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[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] Juanito216:
Can someone help me real quick? I need to backup CM7 on my sisters NT in CMR and I went to restore. My SD card is inside it from my phone with nandroids from other devices , her SD card isnt large(1gb). I need to go back and don't remember which button is back, can someone plz tell me. I don't want to risk restoring nandroid from a different device.

EDIT: Nevermind guys, backing up now.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] ShinnAsuka:
using twrp on sd card i always get stuck on verifying data or md5 generation if its enabled. any ideas?
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] BoostedB18C:
Thank you for this. Made updating painless.

Sent from my NOOK Tablet running CM10 0.05.3
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] meghd00t:
New Builds of TWRP and CWM

see the announcement from Dees_Troy.

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=24687315&postcount=1

files are at http://d-h.st/users/meghd00t/twrp and http://goo.im/devs/meghd00t/twrp/

also new builds of CWM with updated kernel

files are at http://d-h.st/users/meghd00t/cwm/ and http://goo.im/devs/meghd00t/cwm/
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] bingoz:
Can someone confirm if external sd can mount to PC in recovery mode? Except CWM 5.5.0.4 emmc, none of other recovery I tried can help mounting external sd to PC in recovery mode.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] Bonnie_Raitt:
I must be getting too old. I am having trouble making a new SD boot card so that I can upgrade my NT to CM10. I have made 5 or 6 SD boot cards over the past couple of years so I wasn't expecting any problems this time. However, I'm stuck and need help.

I download

CM9-10_CWM_v6.0.1.2_8-16gb_tools_sdcard.zip

from veronica/XDA Developers/Nook Tablet/RECOVERIES

and extracted it to a folder with 7-zip.

I followed the instructions in instructions.txt

- Formated sdcard with SDFormatter

- Run Win32DiskImage.exe - Right click "run as administrator"

- I used cwm_6012_sd.img from the folder I created

- I selected my SD card and pressed write.

Normally at this point I can copy file to it for installation. However when I try to open it in Windows, I get a message that it needs to be formatted.

I have tried a number of things to fix my problem.

I have tried different versions of Win32DiskImage.exe (.3, .5, and .6)

I have downloaded the CM9-10_CWM_v6.0.1.2_8-16gb_tools_sdcard.zip multiple times from both links (Is there a MD5 hash somewhere?)

I also tried CM9-10_TWRP_v2.2.2.0_8-16gb_tools_sdcard (without success)

I have tried 4 different SD cards (1 samsung, and 3 Sandisk),

I'm stumped. I'm clearly doing something wrong. Can anyone help? Thanks
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] Bonnie_Raitt:
Bump
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] ShinnAsuka:
the new cwm isn't a burnable image. it is a bootable image. so you need to format your sdcard with sdformatter first. then put the mlo, uboot, and flashing_boot files on root of sdcard. then copy the cwm image to the root of your sdcard and rename it as boot.img. next you need to make the sdcard partition bootable. in windows you can use minitool partition wizard to set the partition from inactive to active.

not sure about how to do it on MAC
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] lawrex:
CWM Help....

Not sure if this is the spot to ask, but I just recently updated my wife's 16GB NT to 6.0.1.5 emmc and now it hangs when I try to do a backup. I currently have MIUI2330 installed. On the previous CWM, 5.5.0.4, I could do backups, but now it just hangs. Is this not compatible? Is 6.0.1.5 just for use with newer roms? I will eventually upgrade the NT, but wanted a good backup first.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] ShinnAsuka:
i believe the new cwm works only with newer roms like cm10. if i recall correctly, miui is a cm7 based rom isn't it? if so you will have to use and older cwm. recommended version is cwm 5.0.x i think. check the first post for the flashable zip file.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] miniblue:
I have 5.5.0.4 on a SD card I boot with. It works for everything I have tried, including CM 10. The new internal CWM as stated in the previous post fail backups for me as well.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] lawrex:
Does this fail for CM10 backups as well?
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] WnG88:
I updated to 6.0.1.5 and am running SGT7+CM10+Cherry Picks but not 5-touch firmware. The problem I'm running into is that in CWM, I get "E: Can't mount /sdcard/"

I've changed SD cards and inserted/reinserted it, but no luck.

I'm using no name 1GB SD cards. The only way I got CM10 to install was to copy the zip to internal SD. CWM had no problems installing from internal sdcard. Any ideas?

Thanks,
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] ShinnAsuka:
must be a bad sdcard. have you tried formatting it with sdformatter?
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] WnG88:
Thank you. sdformatter worked. No issues mounting sd card in CWM now.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] Scias:
I'm new to this whole Nook scene, so I wanted to get some question out of the way if its ok. I have a 8gb Nook here and was wondering what you guys personally think would be the best option to go with. Is CM9 worth it for being in alpha or am I better off sticking with CM7. This is confusing me when trying to pick which CWM I want to get. Any help?
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] lawrex:
I just put SGT-CM10 on my wife's NT 16GB and she loves it. Went from MIUI (CM7 based) to CM10 and aside from a few quirks, she loves it. Get CWM 6.0.1.5 and go with a CM10 rom. Just my opinion.

Edit: This Rom http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1877217
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] liquidzoo:
Regardless of what ROM you want to put on, you might as well load the latest Recovery. It should be compatible with any ROM (the exception being TWRP, which does not work with the 5 point touch upgrade yet).
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] digixmax:
What is the advantage of keeping CWM on emmc, rather than putting it on SD when needed?

Also, I read that one needs more recent versions of CWM to flash CM9/10 -- so does flashing older CM7 ROM or stock ROM requires older CWM versions?
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] rete:
succulent has a 5-touch compatible TWRP 2.3.1.1 recovery here. Don't flash the zip; extract the altboot.img file and place it in the root of your SD card or in the nand bootdata partition. Wallah; 5-touch TWRP.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] Greatness83:
So i think i bricked my device. I had the old CM7 alpha on my NT. I was trying to add the newer CWM so I can upgrade to JB. During the process on trying to add CWM, I think it got added on the SDcard and Internal Nook memory(1Gb), and now everytime I tried to reinstall CWM, it goes to the Installing software screen and a few seconds later, it goes to the nook screen with the red ! and says try again or contact Nook support.

I just tried using stock firmware and still the same. Guess my NT is a paperweight now
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] digixmax:
Perhaps this thread might be of help (I have not applied the suggested method, merely "bookmark" the thread in case of a mishap).
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] Greatness83:
Thanks.. i'll give it a shot later..

seems like the one person did the samething i did and he got the same error so this may work.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] djd338:
I can't upgrade recovery with the zips! I really need to use zips due to driver/adb problem. After running cm7 forever, I started over flashing stock, then somehow got a cm10 rom loaded with cwm v5. I've flashed the emmc zips for both cwm v6 & twrp 2.3.1. but recovery remains v5. I've just flashed twrp 2.1.4 thru Goo Mgr, then flashed the twrp 2.3.1 emmc zip but recovery stays same even when twrp says the flash was successful. I power down & back up only to be met with the older recovery each time. Twrp will at least say success (even if not), where cwm just shuts the tablet off & never reboots, just freezes black. When I try to upgrade the cm10 rom using twrp 2.1 or cwm v5, it fails or loops.

My brain is now on over temp. & bootlooping. I sit here feeling very dumb! Can anyone please offer suggestions?
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] djd338:
Just FYI, Indirect has just updated his app which flashes cwm. It now flashes a cwm version 6.x image instead of v5.x
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] Greatness83:
So it still didnt work. I didnt get a green checkmark, it stayed red, then it said it was rebooting. It didnt reboot by itself so i turned back on and it goes to that screen i mentioned before
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] satan89:
Are you able to boot into cm7? And can you still boot into your old version of cwm?

Sounds like you might have stock recovery installed in your recovery partition or some part of it is still present.

Anyhow if you can still boot into your rom then go this thread and download the app, install it and flash recovery.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=21684160

If it isn't booting into the rom then also take a look here

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=24995518
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] Greatness83:
Thanks, I will have to try the second option because nothing boots...i'll report back afterwards
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] Vol4Ever:
Cyanoboot versus CWM

Please excuse if these are dumb questions. I'm a former iOS user (with jailbreak experience) that's only being playing with Android stuff for about 2 weeks now, and trying to navigate through a completely new set of terminologies!

The quote above is what I'm trying to accomplish. Nutshell Cyanoboot with CWM as internal primary recovery and TWRP as secondary internal recovery. All internal without use of sdcard. Where does cyanoboot reside if you flash CWM to emmc? I thought cyanoboot was *part of* CWM?? If it's not, how do I get Cyanoboot installed to be able to follow the rest of the instructions in this thread? It seems like the directions below assume this is already in place.

Then I'm also trying to put latest CWM on a spare bootable sd card . . . . . . . just in case.

Does all that make sense? Hopefully I'm not getting words and concepts too mixed up. Thanks for patience with a newb. :)

~Vol

P.S. My other confuzzlement is the instructions for flashing CWM to internal. Step 3 is "Reboot into CWM/TWRP recovery" then Step 4 is to flash CWM. I can't reboot into CWM as it hasn't been flashed yet?
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] lavero.burgos:
Hi, cyanoboot is part of (integrated in) recovery (like CWM) and boot images (.img). Depending on what ROM you are, in order to flash CWM to emmc (internal) will be eather by creating and booting CWM from sdcard and then flash one of the CWM.zip provided and flash it or if you are on B&N stock firmware you can download the latest App from @Indirect to flash CWM internal.

Cyanoboot has become "standard" in all custom ROMs so everytime you flash a custom ROM you'll get cyanoboot.

~ V
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] Vol4Ever:
OK. That's gonna take a while to digest, but it's starting to sink in. I do have 2 more questions, and then I hope I'm good!

(1) I have a working bootable CWM 5.0.2.8 card from Albert's root method. Can I boot into that card, and then safely flash the newer 6.0.1.2 version or do I need to go through the whole detailed process above?

(2) I'm planning to completely abandon the B&N stock and go pure CM10. Is it best to use CWM to fully format every partition, and then install with CWM from complete scratch, or are the CM10 files intended to install in conjunction with B&N stock files?

Since I'm not going to use any of the stock stuff, I'd like to delete whatever possible just to save the clutter/space. FYI, I've already downloaded cm-10.1-20121221-UNOFFICIAL-acclaim.zip and the associated level of gapps, so I think I'm just about ready to go!

Thanks again for the speedy help.

~Vol
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] digixmax:
Yes.

If you settle for CM10 (rather than the freshly emerging 10.1) Succulent CM10 builds posted on his blog http://iamafanof.wordpress.com/2012/11/03/cm10-0-jelly-bean-for-nook-tablet-uploading/ come with CWM Recovery included in the ROM zip files (-> it gets flashed when you flash the ROM).
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] rkleinhenz:
I'm missing something, hope someone can explain. I have an SD card bootable CM10. Internally I still have stock 1.4.2. I used a fresh SD card,, reformatted with sdformatter just to be sure, put on MLO, uboot and flashing_boot.img from the .rar in the repository. Added recovery.img (renamed from twrp_2220_sd.img) and altboot.img (renamed from cwm_6012_sd.img). Put the card back in the NT but it will not boot. I can only boot straight into B&N std. 1.4.2. What am I missing?

Add: One thing I missed was setting the partition on the SD card active. After I did that it gets me the parcel screen - but gets stuck there. Still don't quite have it!
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] asawi:
Have you tried the usual tips:

Booting from powered down, inserting charging cable connected to charger (not PC)

Holding down "n" through the initial startut
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] rkleinhenz:
Yup. It boots - it just does not get past the cardboard box screen
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] digixmax:
Try the version of MLO, u-boot.bin, and flashing_boot.img in SD_boot.zip from http://iamafanof.wordpress.com/2012/11/11/how-to-guide-bootable-cm7cm9cm10-sdcard-for-nook-tablet/.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] rkleinhenz:
Tried that - would not boot at all. Just to be sure... I do not need any other partitions, right? I just have the main partition (primary, active, FAT32)
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] digixmax:
You also need to set the partition ID type for the 1st boot partition to 0x0C LBA.

Whether you need other partitions depends on what you plan to do with this bootable recovery card, see for example http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2056626 and http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2061536.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] rkleinhenz:
I was sure that was it because I had not set it to x0C! I xied that but still no joy... no wiggle any more :( Went back to the uboot etc. from the repository referenced in post 1 of this thread and still no luck - nada... not even the cardboard box any more... letting it sit for a few minutes will boot emmc

All I wanted to do was make a recovery only ROM. It's probably redundant at this point but I hate it when something I am starting to understand stops working for unexplained reasons. And yes I have been to both of the threads you refer to.

Scratching my head...
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] digixmax:
You can check if the files' size are correct after extraction and copy operation.

I also read somewhere that it helps to first copy to a fresh partition MLO and u-boot.bin (before copying other files) since it seems that TI OMAP processors scan only the first couple entries of the boot partition in looking for MLO x-loader.

Last thing to check for is the partitioning is "cylinder aligned" (although this should be default option in the "Create Partition" menu if you use MiniToolPartition").
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] lavero.burgos:
Can you create a cwm recovery sdcard , then put this .zip file as is in the root of the /sdcard too and boot from it. Try to flash the .zip file as normal from cwm recovery.

If you're succesful on that then report back, dont touch anything after that.

@All i'll be updating my FTP with new versions of CWM and TWRP provided by @succulent plus other files likes gapps and some ROMs so you can bookmark the FTP page for quick access. There is a section (folder) called UNBRICK that is very useful if some people haven't noticed.

~ V
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] rkleinhenz:
If you are asking me to do this... well, this exactly is my problem... I am unable to make a cwm recovery card. Tried all the suggestions above - will not boot!

Or perhaps I misunderstand what you are asking.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] digixmax:
The only thing I can suggest is trying anew steps 1 through 2(c) of http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2056626 (and then copy whatever zip files you'd like to flash on it).
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] rkleinhenz:
And a good suggestion it was! I have no idea what is different - same files, same settings, same size/brand/speed of SD card (sandisk 8GB class 4) This one works, the other one not. Oh well. Time to move on I guess :)

---------- Post added at 08:48 PM ---------- Previous post was at 08:16 PM ----------

Now that I finally took that hurdle, I have some specific questions re. the instructions in the first post. To update the internal recovery it says

Why both?

Then it says

Why TWRP_sccard and not TWRP_emmc? Does it matter? Won't both use the same drive mounts?

---------- Post added at 09:16 PM ---------- Previous post was at 08:48 PM ----------

Finally figured something out. The non-booting SD card has slightly smaller disk size. From 10,000' up they both show up as 7.39 GB. But the good one actually has 7,939,817,472 bytes while the bad one has 7,928,479,744 bytes. The bad one was formatted with minitool. I reformatted it with sdformatter and not it shows having 7,939,817,472. End of mystery! Something with the minitool formatter. I used it again to format the formerly bad drive and got 7,928,479,744. Refomatted with SDformatter and it went back up to 7,939,817,472. Even better - after I copied the necessary files onto that formerly bad drive it booted just fine!

In minitool I had aligned to MB. I also tried align to cylinder which gave me yet another size. Suffice it to say I'll be using sdformatter... even tough I do not quite understand what minitool does different that would prevent the boot. Since I had shrunk the partition with minitool at one point I have a feeling there is something different with the 1st few sectors.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] digixmax:
The TI OMAP processor (which NT uses) is very fussy about the boot disk's (cylinder/track/sector) geometry -- see http://www.openomap.org/wiki/tiki-index.php?page=Booting and Flashing.

Fortunately MiniTool takes care of all this automatically with the cylinder-alignment option, and I rarely had problems using it to build CWM or single-OS CMx boot SD.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] rkleinhenz:
Very interesting read, thanks ofr the reference!

Oops I misread that in your earlier post... for me default is MB aligned so that is what I had used. I don't see a way to change the default but will try that
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] snooch6923:
SD card ROM won't boot.

Post content removed so as not to confuse others in the future.

Snooch

Sent from my Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] Vol4Ever:
New subdirectories on FTP site

Veronica -

First off, thanks for the WEALTH of NT tools you keep supplied on your site at four-nineteen.com. I've used it as a one stop shop ever since I started tinkering with Nook flashing. I have a scenario I'm trying to set up and would like to confirm that the files in RED are selected appropriately.

B&N software completely wiped. Onboard ROM is Kuzma's 1/16/2013 CM10.1 coupled with 12/12/2012 Signed Gapps which I'm hoping to keep up to date over time as new versions come out

- Would like a bootable SDCard with latest CWM 6.0.2.5 to stick in a drawer solely for emergencies; Planning to have the Nook set up where all other flashing can occur standalone; Currently using Albert Wertz's v4.7 SD card but want to update. Would also be nice if the card was formatted in such a way that more of the storage could be used to keep the various flash files on it. My emergency card is a 4 GB, but all the flashes end up with only 100MB or so of usable space. Tried using MiniTool Partition to extend the partition size, but it gummed something up.

Use cwm_6025_sd.img Flash to card with Win32 Imager. Does this file include the Tools like the zips in the main directory?

- Default recovery onboard the NT will also be CWM 6.0.2.5

Use flash_CM9-10_CWM_6.0.2.5_8-16gb_emmc.zip - Flash zip using bootable SD card above. What do the files in the EMMC Fastboot Flash subdirectory do? Should I be using one of them?

- Want onboard altboot.img to be the latest TWRP

Use flash_CM9-10_TWRP_v2.3.3.0_8-16gb_tools_emmc.zip Extract file. Rename recovery.img to altboot.img and copy this file into bootdata subdirectory. Or should I be using the img file from EMMC Fastboot directory here also?

Sorry for the text wall, but am I on the right path? Thanks again!

~Vol
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] digixmax:
The information you're looking for can be found in my post at http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=35669871&postcount=1 -- just do steps 1 through 2(b) and substitute in the version of CWM/TWRP you prefer in place of the one I suggested. This process of building Recovery SD gives you the flexibility to size the SD first partition ("boot") as large as you'd like (e.g., large enough to backup your current emmc ROM and data&cache onto it).
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] scgt1:
newb here. I followed every direction to try and make a bootable sd card so I can run CM 4.3 other then the advanced and I just boot into nook. Is there a sequence to be done here or something to get it to boot into cyanogen or am I just doing everything wrong? The guys that make CM are very freakin vague (Prerequisites:

A CWM recovery. To install CWM when coming from a stock device, you need to prepare a special SD card. Installation instructions can be found here on xda.) for newbs on what to do and it would be nice if they actually posted links to what to follow and what files to get. I'm probably not even doing the right thing that is needed for all I know. BTW Nook says it needs to format my sd card as it can't read it. I don't remember that problem when I had cyanogen before. Maybe I'm confusing things here?

I want my nook to have a dual boot via external sd card and to not effect the operations of the nook since you don't get full android access that way. Been there done that already thought it was great until I found out it was basic android and nothing more I was messing with.

Anyway here is what I followed from the first thread:

- Power off your NT and remove sdcard

- Put your sdcard into a microSD card Reader/Adapter (preferably)

- Format your sdcard with SDFormatter (recommended) or any other but not windows native.

- Download latest Win32DiskImage-binary.zip from https://launchpad.net/win32-image-writer/+download (v0.5 recommended)

- Download CWM/TWRP recovery for sdcard from the Download Links above

- Unzip both files

- Run Win32DiskImage.exe - Right click "run as administrator"

- Click the folder button and navigate to select the CWM/TWRP .img file you just downloaded and unzipped.

- Click on the disk drive letter label on the right, and choose the letter that corresponds to your SD card.

- Press Write. When it finishes, press Exit.

- Safely eject/remove your sdcard and put it back to your NT

- Power on your device, enjoy!

Granted I didn't get the recovery file because if done right it isn't needed and I can always just start over with the sd card if something goes wrong in the process. Unless that is my problem as to why it just boots into nook.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] digixmax:
See section "Making a Bootable Recovery SDcard" at http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=37515697&postcount=31.

Alternatively, you can also just burn one of Succulent's pre-made CM10.x SDcard images at http://iamafanof.wordpress.com/2013...id-4-3-for-nook-tablet-imgsdc-boot-09aug2013/, e.g., "cm_acclaim_10.2.0-RC0_13OCT2013_HD_SDC_IMG.7z (mirror)"

Finally note that many NTs will only boot off SD card from a power-off state and upon insertion of a powered USB cable.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] TODDzillaInLA:
hello everyone, just got a nt 8g 1.4.3 model # bntv250a. looking into rooting it and running cm11 just read all 13 pages whats the best way to do this. would like just to do the internal way if thats possible or do i have to get a micro sd card to accomplish all this? if someone could pm me and help me with a walk through it would be greatly appreciated, thanks in advanced... Merry Christmas