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[Nook Color General] Mr. Odor:
Best version to use?

I bought a Nook Color today for $25 and plan to install CM so my wife can use it for light tablet duties (ie no gaming). I'm running CM11 on my Nook HD+, so I assumed I'd use CM11 on this as well. I had trouble getting the nightlies to install, though (probably because my SD card is CWM 6012). I was looking for a more up-to-date CMW and found this thread.

Based on what I'm reading, it sounds like CM7 is a more popular choice than CM11. Is that accurate? What do you recommend? In other threads, it sounded like CM11 had better performance. In this thread, though, I hear the opposite.
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
CM7 is super stable on the Color. But some like CM11. I personally have not tried CM11 on the Color so have no opinions.
[Nook Color General] unibroker:
Really depends on what you're looking for; stability or latest and greatest features. I just returned to Mirage gingerbread (CM7) after building and flashing CM11 for the last year+ and could not believe the smoothness and responsiveness of Mirage. Goes to show what a talented group works on CM; to get the sophisticated platform of kitkat running on 2010 hardware.
[Nook Color General] Mr. Odor:
Stability and responsiveness are key for her. So you prefer the Mirage ROM over stock CM7? Does it seem more responsive?

I'm a bit confused about your last line. Is Mirage based on Gingerbread, or Kitkat?

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I installed CM7 per your instructions, and everything worked great. Thanks for all of your hard work.
[Nook Color General] unibroker:
Mirage is based on CM7 (Gingerbread). http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1344873
[Nook Color General] Mr. Odor:
Gotcha, thanks. Do you find it to be more responsive than stock CM7? Besides look and feel, what are the major differences?
[Nook Color General] unibroker:
I was on stock for a brief time because I followed the Mirage developer from the start. There were many posters that have commented that they have tried other CM7 flavors but always returned to Mirage for the battery life and smoothness.
[Nook Color General] imPrez107:
not enough room on sd card

Been trying over and over to get cm on my nook, but every time I try to put the cm on it says no enough room on my sd card. then when I did get in on it it deletes the gapps installer and wont do anything. at a loss here. Please help guide me through this Thanks!!
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
You need to describe better what you are doing. Which CM version are you trying to install? And how are you trying to install, on SD or internal memory?
[Nook Color General] ezlxq73:
Unfortunately that's because no one on the web has a ClockWorkMod Nook Color bootable image greater than 1Gb, despite the obvious fact that these days just about no one has such a tiny SD card. A 1Gb image simply isn't big enough to put both Cyanogenmod and GoogleApps zips on it... in fact it is not big enough to put the full GoogleApps on on its own (together with CWM). To get round this you have to use GApps minimal and then install stuff afterwards from the Play store.

Hopefully this helps you if you are still stuck.

IMHO getting the CWM image and writing it remains the most tedious part of the whole process. If only there was a 4Gb bootable image easily available.... ?!?!?
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
You don't have to have both available on the SD at the same time. Flash just the ROM, then go back erase the ROM zip, copy the gapps zip and flash it.
[Nook Color General] ezlxq73:
Yes this works, but only if you install the minimal version of GApps. I had downloaded the wrong version of GApps and was using the latest (KitKat) instead of Jellibean... which added complications.

All working now. The Cyanogenmod wiki article wasn't helpful though - at first glance this appears to be a no-nonsense step by step guide to installing Cyanogenmod on a Nook Color, but in practice the instructions if followed don't work. Supposedly CWM is an "alternative" - but the normal install doesn't work. The CWM instructions are very short. I should add this is not the first time I am installing Cyanogenmod on my Nook Color - yet I still came unstuck during the process.

Regarding the SD image size - I still think it would be helpful if someone who knows how to do these things, made available a 2Gb or greater latest CWM bootable image. That way Cyanogenmod and GApps would both fit on it easily, and the install would be simple and straight forward.

Note: after a lot of hunting I managed to track down a very old (v3) CWM *4Gb* bootable SD image. I can't see an easy way to update CWM in the image to v6, so I will stick with 3.... it's not as if I am actually installing CWM itself anyway. However installing cyanogenmod 10.2 doesn't work with this old version of CWM.
[Nook Color General] BrownDog.c:
> ... after a lot of hunting I managed to track down a very old (v3) CWM *4Gb* bootable SD image.

Could you please tell me the URL for that image?

Tnx,

Kat
[Nook Color General] les02jen17:
The 1.4.3 stock in A15... does it include dal's OC kernel?
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
No, it is pure stock.
[Nook Color General] AriusAneid:
I recently received a Nook Color from my fiance for free, as it was an extra tablet she didn't need. given that the Nook is pretty terrible in what it can do, I've been trying to figure out how to get CM10 to work. Took me awhile, but I managed to figure out how to write the files to my SD card. I currently have a SanDisk microSDHC 32gb Ultra Class 10 card. It loaded just fine and everything seems to work mostly well.

The issue I am having is it is incredibly slow it is and how nothing even works on it. I haven't been able to get a single app to work, the internet is incredibly slow (not my internet connect), and even the response time from when I touch the screen to when it responds is incredibly delayed. I've been reading about what would make it be slow, but I'm mainly finding that the SD card is usually the issue. I've also found places that state my SD card is a very good option for this.

Any ideas as to how I can speed this up? At this point, the tablet is basically unusable... tried looking up a recipe online for dinner and couldn't even get to google because it took so long. Thanks for any help.
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
The device is basically an old slower device. And you did I not say how you installed that CM10, on SD or internally replacing stock. If you installed to SD the SD could be the issue. To get the best performance from a Nook Color it is best to run CM7.2 stable on internal memory. I recommend moving back to that. Be sure to do a factory reset if you do. And use the correct gapps version.
[Nook Color General] AriusAneid:
Would you mind pointing me in the right direction for the gapps? I thought I grabbed the right one, but when I boot to recovery it says gapps not found and doesn't install. The one I found for 7.2 was called "gapps-gb-20110828-newtalk-signed" so I figured that was the right one.

Thanks for the help so far, it's definitely faster. Lot rougher to look at and use than CM10, but I guess beggars can't be choosers.

EDIT: nevermind, think I found the right one now. Thanks again.

EDIT 2: Maybe not... It got past the install stuff, but now it's just sitting at a black screen with "Setup Wizard" at the top and some icons at the bottom. Nothing else...

EDIT 3: Aaaaand it works after restarting. Thanks!
[Nook Color General] gardavis:
Cyanoboot loop after changing DeviceID in TitaniumBackup

Due to problems with the latest NookColor snapshot (builds installed over builds for years, slowness, crashes, ...), I decided to backup with TB, factory reset and reinstall the CM snapshot (8/31/2015). This went well and I went thru the set-up steps and eventually ran TB.

It said that there was a change in DeviceIDs and I had the option to leave it or reset it. I chose to reset. It then rebooted the Nook but it displayed the Cyanoboot loader and rebooted over and over and eventually started up the TWRP recovery.

I found this post which mentioned DeviceID corruption could cause a boot loop, and the solution seemed to be to run the romrestore-CWMflashable.

I copied the zip to my SDCard. I have CWM installed as the alternate recovery and chose it from the bootloader. I then attempted to install from the SDCard but it failed. CWM is v6.0.4.8. It displayed:

Finding update package...

Opening update package...

Installing update...

E:Error in ...romrestore-CWMflashable.zip

(Status 0)

Installation aborted.

Any ideas on how to proceed from here? Is there a way to install this? Would reinstall of the shapshot help? Factory reset from TWRP?

Thanks,

Gary

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While still in CWM after the install failure, I chose to reboot to see what would happen. It actually completed the boot into CM and all is well!

I started up TB and this time it did not mention the DeviceID had changed, so I am back in business.

Thanks, anyhow,

Gary
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
Glad you got it going. The issue with flashing the romrestore zip was the version of cwm you were using. Those old zips require versions of cwm older than v6045.
[Nook Color General] kselvan36:
restore Nook color to stock

I have been using NOOK color with CW 10.1 having flashed to emmc. It is very slow and often freezes up.

I want to restore it to the original out of box state. I only want to use this for reading books..

Can you please refer me to the restoring procedure step by step?

Thanks for your help.
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
Did you read my instructions in section A15 in the first post of this thread?
[Nook Color General] kselvan36:
Thanks LeapinLAr.

I read A.15. I downloaded the zip file ( modified).

I have been out of this board for a while and being an old man forgot what I did, when I converted NOOK color to CM 10.1 Can you refer me to section how I flash this modified zip file onto the NOOK. Please forgive me if you have explained this somewhere else, but I cannot get it . Thank you for your patience.
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
To flash the stock back to your nook you need to make a Bootable cwm SD card. Make version 6012 from item A 10 and follow the instructions there. Then flash the format zip referenced in A15 followed by flashing the stock zip.
[Nook Color General] kselvan36:
Thank you LeapinLAr. I did what you said in the post. When I rebooted, it starts again in CM 10.2

.I do not understand why it does it.
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
You need to be a little more specific. You were able to get the 6012 cwm SD to boot? And you were able to install (flash) the stock zip? You were able to flash the format zip? And after doing that it booted to cm10.2 when you removed the SD?
[Nook Color General] kselvan36:
Thanks Leapinlar.

When I powerup the NOOK with sd card inserted it boots alright. A question pops up. " do you wish to erase all data and reset your unit to original state? press power button if you want NO or press home button , press Home button if you want to proceed. I pressed the Home button signifying that I want to reset. It goes ion reset mode. But when it finishes and I took out the SD card,restarted the power, it goes onto Cyanogenmod booting procedure an goes onto Cm 10.1.2.

I am frustrated with the performance of CM 10.2, which makes the unit totally unusable.

I even tried to change it to CM 7.2. It worked fine on CM 7.2 with SD card in, but when I took it out, it boots back to CM 10.2.

Bottom line is I am stuck with 10.2, where I cannot even use this dog to read a book as it takes a long time to load the ebook.

I am sorry to to be so negative. Thanks for your patience.
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
What do you have on the SD? That is a stock recovery message you are getting. It is not booting to the card, but to stock recovery on internal memory.
[Nook Color General] kselvan36:
Thanks Leapinlar. I was very busy trying different things.

Finally I got CW7.2 working. I will give a try. and see whether I can get a reasonable performance. If I don't, I will contact you later.Thanks very much.
[Nook Color General] icemanwbs:
Thanks for reply ! :) All seams well now. Simple re boot may have done it. Yes, I always wipe Dalvik and Cache when I flash anything. Learned that with my Verizon fascinate ( running AOKP.....ICS 4.0.4 ) .

Not used to using Rom Manager though ( phone doesn't play well with it lol )

I did use your SD CWM. I HAVE that on emmc. I wiped SD then re used it to dl cm9. So I seam to be OK for now. Thanks for your help, awesome tutorials like yours make XDA so enjoyable ! :thumbup::beer::thumbup:
[Nook Color General] icemanwbs:
Also, FWIW . I am now using the JB play store app. I do use TIBU, but usually Play store auto installs all apps after a flash. :thumbup:
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
I assume you are still operating on the SD install. If you switched and installed on emmc, then ignore my comments below. If you are on SD then they apply.

You have the alternate CWM on emmc? I think you may be confused. Is the CWM on emmc version 3.0.2.8? If it is not, you are clearing cache and dalvik on emmc, not SD. The 3.0.2.8 version has been modified to work with the SD partitions. Other versions still work with emmc partitions. The alternate CWM usually gets put on the SD boot partition with the names AltImg and AltRam. Then when you boot to the SD/Alternate it brings up version 3.0.2.8. Go look at my tips thread again for the alternate CWM.

Also you should not be using Rom Manager with the SD install.
[Nook Color General] icemanwbs:
Hmm, maybe I am confused. Presently I am running CWM 3.2.0.1 . I flashed from cm7 to cm9. I first downloaded cm9 to my SD card, then went into the CWM on emmc to flash from SD. Its working fine. So whatever I did, it works lol.

I don't use rom manager ( just browse through to look at available roms) I do however use Goo Manager.
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
How you confused me is you originally said you installed onto the SD, not from the SD. What you meant was you copied the zip to the SD before installing to emmc. And then you said you tried to boot to SD/normal, also indicating an SD install. But you have it installed on emmc, so all my previous comments and suggestions do not apply. But I am glad it is working good for you now.
[Nook Color General] RASTAVIPER:
Any advice on how to upgrade from Racks alternate Ics Rom to Krylon's version? I want to keep Dualboot.

Produced by NookColor at ICS 4.0.4
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
His script converter does not convert it for you?
[Nook Color General] icemanwbs:
Hey guys, just wondering which launcher you are using with cm9. Seams I have best performance with Nemus.
[Nook Color General] RASTAVIPER:
Didn't try yet cause I don't know if I should handle this as a normal update as I do when I am updating among nightlies.

So, you think I should just convert it and flash it over my rom?

No other things to take care?

Produced by NookColor at ICS 4.0.4
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
I would try it and if it is messed up, just wipe with his CWM and reflash CM9.
[Nook Color General] DizzyDen:
BUT BEWARNED: the DOS version is not functioning correctly yet due to symlink issues in the ramdisk.img

I'm still trying to figure out the best method to make it work.
[Nook Color General] RASTAVIPER:
I had written it also at the Racks dualboot script topic, that the upgrade worked fine and the new rom is working fine with all existing apps. Nothing to worry about for anyone that would like to change from Eyeballer to Krylon. :)
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
EDIT: deleted... file naming no longer relevant...

You should not be holding the power key while booting with the SD in. Just hold power long enough to get it started and let go. Don't press the n until you have released the power key and keep pressing n until the boot menu starts to come up and let go. Then navigate through the boot choices and finally choose boot to finish.

If you hold both power and n it tries to go to emmc recovery and that may be why you are getting the 'install failed' message.

And you have your terms a little mixed up. What you call the Recovery Mode is the cyanogen bootloader. It is green and when you hold n, the boot menu comes up. If you let it go without pressing n, it boots straight to cm7.

The tablet options of booting to recovery does not always work with cm7 SD installs. You have to choose it from the cyanogen boot menu.

EDIT: I found your problem. I was doing some experimenting doing research for my 8 failed boot item I was adding above to my tips. The whole problem stemmed from you holding the power button along with the n key. That put it into stock recovery which is much different looking than CWM recovery. It is just a dialog box asking if you want to factory reset your device. Of course you say no and bingo you are in a recovery bootloop. So no matter that you selected the alternate boot, it boots to recovery (the penguin). And when you tried to boot to emmc using the boot menu, it expected some sort of installation to have occurred and gave you that error message.

There is nothing wrong with your boot files.

Your solution is to use my CWM bootable SD card mentioned in my first post in this thread. It will clear the recovery flag for you by just exiting CWM with the reboot choice in the menu. Then all should be well as long as you don't use that power key thing again.

Sent from my Nook Color running ParanoidAndroid and Tapatalk
[Nook Color General] LILLA45:
Leapinlar, thank you so much for your VERY, VERY helpful reply.

Thank you for explaining this to me. Terminology is important.

BINGO! Thank you so much for this information. I had noooo idea. And clearly it is not working with my CM 7.2 on bootable SD Card install.

Now, for some good news. Now that I am using the cyanogen bootloader method you describe along with your instructions, I can get to the Boot Menu (although it can take me a few tries, don't know why that is). And, I have confirmed that all four Boot Now options work for me: 1)boot to eMMC, 2) boot to CM, 3) boot to verygreen recovery, 4) boot to modified CWM 3.0.2.8 recovery for SD installs by leapinlar.

Makes sense, except I never got a dialog box asking if I wanted to factory reset my device.

After reading this post and understanding where I'm at now, do you still think I need to do this?

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As explained below, there is another ISSUE that I suspect is related in some way to the fact that it often takes a few tries for me to get to the Boot Menu via Cyanogen(mod) boot loader.

ISSUE: With my SD Card inserted (CM 7.2 stable on bootable SD Card). It usually (but not always) takes two tries to power on. Here’s what usually happens...

* 1st try. From a power off state, I hold the power button until Cyanogen(mod) (white letters on green background) flashes briefly on the screen and then the NC powers off. The Loading... message is never displayed. This happens no matter how long I hold the power button. I release the power button, and try again as explained below.

* 2nd try. I hold the power button until Cyanogen(mod) (white letters on green background) and Loading... is displayed. I release the power button, and CM 7.2 comes up.

However, sometimes it only takes one try to power on, as just happened. From a power off state, I removed the SD Card. Later, having made no changes to the card, I reinserted it and it powered up on the first try.

With SD Card removed, and with Nook Color Stock ROM (v1.4.3) on eMMC, as expected, it takes just one try to power on. Here’s what happens...

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From a power off state, I hold the power button until “Read Forever(tm)” is displayed. I release the power button, and the Nook Color stock ROM comes up.

Thank you again for your advise and for all that you share in this forum.

Lilla
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
LOL, you like that power button! You only need to hold the power button until a tiny flash happens then let go immediately (for both stock and sd). You are holding it too long and it is shutting itself back off. Also do not press n until the green logo comes up, but before it goes to loading...

Since you say things are working now there is no reason to do the CWM card thing.
[Nook Color General] LILLA45:
BRILLIANT! You are a genius. To test, I tried powering on this way, and also accessing cyanogen boot menu this way, both worked.

I am SO HAPPY to have this simple and reliable procedure for turning power on and for accessing the cyanogen boot menu!

Thank God you could see what I was doing wrong, and set me straight. I was beginning to think I was going to boot my poor little Nook Color to death.

For anyone following this thread, I want to summarize the points that were essential to resolving the issues I was having (see posts #33 through this post)

o http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=28585664&postcount=34

The tablet options method of booting to recovery does not always work with cm7 SD installs. You have to choose it from the cyanogen boot menu.

Steps: Boot normally into Android, then from desktop hold power key until the Tablet Options menu appears. In the Tablet Options menu choose "reboot", in the next menu choose "recovery" and press "OK".

o http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=28640756&postcount=36

The correct way to power on, and if desired bring up the Cyanogen boot menu.

Steps: Starting from a power off state. Hold the power button only until a tiny flash happens then let go immediately (for both stock and sd). You will see the green Cyanogen logo followed by Loading... If you hold the power button too long it will shut itself back off. To bring up the boot menu, press n when the green Cyanogen logo comes up, but before it goes to loading... Do not press n before you see the green Cyanogen logo.

Thank you again for sharing your insight and experience with me. I sincerely appreciate it.

Lilla
[Nook Color General] dweaton:
Accessing cmod 7 nook color from Windows

Hi, I hope I'm posting to the right place here - I thought it might be applicable.

I've been trying to gain access to my Nook Color running cmod 7 from my Windows 7 desktop so I could copy a couple of videos there. I've tried a couple of things that just haven't worked for me. I followed a thread in nookdevs that ended up pointing to a thread in this forum, but a link there was dead. Found another one: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=910008 . After some trial and error, I found I had to remove it, install the Jave JDK first, then run it again. I had 3 devices showing under disks in device manager - one of some usb device (which the nook is the only thing it could be) and 2 B&N devices. As per the thread, I removed those and unplugged/replugged the USB to my Nook Color. I then ran adb devices - it started the daemon but then no devices are returned.

So......I would imagine that since I'm a complete noob that I must be missing something. Since I thought accessing a cmod 7 nook device from a Windows PC might be something others were interested in that's why I posted here to find out what I'm doing wrong.

Thanks in advance!

Dave ;)
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
For just copying videos to your nook it is very simple. You do not need to set up adb access to do that.

First, go to settings, applications, development options, and uncheck either android debugging or USB debugging.

Then plug in your USB cable to the PC and slide up your notification area on the nook. There will be a choice there to turn on computer access. Do that then a dialog comes up to say turn on computer storage. Do that. Go to your PC and you should have two new drives, one labelled either emmc or my nook color. The other will be labelled sdcard if you have a an SD in your nook. Now you can copy your videos there from the PC.

Adb access is only used for advanced debugging of the device.

PS, this kind of question is usually posted in the Q & A section of Nook Color. Posting here is usually reserved for comments or questions about my tips.
[Nook Color General] dweaton:
Thank you

That works great! Thank you! I'm sorry for posting in the wrong place!
[Nook Color General] KrellaKrentoshi:
Thank you!