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[Nook Color General] xdavisitor:
I have an unopened 2011 series, blue-dotted nook. Several hours ago, after reading the post about repartitioning at the store, I went to the Barnes and Noble where it was purchased and was assured, emphatically, that the Nook CANNOT be repartitioned at the store to the older partition scheme.

Off I went to Wal-Mart and purchased a 2010 series Nook (no blue dot). Wal-Mart had some of both series in stock.

One of the Nooks must be returned. I'm actually buying the Nook to play around with rooting, but have never rooted a Nook. So I guess starting with the old partitioning would be wiser for a beginner? I can't actually open it to verify what's on the 2010 series Nook for another week (gift).
[Nook Color General] themerchant:
rooting (emmc) the original partition NookColor is very simple to do . BTW both versions can run on SD roms.
[Nook Color General] themerchant:
thank you DeanGibson, I will try this on a refurb NC I just bought.
[Nook Color General] xdavisitor:
Thank you, Merchant -- I'll definitely start with SD rom method, keeping the original partition Nook for my second foray.
[Nook Color General] iolinux333:
Wiser... perhaps. But where is your sense of ADVENTURE!
[Nook Color General] darthnerd:
dear all.. for this step..

"You must have ClockworkRecovery installed on the Nook, or on an SD card which accesses the Nook."

just follow this thread?

h t t p://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=896682

anyway, thanks dean for the effort!
[Nook Color General] wpbear:
Copied this from "eyeballer"

1. Download a CWM 3.0.2.8 sdcard image from this thread (credit: to cmstlist and DizzyDen). You really only need the 1gb image for this guide, no matter what the size of your card is. A smaller image will burn faster, and when you're done with the guide you can reformat the card anyway.

2. Extract the clockworkmod .img (if you can't open the file use 7zip)and burn to sdcard in Windows PC using win32diskimager (free) or winimage (shareware).
[Nook Color General] darthnerd:
thanks for the info man!:D

So I presume that i will use 1gb_clockwork-3.0.2.8.rar since I am using a 1gb card?
[Nook Color General] wpbear:
Yes but mostly because it is faster and you will only leave the sdcard bootable with CWM for a short time anyway.
[Nook Color General] darthnerd:
dear all,

Thanks for the help given..

now i see 5.23GB under available storage!:p
[Nook Color General] RoboRay:
I would be very interested in the 1.96GB /data option!
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
So that is why it is saying not compatible. Too old of a system (1.2). And if it won't update you have no choice but to go directly to 1.4.3.

Sent from my Nook HD+ Running CM10 on SD
[Nook Color General] Blondie72903:
I have already tried going directly to 1.4.3 and i still can't get the bn apps to work and after running the manualnooter, the market doesn't update to the play store and none of the fixes have worked to make it full, so no apps whichever stock I use, BN or android. That is my dilemma, no matter what I do it's not working, even though I seem to be doing it right as you confirmed earlier, so I am lost and stuck with a non working nc unless I want to fully root it I suppose...
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
Well, I know you tried it, try again. It is supposed to work. If you don't want to try again, give up.

Sent from my Nook HD+ Running CM10 on SD
[Nook Color General] Blondie72903:
I will try again. I just needed to know it is supposed to work and I am doing it right, so hopefully eventually it will work. Do I ever need to run your repair partition 2 zip? That is something I have not done yet. Thanks again for your help.
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
It won't hurt to run that, but I doubt it will help with the issue you are having.

Sent from my Nook HD+ Running CM10 on SD
[Nook Color General] DeanGibson:
mailpen.com is still available !!!

mailpen.com is indeed still available; 1.5 years after my initial post, it still gets over 100 downloads a week. Are you running software that blocks "suspect" web sites? Someone in the same netblock, but with a different IP address than the server, was caught spamming, and some "clever" anti-virus software thinks the whole IP address range is suspect.
[Nook Color General] martian21:
Need some help with vold.fstab on JB

I've just been using my Nook as an e-reader for the past year or so however I've recently upgraded my camera and have decided to dedicate my Nook to my camera bag since it can control my DSLR and I can mount SD cards to it with an adapter.

I've updated to Jelly Bean however I'm having trouble with my /etc/vold.fstab file. Previously I modified my Nook's partition table to remove the /emmc (mmc8) partition and increase the /data partition to use the recovered space. Original post is here. Obviously this comes with the side effect of not being able to mount the now non-existent /emmc partition. On Gingerbread ROMs I could easily remedy the issue by simply commenting out the line to mount /emmc in /etc/vold.fstab as follows:

Gingerbread vold.fstab:

## Vold 2.0 Barns and Nobel Encore

#######################
## Regular device mount
##
## Format: dev_mount <label> <mount_point> <part> <sysfs_path1...>
## label - Label for the volume
## mount_point - Where the volume will be mounted
## part - Partition # (1 based), or 'auto' for first usable partition.
## <sysfs_path> - List of sysfs paths to source devices
######################

dev_mount sdcard /mnt/sdcard auto /devices/platform/mmci-omap-hs.0/mmc_host/mmc1

## nookcolor has two fat32 partitions, p1 is boot p8 is internal storage, so we have to specify here
#dev_mount emmc /mnt/emmc 8 /devices/platform/mmci-omap-hs.1/mmc_host/mmc0

## USB storage device
dev_mount usbdisk /mnt/usbdisk auto /devices/platform/musb_hdrc

Note the # in front of

dev_mount emmc /mnt/emmc 8 /devices/platform/mmci-omap-hs.1/mmc_host/mmc0

However when I comment out the line for mounting /emmc on Jelly Bean ROMs I end in a boot loop. Going with the stock vold.fstab it boots fine but I get the warning "Damaged SD card" (as expected).

Jelly Bean vold.fstab:

## Vold 2.0 Barns and Nobel Encore

#######################
## Regular device mount
##
## Format: dev_mount <label> <mount_point> <part> <sysfs_path1...>
## label - Label for the volume
## mount_point - Where the volume will be mounted
## part - Partition # (1 based), or 'auto' for first usable partition.
## <sysfs_path> - List of sysfs paths to source devices
######################

dev_mount sdcard /storage/sdcard1 auto /devices/platform/omap/omap_hsmmc.0/mmc_host/mmc1

## nookcolor has two fat32 partitions, p1 is boot p8 is internal storage, so we have to specify here
#dev_mount emmc /storage/sdcard0 8 /devices/platform/omap/omap_hsmmc.1/mmc_host/mmc0

## USB storage device
dev_mount usbdisk /mnt/usbdisk auto /devices/platform/musb_hdrc

Does anyone have any idea why this doesn't work and it there is any way to successfully tell it not to mount /emmc?

Martian21
[Nook Color General] les02jen17:
Please forgive me for being off topic. I was just wondering what are the requirements to build a cwm-flashable zip that can modify the partitions? I would like to do it on my phone (It's called a Cherry Mobile Flare, a Karbonn A9+ mobile clone). It's just that the /data partition of that said phone is just 512MB, whereas the whole internal memory is 4GB. I'd like to be able to do it. Can you please teach me how? :(
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
You need to be careful using this technique on other phones. The Nook Color uses a dos style partition table (MBR) and many phones use a GPT partition table. So what Dean and I do with the fdisk tool works but may not on another phone. You need to do some research as to how that phone is partitioned. There are tools available to let you partition GPT phones, but takes some knowledge. If you find out, let me know and I might be able to point you in the right direction.

Sent from my HD+ running CM10 on SD with XDA Premium

---------- Post added at 08:21 PM ---------- Previous post was at 08:11 PM ----------

I have noticed the same thing on my Nook HD+. Emmc media on that device is handled much differently that the Color and I was trying to modify the vold.fstab for CM10 on that. When I commented it out, it bootlooped. And since the HD+ emmc media cannot be mounted with vold when enabled, it gives the damaged SD message. The developer (our verygreen of Nook Color fame) fixed our emmc mounting issue in the initialization code. But commenting out the emmc vold line still produces a bootloop. So I don't know what your solution is. Maybe mount emmc with the same device as sdcard?

Sent from my HD+ running CM10 on SD with XDA Premium
[Nook Color General] DizzyDen:
Note the use of sdcard in the first two mounts... try copying the first (sdcard1) line... then comment out the original and change the copied line to sdcard0 and see if that don't work... of course you'd have to change the emmc line to sdcard1 or comment it out...

You could also just try switching the sdcard# in both existing lines... then it shouldn't give you an error... just likd sdcard1 don't give an error when sd card is not in... it is trying to populate sdcard1 without sdcard0 being populated.
[Nook Color General] martian21:
It works!

Thanks Leapinlar and DizzyDen! mapping the emmc mount to the SDcard worked perfectly.

For anyone that cares my vold.fstab is now:

## Vold 2.0 Barns and Nobel Encore

#######################
## Regular device mount
##
## Format: dev_mount <label> <mount_point> <part> <sysfs_path1...>
## label - Label for the volume
## mount_point - Where the volume will be mounted
## part - Partition # (1 based), or 'auto' for first usable partition.
## <sysfs_path> - List of sysfs paths to source devices
######################

dev_mount sdcard /storage/sdcard1 auto /devices/platform/omap/omap_hsmmc.0/mmc_host/mmc1

## nookcolor has two fat32 partitions, p1 is boot p8 is internal storage, so we have to specify here
dev_mount emmc /storage/sdcard0 auto /devices/platform/omap/omap_hsmmc.0/mmc_host/mmc1

## USB storage device
dev_mount usbdisk /mnt/usbdisk auto /devices/platform/musb_hdrc
[Nook Color General] les02jen17:
Thanks. Is there an android app/windows app that I can use to find out how my phone is partitioned? Is there a command in adb that can somehow show it? Thanks in advance! :D
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
Try this in ADB shell.

fdisk -l /dev/block/mmcblk0

That may or may not work. Fdisk is the dos version tool. It will give you a list of the partitions if mbr(dos) version.

Sent from my HD+ running CM10 on SD with XDA Premium
[Nook Color General] les02jen17:
Okay, so what I did, I connected the phone via adb wireless, then ran:

adb shell

This appeared:

Then, I did:

shell@android:/ $ fdisk -l /dev/block/mmcblk0

This appeared:
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
Well, that could mean two things, one, you do not have busybox installed on the phone or two, the phone does not support mbr. Try installing busybox from the Play Store. Of course the phone must be rooted to do that.

Can you run a CWM on it? Usually if you do ADB while CWM is running, it is rooted. Try that command while connected to ADB and running CWM.

Sent from my HD+ running CM10 on SD with XDA Premium
[Nook Color General] les02jen17:
Ok, well I was rooted when I did it, but just to make sure, I installed busybox using jrummy's Busybox Installer. I then redid the steps I've taken before, using adb wireless. It gave me the same results. I don't have CWM on my phone, but I can boot my phone into a working CWM image using fastboot, thats how I rooted my phone, flashing SuperSU via CWM, without totally removing the stock recovery. I'll let you know if I can come up with anything. Thank you so much, leapinlar! :D
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
Well saying you used fastboot tells me you probably have GPT partitions. Do some web searching and reading about that kind of partitioning. Not sure you are going to have much success using our techniques.

Sent from my HD+ running CM10 on SD with XDA Premium
[Nook Color General] les02jen17:
Okay... I'd see if I can google a bit more about it. Just out of curioustity...why do you think I'm not likely to have success using your technique? :confused:
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
Because we have MBR partitions. I just sent you some links by PM.

Edit: What Dean and I are doing with our zips is sending commands to fdisk to delete and recreate new partitions followed by using some other utilities to format them. Fdisk does not work on GPT partitioned devices. But there is a similar tool called gdisk that will. That is what I sent you the links for.

Sent from my HD+ running CM10 on SD with XDA Premium
[Nook Color General] DizzyDen:
Try using this command instead...

busybox fdisk -l /dev/block/mmcblk0
[Nook Color General] bullfrog527:
Can you use twrp with this or do you need cwm?

sent from my Liquid Smooth Jellybean MoPho
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
Twrp should work.

Sent from my HD+ running CM10 on SD with XDA Premium
[Nook Color General] RizqiN:
Thanks :) I rarely use the alternate one so I think I'll just revert it
[Nook Color General] DeanGibson:
Please don't do that!

Please, PLEASE, PLEASE don't quote:

Entire messages, ESPECIALLY when they are the first message in the thread. That conveys no useful information to the reader, and just makes for huge threads for others to scroll through.

Messages with links, as links can change. The quoted author can change his/her original message if the links change, but not in quoted messages.
[Nook Color General] AgentCherryColla:
So I was reading the thread, and I really want my Nook to have more data. I'm on the old 1/5 setup. But would reallly like 2 or 5 for data. I have alot of apps, and 1G isn't enough. But I've tried doing this via TRWP & CWM. All I get is failed flashes.

Sent from my ~Ballin'~ Nook Color
[Nook Color General] DizzyDen:
You can try this one if you want... its set to resize to a 3/3 setup... updater binary has been updated to work with newer CWM and TWRPs
[Nook Color General] AgentCherryColla:
I keepbon getting "status 7 error".

Sent from my ~Ballin'~ Nook Color
[Nook Color General] DizzyDen:
which recovery and which version are you using?
[Nook Color General] AgentCherryColla:
The latest TWRP. Should I try with CWM?

Sent from my ~Ballin'~ Nook Color
[Nook Color General] AgentCherryColla:
Getting status 2 with the zips on the OP.
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
That is a TWRP message that is saying the zip is too old. You need to use an older version of TWRP. I have a link to one on my NC tips thread linked in my signature.

Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10.1 on emmc.
[Nook Color General] AgentCherryColla:
I'm having issues getting an older recovery to flash. I don't have acres to a PC so I can't SD recovery flash it.
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
The issue is the update-binary is too old and the new TWRP refuses to use it. You can switch out the update-binary to a newer one from another newer zip, but there is no guarantee that the old scripts will run with the new binary. That is why I don't go back and change my old zips, too much work debugging the script files. I just tell users to use old versions of TWRP.

Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10.1 on emmc.
[Nook Color General] AgentCherryColla:
I finally got this to work. I got a hold of a PC. Made a bootable with TWRP 2.2. Was a very simple process. Now I have 5G's for apps.
[Nook Color General] pointdooly:
Quick Question How to use 5GB Data

Need you help:

1. Repartitioning the NC back (by using ClockworkRecovery, TWRP_v2.3.0.2 did not work for me.)

- custom 1.96GB "/data", 4+GB "/media"

- perform the format and there was NO error and everything was smoothly finished like the instruction.

2. Installed CyanogenMod 10.1 Nightly Builds for NookColor [5/3/13] w/ Gapps on Nook's EMMC

Everything works find, I can see

INTERNAL STORAGE : 1.93GB for Apps,Cached data

INTERNAL STORAGE : 4.19GB just says as "Available"

These are questions:

Q1. Unless I input another SD card, I do not see usual user data folder(like images, video, etc....)

Yes, I was expecting 4GB Data is for those user data folder.

Q2. CAN NOT copy any file to "4GB Data"

I was expecting to use that 4GB space as a storage space.

I connected to PC and the 4GB Partition showed up on Windows Explorer as "Internal Storage"

When I enter to the drive, it is empty and 4.19GB FREE to use.

When I even try to copy/transfer a file(like a small video clip), it just response back to me with following error:

"Cannot copy "File Name" The device has either stopped responding or has been disconnected."

Could someone help me? I like to understand or use this data partition correctly.

Thank you!
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
CM10.1 uses the external SD for "SDCARD" where apps store their media files. The 4GB is available under "emmc" or /storage/sdcard0". I don't know why MTP is giving you that error.

Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10.1 on emmc.
[Nook Color General] pointdooly:
Tried one more flash starting from scratch, still same problem.

- I have used "CWM 3.2.0.1" for Repartitioning Zip & Reformat ZIP

- I DID reboot 2 times (1st reboot after Repartitioning Zip & 2nd reboot after reformat

- I have used "CWM 3.2.0.1" for Installinstalling CyanogenMod 10.1 Nightly Builds for NookColor [5/3/13] w/ Gapps on Nook's EMMC

Still same error on copying/using the 4GB data partition. Any suggestion?
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
Using MTP or a file manager in CM, or both? You can't put a file on emmc folder using your file manager?

EDIT: The reason I am asking is I am trying to determine if you have a partition format problem or an MTP problem. I suspect the latter.

Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10 on Hybrid SD
[Nook Color General] pointdooly:
If I understand correct MTP is just windows based file browsing, correct?

Then, yes. After I install CM10 then connect PC(Win7) and try to copy over the file via Windows Explorer. I am getting an error.

I just also found out, when I open the "File manager" app from settings, I am receiving following error message.

"The operation require elevated permission, Try changing root access mode."

And I realize, I can't access any files/folder on the device.

So, I go Setting - #Superuser

Them, change superuser access "disabled => Apps and ADB"

and make sure "Security - Unknown Source" to enable(Check Marked)

And just tried reboot, but still no access to "File manager App".

Does it help to determine this problem? Thank you for your support and time in advance.
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
Don't use the file manager built into CM10.1. It is funky. Go to Play Store and install Root Browser Lite. It is free and not funky. Then look for the emmc folder and see if you can copy a file there. If you can, your partitions are ok.

You need to adjust your expectations. That 4GB is just secondary media storage space and CM10.1 does not automatically use it for app's media storage. It expects there to be an SD in the slot and it uses that (as sdcard).

There may be a problem with the latest version of CM10.1 where MTP (connecting with USB cable) is messed up. I don't know, I have not installed the latest.

Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10 on Hybrid SD
[Nook Color General] pointdooly:
I think you are CORRECT on everything!

- Root Browser Lite works fine.

- I can copy, paste and delete a file within Nook android file system on EMMC.

- I can agree with MTP issue on CM 10.1

- As I confirmed the above factor, everything is fine.

So at this point, I do not see how to use secondary partition. What would be your BEST suggestion to use

- Like to use EMMC for custom ROM

-> Yes, I could change to any other ROM

- Like to use all spaces of internal EMMC before I adding more SD for additional storage.

- Like to use MTP correctly for all storage spaces.

Let me know! I love to go with what do you use on your Nook Color.

Thank you~!
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
You can only use it as extra media storage, not another ROM. I use mine for backups and other files I don't use routinely. I have a very large SD (32GB) that I use for everything else. They are relatively cheap (<$25) nowadays.
[Nook Color General] pointdooly:
Just like to thank you and let you know the solution.

After I put SD card into the Card slot, everything started to work!

- I see all data related folders(Video, Photo, etc...) on SD card

- After I connect to PC, both SD card and EMMC(As "Internal Storage") can start to access via Windows Explorer!

=> I could copy, past, delete any file on EMMC,too.

So, I think I just had to insert SD card to solve everything!

Once again, thank you for your FAST support!
[Nook Color General] The Weeping Angel:
resize partitions

Hello DeanGibson, I have read your post & I would like to ask you would it be possible to format the internal memory of my nook color tablet to a 4GB/data - 2GB/media ratio.Currently it is in a 1GB/data - 5GB/media state which renders the operating sytem sluggish & leaves me little option to install my favorites apps.If so,in what way do you back up the internal memory of the device in case it bricks & subsequently how to you resize the partions? Thank you for your time & patience in helping me resolve this issue.
[Nook Color General] it_street:
Mailpen Links

Is anyone else having issues accessing mailpen? I got a 403 Forbidden error message when I clicked on the download links. I want access to the "repartition5GBdata-v1.zip" file.
[Nook Color General] Masterx4020:
The links don't work

Can you upload those files again.The links seem to be broken.
[Nook Color General] khaytsus:
I can't fathom why anyone would intentionally revert the partitioning... Do any of you guys actually use the /media storage? 1G is way more than enough for books, and more space in /data is good if you play lots of games.
[Nook Color General] artcwolf:
If i like the latest SD honeycomb update i might give this a try just to see what i've missed from the stock NC
[Nook Color General] vellos:
The newer partition scheme was absolutely preventing me from installing ROMs on the eMMC. They'd flash, but they wouldn't boot. Sure, I could install and boot Cyanogen off a MicroSD card, but then I've tied up my MicroSD slot (since the root filesystem is now on it), and lost potential storage space.

The biggest killer for me with that was that the solution I used wouldn't let me boot into Clockwork to do backups/restores. All I could do was trigger a script that would flash and then remove any ZIPs that matched either the Cyanogen or gapps filename format. Not really acceptable for me, because I'm paranoid and love my backups.

Now I can install Cyanogen the same way I install it on my Eris, recovery works like it should, and everything else is right in the world.
[Nook Color General] khaytsus:
And all of that is being fixed very soon..
[Nook Color General] DeanGibson:
Different strokes for different folks

From the above, there are apparently issues with CM7 and the new partitioning. I don't know anything about that, but here's my take on it, just from a usability standpoint:

If you plan to have a lot of B&N games or apps for kids, you are going to run out of space with only 1GB for /data.

If you want/need a large amount of space for user data, AND you don't want the data on an SDcard (because you may be booting from it), the 5GB for /media is the way to go.

If you want to be able to back up all your apps using RomManager/ClockworkRecovery, note that 3.0.2.8 (the current version) apparently cannot restore to a /data partition that is 2GB or larger.

So, it really depends on what you want to do. Probably the most flexibility for most people is with the 1GB /data partition and 5GB /media partition (the old partitioning)

I happen to run with a 1.96GB /data partition due to the CWR backup/restore issue above, otherwise I'd probably be using the new 5GB /data partitioning. But that's just me, because I need to have 9GB of PDF files online, and that means they have to be on a 16GB (or larger) SDcard, and the /media space on the device is inconsequential to me.