yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Nook Color General] KitF:
Mind if I post this guide over on Android Central forums? The one I have posted over there has gotten kind of unwieldy and I was wanting to start from scratch, but these are good!
[Nook Color General] eyeballer:
Go for it :)
[Nook Color General] robot8:
Thanks for the clear and concise step by steps. Running off SD right now but tagging just for the day when I decide to go eMMC.
[Nook Color General] swapdotavi:
The link to Muffinworld.net does not work. Do you know of another place we can go?
[Nook Color General] eyeballer:
Updated OP with a mediafire mirror for now.
[Nook Color General] tablo:
Nice guide.
[Nook Color General] WobbleTheHutt:
awesome clean strait forward guide! =D thanks!
[Nook Color General] swapdotavi:
So this updates to 2.3? I thought this CM7 image was for 3.0? Is there another one I can use to get the 3.0 features?
[Nook Color General] eyeballer:
CM7 has always been 2.3, not sure where you read otherwise. There's some honeycomb ports available built from the sdk as source isn't out, feel free to try them, although IMO CM7 is the most stable rom for the nook.
[Nook Color General] ikryptic:
I tried to install CM7 on my nook color and i didnt follow the proper method and instead saved the CM7 file to the root of my sd card and installed the zip through clockworkrecovery without wiping or cache and now im stuck at the android boot screen. It isnt the CM7 skateboard android boot but rather the plain android root boot screen. If anyone could help it would be helpful thank you! IM crying right now about it :(
[Nook Color General] eyeballer:
This isn't really the place for this post, but if you go back to the first post and look under Epilogue no.4, there's a link to the restore thread.
[Nook Color General] ottoman1384:
I've been trying to make a backup of my froyo system in recovery and it keeps on saying that the /system cannot be mounted. Any help would be appreciated.
[Nook Color General] ikryptic:
Thanks a lot!
[Nook Color General] Illusive Man:
I'm currently auto-nooted, which leaves the default Nook reader software intact. Will installing CM7 also leave the default Nook reader intact?
[Nook Color General] jtrosky:
First off - complete noob to Android (main tablet is/was an iPad 1). I am loving Android on my Nook Color though - GREAT guide here!! I had CM7 working from SD just fine, so I decided to put on emcc - everything is great, except I don't get the CM7 animation either (basically, sits at a blank screen - just the backlight is on). Then the backlight turns off after a few mins. At that point, if I press the power button, I'm booted into CM7 and everything is fine - just no boot animation - like the post I quoted, for which there was no reply...

Anyone have any ideas? I even reverted back to stock 1.2 and did the entire process over again - same thing. Running 7.0.3 stable with OC kernel.

Obviously, not a big deal - everything else works great - but it's driving me nuts anyway! :-) Any ideas?

Thanks again - great info here!!!
[Nook Color General] tbXDA:
Great post, this should be a sticky for sure.

Couple of points that might be worth clarifying.

Might be worth mentioning the free 7zip for extracting the RAR clockworkmod file.

Earlier we extracted the IMG file, but in this case, it might be worth clarifying that the zip files are NOT to be extracted but to be copied 'as is' to the root directory of the SD card.

Can this card be formatted as FAT32? I used a 2GB card so FAT I think was fine, but for higher capacity cards, I think you have to use FAT32?

Thanks for the great guide!
[Nook Color General] darien87:
Sorry for the noob post, but I know nothing about this rooting stuff. I paid a local guy $25 to put CM 7 on my NC for me.

I'm wondering how does one go about getting the new Kernel with the sleep issue fix installed? Do I need to do the whole process over again or is there just a single file I can install?
[Nook Color General] shadowswithin:
the google apps file doesn't work i flashed it in clockwork but it still wont show up
[Nook Color General] ziggy34:
for me it did not show up until I setup my google account.
[Nook Color General] eyeballer:
Guide updated to clarify which OC kernel should be used. I'm recommending sticking with CM 7.0.3 for now until the 2.3.4 merge is completed.

Thanks tbXDA, made those changes in the guide.
[Nook Color General] foethalove:
reserved kk
[Nook Color General] KDOG2020:
The op should get major props for sure. Just rescued my nook from oblivion with this.
[Nook Color General] wpbear:
Not working with the Kernal link you have. Get black screen with cursor on reboot.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=925451

* 2.6.32 CM7 builds currently do not work with the nightlies or stable builds. You must use a test build from the developers thread.

We need a 0424 1.3 OC Kernel that will work with the stable 7.0.3.

EDIT: The file should be ext4-CM7-dalingrin-OC-emmc-042411. I just tried this one and it works.
[Nook Color General] martian21:
Had the same problem as Wpbear (blank screen with cursor). The kernel Wpbear linked works great!

Thanks,

Martian21
[Nook Color General] eyeballer:
Oops you're right, got the wrong link when I updated the post last night, fixed now.

Thanks!
[Nook Color General] absentspace:
Problems installing to interal memory

Hi everyone,

I've been struggling all day with getting CM7 7.0.3 stable installed on my stock NC (1.2). I followed the guide in the OP of this thread to a T and it just sits at a black screen with "android_" (where the underscore blinks).

If it's important, I'm not trying to flash the overclock kernal, just cm7 and gapps.

I may be incorrect here, due to my inexperience at rooting NC, but step 11 seems counter intuitive.

Once you've flashed the files, from the clockworkmod main menu and "wipe data/factory reset"​

Woudn't this wipe out the installation that's just been flashed?

In any case, I rebooted my NC several times and it just sits at "android_"

So, I restored to a stock backup with CWM 3.0.2.8 and tried it again, but this time, I flashed CM7 only, no gapps.

Now, I get the cyanogan (mod)7 boot animation, with the android robot on a skateboard and an arrow making cirles, but it never advances beyond this point. I have tried this with with and without blank 2GB SD card formatted with both FAT and FAT32.

Any suggestions are welcome, as I'm about to give up on this project, and sell the NC for whatever I can get for it.
[Nook Color General] Kikari56:
absentspace, I'm in the same boat as you right now, this thing is difficult to get working. Try a different version other than CM7 7.0.3. I was having the exact same issues with that ROM. I finally was able to get it running with cm_encore_full-73.zip. You have to then hold down your power button

I've also had issues every time I try and install the overclock kernel, have yet to get it working. I install it, then it will say "Touch the Future of Reading" and never get past that point, the backlight stays on.
[Nook Color General] joebob296:
Can someone post a link with the stock kernel for 1.2 on it I cant find it anywhere...
[Nook Color General] Geekbabe:
Followed the instructions exactly and am now exploring CM 7.03 awesome help guide here, a bit of careful reading & it's done! thank you!
[Nook Color General] darien87:
Are you guys sure you're installing the 042411 kernel? I had the same issue with the other one. The problem is that the other kernel isn't for use with the stable mod. Try flashing 042411 through CM Recovery and you should be good to go. Just install the zip file and reboot. No need to wipe anything.
[Nook Color General] Rhegaana:
I always do the wipe then install the zip files. Maybe thats why you,re having issues. If you get the message install failed after reboot, just reboot again and you are golden!!
[Nook Color General] rvevea:
So I think I've looked around pretty throughly and no luck.

So my issue:

Followed the guide and downloaded all the files.

Burned the image to SD card.

Turn nook off and pop SD card in.

Try to turn on and blank screen.

I autonooted a whilllleeeeee back. Not really sure how else to proceed.

If I remove the card and turn the nook back on it seems to work fine.

Any help much appreciated!
[Nook Color General] eyeballer:
Did you check the md5 of the file you downloaded? Either you have a corrupt download or didn't "burn" it properly...
[Nook Color General] rvevea:
That must have been it. Thanks! Ended up finding one directly on the CWM blog and worked perfectly.
[Nook Color General] dsf3g:
I used this guide to install Phiremod on my Nook Color. Very helpful. Only thing I would add is this: it is worth noting that if you're running Windows 7 in user mode (as opposed to administrator) Winimage and Win32Diskimager must be run with elevated priviledges or they will not work correctly. Winimage is most annoying in this regard as it gives no indication that anything is amiss. What you get is an empty list of drives to write your image to. Win32Diskimager will fail with an error (I forget which). Run As Administrator fixes it.

Took me forever to figure this out!
[Nook Color General] zanderman112:
Good to know.

[sig]Typed by restless thumbs, that are too tired to help hold my bacon sammiches[sig]
[Nook Color General] eyeballer:
Thanks, added that to the OP.
[Nook Color General] minsk99:
Will this kernel work with CM7.0.2? Also, I am having some connectivity issues with wifi with CM7.0.2. Is 7.0.3 more stable regarding these issues? Thanks!
[Nook Color General] martian21:
From what I've read CM7.0.3 is simply a security update to CM 7.0.2. The wifi issue with AES encryption remains (which I can confirm because the wifi drops on CM 7.0.3 are driving me insane).

I believe the only way to squash the wifi issues is to flash CM 2.6.32 Beta 3.1 as the wifi fix is apparently in the 2.6.32 kernel.
[Nook Color General] nooksterKW:
Help!!!

Well, I just attempted this.

The Nook locked up on me for some reason!

I made it through step 13, but after I reinstalled the microSD, nothing happens when I press the nook buttons. I cannot toggle up and down through the menu, nor activate the current selection (which does happen to be "reboot system now"), nor go back using power button.

While I was formatting the microSD, I attempted to toggle through the menu and it was locked at that point. I hoped that reinstalling the card would free it up, but no luck there.

Did I screw up by trying to toggle from "reboot system now" to "apply update from SD card" when there was no SD card installed? I did not actually attempt to execute either.

I am seriously stuck at this point as I cannot even turn it off and reboot!

I will plug it in so the battery doesn't die, but please let me know how to proceed!

TIA!
[Nook Color General] kanaida:
Performance tuning

I've been running some tests trying to get the nook to be as fast as possible.

So far I can tell you this: the VM heap size has A LOT to do with cpu performance. I'm running benchmarks to see how that affects it exactly.

Oddly enough it seems the lower the heap size the faster the cpu integer performance, and the higher the slower. HOWEVER. settings it too low doesn't allow certain apps to work, like launcher pro. I needed to use 16MB min just to open it without crashing. I'm testing that out as my sweet spot right now.

I'm trying to figure out how people got much higher performance in atuntu benchmarks on the same nook color. So far that's the only thing bringing it up besides the obvious OC Kernel. I was on the CM 7.1 Beta 3.x rom, and it was a tad buggy with the kernel I had in there so i'm trying the combo in this guide.

I only used that version because I wanted 1.2Ghz. and 2.6.32 kernel. It makes my nook run a tad hot during heavy gaming. I'm running launcher pro because it's smoother than AWD launcher so far too.

I'll post back here when I get more conclusive benchmark results. The goal is to make even heavy games run perfect, and for it to be as fast as possible without heating it up.

If anyone has any speed tricks lemme know.
[Nook Color General] kanaida:
I know how to fix this

For some reason this clockwork version doesn't show any sub menus,

what I do is hold volume down for a sec or 2 (not long, as it keeps scrolling for a while). At the bottom pay attention to the white text.

It will say "Back" button enabled.

now wait for it to stop selecting stuff like crazy and everything just works.

Maybe it's like a child safety lock type thing. drove me nuts too.

It works every time too.

What I actually have is the CW image on my nook as well as my sdcard.

you don't have to format it. I just unmount it before rebooting, pop it out, reboot, when I see "reading forever" or whatever it says, I pop it back in and use it like a normal sdcard. But if I somehow screw up the internal CW, the same sdcard can always boot and save my butt.
[Nook Color General] nooksterKW:
I'm loving it!

It didn't work for me, but thanks for the suggestion!

It was late last night and I was in a slight panic (and too late to stay up worrying over it). Apparently, my problem was pretty superficial.:o

I held the volume button down for about 2 minutes without result, so I guess my situation was different. However, I could turn it off by holding down the power button, and by turning it back on, I guess I essentially rebooted to completed step 13. Everything seems to be working fine at this point!

Damn - this is sweet!!!
[Nook Color General] dkelle4:
Thank you so much eyeballer this guide helped me so much im so grateful thanks again
[Nook Color General] robstamack:
I am having serious issues getting this to work properly. I think I have it narrowed down to Clockwork failing to properly format /data.

When I go to Mounts & Storage under clockwork and attempt to format /data, it gives an immediate error message "Error Formatting /Data". When I try the "Factory Reset" option from the homescreen, it very quickly goes past the "/Data" item and continues on to Cache.

I thought something was suspicious when I initially failed to get this to work... multiple times. I finally ended up reinstalling the stock image and, much to my surprise, the device was already registered and sitting at the stock homescreen.

Any ideas???
[Nook Color General] hockeyfamily737:
I'm gonna go out on a limb here and guess that you just purchased your Nook or it was a refurbished warranty replacement with the "new" Barnes & Noble partitions that aren't big enough to install a custom rom on....as of yet. A solution is currently being worked on by many people if that's the case.
[Nook Color General] robstamack:
Yes, I had to mail in my Nook Color because there was an issue with the power button. The unit would just randomly popup the shutdown-window or would completely power off. This is, indeed, a warranty replacement :(

As an extra FYI, I did get the newest Nightly to install, but was getting those "Media" error message and thought I had done something wrong.

I just did a Power+N reset to wipe the data and will try manual nooter for the time being...
[Nook Color General] hockeyfamily737:
Unless someone was able to repartition the B&N settings in the last couple of hours right now you're pretty much limited to A: using Barnes and Noble rooted 1.2 or B: running the rom of your choice off of an SD card until this is figured out.
[Nook Color General] robstamack:
Not sure? It was #78 and was the first (only?) CM7 image I was able to successfully boot.
[Nook Color General] robstamack:
Is this related?

https://github.com/CyanogenMod/andr...mmit/649ec3facc907287f00fdd14f05b401594ca2647
[Nook Color General] hockeyfamily737:
Yes sir. That is exactly what I'm talking about.
[Nook Color General] robstamack:
Awesome timing! I just reinstalled the 1.2 Stock image, did the power+N reset, and reflashed the 78 image (no OC kernel...yet).

She fired right up ;)

Edit

The main issue right now is a lack of status bar...
[Nook Color General] hockeyfamily737:
Good to know. What was the size of the 78 image? I'm just curious....It must be pretty lean.
[Nook Color General] robstamack:
Windows "Properties" says...

88.9 MB (93,270,521 bytes)

Anyway, the media error is persistent. Also, cannot launch the CYanogenMod option under Settings... May just have to go stock root for now.
[Nook Color General] hockeyfamily737:
Reboot into recovery and try wiping just cache (under mounts & storage) and dalvik cache (under advanced)...When you wipe dalvik it will lock up, just hard shutdown and reboot. A lot of times that'll be the cause of your force closes.
[Nook Color General] robstamack:
Unfortunately, no luck clearing cache, dalvik, or wiping data from the media control program under Manage Apps.

I'm gonna stick with ManualNooter for now.
[Nook Color General] eyeballer:
Hey guys, yes this is an issue we're seeing with people who are *just* getting nooks with the new partitions, a fix is definitely in the works so just be patient, should be any day now :)
[Nook Color General] jericho831:
No boot animation?

Ive followed the steps before and have had no issues,, wanted to see what 1.2 looked like so I went back to stock, hated it and now want to go back to CM7.

I followed the steps and when it boots after the install of 3 files, its just a black long (4 minutes) load and then the home screen appears? Am I missing something, were is the boot animation?

using 7.0.2 encore
[Nook Color General] furius:
I used this procedure with my NC and it worked perfect!

Now I'm helping a friend of mine to flash CM7... he bought a new NC last week in new york... how can I check if it has the new partion that avoids installing custom ROM? ... is there some workaround or still nothing?

Thanks
[Nook Color General] GTT1:
Anyway to tell whether you have this or not. Any serial numbers?
[Nook Color General] janko10:
Apparently the new affected Nooks have a blue dot sticker on the box.
[Nook Color General] GSUBass05:
I'm currently running CM7 Nightly 72, I want to jump up to Nightly 80. I looked in the change logs and I think I saw where the devs have integrated the .32 kernel.

Am I correct on that?

Will I have to flash the updated uboot.zip file before I go to the latest nightly? This is the first time I've gone about updating the nightly build so just a little bit of apprehension on my part.
[Nook Color General] :
I've seen all the benchmark numbers but what are the actual real world benefits of overclocking? I'm running CM7.03 Stable and didn't really notice any speed differences between 800 and 925Mhz max settings. All other CPU related settings were left at default.

Also is the effect on battery life negligible? Trying to measure the risk, reward factors here. Thank you (and sorry if this was answered somewhere else...some of these threads are huge and my searching skills aren't the best)
[Nook Color General] Jimbo67:
Just my 2 cents-

I just installed with this guide on a serial #201124

From what some great folks told me before I did it- if it say's "touch the future of reading" at initial startup,it is the OLD firmware!

Hope this helps someone!:)
[Nook Color General] TubeShaped:
any news of a noob friendly method for installing cm7 on the new partitioned nooks? im asking because im just about to buy one... thanks in advance
[Nook Color General] searius:
I bought a NC on 4 May. but I have not received it yet because I am in Europe.

Is mine affected by the new partition or not? Thx :)
[Nook Color General] Jimbo67:
Impossible to tell until you receive it. If there is no blue sticker on the back of the box, by the serial #--and it boots up with "touch the future of reading" you have the old firmware!

Good Luck!;)
[Nook Color General] searius:
ok thank you
[Nook Color General] hockeyfamily737:
If you buy one from Wal Mart or Best Buy, you stand the best chance of getting one with the older partitions......No guarantee, but that's been my experience so far.
[Nook Color General] elagil:
Hi..well i have a nook color with the new partitions and managed to install cm7 using the 3.0.0.6 recovery from here :

http ://tsunade.net/nookdev/clockwork/0.1-ext4/

(delete space after http. i cannot post external links yet)

this one can format /data and supports ext4.

I then installed cm7.1 beta 3.1 which works allright.
[Nook Color General] searius:
i just received it today.

I have version 1.2 but at the available storage I have 5GB.

Is this ok on not?
[Nook Color General] TubeShaped:
Well im in europe so i cant really choose :S.
[Nook Color General] hungryTux:
Thanks eyeballer for such a comprehensive post! I recently got my hands on a NC and am definitely giving this a go. However I do have a couple of questions in mind before I go ahead with this:

- My NC originally shipped with 1.1 and the message 'Touch the future of reading' would appear upon bootup. After it was updated to 1.2 I began seeing the message 'Read Forever' instead. I remember reading in one of the post's that this new message is indicative of the newer partitions of NC. I however am not quite sure about this. Is it likely that the 1.2 update included a firmware update along with it, which re-partitioned the NC.? FYI my NC's serial begins with 2010xxxxxx

- The OP points to the ext4 OC kernel for all NC's applying 7.0.x versions of CM. But the URL posted on Daligrin's OC thread, where all the kernels are hosted, doesn't seem to have this one.

Is it ok if i just go ahead and flash the ext4 version after a CM 7.0.3 flash?

Thanks very much!
[Nook Color General] Zoho7:
Brand new NC changed to Pre-owned

I got my NC replacement from BN a couple days ago and found the new partition issue that doesn't allow me to format data ("Error formatting /data"). This (I suspect) causes the rooted mod (cm-7.0.3 or nightly-83) throws an "android.process.acore has stopped unexpectedly" every a couple of seconds. This is SOOOO frustrating. I wish the issue can be solved soon and really appreciate your hard work!

Btw, the original NC I bought from BN was Brand New. It has a line of dead pixels on the screen therefore I asked for a replacement. Turns out they sent me this Pre-Owned NC that I'm having now. The Serial Number of my original one starts with 2010XXXXX but the changed one is like 2005XXXXX. Does this mean it was produced back to 2005? I think this is very unfair for them to replace me my brand new defective item with a pre-owned one. Should I consider to ask for a redemption or another replacement but a brand new one? Thanks!!!
[Nook Color General] jcicora:
Thanks for the great guide. With it I have been able to get CM7 running on my NC. However while I can install the GAPPS ok, they don't show once I boot up. Any guesses?
[Nook Color General] carlosraf20:
I have just change the stock kernel that comes with CM7.0.3 stable, with the overclock one and now the Bluetooth doesn't work. I know that in the stable version is not working at 100& but must of the times just to work. now it does not even turn on.... any ideas ???
[Nook Color General] Jimbo67:
Does it boot with "touch the future of reading"?
[Nook Color General] wpbear:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1062417
[Nook Color General] I Am Marino:
Which is the most stable and correctly working nightly right now?

Along with OC kernel?
[Nook Color General] carlosraf20:
Thanks for the link :D save me a lot of time
[Nook Color General] eyeballer:
Updated the guide again. As of nightly 86 (built an hour or so ago) a custom uboot is now included and so should offer good performance with the included .32 kernel.
[Nook Color General] RoboRay:
You can relax. I'm pretty sure your NC is NOT 6 years old.
[Nook Color General] Jeffreygee:
Great tutorial! I got this done (twice unfortunately) over the weekend.

Has anyone tried to use the B&N Android App with a rooted NC? I can't download books purchased from the B&N store.

Edit: If you receive an error from the Nook Android app saying to Contact customer service at 1-800-THE-BOOK," double check your payment method to make sure that your credit card is up-to-date.