[Nook Color Android Development] mad5427:
Adapted from pokey9000's original instructions and the instructions of macndroid along with many others posts and just expand on some areas for the inexperienced like myself. Some was also lifted from the nookdevs site too. This was just my detailed step by step process that worked.

1. Get any sized microsd card that you don't mind trashing the data on.

2. Download pokey9000's micro sd .img files from here:

http://www.mediafire.com/?cfddu9wt9d8dunl

3. To install .img onto sd card, put micro sd card into a reader into your usb port (not sure the steps if you are just using your Nook Color to write the image onto the micro sd.

4. To write images to disk on mac osx, you need to do the following:

-Find which drive the sd card is mapped to: type in the terminal this:

diskutil list

-Now unmount that drive typing this:

diskutil unmountDisk /dev/disk<#> (My computer is was disk2)

-It should say: Unmount of all volumes on disk<#> was successful

-Type: dd if= nooter_sdcard_40mb.img of=/dev/disk<#>

-Everything needed should copy right over to the card.

3. Plug the usb cable from your NC (Nook Color) into your computer. Make sure your NC is powered on and you see the drive mounted normally.

4. Take card out of the sd reader and put it into your NC.

5. Hold down the power button for 15 seconds.

6. Let go and wait 2 seconds then hold the power button for 2 more seconds. Let go.

7. After a little bit you will get a window that says, "New network interfaces have been detected". The image is as follows:

8. Hit Cancel.

9. Once the devices show up, wait 30 seconds and remove the card from the NC device.

10. Hold down the power button for 15 seconds again, let go, wait 2 seconds and then hold the power button for 2 more seconds, then let go again.

11. Everything should now be installed and you should be at your normal screen and your NC volume will be mounted normally.

12. Now you need to install android SDK onto you mac if you don't already have it.

13. Download it from the following site: http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html

14. To get adb working on my terminal, I just went to the directory android-sdk-mac_x86/tools I double clicked android and it opened the terminal and seemed to install what I needed. (somebody more experienced can edit this area if there is a better way to install what is needed for the computer to run adb commands)

15. I was now able to use adb commands in the terminal.

16. For the computer to recognize my NC as a device I typed the following into the terminal:

sudo sh -c "mkdir -p ~/.android; echo 0x2080 > ~/.android/adb_usb.ini; adb kill-server; adb devices"

17. To verify if I was now connected, I typed in: adb devices and it showed me a number for the device.

18. Now that the device is recognized, I installed an .apk file.

19. I typed:

adb install /<full directory to file>/<file name>.apk

20. I ejected the mounted disk like I normally would from finder.

21. I rebooted my nook once unplugged.

22. Check the extras area of NC and the program was now installed.

23. To remove a program first plug your NC in like normal until disk mounts

24. I first had to find out the exact name of the .apk file installed.

-Type: adb shell ls /data/app (This gives a list of all .apk files installed and their exact names)

25. Once I had the exact name I could remove the file.

-Type: adb shell rm -r /data/app/<full name of file>.apk

26. The file should now be gone. I didn't have to reboot, I just unmounted the drive and checked the extras section of the NC. It was gone. Some suggestions were to reboot to make sure the file was gone. Might be required but I didn't have to)

27. I now feel fully confident to install and uninstall .apk files as I like.

This all worked for me and everything is running smooth. It took me a few hours to get all this together as I have very little experience with this and had to seek out info for every little step. I tried to keep it as dumb as possible so people like myself would be able to do this.