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[Nook Color General] Eric_Eric_Eric:
I am going to give my friend an SD Card with CM 10 on it for his Nook Color and want to have it all set up, so I do not have to give him instructions. Can I go through the whole partitioning part (the part where Tux is at the top of the screen and the Nook Color shuts itself off after finishing) on my Nook Color and then give him the SD card all ready to to boot into CM 10? I just want to do all possible steps ahead of time on my Nook Color, so it will be super simple for him on his Nook Color.
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
I would make the whole thing up to the point where it boots to the screen that starts the Google registration. Then stop and turn it off. Then he can put it in his nook, boot and fill out the registration.
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
LOL, you did not miss it before. I realized I had forgotten to say that after I told you to do it. So I went back and inserted it to the first post.

Glad you got it working.
[Nook Color General] Mr-Glass:
I have followed the instructions exactly and everything goes well until I restart the Nook - I get the penguin and the running scripts, when I turn the nook back on It just sits at the CyanogenMod Circles - I have let it sit there for about 20 min.. I also downloaded all the files again and retried with the same effect.. Any Ideas? Thanks for all the hard work on this..
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
Since you got as far as the boot animation, we know the SD was burned correctly and the files installed. And since you re-downloaded, we can probably rule out bad downloads. So that leaves the SD brand you are using. Is it a Sandisk Class 4? And that is not always a guarantee now. I just bought a new Sandisk Class 4 32GB card and it would not work. Kept giving me write errors during the scrolling text on install. And of course it would not boot.
[Nook Color General] Mr-Glass:
I think you hit the nail on the head - It is a brand new Sandisk Class 4 32GB - I did see a few errors that I could not make out towards the middle to end of the running script (it moves way too fast for my eyes to make out the exact wording).. Guessing I will try to get a 16GB class 4 Sandy... Thank you for the quick reply.. Kudos
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
I am not sure what you are installing. If you are installing on SD using my rev6 SD image, you should not be using CWM at all. You should be following my NC SD install guide in the OP.

If you flashed the CM10.1 using CWM, it got installed to internal memory, because that is what CWM does. So now you may have CM10.1 on both internal and SD.

Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10.1 on emmc.
[Nook Color General] NBushyy:
Hmm okay I'm gonna wipe and reinstall to internal memory with the latest cmw, my old cmw would get past cyanoboot. I'll update you after I do this. Thank you
[Nook Color General] NBushyy:
I can't find the latest clockworkmod? It's in this op?
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
No, this is an SD thread.

I'm not sure what you mean by latest, but I have 5.5.0.4 and 6.0.1.2 in my NC Tips thread linked in my signature.

Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10.1 on emmc.
[Nook Color General] bcbeaver:
I built an SD card just like it says at the beginning of the thread. I stuck it in my daughters nookcolor and I got a message basically saying it wasn't going to happen (2 months ago so I can't remember but I think it was the same message I'm getting now). So I took the SD and stuck it in my nook to see if it would work and I got the penguin and a pile of text then it booted as I expected it to. So I stuck the SD back in my daughters and it worked ( I seem to recall some small issue with it thinking her nook was mine but it booted and ran fine.

It worked for a couple months then stopped working and all she got was the cyanogenmod screen with the rotating ??honeycomb??. I turned off the nook and rebooted and it went to the same place so I turned it off and tried again. I got to the cyanoboot universal bootloader page and held the n button down to get to the boot menu. I tried the SD Card Recovery option and got a penguin with the following below the penguin

rcS!

Populating /dev using udev: done

Initializing random number generator: done

modprobe: chdir(2.6.32.9): No such file or directory

Starting network...

Unknown layout detected! Please report as a bug.

Please turn off power

And that's all it will do either that or go to the spinning honeycomb and never past.

I tried another card that I had built and installed in my nook and it did the same thing.

This Nook Color will not boot under normal conditions as a Nook ereader. It gets to the welcome to Nook screen with the girl with the option to skip video or watch video. At that point I get

!Restart Required

Your NOOKcolor encountered a problem that requires a system restart

If this problem persists, please contact Customer diservice.

OK

If I hit OK it does the same thing again. If I do a factory reset it still only get to that point.

I would try to set up the card in my nook as I did before but my nook is unavailable. (It **** the bed and is being replaced under warranty by B&N)

Whoa, I just had her noook plugged into my PC to charge when I tried a reboot with my SD card in it (not my daughters). I got past the CyanogenMod screen and I was told it was updating Android. It did that for a while then off it went like normal but thinks it is my nook not my daughters. I tried to boot with her card with the nook plugged into my PC and got no love.
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
I would have tried to answer this earlier, but you have me totally confused. I have no idea what you are asking or what the issue you want advice on is.

Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10.1 on emmc.
[Nook Color General] bcbeaver:
Ya I thought that might happen.

2 nooks. A, B.

A nook fails to function as a nook.

built SD card and inserted into nook A.

Failure.

Message:

"rcS!

Populating /dev using udev: done

Initializing random number generator: done

modprobe: chdir(2.6.32.9): No such file or directory

Starting network...

Unknown layout detected! Please report as a bug.

Please turn off power"

insert same card into nook B.

Success. (the pengiuin, screens of text whipping by)

Remove card from B and insert into A.

Nook A now accepts the card and life is good for 2 months.

Then something goes wrong and nook A will only display the Cyogenmd screen with the rotating honeycomb

I built another SD card and tried it in nook A and got the same "rcS!......" message as I got 2 months prior when I found a way around it as detailed above.

Nook B can not be used to set up the card because nook B failed while under warranty and has been sent away to be replaced by a new one. (B&N instore tech support bricked it's nook functionality.)

So, WTH can be done to nook A so that it will work in any capacity?
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
Ok, it sounds like Nook A has its partitions messed up. They have to be intact for the script to complete (that is why it reported unknown layout). Go to my NC partition repair thread linked in my signature and make a bootable CWM SD and use that to flash my repair zips. First the 145678 zip and then the format zip. (You may have to flash the partition 2 repair also.) Then you can flash a ROM there. Might as well put CM there since stock is long gone now, no need to mess with an SD version. You can use that same CWM card to flash it.

Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10.1 on emmc.
[Nook Color General] miacane:
Help needed please. I have attempted the SD install instructions, downloaded and installed Rev6 image with Win32, then added the zip files from RC4 and gapps on the boot partition. I have also attempted this process with 3 different SD cards. It boots, loads, and then shuts down. When I power back on, it goes into reboot again. I have attached the screen shoot of the reboot loop. Thanks
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
It is not finding the CM10.1 and gapps zips. Are you sure they are really there and named properly.? Maybe your SD adapter has the write protect switch on. Copy the files, remove and re-insert the SD and make sure the files are really there.

Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10.1 on emmc.
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
That CM10.1 zip is way too small. Your download is corrupt. Re-download both.

Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10.1 on emmc.
[Nook Color General] miacane:
That worked. Thank you
[Nook Color General] nataray:
locked after instal

I just went through the steps (thanks for pulling it all together) and instal went fine but now the NC shows the Android locked home. If i tap on the padlock icon it radiates but nothing else.

Here what i used

generic-sdcard-v1.3-CM7-9-10-10.1-larger-Rev6

gapps-jb-20130301-signed

cm-10.1-20130612-NIGHTLY-encore

during instal i connected to wifi but didn't add a google account.

I'm a life long apple mac user so Android is entirely alien to me and i have no idea what actually should happen when i tap on the padlock icon, or even if it ought to be there.

Thanks for any suggestions and help
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
Slide it to the right.

Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10.1 on emmc.
[Nook Color General] nataray:
duh

well that makes me kinda dumb, but i guess you don't know what you don't know

Thanks, i really appreciate this great resource you put together
[Nook Color General] JustMyUserName:
I ran all the steps (created card added gapps + cm 10.1 file and rebooted) and it booted to spinning cyanogenmod logo. Then it showed that it was upgrading 83 applications and indicated finishing boot. After it rebooted and sat on the Cyanogenmod logo for 10+ minutes and it never makes it past that point. Am I doing something wrong?
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
No, not wrong. But it could be your SD. Some brands and classes of SD do not function well as bootable SD's. What do you have?

Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10.1 on emmc.
[Nook Color General] PopRockRoll:
Hey, I flashed CM10 onto my nook's SD card, but now I only have 400 MB of my 2GB card available. Is there a solution to this?
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
That is the way it is supposed to be. When you burn the image to the card, only a small first partition is created for the boot files. Then after you boot once in the nook, the rest of the card gets partitioned to be used for installing the ROM to it. Your PC will always be only able to see that small first partition. But the rest of the card is being used to support the ROM installation. To see the usable media storage partition after the ROM is installed, you must use your USB cable plugged into the PC in order to see it.

And by the way, a 2GB card is really way too small to be used as an SD installation SD. You should have at least an 8GB or larger if you want the SD to run well.

Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10.1 on emmc.
[Nook Color General] formaggiopizza:
help! peeez

I downloaded a unzipped the sd image but it only came out to 298mb. Can i still write it to the sd card and root my nook without any problems
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
Yes.

Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10.1 on emmc.
[Nook Color General] formaggiopizza:
oops i forgot

Alsooooo for the cm10.1 do i need a gb and ics gapps? Which ones? CX thanks!
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
Yes you need gapps. And I think I tell you where to get it and which version in the third paragraph of my OP.

Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10.1 on emmc.
[Nook Color General] Missing Cuban:
Great, but.....

Hey there,

This is truly amazing. Ive been waiting to get android on to my Nook forever! This worked flawlessly! Boots into both easily. The only problem I am having is the lag that I am getting on the stable CM 10.1 Stable build. If you have any solutions that you have found they would be greatly appreciated my friend! Thanks for the amazing post and hopefully we can find a solution to this lag!

Sincerely

Missing Cuban

Samsung Galaxy S4

Nook COLOR
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
The lag could be the brand and class of the SD you are using. The optimum is SanDisk class 4. Others have been known to cause bad lag.

Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10.1 on emmc.
[Nook Color General] erehwon6811:
I followed your instructions and put 10.1 on my SD. It has worked out pretty well so far. I have noticed at times issues with the interface and a little lag at time. The battery also seems to go quicker than I thought it should, though I do leave wifi on.

They recommended class 4, but I tried a class 10 since it what I had on hand. I'm wondering if I should go to a class 4 stick? Can you use Win32 Disk Imager to clone the class 10 card to the class 4 card? I don't want to have to reinstall this all over again unless I have to.
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
You should be able to especially if the cards are the same size.

Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10.1 on emmc.
[Nook Color General] erehwon6811:
The class 4 card I grabbed is 4 GB vs my 8 GB class 10. I think I can get a hold of a 8 GB one. I probably can't easily transfer it to the 4 GB one.

The part I wasn't getting was how to use Win32 Disk imager to clone the card. I have put in the class 10 card and loaded disk imager up. What image file do I need to write to? That generic-sdcard image?
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
Just create a new name like 'original-cm-sd.img'. Insert that original SD in your reader and select read. It will produce an 8GB img file where you told it to. Then put your new 8GB SD in the card reader and using the same img file, tell it to write. You should now have a clone.

Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10.1 on emmc.
[Nook Color General] erehwon6811:
I tried that, but the image turned out to be bigger than my SD card's actual size. I ended up just doing a full install on the new card.

Are the class 10 cards still supposed to be giving the nook color problems? Between the two cards, noticed more issues with the class 4 card. I ended up going back to the class 10 card. I tried both a stable and a nightly version, but both gave me problems. The install on the class 4 card was laggy, and the button responsiveness was very slow. I also had issues with programs becoming unresponsive, even during the setup.

The class 10 card is a lexar and the class 4 is a kingston. Could brand have an effect on things?
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
Very much so. Use a Sandisk Class 4.

Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10.1 on emmc.
[Nook Color General] erehwon6811:
Thanks for all the help. I'm probably going to stay with the class 10 lexar card. It's given me the fewest problems so far.

My mom was wanting me to do this to her nook color as well. That's why I've been trying to get this to work with the fewest issues. I do have one sandisk card, but it is only a class 2.

Do you recommend doing a nightly version or a stable?
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
Either should be stable. And that class 2 may work ok.

Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10.1 on emmc.
[Nook Color General] cheeso34:
I'm feeling retarded

I've rooted about a dozen devices, and most of them were harder than this, but for some reason this isn't working for me. I have tried about 30 times, I've used two memory cards, win32diskimager and winimage, I've flashed with my sd in my laptop's reader, in a usb reader, and in the nook, I've tried two versions of cm, and tried both versions of the image, and not one time has anything at all happened when I turn on the nook when the card in it, just starts up completely normally. Every time I have flashed it has claimed to be successful, except trying to use winimage onto my computers card reader. And even though I named the cm and gapps files correctly I tried it a couple other ways just for the hell of it, and all I've gotten is a whole lot of nothing. I watched youtube videos to make sure I wasn't missing something. I read around and seem to be the only person on earth who can't get this to work. Anyone have any idea?
[Nook Color General] Anniraff:
Prepping your electronic device can be very frustrating (try out the original Galaxy S for real hairpulling fun), but, failing something severely wrong with your hardware, you should not be having such trouble with your Nook! First, check all the 'duh' stuff. It is a Color and not a tablet, yes? You are using the desired micro SD (Sandisk, class 4...I'd suggest 8 or 16 gig to begin with), no? You are following leapinlar's info to the letter, using the correct SD card image installer file with its correct ROM (the latest rev 6 is what you use in any case), huh? And after you have unpacked and burned the installer on your newly formatted Sandisk card, you have put the ZIPPED the Rom file of your own choice and its companion Gapps file on the first partition of the SD card, then inserted it into your Nook (the turned off but fully charged one), turning on the Nook and letting it do its thing (this is when the nearest equivalent to "flashing" will occur). Turn the Nook back on and you should have a fully working 'rooted' Nook that is running from the Rom you flashed on your SD card. Try again...it ain't brain surgery.
[Nook Color General] cheeso34:
well the problem is that there are non of those things I did wrong, I was 100% sure of that by about the 4th try. At this point my only assumption, short of the apocalypse is that my sandisk card is counterfeit, I just bought another one, because going by what I already thought, and what you said, there isn't anything else on earth that the problem could be. Also, I know that installing clockwork generally is flashing, but the general concensus is that mounting the image on the card is a flash and not a write, that's the flashing I was referring to in my post. If the new card works I'll let everyone know, every other time I've ever run into a problem someone else has had it first so it's been alot less of just trying everything I could think of till it worked.
[Nook Color General] cheeso34:
new card didn't work either....so the only guess I have anymore is that something is wrong with the tablet or something. I'm sure someone probably asked this before, but how can I get the 3 8gb memory cards that now think they're 300mb cards back to normal? I'm really tired of reading things so if someone could just link me to the answer or something I would really appreciate it.
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
You did not answer about having a Nook Color vs a Nook Tablet. A Nook Tablet has a silver bezel and will not boot these cards.

To get your cards back to normal find the SDFormatter program free on the web and format with that using the size adjustment option.
[Nook Color General] formaggiopizza:
im back

So when i go to goo.im/gapps do i choose the blue link or the one at the bottom? Thanks
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
Choose the folder that says gapps and then choose the right version for your operating system. (You have not told use which CM you want to run).

Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10.1 on emmc.
[Nook Color General] wmuflyer:
Which android version are you installing?
[Nook Color General] eltrkbrd:
gapps download & hash check

I installed CM 10.1.2-encore / stable (Android 4.2.2) on my Nook Color and the recommended gapps is 20130301; downloadable here:

http://goo.im/gapps/gapps-jb-20130301-signed.zip

MD5: b7e53e96e1c8b1a1c4865bf29418c8e0

You want to download from http://goo.im/gapps by clicking links from the "MDPI" column in the first table for your respective version of Android / Cyanogenmod (newer isn't always better / most compatible).

It's recommended that you verify the file integrity of your download with a hash checker tool.

If your on Windows; either of these two are good:

Hashtab - http://www.implbits.com/HashTab/HashTabWindows.aspx

MD5 checker - http://www.georgejopling.co.uk/md5check/md5check.html

I prefer hashtab because it's quick & simple and integrates with Windows explorer. Simply right click the file you want to verify, click properties and select the "files hashes" tab; then paste in the MD5 listed on the goo.im/gapps webpage for the respective file you downloaded under "hash comparison" and you should see a green check mark if it matches.

MD5 checker is nice because the app is portable (no installation required) and has a 40KB zip download option.

It's important to hash check your downloaded ROM file too before flashing it. The latest version is available here for the Nook Color (stable recommended):

http://get.cm/?device=encore
[Nook Color General] formaggiopizza:
Cm 10.1
[Nook Color General] formaggiopizza:
Also is it alright if i use a kingston 8gb mkcro sd card? And i still dont get the gapps thing. Do i have to get it in gb, ics, and jb form? And wich ones do i get? I know which jb im supposed to get but not which ics and gb.
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
Maybe. But if you have lag problems later it is because of that card. Best is SanDisk class 4.

You only want one set of gapps to flash. CM10.1 needs gapps-jb-20130301-signed.zip. I don't see what is so hard about figuring that out.

Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10.1 on emmc.
[Nook Color General] formaggiopizza:
Well thanks, turd...
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
You are so welcome, even if you are rude.

That same answer is in the first post of this thread.
[Nook Color General] formaggiopizza:
one more thing

Do i have to factory reset my nook color to root it?
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
This thread is not for rooting the device. It is for installing a different operating system to SD. And to do that, you do not need to do anything to stock, including rooting or factory resetting.

Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10.1 on emmc.
[Nook Color General] bruce845:
SD card will not boot

Hi. Thanks for the awesome instructions. Unfortunately my nook HD color (BNTV400) will not boot to the Sandisk 4 card. I mounted the img file using Win32imager and added the zip files thereafter using explorer. The mounting seemed to work successfully. I am using the SD card adaptor that came with the Sandisk micro. Is this a problem? My USB adaptor is not recognized by WIN32imager for some unknown reason. The NC just continues to boot to the 2.1.0 firmware. Does this mod not work with 2.1.0? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

These are the 3 files I used...

generic-sdcard-v1.3-CM7-9-10-10.1-larger-Rev6.img

cm-10-20130421-NIGHTLY-encore.zip (remained zipped)

gapps-jb-20121011-signed.zip (remained zipped)
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
That is because it is not a Nook Color. It is a Nook HD, a completely different device (a hummingbird, not an encore). Look in the Nook HD/HD+ forum for how to make a CM SD for it.
[Nook Color General] eltrkbrd:
Wrong thread

You have a Nook HD Tablet which is completely different from a Nook Color. Are you sure you are flashing the correct ROM?

Please see here for your device:

http://xdaforums.com/forumdisplay.php?f=2038
[Nook Color General] bruce845:
I am likely flashing the ROM for the Nook Color. I will try again with the ROM for Nook HD. At this point I assume the process is the same. I will research the XDA location for Nook HD. Thanks for your help. I will be doing this today and may be back with questions. Hopefully not. :good:

---------- Post added at 11:33 AM ---------- Previous post was at 11:19 AM ----------

I found a CM10 install for Nook HD+. Will this work for my Nook HD (BNTV400)? Also, I seem to like the dual boot approach as it is less invasive. Is there any advantage to the other approach - over-writing the stock ROM on the internal device memory. Is the dual boot not operate as fast?
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
You need to ask these questions on the Nook HD forum. And no, it does not follow the same procedure as here with the Nook Color. And no, the HD+ ROMs do not work on the HD. He has a separate SD thread for the HD. If you run verygreen's new SD setup in this HD SD thread, it does work well, but not quite as well as putting it on internal memory.

Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10.1 on emmc.