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[Nook Touch General] Krakozawr:
at the russian foum 4PDA i found really easy method of routing, based on some XDA's works and modified ZeroLab nooter.

Now, I have my "white" nook with full root, with 1,9Gb /SDCARD and working ReLaunch, CoolRader, ColorDicts (all dictionaries at the /SDCARD) and RootExplorer for any manipulations. Not really useful to have no direct access to the /SDCARD because of EXT3 filesystem - but I uploas zip with dictionaries to the legal NOOK drive and unpack they with RootExplorer into the /SDCARD.

All was really easy. No any difficult manipulations actually, except one issue with permissions for dictionaries after re-packing - this was solved with ADB CHMOD command.

The latesr ReLaunch actually supports DropBox and FTP, so it will be easy to upload books at the /sdcard

The direct link to the 4PDA with instructions (you should using Google Translate because of Russian, but it's really easy): http://4pda.ru/forum/index.php?showtopic=513207&view=findpost&p=29819444

follow the links from this post for preparation's instructions.

Keep in mind that you will have no BOOT and legal NOOK drives in the system together so you will need copy uRamdisk and nooter's folder separately.

Soo, the system looks very usable :)
[Nook Touch General] :
Wow, awesome! Sounds like your rooting adventures are going just fine! :good:
[Nook Touch General] Krakozawr:
Thanks :) A bit about my experience. I use ReLaunch as the launcher and CollReader. Together they working perfectly. I have some small issues with CoolReader but generally they is not really annoying and should be fixed soon, I believe. After the tape zones's setting, I have no problem with missed hard buttons almost at all. The "ReadNow" button works too, generally. After CoolReader was installed, system asked me at the first launch what reader I want to use. Now, ReadNow button starts CoolReader. At the first launch after NOOK's reboot or after CoolReader's exit, this button just starts CoolReader but not opens the last book - you shall do it manually with CoolReader menu. But during usage, if you didn't exit CoolReader, this button working as designed. Produces the error message sometime about the EPUB last opened with the official reader but working properly. So, some framework fix would be perfect for the full aesthetic, but it is not mandatory.
[Nook Touch General] :
That's wonderful. I'm so happy to see people still developing/working on Nook Touch/Nook Glow devices (other than myself, of course).

In fact, I'm inviting you to join my social group, Nook Touch™ Developers. I hope you join! :fingers-crossed:
[Nook Touch General] Krakozawr:
I'm not a developer at all :) I just successfully used other guys's instructions from 4pda.ru
[Nook Touch General] OverByter:
I prefer Relaunch myself, I think that it's the perfect e-ink launcher, exceptional contrast and very light weight, don't see any reason for another launcher, however for more robust file manipulation I use Root Explorer along side it. Finally I use Button Savior for access to most recently used apps and menus , I find it preferable to nook touch mod, just set that so a long press on the home key brings up Relaunch, and set the screen banner with my name and phone number in case of loss, other than that the key mapping is stock, makes it easy when my neice borrows it, doesn't have to learn anything new. :D

OB
[Nook Touch General] :
400TH POST! :laugh:

Nice setup. Here's mine:

Homescreen - Did away with ReLaunch a while back (too ugly :p), currently using ADW with the Minimalist theme (only one homescreen). See my profile for a screenshot.

Button mappings -

n button - ADW Launcher home

n button long press - Stock (GlowLight toggle)

Top left hard key - Back

Top left hard key long press - adbWireless app (in case I accidentally delete my launcher and need to remotely install another/whatever other emergencies might come up)

Bottom left hard key - Menu

Bottom left hard key long press - NoRefresh app

Top right hard key (normal and long press) - Stock (Page Right)

Bottom right hard key (normal and long press) - Stock (Page Left)

File explorer app - ES File Explorer 3, it's by far the best file explorer I've ever used on my NSTG. Yes, that includes Root Explorer.

Button Savior - Got rid of it after getting used to the aforementioned hard key mappings, as it wasn't necessary anymore.

Screensaver - No banner (never liked the banner :p); see attached images for my current screensavers.

Whew, that was a lot of touch-typing! :D
[Nook Touch General] BobbySteel:
Has anyone gotten Google Play working on this device?
[Nook Touch General] Krakozawr:
Author's Screensaver Gallery

For all lovers of Writers Portraits Screensaver.

all portraits from the old NST and the new "white" one, arranged in one style for btter view at the new NOOK.

put them in /system/media/screensaver/author

old pictures could be deleted (back-up them for any occasion)

upd: one mistake corrected
[Nook Touch General] otaking71:
I can't for the life of me install a working market/gmail/etc.....any clues/pointers/tips?...I'm definitely rooted and have full adb/launcher access...I just can't figure out where to go from here.
[Nook Touch General] :
Google apps have not been successfully installed yet on the NTG devices.

And from the "deadness" of the whole Nook Touch forum, maybe nobody ever will get it working. :(
[Nook Touch General] BobbySteel:
Yes it's sad. I had high hopes. I really need some way to sideload books over WiFi. I normally use Calibre Library but it now barfs after a couple weeks saying invalid license (due to Google Play issues) and I can't get Dropbox to store anywhere but the sdcard, which is not readable by the main reader app. Annoying.
[Nook Touch General] Kramar111:
adb connect IP

adb push book.epub /media/yourfolder

or

adb push yourlibraryfolder /media/yourlibraryfolder
[Nook Touch General] BobbySteel:
Sideload via WiFi means not using a pc. Adb is not an option when travelling and no pc with me.
[Nook Touch General] Kramar111:
Use ES FileExplorer (works with Dropbox) or any reader with OPDS (ZXReader, Alreader, Cool Reader) for downloading

or (with installed busybox on NG2)

adb shell busybox chmod -R 777 /sdcard/
[Nook Touch General] BDke:
Allright. My SO has bought a Nook glowlight and all I she requested is more space for non-B&N content on her device.

I already followed Renate's procedure and now have ADB access over USB to the device.

How exactly can I repartition now? I tried a gparted live cd but it only found the 500Mb partition. The other ones are still hidden for me to change.

Any help?
[Nook Touch General] Kramar111:
One more time start device with OMAPLink

Then you'll see other partitions in Gparted Live
[Nook Touch General] BDke:
Care to elaborate? I tried the omaplink multiple times and still nothing. I had the Green LED on omaplink next to ADB multiple times.

Or do I need to add any parameters?
[Nook Touch General] Kramar111:
You need to run the device in a noogie mode

For Windows

omaplink omap3_aboot.bin u-boot-ng2-exp-v03.bin uImage-ng2-130-stk uRamdisk-noogie

Link 1

Link 2 (rename updated aboot.bin to omap3_aboot.bin)

For GNU/Linux

./omap3_usbload -f x-load-ng2-130-stk.bin -a 0x80e80000 -f u-boot-ng2-130-stk.bin -a 0x82000000 -f uImage-ng2-130-stk -a 0x83000000 -f uRamdisk-noogie -j 0x80e80000 -v

or

sudo ./noogie

Link for files
[Nook Touch General] BDke:
This worked. I got the Nook repartitioned :) Thanks alot!
[Nook Touch General] mastermind4:
Say, for the sake of argument, I wanted to tinker with the partition schema. I see where I can modify the mount points for /dev/block/mmcblk0p{2,5,7,9} in init.rc -- would this need to be updated in any other config file?

Also, I'm unclear where I define which partitions are mounted as /media and /sdcard. Any advice will be appreciated.
[Nook Touch General] :
Nah, just init.rc.

You can define what's mounted in those locations in either init.rc another kernel file, like build.prop.

Give it a go! :)
[Nook Touch General] pedrotroglio:
4) Get omaplink.exe & bootutil.exe out of the signature below. --->where?

Sorry, my english is very poor. I don`t found omaplin.exe & bootutil.exe files to download. Could you send me please?
[Nook Touch General] Renate:
Try the signature below. :p
[Nook Touch General] pedrotroglio:
thanks

First : Thanks.

Second: I have the nook glowlight (the white one without SD)

Whit linux mint...I see whit gparted all partitions. How I move/recize them ? I`m new whit this stuff.

Whit winxp: What should I do?

Install the files you mention.

ANd, when I see the partitions, What should I do.? Can you explain for dummies like me?How do I get from this to this?View attachment 3006178

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[Nook Touch General] pedrotroglio:
exitos!

I follow your steeps....and no green light any ABD or ADB...but...I a windows is openned whit the G partition!!!!! The follow is run uRamdisk! But...I`m not sure yet. What exactly uRamdisk do?
[Nook Touch General] pedrotroglio:
I have this :

Follow the steps...and I get this screen:
[Nook Touch General] pedrotroglio:
I follow the steeps but...
[Nook Touch General] pedrotroglio:
OK. Thanks for nothing!

Well, no respone. My questions have to be very stupid for anyone to lose time answering them. Finally figured out how to see the ISO. I simply restore the backup on a flash drive. Not yet discovered how to make pass sda6 have 2Gb and sda9 becomes 500Mb. But I will. Again, thanks for nothing !!
[Nook Touch General] :
I'm super sorry about people not responding, bro!

I've actually seen and read all of your posts when you wrote them, but I didn't respond because I don't develop for the Nook GlowLight - I develop for the Nook Touch with GlowLight. I actually read every new post and thread made on any of the Nook Touch forums, so I promise to reply to you and help you anytime I can.

If I don't reply to a post or thread, it's either because I don't know the answer to the question, or because I didn't have time to post at that moment.

Once again, sorry for not replying. :(
[Nook Touch General] pedrotroglio:
space??

Is possible to make more room than 500Mb whihout touch partitions? Is possible load ebooks in B&N folders and then acces to them? In which folder B&N save the epub if I buy it? Anyone know?

Thanks.
[Nook Touch General] Kramar111:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=53896500#post53896500
[Nook Touch General] Renate:
Sorry for not being speedily on this.

noogie does not do ADB.

Clockwork Recovery or a modified stock does.

If you had booted as far as it goes with noogie you would see all the partitions on a Linux box or just the root (/boot) partition on a Windows box
[Nook Touch General] Retroger:
Hi, please help me :)

Where can i find the extracted init.rc and default.prop? I have extracted them from uRamdisk with bootutil, and te cmd line says they have extracted, but i can't find them :(
[Nook Touch General] :
If you don't specify where you want the files extracted to, they will appear in a new directory (I can't remember the exact name; try looking for the name "uRamdisk") which is in the directory where you opened the command line window.
[Nook Touch General] Renate:
They should be extracted into your current directory.

Are you sure that you are specifying extract?

bootutil /x /v uRamdisk init.rc default.rc
[Nook Touch General] glasslung:
The driver install is not working for me. I run the commandline for omaplink. It says waiting for bootloader. I then plugged in a fully powered off nook. The nook just boots up and gives me no chance to install the provided drivers.
[Nook Touch General] erikalin:
OT but must be said upfront:

[MENTION=4474482]Renate NST[/MENTION] - I have to say, I have read zillions of XDA threads and I think you are the #1 best combination of knowledgeable and helpful. I know some who have the RD + RC title, but are typically not so spectacular with both. There should be awards and you should get them all. The others who have put their work up here are awesome too, not to omit that. I'm genuinely impressed.

My device/situation

:

Warranty claim on my spouse's old Nook. Received today this: Nook Glowlight Model number BNRV500 Software version 1.3.0. She has low vision and cannot read any other type of display than e-ink. It's literally a life-changer for her to be able to read again, so this is important to me. :(

My efforts

:

I have read all posts in this thread from the OP to my post right here. I was also grateful for this post which sort of extracted the step from this thread.

I'm stuck because I cannot install the drivers. My Windows 8.1 64-bit laptop immediately installs the standard drivers. Device Manager reports:

Because it automatically (and instantly) installed these drivers:

And just in case it would work (it doesn't) I tried updating to the bnusbdrivers.zip drivers using the regular Windows way and got this:

Then I wanted to delete the new registry keys that were created, so that I could try again with installling the needed drivers, but I also do not see any registry keys that are for this device (0451:d00e yes?). The first time my computer ever met this device, it installed those drivers in like half a second. So actually, I'm not sure I could try this again even if I could find+delete the correct registry keys.

...On other devices, I figure things out, maybe create and share some apps and tweaks of my own, make a custom ROM or two, and I help walk others through what they want to do. In other words, I might ask how to do something, but it's not usual that I have to ask how to use something that smart people have already figured out and packaged with a bow. In this case with Nook Glowlight? I can admit it. I have no idea what I need to do.

Minimum objectives

:

1. I need to root the BNRV500 device. This requires installing conveniently modified drivers from bnusbdrivers.zip first, which is where I'm stuck.

2. I need to install a launcher and the kindle.apk.

3. I need to still have connection w/B&N when I'm done.

I beg of someone who has the same device to repay the karma I hope I've earned in helping others on other devices on XDA: Can someone please offer wisdom/advice for what I should be doing?

Thanks X 100 for your time.
[Nook Touch General] glasslung:
Try the first post on the thread below for help installing the drivers. It worked for me.

http://xdaforums.com/nook-touch/general/root-nook-glowlight-t2853056
[Nook Touch General] :
Thank you, but sadly, [MENTION=4829480]erikalin[/MENTION] has told me in previous correspondence that she has already used that thread's OP's instructions and they have not worked for her.

Do you have any other recommendations?
[Nook Touch General] erikalin:
Hi. Thanks for answering. In my post #496 above, what I was describing was how the steps in the post that you pointed to weren't working for me.

I'm really regretting the warranty claim on the old NST. Spouse not happy that I can't put kindle app back on her Nook. :(

Sent from my U.S. Verizon HTC One M8
[Nook Touch General] Renate:
Renate wakes with a start...

Well, let's try to see what's going on, [MENTION=4829480]erikalin[/MENTION]

Have you tried usbview?

It's old and rusty, but it does the job.

http://www.ftdichip.com/Support/Utilities/usbview.zip

Set the refresh to manual and poise your finger over the F5 key.

Power down your Nook, plug into your desktop and hit the F5

Are you seeing the the correct Id for the bootloader?

You might have to try this a few times.

I don't have a W8 so I can't help you directly there.

If you find the registry entries you might need to take ownership of some keys to delete them.
[Nook Touch General] setmeupnow:
Resizing partitions

First let me thank you for all the work that has gone into rooting. Between two main threads, I believe I was able to follow all the instructions. I am on Win7 64bit, and I got the "boot" to show up, I swapped out the uRamdisk, and I seem to have ADB working (insofar as when I adb connect to the device, it seems to be connected).

I'd like to contribute one nugget. I'm still very n00b and the part about editing the registry to remove the entry sounded far too intimidating. Like most, I missed the right-click on the first try, because I wasn't prepared for the way the menu collapsed and re-opened. Fortunately, after amassing/installing the various tools, I decided to make a registry restore point. When I missed right-clicking, I simply did a registry restore, and was able to start again. I got the right-click on the second try because I knew where to hover the mouse.

Now onto my problem: re-sizing partitions so as to shrink the B&N partition and enlarge the side-load section: I'm in the same boat as BDke in post 474. I want to try Kramar11's advice in post 477 but feel I am missing a detail.

How does one run noogie first, then run GParted? I tried a GParted Live CD on 2 different computers. Its a separate OS, right? Not just an app I can run.

I can do this: omaplink omap3_aboot.bin u-boot-ng2-exp-v03.bin uImage-ng2-130-stk uRamdisk-noogie -- that command was during the rooting process.

Or is the instruction that I boot into Win7, run the omaplink command above, and then reboot my computer using the GParted Live CD, at which point the other partitions will show up to be manipulated?

This is my wife's device and she doesn't care about launchers and browsers. She just wants to liberate the B&N space, and I'd score major points if I could be the one to do it.
[Nook Touch General] setmeupnow:
I might have moved forward a bit. I noticed someone else used EaseUS Partition Master. I downloaded the free version and installed. On its own, it only shows me the 500Mb nook partition. However, I followed the advice to run the omaplink string, and I am now looking at all 8 partitions. My goal remains to enlarge the "nook" partition at the expense of the B&N partition.

The only two partitions that the "move/resize" command is available for are the boot partition (FAT32) and the NOOK partition (FAT16). There is a 2.10 Gig "userdata" partition from which I want to steal 1.8 gig from and give to the NOOK. I seem unable to do so. I understand I need to shrink one partition before I use another. It just seems I'm forbidden from touching the areas I want to shrink.

Graphically, the largest partition shows at the right of the bar. Is it that I have to do some weird cascading deal where I move things first, and then I'll be able to manipulate the one I want? Or is there another step I'm missing? Is there a better tool? FWIW windows disk manager shows a similar layout.

If possible, I'd love a Windows 7 solution -- though I'm open to alternatives.

Any help is greatly appreciated.
[Nook Touch General] Kramar111:
Exactly

See screenshots on http://4pda.ru/forum/index.php?showtopic=513207&st=220#entry30929728 (Russian forum, maybe need to register)
[Nook Touch General] setmeupnow:
Kramar11, earlier I'd tried your posted uRamdisk file that included SD and Wifi-ADB. However when I rebooted the device, the NOOK partition was still only 500Mb. My assumption was that your files were designed to solve some of these problems. Perhaps I misunderstood their intent?

I tried entering the omaplink command in cmd.exe, and then rebooting immediately with the GParted Live bootable CD in my drive, as you clarified. The laptop (HP dv7-1260) hung on the bios screen and didn't boot anywhere. I disconnected the nook, cold reset, rebooted into GParted, and still only saw the 500Mb partition and not all 8. I verified in my boot order that the CD drive comes ahead of USB, so I'm not sure why the laptop didn't move past the bios screen into GParted while the nook was connected.

I've also tried MiniTool Partition Wizard after running omaplink and getting "boot". "Move/Resize" does appear, but will not let me shrink what I want to shrink. The drives I cannot manipulate show up as "logical drives" not "primary drives".

So what now? Do I need to use a tool like MiniTool or EaseUs to actually delete the 2.1Gb B&N partition, and then try to re-create it as, say, a 250Mb partition? I'd hope doing so then creates unallocated space, and I can expand the 500Mb NOOK partition to use it. Would that mean I'll also have to delete the 2 other partitions that sit in between the 2.1Gb one and the 500Mb NOOK one? My assumption with deleting is that doing so would also delete whatever data is contained therein, and I'm not quite sure how to restore it since these tools don't take me to that level of detail?

Is it possible I didn't actually get the level of root I need? I can adb connect, and it said "successful" when I installed superuser.apk. Although like dumalkin in another thread, after "successful", it immediately said: "rm failed for -f, Read-only file system". I've not tried installing another launcher or ES file explorer, at request of wife.
[Nook Touch General] Kramar111:
uRamdisk with SD did not resize /media, it creates /sdcard (simlink to /data) and emulate real sdcard

Check if your's omap3_aboot.bin have md5 6c2297537d8fbeac4f42401068bced78

If not, download it from here - http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=50740002&postcount=352

Reboot Nook into noogie, unplug it, boot into Gparted Live, plug Nook.

Other program (like Acronis Disk Director, MiniTool Partition Wizard, Paragon Hard Disk Manager) don't work.

Don't delete partitions, just move and resize like on screenshots (4pda.ru link) or try google translate for entire post
[Nook Touch General] setmeupnow:
Well... mine has MD5: 9e102dce007f524e8fd41e03f5c65800. Not even close. I'd gotten from the zips in another thread that tried to consolidate all the directions. I've downloaded the one from your link, and checked the MD5 sum: 6c2297537d8fbeac4f42401068bced78. Looks like a match.

In the linked thread, RenateNST also says to use this command: omaplink aboot.bin u-boot uImage uRamdisk

I will do that right now, and hope that when I restart the computer, it doesn't hang at the bios screen.
[Nook Touch General] setmeupnow:
Failure: When I run the command listed in the post with the proper aboot (omaplink aboot.bin u-boot uImage uRamdisk) I get the error: "could not find image file c:\..\..\u-boot". Is that command line wrong, or am I missing yet another file? I scoured the thread for links to the packages, and I don't see any containing "u-boot". I looked over threads from [MENTION=5981373]ИΘΘK¡€[/MENTION] and RenateNST for answers.

I tried renaming the aboot.bin from your previous link to omap3_aboot.bin, and using the previous command: "omaplink omap3_aboot.bin u-boot-ng2-exp-v03.bin uImage-ng2-130-stk uRamdisk-noogie". I got boot. But once again, my computer would not move past the bios screen when I restarted with the nook plugged in. GParted Live CD boots fine when the nook isn't plugged into USB.

So I tried a different USB port, and it went back to installing drivers and failing. omaplink is running and showing 8 volumes, but boot is no longer coming up in windows, just "nook" and the 500Mb partition. Returning it to its original USB port at least gets me "boot" again. So I tried again to restart (this time with both a bootable GParted Live CD and a GParted stick drive). Again, it hung on the bios screen and didn't move past it. So unless I can disconnect and reconnect the device, I don't think I'll be able to omaplink first, then reboot into GParted.

Could I boot into GParted Live via CD, load some set of files onto a stick drive, get the nook to show me all its partitions, and THEN use the GParted application to resize? Would THAT work? If so, where are the files I would need? I saw that purigro (sp?) had a Linux root method. I believe I am already rooted. I just need GParted to show me all 8 partitions.