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[Nook Color General] seanmcg:
I am going to throw myself under the bus right now.

After two days of trying to complete this process, I discovered that my wife was incorrect when she told me this is a Nook Color. I looked into it and it turns out I have been trying to root a Nook Tablet using Nook Color software and instructions. I am a complete moron.

Anyway, thank you so much for trying to help me. I really appreciate it. Now I'm going to get drunk!
[Nook Color General] uranium:
you did not mention in the introduction but I gather from your changelogs that cm11 is supported. I'm keen to try out cm11 on sd as I already have cm10.1 stable installed in emmc.

as I understand it, cm11 is supported by your program. I'm just curious why does the SD have to be a minimum size of 8gb? correct me if I'm wrong at any point.

thanks! I'm looking forward to trying cm11 on my nook color to check the smoothness.
[Nook Color General] StacksMobile:
sorry wrong post
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
My edit in the intro says CM11 is supported. How else would you know it has a minimum 8GB?

It has a minimum size of 8GB because the CM11 ROM with gapps is so large it takes a larger /data.
[Nook Color General] bytte:
To avoid doubt, how about updating the title to include CM11?
[Nook Color General] uranium:
Alright. Thank you for the clarification!
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
Done.
[Nook Color General] EMetalmulishaH:
Error.

I downloaded the two files.

cm-10.1.3.2-encore

gapps-jb-20130812-signed

I am using a ScanDisk 8gb Class 4 Micro SD HC

First I downloaded win32diskimager then I I extracted the 10.1.3.2-encore file. Then I opened Win32diskImager in admin mode then I selected my SD card and Then I choose the .img file in the cm-10.1.3.2-encore file. I clicked write and it said the write was successful. When I removed the SD card and placed it back into my computer it asks me to reformat my SD card. I first removed the card by just taking it out of the slot and putting it back in. When that did not work I reformatted the SD card and did the writing process again, but this time i ejected the card. When I placed the card back into the computer it still makes me reformat the card instead of allowing me to drag the two zip folders into the SD card.
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
you are using the wrong .img file. You should not extract the CM10.1.3.2 zip. You should download and extract the generic-sdcard-v....Rev8b.zip attached to the OP. Then use the .img file from that in win32diskimager.
[Nook Color General] EMetalmulishaH:
Thank you
[Nook Color General] bcbeaver:
Edit: I found what I was looking for. Thanks leapinglar
[Nook Color General] SovietRussian:
Rooting my Nook HD

Using this link http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2317500 i downlaoded everything for the nook HD. I unzipped cm-10.1.3-hummingbird because it was the only one that had the boot image and when i used the card manager to put it on my sd card it made me reformat the card
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
Why are you posting this Nook HD question in the Nook Color forum?

You should be following this guide:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2317500
[Nook Color General] sdranches:
SD card issues...Help please

Hi,

I am new here and new to all of this and really could use some help to turn my nook color into an android device... ok the problem I am having is when I use the windisk imager to put the image on my sd card it writes it fine, then when I take the card out and back in as instructed when I try to add the other files to the card, I am told I need to format my card... I am using the SDFormatter program to format my card, but believe I must be doing something wrong as it continuely tells me after I load the image and remove then put the card back that I need to format it again... I am at a total loss, thanks for any help.
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
It may be your card reader. You should be using one that is the external USB type rather than one built into the PC. Go to my NC Tips thread linked in my signature and read item A9.
[Nook Color General] sdranches:
Still having problems...

Sorry to be a bother, I have a external card reader now, but am having the same issue.... my question is, first how do I know my card is a s "series 4" (I think that is right) and when I am formating do I do a quick or full format and is there anything I need to be doing extra other than just hitting the format button?

Also how do I use windiskimager as administrator... if I am the only user on my computer wouldn't that automatically be the administrator?

Thanks for your continued help... I appreciate it!
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
Usually the class 4 is shown in a little circle with a 4 in it. Either on the front or back. But brand matters too.

And usually formatting does not matter if it burns properly since writing the image sets the format.

Run as administrator depends on which version of Windows you are running. For most, a right click on the exe filename and select the run as administrator option.
[Nook Color General] bowguy:
Install failure on latest CM-11.0

Leapinlar

I just built the latest and greatest CM-11.0 from source. Went through the standard install procedures using your guide as I have done many times before and the CM-11 zip installed fine. Note this build included https://github.com/NookieDevs/andro...mmit/516422e71541da34b62b595d25ad03664e172b83 which redirected /system/app/Hangouts.apk to /dev/null to save space. I then tried to install the 2014/01/05 gapps package using your/verygreen's script and saw this message:

"Hangouts.apk exists but is not a regular file" The script died at this point and shutdown. After booting, you cannot add a google account as it appears it is a very incomplete gapps install.

Steven676 wanted me to post this to you.

Thanks
[Nook Color General] ehanson:
Booting Nook Color from SD confusion

I have been reading posts for two days. I recently downloaded CM7 for my Nook Tablet loaded it to my SD, expanded section 4, put gapps on the root and everything works great on the Tablet with no strange requirements. I have downloaded nookie-froyo and am about to download CM7 for the Nook color. I have no desire to root my nook, but I do want to use the nook color beyond standard Nook capability. I did it about a year ago, with a separate boot file. It worked fine for awhile, then stopped working, so I wanted to set it up with a newer file. I cannot understand which is best and which will be the most straight forward install process. Does anyone have suggestions or guidance.

Thank you all,

ehanson
[Nook Color General] bowguy:
What do you have???

A Nook Color or a Nook Tablet? They are different devices. You can't use these instructions on a Nook Tablet.
[Nook Color General] ehanson:
Nook Tablet or Nook Color?

I understand. I have both, a Nook Tablet and a Nook Color. Shortly after purchasing the Nook Color I set us a SD with CyanogenMod which would boot off the SD or the Nook Color with no problems. About 6 months it quit booting from the SD and the SD had to be reformatted - cause unknown. When I bought the Nook Tablet I looked for a SD boot solution for the Nook Tablet, similar to the one I had used on the Nook Color (I still wanted a SD boot solution for both the Tablet and the Color).

This week I discovered the solution for the Nook Tablet, installed "Team-B-CM7SD-Alpha_final.img" file onto the SD and everything worked perfectly. Apparently I cut the gapps file from my computer so I don't have the specific name of the file. I am very happy with the SD boot of CM7 and can easily boot back to the Nook Tablet by doing a reboot our of CM7.

I now would like to have a similar solution for the Nook Color. That is where I am confused. I have downloaded the following filles as possible solutions:

nookie-froyo-SDIMAGE_2GB-0.6.8.img

and

CWM_SD_flash_and_exe.zip

I want a solution for the Nook Color like the one for the Nook Tablet. An image I put on the SD and when I boot the Nook Color it sets up the SD and works. Does that exist? Is it nookie-froyo, or CWM, or something else.

Thank you for your assistance.

ehanson
[Nook Color General] bowguy:
Go to the first post in this thread. It has detailed instruction on how to download an image and setup an SD card for the Nook Color. Once you burn the image to the SD card (again see the first post) you can pick and choose what you want to install. It can be CM7 CM10 or even now CM11. The images are here:

http://download.cyanogenmod.org/?device=encore
[Nook Color General] kirichen:
Using the same SD media partition with emmc and the verygreen SD

Is somebody know how to use the same SD media partition with emmc and the verygreen SD with CM11 ON emmc
[Nook Color General] DizzyDen:
Try this info.

Or this info.

Also, here's a copy of the batch file I use in windows on the ROM zip file prior to flashing it... I keep this file in the folder with my ROM's and drag the ROM onto the file in windows explorer.

@echo off
echo extracting ramdisk.img from rom
7za e -y %1 ramdisk.img
delay s
echo extracting fstab.encore from ramdisk
bootutil /v /x ramdisk.img fstab.encore
delay s
::use a unix compatible editor to change the sdcard1 line (could also use a windows/dos based sed included here):
echo editing fstab.encore for SD partition
[color=red]sed -i s/sdcard1:auto/sdcard1:4/ fstab.encore[/color]
delay s
echo updating fstab.encore in ramdisk
bootutil /v /r ramdisk.img fstab.encore
delay s
echo updating ramdisk.img in rom
7za u %1 ramdisk.img
echo Done
pause
del ramdisk.img
del fstab.encore
copy /b sdpart.cmd +,, >nul

NOTE... I have the utilities needed in my command path... 7za, delay, bootutil and sed... the copy command at the end is only to keep the sdpart.cmd (what I named the file) at the top of the folder file list because I sort this folder in date order... to use it just drag the ROM onto the sdpart.cmd file in windows explorer.

If needed I can put all the files into a zip file and upload.
[Nook Color General] thadrumr:
GAPPS succesfully installed

I was able to install Cyanogenmod 11 and GAPPS successfully. I first installed Cyanogenmod using the normal SD card install method mentioned int he beginning of this thread. I then used the alternate SD card Clockwork MOD that is mentioned in the tips thread section B5 linked at the bottom of this post to install the GAPPS. I copied the ZIP file to the root of the SD card after booting up and mounting my SD card over USB to my PC as the CWM can't see the boot partition on the SD Card . It did give an error message after install but it seems that everything was there. I had to install a few others apps like Hangouts and Calendar etc but the main ones including the Play store were there and working.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1621301
[Nook Color General] f1jim:
No Gapps

Using the new larger 8b image and the two latest CM 11 nightlies but can't get the latest (KK) gapps to take It goes through the process but no play store. Any ideas? I heard something about a different winimage software might be necessary. Used the same 16Gb chip that served me well on previous versions of CM. I get the Android version installed and it looks fine. Just no play store.

Help!

f1jim
[Nook Color General] kirichen:
Thank you DizzyDen, unix way is here

unix commands
[Nook Color General] volpo222:
After reading a few of the threads specific to the SD install of CM11 I have a question.

If the installer script is broken for the gapps install is that script a part of Leapinlar's latest SD boot image? If yes then is it necessary to wait for an updated SD image before playing around with CM11 even if I do not load the gapps? (this would be because the SD would need to be written again so that the new gapps installer script would be there?)

Thanks to all the developers! I am really looking forward to using my NC with CM11.

V
[Nook Color General] bowguy:
If you do not install gapps you are fine. Test away.
[Nook Color General] volpo222:
Yes but if the installer script is in the SD image when it comes time to install gapps will I have to start from scratch or can the new script be copied over (and where will I find the new script)?
[Nook Color General] bowguy:
OK Try this. Install CM11 but not gapps. Let it boot up and fire up the file manager. Go to settings->General Settings->Access Mode. Make sure you have Root access mode. Now navigate to /system/app and delete Hangouts.apk and GoogleHome.apk This should delete the symbolic links that are causing the problems. Now shutdown and remove the SD card. Copy Gapps to the SD card and reboot into recovery. This should install the gapps. I don't know for sure if this will work but it should and if it doesn't, you won't have wasted a lot of time.
[Nook Color General] steven676:
That should work fine.
[Nook Color General] volpo222:
Thanks! That worked. Now if I can only figure out how to get my apps back automatically (it's done this before so I should be able to figure it out).

V
[Nook Color General] f1jim:
This worked for me also. Can't thank you enough for getting me out of this jam. I look forward to putting KitKat through it's paces on the Nook Color.

Gracias

f1jim
[Nook Color General] bowguy:
Not part of this thread but Google will not do the auto update when you change versions. You are going from 4.3 to 4.4. Go to PlayStore and you account (upper right icon) and click on your account. It lists the installed apps, slide to the right to show every app you ever installed. Then just install them again one by one. If you need to backup your settings, you need something like Titanium Backup
[Nook Color General] volpo222:
Thanks, I didn't know about the version change thing. I knew that it downloaded them automatically but that was my tablet being restored after a wipe (same version). And yes, I did finally restore by picking off of that list.

V
[Nook Color General] retire01022004:
Unable to load Gapps

Almost there. Did as instructed but when reboot into recovery, gapps does not install. Perhaps I'm misunderstanding what you mean by reboot into recovery....I do restart while holding in Nook key. Does not load gapps. I then tried selecting SD Card Alternative from CWM-based Recovery and the install zip from sdcard - but can not see the gapps file. When reinsert SD into laptop, gapps zip file is still there. Any suggestions most appreciated.
[Nook Color General] bowguy:
Which recovery are you using? All you need to do is use the image from the the original post. Did you install another recovery? I ask because you said "selected SD Card Alternative from CWM-based Recovery"

To summarize:

Burn image form OP

add CM-11 zip to boot directory.

insert SD card into Nook and boot. This will install CM-11 (it will give a display of progress with a little penguin in the upper left)

When it powers down, restart (do not remove the SD card)

It should ask you a few questions to configure your tablet. When it is running follow the directions about removing the two files I talk about.

Power down and remove the SD card.

Add the gapps zip to the SD card using your laptop.

Insert the SD card into the Nook, power up and hold the Nook key to get the menu. Select the SD Alternate boot.

This should show the little penguin again as it install the gapps file.

When it powers down again, just restart and it should reboot into the SD card by default and you now have gapps installed.
[Nook Color General] retire01022004:
Success

Bit more reading and got it done. Had to copy connect nook to laptop and copy gapps to 'root' directory of SD. Was then able to install the zip via the CWM recovery. I now have the Play Store. Time to play!
[Nook Color General] retire01022004:
Thanks

BOWGUY....thanks for reply. Appreciate your detailed response. Had read earlier post about connecting to computer to put Gapps in proper location. Once I did that, worked great. Thanks again. Been using ever since and working smooth.
[Nook Color General] ReamWTF:
Nook just starts reguarly.

Hello, I have been trying to root my NC for 3 days now. I stumbled upon your thread and followed all the steps accordingly. Everything was working correctly until I inserted the MicroSD card and powered the nook. Instead of it booting with the penguin and script, i booted just regularly. Any help?﻿
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
That usually means the SD is not burned properly. Sometimes it is very difficult to get it burned just right so that it will actually boot. Go to my NC Tips thread linked in my signature and read item A9 to learn more.
[Nook Color General] JAMdeYaDa:
At a loss

Hello, I've been unsuccessfully attempting to burn cm 10.2 on my microSD for awhile now. I've tried almost everything from an external card reader to re-downloading the image, rom, and gapp files. Every time without fail it seems as though the installation goes fine until I boot it up, to at which point cyanoboot appears, says it's loading, but then a much despised black screen appears without the CM loading animation. I feel pretty defeated and hopeless to say the least - I'm trying not to give up as you encourage in the A9 section of your tips thread, but I don't know where to go from here and if it's a problem with my microSD card or nook color, then it seems pretty pointless. I'm confident that I've followed your instructions to the fullest. Any thoughts or potential solutions? Thanks for your consideration.

Some background information if it can help -

I've been running an older CM 10 on it when it just seemed like there were some increasing performance issues that were a bit too frustrating for me to tolerate (maybe from the nightly I had on there - I don't know). I thought maybe a fresh flashing and updated cyanogenmod could help whatever was happening, and the CMupdater was crashing for one reason or another when I tried to refresh it. I'm using a SanDisk 4 microSD HC 8Gb.
[Nook Color General] DizzyDen:
Are you doing any kind of modifications at all to the ROM... I know tabletUI would not work on SD installs.
[Nook Color General] JAMdeYaDa:
I was planning on it, but no. So, for future reference, there is no way to get tabletUI on an SD boot?
[Nook Color General] DizzyDen:
I never got it working on an SD install... but I never dug into it to try and sort it out... most likely something hard coded into it for mmcblk0... but again, I never dug into it.
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
You are right, if you use mateorod's tabletUI autopatcher it hard codes the patch to mmcblk0. See his original thread on this issue and I discuss it there.
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
It sounds like your issue is not getting the SD to boot after burning it as discussed in A9. It sounds like an issue with getting the ROM to boot after the script says it is successfully installed.

And you talked about using cmupdater. Unless you are following my instructions in this thread for using that, you should not be. You probably messed up your emmc install by doing that. Can you still boot to your emmc install without the SD inserted?
[Nook Color General] pmuser:
Hey guys is cm 11 ready for daily use? Or should I stick with 10? I am going 11 will be a bit faster
[Nook Color General] JAMdeYaDa:
Yes - I can still boot to the native operating system. I admittedly don't know much about it, and maybe it was different in the past, but I was able to use the cmupdater to try out different nightlies over the course of having CM10. In any case, is there anything I can do that you can think of?

Edit: You know what - I apologize, I should have read through your tips thread before posting and requesting help. I just saw the A8, A10-12 sections, and I realize that those could potentially troubleshoot my issue, so I'll go from there.
[Nook Color General] jpconard:
I think it works pretty darn good. I first upgraded my Tab 2 7.0 to CM11 2/10 nightly, then figured might as well try wife's Nook Color on SDCard version. Got the Netflix working last night with the patch method mentioned here someplace.

Only thing I can't get working right now is the Google Now, tells me to update Google Play services (works fine on Tab 2 7)? Anybody have this issue or know what to do?

It is still the same slow Nook, but overall not bad, fairly quick with Nova launcher on mine.

I'm getting good if not better battery life on both devices. Text / icons definitely smaller, but I like it.

I've played with CM7 versions / phiremod / Muiu / I think one of the 10 versions. To me CM11 best of all of them.

I'm using a 16GB 6 speed card, still boots to normal mode as well (so I haven't messed that up, not that I would care too much).
[Nook Color General] HouseElf:
For reference, my install is on EMMC. I keep switching back and forth between 11 and 7, but seeing myself use 7 less and less. As far as speed goes, I think 11 is already better than 10 was by far. I've experienced some general glitches (mostly with accessing stuff on the SD card, so it's possible that my card may just be dying), but nothing that would keep it from being a daily driver.
[Nook Color General] erehwon6811:
I've installing cm11 on my nook, but ran into a problem. It appears that gapps didn't install. There is no playstore, nor any other google apps. I went to the link on the first page and got the one from 2014. It had the letters kk in the title. I'm wondering what I did wrong.
[Nook Color General] bowguy:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=49942253#post49942253
[Nook Color General] erehwon6811:
Thanks. That worked.
[Nook Color General] whatsmyname?:
Hello all,

I am very very very much a noob. I have followed the instructions and have successfully installed CM10.2. I have one slight problem though. I keep getting a "android keyboard has stopped working" error. Everything else looks good but I cannot type in anything because a keyboard never pops up for me. Any ideas on what I could of done wrong?
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
That means you installed the wrong version of gapps for CM10.2. You need version 20120813. Copy the new version to the boot partition and boot to recovery. It should install over the old version.
[Nook Color General] whatsmyname?:
Oh okay. Because I installed gapps-jb-20130812-signed. With cm-10.2.1-encore. Where can I find the 20120813 version?
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
goo.im
[Nook Color General] whatsmyname?:
I believe that I have the right version of gapps. I have the one that says it is for CM-10.2 which is 20130813.

Am I understanding this correctly?
[Nook Color General] whatsmyname?:
Okay.

Like I stated earlier, everything is installed and looks good except for the keyboard error I keep receiving. This is basically making the device useless because I cannot even connect to the internet, let alone do anything else with the device.

Any suggestions?

---------- Post added at 01:49 PM ---------- Previous post was at 01:18 PM ----------

I also had another noob question.

I used a 8GB card to do this procedure with. After I was done with the procedure, I noticed that my space was regulated down to around 500 megabytes. Did I loose 7.5 GB worth of space on my memory card by doing this?
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
Did you install that 20120813 zip? Did it show it installed properly when you did it? That should have fixed your keyboard problem. You said you had installed the 20120812 version originally, which was the source of your keyboard problem. I think we were talking past each other. Notice the one day difference in the dates.

And that small size is normal, the card got partitioned so that it is usable as a ROM installation. Your whole 8GB is being used. If you boot to CM and look at sdcard, you will see the rest of the card.
[Nook Color General] whatsmyname?:
Awesome thank you sir.