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[Nook Color Android Development] beerock:
I was able to get CWM loaded and working thanks to this thread. :)

I was considering a return due to some screen issues. Is there a way to restore to factory after CWM? Can i just load the factory update to sdcard?

Thanks in advance for the help xda!
[Nook Color Android Development] deitiphobia:
Looks like Barnes and Noble announced the Nook Color Kids app for iPhone today. So I'm sure there will be full functionality coming to the stand alone Android apps soon. So looking forward to Vanilla Roms with none of the Barnes and noble fluff, and then being able to add that functionality later with the apps.

http://mobilenews.mybloogs.com/2011/01/05/barnes-and-noble-launches-nook-kids-ipad-app/
[Nook Color Android Development] dennisi01:
So it seems like people go back on forth as to whether this is a viable recovery or not.. is it? Is this something that can be used for safely backing up our nooks, or are we waiting for the KOUSH to do a lil more polishing?
[Nook Color Android Development] BertoJG:
It doesn't back everything up it needs to, so wouldn't call it complete.
[Nook Color Android Development] pndo1:
Yes, I'm looking for something like this too.
[Nook Color Android Development] runhopskipjump:
I got it working. I mounted mmcblk0p1 from the Nookie Froyo running on micro sd to place the place and rename it. I am currently running a backup now! Now to attempt to put Nookie froyo on the emmc. Great work!
[Nook Color Android Development] starkruzr:
Does anyone know what the block is right now on having fully-functioning recovery?
[Nook Color Android Development] Geezer Squid:
From post #41 by BertoJG:

To address some of the concerns I have seen listed:

This is not taking a complete backup. It is not backing up data critical to restoring the state of the device to the stock form in the event something goes wrong, it is missing three partitions, two of which are critical.

Until all of the partitions are backed up properly or some other method is established, I would not get to crazy with your device.
[Nook Color Android Development] starkruzr:
I read that. I was curious as to why, since everything on the machine is a block device (or is it?).
[Nook Color Android Development] Geezer Squid:
Ah. Sorry I thought you had just missed that post. :o
[Nook Color Android Development] duloz:
Please don't attempt anything until one of the more experienced people here confirms, but:

When I ADB into the nook with the following code:

adb shell
#su
#mount -o rw,remount -t ext2 /dev/block/mmcblk0p5 /system
#mkdir /system/boot/
#mount -t vfat /dev/block/mmcblk0p1 /system/boot
#ls

One of the files is uRecRam.bak, which I would assume corresponds to the default uRecRam that is renamed in the clockwork install process (cat /system/boot/uRecRam > /system/boot/uRecRam.bak).

Can someone please confirm? If one were to, say, enter:

cat /system/boot/uRecRam.bak > /system/boot/uRecRam

Would this return us to the default Recovery?
[Nook Color Android Development] xboxexpert:
That is correct.
[Nook Color Android Development] duloz:
I am a n00btard. forgot the ">" in the cat command. :P
[Nook Color Android Development] colorado_al:
Installed Clockwork from market. Flashed the Recovery from within CW. Unable to load into recovery. Guess I should have read the rest of this thread before proceeding. Any way to revert to stock recovery at this point? I have not used ADB to force the install, in fact having trouble getting ADB access at all.

Anybody?

Thanks!
[Nook Color Android Development] suzook:
I dont understand why people are bothering with this? You gain NOTHING. Its pointless at this point, and actually could cause problems. Let kousch or someone with the expierence get it complete.
[Nook Color Android Development] colorado_al:
Agreed. I guess I am just used to my EVO 4G. Will keep trying to get ADB up to undo.
[Nook Color Android Development] duloz:
I, for one, bothered because I like to test the abilities of my gadgets, and some of us derive satisfaction from being on the leading edge.

Can't really speak for the motives of others, though... :-)
[Nook Color Android Development] colorado_al:
OK. Got ADB fixed by re-reinstalling Nook drivers.

Got the CW Recovery installed through ADB. Burning a backup. I am considering loaning my Nook to Koush to get a stable and fully working recovery.

Will let you know.
[Nook Color Android Development] GMPOWER:
Koush already has a nook color that was donated to him from this post, HERE. That is way I am not sure why he did not get a full recovery working before releasing this one. I know that he is at CES right now, but has anyone contact him to let him know that we would like a full recovery?
[Nook Color Android Development] onodontbescurred:
Koush just responded to a tweet of mine a couple hours ago saying he just did a lot of work on Cwm for nook a day or two ago and just need to polish and release so hopefully a fully functional Cwm is not too far off. Crosses fingers
[Nook Color Android Development] beerock:
I personally enjoy learning and thats why i bothered. ;)
[Nook Color Android Development] colorado_al:
Well I personally hate learning! You people and all of your learning...:D
[Nook Color Android Development] duloz:
And another thing... griping about people testing things out before a presumed sense of progress has been made seems like a sure fire way of hindering progress... Imagine if the founding fathers of the U.S. had thought, "I don't see why we should bother with a Declaration of Independence or a revolution when we don't even have a Constitution yet..."

Sorry for using such a U.S.-centric analogy, for any who aren't from the U.S...

Think of us as beta testers. If you aren't interested in testing, then don't. I for one confider it a priviledge to try things out, just to see what is in the works.
[Nook Color Android Development] colorado_al:
My issue is that I often test without reading the entire thread and get myself in trouble. I was able to get clockwork recovery installed thanks! Eagerly awaiting morebprgress!
[Nook Color Android Development] runhopskipjump:
Any chance that many update the CWM urecram to work with Nookie Froyo? After replacing the uramdisk, mlo, u-boot.bin and uimage to get Nookie Froyo working on my emmc the three finger salute stop working. I don't think the changes i made to /system, /data and /cache would effect it.
[Nook Color Android Development] h8rift:
I believe uRecRam resides in the boot.img.

Obviously there is a different boot.img from Eclair and Froyo on the NC...so i'd assume there would need to be a minor port (maybe even needing uRecRam changes injected) for it to work in the boot.img.

From what i could tell from B&N source and from what i know about stock Froyo from the N1, I think uRecRam is an injection for B&N Eclair only.

Maybe Froyo uses a second bootloader that is stock, while CWM for Eclair just injected into B&N's second bootloader?

Not a fact, just a surmising of mine.

I hope this information might lead to answering your question.

-h8
[Nook Color Android Development] Lint6:
So..ummm..which buttons are the three finger salute?
[Nook Color Android Development] wvcachi:
n, volume up, and power (simultaneously)
[Nook Color Android Development] t140568:
It installed just fine, and as others have said already, it's not fully functional. I'm still very happy to see it coming along. Anxiously awaiting updates. Thanks to all involved!:)
[Nook Color Android Development] norkoastal:
Tried to use CWM last night... DL'd from the market and flashed the recovery from within CWM.. Tried to reboot into recovery and the NC fails to boot and prompts reboot message. Haven't tested ADB, but presume its now not working properly.
[Nook Color Android Development] duloz:
Early on in this thread, it was determined that a manual install is required.
[Nook Color Android Development] camwinnn:
Lawl Ima idiot... second guessing the instructions/not reading them

Re-did it but this time un zipped the uRecRam ;P when it first failed i just figured that they forgot the file type.

But at least its know now you can re-do it from froyo with no problems :P
[Nook Color Android Development] Divine_Madcat:
Just thinking out loud... could sthis be installed on a sd booting nookie froyo?
[Nook Color Android Development] golfprorm:
Update: Koush just tweeted that NC Recovery is now in ROM Manager - must be rooted with BusyBox installed for it to work.

I'm not at home to try it out, but I'm hoping this is more solid than the previous.
[Nook Color Android Development] compuguy1088:
Link? Also...I don't see this in koush's twitter feed, was this posted today?

Edit: Just installed clockwork...seems it now does a compete backup......
[Nook Color Android Development] golfprorm:
He posted it from @clockworkmod

http://twitter.com/#!/clockworkmod

"Nook Color recovery is on ROM Manager."

"Must be rooted with Busybox installed."
[Nook Color Android Development] arodey:
Updated OP.
[Nook Color Android Development] compuguy1088:
Facepalm! Just noticed that....
[Nook Color Android Development] camwinnn:
Updated via Rom manager.

Seems to boot into it faster, dont see that little loading box.
[Nook Color Android Development] taylor.fowler:
Success!

Updated/installed from ROM Manager without a problem...

Just installed GeniusDog254's OC'd Kernel without a hitch :)
[Nook Color Android Development] duloz:
So, uhh... Bring the roms!
[Nook Color Android Development] suzook:
Is this a true recovery? I didnt see any changelog.
[Nook Color Android Development] duloz:
Backing up now. So far looks complete.
[Nook Color Android Development] bartimeus:
I believe I have it working as well. This is so exciting!!!
[Nook Color Android Development] duloz:
Still missing:

Recovery.img

Datadata.img
[Nook Color Android Development] feisty_noodle:
My previous installation of CWMRec (v3.0.0.2) from RomManager (v3.0.0.7) failed.

I specifically held off on fixing this by following the manual installation instructions (manually installing uRecRam, etc.).

What I have to report: now that we are at v3.0.0.5 the installation succeeds and CWMRec boots normally. I am carrying out a backup (which is a bit slow probably due to my uSD card being class 4) but lists all the right stuff so far.

Would anyone enlighten me as to what was missing in CWMRec backups produced by v3.0.0.2? I recall people saying that the backups were incomplete but can't find the details.

Edit: Wow, I should really read the post above mine ... :)
[Nook Color Android Development] s30zgt:
can anyone else confirm that the recovery.img and datadata.img are still missing? Also, is the manual install from the OP still needed or is this just market>download>install thing now?
[Nook Color Android Development] xmlaroux:
I just installed no issues, did a "Backup ROM" from within CWM... no issues so far for me... love this!
[Nook Color Android Development] arodey:
No need for manual install now. Just install from ROM Manager. Can't speak to the incomplete backup haven't attempted yet. Going to clean up the OP now.
[Nook Color Android Development] starkruzr:
Just asked Koush about this on Twitter and he said it's fine. Specifically "boot.img and recovery.img are the same partition." He didn't mention "datadata."
[Nook Color Android Development] colorado_al:
Update to 3.0.0.5 worked for me as well!
[Nook Color Android Development] contempt37:
Updated recovery and performed a backup. There is not a recovery.img but there is a data.img

I still cannot post links or I would post a screen capture.

Sent from my Nook color using the XDA app.
[Nook Color Android Development] painter_:
I could not reboot the recovery image through Quick boot, adb reboot recovery, or the terminal. The only I was able to enter recovery was through the three finger technique or through ROM Manager. Can anyone confirm?
[Nook Color Android Development] golfprorm:
One help to the "slow" backup is to go into ROM Manager settings and check the "quick backup and restore" option. It won't show you the detailed progress, but it is much faster.

Sent from my Nook Color
[Nook Color Android Development] cabbieBot:
Its not working. Its not backing everything up and restores are funky. I advise holding off till its actually fixed
[Nook Color Android Development] duloz:
Datadata may be a phone thing only... I suspect it's where the cell provider programming goes. Could be dead wrong, though...

Anyone know this for sure?
[Nook Color Android Development] duloz:
Funky how? George clinton funky, or bill clinton funky?
[Nook Color Android Development] dhoshman:
Working perfect for me. Thanks for everything.
[Nook Color Android Development] Lint6:
What do you hold to boot directly to recovery on startup?
[Nook Color Android Development] drdrewdown:
check this post

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=10503311&postcount=90
[Nook Color Android Development] Philosophy757:
Flashed through Rom manager with no problems
[Nook Color Android Development] Roachman3700:
Anyone having problem with mounting sd in recovery

Sent from my nc
[Nook Color Android Development] likearaptor:
Not me

Sent from my NookColor
[Nook Color Android Development] brad_wedlock:
Try reformatting you sd card with the nook. That worked for me.
[Nook Color Android Development] Lint6:
That wasn't what I meant. I mean when your booting the Nook up..if there something like the n, vol down etc..you can press to boot into recovery?
[Nook Color Android Development] modembug:
I backed up my configuration, restored it and i have no win.. it only boot loops. I am going to wipe and try the recovery one more time to see if its just a fluke...

Anyone else having a similar issue?
[Nook Color Android Development] Mikroft:
This is great. Just downloaded Tom manager and knew to install the latest clockworkmod recovery automatically.
[Nook Color Android Development] ahfunaki:
Installed from ROM manager, worked great...
[Nook Color Android Development] modembug:
Okay, so for anyone having issues with the restore function... If you format /system first it seems to fix bootloop issues... Now custom roms!
[Nook Color Android Development] MikeSpears:
ClockWork works great, can't wait for custom roms!
[Nook Color Android Development] Lint6:
Trying to wipe cache, I get

E:Can't mount /cache/recovery/log

E:Can't open /cache/recovery/log

E:Can't mount /cache/recovery/last_log

E:Can't open /cache/recovery/last_log

and if I try to wipe Davlik Cache, I get

e:unknown volume for path [/sd-ext]
[Nook Color Android Development] oakleyrdc:
I got the same thing. But my nc is frozen in recovery. Any idea how to get it to shut off, or restart.

Never mind, I got it to reboot. A little nervous
[Nook Color Android Development] staciedaisy:
I was getting a sd failed to mount while trying to perform a backup.

I rebooted, opened nook tools>settings>sdcard>unmount>format

backup worked after that!
[Nook Color Android Development] bdcrim:
Best you can tell, did everything get backed up?
[Nook Color Android Development] samuelhalff:
My Bad..

Hi,

Curious as I am, I couldn't help adding CW to my Nook. Then, don't ask me how, my nook won't boot pass the N splash screen.

I've tried re-rooting the nook, but it's a no go. I've formated data and system before and after rerooting, but still no go. I guess, there no way I can reroot it if it dosen't boot.

Anyhow, I'm still able to boot to CW. Can't find any backup in there.. I'm devastated.

Can anyone help a lost soul? Can I still get anything out of my NC? Can I still hope to flash something from CW?

Thanks you!!
[Nook Color Android Development] Lint6:
Well if you formatted data and system then your kinda screwed I think. That wipes everything out

Sent from my HTC HDroid2
[Nook Color Android Development] samuelhalff:
I just hope you're wrong..

Anyone else?
[Nook Color Android Development] Divine_Madcat:
Sorry, he isn't wrong.

With CWM on, the old B&N recovery has been replaced. This old recovery is what allowed the system to be restored after 8 failed boots. Now though, without any backups, there is nothing to restore. With /system and /data removed, there is nothing for the nook to boot. There won't be any backups unless you ran that first. At this point, i see you with two options -

1) Set up the Froyo build on an SD card, and boot that. The Froyo build works independent of any other rom running on the system, and should be fully usable for you.

2) You can attempt to restore your B&N recovery (getting rid of CWM) by following these steps:

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=10543243&postcount=124

Good luck either way.
[Nook Color Android Development] samuelhalff:
Ok, first of all thank you both for your time.

I can't seem to get adb working anymore. Will try to reinstall drivers though.

Can I apply those lines without adb? Say, with root explorer for example, and from the nookie bootup? Are the internal partitions available from nookie?

I'm a bit lost. Sorry for the stupid questions...
[Nook Color Android Development] Divine_Madcat:
Certainly not dumb questions - no worries there.

I do believe the emmc is visible (given that the current 5.9 build uses the /cache partition, but i do not know the exact name of each of the mounts. If you can boot NF, then you should get ADB functionality back - if you can get the right names for the mounts, you could repair those partitions through NF, and be on the road to recovery.
[Nook Color Android Development] duloz:
Pardon me while I stroke my ego... first time I've been quoted to help someone else! XD

anyway, if needed, the entire contents of the stock boot partition can be found here:

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=10470539&postcount=268
[Nook Color Android Development] duloz:
I installed cwmod through root explorer yesterday before the update, so there's no real reason why not, I would think.
[Nook Color Android Development] xawen:
I have another suggestion that I don't think has been tested, but should work in theory.

B&N has the 1.0.1 update file on their web site. Try downloading this file, putting it on your SD card as update.zip and see if ClockworkMod will install it. If so, it will take you back to a fresh 1.0.1 image.

This of course depends on what you actually wiped out...but it shouldn't hurt anything to try.
[Nook Color Android Development] nphil:
Yes, this version of CW Recovery screwed up my adb access too. Thanks for the instructions, I'm going to try to restore the default recovery and start over from scratch.
[Nook Color Android Development] samuelhalff:
Hi, I tried flashing that .zip but to no avail, although I didn't rename it to update.zip. Will give it a try.

Thanks
[Nook Color Android Development] samuelhalff:
How do you plan on doing that without adb access?
[Nook Color Android Development] nphil:
I do have ADB access through CW recovery. Follow those instructions exactly in the post for switching back to stock, but instead of copying the uRecRam to /media, copy it to your sdcard instead. Mount /system and /sdcard through CWR. Everything else should be the same.

Afterwards, do the 8 boot thing and the default recovery will re-install /system and you should be able to start over from stock unrooted. My 1ghz custom kernel also stuck, since you're not doing anything with the boot partition.
[Nook Color Android Development] likearaptor:
Is there any reason why the ClockworkMod Recovery is in landscape mode and not portrait? I tried moving it but it wasn't using the accelerometer. It just makes more sense since the volume buttons go up and down that you look at it in portrait mode.
[Nook Color Android Development] samuelhalff:
I did exactly that. But nook still blocks on N splash screen when boot, even when manual reset. More over, I don't have access to CW anymore........

S*#@! What happened??
[Nook Color Android Development] nphil:
You should still have CW recovery, its a ***** to get into it sometimes. Try holding down just the power button and the home button to get into it. Keep trying this until you get in.

If you don't have CW recovery, do the 8 boot thing and you should be fine. It's actually quite hard to permanently brick any android device.
[Nook Color Android Development] samuelhalff:
Thank you.

But to be honest I've been trying to get into CW for some time now, still won't work. And the 8 failed boots won't work either.. Will continue trying. If anyone has an idea, please do share.

Thanks to you all!
[Nook Color Android Development] HotShotAzn:
Is it a given I'll lose ADB if I install CW? I saw the posts on reinstalling to re-enable ADB, but is that a given? Or a one off situation?
[Nook Color Android Development] duloz:
If you can adb, try putting the nook image in the media partition (not sure which it is right now) as that is where the nook typically updates from by default...
[Nook Color Android Development] bdcrim:
Did you use the "3 finger" 8 failed boot attempt? There is different 8 failed method that I have had to use (power button only: hold through boot attempt until it shuts back down, release and repeat). Could not get the 3 finger thing to work. Not enough coordination.
[Nook Color Android Development] kevank:
It isn't a given. I did not lose ADB.
[Nook Color Android Development] Pinesal:
CWR is failing to mount my SD card. Anyone know what the problem is?
[Nook Color Android Development] samuelhalff:
This time it's really getting on my nervs, I was able to revert back to initial recovery and proceed to reset without any trouble. But then, when I reboot, it still freezes on the N splash screen.....!?

Oh please, can someone be a genius?

Sam
[Nook Color Android Development] Novarider:
So is cwm recovery stable yet? From the last few pages it doesn't sound like its stable.
[Nook Color Android Development] MikeSpears:
It seems to work great for me.
[Nook Color Android Development] Geezer Squid:
Last time I was in that position, and I was there several times, I did the 3 button data reset. Have you tried that?
[Nook Color Android Development] tech_head:
Installed perfectly let me boot into recovery and backup the ROM. Now to flash the kernel to overclock!
[Nook Color Android Development] duloz:
"

Almost sounds like it is time to create a nookie card, start there...

Next would be getting a nandroid backup from someone, manually install clockwork again, and restore from there... if it is possible to do that... not sure, but that is my best guess at this point...

If anyone else can confirm this would work, I can try to help tomorrow evening via AIM or something... might want someone with a little more expertise though. :-)
[Nook Color Android Development] nrune:
Now I know why this app is the bomb. Very nice work Sir!

sent from my nookcolor using the xda app
[Nook Color Android Development] leeh41:
flashed CWM, and performing backup now.

has anyone attempted a recovery yet? results?
[Nook Color Android Development] Lint6:
Any help on this? I even used Partition Wizard in Windows ot make a Fat32 and EXT2 partition on my sdcard and it still says theres no sd-ext partition or anything.
[Nook Color Android Development] rg0019:
My install went smoothly. No problems at all.. Thanks..
[Nook Color Android Development] mmarsman:
Installed great for me as well. Great job!
[Nook Color Android Development] paleh0rse:
OK, android noob here with just a quick question:

(I'm auto-nooted on 1.01)

I grabbed Rom Manager from the market, installed it, and it then prompted me to download CWM for the NC. So, I let it install CWM.

1. adb still works.

2. I ran a backup through ROM Manager and that appeared to work fine as well -- it rebooted and backed up boot.img, system.img, data.img, cache.img, and nandroid.md5... it then rebooted into home screen without issue. :)

It gave two messages during the backup though (Should I be concerned?)

"No /sdcard/.android_secure found. Skipping backup of applications on external storage"

and

"No sd-ext found. Skipping backup of..."

Now what? What are my next steps? I'd like to try the overclock ROM, but I need to ensure that all my bases are covered so that I can at least restore to factory conditions if something goes wrong. Seriously, I don't know where to go from here. lol

I know I'm close, but I dont want to skip any steps and not be able to get back to where I was...

Thanks ahead of time!