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[Nook Color General] gdeiss:
Success!

After a LOT of reading (and rereading) I finally took the plunge and installed CM11 snapshot M11 on an microSD card for my 8gb Nook Color. Couldn't have been smoother, but would have been impossible without leapinlar's wonderful instructions and the many posts and replies by so many others who were doing pretty much doing the same thing I was.

A few years ago I had created a dual-boot card for the NC using CM 7.2 and was not terribly impressed with the result. CM11 is so much better! I'm staying with it for the time being, but sooner or later will undoubtedly be drawn into later incarnations of CM11.
[Nook Color General] maxxum23:
Infinite boot loop

I have a Nook Color, the first one to come out, I think. The 8GB one. Previously I have used a CM7 on a 4GB SD card and it still works fine. It just isn't smooth. I am trying to get CM11 so I got a 16GB SD card.

Hardware: Patriot 16GB Class 4 SDHC card. A laptop with built in SDHC reader. Another Apple Mac Mini with a Dell monitor that has a card reader. I have tried to follow the steps as best as I could.

1) Using Win32DiskImager, I installed generic-sdcard-v1.3-CM7-9-10-10.1-10.2-11-largest-Rev8c.img

2) Safely unmounted the card, reinserted. Then copied these three files on it.

cm-11-20150831-SNAPSHOT-XNG3CAO3FN-encore.zip

cm-11-20150831-SNAPSHOT-XNG3CAO3FN-encore-recovery.img

gapps-kk-20140606-signed.zip

3) Inserted and booted up the Nook. The Cynoboot starts and installs it all fine. No errors, it says it is going to shut down and does. It finds the gapps and then deletes it as part of the cleanup (I assume it installs it)

4) When I boot it up, the same boot splash image comes up and it attempts to boot but it is stuck in an infinite boot loop.

5) I can boot into the emmc by pressing the n button and also again back to the recovery. It cannot boot the SD-normal.

I tried the same steps using the Mac Mini (Dell monitor acting as the external card reader). Same problem.

Another issue is that the SD card is formatted as only 408MB "boot". The Disk Management does see 3 more partitions, a 902MB, a 1.86GB and a 11.48GB which is probably empty unformatted space.

Any pointers are much appreciated.
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
Did you see the warning that with cm11 you must start with snapshot m11 or older?

And the disk partitioning is correct.
[Nook Color General] maxxum23:
What I understood from that was that I should not use a Nightly build. Hence I used:

cm-11-20150831-SNAPSHOT-XNG3CAO3FN-encore.zip and

cm-11-20150831-SNAPSHOT-XNG3CAO3FN-encore-recovery.img

Did I miss something?

EDIT: Yes I did!

Looking at the older ROMs, I now see what M11, M10 etc mean. I got the M11 one and it worked. It boots but the issue is that I cannot set up anything because the Google keyboard and some other google stuff crashes immediately.

EDIT2: Tried again with pico sized Open gapps and was able to configure it. Can't find Google Play though.
[Nook Color General] piggie12:
Just one question.

Where can I download the rom?
[Nook Color General] tnpapadakos:
http://get.cm/?device=encore
[Nook Color General] panamamike:
SD Card boot loop.

Looking for help from the experts.

I've installed the CM 11 M11 snapshot on a 32 GB class 4 Sandisk SDCard:confused:. I burned the generic image, generic-sdcard-v1.3.img, that starts you off with 179MB partition. I use minitool partition to make it a larger to copy the additional zip files. One for the M11 snapshot one for the open_gapps-arm-4.4-nano-20160531. I was not able to find the gapps-kk, looks like this site replaces that, I'm assuming this is the right version as it installed.

It installs fine if I rename files to start with update-. However, when the sdcard boots, it boots into an infinite loop. I see the cyanomodgen screen and again. I tried using the boot menu to boot the emmc, but that doesn't work either, it goes to a black screen. If I remove the SDCard the nook boots fine. I was previously using Nookie which left the Nook pretty much stock.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Regards,

Mike
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
You have to use the latest image files from my first post. It has been modified to work with cm11. The original image will not operate properly with cm11.
[Nook Color General] panamamike:
Which Image files?

Thanks for responding. When you say the latest image files, do you mean the image that's initially used to burn the boot to the SD Card or do you mean the nightly CM files? I coudn't find anything newer for the burn to boot referenced. I'm assuming this means the Snapshot file is no longer relevant.

The help is much appreciated.

Regards,

Mike
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
I meant the generic 1.3 Rev 8c file attached to the first post of this thread. After burning it should have a partition size much larger than 179mb. You should not have to rename to update- or expand the partition. And yes use the snapshot rom file. See the warning about using the m11 or earlier version first.
[Nook Color General] panamamike:
Thanks for pointing me to the right files. I didn't see those attachments the first time around. Nook Color is up and running CM11!
[Nook Color General] stevedavid678:
I try to use this but it says "Unknown layout detected! please report as bug. Please turn off the power"
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
You need to be more specific as to what you tried, which files used, etc.
[Nook Color General] just_magikkal:
K, so I already managed to get Cyanogenmod 10.1.2 running on my Nook Color. I want to figure out a way to upgrade it to the Cyanogenmod equivalent of Android 4.4+ (preferably CM11) and/or get GApps without a) formatting an SD multiple times because I don't have administrative rights on any computer and I've bothered my mom enough (poor teenager xD only one SD card and no good computer); and b) using adb or any other outrageously large program.

Mine is rooted, yes, you don't need to worry about that.

Edit: currently my SD is not bootable as I had to get rid of that stuff in order to make it possible to move apps onto it.
[Nook Color General] bartman01:
The links to the gapps and the roms in the first post haven't been working for me for the last couple of days. The gapps link appears to go to a non existent site and the roms link has been taking me to an 'over quota' message.

Are there updated links, or are both of these just temporary problems?

Thanks.

Edit - haven't been here in a while and didn't realize the CM project was shut down. The needed rom M11 is not available in the snapshot archive from what I can find. Is there a place to get that? The only 'encore' version I can find is the 20150831 version.
[Nook Color General] bowguy:
Here is a copy I had:

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0Bzg3pzKm70NiMkdNc3JLSHB1c2M

After this is installed, you can then install your later version.

Enjoy!
[Nook Color General] thejerkk:
i know this is an old, dead project but was wondering if someone could lend a hand. i have a brand new nook color i found for dirt cheap and would like to use it as an audio player in my car.

while attempting to get an sd card working, ive had no luck. ive flashed every image on the first post to a few different SD cards of varying size (all class 4), yet each time i power off and boot with the sd card in, no dice, same nook screen. model is bntv250, pretty sure this guide should work on it.
[Nook Color General] bowguy:
You have a Nook Tablet, not a Nook Color. Sorry but this guide won't work for you.
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
That is not a Nook Color, it is a Nook Tablet. Go to the Nook Tablet forum.
[Nook Color General] leonardomurguia:
I was looking for that M11 ROM too. Thanks!!!
[Nook Color General] i_guana:
Just in case anyone has pulled a Nook Color out of a dark place and wants to tinker here is the CM mother-load:

http://techerrata.com/browse/cm/encore/nightly

Took me forever to find a working link for CM 10.2.1 Stable when I came across this.
[Nook Color General] scmrak:
Hi:

I downloaded the generic image file including CM11 from the first post (the 8.07 MB version) and found a gapps-kk to match somewhere online, but cyanogenmod.org appears to be defunct and I don't know where to find the ROM file I need without it. Are there alternate locations?

TIA
[Nook Color General] sorinev:
Hitting a snag trying to do this on my Nook Color. I have a 16GB micro SD card. I'm using CM 10.2.1. I've tried the generic sd card images for rev7 and rev8c. Everything seems to go well so far. I put cm-10.2.1.zip onto the "boot" part of the sd card when I plug it back in. When I put it in the Nook, it seems to go ok. It does whatever partitioning it needs to do, then inflates the zip. It then dies on inflating the zip, saying no room left on disk.

When I plug the card back into my computer (Kubuntu 16.04), it looks like this:

Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type
/dev/sdg1 * 63 835379 835317 407.9M b W95 FAT32
/dev/sdg2 835380 2682854 1847475 902.1M 83 Linux
/dev/sdg3 2682855 6586649 3903795 1.9G 83 Linux
/dev/sdg4 6586650 30909059 24322410 11.6G c W95 FAT32 (LBA)

Not sure what to do at this point. I tried expanding the img file with /dev/zero of 1GB before writing it to the fresh sd card, but that didn't help (it still only showed 400MB after writing to the sd card for some reason even though the img file on my computer showed 1.4GB).
[Nook Color General] psiphi:
Maybe the SD Card is the problem. Back in the day, we always had to use SanDisks Class 10 cards for it to work reliably in the Nooks.

Also, I recommend to 2nd to last verson released of the RoM as I recall there being some issue with the last verson, though all the versions are old enough that many apps may no longer work. As I recall Netflix was broken last time I fired it up.

OT, but I really loved that Tablet and rom. Was my first usable android tablet and kept it as my daily driver until I bought a Nexus 7. Still have both but not fired up Nook in a long time.
[Nook Color General] router_on_a_stick:
Is there any way to do this in 2018? All of the links I've found are dead.
[Nook Color General] ShapeShifter499:
I wish someone could get Android O (GO) working on these devices. The latest Android has features that were meant for low specs.
[Nook Color General] PriusVapor:
Someone PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE upload these files
[Nook Color General] SacTappingUni:
It was a part of the change log for cm10 Beta 2

I did a little more research and it looks like a sort of toggle that's only available via the power prompt.

Anyways, in absolutely every topic that I've read, whenever somebody asks about OTG support for NC cm10, they get completely ignored. Can somebody step up and give a direct answer as to what does and doesn't work? I remember that in cm7, you had to download "Nook Tweaks" in order to inable OTG support. Is there a sort of nook tweaks for cm10?
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
I

These questions are in the wrong thread. Discussion of the ROM itself should be in the CM10 discussion thread. This thread is for installation issues (read my first post!). If you look at both the CM10 discussion thread and the OP of the Beta3 thread (links for both are also in my first post), they clearly say OTG does not work yet.

Sent from my Nook Color running CM10 and Tapatalk.
[Nook Color General] leahjade:
New Question

reformatted to install beta 3 and having a problem ...would love some help. San disk 16g card. Followed all directions to copy image file and gapp, zipped, after using windiskimager to write generic SD card Rev 5 to card. Rom image and gapp files show on card. When inserted in NC, card repartitions, says it's installing gapps, powers down. When the nook is powered back up, it says the image is missing and prompts that a file with a zip ending is needed. Any help? I've wiped and retried several times today. Thanks!
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
Try the rom image by itself on the SD after it has partitioned itself. If it does not install, either it is not named properly or the file is corrupt. Make sure it begins with cm- and ends in .zip. If it is named that way and still does not install, it is probably corrupt. Re-download it.
[Nook Color General] SacTappingUni:
Sorry, I didn't realize that. I'll see to it that I post in the right threads.

I acknowledge my mistake. After reading the changelog a second time (only minutes after I had posted my question), I noticed it said OTG was not yet enabled. I forgot to edit my post before going to bed.

As for installation, I was able to easily flash beta 2 without having to reinstall Gapps or go through any extra steps at all. I can't wait 'til we can get over-air updates though. It's a really exciting thought.
[Nook Color General] leahjade:
Thanks., exactly right,bad rom download. Appreciate the help.
[Nook Color General] naughticl:
Updating Problem - Your help, please...

I keep trying but something strange happens intermittently. On booting from a freshly imaged SD card (generic SD card - Rev 5) I get a long string of blue text that is moving too fast to read. I would expect the CWM options screen, but I keep getting this thing which I can't identify.

Seems the first thing it does is re-partition the SD card.

I've cleared all the caches and done the reset, but now it just keeps booting into this routine. I have to re-burn the SD card each time.

Any advice?
[Nook Color General] ajrietveld:
Error 23

Whenever I try and write the image to the SD card I get an error 23, talking about cyclical data redundancies. I am only able to do a "quick reformat" through windows, when attempting to do a "format g:" in command prompt it errors out, stating there are bad sectors, but when I do a chkdisk g: /r it says there aren't any bad sectors.

I have tried to use both Win32diskimager and WinImaiskge and they both give me errors part way through writing the image. I have tried re-downloading the image, still get an error.

I'm using a 32 gb SanDisk class 10 (I know it's not class 4, but I bought it before reading this post).

any suggestions? is the SD card dead?
[Nook Color General] Mr-Glass:
I used MiniTool Partition Wizard to format the same card - it was acting a little weird with Windows format... After using MPW - worked fine, just a thought..
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
That is the way it is supposed to act. There is no CWM on the SD install. You are supposed to take the SD out of the nook and put it in the PC and copy the ROM zip to it. Then put it back in and reboot. The ROM should install.

And you said you cleared the caches and done resets. How did you do that? With CWM on emmc? That would clear emmc not the SD.

You need to read both the first post of this thread and my tips thread linked in my signature. Item B1 explains the difference between an SD install and the cwm install to emmc.
[Nook Color General] ajrietveld:
Thanks for the tip. Was able to format it with MiniTool Partition Wizard but still ran into Error 23. Returning the card and trying a new one.
[Nook Color General] naughticl:
A small light came on in the back corner of all this. Seems I got confused between EMMC install and SD card install. That and all the versions.

I'm trying to do the EMMC install, and appear to have it on there, but it's still not right. It's slow and the touchscreen isn't responding well.

Could I trouble you for a clear list of what to erase/format before trying another solid EMMC install using CWM?

Much appreciated.

And you said you cleared the caches and done resets. How did you do that? With CWM on emmc? That would clear emmc not the SD.

You need to read both the first post of this thread and my tips thread linked in my signature. Item B1 explains the difference between an SD install and the cwm install to emmc.
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
I recommend to get a really clean install on emmc, go to my tips thread and get the zip format 567. Flash that with CWM. Then use CWM to flash the B4 ROM followed by the gapps. Boot to the ROM. If you are having trouble after running it, boot back to CWM and fix permissions in the advanced menu. Then see if everything is OK. Usually you don't have to do that step, but I found with B4 it was necessary.
[Nook Color General] naughticl:
Thanks! That certainly worked. But it's still running like the disabled cousin of 7.2. I've set the performance governor and CPU speed as advised, and it still lags. Never recognizes the first tap, then takes seconds for anything to happen. With 7.2 it was running like a thoroughbred. So what would be your advice? Is there something else I can try to get this to a pristine install? Or do I just wait for more developments?
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
Well, if you used the format 567 zip then it is a very clean install. And you tried the fix permissions? Most people compare the speed to CM7. So I guess I cannot give you much more advice. I guess you could wait for Beta 5.

EDIT: You say the first tap does not work. I have that problem sometimes, but it always responds quickly with the next screen once activated. Just a thought, is your screen clean? Do you have a protector on it? If you put CM7 back on it, is it still responsive?

EDIT 2: What version of CWM are you using? If it is too old, it will not wipe properly. But the format zips should have taken care of that.
[Nook Color General] Bnvshark28:
I'm new to this sorry for asking in the wrong place but I flashed the cm10 ROM on nook color with gapps seems like all works good but I downloaded the twc TV app I did the whole superuser rename thing to get live TV to work but it plays the video feed for like 7 seconds on every channel then freezes!? Do you know why its doing that? Any fixes or suggestions? Thanks alot
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
I don't know the answer. I think you would get a better response from more users posting that question on the CM10 discussion thread.
[Nook Color General] rmseaholm:
Just did a dirty flash of beta 5 over beta 4 onto sd card, so far seems to be running smoother. A little laggy going onto the net, so I'll try the fix permission fix, this worked before. Thanks for the hard work!

This seemed to do the trick.
[Nook Color General] Donn240:
Dirty flash

How do i do a dirty flash? I have beta 4 and want to install beta 5.

I
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
I have new instructions in the OP. But just copy the new zip to the boot partition and boot to SD recovery.
[Nook Color General] jruschme:
FWIW, I've been trying to do this with a recently-acquired Nook Color. I've gotten as far as install CM11 M11 and updating it with a later nightly. I found that I had to get a couple of files by feeding the URL to web.archive.org.
[Nook Color General] :
Installing CM11 in 2019

Like some others in this thread, I have just bumped into an old Nook Color and decided I'd give it a spin. I picked it up at a Thrift Store for about $10 and thought it might make a decent weekend project to revive.

As others had mentioned, I installed CM11 M11 snapshot that I got from here. After this, I installed the last available nightly for this device from the CM archive. This worked like a charm, but gapps wouldn't install. What I ended up doing was using the tips thread linked in OP's signature and reading section B5 to install CWM as an alternate recovery. After this, I booted up to the recovery and flashed my gapps from there. This worked like a charm and got me the Play Store. No idea what's going on with the original install script that won't let it run.

FWIW, while CM11 does work, it seems to be unbearably slow with gapps installed. I may end up trying to find one of the earlier CM versions around the web and running that instead, but since CM is dead it seems that most (if not all) the mirrors only have the last CM version that was released for the device (CM11). In any case, it's nice to know that Android KK is at least runable on this old tablet!

Edit: After trying out all the CM builds for this device (except CM9, as I couldn't find any working links for it), I can confirm that practically any version of CM works reasonably well on this device without gapps. If you would like to use gapps and still have a reasonably good experience with this device, I would recommend the last nightly of the original CM10 release (cm-10-20130421-NIGHTLY-encore). If gapps isn't necessary for you, CM11 seems to run pretty well. CM7 is immaculate if you absolutely don't care about much app support, although it certainly is weird to use gingerbread in 2019. All in all, I'll probably stick with CM10 on this one, since having the play store is definitely convenient.

Edit 2: I stand corrected: trying to run any app from the play store on CM10 is extremely slow. Tried installing the ROM with no gapps and then installing the app and that worked much better. All in all, if you intend to use this tablet at all, I would recommend installing any of the CMs available for it and completely ignoring gapps. Do note that running CM7 with gapps is completely doable and usable, but it’s so old that you’ll have trouble getting anything to install.
[Nook Color General] psiphi:
Yeah, I bought the Nook Color when it came out especially because you could boot off the SD card. It was my first android tablet (that I actually used).

As I recall, the 2nd to last cm 10 build was the best one to use as a daily driver.

You want to use a an Sd card based install on a sandisk class 10 card because it is faster than the memory built into the nook.

At one point, you could buy the cards on ebay ready to boot, but no idea if anyone is still selling them.
[Nook Color General] impala454:
I grabbed one of these and cannot for the life of me get anything to boot besides the stock firmware. Since the links are broken (yes even the ones two posts ago) I'm winging it getting files from wherever. Do I just grab that CM11 image and unzip it to the card? I've created the card w/a FAT32 bootable image and copied the files and the nook still just boots into the stock image. I've tried dding the boot.img file to the card, still nothing. Do I need a custom recovery on there first? Is there some button sequence I'm missing?
[Nook Color General] psiphi:
You dont copy the img file directly, you need a program that uses the img file to format and write many files hidden inside the img file. I believe i used win32diskimager but there are several available.
[Nook Color General] aegrotatio:
No matter how many times I try, the "cm.zip" that allegedly installs from this process never updates the version of CM on my Nook Color.

What am I doing wrong?
[Nook Color General] tbbj:
Found an old nook color from in law. Was hoping to make it run Clash of Clans for me as a couch device. Anybody have any advice on the minimal CM needed (with download links available) to run that (google play needed to d/l i assume) before I start to click links and hope to get lucky?
[Nook Color General] SephYuyX:
Any luck?
[Nook Color General] LesjaReva:
Installation problem

Hi!

I have downloaded the generic-sd image and wrote it to my 4gig sd card with win32imagewriter. I downloaded CM10.2 and the jb gapps files. First It show a little penguin and a bunch of scrolling text ( as was written in Installation Guide). When the installation completes - Nook shuts down. When I power it back up - I saw a little penguin again. And there was written:

mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on / dev/ mmcblk0p2, missing codepage or other error. In some cases useful info is found in syslog- try dmesg Itail or so.

What should I do to solve the problem? I do not understand what am I doing wrong?
[Nook Color General] BreyonnaMorgan:
When you said "Tried installing the ROM with no gapps and then installing the app and that worked much better", what was the app that you were referring to?