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[Nook Color General] dustrho:
Just bought the NC today. Been a fan of CM ROMs for quite a while now. I followed all of the steps as documented in the OP, but after booting it up (post ZIP flashing) it goes to a black screen after seeing "Reading Forever." Am I missing something here? Does this have to be rooted first, or is that done somewhere in the steps automatically in the OP?

Something else that seems odd to me, is performing the factory data reset after installing all of the ZIPs. On my Android phones I've always done that before installing the ZIPs.

I hate sounding like a n00b when I know I'm not one here, but any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
[Nook Color General] eyeballer:
Sounds like you didn't flash the cm7 rom .zip. You shouldn't see Reading Forever if you did. Go back and try again :)
[Nook Color General] uckfay:
THANK YOU, eyeballer! Even a noob like me was able to follow your instructions and get the NC rooted, running CM7, etc. You are the man! I honestly wish I was in a position to donate to you, because you provided a meaningful service- definitely of value. Best wishes!
[Nook Color General] smutek:
Thanks to the original poster and everyone involved, this is awesome.

:)
[Nook Color General] dirtysox:
Thanks!

I want to add my "Thanks!" here, too, to everyone who makes CM for the NC possible. Great work.

I just got my Nook a few days ago, and put CM nightly on it a couple days ago, and it's AWESOME.
[Nook Color General] oolongt:
Dual boot option?

Hi,

Got a couple questions

Q1: Can this work with a dual boot (CM7 + NC stock) image? Is it as simple as downloading the dualboot img (instead of the CM7.img), and selecting that zip file after booting in CWM?

Otherwise, is there another thread that details this (i.e. Dual boot+OC+CWM)?

Q2: Ok, this is a total noob question, but how do I copy the 3 files over to the uSD after I've imaged the card with CWM (step 6). It's partitioned, so when I try to copy over it tells me I need to format my card. The remainder of the card space is unallocated.

thanks!
[Nook Color General] nickmimi:
Thanks for the step by step. I did this on my nook color and it worked great. Almost all of my apps transferred over from my phone to the nook. I followed the same steps on my wife's nook color and none of her apps made the transfer.

The only difference is my phone is rooted and hers is not. Could this be the reason that none of her apps made the transfer?

Thanks
[Nook Color General] eyeballer:
Update: RC1 is out and is nice and stable. Recommended place to start for new nook-ers!
[Nook Color General] Towtruck:
Just installed RC1 on mine. Flawless. Thanks for doing what you guys do!
[Nook Color General] aypanthony:
I am currently on Nightly 102 plus the OC Kernel and it has been flawless.....

Thanks for the update!!
[Nook Color General] pspTP:
I have one of the nightlies 102 (with oc kernel) currently installed and noticed a weird thing with wifi yesterday.

I connected to my home wifi fine and the net was working. I go to school last night to test the NC and the wireless symbol wouldnt show on my taskbar on the bottom right. I went to wireless networks and I could see the university ssids. I clicked a couple of those to connect. The wifi would try to connect but disconnect immediately. All this while, there was no wifi symbol on the taskbar..

Went back home and right away the NC connects to my home network and the green wifi symbol shows up on the bottom.

Has anyone else experienced this selective connecting?
[Nook Color General] miss chris:
Eyeballer,

Just finished installing RC1 on my Nook. I had been running a dual boot of CM7.03 and stock using Verygreen's SD instructions. I realized that I never needed to go to stock so I decided to make the jump to ditching stock altogether. I read and read a million install guides and then found this one. BEST ONE BY FAR!!!!!! I am a teacher by trade and I know good instructions. I cannot thank you enough for your time, effort, and excellent instructions. They made a scary process easy and actually kind of fun!
[Nook Color General] hungryTux:
Hi, just wanted to check if the process of upgrading to the RC1 build from a nightly build is any different from upgrading to a newer nightly from an older nightly.

I'm guessing the following should work, right?

- Clear System + Dalvik Cache

- Flash the latest CM7 + latest OC'ed kernel zips

- Reboot

Please correct me if I'm wrong. Thanks.
[Nook Color General] hungryTux:
Also is it ok to be flashing Dal's 18/06 OC'ed kernel with the RC1 image? For some reason it seems to have been removed from the hosting location in the OP

(http://coachz.inetpro.org/~dalingrin/nook/kernels/). The latest you see is 09/06.
[Nook Color General] eyeballer:
No need to clear system, just wipe cache and dalvik cache. If you're coming from a nightly in the 80/90s you also should flash the updated gapps.

6/18 seems to be there for me.
[Nook Color General] hungryTux:
Thanks eyeballer! Yeah I see the 18/06 kernel now too, it wasn't there for a while..not too sure why.
[Nook Color General] darien87:
I've been running Nightly 102 for a couple of weeks now and it's great. Is there any reason to update to RC 1? Have there been any major changes between 102 and RC 1?
[Nook Color General] jcrabapple:
Every time I flash the 6/18 kernel my Nook locks up at the green cyanogen mod logo screen and says loading. I have tried it on the last few nightlies and now RC1. I'm pretty sure I have the newest uImage since I have the green cyanogen logo. Any help would be appreciated.
[Nook Color General] ajewab:
I am going from Autonootered 1.1 to the latest nightly CM7 with Dalgrins Kernel using CWM

Please advise

1. Before installing CM7 what all should I wipe / format

2. After installing CM7 and kernel what all should I wipe/format

Also when I update to a newer nightly later

1. Before installing the newer nightly what all should I wipe / format

2. After installing newer nightly what all should I wipe/format

3. When updating to a newer nightly do I nned to install Dalgrins kernel again

Im confused by different instructions at different places

Thanks very much
[Nook Color General] eyeballer:
This is all in the first post. Just follow the guide exactly as written.
[Nook Color General] Phatdawg:
Thanks for your work eyeballer. A suggestion. Instead of making a big red statement in the very beginning of the post, perhaps include that process of repartitioning the emmc appropriately would be a good idea?

Although there is varied opinion on how to partition it.
[Nook Color General] pgrunwald:
Thanks for all the work!

Would it be possible to highlight the changes in the first post? I'm following but sometimes it is hard to spot the changes.
[Nook Color General] acdcking12345:
Ran it last night.

Absolutely fantastic...

The OC went well, and the nook color is 100% even better than before...

Good job to everyone..
[Nook Color General] cpedley:
Two Problems: No Keyboard for Wireless setup plus
[Nook Color General] eyeballer:
I'm debating on how to handle this in the guide, most likely partition choice will become a first step in the guide as the user should decide which way format they prefer.

I've only made slight changes over the past month or so, mostly just updating the current build I recommend installing, usually I post in the thread what change I made, so just subscribe to it and it'll keep you up to date.

Sounds like you forgot to flash the gapps file. Also make sure you verify the MD5s for all the downloads. Just go back and flash cm7/gapps do the wipe and try again.
[Nook Color General] cpedley:
I appreciated the excellent step-by-step discussion of how to install CM7.

I have two difficulties:

1) No wireless unless I remove my router security since the Android keyboard does NOT come up in settings. So I had to remove my router security to do anything on net. Not good. Any suggestions?

2) I see no icon for Android Marketplace. I can browse to the marketplace but it is difficult to download apps compared to using the MarketpLace app or icon to install.

Any help would be appreciated. You can even email me at cpedley "at" gmail.com

Thanks.
[Nook Color General] cpedley:
Sounds like you forgot to flash the gapps file. Also make sure you verify the MD5s for all the downloads. Just go back and flash cm7/gapps do the wipe and try again.[/QUOTE]

Thanks.

However using Clockwork I believe I did flash the gapps which said signed. However I will go over the list again and re-flash.

Not sure what you mean by "do the wipe" . Do you mean remove everything and start again or what? Sorry but do not know Android system.

Thanks.

c
[Nook Color General] eyeballer:
Thanks.

However using Clockwork I believe I did flash the gapps which said signed. However I will go over the list again and re-flash.

Not sure what you mean by "do the wipe" . Do you mean remove everything and start again or what? Sorry but do not know Android system.

Thanks.

c[/QUOTE]

Flash cm7 rom, then wipe user data, just like it says in the guide. Are you installing RC1?
[Nook Color General] akenis:
Love the guide and just forwarded it to a girl sitting next to me on a flight.

Couple of comments..

1. The checksum app u recommended was tagged by avg as potentially harmful...

2. Like the idea of partition options in the beginning

3. Maybe add a bit more to the epilogue....

Nook tweaks and of recommendations

Nook screen calibration issues

Working Netflix issues and files including the fixer

4. Options for formatting SD card... PC didn't work for me... used my android phone.

Edit... and battery calibration.... I like the app from the market.

Awesome!!!
[Nook Color General] mattg_20:
When I try to download the gapps the website it takes me to just goes through a continous loop of counting down from 10 and I don't have a chance to click on the download file before the next countdown starts. What am I doing wrong?

Thanks,

Matt
[Nook Color General] Jimbo67:
Yeah, that site is like playing a video game with your mouse. I just used it to update to the 6/13 gapps. Just wait till it gets to 1 second and start clicking like crazy and eventually you will get a download box.
[Nook Color General] NookFan:
Wifi struggles with several versions

First off: eyeballer--thanks! I'd run a few roms on SD, before this guide gave me the guts to wipe the emmc. It is a great guide working off great builds. Many MANY thanks to all involved. (I still don't see the "Thanks" button, though. There isn't one in-line with the quote/multi-quote/quick-reply buttons.)

Second: I'm having wi-fi struggles. Followed the guide a week+ ago using the CM7 (non-RC) ROM + gapps, and all was perfect for a few days. Then my wifi stopped working. It's "on", but it isn't picking up any networks or connecting to saved ones. Cycling the wifi and/or nook on/off doesn't help.

I updated to the OC kernel to see if that would help, it didn't. Then I updated to CM7.1 RC without replacing the kernel, and no luck. Then I did the newest (6/30) OC kernel with no luck. Finally, I did CM7.1 RC, newest gapps, and newest OC kernel at once, and no luck.

Suggestions? I'm willing do to a complete wipe, but I'd like I have a few purchased apps on it, and I'm not sure if I need to uninstall them first so I can re-install on a new build (which requires wi-fi to talk to the market...)

Thanks again for the wonderful build and helpful support you guys (and gals!) give so freely.

JJ
[Nook Color General] cpedley:
Yes I was going to use RC1. Thanks again eyeballer. I have so many links to various sites for rooting the Nook but must have got mixed up here somehow.

Just wondering about the wifi problem. Is my way of eliminating my security by establishing a guest network on my router the best way to get the wifi connection?

For some reason I had no trouble with the keeping the B&N and adding Android to it except who needs the B&N. However the keyboard worked so I could simply type in my password for security.

If I install the gapps correctly, will a keyboard come up in settings when I am trying to connect to wifi?

Thanks again for all your efforts and taking time to answer newbie Androiders like myself.

-Charles

doc-computer "dot" com
[Nook Color General] cpedley:
@NookFan
[Nook Color General] NookFan:
You're right! I swear it wasn't there before... *ahem*
[Nook Color General] urvi1:
For the life of me i cant get gapps to install. Well actually it flashes just fine but it wont show up on the system. I have tried two different versions and also also tried cm 7.0.2 and cm 7.0.3. Any help would be great.

P.S. also tried vending.apk but it failed to install
[Nook Color General] sewinglady:
Rooted internally by mistake

I was running a CM7 and dual boot off of an 8 gb sd card. I was very content with my choice. But.........I was checking out rom manager and thought I was updating my CM7 and instead installed CM7.1.0-RC1-encore kernel 2.6.32.9 After calming down after I thought I really screwed things up I added the gapps zip to my sd card (a fresh one) and went into recovery to install that. All is well now. Some apps I had to reinstall others reappeared after rebooting. I was planning on doing this after mom in law left next weekend but other than a few panic moments all went smoother than if I had planned it.
[Nook Color General] sly5789:
Getting a nook from B&N in a few days but I'm kind of confused with step #2 where it says apps need to be "run as administrator" and if not sure how see step 3 (here), I went to (here) and it talks about nooter. Do I need to use auto nooter or the original nooter first before going through these steps prior to installing CM7?
[Nook Color General] NookFan:
FYI, folks, I ended up doing a fresh flash with the latest all around--CM7.1 RC1, Dalingrin's 063011 OC kernel, and the 6/13/11 gapps. So far so good, but it was all good for about week last time, too. I'll report back if there are issues.

But...this build rocks! Makes my nook a joy to use!
[Nook Color General] velizet:
Hi,

I followed the route, and everything went smoothly.. I cannot find rom manager in the market though. There is a rom manager janitor..

Any help?

Thanks
[Nook Color General] pault949:
Good morning,

I just bought the Nook Color last night and immediately followed this install guide to make it functional (seemed very 'laggy' in its stock configuration). Overall, I am very pleased. Install went smoother than expected (as compared to rooting and installing a custom ROM on my Samsung Vibrant) and I am loving everything about CM7 so far.

Just a quick question though. I am running CM7 7.0.3 stable at the moment and I tried to install Dalingrin's 063011 kernel on it and it would just sit frozen on a blank screen after reboot. I then just reflashed the CM7 zip and it booted up just fine. Is the 063011 kernel not compatible with the 7.0.3 stable release? If it is not compatible, please let me know which Dalingrin kernel is compatible with the stable release. I followed all the instructions to the 'T', but still cannot get it to boot with the 063011 kernel. Please advise.

Thanks for all your hard work!

-Paul
[Nook Color General] eyeballer:
Well the guide says to use CM7.1 RC1, not 7.0.3. If you follow the guide everything will work just fine :)
[Nook Color General] pault949:
Okay. I will do that. I was hoping to stay with the stable build, but I suppose I could be adventurous.

Thanks again,

Paul
[Nook Color General] Bigtuna00:
Awesome, just awesome guide. Worked perfect!
[Nook Color General] sfmman2000:
hey eyeballer,

Excellent guide! I've looked at quite a few over the past few days, looking for the best way to get CM7 installed on my nook color.

I followed all of the directions and everything is working great, except: I cannot download anything from the market app. Anything I try downloading hangs at the "waiting/starting download" screen. Any ideas? I've tried restarting the device, unmounting the SD card. The browser connects to the internet just fine.

Thanks.

edit: seems to be a network/firewall issue. market apps are now downloading normally.
[Nook Color General] NookFan:
I'm having some trouble...

I love this build--it has transformed my Nook and made it a joy to use...when it works.

I'd had trouble with random reboots after my initial stock wipe and fresh install per this guide. Right about then, the guide was updated with newer ROMs, so I wiped and re-flashed. It seems like I had a stable day or two, and I've been having a ton of random reboots since then.

At first I thought it was when the battery was low, but now it's happening all the time. My Nook is unusable--screen will turn off, or it will reboot completely at will. If I turn it completely off, it will sometimes turn on all by itself. Other times, when I try to turn it on I can't.

I'm getting kind of desperate. I tried to be a good forum user and look around before asking for help, but I didn't find anything helpful.

I'm running CM7.1 RC, Dalingrin's 6/30 OC (I was having similar, thought less drastic issues w/o the OC kernel, so I flashed it in hopes of solving the problem, which it didn't), and the latest (6/13?) gapps.

Anybody have any suggestions? I was spoiled by the time this ROM did work--I can't go back to Stock! Thanks, folks!

JJ
[Nook Color General] butler360:
I had some similar problems and tracked it down to my SD card. When it was inserted I couldn't properly format everything for the new flash and ended up with problems. You might want to look into that and maybe try a different SD card if you have one.
[Nook Color General] fattire:
I will echo that. 96% of stability issues I've seen ultimately come down to bad sd cards...
[Nook Color General] Jimbo67:
I had the same issues with one of the nightlys I downloaded and flashed. I forgot to run a MD5 checksum on the download. I must have had a corrupted .zip of the nightly, but when I downloaded it again and ran the MD5, it installed and ran fine.

Hope this helped!
[Nook Color General] PaulExcellent:
Righteous guide!

Has helped everyone I know with a Nook Color to transform it into a radical tablet, and with the OC kernel, I'm now able to run almost any app without slowdown.

Thanks!
[Nook Color General] deannicholas:
Help Please

I followed instructions, got the OS working but didn't have the google apps. So I tried it again from the beginning now it just shows the cyan loading screen then goes blank. I was going to restore it to factory and try again, but I don't know which version of factory software was on it OOPS!!! Any help would be appreciated! Oh, it can boot into recovery too.
[Nook Color General] eyeballer:
Slight update to the guide. As of nightly 132 the OC kernel is built into CM7 so no need to flash it additionally :)
[Nook Color General] velizet:
Hi,

I'm on CM7 RC1. If I flash nightly 132,

1-Do I have to flash gbapps again?

2-Do I have to clear the dalvik cache and the other cache?
[Nook Color General] Bonnie_Raitt:
Thanks for all your work and a great tutorial. I used it to create a SD card to root my first NC. I have been running the OC kernel and nightlies for a couple of months and love it.

I bought a second NC for my wife and tried using this procedure again. Here NC would not boot off the card. It went straight to registration video. I tried the card in my NC and it booted to recovery straight away. I took it out and tried it in hers again without success. I remade the card using this tutorial and tried again with the same results.

Any ideas? I am currently trying a different card to see if the results are any better. Both cards are Sandisk cards
[Nook Color General] Bonnie_Raitt:
Well I just tried the second card (1 GB Sandisk) and it won't boot off of that one either. However, this newly made card does boot in my older NC.

Help!
[Nook Color General] o0adam0o:
Need some help.

So i was able to install CM7 with the steps provided and it all went great. I took out my SD card and formatted it as suggested in step 13.

Well i decided i want to flash the optional OC Kernel afterall. But i cant boot into recovery. When i try to reboot into recovery i just get an error saying "install failed".

Any help in fixing this?
[Nook Color General] ziggy34:
From the OP, Did you do the following:

[*]To install ClockworkMod 3.2.0.1 to your EMMC (makes updating CM7 in the future easier.. no sdcard swapping needed) go to the market and search for rom manager, and update to the latest version. Then just open up Rom Manager from the app drawer and hit "Flash ClockworkMod Recovery," (choose Nook Color.. duh!) this will install the recovery and custom kernel in one click. (credits: Koush for RM and CWM and nemith for the nook specific recovery.)
[Nook Color General] o0adam0o:
:D ........ Thanks........... :D
[Nook Color General] ziggy34:
no problem, also the latest nightlies have the OC kernel.
[Nook Color General] godgib:
I'm not new to rooting however I just got my NC with the blue dot, so I'm reading everthing I can to make sure I get a smooth install CM7. I can't believe my internal SD slot doesn't work with win32diskimage. So after about a day of tring things I saw this note.. This should be a point worth noteing in first page.

Note: You should use a dedicated USB card reader or a SD card adapter. Devices with integrated card readers (cameras, smartphones, the Nook itself) will generally not work - they are unable to modify the partition table correctly, and the SD card will not boot. A very few devices will work for this, if yours did, count yourself lucky. Walmart sells USB sd readers for under $10.
[Nook Color General] eyeballer:
Yes, thanks for the reminder, I've been meaning to add that, my laptop reader doesn't work either.
[Nook Color General] david8848:
thanks guys
[Nook Color General] abefroman57:
flash kernel ? bootable SD to OEM ?

ok, im a newbie so be gentle...

i paid a guy to root and install cm7 on my nook. i usually do this stuff myself, but didnt have the time. SO, im running

CM-7.1.0-RC1-encore

Kernel Version 2.6.32.9

erik@myhost #87

I'd like to update (flash?) the kernel so i can overclock and increase volume

so, i guess i'll use the procedure under "Updating to a newer nightly build or kernel"

however, i still dont understand the difference / relationship / definition of Kernel, CM, nightly build ???

can someone explain?

ALSO - this is kinda backwards, but could i possibly create a bootable SD card that would boot the nook as the original OEM b&n os ???
[Nook Color General] STaria:
You're on the right track, you do need to follow the procedure to update your ROM. If you use a nightly CM build, the OC kernel is built in, so you don't need to install it separately. Just get the latest nightly from http://cm-nightlies.appspot.com/?device=encore.

As for definitions- CM stands from CyanogenMod, it's a ROM based on Android 2.3.4 Gingerbread. That's the part of the phone you interact with, different ROMs are like different flavors of Linux, they all bring something different to the table. CM is known for being bare-bones and efficient, with the ability to customize a lot of settings that other ROMs don't have.

Nightlies are compiled every night from the CM code base. Sometimes that includes a lot of changes, sometimes none, it's whatever was changed to the code that day. While they can be (and sometimes are) more unstable/buggy than the stable releases (RC1), you get to know you're running the latest version and have the new features first.

As for kernels, the best I can do is point you to the Wikipedia page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kernel_(computing) because I don't know a whole lot about the details. Basically, the kernel controls things like CPU clock speed, CPU governors, CPU voltages, wifi drivers, schedulers, etc. Hardware stuff mostly. Once you get dalingrin's OC kernel going get the app "Nook Tweaks" to control some of those kernel functions.

Finally, the bootable SD card- yes, just search around. It's possible.
[Nook Color General] eyeballer:
Updated guide to recommend nightly 146. OC kernel is included so no more kernel flashing needed :)