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[Nook Color General] projectedv:
help - CM10 didnt completely install?

hi all,

i followed the instructions and was using a newer nightly CM10 zip on a SD card.

i can see the CM circle loading screen but after it finishes loading, i get a blank black screen with the 3 on-screen buttons (back, home, menu) and nothing else. it seems like gapps and other parts of the CM10 didn't load?

any suggestions? i've re-formatting the SD card via Win32diskimager a couple times and re-downloaded the CM10 / gapps files but that doesnt seem to make a difference.

i have CM7 running on emmc.

thanks!
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
Re: [HOW TO] Updated Installation Instructions for Installing CM9/CM10 to SD

Reburning the card with win32diskimager does not help. All of the /system comes back after the partitions are recreated. You must wipe /system with CWM to clear things. In order to do that you need my alternate CWM installed.

Sent from my Galaxy Tab running Tapatalk
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
Re: [HOW TO] Updated Installation Instructions for Installing CM9/CM10 to SD

Oops, ignore.
[Nook Color General] stonerfamily10:
Missing Apps from Google Play

I would like to contact you about a problem I have with restoring apps I got from Google Play store. I had to reformat and reload CM10 onto my SD card because I somehow messed up putting the software on the smaller FAT32 partition. When I re-flashed with the newly reformatted and reloaded SD card, everything ran very smoothly. EXCEPT that I didn't see any of the apps that I had downloaded from Google Play. My Google Play account says that I have these apps already installed on my device, and I don't see a way to re-download them. After working all day on this problem, I finally called Google Play about it, and they said I had to talk to people at "Cynogen" about it. Where did I go wrong, and can I fix this problem so that I can get the apps to show on my Android screen?

(I am using a 32 GB Class 4 SanDisk micro SD card)
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
Re: [HOW TO] Updated Installation Instructions for Installing CM9/CM10 to SD

The problem you are having is when you reburn the card and let it re-create the partitions, the partitions get put in the same exact location on the SD so it is like nothing is erased. You need to clear the /data partition. And the only way to do that is to use my Alternate CWM for SD that I talk about in the OP. Install that and wipe data/factory reset.

Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10 on Hybrid SD
[Nook Color General] earamiro:
SD card Class 10?

Hi all!

I have 2 nook tables and the first one worked like a charm ! i thank you all for that. I have an issue with the 2nd though. My issue is a classic "Unexpected Lack of Boot Partition on the SD card! Please Report". My first attempt initially worked and i came to a point where i was setting up my gmail account and even installed a few applications which worked great. i was setting up the alarm and all of a sudden in went blank. tried to reboot it but to no avail.

My suspect is that i am using 32 GB SD card Class 10. its the only one i have. the other nook i have was a 32 gb class 4 and that worked like a charm. The nook boots properly without issues when SD card is not installed.

what i have done so far:

- used an external SD card reader when burning the disk.

- used winimage and win32diskimager

- downloaded the CM and gapp more than 3 times.

- formatted SD card using SDFormatter

- checked the SD card with Minipartition wizard surface test says its ok (all green) and has the following details

- partition ID: 0xb

- Fat 32

- first physical sector is 63

- last physical sector is 610469

- total physical sector is 298.05 mb

any other tips that i can try to make this work? or am i screwed with the class10?

thanks for the help!
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
Re: [HOW TO] Updated Installation Instructions for Installing CM9/CM10 to SD

Those are write errors that it is reporting. That class 10 is not going to cut it. What brand is it? You can use it in some other device, but it won't work for running a ROM from.

Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10 on Hybrid SD
[Nook Color General] earamiro:
(re writing as my original reply may have not gone through)

thanks! you are correct, the SD card works well on other devices or by itself when plugged in my win7 pc. I swapped the sd card with my old phone with a 16gb class 4 micro sd. tried the steps and tips again. but this time snagged a different problem but still has the unexpected lack of boot partition error (see image attached). i dread to think that its a hardware issue. but then again, the native B&N nook OS can read and write without any problem on the SD cards installed. any other steps i can take? thanks!

additional information: forgot to mention that the first time i encountered the issue, it rebooted my nook color and held the "n" button for the boot menu. tried the various options there to no avail. last i tried was the portion to boot from EMMC which prompted me that it will restore the nook to its factory default. I opted out as the nook boots without issue on its own OS. after that, i reformatted the sd card and tried a number of attempts to make it work, but failed.

hope you can give some more advice. i would appreciate it very much. thanks!
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
Re: [HOW TO] Updated Installation Instructions for Installing CM9/CM10 to SD

That error is because even after booting from the SD, while doing a check to see if the card has been partitioned already, it cannot find partition 1 on the SD listed in the partition list. What had you done with this card? Is this the first time booting with it after burning it? Did you do anything with a partition manager? Oh, I just see the last additional info. This is strictly an issue with the SD, not with stock. So keep playing with it. Reformatting with SDFormatter, reburning different ways. Keep trying to reboot with it.

Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10 on Hybrid SD
[Nook Color General] earamiro:
it worked!

Thanks for the help leapinlar! i got it working now. Followed your lead and focused on the SD card. Not sure which one did the trick but i did two steps. 1) formatted the SD card using SDFormatter and the FULL Write option and not a quick format. and 2) used the minitool partition wizard to copy my other Nook's SDcard to this Class 10 SD card. perhaps formatting it full did the trick by itself, and I could have gone through the process of installing CM10 in this nook. but after doing a full format, i was curious to check it using minitool and was surprized when i right clicked on my working SD card that there is an option to "copy." so after careful thought, i went ahead with the minitool's "copy disk wizard." at first my nook just gave me a blank screen after passing through my previous errors. but it went through eventually with the boot process. now i am using it, installing apps and all.

thanks again for the help! :good:
[Nook Color General] earamiro:
stuck in boot process

here i go again! this nook color is now becoming a pain.

After having been challenged on the building a bootable SD card (solved by a full format of the SD and not a quick format), the nook worked for a approximately 24 hours. was able to use it. install apps, and play with it. i just love the CM10 on this nook. However, hunged once again. I tried to reboot it several times, but was always stuck in the boot animation. not sure what its called but its where the cynagenmod logo is with the rotating image, just like a clock (forgive my ignorance not knowing what this is called, but i attached an image that looks something like that). At one point I let it be for about 2 hours and it was still showing me the animation. Did this several times to no avail. However, this time around i noticed something. as i have removed and placed back the memory card several times from my previous issue, i think i may have made the SD card slot a bit loose. the micro SD is a bit wiggly while inside the slot. as a work around, i have put a small amount of mounting putty* in the slot just to keep it steady. However, the issue still persist. i have SD card 01 in the upper left corner everytime i boot it up. i read in some forums that i may need to clear some cache? but dont know how to. or am i going to the route of reburning an image to this SD card and starting from scratch? I also tried to boot from SD card recovery but says that the installer is not available (or something to that effect).

Any advice is appreciated! thanks all!
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
Re: [HOW TO] Updated Installation Instructions for Installing CM9/CM10 to SD

I have an answer for you, but I am tied up for a few hours. Will return later with some suggestions. And thanks for the donation.

Edit: You need to go to the OP and read about and install the Alternate CWM for SD. Then boot to that and go to advanced in the main menu and select wipe dalvik cache and then fix permissions. Then try booting again to CM10. If that does not fix it, go back to CWM and wipe data/factory reset. That will mean you have to set up Google again if it boots. If it still does not boot, go back to CWM and go to mounts and storage and wipe /system. Then copy the CM10 zip and the gapps zip to the boot partition and boot to normal recovery on SD. That will reinstall everything.

Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10 on Hybrid SD
[Nook Color General] earamiro:
it worked.... again!

Thanks for the reply! Clearing the Dalvik cache did the trick and i went to boot successfully. However, after a few hours of some tests, the google apps just crashed or stopped working. rebooted again and encountered another issue with booting. followed the steps above, went as far as a factory reset. it worked again but crashed after a few hours. I then decided to have a new install. went through the process of formatting the SD card using the SDformatter. Then buring your new version of the disk image, alos copying the 2 files from the b5 tips(alternate cw boot). downloaded the latest nightly and gapps. the installation was flawless. i was able to set up my nook again. this time, before i installed any app, tried to reboot it just to be sure. it worked! intalled a few more apps. rebooted again, it worked... configured emails and facebook. rebooted... it worked! changed to live wall paper.. rebooted and it worked! i guess its pretty stable now after a few successfull reboots.

Thanks again for the help!

The donation is not even worth mentioning, its a small amount. just one way for us to say thanks for the help. I know you guys do this more out of a hobby but you guys are helping out! next time any of my nook encounters an issue, i already have an arsenal of troubleshooting steps to apply. if i find something interesting, i will share in this forum. Thanks!
[Nook Color General] rickgrimes:
Thanks!

I've been trying for days to install cm10 with generic-sdcard-v1.3. The larger rev5 file works great. You are AWESOME!
[Nook Color General] Ogre6473:
Okay, I'm having an issue here and thought someone might be able to help. I currently have ClockworkMod 9 on my NookColor. I'm trying to update to the latest experimental build. Every time I run the update using the disk image method, it appears to run through it. I reboot and I'm right back in CM9. Tried the other method by just rebooting into Cyanoboot and telling it to run an SD recovery file, and it just sits there doing nothing. Any thoughts?

---------- Post added at 07:37 PM ---------- Previous post was at 07:10 PM ----------

Okay, just an update in case anyone else has this issue. When I told it to install from SD Recovery and nothing happened, I manually rebooted. It went into Clockwork Mod Recovery from there and I was then able to tell it to install from Zip using the CWM menu. It has installed the latest version now, but I'm waiting for the first time boot to finish. No idea how long this is supposed to take >.>
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
Re: [HOW TO] Updated Installation Instructions for Installing CM9/CM10 to SD

You have got to be a little clearer. You mean you have CyanogenMod (CM) 9 installed on Nook Color. How installed? Internal or on SD? And you want to update to the latest experimental build. Experimental build of what? CM9? CM10? CM10.1?

And you say update using the disk image method. What does that mean? You mean burning the new rev5 image to an SD and installing the new CM to it?

Be a little clearer and maybe we can diagnose what is happening.

Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10 on Hybrid SD
[Nook Color General] Ogre6473:
Sorry. Kinda new to this. I had CM9 installed onto the EMMC. I was trying to use the Rev5 method to install CM10 nightly onto the EMMC, I did manage to get it to install, but I'm now stuck on the CM 10 boot animation. It's not rebooting or anything like that, the animation just comes up as normal, but then it stays there with the little circular animation going.
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
Re: [HOW TO] Updated Installation Instructions for Installing CM9/CM10 to SD

The rev 5 method installs it to SD, not emmc. So your CM9 stays on emmc. So you got the CM10 to install to the new SD? What kind of card is it on? Some cards do badly with the SD install. That would cause the stuck boot animation. The best is SanDisk class 4, any size.

Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10 on Hybrid SD
[Nook Color General] Ogre6473:
This particular card is a SanDisk. But I want to install it to the EMMC, so how would I go about doing that? I used this same method when I was installing CM9 as far as I recall, though I could be wrong since that was a while ago.

---------- Post added at 08:15 PM ---------- Previous post was at 08:13 PM ----------

-_- Nevermind. It turned out I used a different process that had similar steps. Hence why I thought it was the same process. Sorry for the trouble.
[Nook Color General] nlof:
I have a similar problem with shadowallen1... I will be giving a bunch of details, maybe I am doing something wrong...

I had CM 7.1 loaded on uSD for over a year which worked fine. Recently the boot got stuck on the rotating CM 7.1 image and it would not load further without me doing any changes prior to that... the battery only ran out because of non-usage. I could still boot to stock from eMMC with the n key and still do now if I remove the uSD card.

So i found your excellent guides and read through this and other threads trying a bunch of different iterations, which towards the end included the works:

* reformat the card (Sandisk 16 GB) with HPUSBDisk.exe (took more than couple hours) and some other time I did a quick reformat with SDformatter 4.0

* wrote generic-sdcard-v1.3-CM7-9-10-larger-Rev5 with win32diskimager-v0.7,

* loaded the nightly CM10 (tried couple versions including cm-10-20130310-NIGHTLY-encore) and gapps-jb-20121011-signed.

After doing this I usually get the pinguin but after the reboot it gets stuck on Loading... forever it seems (I waited as long as 15 minutes).

I tried dropping AlternateCWM-SDInstalls-Rev2-v6.0.1.2 content (2 files after unzip) onto the boot folder of the uSD and rebooted while holding the volume up and down buttons but it remains stuck on Loading..., the alternate boot doesn't show up.

In my desperation I even tried another uSD card (not the recommended type) but still no joy. I also did try earlier the CWM version 5.5.0.4 bootable SD (since I didn't realize that it is for eMMC version) but I only booted with it and rebooted without making any other changes to any partitions or deleting folders so I think no damage was done :)

I am totally bummed after spending an entire day on this and not sure what else to try :)
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
Re: [HOW TO] Updated Installation Instructions for Installing CM9/CM10 to SD

After you burned SD and booted to the penguin and it supposedly installed the CM10 ROM, and you rebooted, it did not boot to the cyanoboot logo so you could press the n key to get the menu? That means the CM10 ROM did not get installed properly by the penguin.

So start over burning and booting. After you have booted once, put the CM10 zip on it again and boot again. Watch the screen and see it there are any error messages in the text scrolling by. It could be having trouble finishing the install.

Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10 on Hybrid SD
[Nook Color General] nlof:
Thanks for the fast reply. When moving the card from the NC back to my USB card reader I got a message asking me whether to scan and fix the disc or continue (I chose the latter). I dropped CM10 again on the boot folder and reinserted in NC.. no pinguin, just the Loading... screen came up. BTW, I always safe eject the card from the PC.

I tried again the process but chose scan (without automatic fixing) and same thing happened...

I will try to reburn from scratch and see what errors the pinguin gives me although they go by very fast :)
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
Re: [HOW TO] Updated Installation Instructions for Installing CM9/CM10 to SD

An incomplete install would give you the symptoms you are having. And it seems to go by fast but actually slows down when installing the ROM so you can see the errors, if there are any.

Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10 on Hybrid SD
[Nook Color General] Ogre6473:
Not sure if I'm helping or not, but why not just install it to the emmc? I don't have anything against the stock B&N software, but even if you install a new ROM to the emmc, you can still download the Nook software and access anything you may have purchased through their store. Plus you have access to all the other stores, and have no problems reading any ebooks you acquired through "other means" if you know what I mean.
[Nook Color General] nlof:
WOOHOO! Thanks for taking the time and pointing me into the right direction :) Turns out the USB card reader is junk. I just happened to try another one and everything went smoothly... Thanks again!

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Thanks for the suggestion, you may be right... I will look into it. When I initially modded the NC in 2011 it was under warranty and I wanted to keep that as a fallback option. Things seem to have advanced since, so I might follow your advice when I have another day or two to waste on system maintenance and head scratching :) In general I try not to constantly optimize things anymore since it wastes too much of my time for marginal benefit (kinda if it ain't broke, don't fix it attitude :)
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
Re: [HOW TO] Updated Installation Instructions for Installing CM9/CM10 to SD

In case any of you are interested in some SanDisk Class 4 cards, Staples has them on sale now through March 23. $8.99 for 8Gb, $14.99 for 16Gb, and $27.99 for 32Gb.

Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10 on Hybrid SD
[Nook Color General] Nominee:
Hey all,

I'm successfully running CM7.2 via SD on my Nook color - thanks to this thread!

I'm now trying to get the 'Nook for Android' app installed so I can continue reading .epub etc. Can anybody provide me some guidance on how to install this?

Note: I am in Canada, so i'm unable to install it from the Google Play store. I found the .apk files for the Nook app, but don't have a clue how to load them.

Help appreciated!
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
Re: [HOW TO] Updated Installation Instructions for Installing CM9/CM10 to SD

Just open the apk with your file manager and it will ask you if you want too install it.

Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10 on Hybrid SD
[Nook Color General] volpo222:
Phablet to Tablet

Hello everyone,

I was lucky enough to have a friend give me a Nook Color. I remembered that there was a way to turn the NC into a tablet and found this forum and thread.

Thanks! Thank you to the people who created the rom and to all the posters of questions and all of you who answered, it made my journey to CM10 easy as it could be.

A special thanks to Leapinlar for creating a simple, easy to follow procedure.

I have a question: I understand the ROM (CM10) is set up to turn the NC into a phablet. I read that it possible to add something to set it up as a tablet.

Is it possible to do this with android running from an SD?

If so where can I find the file?

If possible do I just copy the file to the boot partition and do a recover?

Thanks again to everyone!

V
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
Re: [HOW TO] Updated Installation Instructions for Installing CM9/CM10 to SD

It is already set up for that. When you boot up the first time it will be in tablet mode, with the status bar and navigation keys on the bottom. If you want to go to phablet mode, it will put the status bar at the top and the navigation bar at the bottom. If that is what you want, you will need to change the lcd density so the phablet mode kicks in. Everything will be larger however, fonts and icons, etc. If that is what you want, I can point you to some instructions.

Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10 on Hybrid SD
[Nook Color General] volpo222:
That is strange I have the nav buttons on the bottom but the status bar (battery, radio, time, etc.) on the top of the NC. Using the latest nightly (last Sunday). What I want is for CM10 to look as you describe.

Thanks,

V
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
Re: [HOW TO] Updated Installation Instructions for Installing CM9/CM10 to SD

Go here:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=39073230

Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10 on Hybrid SD
[Nook Color General] Gunderstorm:
This same thing is happening to me - stuck on the boot animation. I'm using a Sandisk Class 2. Is that likely the issue?

Thanks for writing such an amazing guide and sticking around to maintain it!
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
Re: [HOW TO] Updated Installation Instructions for Installing CM9/CM10 to SD

It could be the SD. But I have not heard of anyone having problems with a class 2.

I would recommend installing the Alternate CWM for SD as discussed in the OP and doing a dalvik-cache wipe on the advanced menu. If it still does not work, it is probably the card.

Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10 on Hybrid SD
[Nook Color General] volpo222:
I did and flashed the CM10 version via recover. Oh, well it's the CM boot logo to infinity. I guess I'll start again. Good thing I made an image.

Thanks,

V
[Nook Color General] Gunderstorm:
SUCCESS! I performed the dalvik-cache wipe using your A10 instructions (and a separate SD card) and then popped the CM10 card in as before. Totally worked.

Thank you for breathing new life into a device I had pretty much given up on. My CM7 on here was murder to use. Now I've got JB running on a device I paid $250 for two years ago. That's amazing! :victory:
[Nook Color General] Nominee:
Wow - that was easy!

Thanks for your great thread!
[Nook Color General] bcbeaver:
OK so I made an sd card as per leapinlars' original post in this thread and it worked. After a few days it stopped working so i figured perhaps it was corrupted somehow so I tried it again. I had to reformat my card with sdformatter to get rid of the partitions that weer on it because for some reason it was showing as being 278kb. SO I reformatted and was showing my SD card to be 7.4gb. I copied the image to the card using win32diskimager and once again it only shows as being 278kb and will not take the other files. I get the not enough memory message.

Why is this happening and how can I stop it?
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
Re: [HOW TO] Updated Installation Instructions for Installing CM9/CM10 to SD

When you format a card, even with SDFormatter, if you do a quick format, which is usually the default, and you immediately reburn the card with the same image, it is just like it was before. In other words, it was not erased. So you need to format by telling SDFormatter not to quick format. That takes longer, but it is truly erased then. The next time you burn, it is fresh. So try that.

Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10 on Hybrid SD
[Nook Color General] bcbeaver:
Thanks for that it worked. I think I have another problem though.

Even though I built the sd just the same as I did originally my nook color will not boot from it. The first time I did it my nook booted from it for about 5 days then it stopped booting from the sd. I'm thinking I've got a problem with my nook that makes it not look to the sd on startup.