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[Nook Color Android Development] digitalslacker:
you are awesome...

just got my nook color (gTab and DX scene before that) and while it took reading 18 pages of this thread to find the answer I knew someone here would have a solution.

CM7 nightly OCed to 1.1 w/ this version of CWR makes this thing by far the best tablet for the money.

thanks again!
[Nook Color Android Development] ovar:
Restoring Nandroid backups from non-EXT4 CWM

Is there any issues with restoring non ext4 created backups in the CWM ext4?
[Nook Color Android Development] Irish Cream:
I would like to know this as well...

for instance, could I revert back to my nooterd 1.1 backup
[Nook Color Android Development] combustiblemonkey:
I may be missing something but I cant get into recovery either way. It goes into CWR from the SDcard without any trouble. Anyone got specific steps for installing just the CWR to the internal memory?
[Nook Color Android Development] bdcrim:
There is a flashable zip on post 179 that I flashed in 3.0.0.5 recovery. It upgraded cwr to 3.0.0.6

and was able to flash cm7. It will not show that it upgraded in Rom Manager but will in recovery.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=959240&page=18
[Nook Color Android Development] bdcrim:
Theoretically, any backup you made with 3.0. 0.5 should restore to the correct partitions if you use that version to restore(ext 2 and 3), Version 3.0. 0.6 will restore to ext 4 partition.
[Nook Color Android Development] combustiblemonkey:
Thanks for this, I just installed CWR and updated to the latest nightly :)
[Nook Color Android Development] elwood1229:
Edit: Please ignore this, I figured out the problem.

When I try to use Rom Manager to reboot into recovery, it simply reloads as normal. I click the "Reboot into Recovery" selection on the Rom Manager menu, confirm "OK" when it asks me if I am sure, it reboots but goes straight to the normal start up and reloads the rom. I have done this a hundred times on my phone, so this is not new to me. Am I missing a step with this rom or is there something wrong in the process?
[Nook Color Android Development] faceman66:
Sorry, im confused, your Edit: is before your question so does that mean you are asking about a missing step now, or was that the question you figured out? If so, can you post your answer?

Because if not, it does sound like something is awry, when I selec "Reboot into Recovery" from my ROM Manager, i boot into recovery.
[Nook Color Android Development] FletchF:
After attempting to put this ext4 CW on emmc, I can no longer boot from emmc. My NC boots and runs fine from SD, but will not boot (no splash image, no backlight, nothing) no matter what I flash to emmc. I assume this is a sign that I corrupted my emmc /boot.

I have tried to restore /boot a number of ways, including flashing the "return to stock" zip or the RecoveryFix.zip, but still nothing. Am I on the right track? Anything else specific I should try?
[Nook Color Android Development] Paul22000:
Try this: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=949699

Here's the cliff's notes version of what I did to fix my Nook: http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=11374824&postcount=29
[Nook Color Android Development] FletchF:
Thanks. I think I tried that but I'll try again later. I didn't try to format an SD, but my symptoms are exactly the same as you described there.

Edit: I'm still not sure what I did to corrupt it, but reflashing the 1.01 stock didn't help. The only thing that fixed my /boot was the repartition-boot-with-stock.zip. Thanks for the link - I didn't know about that before.
[Nook Color Android Development] dannyBR:
-I have some odd questions... Since I'm burning the Clockwork Mod Recovery to my SD Card and the kernel, gapps and CM7 to it, when I flash all three, does it run it off the nook colors installed drive (the available one, not the partitioned space saved for stock)?

-When it says reboot into recovery, is that via the CWR program that I download or is there a button config I press to get into it? If it does it automatically, that'd be great.

-How would I update it with the nightlies?
[Nook Color Android Development] EpicFail236:
For the record, your problem was most likely the u-boot file in the boot partition, which seems to be the culprit in many of these not-booting-to-recovery-or-to-pretty-much-anything-else issues. Seems some of the mods on here replaced the u-boot with a file that either didnt recognize on-boot keypresses, or much of anything at all. strange enough, but replacing the file solved my problems.
[Nook Color Android Development] MikeSpears:
Here's another mirror: http://mikeservers.net/nookdev/clockwork/0.1-ext4/

How do you guys think I should keep it updated? I have access to ssh and cronjobs.
[Nook Color Android Development] faceman66:
CM7, as described in my more thorough instructions, is installed onto the internal memory area (eMMC) and does not remove the "storage" partition as far as I know, but it may change the size. (Can someone confirm this?

Every time that I mention this, I am referring to using ROM Managers 'Reboot into Recovery' function.

Follow my instructions? :) Just download the latest nightly to your bootable SD, boot with it, and flash the zip. No need to do any wipes or formats for nightly upgrades.
[Nook Color Android Development] Chahk:
I'm using the 3.0.0.6 version of CWR from bootable SD Card. Can someone please tell me how to disable the progress bar listing every file on backup/restore?
[Nook Color Android Development] wrx4memp:
no 16gb love?
[Nook Color Android Development] thecubed:
Haha! That's quite the bootable SD there :)

I'm working on a bunch of nifty stuff-- so in the meantime, custom sized SD images are low priority for the moment.

Sorry 'bout that...
[Nook Color Android Development] combustiblemonkey:
16gig class 10 cards at the local Frys Electronics are going for super cheap right now. Cant wait for the 32gigs

For those who want to maximize the card use, you can resize the partition with something like Acronis: http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/products/diskdirector/

Has a free demo. Not sure how functionally limited it is, I use the full version myself.
[Nook Color Android Development] thecubed:
I don't believe resizing a bootable partition will work, since for the card to be bootable, it needs special geometry options that I don't believe a partition resizer would recognize. It would just replace them with generic values, rather than the special CHS options we have to use to get the card to boot.

However, with that said, I haven't tried it-- it may work, I just don't know.
[Nook Color Android Development] combustiblemonkey:
Ive tried it, it works :)
[Nook Color Android Development] thecubed:
Reeeeally? Hmm, now that's interesting. You know what that means? Time for me to find a free partition resizer that'll let me just distribute a 128mb image and let people expand it to whatever size they want once it's burned.

Thank you for that, that'll make my life easier in terms of not having to distribute so many different sized images... a unified distribution format would be much better.
[Nook Color Android Development] will2live:
Not to get side tracked but fyi I just found a place that is selling Class 10 32Gb cards for $89.99 with free shipping if you are interested. I ordered one yesterday so it hasn't shipped yet, should be some time today. If interested shot me a PM and I'll get the info over to ya when I get home as I don't have it with me at the office.
[Nook Color Android Development] Homer_S_xda:
What tool did you use to resize the bootable partition?

Homer
[Nook Color Android Development] will2live:
I just played with this stuff lat night myself a bit. FYI I did find a decent Windows program that is free that will allows you to resize the sdcard partition after you make your bootable sdcard.

As a quick example I used to to resize my Honeycomb sdcard I use in the Nook. When I first made it the sdcard partition was very small for the 16Gb card I am using. so I tracked down EASEUS Partition Master 7.0.1 Home Edition ( FREE ) and used it to resize the sdcard partition to get all the unallocated space back. So I now have a bootable HC v4 sdcard with 14Gb of usable storage space on it, and the /boot /ext2 /ext3 partitions are the same as after burning the HC v4 image to the sdcard.

Figured I'd pass the word seeing as a lot of the free partition software I had found DID NOT allow you to resize without purchasing the full version. The program I list allows your to resize in the free download which was kinda nice.
[Nook Color Android Development] jjenson:
I am feeling pretty dumb right now as this will not let me clikc the resize/move button on top. How did you get this to resize exactly?
[Nook Color Android Development] will2live:
@jjenson Check your PM's. Didn't want to clutter up this thread with this type of info.
[Nook Color Android Development] Steelfan555:
Is there a way to do this without anything on the eMMC? I want to put something there (duh) but want to put Phiremod instead of stock.
[Nook Color Android Development] britoso:
worked perfectly. thanks a lot!

on cm7-build 11 and its awesome!!!!!!
[Nook Color Android Development] Paul22000:
Welcome to the party!! :D
[Nook Color Android Development] cmstlist:
My understanding is the newest Clockwork Recovery posted in another thread is now compatible with all the relevant partition types. Can we get a bootable Clockwork SD that contains the newest version for universal support?
[Nook Color Android Development] 360Razir:
Second that...I use the bootable SD for HC v4.0 EMMC quite a bit.
[Nook Color Android Development] eghill1125:
Ok...

I have been at this all day and haven't got anywhere and need some help. I am used to flashing ROMs on my Droid Eris all the time, but I am having extreme difficulties with this ---- 3. Extract the .img for the .tar.gz.

I am rooted running stock eclair right now.

I have downloaded the 4gb. image from the first post and I am trying to burn the image using Win32imager program. I am trying to use 7zip, but the program is not something I am familiar with.

When I download the file, it goes in My Downloads folder then ????

What are the steps then to extract the image. If I extract the file with 7zip, I see a new folder that has the size of appr. 3.7g. But when I open Win32 as administrator, the file will not show up to find any image to burn onto SD card.

I should also mention that I am trying to do this to install the Phiremod V4 Rom if there is an easier way, let me know.

Any help for me??
[Nook Color Android Development] xeren:
I just used zip zip to go through this process for the 1st time today, so I'm not sure if this is the most efficient way, but i opened 7 zip, opened the file inside 7zip, and once it had unzipped (or whatever it's called), i then dragged that .img file from 7zip onto my desktop. So it seemed like it was 2 steps instead of 1, but again, not sure if i did it the most efficient way.

But I got CM7 Nightly12 running, so it worked out.
[Nook Color Android Development] xeren:
Thanks devs! Got CM7 running.

I don't know that this has been mentioned elsewhere, but i was able to create the bootable sd card without the usb converter.

I would have preferred to do so, but the converter broke on me this morning (it was a cheap one from my cycloDS). I simply plugged the microsd card into my notebook's card reader, and, though WinImage didn't recognize the drive, Win32 Image Writer did so I just used that.
[Nook Color Android Development] simon.ponder:
Here is an idea for a dev. Some laptops as of late, mainly HP, have splashtop on them. It is basically a small Linux distro that boots automatically from cold in about ten or so seconds. You are able to read email, browse with a webkit based browser or view images off of device. If it receives no input (mouse or keyboard) after ten seconds it boots into the full OS, whether its Linux or windows. Splashtop isn't the important part here, the flow is.

If someone could make that same flow work for an SD card that had recovery on a portion of it and the rest used for storage that would be sweet. Basically by default boot the SD card, if no physical buttons are pressed boot eMMC.
[Nook Color Android Development] jblues1969:
I am so sorry to have to ask this dumb question

I feel like such a n00b.

Here's my situation:

I have a rooted, 1.1Ghz overclocked v1.1 NC. I like it, but of course I want to experiment. I have the latest CMR installed.

How can I create a bootable SD that will allow me to restore this if I screw up my NC? I am confused with all the talk about EXT4 not working with stock. I don't even know if my current setup still qualifies as stock.

I've got 3 SD cards, 2 of them are class 4 16GB, and one is a class 6 8GB.

Can somebody point me to some clear instructions that will accomplish what I want? I have searched the forums but I am never certain that I've found what I'm looking for due to the fast pace of updates.
[Nook Color Android Development] Paul22000:
Post #19 (link here) has the steps.

Personally, I'd suggest staying away from CWR backups. I had a bad experience with restoring one which completely destroyed my boot partition.

Instead, use Titanium Backup to backup all your apps and app data. Literally with the click of a single button, I can install all my apps exactly to how they were, regardless of which ROM or Android version I'm using. Highly recommended. There's absolutely no reason to not use Titanium Backup. And it's free too, if you can deal with clicking to install each app manually.
[Nook Color Android Development] will2live:
Couldn't agree more as I've run into the same issue more the once learning this Nook stuff after getting mine a week or so ago. Think I've bricked it more times then any and all of my Android phones over the part couple of yrs. I've got it down pat now that that is for sure......lol.
[Nook Color Android Development] sheepdawg:
EXT 2/3 AND EXT4 compatible?

Hi,

I have a similar question as jblues1969.

The OP and this thread in general discuss a bootable CWM SD card that is running CWM 3.0.0.6. This thread says it is EXT4 compatible. Does anyone know abouts its EXT2/3 compatibility?

CWM is now updated to 3.0.1.0. I was about to try to just replace the uRecRam and uRecImg files in the bootable SD, but then I noticed that the bootable SD instead has uImage and uRamdisk files instead. I assume uImage and uRamdisk are in fact the recovery kernel and recovery image, respectively.

Anyone know if I can just swap in the new Kernel and Image files?

[edit: For that matter, does anyone out there know and want to explain why CM7 needs to be installed from CWM on the SD card, not running off the emmc? I'm quite curious.]

Thanks,

Dave
[Nook Color Android Development] will2live:
I can't help on the first question as I'm not exactly sure myself but would be curious to know myself.

As for the CM7 question pretty simple. Seeing as CM7 can only run from off the eMMC and not an sdcard you can not put the *.zip to be installed on the internal mem and then flash it. You need to wipe/format system and data prior to installing CM7 to the internal mem which is why you need a bootable sdcard and have the *.zip on it so you can flash to the internal mem of the Nook after formatting data & system on the device
[Nook Color Android Development] califrag:
I wasn't sure about this myself, so I just went ahead and did it and it worked fine. I copied the 'tools' folder just in case but I dont think it's needed. just replace the files and rename them to the correct uImage and uRamdisk names.
[Nook Color Android Development] hail2thevictors:
I have asked twice with no answer, so maybe it is a rookie question or maybe it is posted elsewhere and I am just missing the obvious but since installed CY7 everything seems to work rather well except the known video issues, some apps not appearing full screen, the recent wi-fi connection issues, AND

I have no audio on my unit. If I plug in my headphones all is god, but I get nothing from the built in speaker. Is this a known issue or is it unique to me? Is there a known solution or work around or a setting I am missing?

Thanks for any advice!
[Nook Color Android Development] dalamchops:
don't see how u have asked twice and only having 1 post count. There's no known issue with speaker on CM7. Probably a hardware fault with your unit.
[Nook Color Android Development] Snyperx:
Does anyone know if thecubed will be updating is ROM with ROM Manager 3.0.1.0? This has been a fantastic tool for working with the NC.
[Nook Color Android Development] OneEternalRound:
how to make a ext4 sdcard boot?

So I have seen a few step by steps on here and maybe i'm just being a mega noob but how do you actually make an ext4 sdcard boot? I am trying to put UD on my NC and I thought I knew how to do this, like when I did it with Honeycomb but maybe i was doing something different. Please help!

Thanks!
[Nook Color Android Development] rochford77:
sorry guys

i know this is getting overloaded with noob questions, but i ordered my nook on ebay yesterday and i want to be ready to flash as soon as it shows up and i want an sd card ready. Im trying to put this clockwork on a 2gb sd (i dl'd the 2gb version). it downloaded in a tar.gz file. i used 7zip to extract the file and now its just a .tar file. Is this the file i burn to the card using winimage? or is there a .img file i need to find? the reason i ask is im only familiar with my hero and all my recoveries are in .img format (i have to push via terminal emulator though) THhanks for the help sorry to bother with a noob question...
[Nook Color Android Development] faceman66:
The bootable image needs to be downloaded and unzipped until you have a *.img file that is a size matching what you wanted. (ie - You dl'd a 2gb version, the *.img file will be about 2gb in size once unzipped.)

Then you use the image burning software (ie Win32DiskImager or Winimage) to burn that *.img to the SD card. This will then show up as a very small card with only a few files on it in windows because Windows will only see the boot partition of the card and not the rest by default. That's ok.

Now you have a bootable SD card, transfer whatever you are planning to flash to the root of the SD card now, then safely remove from your pc, and with your NC turned off, place it into the NC. Power on the NC and follow any of the other guides.

Hope this helps.
[Nook Color Android Development] DigitalMD:
Be sure to use an external card writer. Trying to use a built-in sd card slot will not work with WinImage
[Nook Color Android Development] rochford77:
i know your not supposed to use the nook, but can i put the sd in my hero and burn it on there? im cheep (y i got a nook) and dont want to drop the $6 on a card reader lol

edit. NVM got one
[Nook Color Android Development] rochford77:
got the image extracted, but when i use winimage to write it it just renames the sd "boot" and puts the files on to "mlo, uImage, uramdisk" and bin file "u-boot.bin. but it still says there is 1.75gb of 1.75 gb on the sd. does this sound right? its a 2gb card with the 2gb cwm
[Nook Color Android Development] faceman66:
Yup, that sounds right.
[Nook Color Android Development] 10507:
I am currently on AutoNooter 3. Do I have to flash back to STOCK before flashing this recovery EXT4, or can I just flash this recovery over the already AutoNoot NC?
[Nook Color Android Development] emtownsend:
Can anyone post the bootable Clockwork SD card? The link is down and has been since yesterday.

Thanks!
[Nook Color Android Development] 911jason:
The only thing unclear on this guide is what to do with the uBoot after you've put it on the card. Unless I'm just missing something, of course! ;)
[Nook Color Android Development] funtek:
Flash it first, before the CM7, gapps, and OC kernel. At least that's what I did and it seems to work just fine. If you do it right, it will give you a new boot logo (Read the Future, I think? I don't have it in front of me to check.)
[Nook Color Android Development] rhcp011235:
Nice work. Worked like a charm. I dropped the CM files into a ROM dir + booted off the sd.

Did a factory reset. Install zip. within 5 mins or so. CM7 was booting :) With no hassle.

Congrats on the good work
[Nook Color Android Development] joseamirandavelez:
I followed the instructions and was able to install everything without problems. But it does not want to boot. Was it really 5 minutes? Did it showed any boot animation?
[Nook Color Android Development] ianjanik:
Just a quick question, how would you flash the regular clockwork recovery back to be able to restore a nandroid of the stock OS?
[Nook Color Android Development] chemical1der:
From the OP:

Be careful: to get back to anything relatively stock, you'd need to use my bootable SD (non EXT4) to apply uninstallclockwork.zip, then format /system, /data, and /cache from the non EXT4 card. Reboot and the device should bootloop 8 times before deciding it's useless and begins to restore the factory.zip.

That should leave you with a completely stock NookColor.

I think.
[Nook Color Android Development] the.tall.man:
Amazing!

Anyone have trouble with apps not showing up on the market? Couldn't find Opera, Astrid, Aldiko, etc...
[Nook Color Android Development] bandroidx:
the torrent is weak right now, i am dling it to my 100Mb seedbox to seed it out to all of you fast.
[Nook Color Android Development] jackxlj:
gapps

i cant get gapps to install,i install them via cwm then when it reboots they dont show up anywhere
[Nook Color Android Development] eyecrispy:
That's because this is not a true RC and there are still a few issues they're trying to iron out. Might want to wait a day or two.
[Nook Color Android Development] KitF:
Did you even read the OP?

You have to use the bootable CWM in this thread, as it's the only thing that can write update ZIPs to CM7, due to the filesystem being EXT4.
[Nook Color Android Development] jackxlj:
i did use the bootable sd card,cm7 boots fine,i installed gapps right after cm7 from the same sd card
[Nook Color Android Development] Amin Sabet:
Which gapps did you use? I used these, and Market/Gmail installed fine: http://android.d3xt3r01.tk/cyanogen/gapps/gapps-gb-20110120-signed.zip
[Nook Color Android Development] jackxlj:
used the same ones,from cyanogans wiki that was linked to in first few posts
[Nook Color Android Development] Narfx:
At first boot my purchased and installed apps showed correctly in "my apps" in market. Now I just see "no downloads from android market". I cleared services framework data and market cache and rebooted, to no avail.

Other than that, no bugs. Impressive for a first release.
[Nook Color Android Development] the.tall.man:
Same here.
[Nook Color Android Development] eNkrypt:
Mirror:

http://www.r00tyou.com/android/nook/clockwork/0.1-ext4

Right now I am uploading the CyanogenMod Encore KANG to the server so check back soon and I should have that mirrored as well.

Site Bandwidth: 100Mb/s Unmetered.

Also, anyone wanting to help with a project I am working on for creating a mirror site for people to upload roms for various devices (mobile and the like) please contact me

The site is: http://www.r00tyou.com
[Nook Color Android Development] Divine_Madcat:
I gotta ask - the curiosity is killing me. Is this still the .29 kernel, or did we secrety get a working .32 kernel as well? :)
[Nook Color Android Development] Narfx:
.29

10char
[Nook Color Android Development] the.tall.man:
2.6.29-omap1

fattire@fattire-vm #26

:)
[Nook Color Android Development] Canadoc:
anyway to get oc 1100mhz on this?
[Nook Color Android Development] Amin Sabet:
Likewise. I restored all my apps from a Titanium backup, and all is very, very good now. Loving this release.
[Nook Color Android Development] Divine_Madcat:
Bummer, but thanks for the response!
[Nook Color Android Development] hacku:
Took 2 minutes to download the torrent. Seeding for the rest of you guys on my 20Mb connection... :D

Thanks for sharing!
[Nook Color Android Development] MrOtsKrad:
lol by trial and error..i wanted to see what would happen

If you try to set CM7 to unlock via Menu button....youll need to reflash :)\

*edit* rather wipe user data