the image burned and none have worked. Is there anything else I can do? I am beyond frustrated at this point because it was so easy when I did this to the first hybrid I made. Thanks in advance for any advice.
Have you tried booting the hybrid SD that works on the one device to see if it tries to boot on the others?
Sent from my Nook HD running CM10.1 on emmc
leapinlar said:
Have you tried booting the hybrid SD that works on the one device to see if it tries to boot on the others?
Sent from my Nook HD running CM10.1 on emmc
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Yes I've tried that and it will boot the Nook I'm trying to get modded into the boot menu, CWM, or stock. It seems as though the issue isn't the Nook, but it's that I'm somehow not burning the image file to the SD correctly. I just can't figure out what I'm doing wrong though.
I've tried both WinImg 0.8 and 0.6 running as an admin and the card seems to be taking the image correctly. I get a 120mb card with u-boot.bin, ramdisk.cwm, kernel, MLO, uImage, ramdisk.hybrid, and ramdisk.stock on it. It just doesn't boot in the Nook. I've tried it in all three and it won't boot them. I'm really at a loss as to what to try next, because it seems like I should be good at this point.
Also if I just take the SD with the image burned and overwrite the files with your "NookHDplus-bootable-CWM-6028-for-stock-4GB-rev4-(05.15.13)" Rar files, the Nook will boot into stock CWM with no problem, so the SD cards I'm using are bootable at least. I just don't know how to go from here to making the hybrid card.
I wish I knew what I did differently the first time, but I don't know what it could be.
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Yes I've tried that and it will boot the Nook I'm trying to get modded into the boot menu, CWM, or stock. It seems as though the issue isn't the Nook, but it's that I'm somehow not burning the image file to the SD correctly. I just can't figure out what I'm doing wrong though.
I've tried both WinImg 0.8 and 0.6 running as an admin and the card seems to be taking the image correctly. I get a 120mb card with u-boot.bin, ramdisk.cwm, kernel, MLO, uImage, ramdisk.hybrid, and ramdisk.stock on it. It just doesn't boot in the Nook. I've tried it in all three and it won't boot them. I'm really at a loss as to what to try next, because it seems like I should be good at this point.
Also if I just take the SD with the image burned and overwrite the files with your "NookHDplus-bootable-CWM-6028-for-stock-4GB-rev4-(05.15.13)" Rar files, the Nook will boot into stock CWM with no problem, so the SD cards I'm using are bootable at least. I just don't know how to go from here to making the hybrid card.
I wish I knew what I did differently the first time, but I don't know what it could be.
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Copy the boot files from the hybrid SD that is working to the SD's that are not working and try booting then. You know, like you did with the files from the 6028 stock SD.
Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10.1 on emmc.
leapinlar said:
Copy the boot files from the hybrid SD that is working to the SD's that are not working and try booting then. You know, like you did with the files from the 6028 stock SD.
Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10.1 on emmc.
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It gets stuck on "Loading SD/EMMC Hybrid CM10/10.1" but does at least boot from the card. Really wish I could figure out what I did right the first time
hfeigel said:
It gets stuck on "Loading SD/EMMC Hybrid CM10/10.1" but does at least boot from the card. Really wish I could figure out what I did right the first time
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Got it to work. I redownloaded the img zip file and wrote it and now it's fine. I have no idea how it got corrupt sitting on my PC in between making SD cards. Thanks so much for your help Leapinlar!
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Absolute NooB to the NC here, so please be gentle!
I've got four issues that should be no-brainers but they are beating me up. I've split them into four separate posts to keep things clean.
3. I have CM7 RC4 installed on eMMC (would have preferred to run it from uSDcard but that's another story).
After I got CM7 installed, wireless configured and then gApps installed, I noticed that the uSDcard wasn't mounted. No problem, popped into Setup, Storage and mounted the card.
But this card had been around the block a couple of times, so I figured it would be best to freshen it, partitions and all.
Started ROM Manager and tried to partition the card. But ROM Manager wouldn't partition without installing CWR.
No problem... went ahead and installed CWR, then partitioned the card.
But now I have a problem.
No matter what I do now, I can't boot to CM7 if the uSDcard is installed it boots into CWR. Even if I unmount the card before rebooting, still goes to CWR.
The only way I can get to CM7 now is to physically remove the card, boot, insert the card then mount it manually.
Surely this can't be right.
What have I done wrong?
CWM doesn't work correctly if installed from ROM Manager...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1024616
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Thanks, danger-rat, for the pointer to CWR 3.0.1.0.
Unfortunately, I flashed it and still have the same problem. No matter what I do, boots to CWR if uSDcard is in place.
Format your sd card in your computer. download the attached sdformatter (found it on these forums somewhere) and use it. it will delete any funky partitions on the card. it sounds like that card has cwm on it, and the nook will always boot SD card first.
Please make sure you take the sd card out of your nook, and put it in a card reader to perform this step. not sure if would work right if you tried it in the nook.
I have had to do this a few times to fix cards that have been modified to be bootable on the nook.
Hi,
The Nook Color will try and boot first from an external uSD card. If there is
a bootable image on it, it will boot from it. Unmounting (but not removing)
the uSD before rebooting does not change if the uSD is detected on
rebooting.
From what you say, if you have your external uSD in the slot, you say
you always boot into CWM - I assume this is running on the external uSD.
It sounds like you need to reformat and possibly repartition your uSD to all
fat32. There are several threads discussing restoring a uSD to a single
large partition.
One of them referenced this tool to run on a PC (I haven't used it)
http://www.sdcard.org/consumers/formatter_3/
This will delete the contents of the uSD, so make sure there is nothing
you want on it!
I have been keeping several uSD cards around, one for flashing from time
to time and one for data and backups.
Hope this helps,
Peter
adealey said:
Thanks, danger-rat, for the pointer to CWR 3.0.1.0.
Unfortunately, I flashed it and still have the same problem. No matter what I do, boots to CWR if uSDcard is in place.
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danger-rat said:
CWM doesn't work correctly if installed from ROM Manager...
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all you should have to do is flash the cwm zip with the ext4 kernel (cwmr_3.0.1.0.zip) from this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=971197
For me all i did was install with Rommanger, then reboot into cwm and installed the zip. works like a charm
I use the SD card method to have the nook boot into CM7 and when the SD card is pulled, the nook would be stock to be used by my kids. But I think I messed things up and can't restore. Here is what I have done:
1- I tried to update the stock version to 1.3 manually from B&N website but soon realized I could not. It seems like when in CM7, I had tried to flash CWM recovery (which was not needed and is pretty buggy in SD card method for nook). Now the recovery in emmc appears to be CWM.
2-for some stupid reason when I got into CMM recovery, I formatted boot, system,data and cache (not sure if I did boot also or not). My thinking was to flash a stock image and be fixed. But I am now stuck.
Is there a way to go back to stock on the nook? I am still able to boot into SD card and CM7 nightly. Oh ya, I use Linux Ubuntu not windows. TIA
Sounds like you should get the system back to stock before proceeding any further.
Follow the instruction here: http://www.nookdevs.com/NookColor_UnRooting
The problem is that I get into the CWM recovery and not given the reset option following the options on that page. Any idea?
I think my problem is that I'm not really rooted in true sense since I was running off the SD card. Maybe I shoudl root properly, then unroot?
I did kind of the same thing once. I made an Sd card image with CWM on another sd card -- basically as if you are going to install CM7 to emmc. However, once you get to the point where you would flash Cm7, use the stock zip ROM. It will install that to emmc so it will be back to normal. You should then be good to go.
loveubuntu said:
The problem is that I get into the CWM recovery and not given the reset option following the options on that page. Any idea?
I think my problem is that I'm not really rooted in true sense since I was running off the SD card. Maybe I shoudl root properly, then unroot?
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If you follow the instructions you should be left with an unrooted initialized stock Nook Color. Register your account. Then you can wait for the NC to download the 1.3 update, or side load it. Once that is installed you have an unrooted 1.3 stock system.
From there you can try your CM7 card. Don't forget to remove your SD card at the very beginning since like a PC the NC will try to boot off the SD card if it is present.
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If you follow the instructions you should be left with an unrooted initialized stock Nook Color. Register your account. Then you can wait for the NC to download the 1.3 update, or side load it. Once that is installed you have an unrooted 1.3 stock system.
From there you can try your CM7 card. Don't forget to remove your SD card at the very beginning since like a PC the NC will try to boot off the SD card if it is present.
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when I follow the instruction, I am not given the factory reset option. I am stuck at the n screen. It flashed the read forever but then stuck at the n screen. Do I have to wait longer than 5 minutes?
None of this is mine, I owe it ALL to the threads mentioned below.
So as in many posts on XDA say, it's almost impossible to brick the Nook. What a great device. I had to format my SD card to use it to "un-brick" my nook but it was done. I Mainly used the info here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=949699
Burnt a bootable CWM image onto my SD card. It took a while doing it with dd in Linux. I'm sure it's the same in Windows or Mac. It took about 20-30 minutes. It also took a while to unzip/extract the img file from the downloaded file. Be patient
Then used the CWM recovery remover file from http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=914690 to remove my CWM recovery and used the 1.0.1 file from same thread to flash the stock image onto the nook.
Once the SD card is ready, just drop those files in the root of the sd card. It should have 4 other files in it to boot into CWM recovery from the sd card and let you use the menus to flash those two zip files. It took a while but it's all in those threads. Thanks to the members. Now lets see if I can go up to 1.3 and then root it again.
you also need to do this
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1094371
and here is the ver 1.2 stock flashable with an clockwork bootable sd card
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1050520
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2087988&page=1
I want to install this dual boot on my nook plus but I am not having much luck.
The nook hd plus had firmware 2.1.0 if it matters.
I downloaded cwm early 7.1 (sdcard-cwm-early7.1.img.gz and unzipped the image fie with 7zip.
I then downloaded Winimage version 9.0 and selected the E drive where my brand new san disk 16 gig SDSDQ-016G-AW46A
When I clicked the write button and I get a message the current image format is not supported. It will be resized. Do you want to continue which I did. I then appears to write the image because I see files on the micro sd card. So I stick the sd in the nook and suspecting I will get a boot loader and I get nothing but the normal nook boot screens. Also it is not real clear how I will install cm-10.1-20130719-UNOFFICIAL-ovation-sdcard.zip. IE whether I download it to the nook or the sd card and if I need to extract the zip ahead of time.
I really want to get this working soon and I really do want to run completely off the SD card. If anyone can please help without just referring to links to posts that are not written very well I would appreciate it. I have actually RTFM allot of these posts and they seam to be missing allot of important details and steps assuming you have done this before. On a side note it mentioned download other apps you may want is google play and allot of key stuff missing in these builds? Thanks.
nookhdp said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2087988&page=1
I want to install this dual boot on my nook plus but I am not having much luck.
The nook hd plus had firmware 2.1.0 if it matters.
I downloaded cwm early 7.1 (sdcard-cwm-early7.1.img.gz and unzipped the image fie with 7zip.
I then downloaded Winimage version 9.0 and selected the E drive where my brand new san disk 16 gig SDSDQ-016G-AW46A
When I clicked the write button and I get a message the current image format is not supported. It will be resized. Do you want to continue which I did. I then appears to write the image because I see files on the micro sd card. So I stick the sd in the nook and suspecting I will get a boot loader and I get nothing but the normal nook boot screens. Also it is not real clear how I will install cm-10.1-20130719-UNOFFICIAL-ovation-sdcard.zip. IE whether I download it to the nook or the sd card and if I need to extract the zip ahead of time.
I really want to get this working soon and I really do want to run completely off the SD card. If anyone can please help without just referring to links to posts that are not written very well I would appreciate it. I have actually RTFM allot of these posts and they seam to be missing allot of important details and steps assuming you have done this before. On a side note it mentioned download other apps you may want is google play and allot of key stuff missing in these builds? Thanks.
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Don't use winimage to write the image to sd, use win32diskimager free on the web.
Also some of the newer HD+'s are hard to get to boot to SD. Just keep trying to burn and boot. You have o get it to boot to SD or it can't install the CM10.1.
You copy the CM10.1 zip to internal memory when running stock. Then when you boot to the SD, install it from internal memory.
Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10.1 on emmc.
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leapinlar said:
Don't use winimage to write the image to sd, use win32diskimager free on the web.
Also some of the newer HD+'s are hard to get to boot to SD. Just keep trying to burn and boot. You have o get it to boot to SD or it can't install the CM10.1.
You copy the CM10.1 zip to internal memory when running stock. Then when you boot to the SD, install it from internal memory.
Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10.1 on emmc.
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I am using this duel boot method running root on SD. I was wondering how do I upgrade the ssd to the latest sd only version without loosing my installed stuff and settings? Also can the daily builds be run on the rom only version while maintaining installed programs and settings? If so what is the easiest way using an sd card only boot? I want to preserve the original nook for now is why I am using this method. Thanks.
nookhdp said:
I am using this duel boot method running root on SD. I was wondering how do I upgrade the ssd to the latest sd only version without loosing my installed stuff and settings? Also can the daily builds be run on the rom only version while maintaining installed programs and settings? If so what is the easiest way using an sd card only boot? I want to preserve the original nook for now is why I am using this method. Thanks.
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To update to a newer version of the same ROM, just flash the newer SD version over the top of the old version using the same CWM that you flashed the original. All your apps and settings should remain.
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leapinlar said:
Don't use winimage to write the image to sd, use win32diskimager free on the web.
Also some of the newer HD+'s are hard to get to boot to SD. Just keep trying to burn and boot. You have o get it to boot to SD or it can't install the CM10.1.
You copy the CM10.1 zip to internal memory when running stock. Then when you boot to the SD, install it from internal memory.
Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10.1 on emmc.
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So do I copy the latest update to the rooted os on the sd card or do I have to boot back to the original nook os and download it there? Then is there an option in the clockwork mod to upgrade the zip file so I do not loose my installed stuff on my rooted SD card boot? What is the option in clockwork to do it correctly?
nookhdp said:
So do I copy the latest update to the rooted os on the sd card or do I have to boot back to the original nook os and download it there? Then is there an option in the clockwork mod to upgrade the zip file so I do not loose my installed stuff on my rooted SD card boot? What is the option in clockwork to do it correctly?
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You can do everything from your SD. Just download the new zip, boot to CWM and install zip from SD. It will keep your apps intact.
Sent from my Galaxy Tab 2 using XDA Premium
I have a new Nook HD+ on the way, I plan to register it and then install CM 10.1, but I'm concerned I saw in another thread that someone wasn't able to boot off an SD and the update automatically installed. Can anyone confirm they were able to still boot of an SD card after installing 2.1.1?
I was able to boot off a Transcend Class 10 SD card after installing the 2.1.1 update.
Some HD/HD+ units reportedly have difficulty booting off SD card, see http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2288688. The problem has nothing do with the stock ROM, new or old.
Ok, thanks. Should have it today and will go ahead as planned. Just concerned me it was a brand new update and I'd only seen the negative response, but it sounds like it should be good.
jasonnovak said:
I have a new Nook HD+ on the way, I plan to register it and then install CM 10.1, but I'm concerned I saw in another thread that someone wasn't able to boot off an SD and the update automatically installed. Can anyone confirm they were able to still boot of an SD card after installing 2.1.1?
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2.1.1 with Kingston 8G Class 4 micro-sd card works well.
SD boot after 2.1.1
Aalen_nku said:
2.1.1 with Kingston 8G Class 4 micro-sd card works well.
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My HD+ would not boot with a 4gb card or a 2gb card, I tried it at least 10 times apiece, however I did get it to boot with a SanDisk TransFlash 256 MB with just the boot image files and CWM.
It boots to the 256MB card first try everytime. So as soon as CWM loads I swapped the 256 for the 2gb and did a stock backup, rooted and installed CM.
unable to boot from sd
just bought nook hd+ yesterday
have been trying to install cwm but couldn't..............my nook version is 2.1.1 and i've got class 10 32gb samsung memory card............followed all the instructions but still it won't boot from sd.................. its been 3 hours ..............
all i wanted to do was install cyanogenmod so that i could install flash player and adaway.
no luck whatsoever
fr3nlysmil3 said:
just bought nook hd+ yesterday
have been trying to install cwm but couldn't..............my nook version is 2.1.1 and i've got class 10 32gb samsung memory card............followed all the instructions but still it won't boot from sd.................. its been 3 hours ..............
all i wanted to do was install cyanogenmod so that i could install flash player and adaway.
no luck whatsoever
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Try some of the tips here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=41664474
It can be hard to get the SD to boot sometimes. In particular try the one where you hold the SD in.
Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10.1 on emmc.
leapinlar said:
Try some of the tips here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=41664474
It can be hard to get the SD to boot sometimes. In particular try the one where you hold the SD in.
Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10.1 on emmc.
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Thanks man followed your post on 1a and i was able to boot into recovery.....................................at first try it didn't boot into cwm instead it boot into nook home screen..................then i turned off my nook and turned it on quickly (without taking sd card out) then it booted straight into cwm.................i think the problem is that nook takes long time to read sd card for the first time.................when turned on it keeps on saying Checking SD Card For Errors for quite a while on the status bar.......
but i forgot to copy universal root onto my sd card..............so can i root my nook later after installing cyanogenmod?
thanks
If you have installed CM it comes pre rooted.
artesea said:
If you have installed CM it comes pre rooted.
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yup it was, thank you
just bought nook yesterday so i'm kinda noob
finally installed cyanogenmod 10.1, now i can install flash player and ad blocker :laugh:
it isn't as fast as my previous galaxy note 10.1 but for £149 it has gorgeous screen and i couldn't ask more for that price
happy happy
As a UK user with a nook and cm, could you give 4od a try.? The app works and shows content, just watching anything fails for me.
artesea said:
As a UK user with a nook and cm, could you give 4od a try.? The app works and shows content, just watching anything fails for me.
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yeah same with mine. the video just keeps loading and nothing happens, its not just my nook hd+; same thing's happening on my galaxy s2 with android 4.3 as well
digixmax said:
Some HD/HD+ units reportedly have difficulty booting off SD card, see http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2288688. The problem has nothing do with the stock ROM, new or old.
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I am tempted to dispute this. I had a brand-new HD+ with stock firmware v2.0.4 which consistently (and always at first attempt) booted from sd card (Kingston 4GB, cl 4).
After upgrading to stock firmware v2.1.1, but with no other changes, it wouldn't boot once in 50+ attempts. The sd card was unchanged, the HD+ hardware was the same, so this behaviour would seem to point to the firmware change as the culprit, doesn't it?
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I am tempted to dispute this. I had a brand-new HD+ with stock firmware v2.0.4 which consistently (and always at first attempt) booted from sd card (Kingston 4GB, cl 4).
After upgrading to stock firmware v2.1.1, but with no other changes, it wouldn't boot once in 50+ attempts. The sd card was unchanged, the HD+ hardware was the same, so this behaviour would seem to point to the firmware change as the culprit, doesn't it?
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It does, but booting is controlled by the hardware chip firmware. There is no way for b&n to change that remotely.
A way to test your theory is to do an 8 failed boot with stock recovery installed and go back to 2.0.4. Then see if your booting trouble goes away.
Edit: If that is really the case, the solution is to revert to 2.0.4 and immediately upgrade to CM. Then it should boot SDs ok.
Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10.1 on emmc.
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I am tempted to dispute this. I had a brand-new HD+ with stock firmware v2.0.4 which consistently (and always at first attempt) booted from sd card (Kingston 4GB, cl 4).
After upgrading to stock firmware v2.1.1, but with no other changes, it wouldn't boot once in 50+ attempts. The sd card was unchanged, the HD+ hardware was the same, so this behaviour would seem to point to the firmware change as the culprit, doesn't it?
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My HD+, which originally came with 2.0.4 and got immediately auto-updated to 2.1.0 and then later to 2.1.1, (luckily) has not had any problem booting off SD.
The boot-device selection process is controlled by the hardware configuration and bootstrap code in ROM (this is the device's real ROM, as opposed to the Android OS software that is commonly but incorrectly referred to as "ROM"); see http://omappedia.org/wiki/Bootloader_Project for an overview of the boot process, and more gory details can be found in http://www.ti.com/lit/ug/swpu270s/swpu270s.pdf.
Have you re-checked "bootability" of the boot partition of your SD card, or tried a freshly burned SD boot image? I have had a few instances of Recovery or ROM SD cards rendered un-bootable after the stock ROM created files/folders on them.
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Have you re-checked "bootability" of the boot partition of your SD card, or tried a freshly burned SD boot image?
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As I wrote in my first post, the sd card (which booted properly with v2.0.4) was unchanged. I deleted all stuff the HD+ had put on it (a bunch of empty directories, if I recall correctly) and it had only the 5 CWM boot files and 2 zips I wanted to install. To the best of my knowledge the sd card was unchanged.
Never mind, it's probably one of those things...
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As I wrote in my first post, the sd card (which booted properly with v2.0.4) was unchanged. I deleted all stuff the HD+ had put on it (a bunch of empty directories, if I recall correctly) and it had only the 5 CWM boot files and 2 zips I wanted to install. To the best of my knowledge the sd card was unchanged.
Never mind, it's probably one of those things...
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As he said earlier though, the fact that 2.1.1 wrote to it at all may have done something to the SD.
Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10.1 on emmc.
I want to install CM11 onto my external SDcard, not touching the B&N stock OS or rooting it in any way , so as not to void the warranty. #1 is this possible?
I built the SDcard, creating partitions: BOOT (0x0c FAT32 LBA & set Active),SYSTEM, DATA partitions.
I downloaded Succulent's "cm_ovation_11.0_02JUL2014_HD_SDC" file, unzipped it and copied the 6 files from it (MLO first)
Booted the HD+ but it didn't boot to sd,-- only did the normal Nook boot and hung at 99% loading the nook OS.
I then saw something about needing to install CWM Recovery first and boot that, so I located a download for CWM, but found it contains the same files as Succulent's "cm_ovation......" file (MLO, etc.). So if I were to extract that to the BOOT partition, I'd overwrite what I extracted from his zip.
So I'm missing some pieces to the trick....
Try using bokbokan's version and instructions here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2583952
Sent from my BN NookHD+ using XDA Premium HD app
leapinlar said:
Try using bokbokan's version and instructions here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2583952
Sent from my BN NookHD+ using XDA Premium HD app
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Thank you, but I had customized my partitions, and was hoping to stay with them, versus overwriting them with an image someone made that has pre-picked partitions. That is, unless somehow I can resize the partitions he made (and at which point in the process?) On mine I had 4 partitions. the last one was just an NTFS one, 6GB, I was hoping to keep available for just general storage, not necessarily for KitKat's use.
See http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=49007593&postcount=84 for pointers on creating CM11 SDcard with customized partition sizing. You should be able to create and maintain a 4th partition (but you'd need to figure out how to mount the partition so as to make it accessible to Android and/or your PC OS).
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Ok, I must be missing some simple step.
In that link Digimax sent me, I believe I followed all steps. I ended up with these files on the BOOT partition (as seen in windows):
The 6 files extracted from sdcard-ovation-cm11.0-v1.img
pa_gapps-modular-mini-4.4.4-20141121-signed
cm-11-20140804-UNOFFICIAL-bok-ovation
a folder called LOST.DIR (not sure what that's from)
I choose "Boot to CWM Recovery" and I first did a backup. Then I selected "Install ZIP" then "Choose zip from sdcard" & I see
/sdcard/
- 0/
- clockworkmod/
That's it. Nothing else. Selecting either one of these displays no zip files. What am I doing wrong? In that post, step 4 it mentions "pair" of zip files. I assume though the 2nd item in the "pair" is the Gapps zip. Cuz for HD+ all I see is one file: cm-11-20140804-UNOFFICIAL-bok-ovation. (it doesn't have "sgt7" in the name anymore.) I assume I don't need the one for the regular HD model.
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Ok, I must be missing some simple step.
In that link Digimax sent me, I believe I followed all steps. I ended up with these files on the BOOT partition (as seen in windows):
The 6 files extracted from sdcard-ovation-cm11.0-v1.img
pa_gapps-modular-mini-4.4.4-20141121-signed
cm-11-20140804-UNOFFICIAL-bok-ovation
a folder called LOST.DIR (not sure what that's from)
I choose "Boot to CWM Recovery" and I first did a backup. Then I selected "Install ZIP" then "Choose zip from sdcard" & I see
/sdcard/
- 0/
- clockworkmod/
That's it. Nothing else. Selecting either one of these displays no zip files. What am I doing wrong?
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It does not appear that you've made any mistake. It's possible that bokbokan's CWM recovery has changed since I wrote up that guide nearly a year ago (and shortly thereafter have gone onto flashing/running CM11 on emmc and thus would have missed any such change).
One possible solution you might consider trying is to download or copy the ROM and Gapps zip files to your HD+ user-media partition, then while in CWM recovery menu select "... zip files from emmc" and browse to where the ROM/Gapps zip files are located.
In that post, step 4 it mentions "pair" of zip files. I assume though the 2nd item in the "pair" is the Gapps zip.
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Yes, that's correct.
bok build install behaves super flaky for me
One possible solution you might consider trying is to download or copy the ROM and Gapps zip files to your HD+ user-media partition, then while in CWM recovery menu select "... zip files from emmc" and browse to where the ROM/Gapps zip files are located.
I got the sdcard to boot after many reboots and had to keep hard powering off (cutting it off) if the NOOK name displayed too long, (where I knew it was going to boot Nook OS) It booted to CWM, I did a backup, then installed the zips (had to put on internal memory as you said, but even this wasn't easy, It gave some weird error I don't recall,maybe about something "has stopped", so I ended up having to copy it from ES File Explorer after booting to Nook OS) Then I repeated the boot trick as mentioned, backed it up, then installed the 2 zips. I rebooted, got walkthrough of 1st time setup. This is where it got weird. Screens would advance on their own, be shifted halfway off the screen, had a long delay or else wouldn't respond to my clicks, would power off (and wouldn't power on until MANY presses of the power button) or reboot on it's own during the setup. I finally got thru setup and then after booting to Android, it would still be very sluggish, and still powering off on it's own and being difficult to turn on. And it continued to be unreliable to boot to Android, sometimes booting to Nook OS still (even though some in forums say once they got it to boot to Android it would forever after.)
Maybe I need to try a different build. Who else has a well-known, reliable? build besides Succulent? (even though with his it wouldn't boot to CWM but hang at 99% forever on Nook OS loading). If there's no others, maybe I'll give his another try since I had some luck getting CWM to boot with the above trick.
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This is where it got weird. Screens would advance on their own, be shifted halfway off the screen, had a long delay or else wouldn't respond to my clicks, would power off (and wouldn't power on until MANY presses of the power button) or reboot on it's own during the setup. I finally got thru setup and then after booting to Android, it would still be very sluggish, and still powering off on it's own and being difficult to turn on. And it continued to be unreliable to boot to Android, sometimes booting to Nook OS still (even though some in forums say once they got it to boot to Android it would forever after.)
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What brand and class of SD card are you using to run CM?
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even though with his it wouldn't boot to CWM but hang at 99% forever on Nook OS loading
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FWIW, every time that I have had the problem of stock ROM boot-up stuck at 99% it was always because the stock ROM got corrupted due to some unexpected errors in the creation/update of the SD-based CM ROM image, and the only way I was able to recover was to restore stock ROM from backup copy.
I have a PNY 16gb class4 (C16G china 1308PW3599P)
The problem of it hanging at 99% only happened with Succulents, not Bokbokans. As far as the Nook OS being corrupt , I have doubts of that since without the SDcard it ALWAYS boots fine to the nook OS.
baytee said:
I have a PNY 16gb class4 (C16G china 1308PW3599P)
The problem of it hanging at 99% only happened with Succulents, not Bokbokans. As far as the Nook OS being corrupt , I have doubts of that since without the SDcard it ALWAYS boots fine to the nook OS.
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The problem of stock booting to 99% and hanging with an SD inserted has to do with the properties of the SD, not corruption of stock. Stock will always hang if the SD has more than 3 partitions. Most of Bokbokan's SDs are set up to only have 3 just for that reason. I don't know how many the succulent SD has, I would bet more than 3.
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Stock will always hang if the SD has more than 3 partitions. Most of Bokbokan's SDs are set up to only have 3 just for that reason. I don't know how many the succulent SD has, I would bet more than 3.
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Succulent's CM SD image for the HD+ only has 3 partitions.
I WAS creating a 4th partition & was unaware it was an issue so thanks. I was doing customized partition (not using their premade sd image). But my whole goal is booting to sdcard, not to nook os.....and the 99% Id assumed was after it failed to boot to sdcard & instead had gone on to boot nook os. But Just in case it helps me boot CM11 on sdcard, I'll try it with 3. Thanks for that tip.
actually I WAS creating a 4th partition & was unaware it was an issue so thanks. I was doing customized partitions (not using their premade sd image). But my whole goal is booting to sdcard, not to nook os.....and the 99% Id assumed was after it failed to boot to sdcard & instead had gone on to boot nook os. But just in case it helps me boot CM11 on sdcard, I'll try it with 3. Thanks for that tip
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actually I WAS creating a 4th partition & was unaware it was an issue so thanks.
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FWIW, I took succulent's pre-made SD image for CM11 (https://goo.im/devs/succulent/ovation/cyanogenmod/image/cm_ovation_11.0_24DEC2013_HD_SDC_IMG.7z), burned it to a (Sandisk class 4) 8GB SD card. The image has 3 partitions which succulent had sized to fit a 2GB SD card; I added a 4th partition (type: FAT32, name: /media) to fill the leftover space of my 8GB card (and reset the boot (1st) partition's type/flag to ensure that it's still bootable). The resulted CM11 card with the extra 4th partition booted up just fine on my HD+.
So, having an extra 4th partition (or, in general, more than 3 partitions) does not prevent a SD-based CM image for the HD+ from booting successfully -- just as one by virtue of logics would have expected.
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FWIW, I took succulent's pre-made SD image for CM11 (https://goo.im/devs/succulent/ovation/cyanogenmod/image/cm_ovation_11.0_24DEC2013_HD_SDC_IMG.7z), burned it to a (Sandisk class 4) 8GB SD card. The image has 3 partitions which succulent had sized to fit a 2GB SD card; I added a 4th partition (type: FAT32, name: /media) to fill the leftover space of my 8GB card (and reset the boot (1st) partition's type/flag to ensure that it's still bootable). The resulted CM11 card with the extra 4th partition booted up just fine on my HD+.
So, having an extra 4th partition (or, in general, more than 3 partitions) does not prevent a SD-based CM image for the HD+ from booting successfully -- just as one by virtue of logics would have expected.
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No it does not prevent it from booting to the SD, but it does prevent stock from booting successfully if the SD is inserted in the slot. It will hang at 99%.
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Verygreen's CM 11 SD build of 11/29/2014 for the HD+ works very well for me. First boot does take awhile so don't give up too fast.
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