[Nook Touch General] loney01843:
I got a uk glow worm on the 27th (2 days before release ;)) and one of the first things that I tried to do was to root with glownooter. Bad idea! I thought that I had bricked my device. I had to use a lot of trickery to recover from a loading screen lock-up and once I did the first thing that I did was backup my nook (Which i should have done before).

UPDATE!

Please try my new ROOT install pack HERE:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=34216660#post34216660

This can be used to root and install the most requested things of this thread in just one zip.

Here is a quick guide to most things you will need to do to get started. I will update this guide as I discover and build new modifications.

To Backup and Restore

Follow this guide. Please do this BEFORE any other tinkering!

http://blog.the-ebook-reader.com/20...-and-restore-nook-glow-and-nook-simple-touch/

Its important to check your backup before proceeding! Please listen to roustabout and dont skip this step... He knows what he's talking about

Thanks roustabout

To Root!

Make sure you use the CWM file suitable for your SD Card. I used "2gb_clockwork-rc2" because my card was 2gb+.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1360994 (Thanks mali100)

Use WinImage with admin rights to restore CWM virtual hdd image to your SD.

Download tinynoot-1-of-2 and tinynoot-2-of-2

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1650593 (Thanks to eded333 and roustabout)

Put on CWM boot SD.

Install them in CWM back to back (I didn't bother with the restart in the middle as it should not make a difference considering the file content). After a restart you should have root access and an android launcher on your 1.2.0 Nook (among other files). If nook fails to boot one of the tinynoot files may have corrupted. Recover, Re-download and Retry!

To Add Apps

Using ADB to install apps is easy. Extract this to your C drive:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/13673492/ADB + Fastboot + Drivers.zip

Navigate to the folder in a cmd prompt.

Drop your APK into the same folder and on your nook open the "adbwireless" app and enable ADB

That app will tell you what your nooks IP address is.

Then you can:

adb connect ip.address.of.nook:portnumber
adb install app_of_your_choice.apk

Setup ADB over USB

OK I have taken the liberty of building a quick driver mod to support your nook through USB. It works for me. First you need to have the android SDK if you don't already (sure you do but just in case ).

http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html

Make sure you tick to install the android USB driver when the SDK is installed.

Browse to extras\google\usb_driver in your SDK folder (wherever you put it) and replace android_winusb.inf with my file:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/13673492/android_winusb.inf

Next go to C:\Users\your_user_account\.android and replace adb_usb.ini with my file:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/13673492/adb_usb.ini

In device manager, point google ADB driver to this and hopefully that should get you set up!

To test type

adb devices

Its working if you get something like this:

* daemon not running. starting it now on port ____ *
* daemon started successfully *
List of devices attached
[YOUR NOOK] device

And then try

adb install app_of_your_choice.apk

UPDATE

Install Multitouch Kernel With Overclocking

Install the CWM zip using your clockworkmod SD card

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1906507

:good: Thanks to johnjtaylor for discovering that this kernel works works.

Hopefully this more comprehensive guide will get others with this software to start playing around.

If this helps, be polite and say thankyou