yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] tobdaryl:
It is normal that adb works if you can boot into cwm, this of course assumes your computer is setup properly.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] maxxcool7421:
/sigh/ its borked... i used the drivers from lavero.burgos ftp specifically for the nook, it is all there, no splats in the device manager..

used tools from this FTP in this article http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=25786947
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] lag0matic:
Adb can be a pain!! I'm at work atm but will post from home about how I finally got adb working! Don't give up hope!
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] tobdaryl:
Can you boot cwm from internal or sdcard? If yes, look at my previous suggested link. It works for me. No one has commented yet but it is being downloaded as was the previous version. It will place stock recovery in the proper partition and do a full factory restore (rewriting all stock software, etc. except rom partition which includes your mac, sn, etc.).
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] maxxcool7421:
thanks for the link, i tried that on the advise of the poster above you.

booted to cwm just fine, and did the install from zip and tried both flash_14x zips and it still boots to the "packingbox of death"
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] tobdaryl:
I'm confused (both flash_14x zips) there is nothing like that in the thread i previously suggested. Also I don't see a download of the suggested file since I posted the info here.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1837130

I understand if you don't wish to use that link, it is no problem on my end.

If I can think of anything else I'll repost at that time.

Good Luck!
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] maxxcool7421:
ok, i will wait.

in the mean time i was able to install the nook drivers from http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=25786947 this thread you pointed me at earlier and now i have a device entry in windows device manager called :

Android Composite ADB interface.. thats a new entry

USB\VID_2080&PID_0004&REV_0216&MI_01

USB\VID_2080&PID_0004&MI_01

0000.001a.0007.003.003.003.000.000.000

oem330.inf:Google.NTx86:USB_Install:2.0.10.2:usb\vid_2080&pid_0004&mi_01

8/10/2009 5:00:00 PM --driver assembly name

2.0.10.2 -- driver assembly version

oem330.inf -- inf name

i also have 2 disk entries for B&N Nook Tablet USB device
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] maxxcool7421:
Sorry Tobdaryl, clicked the wrong tab in chrome... i tried that and adb is unable to find the device, since it only boots from the sd card i can only try the bottom entry that needs adb to work..
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] tobdaryl:
Good luck! I'll continue to follow in the background.

---------- Post added at 03:30 PM ---------- Previous post was at 03:20 PM ----------

I just realized you might be talking about my thread and use of adb. If that is the case scroll to the bottom of the thread and download the file found there and you will only need cwm no adb or commands.

The top of that post is to lessen the confusion about factory restore that continues here on XDA and is not necessary to do if you use the download. Otherwise just disreguard this post.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] maxxcool7421:
anything is worth a shot... i will try it out ...
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] maxxcool7421:
still goes back to box of death screen... im convinced the partitions are gone and need manual restoration ...
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] tobdaryl:
That is probably correct. The first thing my file does is place stock recovery into the recovery partition. If you still have the box on boot then recovery could not be flashed as cwm emcc and recovery use the same partition so it is an either or situation. I am still trying to find a proper binary (supported on NT) that allows me to check md5s and properly handle errors such as this. Did you by chance see an error when flash completed?
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] lag0matic:
Right. Lets try to get ADB running.

First, google this application: Usbdeview

Download the appropriate one for your system.

Unplug all USB mass storage devices (USB HDD's, Card readers, Memory sticks, etc)

Run USBDeview, delete anything Google, Android, Nook, Barnes and Noble, and Mass storage.

Reboot.

Open device manager

Run the "Runmefirst" or whatever its called from the ADB directory

Plug in your NT.

Go to device manager - look for a broken driver on the tablet, and tell it to install the drivers (you may have to use "have disk" and point to the usb driver directory)

This should install the driver for your NT.

You may also need to edit a file in the .android directory, at the root of your windows username folder.

in which case, drop to a command prompt and type

echo 0x2080 > %username%\.android\adb_usb.ini

after that, try to connect to your NT by typing "adb devices"

you _should_ see something like

1234567890 Recovery

Or

000000000 Recovery

(as was my case with my bricked partitions)

Once you get that far, let us know, and we can start to help with recovering the partitions.

On a side note -- Is it important to you to be able to access the B&N Factory firmware, and use the device as you would a brand new one?

If so, we need to try to preserve your /rom folder, since it contains the information that will allow you to actually save the device.

We'll get the gparted SD card going next, so we can see if it will repair the partitions for you.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] maxxcool7421:
holy crap it lives!!! 0000000000 recovery!!!! Adb is good!

Now in shell! Omg is that ..... Hope i am feeling !?!? Its a weird feeling!
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] maxxcool7421:
ohhh yeah... bad bad bad mojo... not 100% but i think this thing it thought it was part of a raid array!?!?!

Warning: /dev/block/mmcblk0 contains GPT signatures, indicating that it has a

GPT table. However, it does not have a valid fake msdos partition table, as it

should. Perhaps it was corrupted -- possibly by a program that doesn't

understand GPT partition tables. Or perhaps you deleted the GPT table, and are

now using an msdos partition table. Is this a GPT partition table?

Yes/No?
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] maxxcool7421:
Number Start End Size File system Name Flags

1 131kB 262kB 131kB xloader

2 262kB 524kB 262kB bootloader

3 524kB 16.3MB 15.7MB recovery

4 16.8MB 33.6MB 16.8MB boot

5 33.6MB 83.9MB 50.3MB rom

6 83.9MB 134MB 50.3MB bootdata

7 134MB 522MB 388MB factory

8 522MB 1164MB 642MB system

9 1164MB 1611MB 447MB cache

10 1611MB 2684MB 1074MB media

11 2684MB 15.6GB 12.9GB userdata

(parted)
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] maxxcool7421:
note the lack if file systems Lolz...
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] lag0matic:
\o/

Right! Now's when we -really- break it!

I kid, I kid.

So there's a few methods we can try.

First things first. Get your bootable CWM recovery card. Add the files from this post

[http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1531120"]Here[/URL]

Just grab the zip, and put parted and the other files on the root of your sdcard.

Next, put the card in your NT, and while in adb shell type

mount /sdcard/

cd /sdcard/

parted /dev/block/mmcblk0

you'll then get a prompt that looks like

(parted)

type "print"

and hopefully you'll see a few errors, and it will ask you to fix them, choose fix for both.

If you dont get a "fix" option, then curse a few times, you'll feel better, and post here again.

Also, if I'm helpful, and not just frustruating, click "thanks!" :D
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] maxxcool7421:
to confirm :

EJECT card it is booted from now

add files

insert

remount

run command

yes?
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] maxxcool7421:
From that thread :::

Model: MMC SEM16G (sd/mmc)

Disk /dev/block/mmcblk0: 15.9GB

Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B

Partition Table: gpt

Number Start End Size File system Name Flags

1 131kB 262kB 131kB xloader

2 262kB 524kB 262kB bootloader

3 524kB 16.3MB 15.7MB recovery

4 16.8MB 33.6MB 16.8MB boot

5 33.6MB 83.9MB 50.3MB fat32 rom

6 83.9MB 134MB 50.3MB fat32 bootdata

7 134MB 522MB 388MB ext4 factory

8 522MB 1164MB 642MB ext4 system

9 1164MB 1611MB 447MB ext4 cache

10 1611MB 2684MB 1074MB fat32 media

11 2684MB 15.6GB 12.9GB ext4 userdata

:::::::::

note mine has no file systems on any partition. thoughts ?
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] maxxcool7421:
Crazy thought

if i delete EVERY partition, leave the card unformatted will the ubuntu tool work to re-create them and restore to factory ?
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] maxxcool7421:
i imagine the gpt table error for the msdos compatibility is whats hosing the ubuntu tool
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] lag0matic:
Well, it seems you've already gotten the messages I didnt want to see :<

Your lack of filessytems in your parted print, and the lack of options to "fix" them tells me you've managed to brick yours in exactly the same way I bricked mine.

So

Lets try to save your /rom file, at least. (I couldnt.)

Go back to your ADB shell

mount sdcard

dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0p5 of=/sdcard/mmcblk0p5.img

exit

adb pull /sdcard/mmcblk0p5.img /(someplace you want to back up the file)/

And lets hope that works.

FAIR WARNING - FROM THIS POINT ONWARD I OFFER NO GUARANTEE THAT YOUR NT WILL EVER BE ABLE TO USE THE B&N FACTORY IMAGE AGAIN (mine wont!)

now's the scary part.

You're going to need the partition files I linked above on the root of your SD card

along with These files provided by meghD00t

adb shell

mount sdcard

cd /sdcard

./sgdisk -Z /dev/block/mmcblk0

(((WARNING WARNING WARNING WARNING WARNING WARNING THIS WILL NUKE THE ENTIRE PARTITION TABLE OF YOUR NOOK))

And now we re-create it:

/sdcard # ./sgdisk /dev/block/mmcblk0 -a 256 -n 1:256:511 -n 0:0:1023 -n 0:0:31743 -n 0:0:65535 -n 0:0:163839 -n 0:0:262143 -n 0:0:1019903 -n 0:0:2273279 -n 0:0:3145727 -n 0:0:+12G -n 0:0:0

And now we name them.

/sdcard # ./sgdisk -c 1:xloader -c 2:bootloader -c 3:recovery -c 4:boot -c 5:rom -c 6:bootdata -c 7:factory -c 8:system -c 9:cache -c 10:media -c 11:userdata /dev/block/mmcblk0

Okay, now, the problem I ran into from here was that the post I had used to get thus far also contained a link to some scripts that were 404'ed.

So, feeling quite boned, and now looking at completely wiped partitions, I nearly cried.

However, I remembered This post, and went about creating this ubuntu restore method.

After running it (twice, for some reason it dies towards the end) and deciding that my NT was just.. dead. I pulled out the Ubuntu recovery SD, and rebooted the nook, only to be faced with it trying to acutally boot!

Of course, since I lost my serial # and such in the /rom partition fiasco, I also lost the ability to register with B&N, which, I was fine with, as I only wanted the NT to root, and use as a tablet.

However, if you managed to recover the mmcblk0p5 stuff from earlier, you -may- be able to recover your partition.

ye gods, I hope all this works for you. I know how I felt.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] maxxcool7421:
no luck on the save... which at this point i expected... when i saw the missing file systems i knew this was a pretty much sealed deal for the orignal ID and customer stuff for BN...

ok on to the scary stuff...
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] maxxcool7421:
commands ran successfully.

the 1st one " sgdisk -Z /dev/block/mmcblk0 " threw errors the 1st time... to be sure i ran it a second time and received no errors...

now making the ubuntu stick!!!!
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] maxxcool7421:
the sdcards commands and filesystem, will the stock recovery now flash to the boot partition successfully now ?
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] lag0matic:
I had to go through the ubuntu process before I could do anything beyond that.

Once I'd done that, my Nook was already reset to the stock recovery (I think the ubuntu recovery does it, or perhaps, dark sorcery.)

From there, I made a CWM bootable, put a CM7 zip on it, and gapps for gingerbread (cm7's base), isntalled both, wiped all caches and rebooted into CM7.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] maxxcool7421:
kk

one step at a time ;)

since its now a nookieless nook, (no customer id) i will put cm7 back on.... but *i want to know what you put on and how* so as to NOT do this again...

i would like to be able to control the cpu clock, not over clock

have google play, framework, and all the google commerical goodness

thoughts ?
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] maxxcool7421:
also once cm7 is back on the internal SD... how do i get to store data on it?

on the last attempt before i murdered it, i had to have a sd card inserted to download a game to test it... will i be able to recover some of the 12 odd gigs of internal memory to use as storage ?

or should i just stop and be happy its not a shiny brick ?
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] lag0matic:
Well, I never touched the "recovery" partition, for one. Mine still thinks its factory recovery.

I do all of my rom replacement and flashing from a CWM recovery card (got a 8 gig SD card at wal-mart for 8.99)

I used this CM7

CM7

and this version of gapps

Gapps (Hosted by V)

So, copy both of thoes zip files to your bootable CWM card (that you'll have to remake from your ubuntu card!)

Boot from SD, you'll see the cardboard box, then the CWM recovery stuff

you use volume up/down to navigate, the "N" button for select, and Power to "go back"

So, go down to "install zip from SD card"

then "choose zip from SD"

and install the CM7 zip first.

Go back to the main menu

and "Wipe data/factory reset"

then "Wipe cache"

then go to advanced, and "wipe dalvik cache"

now go back, go to install zip, choose zip, and install the gapps.

pop out the SD card, and reboot.

If it tries to boot recovery (barnes and noble recovery) hold power till it goes off, and then boot again.

If it -still- tries to go into the bN recovery, let it do it, you should see the girl with the video from there, you can power off, re-insert your CWM sd, plug in the USB to force it to boot from SD, then repeat the steps above.

That should get you booting CWM with Gapps.

THe first time you run market, it will be a bit wierd, then like the 2nd or 3rd time, it will automatically update to google play.

Install any apps you want (Nook app for access to nook books!) Amazon app, XDA app, etc.

Set the thing up how you like it, get wifi working yadda yadda.

then put your CWM recovery card back in, power down, and reboot to the CWM

this time, go to "backup/Restore"

and create a backup.

From there, if you try other ROM's or break something

you can go to your CWM card, and restore from that backup.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] maxxcool7421:
awesome...

also, its zeroing the sdcard... for a long time.... expected ?
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] lag0matic:
That's where I thought mine had hung up, as well.

I think, its because with our partition scheme, we dont acutally have that partition on our nook tablets (it is only used in certain cases)

SO

Force the device off (hold down power) and pull out your ubuntu card.

See if it reboots into some semblance of a real recovery.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] maxxcool7421:
MOTHA !!!!!! >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>"RESTORING FACTORTY SOFWARE" <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

Dude,.... i could kiss you... it'd be weird... but i'd do it
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] maxxcool7421:
"read forever"
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] maxxcool7421:
im at the ugly desktop .... o m g

you are my savior .... i would have hit this thing with a hammer before figuring that out! wow.....

EVERYONE THANK YOU!
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] lag0matic:
There you go, Dude.

Back up and running.

Now root that dude with CM7, install some gapps!

the next post from you I want to see better have the 'Sent from Xda app on nook tablet"
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] maxxcool7421:
I Am going to just run cm7 off the stick for now.... maybe sunday i will try to put it back on the internal.

i will let you know either monday morning or late sunday if i screw it up again... ;)
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] lag0matic:
Just remember

ROM manager is NOT your friend! (at least, from what I've found)

Install everything from a CWM card.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] maxxcool7421:
with a pic of me drinking jager while posting ;) you got it...
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] maxxcool7421:
Terrible terrible terrible app for the nook tab, just .... wow
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] lag0matic:
Just remember. Make a CWM card, put the zip files I linked above, and install that way.

Because, I can tell, you're like me. You're not going to "just run from the SD card for the weekend"

You'll be installing CM7 before dinner :P
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] maxxcool7421:
Allll right lag, the baby's room took to much time this weekend. i wanted to be sure to have the right amount of time (and sleep) to try this again. so today is it :)

after testing for the whole weekend i feel good enough about the rom to make it the primary os. :)

oi... sweaty palms already...
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] lag0matic:
HAHA!

If you need moral support, I can PM you my phone number. I'm bored at the office today anyhow, its a rain day.

Also, over the weekend, I found a recovery replacement for the factory one, but I'm still in the "Testing" phase.

Just remember, boot from CWM SD card.

Go to install zip from SD

choose zip

choose your CM7 zip

install

go back

wipe cache

advanced - wipe dalvik

factory reset/wipe

then go back to install zip, and install the gapps zip.

Easy easy!
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] maxxcool7421:
Awesome! ok... go time ;)
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] lag0matic:
Oh! Also!

The first CM7 boot will seem to take a bloody eternity.

After that, it will be -considerably- faster. The wiped caches need to be rebuilt on the first boot.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] maxxcool7421:
sigh not enough space to drop the cm7 on the sdcard ... the cm7 bootable recovery only makes a 100 meg partition ... grrr
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] lag0matic:
Oh!!

Okay, first wipe the SD card to free up its total space.

Then download this from my dropbox

unzip it to the root of the SD, that should make a CWM card that's bootable, and uses the entire size of your SD.

then just copy the CM7 zip, and the Gapps zip to the root of the card, as well

I keep an extra 8gig card with my current ROM, gapps, cwm recovery, and a backup of my system off to the side, and use a second 8gig SD card that stays in the NT to save apps and such.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] maxxcool7421:
aha... i read this earlier but could not find the link again :P
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] maxxcool7421:
hmmm not bootable... im going to edit the partition in gparted and set the boot flags manually and try again... I ran into this the 1st time i tried and eventually installed cm recovery onto the device... im hoping to not do that this time. :p
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] maxxcool7421:
boot flag set fixed it :)
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] lag0matic:
hm.. yeah. I never had my card not be bootable. I just used the sandisk SD formatter you can download, i think.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] maxxcool7421:
PNY 16gb, used formatter 1.3 ... meh i knew enough to go back at it with gparted ;) no biggie
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] lag0matic:
Grr.. IE glitching, causing me to double post.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] maxxcool7421:
so far so good... installed, set up some preferences on the ui.

now to try setting the govener, this is where bad things happened last time :P
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] maxxcool7421:
scratch that... backup 1st... :)
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] lag0matic:
Awesome. I didnt even touch the CPU speed settings. Just left that pretty much as is.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] maxxcool7421:
@#$@#$% its perfect... :) /bows/ WERE NOT WORTHY!!
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] lag0matic:
glad you're back to running! :D
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] maxxcool7421:
Know of a way to fix apps that dont pick up the wifi connection and think there on a cell phone ?

Example: wiki app, when you install the app, it wont get a connection.

i went into the connection manager and turned off all the options for mobile networks and gave it a reboot. that makes it work on my glacier, sadly that did not resolve here..

thoughts?

boot.prop ?
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] lag0matic:
I tried the wiki app and wikipedia. Both worked fine. 0__o

Try rebooting? I know sometimes wifi wont wake on sleep but I've not had any apps not see the connection.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] maxxcool7421:
What video player are you using... i am unable to play a 720p rip of a fringe episode ....
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] lag0matic:
I haven't tried using any sort of video player yet, actually. I'll look into it, and see what (if any) of my HD movies/anime I can play, and report back!
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] maxxcool7421:
it appears the worlds most popular file format (mkv) still doesn't have alot of support (acceleration). i will convert the source to mp4 and see if that makes a difference as i have read ...
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] maxxcool7421:
aahhhhhh its a gingerbread thing :( boooooooo ..... need to be on 3.x to get better mkv support (though still limited)
[General Topics] tbis:
This is for those who are patient and really want hbo go to work on jelly bean.

steps.

1. Flash installed

2. Open stock browser and user agent to desktop. Settings/advanced/user agent

3. Hbogo.com

4. Sign in as you would in your pc. It's a pain because the page is very unresponsive and is hard to select a tv provider.

Picking a show is just is hard recommend putting the shows you want to watch on watch list before trying but go ahead and try.

My picture is of East bound and down on my galaxy nexus I'm running the aokp jelly bean rom. You can go full screen if you hit the full screen button in the bottom right if the screen as you would in your pc.

Hope this helps and hopefully soon hbo will update their app like but I'm not holding my breathe.
[HTC Desire S] Wody05:
Hi guys,

I've got some ****y problem. So I was on Jelly Bean rom with revolutionary S-Off but wanted to have feature full phone and thought ok go back to stock (bad idea...)

So I followed a tutorial flashed Eng Hboot and wanted to restore with an O2 Gingerbread RUU. Everything worked fine until I got Error 140 (Bootloader failure)...Now I'm S-On but I don't have any rom on my phone so I'm stuck in recovery.

S-On

Hboot 0.98.0000

Radio 38.03.02.14_M

In my opinion I have to get a goldcard to flash a ruu on top of all that **** ^^ Buuut I can't boot so no ADB, hence I can't get my CID. Tried some tools to get CID via card reader but It didn't work for me.

Any Help, Suggestions? Help me to fix my android and avoid to buy an Iphone ^^

Cheers
[HTC Desire S] Wody05:
main version check fail...that stopped the RUU
[HTC Desire S] humzaahmed155:
Have a go at fastboot, if that doesn't work it will need to be sent off to the repair center to be reprogrammed by JTAG experts.
[HTC Desire S] Wody05:
I can enter fastboot and do commands that's not the problem. Sadly my hboot seems to be too low for htcdev unlock -.- ...And I don't know of any method to get ADB working in bootloader, fastboot, ...
[HTC Desire S] BillGoss:
Can you get into recovery from fastboot? If so, you can run ADB from there.

Sent from my Desire S
[HTC Desire S] zhangks98:
Why not trying to flash the ruu that suits your carrier,

Besides, it's best not to use eng-hboot in order to get back to s-on, imho,it's best to upgrade hboot to revolutionary 7.x after using revolutionary s-off, it's compatible with most 2.3.5ruus and custom roms.
[HTC Desire S] Wody05:
I can get into recovery but it is stock recovery...and adb doesn't recognize my device while i'm in there :(...

The ruu suits my carrier, as I said the signature check was true but the version check failed...i would need a newer o2 ruu but that doesn't exist :(
[HTC Desire S] Wody05:
help me pls^^
[HTC Desire S] BillGoss:
Can you flash a custom recovery, such as 4EXT or CWM, using a PG88IMG zip file on your sdcard?

Sent from my Desire S
[HTC Desire S] Wody05:
Hey Bill thx for your help! I used an old phone wich could get into CWM ;) Got CID of SD Card and did the Gold Card method! Flashing Ruu PG88IMG right now:)

btw. This can be closed :)
[HTC Desire S] BillGoss:
Just add [Solved] at the front of the title on the original post (OP).

Sent from my Desire S