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[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] GothamGal:
I followed steps 1-9 for the microsd card, but when I try to search for the market I get nothing.

Using a Sandisk 32 gig microsd on an 8gig tablet.

What am I doing wrong???

Thanks, in Advance.:)
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] citionecent:
I just performed this root and it couldn't be any easier. thanks OP

what you [GothamGal] are missing is this

[quote from the initial post]

After Rooting

You will not see any visible difference in the interface when the tablet powers back on, nor will your firmware version change, but you should now be rooted. To launch the Android / Play Market, do the following: "n" -> Search -> hit top-left button on screen -> select "apps" -> type "market" in search bar -> select "Market".

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make sure you do this [hit top-left button on screen -> select "apps"]. Initially i was trying to search and download market.apk from the internet, but it looks like market is already installed after the rooting process, this operation provides the entry point to the market app.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] joshmiddle:
thanks
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] beholdr:
Thanks to jichuan89, yesterday I rooted my new Nook Tablet 8Gb. But this was not so easy.

First I tried option #1: download card image and copy it to SD card as instruction says. I have 1 Gb Kingston SD-card and no separate card-reader, so I used Nook itself even if instruction has note: «Dedicated USB card readers are ideal.». So far, after rebooting my Nook didn't saw card and loaded without brown box. I tried again: no luck. Then I though that maybe my card is bad or I need real card-reader.

But then I tried again as Q&A in first topic says: alternative way for guys like me. This answer leads me to [SD Root] Make 16 or 8GB Nook Tablet Root SD Cards by Albert Wertz [SDNT16or8gbV4.6].

Process of copying image to SD-card was almost the same as previous, but this time I used instructions from this answer (I'm on mac). Only difference was using dd command without bs argument. I dont know if it helps or something else but I've made an SD-card, then delete files from it's root folder and then copy 4 files from .zip file in the first post of current thread.

After that my nook (remember, I make a card using Nook itself, so it was connected to USB all the time) show me alert window about wrong SD-card with prompt to format it. I decline it, properly eject card and nook from my computer and turn Nook off. Then I turn it on and — yahoo — it was a box! Then everything was as instruction says without issues.

After rooting I've set some general apps (like in topic My Rooted 8GB Nook Journey and Kudos to jichauan89), disable OTA (updates) through NT hidden settings. But I do not want to install HomeCatcher and 3rd party apps hack (I want to make my Nook as clean as possible). So I start to search for less obtrusive method to launching sideloaded apps which do not showing in standard Nook launcher. And founded it!

There is app in market: Nook Color App Manager which add itself to standard Nook apps and works as simple launcher. It allows to add selected apps to Nook desktop and works with Nook Tablet 8 Gb. Cool.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] droid2501:
Does rooting using this method deregister you from Barnes and Nobel? If it does, can you reregister easily or is your device banned?
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] nikiddawg:
Space for downloading apps?

So I've been able to root the nook tab 8GB with the 8GB SD card method. I launch CM7 while tethered otherwise it will only launch into NT. [EDIT: FOUND THAT IF I HOLD POWER AND "n", IT LAUNCES INTO CM7!!).

I've played with the partions on the SD Card and it's showing 4 partitions. I have about 4GB available using CM7 BUT here's the ISSUE: I've now been able to succesffully access the Play store now from the "standard" NT interface (i.e. while

not

running CM7). Here's the problem I'm encountering. While using the NT interface, my SD card according to the Nook says that I only have 197MB of space left and so when I try to download an app from Play, I can't because it says I don't have enough disk space. It's only seeing that small partition of the total card. How do I get it to read the other LARGER partition and how do I get it to either download apps from the Play store to the internal memory OR to the larger partition that I have on my SD card which is where the apps are downloaded using CM7?

This might be a noob question but so be it...I'm a noob.

There I said it.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] droid2501:
How can I disable OTA updates from Barnes & Nobel?
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] scottyj91:
Able to Root... Now incompatible apps

This may have been answered in the 20 plus pages already, if so I must have missed it.

I have been able to root my Nook tablet running 1.4.2 without a hitch.

Installed NT hidden settings and after some initial hiccups have been able to keep the unknown sources box checked.

Now, when I try to download an app from google play I still get the message about not being able to install unknown apps for security reasons.

If I go to google play using the webbrowser in an attempt to download an app I get the "app not compatible with your device" and this is for stuff like google maps, which from various videos I've seen will work on the Nook Tablet.

Any feedback would be greatly appreciated. It is most likely something I am missing, or I just haven't come across a set of instructions clear enough for me to make sense of what I'm doing wrong...

Thanks in advance! And thanks for all the hard work involved in getting to this point!
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] ranho acido:
A small warning, that already people mention, if it doesn't boot from the sd, just change the sd card. I tried several times and it didn't work, I change cards and voila.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] ala380:
Just wanted to post another success story. I had trouble at first and tried 3 different Sandisk cards. None would work but then I tried my 2gb Kingston sd card and it booted right away. Has anyone had any luck with Sandisk? I didn't have an opportunity to try my Samsung card but Sandisk was definitely a no go for me!
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] old_fart:
Wow, that is the exception and 'not' the norm. you did not mention the 'class number' ? . . were all the un-happy ones class 10 ? . and the working one class-less ?

.

can you dnld the 'sd card' tester program ( one of many... ) CrystalDiskMark and see what it has to say about the un-cooperative ones... . . its the fourth test which is critical.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] ala380:
Well...there appears to be no real rhyme or reason as to which cards work. I had to return my Tablet do to an issue with the bezel and picked up a new one today. My trusty old Kingston card did not work this time. Nor did any of my Sandisk cards (6 total in all different sizes and classes). I even tried a no name card from my mom's phone and no luck. I FINALLY decided to go ahead and format my Samsung card, which I really didn't want to do, and sure enough that worked. The fact that it worked made getting rid of my files worth it :) It was really a pain getting it to boot from the card this time.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] LoboJim:
I'm having the same problem, I can install some apps but not others. I was using the Team-B CM7 sd solution, but got really frustrated with having to boot tethered. (I have a bunch of books that my family reads and couldn't get them to load via the nook android app, so I was always switching back and forth. PITA).

Now I'm rooted but can't load simple stuff like Facebook and Tweetdeck. My guess is that these apps were written for a tablet (honeycomb?) and google play sees my NT as a phone (gingerbread?)

Am I close? Is there a solution?

thanks! I'm learning a ton from these forums!
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] dcponcho:
I've managed to create the sd image, and I even manage to get it to boot up, however my problem comes when I decide to power off and take out the sd card. After I take out the sd card and try to boot it up. Nothing happens, it just stays on the black screen.

I've tried to give the image more time to copy I waited up to fifteen minutes. It boots fine into the program it just afterwords. I've tried at least 4 times all with different wait times, and nothing. I was using a factory version of 1.4.2, but I read that, that shouldn't matter. I can't do the soft factory reset of holding power + N. Do I need to find a factory sd image, then come back to this and try again?
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] conquesoextra:
About memory

Hi jichuan89,

First of all sorry for my english, i know isnt good but i will try.

After doing all the process (method 1) i have 2 questions:

1.- ¿Every time that i reboot my nook, its necessary to put the microsd (flashed) again?

2.- Once im root ¿can i put a new microsd to use it as a regular memory?

Thank you, really im very grateful to you! :)
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] waynelimwf:
Need some help here with settings.db

Hi there, i have successfully rooted my nt 8gb using jichuan89's method. i tried using root explorer to copy out path: data/data/com.android.providers.settings/databases/settings.db so i could manually edit the settings. however i used notepad instead of sqlite3 to edit the file and now the file is corrupted. silly me for not doing any backup..

as a result, my n button isn't working anymore~ :(

would replacing it with a valid settings.db work? would appreciate if someone could send me his/her settings! :p
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] old_fart:
where and how did you edit it with notepad ?

. plz start using notepad++ it can save your edit three diff. ways...
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] conquesoextra:
Update: Im root whit google play now, i got problems whit a kingston microsd 2g... I changed it for one Samsung microsd 4gb and works perfectly!

Thank you jichuan89!
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] waynelimwf:
Hi old_fart, first of all, thanks for replying me~

i opened with notepad, used ctrl+f to find "install_non_market_apps0", and i changed the 0 to 1. next thing i realised, my n button was disabled.

changing the 1 back to 0 didn't help, nor could i open my

settings.db with any sqlite3 editor any more, since it is already corrupted.

could you help by sending me your settings.db so i could

start working from there? much thanks!
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] old_fart:
plz check out 'notepad++' and its menu option of : edit, EOL conversion . . . well, it a nutshell the tablet hates an eol of 'windows format' which is a cr / lf -or- 0D / 0A hex ... so its just easy to save the file in unix format, which is a 'lf' - linefeed - 0A hex only. . . . and you can toggle on and off the 'show eol or all' in the menu option of : view, show symbol
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] waynelimwf:
hi old_fart, I checked with notepad++. it seems that the file is already in unix format.

could you help me check this out?

@dropbox.com/s/je7ve4433n2ne47/settings.db

i am still unable to edit it with sqlite.

thank you! :)
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] eeeehaw:
This root worked like a charm! Thanks mucho, jichuan!

Suggestion for improvement in procedure:

A bit more detail in how to enable non-market app installs (side-loading) when using NT Hidden Settings. The Hidden Settings operation for this is odd and non-intuitive, does not enable side-loading in a normal expected manner, and deserves some user tips in the Root procedure FAQ. Presently, when first performing the Hack for non-market installs and then going to the App Settings to check 'on' the checkbox for non-market installs, that checkbox does not stay checked when going 'Back' (it is automatically un-checked). I tried many different order of steps and somehow accidentally discovered a way to get the checkbox to stay on (subsequently enabling side-loading), but unfortunately can't quite remember exactly...it involved the sequence of performing the Hack, reboot NT, and App Settings. After all, I suspect the primary reason why users would do this particular root procedure is for the side-loading capability (of course, the other functions are great gravy, too).
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] mrmwroot:
New unit, pre-root questions

Rooting virgin here...

--Even if come to think of it, I juked my first Blackberry 8330 with the Anworm hack and javaloader to enable over the air downloads and the browser without having to pay for a Sprint Blackbery/BIS account.

--Tech level is on the high side.

My new 8GB Nook Tablet (‘NT’) arrives today. After it charges up, I’ll root sometime in the next two days.

I’ve read the whole thread, yet I still have a few questions. They stem from the fact that nowhere in the thread did I see mention of entering your gmail info into the Market App. Therefore I assume that the NT is grabbing the gmail address from what was entered during the BN setup process?

Anyway, these are my questions:

1.	The first time I power on the NT, should I register it at Barnes Noble (‘BN’)?

2.	If yes, I’d like to use my wife’s non-gmail email address as she will be the only consumer of BN content and already has a BN account from her first generation Nook.

3.	Again, if yes, my wife would like to use her second email address to access her Gmail.

4.	Again, if yes, I’d like to use my gmail address while on the rooted side so I can access my own already-paid for Android apps at Google Play/Market and Amazon Market (but no desire to check my gmail on the NT).

I made the micro SD card a few days ago over Sunday coffee, now I’m ready to go. Thanks in advance for any answers to the above all of which would be immensely helpful!

Also--after reading the whole thread, and pondering if ICS is possible on the NT 8gb then googling that, I've realized that what this hack does is 'reskin' the NT 8gb, which is why it runs from a 50mb chunk of source and operates either root or BN stock? If yes--what a brilliant solution!!!
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] RhinoNelson:
New unit, pre-root questions

1) It would be best to register the device with B&N before rooting.

2) If you use the existing account with B&N from the previous device (you can register up to 5 devices I believe) they all share the B&N purchased content.

3&4) The device won't automatically grab the gmail address used to register with B&N when you register/sign-in for accessing the Play Store. I can't think my way through the multiple gmail accounts question - I am just not that smart.

5) I would think that you would be able to have your wife's gamil account active for email and then when you want to access the Play Store use your email - but the mechanics of doing it might take some finagling....
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] mrmwroot:
the deed is done

The deed is done. The thread was absolutely critical. Post #126 was especially helpful:

It's very slick. I put the Nook Home app in the tray. Tap it and you go to the Nook home screen. 'It's got all my books' my wife said. Tap the Nook button twice and you go to the Android home screen. Like I say, very slick.

It's registered at BN with my wife's email address. Google Play is registered to me. Gmail has both accounts, but I keep my wife's email account active in the foreground. I can't seem to delete my account from the Gmail app.

Firefox is buggy and is now uninstalled, but Opera Mini works great for sites that limit access to articles with cookies. Documents 2 Go full version works fine. AiType (predictive KB) is incompatible. Too bad, I like it quite a bit on my Photon which runs Android 2.3.4.

Using Easeus, the micro-SD card root disk image partition in its entirety was deleted. Then a new primary partition created and formatted FAT32, then the Transcend 8gb micro-SD card reinstalled into the Nook.

The 7" form factor is perfect. This is indeed a lot of bang for the buck. Next up today is to contribute to the OP. Thank you all.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] Gman2k8:
Thanks!

Just wanted to thank you for the easy to follow root instructions!

Very nice!

Joe
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] growthweb:
Hello, I just purchased a Nook Color 8 gig. They have really come down in price. Went down and bought an 8 gig chip and followed instructions and now am rooted AND have android store and other goodies. Just one question if I may. For some reason I can not get flash videos to play. I downloaded flash of course from the android store. Went to vimeo and tried to play a video and says needs flash. I also tried other sites that require flash. Iam so hoping I can figure this out as it is so important that I can run flash as I do alot of my work on vimeo. Anybody know what might be the problem or solution?. Thanks very much. And thanks for such an easy root for the newest 8 gig Color Nook! :)
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] tmjohnsonfse:
You said you have a nook color, if so you are in the wrong forum. This is a forum for nook tablets and you could cause issues using these roms. Just wanted to make sure your in the right area.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] tcb2:
factory reset worked for me

After trying many SD cards, i finally got the brown box to appear by using the image that jichuan suggests in his troubleshooting section (post 131) and then erasing the files included with the image and copying over jichuan's files from his zip in method #2. Still no brown box until i put the sd card in and restored the nook to factory defaults (hold down power and n keys, releasing when n screen goes blank). The next time i turned on the device, the box appeared.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] Oryp:
Thanks

jichuan,

All I can say is thanks and WOW! Worked straight out of the gate for me, using a 8gb Dane Elect memory card (cheapy from Target). The only issue I had was the stupid "unknown sources" remaining checked issue that some people get.

Unknown sources is now checked, (no idea how I finally got it) but I still can't get HomeCatcher to install.

[Edit] For some reason, I can't sideload at all. I am rooted, and it does show the unknown sources as checked, however when I try to intall something it won't install.

I can load things from the Play store fine. Any ideas?
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] growthweb:
My SUCCESS and TOTAL NIGHTMARES (:

I can not believe my luck. I had purchased 2 brand new 8 Gig Color Nook Tablets (thanks to previous poster asking if these are Tablets and not the Nook Colors, they are the Tablets). All went perfect on the first Nook. I was rooted and did not have any problems with the unknown sources check box. Then I factory restored it as I thought I was going to be giving this to a family member and they did not want rooted. They changed their mind. So I went back and went through the exact same process on this first Tablet with the SAME 4 gig microdisk as I did the first time. This factory restored Nook will not brown box at all. I tried everything. Even reformatted the 4 gig disk all different ways. Formatted with the Nook, then formatted with Windows, then formatted with sd formatter program. This factory restored nook just does not want to be rerooted nor. Even tried a different 4 gig disk. So I figured well my 2nd 8 gig NEW Color Nook Tablet will be rooted since its just out of box and Iam doing all like I did when I had success on the first Nook. Now the unused 2nd Nook wont go to the brown box. Too strange. So I have 2 8 gig "NEW" color nook tablets that cant be rooted. To eBay they will go (at a great price by the way) if I cant figure this all out.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] ckuke4:
What worked for me after trying 4 different SD cards was to do a full format of the card. Did it in Windows and unchecked the quick format box, after that it finally booted off the SD card. Hope that helps others as nothing else did it for me and I have seen no mention of trying a full format in other threads. Cheers.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] leapinlar:
Which method of preparing the SD card are you using? The easiest and best is burning the image. It puts the format on the SD as required by the nook. Use win32diskimager to burn the image to the SD. Run the program in administrator mode and use an external USB card reader instead any built in reader. The nook is very particular about how the SD is prepared. Any little thing can cause it not to boot. Just keep trying.

Sent from my Nook running Tapatalk
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] growthweb:
Help ....................................

Thanks everybody for your help. I tried all the methods. As I mentioned in my post I had GREAT SUCCESS on my first try with the sd card I was using. Everything went crazy when I factory restored my nook and went back to trying to root it again. Using same disk same procedure as before. And now I have tried 3 other sd disks and of course win32diskimager. And as I mentioned I went to root my second new nook 8 gig tablet and now that does not work EVEN USING the same exact disk that I rooted my first tablet with. I KNOW THIS CRAZY but its like BARNES and NOBLE knows something after my first root and my account and somehow prevented me doing any more roots. Otherwise my second new 8 gig should of rooted with the same sd disk as I originally rooted my first. This is like the twilight zone. I really do have to sell these 2 new 8 gig nooks as they are worthless to me if I can reroot and root them. :(
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] leapinlar:
The problem stems from not the disk you are using, but how it is getting burned. The disk must be formatted so that the first partition starts exactly on the 63rd sector of the disk or it will not boot. That sometimes is hard to achieve. Apparently it worked the first time you tried it. All I can suggest is to keep trying with different combinations of burning software, computers, and readers.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] growthweb:
Thank you so much for your input. I have tried every conceivable option on every forum and youtube videos. I know what your saying is the key. Even though I had success that first time on my first 8 gig NT (using the image from this thread) I will go back to to work and figure all this out. I have tried partitioning and formatting with partionwizard all different ways with different tutorials I will go back and try more. I have tried formatting first with the color nook itself, formatting with sdformatter, formatting with windows 7 doing a complete (uncheck quick format) format. GETTING A 8 GIG NOOK TABLET TO BOOT TO BROWN BOX (again) IS MY MISSION! ...and hope I can keep that "UNKNOWN SOURCES" BOXES CHECKED AFTER ROOTING AS THAT IS SCARY) I will get this figured out because I have 2 brand new 8 gig color nooks sitting here and had success only once (wish I would of never restored back to barnes and noble!) but will do it again even if I have to spend forever doing this .. Iam on a mission!). Then I will let everyone know. And I know it goes down to that 63rd Sector! :) so back to partitionwizard I go.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] leapinlar:
One more option to try is to burn the image with winimage and instead of choosing 'write disk' from the menu, use 'Restore Virtual Disk Image to physical disk'.

Sent from my Nook Color running ICS and Tapatalk
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] growthweb:
UPDATE!!!!! Found the solution. Easy Root 8 gig 1.4.2

After spending hours and hours on this. I went back to youtube and see if there was anything I missed. WELL! Found it. Downloaded the image installer they provided. Wrote it to my 4 gig sd card. Booted RIGHT TO THE BROWN box on both my 8 gig Nook Tablets!!. Installed Veronicas Ribbon Root. All went perfect!! Please maybe someone can make this like a STICKY? Or maybe it is. If I would not of missed this web page or his youtube tutorial days ago I would of saved hours of time and frustration. Thanks so much for Veronica and Waldo for this perfect root. (at least for me...I did both my 8 gig CNs in the last 10 minutes). Everybody should see this. Especially if you have the newer 8 gig Nooks like I do.

thank you sooooo much ....... raywaldoDOTcom! .........