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[Nook Color Android Development] alynch75:
No tools

I don't even get a list of apps or the tools... what gives here i have tired 6 differnt sd card. is there a video somewhere of someone doing this.... i see its worked for alot of peopel but mine is still a no go
[Nook Color Android Development] swingman3:
freeze on start screen

Everything was working ok until i rebooted. After I rebooted It freezes to the start screen on the nook logo.

tried factory reset a couple of times but its not going thru.

help anyone?
[Nook Color Android Development] Novarider:
My market is acting weird. I tried to search for "Ultra Keyboard" and all it displays are dictionaries for the keyboard but not the keyboard app itself. It only displays 6 results and when I search for it on my phone it shows 8 choices. The two that are missing are the apks for the keyboard.

Any reason the apks wouldn't show up?
[Nook Color Android Development] blamejake:
I'm sure lots of us had challenges and I certainly did - mostly because I started off on the wrong foot..:o

What finally worked (YMMV) was:

1) Get back to 1.0.0 by restarting the NC 7 or 8 times (whatever - to get to the install)

2) CRITICAL - Wipe Data. This was hard for me to get going; I probably had not been doing the ON+HOME+Volume-up properly.

3) I did the 1.0.0 reinstall again because I wanted to see that original NOOK animation come up. In any case, I wanted to have the confidence the NC was store fresh.

4) I then sideloaded the 1.0.1 B&N NC upgrade and let it do its install.

5) I used WIN32DiskImager to create the SD image (I found it to be much easiest to use) of the 2.12.18 Auto-Nooter.

6) I powered down the NC (i.e. completely off and not just asleep).

7) I put the SD into the powered off NC.

8) I hooked up the USB to the NC and the computer

9) Let it cook. This is voodoo for me. I frankly can't remember if it started on its own or if I let it be for 10 minutes or so. In any case, leave it alone for a bit.

10) If it starts on its own then great, if not then press the power-on button (several times as necessary).

Again, this worked for me. It took lots of time but, it was raining anyway.

Good luck.
[Nook Color Android Development] dawynkoop:
Well, got my Nook Color today. Updated to 1.0.1 and ran AutoNooter, everything seemed to go ok, had root access, the only issue I still can't figure out is ADB. Debugging is enabled in the settings but when I have the Nook connected to my computer and run adb devices it shows an empty list of devices. If I plg my phone in it shows up just fine.

Am I missing something? Any help would be appreciated, thanks.
[Nook Color Android Development] italiano1964:
Hi, I had the same problem trying to find ADW.Launcher in Market, all sorts of Themes would show up but not the app itself. Then I found out about AppBrain App Market. Search it in market and install it. It will let you find apps in Market very easily, including Ultra Keyboard. It also has a Sync feature that automatically monitors Market for updates of the apps you have installed in NC and gives you the choice to download them.
[Nook Color Android Development] Novarider:
Thanks, I knew about app brain and will install it to try but I would still like to know why the market doesn't display the app
[Nook Color Android Development] feisty_noodle:
@dawynkoop Just a check: you did add the Nook code to the list of recognized devices, right?

If not, see here:

http://nookdevs.com/NookColor_USB_ADB
[Nook Color Android Development] khaytsus:
+1, this is exactly what I had to do as well. I haven't looked yet, but I wonder if this will make it not see my Nexus One.. if so, I'll figure it out. :)
[Nook Color Android Development] italiano1964:
Not sure why that is.

However, I found Ultra Keyboard with AppBrain ($2.79), but when I tried to link to it using the Market tab in AppBrain, it wouldn't connect me to Market to let me download it. Every other app I tried with AppBrain worked, but not Ultra Keyboard. Something is up.
[Nook Color Android Development] alynch75:
what to do

Thanks for the help everyone but this is not working..
[Nook Color Android Development] dawynkoop:
I didn't notice that before. Thanks. I'll check it out.
[Nook Color Android Development] Novarider:
Would it be possible for you to add a few keyboards to the next update? Also might need the keyboard selector app.
[Nook Color Android Development] GabrialDestruir:
Suggestion Noted, will be looking into a keyboards and switchers later today or sometime tomorrow.
[Nook Color Android Development] greenmky:
Did clean re-install / data clear. Ran autonooter.

Skipped the account login. Did the location thing.

Tried to access gmail. Got the android setup wizard to ask for my account info. Gmail synced up right away. Android market still errors with the same "Server error has ocurred. Retry, or cancel and return to the next screen" message.

So for those having the "server error" message. This isn't working any better than the manual market method. Except for it's super easier.

EDIT: I'm on #nookdevs right now. Logcat showed this when I tried to launch the market:

I/ActivityManager( 822): Starting activity: Intent { act=android.intent.action.

MAIN cat=[android.intent.category.LAUNCHER] flg=0x10200000 cmp=com.android.vendi

ng/.AssetBrowserActivity }

W/InputManagerService( 822): Starting input on non-focused client com.android.i

nternal.view.IInputMethodClient$Stub$Proxy@4a01caf0 (uid=10002 pid=1276)

D/vending ( 969): [30] BaseAction.run(): ApiException: com.android.vending.api.

ApiException: Error from backend. Request=com.android.vending.model.AssetRequest

, Response=INTERNAL_SERVICE_ERROR

I/vending ( 969): [1] BaseAction.displayErrorUi(): Server error in com.android.

vending.AssetBrowserActivity$NetworkDataLoadAction: com.android.vending.api.ApiE

xception: Error from backend. Request=com.android.vending.model.AssetRequest, Re

sponse=INTERNAL_SERVICE_ERROR

I/ActivityManager( 822): Displayed activity com.android.vending/.AssetBrowserAc

tivity: 1190 ms (total 9928 ms)
[Nook Color Android Development] :
WHOOT WHOOT!!! Worked Flawlessly!!!!
[Nook Color Android Development] Benny1234:
Thank you and a few quick questions.

Hello,

Nice job on this. About to run this on a new nook color. 2 quick questions.

1. Do I sign into my B&N account before rooting/Auto-nooter. I saw on some posts people couldn't do it after rooting.

2. Where is the nook interface after this procedure. Does it become the nook android app, like on android phones?

Thanks in advance.
[Nook Color Android Development] johnopsec:
Yes.

(1) Sign into b&n first.

(2) Do the auto-nooter or super-nooter.

(3) Enjoy :D
[Nook Color Android Development] Pinesal:
You are suppose to login with the youtube app before you do anything else.
[Nook Color Android Development] Malk3rs:
You are a god amongst men. I had been worried about the lack of progress on this forum over the last few days but now scripts are pouring on and automating things I would have spend hours searching to find. Thanks!
[Nook Color Android Development] johnopsec:
Just realized that I hadn't answered your second question. To get to the nook interface, hit the "^" soft key. It takes you right there.
[Nook Color Android Development] docfreed:
Efffin' Awesome

Youse guys is the livin end! Worked as advertised - woo hoo!!!
[Nook Color Android Development] docfreed:
But, having same market error as others - can some kind person post how to get around this. What do you mean by "you are supposed to log in to YouTube first"?
[Nook Color Android Development] jensenkd:
I'm having the same market server error. Gmail, youtube, gtalk all work fine.
[Nook Color Android Development] docfreed:
Also, be very careful - the instructions to "unroot" on Nookdevs do not work. I believe that once you use Autonooter it is permanent! (At least I have been unable to factory reset as Superuser, Market, etc remain in the extras drawer)
[Nook Color Android Development] GabrialDestruir:
To "unroot" this completely you need to do both a factory reset and 8 failed boots.

Factory Reset wipes /data

8 Failed Boots wipes /system
[Nook Color Android Development] rboatright:
Unroot and Flash to factory are two different things.

http://nookdevs.com/Flash_back_to_clean_stock_ROM

will take the nook back to exactly factory fresh. Note that if you have an SD card, you will need to ALSO erase everything off of the sd card to be "factory fresh".

There are TWO resets on the nook. One (the 'unroot') one only clears the /data partition. The other (Factory reset) only clears /system.

To do a full reset you must do both as explained in the link above.
[Nook Color Android Development] docfreed:
Yes, I did the factory reset and in your link there is no mention of how to unroot (at least I cannot see it!)
[Nook Color Android Development] docfreed:
At what point in the boot process do you turn it off again - I have turned it off at least 8 times but I still see two choices - startup wizard or quick start?
[Nook Color Android Development] Mr Uncanny:
Alright, I'm confused.

I made the image on an sd card, booted it on the nook following the instructions on nookdevs...and, (sort of) nothing. I have youtube in my extras but aside from that nothing is different. when i type " type \users\<yourusername>\.android\adb_usb.ini" in cmd I get the following:

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

# USE 'android update adb' TO GENERATE

# 1 USB VENDOR ID PER LINE

And when I tried the whole "adb install..." command it said "error: device not found."

Did I mess up the install of auto-nooter onto the nook, or something with the adb drivers? I'm lost.
[Nook Color Android Development] clockcycle:
Did you also do the 2nd part, wipe data?

-CC
[Nook Color Android Development] SheldorTheConqueror:
I had the exact same problem until I signed into youtube. From there it works great!:D
[Nook Color Android Development] triggrhaapi:
Confirming this worked perfectly with no issues on a never previously rooted nook. You tube does not currently work.
[Nook Color Android Development] MoCoTerp:
Well, I got a Nook today and followed the instructions at the beginning of this thread. Happy to say that it seems to work well, save I can't get Live Wallpapers to show using LauncherPro Plus. Aside from that, I am very happy with the unit. I also had a Cruz Tablet from Borders, which I found had a purer install of Android (2.0 sigh), but was hit or miss on running apps. By "purer" I mean no custom interface pasted on top of the OS.

Any clues on how to get Live Wallpapers up would be cool. So far the Android Market (old version) works save not listing Kindle. I am going to side load that sucker though.
[Nook Color Android Development] Novarider:
I got the same result. When I click on market it tries to go to market but its like the market crashes. I would like to find out why this happens and possibly fix it?
[Nook Color Android Development] kid24:
thanks for your work!

PS: BTW in result of the process, my 2 Gb sd card is now 39 Mb only. Unmount/format doesn't change anything. How could I fix it?
[Nook Color Android Development] rogerdugans:
If you haven't yet, reboot the NC and try again.

If THAT doesn't work, try shutting down and removing the card- put it in another device and see if that will reformat it.

I have put a number of nooter images and 3 or four auto-nooter images on my sd card and nothing more than a reboot was needed to be able to unmount and format it after the rooting process was complete.
[Nook Color Android Development] Novarider:
I had to download a 3rd party app for windows to format my card. I dont remember what it was called but it was free
[Nook Color Android Development] daveywave:
http://www.minitool-partitionrecovery.com/download.html

download the Partition Wizard not the Recovery software. its freeware and reset the card
[Nook Color Android Development] kid24:
Tried: inserting into another device, formating from there etc. still 39 Mb. any ideas?
[Nook Color Android Development] dawynkoop:
Followed the steps there multiple times with no success. Also tried the ADB Wireless method and still cannot connect. Giving up for tonight, going to start fresh again tomorrow.

Any other ideas would be helpful. Thanks.
[Nook Color Android Development] Novaglarion:
You can format it from your Nook.

From the nook soft menu go to settings

or from your launcher hit menu and go to settings

Then device info

then SD Card

Unmount SD card

Format SD card

that is all.
[Nook Color Android Development] kid24:
that ridicules, but I've tried all your suggestions and I still have 39.1 Mb, even in partition magic software :/
[Nook Color Android Development] newton1666:
That's exactly what's happening to me. I sent off an email through the Audible app and it revealed the reason why audible does not work for auto-nooter, either version.

The Server_Name and host are set to feeds.audible.co.uk. If you happen to live in the UK this is not going to be a problem, however for the rest of us we're screwed. I'm not sure how to change this, and I believe it is part of the auto-nooter install. Someone with much more experience and technical know-how help us out.

I'm going to side-load an older audible apk that worked under 0.2 without market. But I have to wait for Monday and audible to reset my account, as the repeated login has caused my account to use up all device usage.
[Nook Color Android Development] SunnySon:
Help

I did the 12/18 to root my nook, i realized that i was in 1.0, so after that, i decided to do a factory reset to install to 1.0.1 and run the root again. However, now, I keep on looping on the boot screen after i do the factory reset. Please help.
[Nook Color Android Development] SunnySon:
I did a factory reset and it fixed the problem.
[Nook Color Android Development] dc5guy:
Just picked up the NookColor tonight. Updated to 1.0.1.

SD card seems to have the correct contents from AutoNooter. Seems like AutoNooter never ran after booting up again with the USB cable connected to the laptop/NC. Just boots straight passed through as if the contents of the SD card are not there.

I installed it on a 1GB SD card and an 8GB SD card.

Is this supposed to go into the internal SD card or something instead of an external micro SD??
[Nook Color Android Development] Novarider:
No! Don't write it to the internal memory. Did you upgrade the software to 1.01 before attempting to root?
[Nook Color Android Development] brianf21:
I can't get the NC to boot to the microSD. I do not have an external card reader. So what I am doing is putting the card in the nook and running the dd command.

# umount /dev/sdc

# dd if=auto-nooter-2.12.18.img of=/dev/sdc 1M

I was getting an error when I used the lower case 'm'. I am on Fedora. Here is the output

249344+0 records in

249344+0 records out

127664128 bytes (128 MB) copied, 1.61996 s, 78.8 MB/s

I then umount the nook's internal memory then reboot the nook. It boots normally without reading the microSD. Once it is booted, the partitions on the microSD get mounted along with the nook's internal memory partitions. I can browser the partitions no problem. Just can't get it to boot to the card. Is there any way to force it to boot to the card?
[Nook Color Android Development] here.david:
Seems the 1st time this got lost:

I had to do the rooting a few times until I learned what was happening, small brain that I have (humor needed).

I got one for my wife for Xmas as she reads all the time, as I wanted to know what the possibilities are I got one for me when I got hers on the 17th. Boy, it this fun. Other than the weight, nice reading my emails on this thing vs the Vibrant 4" screen.

Silly me, I jumped at the 1st rooting link I found and (I have done Android on Three different phones from Oct 08 and should know better after about 1k hours of reading postings and 100's of flashing roms) and it did not work.

1st, the newly made sdcard in windows only shows the FAT32 stuff, whereas in Unix/Linux (I use Ubuntu...worth learning if you both want to save money AND work with Android - Nook/Phones) the full space used is shown (ABOUT 8MB AND 25MB).

This was a few hours as I kept re-doing the sdcard in Windows xp, xp64. vista32, Win7_64 and then back to Ubuntu until I go it done right (did I forget to say I have a small brain).

Then I did the latest rooting and it too did not work.

Then I saw an update of firmware was out so I went to B&N and the firmware was not what was being listed. After an hour of searching (did I say I have a very small brain) I saw that it was NOOK not NOOKCOLOR.

I then downloaded the NOOKCOLOR firmware.

I then flashed back to 1.0 and tried it again, all this took over three hours to get the 8 times to stock down right (Did I mention I had a small brain).

I then flashed the new firmware and the latest rooting and WOW! my small brain was working overtime as I was in.

I then spent a few hours reading and installing apps from the market (still have a few items not working correctly- only some contacts get loaded from Google).

So, if you 1st do not get it, just hang in there, if my small brain can find the information and put up with all the frustration, worry I "BRICKED" the Phone and now Nook, only once did I do that to a phone and as it was under the 1 year got a new one for shipping costs so I would suggest get an android phone and learn from the experts and then rooting the NOOK might be problem free. I do not know B&N policy on returning for replacement, so be careful until that is found out.

http://nookdevs.com/NookColor_Rooting

good luck and have FUN!
[Nook Color Android Development] Novarider:
If you look just a little below the warning section it says not to use devices to write the image it says to use a dedicated card reader http://nookdevs.com/NookColor_Rooting
[Nook Color Android Development] dc5guy:
Yes, I am on 1.0.1.

Seems like it is not booting to the SD card... any ideas?
[Nook Color Android Development] italiano1964:
It seems like many people are having trouble writing a functioning image to the microSD card using their computer's internal SD card reader/writer. I was having the same problem until I formatted first my SD card using the Nook Color itself. With the NC turned on, insert microSD card in the slot. Go to Settings>Device Info>SD Card>Unmount SD card>Format SD card. After the warning popup window (everything will be erased on the card after formatting) and the formatting procedure has completed, Unmount the SD card again and remove it from the Nook Color. Now write the image on the SD card using your computer's internal SD card reader/writer as per tutorial on nookdevs. This did it for me, it worked. However, YMMV depending on how old your computer is (my old desktop's card reader/writer can't handle the process I just described, the whole thing freezes when I insert the SD card, but my relatively new notebook handled the whole process smoothly only after I formatted the card in the Nook Color)

BTW, I also used the same method to reformat the microSD card to erase the image after successful rooting and bring the microSD card back to its full memory size. But to do this, remember to insert the microSD card into the Nook Color after you turn it on or else the NC will try to boot from the microSD card.
[Nook Color Android Development] French.:
Has anyone lost the functionality of their nook home button (the "n" button)? Mine is not working at all and I honestly don't know if it ever was. I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling SoftKeys but still no go. Everything else is working as expected so this is a real bummer...it could just be my device but thought I would ask first.
[Nook Color Android Development] French.:
This happened to me as well...only I was never able to get it to manually force reboot 8 times for factory restore. But it is worth "repeating" this warning.
[Nook Color Android Development] Novarider:
Anyone figure out why the market doesn't display all the apps?
[Nook Color Android Development] johnopsec:
This has been covered before. You can't use the nook to write the image.
[Nook Color Android Development] French.:
You have to turn the nook to landscape.
[Nook Color Android Development] rboatright:
Yes, at great length. -- in short, market is filtered by device type. The default device type the nook is sending to the market is zoom2. The autonooter modifies that, but NO device sees everything.
[Nook Color Android Development] Novarider:
Ok but why does it show the dictionaries for a keyboard but not the actual keyboard? If you search for "ultra keyboard" 6 language dictionaries come up but not the keyboard
[Nook Color Android Development] Do the Android:
I don't know if just me and my computer or what?!

I have windows7 (64bit) and I was using winimage 64 bit version and never worked.

NC never detected sd card.

I've got tired and used winimage 32 bit, and it WORKED. WTF???

I hope this helps some of Us out there. :p
[Nook Color Android Development] clockworx:
Has anyone been experiencing reboots\wake from sleep with this mod? For instance, I'll put my Nook down, and then hours later (if I happen to be near it) I'll see the screen come on to the boot logo and get the startup chime. All of this happens without interaction on my part.

I don't necessarily think it's an issue w/ autonooter itself, but with something that is installed with it as part of the package. Figured I'd check here to see if I'm not alone.
[Nook Color Android Development] midnightmaraude:
Do u have a Barnes and noble? They have tons of them
[Nook Color Android Development] midnightmaraude:
Can someone explain how the paid apps work? I have an EVO and have many paid apps in the phone but this bc us for my gfs kid. I made up her own gmail YouTube and bn login. I can install free ones from market with no issue but have yet to try a money one.

Also. Are we any closer to a userfriendly script for WiFi from the phone and home?
[Nook Color Android Development] Trey_Miller:
Well, I'll admit I had some concerns when my NC wouldn't accept the OTA update, or the manual install, at first, then it seemed to ignore AN after I got the update figured out (don't ask... I just kept turning it off and on until it finally went "Oh, hey, update!").

I experienced some difficulties with AN, mainly in that it seemed to require me to have the mSD in, shut down the NC, let it sit for about five, then eject the SD, do the three-button salute (only way it wanted to turn on), wait for it to load completely, toss the mSD back in, and repeat three more times.

But by being patient with it, and sacrificing somewhere around 30 minutes total time with AN (checking status, etc), I was able to successfully completely root it.

First program installed: Rock demoPlayer. :D It runs Niiiiiice!
[Nook Color Android Development] doomstalk:
You sure AutoNooter wasn't running? It doesn't activate the display so it kind of looks like the NC isn't booting. If you give it a few minutes, though, the NC will reboot by itself and you'll have a rooted device.
[Nook Color Android Development] MadMikeSS:
Got my NC the other day, fired it up, updated to 1.0.1, used autonooter with an 8gb Kingston microsd class 4 card, worked perfectly. Everything so far is working properly, installed some apps via market and that worked fine, youtube working fine. Etc. The instructions were easy to follow. Thanks to the developers for a great job! Now I just wish they would fix the issue with the overly sensitive touchscreen when the thing is plugged into power, I don't feel like returning it.
[Nook Color Android Development] MoCoTerp:
So my YouTube app doesn't work anymore, though I can get it via the web browser. Can someone point me towards the fix?

Thanks!

Edit- I see the You Tube answer is to uninstall and then reinstall You Tube (without login). How is this accomplished in that You Tube doesn't show up as a Market app or on Manage Applications?