[Nook Color General] pcslayer:
Hello leapinlar,

Really cool of you to post all those replies. Here I am hoping you (or someone else) could help me out answering a few questions.

Before I start. Most of this is very foreign to me. I would be lying if I said I understand what I am doing, because I don't -but I am pretty good at following instructions- so please keep that in mind in your reply.

Many, many moons ago I followed instructions on this site (I believe) to get my Nook Color to dual boot original NC 1.3.0 from eMMC and CM 7.2 from my 16 GB Class 4 SanDisk uSD. I originally got it for my oldest daughter, it then got passed down to every single member of the family and it finally circled around back to me. It's all been working mostly fine for 2.5 years, but now I've been thinking about switching it over to CM11 M12. I want to keep the dual boot (upgrading to NC 1.4.3 would be nice but I don't know if it's worth the extra hassle). It will not upgrade in Nook mode because it is rooted. From what I understand, I'd have to "unroot" (by flashing an older unrooted NC 1.1.0 -or something like that), then upgrade as one would normally do and finally root the new NC 1.4.3. So here is my 1st question: What are the advantages (or disadvantages) of NC 1.4.3 over 1.3.0 (if any)? For some perspective, I like being able to go into Barnes & Noble Stores to read books from their WiFi and I'd like to continue doing that. I don't know if 1.4.3 adds some new capabilities or not. I apologize if this information is somewhere else but I couldn't find it.

Now onto the most important part: CM11. Since I already have a "bootable" SD Card I was thinking maybe I just need to get a new ROM and install that somehow. There is an app called ROM Manager that seems to work for this, but I am not sure. It doesn't even seem I can do a backup of my current RAM. When I try it just shuts down the tablet. When I power it up again, there is no backup. I even try to "boot into recovery" from this app and all it does is shut down the tablet. When I originally did this whole rooting thing I used something called ClockWork Mod. Isn't this the same thing? Reading around I understand that I need to get a new version because the one I have probably doesn't work. So maybe this is the way to upgrade. I understand that I need to get version 6.0.4.8. But, how do I update my CWM and when do I do this? I am afraid to attempt anything until I get my current setup backed up.

I know I would use this ROM: cm-11-20141112-SNAPSHOT-M12-encore.zip and a gpapps from the cyanogenmod site. Which one? Small (package 20140105) or regular (package 20140606)?. Then I would put both of them in the boot partition and then boot into recovery mode (I think). Well, even when I hit the power and nook (home) buttons at the same time, it says it is booting into recovery but just shuts down (same as I mentioned above). [/B]What could be wrong?[/B]

I apologize if you expect me to know more, but I am just so confused right now. Am I missing something? Like I said, I am not 100% sure of what I am doing so since technically I am only upgrading I am really lost. Is there maybe a recent instruction set for going from CM7.2 to CM11 (on SD) with dual boot? Could someone help to answer my questions? I really want to upgrade to CM11 to give extended life to my little tablet that could.

Thank you!