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[Nook Color Android Development] HarleyChick:
While I want to thank you for all of your hard work, the instructions on the OP of that thread are very complicated (I really don't know anything about adb or how to use it, and while I have used Easeus to expand a partitian I don't have a clue how to mount a .zip to one), so I think I'll pass for now. But thank you very much for responding to my question. :confused:
[Nook Color Android Development] philliyxx:
The seventh partition seems to have some confusion floating around it. I can't drag the .zips onto it to even update. Still trying to figure it out.... Easeus guide wasn't that helpful.
[Nook Color Android Development] arrjaytea:
Lovely work again, Racks. Timely too, as I've basically been hoping for this solution as a means of maintaining usability while still being able to play with and attempt to provide constructive criticism on the new project.

Well in, bud. XDA Legend right here.

Edit: HA! I just now realized this thread is from quite some time ago.... Regardless. Timely for me!
[Nook Color Android Development] racks11479:
I'm sorry if you had already explained your issue before. Mind telling me again where your problem is? I'll see if I can take a look now that it's the weekend.

LOL .. Thanks for the kind words. It's a great and appreciative community like this that keeps me doing what I do!

Thanks,

Racks
[Nook Color Android Development] sigma0824:
I am currently dual booting CM7 and Honeycomb UpdateV3 on emmc. When I run a nand backup does it only backup the first OS? If this is correct is there a way to run a nand backup to backup both operating systems? Thanks!

-Sig
[Nook Color Android Development] racks11479:
Yes it only backs up the first OS. I believe the only way to run a full nand backup. Wish it was a more simple process. But looks like you would have to compile some binaries from source (I would think "nandroid") and edit some code to mount both systems for backup. (eg. /system and /system2)

Maybe when I have time. I'll take a gander at it. No promises though. :o

-Racks
[Nook Color Android Development] sigma0824:
I figured that was the case. Do you know where the source code is? I have some free time and would like to look into this.
[Nook Color Android Development] racks11479:
Sure! https://github.com/koush/android_bootable_recovery
[Nook Color Android Development] glgehman:
Racks Rocks!

Of course, JUST what I was waiting for! A way to try out the new HC without wiping the stock Nook (that I keep specifically to show B&N fans) AND without disturbing my daily driver (phiremod).

Well done, again, sir.
[Nook Color Android Development] Jiggity Janx:
Am I the only one having an issue with the size of the first dualboot sd image file? My 4G card says I have 3700+M on it, but unfortunately that's only 3.69G. Just not quite enough for the 3.7G the OP says is required for the first image. So it tells me there is not enough space on the card. I have formatted using the pc and there is no additional space to expand using EASUS.

Any thoughts?!?
[Nook Color Android Development] Techienana:
I experienced a similar problem with the stock2sd image file. the sd card I wanted to use showed 7.39 but I needed 7.4. I switched to another 8gb card and it had more available space. Interesting, huh?
[Nook Color Android Development] Techienana:
The first time I flashed this image everything worked perfectly. But when I flashed PM6.2 and HC2, I somehow lost the shared /sdcard feature. I have flashed the original image again and am about to try the updates again to see if the problem repeats itself. Is there a specific order in which these images should be flashed in order to maintain the shared sdcard feature? If so, when and if you update to HC3, would flashing one before the other still

be important?

I'll report back and see if I need help with this.
[Nook Color Android Development] racks11479:
For the time being, Phiremod should still mount your shared /sdcard partition. However HC isn't mounting it correctly. I haven't been able to pinpoint the issue yet. Once I get a chance to take a look. I'll update accordingly.

Thanks,

Racks
[Nook Color Android Development] Techienana:
Thanks for the quick reply!
[Nook Color Android Development] cbeight:
Same problem here for a week or two now!

Any help or should I hang my hat and go buy a bigger card?
[Nook Color Android Development] racks11479:
No. Don't hang up your hat just yet. I haven't forgot about the ones with sdcard size issues. Just been very busy. I promise to prep a new img soon as I can. :)

Thanks,

Racks
[Nook Color Android Development] SandroV1972:
Probelm Gallery and YouTube

Hi I have followed your instructions. I have both Phiramod and HC on the SD and was also alble to flash the latest updates.

I love HC but am having problems with it gallery keeps sending error messages, also youtube doesn't work.

I have tried deep blue img and works great just doesn't have root nd market.

Is there a stable HC img with root and market functioning out there?
[Nook Color Android Development] philliyxx:
Yes this is freaking awesome being able to dual boot these cool roms easily I might add.

To apply the updated 6.2 an Hcv2 zips this is my understanding on the process

1.) use EASEUS to change the 1st primary partition into a logical, and then make the 7th partition the 1st primary (so windows and nook to read).

-But you also have to change the status to active and inactive respectably?

2.) Place the updated .zips onto the 7th when it's primary. Then boot into CWR and flash them.

3.) Switch the partitions back to the original orders.
[Nook Color Android Development] Techienana:
Maybe it's my advanced age but I must be missing something here. I only have a total of 7 partitions on my sdcard. Rather than copy the files to the card by placing it in my computer and using adb or linux, I just downloaded the zipped files from the Internet to the sd card right on the NC and installed them by following the instructions in the OP. In Easeus, my seventh partition is unallocated as requested by Easeus for efficient partitioning. Whatever the case, I have had absolutely no problems installing either of these zip files, and I've done it a total of three or four times each now.
[Nook Color Android Development] racks11479:
You should not be switching any partitions at all. That will mess up your rom layout. Just mount the 7th partition to your computer. You could Mount the partition in adb shell. Please let me know if you have adb setup on your computer or not before I post the steps to do so.

Or you can do what the poster above did. Download straight to your nook. And flash from there.

Thanks,

Racks
[Nook Color Android Development] racks11479:
The gallery error is a known issue in Honeycomb RC2. I'll be updating to the latest by tomorrow night.
[Nook Color Android Development] cbeight:
Thanks Racks,

I am looking forward to trying it out as soon as i can get it to work on my 4 gb card!

Thanks for all your hard work.
[Nook Color Android Development] dhayden:
I cant think you enough OH MY GOD.......

I was almost going to take the nook back to Walmart but after this OH MY GOD WHAT A DIFFERENCE. I STARTED CRYING WHEN I SAW THE IMPROVEMENT. CANT THANK ALL OF YOU SO MUCH AND HUMBLY GREATFUL. THIS THINK ROCKS!!!!!!! Never flashed before in my life but

This was pretty easy. 3hours between double shift weekend and only 3 HOURS sleep. But I did it. My nook is going no where. So beautiful. WOW WOW WOW LOVE IT DAN
[Nook Color Android Development] crea78:
While booting my NC and holding down the "N" button to boot into Honeycomb, for some reason, my device will automatically go into Phiremod. Not sure why, but this happens every time for me.
[Nook Color Android Development] racks11479:
Maybe it's timing. You have to hold home when powering on. Not after. Hold home then power. When it powers on. Release power. Continue to hold home until it boots to the small android_ blinking screen. If it's green, then it's honeycomb. Phiremod will be white
[Nook Color Android Development] Garoto1973:
WOW! Just tried this and it is awesome... no problems so far but I haven't installed a lot of stuff. Market Enabler works great (I'm outside the US).

One question. Is there a way to bypass the sdcard entirely to boot to stock if I dont want to go into Ph/HC?

I would like to leave it permanently in the slot .
[Nook Color Android Development] crea78:
Thanks!! That worked :)
[Nook Color Android Development] racks11479:
Yes. You could use Jamm4rs u-boot.bin file from his thread here

That will give you the option to boot to EMMC or SDcard main or Alternate boot as well. It's pretty straight forward. Let me know if you have any questions.

Thanks,

Racks
[Nook Color Android Development] Deusx Machina:
partition resizing

Hey Great job on this img OP. I had a quick question though, this is for all the people that haven't been able to resize the sdcard partition. I've tried using both easeus partition manager and Disk Management (Windows 7) and neither work. The easeus program usually doesn't even see the sdcard, and when it does it only sees the boot partition. Disk Management sees the different partitions but won't let me do anything with them (all the options are greyed out for the sdcard partition and the unallocated space). If anyone knows what I'm doing wrong please let me know, as this has been frustrating me for awhile. One thing of note, I'm using the internal sdcard reader on my ASUS G51VX laptop to do all this, though I really hope it's not the reader since I won't have access to another one for a week or so.
[Nook Color Android Development] ebubar:
I had to use a USB SD Card reader to get my drives to show up in Easeus on Windows Vista. The internal SD Card reader didn't work for me. Perhaps try a cheap USB reader?
[Nook Color Android Development] cheapestpersonalive:
CM7 - 4/24 1.3ghz Test Kernel

Hi Racks,

Would the CM7 - 4/24 1.3ghz Test Kernel for SD from your other thread work here for Dualboot Phiremod 6.2/HC? Not sure if it would know to update the right partition or bork the whole setup.

Thanks in advance for your help and great rom BTW.
[Nook Color Android Development] shadowswittness:
Hey Racks any way you can pm me the instructions to dual boot the HC ? Forgot the instructions from when we were dualbooting CM7. Would be greatly appreciated.
[Nook Color Android Development] racks11479:
Yes, it should work without a problem. The script mounts the correct partitions for flashing the Kernel Update to Phiremod. :)
[Nook Color Android Development] gregh77:
yeah i would like to know about this too!!

thx
[Nook Color Android Development] pman555:
So um, I'm pretty experienced with rooting and all, having rooted and experimented a lot with my thunderbolt.

I've also had my nook rooted since the day I got it, putting on honeycomb in the very beginning as well as CM7, autonooter, etc.

I just tried doing the method in the OP and now my nook wont even turn on with the sd card inside.

It was working perfectly last night, after reverting it from CM7 back to stock.

I formatted the SD card while burning the dualboot image onto it. Expanded the SDcard partition, put the update zip files on the SDcard partition. Then, put the SD card in my nook. It wont turn on with the card inside, and it wouldnt turn on with the sd card out for a while, but it finally did.

Any help/advice as to why the sd card wont boot?

I'm on a mac, I used dd to burn the image to the 8gb sd card and used ipartition to expand the SDcard partition.
[Nook Color Android Development] racks11479:
That was a weird hiccup. Because this image does nothing at all to your internal. There's no reason why it wouldn't work. I prefer dd over any software. Try dd'ing the image again, but this time, try it in the nook before expanding the SDcard partition. Then let me know what happens and i'll see if I can help you further.

-Racks
[Nook Color Android Development] pman555:
Thanks.

I'm actually going to try on my computer at work today, a PC.

But I'll definitely try booting the nook with the sd card in before expanding the partition.

I'll follow up later.

EDIT: I tried turning my nook on again today, and it simply will not turn on! The screen wont turn on at all. The sd card slot is empty. I have no idea what to do. I posted a more detailed explanation in the Q&A section as well: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1073883
[Nook Color Android Development] Techienana:
Racks,

I am running RC2 5/5 update and have been on the lookout for an update to RC3. Is this going to happen? I'm clueless when it comes to anything other than flashing and running ROMs and following instructions on fixes, so I couldn't even begin to do what you are doing for us. Thanks.
[Nook Color Android Development] racks11479:
I've prepped the RC3. Just haven't had a chance to test it. But I'll post it in the OP for anyone that wants to give it a go and give me feedback if it works or not. Still haven't figured out the SDcard mount issue yet either.

I've also prepped a new dualboot .img that includes Phiremod 6.2 and the latest Honeycomb Hybrid. Made the .img size so that it will fit on any 4gb SDcard. Just don't have time to zero out the partitions and compress it at the moment. An update for that should be coming tonight.... hopefully.

Sorry for the wait everyone. Real life has been hectic.

Thanks,

Racks
[Nook Color Android Development] pman555:
OK, so I think what had happened was that my nook was not actually turned off and thats why it wasnt turning on. I finally held the power button for a while and it turned itself off. Now I've been able to turn it back on.

I've also been able to boot it into the phiremod mode.

Next, I'll try expanding the SDcard partition and then updating via the zip files.
[Nook Color Android Development] pman555:
Racks, HC and phire are both working on my nook.

However, when I try to place the update zip files on the sdcard partition, i cant. In windows XP, the sdcard partition is not showing up in "my computer." Only the "boot" partition is showing up.

In Easeus, it shows that the sdcard partition exists, but i dont know how to access it in windows explorer.

Any idea?
[Nook Color Android Development] racks11479:
Do you have ADB working on your PC? If so run the following commands in adb shell:

$ adb shell
# echo /dev/block/mmcblk1p7 > /sys/devices/platform/usb_mass_storage/lun0/file

That should mount the 7th partition to your PC as a USB drive. After copying the zip over. You should be able to unmount it from your PC by ejecting the drive. Make sure you do so before disconnecting your Nook.

-Racks
[Nook Color Android Development] ebubar:
I'll be happy to test this zip out. New to this stuff, but enjoying your dualboot SD ROMS immensely. Biggest problem is picking one and sticking with it! Spending all my time switching back and forth. I assume I can install the updated honeycomb zip whenever its posted (using CWM) and if its unusable for some reason just install the previous zip? Cheers to you for your GREAT work racks!
[Nook Color Android Development] racks11479:
Yep, just boot into the CWM thats included with the dualboot SDrom. And flash. If it borks the honeycomb installation. Just reflash the RC2, but that will give you a clean install, meaning you will have to start over when setting up your apps and stuff.

Check your PM. Please let me know how it goes. And thanks for being the test subject! :)

-Racks
[Nook Color Android Development] pman555:
I'm having a ton of trouble getting my nook to get recognized over adb. My phone, no problem, but for some reason, even though i uninstalled the driver for the nook and tried to install the one for the adb, it still comes up as a nook.

Then, even though its showing up as connected in my device manager, its not showing when i do the command: adb devices.

Any way of getting the 7th partition mounted without adb?
[Nook Color Android Development] gregh77:
couple questions on the honeycomb side of the dual boot....

1-does flash and video work?

2-does the 1.3Ghz OC work? (if so, where is the uImage file to drop in and where)

3-how do you boot into the Phiremod side? i know holding down the N button, but if i let it go, it boots into internal Nook

Thx for your hard work!
[Nook Color Android Development] ebubar:
1-Flash and video don't seem to be working so far. I'm playing with it now, but no luck.

2-Haven't tried this. I believe there is an OC kernel included with Phiremod, but I haven't seen any need for it. Phiremod runs lickety split on my Sandisk Class 4. Honeycomb is slightly laggy, but still works great. Love the interface. Only thing keeping me from daily use is lack of SD card access.

3-To boot into Phiremod you should just be able to reboot and not push any buttons. That should boot you into Phiremod. To boot to stock, you should have to remove the SD card.

Someone can correct me if i'm wrong!
[Nook Color Android Development] racks11479:
1-No flash yet.

2-It comes with an 1100 mhz overclock. Use setcpu to overclock it. No other kernel development as of lately for Honeycomb

3-When booting up with Dualboot SDcard in Nook, leave it alone to boot to Phiremod, Hold (n) to boot into Honeycomb

4-If you want an option to leave the card in and choose to boot off EMMC or SD. Check out jamm4r's thread for his "boot menu" , all you have to do is replace the u-boot.bin file in the /boot partition of your Dualboot-SD-Rom with his and you should be set to go

-Racks
[Nook Color Android Development] gregh77:
thx for the quick responses guys.
[Nook Color Android Development] danchappers:
Hi,

I'm looking for a bit of help if possible.. I'm trying to get the updated roms over to the memory card, however Windows doesn't see the other partitions, I have tried using Linux Reader but it doesn't allow me to add anything, is there any way I can do this within windows?

Cheers
[Nook Color Android Development] pisces73:
Updates work Great; Class 10 SD card issues persist

Racks - Awesome job once again. Both ROMs work great on my 8GB Class2 micro SD. Not sure if you had the time to address the /cache on ext4 issue yet. Would really like to get these ROMs working on my 32GB Class 10 micro SD.

Thanks,

Vj
[Nook Color Android Development] cheapestpersonalive:
There were a few suggestions on how to get the update onto the card, such as mounting through ADB and downloading directly from the Nook, but my work around was to copy into the Nook internal memory using Windows and then using a file manager to copy from internal memory to SD card in the Nook.
[Nook Color Android Development] whoking:
No Phiremod Settings

I am running Phiremod 6.2 off the SD card and don't have "Phiremod Settings" available in my settings. Is this only available for eMMC or do I have to do something else?

Thanks,

Matt
[Nook Color Android Development] Darkman2:
Racks, thanks again for your great work!

Bluetooth worked in Phiremod 6.1. After I did your Phiremod 6.2 upgrade, bluetooth no longer works. I can't turn it on. Any ideas what happened?
[Nook Color Android Development] racks11479:
Alright, soooo... who's the one that popped my "200" thanks cherry! :D

I thank you in return!

And I also want to thank all the great work that the devs do here for the Nook community.

Also want to thank the Nook community itself for being so helpful to one another!

Thanks,

Racks
[Nook Color Android Development] Garoto1973:
I tried the dual boot img before rooting and it worked fine but after rooting 1.2 and OC with the stock 1.1 OC kernel now it seems I cant get into honeycomb from the SD. I hold the home button from the beggining and it always loads Phiremod.

Is this a known issue? I tried the original img not the updated versions of Ph/HC.
[Nook Color Android Development] racks11479:
The internal boot should have no bearing on the sdboot. They are loaded seperately. When you boot with an sdrom. It loads the boot off the sdcard. So really not sure what could be the issue. Could just be timing?
[Nook Color Android Development] racks11479:
Its working for me. Try turning off wireless. And then do a hard reboot. Meaning, hold the power button until the nook color turns off. Turn it back on. When its done loading. Turn on Bluetooth then wifi.
[Nook Color Android Development] jwortiz:
Random reboots in Phiremod mode

Racks,

I noticed that my Nook (Phiremod mode on SD card) randomly reboots into stock Nook mode without any set pattern. I can be reading a book (using Nook for Android or Amazon Kindle for Android...he..he..he...), surfing the web or checking email. It happens maybe twice a day sometimes once. I just thought to mention it and I was curious if anyone else is having the same issue.

Thanks for the great option!

Will
[Nook Color Android Development] eneloop:
hi racks, installed meanwhile your 'advanced' phiremod 6.2 update but heh I switched back to your original version cóz

-The latest OC Kernel by Dalingrin 041811C

-Alsa update for smoother video playback

working better for me :)

When you change language settings on the NC then "Phiremod Settings" moving suddenly to 'CyanogenMod' just a translation bug ;)

some people mentioned to 'fix permission' within ROM Manager solved the bluetooth problem
[Nook Color Android Development] cheapestpersonalive:
Hey Racks,

I was playing around with SetCPU on the HC rc2 part of this rom and now when I try to reboot into HC it's stuck on the grey android. If I were to reflash it with the HC rc2 update, would I be able to recover it or should I also clear the data?

Thanks.
[Nook Color Android Development] racks11479:
The HC rc2 update will format /system and /data. So it will be a fresh install. So your HC rc2 setup that you had including apps will be wiped when reflashing. Not sure of a workaround at the moment. I'm sure there is. Just don't have a minute at the moment.

-Racks
[Nook Color Android Development] Darkman2:
The hard reboot fixed it. Now Bluetooth works. Thanks!
[Nook Color Android Development] nspeer:
Dumb Noob question. So, won't I have to do a Titanium backup of my settings and apps (I'm using CM7 ROM on an SD card) or maybe use MyBackUpPro (also from the market) to do an online backup which I can later restore to the new SD ROM (Phiremod)??

On another note, the 7th partition on the 4gb SD card I just wrote the original image to has only around 8mb unallocated on the 7th partition. The 5/5 update zip file from OP (Phiremod v6.2) is over 100mb. So, guess I'd need an 8gb SD in order to use the update, right? (DUH, NOOB here).
[Nook Color Android Development] nspeer:
Ok, I did a Titanium Backup of all my apps/data from my CM7 ROM that was on the 4gb SD card. I then copied the backup folder onto the internal memory of the NOOK thinking that I could just move it back onto the SD card containing the Phiremod ROM and then restore everything from that folder. Only problem is,when I mount the Nook my computer sees the internal memory (where I put a copy of the Titanium Backup folder) but says that in order to use the SD card it has to be FORMATED! My understanding is that if I format it, it'll wipe it. I can however copy over one file at a time (from the internal memory into the SD>Titanium Backup folder), but there are 154 files backed up! Now what?

So, how am I to access it so I can copy things to and from it?

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

I used EASUSE PartitionMaster to see the partitions on the SD and there is over a GB of space on the "SD" partition. I just cannot figure out how to copy files (or in this case the Titanium Backup folder) to it. Help!
[Nook Color Android Development] sagerox:
Hey racks

Can I just flash this right over your hybrid rc1?
[Nook Color Android Development] sark666:
I currently run cm7 off my sdcard using the verygreen's size agnostic utility.

I had to buy another sdcard as my card (from what I read with high write speeds but bad at smaller files) was causing fc's. Bought anther sd card and everything is fine.

It's 8 gigs, is there a way to put this on there without affecting the verygreen install? I don't want to buy another sdcard if I don't have to.