yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Nook HD, HD+ General] kunchers:
I don't think it's possible with Zeam, but it can be done with Holo and Go Launcher.
[Nook HD, HD+ General] gvw755:
restore to stock

I just change a value of a file in the /system directory and it did got through the 8 failed boot process, however as soon as it started again, it downloaded a new file. This was two days ago and so I am not sure what B&N update it was. If on the slim chance I want to go back to rooting stock and loading gapp on to the Nook HD+ again, will there be a problem following your procedures because I have something more than 2.0.5 on my Nook now?
[Nook HD, HD+ General] leapinlar:
What is it you have? Look in settings/device info. But it should root again if you want it to.

Sent from my HD+ running CM10 on SD with XDA Premium
[Nook HD, HD+ General] gvw755:
software version

Sorry, it is 2.0.5. I got confused because when it rebooted after it downloaded the update, it downloaded the update again so I assumed it was for a higher version. I appreciate all the work you did with this and I would still be playing around with this option, but verygreen's option has gotten progressively better.
[Nook HD, HD+ General] leapinlar:
I agree, I use his CM10 as my daily driver and only boot to stock when I need to test something I made to help users. The only feature that I wanted added was the ability to easily boot between the two without removing the card. Actually, by heavily modifying my setup I am able to do that.

Sent from my HD+ running CM10 on SD with XDA Premium
[Nook HD, HD+ General] Tarthenal:
Thanks!

Just got my new HD+ and completed the stock root procedure outlined by OP. Everything works great and it's so good to have an ungimped tablet! Wanted to thank all of you guys for such awesome work! Great stuff.
[Nook HD, HD+ General] punkdevo:
Downloads failing?

I just did your Nook HD 2.0.5 stock root from your other thread, using the Universal Root zip as well as the Play/gapps/unknown source zip. Everything LOOKED like it went exactly as you instructed, but when I went to download an outside app, the download failed.

I saw you say the gapps zip can get corrupted, so download it ON the Nook. I tried. THAT download failed.

So, as a test, I googled a picture of a flower and tried to save it. That failed too.

So, while everything appeared to go fine, I can't install any new apps because I can't download anything at all on my Nook. I really can't tell what in the world could have caused this.
[Nook HD, HD+ General] leapinlar:
You don't really know if you had this problem before you installed these things? If you made a backup as I recommended, I suggest you restore and see it you can download anything, not install it, just download it. If you can, try re-installing things.

Sent from my HD+ running CM10 on SD with XDA Premium
[Nook HD, HD+ General] punkdevo:
I never had the problem before, but as you recommend, i did restore my backup and now downloads are fine. I still get "unsuccessful" on downloading the zip straight to the nook though, even though my other downloads are now working. Should i just try flashing both zips again and hope it gives the right result this time?
[Nook HD, HD+ General] leapinlar:
Your other downloads work? What were you downloading, something with your browser? And now you can't download my files? That is strange.

Flash the little unknown sources as the first zip and see if that makes a difference. B&N may be blocking some downloads. And one other user said the unknown sources part of the gapps + extras did not take for him. He had to flash the little one.

Edit: I just looked at my scripts in the gapps + extras zip and there could be a problem there for some users. I was trying to include location services then and was not successful. That code may be causing the unknown sources to fail for some folks. Just flash the little zip also. I will put up a new version of Gapps+extras that fixes that.

Sent from my HD+ running CM10 on SD with XDA Premium
[Nook HD, HD+ General] punkdevo:
I bet i'm in the same boat as that guy. I better go add the small unknown zip to my sd. I did have a suspicion that this specific dl fail was the work of b&n though.

I'll go give the small one a shot. Thanks.

---------- Post added 13th January 2013 at 12:24 AM ---------- Previous post was 12th January 2013 at 11:57 PM ----------

Okay, whenever i go back to my backup, downloads are fine. Still a No on your big gapps/unknown zip, but i got your small unknown one to download.

However, i just tried installing the small unknown source zip first, then the universal root. It's now making downloads

of anything fail every time again.

Is that what you meant for me to try? It doesnt do this if i just install universal root; only when i try one of the other two. Maybe theres some step im missing in making the unknown sources zip work?

Its a nook hd on 2.0.5, if i didnt say that already.
[Nook HD, HD+ General] leapinlar:
I just put a new link in for the gapps + extras that took out the bad location services code. Try that. Rev1. And a new small zip too.
[Nook HD, HD+ General] jfever311:
Burn CWM image to SD using Ubuntu

To burn file image to SD card using Ubuntu, first format card in Nook. That will erase everything from the card and set it up for use on your device.

Insert SD card into your computer.

Then run this command in Terminal: sudo fdisk -l

That brings up a list of your drives. By looking at the size of your drives you can easily see from the size which your SD card is. My SD card in terminal is named /dev/mmcblk0

First a warning, by selecting the wrong device it is easy to overwrite your hard drive by mistake, make sure you know which drive is which.

Then to write the image to your card you would use: sudo dd if=~/filename.img of=/dev/mmcblk0

This is assuming the image is called filename.img and it is in your home folder, adjust your path and filename to suit.

For example, my full command was: sudo dd if=~/NookHD-bootable-CWM-6025-for-emmc-stock-4GB-rev2.img of=/dev/mmcblk0

It will ask for password and then not really do anything. Do not worry, it is writing. However, It could take a while depending on the speed of your card reader.

When it is finished, unmount and remove SD card, and then reinsert. The card will have been renamed to boot.

From this point on just follow the instructions in this thread

Enjoy!
[Nook HD, HD+ General] uflac:
Can't get Win32discimager

(Attached at the bottom of this post you can get the CWM image zips that I have modified to work on stock. I have one for HDplus and one for HD. You must use the version for your device, they are not interchangeable. And you must use the CWM image zips from this thread if you want them to work on stock. The ones from the CM10 threads will only work on SD installations of CM10. Download the appropriate CWM image zip for your device and extract it. You will end up with an approximate 3.7GB .img file. Burn that image to your 4GB or larger SD using Win32diskimager in Windows or use the dd command in Linux or OSX (Mac).

To use Win32DiskImager, find it on the web (it's free) and install it on your Windows PC. Open it and select the drive (device) that has your card reader with your SD inserted. Then in the image file box put the location where you have the extracted img file. Then when everything is set right, click on the write button. A warning will pop up asking if you want to proceed. Click on Yes. With this 4GB image it will take a while.)

When I try to download the wi32discimager I don't get an exe file to open it. I had it on my old laptop and it worked great, but with this new Windows 7 laptop, It doesn't load right. Or am I doing something wrong
[Nook HD, HD+ General] leapinlar:
What did you download? It usually comes in a zip you have to extract.

Sent from my HD+ running CM10 on SD with XDA Premium
[Nook HD, HD+ General] ibilln:
I do this, but good to have it said by the great LL... :)
[Nook HD, HD+ General] QuestionMark0:
Hi, I have a problem.

I have stock Nook Hd and I followed this post: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2062613

I've done everything exactly as it was explained there and I got stuck on the boot menu.

I cannot install anything from sdcard because there is an error: "E:Can't mount /sdcard/"

I cannot run the Mod because whenever I reboot my Nook I end up in a boot menu.

I bought today Kingston 16 gb microsd card to do the install and this is what I've got.

Can anyone help me to solve this issue?
[Nook HD, HD+ General] leapinlar:
By stuck on boot menu you mean the CWM initial screen? It has a menu that you can move the cursor up and down with the volume keys. Are you sure you are running the image from my thread and not the one from the CM10 thread?

Can you go to install from SD? Try on the next menu to go to install from internal memory. If you can then you can download the zips with stock and save them there and then flash them with that option. Go to /media/download and look for the downloaded zip files.

Sent from my HD+ running CM10 on SD with XDA Premium
[Nook HD, HD+ General] drworm73:
I rooted my Nook HD using the CWM method, and got it on the first try, but I am missing something. After root and getting the tablet squared away, I plugged it in to the laptop to do some file management and add some docs, but when I plug it in all Win Explorer shows is "Internal Storage", and not the sdcard that is in the tablet. I know the sdcard works as it is the one I rooted the tablet with. One thing to note is that I had to format the sdcard to get the image to fix to the card, and I did so with fat32. It is a 16gb card with no partitions- I just formatted the whole thing.

Another issue is I am having trouble finding some docs (comics) that I had on the internal memory when I rooted the Nook HD. They are still there (verified when I jacked in to the laptop) but am having a bear of a time finding the folder.

EDIT:

This may be a dumb question, but do I have to have the CWM sdcard in the tablet every time I want to startup in the root?

Perhaps he is not downloading the binary. When I first tried I grabbed the latest version (0.6) and the binary for 0.6 has a warning, so I grabbed the system zip. I could not get it to work, so I grabbed the 0.5 binary and it had executable files in it.
[Nook HD, HD+ General] leapinlar:
No, you do not want the CWM card in the slot. And you formatted your CWM card? That means you formatted your backup files too. You did backup didn't you?

So you re-formatted the CWM card to fat32 after rooting and put it in the nook, booted to stock, plugged in the USB and are only seeing internal SD on your PC? Can you see it inside the nook? It would be under ext_sdcard.

I'm not really sure I am following exactly what you did.

Sent from my HD+ running CM10 on SD with XDA Premium
[Nook HD, HD+ General] drworm73:
Sorry, let me be clearer.

RECORD SCRATCH!!!!

I had a longish post here, but I did a little more reading of your suggestions, and it appears you have addressed the file architecture issue. Sorry, sometimes my ADD brain needs about 10 quiet reads to get it all. I see that the CWM card is a separate, bootable, card that is only used to root and should be set aside and used if future problems arise. Does this mean that a separate media card (I will have to pick a new one up) should show up just fine when I put it in the table and plug the tablet in to my laptop?

**New question**

After I installed the comic reader app, I did as you suggested and opened "superuser", but saw nothing at all under apps. Perhaps I just don't know how to use superuser, but I am not sure what I should be doing to make sure it can see the new app.

**New question**

What kind of apps do I have to watch out for? What kind of permissions should I avoid. I want to install a new web browser, and these require a lot of permissions to install, is this going to be a problem?

Secondary to that, I wanted to install chrome, but it said that it was not compatible with the version I was running. Can I upgrade something to make my tablet compatible?
[Nook HD, HD+ General] leapinlar:
You should take the CWM card out before you try to boot to stock. Usually if you leave it in, it will boot to the card again. The fact that it booted to stock with it inserted means that the card was not being recognized by the nook. To see if the external card is being recognized by stock, you need to use a root file manager like root explorer or ES explorer and go to /mnt/ext_sdcard. The internal card is called sdcard in stock.

And it needs no card at all to boot to rooted stock. Root is internal and always there.

Put a clean, formatted card in and boot. (You can store the backup on PC and reformat, but it is really a good idea to keep the CWM for future use and get another card. If the original card is large and you don't want to waste it on CWM, buy a small card, burn CWM on it, move the backup to there, then you can format the original card). See if you can see the card internally. Then connect to PC with your cable and see if you can see it on PC too.

Only if the app says it needs root do you have to worry. And even most that require that are ok. You only open superuser if you have installed an app that specifically said it needs root.

Most people have trouble making chrome work on stock. That said, just because Play Store says it is not compatible does not mean it will not run on stock. It just means Play Store will not let you install it. You have to find it somewhere else like 1mobile.com and try it.

Sent from my HD+ running CM10 on SD with XDA Premium
[Nook HD, HD+ General] QuestionMark0:
Yes I downloaded and burned on sdcard the image from your thread and put on my card your zips (the ones you linked) so I assume an

error must be on my side. I read your post carefully and thought "that isnt that hard at all - I can do it :)" so I bought 16 gb Kingston microsd card,

but it is class 10 - maybe thats the reason it is messed up.

Yes, I am talking about the menu where I can move up/down with the volume keys. When I try to use the option "install zip from sdcard"

and then select "choose zip from sdcard" I recieve message "E: Can't mount /sdcard". If I use the option "choose zip from internal sdcard" then I en up in a folder /emmc/ where there is a line "- log/" and when I click it I recieve a message "No files found".

I wonder if it is not something to do with my Kingston sdcard. I am not a specialist, I just followed theese simple steps and I dont know why that

doesnt work :/

meh

edit: I tried different sdcard and I could finally read zips. But nook doesnt boot into CWM but always ends up in this menu.

I got nook 2.0.5 but I thought this version could work on it.

I always get "Loading recovery from SD" message when CWM is booting.

Great, now I used the OTHER sdcard- the one which is seeing my zip files - and installation of the mod started - just to give me the message "E:Can't open /sdcard/cm-hummingbird,zip (bad)
[Nook HD, HD+ General] leapinlar:
Are you mixing up the CM10 thread with my stock CWM thread? That may be your problem with it saying can't mount /sdcard.

The last message was because you are not supposed to be flashing that zip with this version of the CWM. That is the CM10 zip not the root zip.

And you have your terminology all messed up. The first screen you get when you put the card in should be cyanoboot. That is the bootloader. And that means it is booting correctly. Then that static screen where you can move the cursor is called CWM. It says so at the top of the screen.

So put the zips that you want to flash (not the hummingbird one) and try again. (Assuming you are using the right version of CWM.)

Edit: I saw where you posted the same thing on the CM10 thread. I would've appreciated it if you discovered that you made an error and posted on the wrong thread that you would have edited your wrong post and said so.

.

Sent from my HD+ running CM10 on SD with XDA Premium
[Nook HD, HD+ General] gvw755:
cm10 wifi problem

Sorry if this looks like I posted in the wrong area, but I'm not able to post in verygreen's cm10 SD card area because I haven't posted enough times, and it appears that verygreen is on vacation. I loaded the 01/08/13 update on my SD card and have had problems connecting to my wifi ever since. It would see my wifi as "not in range" and I would have to turn wifi on and off a couple of times, and sometimes I would have to "forget" my wifi and set it up again. I know it isn't the nook because I would turn it off, pop the card and start it up again in your rooted stock version and it would find it immediately. I noticed a couple of posts about wifi issues, but nothing recently. Do you know what could be going wrong?
[Nook HD, HD+ General] leapinlar:
Re: [USER Tips] Nook HD/HD+ Stock Root User Tips from LeapinLar

I'm not really sure what your issue is, but I would recommend booting to his CWM with the power menu and wipe data/factory reset. That will only affect your SD install so don't worry. It means you will have to reinstall your apps and reregister with Google, but sometimes that is necessary.

Sent from my HD+ running CM10 on SD with XDA Premium
[Nook HD, HD+ General] bpaulien:
Re: [USER Tips] Nook HD/HD+ Stock Root User Tips from LeapinLar

I hope some of this is appropriate in this thread. Some of it is about CM10, but not necessarily appropriate for that thread as it's not really regarding development, just how to use it.

I consider myself somewhat of an initiated user now, having experienced the frustration of attempting the install on a too slow memory card as well as having to re-register my device... twice... Once intentionally, once as a result of the 8 failed boot attempts reset. But I think I'm good now. :rolleyes:

I have a few questions about how to get around between CM10 and stock. First off, I find it annoying that I can't find any apps that have not been loaded by nook shop in my recently used apps list in stock. Is there a work around for this? Perhaps there's a way in the zeam launcher installed with the gapps zip. But generally, if I'm in stock, its going to be because I want access to the stock features, so don't necessarily want to have the alternate launcher be my default.

Secondly, is it possible for CM10 and stock to peacefully coexist? I thought I read somewhere (possibly in this thread) that CM10 shares the data partition with stock. Is that true? And if so how do you keep things under control in that environment? If I think I'll be mostly using CM10 except for reading books/magazines, etc. But i also want some of the same apps installed on stock that I have on CM10 is that easy to maintain?

Where are .apk files that have been downloaded in stock? I was thinking it would be easy to just put them on my /sdcard partition and install from there when I boot into CM10, but I can't find them. Also I don't know if they would interfere with each other, as mentioned above.

I think that's it for now. If I think of anything else, I'll ask.

Thanks for all the great support provided here, it's been helpful to have access to this archive of knowledge.

-Bruce
[Nook HD, HD+ General] leapinlar:
Re: [USER Tips] Nook HD/HD+ Stock Root User Tips from LeapinLar

You can't easily see your third party apps from the stock launcher. You really need to use another launcher like zeam. And there is a work around where you can have stock as default and be able to switch back and forth to zeam. Look at this thread:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=36467338

It allows a single click on home to take you to the stock launcher and a double click to take you to zeam.

CM10 and stock can coexist but with some difficulty until some issues are solved. It is difficult to boot back and forth. You must remove the CM10 card to boot to stock and vice versa. And sometimes it is difficult to boot back to CM10 once you have taken the card out and put it back. Other than that issue, they peacefully coexist. The only thing they share is the cache partition which is a minor issue. So apps that are installed on stock are not seen or shared by CM10 or vice versa. If you want the same apps on both, you must install on both. The apps on each get installed and stored on the /data partition for each system and they are separate. If you have rooted stock you can go to /data/app and find the installed apk, copy it to internal media, boot to CM10 and install from there.

But I have hopes that we can modify things to get them to work together better so that booting back and forth and sharing media files is easier.

Sent from my HD+ running CM10 on SD with XDA Premium
[Nook HD, HD+ General] captainmccool:
I've been using rooted stock for a few weeks now and for the most part, I enjoy it. I've got one lingering problem though that I haven't been able to find a solution for...or, perhaps it is what it is.

Battery life. It just is not very good. I noticed when I look at battery usage in settings it says "46% discharged from idle and 47% discharged from Wifi" then "5% Android OS." Is this common? Does this mean when the screen is locked it's still using all kinds of power? I recently got a case with magnets that auto-wake and auto-sleep when you open or close the case, i wonder if that is a problem?
[Nook HD, HD+ General] leapinlar:
Re: [USER Tips] Nook HD/HD+ Stock Root User Tips from LeapinLar

Have you tried the power save mode in settings? I think that sets it to turn off wifi when it sleeps.

Sent from my HD+ running CM10 on SD with XDA Premium
[Nook HD, HD+ General] bpaulien:
Re: [USER Tips] Nook HD/HD+ Stock Root User Tips from LeapinLar

Thanks. I must be looking wrong. Should I be able to see these with a file manager? I just realized... maybe I have to use ADB? Just wondering, because I used a file manager, and the /data folder is empty (doesn't even have an app folder within it.

I guess there's one way to find out. I'll go down to my computer and see if I can find the /data/app directory using ADB. That's the only thing that would make sense considering the state of my /data folder.

Thanks again for your help. I'll also give that trick with the launchers a try.
[Nook HD, HD+ General] leapinlar:
Re: [USER Tips] Nook HD/HD+ Stock Root User Tips from LeapinLar

You have to use a root file manager, like root explorer or ES File explorer. Ordinary file managers like the one that comes with my universal root won't see anything. (Of course you need to be rooted too.)

Sent from my HD+ running CM10 on SD with XDA Premium
[Nook HD, HD+ General] bpaulien:
Re: [USER Tips] Nook HD/HD+ Stock Root User Tips from LeapinLar

Thank you for the tip. That worked. I didn't realize that I needed a special file manager. I thought just having root would be enough. Obviously I have much to learn--.
[Nook HD, HD+ General] ckz1211:
Require 8GB CWM image

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2062613

the CWM image is about 4GB, so my SD card becomes the capability of 4GB after writing image.

However, the cheapest MicroSD card that I can get now is 8GB or larger, so I think it's a waste that turns a 8G card into 4G.

Could you give a 8GB image? In that case, I can fully utilize my 8GB SD card.
[Nook HD, HD+ General] bpaulien:
I've done this enough times in the last couple weeks (learning as I went) that I might be able to answer this one... You can install the 4G file (or even the 112Mb one) and then use a Partition manager (they suggest one that is preferred, but it didn't work for me.) Find one that will work to partition on SD cards too, and just expand the first partition to the full size of the card.

Now you have a bootable SD card that lets you use the full capacity of the card. The only difference between the 4G image and the 112Mb image is all the empty space on the 4G. But since the smaller one writes faster, it's actually more efficient to write the smaller image, and then just expand the card with your partition manager of choice. (sorry, I can't remember the name of either the recommended one from this forum, or the one I'm using, since I'm at work right now). It took me a while to understand why they were different sizes, and why it was claimed that they both worked just the same. Until I realized that it was just the partition size that made up the difference. There wasn't actually any extra features or files, just blank space.

HTH.

Bruce