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[Nook Color General] jamesjhare:
CM9 eyeballer builds

Just installed the 9-4 eyeballer build. His builds are now all opengl enabled with hardware acceleration. So far it's a bit speedier and no freezing issues. I've been using his builds for awhile and this is certainly the best for overall smoothness in the UI. Anybody else using this build? Any issues y'all are experiencing to keep an eye out for?
[Nook Color General] rhinosneros:
Bad link in GUIDE

[GUIDE] (original post in this thread)

1. Download 1gb TWRP image from here OR 1gb CWM 3.2.0.1 sdcard image from here

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Please note that clicking the first link in the first step of the GUIDE (TWRP image) results in the following message: "File doesn't exist."
[Nook Color General] Starphish:
More thanks... This thread helped tremendously when I first installed CM7 on my NC. Now I'm running the CM10 nightlies, but I wanted to move to TWRP from CWM. So I came back to the OP and with the bootable SD image, TWRP installed over CWM much, much easier than dealing with adb, etc., etc.

The only downside is that I've deferred buying the N7, lol.
[Nook Color General] TechiFan:
Important Note!: Apparently, you have to plug your Nook color into a wall jack before the nook will boot up the SD card, I formatted my SD card like 20 times for about 5 hours before finally figuring this out. So, if you're having SD card booting issues, be sure to try plugging your nook in before booting.

(OP, include this in the original post because it might help someone out.)

And also, thank you for making this guide!! Finally have CM10 on my brand new nook color!
[Nook Color General] downhill280Z:
Anyone have any idea why the stock keyboard would crash? This is occurring on both CM10 and 7 nightly builds, regardless of TWRP or CWM installers. Everything else works just fine, and it's awesome - except that I can't type anything.

Edit: Sorry - Not the place for this. Just seeing if anyone's had a similar issue. Posted in the correct thread. Sorry!
[Nook Color General] mynickname:
Free space after cm10 install

I have a partition with 4.9GB after CM10 install. I had 1.3 firmware installed in nook color and 1GB free space in nook stock install

Is the partitioning correct. what is the other 3GB used for. Is there some way I can use the remaining space for CM10. TIA.
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
The partitioning did not change when you installed CM10. Just the terminology that CM uses is different than what stock uses. Stock called things internal storage (/data) and media (/media). CM calls things internal storage (/data) and emmc (/emmc). They are the same. Depending on the age of your device you either have 1GB data and 5GB media (old Nooks) or reversed, 5GB/1GB for newer Nooks. /data is for storing installed apps and their settings and /media is for media (books, movies, downloaded files, etc). If you want to change that there is a repartitioning thread here on Nook Color forums.

On the old Nooks, 5GB of media is available of the total 8GB that the Nook has. The rest is used for all the partitions it needs to operate, including /system and /data.
[Nook Color General] danielray:
i have attempted this 10 times now. if i leave the sd card *after formatting* in the nook, it will never move past the CM booting logo.

if i have the sd card out, it will load up until it says *upgrading android, starting apps* and never go any farther.

i dont know what im doing wrong? any advice?
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
If you are talking about formatting a CWM bootable card you made to flash CM10, it did not get re-formatted properly. I would reburn it again as you need it to fix the installation you just made. After you get the card reburned, boot it and do a wipe data/factory reset. Then reflash the CM10 ROM. Pull the SD out and reboot. It should boot to completion. If it does, and everything is running smoothly, it is safe to reformat the SD. Use a windows program free on the web, SDFormatter. And choose the option to adjust the size automatically. Then you can put it back in the nook for use as media storage.
[Nook Color General] danielray:
i followed that instruction to the T. after pulling the sd and rebooting. all i get is constant loading saying *android is upgrading... starting apps.*
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
When you say constant loading, do you mean the CM10 boot animation is churning or just the word Loading... on the screen. If you mean the latter, that means you are in a bootloop. Go to my tips thread linked in my signature and look at item A8, bootloops. If you mean the CM10 animation is churning, then something is wrong with your CM10. Try downloading the ROM again.

Edit: I see you added some words to your post. If you did the factory reset before you booted, it has to be that ROM zip is no good. The updating is rebuilding the dalvik cache which you cleared with the factory reset. The loading apps means the ROM is actually trying to start up. It is not doing that so that means something is not right with the zip.
[Nook Color General] danielray:
after trying every version of cm10 thats listed, i gave up, tried cm7 and it ran through with no issues and is up and running!
[Nook Color General] Lakland:
THANKS!!

Now i have Jelly bean on my nook, process was flawless!! rock on:good:
[Nook Color General] webyrd:
Thanks again for this and all your other contributions.

In your guide, you might want to re-word step 6 from

6. For CM10 download the latest dated gapps from here or here

to

6. For CM10 download gapps-jb-20121011-signed.zip from here or here

Since the latest dated gapps is for JB4.2

Question - when updating, I have always wiped cache after flashing the new ZIP, does it make a difference?
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
It can help. Usually it is not necessary if loading just a nightly over another nightly, but it hurts nothing to do it and it may help, especially if something was corrupted there.
[Nook Color General] EmptyArea:
Any advantage to wiping after flashing, I assume it's better the other way round?
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
It makes no difference when you wipe data/factory reset, as long as it is before you boot the new ROM. It can either be before you flash or after, makes no difference. However, if you are talking about wiping /system, it must be before.

Sent from my Nook HD+ Running CM10 on SD
[Nook Color General] slick_rick:
Thank you for this guide. Very helpful :)
[Nook Color General] cyberbuddhah:
I have the CM10 churning problem. Some how when I removed the SD card and boot without the SD card...it booted OK and got into setup. I then reformatted the SD card from inside CM10.
[Nook Color General] Keico2012:
Just need some clarification

Ok first and foremost thank you to all who have made rooting nook color possible.

Currently I have the 7 inch nook color which has been rooted running CM7

I do not boot off the sdcard.

Now I would like to upgrade to CM10 but have a few questions.

Can I just download the updated zip files CM10, Gabbs, CWN & copy them to the bootable sdcard and just update that way.

If I can go that route, will I have to wipe my data before I boot, and then re register and reinstall all the apps I am currently using.

I just want to make sure before I go through all the work.

I have also downloaded all the updated files

Please someone share their experience with this
[Nook Color General] Starphish:
I did what you are asking. You will want to start here:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1941247

All your play store apps will be reinstalled if you set up the same google account. If you have side-loaded apps, you will need to reinstall those. You will need a full wipe, so be sure to back-up your key stuff (I'd recommend a FULL backup so you can come back to CM7 if you prefer). Just to be cautious, I did not restore my app data. In my experience CM10 is more responsive, and has marginally better battery life (that's a subjective determination on my part).

After I got CM10 running, I ditched CWM for TWRP, FWIW.
[Nook Color General] Keico2012:
Just one more questions

Ok I just need to know

Do you really think it is worth the time to really upgrade to cm10

My rooted nook runs fine except for the occasional lock up

I guess I am interested in having the android 4 system as opposed to the one that comes with cm7

Please looking for advice
[Nook Color General] Starphish:
If you're looking for geek points, CM10 is the way to go. But if you're expecting the heavens to open up, CM10 ain't gonna do that. It's a couple of hours to reflash and reload apps/data/sync google.

Those who have jumped to CM10 are using the nightlies (this hasn't been an issue for me yet). Since you're unsure about upgrading, you might want to wait for a "stable" CM10 release for your NC (follow the thread I posted earlier for update progress). The more CM10 users we have, the more feedback there is, and the better the nightly, so jump in when you're ready.
[Nook Color General] kellikayotic:
Please Help Me!

Ok, So I'm literally about to go insane.

Everything I try isn't working.

And this isn't a new thing for me. I've been rooting and installing custom ROMs on my phones and tablets for years!

I've even done it successfully on my Nook Simple Touch.

So, I've searched everything I can think of (including this forum) about why my Nook Color 1.4.3 keeps rebooting into normal B&N IOS.

What I've tried

-Normal micro SD card slot with Winimage (Yes, I'm doing it right "Restore Factory blah blah blah")

- Normal micro SD card slot with Win32diskimager

- Sd card adapter with both mention above

- Turning it on with the cable instead of power button

- Changing computers!

- I format EVERYTIME

- I run in administrative mode on the administers account EVERYTIME

-

Also, Everytime I put the SD card back in the computer, it has the following files:

.Android_Secure

B&N Downloads

LOST.DIR

My Files

16 gb SanDisk HC SD card

Everything I've ever done for myself, it works just fine. But this time, it's for a friend and IT DOESNT WORK.

Ok, I'm done ranting. Please help me :(
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
Are you sure your friend's device is a nook color? It could be a nook tablet (silver bezel).

Sent from my HD+ running CM10 on SD with XDA Premium
[Nook Color General] kellikayotic:
You know, She told me it's the color but it could be the tablet...

Could anyone give me the files or link for that?

I guess it couldn't hurt to try...

Thanks Hun
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
If it is a nook tablet, it is a little harder to modify since that device has a locked bootloader. But it can be done. Search the nook tablet development forum.

Sent from my HD+ running CM10 on SD with XDA Premium
[Nook Color General] holy1661:
This is my problem as well.

I can install a keyboard, but then it still won't let market connect.

very sad face.
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
Usually for CM10 it is because you installed the wrong gapps package. You need gapps-jb-20121011-signed.zip for CM10.

Sent with XDA Premium from my Nook HD+ running CM10 on SD
[Nook Color General] holy1661:
Thanks for replying.

I kept trying to just start the install process over with the correct gapps, but I kept having the keyboard crash. I finally added the step of "Format the System" and then installed the ROM and gapps again. It all worked this time.

Happy Face.

Thanks again.
[Nook Color General] flubberbub:
process shutdowns after flashing

I just reflashed on new old color. I flashed twrp_2.3.0.2-encore-1gb-sdmg to a 4gb

card.(yes correct class-I checked) Upon the slick boot loader (thanks for that)doing

it's thing I had TWRP install by the numbers cm-10-20130114-NIGHTLY-encore,

gapps-jb-2012011-signed and openrecovery-twrp-2.3.1.0-encore-signed. All went well

until the first boot....(yeah) I have every app closing over and over

android.process.acore, system.ui, AOSP, Trebuchet,

So then I reflashed 7.2 and the corresponding gapps but the same things happened.

I attempted again with 10.20130114 and gapps 20121212 but the same things.

I cannot even get the system setup to run to hook up wifi....

help?
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
Did you do a factory reset with twrp before you booted to your new ROM the first time? You should have when you are switching from one type of ROM to another.

Sent with XDA Premium from my Nook HD+ running CM10 on SD
[Nook Color General] flubberbub:
Well, no I think I forgot, I reflashed 10-20130127 nightly, and the corresponding 20121011 gapps and

openrecovery-twrp-2.3.1.0. I wiped dalvik/cache after each flash. I do remember in the older cyanogen

mods having to fix permissions, so I did that as well. I then found the factory reset in the menu.

Once I got everything restarted with a fresh SD card in the slot, I got to the Wi-Fi setup and started

getting the keyboard failure again....
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
What keyboard failure? Did you go back and factory reset? I would suggest you go back to recovery, wipe system, data and cache. Then flash only the cm rom and boot to that. Once you have that running well, go back and flash gapps, boot and set that up.

Sent with XDA Premium from my Nook HD+ running CM10 on SD
[Nook Color General] Starphish:
I presume you are doing all the cache/data wipes...

Here's the post I used for gapps/CM10 encore (although you should be OK with the OP here).

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=32905571&postcount=2

Bad downloads? Be sure your download md5 check out.
[Nook Color General] munchy09:
Hello,

I followed the steps and I am now getting an error message saying "unfortunatly android keyboard (aosp) has stopped" is there any fixes for this?

I have cm 10 with gapps-jb 20121212

thanks
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
You have the wrong gapps with CM10. You need 20121011. Go to CWM and wipe /system, /data, and /cache. Then reinstall with the right gapps.

PS, you don't need to quote his whole first post. Please delete it from your post.

Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10 on Hybrid SD
[Nook Color General] munchy09:
Thanks leapinlar I'll do that and in regards to the quote my computer was dying and needed to post quickly.

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oh leapinlar I also have cm-10-20130217-NIGHTLY-encore would I still need the gapps that you recommended?
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
Yes, all CM10's need that version of gapps. Any newer version of gapps is for CM10.1 and behaves like you described.

It is not too late for you to remove that long quote in your earlier post. Just edit it out.

Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10 on Hybrid SD
[Nook Color General] jamesgg:
I burned the 1gb cwm image and put in the 3 unzipped files onto the microsd card. However, restarting the Nook it does not start up with cwm. I am on a currently unmodified nook. Thank You.
[Nook Color General] eyeballer:
Boot into recovery and reflash gapps. Either by using the cwm sd you made for the guide, or just power off, then do the hold power and n button for 8 secs method. Reboot to recovery is broken atm in cm7 :(
[Nook Color General] EverythingNook:
alright im running CM7 Stable i wanna update it to Nightly 40, do i just flash it over stable? and do i reflash the kernel too?
[Nook Color General] eyeballer:
If you followed this guide, then yes can flash over the top:

1) Download latest nightly from CM and put it on the sdcard that's in the nook

2) Power off and then boot into recovery (hold power and N together for about 8 seconds, release power then release N.)

3) Wipe cache

4) install zip from sdcard, flash the nightly .zip and then the kernel .zip.

Reboot.

Added to OP ^
[Nook Color General] EverythingNook:
worked thanks! does this fix the music skip problem?
[Nook Color General] migrax:
does intalling a new nightly necessitate re-installing Dalingrin's oc kernel mod?

migrax
[Nook Color General] eyeballer:
Please take the time to read the entire first post, specifically Epilogue, 3.
[Nook Color General] thisoneguy:
.... I am just tring to understand what is happing in the CWM...

First I boot to CRM from SD img... Flash all the stuffs... and the last zip flash CWM to internal memory... (but that is modded CWM to flash updates to the internal emmc memory, correct?)...

Therefore if i went through rom manager and flashed the latest Nook Color recovery (not "old") and used it to flash updates... it wouldn't matter i would still boot in to the unupdated version?

And to fix that would start process from beginning? ie. make bootable sd skip all the CM files and just flash the special CWM - and then I'm rocking back on the right track?

Thanks in advance...

and sofar emmc > uSD bunches... maybe publish to actual CWM - Ie. Nook Color (old), Nook Color (SD), Nook Color (emmc)
[Nook Color General] eyeballer:
The advantage of using the .zip method to install cwm to the emmc is that the .zip also includes the updated kernel for cwm which rom manager doesn't.
[Nook Color General] FractalSphere:
I picked up a used Nook Color from someone off craigslist LAST NIGHT and followed some of the guides here and elsewhere and by about 1:30am I had my FRANKENNOOK! Thank you so much for putting together this guide and for blazing the trail doing the hard work of making it work so others of us can feel awesome hacking our devices. :D

YOU, sirs, and XDA in general - ROCK! :)
[Nook Color General] Jimbo67:
file sizes of burned .img

Hey guys,

When I extracted the .img file for clockworkmod, it was in the neighborhood of 900mb. When I burned the .img to my sd card, it burned 4 relatively small files.

mlo 15kb

u-boot 281kb

uImage 2,174kb

uRamdisk 1,258kb

Is this correct, or did I screw up?

Thanks In Advance!
[Nook Color General] jaceswild:
that is correct!
[Nook Color General] aquino75:
NC not booting from SC Card

Hello guys,

First of all, thanks for all your hard work. I'm having an issue with my nook. I'm following the guideline, regarding burning the image and saving the zip files to the card after burning the image. When I pop in the SD card into my nook and power it up, it does not boots up from the SD card and goes straight to the stock system. I'm using a memorex 2 GB Micro SD, and the current software version on it 1.1.0.

Thanks in advance for your help

Did it, for some reason, when I burn the image it has to be with the win32diskimage util, not the winimage.

Installed nightly 54, running like a charm
[Nook Color General] EverythingNook:
i just saw the nightlies and it jumps from 41 to 54, why?
[Nook Color General] liqn7:
Bot failed to build for a few nights.

Thanks eyeballer!

Why isn't this stickied yet?
[Nook Color General] EverythingNook:
No problem, do you know of any changes in the newest version?

Sent from Nook Color with CM7 - 1.3GHz
[Nook Color General] SoundZombie:
@EverythingNook How did you OC your NookColor at 1.3? The highes I was allowed to go was 1.1.
[Nook Color General] EverythingNook:
http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=13134048&postcount=1749
[Nook Color General] stricknook:
is phiremod and cm7 the same or different roms?
[Nook Color General] liqn7:
Phiremod is based off cm7 but with a few honeycomb themed.elements.included. underneath its still cm7. Nothing special really.

I'd personally go with cm7 nightlies due to the quicker updates.
[Nook Color General] eyeballer:
Agreed. Nothing personal against Phiremod but I'd stick with CM7 and learn how to add your own theme options.

I added a link to the Honeycomb theme .apk to the OP.
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
Burning the card can be kind of tricky sometimes. Go to my Nook Color Tips thread linked in my signature and look at item A9.

Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10 on Hybrid SD
[Nook Color General] jamesgg:
Thanks for the help, I tried different Sd card, different cable, and even switched between cwm and twrp 1gb files, I still cannot get it to boot from the SD card. Guess, I will try some other day.
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
Are you sure your device is a Nook Color rather than a Nook Tablet? The Tablet has a silver bezel and these cards will not work with them.

Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10 on Hybrid SD
[Nook Color General] pcnetgeek:
Any faster ROMs or versions of CM?

Hi - So I installed CM7.2 per the first post in this thread. It works way better than running it off of the SD card in my experience. It's still very laggy though. Often apps take a minute before they start up, browsing can be a challenge with DNS failures and such. Is there something I should check or can do to improve speed or make it more snappy? Is there a new way to improve performance that anyone knows of?

Would installing CM10 make a difference?

If it's just a matter of an old device being repurposed and not cable of much more, I'm willing to accept that fact as well :) I realize i can't get a Nexus 7 out of this Nook Color rooted tablet :)

Thanks for this great guide and all your help! v:good:
[Nook Color General] Starphish:
Running from the SD card is not going to make things faster. I've switched to CM10 and the current release is quite smooth. Here's a recent take on the CM10 release...

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=38527245&postcount=1831
[Nook Color General] pcnetgeek:
Hello - thanks for the response and post with feedback of CM10.

I'm not running on SD, I was. Now I'm running on internal memory(EMCC?). Snappier, but meh :) the overcoming definitely help though - just found this setting today :)

Is there any safe way to move to CM10 from 7.2 and if I'm not happy back to 7.2 or is it just better to do a fresh CM10 install?
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
You can do a nandroid backup of your current CM7 install with CWM. Then you can wipe data/factory reset with CWM and install CM10 along with gapps-jb-20121011-signed.zip. Then boot and try it. If you want to go back to CM7, just restore your earlier backup with CWM.

BTW, you did wipe data/factory reset before you installed CM7 didn't you?

Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10 on Hybrid SD
[Nook Color General] Starphish:
The only thing I'd add to what leapinlar advised is to copy your nandroid backup off to your PC just in case you manage to do something really ugly. But since you've already got 7.2 running on emmc, you're probably safe to skip that extra paranoia.

FWIW, I recently deleted my 7.2 nandroid backups :o
[Nook Color General] pcnetgeek:
Hi leapinlar.. That sounds like something I can do :)

Yes I did the wipe/reset. Seems the CPU over clicking has reallyade this a new device though! LOL

So what's this hybrid SD?

I'll let you know how I make out. Thanks!!

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Hey Starphish - So just to confirm that I know what you're referring to - nano droid backup is the backup performed in CWM correct? Like when you boot into recovery?
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
The Hybrid is a new SD setup for the Nook HD+. It puts some of the operating system files on internal memory instead of the SD. It is needed on the HD+ to help with some issues peculiar to the HD+. It is not applicable to the Color.

Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10 on Hybrid SD
[Nook Color General] pcnetgeek:
Thanks leapinlar and Starphish.. I'm going to try this all out now. Does it make a difference which version of CM10 I use from here?http://techerrata.com/browse/cm/encore/nightly or is any nightly just as good?
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
Just use the newest.

Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10 on Hybrid SD
[Nook Color General] pcnetgeek:
Thanks leapinlar - Giving CM10 a spin now. Seems slower than 7.2 to me.. But it's ok, I have my backup and can restore if I want to :)

Thanks for all the help and contributions by you and other great members!
[Nook Color General] wrevilo:
ansafe Owen

I glad to say I was able to install the latest nightly build on my Nook Color using the instructions in the OP. Thanks mate!

They really simplified an operation I'd not done before. The results in comparison to how the Nook Color was performing with the B&N 1.4.3 OS are remarkably better. I'm looking forward to using the NC now!