I formatted and re-imaged my nook today from 1.0.1 Rooted to stock.
I then manually updated to 2.1 for flash capability.
Now I want my Root back.
For some reason the NOOK won't boot off of the SD Card anymore, it just ignores it until it's booted and I can see the files on the SD card.
I've imaged my SD Card with multiple versions of CWM, shut off my nook, inserted the SD card and plugged in a USB cable to initiate the process.
Is it possible that it requires the "Nook" USB cable to start the boot off of SD Card process or will the cable for my Droid Incredible work as well?
It's the only thing i can think of at this point that is causing the problem.
I won't get my nook cable till tomorrow so i can't test it.
Thanks,
Turmith
You don't need the cable to boot off the sd card, all the cable does is turn the thing on.
You are probably not flashing your card right, it's not simply a matter of copying files over, there is data that needs to be put on the card that isn't part of the files you can see.
If you are using an old nooter or autonooter card, it's probably corrupted or something. You don't want to use those old rooting processes anyhow.
The rooting process is also different now than in previous releases. You should do some reading on how to make a bootable cwm card and what the new rooting process for 1.2 is.
Thanks,
I believe you are right, the sd card isn't being flashed correctly.
I tried following the instructions here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1054027
Still got the issue where the nook would completely ignore the sdcard yet read it once it was booted.
So i tried formatting the sdcard with my Droid Incredible, then flashed it using windiskimger using the instructions provided in the link above.
Now when i try to boot off the card i get a blank black screen(never gets to "Read Forever" screen.
I have to remove SD Card, hold power button in(10 sec), release and then hold Power button in again(10 Sec) to get the nook to boot back into 1.2
I'm considering doing the 8 failed boot thing and seeing if it will restore 1.0.0 or something at this point.
Any suggestions?
Well that's progress ;-) at least it's trying to boot from the sd card now even if it's not succeeding.
are you using your droid as a uSD adapter for your computer, or do you have a dedicated uSD reader? that might be your problem. I'd try using a separate card reader.
You can get something like this basically anywhere for under $10. Try target/walmart/kmart/staples or like i said basically anywhere ;-)
I don't use windows for flashing but i've noticed some people saying they have luck with some programs for flashing more than others, try reading around, maybe you'll find an alternative to windiskimager that works better for you.
P.S. Formatting before flashing doesn't do anything at all. The flash should erase anything on the card and replace it exactly with the contents of the image you are flashing, regardless of whether it's freshly formatted or filled with 10 years of irreplaceable photographs
I'm not so sure it's the sdcard reader(which is internal to my Dell Laptop)
I switched from a 8gb sd card to a 2gb sd card(to make sure the SD card wasn't causing a problem) and pulled down a SD version of Nookie Froyo 2gb(to make sure CWM wasn't the issue either) just to see if i could get the thing to boot.
Same thing as occurred again.
It's become apparent that Winimage is either not doing it's job or I've somehow miss-configured the thing to not work correctly.
Winimage seems to only be writing one partition to the sdcard. In addition the Nook won't even attempt to boot off the sd card unless it's been formatted by either the nook or my droid prior to imaging. To me this indicates winimage isn't actually writing a image as much as it is copying files(and only the 1st partition at that).
Next step is to Uninstall Winimage, removing an left over configuration files and re-installing. If that doesn't work I'm going to try switching computers.
If that doesn't work then i'm going to look for a new Imaging program.
If anyone has any insight, it'd be welcome.
Well I can officially state my opinion that WinImage sucks...
I downloaded WinDiskImage and within 5 minutes I had my Nook 2.1 Rooted.
Thanks for your help.
I've been rooting the Color Nook for a while now, and also my Andy phones. I figured out a trick that might help you'all in the process. I haven't seen it mentioned anywhere, ever, so...
Most of these rooting and what-not procedures have you creating a bootable SD card, as well as installing a zip file on the SD card to install on the Nook. In creating the bootable SD card, however, you often don't have room for the zip file, or you put it on there and it doesn't seem to show up as selectable once you've booted into CWM.
The trick I use all the time is I have a CWM boot SD card - 4GB cheapo card that just has that on it. I put it in and boot up. Then I use the menu to mount the sdcard and then immediately unmount it. Once you do this, you can pop the card out and stick another one in - one with your zip file(s) on it. Then do your install through the menus.
If you don't mount and unmount, it won't like you changing the card and it will fail.
I hope this helps.
I just have CWM installed internally, so reflashing is super simple.
No need for a bootable SD at all.
framitz said:
I just have CWM installed internally, so reflashing is super simple.
No need for a bootable SD at all.
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Sometimes you don't have that option. Like when installing Phiremod to the EMMC...
So, a few days ago verygreen uploaded his emmc cyanogenmod install for Nook HD+. I was ecstatic but only got around to installing it today. Install went great up until after flashing the rom.The nook threw an error when trying to unmount the sd card (as per verygreen's instructions) "no problem, I'll just shut down the tablet" I thought. So I do so, remove the SD card, turn the tablet back on, and insert a seperate SD card for storage. The rom loaded up just fine and everything seemed normal. I downloaded and ran a benchmark to see that everything was up to par then went to take a screenshot (to compare to other versions later). A second later I looked at my notifications bar to see a message that the screenshot could not be taken because there is no SD card. After a short investigation I realized that the SD card wasn't showing up in my storage section. It showed up just fine in my computer and I've used the card in this nook before. Just to be sure I plugged the CWM card from earlier, sure enough it didn't show up either. As I'm not a complete novice I figured I should try reflashing before coming here. I did so and the nook seemed to recognize that the card was there! Wait, it now says the card is blank or in an unsupported filesystem. Checking the SD on the computer shows it to be in Fat32, which worked in all previous Roms just fine and clicking the notification to try and format also does nothing. Anyone have any advice?
Additionally I should probably mention that I am using the 05/05 Rom, which I thought was supposed to fix mounting issues
Same issue here :/
tehkingo said:
Same issue here :/
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Yours was on Hybrid and easily solved. His is on emmc.
Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10.1 on emmc.
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Nookuser19 said:
So, a few days ago verygreen uploaded his emmc cyanogenmod install for Nook HD+. I was ecstatic but only got around to installing it today. Install went great up until after flashing the rom.The nook threw an error when trying to unmount the sd card (as per verygreen's instructions) "no problem, I'll just shut down the tablet" I thought. So I do so, remove the SD card, turn the tablet back on, and insert a seperate SD card for storage. The rom loaded up just fine and everything seemed normal. I downloaded and ran a benchmark to see that everything was up to par then went to take a screenshot (to compare to other versions later). A second later I looked at my notifications bar to see a message that the screenshot could not be taken because there is no SD card. After a short investigation I realized that the SD card wasn't showing up in my storage section. It showed up just fine in my computer and I've used the card in this nook before. Just to be sure I plugged the CWM card from earlier, sure enough it didn't show up either. As I'm not a complete novice I figured I should try reflashing before coming here. I did so and the nook seemed to recognize that the card was there! Wait, it now says the card is blank or in an unsupported filesystem. Checking the SD on the computer shows it to be in Fat32, which worked in all previous Roms just fine and clicking the notification to try and format also does nothing. Anyone have any advice?
Additionally I should probably mention that I am using the 05/05 Rom, which I thought was supposed to fix mounting issues
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You make it sound like you are trying to insert the SD after you have booted to CM10.1. That won't work. You must boot with the SD already inserted so that it is recognized while CM10.1 starts up.
Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10.1 on emmc.
leapinlar said:
Yours was on Hybrid and easily solved. His is on emmc.
Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10.1 on emmc.
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You make it sound like you are trying to insert the SD after you have booted to CM10.1. That won't work. You must boot with the SD already inserted so that it is recognized while CM10.1 starts up.
Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10.1 on emmc.
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That didn't work I'm afraid. The message about the blank SD card is gone but it still won't let me save a screenshot. Gives a message about the storage being in use. Also, attempting to move an app to the SD card says there's not enough space... On my freshly formatted 32 gigabyte card that, once again, works and reads just fine on my computer. I will mention there is a header for the SD under my storage tab in settings, and it attempts to calculate the used space of the SD, however it does that whether the card is in or not. For that reason I don't think it means anything. Any other ideas? Because I'm certainly at a loss.
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That didn't work I'm afraid. The message about the blank SD card is gone but it still won't let me save a screenshot. Gives a message about the storage being in use. Also, attempting to move an app to the SD card says there's not enough space... On my freshly formatted 32 gigabyte card that, once again, works and reads just fine on my computer. I will mention there is a header for the SD under my storage tab in settings, and it attempts to calculate the used space of the SD, however it does that whether the card is in or not. For that reason I don't think it means anything. Any other ideas? Because I'm certainly at a loss.
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How did you freshly format the card? With Windows? You need to use a program named SDFormatter free on the web.
If you boot with no card in you will see that it does not show a card under storage, does not attempt to calculate, etc. There is something about your card it does not like. The hardware on the HD+ is notoriously faulty when it comes to SDs. Format it with SDFormatter, clean the contacts, make sure it is seated well in the slot and anything else you can do to improve things.
Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10.1 on emmc.
Update
I'm a moron. I failed to notice that the rom that the I downloaded actually was the 05/04 rom, the one with no bluetooth or SD mounting... In my defense verygreen hadn't updated his post (I downloaded from the one he linked in the body of his text, not at the bottom). *Sigh* Still though, I should have been paying more attention and if I had been less lucky I could have bricked my device. Anyways, after flashing the PROPER rom SD mounting works fine (though it was a bit finicky, requiring a reboot before finally working). Anyways thanks for your time, and sorry for giving inaccurate information.
what is the sd format allowed by hd+ in emmc?
I wanted to follow up on this thread by asking a general concluding question-
In order to use the sd cards directly in emmc, will the SD cards have to be in fat32 format only? Or can it be in exfat (or even ntfs)? According to a thread, somebody put a quote from the nook website that it can handle exfat.
The reason is that I wanted my nook to be able to read mkvs. I went through the sdformatter software, and it seems that it only formats in fat32.
TIA.
leapinlar said:
How did you freshly format the card? With Windows? You need to use a program named SDFormatter free on the web.
If you boot with no card in you will see that it does not show a card under storage, does not attempt to calculate, etc. There is something about your card it does not like. The hardware on the HD+ is notoriously faulty when it comes to SDs. Format it with SDFormatter, clean the contacts, make sure it is seated well in the slot and anything else you can do to improve things.
Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10.1 on emmc.
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I am having same problems.Inastalled Verygreen's CM10.1 on internal storage this morning.SD card is not being recognized by nook.I go to settings and tap "storage" and settings force closes,Tried to mount sd card thru recoveryand error message comes up.I formatted sd card in windows and then SD Formatter in fat32 format,C
leaned sd slot with compressd air,No go.Tried 3 different cards Samsung.sandisk class 10 32 gb,sandisk class 4 16gb ,Samsung class10 8gb same result.E
nen reinstalled CM 10.1 emc 6/8/13.did not help.
akramarshad said:
I am having same problems.Inastalled Verygreen's CM10.1 on internal storage this morning.SD card is not being recognized by nook.I go to settings and tap "storage" and settings force closes,Tried to mount sd card thru recoveryand error message comes up.I formatted sd card in windows and then SD Formatter in fat32 format,C
leaned sd slot with compressd air,No go.Tried 3 different cards Samsung.sandisk class 10 32 gb,sandisk class 4 16gb ,Samsung class10 8gb same result.E
nen reinstalled CM 10.1 emc 6/8/13.did not help.
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I temporarily had the same issue, but mine was caused by me tampering with /system/etc/vold.fstab to test a new swap I was trying to make. I changed a setting there and it would not recognize the SD and settings/storage crashed. So that tells me that your system is definitely not mounting the SD. It could be a faulty SD slot. Are you sure you are completely clicking the SD into the slot? Did the slot work well when running stock?
Edit: How does it act when you boot with no SD inserted? Does settings crash? And what happens if you insert the SD after it is booted to CM10.1? Does settings crash then?
Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10.1 on emmc.
leapinlar said:
I temporarily had the same issue, but mine was caused by me tampering with /system/etc/vold.fstab to test a new swap I was trying to make. I changed a setting there and it would not recognize the SD and settings/storage crashed. So that tells me that your system is definitely not mounting the SD. It could be a faulty SD slot. Are you sure you are completely clicking the SD into the slot? Did the slot work well when running stock?
Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10.1 on emmc.
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It was working fine with stock as well as hybrids from Verygreen as well as Bokbokan.I will try doing a complete wipe including system.Previusly I wiped data and catch partitions.
akramarshad said:
It was working fine with stock as well as hybrids from Verygreen as well as Bokbokan.I will try doing a complete wipe including system.Previusly I wiped data and catch partitions.
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See the edit above.
Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10.1 on emmc.
SD card not reading Nook HD+
Reinstlled after wipingdata,catch and system and now it is working fine.I guess something in system was causing it,Thanks Leapinlar I appreciate you prompt help.
same here with samsung galaxy exhibit 4g
akramarshad said:
It was working fine with stock as well as hybrids from Verygreen as well as Bokbokan.I will try doing a complete wipe including system.Previusly I wiped data and catch partitions.
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I have tried all of the things listed on here. My sd card is formatted fat32. it reads just fine on my computer but when inserted into my phone I can't move apps to it, I can't open it to look at my files. I even tried removing everything from the sd and starting over. This has only been since I upgraded to cyanogenmod 10.1. any suggestions? I really want to move some stuff and am in need of my music files at the gym
jmcpheeters said:
I have tried all of the things listed on here. My sd card is formatted fat32. it reads just fine on my computer but when inserted into my phone I can't move apps to it, I can't open it to look at my files. I even tried removing everything from the sd and starting over. This has only been since I upgraded to cyanogenmod 10.1. any suggestions? I really want to move some stuff and am in need of my music files at the gym
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You cannot move apps to SD with CM10.1. Apps2SD is not implemented.
And to access your external SD, you need to look in ext_sdcard. But CM10.1 on emmc uses the internal SD by default for everything. You can change that by flashing my swap SD zip from my HD/HD+ CWM thread linked in my signature. See item 4.
Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10.1 on emmc.
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ok thanks. so just to clarify, does the nook hd/hd+ work for my Samsung exhibit 4g?
leapinlar said:
You cannot move apps to SD with CM10.1. Apps2SD is not implemented.
And to access your external SD, you need to look in ext_sdcard. But CM10.1 on emmc uses the internal SD by default for everything. You can change that by flashing my swap SD zip from my HD/HD+ CWM thread linked in my signature. See item 4.
Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10.1 on emmc.
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nook HD/HD+
it isn't showing up when I go to unzip on my phone.
This has proven to mean this isn't compatible with my phone. is there another version you can suggest for me to try?
jmcpheeters said:
ok thanks. so just to clarify, does the nook hd/hd+ work for my Samsung exhibit 4g?
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jmcpheeters said:
it isn't showing up when I go to unzip on my phone.
This has proven to mean this isn't compatible with my phone. is there another version you can suggest for me to try?
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It is a Nook HD+ rom, and will not work on a non-Nook HD+ device. Try the roms in the Galaxy Exhibit development forum.
If This Helps Anyone...
I spent roughly 4 to 5 days' worth of working hours sitting here at my laptop, trying more and more frustratingly, to get my Nook HD+ to take the new CM Rom, and then dealt with about a dozen full 1080p HD movies I had already spent about 3 hours each to convert to .mp4 and the right size for my Nook, which now was not showing ANY of the content on my 32g SD card. Well, I tried all the formatting (using the SDformatter program), all the re-booting and putting the content directly on it through the Nook, and putting the files on it through my laptop, and I got nothing.
Finally, after noticing a theme among most of the users who were having problems specifically with SanDisk and/or 32gb sized cards, I took the awesome (and expensive) 64gb class 10 SDXC Samsung card out of my Note 2 phone, and formatted that one using the SDF program, and put it on 'exFAT', and after putting the blank card back in my Nook (powering it off fully first), I had to COPY THE FOLDER FROM THE NOOK'S MAIN STORAGE CALLED "MY FILES" AND PASTE IT INTO THE SD CARD STORAGE. Then, I opened it and made folders inside that one for Movies, Music, eBooks, etc... I then loaded the movies onto it via the Nook itself, making sure to paste the files into the SD folder. I also noticed that I needed to keep the Nook from falling asleep, and set it to the highest setting of time before it would go into sleep mode (30 min) and had to keep swiping the screen to reset that time. I also just loaded one large movie file or a few smaller video files at a time, because if the screen went off, or if I had videos loading onto the Nook for more than a couple minutes, then I would get the frequently reported error saying that it 'could not copy'.
After doing all of this, I was finally able to start a couple of my movies with minor problems. I hate how it says in the video player I was using, that you have to use the right side touchscreen to swipe on an invisible volume control up or down, and it was extremely sensitive but also not easy to control.
So, to review:
-Try using a different card other than SanDisk and 32gb
-DL the free SDformatter program and use that to format ANY card you put in your CM rooted Nook! Try to set it at 'exFAT' also.
-Power OFF the Nook before installing the new SD card.
-Then plug the Nook into your computer, and COPY-PASTE the file folder "My Files" in the Nook's MAIN STORAGE and put it into the SD card. Make folders inside this one to sort your movies, music, books, etc.
-Copy-Paste your files that are NOT eBooks from your computer into the new 'My Files' on the SD card. (I suggest using Calibre or another program to load eBooks into your Nook after you have gotten all the metadata correct for each book.) Keep the Nook 'awake' and do not allow the screen to enter sleep mode during loading of files. Make sure to load only about 3 minutes' worth, or no more than one LARGE movie file at a time onto the Nook, to prevent it from disconnecting and giving you an error pop-up.
That should do it, and if you have problems after this, then maybe ask around more. I only know how this works by my own extensive (and exhausting) trial and error...
Hello,
I am trying to use the mods posted Leapinlar in his excellent post here, but I am certainly doing something wrong since the internal and my SD card are not swapped. After installing the appropriate Zip file, I reboot my nook, but it does not see the Sd card anymore, it just shows the internal memory as both sdcard and ext_sdcard as if I do not have any memory card inserted. Once I remove the swap feature, everything works like before so I see both the internal memory as sdcard and my 16GB sd card as ext_sdcard. What I did
1.- I created the CWM 4GB card
2.- I copied both the SDSwap and remove SDSwap ZIP file on the CWM card
3.- Booted my nook with CWM card
4.- Chose to install the SDSwap Zip file
5.- Removed the card, inserted my 16GB sd card and rebooted
After that, with or without any SDcard inserted, the nook only shows the content of the internal memory as sdcard and ext_sdcard.
Thank you for any help for this silly newby here,
Miguel
Matoroa said:
Hello,
I am trying to use the mods posted Leapinlar in his excellent post here, but I am certainly doing something wrong since the internal and my SD card are not swapped. After installing the appropriate Zip file, I reboot my nook, but it does not see the Sd card anymore, it just shows the internal memory as both sdcard and ext_sdcard as if I do not have any memory card inserted. Once I remove the swap feature, everything works like before so I see both the internal memory as sdcard and my 16GB sd card as ext_sdcard. What I did
1.- I created the CWM 4GB card
2.- I copied both the SDSwap and remove SDSwap ZIP file on the CWM card
3.- Booted my nook with CWM card
4.- Chose to install the SDSwap Zip file
5.- Removed the card, inserted my 16GB sd card and rebooted
After that, with or without any SDcard inserted, the nook only shows the content of the internal memory as sdcard and ext_sdcard.
Thank you for any help for this silly newby here,
Miguel
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What are you running, stock or CM10.1? If stock, it may be how you formatted the SD. If you used stock to reformat the card, the swap will not work. Get SDFormatter free on the web and format the SD. Then try the swap.
Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10.1 on emmc.
leapinlar said:
What are you running, stock or CM10.1? If stock, it may be how you formatted the SD. If you used stock to reformat the card, the swap will not work. Get SDFormatter free on the web and format the SD. Then try the swap.
Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10.1 on emmc.
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That might be it. I am using stock and formated the card with it.
Thank you, I will try your solution.
Worked!!!!!
Matoroa said:
That might be it. I am using stock and formated the card with it.
Thank you, I will try your solution.
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It worked. That was the solution. Thank you very much Leapinlar.
accessing internal memory
Matoroa said:
It worked. That was the solution. Thank you very much Leapinlar.
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Thanks to leapinar and the junior op who started this post, i plucked up the courage to install sdswap. and its worked.
what i really want to know now is how to access my files on the internal memory? i use "es explorer" mainly, but if there
is another app that can access the internal memory that would be great.
I am using nook hd stock 2.1.1 with sideload mod and sdswap installed.
sunnysideup128 said:
Thanks to leapinar and the junior op who started this post, i plucked up the courage to install sdswap. and its worked.
what i really want to know now is how to access my files on the internal memory? i use "es explorer" mainly, but if there
is another app that can access the internal memory that would be great.
I am using nook hd stock 2.1.1 with sideload mod and sdswap installed.
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ES Explorer is fine, but there are other file managers that also work. Root Browser, Root Explorer and many others. Just look in ext_sdcard as that is where internal memory is after the swap.
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I recently purchased a nook hd+, went through leapinlar's tutorial on how to boot into cwm, root, and modify my stock nook with a custum rom(carbon) on a 1gb sd card. I just purchased a 32db sd card and I want to know the process or is there a process to put twrp recovery on my nook and be able to boot into it without having to put the 1gb sd card in every time I want to get into recovery. I've searched some but get more confused the more I look and I don't feel like bricking my nook. Can I also boot into recovery with carbon rom? I've tried by going through the power menu, reboot and by turning off the nook and hitting power and the "n" key and neither will get me into recovery. From what I've read I think I have to put the "ovation-sdcard-twrp-files.zip" file on the 32gb sd card but not sure on the procedure. So if any one can give me a dumb down version of what I have to do to be able to keep my 32gb sd card in the nook at all times and still get into recovery like any other nexus or android phone would do, I would greatly appreciate it.
P.S. I have formatted the 32gb sd card with sdformatter but was unsure if I was supposed to use partition software or the zip file for sd cards larger than 4gb.
Thanks again.......
bisache said:
I recently purchased a nook hd+, went through leapinlar's tutorial on how to boot into cwm, root, and modify my stock nook with a custum rom(carbon) on a 1gb sd card. I just purchased a 32db sd card and I want to know the process or is there a process to put twrp recovery on my nook and be able to boot into it without having to put the 1gb sd card in every time I want to get into recovery. I've searched some but get more confused the more I look and I don't feel like bricking my nook. Can I also boot into recovery with carbon rom? I've tried by going through the power menu, reboot and by turning off the nook and hitting power and the "n" key and neither will get me into recovery. From what I've read I think I have to put the "ovation-sdcard-twrp-files.zip" file on the 32gb sd card but not sure on the procedure. So if any one can give me a dumb down version of what I have to do to be able to keep my 32gb sd card in the nook at all times and still get into recovery like any other nexus or android phone would do, I would greatly appreciate it.
P.S. I have formatted the 32gb sd card with sdformatter but was unsure if I was supposed to use partition software or the zip file for sd cards larger than 4gb.
Thanks again.......
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Never mind, I figured out that I never added the 6028 internal cwm zip and that was my problem, now I can boot into recovery.