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[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] rbellis:
it shows up under "disk Drives" as B&N NOOK TABLET USB DEVICE. I have tried to uninstall these cause there are 2 listed but when I do.....I am not sure how to get that broken icon so I can install the drivers in my ntroot folder. I also have something labled as ST95005620AS.

I uninstalled the USB Mass Storage Device. When I did, the B&N's disappeared. I unplugged and plugged my NT back in.....when I did everything reappeared
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] lilblackgirl:
I'm a bit frustrated right now.

My root came to a screeching halt when i got to the zergy.bat and my device number never showed up. Prior to that step, I was following each step meticulously. The one thing I discovered was that both of the zip files have the runmefirst.bat.

The USBdrivers.zip has a smaller runmefirst.bat than the zergy. I overwrote the drivers with the zergy which was the bigger of the two.

Regardless, I ended up factory restoring the NT and I'm going to try again, but I don't know what went wrong when the zergy.bat didn't find my device number. Regardless or hitting Y or N, the batch file wouldn't run any further since it didn't see a device listed.

Any suggestions?
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] yumms:
Make sure you have your firewall disabled, adb requires local connections to be made via tcp/upd.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] rbellis:
I finally got to run the zergy and the numbers came up and I ran the script and it asked me if I wanted to install the gapps and I said yes. When it got done, my nt rebooted came back up and was the exact same. What did I do wrong THIS TIME!?
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] Indirect:
Nothing, use the search function from hitting the n button and you will see google search then start typing Market and you will see the app show up. Then install a new launcher.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] lilblackgirl:
After the factory reset (good lord, that takes a long time), I tried again and still no go on the device numbers showing up. And I had disabled the firewall as suggested.

Now when i plug the device in, it shows up as a USB Mass Storage Device. how do i get the pc to quit recognizing that and reinstalling the driver it thinks it needs every time i plug the NT back in?

edit: and would it be relevant that i've got a SD card in the device?

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Ok, i tried again and it did the same thing.

Aside from the obvious question of WTF am I doing wrong, after reading through almost all 70 pages on the thread, a few other questions come to mind.

1. Since i never make it to root, is the one step root method linked here even valid?

2. Once my PC decides on a driver that isn't the correct one here, how do i delete the driver off my pc so it will quit reassigning the same one to the nook every time i unplug/plug it back in again?

3. And if it doesn't work and i need to start over, do i have to go through the whole rebooting 10 times to begin again?

I apologize. I know you all are probably hearing the same from me as others. I'm just frustrated.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] Indirect:
1) You mean the one step unroot? No, since you haven't ran the script to begin with, it's pointless.

2) I don't know your pc but try and work to solve your problems so you can learn for next time.

3)No. You aren't rooted to begin with, why would you need to?
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] rbellis:
I did what you suggested and searched the market for a launcher. I downloaded honeycomb launcher. I went home and it was the stock home screen.....I cannot open the launcher. How do I know that the root worked
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] Indirect:
Market shows that it works....you need to install homecatcher.apk :|

it's found in the same section as this thread.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] Indirect:
You all know that new version I promised? Yeah well, it's uploaded now. :) Enjoy.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] rbellis:
I am sure you are tired of the dumb questions but it seemed like I was going to the market website. When I pushed the n the bottom options looked just like it did before. The search looked like the stock. I don't think I did this right
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] Indirect:
You did it fine. I'm really tired of everyone not listening to me. CLICK the search button on the n button menu. It will be google search.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] zaptoons:
Obvious question: you have USB debugging enabled in both places via the Development menu, right? If not, you'll never get device numbers to show.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] Indirect:
Wonder if she turned off auto-mounting. O_O
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] Loglud:
indirect asks everyone to not use 4.0 until tmrw when he can fix it.

He has found a script error.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] Indirect:
If yoy try and use it, you wont have a home screen. This will be resolved tmrw morning as i had to turn off my computer for the night.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] rbellis:
Thank you so much for the help. I only have 1 more question. I tried to install titanium backup and it says it could not obtain root rights. I also do not see super user in my app drawer. What did I do wrong and how do I fix this?
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] Indirect:
Install superuser from the market.

It was a bug in the last script.

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[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] Indirect:
Hey, guess what? If you use the 4.0 script before I fix it, im not helping you fix your tablet. You can wait to root it for 4 more hours. Don't email me about not having a home screen, you shouldn't have run it to begin with.

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[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] Indirect:
I am posting this fix ONCE for all you people who can't seem to read to not run this script

To fix not having aa home screen, you need to use the browser *click the nook button and select web then do a search for a launcher.apk (honeycomb, ads, go, whatever) and install as you would a sideloaded app and then you will have your homescreen.

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[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] lilblackgirl:
Yes, like I noted in my first post, I followed the steps meticulously. Everything was set correctly.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] jhindmon:
Thanks everyone for your great work! noob here on the NT (have a NC also), but I am also having the problem with adb not showing my device.

Followed the instructions and vid to the letter (at least i thought so).

- Firewall is disabled, both debugging options are set (unset, reset, etc.), auto mount off

- shows up as "Android Composite ADB Interface" in device manager

- tablet shows usb debugging connected

but when I run Nook&Zergy, at the "adb devices" cmd it never shows my NT device. (and nope, i'm not running the broken latest version -- using the one before that)

anyone have any ideas?

UPDATE: tried the same thing on a different PC and it worked like a champ. no clue, but i'm rooted now and working great. thanks all!
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] Indirect:
Updated finally to fix no homescreen. Updated version to 4.1
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] gammaworks:
known problem list anywhere?

Can anyone point me to a master list of known problems after rooting, if there is such thing?

I am experiencing problems on the nook side of things:

(1) Library -> apps -> check for updates

"A problem Occured, Internal error: Exception executing the command".

(2) nook shop

"Sorry, a problem has occured. Please try again ....."

I am not sure if it is the result of the rooting itself, or something else I did/installed after rooting.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] Indirect:
Well now, we can all focus on the bootloader issue which is a tad bit advanced for me so I'll sit quietly in the shadows until I can offer advice and help people out. I'm glad I can say I successfully rooted the Nook Tablet. :)
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] anlog:
gracias muchacho!

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Hell yes I can 100% confirm root works. Removing bloat as we speak with Titanium.

Now I wonder what would happen if I installed gapps??? Hmm......
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] itmth19:
great work

I'm going to buy a nook tablet. I'm in japan. let's go you guys for a great work.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] pranavsg07:
congratulations. i knew it would happen. now the focus is on the bootloader. i would so want to help but its not my field of work. but this stuff interests me. could anyone point me in the right direction to learning the same. once again congrats for rooting the device.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] Chowlz:
Congratz on root! Guess I'll get my nook tomorrow (or later today; as it's 1:30AM on the west coast)!

Next thing I'm assuming is figuring out how to repartition the device for the full ~15gb and how to install other ROM's (or at least CM7 or anything with FLAC support)

Again, congratz!
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] anlog:
It'll be interesting to see how "clean" you can strip the stock image. The framework is pretty weak sauce. Might just have to live with it and remap the N button until we get CM7 ported.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] gett:
Thank you!!!!!!! :D
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] PaulLeahy:
Y'all did damn good work. Congratulations!

And to think, I was getting prepared to ride out the storm without rooting...
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] pixelbat:
Well this is all great news. Good job guys.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] :
Way to go "Studs you are!" Yoda says! :D
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] suicideclown:
Great job Indirect, your interview will be up shortly on tabletroms. Thanks for all the hard work for everyone involved!
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] ktan:
That's great news!!!!!!!!!
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] ms2003:
it's really a good news!!
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] KOCTA:
Indirect, thank you for the great job!

It's time to buy NT ;)
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] anlog:
I gotta say, this thing is MUCH faster than the Nook Color. Like night and day. I can only imagine how CM9 will run with custom overclocked kernel after a rogue B&N employee leaks the bootloader keys...
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] Pito67:
Congratulations,

So... Did you install gapps?
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] iShepherd:
First off props to indirect, this is a huge step forward. Had a few issues, like needing to update superuser to latest build since it kept fc'ing. Other than that it works perfectly now. Also have android market now up and running on my nook tablet. It works great so far, but haven't tried movies or buying anything off the market. But apps install and run fine. Same install method for the market as the Kindle, you can follow this guide here:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1351283

edit:

Oh here some tips if you guys run into trouble with the script.

If the script doesn't work you can clean up the directories as well as uninstall superuser with:

adb shell rm /data/local/tmp/*

adb shell rm /data/local/zergy

adb uninstall Superuser (or manually uninstall it with an app manager)

then run the script again. If that keeps failing then just manually past each line of commands into a cmd prompt. I actually had to do that, script would not work for me. After that, I updated to the latest superuser since the one that comes with the zip file kept force closing, but that could be a problem that's unique to me. I was too lazy to restore and already had a ton of 3rd party crap on my tablet lol. I might also do a video when I root my friend's tablet as well. Anyways, hope this helps!
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] bkerk25:
I cannot, for the life of me, get the settings menu to come up to enable usb debugging. I had previously accessed menu to allow apks from unknown sources, but now nothing. Do I need to do a factory reset or is there another way to acess menu?
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] Vavomer:
It seem adb gets turned off after you unplug the usb cable, need to uncheck and recheck it. Try using Nook Color Tools, you can bring up the development settings anytime you want. I also used DoomLoRD's script found here http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1319653

Just an FYI do not play in settings in Nook Color Tools it can trigger a factory reset.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] loie:
Great work!

My NT is on the way.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] Indirect:
It could be that you chose to use the debloater. If so, that's not really my issue, you should have read what it does and used it based on what you read instead of blindly going through it.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] Indirect:
Apparently, because me doing everything I promise to do in the script is too much of a liability, I'm removing certain lines from it because no one seems to read.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] Elmar1801:
- deleted
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] Indirect:
Those aren't issues. What the hell are you on? I get better battery life after root and gapps.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] Indirect:
It can also be something that you did after you rooted meaning this whole post is moot.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] gammaworks:
Not that I am aware of, unless it is a part of something else I have installed. Although it is tempting to massively install everything after this new found freedom, as far as i Know, I have done nothing unusual: installed themes for go launcher, amazon kindle, two games, dolphine browser and a mail client. That is about it...

It looks like an isolated case then, so I am going to unroot my NT and start again. Thanks very much for everything you have done.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] Elmar1801:
I have done six factory resets (the real ones) and tested different setups. No matter what i do (rooting first or apps first) i get hight battery drain direct after rooting.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] Indirect:
Doesn't happen on my NT or anyone else's that I've heard of meaning it's probably just your device.

It's also possible that you have too much running in the background and that has nothing to do with gApps. Try uninstalling somethings.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] OrganicLife:
When I touched the keyboard menu in settings, I got an error message.

After root, everything is working OK. However, when I touched the keyboard menu in settings, it said "The application Settings (process com.android.settings) has stopped unexpectedly. Please try again." I turned off and on again, but still it doesn't work. How can I fix this?
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] Indirect:
B&N removed quite a few intents from the settings app meaning we won't have full access until we have custom roms.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] Indirect:
Starting today [11:56AM (EST) 12/10/11] I am stepping away from development for the next 24 hours. Do not email me, do not bother me on IRC, do not PM me on XDA, and just in general, don't contact me.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] Elmar1801:
I have tried many times to find out what it is. I can install all apps (golauncher, xda app, battery monitor, weather app etc) and there is no problem (some fc's of course) but after rooting + gapps there it is. After unroot its gone. Even with no apps on a fresh system it starts after rooting including gapps.

I am on a clean system (unrooted) only with es file explorer and thats fine for me.

Thanks for your great work and keep on rocking! ;)

I will follow the threads here and will test from time to time.

??? Just kidding

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There is only one thing i haven't tried yet: i always bypass the registration
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] zmobie:
I've seen registration issues (screwing it up or skipping it) be correlated with high battery usage on several other posts and other boards as well. Definitely do this. Kind of an odd thing to cause battery usage. I definitely had high battery usage (5 1/2ish) before I reset my NT, and the first time I backed out of registration for about an hour before I set up my wifi router correctly, so it failed registering a few times.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] blueeyedsusan:
Ok, first time rooted it was fine, husband decided he wanted the bloatware removed (which I did not choose to do the first time) so I tried to unroot with the one click unroot, did not work at all, tried too many times to count, did the pushing buttons things, nope looked factory but was not, tried rooting on top, partly installed, party uninstalled (unable to install certain things), I chose the honeycomb launcher. I had no market and honeycomb stopped unexpectedly. So I did the reset with the power button and volume up down. I quit for now. For the record when I plugged in my micro sd car in my computer it had android stuff on it so I manually deleted everything and then reformatted it. Since I tried root on this computer twice even though I deleted the drivers and it came up listed nook tablet with the exclamation point I am going to my other computer tomorrow and praying. Used windows 7 the first couple times, now hoping the other computer being a windows xp doesn't matter and that inside the nook tablet something isn't left over from the root I did to stop me from rooting at all. Sd card is to be in the tablet right? what the heck? and please don't get nasty, I did root once successfully but unroot did not work, at all, and then root was unsuccessful. Hoping the hard reset works so I can try this again. Is the SD card to be in the tablet? Why were there files on the sd card and did that prevent me from rooting again? Why didn't the one click unroot work? and after all this has anyone figured out how to stop ota updates? If I ever get it right the next time I'm hoping I never have to go through this again. I'm running out of computers, will and strength. Praying you get into the walled garden before this flower (me) wilts and dies. and Indirect I'm not bugging (just) you, this is for anyone who is nice enough to help me.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] Indirect:
Hey susan, lucky for you I'm out of my homicidal mood towards end users. The issue you have is that you need to run the unroot as superuser and it just factory resets the system which includes the system partition. Another way to do it is force 10 bad reboots (boot it up, wait until the white splash screen [immediately after the black screen with the N] and hold power + n button for about 15 seconds until it powers off) and repeat.

I know it's a pain in the butt however, it works and is the equivalent of using the unroot but I'll work on getting the unroot to work.

Or if you do have superuser, it just run and if it doesnt reboot, reboot it manually.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] blueeyedsusan:
well guess what, I did the 10 bad reboot thing and also did the usb download where I got rid of whatever I needed to and changed so that windows won't automatically install drivers. so even though I am tired, I am going to try the root again. Too tired to go to the other computer. BTW even though you are tired of the questions, well consider it like movie "stars" being tired of getting their picture taken only less invasive, no-one is in your face. The reason we are asking questions of you is you have a bad ass brain we all like to pick. In other words.... Thank you and please keep working on it even though sometimes you are tired of it. It IS appreciated.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] blueeyedsusan:
editing this post due to nosy ass people who have nothing better to do that look up my username
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] Indirect:
Thanks Susan, you have no idea how great that made me feel. Sorry to hear about your surgery, hope you feel great. :) also, the registry is a fun little playground, especially when you know what yourself doing.

About the sdcard: remove it and reinsert it. Then it should work if not, unmount and remove and reinsert is how I get it working.

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[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] nando99:
just wanted 2 say that i followed ur instructions and the video and rooted with out a problem...ur work is much appreciated!
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] Muezak:
Market force close

As near as I can tell I've obtained root. The only issue I'm running into is in trying to run the Android Market. It will load into the market without any issue. It only force closes when I attempt to download a app. I've been checking the message boards but I haven't came across a solution yet. Any thoughts?
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] bdws1975:
Hi all,

I am able to get to the point where I am in the c prompt and the device manager opens. When I try to update drivers,I choose i386, hit next but nothing happens. I just get a screen that says 'windows was unable to install your nook tablet'.

Any help is appreciated.

thanks,

Brett
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] Indirect:
bdws, you don't pick i86 or whatever, just pick the usb drivers folder. :|
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] bdws1975:
DUH!!! Thanks so much indirect. Got it!
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] meiochen:
I'm having some trouble.

1. Installed drivers

2. All settings on NT are correct. In USB Debugging Mode and Unknown sources is checked.

3. Run Zergy and my NT does not show up.

What next? What am I missing? Followed Video...
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] Elmar1801:
Automount disabled on NT?
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] zmobie:
All signs point to permissions being off for the market apps. Did you mess with folder permissions at all? I had to factory reset to get mine to work again, and apparently the Vending.apk installed by the rooting script here uses permissions rw-rw-rw (not rw-r--r-- like the rest of the folder). Those should be the permissions in your system/apps folder for everything. Are they? I also have com.android.vending.apk in data/apps (so there are two locations where different vending apks load), also rw-r--r-- in the data/app folder.

meiochen: It sounds like you didn't run 'runmefirst.bat' first, did you? Otherwise, uncheck/recheck both USB debugging settings (there are two checkboxes), _uncheck_ automount, refollow directions (make sure you get to the ADB device showing up in device manager, and not something else - i.e. usb drivers from this thread, stage before running any scripts).

Indirect! *force closes Indirect's account until he takes a few days of real break off from these forums.*
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] LouZiffer:
The tablet will occasionally reset the automount and USB debugging permissions. If it doesn't show up correctly, check those again.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] Indirect:
Hey there zmobie. :) ill take a vacation soon, i promise! Lol. Anyway we fixed the permissions issue for him in IRC

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[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] HMG10:
Be sure to restart the NT after zergy is done.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] Indirect:
It reboots at the end of the script.

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[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] Elmar1801:
I can't believe it. How can jump over the registration mess things up like this. I've done a new installation WITH registration and no sleep of death or high battery drain. All works fine.

Thanks for all your help guys!
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] Indirect:
I'm guessing its because the apps are searching for info thus causing battery drain. I removed all that crap so I can't tell you for sure.

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[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] HMG10:
It didn't when I did it.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] Indirect:
It does now, I had to rewrite a line into it that I discluded by accident.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] HMG10:
Good to know. Haven't done it in a while. :D
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] blueeyedsusan:
anyone having gapps close unexpectedly, usually when shutting down or powering up? Not a big deal really just have to get back in when you want to use it. Just curious.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] Indirect:
It always happens Susan. It works though, don't worry. Its the service framework force close, right?

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