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[Nook Color General] doncaruana:
I did Dal's kernel exactly as in the instructions in the OP (same time as 6.16). I've never had a boot loop issue, although I have noticed it waits a scary long time there before completing on the first boot after a kernel flash.

As far as applying MN directly to 1.2, not sure what you mean. If you mean taking rooted 1.2, updating to 1.3 via B&N's update, and then applying MN6.16, that did not work for me, which is why I created this thread.
[Nook Color General] Windsor1959:
Thanks for your reply!

I know that each Nook is different, and I may have to keep experimenting until I come up with the sequence that works. I'll try it again without the OC kernel and see if that works.

When I asked about flashing your 4.6.16a to 1.2, I was wondering if I could go back to 1.2, root it with 4.6.16a, and then not have to worry about the 1.3 update. I know I can get 1.2 rooted and working properly. It was a question born of a little frustration!
[Nook Color General] doncaruana:
Actually, were you to go that route (back to 1.2) and apply 4.6.16a, you would also get the database OTA block applied. You should actually be able to stay at that version at that point. I've never had an OTA update and the database OTA block is what I use.

Trust me - I understand the frustration. I tried to get mine working with 1.3 for a week solid before finally getting it.
[Nook Color General] bob0mb:
market visibility

I've followed all the steps listed here form mine as well as a friend's NC and I still cannot get certain apps to open in the market ie...facebook, google+, nook color tweaks...any other ideas?

I followed all steps rooted with 6a have fixed permissions like 5 times as well and followed the limited market visibility steps on the original MN post. HELP!
[Nook Color General] fpga_guy:
I applied MN4.6 then booted up and verified everything was working. THEN I applied Dal's OC 9/1 kernel. I also don't have CWM on emmc nor do I use ROM Manager. So far so good for me.
[Nook Color General] 25x8:
Hello everyone,

tried to follow 1st page instruction(s) several times, but Market keeps closing in few sec when on 4.6.16a.

Initially, switched back 4.6.16a (Market didn't run) to 4.5.18 (Market, the "grey" one, is it new?) worked perfectly). The only problem is few days later, Nook suddenly got wiped off itself, and de-registered.

Restored it from backup to 4.5.18, checked Youtube, Gmail, Market - everything OK. Moved on to 4.6.16a, as per 1st post here.

Market starts and closes.

Read this thread: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1255689

tried to change build.prop (both lcd_density.xdpi and ydpi, 160 and 240), tried pm disable com.android.vending.updater method, vending permission changing, deleting the updater.apk, and for sure market's and google framework data clean. Nothing helps.

Ran out of idea... :( please help!
[Nook Color General] jnmoriginpoint:
Going back to 4.6.18 worked like gold for me. 4.6.16 never got a solid marketplace established for me. What happened for me is the first time I launched the marketplace I had to agree to terms and conditions. The market would begin to populate, then marketplace would crash. Every time trying to launch the marketplace after that and it would crash on the beginning of the launch.

If I used Titanium Backup to clear my data, launching the market, would get me to that point see apps in the market, but then crash like the first time once more. Could it be because I didn't do a complete wipe before installing 4.6.18? Maybe it's crashing because it's trying to access my app history?

Interestingly enough, all of my apps are still on the NC[1.3]. The NC is rooted with 4.6.18 and I can get into the market. NONE of the apps installed (and working fine afaik) previously appear as installed in my marketplace but....meh....they work. I may uninstall them and reinstall to get the update-ability.

Thanks for the suggestion sbrack01!
[Nook Color General] Rhonda19:
I thought I'd give all of you a good laugh! I FINALLY after working 3 days on my rooting my NC after the 1.3 update to work!! YAY!

However, it wasn't without quite a few problems. I first updated my NC using the 1.3 update, and then ran the 4.5.18 and everything seemed to work, but of course it didn't.

So, this morning, determined I wiped my NC to stock 1.0.0 and started over. I ran the 4.5.18, rebooted, sideloaded the 1.3 update, ran the 4.6.16, and when I started to reboot, I forgot to take the SD card out! I freaked out, snatched it up, ripped the back off, and pryed the SD card out. Of course, it reboots with the skeletons. Not knowing what to do, I shut it down and try a reboot. What does it do, nothing! It stalls at the start. I try to wipe it to stock, yet again, using 8 interupted boots. At the 8th reboot, it starts installing new software. Thinking I had wiped it, I am relieved. Of course, it didn't. It boots up into just soft keys and stock. How in the WORLD, did I make that happen?? SO... I run the 4.5.18 thinking I have nothing to lose, and I go repeat the process. When I reboot this time, it again just goes into the soft key/stock combo. NO market or anything.

By this time I full disgusted, and my son says, "Mom, why are you trying to make a reader into something it's not....HMMMM??? I tell him to go away!!

Finally, I try one more time... and install te 4.5.18 and low and behold it installs, and while I am talking to my son, it starts installing something else? So I wait, and afterwards, it has installed the 1.3 update. So, at this point I run the 4.6.16, it installs... I reboot, and then run Fix permissions. and again it works!!

For now, I have a fully functional ereader/manual nooter/1.3 update.

Moral of the story: Read ....Read...Read... all instructions carefully and be patient. It does work!!!

Thanks everyone!
[Nook Color General] Three-0-3:
4-5-18 + FUSIONideosEXTRASmarket3.zip

Hi all,

Thank you all of your reports.

I understood as 4-5-18 is enough for rooting Stock 1.3 and 4-6-16 is for market ver.3 .

However, 4-6-16 has many files other than Vending.apk.

FusionDev made a Market3 update for FusionIDEOS 2.7 (is a rom for huwaei u-8150)

( http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=970832 )

I succeeded rooting with 4-5-18 and installing Market 3 with Fusion's market 3 update.

(Thanks Vending.apk don't have native code!!)

0. My nook status: rooted 1.2, OTA 1.3 ,and root was gone.

adbWireless was installed but not appeared in menu after OTA,

1. apply 4-5-18 and reboot. (works fine, green market),

2. adbWireless is recovered,

3. unzip Android Market 3.1.3.zip and locate Vending.app ,

4. with adbWireless and adb: remount /system as r/w and push Vending.app into /system ,

5. reboot.

It did not update Market to simply apply Fusiondev's Android Market 3.1.3.zip. it ran, but no changes.

I downloaded Netflix in my NC using the Market 3 .
[Nook Color General] 25x8:
So, at this moment, this post helped me to get Market (old one) back to life:

The only difference is, I have "regular" 4.6.16 installed.

Thanks doncaruana and fpga_guy!

Sad thing is, I had to install/config everything from scratch (e.g. Google acc, BN acc, BN books/apps etc etc).

Hope, it's a kind of more or less permanent solution. Keep watching.
[Nook Color General] doncaruana:
Just to clarify a few things for folks.

The differences between MN 4.6.16 and MN 4.6.16a

1. The "original" 4.6.16 was supposed to have a change to the build.prop fingerprint to make it look like a samsung phone, but that script had an error, so the build.prop fingerprint never gets changed after a B&N update. The "a" version corrects this - otherwise your build.prop just says you are a Nook Color, which is likely to affect Market visibility.

2. The "a" version also incorporates the OTA block which modifies one of the internal databases to tell the Nook to only take manual updates and not use an OTA update. In other words, if and when update 1.4 comes around from B&N, you shouldn't have it forced upon you. This has worked for me ever since owning a nook (and my family has 3).

Market versions

MN 4.5.18 installs Market 1.8. For rooted 1.2 NC that get the 1.3 update, it seems it is necessary to go back to this version first. This is the grey market.

MN 4.6.16 (both original and "a" versions) install Market 2.3.6. If you restore to stock, you should be able to apply one of these versions directly to root, instead of using MN 4.5.18 first. This is the green market.

Market 3.x is a later, "fancier" market with tabs and such. This will get installed if you put it there OR by the market updater app. There have been a host of problems reported with the 3.x market versions which have nothing to do with rooting the Nook. They appear to just be Google trying to control how the market gets used.

In order to avoid getting upgraded automatically to a newer market, you may need to remove the market updater app. Since this seems to be a big issue, I may post new versions of the MNs with the updater removed to see if that helps folks.
[Nook Color General] Rhonda19:
Well.. so far so good! Mine is still up and running!! I have the new version of the Market, and while it does hesitate sometimes, it still is working pretty well.

Thank you "doncaruana"!!! for all your work!
[Nook Color General] Crissynak:
I did all instructions for my NC which was already rooted and had the 1.3 forced but it seems I can't apply the MN 4.6.16 or 4.6.16a my market closes and doesn't get past the loading part. So with being new to this I have went back to the 4.5.18 since everything works in it. Until I read something that I am able to actually do the next one successfully unless someone can tell me why I can't apply the MN 4.6.16/4.6.16a without problems. :confused:

Thanks!

Crissy
[Nook Color General] markusrow:
Thanks for a great set of instructions and OTA Update Block. Now I can relax and be in control not having to worry that it will update at an inconvenient time, for instance if I am on holiday and away from my PC for 10 days!! :)

I installed Dalingrin's OC Kernel, and noted that the name of the file is "update-Froyo1.2-dalingrin-OC-emmc-090111.zip" One would assume that the fact that it says Froyo1.2 does not mean that it is not 1.3.

Anyway I would like to go back to rooted 1.3 stock kernel. Any suggestions as to how to do that without going through the whole process again.

Thanks for your help.
[Nook Color General] johnny15:
Well, this whole 1.3 BN update has me completely frustrated. I've followed the directions in the first post exactly and cannot get this to work at all. 4.6.16a completely breaks my market forcing me to revert back to 4.5.18.

Also, I now have issues installing apps I had before because of the limited Market visibility issues. This has also cause some of my purchased apps from the Amazon App store to no longer show up as compatible with my Nook....

Wish I could just go away from the stock OS but can't because my kids love the Kids nook books....
[Nook Color General] fpga_guy:
Post exactly the steps you took in particularly:

- the original config from BN

- was CWM on emmc

- how did you get to BN1.3
[Nook Color General] 25x8:
same thing here. Skype, Facebook, even Miren Browser disappeared and shown incompatible on the Market website. Failed with workaround mentioned there, so just reinstalled them manually.
[Nook Color General] johnny15:
-I came from MN 4.5.18 on BN 1.2

-I use CWM on a SD to flash MN (or any other updates)

-The BN1.3 update was pushed to me automatically. I also went back to 1.2 and started over by manually placing MN1.3 on the NC and letting it do the update that way.

I know I followed the instructions here to a "T" with no luck. Any ideas are appreciated.

I have loaded a few manually, but one in particular that I can't find is the Yahoo Fantasy Football apk. Used to have the old version loaded but now they have version 2.0.1 and it's nowhere to be found.
[Nook Color General] fpga_guy:
This worked for me:

Restore to BN1.2 stock using http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=13198961&postcount=1 with the update-nc-stock-1.2-signed.zip

register Nook, allow all the BN books/junk to download to the NC. This seems to be important.

Sideload BN1.3, reboot

shutdown

Apply MN4.5.18

reboot NC

Apply MN4.6.16a

fix permissions

Now apply Dalingren's OC if desired.

Google Market seems to have decided that my NC can't install various apps like Maps, facebook, etc. If you have the app somewhere, they install fine.

Voila - a rooted BN1.3 NC.
[Nook Color General] dermady:
I had the market visibility issues as well. Only one or two apps would show up on a screen at a time. I ended up uninstalling the market, which reverts it to the 1.XXX version. After doing this I was able to see all apps available, including the Netflix one that I was looking for. THAT.APP.ROCKS.
[Nook Color General] :
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[Nook Color General] gsutton:
From where can I sideload the BN1.3 update? Thanks.
[Nook Color General] fpga_guy:
Go to the BN website and save the BN1.3 to you PC and then attach the NC. The instructions on the BN website are pretty good.
[Nook Color General] gsutton:
Thank you. I got a little confused with the terminology as always

Sent from my NookColor eReader Tablet
[Nook Color General] jnmoriginpoint:
I'm in the same boat. I'm assuming that there's no permanent, reliable fix yet to get market access using 1.3 and 4.6.16 as everything I've tried (including side-loading 1.3 then running 4.6.18 and/or 4.6.16) hasn't worked.
[Nook Color General] gsutton:
Fpga_guy:

The zip file on my nc main drive is there. The nc would not go to sleep nor install the file. Also, cwm said the file was corrupted when i tried to install that way. How did you get it going with your nc already rooted? Thanks.

Sent from my NookColor eReader Tablet
[Nook Color General] jnmoriginpoint:
I side-loaded 1.3 from the B&N site a few days ago. The steps are dead-simple.

1) download 1.3 to your computer.

2) plug in your NC to your coputer. Drag 1.3 over to the root folder of your nook.

3) after about 5 min. my NC shut down (I assume it had been installing all that time with USB mode still on).

4) I had 1.3 so I then nootered it, then 4.6.18 and 4.6.16'd it.
[Nook Color General] gsutton:
Thanks. I did that, but will try again!

Sent from my NookColor eReader Tablet
[Nook Color General] jnmoriginpoint:
Could be your install file is corrupt. Sorry if it sounds obvious, but you didn't extract your zip right? It should remain as a zip file on the NC when you transfer it over.
[Nook Color General] gsutton:
Thanks. Tried twice. Guess it is like everything else with the nc. May or may not work. Will try again.

Edited: Can not get the update to flash... bad file error everytime.
[Nook Color General] hikersc:
I think this is a true statement. I have searched and have not found anyone with a rooted stock 1.3 with a fully working and populated market. I have also tried all the CM7 suggested fixes as well as the fix that includes clearing the data from Google Framework Services. So far, nothing works but I am hoping someone will come up with something. There are a lot of fans of the rooted stock that require and desire the B&N features.
[Nook Color General] jnmoriginpoint:
Thank god! While I'm sorry you too have problems, I'm glad somebody else seems to have the same feeling I have. I posted in the Q&A forum asking basically that - "Was there a reliable fix?" (and got shot down for not reading enough threads....lolz....I read dozens of threads completely and tried every bloody combination of things to get market). To me, it seems like everybody's got a slightly different problem and nobody has a Market that works across the board like back with B&N [1.2] with mNooter. It may just be part of Google's whole 'ID the device on the market before installing' thing they tried....frustrating. :( Hopefully some smart cookie in the community will have a "AHA!" moment. Until then my Nook is just a reader.
[Nook Color General] asveepay:
I spent the about 4 days trying to get this to work, and after getting stuck in boot loops for three of them, I finally found a procedure that worked without problems (thank god for CWM backups, otherwise i would have thrown this piece of **** out the window):

Update to 1.2 stock with nemith's update zip

Sideload the 1.3 update and let it install

Root with 4.5.18

Sign into market, but don't let it download the Adobe Flash update

Install Titanium Backup and remove both Adobe Flash & Adobe Air

Go back into market and install Adobe Flash

Reboot into CWM and apply 4.6.16a

Success

Thanks to jadehawk in this thread who set me on the right path.

Now, just like everyone else, time to get the market working.
[Nook Color General] wpnyc2009:
Rooted 1.3 with MN X.X.X

10 chars......
[Nook Color General] ornoktree:
sorry, just to clarify, the above post means that you've gotten a working rooted NC 1.3 right? And not that you have a working Market on the rooted NC 1.3?

thanks!
[Nook Color General] asveepay:
Correct, i have a working rooted 1.3, but the market doesn't display all apps.
[Nook Color General] surfmly:
Thanks for these steps. I have also been dealing with this issue for some time. I went through your steps (most of them were same as others I have tried with a few tweaks related to the Flash stuff) but am seeing an issue.

After I side load 1.3 (per BN.com's instructions), I use my bootable sd and flash the 4.5.18 MN. When I reboot (no SD card in) and I sign into market and accept terms, I end up not seeing any apps listed on the main page or on my downloads page. I am getting gmail fine (it stopped syncing and all is well there) and other things seem to work fine (network, etc). So the next steps can't happen (when I search for titanium backup in the market only 1 app shows up and it isn't TB).

Anyone see anything like this? I am going to start over, but just thought I would throw it out there. Thanks.
[Nook Color General] mattyyzac:
And I found something,

If NC 1.3 with this rooted,

DO NOT

update Superuser while the Market alert you to update it to a newer version 3.xx.

I tried several times to confirm that. Everytime I updated the newer one, NC 1.3 rooted CANNOT start after a reboot.
[Nook Color General] arachne:
This isn't caused by the SU update; it's caused by the Flash update. There's a thread on it over here.

I applied the Flash fix from that thread, and it fixed my boot loop. I have since updated SU through the Market and the SU binaries, and still no boot loops.
[Nook Color General] mattyyzac:
Thanks for help, friend.

The thread should be solved my problem :)
[Nook Color General] FreeMan2012:
That's exactly what I'm getting, though I think we got there through different paths. I went back to stock 1.2, let it update to 1.3, then applied MN 5.18 & 6.15.

I was able to resolve the boot-loop by reverting to a nandroid backup of 5.18 then reapplying MN 6.15. Once in, I let the Flash update run, then uninstalled the update - no boot issues :), but now no market. :(
[Nook Color General] mtbkdtbg:
Had a rooted at 1.2 then the auto update 1.3 got me - I followed instructions at beginning of this thread - after lots of tries I got the nook up and running and not to sure how. Then I did a backup from CWM that was installed on the Nook - guess what that brought back the endless loop. After many tries I got it going again. I followed instructions at beginning of thread 3 times and no luck - then I remembered something from rooting my phone - clear cache and data - there are two places to do that, while in the CWM. Do IT.

After clearing Data/Cache and Cache - Then following instructions to a tee a beginning of this post the nook booted up rooted and in 1.3 and Everything worked perfect.

After thinking about what I had did to get it rerooted after the 1.3 update, the 1st time, I remember doing the clearing part.

Hope this helps others- cause I tried everything in this thread and nothing worked till I did the clearing data/cache trick.
[Nook Color General] dianagr:
FWIW, I had everything working fine and then one day I could no longer install market apps or updates. Then I stopped getting gmail.

After searching around, I tried the following which has resulted in full market and no 1.3:

reset to factory 1.2

re-flashed 4.6.16

uninstalled flash through TitaniumBackup

re-loaded flash from the market

turned off auto-updates for all market apps

used root explorer to overwrite "auto" updates for B&N in registry with "manual" updates (http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=946969)

Everything seems fine. I have B&N 1.2, full market and flash. It's been 5 days and 1.3 has not pushed. Kindle, Overdrive, Kobo, Gmail & You Tube all working, B&N side of things is <once-again> shelved and organized.

Life may be <finally> good.....and hopefully this helps someone else. :D
[Nook Color General] edfox71:
Wifi Error

Ok, so I did all of these steps below and I was unable to get the marke to load. So after reading some of the post on here I went ahead and redid them again. Now when I try to bring my Wifi up it says error..and then I don't have a Mac address either. I was able to get the WiFi to work after the first root, but now I can get it to work.

1. Get the 1.3 update. YOU WILL LOSE ROOT! But don't fret - you shouldn't lose anything else.

2. Shut down your nook and boot with the bootable card.

3. Install manualnooter-4-5-18.zip and then reboot.

4. You have root now, so go launch the market and sign in.

5. Shut down your nook again and boot with the bootable card.

6. This time install manualnooter-4-6-16a.zip.

7. Reboot again.

8. Put your regular "data" SD card in for this step - Go into Rom Manager and run the 'Fix Permissions' option.

9. Go into Nook Color Tools and note the check box at the top. After 1.3 for most (if not all) people, the label is missing now. Uncheck and check the box anyway and close NCT.

10. Reboot
[Nook Color General] edfox71:
Ok, so I did all of these steps below and I was unable to get the marke to load. So after reading some of the post on here I went ahead and redid them again. Now when I try to bring my Wifi up it says error..and then I don't have a Mac address either. I was able to get the WiFi to work after the first root, but now I can get it to work.

1. Get the 1.3 update. YOU WILL LOSE ROOT! But don't fret - you shouldn't lose anything else.

2. Shut down your nook and boot with the bootable card.

3. Install manualnooter-4-5-18.zip and then reboot.

4. You have root now, so go launch the market and sign in.

5. Shut down your nook again and boot with the bootable card.

6. This time install manualnooter-4-6-16a.zip.

7. Reboot again.

8. Put your regular "data" SD card in for this step - Go into Rom Manager and run the 'Fix Permissions' option.

9. Go into Nook Color Tools and note the check box at the top. After 1.3 for most (if not all) people, the label is missing now. Uncheck and check the box anyway and close NCT.

10. Reboot
[Nook Color General] bobstro:
If you're going to keep using stock, I think v1.4.1 adds some worthwhile features in the form of subscriptions, enhanced content and Conde Nast pubs (e.g. Wired, New Yorker). I'm having no problems with wifi on rooted 1.4.1.

You use essentially the same procedure to root with 1.4.1, but you'll want to use GMPOWER's updated manualnooter provided in post 1640 in this thread, and ONLY that version of manualnooter.

I'd also suggest blocking future automatic OTA updates so you can control future updates. Apparently, the very latest breaks sideloading completely.