[Q] rooting my nook color 1.3.0

If you look in the forums there is plenty of information on how to root your Nook Color.

The warning about downloading something may harm your computer is a warning from the browser. If you get lost by that you may want to considering ordering a bootable SD card. No tech skills required, just pay $30 and get Gingerbread via SD.

"have a 16gb samsung micro scandisk card."
What do you intend to have the card used for?

Follow the instructions in this thread:

[NC][1.2][1.3] ManualNooter 4.6.16

The instructions are step by step. Just to clarify for the instructions, if you are on stock 1.3, you need to run ManualNooter 4.5.18 and ManualNooter 4.6.16; no reboot between, just run one after the other in CWR.

Alakar said:

Follow the instructions in this thread:

[NC][1.2][1.3] ManualNooter 4.6.16

The instructions are step by step. Just to clarify for the instructions, if you are on stock 1.3, you need to run ManualNooter 4.5.18 and ManualNooter 4.6.16; no reboot between, just run one after the other in CWR.

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OMFG - really? Of all the f'ing things I think I tried, I don't believe that I ran 18 then 16 w/out a reboot. I think I tried all other combinations including running fix permissions from ROM manager in between, but how the hell did I miss something that obvious?!!!

To try again, think I just need to re-flash 18 then 16, or do I have to revert back to 1.3, then go 18 then 16?

[edit] turns out flashing 18 then 16 w/out reverting back to 1.3 stock does absolutely nothing.

jnmoriginpoint said:

OMFG - really? Of all the f'ing things I think I tried, I don't believe that I ran 18 then 16 w/out a reboot. I think I tried all other combinations including running fix permissions from ROM manager in between, but how the hell did I miss something that obvious?!!!

To try again, think I just need to re-flash 18 then 16, or do I have to revert back to 1.3, then go 18 then 16?

[edit] turns out flashing 18 then 16 w/out reverting back to 1.3 stock does absolutely nothing.

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Glad I could help.

My Experience Rooting

My NC came with 1.2.
I followed the direction at:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1054027

I first upgraded from 1.2 to 1.3
Followed the rest of the procedure.

Everything went fine until I opened the Market. Many applications were not listed. Applications such a the Dolphin Browser and my application, BASIC! + SQL. Reading the thread showed me that I was not alone. It seemed that no one was able to get the full Market using this procedure.

I trudged through the thread looking for ways to get the Market to work correctly. I tried many of the suggestions. Nothing worked to get me access to the full Market. I finally came to the conclusion that 1.3 + Gingerbread was a Donut (Pun intended).

I decided to revert reset my NC to the factory original factory 1.2 ROM. I did this by following the instruction at:
http://www.nookdevs.com/Flash_back_to_clean_stock_ROM

I used the method of interrupting boots. I found that I only had to interrupt three boots. The Nook then proceeded to completely return to a fresh 1.2 all in one step. The Nook started up just like it came out of the box.

I then went back to:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1054027

And followed the procedure for 1.2 but instead of loading ManualNooter-4-6-16.zip, I used ManualNooter-4-6-16a.zip. The "a" version link can be found at:
http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=17235819&postcount=1

(Note: I did not flash 4-5-18)

After executing the re-flash procedure, I rebooted into 1.2 with FroYo.

All Market applications are not available. I was able to install Dolphin and my application.

Happy day.

I know what you mean about all the jargon. It gave me head aches when I started this a couple of weeks ago.

Since I made that post, I found a procedure that is simple and works very well. It worked the first time I tried in. It gave me a perfectly functioning Android tablet.

Try it.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1030227