[GUIDE] Install CM7 or CM10 + Recovery to EMMC - ALL NOOK COLORS! (Updated:11/19/12)
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thank you eyeballer for this guide it works amazing. I went with the twrp recovery since i use that on my phone . again thank you for your time and efforts
how to get cwm on lg p925g
im having a problem installing/finding cwm for my lg p925g android version 4.0.4 pleas help thanx in advance
im having a problem installing/finding cwm for my lg p925g android version 4.0.4 pleas help thanx in advance
Has anyone created a new 1gb image with an updated recovery that is able to flash the CM11 ROMs?
The one I have is the tried-and-true 1gb_clockwork-3.2.0.1-eyeballer but it won't update to CM11.
I tried replacing ramdisk and kernel with some of the many updated ones here but the device just sites on the skull icon and never boots.
Thanks in advance.
The one I have is the tried-and-true 1gb_clockwork-3.2.0.1-eyeballer but it won't update to CM11.
I tried replacing ramdisk and kernel with some of the many updated ones here but the device just sites on the skull icon and never boots.
Thanks in advance.
Screen stuck rebooting
I followed the directions, and after wiping out the SD card, reinserting and rebooting the Nook, it's just hanging, showing a screen with "CyanogenMod" surrounded by a circle (with some graphics going on in the circle, like a spinning wheel).
Any suggestions? I realize I'm a little late to the party, but I have an old Nook that I'd like to convert to a pure android tablet for my 7 year old.
Thanks.
I followed the directions, and after wiping out the SD card, reinserting and rebooting the Nook, it's just hanging, showing a screen with "CyanogenMod" surrounded by a circle (with some graphics going on in the circle, like a spinning wheel).
Any suggestions? I realize I'm a little late to the party, but I have an old Nook that I'd like to convert to a pure android tablet for my 7 year old.
Thanks.
What version of CM are you trying to install? And the first time it boots it takes a long time with that spinning wheel to finish. Did you let it go for a while?
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I'm installing cm-10.1..3-RC2-encore. I initially only found cm-11-20150705-NIGHTLY-encore, but that failed to unzip onto the Nook. Searching around I found a the CM10 I'm using. A big problem I'm facing is encountering dead links on any pages with instructions.
I let it go for about an hour, and figured it was caught in some kind of loop. When you say it takes a long time, are you saying hours? If so, can I just turn it on again and let it run, or do i need to reinstall again?
Thanks.
There is a better rom, CM10.1.3 stable. Click on the stable button on the cm site.
And no, not hours, 10 or 20 minutes. Start over.
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Hmm. I have rooted this Nook before and had CM10 working on it -- loved it -- but then it mysteriously reverted to its factory condition and OS, one day. I'm trying to get it back to CM10 but after following the guide using both images (from the first step) my Nook just boots normally and nothing appears to have happened besides the Nook writing a few new folders onto the SD card. What did I do wrong?
It reset itself to stock because your cm failed to boot 8 times in a row. It has a failsafe mechanism to do that.
The nook is finicky about having the sdcard prepared just right or it won't boot. Go to my nook color tips thread linked in my signature and read about it. I think it is item A9.
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Ok, I'll definitely do that, but do you have any idea why the OP method isn't taking for me, now?
Obviously is because the sd is not made perfectly to its liking. That is why I steered you to my tips thread to read about that.
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Wonder if that would do the trick on a friend's Nook Color. We tried CM11 on it, but it was too slow to be deemed stable, and one of the CM10 zips ended up throwing force close errors on first boot.
I can't get either of these to get the Nook Color to boot into recovery on 1.4.3.
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288***Nook Colors manufactured after May 2011 shipped with a different partition scheme, see post 2 for information about it, or just go ahead with the guide since it doesn't affect much! You can identify these nooks as they have a blue dot sticker on the box***
A gentle reminder, this thread should only be for discussion related to the guide itself. Any CM7/10 related issues should be discussed in the appropriate threads either in General or the Development forum. Thanks!
On with the good stuff:
Prologue
This guide is intended to take you through the (mostly windows-based) steps needed to replace your internal nook color rom with CM7/CM9, gapps and clockworkmod or TWRP recovery all on EMMC. This will work coming from any previous rom, including the latest stock software (excluding dual boot set ups, not supporting that here), no previous rooting is needed for a new nook, however don't forget to boot stock and register the device before flashing to CM7/10.
At this point in CM7 development I am recommending installing a CM7.2 build by mrg666 from this thread or an official nightly/stable 7.2 directly from CyanogenMod: http://get.cm/?device=encore
CM10 is based on Android 4.1 (Jellybean) and builds can be found here: http://get.cm/?device=encore or mirrored here: http://techerrata.com/browse/cm/encore/nightly
If you want to run CM7/10 from the sdcard.. you're in the wrong place! Go check out verygreen's thread here for CM7 or here for CM10.
ALWAYS check the md5 hash for the files you are downloading to make sure you don't have corrupted files. This is a great windows utility to do that: http://code.kliu.org/hashcheck/
On with the guide:
- Download 1gb TWRP image from here OR 1gb CWM 3.2.0.1 sdcard image from here. MD5 of .zip: 1319739d33642ed860e8044c3d55aa56. (I made this based on work in this thread. credit: to cmstlist and DizzyDen, and kevank for hosting). You really only need the 1gb image for this guide, no matter what the size of your card is. A smaller image will burn faster, and when you're done with the guide you can reformat the card anyway.
- Extract the twrp or clockworkmod .img (if you can't open the file use 7zip)and burn to sdcard using win32diskimager (free). These apps will need to be "run as administrator." If you're not sure how to do this see step 3 here. ***Some internal laptop/desktop readers will not work to do this, you may need an external USB reader if you run into problems.***
While that's burning: - Download CM7 or CM10 from the links above.
- Download either CWM 3.2.0.1 flashable .zip from here or TWRP 2.x flashable zip from here.
- For CM7 -Download the latest gapps gingerbread needed for market/google services) from http://goo-inside.me/gapps/gapps-gb-20110828-signed.zip
- For CM10 download gapps-jb-20121011-signed.zip from here or here
- Once your sdcard is done, copy all those files to the sdcard - DO NOT unzip them
- Power off your nook. Put the sdcard in, and power on, the nook will boot from sdcard into TWRP or clockworkmod depeding on which you used. TWRP is touch based and easy to use. Navigate in CWM using the vol up/down keys, N button to accept, power button to go back.
- Optional: At this point if you want to make a backup of your current EMMC rom (stock or whatever else you're running) you can. Just go to backup.
- Go back and navigate to Install .zip from sdcard/Choose .zip
- Flash the files in this order:
1. cm .zip
2. gapps
3. Clockworkmod or TWRP .zip - Once you've flashed the files; in the clockworkmod main menu select "wipe data/factory reset" or in TWRP choose factory reset from the wipe menu.
- Go back to the main menu, remove the sdcard
- Format the sdcard in your computer as fat32 (or use another sdcard) and put it back in the nook and then press reboot system. (CM7 requires the use of an sdcard for storage - thanks pmilford for the tip)
- Once you boot into CM7/10, you'll be presented with a welcome screen and you can add your google acct. You need to have wifi access here (obviously..) so hit menu on the status bar and you can set up wifi.
DONE!
Epilogue:
- Now you can format the sdcard to use as a storage card in your nook.
- To boot into recovery in the future (in order to update to a newer cm7 build/new kernel or make backups) simply hold down power and then choose reboot - recovery from the menu.
- If you want to *gasp* restore to stock 1.2.0 flash nemith's stock image (update-nc-stock-1.2-signed.zip) from here using a recovery sdcard.
- In CM7: For those looking to get a honeycomb feel to their Nook, I'd recommend this theme. Download the .apk and install it with file manager (or another of your choice), then go to the Theme Chooser app and scroll all the way left and select the theme (name/picture is broken but theme works). Once you've applied it, reboot. (Credits mad-murdock, Bawb3, haxzamatic and joenathane)
- In CM7: To set your CPU/Overclock options go to Menu-Settings-CyanogenMod Settings-Performance.
- CM7 for the nook color includes mad-murdock's tablet tweaks, so be sure to set up your preferences in the tablet tweak settings also found in the CM settings menu. Some apps, or you, will hide the status bar (eg watching a full screen video) so I like to set "unhide key" to home so that the N button will show the status bar again.
- If you're having market problems see this thread for fixes. (Thanks jalexishg)
- Want to say thanks? Hit the thanks button below
For more information on CM7 and latest issues/fixes/workarounds please check out the Nightly discussion thread here.
For more information on CM10 and latest issues/fixes/workarounds please check out the Nightly user discussion thread here and the development thread here.
Updating to a newer nightly build
- Download latest nightly from CM and put it on the sdcard that's in the nook. Easiest way is to either download it directly on the nook itself, or download on pc and use usb drive mode to copy it to the nook sdcard.
- Reboot to recovery (from power menu)
- Wipe cache
- Install zip from sdcard, flash the new nightly .zip
- Reboot
I will try to maintain this guide with new information when needed. If anyone has any comments/suggestions feel free to suggest them below or PM me.
For additional help or just Nook Color related chat join us in #nookcolor on Freenode IRC. (if you have no idea what IRC is click here)23Information for new nook partitions
B+N have made a change as to how they partition the internal storage space on the nook. New nooks are now shipping with new partitions and you can identify these as they have a blue sticker on the box.
Old partitions: 1GB for data (i.e. apps), 5GB for media (books/music/whatever else)
New partitions: 5GB for data, 1GB for media (if you need more media space you use your sdcard)
Clockworkmod 3.2.0.1 (released 6/5/11) is now able to flash roms on the new partition scheme, however you may prefer to restore the old partition method if you like more onboard space for your own files and don't need 5GB for data (apps)
Current options for installing CM7 on the newer partitioned nook are:
1) Just follow the guide above with cwm 3.2.0.1, keep 5GB /data and 1GB /media
2) Follow this guide http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1094371 to repartition your nook into the older 1GB data/5GB media, and then go back to the top and follow my guide. If you want to repartition using the .zips in DeanGibson's thread, you can flash them using the CWM SD you make in steps 1+2 of my guide above, then go on and flash CM7.4Hey guys.. since we're still waiting on Koush to update RM, I put together a flashable zip that will install CWM to emmc. You can download it here http://tinyw.in/8m2c
Just flash with a bootable cwm card.
If you want to try TWRP recovery see this thread for all the flashable zips.3Updated the guide to reflect use of nightly 102 (or onwards). At this point the new nightlies are very stable and have way so many improvements and fixes over 7.0.3 stable that it's not worth using anything else.
CM 7.1 RC1 is around the corner, possibly this weekend.
Also, there's a new gapps 6/13, so if updating to newer nightlies I suggest flashing that too since they're meant for android 2.3.4 (some background market changes).3
Done this at once. Great description, works smooth and nice. But... I can't get root. May be it's stupid, but all apps, requiring root are not working. 'su' in Terminal tells me 'permission denied'.
This is my first time CyanogenMod try, I used Froyo before. Did I do smth wrong?
Ooops, there is another happy user just 2 seconds ahead of me
Hey guys, superuser is broken in the last couple of nightlies, just flash this in recovery after flashing the rom and you'll be all set.
http://downloads.androidsu.com/superuser/su-2.3.6.3-efgh-signed.zip
