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[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PetCar:
app installed, but no success running it

Hey all,

I followed the instructions and got Angry Birds copied over. It shows up in Extras with the proper icon and all. When I tap it, I briefly see the menu and back buttons appear on the status bar, but Angry Birds doesn't come up.

Any ideas?

By the way, really glad I went for the linux netbook rather than the windows one :)
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PetCar:
try doing chmod +x ./fastboot

I had the same problem, when I downloaded it it didn't set it as executable
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hartmch:
Try rebooting the nook?
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PetCar:
no such luck :(
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Pinesal:
Ah ha! That fixed my issue. Thanks!
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Parad0X:
Watching youtube and some movies on my nook.. NICE!!! :-D
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Pinesal:
Dang, now I have a new problem

root@ubuntu:/home/ubuntu/Downloads# ./fastboot boot uImage

creating boot image...

creating boot image - 3246080 bytes

downloading 'boot.img'... OKAY

booting... OKAY

root@ubuntu:/home/ubuntu/Downloads# ifconfig usb0 192.168.2.1; ssh root@192.168.2.2

SIOCSIFADDR: No such device

usb0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device

bash: /usr/bin/ssh: Input/output error

Can anyone help?
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zedley:
LiveCD

This is probably a pretty n00bish question, but what this be possible to perform using a LiveCD like DamnSmallLinux, provided the appropriate files for transfer are downloaded beforehand? I'm comfortable using Linux, I just don't have it installed anywhere.
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] modembug:
Everyone be patient mbm and pokey are working on a more streamlined methof of gaining root. Although I must admit this thing runs like a dream on dolphin hd!
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bobdude5:
quick video pleeaaasse?
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sidepart:
Let me tell you about Steve. Steve has a long standing tradition of having to be the first in everything. He has to be first on the freeway, first to get home after work and first to hear about a good deal. On Black Friday, Steve arrived 1 week early with a tent, to be the first into Best Buy. On Christmas Day, Steve is the first to open his gifts. On January 1st, it's quite literally January 2nd to Steve because he alone IS the New Year.

That's why they call him...STEVE! The man who has to be first!

Now, bearing all of that in mind... how could you possibly expect all of these Steve's to be patient? :D
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] boret:
Looking forward to it!!
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gigadigit:
I went ahead and got the Nook Color. I also have an IPad, and a Galaxy Tab. I am pretty impressed with the Galaxy Tab with how well everything works and its performance (but not the price). The stock Nook seems quite leggy when surfing the web and viewing pdfs. I am hoping that root and dolphin hd will fix the leg. Does pinch and zoom work on Dolphin HD?

How are the benchmarks on the Nook? Also, is the processor running at 800Mhz? Is Android 2.2 a possibility?
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bphillips09:
Hey everyone, I've got a problem.

I've gotten as far as mounting the mmcblklp6 into the /mnt folder, however, it cannot find/create a /mnt folder. I'm getting a "mount: mounting /dev/mmcblklp6 on /mnt failed: No such file or directory" error.

Help, please?
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 10equals2:
Try it again. It worked for me the second time.
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] woshi:
look in /dev, if you don't see any mmc* then you have the old fastboot uImage... i ran into this. the other way to tell is you had to run ifconfig to ssh into your NC, that's another telltale sign of the old/original uImage, go download the updated one.
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] woshi:
oops, just read your post again. make sure you mkdir -p /mnt first.
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] edein:
would someone try a VNC/remote control app(teamviewer/pocketcloud) and report back the result? I would buy the nook if these apps works...thanks :D
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gigadigit:
How smooth is youtube? Also can you watch in hq?
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
Yeah, we're all need to know if it's running flawless or still lags.
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] poweroutlet:
After reading this thread, I just ordered my nook color. It will hopefully be a good companion to my HD2 w/froyo. Can't wait for a rooted and clean android build for this thing.

Does anyone know what GPU this thing is running? How good is it?
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] becsta:
I just want to say great job to all that have put in the effort to get this far. I have no idea what you are talking about in most of the posts, but can see you are getting close to a root.

I havent received my NC yet I am hoping it will leave the freight forwarder today to head for Australia. I should then have it by early next week.

Keep up the good work.
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] becsta:
As I said in my first post, I dont understand half of what you are talking about but was interested in the posts about not being able to tether to a phone. I have a Galaxy S and was hoping that I could use it to tether, is this possible? I was also looking at getting a Prepaid Mobile WiFi is the NC able to connect to one of those. I ride a motorbike (I know you guys dont like talking bikes on here), and wanted the wifi modem to take when i go away, there are not a lot of places here that have wifi you can connect to.

Your help is greatly appreciated.
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] archongtv:
I'm wondering - is it worth it to buy Nook Color and rooting it or perhaps it's better to get Archos 70 / 101 price is nearly the same and Archos has froyo / BT / usb host?
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] woshi:
Quadrant score of 822 at default clockspeed. GPU is a PowerVR SGX 530.
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] scratchfury:
The screen on the Archos is not as good, but if you want the other features, go with the Archos. If you don't need those extra features, go with the Nook Color.
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KCHASE731:
Mine connects to my evo fine. There have been several of us that connected to tethering no issue at all and a few people have had problems. I don't think tge nook color likes adhoc networks (I'm not sure about this, but if you read about 50 pages ago that was suggested). So if your phone acts as a router or hotspot I'm sure it will work fine.
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sendoushi:
Hi there,

I know it's kind of topic but post... made me feel happy with nook ehehe.

I was about to buy Kindle 3. Essentially for reading but if it had tablet capabilities it would be welcome. The only problem for me with kindle is: color.

I love to read comics, nerd addiction. I thought of Nook but i read it's an LCD, won't it cause eye strain and nauseous and make me sleepy to read on a Nook?
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Spookymonster:
As far as CPU and other specs for this and other tablets, check Wikipedia.
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BritSwedeGuy:
This might explain why you don't have a girlfriend ;)
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sendoushi:
was this a reply to me? cause... it doesn't explain much of my doubt of the eye strain
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jerrygon:
And the archos 70 only has 256 of memory while the nook color has 512.
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dirtygreek:
Has anyone come across apps that just won't show up in the launcher? I installed several google apps (Vending.apk, maps, gmail, voice, youtube), but only maps and voice showed up. They both work, btw... and so does Kindle. Ha!
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rutter9:
I read on the nook color about 2 hours every night. Both the Kindle and Nook software (the android apps that is) have a "night mode" which makes the background dark and the text light. I've had zero eyestrain from it. I used to use the regular e ink nook before and actually stopped using it. Plus you don't have to fumble around w/ a book light.

Once the root process is dumbed down a little more I'll be loading the Kindle app on it for the best of both worlds :)
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] reybuntu:
I just got my nook color. I can't wait to root it! One question. The screen appears to flicker when I activate the launcher. Does anyone else have this issue? Thanks!
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pokey9000:
nooter 0.1

I put together a self booting sd card image that will enable adb and root the NC. Unfortunately we have no visual way of communicating back to the user via the display, so you'll have to just run it and wait for a while unless you want to connect it to a Linux box, login, and check the log file (/tmp/nooter.log)

Get it here: http://www.mediafire.com/?hugt8uxcfffpdvg

There's a README.txt but it's terse. If you've got experience writing the sdcard_40mb.img for fastboot, feel free to post clearer documentation here, on nookdevs, or wherever. The procedure for making this card is the same as for fastboot.
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stevetotheo:
Mine does the same thing. You can see it when looking at black pages. Its like a wave. Probably has to do with the refresh rate.

Steve
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jerrygon:
SWEEEEET!... Pokey you the man!!!
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] molesaied88:
@pokey

it seems like you guys have to side load every app that you want to install (corret me if wrong) but wouldnt it be better to install a file.manager like astro then just drop the .apk on sd card and install thru astro?
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ixampl:
Maybe it's missing an accessible package installer.
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] count_yorga:
Has anyone pulled the nook app from the nook color? I'd like to try it out on another tablet to see how well it runs.
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dirtygreek:
Failure [INSTALL_PARSE_FAILED_NO_CERTIFICATES]

When trying to install some cyanogen gapps (youtube, gmail). Any ideas?

UPDATE: Sounds like I have to adb push to /system but haven't figured out how to make that writable yet. Currently read-only.
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] louiedawg:
Forgive my ignorance but is there any chance of pulling the mail app off the galaxy to work on the nook down the road?
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] epakrat75:
I remember seeing a thread about the ViewSonic 10" G-Tab here that contained the 2.2 market, it's dependencies and install instructions. It worked. However, that was before the Galaxy Tab was out. Perhaps if this was also successful on the NC and then build.prop was modified to look like the Galaxy Tab, the Market might be fully functional? Get the Market working and something like Astro and no more need for side loading everything!
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Philosophy757:
Let me know if anyone get's the Chrysocome.net suggestion to dump the DD for windows. Im trying to figure out if I should look into it or just get a livecd or something for linux.
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] archongtv:
Yeah that's a serious argument about buying nook ;)
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] clockworx:
Yes,all the "Google Experience" stuff has to go into /system. I think that the apk's don't have certs because they were never meant to be installed, hence the error.
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RichTJ99:
Well I grabbed a NC at Bestbuy & i have until 1/31/2010 to decide if i want to return it or not.

I have the Gtab also & that is pretty fast, I am guessing that the NC is going to be very slow in comparison.

Granted the 250 vs 380 price tags do give you different things for the money, its tough to say which way to go on it.

I dont really play games & mostly want to check my email, browse the web & install a number of droid apps (dropbox, subsonic, etc).

I assume this wont play movies or flash very well (considering it doesnt have 2.2)?
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bsoft:
With the right software, the NC should be similar in performance to the Galaxy Tab. No, it's not going to be competitive with a Tegra 2 tablet like the Viewsonic.

The NC is smaller, lighter, and has a much better screen (IPS) than the Viewsonic, though. And it's $130 cheaper.
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Pinesal:
Maybe root explorer would be better for now.
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
I tried to follow the instructions the way you wrote them and it does not work for me. I am lost at the part after using dd to write the image to the microsd card. After that you say "Plug the usb cable from your NC into your computer"[does the device have to be on or off to begin with?]

One other thing is have to clarify is that my laptop does not have a microsd or sd card slot. Therefore i have the microsd inserted in the nookcolor and use the device as the sd adaptor. And from there i do the dd.[Unmount the sd and then dd to it.] You think that causes any issues??
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rckymtnrfc:
I'm not sure about Flash since it's not 2.2, you can't even install it. Video runs wonderfully for me. I'm converting my videos with Handbrake using the standard iPod Touch preset and it plays great. I've even converted the same video to a higher resolution, which looked clearer and ran just as smooth. I just stick with the smaller format to save space.
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gormly:
Correct me if I am wrong but isn't the Galaxy Tab $600 US and doesn't it require a subscription service? Perhaps I am wrong here or am misunderstanding the device you are talking about? But the "GTab" is not only $600 US but comes with a minimum $40.00 US per month for 24 month plan.

That's : $1560 Vs. $250

You also said:

" I am guessing that the NC is going to be very slow in comparison."

and then:

"I dont really play games & mostly want to check my email, browse the web & install a number of droid apps (dropbox, subsonic, etc). "

But you don't need a FAST device for any of that... the NC is just fine.

Your post (no offense meant) is 100% nonsensical to me.

But I might be wrong about the "GTab"? Do you mean something else?

um, thats BS, they are just have specialized knowledge in that area and a desire to tinker, please don't insult everyone who visits here just to stroke the ego of the developers.

Don't get me wrong, I am in their debt and will gladly donate some funds but they are hardly "so way smarter than you you can't even begin to imagine"

You may feel that way about yourself compared to them, but I surely do not.

To the guys doing all the actual work to root the NC:

THANK YOU!
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gbutton:
I like this guy.
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lockheedload:
just wanted to say thanks for the work you guys are doing. I almost bit the bullet and bought the galaxy tab, but I'm going to hold off until I see how things develop with the NC.
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jimmy_jam:
seconded. thanks to all who are working on this!
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PerlAddict:
$600 is the off-contract price. You can buy them for $400 on contract (depending on the carrier you chose).
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lionclaw:
I believe the "gtab" that people are referring to is the g-tablet from viewsonic, not the galaxy tablet from samsung.
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] smarcisin:
i feel like this is the perfect buy for someone like myself trying to wait it out till the new year when all those sexy acer and moto tablets start flying out. its cheap, has a nice screen and has wifi. my other option was the viewsonic g tab but thats heavier then the ipad which i already thought was heavy. not having flash is the only downfall to me for the NC
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RichTJ99:
I may end up keeping them both. Whats a few tablets between friends.
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] macndroid:
Feedback from OS X

First off - AWESOME job guys. I bought the NC with the hopes it would be rootable and really like this little device. Thanks for the hard work! I went from lurking to posting just to say thanks :) I also wanted to add my experience to help with the process of streamlining the rooting effort.

I have a macbook pro 13.3" 2010 model (Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHz). It has a built in card reader (/dev/disk2s1).

I followed the directions:

>Get any size microsd card that you don't mind trashing the data on.

1GB microsd - go!

>If you're using Linux, find the device name and dd nooter_sdcard_40mb.img to the whole disk, ex. use /dev/sdd if that's what your reader is on.

I'm using OS X 10.6.5.

umount /dev/disk2s1

dd if= nooter_sdcard_40mb.img of=/dev/disk2s1

after a bit of churning I get the prompt back.

>Plug the usb cable from your NC into your computer

OK. Power was on, it mounts "media". Looks good.

>Take the card out and put it in your NC

OK.

>Hold the power button for 15 seconds

NC shows power-off dialog then shuts down.

>Wait 2 seconds and hold the button for another 2 seconds

The device boots…..to the regular interface. If I "wake up the nook" by swiping the screen it goes to the "USB Mode" dialog and "media" and "nooter" mount. Here is what /Volumes/nooter looks like:

-rwxrwxrwx 1 deg staff 11184 Nov 30 03:52 MLO

-rwxrwxrwx 1 deg staff 141568 Nov 30 03:54 u-boot.bin

-rwxrwxrwx 1 deg staff 2522760 Nov 30 03:54 uImage

-rwxrwxrwx 1 deg staff 4458797 Nov 30 03:54 uRamdisk

do I have to change owner/group or permissions?

Oh and I agree with gbutton - these guys are smart alright, but no need to insult the rest of us. We all have our areas of expertise - mine involves hacking molecules. I rely on these guys to help me hack my NC. Thanks again for the awesome job!

edit: may have answered my own question - forgot to sudo dd - will brb if it works.
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gormly:
I will be giving mine to my kids as I "upgrade" :D

The Kindle is already in the greedy mits of my 11 year old and he is patiently awaiting the nook. (He'll get it when a nice 10" Android comes out).
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dirtygreek:
How did you connect the sd card? I tried it first just with the NC and it did what you're describing. When I tried it with an sd reader directly connected to the computer, it worked. I have no idea why.
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] teardropcity:
I will be excited to see how quickly an automated process/one click type of thing happens for this device.
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RichTJ99:
Sorry guys, Lionclaw is correct, but I can see the confusion. I did mean the viewsonic tegra2 G-Tablet not the Galaxy Tablet. My mistake.

The Gtablet is $380 at sears. However, cant you just buy the Galaxy tablet outright for 600 with no contract (not that I am interested in it)?
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] macndroid:
More OS X notes

My Macbook Pro has a slot on the side for direct connection of a SD card - I used that. I have a usb reader....I could try inserting that into the mix.

EDIT: And to add to my prior post, I enabled root (google "su OS X"). Ran the dd as root and now the owner and group is "_unknown". The nook still boots normally and enters USB mode. I also dried using the USB SD card reader (/dev/disk3s1) and this is what was on "nooter" after it mounted:

drwxrwxrwx@ 1 _unknown _unknown 512 Nov 30 11:15 .Trashes

-rwxrwxrwx 1 _unknown _unknown 4096 Nov 30 11:15 ._.Trashes

drwxrwxrwx 1 _unknown _unknown 512 Nov 30 11:15 .fseventsd

-rwxrwxrwx 1 _unknown _unknown 11184 Nov 30 03:52 MLO

-rwxrwxrwx 1 _unknown _unknown 141568 Nov 30 03:54 u-boot.bin

-rwxrwxrwx 1 _unknown _unknown 2522760 Nov 30 03:54 uImage

-rwxrwxrwx 1 _unknown _unknown 4458797 Nov 30 03:54 uRamdisk
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] blackled:
Will the root enable the ability to edit Word/Powerpoint files on Nook Color?

Hi all--

First of all, thanks very much to the developers working on this--fantastic stuff! This may be an ignorant question, but is there any way that rooting the Nook Color may eventually enable the ability to edit Word & Powerpoint files on the NookColor?
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] quietglow:
I've tried the whole process using both an ubuntu box and a macbook pro. I get the "new device" indication in both cases, so the process seems to work exactly as described. When my NC reboots, I can neither ssh into it nor does it show up in a "adb devices" I've tried re-making the boot card a number of times.

Messing around, I realized that I *can* ssh into it in the middle of the rooting process (i.e. just after the new device notice pops up) and when I tried to scp over an apk, I got the error that the device had no room. I'm guessing that what I'd logged into was the sdcard, not the actual NC file system.
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kurtA:
Pretty sure if the figure out the root and sideloading apps or perhaps even getting the market to work on it there is nothing stopping you from getting DocumentsToGo, which works very well.
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Noah98:
Root Questions

Hello,

First of all, thank you in advance for helping out a newbie! After reading the readme.txt file, I was hoping that someone could clarify the following.

1. I'm not sure how to "DD" the .img file, so I was wondering if I could just use the unetbootin program (I've used it before to make a bootable Linux USB drive) instead?

2. How do I do the following:

"Add the Nook Color vendor ID to your adb setup. There are directions elsewhere for this. The NC vid is 0x2080."

Can someone point me to the directions, and also how to setup adb? I used adb when I hacked my Pandigital Novel, but the directions were idiot proof, so I just followed along.
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nlowhor:
Agreed. I received the Archos 101 yesterday and it's going back. I found the screen to be one of the worst I've ever used sadly. :( Now I'm considering the nook color
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] travisn000:
I use an app called "Bluetooth GPS" when I want more accuracy and less battery drain than what the onboard GPS on my Droid X gives. ...it works flawlessly with an old BT757 Solar GPS logger I had laying around.

The app is in market (..by "Googoo Android") and I believe it was free. I would bet there is probably an app to turn your phone into a broadcasting BlueTooth GPS source that would work with the reciever app (I'm pretty sure I saw quite a few when looking for the reviever app).

;)

EDIT:

NEVER MIND MY RAMBLINGS.... appearently the nook doesn't have bluetooth!
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] merrill77:
Yes, you'll want to get DataVis Documents To Go. The free version, in the Android Market, allows viewing of docs. The full version that enables editing is currently $15.