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[Nook Color Android Development] DizzyDen:
Try mini partition tools... if you ran the setup from uSD... there will be 4 partitions if your uSD reader on computer supports it.
[Nook Color Android Development] nspeer:
What is "mini partition tools" ? I did run the setup exactly as described by OP. I am not using a reader but have the NC plugged directly into my PC via USB cable.
[Nook Color Android Development] nspeer:
This is exactly what I want to do. I am using a 4GB card now and I cannot figure out how to make the 4th partition use all unallocated space. In fact, I can't even SEE the 4th partition! How did you do that...specifically? What program did you use, did you mount the Nook to your computer or use a cardreader for the SD card or what? Hope you can help me out here!
[Nook Color Android Development] bigbob23:
When you install a CM7 image using the size-agnostic image it should automatically use all the space on the SD card and there is no need to resize anything.

From the first post:
[Nook Color Android Development] nspeer:
I'm wondering if anyone has tried a Bluetooth webcam in order to do video chats with Qik, Skype, or some other app. Seems like it should be doable. I just don't have a Bluetooth webcam.
[Nook Color Android Development] curnj:
AWESOME

Great Instructions!

Think it took me 30 min to setup the SD card with CM7, OC Kernal, and Gapps.

Runs great!

Only thing, I accidentally deleted the launcher icon. Is there a way to get it back?

Can you install a pherimod rom update with this?

Again, this is awesome. Thanks
[Nook Color Android Development] SeanRinVA:
Thanks for these instructions! CM7.0.2 on my Nook! It's incredible!

Exclamation points anyone???
[Nook Color Android Development] DizzyDen:
You have to use a reader in your computer... cannot use the nook to do this... mini partition tools is another partition manager application... sometimes easus works better... somethings mini does better... gettin you a link.... ahhhh... it is acutally minitools partition manager.....

Get MiniTools Patition Manager here
[Nook Color Android Development] 090:
At your home screen, long tap till the "Add to Home screen" shows up. Choose "Launcher Actions" then "Open/Close Dock Bar".

A new icon will be added into your home screen, tap it to unhide/hide your dock bar.

You can prevent the dock bar from hiding again, by tap the "Preference" button at your home screen, choose "Lock desktop"

Cheers!
[Nook Color Android Development] Homer_S_xda:
When you look at Disk x, you should see four partitions. The fourth one should have empty or unallocated space next to it. You can drag the right edge of that last partition to fill the unused space and apply changes.

If you see something different, you might have to run as admin or you might be looking at the wrong disk. If you do see something different, you can post a screen cap and I can take a look. Also, IIRC make sure to close the explorer folders related to the Nook, so PM can access it freely.

Homer
[Nook Color Android Development] lorddart:
help booting

Hey guys,

So... i got it booting now. However i am getting a lot of unresponsive stuff. maybe cause it's my first boot up? it's giving slow response time and a lot of "wait or force close" Any reason for this?
[Nook Color Android Development] khaytsus:
You didn't write it correctly or some other issue. Make sure you're using a card reader to write it and you're writing it to the device, not a partition. If you're on Windows I think the suggested program is win32diskimager. More reliable in Linux however..
[Nook Color Android Development] lorddart:
Thanks as I've edited i have another issue now and tried using rom manager which would barely function to try to get into cwm recovery to fix permissions no dice just rebooted
[Nook Color Android Development] telsasparks:
Thanks for the great rom. I love that it runs off an uSD card. However I have a problem with the wifi being wicked slow. DLs from Market can take more than an hour for 2MB file. Dolphin has a huge lag (can be several minutes) loading pages. I use WPA + AES for my wireless encryption. Is AES a problem. I saw others ask about slow wifi in this thread but no real solution except to turn off bluetooth which I never ran.

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[Nook Color Android Development] robot8:
Are you on stock CM7? Or with an OC kernel? Have you tried to change the wifi settings to get it to "forget" remembered connections? Also setting your router to an optimal channel may help. Do note that some routers just suck less than others.

AES is the problem for a number of people. AES will work, turning it off may have less drops. Some have disabled AES completely and found that their wifi becomes reliable, but it doesn't fix it for others. There are likely multiple wifi issues at hand. You may find this interesting:

http://code.google.com/p/cyanogenmod/issues/detail?id=3314

But it will definitely be fixed very soon;
[Nook Color Android Development] robot8:
First boot on any new ROM, usually it's best to leave it alone for a few minutes before doing anything.

What SD card are you using? Some cards have "issues". If you're getting a lot of FCs and random quirks, try another card. Higher Class (6/10) ratings usually mean speedy sequential r/w but poor small random block r/w and that will give you issues. Best cards in my experience are Class 2 or Class 4 Sandisk.
[Nook Color Android Development] the5ifty:
So I got the img to flash on my class 4 pny card on and I had already done it to 2 different crappy sammy cards and they wouldn't work...I tried refoematting them so I could use them in my phone as storage but when it reformats it says its a 4mb card instead of a 2gb...help!
[Nook Color Android Development] lorddart:
Thanks i believe i am using a class 4pny card and have restarted a few times sometimes it still gets a little slow but mainly wifi is very weak i have my phone running wifi as well and getting fabulous speed so i dunno. Thanks for the help

Edit : my question still stands. I have used rom manager to try proper recovery and such yet I still don't boot into cwm recovery just reboots why is this and how can I get into cwm recovery
[Nook Color Android Development] telsasparks:
I was remiss in not mentioning that I am using a nook color. It is stock CM7, the 7.0.0-encore. Every other wireless unit in the house does just fine. The stock nook color does fine. However, I have run into this with every other rom I have tried except for froyo. I'll take a look at the thread you mentioned.

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[Nook Color Android Development] lschroeder:
Just loaded update-cm-7.1.0-encore-2.6.32-signed.zip onto the sd card. It is the first attempt at using the new kernel. It is a very early build. I have the phiremod V6.2 with OC 4/24 on emmc for my daily use.

+ The nook now sleeps

+ Finally able to build a new wifi driver

- No bluetooth(Completely different method to communicate with BT chip is in progress)

- No hardware overlay(causes medium/high resolution videos to stutter)

- Overall performance isn't that great especially if you are used to OC kernels

- Not well tested, who knows what other problems might exist

Would be great to get feedback on wifi from those that have had wifi issues in the past.

Scroll down on OP on the following thread to find a link for the zip file. It is in the proper format to install here.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=960537
[Nook Color Android Development] robot8:
Thanks! Good to know, gonna install it onto one of my other cards and give it a test.
[Nook Color Android Development] bigdude-bn:
CM7 app question

First off, thanks to verygreen for this great tool. It worked perfectly with CM7 but after installing gapps file downloaded from the CM site I noticed several apps missing that I rely on. I was wondering if this was the result of an error, or if it was normal. I watched the entire process but I did not see any error messages during the expansion/partition process.

The two apps I noticed missing were Google Maps and the YouTube app.. I also looked on Market and I could not find either one to download there (although I could download an install other things succesfully so market is operating).

Is there any way to restore those (particularly maps). ?? :confused:

PS: I also tried to use this for Phiremod 6.2 by renaming the file, but it failed. There was an error when writing the kernel and doing expansion, in both cases the message said the partitions were full.​
[Nook Color Android Development] lschroeder:
What worked for me was that I had already installed a version of CM7.0.x, I think it was release candidate 4, with gapps including Google Maps and YouTube app. I just placed the update-cm-7.1.0-encore-2.6.32-signed.zip on the first petition of the sd card and booted from the SDcard into recovery. I used the update procedure from the OP.
[Nook Color Android Development] verygreen:
Hm, I vaguely remember that when I was testing the installation, gapps did not come in the zip file, but rather there was a question at startup time to choose what services do I want installed, amongst those was youtube and Google Maps.

It might be that you need te enable certain things like location before it shows you google maps?
[Nook Color Android Development] lpd0084:
I'm sure this has been asked a million times but here is a miilion and one. Do I have to be rooted to run from bootable SD? I'm thinking no but wanna make sure lol

Pity the noob as u were pitied in ur noobishness
[Nook Color Android Development] DizzyDen:
No... you do not have to be rooted... one of the reasons to run from SD is so you can keep stock if you want.
[Nook Color Android Development] lpd0084:
Thanks. Just wanted to make sure before I went to the trouble of rerooting lol

Pity the noob as u were pitied in ur noobishness
[Nook Color Android Development] robedney:
I've been using this for awhile and have been very happy with it. I then wiped my SD card so facilitate returning to stock so I could install the B&N update. Then reformatted the SD to re-install CM7 with this package. Again, quick and easy and I really appreciate it:

BUT:

On the last go-round I managed to make my Freedom Pro keyboard work via Bluetooth. Can't remember exactly how though. Now I have this problem:

I download the Freedom Pro drivers using the Nook. It's a zip file in the Downloads file. Clicked on the zip and up comes a window saying:

"Reboot And Install

Press OK to reboot into ClockworkMod Recovery and continue the installation"

So, being an obedient type, I click on OK. The Nook reboots, but right back into CM7 and not into Clockwork. The app never installs. Yes, I have checked the box allowing non-standard apps to install.

Also, when I try just a plain "reboot into recovery" it doesn't, but right back into CM7.

Anyone got any ideas! I'd really appreciate any help!
[Nook Color Android Development] robot8:
Should be an .apk file.

edit: Went to check out the download site, here's a direct link to the pro keyboard .apk file:

http://www.otadrivers.com/pronew/android/ProKeyboardSettings.apk
[Nook Color Android Development] robedney:
Ah -- that's the difference between the two links on the otadrivers page. The one for later versions of Android downloads an installer package, while the upper one (the one you kindly referred me to) downloads a straight apk file. Thanks much -- got it working after some diddling and a few reboots. It's actually very functional :)
[Nook Color Android Development] telsasparks:
It appears I resolved my wifi problem. My story: when I came across a blog that talked about installing CM7 it made it very clear that a class 4 card should be used. I went and bought a class4 card instead of using my 16GB class 10. Worked great except for wifi. After reading many threads about the problem someone noted that class 10 solved their wifi problem. Well, I dd'ed my class4 to the class10 and there was much joy. FWIW, that's my story.

My thanks to the team for this wonderful rom.

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[Nook Color Android Development] dexx0008:
interesting. class4's are recommended for there good small random file read/write times. if you run off of sd you want this. I'd be curious if you burned the image to your sd card again how things would run. i can't help but think something else is at play here. at any rate it's great it is working.
[Nook Color Android Development] sicmadek:
I followed the instructions and I'm at the gapps part. I installed it fine, but now the market force closes everytime I try to use it. Is there a fix?
[Nook Color Android Development] Taosaur:
Thank you much, this method got CM7.0.2 running beautifully off the elusive 16GB Sandisk class 4 (I swear this thing is faster than the eMMC). The problems I encountered were:

1) trying to install win32diskimager. I don't know if it's Win7 x64 or what, but I could not get it to launch. Luckily, someone pointed me to WinImage, which is not technically free, but it's a 1 month trial, so it suits for this purpose.

2) I didn't have a card reader other than the NC :P I wrote the disk image and got the ROM on there fine, but had no way to get gapps in the boot partition once CM7 was installed. I beat my head against this problem for a while, then fiddling around I accidentally installed CWM to the eMMC: hallelujah! My stock OS was totally unaffected, and now I was able to boot to CWM (commands in ROM Manager / CM7 shutdown didn't work, but ejecting the card and holding p+n did), mount the SD card over USB, and drop gapps in the boot partition from my PC :cool:

I actually wanted CWM on the eMMC anyway, but thought I would have to root to get it there.
[Nook Color Android Development] prehistorical:
Easy

Thanks -- very clear instructions! Installed on a 2 GB SanDisk, no problems. Now I need to figure out how to close the music player (CM7 n00b alert)...
[Nook Color Android Development] toosurreal01:
Hey guys, new to the NC world and need some help.

I just bought this yesterday and upgraded to 1.2 and wanted to play with CM7 on a bootable SD card.

I wrote the img to the card in the OP and downloaded the latest CM7 nightly (#63) and got it installed and booted into CM7 and set up my wireless network.

Took the SD card out and transferred the GAPPS to the card and I'm stuck trying to boot into recovery.

Do I need to install CWM first? How do I go about this?

Thanks!

EDIT: Finally got it! That timing is a tough one!!!
[Nook Color Android Development] danvee:
Next time, just add the CM7 and GAPPs .zip files to the card at the same time.

The installer will do it all; first CM7 then the GAPPs.

It's worked for me 6 times now....and you don't have to sweat the timing....

BTW, I guess I have to take a look: the last nightly I'd seen was 61.
[Nook Color Android Development] verygreen:
I have a strange observation on the recovery boot now.

My original nook broke down and I replaced it with a new one.

Now the recovery is much easier to activate. basically I press N button and hold it, then I press the power button and release, but as long as I hold the N button the boot seemingly does not progress at all (the u-boot message of "welcome ..." or even the original uboot I had in v1 thta just said Loading and that I cannot get to boot into recovery at all), so I can release and press power button several times multiple seconds each time.

When I finally release the N button the boot seemingly progresses and the recovery starts after some time.

I don't think I have seen anything like that with the old device. My old serial number started with 2005 in what looked like a date pattern. The new one starts with 2011.

I wonder if anybody sees anything like that and if there was a hidden hw change making it easier to hit recovery now
[Nook Color Android Development] khaytsus:
You have to hit the power button repeatedly to make it work, and that's easier? ;)

Odd though that it's different at all.
[Nook Color Android Development] verygreen:
I don't *need* to press it multiple times.

Essentially what I am saying it I can hold the N button, turn on the nook, then as soon as it turns on I can release the power button, and while I hold the N button the boot does not progresses.

So I can press power button again, hold it for a second, then release, release N and get into recovery. All at my own speed.

I do not need to catch precise timing of power button being held for exactly 5.5 seconds or whatever was the amount because if I hold more it turns off and if I hold less it does not boot into recovery.
[Nook Color Android Development] Taosaur:
A few questions, if anyone would be so kind:

Someone in another thread was a tad aghast that I replaced the NC's stock recovery with CWM, and suggested that CWM could be installed to the size-agnostic card alongside CM7. I doubt it would have helped with my predicament (needing to mount the SD's boot partition over USB after installing CM7), but how would one go about getting CWM on the size-agnostic CM7 card, and how would one then boot into it? By default, ROM Manager will flash CWM to the eMMC.

Also, now that I have CWM on the eMMC, what would "wipe data/factory reset" accomplish? Would it restore the stock recovery utility, just erase the settings and data in my stock 1.2 install, revert my 1.2 to 1.1, or what? Is there a method for restoring the stock recovery utility? I am half-tempted to just try it and see, if only to provide more complete information in my thread over on mobileread: http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?p=1527768#post1527768
[Nook Color Android Development] khaytsus:
I see now, very interesting. I wonder why it's different! Does the process use any stock files?
[Nook Color Android Development] cameraz:
Flaky Touch Action

I just did CM7 SD card install, and it went pretty well. I moved the Gapps file onto the SD card at the same time as the nightly build, and everything installed automatically.

The one thing that drove me batty was the extreme sensitivity of the keyboard! I mean, really sensitive. If I held my finger 1/8" above the keyboard (without touching it), it would start typing a row of multiple letters automatically. And not the letter I was trying to type. Very frustrating!

I had to adopt a sneak approach to typing. I had to jab the keys as quickly as possible as to not make multiple letters type. Also, it seems my keyboard is out of registration some times. I can tap a key squarely in the middle, and the letter next to it will type. Then I have to touch the key on the side or on a corner to get it to select the letter I want.

On the other hand, I find other touch actions not sensitive at all. When I'm filling out a form, for instance, and then have to tap a "Done" or "Next" key, sometimes I'll have to tap it three or four times for the action to register.

Anyway, I am still trying to figure out what certain things do. One positive thing is that my browser speed seems to be a little faster than it was in froyo.

Thanks to all the people who worked on this.
[Nook Color Android Development] cameraz:
Yo, peeps,

Can anybody tell me how to get rid of the phone and talk icons at the bottom of my screen/ I'm using Launcher Pro (free version).

Thanks.
[Nook Color Android Development] khaytsus:
Not normal, you sure you weren't plugged in and using it? That tends to make the touchscreen act weird. Otherwise, you might try the Nook Screen Recalibrate.. https://market.android.com/details?id=com.assid.android.nookrecalibrate
[Nook Color Android Development] cameraz:
Yeah, it was really freaky! But I am happy to say that things seem to have settled down and are operating normally. And no, I didn't have it plugged in while I was setting it up.
[Nook Color Android Development] philliyxx:
this was not the case for me. Almost to the end of the installer it said "looking for gapps installer, could not be found" and skipped it.

I put the GAPPS zip on there with the nightly...

EDIT-

Tried the Solution was posted Modra76

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=12250705&postcount=25

Still getting the gapps installer not found...
[Nook Color Android Development] fuzzynco:
Setup installer SD card for CM7 / Gapps

I'm trying to setup a 8GB class 6 card to be a bootable

CM7 card. If I understand the process, I need to dd the

installer img to the card, then mount it, and copy the

CM7 zip to its root directory. Do I also copy the

gapps zip file? if I understand correctly there isn't

a cwr that updates an SD card OS, so unless the

original installer also installs gapps there isn't a way

to install it?
[Nook Color Android Development] danvee:
Copy both to the SD card....The installer will do the rest.....
[Nook Color Android Development] cameraz:
Fuzzy,

I wrote the installer image to a formatted 8GB Class 6 SD card using win32diskmangr, then copied (but didn't unzip) the latest CM7 nightly and the gapps zip files to the root directory of the same card. Popped the card into my nook, booted, and it did the rest. After I set up my wifi connection, I had immediate access to Android Market.

The only hiccup I experienced was a crazily sensitive keypad. But I've been using my nook for 24 hours now and everything is running very smoothly -- much better than froyo ever did. I was going to overclock this thing, but it's running so well that I may not.
[Nook Color Android Development] jpiermarini:
just got the nook color and wanted to mess around with cm7 on it. I downloaded the installer image provided by verygreen, but after I copy the image to the sd card and put it back in its not mounting the sd card anymore.

I tried to burn the image in windows using win32diskimager but it kept telling me there wasn't enough space on the sd card. So i booted into ubuntu and used

sudo dd if=generic-image.img of=/dev/whatever the sd card was bs=1M

Did i copy the image over incorrectly? or is there another reason why this could be happening?

thanks.
[Nook Color Android Development] stolenmoment:
If you're talking about the ones in the bottom center, just drag another icon onto them. I forget if you have to drag them out first.

It's another one of those things that's intuitive after you know it...

Dennis
[Nook Color Android Development] robot8:
If you had followed the OP instructions you should have been fine. Right now you've "copy the image to the sd card" and then "tried to burn the image in windows" and then "booted into ubuntu and used sudo dd", I'd say your sd card is pretty messed up.

I'd mount your sd card to your computer with a card reader. Reclaim full with a partition manager, format fat32. Then burn verygreen's installer img to the card with win32diskimager. Remove, then reinsert card to card reader. Copy CM7 .zip to "boot" (only partition you'd now see in Win), remove sd card and insert into Nook. Power on and let it install.
[Nook Color Android Development] japzone:
I agree with robot8. I would use Ubuntu because it's alot more cooperative when it comes to this.

If you don't have GParted installed get it with this command in terminal:

sudo apt-get install gparted

Use GParted to Reformat your entire SD to FAT, and then use dd to burn the Image to your card.

Now resume the instructions and you should have working CM7.

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[Nook Color Android Development] angomy:
When you copied the image to the SD card, did you mean an actual copy action, or did you burn the image to the SD card using win32diskimager?

If your initial attempt to burn the image via win32diskimager was as follows:

- Inserted uSD into uSD reader

- opened windisk32imager and tried to burn the img file to the uSD and was given an error message of not enough space

The issue might be that your reader might be problematic. Is it built-in? My built-in reader in my laptop gives me the same (false) error message. When I connect the reader to one of my front-panel USB ports, I get the same error message as laptop's. When I use a standalone reader connected to one of the main USB ports on my desktop, it works fine.

If you actually did burn the img to the SD card ("after I copy the image to the sd card"), which device were you "putting it back in its not mounting the sd card anymore. "? The Nook or the reader?