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[Nook Color Android Development] bucketheadmn:
Nice and easy to do!

One thing I would recommend to everyone is head over here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=952456 and install for easy access to SD card.
[Nook Color Android Development] caseyatbt:
Everything went well on installation, but the wifi drops out quite a bit. I can be standing within 2 ft of my router and I can't even download an app from the market without it dropping in the middle of it.
[Nook Color Android Development] Pinesal:
I am using 16GB SD card, after I write the image to the SD card I only have 48 of 54MB free and not enough space to put a CM7 rom on the SD card. So I am at a standstill here. What do I do now?
[Nook Color Android Development] tablo:
I believe you are only seeing a certain partition on the card, it should be fine as long as you followed the instructions. You can reformat the entire card from the book settings if on the stock rom.im new to NC well so someone correct me of i'm Wrong.happened to me too.
[Nook Color Android Development] verygreen:
Do you use bluettoth? If you do, did you try to turn bluetooth of and what impact did it have on wifi issues?
[Nook Color Android Development] Xhorder:
Is there any way to increase the size of the data partition? I hate running out of room for apps.
[Nook Color Android Development] ADude:
I'll just throw out there, that in another thread, someone got rid of their Nook wifi issues by turning off UPNP in their router.
[Nook Color Android Development] verygreen:
You can just resize it with e.g. parted on your Linux PC.

If you don't care about the content and don't have a linux PC with parted, you can boot into eMMC image, run fdisk /dev/mmcblk1, remove the last two partitions.

Then recreate the 3rd one with the size you need (that'd be your data partition)

and format it as ext4. Then create 4th partition, change type to 'c' and format as FAT.
[Nook Color Android Development] Xhorder:
Cool. thanks for the response. That was what I was going to try. (parted...)
[Nook Color Android Development] acme2ajax:
Hi All,

I have noticed a wifi problem in the latest build 31.

I was runing build 30 and updated to 31 as soon as it was released.

In build 31, I switched off wifi, as i wasnt using it and had to save battery life.

However, when i try to switch it on again ( after say 10-15 minutes, it doesnt connect. The Wifi option shows error. I have to boot into emmc and then reboot to sd card for wifi to work again.

This problem doesnt occur in build 30. I was able to switch the wifi on successfully after 15 min.

Just wanted to provide some info.....as there are quite some wifi issues for nook color, and this is my addition to it :)

Have posted the same in the CM7 dev forum
[Nook Color Android Development] ADude:
If one is running CM7 off eMMC, is there any way to make it mount "/sdcard" as the fourth partition of the physical sd card?

So we can keep the card created by this thread in the NC, and have both eMMC CM7 and sd card CM7 share the same "/sdcard" folder (of books,music,documents, etc.).

I imagine it involves mount, /dev/blk/mmcblk1p4, and sdcard, but I am not sure of the necessary options in the command (if any) and more importantly, where to put it in the eMMC in order to have it run each time the eMMC boots.

Thanks !
[Nook Color Android Development] verygreen:
While booted into emmc:

mount / read-write, edit /system/etc/vold.fstab

on the line with mmcblk1 (first) replace the word auto with 4

save everything, reboot and you are done.
[Nook Color Android Development] ADude:
Hits forehead.

So, it is the same edit that we do in fstab for running off the SD card ! Of course !

Thanks !
[Nook Color Android Development] kap09:
Got my nook last night and got this set up on my 8GB sd card this morning. Runs great, thanks verygreen!

The only issue I have, is that I'm unable to use the sd card partition. When I enable usb storage, i get an error that prompts me to initialize the partition (I'm on OSX) If I shutdown the nook, remove the card, and read the card directly, the partition shows up but is read only.

Any idea what might be wrong and how to get around it? Thanks!
[Nook Color Android Development] unclesam333:
I am now quite happy with the NookColor...hope for video hardware acceleration in the future, but your setup is the best Verygreen, Thanks.

for those of you having a hard time getting your Windows 7 PC to read your microsd card after win32image and aren't able to copy the zip file to the boot partition. I was right there with you, didn't know what to do, but ended up using my wife's laptop which installed the drivers necessary automatically and then i could see the boot partition and copy the zip. I'm thinking now I might have been able to uninstall some drivers on my pc and that way it would download the right ones.

for resizing the partion I used minitool partition wizard partitionwizard.com/partition-wizard-bootable-cd.html
[Nook Color Android Development] smully1:
On 136 and 138, my nook is booting straight into stock and not loading from sd card. I have tried 2 different cards, reflashed, looks fine until it shuts down and reboots. Then it boots straight to emmc?? Any ideas why?
[Nook Color Android Development] thereddog:
What does it mean if all I get a "Unknown layout detected! Please report as a bug." "Please turn off the power" message at the end of the script?
[Nook Color Android Development] stud_muffler:
When in CM7 long press Power button, select REBOOT option. On the next prompt select RECOVERY option, click OK and Nook will reboot to recovery automatically. DON'T forget to setup Wi-Fi prior to reboot.

:cool:
[Nook Color Android Development] Missing_link:
Hi,

So I followed all the steps in the original guide. Everything seems to go fine, until I insert the microSD card into the Nook and turn it on. Basically, I get nothing - it won't turn on. When I removed the microSD card, it boots back into the stock Nook software like normal.

Does anyone have any ideas? I'm using an 8gb Sandisk microSD card. I connect the microSD card to my computer through a USB adapter (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002HGFKR8).

I'm at a loss. In any case, I've been playing around with the stock Nook software, and I'm not sure why I'd even keep it around. I thought there would be more Newspaper functionality, but the samples that I've tried haven't been much better than reading online for free. If I can't get the dual boot to work, I might just flash CM7 directly onto the Nook and be done with it.
[Nook Color Android Development] extremepizza:
If you used the latest installer, you cannot start with the 7.0.3 stable CM7 release. For some reason it will never let you get into recovery. Instead start with the latest nightly and recovery will work fine. Installer 1.2 was the last version i could get the stable CM7 release to work.

This is what gave me the idea when i had the issue(from the OP)

Download a CM nightly build from here http://download.cyanogenmod.com/?device=encore (It is recommended to choose -87 nightly or later. If you plan to use prior version for initial install, stick with installer 1.2.1 for a different u-boot version)
[Nook Color Android Development] Shaundiesel:
Hey,

This is what I did. However, it just reboots back into CM7. Almost as if no recovery is on here???/
[Nook Color Android Development] DizzyDen:
When you see the boot menu screen... press and hold "n" button... it will open a menu... select SD Card and Recovery... then the last option to boot into recovery... note that you MAY have black screen updating... depeding on how you made your SASD (Size Agnostic SD)... I do... that's why I do the Alt-Boot I mentioned earlier in thread.
[Nook Color Android Development] stud_muffler:
I did it two days ago with 1.3 and 138-nightly and everything worked as it supposed to. I had not a single issue.

Try to do the whole thing from scratch. it's only a 30-min drill...

BTW, did you register your NC with B&N before proceeding with uSD?

:cool:
[Nook Color Android Development] youbecha:
Just did it, works great!

Other than rooting it twice (1.1 and 1.2) I am a nook noob.

I just did the instructions on the first post, downloaded the latest files, (and win32diskimager) and boom it works.

In fact now calendar sync works, and google maps locations work.

I guess next will be to attempt an overclock.

Thanks for the great work!
[Nook Color Android Development] figsys:
gapps (market) won't load

Can't get market to install. Here is what I am doing:

- Installed and booted cm_encore_full-140.zip from SD as in first post

- Connected WIFI

- Shutdown

- Added gapps-gb-20110613-signed.zip to microSD

- Rebooted into recover.

- Installer says gapps-gb-20110613-signed.zip installed OK

- Reboot back to Android OK

- Can't find market in Apps! Also can't add Google account - only account is Exchange.

Is there something else to do here? I did load 7.0.3 previously and it worked fine.

Is there a way to run Setup Wizard manually?

Thanks, this is great work!
[Nook Color Android Development] les02jen17:
You might want to check if the downloaded zip you've got is not corrupted. Verify that using Hash Droid app, found on the market. What you need to do is check the MD5 Checksum of the downloaded file if it matches the original file.
[Nook Color Android Development] figsys:
did not check MD5 but same apps work fine with update-cm-7.0.3-encore-signed.zip (on the same disk).
[Nook Color Android Development] Rattor:
I'm currently running CM7.0.3 stable off my SD card. To update to 7.1RC, all I have to do is update the installer image, then use it to flash the new update-cm-7.1.0-RC1-encore-signed.zip, correct? Will I also have to flash the new gapps, or will my old install work fine? Also, will my apps and data remain, or will I have to redo all my set up?
[Nook Color Android Development] barbo:
Is there a update-cm-7.1.0-RC1-encore-signed.zip? I didn't think there was one available (yet).
[Nook Color Android Development] Rattor:
It's not linked directly, nor is it in the nightly list, but if you go here and look under Nook Color near the top of the table, you can see it labeled 7.1.0-RC1-Encore.
[Nook Color Android Development] barbo:
Thanks for the link, Rattor! I'm wondering about updating as well so now we need someone to answer YOUR questions ;-)
[Nook Color Android Development] Rattor:
Well, I went ahead and tried it myself anyways. Not like I can brick my Nook Color :p

Turns out you just place both the updated installer image and the 7.1RC update image into the root of your SD card, and just boot into recovery. This will update your CM version without deleting any of your user data.
[Nook Color Android Development] barbo:
Please tell about any changes, how it is working, how do you like it... whatever.
[Nook Color Android Development] cdaters:
How are you re/booting into recovery mode?
[Nook Color Android Development] Rattor:
I hadn't used CM7.0.3 much before. I was too busy reading books on the stock rooted 1.1, but off the bat I noticed better battery life on CM7.1, and it definitely seems to go a bit smoother and faster off my SD card. Overclocked it to 925MHz, and it's even better and smoother. Slightly lower battery than un-overclocked, but the smoothness makes up for the loss of battery life.
[Nook Color Android Development] cdaters:
With CM7 (any point version) you should be running gapps v.20110613.

All you should have to do is put your uSD into your computer, drop the version of CM7 you want onto the root of your /boot partition, then re/boot into recovery.

It does not overwrite any of your data (apps, etc.) so you will be okay, that stuff will remain. You will not have to re-flash gapps.
[Nook Color Android Development] barbo:
I've been using wifi just fine with stock rooted and also with CM7.0.3 (so I assume it isn't a problem with the router). I just put 7.1 RC on an sdcard and wifi won't connect. I have put in my key several times to make sure I typed it correctly and the signal says "excellent". Any ideas to help?
[Nook Color Android Development] dcharleyultra:
Reboot your router. If that does not work, reboot modem and then router.

Swyped from my NookColor using Tapatalk
[Nook Color Android Development] barbo:
I rebooted router and modem but that didn't help. Thanks for the idea though.

BTW, I have an sdcard with CM7.0.3 and wifi works fine with it. Only wifi on the new 7.1RC that isn't working :-(
[Nook Color Android Development] dcharleyultra:
Hmmmm

Have you tried forgetting your wifi connection on the nook, and then reestablishing it?

Swyped from my NookColor using Tapatalk
[Nook Color Android Development] fastoy:
First, thanks to all the contributors to this forum. CM7 has made my NC a different machine.

Second, I too just went through an update cycle from 87 to 139 with ZERO problems. The only post work I had to do was to uninstall and reinstall the Swype Beta.
[Nook Color Android Development] cdaters:
I would load one of the latest nightlies. Just updated from 138 to 143 earlier and all is well...
[Nook Color Android Development] ruthienu:
I am gettting a new sandisdk 16gb class 2 sd card and would like to reinstall cm7 on it. It seem like verygreens installer only allocates 975mb for data.I find that small.Can you repartition the sd card after the install with a program like easus to expand that partition? Also can I make the system partition larger?
[Nook Color Android Development] cdaters:
I've not had any issues with my 16GB using verygreen's installer... What do you invision with a bigger /data? Just curious...
[Nook Color Android Development] barbo:
Re: new CM7 (7.1RC) no wifi

Yes, dcharleyultra - I did try "forgetting" - thanks for trying to help - I appreciate it.
[Nook Color Android Development] ruthienu:
I am running cm7 now on a 4gb sandisk card. My data is down to 625mb with not too many apps installed I am afraid of running out of space. In fact some of my apps I moved to sd and it has only 625 mb left. I am also worried about updates. When I updated to RC1 and put it at root level it was almost full.

Thanks for any help!
[Nook Color Android Development] DizzyDen:
Covered earlier in thread... write VG's image to uSD... resize partition (has to be under 2GB... I recommend 1.75GB)... put it in nook and boot it... let it do its thing... shutdown nook... put uSD back in computer and resize partition 4 to fill the drive.
[Nook Color Android Development] ruthienu:
Which partition should be under 2gb data? Can the system partition be made larger also? Sorry for the noob questions.

Thanks!
[Nook Color Android Development] lschroeder:
Just did. Worked great. Put phiremod's Test 2 ROM on SDcard. Thanks DizzyDen!

Mounted 4GB SanDisk Class 4 SDcard with a usb reader to my pc (could use SanDisk 8GB or SanDisk 16GB if you like). Used Win32DiskImager.exe with generic-sdcard.img file to write to the SanDisk SDcard. To be on safe side unmounted SDcard reader from pc and then insert the reader with the SDcard back in.

Used EASEUS Partition Master Home Edition. Used Resize/Move option to the boot partition and typed in 1.75GB. Then Apply when done (note size is slightly smaller). We are able to make the boot partition larger at this point since we have not run the SDcard on the nook and boot is the only partition we have at this time on the SDcard.

Unzipped twice Phiremod's Test 2 tar.gz file. Now have phiremod's ROM TEST2.zip, phiremod's gapps-v7.zip, and launcherpro-backup.zip. Renamed ROM update-cm- with this prefix in front, phiremod's gapps to gapps-gb-20110613-signed.zip. Place this two files on the boot partition. Ignore launcherpro zip for now.

Shut down nook if on. Place SDcard in nook and power on. It will say Loading..., the Penguin will appear, you will see that it is now creating the other partitions, next setting up the ROM, and finally installing the gapps. Reboot it when done. First time will take a while. You will see phiremod's ROMs spinning Google gear screen. Eventually the home screen will display.

Unzip phiremod's launcherpro-backup.zip on the pc. Use the nook usb mount procedure to mount the two partitions. Copy the launcherpro backup folder to the correct partition. From the nook's home screen, use menu botton to select preferences > Restore backup.

If you used a larger SDcard, shutdown nook. Mount SDcard with your reader on the pc. It will only show boot. Go to EASEUS Partition Master Home Edition and you will see all the partitions. The only partition now that you can change is the last one. Increase it to your SDcard size.

Now load your Titanium Backup folder which you previously copied to your PC. The folder is from backing up your last ROM with the Titanium Backup app. Manually install most individual items with app only option. I do use app+data for some, example Opera Mobile to preserve my desktop setup for viewing Hulu flash videos. Hopes this helps. At this time, this is the only ROM I found to large to copy to the boot partition.
[Nook Color Android Development] cdaters:
I'm having an issue where I just tried to update to latest nightly put out tonight and could not because /boot is to small. I have an alternate boot setup and I am a little over 1.5MB shy of space... is there an alternative (no pun intended) to working around this, short of temporarily removing my dual boot scenario?
[Nook Color Android Development] lschroeder:
You could use my procedure. The post above ^ your post. I just added the procedure for a larger boot partition to the post. It is a lot of work one time, but from then on you could just use the new SDcard with larger boot partition to update from. It would require to manually set up your new SDcard with its larger boot partition the way you have your current SDcard setup. Then use TB with with your main and alternate ROM to restore your setup to where you have it now.
[Nook Color Android Development] ruthienu:
It sounds like the only partition you can change is the boot partition. That helps for updates but not for app installation. Is there anyo way to resize the data or system partitions?
[Nook Color Android Development] cdaters:
Thanks for the info, I am going to do as you say...backing-up everything right now. I think I am going to try to modify VG's installer image to have an increased /boot partition...possibly bump it up to 200-300MB

I'll let you all know how it goes...
[Nook Color Android Development] lschroeder:
The 4th partition can be increased in size if your SanDisk SDcard is 8GB or 16GB. After you are done installing the ROM use EASEUS Partition Master Home Edition to increase the 4th partition to the size of your card. I put my data/music/video on this partition when I use a larger SDcard as my base.

Apps can also be moved to the SDcard but I have never had to do that. Backing up a larger card with Win32DiskImager is not possible since it can only write a 4GB copy of your SDcard. There is a program WinImage, 30 physical day trial that can use instead of Wine32DiskImager for backing up the larger sizes. It can also be used to create the SDcard. From what I have read any version of the 8.50 WinImage will work.

You may find the following site with videos helpful

http://www.anamardoll.com/2011/04/ereader-running-cm7-firmware-on-nook.html
[Nook Color Android Development] ruthienu:
Thanks for your timely reply. Basically you are telling me that there is no difference between the 4gb install and the 16gb card except for the size of the sd storage for music, videos and ebooks. Otherwise app storage and system storage remains the same.The only partition that can be made larger is the boot partition for updates. So unless you have alot of music, videos and books you do not need a larger sd card. What happens if you want to install alot of apps? When you use cm7 to move app to sd a certain portion remains on the main partitions and only a portion is moved to sd card.Also some apps do not run from sd. Any help is really appreciated!
[Nook Color Android Development] Crazydaddy:
Ok, swapped to a sandisk 16 gig card and its up and running with gapps as well. Only problem so far is androzip auto closes and the Nook app wont show any books or update to find them, nor will the menu button function while in the nook app itself.

Rooted Glacier/OC'd/faux's 1.2.8
[Nook Color Android Development] cdaters:
Yeah, this did the trick. It's interesting... I backed everything up using TB and saved that off onto my computer, I then re-imaged VG's uSD installer then re-adjusted the partition size of the /boot partition to 300GB (I don't think I'll ever need it bigger than that...) and then stuck the latest CM7 nightly (144) along with GAPPS and booted the uSD.

The CM7 and GAPPS install took place as expected and the NC powered down.

Interestingly enough, when I re-booted the boot-loader displayed it's CyanogenMod banner, displayed the "Loading..." message then went right into the B&N stock ROM. So I re-booted and interrupted the boot by dropping into the boot-loader menu and instructed it to boot to the uSD. This time I made it into CM7 and the initial Android environment setup.

After setting everything up, I powered down and checked the uSD partitions and the CM7 install went ahead and maxed out the available space on the card. I didn't have to perform any additional partition sizing.... (on a 16GB uSD that is)

I installed TB and restored my backups and aside from re-configuring my environment to the way it was before, everything worked like a champ.
[Nook Color Android Development] cdaters:
You can only change the /boot partition size after you image VG's installer BEFORE you drop CM7 and GAPPS on it and reboot into the install process (using lschroeder's method or otherwise depending on what platform you are on, i.e.: PC, Mac, Linux, etc.)

After you drop CM7 and GAPPS on there, the install process will maximize the remaining partitions appropriately. That being said, lschroeder's Phiremod process seemed to require additional partition-sizing treatment to maximize the last partition for data/music/etc. This was not my experience with CM7, everything was as it should be.... :)
[Nook Color Android Development] lschroeder:
I thought if it required extra space you needed this but since I was only using a 4GB SanDisk card mine max out just like yours. Maybe it is not necessary with the resize in step one.
[Nook Color Android Development] ruthienu:
According to verygreens first post the data partition only gets about 1gb even when the card is larger than 4gb. This seems small considering that the card so large and more space might be needed to install more apps.
[Nook Color Android Development] danvee:
I wonder if there is a way to edit/alter the original VG image to increase the size of the data partition when initially written to the SD card.

If it's not too difficult, it should be a great way to get the extra space, and not have to mess about with data after CM7 installs itself.
[Nook Color Android Development] cdaters:
There is an app called DiskUsage that gives u a visual representation of your uSD. I have almost 90 apps installed and I still have 500mb free in /data ...
[Nook Color Android Development] cdaters:
I believe the install process will use all available remaining space for the media partition every time.

Typically the /boot partition really only needs to be big enough to contain the kernel and other boot files, so it stays relatively small. I believe that when VG created his installer this was his thinking as well and he made it big enough to accomodate the size of GAPPS and the (then under 100MB) CM7 nightlies as far as updating, etc.

But, the newer nightlies are definitely getting larger. And with some (like myself) people with alternate kernels and ramdisks in the boot partition, there is no longer any room to hold it all in the /boot partition.

I am a Linux systems/network administrator coming into the Android scene and feel at home because Android seems to have its roots there. I am setting aside some development space on my Mac to start experimenting with CM7 and to get a better handle on the install process, etc.

Right now, aside from the /boot partition space issue, the allocation of space via the installer/CM7 configuration seems to be fine.