So I bought a nook color, downloaded BN v1.2 software and went about installing CM7 on my 8GB Sandisk Class 4 microSD. I am using a Macbook to flash on the sd card.
First trial: used verygreen's instructions on this site (many thanks). Installed CM7 successfully (yay), downloaded gapps and tried to do 2 finger recovery boot (as per instructions). Didn't work, so started ROM manager, installed CWR, downloaded gapps thru ROM manager then tried to boot into recovery. This didn't work. I then read a thread which said I had to do a regular restart after installing CWR for the installation to be complete. So ...
Second trial: reinstalled CM7, started ROM manager, installed CWR, powered down, powered up, tried to install gapps thru ROM manager, and internet connection hung up. Didn't want to mess with it, so ...
Third trial: reinstalled CM7, started ROM manager, installed CWR, powered down, powered up, powered down, powered up (just in case), install gapps thru ROM manager, and still couldn't boot into recovery. Then there was a suggestion to place CM7 zip and gapps zip on my sd card at the same time prior to first run of CM& on nook, so ...
Forth trial: flash CM7 and gapps zip on sd card. Put sd card into nook, booted, installed CM7, got 3 more apps in folder, but no marketplace (which is the reason I am going through all this frustration in the first place). Started ROM manager, installed CWR, powered down, powered up, powered down, powered up, install gapps thru ROM manager (again?), and still couldn't boot into recovery.
Note: through all these iterations, I have tried booting into recovery mode
1. via ROM manager
2. via reboot options (as opposed to power off)
3. via holding the nook button and power button in different order/time lengths.
I have been messing with this for over 4 hours last night and a couple of hours today. I know that it should not be this hard, but ...
I had planned on overclocking the machine next, but I can't seem to get beyond this step.
I found the installation guide for installing overclocked CM7 with CWR on eMMC on this site, but with as much trouble as I'm having with sd card installation, I'll end up bricking the "unbrickable" nook.
Prior to all this, I tried the HC instructions, but had trouble with marketplace install then too. I figure this was more stable, most of the bugs were worked out and had more support. Any assistance with this is greatly appreciated.
So, after the last trial, and several power on's later, Marketplace showed up -> I don't need to figure out ROM manager/boot recovery right now. I don't know when it showed up though, as I was not looking for it and wasn't paying attention (O_O).
In case this might help someone else, here is my guess as to what happened. It likely showed up after one of my recovery boot attempts. I held the N button and the power button. I kept holding it after the first startup screen faded, returned, then went away again. It booted into the installation screen I got when I first installed CM7 with the penguin in the upper left hand side (in landscape mode; this is NOT the recovery screen based on the youtube vids and other images I've seen). It was very brief, and only had <20 lines of text, one of which stated something to the effect that CM was installed and it would not need to install it. My guess is that it found the gapps zip file I had put in the boot drive along with CM7 update zip file prior to installing it in the nook, and unpackaged it and installed it then.
Reference points: when I installed CM7 without the gapps, I had 25 apps on my nook. After I co-installed them, I had ~28 (not 100% sure; one of them was talk). When I found marketplace (ie after the funky recovery boot attempt mentioned above), I had 31 apps.
Shiny1 said:
So I bought a nook color, downloaded BN v1.2 software and went about installing CM7 on my 8GB Sandisk Class 4 microSD. I am using a Macbook to flash on the sd card.
First trial: used verygreen's instructions on this site (many thanks). Installed CM7 successfully (yay), downloaded gapps and tried to do 2 finger recovery boot (as per instructions). Didn't work, so started ROM manager, installed CWR, downloaded gapps thru ROM manager then ... /snip
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And there's where you started making it very complicated.
If you had read through verygreen's thread, you'd have realized that the "2 finger recovery boot" is timing sensitive. Hold N button down, hold power button, keep holding both buttons while it boots up, start counting to three only when you see "Touch the future..." come up on screen, release the N button on three but keep holding down the power button for another few seconds. And it will go into recovery.
And, you need to have wi-fi set up and enabled to install gapps/market, you can install both CM7/gapps at the same time but market won't show until wi-fi is running and a lot of people get confused. That's the reason why the instructions tell you to install CM7 first, set up your wi-fi, and then only add gapps/market after. You didn't mention setting up wi-fi, I guess somewhere along the line you did enable it and that's when market showed up.
For anyone reading this and contemplating installing CM7/gapps/market onto SD card, make sure you follow the directions in verygreen's post to the letter. It works.
I originally got CM7 and gapps working fine on my SD card in my nook. But today, I wanted to start over with another SD card. Using verygreen's step-by-step instructions again, CM7 loads fine, but for the life of me I can't get the nook to boot into recovery mode to install gapps. I swear I have tried every timing combination I can think of, but still can't get into recovery mode. I might just add gapps to the SD card when adding CM7. Then turn on wifi.
Trouble getting into Recovery Mode
Same problem here... I originally installed CM7 on an 8GB SD card back in late March, adding gapps at the same time. It's been working flawlessly, through many, many nightly updates, until yesterday when it refused to boot into Recovery mode. Now it hangs on the "Future of Reading" screen. I'm going to try wiping the SD card and starting over.
EDIT: OK...Used Easeus Partition Manager to wipe the SD card. Was then able to use verygreen's tools and steps to recreate CM7 bld 68. Then successfully updated to bld 69. Obviously lost all my data, but at least everything seems to be working.
Can't enter recovery mode either
I'm running CyanogenMod-7-05252011-NIGHTLY-encore in kernel version 2.6.32.9 [email protected] # 174, Android version 2.3.4 on a nook color I bought five days ago. I've gotten CM7 to boot.
Following the instructions to install Android Market and Google Apps on Nook Color CM7 at the-ebook-reader.com/nook-color-cm7.html hasn't worked. I can't get into recovery mode, never get the "Touch the Future of Reading" display (don't get this in B&N nook color mode either, just "Read Forever" since I installed software version 1.2.0).
I've put the gapps-gb-20110307-signed.zip file 'as is' (NOT unzipped) into the microSD card's root directory.
What happens is this: I hold down the 'n' and the main power button. The screen flashes white very briefly, then the white lettering on green cyanogen appears for less than a second before disappearing. The nook color is powered off then.
Anybody know what's going on, and how I can get into recovery mode to load the google apps pack and android market?
Got gapps to load using ROMmanager to enter recovery mode - no problems now.
Me, too--I hate to say...
I've got CM 7.0.3 running from an SD card, and everything went well until I tried to reboot into recovery mode. I've followed the instructions in the beginning of Verygreen's thread, the ones listed above (which are slightly different), tried from Rom Manager, the power button>reboot>recovery method, as well as various other tutorials and even videos. I'm still unable to get my NC to reboot into recovery mode. I double checked, and the gapps .zip file is in the correct partition, as well. I'm at a loss at this point. Any help would be greatly appreciated, and I'm sorry for all the bother.
Thank you.
UPDATE: Reformatted my sd card (on a Mac), then tried again using 7.0.3 and the 93 nightly instead of 94, and everything is working fine now. Thanks very much anyway, though!!
I am having the same issues. Brand new nook. Installer VeryGreen's instructions. Booted using sdcard, setting up wireless. Rebooted. Attempted to go into recovery mode using the key press method, using ROMmanager and via the Reboot menu option. In all instances, it just boots up normally. I also re-imaged the card with the latest stable release of CM7 but that did not make any difference.
Thoughts?
And given that I can't install the Marketplace, is there anyway to install apps? Right now I have a vanilla install, while nice, does not give me what I need in terms of functionality.
thx.
Got mine working!
I had the same issue - generic uSD v1.3, CM7 7.0.3 Stable, and couldn't get into recovery no matter what.
With nothing to lose, I started from scratch and put gapps on the uSD boot partition along with CM7, and it worked. The device was sluggish while going through the setup wizard (just decline to connect/establish an account until you exit the wizard and have enabled WiFi), but after a reboot, market is there. There were 29 apps before, and now there are 31. I think market and talk are the new ones.
Now I'm happily busy installing my apps.
Thanks to all the smart guys who make this possible.
I am having a lot of trouble getting recovery mode to actually run
I have followed the instructions and have asked a coworker for help. My 1st attempt was using the 7.0.3 stable build.My nook seems to be running CM7 fine and I was able to install the Amazon app and then download additional apps from there, but was unable to get the nook to rebot in recovery mode. I have tried a number of ways.
1) the time sequence suggested on verygreens thread (not sure I did it right)
2) power up the nook. hold the power buttong until I get a menu. select reboot in recovery mode and the select ok.
3) open the ROM manger and select reboot in recovery mode.
I have tried various repeated attempts with these while holding power,or the n button... etc. nothing happens except it boots like normal. I went into the ROM manager and updated clockwork. I also ran set permissiones in the ROM manager. then tried the various ways of rebooting in recovery mode.
I then read on here that the nightly builds worked better than 7.0.3 for one person so I formatted the SD and reattepted every listed above with the 8-8-2011 (cm_encore_full-154) nightly build. It is still not able to reboot in recovery mode.
I had 1 minor success when I turned the nook off and removed the micro SD it DID go int recovery mode. I reinserted the micor SD and used the menu to install the zip file... but after rebooting nook I still don't see any new apps.
Please someone give me some suggestions.
To all:
The installer image 1.3 from verygreens thread does not work with 7.0.3 or below. Use the 7.1.0 RC or recent nightly. 150 is supposed to be pretty good.
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I'd like to ask this on verygreens siz agnostic CM7 thread, but I can't because I am a noob and it's an "expert" thread.
Anyway, I have a rooted Nook (using autonooter 3.0" and I want to run CM7 from an 8GB SD card. All went well, and I am able to run CM& and I set up wifi.
I then copied the latest gapps onto the card and tried to go into recovery mode. It just boots into CM7. I have tried all the suggestions on verygreen's thread, but none of them worked for me.
Can someone please help?
Thanks
OK, never mind. I got it to work.
In case some other idiot has the same problem, here is what worked:
1. Press "N" and power buttons simultaneously. Release the power button about 5 seconds after the "Touch the future of read" screen comes on.
woneil said:
1. Press "N" and power buttons simultaneously. Release the power button about 5 seconds after the "Touch the future of read" screen comes on.
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When did you release the N button?
I've experimented with all sorts of timings but still can't get into the Recovery Mode. Could someone please help?
I'm installed CM7 on a 8GB SD card for my Nook Color using the Size-agnostic SD Card image and CM7 installer for SD Cards. with updater.
In addition to the instructions on a number of threads on XDA, I tried all sorts of variations on the button sequence, for example, pressing N before/after/simultaneously with the power button, releasing the power button before/1s after/5s after the "future of reading" message shows up, releasing N 1s/5s after releasing the power button, not releasing N at all, and so on... none worked for me. I've been trying for over an hour...
Can someone post a very verbose step-by-step on the button sequence? What am I suppose to see when I enter the recovery mode?
I'm having the same problem. I would very much like to get this stuff to work I have been trying for 2 hours with no luck. Please Help
I've had success (with Market access) snagging ROM Manager. It can flash CWR to your emmc and reboot you to Recovery on its own. Have your ROM loaded on a uSD and navigate to it (after formating cache/data)) then selecting the zip you wish to install. This bypasses the possibility of a bad uSD, bad format on uSD or even corrupt uSD.
Have done several times and yet to fail (knock wood!). Lemme know how it goes.
Eyeballer has a great thread that might also help y'all. Sticky this for future reference.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1030227
No joy installing gapps on nookcolor
I had similar issues installing gapps...
- installed CM7 (7.0.3 encore stable) on NC uSD using verygreen's method with no issues. I used the latest generic SD card image (v1.3).
However, when I went to install gapps via the recommended methods, I got the following errors:
- key recovery method doesn't ever show the penguin (is that the indicator you're in recovery?)
- software reboot with recovery option also no joy
- tried flashing CW via the ROM manager app to do what skeeterpro recommends, and get an installation error flashing CW...
... so my solution was to start from scratch and put both CM7 and gapps on the uSD the first time.
I just delayed any online portion of the setup wizard (picked the top option at the beginning - not the pretty-looking Setup Wizard name; you'll know what I mean when you get there) until I got through it and was able to setup WiFi.
All is working well now.
Cheers!
I just did a new instal with GAPPS on the SD card with CM7 and it works like a charm now.
VWAffe said:
... so my solution was to start from scratch and put both CM7 and gapps on the uSD the first time.
I just delayed any online portion of the setup wizard (picked the top option at the beginning - not the pretty-looking Setup Wizard name; you'll know what I mean when you get there) until I got through it and was able to setup WiFi.
All is working well now.
Cheers!
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I've been trying all day to get the Gapps to install with no luck. Your method worked perfectly first try. Thanks.
hokudog said:
I just did a new instal with GAPPS on the SD card with CM7 and it works like a charm now.
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It'll also install the Dalingrin's O/C kernel at the same time. Tried this 3X and worked perfectly.
Verygreen does caution, though, that the all-at-once method has caused problems for many, and, therefore, does not recommend this.
Also, with his latest SD image, you can bring up a boot menu by pressing the "N" key when you see the CyanogenMod banner. This allows you to boot to SD, EMMC, or recovery mode -a great and handy feature!
I use Cm7-01302012-nightly and by mistake deleted the boot menu, the phone not start, any suggestions?
I'm having a little trouble getting everything to run smoothly on my Nook Color CM7 install. I originally tried the latest night release and ran into a lot of force closes, apps that wouldn't run, and overall sluggishness.
So I installed 7.0.3-Encore which is supposed to be the latest stable release. I can't boot into Recovery to install gapps. I was able to boot into Recovery with the night release, but not 7.0.3-Encore. I tried 7.0.2-Encore and had the same problem.
I tried choosing "reboot" and then "boot into recovery". It just boots normally. I tried booting into recovery through the rom manager. Same thing happened.
What am I doing wrong, or what do I need to do to get this working?
Just to give a few more details. I did some more research about getting this thing to go into Recovery Mode. When I boot, I don't get the "Touch the World of Reading" text. It goes straight into "Loading". Every post that I read about getting into recovery mode says that you're supposed to release the buttons after the "Touch the World of Reading" appears. I don't get that text at all. I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong.
Next time, asking question, pls indicate you are running ROM on eMMC or booting it off uSD.
I'm pretty much having the same problem
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I'm pretty much having the same problem
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I think that I figured mine out. There are two ways that you can get around this.
The easiest way is to bypass using Recovery at all to install gapps. When you put your ROM image on the SD card, put your gapps image on there as well. When it boots and installs the ROM, it will automatically install the gapps as well. Just make sure that you're in a wifi hotspot so that you can log in when you sign into gapps.
I think that my issue was that Clockwork recover wasn't installed on my system. If you to into the ROM Manager, there is an option at the top to install Clockwork Recovery. After you install it, choose the option in the ROM Manager to reboot into Recovery. This worked for me.
I changed to an internal memory install and EVERYTHING is 100% better. Don't do a SD Card install unless you have the correct type of sandisk class 2 card. Any other SD Card will make things super slow and will cause lots of force closes.
Much better to just do an internal memory install and then an overclock. Right now I'm running the latest nightly release and haven't had a single issue. Plus it lets you overclock it to 1200 Mhz right out of the box. Hope that helps!
Yea I bypassed recovery for the gapps install. However I did instal CWM through ROM manager and i still can't boot into recovery
I can tell you that I switched to Nightly build 152 and that I can also boot into recovery with the button combo at bootup. I hold the power button until the screen flashes and then press the Nook Button for about a second. When the loading screen appears I release both buttons, and it says that it's booting into recovery.
With this build I can also boot into Recovery from the ROM manager. You might want to consider trying out this build if you're still having trouble.
I just picked up a Nook Color and an 8gb MicroSD. I went through the instruction here to make a Android 2.3 boot disk.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1000957
It all worked fine until the very end where I installed the file with the Market and googleapps. I put that on the SD and put it the NC, rebooted into Recovery mode. It seemed to work and shut itself off. When I started the NC again it seemed to start, but it gets stuck at the circle logo with the spinning arrow... forever (okay, I waited 20 minutes). I can shut it off, but can't get it to ever go past this screen. I redid the whole process a second time and got the same result.
Any ideas?
What CM7 did you use? 7.0.3 stable isn't supported by that installer, only the more recent nightlies (may as well start with 150 at this point) or the 7.1 release candidate.
Were you able to boot into CM7 and set up Wi-Fi before you tried to install gapps?
The next step is probably to re-download CM7 and gapps (in case the files were corrupted) and boot into recovery to install again.
I was able to boot up before I put the gapps on there and went online (weak signal from a neighbor for internet, but I got the google home page to load).
I think I used cm_encore_full-151.zip , which one should I use?
Everything runs smoothey until I try to install gapps, it seems to install them, but when I reboot it just loops on the spinning arrow animation forever.
Try the steps from this site and make sure you use CWR ver. 3.2.0.1.
http://mrm3.net/nook-color-how-to-install-cyanogenmod-nightlies/
Note, you do not have to boot up CM7 first. You can install CM7 and the app pack during the initial install. Just install the ROM .zip before you install the app .zip.
patruns said:
Try the steps from this site and make sure you use CWR ver. 3.2.0.1.
http://mrm3.net/nook-color-how-to-install-cyanogenmod-nightlies/
Note, you do not have to boot up CM7 first. You can install CM7 and the app pack during the initial install. Just install the ROM .zip before you install the app .zip.
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He booted it off the uSD, m8
Nothing I do seems to help. I can get a nice Android 2.3 tablet, as long as I don't try to install gapps. If I install them it just loops forever in boot. Is there any other way to get gappos on it besides putting a zip file on the SD and rebooting?
Did you try installing both CM7 and gapps at the same time (putting both zips on the SD together)? If it works, just make sure to opt-out of account set-up and get Wi-Fi configured.
ETA: also, if nothing else you should be able to install the Amazon app market.
Nothing seems to work. Every time I boot up with gapps it just has the spinning ciricle boot screen FOREVER.
Since the screwy Youtube update won't work with 7.0.3.encore and read it was working with nightly 151 I decided I wanted to try to install a newer version. Following the directions I have read on the forums, I downloaded the newest nightly 155 and placed it on the boot folder of the SD. Then I selected boot device: sd and recovery, but it just hung at the boot menu screen. I let the NC sit for about 10 min to see if it was doing anything (it wasn't) and then had to do a power off-N.
I changed back to the standard boot file, restarted, then from cm7 rebooted into recovery. CM7 started normally and still didn't apply the update.
What am I doing wrong?
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Since the screwy Youtube update won't work with 7.0.3.encore and read it was working with nightly 151 I decided I wanted to try to install a newer version. Following the directions I have read on the forums, I downloaded the newest nightly 155 and placed it on the boot folder of the SD. Then I selected boot device: sd and recovery, but it just hung at the boot menu screen. I let the NC sit for about 10 min to see if it was doing anything (it wasn't) and then had to do a power off-N.
I changed back to the standard boot file, restarted, then from cm7 rebooted into recovery. CM7 started normally and still didn't apply the update.
What am I doing wrong?
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What does that mean?
What is the standard boot file? and what did you do b4 changed back?
I am using the multi-boot that allows you to select from sd or emmc.
Got it.
Since I don't do "dual boot" so I have no experience, can't help much here, m8
I'm sure others will help you.
Hi, folks! I'll post this question here just in case I can get more help, as I've run out of ideas, and I've read all the threads on the specified subject, but none have helped. If it's against the rules, then Mods, please delete the thread. If not, Thank you.
The Problem:
I recently upgraded to CM7.2 Mirage-KANG- from Phiremod 6.2. The Nook was running great until I tried to upgrade to the ICS/CM9 nightly from here. The Nook would refuse to boot. The only way I could get it to boot was with an old CWM sd card I'd used to root it in the first place. I figured I could fix the boot by wiping the /data, /system, and /cache files from the Nook. Bad move. That just made things worse, as now, the Nook doesn't even load from the SD Card anymore unless I hold the "n" key and hold the power button.
I tried restoring it to to stock 1.01 to possibly start from scratch, and all was well, until it was time to register it. It wouldn't let me, even while on wi-fi. It would give me an "error has occurred, Nook will now Power Off" message without weven loading or anything. Upon further inspection, I checked the properties tab by accessing the wi-fi menu and saw that the model number and unit I.D.(I think) were "unknown" and in red letters.
Presently:
Since then, I tried everything from the Autonooter to the Monster Recovery Pack and nothing works. The Nook, without the Micro SD loaded, shows the Cyanogenmod7 logo loading, then goes black, though the backlight remains on. With the card, it goes straight into CWM. It sometimes doesn't boot into anything at all.
Extra Info:
I'm using a Sandisk (4) 8 GB card for the rooting and such. I normally use the 16 GB (4) model.
So my question is:
What can I do from here? Can/should I go back to the beginning as a Stock Nook 1.0, or is there a better, wiser alternative that I can use to get the Nook booting into CM7 or higher normally?
Any help'd be greatly appreciated.
Did you try following the directions on this post http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=931720
Yeah, as a matter of fact, I tried the exact same directions on both those pages, and used that exact CWM 3.0.2 img file to install the Nook 1.01 file.
From there, my Nook boots up fine, gets past the "n" logo, but once in the setup, won't register because it's serial #, Model #, and Mac Address are "missing", and won't let me past the Setup Menu.
Update: I managed to flash Stock 1.0.2. to the Nook. Upon booting it up, it prevented me from registering the Nook, until I figured out the factory mode method to bypass it, and used Autonooter to root.
Now I have a dilemma: I want to ditch Stock and jump to some sort of CM7, but Stock won't allow me to reboot into CWM at all, even after having flashed it through Rom Manager or flashing it to EMMC.
I know there's a way out, I just don't see it.
Any advice would be appreciated.
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I would assume you already have CWM on a SD card. Drop your chosen CM 7 zip onto the card, boot into CWM recovery, choose the zip and install. Same should work with ICS zip but you shpuld prolly avoid it until its in more stable shape.