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[Nook Color Android Development] theyownus:
very well said. I apologize for not giving you credit, I did not see your post. I originally posted a link to samuelhalff's code and zip files but at his insistence (see post #2) i posted his actual code and zip files. I did run into several problems originally because samuelhalff's original instructions were lacking. When i was presented with a softbrick i read and reread and fixed it on my own. I did not cry and *****. I actually pointed out the problem in the code to him so that he could edit it into his post. I in no way tried to take credit(his post was linked), i just wanted to help others wanting to do the same as i had. These steps i posted worked perfectly for me. I did not have to wipe anything i followed the steps i listed out exactly with no problems. If something needs to be added to the post i would in a heartbeat. The last thing i want to do is cause anyone any problems... i can guarantee this will be the last time i attempt to write a "how to" post. you would think the disclaimer and [ADV] in the post title would fleece out some of these.
[Nook Color Android Development] shadow-box:
fattire-

Nope, I'm not saying delete data/* and system/*, I'm specifically targeting:

data/system/*

When you enter adb you begin at the following mount point:

rootfs / rootfs ro 0 0

So when you cd to system/data, you are now in the following location:

/data/system

Just mentioning what works for me to get me out of the boot loop, YMMV.

Regards,

shadow-box
[Nook Color Android Development] samuelhalff:
All this is very nice.

But you should always recommend making backups of you working OS before getting your hands dirty..

Having said that, I'm not the patronizing type. If people decide to get into DYI with their NC, they take full responsibility for it. I mean, usual warnings and disclaimers are always welcome. But, I won't have much pity for the guy trying out NF on eMMC without any knowledge of ADB, when NF works perfectly on uSD. Even more so when no improvement or speed gain have been publicized. That doesn't mean I won't be willing to help.

I for one was pretty sure I had bricked my NC a few weeks ago. And I knew very well the risks I was taking when I messed up. If I took on such a task, that's because I knew I would work on a solution if a problem would occur.

The bottom line is, I never would have posted anything I hadn't tested several times. NF on eMMC was quite easy to install. And even when my NC was supposedly bricked, I still got it to boot again. My point is, there isn't a real danger here. Well, if you put things into perspective that is, and you realize your messing with a 250$ gadget which you could very well end up bricking if you don't know what your doing.

My final word is this: if you want to play with your toy, don't come bragging you broke it. But on the other hand, that doesn't mean that the guy who posted a very risky tutorial with almost no way back without saying a word about it is as pure as the driven snow.. But IMO, that's not the case in my original thread..

Sam

PS: my code wasn't entirely and truthfully copied onto this thread, in particular the part where data should/could be erased. As a matter of fact, I did stage that booting without erasing data hadn't been tested...
[Nook Color Android Development] fattire:
I don't know if the stock NC has that symlinked or what, but why wouldn't you just cd to /data/system if that's where you want to be?

In any event, I had originally mentioned /data and /cache. Which is one of my favorite science fiction cop shows by the way.

I'm thinking of starting a topic called "How To Drop Your NC From A Six Story Building And Have It Land Safely On Fluffy Pillows." Try at your own risk.
[Nook Color Android Development] madfatter:
I followed OP instructions to a t. It is stuck at bootloop. Now I bought the NC as a tablet not an ereader, so I am not too worried. its my understanding that the NC will boot USB, SD, and EMMC, in that order. So it seems almost impossible to brick. And since it will always boot sd. if you have a nookie froyo sd card. you can just reinstall CWM from there and reflash stock image. or ADB the stock images over. it could be my lack of understanding, but has anyone on these forums actually BRICKED there NC? Is it even possible to put it in a state where it refuses to boot, since you always have the option to go to sd and fix it. I am not flaming anyone, but just following a post with no knowledge of adb commands is risky business. I did it, but since I know i can get NF running, I wasn't too worried about it. Anyone who gets mad at someone else when they are the ones blindly plugging commands on their device is silly/ Also $250 is not a lot of money for a device. This is the least expensive "smartphone? I have bought in the last 4 years. But cheers to everyone trying to make this thing better. If not for you guys we would all have "bricks" because without Auto nooter, oc kernal, Nookie Froyo, Softkeys etc. the device is practically a brick anyway.
[Nook Color Android Development] theyownus:
Was i not bricked when following your steps from the earlier thread? how many times did you test those steps before posting? did i start a pissing contest with you because of it? no.

you make this sound like i set out to intentionally brick peoples devices. do you really think that? What damage have i done that cant be repaired by reading a few posts in this very forum? Can i be blamed if people attempt stated "advanced" how to's when they cant even bother to read the links posted?

if the step to wipe the nook and restore to factory had been followed users would not be stuck in a boot loop because of cache issues. If that section of the code I omitted is causing the problem I will add it back in, but it seems the true problem is because people are not wiping and factory reseting as stated in my OP. I left out those steps but with instructions to use a wiped NC I did not think that was necessary.

Does a factory reset and data wipe not clear the emmc completely?
[Nook Color Android Development] Homer_S_xda:
Do you mean the Nookie Froyo 0.5.9 issue? If so, take a look at this post. Easiest to do that part in Linux, maybe grab the Ubuntu live CD if you don't have one handy. If you are not sure what this means, maybe you should go buy a nice iPad wait until this is made more mainstream. I know I'm not ready to try it yet. BTW NF with the Screamer Kernel is very usable off of an SDcard, C6 or better, YMMV.

Homer
[Nook Color Android Development] moesasin:
can someone post a working guide? I spent atleast 4 hours messing around with this guide just to end up with a bricked device that doesnt even boot into recovery. It does boot into uSD. So hopefully i can save it from there.
[Nook Color Android Development] theyownus:
the steps below have been added to the OP and should get you up and running from emmc. boot to you nookie froye and run the following from ADB:

- mount /dev/block/mmcblk0p6 tmpfolder
- cd tmpfolder
- rm -r *
- cd ..
- umount tmpfolder

let me know if this works.
[Nook Color Android Development] Ben74:
this worked perfectly for me. thanks!
[Nook Color Android Development] craby1925:
Sorry if this is super stupid, but would this be possible with root explorer? I was just thinking with just moving and erasing files

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[Nook Color Android Development] theyownus:
No. Root explorer will not work. This is rather advanced and w/o adb knowledge you might be better off waiting for an easier method.
[Nook Color Android Development] theyownus:
Were you able to access adb while in the "boot loop" or back in nookie froyo sdcard?
[Nook Color Android Development] Ben74:
adb worked while the device was bootlooping.

after i successfully booted into froyo from emmc, i installed gapps, rebooted, then installed youtube, launcherpro, button savoir. again, i rebooted using "adb reboot" and this last time, the screen went dark, and would not come back on. no matter how long i held the power button, or any button combos with the power button, the screen would not come on. the device did seem to be booting, because windows would prompt me to install drivers when it was plugged in via usb. it just wouldn't show anything on the screen.

i put my nookie froyo sd card back in, and it successfully booted off of that. then i flashed back to stock, autonootered, installed rom manager, flashed cwm, and restored my nandroid backup from before i began this process. :)
[Nook Color Android Development] madfatter:
Thanks noobs and whiners...
[Nook Color Android Development] samuelhalff:
If you ended up with a bricked NC, I clearly don't understand why you created a thread quoting my steps.

And no, factory resets do not clear emmc. They only reset your files to stock.

To be honest there is something wrong with this method, but I can't find what exactly. What happens is that the boot partition gets corrupted somehow. So even if you erase data, and cache, you could end up with a black screen. Nothing to be worried about. Simply boot into nookie froyo from your SD card, and use the the dd command with shadowfox's img. See thread in dev.

Strangely enough, after one black screen and a another attempt, mine works flawlessly..

To summerize, if your NC doesnt boot at all, your boot partition is corrupt. Use dd with boot and system images to go back to stock; if your NC bootloops or freezes on a splash screen, chances are you need to format you data and/or repush NF's system onto emmc..

Has anyone managed to get this work? From what people are saying, it sure seems like most people have failed..
[Nook Color Android Development] modembug:
I got this to work initially, then after more playing i managed to screw up mmcblk1p1 and so I just dumped factory system and boot images back onto the device and everything was fine again... I am giving this another shot and will see if i can break it again! hahaha... Also if you are fairly handy with ADB you do not really have too much to worry about as you can always use a NF SD card to gain adb access to the device to dd the factory images posted elsewhere in dev to the device and make it like new :)
[Nook Color Android Development] theyownus:
following your initial steps bricked me. After correcting your command to copy the contents of system rather than the folder I was able to install fine. I told you this and you modified your steps. That is what I posted.

That could be it... I did have to dd boot and system back after initial brick and second time was a charm.

Looks like a few have had success after clearing cache through adb. usually the only people that post are to complain so who knows this might have worked for many?

Anyways I removed the steps yesterday. This was too advanced for many users...

Bottom line is it worked for me. I tried to share that. Some people did not read disclaimers and got pissed when it didn't work for them.No one was hurt and no ones nook was damaged beyond repair. End of story.
[Nook Color Android Development] wtorres141:
Worked for me...I did it several (5-6) times on my nook, several times with GAPPS installed (tried several versions) on SD before i figured out to NOT include GAPPS on SD was using 0.5.8 then 0.5.9 with volds fix and lastly to add the 950Mhz kernel mod to the SDCard before pushing to emmc.

...no unresolvable issues yet, the collaborative efforts on these threads are all appreciated.

NF5.9@emmc+950+thumbkeyboard+GBTheme+custom bootanimation...and now carrier signal removed!

it only gets better
[Nook Color Android Development] modembug:
Okay so what I have noticed is that whenever doing any flashing etc... the best thing you can do is temporarily dump the stock boot files into the boot partition and then do the power + n and wipe the data... seems to fix 90% of boot issues. (CWR does not seem to do the trick nor does manually deleting the files.) The easiest way to accomplish this is with the original nooter 0.2
[Nook Color Android Development] kassemja:
Hi thanks for the tutorial, i've been running of emmc before tutorial but is still useful, just doing a little reading about the vold.fstab abd vold.conf, apparently vold.conf is not needed anymore as it was super-ceded by vold.fstab.

I have not been able to get ext sdcard to mount automatically, i somehow suspect it has something to with uRamdisk file i'm using from the orginal post that spawned all these tutorials

"uRamdisk_Modified_For_mmcblk0.just.rename.dont.unzip.zip"

I would be greatly appreciative if anyone could confirm if they are using this same file and getting sdcard to mount. or if someone could post their working uRamdisk with confirmed sdcard auto-mounting.

It should be included in the tutorials files. perhaps boot.img file could be made with dd, then you could dd to install, this is where i believe ppl are bricking the internal emmc boot.

I can confirm twice my emmc boot getting stuffed up when making changes to /boot partition , the only why i have managed to restore is by dd'ing the boot.img from this post "[ADV][DEV][STOCK IMAGE]Nook 1.01 stock dd images ".

thanks in advance. JK in XDA we trust. :)

Cheers... thanks to every here at xda you rock....
[Nook Color Android Development] samuelhalff:
Actually, my SD card mounts perfectly on my Nookie on eemc. You do have to use vold.conf, strangely enough.

Try booting with those two volds in system/etc/, and see if you can mount your SD.

Sam
[Nook Color Android Development] runhopskipjump:
Never mind what I wrote was false previously was wrong. To fix that damaged sd card error you never to modify or replace the vold In system/etc.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] todah09:
last nite my phone rebooted on its own,into recovery.now my phone wont see my card.tried formatting in cpu,and phone neither work.files still show when in the cpu. But it wont let me format. Any help would be greatly appreciated..........
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nukedukem:
Is the card mounting as read only, or is it not recognized at all?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] todah09:
it says unavailable in settings.but when i put it into the comp., i can see all the files.

edit:when i boot the phone,the preparing sd card message goes thru.but about 5 secs. later it umount and wont remount. tried it from recovery, and it mounts.boot up,and it umonts again........i was running myns.rls5.using a2sd,if that helps.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nukedukem:
You probably have a corrupt file on the card. Put the card in a pc and copy all files to your hard drive. It will probably give you an error with one of the files and you can then see which file is corrupt. Delete the file off of your card and you should be good to go.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] todah09:
thanks,will try this. appreciate the help. good looking homie....
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] todah09:
this did not work....wont even let me copy the files to cpu.any thoughts?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Greenfieldan:
Try running files to check for a corrupt file on your PC.

If not, you can always format it and start over. :(
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] todah09:
If i click file,it says could not find but the files are visible...weird......i cant engage tje files at all,but they are visible.but when i put it into the phone the card is unmounted after about 5vsec.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Khilbron:
The WinAmp app tends to do this to cards as well, if you have it, or any other apps installed, make sure that they don't have some sort of automounting built into the app, as it jacks with the phone.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] todah09:
How would i check this?i only have about 15 downloaded apps,mostly games
[Galaxy Tab General] Rogue9:
I've seen a few threads on this but no solid answers so far....

Yahoo IM has a video call plug-in but it only utilizes the back side camera and is pretty spotty @ best and Skype doesn't seem to work at all...

Does anyone have a suggestion for an app that will do this?
[Galaxy Tab General] gerrylum:
There isn't a good way to do this right now. Hopefully Skype will add video chat like they did with the iPhone. But I wouldn't hold my breath that it will come anytime soon. :(
[Galaxy Tab General] jkhouw1:
oovoo works. last version I tested had the tab users view of himself sideways but it did work.

note it also required latest version of oovoo on the pc
[Galaxy Tab General] Rogue9:
Yes oovoo is by far the best one out there to date but like you said the front facing camera orientation is 90 deg. off and unusable....
[Galaxy Tab General] jkurl:
I have used Yahoo IM and i was able to use the front facing camera. Here is the only problem i have found. It will not work between a PC and the tab. I was able to use it to talk from the tab to an iphone w/ no problems.
[Galaxy Tab General] jkurl:
You can use yahoo to video chat between the tab and any mobile device and between the tab and a windows pc.
[Galaxy Tab General] Rogue9:
No, you can't.
[Galaxy Tab General] jkurl:
Really I did it between a iPhone and the tab plus a windows pc and the tab of course it won't work w/ a mobile device that doesn't have a camera.
[Galaxy Tab General] Guitar4Him:
He's right...you can't. You can see the PC person on the Tab but they can't see you. The video never initializes and the PC app reports that there is no video. Both ends can hear each other, though.
[Galaxy Tab General] natious:
cant belive no one has said Fring, i use it to video call my gf and she has a iphone, quality is great.
[Galaxy Tab General] foxmeister:
That would be because Fring does not have a PC client as per the OPs request! :)

Regards,

Dave
[Galaxy Tab General] jkurl:
No he isn't right as I have done this and was able to see myself in both screens. Not sure why you don't believe me if I have to make a video to prove it I will. YM w/ video will work w/ the tab.
[Galaxy Tab General] cellwarrior6:
Oovoo works great...
[Galaxy Tab General] jesand83:
tried oovoo for the first time tonight, it worked great except for one glaring issue.

The app defaults to the landscape orientation, this causes the image captured from the camera to be sideways.

If i rotate the tab to portrait, the image I send is correct, but the image i'm receiving is sideways.

Is anyone else experiencing this?
[Galaxy Tab General] agentdr8:
Yep, oovoo works but is rotated 90 degrees off. I'm sure it's something on their list of things to fix.
[Galaxy Tab General] gustavoas:
Regarding Yahoo messenger, it's not true that it does video with the tab... until now it still does not work. I've tried with some experimental beta versions and could make it partially work but far from being usable.
[Galaxy Tab General] abuser0815:
I have no problem. Working in portrait mode and everything is fine. Oovoo still the onliest app doing video chat tab pc. A shame that other apps are not further developed to suport this.
[HD2 Accessories] Hahutzy:
Hey guys, I bought from a guy on ebay who claims that he's selling a T-Mobile HD2 digitizer, but when it came, it's one of the ones that have soldering points, meaning it is for HTC HD2 (see my post here about it).

So now I bought from another guy (hopefully the right one this time), and I have a HTC HD2 digitizer unused unopened just lying around, going to waste.

If anyone wants it, I'll send it over for $40 + shipping.

If you're in Toronto, Canada, just come pick it up, save on the shipping cost.
[HD2 Accessories] Archer:
Mate - you're not supposed to sell stuff in the general forums. Besides, the marketplace forum is better for you since people are looking there to buy stuff...

http://xdaforums.com/forumdisplay.php?f=476

Ask a mod to move the thread, or just post in there and ask for this to be deleted.

Good luck with your sell :)
[HD2 Accessories] Hahutzy:
Sorry man I totally didn't know that XDA actually had a trade forum...

It's ok, I'm letting this run 1 more day before I just go ahead and return it to ebay seller for refund.
[HD2 Accessories] Archer:
No worries mate. I wasn't TELLING YOU WHAT TO DO :p

Just wanted to point you at the best place for selling stuff, so you'd get more response.

Good luck :)
[Touch Pro CDMA] okwassup:
I was able to clone 2 TP1 with the stock TP1, they worked ok but internet on cloned was slow ., and could never get it to update profile ...etc provisioning ., anyhow i got a TP2 ., and decided to clone the TP1 , pretty much the same programing windows ...identical indeed, .however,the TP1 keeps resetting the security ..,mip setting ...

even when TP2 is off., there is a micro battery in TP1, if i disconnect it, will i loose firmware .??, or just all info in programing ...MEID...etc

any ideas please
[Touch Pro CDMA] whoshotjr2006:
lol no hard feelings bud but im pretty sure the whole cloning talk is taboo in xda land, so im not sure how much help your going to get

depending on if you have a cdma or sim touch pro, in cdma you could get a boost mobile account, internet is dirt cheap and supports 3g usage, and calling is relatively cheap with google voice and xdandroid, if you decide to go that way with one of the phones and need any help setting things up pm me id be glad to help
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] Piren:
Hey all

Now that WP7 is available on the HD2 i really want to give it a try, but due to some of its limitations (mainly, no good GPS program) i wish i could dual boot it with WM6.5.

People have been talking about dual booting with android, but what about the original OEM WM6.5 ROM? is there such an option?
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] rumpleforeskin:
I'd like this too but its not an option at the moment.

People dual booting with android are using android from the SD card.

There is currenty no SD build of WM 6.5 or WP7 to use as a dual boot.
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] Piren:
Oh well, i guess we'll have to wait a little bit longer.

thanks for the reply.
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] Archer:
Not sure if you know, but Cotulla did mention that he's planning an SD version of WM6.5. I'm obviously not even gonna guess at a day or a year for it, but it's a definite possibility at some point.
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] tomylee79:
That would be so great. Android on NAND is just running so much longer with one charge but I do need WM 6.5
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] jase33:
you could use it to have access to the built in fm radio:D
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] yeoldgreat1:
I'd love this too. All my programs and personal setings are on 6.5 so I don't want to move permanently to WP7. I do want to be able to play with it and see if it's worth upgrading.

My ideal setup would be 6.5 default boot and WP7 on SD card, but I know that's not going to happen!
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] TheOnly1:
For GPS you could try the WP7 version of Navigon. It's pretty basic (no 3D) but works like a charm for navigation :)
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] wahwka:
isn't Navigon only available for customers of the german telecom ? I really miss RDP and tomtom :(

edit:
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] lamensterms:
my exact scenario too. i would like to try WP7 - but i dont wanna lose iGO8, which is my favourite GPS program.

Cheers
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] agdroubi:
pls developers provide us with an sd version of wp7 for our hd2.
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] hagba:
I also want to have that option too. Since I don't use Android, I want to see my HD2 running my two favorite OSs WMWP. It would be nice if the WP7 Runs on SD card.
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] TheOnly1:
In theory it is. In practice....let's say .....it isn't :D
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] lbjohnny:
Iphone, Android, WP7, Ubuntu, Meego, Symbian;

Not one of the above can do what 6.5 does!

We're going backwards.
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] Ventu89:
+1

:):):)

It's the true..

Gps for android is very bad. Speed internet in all systems are slower than in WM6.5

And a large etc etc..