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[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gigadigit:
Is there easy to follow, step by step instructions for Win 7?
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] scoutcamper:
easy yes, step by step not really, its all spread out.
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sapienta:
OK I finally got ADB to work on Windows 7 64 bit. See steps below

1. Add the following lines to the android_winusb.inf file from the usb_driver folder of the android sdk

Put these lines right under the Moto Sholes line

;B & N Nook Color
%SingleAdbInterface% = USB_Install, USB\VID_2080&PID_0002
%CompositeAdbInterface% = USB_Install, USB\VID_2080&PID_0002&MI_01

2. Go to the Devices and Printers and right click on "Nook" - Properties and switch to the "Hardware" tab

There should be an item that say nook with a red x on it because there aren't any suitable drivers for it

Click on Nook and click on Properties

Goto the Driver tab and click Update Driver

Navigate to the usb_driver folder of the android SDK

Update the drivers and choose to install the drivers anyway.

3. Windows + R and type int "C:\Users\%USERPROFILE%\.android\adb_usb.ini"

Add the nook color device ID to it 0x2080

It should look like this

# ANDROID 3RD PARTY USB VENDOR ID LIST -- DO NOT EDIT.
# USE 'android update adb' TO GENERATE.
# 1 USB VENDOR ID PER LINE.
0x2080

4. Save it and start up the command line interface

Start -> Run -> cmd

Navigate to the tools folder in your Android SDK folder

(ie. C:\android\android-sdk-windows\tools)

Type adb remount

5. Now type adb devices and your nook color should show up.

I installed the Angry Birds apk from this link and it work great. Good luck :)

mediafire dot com/?f9x81z8i4n7u17p
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jerrygon:
Wow thanks so much for this.

I booted the nook with the micro sd card in it and all it finds in device and printers is a CDC composite gadget with a yellow exclamation and does not let me update the drivers for it.

Anything else you can add to this???
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bphillips09:
I love you.
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mhoepfin:
I am having the same issue... Windows XP
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] oakleyrdc:
The directions that you posted seem very straight forward, but after adding those lines below moto sholes, I still can only find composite under devices and printers. Inside that .inf file, there are two places that say moto sholes. Am I supposed to paste the three lines under both of those?
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shograt:
Troubles getting root w/ ubuntu.

Full details here: http://nookdevs.com/Talk:NookColor_Rooting (I'm shoggot there). But, to sum up:

After usb attach with card in, cdc device comes up in dmesg, usb0 connects. Can ssh in, but nothing's under /mnt. I've tried both possibilities listed on the main page (pull card 30 seconds after usb0 connection, pull card after disconnect / poweroff), but either way, when I reconnect usb (sans card), it just boots up into mass storage, without a usb0 connection / ssh.

I figure at least one way I'm doing it is wrong, but I've tried all variations I can think of =(

The notes on the Talk:NookColor_Rooting link are fairly exhaustive, if you think you'd be able to assist / shed light.

EDIT: For better or worse, I don't have access to any windows / mac boxes. Linux only.
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] scoutcamper:
yes, those 2 places are for 32 bit and 64 bit OS's
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] david_beholder:
One for x64 version of windows, other for x32 (aka 86). Not sure how much but it's good catch!

upd: added to both, still doesn't work
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bphillips09:
All you guys:

Make sure you take out the SD Card and boot the nook normal.

Once you edit the usb_win.ini (or whatever it's called) in the usb_drivers folder, save it. Right click on My Computer and select Properties.

Then go to Hardware and click on Device Manager.

Then find "Nook", right click, go to properties, then the "Drivers" tab.

Select "update driver"

Then go to "select the drivers from a folder/cd" (or whatever)

After, select the usb_drivers folder from inside the SDK folder and let it install.

Then, unplug/replug your Nook.

After, go to Start>Run and type CMD

Then, you want to Change Directories to the Tools folder inside of the "android-sdk" folder.

(ex. cd Desktop, cd android-sdk-windows, cd tools)

Once in that directory, type "adb remount"

You get like three lines and the last one should say "Remount Failed" or something similar.

Next, type "adb devices"

You should get a bunch of numbers and next to it, it will say "device"

(ex. 01292187321678123 device)

Then you will need to just type "adb install <path_to_.apk>

To make it easier, place the ".apk" file in the Tools folder, then you can just type "adb install APKNAME.apk"

Once you get "Succeeded" then you know it's all good.
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] exodus1999:
I plugged in my microsd into NC, then plugged it in as USB. Then i used winimage to put pokey9000's img on the micosd card. when i boot the nook it just acts as normal. the drive comes up as removable disk named "nooter" which makes me think was imaged correctly. Whats causing this? is it because i didnt use a seperate reader?

Thanks ahead of time.
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mhoepfin:
Thanks for trying to help, but I think our issue is different from this.
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mad5427:
I finally got this all to work and installed a tetris apk file that I had on my computer. It showed up nicely in the extras folder and the program works. It's a very small window that shows up in the top left corner, but it works.

Is there a way to resize the program to be full screen?

I know now how to install the programs. How do I go about uninstalling them?

Thanks everybody for all your hard work. This is amazing!!!
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rad131304:
Different VID/PID

First, thank you to all of you who have put in the hard work/put up with those of us who aren't as skilled at this stuff.

I haven't been able to get my windows 7 machine to recognize the NC under ADB.

The Steps I have performed are:

performed dd in cygwin on windows 7 machine **

put card into nook

booted per instructions on nookdevs

added VID/PID to android_winusb.inf

added VID to adb_usb.ini

I have a bunch of questions:

When the SD card is in, I'm getting a CDC Composite object with VID_0525&PID_A4AA, not VID_2080&PID_0002. Does this mean that it didn't work?

When I remove the card and reboot, the NC mounts without issue - I have tried forcing the ADB driver onto the NC, but that did not help ADB find it. Does this mean that it didn't work?

I don't understand (from nookdev) when in this process I'm supposed to try and sideload. I would have expected it to be after the entire process is complete, but then they say at the bottom that you have to go through the entire process again to load more apps, leading me to believe it doesn't happen after reboot. However, sideloading at both of these is failing for me, as ADB won't recognize the nook in either configuration. When should I attempt to sideload?

**I am keeping in mind the possibility that cygwin botched dd and I need to do this in nix but I was hoping to avoid having to reboot.
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 10equals2:
Oh, maybe you have a different problem.. you can only ssh into the device while its booted using the sd card. They expect you to use adb, which I don't think that I'll ever be able to get working.

I'm having the same problem. IIRC, they are missing a step from the previous directions... Please don't take my word on this, It's been too long, I'll check, and repost.

When you are sshing into the device, you are sshing into the filesystem that you dd'ed onto the sdcard. It's really nothing more than a mockup of the real filesystem. You'll need to mount the actual filesystem in order to get access to the real /mnt/app.

when you finish sshing into the nook,

# cd /dev; mknod mmcblk1p6 b 179 14 ; mount -o rw mmcblk1p6 /mnt

That's if I actually understand what is going on. Which is doubtful. I've been off of linux too long. I can't get #nookcolor to respond to this question either.

Anyone willing to confirm/deny/redicule me?
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TheDrizzle89:
I know on the Galaxy Tab there is an app called 'Spare Parts' that allows resizing. Not sure if it will work on the nook though. Worth a shot.
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Pinesal:
This may help except I don't any an entry for "Nook" in my device manager. I have B&N Ebook Disk USB Device under disk drives but it won't let me update the driver on it.

EDIT: I have ADB working for my DROID if that means anything.
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shograt:
I'm willing to confirm, as I just tried it, and there's glorious app, mounted at /mnt. Muchos gracias!
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pokey9000:
You only need to do the mount /dev/mmcblk1p6 /mnt . This ramdisk has udev and will automatically set up all available mtd devices. All you have to do is the mount.
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Novaglarion:
Exact same issue here, same hardware ID as well. I used the winimage method not cygwin dd. gonna try booing into ubuntu live now i guess.
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 10equals2:
Ok, i'll fix the instructions on nookcolor_rooting.

Thank you!
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zedley:
This is my problem. I'm wondering if winimage under Win7 isn't working. Is there any way to tell (on the Nook itself, perhaps) if the root actually worked? The CDC composite device only shows up under the Device Manager if the MiniSD card is inserted and the NC booted from it. When it boots after the SD card is removed, the Nook shows up under devices with two B&N Ebook Disk USB Devices (the internal storage and the MiniSD card, I presume) and a USB Mass Storage Device.

EDIT: As a further note, I installed ADB and can get ADB Devices to return nothing in the command prompt, and have a .android folder in my User Profile ... but no adb_usb.ini.
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] robnix:
The menu for K9 Mail is at the bottom of my screen. Works just like my phone.
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mad5427:
Thanks. I'll do some exploring to see if it can be resized.

Can anybody help me with how to remove programs that I've installed?
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] oakleyrdc:
3. Windows + R and type int "C:\Users\%USERPROFILE%\.android\adb_usb.ini"

Add the nook color device ID to it 0x2080

It should look like this

Code:

# ANDROID 3RD PARTY USB VENDOR ID LIST -- DO NOT EDIT.

# USE 'android update adb' TO GENERATE.

# 1 USB VENDOR ID PER LINE.

0x2080

Where am I supposed to type this?
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] HotShotAzn:
rm -r /system/app/[full app name]
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] scotthellewell:
I have no idea what could be wrong. I have got it booting off of the microsd card and rebooted, but it doesn't seem to be enabling adb. No devices show in device manager in Windows. Putting the card back in and restarting allows me to SSH into the device from linux.

I check /mnt/property/persist.service.adb.enable

and it has a value of 1.

But still rebooting it never enables adb. I am lost as to what to do. Does anyone have any ideas for me?
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RichTJ99:
Where in spare parts do you find the resizing item?
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bobdude5:
how the hell am i supposed to know if sdcard worked..i tried it on ubuntu, windows with winimage and mac! l;sdjfl;jk HELP ME PLEASSSE!!!
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TheDrizzle89:
It's the compatibility mode check box. To get it to work on the Galaxy Tab you have to:

1) Uncheck compatibility mode, then check it again

2) Reboot

3)Go back to spare parts, uncheck compatibility mode, this time leave it unchecked

4) Reboot again.

Now they should be full screen. Again, this is on the Galaxy Tab so hopefully this will work on the nook too. Good luck.
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] smarcisin:
okay so i plug my sdcard in through a usb reader and type in the # dd line in terminal and nothing happens. what is supposed to happen after i hit enter?
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Consolenomad:
Working: Citrix & WYSE PocketCloud

Thanks guys - this is truly awesome. Picked one up after work and had it rooted it no time. In case anyone is wondering, I was able to install WYSE PocketCloud as well as Citrix with no issues.

Thanks again to all the devs that made this happen!
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RichTJ99:
Thanks, I am actually using it on my G-Tablet (viewsonic) & I have not rooted my Nook yet, I am waiting for it to get a little more foolproof (for me the fool).

However, it works awesome on the G-tablet so thank you very much! Full screen engaget.
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mad5427:
I typed this in with the full app name and it says:

No such file or directory

Is there a specific name for the location of these files. I can't seem to find the apk files anywhere and don't know where to look to even remove them.

It's all great that I've been able to load these files, but what if somebody needs to remove them. Has anybody had success removing apk files from their nook color? What did you do. Nothing I am trying is working.

EDIT: I tried typing in adb shell rm <full app name>

It said rm failed for <full app name>, Read-only file system. How can I make this read-write and not read-only? I think I'm getting there.
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cabbieBot:
If anyone who used Win7 to do it would post the steps they took, from beginning to end, it would be really welcomed. Currently this is like trying to stitch together patchwork, its hard to tell when and where some peoples fixes are supposed to go.
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Pinesal:
Ok well. I was finally able to get it to work. I have to plug my nook into a different computer (also win7) and Nook showed up in device manager. Not sure why it wouldn't on my laptop.
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shograt:
It's not quite fully usable, sadly. Sure, you get menu / back buttons on the home screen (I'm using quicklauncher, but I doubt there's much variation there), but they vanish for (as far as I can tell, all) non-nook-specific application. Not being able to access menu eliminates being able to switch comics in acv, save artwork in sketcher, access kindle store or change brightness/font size/background in the kindle app, etc.

Poked around for a button-remapper to make vol+ and vol- act as menu / back, but only found two hardware-specific apps. Tried 'em, no joy.

Anyone have any thoughts on this? Is there a way to force that back/home/menu bar to be persistent?
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sudermatt:
I tried these steps but when I try to Write the image I get an error : "can not write the file because it's being used by another process"

Anyone?

Originally Posted by nikescar

for you windows guys:

-install winimage

-start winimage (administrator)

-go to disk menu

-restore virtual hard disk image on physical drive

-select physical drive then click ok

-change the file type to all files

- select pokey's image

-write!

This worked for me

thanks to MrMuffin
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[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rad131304:
To achieve the same effect (confirmed on my W7 Pro system):

start > run > compmgmt.msc

browse to Device Manager

Expand Universal Serial Bus Controllers

Select USB Mass Storage Device (there may be multiple)

Right-Click and select "properties"

select the details tab

in the dropdown, select "Hardware Ids" - if this says "USB\VID_2080&...." then this is the NC

click ok

right Click again and select uninstall

disconnect NC from computer

reconnect NC to computer

NC re-finds all drivers, including ADB

start > run > cmd

cd <android-sdk-dir>\tools

adb.exe remount

I had already enforced the ADB driver on the USB MSD, so mine was listed under android devices.

I will be posting a full write-up of my process for W7 in a bit
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 10equals2:
Not quite. The path is correct, but you have to be logged into the Nook via ssh.

Then you have to mount the apps directory with this command.

(executed from within the ssh session)

# mount /dev/mmcblk1p6 /mnt

Then you can

# cd /mnt/app

# ls (this'll give you all the packages that you have installed, or failed to install)

# rm <full package name that you learned in the above step goes here>

Be very careful with the above step. If you don't do it right, you can delete EVERYTHING on your nook, including system files. so, make sure the package name is correct.
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Consolenomad:
Working: Meebo

I forgot to mention, but Meebo is also working quite nicely for IM =)
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SystemIdleProcess:
If we uncomment the following line in build.prop will this enable the shared library so we can get market to work?

# rild.libpath=/system/lib/libreference-ril.so
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Novaglarion:
Hells yes!!! THANK YOU!!

This fixed it for me! Was driving me crazy!!
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zedley:
That is the damndest thing -- same thing happened to me when I plugged it into another computer. To get it to show up on the one I set it up on, I went into Devices > Nook > Hardware, and uninstalled both Barnes and Noble Ebook things and the USB Mass Storage. Unplug, replug, and voila! The Nook shows up.

EDIT: Rad's is the same thing mine is, but Rad you may want to use my way - it involves less of going to the Device Manager and having to look up ID numbers.
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Baka no Kami:
Thanks! This was the step I was missing. The NC now shows when I do an ADB devices.
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Pinesal:
Working apps for me

Angry birds

beautiful widgets

buzz deck

Dolphin browser

GBAoid (gba emulator)

iheartradio

Kindle

Launcher Pro

LOL Sites

MX Moto

ROM Gripper

Root Explorer

I have noticed that on apps that go into full screen like GBCoid and LOL Sites, you can't hit the menu button. Is there a solution for this?
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hartmch:
Thank You!
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
Successfully Rooted the Nook Color.

I just wanted to say how awesome all of you guys are. You have done an amazing job and the Nook Color is now so freaking AWESOME.

YOU ALL ROCK.

I have installed so many apps and I am enjoying it like crazy!!

I only have one question though.

I installed Launcher.apk and i dont really need it and now i do not know how to uninstall it :(

Anyone has any idea??

Thanks in advance.!!
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] godsfilth:
never mind iv had one too many tonight
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] HotShotAzn:
I'm having this same issue. I updated the android_winusb.inf with the nook vids. I don't have a adb_usb.ini file in .android. I can't get the nook to show up in adb devices.

It's recognized as a CDC Composite Gadget.
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rckymtnrfc:
Quick question. I got the Nook rooted and the ADB drivers installed. I opened the command prompt, typed in adb devices and saw a devices with some random number, I assumed it was the Nook.

I used adb install AngryBirds.apk and it installed, I unplugged the Nook and played the game for a moment.

Now I'm ready to install more. Plugged the Nook back in and when I type adb devices, it lists the Nook again but says 'offline'.

What am I missing? I tried to kill the adb server and tried the devices command and it still says offline.

Update:

Well, if I kill the adb server while the Nook is unplugged, then connect it, it shows as connected again.
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] XJERMSX:
Argh.

I've been rooting since G1 came out. I have jailbroken every gen of iPod touch. I wrote automated unlocking scripts for Windows CE/Mobile phones. I have written software for Linux, Windows, Blackberry and the iPhone. Yet even with the steps all laid out before me I can not get this to work for some reason. Times like this I feel like a real tool.

I really appreciate all the work that everyone who has made this project work up to this point. SERIOUSLY!! But I think I'm going to be sitting this one out for the time being. I'm not asking for help - I'm sure it'll happen one day ... but today is not that day.

Meh. :confused:

(Tried on a mac and Win7x64)
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zedley:
I just created a new file called that and included the number given earlier in the thread (I'm not at my computer or I'd give you the actual number).
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mad5427:
I have an apk file that I want to remove as well. I've been trying everything to remove it. The only command that seemed like it would work was this:

adb shell rm <file name>

It gave me a response: rm failed for <file name>, Read-only file system

It was suggested to connect through ssh to gain access to the file system and remove from there. I tried all suggestions on here and on nookdevs.com about connecting through ssh. I can't get connected.

If anybody knows how to get files off this thing, it would be great. Putting them on seems really easy, but I haven't read one successful method of removing the apk files so far.
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] HotShotAzn:
yeah, that's exactly what I did. I missed a step (adb kill-server). Now the Nook is recognized.
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PTzero:
Try adb remount then adb shell rm /system/app/<appname>.apk
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zedley:
Kudos to rad for giving a step-by-step, but it should be noted that 1-19 can be replaced by the initial steps on nookdevs using winimage (which was easier for me, but YMMV).
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rad131304:
I had cygwin installed already ... that's really the only reason I used it.
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] msantiago1256:
error not recognized

I promised myself i'd avoid being another annoyance but i can't get through this last bit! my nook is now recognized in device mananger as an android phone. I've updated the driver for the actual nook in the devices and priters section. i go through each command promt step and BAM "error device not found"

i've killed adb server, unplugged the nook and reconnected it all but still nothing. i almost woke my wife up yelling at my monitor! help...
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dannyBR:
Very nice instructions (practically idiot proof)! I wanted to ask if this sideloading means installing APK's and that it or is that something done on a rooted device (meaning this process roots as well)? Thank you!

PS. I believe this should work in Vista?
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] david_beholder:
http://www.kandroid.org/android_pdk/telephony.html

Android's Radio Interface Layer (RIL) provides an abstraction layer between Android telephony services (android.telephony) and radio hardware. The RIL is radio agnostic, and includes support for Global System for Mobile communication (GSM)-based radios.

Not sure it's gonna help us.