yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Nook Color Android Development] ADude:
Yes - if it works to search titles for "1.1.0" then you should find it.

If your nook is still stock, then the procedure is roughly:

- Make a bootable CWR 3.0.1.0 SD card

- Insert the card and boot it.

- Find and run the choice that says "backup" and it will backup to the SD card.

(It's called a nandroid backup)

Of course, if you have already modified your Nook, then it no longer has "original ROM/Software".
[Nook Color Android Development] DizzyDen:
The sideload 1.1.0 will NOT work as a recovery image... you will have to recover to 1.0.1 and sideload 1.1 again.

I can help you if you want... before you do any of the ROM's...

we'll boot off of a 16GB CWR card... and do DD backups of all the partitions... then you will have good images to restore should you ever need them... it sounds more daunting than it really is.
[Nook Color Android Development] 12paq:
When i run this adb dd command:

dd if=/sdcard/system.img of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p5

I get the error in terminal:

"No space left on device"

this command ran successfully

dd if=/sdcard/boot.img of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p1

any help would be great, thanks.
[Nook Color Android Development] DizzyDen:
Are you trying this from a bootable CWR uSD card?

If booted to the device and trying?... it may cause all kinds of issues.
[Nook Color Android Development] 12paq:
thanks, but I got it. ADB to the rescue. :cool:
[Nook Color Android Development] tinymiata:
Long story shot was updating my nook and the it crashed.

I currently can not boot the nook into anything but an sd card.

Any sd card I boot into is unable to mount so any files I add to the card (.ZIP) etc, can not be found Once it is booted. seems it only sees the files that are loaded on boot. I think I have a corrupted emmc.

I can talk to the nook over ADB when I boot from an sdcard.

Is there a way to push the files through adb directly to the right place on the nook? Or is there a way to include the needed files as part of the running system in ramdisk? I have tried to run a sdcard version for the nook.

They fail part way where they need to grab the file from the sdcard.

Thanks for looking and appreciate any help.
[Nook Color Android Development] ADude:
If you cannot find the right help in this thread, post a new thread in the Nook General Forum.
[Nook Color Android Development] samuelhalff:
You should be able to at least push the boot.img to say data folder. Then DD from there.

You can also pull kmsg from /proc and upload it here.

Then just to make sure, print the result of the following command:

fdisk /dev/block/mmcblk0 -l

And copy here.

Sam
[Nook Color Android Development] tinymiata:
Thanks samuelhalff and bog extra thanks to shad0wf0x for all the information.

That was the direction I needed.

Moving the images to /data worked perfect. Now the nook is back to 100% stock. I can mod it the "right way"

This is what I used.

adb push boot.img /data

dd if=boot.img of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p1

removed the boot image incase space issue

adb push system.img /data

dd if=system.img of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p5

This is the output after I dd the image and system.

~ # fdisk /dev/block/mmcblk0 -l

fdisk /dev/block/mmcblk0 -l

Disk /dev/block/mmcblk0: 7944 MB, 7944011776 bytes

255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 965 cylinders

Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System

/dev/block/mmcblk0p1 * 1 9 72261 c Win95 FAT32 (LBA)

/dev/block/mmcblk0p2 10 18 72292+ c Win95 FAT32 (LBA)

/dev/block/mmcblk0p3 19 56 305235 83 Linux

/dev/block/mmcblk0p4 57 935 7060567+ 5 Extended

/dev/block/mmcblk0p5 57 114 465853+ 83 Linux

/dev/block/mmcblk0p6 115 236 979933+ 83 Linux

/dev/block/mmcblk0p7 237 281 361431 83 Linux

/dev/block/mmcblk0p8 282 935 5253223+ c Win95 FAT32 (LBA)

~ #

Big Thanks again
[Nook Color Android Development] awe215:
mount sd

Don't know if anyone had to do this but, I had to mount the sdcard in clockwork in order for "dd if=/sdcard/system.img of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p5" to work...before I mounted it it said it couldn't find it....
[Nook Color Android Development] spectrum21:
I need help! I have loaded the boot.img and system.img to my sdcard. I can ADB in with my Mac Terminal, but everytime I try to load the file, I get

dd: /sdcard/boot.img: No such file or directory

is there a way i can see if the sdcard is mounted, and if its not, how do i mount it? I'm so close i can taste it...
[Nook Color Android Development] ERamseth:
Thanks for posting this. I'm rolling back from emmc dual boot setup to stock, so I needed to know the right partition sizes.

One question though... Did you do this from cwm on sdcard? If so, what version?
[Nook Color Android Development] nordemoniac:
Wow! I did it!

Never thought I would manage all that ADB stuff. Easyadb was good help!

I only did boot.img.. But I don't get it, how can it work without system.img? Or is system.img heavily compressed in boot.img, and unpacked when "installing" is displayed?

Also, a while ago I repartioned the Nook so it had more free space, but I don't remember how much. It currently has 3,98GB free on nook 1.0.1. Is this correct?

I thought it seemed higher than original. Isn't this reset to original settings?
[Nook Color Android Development] DizzyDen:
No, system.img is just the stock system ROM files... it worked by just writing boot.img because it was the boot partition that was borked... so it would never boot to get to the ROM files on system.

Think of it this way... boot partition is like CMOS to a PC... it loads basic input/output routines and hardware information etc... then passes control to the Master Boot Device... which is the system partition on our android devices.

If your CMOS is corrupt... your computer will never boot and get you to the hard drive... if your boot partition is borked you will never get to the system partition.

If you repartitioned previously, you probably reclaimed the 250 MB (30 blocks) that B&N seemed to leave unpartitioned in almost all the original Nook Colors.
[Nook Color Android Development] nordemoniac:
But I had formatted everything, system partition as well (was running CM7), and still I have it running now with just boot.img.

I'm pretty sure the nook was completely empty, and still this worked with just boot.img. Are you sure it doesn't contain a compressed system.img?

Before I installed CM7 I had BN 1.2.0, and now I have 1.0.1, like the boot.img, and never copied the system.img.

Seems to me that the system.img is only so you don't have to wait for "installing".

Or, did I clean the system PARTITION so the system ROM has been untouched since I bought the unit? And even though I updated the nook with both original 1.2.0 and later CM7, it never overwrites the original ROM image? Meaning that the boot.img + 8xfailed boot trick loads the untouched ROM and installs on the different partitions, including the system partition?

Is this correct?

How can I partition back to the original settings? I can see that B&N wants you to partition to 7+1 or something now? How do I do this? I'm not in the U.S. and can't go to a store.

I want everything back to the original stock, and updated with their newest partition system and 1.4.2.
[Nook Color Android Development] nordemoniac:
And how can I make sure that I have the correct system.img and factory.zip?

Should everything be OK as long as it did install with just boot.img?
[Nook Color Android Development] dr_tracker:
Hi guys, sorry for reviving this old thread but I need some help.

Today I installed Eyeballer's CM10.1 Beta 2. For some reason it failed to work, kept on the boot screen and booted twice to the lock screen, when I tried to unlock it rebooted. Booted back to TWRP and restored my backup, now it boots to recovery all the time. Found some info about flashing stock 1.4.1, it worked... once, it booted to stok OK, everything was working. Rebooted to try to install CM10.1 again, got the same loop into recovery all the time.

Seems that my only hope is this procedure, but links on the OP are down, can someone reupload or point me to where I can get them to see if I can fix this.

My son is killing me about his tablet, so any help would be greatly appreciated.
[Nook Color Android Development] j8048188:
If I remember correctly, DizzyDen had some stock images as well. Before you try that, have you gone through LeapinLar's partition repair guide?
[Nook Color Android Development] dr_tracker:
Yes, actually LeapinLiar has been helping me through all this. He happens to be one hell of a guy.

But still my NC is not working, since all stuff has been wiped stock won't register, and whenever I try to run CM10 it will only bootloop.

Later on will try installing CM9 and will try to install to SDCard.

Thanks for your help.
[Nook Color Android Development] DizzyDen:
J8 is correct... and so is dr_t... I have posted lots of images and repair stuff... an Leap is a hell of a guy...

Try checking this out... this is the post with my rombackup.zip

Note that there are files that must be edited as noted in that post... the values currently in them are descriptors.
[Nook Color Android Development] dr_tracker:
Hi I was kind of busy at work and didn't have time to deal with this. Anyway, I edited the items in the zip, but when tried flashing CWM returned the error Install aborted every time.

BTW, to edit the files, I opened the zip in winrar, opened in notepad and notepad++ each file directly from the zip, edited and saved. Winrar stated that the file has changed, allowed to update and saved. When tried to flash got the error. Also tried unzipping to a folder, editing the files and rezipping, same result.

On the other hand, as suggested ny Leapinliar I tried to do an SD install of CM9/10. Got bootloop as well.
[Nook Color Android Development] leapinlar:
Did it say why it aborted? Like with an error message?

Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10 on Hybrid SD
[Nook Color Android Development] dr_tracker:
Nope, CWM said something like:

Installing update...

Install aborted...

And that was it.
[Nook Color Android Development] webdroidmt:
Hi,

If I can throw my two cents in, I've never had much success editing files directly within Winrar, or for that matter, editing outside of Winrar and then re-zipping the file. My apologies in advance if I misunderstood your quote, I took it that you edited the folder and repackaged it creating a new zip.

As a suggestion, get a fresh copy of the the rombackup zip, use Winrar to unzip it to a folder and edit the necessary file/s with Notepad ++, not Notepad. Then use Winrar again to just open the zipfile, don't extract anything this time.

Now, right click "Add files to archive" and navigate to the file/s you previously edited, select them, click OK letting it overwrite the existing files and when finished just close the zipfile. Hopefully, this should solve the installation aborted problem...unless something else is wonky. Good luck!

Mike T
[Nook Color Android Development] dr_tracker:
Thanks for your help, but LeapinLiar helped me with this issue and it's now solved.
[Nook Color Android Development] DizzyDen:
dr... I know you got your's fixed but for everyone else that may come across this...

The rombackup.zip file is not for CWM... it is for stock recovery... it is just the romobackup.zip file that I edited my device specific information out of... that's the reason for having to do file edits... I can see about putting together a CWMrombackup.zip file for flashing with CWM... but again... this file was intended to get people's 8 failed boots to work.
[Nook Color Android Development] digitalhigh:
Hi there...

I'm getting error 320 from mediafire when trying to download from the links in the OP. Are the system files available somewhere else?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] leith51:
Right here goes my noob question at the minute I'm running desire hd fully rooted s-off unlocked on leedroid 1.4.1..

now the problem girlfriend running the HTC desire branded t-mobile with ota update to 2.2 I've read through forum thread after thread yet still struggling to find the answer I need as it talks about slcd screens amoled screens bricking phone if you get wrong one

And unrevoked won't work with the ota update if its been done plus using gold card ???

I really don't want to brick her phone she would kill me lol

So can anyone give me a step by step guide on how I can it unbranded rooted and be able to flash a new Rom would be great

and as say step by step guide as in someone who never used Android before guide

E=Mc2
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RaymondErasmus:
Ok as i can see that you are already familiar with rooting etc with your dhd i wont go into too much detail as i believe you can handle it! :D

1. Since the phone is branded you will need to create a goldcard first if you wish to return to stock later for warranty issues. Also check the current rom on the phone and look for the corresponding one on shipped-roms and download it if they have it.

2. Unrevoked 3.2.1 (or up, im not sure what the latest version is) can root slcd or amoled and the 2.2 ota so there is no problem there.

It would be wise to check the pvt model of the phone first as a pvt-4 device requires a little more effort: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=853583

3. Once rooted download rom manager if you wish (personally i dont like it)

4. Enter hboot (volume down + power) and back up your current rom

5. Then download the custom rom you or your gf would like to use and enjoy!

If you decide to flash a radio later just make sure that you dont interupt the process as this is one of the few ways in which you can actually brick a device.

Good luck :D
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] leith51:
Point 2. Does it matter which screen it is will it just work if not how can I tell as there is to many theorys and the pvt-4 how do I check that

Had the phone since February if this helps

E=Mc2
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RaymondErasmus:
With the unrevoked root method it doesn't matter.

Only time you could run into issues is if you flash a rom onto the phone thats meant for an amoled desire ... then you will be faced by a black screen (which isnt a brick, there have been cases where this has happened and the way to remedy this issue is here in the forums somewhere!) I have an slcd desire and flash a custom rom every second day and have never had issues, just allways make sure you read all information before you perform any flash, the information you need will allways be there! :)

To check, if you still have the box of the phone it will say on there what display it has, otherwise if you look at the screen itself it is usually easy enough to spot an amoled screen as the colours are alot more saturated ... just put it next to your dhd you should be able to see ... but also google there are more 'fool' proof ways to check. But having the origional box is the safest bet.

If you have had the phone since Feb (2010 i suppose :p) i highly doubt whether your phone will be pvt-4. Its probably pvt-1,2,3 which will give you no problems. To check this enter hboot (power off the phone and the power it on holding the volume down key)
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] leith51:
Cheers for the info mate will give it a try when she let's me have the phone lol

E=Mc2
[Galaxy Tab Themes and Apps] knightnz:
In case people haven't seen the front page, the Linux MPlayer app has been ported to Android:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=890761
[Samsung Mesmerize] RyanRH:
Ok, so when I first got the phone, I was having friends send me pictures to associate with their name in my contact list. Well, somehow, one of them got associated with my ringtone files on the phone. So now the album picture for all the downloaded ringtones on my phone is one of the pictures my friend sent to me. Of him. Lol. And it's annoying.

I tried deleting all the ringtones from my phone, yet somehow when I added them back on, it came back. All the ringtone artists are listed as <unknown>. Another thing I cannot figure out how to edit.

Anybody know how to fix this? I don't even want a picture for the ringtones.

Also, the picture that is coming up as the album cover for those ringtones has long since been deleted. And I have no idea how it even became associated with the ringtones. I never set it to represent them. It just did it on its own.
[Samsung Mesmerize] Tortuga1234:
Yes, I’ve had this happen to me and it is annoying!

I don’t know a quick and simple fix for this.

I used a few different apps to help me fix this. I used mp3tagger and itag to fix these issues Search mp3, mp3 tagger and I’m sure you will have a number of different apps come up. It took a while but it worked. If all your albums and songs are unknown you might be working on this for a while.
[Samsung Mesmerize] monthlymixcd:
I use iTag and another called Album Art Grabber... they are each good at different things. Be advised that the stock media apps usually show art based on the Album Artist data. Change all the files you can find with that field blank to have an image (or no image) that you would prefer for your ringtones and then eventually the image that the phone will autofill for those files with an unknown artist will be that of your choosing and not your friend's ugly mug.
[Samsung Mesmerize] RyanRH:
Neither of those apps will delete that picture from being the album cover.
[Samsung Mesmerize] RyanRH:
AHA! I figured you out.

You have to go into the My Files app, then go to the folder albumthumbs and then delete anything that is in there that you didn't put there.

Boom, paow!
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] angel129116:
I've just bought a HTC Desire HD locked to Orange. I insered an o2 Sim but upon boot i didn't get the unlock message box where i could enter a code (after spending £15 on one). So i read about flashing a custom rom and this should work.

I ran Easy Radio tool v2_2 doing the option for Radio S-OFF, Super-CIDE and SimUnlock but this didn't work. The post also said to run EasyS-OFF which i did as well

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=855403

I then flashed Android REvolution HD 2.0.6

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=840040

following his link for radio update and isntalling S-Off Bootloader.

The rom flashed fine but after booting back into phone and putting in my o2 sim I'm still getting "Limited service" on the lock screen.

Can anyone help me where I'm going wrong. The phone works fine if it has Orange Sim but won't accept anythign else.

Here is spec since using Android Revolution rom:

Android 2.2.1

Baseband version: 12.28b.60.140eU_26.03.02.26_M

Kernel: 2.6.32.21-g3d0aaff

htc-kernel@and18-2 #1

Wed Dec 1 17:09:51 CST 2010

Build Number: 1.72.405.3 CL296490 release-keys

Browser Version: Webkit 3.1
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] leith51:
Did you fully root your phone first while on 1.32 build

E=Mc2
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] angel129116:
sure did. I loaded termianl emulator and did the Su and i got #
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] leith51:
In bootloader screen at top you should have eng s-off then

For the radio s-off and simunlock that's needed to unlock your branding check under system info on bootloader see if says cid 11111 if so then maybe change your apn manually for the network you sNt to use if not maybe it would be a good idea to downgrade back to 1.32 and back to original state and start again check downgrade 1.72 to 1.32 in this forum and then check my guide on how to flash radio.img the links are there to unlock your phone before flashing anything

E=Mc2
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kamranh3:
Old Radio

You have an older radio it appears, flash the recommended radio off the Android Revolution HD page, then write about the changes if any
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] NhocCuteGirls:
Originally Posted by angel129116

I've just bought a HTC Desire HD locked to Orange. I insered an o2 Sim but upon boot i didn't get the unlock message box where i could enter a code (after spending £15 on one). So i read about flashing a custom rom and this should work.

I ran Easy Radio tool v2_2 doing the option for Radio S-OFF, Super-CIDE and SimUnlock but this didn't work. The post also said to run EasyS-OFF which i did as well

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=855403

I then flashed Android REvolution HD 2.0.6

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=840040

following his link for radio update and isntalling S-Off Bootloader.

The rom flashed fine but after booting back into phone and putting in my o2 sim I'm still getting "Limited service" on the lock screen.

Can anyone help me where I'm going wrong. The phone works fine if it has Orange Sim but won't accept anythign else.

Here is spec since using Android Revolution rom:

Android 2.2.1

Baseband version: 12.28b.60.140eU_26.03.02.26_M

Kernel: 2.6.32.21-g3d0aaff

htc-kernel@and18-2 #1

Wed Dec 1 17:09:51 CST 2010

Build Number: 1.72.405.3 CL296490 release-keys

Browser Version: Webkit 3.1

Did you fully root your phone first while on 1.32 build

E=Mc2

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[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] angel129116:
When rebooting the phone and holding vol down it says "ACE PVT ENG S-OFF"

If i scroll to "simlock" I get:

FAT32 init OK

Open MCCMNC file fail

Open CID file fail

Process done, reboot device?

Also when looking under SystemInfo it does say CID-11111111
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] leith51:
Scrap that cid is 11111 so it is unlocked

E=Mc2
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] angel129116:
I'll downgrade back to 1.32

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=905003

and then follow

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=896597.

yea?
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] leith51:
Try flashing radio first using the guide it might fix it if not try starting from scratch you might be able to downgrade to a stock Rom which should wipe any branding out altogether

E=Mc2
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] angel129116:
I tried flashing the radio quoted on the Rom page but i'm still "limited service" when turning on. i'll try the downgrade option quoted here:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=905003
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] leith51:
ok good luck hope it works out for you
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] angel129116:
Ok I've done the downgrade and got this:

1)Bootload - OK

2) Boot - OK

3) Recovery - OK

4) System - OK

5) Userdata - OK

6) Splash 1 - OK

7) Splash 2 - OK

8) TP - Bypassed

9) TP - Bypassed

10) TP - Bypassed

11) TP - OK

12) Radio_V2 - OK

13) Radio_Cust - OK

does that look right so far?

I've rooted the device using Visionary and followed the below chosing option1 "radio S-OFF, Super-CID and SimUnlock(usual)

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=857537

What now?
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] leith51:
do you run permant root first via visonary

did the radio super cid go through this time ?

if so go to this thread http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=855403 and do eng s-off
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] angel129116:
The guide says "Open Visionary and tap temproot, then attempt permroot now. Your device will reboot" which i did and phone rebooted.

When i did the end s-off it said pushing files to SD card and then syncing, then done. How will i know if it succeeded? Is there a way to check?
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] leith51:
right do this first go to menu>settings>about phone>system information confirm your on 1.32

then go to menu>settings>wireless & networks> mobile networks> search network> then manually search network hopefully it will give you list of networks choose o2 wait till its registered then give it a minute or two and see if it locks on to your network let me know