[Nook Color Android Development] racks11479:
Hi again everyone,

I've noticed that some people have been inquiring about getting their Stock Nook Color rom onto an SDcard. And due to legal issues with distributing the B&N rom. It would not be wise to just "dd" the stock partitions to an .img file and post it for everyone to share. On top of the fact that each Nook has the /rom and /factory partition which stores each devices unique id's. So to work around that, here's an image file with a flashable .zip that will move your stock partitions to your SDcard via a modded CWM that is preinstalled with the .img file. Hope I'm not confusing anyone?! :D

**DISCLAIMERS: Please read and accept all that is noted below in red**

1-I do not take responsibility for whatever happens to your Nook Color. You are doing this at your own risk. If you are unsure about what's going on here. Then I'd suggest leave your Nook how it is!

2-I tried not to mess with the /rom partition because it stores very important unique device identifiers in that partition. But no matter what I did, it kept stalling on boot. However, I did leave the /factory partition alone. Which stores a rombackup.zip of your device id's. So I would suggest backing up these two very important partitions and store it somewhere safe!

3-On the above note. This is very important. Do not try and use this SDcard on any other nook than your own. I'm not sure what will happen. But I really don't want to find out.

4-Never, ever have the same Nook Stock rom running at the same time for any reason. This will intefere with the B&N servers and send a signal to De-authorize and wipe your nook. On top of that. It might just brick your nook from ever registering again!

5-This is mounting your internal partitions to copy over to the SDcard partitions. So again, if you are unsure or hesitant or not brave enough to touch your EMMC partitions. Please drop your SDcard that you were about to burn and walk away, slowly... :eek:

6-I assume you accept all the above. If so, please continue reading for the fun stuff! :D

Credits:

Rookie1 (for the initial eclair2dualboot script)

Nemith (for CWM Recovery used)

NOOK Stock to SD v0.1

What we have here is an .img file with partitions already created and ready for you to transfer your Stock Nook rom over to your SDcard. I would like to thank rookie1 for his initial script for moving Stock Eclair to Dualboot. I just took that and modified the script to work with the SDcard install. The script will still make use of your internal 5gb emmc Media partition as well. This will also modify all the necessary files on the fly to work with your Nook SDcard Rom (eg. uRamdisk, vold.fstab...etc).

I made the .img file around 7.4 gb so that people won't have issues burning it to an 8gb card. If you want to get use of the full 8gb or 16gb card. Use EASUS partition tool to extend the /sdcard (8th) partition.

FYI: I still for some reason or another can't grasp the CWM Recovery progress bar! Totally lost when it comes to inserting the correct values in the edify script. It extends past where it should end. I'm sure it's something very simple and maybe my mind is just too tired or better yet lazy to figure it out. So if anyone can advise me on the issue, please do. :confused:

Instructions and Pre-requisites:

**Backup your NOOK!!!!!**

1-You need a Nook Color with stock rom on EMMC already registered (root it now if you wish)

2-An 8gb uSDcard or larger

2-Download Nook Stock 2 SD v0.1

3-Unzip and follow directions from Nookdevs.com to burn the .img file to your SDcard

4-Power off Nook

5-Place the SDcard that you just burned stock2sd_v0.1.img to in your Nook and power on

6-It will boot to CWM Recovery. Now choose to "install zip from sdcard"

7-Now select "choose zip from sdcard"

8-Choose "stock2sd_v0.1.zip" and confirm "yes"

9-Sit back and wait... be patient! This will take a while.

10-When finished it will say "Can you believe it! It's stock Nook on your SDcard!"

11-Leave SDcard in Nook and go back to CWM main menu and choose to "reboot system now"

12-Enjoy your Stock Nook rom on your SDcard! Now go flash all the other roms to your EMMC!:D

Edit 5/9: I noticed that some people have issues with the .img file when uncompressed. So I've uploaded an alternative file to try if the first didn't work. The new file is a 7zip file. It offered better compression so the file size is much smaller as well. Hope this helps out the few that had issues. :)

Download:

For anyone that has an alternative rom on your EMMC already. Mr_fosi wrote a nice write up on how to backup your current rom, restore to stock, copy stock to SD, and then revert back to your original setup on EMMC. Don't forget to give him a thanks for the great write up! :D

Mr_fosi's Guide

Hey, if I've helped in someway. Please show your appreciate with a thanks in one way or another! :D

Thanks,

Racks