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[Nook Color General] Liptipiya:
https://xdaforums.com/t/guide-nook-...m10-1-cm10-2-cm11-on-sd.1941858/post-79857557

Fixed my ten year old Nook Color (BNRV200) which was lying unused since 2018 with help from this guide. Thank you. CM11 with no gapps but I found few apps on F-Droid and old apks to suit my needs.

1. Download 'generic-sdcard-v1.3-CM7-9-10-10.1-10.2-11-largest-Rev8c.zip' from top post and extracted the img file.

2. Download 'cm-11-20141008-SNAPSHOT-M11-encore.zip' from here. (link fixed on 29 July 2022)

3. Using 'win32diskimager' burn the img file from Step 1 into SD card.

4. SD card will now have four files, namely MLO, u-boot.bin, uImage and uRamDisk. Copy the zip file from Step 2 to SD card among these four files.

5. Insert SD card to switched OFF Nook Color and power it ON.

6. You would see 'Loading…' message. Wait for Tux to do its stuff and let Nook Color power OFF on its own.

7. You can stop here and next time you power ON your Nook Color, it will boot with CM11 snapshot and you can set it up for use. To update it to latest CM11 Nightly follow these steps after Step 6.

8. Take out SD card and check it again it will now have MLO, u-boot.bin, uImage, uRamDisk, uRecImg and uRecRam files in its 'boot' partition.

9. Download 'cm-11-20160815-NIGHTLY-encore.zip' from this archive and place it into 'boot' partition of SD card among files mentioned in Step 8.

10. Insert SD card to switched OFF Nook Color and switch it ON.

11. Press and hold home (∩) button to enter boot menu.

12. Using volume up/down buttons choose SD card recovery mode and press home (∩) button to select it to apply update.

13. Let Tux do its stuff and wait for Nook Color to power down on its own.

14. Switch your Nook Color ON and set it up for use.

Few apps on F-droid and elsewhere found to be stable on it.

* AntennaPod (for finding and listening podcasts)

* Pretty Good Music Player (bare bones music player)

* ReadEra (ebook reader)
[Nook Color General] fng learning:
Okay boys and girls I'm on an Easter egg hunt.

http://goo-inside.me/gapps/gapps-gb-20110828-signed.zip can't find the gaps for mirage little help links in the guide...... negative ghost rider.
[Nook Color General] nmyshkin:
Would these work?

https://xdaforums.com/t/gapps-updated-android-2-3-5-gb-07-25.1191063/

The link given in the post appears to be valid.
[Nook Color General] Helmut7:
Howdy, Anyone know how to uninstall GAPPS? I have the latest CM11 nightly from 2016 running on my old Nook Color but made the foolish mistake of flashing GAPPS. If I just wipe the cache/dalvik cache and reinstall the ROM will that get rid of GAPPS or is there another method needed? Cheers.
[Nook Color General] rmseaholm:
I just downloaded beta 5, put my SD card into computer thumb drive copied it into there. Reinserted it into my nook and I was good to go.
[Nook Color General] Donn240:
Dirty Flash

Thanks leapinlar! Everything works well. Still a little laggy on the touch screen, but otherwise great.
[Nook Color General] DimSuMr:
Activating SD Card Partition

First of all thank you for amazing instructions. Used them twice, worked perfect each time.

I am missing one piece, that I wanted to ask for some clarification.

I have an 8gb SD. I am unable to see the partitions. What is needed so I can utilize the remaining space? For example, install files may take 400mb, data for apps another 1gig. I have about 6 gig free on an SD card I can't mount. I'd like to add some music there but can't find out how to mount so I can transfer the datafiles.

Thanks!

DimSuMr
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
Just plug your nook into your PC with your USB cable. It should show up as a portable device in windows explorer. On the left pane below all of the drives.
[Nook Color General] mueller840:
Do u have to flash gapps for cm9
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
If you want them, yes. If you don't care about downloading and installing things from Play Store or any of the other gapp features, you can skip installing them. But if you want them, follow the instructions in the OP.
[Nook Color General] PsiKoTicK:
Edit 4: disregard - I have a nook TABLET not nook color

I feel very dumb now.
[Nook Color General] Mr-Glass:
I used a Sandisk 32gb Class 10 SD card and had no problems - I did use win32diskimager - the only difference is I used a USB card reader - Some people have had luck with internal reader/writers and others have not, that is the only thing I can think of..
[Nook Color General] Non Quixote:
Excellent! Easy to follow instructions for noobs like me!
[Nook Color General] zilla1000:
SD Recovery does not work

I had CM7 for a long time, and just installed Beta 4 couple days ago onto the SD card. Today I am trying to update it with Beta 5 following you instruction, about 10 seconds after I selected the "SD Recovery", the peagent came up, and with lines of prompt, the last couple lines are like

can not find gapps installer,

.... some other messages ...

power down.

Then it shut down.

I repeated it 3 times it all beavior the same. Do I have a bad installation which missing some components for the SD recovery ?

Thanks for any directions
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
That is normal for it to say that. It installs the zip then looks for gapps. Did it scroll for a long time before saying that? It should have. If it didn't then you did not get the zip placed on the boot partition properly. You do that in your pc.
[Nook Color General] mueller840:
Thank you
[Nook Color General] mogators1:
updating to nightlies from withen settings?

I am running CM10 B5 and noticed that under settings I can look for and download latest nightly builds. I selected the latest nightly and it appeared to be downloading it but I don't know where it put it. I tried booting into recovery in case in was already setup and ready to go but it didn't appear that anything updated. Is it possible to use this method when running from SD or do I still need to write the file to the SD from computer and then boot to recovery as before?
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
It it either put it put it under /sdcard/download or under /clockworkmod. In any case you do need to copy it to the boot partition. Usually you need to take the card out and do it with the PC. But if you go to my tips thread linked in my signature, I have a scheme set up so you can copy directly to the boot partition from within the nook. Look at item B4.

Edit: I just added a section to the OP that explains how to use CMUpdater with SD installs.
[Nook Color General] mikerejman:
Okay, so I downloaded the generic sd card v1.3 and win32disk imager, but for some reason windisk imager isn't finding my sd card to burn the image. Does anyone have any suggestions?
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
What kind of card reader are you using? You should be using an external USB model.

Edit: Can you see the drive using windows explorer? Win32diskimager won't see it if explorer can't.
[Nook Color General] Rofa1:
Hit a small problem. Moved from B5 to Nightly 16 - absolutely no problem. Later nightlies are 150Mb but the Boot partition has only 140 free. Do I need to reformat with bigger partition or is there a simpler fix?
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
You must have something extra in the boot partition. There should only be at most eight very small files there. If you have any files there larger than 5MB, they should not be there. Delete them. And if you only have the 200MB partition, you definitely need to update the image.
[Nook Color General] Rofa1:
How right you were! The dreaded Mac hidden files - .trash to be specific!!!!! I'd heard about the problem a long time ago but never faced it:good:
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
.trash on Mac and Linux is similar to the recycle bin in Windows. Fortunately in Windows the recycle bin is not active for removable drives.
[Nook Color General] mueller840:
Is there an update for cm9 I can't find rom manger premium in a apk file
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
You will not find CM9 updates with ROM Manager. They are unofficial builds. Only official builds are shown by that app. And I don't think eyeballer has built an unofficial build since September 4. Look in the first post for a link to his builds.
[Nook Color General] IDtheTarget:
This may be a silly, question, but I wanted to check before I went out and spent any money on another SD card...

Does this process work for the HD+ as well? I see that you're posting from an HD+...

Thanks!
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
No. SD card installations are not possible yet on the HD+.
[Nook Color General] mueller840:
Thank you my phone is acting like it needs an update like shuting down apps while in the middle of something etc
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
I am assuming you are on SD since you are posting in this thread. Install my Alternate CWM that I talk about in my tips thread linked in my signature (item B4) and wipe dalvik cache and fix permissions and see if that helps.
[Nook Color General] hwong96:
It's possible you have too many apps open in the background. Try increasing zRam to 26%. Enable asset purging and same page kernel.

Fix permissions using CWM. Wipe Dalvik cache. Reboot.
[Nook Color General] mueller840:
I am actuly not sure I am kinda knew to all this
[Nook Color General] gmaxwell:
Google play won't play

First I want to thank leapinlar for the excellent HOW TO. Thank you! I have been able to get CM10 nightly running but when I try to run Google Play it starts then immediately exits. Everything else about the install went great. I've tried a recover and re-installed the gapps-jb...zip but this didn't help. Any ideas?
[Nook Color General] mogators1:
dalvik cache and fix permissions question

I am running CM10 1118 off of SD card thanks to leapinlar's great guide. I was tinkering around with his alternate CWM on a seperate SD card and had a couple of questions. Is the dalvik cache that it clears on the emmc? How about the fix permissions, are the permissions it is supposed to be fixing only on the emmc as well. The reason I ask is because I'm running this off a different card , therefore it can't be doing anything to my card that actually has CM10 on it. Is the alternate CWM supposed to be installed onto my CM10 card? That would seem to make sense, but I don't remember seeing how that was done. Do I just copy the zip to my boot drive and boot into recovery to have it installed to the SD?
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
The Alternate CWM for SD has been modified to do everything it does for the installation on the SD. That being said, one of the quirks of the SD installation is that it shares the cache partition on emmc with the ROM there. So if you tell the Alternate CWM for SD to clear the cache, it clears the one on emmc since it shares it with the ROM there. And since part of the dalvik cache is on the cache partition and part on the SD, clearing dalvik cache will clear the part on emmc as well as the part on the SD. But fixing permissions and other functions are done only to stuff on SD, not emmc.

And for installing the Alternate CWM for SD, it comes in a rar file. Extract that and you get two files. Put those two files on the boot partition of the CM10 card. There is no further installation necessary. Then use the CM10 card boot menu to enter the Alternate CWM for SD.
[Nook Color General] mogators1:
Thanks, I figured out why I got so confused. I downloaded the regular CWM that was a zipped .img file which is why I burned it to a seperate SD card. Downloaded the correct Alternate CWM this time and getting ready to copy the two files over and boot from it.
[Nook Color General] mogators1:
Thinking about finally doing a EMMC install. Does someone have a link to a good up to date guide for doing this? I will probably put CM10 on EMMC and have CM7.2 on SD for when I need flash support (unless someone gets it working on CM10).
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
This one is still valid:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=12797652
[Nook Color General] mogators1:
Perfect, thanks again. Will probably try this over the long weekend. Seems like that post should have been pinned.
[Nook Color General] calixt0:
I've followed these instructions and it worked very well to get it up and running. My question is while I'm using the cm10 nightly 20121123 nightly. Almost everything is working great. I can't get some of my books put into the ebooks files. I can drag some of my converted movies on but not books. Anything you can suggest?
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
You might want to switch to USB mass storage mode instead of MTP. MTP filters what it considers copyrighted material and will not let you transfer it. I suspect that is your problem. You can change by going to settings, storage, menu, USB computer connection, and check off Mass Storage.
[Nook Color General] calixt0:
that did it thanks
[Nook Color General] trybal057:
what the **** is this b4 and b5 , that was being referred to, i have found nothing that mentions anything about this, i would like to use the very vague instructions, but alas, i have no idea what the **** you are talking about
[Nook Color General] Mr-Glass:
It is Beta4 and Beta 5 listed in the first post.
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
Where are you reading b4 and b5? Certainly not in my instructions in the OP. And I see nothing vague about my instructions. My instructions are very explicit...

EDIT: If you are referring to my recommendations to install the Alternate CWM for SD and the sdboot script, I very clearly pointed you to my tips thread in the paragraph above that and to look in section B (which is where items B4 and B5 are located).

But I will reword it to make it idiotproof.
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
If anyone is interested in a deal, Costco, through today only, has SanDisk 32GB Ultra class 10 microSDs on sale for $14.99 $15.99. I bought a few. They work great for SD installs, BTW.
[Nook Color General] Dick Mango:
Not recognizing gapps....

I have been a CM7 user and have loaded multiple cards with no problem. I decided to take a card that had CM7 loaded and delete everything on it, load the new imager then CM10 then gapps. The CM10 works as the post earlier in this thread mentions, however, it won't recognize the gapps. The wifi has been set up. I deleted everything and reloaded and still nothing. I added the alternate CMW and tried to flush the davlik cache and fix permissions...nothing. I'll admit that most of the stuff beyond this is somewhat above my head. I have seen mention of "wiping" a card but don't know what this means. I would appreciate any help(in as remedial terms as possible).

Many thanks!
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
Dont reuse the same CM7 card for CM10 unless you reburn it with my new image. There changes I made to the card that are necessary for CM10. Like a larger boot partition and a different script file. You might want to backup your installed apps with titanium backup then save your media files that you have on sdcard (in that order). It all will get wiped out with a reburn.
[Nook Color General] Dick Mango:
I did use the new image "generic-sdcard-v1.3-CM7-9-10-larger-Rev5.zip". I don't have any apps loaded so I just used the new image and put CM10 and gapps on it. Still am not prompted about setting up gapps. Something is not right and I can't figure it out. I
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
When you look in your boot partition, is the gapps file still there? If it was named improperly or corrupt, it would not install and not get deleted.

When you first boot after installing both zips, it should automatically go to the Google log in screen, if it doesn't that means gapps did not really install.
[Nook Color General] Dick Mango:
It's gone so it must've loaded. Somehow it must load incorrectly. Is there a way to check this or a different version to try? I loaded "gapps-jb-20120726-signed" although the first time I tried "gapps-jb-20121011-signed.zip" and it didn't work either.

My boot partition lists these items:

MLO

WMPInfo

uRecImg

uRecRam

u-boot

uImage

uRamdisk

uAltImg

uAltRam

Also, unrelated, my daughter spilled a nail gloss substance that got into the port where the charger plugs in. It hardened and the charger won't go in all the way. Is there a way to replace just this item and where would I find just the plug component? I would not like to buy another device. Santa gave this one to her last year as a way to avoid an iPad
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
If you watch the installer script closely, it tells you what it is doing. After it installs the ROM, and it gives a few errors about backup junk, it should say installing gapps and give a bunch of inflating lines. Then it should clean up and shut down. Try doing one of the gapps versions you have again and see what it says. (You are putting these in the boot partition aren't you?)

One other thing you can try. I see you have the Alternate CWM for SD installed. Copy the gapps file to your sdcard partition while running CM10. Then boot to the Alternate CWM for SD and flash the gapps with that.
[Nook Color General] Dick Mango:
Yes I have been placing on boot partition. I tried adding to sd card via debug and computer/nook cord tether. Booted to CWM and tried to install zip from sd card via "choose zip from sdcard". It went through:

Installing....

Finding update package...

Opening update package...

E: Can't open /sdcard/gapps-....(bad)

Installation aborted

Will try to reboot into recovery and tell what it says as it tries to install.

Edit: Added gapps to card and booted into recovery. It ran through the scrolling pretty quick but I noticed one line that said "Invalid zip magic" and had about 7-9 numbers/letters. It was too quick to write them down. It then shut down like in normal installation. I believe this is probably what has been happening all along. Does that mean anything to you?
[Nook Color General] dcharleyultra:
I may have experienced the same with gapps. I was looking for gmail and other stuff to be loaded, but it wasn't. I reinstalled gapps several times with the same result - no gmail.

I did have Play Store, so figured JB gapps didn't load everything by design. So I just installed gmail from the Play Store.

HTH

Swyped from my SPH-L710
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
That all means you have bad downloads. It's hard to believe that you would have two bad downloads, but you do. Re-download them. And do it from goo.im. You might even want to check the md5 sums.
[Nook Color General] Dick Mango:
So I deleted everything again and installed the nightly CM10 and the 20121011 gapps from Goo.im listed for CM10. Same thing. Very frustrated here!
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
Well something is not right with that gapps file. I think goo.im gives you the md5 sum. If you don't know what that is search on the web. It is a way to make sure that your download downloaded correctly. It is like a checksum. There is a windows program that will check it for you. Make sure the file is ok. It could be your browser is not doing it correctly.

Edit: I recommend you go to this site and download goomanager.apk and install to your Nook. You can use that to download the latest gapps package and it will check the md5 sum for you when it has finished. Do not use it to install it for you. Hook your nook to your pc and go to /sdcard/goomanager. Copy the gapps to your PC and then put the SD in the PC and copy it to the boot partition.

http://goo.im/devs/s0updev/goomanager
[Nook Color General] RaAkhenaton:
You Made It Easy...

Thanks for this. I really didn't want to pay for another root SD card for my Nook Color, but I wanted to experiment with Jelly Bean on it. It works well, and you kept the directions simple enough for my insomnia-riddled brain to handle it. Good job...:cool:
[Nook Color General] VentureForth:
Hey folks. GREAT WORK you all have done. leapinlar, I commend you highly for your endless patience and desire to work with noobs.

I have done a lot of work installing, reflashing, and manipulating ROMs on my phone, but this is my first attempt at the Nook Color. I would like to leave the eMMC completely alone so that my Nook is completely separate from my Nook Color Tablet through the SD boot.

I have been very successful in running Alpha CM10 on both Kingston 8GB and PNY 4GB microSD cards - both class 4. Don't worry - when my kids get this for Christmas, everything will be run off of SanDisk 16GB.

First of all, even though I run my clock at minimum 800 Mhz, maximum 1000 Mhz, it seems to run real slow. Also, Google Play can only seem to download one application at a time. Is this common for running the whole tablet off of the SD card (and a non-SanDisk at that)?

Finally, I get how the SD card is partitioned into 4 partitions when it is installed for the first time. Can I not install music to the SD Card partition using my SD Card adapter? If I plug my NOOK into my PC as the "adapter", then can I move data into it? I was running the 8GB card and seemed to run out of space after only installing a handful of apps. This didn't seem right.

I'm very sorry if these problems have been addressed before. There are hundreds of pages and the search results are very vague. Any help or advise in how to use the 4th partition in both Tablet and Nook mode would be greatly appreciated.
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
Well, that pny will make your SD install run like molasses. Not sure about the Kingston. So if you have slowness problems, it is probably the card brand. SanDisk should perk it up.

And I think Play always installs apps one at a time. It downloads it to cache (internal memory) so SD brand makes no difference for downloading. But for installing, can make a difference.

And Windows PCs can only see the first fat partition on an SD when inserted directly. So you cannot put anything on p4 with the PC. If you use your USB cable to plug the Nook into the PC, then the PC can see your sdcard partition (p4).

And running the 8GB card should give you a lot of room for installing apps. You should not run out of space unless you have installed loads of apps. If you still have problems, get back to us with specifics.

And if you want both the ROM on emmc and the SD intall to both use partition 4 for media storage, look in my tips thread linked in my signature and look at item B3 and the first tip there. In fact, read the whole section B.
[Nook Color General] WestChi:
Anyone else having issues with keyboard has stopped error and no onscreen keyboard. I can't even get my Bluetooth keyboard to work. I tried both the b5 and nightly builds.
[Nook Color General] hwong96:
Use GApps for CM10 4.1.x 20121011. Do not use cm10.1 4.2 20121130.
[Nook Color General] WestChi:
Amazing how obvious it is when you read the details.

Thanks
[Nook Color General] scott6779:
Is this all i need for updating?

I have CM 7.2.0 currently and want to update to CM 10. Are the files I need CM 10, alternate CWM to SD, the gapps file? I have been looking at these forums for ever and I think that's what I need. Any help is appreciated. Thanks
[Nook Color General] hwong96:
That is all you need. Make sure to wipe Dalvik and data cache first before updating. Also make sure to use the correct GApps version CM10 20121011.
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
You have CM7 on SD already? You need to start over with my image zip on the OP. Your old setup will not work with CM10. You need a fresh start with the right size boot partition and installation script. Just backup to PC whatever you need from the sdcard partition and burn the new image. It will wipe out everything and you can start fresh as explained in the OP.
[Nook Color General] triesandluth:
partitions

I have cm10 on my 4gb card. i had cm7 on a 2 gb card and wanted a touch more room and cm10 so i made the bootable card. n ow i cannot find the other partitions any way that i try, through the nook with a file viewer or through usb to pc. i figured i would get more than 193mb of space after upgrading to a 4gb card.

and oddly enough, i now have access to the nooks 1gb internal memory which was unusable with cm7. any input would be appreciated!