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[Nook Color Android Development] stilger:
What do we need to do to get Clockwork to install the CM7 images without vergreen's install image? (No offense verygreen it was/is good work). Can this be done inside of Clockwork or does it require the change in the CM7 update zip?
[Nook Color Android Development] celticchrys:
No matter what I try, I cannot write the generic sd card image file. win32DiskImager and WinImage both give me an error that my 8gb SD card is too small. Yet, I have no problems writing other images to this same card, using this same reader.
[Nook Color Android Development] jtbnet:
I'd just as soon stick with verygreen's installer/updater in uAltImg/Ram for sdcard install of CM7 versions as it allows us to grab stock (EMMC) CM7 packages like nitely's and updates the required files for sdcard install on the fly adn doesn't require custom Sdcard versions to be built for all variants of of CM7... it's worked great for nitely updates, mad-murdock UI tweaks variant, and another variant I tried all seemlessly...

Having 'standard' CWM 3.0.1.0 allowing all the current FS's to be supported for installing packages like Gapps, etc. and for SDcard Backup and Restore all with the simple j4mm3r multi-boot just seems easiest as no problems timing multiple button presses for CWR and allows you to also boot to stock B&N on EMMC on a whim without taking out the card ... and allows the same 2GB sdcard template to be used for a Froyo or HC build that doesn't need to care about the verygreen's CM7 tools...
[Nook Color Android Development] patgnds:
After trying this I am unable to run roms on my nook. I can boot with CWR and install and backup, but I can't run any of the SD card roms. I have 5 sd cards all sandisk.
[Nook Color Android Development] jtbnet:
Which 'generic' sdcard image file are you trying? I just reflashed the one I had linked in my public dropbox (Nook-2GB-SDCard-CW3006-VGCM7InstallerAsALTinMultiBoot-v1.zip) to update it with this new 3.0.1.0 version and it worked fine... I'll probably post a newer version with stilger's sdcard 3.0.1.0 uRecRam and I think I'll extend the boot partition a bit to allow more space but still fit in a 2GB template later this evening after I've finished work and have some more time for testing it first... but the existing one currently in my dropbox should still work for anything CM7 now...

PS. I'll open a new thread when I post the 3010 version one as should apologize to verygreen and racks as this has somewhat hijacked their threads with loosely related stuff today...
[Nook Color Android Development] stilger:
I'm good with it how it is.. Works well. I was just curious.

Just so I understand you have been using the CWM on the sdcard to install gapps and such? Doesn't vergreen's image do that as well?
[Nook Color Android Development] stilger:
Good deal. I was hoping you would package up what I did into your image. :) Didn't want to recreate the wheel. Ill remove the zip file from the post once you get it done.
[Nook Color Android Development] quinxy:
Can anyone boot into ClockworkMod from verygreen's install?

Anyone running verygreen's CM7 on SD able to boot into ClockworkMod? I've tried everything, and it just won't go into it. I have the latest version, and it shows as being installed in the ROM Manager (and tried re-installing).

Thanks for any help. Not sure if there's something about this install of CM7 on the SD card is the reason, or it's something else (not sure what else it could be... I mean, what else is there?).

^ Quinxy
[Nook Color Android Development] jtbnet:
I had a problem originally... I think it is a bad u-boot.bin that isn't catching the Pwr/Nook button presses to signal boot to CWR... I copied the attached in it's place and it's worked for me since... you just need to fix the file name when you copy as I needed to add something that made it an uploadable file here... of course rename your original just in case before moving this in ...
[Nook Color Android Development] jtbnet:
Yes... vg's can install 'normal' install zips too, but a little different as you place the zips on /boot instead of /sdcard and it autoinstalls next time you use vg's install/upgrade boot AND it deletes the original zip when done... so this is different from what most folks are used to where they use CWR and toggle through the steps to choose the zip and with CWR the original file is left on /sdcard for next time you might want to install after a clean update of system and data... but basically I chose to leave CWR as standard recovery vs. Alternate choice as most folks are familiar with dealing with CWR...
[Nook Color Android Development] JoJa15:
The method in the first post worked for me and then I had problems. I am not sure if it was from me trying to resize the SD card partition on the uSD card or from me trying to copy a movie to the nook using USB from my PC (I think I was copying it to nook internal storage). Anyway after doing that the system would boot but then hang at the Android text with the flashing cursor. When I tried to make a new card it crashes very early when trying to setup the system from the zip file with an error of "unknown layout detected! Please report as a bug."

"please turn off the power"

Anyone know what would cause that error? When it talks about layout is it referring to the SD card, the nook's internal layout, or the layout of the encore CM7 zip file???

I tested out a Froyo and Honeycomb build and was able to boot into those.

Thanks in advance for any help provided.
[Nook Color Android Development] cybertimber2007:
Still unable to flash latest ROM (or some older ones that I tried). Not sure what the heck is going on. When I put the cm...zip on there, and boot, it just boots into whatever CM7 I had installed. Subsequent reboot/poweroff and on, it refuses to boot until I delete the ZIP from /boot

I was running a manually updated v1.1 image, but I figure'd I would re-image my SD card. It seems the server for the download is offline. Verygreen, any ideas?
[Nook Color Android Development] stilger:
Does anyone else have the problem where the CM7 installed this way force closes a lot? I have only ever run via SD so I don't know if emmc is the same.

Once i get a force close i pretty much need to reboot and then things are fine.
[Nook Color Android Development] quinxy:
Thanks so much! I really appreciate your doing that. I'm not at my regular computer, but I'll try it in the morning. I would love to have this fixed!

^ Q
[Nook Color Android Development] verygreen:
the download server works for me, so should not be offline.

How does the "refuses to boot" manifest? Any messages on the screen?
[Nook Color Android Development] glgehman:
Start with one of the complete, ready-to-run SD images on another thread: SD Nookie Froyo, for an example. Does that work for you? (ie: you can boot to it and run from it?)

If so, then it would seem to be something wrong with the way you are making your initial boot SD from Verygreen's image.

If not, then you're out of /my/ depth. Perhaps someone else can help.
[Nook Color Android Development] cybertimber2007:
No message, just remains at the "touch the future" text. No other messages.

I tried an adb logcat, but nothing came up.

Edit: Manifests as such:

1. Boot NC, no .zip. Boots fine (3/26 nightly)

2. Power down NC, remove uSD, insert into PC.

3. Copy latest nightly to uSD "boot" parition

4. Safely eject uSD card

5. Insert into NC.

6. Power on

7. It goes to CW7, but to the 3/26 nightly (fails to update)

8. Attempt reboot (either via power > reboot or hold power until it shuts off)

9. Power on

10. Fails to boot OR update. Just sits at "touch the future of reading" message.

Will not boot (regardless of attempts/poweroffs) until i delete the nightly cm...zip file.

Would it help if I pulled that kernel last message thing? (directions please)
[Nook Color Android Development] danbutter:
I think you need to reimage your card or even try a different card if that doesn't help.

I have tried a lot of the different images around here and simply write the new image as the card were blank each time. No problems after doing that.
[Nook Color Android Development] verygreen:
Ok, up to here all is fine.

It should not just update on normal power on, only if you do the "recovery trick" by holding power + N on startup for several seconds.

This is not normal since it's another normal boot there is no way for it to be interfered by the update file.

Furthermore, the "Touch the future ..." message means that the device is still

in bootloader and never actually loads and runs the kernel.

I am not sure how to diagnoze bootloader hangs without a serial console and a special bootloader. Could it be that your SD card is somewhat flakey and just does not reliably boot?

Did you try to boot it several times without removing the update file?

No, the kernel did not start yet, so there are no possible messages to be pulled.
[Nook Color Android Development] tyy10002:
I had a lot of FCs. and not sure why but I suspect that it is the speed of my SDcard (class 2) =p

I also noticed that I got more FCs while downloading apps from market.. and now, I am running one app at a time and it is still slow but ok. I may reflash it to the internal card later.
[Nook Color Android Development] khaytsus:
My Class 6 very rarely does any FC nonsense, where my old Class 4 did a lot. It's the speed of your card, it simply can't write out fast enough and probably overflows a buffer or thinks things are stuck and broken.

In fact, on this running CM7 RC4 or the latest Mad Murdoch, it boots and runs as fast as stock does on the eMMC, no lags or problems. Only issue I have related to speed is market downloads are slow, which I've been told is directly related to being ran off the SD card.
[Nook Color Android Development] stilger:
My card is a class 6. I will try my class 2 to see if it acts any different.
[Nook Color Android Development] joey3038:
problem with this step

hi guys have an issue

How to install market and gapps:

After you have booted into the CM7 on SD card for the first time and set up wifi access (important!)

Go to http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/index.ph...Latest_Version and at the end there is a table with various google apps versions. Get the one suitable for your cyanogen version (CM7 is the latest for now). The file is named gapps-....zip

shutdown your nook and take the SD card out, insert it into your computer.

Copy the gapps-... file to the SD card on the first partition (titled boot) without changing the file name.

Insert the uSD card back into the NOOK and boot into "Recovery mode" (hold nook N key and then press and hold power for ~6 seconds, the bootloader message should be on the screen for a second or so before you release both buttons. If the screen went off while you were holding the power key, that means you were holding it for too long).

im just not understanding this step what are you using to open up the sd card and see the first partition? i tried just adding it to the sd card but that didnt work lol. oh my pc is using winxp not linux if that makes a diference.
[Nook Color Android Development] stilger:
You can either mount the first SD Card partition using the nookums utility OR remove the sdcard from your nook. Put it in your PC and copy the gapps file to it. Once the file is on the boot partition put it back in the nook and go into recovery mode and it should install gapps on your CM7 install.
[Nook Color Android Development] JoJa15:
You should be able to copy the gapps zip to your uSD card the same way you copied the CM7 zip build to the uSD card. If you can no longer see the uSD card and copy files to it you have a problem. This is of course removing the uSD card from your nook and connecting it to your PC of course.
[Nook Color Android Development] joey3038:
ok this part here

You can either mount the first SD Card partition using the nookums utility OR remove the sdcard from your nook. Put it in your PC and copy the gapps file to it. Once the file is on the boot partition put it back in the nook and go into recovery mode and it should install gapps on your CM7 install.

copy gapps to sd is no problem, but you say to the boot partition...where is that. i can see some stuff on sd card so its not a problem and if i just copy to sd card do i rename it anything? sorry for being such a noob and not understanding this im sure its very simple and just going right over my head
[Nook Color Android Development] stilger:
Ok. If you take the card out of your nook and put it in your Windows PC it will mount the first partition on the sdcard. It should be called boot. There should be some files on the card called uImage and uRecImg etc.... Put that gapps zip file on that card. Put it in your nook and boot into recovery (it can be tricky sometimes... holding n and power while booting and letting go at the right time will get you in recovery). Once it boots into vergreen's image it will install the gapps zip.
[Nook Color Android Development] joey3038:
ok thx mate i will give that a try once it finishes charging up. i must havr got lucky when updating the nightly and unlucky getting into recov with the gapps
[Nook Color Android Development] jhitesma:
I've been having a bunch of FC problems since trying this method. I had VG's original bluetooth enabled build installed on the same class 6 lexar card and it ran very well. I occasionally got a FC but not very regularly.

Since wiping the card and using this installed I can't do much of anything because about all I get is FC's. I tried the link in the first post for VG's latest CM7 first - then I tried updating to the RC4 right from the official CM site and it got a little bit better about FC's...but still happens so often that it's basically useless.

Since I didn't have the problem with VG's first BT enabled build on this same card I have a hard time blaming the card.
[Nook Color Android Development] stilger:
You know I don't remember getting many FC's with the first BT enabled SD build either. I still have the image. Ill try flashing it and see what i get.
[Nook Color Android Development] sark666:
I currently have rc4 installed using this. If I want to install the cm7 honeycomb tweaks will I lose my existing apps/setup?
[Nook Color Android Development] cybertimber2007:
Ahh, ok. My mistake on that. Checking shortly. Wanted to do the lower first.

Edit: no dice on that either! Can't get it to update, just sits at the boot screen. Going to remove file, let it boot... power down, add file, and try doing the "recovery trick". This is odd. Very odd.

Tried several times with no luck, and I even let it sit for awhile on the last try. Consequently, killed the battery.3

Edit:

I have *no* idea what happened... but I've just reflashed v1.1 image, and installed yesterdays nightly and gapps. I figure something got corrupted along the way, too much trouble to try fixing :)
[Nook Color Android Development] geebake:
Browser delay

I just discovered this thread last night. Needless to say I now have my NC completely modded and it's working great.

Previously, I'd done the NookHoney mod and that worked pretty great too. Of course, lots of stuff isn't working in Honeycomb yet - like Flash for example so this is a real treat.

I'm using a Class 4 8 GB card. I have a Class 10 that I could use, but have read that there are issues. Honeycomb never gave me any problems with that Class 10 card.

I do have one problem though.

When I navigate to any page in Dolphin, it seems to just sit there for a long time. I'd say up to a minute sometimes and then load the page. It loads pages correctly and quickly once it seems to get a kick in the pants.

Do I have something misconfigured? I never noticed this delay when using the browser in Honeycomb. I am also on very fast wifi. I'm sure that's not the issue.

If I had to guess, it seems like it may be completely downloading a page before rendering anything. I've searched the settings and can't find anything that controls this. Perhaps it just is what it is with Dolphin.

Actually, I get the same behavior when I use the built in 'Browser' app. Perhaps it's an Android setting. Or perhaps it's just a standard delay.

Anyone else experiencing this?

Also, I'm thinking that I might try out my Class 10 card with this mod. Nothing to lose right? I'd love to not have to go through the entire process though (not that it's that bad - I'm just lazy). Is there anyway to clone MicroSD cards? Can I creat an img of the current card and restore it to the Class 10 card?

Thanks all. This is a really excellent mod and I surely appreciate all the hard work.

Greg

1. I think I found my own solution to the img thing. I used WinDiskImager to read to an img instead of write and it appears to be working.

2. OK, copied the Class 4 card to the Class 10. Booted with no issues.

3. With the Class 10 card, Dolphin starts loading pages much faster. Perhaps this was a buffering issue. It's still not as fast as a desktop browser but more than adequate.

Is there anything I can test (specifically) to show that this Class 10 card is working well?

Thanks again
[Nook Color Android Development] commonplace:
Apologies if this isn't the right place to ask this, but it seems to be specific to this particular ROM and this particular installer.

I can't get Adfree Android to work. It installs fine and runs fine, but when I tap "Download & Install Hosts" I get an error message (titled "Error") that says "Unable to locate a partition to remount to write the hosts file to."

Any ideas? This is the only issue I've had with this. Other than that, I absolutely love it. Thanks so much!

/Kevin
[Nook Color Android Development] tablo:
I installed tablet tweaks over my nightlies with no problem. All my apps and data stayed intact. Not sure about RC4 though.
[Nook Color Android Development] BlizzofOZ:
I'm having some problems getting gapps installed/included on the SD.

I believe I've successfully got and booted into CM7. New wallpaper and new icons show up. Whole look changed, so I assumed in was CM7.

Next I wanted to include gapps. I've tried just copying over the gapps zip file and do recovery with that. I've tried copying both the CM7 nightly and the gapps zips and do recovery. I also noticed the instructions:

•Get u-boot.zip file from attachment in this post: http://xdaforums.com/show...&postcount=153

•Unpack the u-boot.bin file and put it onto parttion 1 of the SD card instead of the one there.

•Rename file named uRecImage on the first partition to uRecImg (doh!)

•Get this uRamdisk file, rename it to uRecRam and then put the result to the 1st partition on the uSD card instead of the file with the same name there

When I do any of the above, I go thru recovery and unpacking the zip files... and reboot. Upon reboot (with SD card in), the Nook comes up as if it is brand new, out of the box. Comes up to set the language and wifi.

I know I'm obviously doing something wrong with getting gapps to work. Can someone post clear instructions on how to do?
[Nook Color Android Development] DizzyDen:
You only had to do the u-boot.zip, urecimg and uramdisk things if you had used earlier versions of this card and didn't want to start over from scratch.

You are taking the SD to your computer and copying the gapps and update to the partition of the SD shown as (boot) ???

The recovery is covered in this thread... turn NC off... press and hold n... press and hold power for 4-5 seconds AFTER the touch the future screen (if it shuts down... keep holding power... it should come back up to the touch the future screen).... the verygreen recovery should come up.
[Nook Color Android Development] ThrowingKs:
I had the same issue. This from adb shell fixed it for me:

# busybox mount -o rw,remount /system
# cd /system/xbin
# ln -s busybox mount
[Nook Color Android Development] envygreen:
First, this is an amazing tool, and thanks verygreen.

Second, I wanted to post that I've run into the same problem as cybertimber2007.

I wanted to drop the bugfix version of the tablet tweaks, so I dropped the install zip on the card, inserted to the NC, and tried to boot to recovery (N + Power, 3-4 second into the 'touch the future')

Never had a problem booting to recovery till this happened a few days ago... but this time it just sat there at touch the future. For 15 minutes. Finally I gave up, rebooted normally, and still couldn't boot.

I can't remember if it was deleting the install zip or restoring my backup disk image that fixed it, but I was able to get my working SD boot of CM7 with the early version of tablet tweaks to boot again. So I tried again. And again. I've tried burning the image to a different SD card and a few other things, and I always get stuck at touch the future.

So I started from scratch, dropped the latest tablet tweaks build, and poof, installed with no problems. Tried booting to recovery (but didn't have an install zip on there, had nothing to install) and it booted to recovery, told me there was nothing to install. Rebooted normally, back into my CM7 with tab tweaks, no problem.

So... what next? Try booting to recovery on the new SD with a nightly just to see if it hangs again? (Currently backing up both my SD cards again just to be sure I have a fallback that's current for either if I bork them again)

EDIT:

Ok, so I replaced the u-boot.bin mentioned upthread on my somewhat borked image, tried booting into recovery with no install on the SD. NO problem.

Added the latest bugfix release of tablet tweaks, tried to boot to recovery. Stuck at 'touch the future'.

Deleted the .zip from the SD, unable to boot normally, still stuck at touch the future.

Re-imaged from my backup, booted fine.

/stumped
[Nook Color Android Development] BlizzofOZ:
Oh, so for an older version I would u-boot and the other files? ok

Like I said, I successfully got CM7 to work... but adding gapps to an already imaged SD card wasn't working for me.

I just formatted the SD card to start fresh. I hooked SD card up to computer and copied both the CM7 and gapps zip files directly to the SD card, which was labeled boot. Reinsert this SD card into Nook, pressed n and then power button for 6 seconds... went into recovery mode and unzipped stuff. Screen went blank, so turned it off. Turned it back on, Touch... message came up, then the small Android message. Then it seems to reboot and keeps looping with the 2 messages.

Going to just put the CM7 update on a fresh SD card...

Edit:

Ok... just realized I was mixing up instructions. Per first posting, you don't do a recovery, but just turn on the NC after writing the image and copying the CM7 zip file to it. I redid all that, but I'm still getting the Android & Touch the... messages looping.

I got this to work yesterday, not sure what I'm doing wrong.
[Nook Color Android Development] Lamar720:
Please correct me if I'm wrong but, once I write this img to a sdcard with CM7 and installed it. If I turn off my nook remove sdcard and reboot It should go back to what I had before the sdcard correct?

Just like the Android 3.0 Honeycomb Preview Image v04.

Am I right?
[Nook Color Android Development] tablo:
Yes, correct.
[Nook Color Android Development] envygreen:
meh. so, i was able to boot to recovery and install the release candidate of tablet tweaks to the new SD I imaged from scratch today. Tried it on the one that I've been running on for the last week that won't boot to recovery and ran into the same problems as before.

So.. how do I migrate my crap to a working install? Make a full Titanium backup, then ... how am I getting the files? ADB? This probably is in a thread already by someone that moved from SD to emmc, i'll keep looking for it. (edit - or i could upgrade to pro and get dropbox sync eh? guess that's a good reason to support a good tool)