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[Nook Color Android Development] cicada:
Dear god people, DO NOT FORMAT BOOT!!!

NF only copies a new ramdisk and kernel to boot, it does not replace MLO, uboot or recovery - if you format /boot you will lose these necessary files.

[edit] I understand that 'format /boot' is a required step for some of the other CWM .zip updates floating around. Let me be clear to both the users and developers that this is *not something you want to be doing* - CWM .zips can replace files in boot, but should *NEVER EVER* touch MLO - the boot structure requires this loader to be at the head of the fat32 partition - removing it, replacing it, reformatting boot, etc can all leave you in a situation where the NC does not boot normally.

For new users considering flashing NF to eMMC, please *read the OP* for install instructions - it's dog simple and it seems a lot of you are shooting yourself in the foot by following unrelated guides that have you do 'extra steps' like the /boot and /system format.
[Nook Color Android Development] xawen:
Here's the problem... Certain update .zip authors say to format boot for install. The script in that example actually deletes all the files in boot, then adds MLO and uboot.bin back with the other files.

To everyone, as a rule of thumb: If you are going to use CWM to overwrite or modify your emmc,

take a backup first and put it somewhere safe

. The backup will contain all the boot, system and data files needed to get back up and running. It is possible (and not too hard) to restore without a backup, but having one will make your life a LOT easier.
[Nook Color Android Development] Homer_S_xda:
Can anyone post a "dummies guide" to updating your NF install? Either I have a bad Ubuntu install, but there aren't any options to an Ubuntu install other than partition choice, or no one actually tried the procedure listed here. Since /boot is formated vfat and vfat doesn't support ownership changes, you can't restore those files using sudo anything. Maybe if you used sudo -i to change the user to root, but I gave up before that point.

I tried Cicada's suggestion, but no luck. I was actually sort of surprised I could adb into a device hung at the ANDROID_ page.

Homer
[Nook Color Android Development] Chahk:
Screen doesn't turn on

Installed Nookie Froyo 0.6.8 (eMMC) yesterday, and now my NC is having issues waking up - the screen simply stays blank. I can see the following in logcat when I press the "N" button:

D/dalvikvm( 1087): GC_EXPLICIT freed 583 objects / 28312 bytes in 51ms
D/KeyguardViewMediator( 901): wakeWhenReadyLocked(3)
D/KeyguardViewMediator( 901): handleWakeWhenReady(3)
D/KeyguardViewMediator( 901): pokeWakelock(5000)
I/power ( 901): *** set_screen_state 1
D/WindowOrientationListener( 901): WindowOrientationListener enabled
D/Sensors ( 901): Opening device number 0, and type 2
D/Sensors ( 901): KXTF9 set delay is: delay = 200
D/WifiService( 901): ACTION_SCREEN_ON
I/power ( 901): *** set_screen_state 0
D/WindowOrientationListener( 901): WindowOrientationListener disabled
D/Sensors ( 901): Opening device number 0, and type 2
D/Sensors ( 901): KXTF9 set delay is: delay = 200
D/WifiService( 901): ACTION_SCREEN_OFF

And this is me pressing the Power button:

D/KeyguardViewMediator( 901): wakeWhenReadyLocked(26)
D/KeyguardViewMediator( 901): handleWakeWhenReady(26)
D/KeyguardViewMediator( 901): pokeWakelock(5000)
I/power ( 901): *** set_screen_state 1
W/WindowManager( 901): !!! Unable to find ITelephony interface !!!
D/WindowOrientationListener( 901): WindowOrientationListener enabled
D/Sensors ( 901): Opening device number 0, and type 2
D/Sensors ( 901): KXTF9 set delay is: delay = 200
D/WifiService( 901): ACTION_SCREEN_ON
I/power ( 901): *** set_screen_state 0
D/WindowOrientationListener( 901): WindowOrientationListener disabled
D/Sensors ( 901): Opening device number 0, and type 2
D/Sensors ( 901): KXTF9 set delay is: delay = 200
D/WifiService( 901): ACTION_SCREEN_OFF

I have to do "adb shell reboot" every time the screen turns off. This wasn't happening with 0.6.7 though.

Anyone else experiencing this?
[Nook Color Android Development] Narfx:
Exactly. I didn't format boot before flashing NF, I did it before flashing HC, as instructed in that thread. Before flashing NC I just formatted data (and maybe system, I don't remember). Everything works except going into recovery.
[Nook Color Android Development] siraltus:
This. I learned the hard way not to format /boot, but the problem is I did not know that I was not supposed to do it!

The guy who made the "Customized Nookie Froyo" ROM tells you to format /boot in his instructions and I did. I did not know the difference between his ROM and the regular NF and I got bitten in the ass due to lack of knowledge. Instructions for NF don't warn that /boot should not be formatted because it will be corrupted, and, what's worse, partially functional so that NF will boot but CWR will not.

I think that instructions for each ROM should be more comprehensive and extremely clear on what we are and aren't supposed to do *for each particular ROM*.

Anyway, I fixed my CWR problem as follows:

1. Booted off a CWR SD card.

2. Backed up my current NF install.

3. Formatted /boot, /system, /data, and /cache.

4. Flashed the Stock B&N 1.0.1 full restore ZIP, took the CWR card out, and made sure the nook booted properly.

5. Booted off the CWR card again and formatted /system and /data.

6. Flashed the NF 0.6.8 ZIP, the NF Gapps ZIP, and the 1100MHz Froyo kernel ZIP.

7. Took the CWR card out, rebooted and waited for the system to settle.

8. Set up WiFi, went to ROM Manager, and flashed CWR into eMMC from there.

9. Used the "Reboot into Recovery" option - voila, nook rebooted into CWR.

10. Used the "Advanced restore" option in CWR to restore /system, /data/, and /cache, but *not* my old corrupted /boot from my NF backup, put my "regular" SD card back in, and rebooted.

Warning: IN STEP 10, DO NOT USE THE REGULAR "RESTORE" COMMAND IN CWR - IT WILL RESTORE THE ORIGINAL CORRUPTED /boot FROM YOUR BACKUP AND YOU WILL HAVE TO REDO THE ENTIRE FIX PROCEDURE! ALSO, DO NOT RESTORE /boot WHEN USING "ADVANCED RESTORE" - YOU WILL OVERWRITE YOUR NEW FIXED /boot! ONLY RESTORE /system, /data, AND /cache!

FIXED!
[Nook Color Android Development] Narfx:
Thanks a lot for the info. I'll flash 1.0.1 back then... This will teach me to always make a nandroid first :)
[Nook Color Android Development] xawen:
siraltus gave you a good work around, but here's what happened:

The uboot.bin file included with the stock image has code to look for the recovery key sequence on boot. It also contains the "Touch the Future of Reading" splash screen. Some of the update .zip releases include a custom uboot.bin (to change the splash screen) that does not look for the recovery keys...so there's no way to boot into recovery w/o an SD. Cicada's .zip leaves that file alone (normally no need to mess with it), so the modified one from your HC install was left over.

Restoring one of the stock .zips will put the boot files back, but once you get CWM installed again you should use it take a backup of at least your boot partition so you can easily restore it from SD in the future.
[Nook Color Android Development] siraltus:
No worries. I Just realized that I missed an important warning in step 10 of my fix procedure:

Warning: IN STEP 10, DO NOT USE THE REGULAR "RESTORE" COMMAND IN CWR - IT WILL RESTORE THE ORIGINAL CORRUPTED /boot FROM YOUR BACKUP AND YOU WILL HAVE TO REDO THE ENTIRE FIX PROCEDURE! ALSO, DO NOT RESTORE /boot WHEN USING "ADVANCED RESTORE" - YOU WILL OVERWRITE YOUR NEW FIXED /boot! ONLY RESTORE /system, /data, AND /cache!

Just updated my fix procedure post with this, BTW.
[Nook Color Android Development] brianf21:
After I updated Google Voice Search, the mediaserver started using up CPU again. I changed all of the media.stagefright.* to equal true in /system/build.prop then rebooted and the mediaserver is not using up the CPU. Can someone confirm this if you have not updated the Google apps from the market yet?
[Nook Color Android Development] dillydawes:
It does work best i have found to do so
[Nook Color Android Development] Narfx:
So all this is to change the boot screen :rolleyes:

Anyway, thank you and siraltus; I have CWR booting perfectly now following the above steps.
[Nook Color Android Development] siraltus:
See, wish I knew this beforehand, would have saved me a few hours of frustration... now I'm wiser. Thanks for the info!

Also, I used a CWR removal ZIP to restore my /boot partition to stock, and it restored it, except that every time I booted NF, I would get an FC endless for the "system" process" and NF would never finish booting, hence why I decided to wipe and restore to stock. Any idea why this happened?
[Nook Color Android Development] EpicFail236:
Agreed with the first statement. Ive been booting CWM from an SD card for forever cause I would never get it to load right from eMMC, till I saw this today.

As to your second statement, more than likely the issue here is that when you used the removal ZIP, you also unflashed a kernel of some type, which means that anything youve got in cache or dalvik-cache is confused. Ive pretty much made it a rule: on the Nook, you flash anything, related or not, clear the cache and the dalvik-cache. Saves a lot of headache. Hope that helps!
[Nook Color Android Development] xawen:
I created a quick and dirty CWM installable .zip to repair recovery for anyone else that finds themselves with this problem.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=11437545
[Nook Color Android Development] mtm88001:
Fresh Froyo

Flashed the 6.8 to emmc without any problems.

What works:

Contacts

Google Voice Text messaging

Clockwork Recovery

Market

Flash 10.1 -- works in Dolphin HD as well

Everything....

Very responsive, Almost as responsive as rooted 1.1 or just as responsive.

Only catch so far is I can't find Dolphin HD Browser in the market. I downloaded and installed via adb. I am sure there is a trick to get the Market to display more apps, but I haven't found the trick yet.
[Nook Color Android Development] cicada:
Awesome, thanks xawen.

Will get this added to the OPs
[Nook Color Android Development] siraltus:
You rock, mate. Thanks!
[Nook Color Android Development] jkurl:
You are awesome. I was getting tired of changing my sd card in and out.
[Nook Color Android Development] thangnh:
After flashing 0.6.8 over 0.6.6, all my Gapps are broken except Maps :(. Is there anyway to recover those essential apps without having to come back to my nand of 0.6.6?
[Nook Color Android Development] survivor_evil:
Im lost with all this of installing the gapps. Is there another site where i can dowbload them? I already have my nook color rooted and im running nookie 0.6.8 from the sd card. Whwt would be th method to install the gapps? Thanks
[Nook Color Android Development] cicada:
NF does not include gapps - maps likely still works because you got an update that installed to /data ... simply reflash your gapps zip.
[Nook Color Android Development] kingkurry:
Notification bar is the wrong size.
[Nook Color Android Development] kingkurry:
Urm... Where do i get google apps from?
[Nook Color Android Development] HotShotAzn:
This has been posted like every where.

http://www.mediafire.com/?va7y3h6kys85j36
[Nook Color Android Development] kingkurry:
I noticed that long before i asked for a link dude. If you actually try out the link tho, you will find that the file is no longer uploaded. So can anyone help me out>
[Nook Color Android Development] xawen:
Look at the bottom of this page for the HDPI package for CM6. You can install it using the instructions from the Nookdevs Wiki.
[Nook Color Android Development] darkuni:
I haven't poured through all 100+ pages, so sorry if I'm beating a dead horse here.

I'm using the flashable installed version of 0.6.8 and I've noticed a couple of things.

The Notification windowshade is the wrong size (reboot didn't help). The "full article" view in Google Reader is the same, incorrect size (funny, the rest of the app is fine).

Edit: Anyone managed to get a screen cap util working? DroCap2 seems hosed - I tried a couple of others .. no go either. Going to do a write up on the "Nook Android Tablet" (I'm calling it NOID TAB now hehehehe). Thanks.

Anyway, fantastic work, guys. Kudos to everyone involved. A $250 high quality Froyo tablet is now possible. Thank you!
[Nook Color Android Development] EsotericPunk:
Hello everyone, I'm trying to extend the SDCARD partition on the image and running into trouble. Easeus won't see my SD Card at all (even though Win7 Disk Management sees all the partitions fine). I also haven't been able to get the GParted live USB to boot from any computer. Has anyone else had these issues? Any fixes or free alternative partition software to recommend?

(Sorry if it's slightly off-topic but I thought maybe someone else might benefit from a solution)

Edit: I tried a different SD Card with the same results. Does anyone have any idea why this wouldn't work? It seems like Easeus was the prime recommendation at XDA for extending the partition.
[Nook Color Android Development] gregh77:
when the new updates come out, can they put the first things you need to do in with that post?
[Nook Color Android Development] ZaneChua:
You said HDPI version but the wiki link says the MDPI version so which is it?
[Nook Color Android Development] xawen:
Actually the wiki link says the Tegra version ;)

You can use either, but I've had slightly better results with the HDPI version.
[Nook Color Android Development] saeba:
So is there any hope of getting an appropriate cifs.ko built so we can use cifsmanager to mount Windows drives? I had used that with my rooted Nook and found it of very useful.
[Nook Color Android Development] will75:
Anyone have any idea why MLB AT BAT 2011 won't install (full version) on stock 1.o.1 root works, and also this 0.6.7 of nookie custom it works... http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=883175&page=105

But not this one 0.6.8
[Nook Color Android Development] ClarkSt:
Desperately need some help here. I bricked my Nook by formatting /boot while trying to setup a dual boot. I created an SD card with Froyo 68 on it.

I then copied a boot.img and system.img to it, and am about to dd them onto the Nook proper. This is where I'm at a crossroads. My goal is to have Nookie Froyo running when I startup the Nook, (from emmc). I barely know what I'm doing here.

So... what do I do then? I assume once I install boot.img and system.img, the Nook will boot back normally and it will be like a brand new factory reset never touched Color Nook. Right? Then I need to go through the auto-nooter thing to root it, right? Then I go through the OP on this thread to install NF to the emmc, right? Or is there a faster, easier way?

Also, with Froyo running off the emmc, will I still have the regular Nook stuff - the bar at the bottom with the arrow thing in the center and all that, or will it look like it does running off the card, without all the Nook stuff?

Thanks for anyone's help here. I'm humbled by the help you guys give out every day. Cheers!
[Nook Color Android Development] Raxxon:
Having an issue with it linking via USB to a PC. It will bring up the "Connect via USB" message, but when it attempts to link it will dump back to "Connect via USB" after a few seconds.

Is the internal storage only supposed to show ~780mb instead of the normal almost 5gb?

You stated that in 0.6.6 you added codec support, but any video player I attempt to use tells me that it's an unsupported format. I have a number of samples on my SD card that I've been able to play at least some of on my other Android 2.2.1 device...
[Nook Color Android Development] brianf21:
No, if you put Froyo on the emmc, you will lose all of the stock features, like the bar on the bottom. I think it would be good to post this in this thread:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=959461

To unbrick your nook, go here:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=914690
[Nook Color Android Development] cnewsgrp:
I have been reading forums for many hours now and want to be sure I install this ROM correctly on my new Nook Color. I have compiled the instructions after many hours of research. I am unable to find instructions so can someone please verify these are correct.

What I want:

I want to install a stable Froyo ROM on the emmc. I want to use external SD Card for media and install ROM on emmc

Steps to Install

1) Prepare Bootable Clockwork Recovery SD: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=922870

I have a 8GB card so I downloaded latest 8GB Bootable Clockword Recovery SD from here: http://legacyschool.us.to/nookdev/clockwork/0.7/

I also downloaded latest rootpack zips from here and put them on the SD Card: http://legacyschool.us.to/nookdev/clockwork/0.7/zips/

At this time I have a 8 GB Bootable Clockword Recovery SD. There is a zips folder that I added that contains Root, CWM and Google Apps zips

2) Root and Install CWM:

Insert SDCard into your Nook Color and power off then back on your Nook Color. Your device will automatically boot from the SD card and present you with a “Clockwork Recovery” screen

From the Clockwork Recovery home screen use the volume buttons to navigate to “Install Package from SD Card” and press the home (“n” button) to select it.

Select “Browse for Package”

Navigate to rooting/[your device software version] then select root.zip.

Select “Yes”, then wait for the process to complete. You should see “Congrats, you’ve successfully rooted your Nook Color”.

Once you have installed the root.zip file, you can repeat this process with the GoogleApps.zip file also to install the Market.

At this time I have a rooted Nook Color with Root, CWM and Google Apps install

3. Install Nookie Froyo 0.6.8 2.2.1 in eMMC

Copy the nookie-froyo-flashable-v0.6.8.zip to Nook.

Boot into Clockwork recovery by holding Power button while booting and install zip from SD Card

Now I have a Rooted Nook Color with 0.6.8 Nookie Froyo installed in my emmc. No need for SD.
[Nook Color Android Development] rsage:
Hi willsurg, did you ever find a solution to your wake/sleep problems? I have to reboot my NC every time when trying to wake it from sleep, and I've tried every potential solution I've come across on this thread and others.
[Nook Color Android Development] dalamchops:
what are people using to play videos?? seems like hardware decoding is not working.
[Nook Color Android Development] dalamchops:
I tried to play an AVI, and i get a message saying video cannot be played (0.6.8), same thing happens when i try to launch a gameloft game.
[Nook Color Android Development] pjwr2004:
Google Maps No Market Link

Hi guys,

All my apps are working great, (gmail, youtube, pandora, etc) with the exception of Google Maps. I cannot locate Google maps at all in the Market. What I've had to do is backup the apk from my DROID and transfer it but that does not create the Market link at all.

Can y'all help me please?

Thanks,

Paul
[Nook Color Android Development] britoso:
aaaah crap.

Flashed this zip from recovery 3.0.0.6, then flashed the froyo OC kernel.

Now I want to go back to my cm7 recovery but

a)cant start/reboot into recovery (via adb, rom manager), it just starts normally

b)wifi wont start to update/flash rom manager. bad wifi driver?
[Nook Color Android Development] anurbanlegend:
Check this thread out to try to get the latest CWR onto your emmc http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=971197&page=5

especially check this post http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=11838844&postcount=207 if you can't get into recovery.
[Nook Color Android Development] obsidianblackhawk:
So I'm embarssed. I can;t for the life of me remember how to actually install the gapps.zip. I have it, and have flashed it in recovery, and it says everything is cool, but upon boot ..... nada no market or any other gapps. Can someone please cure my retardation and tell me what the hell i'm forgetting here. (God i can;t count how many times i've done this, and no i can't remember how i've done it!)
[Nook Color Android Development] tomtbone:
why are you going back to CM7? I haven't tried it yet, but am interested in why you would prefer that over this froyo?
[Nook Color Android Development] britoso:
i flashed the original zip, and with the working wifi I installed rom manager again.

Now the problem is rom manager complains that there is a md5 mismatch with my nandroid :(

Same with the old rom manager .0.0.6

Lucky I have a titanium backup too.
[Nook Color Android Development] britoso:
Just used to it, only thing that I missed was video playback. Its like winxp vs win7.

Decided I'll just forego video playback and enjoy gingerbread.
[Nook Color Android Development] tomtbone:
so no flash or decent video playback yet with CM7? I can't really go without video as I stream video for half the day.
[Nook Color Android Development] duuster:
I noticed the same with the internal storage also. But I believe the rest of the space is in /media, but cannot seem to mount that to my computer when I plug in the NC via USB.
[Nook Color Android Development] SmittyRN:
Bro, I'm having the exact same problem. I've flashed this ROM 4 times, and no market; with no market, can't do squat. I've installed it from recovery multiple time, but still no market. Driving me crazy, because I'm wanting to run a nice stable ROM. CM7 is sweet, but not quite ready for prime time.
[Nook Color Android Development] dalamchops:
don't bother w/ CM7, i started with that when i 1st got my nook, and NF is much faster and more polished than CM7.
[Nook Color Android Development] RoboRay:
I tried both and my experience was the opposite. YMMV, of course.

Flash works, too. Not sure where you got that it doesn't.
[Nook Color Android Development] zorvalth:
Hi,

I just got my nook color and i flashed Nookie Froyo 0.6.8 on the internal memory.

I dont have gapps and i guess they are not included. Should i go with some adb method or is there any flashable gapps over CWM?
[Nook Color Android Development] Blaggah:
how do i get the market to install?
[Nook Color Android Development] duuster:
First off, I would like to Thank cicada for this awesome ROM!!!!

Also, I just wanted to see if anyone is able to mount the internal memory to either Windows or Ubuntu? I have an 8gb sdcard, and when I plug in my NC to my pc, all it mounts is the sdcard, and not the internal memory. It used to mount both, when I was still using autonooter. Any ideas anyone? Thank you in advance for any help.
[Nook Color Android Development] Blaggah:
How do i get the market on this build.. Finish flashing and the market isn't there..
[Nook Color Android Development] Eddog4DROID:
Yes, same question as above on gapps. Would be nice to have this info in the OP?
[Nook Color Android Development] C Dippa:
As noted in the OP, this ROM doesn't include gapps (market, etc.), but they can be installed.

Use adb method from this link to install google apps...

http://nookdevs.com/NookColor:_Nookie_Froyo_Tips
[Nook Color Android Development] Eddog4DROID:
Yes, as noted in the O.P., it says they are not included. I was looking to see if it could give a little guidance as to where they are located.

And yes, the link you provided does indeed have it, but it is easily missed. That could be attributed to my fault.

However, my friend Google and I got together and I found this:

http://forum.androidcentral.com/bar...ion-install-nookie-froyo-internal-memory.html

Yes, it is ADB but it is 2 simply lines of code (along with a link to gapps). That did the trick quite nicely.