yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Nook HD, HD+ General] Yarpie:
I'm pretty sure. I remember feeling relieved that it was all going as planned. I hope I did that bit correctly.

After a while I ran the restore as I managed to get back into the bootable sd and tried restoring but somewhere near the middle it reboot itself back into the blank but backlit screen. Is that symptomatic of anything?

I'm trying another restore at the moment, too.
[Nook HD, HD+ General] clu1688:
YOU ARE RIGHT! The SD card formatted by SDFormatter needs to be set active by Mini-Tool Partition! (Strange when it was formatted by Win7 it showed as active in Mini-Tool Partition and thus you cannot set it active again)

Once I did that, reboot, it goes into CWM recovery. Followed the steps, everything seems to go well, except I cannot get in Play store. O well, I kind of guessed what went wrong, so I re-installed the Gapp zip thru CWM, then Google Play returned!

All is good, thank you Leapinlar! You are very helpful.

Now anyone knows how to install CM11 on Kindle HD+? :)
[Nook HD, HD+ General] leapinlar:
Which version of CM are you trying? CM11 has a nasty habit of bricking some devices. Try to go to my HD/HD+ CWM thread linked in my signature and make a new bootable SD per item 1a there (the one here will not work). Use that to flash a plain stock zip from item 6 there. Hopefully that will get you back to stock to start over.
[Nook HD, HD+ General] Yarpie:
I tried the stable 10.2.1. I figured I'd be safe rather than sorry, didn't quite work out as planned, haha.

I'll do that right now.

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Bad news on that front. Only other sd I have is a 1gb formatted to FAT16. Seems like I'll have to wait til I get my hands on another card, which should be tomorrow.
[Nook HD, HD+ General] leapinlar:
Since you were using the instructions for CM10.2.1 in the first post you can go ahead and use that SD to flash the stock zip. It is only the one from post 7 for CM11 that will not work.
[Nook HD, HD+ General] Yarpie:
I finally realized what I did wrong. Since I had to keep referencing the guide on and off all day I accidentally referred to the cm11 post and used cwm 6046.

Now it seems I can't boot into recovery from the sd anymore but it without the sd it showed the first nook screen after leaving it for a while, which was new.

Second edit. I got it to boot into recovery once more. But I can't seem to flash the stock rom. Is there any hope for this particular situation?
[Nook HD, HD+ General] Yarpie:
An update, as I've been working through this all day.

When a recovery has been flashed it seems that it can reboot every time into the sd card. Also it goes into the blank but backlit stage when the sd card is removed.

Without a recovery it just goes blank and the only way I can tell if it's on or off is by the charging light. It's also more hit and miss getting back into the sd card.

I believe you said that trying to flash your stock wouldn't work with CWM 6046 but I re-read that after trying it, of course.

The log from doing that gave me a status 6 error. 3 parse errors and a couple of other things.
[Nook HD, HD+ General] leapinlar:
To flash the stock zip you must use the CWM from the first post. Get rid of that 6046 and anything else from post 7 and use everything from post 1.
[Nook HD, HD+ General] Yarpie:
ffonth away

Ok, all done up. It seems to have worked. I tried something similiar erlier. Thinking I could flash 6036 but I was using 6046 (naively) to try to do it.

Now I flashed the stock rom and it shows that the battery is charging. I ran into a thread earlier saying that I should leave it like that for a while and it should hopefully boot.

My backup is also still backed up if I should come to need that.

And bam! It worked. I think I'm gonna leave it like this. I'm a bit wary of trying again but man, you are a lifesaver. Do you think I should try restoring my backup data?
[Nook HD, HD+ General] IllusionedDreamer:
Hi, I have a question.

I'm shifting from CM 10.2 to CM11 (Build M11).

Since I already have a CWM recovery, but I need to change the version, do I 1) again make a bootable SD card with the new CWM recovery or 2) keep the new file on the sd card and flash it using the old CWM recovery?

Also, can anyone give any input on how stable the CM11 (M11 build) is? Any thoughts/suggestions? I'm mostly shifting because my Nook keeps rebooting of its own accord with CM 10.2.
[Nook HD, HD+ General] digixmax:
You can use your current recovery to flash the new recovery, then reboot to the new recovery to flash CM11 and new Gapp -- see http://xdaforums.com/nook-hd/general/how-to-updating-hd-hd-internal-emmc-to-t2863171.

I am using M11 snapshot and it's well behaved for me, but YMMV.
[Nook HD, HD+ General] okichatan:
After about two weeks, I've had zero problems using CM11 (20141008-SNAPSHOT). Very Happy! :good:

Cheers
[Nook HD, HD+ General] simon-edwards:
It has been very stable for me too, I have only had one app play up using CM11-M11 - Ironically the B&N Nook reading app.

If I left the system to timeout the screen whilst reading - say falling asleep at night with it switched on - when I came back and unlocked it the screen would show a rapidly collapsing field effect, go blank and lock me out again. I could repeat this until I got bored, it simply wouldn't resume the Nook app. I had to re-boot from a long power button press to overcome this. Once re-started the Nook app would resume from the correct page. Luckily re-booting a Nook HD doesn't take too long. Other than this quirk it has been very stable.
[Nook HD, HD+ General] okichatan:
Mine occasionally does that also recently, however I can't reliably reproduce it. When it does this, I'm pretty sure (last 3 or 4 times it has worked), that closing my leather cover and then opening it again seems to allow me to get back in without reboot.

The other problem that has now started in facebook app will give an error loading news feed. All other apps access internet OK- I have to go into apps setting and clear data for facebook and re-login into facebook. I can't reliably reproduce what cause the connection error.

Cheers
[Nook HD, HD+ General] primalrage74:
i want to run off the sd card.

I did a card for my nook color and it only runs the mod when the sd card is in.

I would like to do the same for my moms nookHD, so that she can take the card out and it boots to nookHD.

But this looks like its not what i want. Is there a Way to only boot from SD to run the mod on nookHD?
[Nook HD, HD+ General] leapinlar:
Yes, it can be done, but as you say, this is the wrong thread.

You can get the ROM and instructions here:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2583952
[Nook HD, HD+ General] DeanGibson:
What's in the backup?

fdisk -l /dev/block/mmcblk0
Found valid GPT with protective MBR; using GPT

Disk /dev/block/mmcblk0: 30535680 sectors, 2622M
Logical sector size: 512
Disk identifier (GUID): a15726b1-3718-4d84-b698-c79f2d8a56e9
Partition table holds up to 128 entries
First usable sector is 34, last usable sector is 30535646

Number Start (sector) End (sector) Size Code Name
1 256 511 128K 0700 xloader
2 512 1023 256K 0700 bootloader
3 1024 31743 15.0M 0700 recovery
4 32768 65535 16.0M 0700 boot
5 65536 163839 48.0M 0700 rom
6 163840 262143 48.0M 0700 bootdata
7 262144 1179647 448M 0700 factory
8 1179648 2555903 672M 0700 system
9 2555904 3506175 464M 0700 cache
10 3506176 30507007 12.8G 0700 userdata

Does it really backup all ten partitions?

If not, then does the CM install use just existing partitions 8-10?

I'm currently making the following backup ...

dd bs=64k if=/dev/block/mmcblk0 | gzip >/storage/sdcard0/mmcblk0.dd.gz
[Nook HD, HD+ General] leapinlar:
No, CWM backs up only /boot (p4), /system (p8), /cache (p9) and part of /data (p10). The CM install uses p4, p5, p6, p8, p9 and part of p10.

It is a good idea to backup all the partitions, particularly p7 since vital device data is there. Go to my HD/HD+ stock tips thread linked in my signature to see how to do them individually (item 16).
[Nook HD, HD+ General] DeanGibson:
Don't forget the two GPT copies

If one is going to backup the individual partitions, one should probably also backup the two copies of the GPT (partition table):

dd bs=512 if=/dev/block/mmcblk0 of=/storage/sdcard0/mmcblk0-GPT-F34.dd count=34
dd bs=512 if=/dev/block/mmcblk0 of=/storage/sdcard0/mmcblk0-GPT-L34.dd [B]skip[/B]=30535646

The number "30535646" comes from the "last usable sector" from:

fdisk -l /dev/block/mmcblk0

It obviously varies depending upon the model of Nook.

It should never be necessary to restore them when switching between ROMs, but they are restored thusly:

dd bs=512 if=/storage/sdcard0/mmcblk0-GPT-F34.dd of=/dev/block/mmcblk0
dd bs=512 if=/storage/sdcard0/mmcblk0-GPT-L34.dd of=/dev/block/mmcblk0 [B]seek[/B]=30535646

The GPT files are tiny (17kB), but the partition backups are much larger, and can be compressed as part of the backup; eg ($N is the partition number: any of 1-10):

dd bs=32k if=/dev/block/mmcblk0p$N | gzip > /storage/sdcard0/mmcblk0p$N.dd.gz

And decompressed as part of the restore:

gunzip -c /storage/sdcard0/mmcblk0p$N.dd.gz | dd bs=32k of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p$N
[Nook HD, HD+ General] djcsurf:
Please dont flame, I've had the NookHD nearly a year & its now developed a fault. (1 week warranty left) I have saved a stock rom zip on my pc but need a noob dummies guide to revert to stock ive looked but cant find one.

Using CM11 at the moment.
[Nook HD, HD+ General] leapinlar:
Go to my HD/HD+ CWM thread linked in my signature, make a bootable CWM SD per item 1a, use it to flash a plain stock zip from item 6 followed by a factory reset with CWM.
[Nook HD, HD+ General] djcsurf:
I think i understand, but item 6 says it needs to be lower version of CWM than 6036. I have 6046 cwm.

Thanks

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Ive followed 1a and the sd card boots the nook into recovery fine but when i select to install from SD it says cant mount /sdcard/ ?
[Nook HD, HD+ General] leapinlar:
Put the zip on internal memory and use the install zip from internal memory. You may need to go into the 0 folder to find the zip.
[Nook HD, HD+ General] hugepoker:
I have not been able to get CM11 installed/booting on my HD+. I am trying to use a 64GB Samsung microSDXC card, which came out of the package formatted exFAT, and I first tried booting without formatting it (just copied the files in the CM11 guide). I then realized that I had not set the partition active, so I downloaded EaseUS & did that. I then tried quick format with SDFormatter (plus set active partition, then recopy the files). After using SDFormatter the disk is still formatted exFAT, and even in windows (W7 64-bit) my only two options are to format it exFAT or NTFS, so I wonder if I'm failing to fulfill the instruction ". Format (fat32) any size SD card with SDFormatter"

After each attempt I've powered off my Nook HD+, re-inserted the card & powered the Nook on (usually several times), but each time it boots to the "nook" logo and not CM.

I have not tried a "Full erase" format, and I haven't tried a different card - I have a few but they're all in use in other devices.

Any advice on what to try next? I will not take offense at the very simplest of "were you so braindead that you forgot to XXX?" suggestions, because I'm probably capable of being that braindead/ignorant.
[Nook HD, HD+ General] leapinlar:
It has to be formatted fat32. And I am not sure you can do that with a 64Gb card. You really should use a small SD, like 8GB or smaller. After all, you should save the SD for use afterward and it is a waste of a 64GB for that.
[Nook HD, HD+ General] hugepoker:
THANKS!! I pulled a 2GB microSD out of my NST and formatted it fat32 & it now boots to the CM text menu (backing up stock ROM as I type this).

In terms of keeping the boot card/disk for later - is there anything sacred about saving the actual card? In other words, can I just copy all the files & folders off of the card and into a folder on a Windows NTFS hard drive, and then if I need to boot into CyanBoot/CWM again format another SD card to FAT32 and copy the files back onto it? (I don't have enough cards to just stash one away as a boot disk for each of my devices in case of emergency)

thanks again for your help...
[Nook HD, HD+ General] leapinlar:
You can, but I recommend against that. Buy another card if you need it. You WILL need that card again, guaranteed. But you said for each of your devices, you have more than one of that device? If so, you can use the card on many of the same devices, just save the backups separately.
[Nook HD, HD+ General] DaveSimonH:
Unroot 10.2.1? - For "NowTV"

Might seem like an odd question, but is there a way to unroot Cyanogenmod 10.2.1?

I got a free 3 month sub to NowTV, and when I tried to play a video on the tablet I got the message;

And from what I've read, this seems to happen on rooted phones, tablets etc. So any way to remove root from my NookHD+?

EDIT: I went into;

Settings > Superuser > Settings

and disabled Superuser Access, but it made no difference. Guess I just won't be watching NowTV on the tablet...
[Nook HD, HD+ General] ST Dog:
That's pretty crappy of them. There are (were) quite a few devices that come form the factory with root. I had a few tablets (before the Nook) that came with root access.
[Nook HD, HD+ General] usajet:
W1
[Nook HD, HD+ General] ST Dog:
I keep full image files of my SD cards using dd or Win32DiskImager as backups.

He could do the same, make an image of the SD card (then compress it since it will have a lot of empty space) before reuse.

That backup image can be mounted at any point to access files from it as well, either with loop mounts or similar Windows tools.
[Nook HD, HD+ General] Jecoms:
I was able to successfully install cm-11 on an HD+ that previously had 10.2. Now I'm trying to install cm-11 on a different Nook HD+ from stock to cm-11 and can't get it to boot into CM.

I successfully installed the newest files for CWM,cm-11 (using updated update-binary), and gapps, but now, the HD+ only boots into recovery. Any ideas? I was thinking I might try installing an older version to see if that worked, but didn't know if that'd cause other issues.
[Nook HD, HD+ General] leapinlar:
I would suggest trying to go back to stock before attempting another CM version. You can do that by going to my HD/HD+ CWM thread linked in my signature and flashing the plain stock zip from item 6 there. That usually clears that error.
[Nook HD, HD+ General] Jecoms:
I'll try that. I do have CWM 6.0.4.6 currently installed, so is it possible to make a boot SD to install an earlier version of CWM to use those stock zips?
[Nook HD, HD+ General] leapinlar:
Yes, make one per item 1a of that thread. You can use that to install the stock zip directly. No need to do anything with the 6046 version. It gets replaced by stock recovery when the plain zip is flashed.
[Nook HD, HD+ General] Jecoms:
I was able to flash stock. I tried to install cm-11 again. This time, I'm able to see it booting into CM, but after about 30 seconds of the spinning cycle/arrow, a popup stating that Android is upgrading shows up and then the device restarts the Cyanogenmod Logo reveal. It does this until you hold power to turn it off.

I'm wondering if there is a possibility of my zip file becoming corrupted when I unzip, swap the update-binary (from http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2532300), and then re-zip. The file isn't compressed back to the same size file (I'm using 7-zip)

So my progress is that it will boot to CM, but it gets stuck in a loop after about 30seconds after booting.
[Nook HD, HD+ General] leapinlar:
You should not have to do that update-binary swap if you use the proper CWM. That is likely the source of your issue. Just use the files from this thread and follow instructions.
[Nook HD, HD+ General] Jecoms:
Success!

I used a different partition program to set active (easeUS wasn't letting me set active) and just did everything fresh using cm-11 files.

Now I have two cm-11 HD+s. It was a little frustrating working through the errors I would get, but I enjoy troubleshooting.

Thanks for your expertise in this niche product market!
[Nook HD, HD+ General] Datrung:
Need help

Reading and trying to fix my nook HD+. I was on CM10.2 and it started buggy. First I book with power and nook button, then reset to factory. My nook HD return to stock . I tried to put CM11 by follow instruction, but right now it just boot with CM logo then keep reboot . Please help
[Nook HD, HD+ General] leapinlar:
Did you remember to factory reset after flashing the CM11 zip?
[Nook HD, HD+ General] Datrung:
It's been two days since I mess around. First my nook HD+ won't let me boot and do things as instruction on Post 7. Here is what I did as I could remember:

- Hold start and nook button to do factory reset only ( not wipe data and reset ). My Nook HD+ return to stock and booth without CM logo. I went through process, log in , updated with stock.

- I start to re follow instruction on post 7 with new way ( SD format and mini wizard partition ). But it won't let my sd card boot-able .

- Follow instruction on you tube link ( sorry I was not able to put a link here ): I used win32 disk image with NookHDplus-bootable-CWM-6028-for-stock-4GB-rev4-(05.15.13) and be able to boot. I then flash NookHD-HDplus-Universal-Root-rev3-(09.10.13) , NookHD-HDplus-stock-enable-Unknown-Sources-rev0-(09.08.13).

- After that I started having problems that I keep changing the way copy boot file from cwm6028 to cwm6046, then cwm 6036 to flash stock using win32diskimage. Some times I used other way ( SD format+mini partition wizard ) but was not sure which way made my sd card bootable .

_ I finally be able to install CM 11 but it shown error by flash NookHDplus-CWM-6046-for-internal-memory-rev0-(07-13-14) and pa_gapps-modular-micro-4.4.2-20140426a-signed.

- I did wipe data/reset then reboot system more than 8 times hope it would return to stock.

- I finally tried to make an sd bootable with your 2.1.1 rooted but it did not come back to stock as I was lucky at first time -;). The error showed now is : Assert Failed: getpro ( " ro.product.device")=="ovation". E: error in /external_sd?NookHdplus -stock -2.1.1 -rooted .zip.

Now my nook HD show EMMC based recovery V 6.0.4.6 with or without sd card in slot.

That's all I could remember for things I mess up -;) I should point out that I did not back it up , skip that first step per instruction because it gave me error doing that. I should try harder like I did to back it up as soon as it return to stock . Now I have nothing to restore from, a lesson to learn -;)
[Nook HD, HD+ General] digixmax:
Did you copy (into the fresh new /boot partition) the MLO file first before copying all the other files?

You might want to try an alternate Gapps package available at http://wiki.cyanogenmod.org/w/Google_Apps.

The "8 failed reboots" method for restoring stock ROM only works if the recovery in emmc is the stock recovery.
[Nook HD, HD+ General] leapinlar:
The issue is that your messing with different versions of CWM and CM. They must match up properly. CWM v6046 can only be used with CM11. It will fail with any other version (including stock). And system reboot 8 times will not work if you have any version of CWM installed.

To get it working, forget using an you-tube instruction, just follow my guide in my HD/HD+ CWM thread linked in my signature. Make the bootable CWM SD per item 1a. Then flash a "plain" stock zip from item 6 (not the "rooted" stock zip you tried before). Follow that with a factory reset with CWM. This allows you to start over. If you want CM11 back follow post 7 here exactly (not some you-tube video).
[Nook HD, HD+ General] Datrung:
Thanks for helps. My nook HD+ is running now with CM11 . Not hit apply when " set active" in Mini Tool Partition Wizard was the cause of my messing up -;)
[MENTION=349198]leapinlar[/MENTION] : You are right. I follow your instruction without a problems.
[Nook HD, HD+ General] Legit Turtle:
How to skip the default startup screen?

I have it now on CM11, but before I can turn it on and go to the CM boot screen, the default one pops up. This means if my tablet dies, I have to charge it all the way before use. Can I change this? Thanks!
[Nook HD, HD+ General] leapinlar:
The default Nook screen before CM logo is normal and part of the boot sequence. There is nothing you can do about that. But I don't understand your comment about dying and recharging.
[Nook HD, HD+ General] d9ct:
I have lurked on these forums for quite some time and have fooled around with different ROMs, but my knowledge is pretty limited so I have a question about this. I have seen this instruction before - to do a factory reset (or maybe also to wipe data?) *after* flashing a new ROM.

Most directions I have followed in the past have me do the factory resets and data wipes before flashing a new ROM and gapps. Can you please explain the different scenarios of when I should use these wipes and resets, such as before vs after? Thanks for the help.
[Nook HD, HD+ General] leapinlar:
It makes no difference whether you do it before or after the flashing of the ROM as long as you do it before you reboot. And if you look at CWM it says 'factory reset/wipe data'. They mean the same thing. And you should wipe data if you are changing the type of ROM (like from stock to CM). If you are just upgrading the same ROM, like a new nightly over the top of an older nightly, no need to wipe data.
[Nook HD, HD+ General] d9ct:
Cool, thanks for the information.

Right now I've been running SlimKat 4.4.4, which I installed after running CM 10.2 for a year or so. I did the factory reset/wipe data and wipe dalvik cache prior to flashing the SlimKat ROM and gapps. The ROM ran pretty poorly for the first few days, then it improved, and now it's kind of hit or miss - it isn't as stable as 10.2 was. I've wondered if there's any benefit to me going through the trouble of wiping the data and cache again?
[Nook HD, HD+ General] leapinlar:
I would go to advanced setting and wipe dalvik-cache only. See if that helps. If you factory reset or wipe /data you will have to reinstall all your apps.
[Nook HD, HD+ General] d9ct:
I am trying this out. Thanks for the suggestion. At a first impression it seems a bit snappier so far.
[Nook HD, HD+ General] TCNook:
Thanks and one question...

First I have to say this is my first time rooting a device and your instructions made it a relative breeze. This is completely new to me so forgive me if this is an obvious question.... I installed CM-11 on my Nook HDplus on the first try and everything works great (better than B&N) with only one strange exception...

Should Google play movies work properly? I see different answers everywhere.

I can't stream any purchased movies or shows, though it will let me download and watch them, however despite being set on HD quality download, playback is (maybe) 240p. That's not anywhere near the quality that it should be on the Nook HDplus. I've seen lots of different comments on this issue: it shouldn't work... period, it should work fine, it's a root issue, use a root hider and it could be a DRM setting issue in CM..... If you could clarify for me, I would greatly appreciate it. (Does yours work?)

Again, I have a Nook HDplus with CM-11-20141220-nightly and pa-gapps-modular micro 4.4.2-20140426 installed. I've tried different gapps in case it was something with that and done a complete fresh re-install of everything with no success.

You clearly know your way around a Nook, so thanks again in advance.
[Nook HD, HD+ General] leapinlar:
I don't run CM11 so I can't answer your question. You might get a better response asking on the CM11 thread in development. This thread is mostly about installation issues.
[Nook HD, HD+ General] TCNook:
Thanks!

Thanks for the re-direct!