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[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] WnG88:
Just noticed a permissions oversight in the zergy script. In the section where the different apk's are being installed under :Y2

<code>

adb shell chmod 644 /system/app/OneTimeInitializer.apk

adb push system\app\Talk.apk /system/app/

adb shell chmod 644 /system/app/Talk.apk

adb push system\app\Vending.apk /system/app/

adb shell chmod 644 /system/app/CarHomeGoogle.apk

</code>

Vending.apk permissions are not being set. CarHomeGoogle.apk was already set in the first part of the section.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] Indirect:
Already fixed it. :p look at the complete placer. It does chmod 644 /system/app/*.apk Made it as a safety net since i figured out i messed something up so thanks for finding it. Ill fix it.

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[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] ebsq:
Any indication if Bluetooth might be in the Nook Tablet?

Your work makes me very happy!

Bluetooth would add 3% to my happiness (can't go over 100%).

Are there any clues yet if, like the Nook Color, there is a Bluetooth chip inside the Nook Tablet?

just curious!

Thanks!
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] Indirect:
Yes there is an unactivated bluetooth chip in it as the bluetooth.conf is in /etc/bluetooth.

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[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] ylixir:
That doesn't mean the bluetooth hardware is there.

I have yet to see any information on what specific wireless chip we have. Until someone figures that out, it's safest to just say no.

For sure the chip is different from the one in the NC which happened to have bluetooth.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] Indirect:
Then I guess we dont have bluetooth. Why don't we ask AdamOutler to look when he receives his?
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] jtbnet:
Based on finding

TIWLAN: driver init

TI WiLink 1283 SDIO: Driver loaded

in the Boot Log on

http://nookdevs.com/Portal:NookTablet

It would seem the Nook Tablet uses a TI WiLink 1283 Wireless chip;

http://www.ti.com/general/docs/wtbu...3&DCMP=wtbu_wilink7_2010&HQS=Other+OT+wilink7

and if so this is a "WiLink 7.0 single-chip WLAN, GPS, Bluetooth and FM solution" !
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] Indirect:
Hey guys! Look at what I just did! :3
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] zambien:
No picture. What did u do?
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] HMG10:
I assume you can undo anything with a factory reset.

What happens if you want to run it more than once? Like first time remove launcher, 2nd time games... etc?
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] zmobie:
Pretty cool debloater. Rofl @ do not ask for support. Good disclaimer :)
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] Indirect:
You can choose 2 then 3 then 4 or 2 and 4 or whatever so long as it's still during the process. It goes back to that menu until you press 6.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] zezephant:
Lame problem, probably an easy fix.

First of all, thanks a million Indirect, for this rooting process and for being so diligent in replying to the thread.

I just have two questions.

My nook is currently rooted, and I am able to switch between Honeycomb Launcher and the Nook Home. However, I recently checked the box that said something along the lines of 'make this your default'. I did, and now I am stuck on Honeycomb Launcher, but I would like to go back to being able to switch between both the Nook and Honeycomb desktops. Any help on that?

Also, I am not able to download anything from the Android Market. The apps I try to install are forever stuck in the downloads tab without any progress. What possibilities are there for fixing this?

Thank you in advance for taking the time to answer our replies!
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] zmobie:
That happened to me as well, right after I uninstalled Appbrain (did you run this app at all? - curious). Rebooting the nook would sometimes get the downloads finished but it didn't work most of the time. I ended up uninstalling the market, reinstalling it a lot of times, and it still didn't work for me (like 12+ times, permissions right etc). I eventually had to do a factory reset, redo the rooting + gApps installation and then it worked fine.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] adri72:
Thanks for this great tool! Question here though... I rooted my Nook Tablet a week or so ago with Nook&Zergy -- Today I saw that the download has been updated with a new zip, allowing to clean up bloatware, replace default launcher, and some other neat stuff.

If I try to launch the new Nook&Zergy.bat it will tell me that my tablet is already rooted, and then exits. Would it be possible to instead still allow for the non-rooting options (such as bloatware removal)?

- Adriano
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] Indirect:
No because it requires adb to run as root which it doesn't on reboot sorry.

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[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] adri72:
I see... so the only option would be to de-root and then re-root, right?

- Adriano
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] jerrykidaz:
I've done some searches on this problem, but have not found a solution. Was hoping maybe someone here knows how to fix this. I have found that apps with a 'More' option in the menu have white text on white background so you can't read the options. Apps I have that have this is ES File Explorer and the calendar. I'm using just the default go launcher ex theme and did not do the de-bloater or the option to change the keyboard and all that.

Thanks for any help anyone can give.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] Indirect:
Sadly yes.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] aaron8466:
I am having a problem:

I install the drivers and it says "Android Composite ADB Interface" but I go into Nook&Zergy.bat and it recognizes my device and I hit y and it types a bunch of stuff then closes and nothing else happens. What's going on?
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] SoonerLater:
Thanks to this thread (and Geek.com), I was able to root my new (2 hours) Nook Tablet in about 3 minutes.

I've installed ADW Launcher. It comes up when I re-boot, but if I do... almost... anything... I don't know how to get back to it. There's no Home button, of course, and no Back button... Other than re-booting, I don't know how to get back to the

ADW home screen(s).

I was thinking (silly me) that once I rooted this, that my NT would resemble every other rooted Android device I own (Samsung Droid Charge) or have owned (Motorola Droid-X), or even my non-rooted Thinkpad Tablet (1838).

What can I do to have a more "Android-like experience" on the Nook?
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] conundrum768:
I would recommend posting a new thread in the "Themes and Apps" section, detailing what, exactly you the device to look like and do. There are a lot of people here who have tried a lot of different utilities and customization apps -- they should be a great hope.

Soft Keys is a good app to start with., Homecatcher will allow a double 'n' press to take you to your homescree (not the Nook home screen).
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] ftokc:
Don't forget the 'nookhome' app by the same dev who brought us "homecatcher".
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] aaron8466:
Finally got it rooted...manually, but I still don't have the launcher options or the gapps. What do I do?
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] JohnFranks:
fantastic work here! indirect, i sent ya a few $ for some bootloader brew. thanx to all the other devs as well! cheers

-jfc
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] WinLange:
I tried doing this for a week, since I got my Nook at Best Buy, and finally got it working thanks to your friend Albert. He got me to finally load the USB driver so I could see it properly in my Device Manager. But when I ran NookandZergy.bat as in the video, but did not show prompts to get rid of the Nooks defaults. After a full shut down of the Nook and start up, it gives me the choice of launcher, but it does not stay if I press the n button. The old launcher comes right back, and I have to do a hard shut down to bring it back. Any answers?
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] ckevinwelch:
Did you install Homecatcher? AFAIK, that is the only way to "remap" the n button.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] pt1xoom:
gapps not syncing

I'm sorry if this has been answered.

I just rooted last night, install gapps. My gmail app does not seem to by syncing or updating automatically. Is there a setting somewhere I missed? Where is the background syncing controlled?
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] residentorca:
First: Thanks to Indirect!

Rooted my NT yesterday; only glitch was the first computer I used had Bluestacks installed on it so ADB saw two devices and the script would not complete. Installed the drivers on different computer and the script completed fine.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] pt1xoom:
I answered my own question; however if this isn't the way I was supposed to, please let me know.

I downloaded an application called Quick Sync Settings. This app opens up the sync setting, and I was able to select my gmail account.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] zmobie:
Hey, Indirect, any way you could change the script to have Go Launcher (and all launchers) installed to the system/app folder instead? Or installed to /data and then moved & permissions set for them correctly? It seems to be messing up widgets for people and the fix is moving them to the system folder, and it can be daunting for people to do it themselves :)

That's assuming it still installed to the default/ data folder, right? (I haven't run any recent versions).
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] Indirect:
The permissions are set from installing through ADB...I really don't get why it's messed up but I suppose I can have it run a permissions fix at the end of the script.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] briginiaea:
A thousand thanks! I had problems with my pc automatically assigning the stupid drivers. uninstalled, deleted etc and it finally worked! Definitley gonna donate when i get paid on friday!:p
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] Muezak:
Drivers

Has anyone figured out how to remove the default drivers windows installs for the tablet?
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] blueeyedsusan:
ok since I rooted before added permissions fix, is it completely necessary I unroot/reroot? what exactly does the permissions fix fix?

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if permissions fix has anything to do with market apps and problems, voice search or hbogo or limiting any functionality that I could gain by unrooting and rerooting I will do it but if it is no big deal I need to know so I don't fuss and bother for very little gain
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] Indirect:
Hey look, it's my favorite XDA member in the NTab section.

It's a fix for quite a bit of things but all you need to do is just open terminal emulator and run these commands in order:

su
chmod 644 /system/app/*.apk
chmod 644 /system/app/*.apk

You need to run those commands once each. The * causes it to be used as a wildcard so everything named something.apk will be considered as *.apk and will be permissions modded.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] Indirect:
4.7: New Market added (3.4.4)
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] HMG10:
Indirect-

I know its been said before, but I still can't believe you did this ina B&N store the first time.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] CelticWebSolutions:
Thanks for an excellent root.

I received my Nook tablet today (I'm in UK) and had it rooted within minutes. Excellent! much quicker than any of my phones or tablets.

I have one question and I'm sorry if it's already been asked. Is it possible to remap the icons that show up when you click the home button? I am now left with a lot of icons that don't do anything any more. Also the book icon tahts left in the status bar does nothing but I don't know how to get rid of it.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Huw
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] Indirect:
As of now. No.

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[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] residentorca:
You will effectively "delete" the default drivers once you update them with the correct ones.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] blueeyedsusan:
it says read only file system, please shoot me
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] Indirect:
Susan, you need to use a file explorer app and mount system as r/w

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[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] CelticWebSolutions:
Thanks for the prompt reply there. I take it that it Could be done by somebody who knows what they are doing though yes?
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] maverixz:
I doff my hat in respect to Indirect! Thank you very much for the very simple rooting process for my less than 1 hr old NT. :)
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] blueeyedsusan:
ok got it to read/write and did terminal emulator and did what you said, this time did not have read only so guessing it went through? How do I know it went through and how do I update gapps?
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] Indirect:
It went fine susan. Just reboot your device and the new market will initialize.

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[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] CelticWebSolutions:
Am I the only one having difficulty with some writing in apps not being readable? Sometimes it's just to similar a colour to it's background and other times I can't see it at all. Is there a fix for this?
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] Muezak:
Answered my own question :P
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] Jayrod1980:
sorry if this has been answered but this is hard to search through all 50 something pages. I can get root and all that by manually entering the adb script. My problem is that I had to enter it manually because I can't get nookandzergy to see my device. I can open a cmd prompt inside ntroot and get adb going but I really want to be able to use the script to install everything. How do I get it to point to my device?
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] Indirect:
try using adb kill-server
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] CelticWebSolutions:
The problem I had was once the tablet was rooted, the nook&zergy script didn’t work, it would just flash something up and immediately close...

In the end I reset the whole tablet back to stock and started again. Was just quicker!
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] Jayrod1980:
My problem is that the script doesn't run because adb is only available from c:\ntroot\ not from c:. What can I do to change that? The adb command at the beginning is not recognized because of that. Has nothing to do with the daemon running. I just built a new computer and so I don't have sdk on it. I can't remember what I did before to get the adb command to work anywhere on the system. Can someone help?
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] rvr350:
I tried to re-root my NT on a new machine, and i got the Nook Tablet with ! next to it, and updated my drivers with the one provided on page 1. I am still stuck at the beginning of the script where the device should have a large number, but mine just shows a blank line. I tried going to the other thread that Indirect provided and seek help, but seems like i still can't get adb debug enabled. Any more advice would be much appreciated.

EDIT: problem solved by doing system restore to clear any previous android usb drivers.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] jeph36:
You need to add the path to adb to the Environment Variable called PATH. It varies a little by Windows version, but generally go to the System part of Control Panel and dig around a bit. Or search on Google where it is for your version. It will include things like "c:\windows\system32;c:\windows" and you will want to add (at the end is fine) ";c:\ntroot" (without the quotes). Make sure there is no space. Too bad for you I am on Ubuntu right now or I could provide a bit more exact directions.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] downsay:
Won't list device id

I was previously rooted, had to do a hard factory reset, and now I am trying to re-root.

I've tried on 2 computers following the instructions. I get to the zergy portion and it won't show my device id.

Any suggestions on how to get past this? The second comp I used had never even had an android device plugged into it before.

Update:

Strangely it took me 13 attempts...doing the same thing...which was to follow these instructions. The 13th time...success.

Thanks for the thread as usual:)
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] Jayrod1980:
Thanks for the advice jeph... but I'm not that advanced with programming. The zerg bat file will not see my device but if i open command prompt from ntroot folder location i can start up adb just fine... i just can't get the damn thing to start unless it's in C:

Edit: found the environmental variable thing but don't know where to put it... user variable or system variable and what to call it. Currently it just looks like it does something with my gfx card under the "Path" variable. Very confusing.

Edit2: Alright, using your info I was able to google it a little further. I can get it to open anywhere with cmd now, thank you much Jeph.

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Stupid me... I'm resetting the device to do this script again and about 12 hours ago I applied ghost armor to it and wouldn't you know... watching that black boot up screen for 10 minutes while constantly resetting it finds me a nice dead pixel... great! OP I know, but now I have to start this whole process over! :)
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] jproman:
Hi. I rooted once the NT without any problem. After a couple of days I had to unrooted doing a factory reset.Then I wanted to root it again. I did not have any problem with uninstalling and installing again the drivers ( I followed the instructions in another post and used usbdeview). The problem came when I execute NookandZergy.bat and after my device was recognized, I type "Y" to start rooting and a message saying that "the device is already rooted" shows up.

I have repetead the process 3 or 4 times (including a new factory resset each time and even using different computers) and always have the same error (message saying "the device is already rooted"). Someone know what I am doing wrong? Thanks for your help and sorry for my terrible english.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] Jayrod1980:
jproman, You need to do the 7x reset while holding power and the N button to do a full reset. A normal "factory reset" from settings will not do it. I reset 10x just in case.

I have a question as well... I did the same thing, tried to redo the whole process as it wasn't clean for me the first time... nookandzergy cannot find build.prop. I looked through some pages, a few others had the same question. No one seems to have an answer.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] phon00b:
This step is done after merging the system folders, correct?
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] blueeyedsusan:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1363652
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] mario24601:
Do I have to use Win 7 or can this method be used on XP?
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] CelticWebSolutions:
Worked on an xp virtual machine on my mac for me so proper xp will be fine :)
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] blueeyedsusan:
d/l RomToolbox,you have to set the system to read write and then use terminal emulator to run the script
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] yygadget:
rooted but accidentally removed the stock search app is there any way to recover it?
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] Codename_Falcon:
I would like to thank you for ths excellent tutorial in rooting the nook tablet.

I am having a problem after doing this. The Android Market does not display all the apps so there are some I can't install. I have tried to use the website but it does not display the nook as a device to download the apps to. How do I get around these problems?

Thanks!
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] CelticWebSolutions:
Yes it is a known problem. Basically the market doesn’t really fully recognise the Nook Tablet so it doesn’t show apps as being compatible with it.

To my knowledge there is no way of fixing this yet, There s a few things people have suggested but I haven't got anywhere useful with any of the suggestions yet :(
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] Indirect:
No one apply the update if you have a choice. Breaks root and doesn't provide a way to reroot.

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[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] rvr350:
Indirect,

as long as yours stay rooted, i have faith in you and other dev to come up with something:)
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] HMG10:
Indirect-

If we ran the full debloater that you provided, the update couldn't get to the NT anyways, correct?
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] CelticWebSolutions:
Is there a way to stop it from updating? I'll be giving it to my wife on xmas day and don't want it to go wrong the second she logs onto the internet!

Something like edit a hosts file to stop it from knowing maybe?

If we have an update does that mean we may be a step further to applying a custom update now?
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] blueeyedsusan:
so other than keeping of wifi, how do I stop the OTA update

so Indirect was right as always, no update because of gapps/fotokill. So glad I rooted and thankful for Indirect's superior knowledge

My subject says it all, now what?
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] ShinnAsuka:
it looks like using the extreme debloater option might do the trick. i mean it gets rid of everything related to B&N so it would make sense that OTA's from B&N wouldn't get to the device... not sure though
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] haggardh:
driver update error

Im getting this error when updating the drivers. Any Idea?

(Windows encountered a problem installing the driver software for your device

Windows found the driver software for your device but encountered an error while attempting to install it

Android ADB Interface

The Installation of this device is forbidden by system policy. Contact your system administrator.)

Help?
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] ShinnAsuka:
try uninstalling Android ADB Interface, USB Mass Storage under Universial Serial Bus Controllers. After that scan for hardware changes and see if Nook Tablet comes up under Other Devices. If it does then just follow the instruction on the first post in this thread, otherwise I am not sure what you should do.

Hope this helps
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] darkquota:
When I extract both .zip files (usbdrivers and Nook&Zergy), both have a runmefirst.bat file. Which one do I keep (I get the prompt "runmefirst.bat already exists..." and am asked to replace, keep, or skip)?

Edit:

Never mind, I just chose the larger file to keep and everything worked fine.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] haggardh:
I swear im doing everything to the T! I have adb

I installed the usb drivers after I enable usb debugging. Auto mount is disabled. I dont know. This is a long thread to search for answers. Sorry
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] ShinnAsuka:
wait what exactly are you having trouble with? running nook and zergy?
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] Indirect:
update: it appears if you used any version of my script to install gapps, you don't need to worry about losing root as it theoretically kills OTAs

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[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] haggardh:
Yes. When I run Nook and Zergy It doesnt show my my device.

Here is a list of everything Ive done so far.

I deleted any driver with ADB in the name.

I downloaded the APK file on my NT

I checked Unknown Sources, USB Debugging, and Stay Awake

I unchecked Auto Mount

I plugged up my NT

Installed the Drivers

I then ran Nook and Zergy and it doesnt show my device.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] ShinnAsuka:
did u check both the usb debugging's? there are two in the settings. u need to check both.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] haggardh:
Yes I checked Both.

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yes i did. I just rechecked everything once more. And tried again. Still it did not list my device in Nook and Zergy
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] CelticWebSolutions:
Something I realised a few times was it's worth toggling them off then back on again. Sometimes mine said they were on but they weren't. No idea why but thats what I noticed. Especially after a reboot.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] haggardh:
Yes I've tried everything. Maybe there will be a one click soon for windows. Mine just inst cutting it for some reason. Im giving up