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[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
It could be that something is amiss with your emmc partitions. While the SD install only changes the partitions on the SD, it uses some of the partitions on internal memory to function properly. I suggest you back up your emmc partitions with CWM and go to my emmc repair thread linked in my signature and try some repairs from there.
[Nook Color General] f1jim:
I'll try that. For what it's worth the machine boots into the Nook system just fine.

Thanks

f1jim
[Nook Color General] Turboman99:
This method does not work for nook color

I'm sure you worked hard on these packages but unfortunately they are broken. I followed these directions to the T using the latest CM11, gapps 20140606 and a 16 gb SD card. The zips seem to install successfully, but when I turn the nook back on, the install process just repeats again over and over. Has anyone gotten this thing to work??

This is the third or fourth method I've tried with limited success. I'm beginning to think the whole idea of an alternate nook color OS is just smoke and mirrors. Has anyone ACTUALLY made this work? If so can you point me to a method that might actually succeed?
[Nook Color General] Turboman99:
I figured it out... And I apologize!

Sorry, I should've read the last page before posting. The problem seems to be Cyanogen mod. Their latest (CM11) snapshot does not work with your code for whatever reason. It will reboot and attempt to install endlessly, even though it deletes the install packages after the first attempt.

Thinking about it with a clear(er) head, I wonder if the the recovery flag is not actually being removed post install when working with the new builds? I have no idea why, most of this code is a bit over my head right now.

SOLUTION: I grabbed CM 11 from earlier this year and it is working fine.

Maybe an update to the instructions is in order? Anyway thanks for your work, and best of luck with this new issue...

And again, sorry if I sounded harsh earlier. It's been a long week
[Nook Color General] bowguy:
I can confirm this behavior. Brand new SD card and I have done this a few times. ;)

11/14 nightly fails exactly as he describes. Trying to find a ROM that will work. Will report back.

M12 fails (/tmp/updater syntax error No build image ?? Not sure - went by pretty fast.)

M11 works !!!! Something happened between 10/08 and 11/12 (m11 - m12). I will now try to flash 11/14 nightly over M11. BRB

11/14 showed the same error during install but booted up fine.

Solution for new install - Initial ROM is M11 then the nightlies work fine....
[Nook Color General] f1jim:
I think we are on to something....

I went back and started from scratch. I started with a new 8c image. I burned the latest M11 snapshot dated 11/08 successfully. I then updated with the latest M12 snapshot dated 11/12. That was successful. I then successfully updated to the latest nightly dated 11/16.

Perhaps that will give someone the clue as to where the issue lies. It's a ton of work and you lose the apps that must be reloaded but it does work if you follow that procedure.

f1jim
[Nook Color General] bowguy:
There are two issues making this difficult. First the error shows up on the screen but goes by quickly and then shuts down. Second is Leapinlar doesn't even run CM11 so he has been helping through reports and tests. We have had several changes that broke the script which he kindly fixed.
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
If I knew what was wrong, I would tell you. Obviously there is something new in the newest zip that is looking for earlier data from an older install. Just be glad someone discovered the work around.

Thanks bowguy for finding that.
[Nook Color General] f1jim:
Nightlies messed up again.

Tried updating to the latest (11/25) nightly and we have a problem once again. It's back to the never ending reboot sequence after flashing the new nightly. Same issue with three different SD cards that have been working beautifully.

f1jim
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
Did you try the sequence that bowguy suggested above (installing an older nightly first)?
[Nook Color General] bowguy:
My guess is this will have to be tracked down but right now I can't do it until at least next week. Even when I get the exact wording of the error message Leapinlar will have to figure out what is causing it when he has time. I have not flashed a nightly since 11/14 and based on your comments I won't try. I suggest M11 to start and not worry about the nighties. Right now I am trying to see if I can build CM12 and that is taking a lot of time.
[Nook Color General] f1jim:
Stuff!

I will try to flash an old nightly then flash the new one behind it. Not sure how far to go back but I'll try several.

I appreciate that people are working on this platform despite it's age. All of your efforts are greatly appreciated.

f1jim
[Nook Color General] f1jim:
Hope this helps the troubleshooters....

I had to go back to the 11/08 snapshot to get the nook to revive. I did a complete partition delete and rebuild, flashed the 11/08 snapshot, then flashed the 11/24 nightly. Anything out of that sequence bonks the installation.

Who knows whats ahead. I am genuinely excited about running Lollipop on the Nook.

f1jim
[Nook Color General] f1jim:
11/29 nightly worked.

I was able to successfully upgrade the 11/24 nightly to the 11/29 nightly with no issues. Not sure what was changed but it worked!

Thanks

f1jim
[Nook Color General] chucksaysblah:
Hello I have tried this method with two different micro sd cards two different readers. I cannot get the nook to boot from the sd card at all. I used generic-sdcard-v1.3-CM7-9-10-10.1-10.2-11-largest-Rev8c. and i used winimage the way it was told to use and The nook just boots up normal after i put the card into it. Any ideas?
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
Go to my NC Tips thread linked in my signature and read item A9. There are many things that can prevent the SD from booting, including the brand and class of the SD.
[Nook Color General] f1jim:
Try this...

After you burn the 8c image what rom are you flashing to the SD card. I had to go back to cm-11-20140916-SNAPSHOT-M10-encore.zip then after flashing that rom upgrade to the latest nightly.

f1jim
[Nook Color General] samrod:
Reboots

I followed all the instructions and every things seems to go fine until the Nook turns off. It shows the cyanoboot loading screen then the screen goes black, the nook reboots a few time, then it goes to cleanup again then turns off. If I power the nook back up it does it again. Ca you please help? What did I do wrong? I'm using Rev 8, CM-10.2, Gapps-jb-20130812.:confused:
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
Well, for one thing CM10.2 needs gapps-jb-20130813.
[Nook Color General] f1jim:
leapinlar once more with feeling!

I was unable to update from the 12/04 nightly to the 12/05 nightly. The system justs reboots over and over after the flash. But this time I noticed an error just before shutdown on the flash.

It says:

sytax error near unexpected token ro.build.product

Hope that helps fix whatever is broken.

Thanks

f1jim
[Nook Color General] ncsentai:
confused

I'm so lost and confused. I have read threads/watched youtube videos and tried things I just don't know and I'm about to give up. Can someone please spoon feed me like a newborn baby and just say write your sd card using ..................... then copy the .........to the sd card. for the gapps or whatever use ...........

link to the specific one of whatever i should be using with the proper exact name please

I don't know from mod 7 and work up to 11 or what. I have a nook color i got at launch. I never modded it before. I just want to dual boot from and 8gb sandisk micro sd hc card

please I have spent two days now non stop being obsessed over tring to get this to work I just don't get it.
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
This is the right thread to be following. The instructions in the first post is as clear as I can make it. Your only decision is which version of CM to run. As a newby, I recommend you start with CM 7.2. It is the fastest and most stable of all versions. If you get more adventurous you can try newer versions later.
[Nook Color General] ncsentai:
I tried that cm 7.2.0 encore.zip before following a youtube video.

Is there anything else that I should also put with it. a particular gapp or whatever?
[Nook Color General] f1jim:
As a followup...I can go back and repartition the SD card, flash the 11/08 snapshot, then flash the 12/05 nightly and all is well. Kind of a pain to not be able to flash nighlies over the top of each other but that at least is a workaround.

f1jim
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
Yes CM7.2 needs a gb version of gapps. You can get it at goo.im/gapps, the 20110828 version.
[Nook Color General] ncsentai:
thank you I got it to work now.

edit

So disappointing. all the apps crash quickly. Also when I plug the sd card into the computer it says it has no room. But when I connect it through the nook my 8gb sd card only has 4 gbs of space. I worked for days tryign to get this to work now that it does I'm going to have to forget it.

At least I tried.
[Nook Color General] Keron Cyst:
Hi leapinlar, I'm blown away by how unbelievably consistently helpful you are throughout this entire thread! Thanks for all your work. I'm a Jellybean user trying to get up to CM11 but my device keeps looping through the Cyanogenmod bootloader. Could you help me figure out what I'm doing wrong with my 8gb Sandisk Class 4 micro-SD?

• I'm burning to my SD card the extracted IMG from generic-sdcard-v1.3-CM7-9-10-10.1-10.2-11-largest-Rev8c.zip.

• Then I put cm-11-20141212-NIGHTLY-encore.zip (actually a previous one) and gapps-kk-20140105-signed on the card. I read that this one needs to be used instead of 0606.

• It automatically starts and completes the commands, but after that's done, it goes to the blue Cyanogenmod boot screen, from which point on it keeps restarting to there after a minute each time and then just turns off after a few loops. That's if I don't press the "n" button to alternate between regular eMMC and SD functions, but I'm at a loss.

Thanks in advance!
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
Read through the last few posts to see how to make the most recent versions of CM11 work. Apparently there is a problem where you need to install an earlier CM11 before the newest version.
[Nook Color General] Keron Cyst:
Thanks, that's it! I should have looked into the recent pages. Would you want to edit the first post to make a note of this matter for future users in my situation? I can confirm that the M11 snapshot works like a charm; I don't care about getting each new nightly so I'll stick with this. Thanks again, leapinlar!

EDIT: Could I now wipe the SD and use it for regular storage?

EDIT 2: Just confirming that I was able to update to the M-12 snapshot using the ROM's updater with no problem.
[Nook Color General] timj3371:
hello can you help

Hello

I used to run the sd version 1.3 just fine

I wiped it started from strached and now it just reboots and reboots

will not load from sd card

any ideas on how to fix

thanks

Tim
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
First off, please do not quote the whole first post. Please go back and edit your post to remove that quote.

Second, if you are trying to install the latest version of CM11 on SD, please read the last few posts here about having to install an earlier nightly before you install the latest.
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
If you want to upgrade the CM7.2 that you are dual booting to SD, you need to start over. The SD as prepared for CM7.2 will not support CM11. You must make the SD over again using the rev8c image from this thread. Then you can install CM11 per the instructions here.
[Nook Color General] pcslayer:
Ahhhhh! OK, I guess that does make it easier. I thought I could skip some steps but thanks for clearing that up and thanks for the quick reply!

If anyone has any insight into the BN 1.3.0 vs BN 1.4.3 question, I'd still like to hear about that. Thanks!
[Nook Color General] pcslayer:
I haven't received any answers on this last question yet but no longer needed. I just jumped in with two feet and upgraded to 1.4.3 so I am still learning the improvements as I go. I know stock 1.4.3 is old news but it is new to me and especially because I didn't get to use this device much before, but now it is all mine. Anyway, I followed A10/A15 of leapinlar's tips to create a v6.0.1.2 CWM boot-able SD with a 512MB uSD I was no longer using. Perfect! Then flashed the provided Nook Color ROM 1.4.3 and was up and running in no time. Easy peasy. It kept all of my settings and everything. Awesome! Thank you so much leapinlar. You have helped yet another person. The differences wrt 1.3.0 are subtle -but nice- the latest version does support more apps, most significantly Netflix! Love that. I don't know but I like the simplicity of the stock SW. I intend to use it often in this mode.

Now onto creating that CM11-M12 bootable SD Card...
[Nook Color General] pcslayer:
Not updating SD Card ROMs

OK, so I successfully followed the instructions on how to create a new SD Card to boot out of for CM11. Pretty straightforward. I've been using it for about a week now and It's working pretty good. I still have one problem though. Based on the issues I read about a few posts back I decided to install M11 and afterwards update to M12. When I booted into CM11-M11 it told me there was an update and downloaded it and asked to install it. I said yes and then it tried to reboot into recovery and this is what I got:

<Picture of Linux 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...

Detected Standard B&N nook layout , emmc first

It appears the SD card is already properly formatted

Skipping format

Mounting /dev/mmcblk1p1 as /boot

Looking for the install images...

Let's see if you have gapps installer too

gapps installer not found, skipping installation.

Cleaning up

Clearing recovery flag

1+0 records in

1+0 records out

All steps complete, cleaning up again

Preparing to shutdown

_

Then the device shuts down and stays shut down. Am I following the wrong procedure to update? I thought automatic updating was supposed to work. Is it maybe that I have an old CWM on my eMMC? I don't know how to check my CWM version. And if that's the case, I am not sure how to update it. I'm sorry if this is clearly spelled out somewhere. I've done a lot of reading but I either didn't see it or understand what I was reading. Thanks for your patience.
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
Automatic updating only works if you have CM installed on emmc. You had it installed on SD. You need to copy the zip manually to the SD boot partition as described in the OP.
[Nook Color General] pcslayer:
Ahhh OK, that was not clear to me. I installed your script from step B4 and got my SD Card updated to M12. Worked like a charm. Thank you again leapinlar!
[Nook Color General] wileysam:
Caught up in booting

Loaded all as stated, on a Nook Color, which I have used with a card having CM10, no problems.

Installation went fine. Shut down and rebooted.

Now I just get repeated cyanoboot attempts.

Have I done something wrong?
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
Does not sound like you did something wrong. Did you get any error messages when the text scrolled by?
[Nook Color General] bowguy:
What ROM are you using? If it is CM11 you must use Snapshot 11 (not snapshot 12)

http://download.cyanogenmod.org/?device=encore&type=snapshot

After the initial install, you can then update to any later version.
[Nook Color General] wileysam:
Snapshot

I'll download the snapshot 11 and give it a try. I'll post the results. Thanks.
[Nook Color General] wileysam:
Generic SD file is wrong one! Use the bigger one

I had the same problem. You'll have to reformat the card, download the larger generic SD file, extract the file, mount it to the card with Win32..., remove the card from the computer, reinstall the card in the computer, and copy the CM10 and gapps to the card (it will now show about 400 MB space). Put the card in the Nook and away you go!

That's what I did. Good Luck!

---------- Post added at 08:08 AM ---------- Previous post was at 07:59 AM ----------

Snapshot 11 worked! Happy I am!
[Nook Color General] Riggles:
CM11 error on SD card install

So I am trying to update from 10.2.1 to cm11 for an SD card install and I keep getting the error Syntax error near unexpected token ro.build.product and the next line getprop something something (Sorry the thing goes by so fast!) and then it deletes the install file. GAPPs is installing fine I have been using the paranoid android one. Its just the CM itself. It has happened on every recent nightly that I could download from the cyanogen download site. Then I tried snapshot M11 which gave me the went to creating symlinks and updating permissions then got the error chown cannot access tmp/backuptool.sh and then the next line I cant remember. At this point I dont know what to do because I don't know where to find any earlier nightlies and none of the nightlies prior to 20150125 will download for me from the cyanogenmod site. I have the rev8c sd card image and I have tried both fully formatting and installing that way to loading the zips and booting from recovery without reformatting. Any ideas? Btw thanks for all the tips and ideas you have put up here they have helped me a bunch!
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
I am not sure what you mean by the sentence of having 8c and formatting. Do you mean you formatted the SD and started over with the freshly burned image? That is what you must do with CM11. You must start clean.
[Nook Color General] Riggles27:
Solved: I had to do a second format on the SD card through windows after the one on SDformatter or what would end up happening is it would install but go into a boot loop and none of the other fixes would work. But when I did the second format M11 installed and worked fine. I still cant update beyond M11 or I get the syntax error but I'm not worried about it.
[Nook Color General] Kflathau:
No hope for my nook color I've tried several different roms and variation of ways to get this done. I have 10.2 on my nook and it is super laggy. No matter what I try I get the same result. New sd card. New recovery. New Rom. Different gapps. Nothing to seems to work properly I'm starting to think this doesn't work
[Nook Color General] kate cody:
Thank you!! Works like a charm. Easier than I thought, very clear directions.
[Nook Color General] brwntree:
Hello - amazing these old devices still have some life due to so many peoples tireless efforts. I recently got a nook color 1.4.3 and thought I might try to put cm on it and have read thru so many articles here and have gone thru so many trials of my own but can never boot on the sdcard. I am lost now and was wondering if anyone might have any advice. I'm just into trying it out for first time on an sdcard and not wanting to touch any aspect of the stock emmc for now - no root nor recovery on emmc - this is a fully ok stock unit. I have a 2gig class-4 kingston card which the nook recognizes but wont boot up on it. I am using win32diskimager9 (as admin) to burn generic-rev8c image and this works fine. I place sdcard into usb-adapter and then into usb slot and PC (win7) sees it in drive J: and burns it fine - when done there is a 400M "boot" partition created and chkdsk sees it ok with 4k byte allocations. Next I place cm11-snap-M11.zip on it and the gapps-kk-20140105.zip that go with it by copy from PC to sdcard - left with 150M on orig 400M boot partition. Move sdcard over to nook and no boot ever (about 33 times so far) on sdcard - just goes to "forever read" stock boot each time and then writes some std android files to the sdcard but def can read the card at this point as a simple external sdcard with files on it. While I realize cm11 may be too recent to run "fast" on this old device I just wanted to see it boot up from sdcard and then take it from there without messing with orig stock emmc. I have also tried other older cm-roms but the prob seems to be booting first not rom. I've tried every diff usb port on my PC (don't have external card reader) and both 2G and 16G (patriot) sdcards and even placing into reg size sdcard adapter and SD slot in internal multi card reader (burns much slower here) all to no avail. Can anyone offer any advice what I might try next to see this ever boot on sdcard? TIA
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
Get an external SD card reader. The NC is very finicky how the image is burned to the SD. Go to my NC tips thread linked in my signature and read item A9.
[Nook Color General] brwntree:
>Get an external SD card reader. The NC is very finicky how the image is burned to >the SD. Go to my NC tips thread linked in my signature and read item A9.

>Sent from my SM-T707V using XDA Premium HD app[/QUOTE]

hi - two diff external card readers later and a new 32G sandisk brand c4 uSD card and still no joy :eek: I guess I also tried moving the 8c image file to the main C: dir on my PC (jic - from where to burn it from to the uSD) and tried diff vers of disk-imager (.95, .90, .60) and so far nothing seems to help it boot off the uSD card. Any ideas? TIA!
[Nook Color General] wileysam:
To do updates requires upload to Nook

I have a Nook with CM11 on the removable SD card, runs fine but slow with many programs. When I first installed it, I failed to follow the advice given on this forum for installing the recovery/update plug to the Nook BEFORE CM11. So, can't do update - it requires another install.

Also, at the time of CM11 install, the file was over 400MB (I think 435MB) which required a larger partition than the stock one. The post on installing CM11 gave another partioning code.

As much as I have enjoyed the Nook, for daily use I have purchased a NextBook at Walmart for $78 that runs Android 5.0 with 2GB RAM and standard equipment. It also has an SD card slot, so it might be interesting to hack it in the future!!
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
hi - two diff external card readers later and a new 32G sandisk brand c4 uSD card and still no joy :eek: I guess I also tried moving the 8c image file to the main C: dir on my PC (jic - from where to burn it from to the uSD) and tried diff vers of disk-imager (.95, .90, .60) and so far nothing seems to help it boot off the uSD card. Any ideas? TIA![/QUOTE]The only advice is to keep trying different options, sdcards, card readers, software and lastly PCs.
[Nook Color General] brwntree:
Continuing with this trial have now tried diff burner as in winimage (using restore virtual etc...) and dd from a linux platform (ubuntu) but none of these work either - won't ever boot on sd card. I am wondering now if the assumption that the nook color (or at least the one I'm on) is indeed set to boot off sd card first. It has model number BNTV250 ver 1.4.3 (from device info page) and I read somewhere that this means it's a tablet? and locked from booting on the sd card first? Not sure of this but it might explain the inability to boot on uSD. On the back it has model# BNTV250 (China) but als has fcc# XHHBNTV250-A & ic# 8961A-BNTV250A (not sure if these help or make a diff). Is it poss I'm just wasting my time because this particular model is locked - or if indeed locked, would anyone know is there a way to poss unlock it so it can attempt boot on uSD first? TIA....

PS - this NC also seems to keep repeatedly FC'ing on twitter via toast message which won't work at all to start Twitter in main OS and if uSD is inserted it also messages FC about device.android.com - just wondering if these might be preventing uSD boot first? I've also tried looking up how to resolve these constant FC's but consensus seems getting it back to B&N may be only solution.
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
Yes that model number means it is a Nook Tablet, not a Nook Color. They are completely different devices. That is why it will not boot using the Nook Color files. Go to the Nook Tablet forum to get the files necessary to boot from SD.
[Nook Color General] brwntree:
Leapinlar - many thanks. This indeed lead in the right direction and not long after I have the uSD booting cm11-kk-444 w/pico-gapps - TY! - :o)

Sent from my Nook Tablet