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[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Philosophy757:
Im having an issue in XP. I am able to go through all of the steps for enabling adb usb with no problems, but still the device is not found by adb. Could it be that adb is not enabled on the nook itself?
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tom in AZ:
Does anyone need access to the Nook Color SDK? Looks like Barnes & Nobel released it at 10am.
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Novaglarion:
Watch this, you can do it with spare parts.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zasSIA7sexM
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pudd:
Finally, I got mine work... the issue was the laptop buildin SDCard slot. I inserted my SDcard into the SDCard slot to produce the image, and that image was useless, then I plug SDCard into a USB card reader, then produced image, then that image is working.

:p:p:p:p
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Noah98:
The problem is, the compatibility mode option doesn't appear when you install Spare Parts on the nook color.
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jerrygon:
It does on mine...
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] newton1666:
lol. For me it is still about books, even rooted. The cost of the Kindle is pointless as you can only buy from Amazon, which is basically my entire e-book collection, but... The thing is, I want to borrow books from my city library (I know there's a hack that strips drm, what a pain though). I also like the fact that I can have most, if not all the bookstores, on one device. All I need is a little twitter, audible.com apk, and kindle and I'm a happy camper.

On a sidenote I replaced my buggy fickle phantom tap pushing NC for a new one. All is good - love the B&N support, I know there's a few horror stories, but the manager at mine was very nice.
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ypocaramel:
Ditto. Reading enriches you, it's a good thing to do. Read, but I want to read everything - book, magazines, rss feeds, wikipedia, academic journals, blogs... on one device. Hence rooting - instafetch, Pulse etc...
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rog152:
i am using windows vista. question What should happen doing rooting on this step

'Once the devices show up, wait another 30 seconds while the script makes the changes to enable ADB. (ADB will be available after you reboot into Android)"

should I see anything or just wait the 30 seconds, cause i cannot tell if i am rooted and when i try to update the drivers in the in step with adb I get the message that the driver is not compatible with my device

I have done this part

At this point, the nook firmware has been modified to enable ADB connections. Please note the NC is newer than ADB so you will need to update the ADB INI file before ADB will detect it. The NC vendor id is 0x2080.

also why am i getting this with all my copy and paste it keeps following me,

Read more: http://nookdevs.com/NookColor_Rooting#ixzz177v4z5Ga

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[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cutterjohn:
That price "con" is HUGE for what you get. I mean I already feel a bit queasy about spending $400 on the gTablet given that it was placed next to a $300 & $250 netbooks(Toshiba & ASUS) at BOTH Sears & Staples... ...but it's REALLY FAST & responsive... ... well with custom fw... but TnT wasn't that bad, just not quite ready...

My personal feel, I'll say again, is that I like 7" for portability and best size IMNHO for reading fiction and there just aren't many choices right now, basically only others are really Archos 70(fw problems) and Nook Color(needs to be hacked).
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dirtygreek:
Anyone gotten the audible app to work? I may have a buggy beta version, but it started once, never got my books listed. So I stopped it, and now it just goes to the splash screen and dies.

adb lolcat:

If I delete the files in the sdcard/audible folder, it starts up and asks me to log in again, but then I get the same problems. Maybe I need a newer version - anyone have an apk

And actually, another issue I'm having. I can't seem to get the thing to boot up when there's an SD card inserted. I get "Touch the future of reading" and it just sits there forever until I remove the card and restart. Card works fine when booted.
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tanp:
Boot loop

I gave my nook a hard reset and now it just won't boot. It keep getting to the barnes and noble nook color screen, then goes black and does it all again.

Is there a way to restore? Or what happened?
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Noah98:
Thanks! I found a newer version of the .apk and it worked great!
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] califrag:
you should try adb logcat to see if you can identify where it is hanging up
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] drbellushi:
God loves a noob helper!!!!

HEY PLEASE CAN SOMEONE HELP ME???

THIS IS MY FIRST ANDROID DEVICE....

AND I HAVE BEEN TRYING TO ROOT IT

I FOLLOWED THE INSTRUCTIONS ON NOOKDEVS nookdevs.com/NookColor_Rooting[/url]

HOWEVER WHEN I GET TO

ADB DEVICES

I GET A RESPONSE SAYING

"LIST OF DEVICES ATTACHED"

AND NOTHING ELSE AFTER THAT.......!!!!

PLEASE HELP ME I AM READY TO DEDICATE ALL OF TODAY

I WANNA PLAY ANGRY BIRDS :(
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tanp:
I ran the command and it just stays at -waiting for device-. I don't I get in far enough for the computer to recognize.
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] califrag:
thats gonna make it really hard to fix if you don't have adb access... any idea what settings did you change before you rebooted? Did you install anything?
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Noah98:
Make sure that you uninstall the nook drivers, and reinstall with the usb drivers in the android sdk folder (just follow the rooting directions). After that, make sure that you adb kill-server, then adb remount.
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wvcachi:
Check it out: someone already has stock Froyo up and running (albeit slowly) on the Nook Color!

http://www.androidpolice.com/2010/1...droid-2-2-1-aosp-surfaces-details-are-scarce/
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tanp:
I didn't change anything, it just hung up so I gave it a hard reset. I also got this when I plugged it back in to the computer:

(can't post image yet, not enough posts)

I found it a little bit odd because i haven't heard of anyone else getting this yet. I do have ADB access once its booted. Any more ideas? Is there a recovery mode?

PS the image was on a firmware update.
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] califrag:
hmm i dunno then i would just suggest trying to do factory reset...

on a simi-related note...

I had root, ADW launcher and a ton of Apps... something I did messed something up cause I accidentily clicked the normal B&N "Home" app on accident when trying to go back to ADW and it said 'There was an authentication failure this device needs to be reset' or something like that then next thing you know the damn thing reset itself back to normal, the only weird thing is that Market is still showing up in 'Extras' but it doesn't work and I no longer have ADB access... time to fix it...

UPDATE:

Ok, so I just took the 'nooter' microSD and popped it back in, went back through the rooting process and it's working through ADB again... Time to reinstall everything.. Dropbox will make it easy though :D
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tanp:
Ya I don't mind going through a factory reset and losing all my stuff. How do you suggest I go about doing that?
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] drbellushi:
thanks noah

i did adb kill-server

then adb remount

it showed "daemon not running .starting it now on port 5037. daemon started succesfully* error device not found

:(
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] glacon:
nookColor Android Market

Are there special instructions for putting the Android Market on a rooted nook color? If so where can I find them?
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] drbellushi:
hey did you ever find away around it?

i have spent 48hours

my windows 7 still dont detect my nook!!!
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] block911:
wonder why its so slow
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wvcachi:
I'm guessing a combination of a) it was still loading from booting up, and b) it's a raw AOSP ROM, not optimized for the hardware in any way (a far cry from cyanogen).
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dark79:
I had the same problem because I didn't follow step 5 on Nookdevs properly.

Make sure you have a .android folder in C:\Users\<Username>

Inside that .android folder should be a file titled adb_usb.ini to which you add (on its own line) 0x2080

Do not hit enter at the end of that line. Adding a line break messes up the file.

So basically go into C:\Users\<username>\.android\adb_usb.ini and add the line 0x2080

Reboot for good measure and connect the NC. Now when you do an "adb remount" you should get something about having a missing directory and not missing device. This is normal. Mine says that everytime, but adb works fine.
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jay084:
Hello everyone just rooted my NC and have a few questions as I'm new to all of this:

1) After rooting how do I install .apk files? I know it a concerns running the adb.exe ( I assume) but I have know idea how to do this. A step by step laymen terms break down would be appreciated.

2) Also after installing for example Dolphin HD Browser, will I then be able to view flash/video on web pages?

Any help is appreciated.
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] italiano1964:
Go to the bottom of the page in the following link for instructions on how to do a factory reset

nookdevs.com/NookColor_Rooting
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zdrifter:
With the NC connected go to device manager (control panel>device manager). In the device list highlight the device 'Android Phone' which should be near the top of the list. Right click and delete. Refresh the device manager list .. one of two thing will happen, it will either refresh and show the device again (along with all the other devices in the Nook and adb will have access) or nothing will happen. If nothing happens (i.e. device didn't return to the list), disconnect the nook

Correctly!

and reconnect it and you should have all the Nook devices and adb access.
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zdrifter:
For item #1 go here

For item #2 .. no .. the NC is on Eclair (android 2.1) and Flash is not well supported ... you could try flash lite, some have had success but most likely when/if the NC is upgraded to 2.2 Flash will/should work.
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jay084:
Thanks for taking the time to answer, really appreciated. How would I uninstall .apk's?
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jonghast:
Help?

Day 3 trying to root this thing:

I’ve tried both nooter 0.1 and 0.2,

Using winimage, the image takes about 1 minute to write on a class 2 card, no popups, or errors.

I have adb_usb.ini in my .android file, it contains only one line “0x2080”, no return after.

I’ve tried every combination suggested for android_winusb, it currently looks like this in both locations:

;Moto Sholes

%SingleAdbInterface% = USB_Install, USB\VID_22B8&PID_41DB

%CompositeAdbInterface% = USB_Install, USB\VID_22B8&PID_41DB&MI_01

;B & N Nook Color ;

%SingleAdbInterface% = USB_Install, USB\VID_2080&PID_0002

%CompositeAdbInterface% = USB_Install, USB\VID_2080&PID_0002&MI_01

;

;Google NexusOne

%SingleAdbInterface% = USB_Install, USB\VID_18D1&PID_0D02

%CompositeAdbInterface% = USB_Install, USB\VID_18D1&PID_0D02&MI_01

When I connect the nook it shows up in Device Manager as Android Composite ADB interface under Android Phone, as well as USB Composite device, and USB Mass storage device under USB Controllers.

In Device Manager I’ve tried scanning for new hardware, I’ve uninstalled the drivers, both checking delete drivers and not checking it, I’ve updated the driver software, specifically selecting the android_winusb file.

I even reinstalled the sdk on my c: drive instead of my data partition just be sure.

ADB can see my Froyo’d HD2, but it can’t find my Nook.

Once or twice the kill-server command has resulted in *server not running* or whatever, but usually nothing, just back to the prompt.

Remount, and Reboot always give Error: device not found

Devices shows a blank list.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] drbellushi:
thanks!!!

thanks for all the support

after modifying usb.ini file adding 0xxxx

it started working

i have installed google maps,dolphin,sbk

to list a few...

is there any way of installing on the sd card??

is there anyway of installing directly on the NC without my pc?

how do i delete my apks i dont need??

thanks to all the helpers and those making android world friendly

any medical apks?
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ap3x Ve!0city:
Need Help installing apk's

i am using ubuntu 10.10 netbook remix and my nook was rooted fine and when i type in:

root@xenocorp-Lenovo-Ideapad-S10-3t:~/androidsdk/tools# sh -c "mkdir -p ~/.android; echo 0x2080 > ~/.android/adb_usb.ini; ./adb kill-server; ./adb devices"

it returns:

* daemon not running. starting it now on port 5037 *

* daemon started successfully *

List of devices attached

2004500015682003	device

this means everything is working so far... THE PROBLEM IS WHEN I TYPE IN

$adb install pman.apk

it returns the ERROR:

install: missing destination file operand after `pman.apk'

Try `install --help' for more information.

DOES ANY ONE KNOW WHAT THE "missing destination file operand after `pman.apk'" IS OR WHAT I SHOULD DO?
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zdrifter:
"is there any way of installing on the sd card??" -don't think anyone has got that one solved yet, but others may chime in.

"is there anyway of installing directly on the NC without my pc?" -- go

here to use an app called Hoccer, very slick way to access Market on your phone and 'slide' apps to the NC. Market access on the NC is in-progress.

"how do i delete my apks i dont need??" -- install Astro and use the Astro apps manager (also has a task killer that is useful)

"any medical apks?" -- Google is your friend
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] drbellushi:
muchos muchos gracias zdrifter

set the world free !!!

give them android......:)
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stigma15:
Thanks devs & others for all your hard work and contributions. I originally created an account to ask for help, but thankfully I am fully up and running now. (I had a bugger of a time trying to get the drivers running on my XP machine, but Win 7 worked great):)

Incidentally, I see alot of people recommending the DolphinHD browser for the nook Color. It was a fine browser, but I couldn't find the menu option to remove the huge sidebar for bookmarks. Is there any way to do that on this device? I know it's off-topic so feel free to ignore; I'm just curious.
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ap3x Ve!0city:
I figured out what i did wrong (and this also goes to other ubuntu people struggling from the inaccurate nookdevs instuctions)

NookDevs says to put

$

adb install <path to file>

when you actually need to put

./

adb install <path to file>
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shadow00198:
Easy rooting and app installing?

Hey, been following the thread since the beginning. Getting my NC soon. Loving the work that has been done. You guys are all great. I was just wondering if someone could point me in the direction of any information or work being done on an easy root and easy app install method like what we have for android phones. Thank you for all/any help.
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] derekisthematrix:
Hmmm ok thanks for the info. I'll have to find a usb card reader to try writing the image.
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tokyomonster:
I was about to post this for you :)

If you'd like to only use 'adb' instead of ./adb (which requries you to be in the same directory as the adb program), you can put a link to the file in either your /home/user/bin directory or in /usr/bin, which is what I did:

chris@headsmash:~$ which adb
/usr/bin/adb
chris@headsmash:~$ ll /usr/bin/adb
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 43 2010-12-05 13:59 /usr/bin/adb -> /home/chris/android-sdk-linux_x86/tools/adb*
chris@headsmash:~$

The syntax to do this is:

sudo ln -s /path/to/adb/on/your/machine /usr/bin/adb

Hope this helps!
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] droiddog:
If you swipe to the left, it should get rid of that sidebar. If you swipe to the left again you'll get another sideboard on the right. As far as permanently getting rid of the option,I don't know of any way.
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Nooter:
Thanks!

Thanks to everyone who made the rooting process (relatively) simple!

We're well on our way to unlocking the true potential of this tablet that's disguised as an eReader, and I'm glad to be part of it right from this nascent stage.
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Droidish:
Post of the year.
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mrintegrity:
There is nothing inaccurate about the instructions, just your undesrtanding of bash :). if you have adb in your $PATH then you don't need to specify the file to launch with ./adb, you can simply type "adb" instead. Also, the original error stated exactly what was wrong, you should read the error messages more carefully before posting.

/mrintegrity
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] psychoticsmiley:
Windows Users and SD card

Really quick guys,

If you are having issues with installing the image to the micro sd card.

Please remember to do a full format, not a quick format on the card.

After flashing the image on to the card, your card will show its size as 40mb.

Use the link to the sd partition tool to restore the card to the full size after you root.

I received an error in the sd partition tool near completion, but the card restored to the correct size. Don't be alarmed if you receive an error as long as the size looks correct.

You can always try to re-run the partition tool again to restore the card to factory default settings if the sizing looks off still.

Thanks guys!
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wvcachi:
Can't find the link at the moment, but apparently the instructions for putting froyo on it have been released. As it doesn't have wifi enabled, and requires you to build your own aosp, I wouldn't go near it until something more stable is released.

...I had it in an RSS feed today, but now it's disappeared...somebody must've pulled it.
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] big.t_03:
Thanks

I'd like to thank the folks who have contributed their time and energy in developing the NC root.

Thanks, and keep up the good work!
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sardeenz:
froyo on nc

Here's the link to froyo on NC. I'm asking for B&N gift cards for Christmas :)blog.fsck.com
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sardeenz:
:)blog.fsck.com

link to froyo on nc, sorry about the smiley before the link, I can't post links yet...
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jjlxs215:
Thanks

Thank You for all the rooting help. Everything is working fine. i do have a question about uninstalling i can't remove a cbs sports app i downloaed. i have try many things and can't get it uninstalled. i installed astro and can't find it anywhere.

Where do the install apps go in the NC?
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bighead21:
The easiest way to do this if you have ADW is to long press the icon on your home screen, wait for the trash can icon to pop up, drag the app icon up to the trash can but hold it over it for a few seconds, a "Drop to Uninstall" message will pop up.
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jameswei:
You can use adb to uninstall it. I'm using linda file manger which can uninstall apps as well.

Installed aps go in to the extras menu. Some time it takes a reboot for it to show up.
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 99accordv6:
Dang, I must be stupid because I cant even follow the step by step instructions on how to root it =/
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] califrag:
Try changing this part:

;Nook

%CompositeAdbInterface% = USB_Install, USB\VID_18D1&PID_0001&MI_00

to

;Nook

%CompositeAdbInterface% = USB_Install, USB\VID_18D1&PID_0001&MI_00

%CompositeAdbInterface% = USB_Install, USB\VID_18D1&PID_0001&MI_01

in both places

edit:

actually this probably isn't going to work... I dunooo
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jjlxs215:
I have tried adb uninstall "package.apk" but keep getting a failure notice. i have rebooted the device a couple times but in the extra folder thru Astro it doesn't show up.

Thank for all the help i will keep trying.
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Venc:
This thread is going sooo fast it is difficult to keep up. Amazing work!!!

I have a question:

If I were to root and fix the nook following the nookdev instructions (or if there is a better option please let me know), can a regular, non-tech person use this. Is it ready for the public?

I convinced someone that it was better to buy a Nook color instead of an iPad to save money, as the person only needs it for email, web browsing and doc editing. And I'm sure that the person would like some apps (is there Android Market on it or does it have to be done by ADB)

Thanks guys
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stigma15:
What OS are you using? In my experience, it is very difficult to get this to work on XP. Windows 7 was a breeze.
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stigma15:
It is very user-friendly using either the default or a different launcher like LauncherPro. However, as far as I know, there is not yet a workaround to disable autoupdate which will probably close access to the root and wipe out the changes. The user could still use it but would have to leave WiFi off to insure the root won't be wiped out.

Unless there is or is going to be workaround, direct download/install for apps is blocked. They must be installed through the command line with ADB as far as I know.

Also, I am very happy with the device, but I certainly wouldn't want to do more than very minor doc editing on it. It's not really suited for that.
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hakepuck:
Installing via filemanager (w/o ADB)

You can install straight from a file manager (like astro) on the NC after you follow the steps to pull the settings.db and update the installable option.

I'm a new poster and can't use direct links yet, but go to nookdevs dot com slash NookColor_Enable_App_install_from_on-device_installers
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] droidseban:
I had this error and it turned out that the rooting didn't work because the image didn't write properly to the SD card. When you boot with the SD card, if the screen shows anything at all, it is not working. It should be black until you get to the point where you reboot it by pressing the power button. The SD card may show files, but that doesn't mean it is bootable.
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] droidseban:
To elaborate, if the SD card has any existing partitions, the image may not write correctly. I used a Slitaz boot CD (which is a small Linux Live CD) and used GParted to delete the existing partition from SD card and then used dd to write the image. Mine worked perfectly when I did it this way.
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] moovius:
Did you do the Linux Live CD method with Windows 7 os?
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] moovius:
Adhoc WiFi compatibility for NC?

I was bummed to find the nc doesn't work with my Touch Pro 2 wifi sharing ability because of adhoc compatibility issues.

Is this something that could be fixed on the nook's side with an update or some android software that enables such functionality?