New Nook HD+ will not boot from SD card.

[dvschnk]

99?!?! How did you pull that off? Argh I paid $200 with tax -_-

Major fire sale going on with the Nook HD and HD+. Officemax this week has the HD for 129 + a $50 gift card, and the HD+ for 149 with a $50 gift card....but the kicker is that when you ring it up, they deduct the price of the gift card already...so mine was $99 for the HD+. Some people have confused the poor folks at officemax even more by convincing them that they still get the $50 gift card, even though the "discounted" price is already shown....so there are some lucky folks getting an HD for 79 with a $50 GC, and the HD+ for $99 with the same GC....or a net price of $29 for the HD, and $49 for the HD+. The sale runs all week for anyone curious.

 

[grobiballon]

I am German and I am living next to Meridian, MS for the next months. This week I bought a Nook HD+ with intention of upgrading it to CM. The stock will not support German language :-/
I read all the instruction and I exactly followed them. I am not able to get it booting from SD. I tried "burning" an image and I tired the “new version” by formatting and setting active flag. Additionally I checked the LBA flag with gparted running in a virtual machine.
I bought two different SDs. I did have not known a CLASS 10 card would not be a good idea for booting so I bought a second one.
- SANDISK Ultra micro SDHC SDSDQUI-O32G-AW46
- SANDISK 8GB SDSDQ-008G-AW46A
It is not working at all - or I am doing something wrong. My procedure is starting be holding the power button for about 2s. Stock starts up. Shutting down by holding power button and pressing OK; or holding the power button a bit longer pressed. Removing SD and putting it back. And again... I tried it now about 50 times.
Is there anybody living in my area who has a working SD? I don’t want to buy masses of SD's...
I hope my bad English is understandable…

 

[leapinlar]

I am German and I am living next to Meridian, MS for the next months. This week I bought a Nook HD+ with intention of upgrading it to CM. The stock will not support German language :-/
I read all the instruction and I exactly followed them. I am not able to get it booting from SD. I tried "burning" an image and I tired the “new version” by formatting and setting active flag. Additionally I checked the LBA flag with gparted running in a virtual machine.
I bought two different SDs. I did have not known a CLASS 10 card would not be a good idea for booting so I bought a second one.
- SANDISK Ultra micro SDHC SDSDQUI-O32G-AW46
- SANDISK 8GB SDSDQ-008G-AW46A
It is not working at all - or I am doing something wrong. My procedure is starting be holding the power button for about 2s. Stock starts up. Shutting down by holding power button and pressing OK; or holding the power button a bit longer pressed. Removing SD and putting it back. And again... I tried it now about 50 times.
Is there anybody living in my area who has a working SD? I don’t want to buy masses of SD's...
I hope my bad English is understandable…

You may have one of the stubborn devices that does not like to boot to SD. I recommend trying to exchange it for one that does.

Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10.1 on emmc.

 

[grobiballon]

You may have one of the stubborn devices that does not like to boot to SD. I recommend trying to exchange it for one that does.

I bought at in a Walmart which gives me the chance to exchanged it (I hope). I will try it tommorrow...
Just in case: Is there any possibility to get CM flashed without booting from SD?

 

[leapinlar]

I bought at in a Walmart which gives me the chance to exchanged it (I hope). I will try it tommorrow...
Just in case: Is there any possibility to get CM flashed without booting from SD?

No.

Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10.1 on emmc.

 

[Matoroa]

Booting from sd card

Hello,

I do not know if this can help but it is what works with my nook: with the tablet turned off, press "n" button, keep pressing it and then press the "on" button for three seconds or until you see the nook booting. It is the consistent as solution in my case.

 

[datamike]

my sd card experience on the HD plus

My HD+ was just bought on July 4th (32GB for $179 at walmart)

I had two samsung class 2 8GB cards that I had no luck with, then I dug around my office and found 16GB Sandisk "mobile ultra micro SD HC I" that booted on the first try. Throw that in the data pile

Mike Evans

 

[ciris]

theres no need to go exchanging nooks when the simpe fix can be just using a different or smaller capacity sd card. I was having all sorts of trouble and tried a 2GB card I had laying around and it boots everytime no issue. Grant it I'm not using the 2gig card for running CM but just to boot to CWM to back up and install zips when needed. I have 4 and 8gig cards that Ive yet to test out so I may do that next,

 

[leapinlar]

theres no need to go exchanging nooks when the simpe fix can be just using a different or smaller capacity sd card. I was having all sorts of trouble and tried a 2GB card I had laying around and it boots everytime no issue. Grant it I'm not using the 2gig card for running CM but just to boot to CWM to back up and install zips when needed. I have 4 and 8gig cards that Ive yet to test out so I may do that next,

I agree sometimes that is a simple fix, but some of the newer devices will not boot no matter what card you use.

Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10.1 on emmc.

 

[espylacopa]

I'm curious how quickly I should see the clockwork screen upon booting up in order to save me some time trying to boot and reboot over again? Should the very first Nook screen popup with the little Adobe Systems disclaimer below it before the clockwork screen, or should the clockwork screen be the very first thing I see?

I've rebooted the thing about 20 times so far trying various methods of formatting an SD card between two 2GB and one 1GB SanDisk branded card (even killed a 1gb SD card trying to do some partitioning on it).

I don't even care about rooting the device, I just want to side load some apps so I can run XBMC on it! LOL

 

[leapinlar]

I'm curious how quickly I should see the clockwork screen upon booting up in order to save me some time trying to boot and reboot over again? Should the very first Nook screen popup with the little Adobe Systems disclaimer below it before the clockwork screen, or should the clockwork screen be the very first thing I see?

I've rebooted the thing about 20 times so far trying various methods of formatting an SD card between two 2GB and one 1GB SanDisk branded card (even killed a 1gb SD card trying to do some partitioning on it).

I don't even care about rooting the device, I just want to side load some apps so I can run XBMC on it! LOL

It should first boot with a short plain nook symbol followed immediately by the cyanoboot logo. If the nook logo stays very long, it is trying to boot to stock.

Sent from my Galaxy Tab 2 using XDA Premium

 

[grobiballon]

You may have one of the stubborn devices that does not like to boot to SD. I recommend trying to exchange it for one that does.

Today I got a new one. I tried it again, and again. Finally I got it running by burning the 1 GB image “emmc-cwm-early2.1.img”. I tried it more than 30 times. Before it worked I played with the volume buttons while powering on. A few times just a black screen appeared where normally the boot loader logo should be. I had already given up, powered it on again and did not watched at it for minutes. About a few minutes later I recognized that it booted up from memory card.
I took a backup and flashed the zips. It is running now on CM.
Finally I tried again to boot from this SD card – sometimes it does, sometimes not. If it is booting from SD once and I am choosing “reboot” it will bot again from SD. When I remove the card, and put it back, it does not boot anymore.
Finally I did it with a 8GB microSDHC SanDisk class 4.
I did not expected that it would be that hard to get it running.

Thanks for support!

 

[espylacopa]

Yeah I've tried about 40 times so far and have no had any luck with the three SD cards I've tried. I'm thinking of trying an 8gb Patriot mem SD card I have in an old phone or even a 32gb SanDisk. Obviously I wouldn't want to make a 32gb card a permanent boot card, so that would just be temporary if I got it to work. Not sure how much more I can push myself to keep trying in hopes of just getting lucky.

 

[thejacko42]

Stupid mistake I made

Just thought I would throw this out there... I bought a Nook HD+ from Walmart a few days ago. Couldn't get it to boot from any SD cards. I followed the new procedure at the beginning. Then I realized... in Mini Partition Wizard, when I went to set the partition to 'Active' I never hit Apply. As soon as I did that, Bam, I was in. Maybe my dumb mistake can help someone else

 

[espylacopa]

I did the same thing initially and then when I fixed it, still no dice.

 

[john_i_]

After much frustration having tried at least 30 times with the boot images, I was finally able to create a bootable SD card on a 2GB card. I had originally tried a large card with the 4GB image, and the same 2GB card with the 1GB image.

What finally worked was for me to erase the partition table on the 2GB card, and manually create a partition of the correct size for the card.

I grabbed the NookHDplus-bootable-CWM-6028-for-stock-BOOTFILES-r4-(05.15.13).rar file from this post to get the bootfiles:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=35811322#post35811322

So, in linux, I did the following:

dd if=/dev/zero bs=1024 of=/dev/mmcblk0 count=10000
blockdev --flushbufs /dev/mmcblk0
fdisk /dev/mmcblk0

    In fdisk, I did the following:
command (m for help): n
Partition type:
   p   primary (0 primary, 0 extended, 4 free)
   e   extended
Select (default p): p
Partition number (1-4, default 1): 1
First sector (2048-1010783, default 2048): 
Using default value 2048
Last sector, +sectors or +size{K,M,G} (2048-1010783, default 1010783): 

Command (m for help): t
Selected partition 1
Hex code (type L to list all codes): c

WARNING: If you have created or modified any DOS 6.xpartitions, please see the fdisk manual page for additionalinformation.

Changed type of partition 'Linux' to 'W95 FAT32 (LBA)'

Command (m for help): a
Selected partition 1
Command (m for help): w

****** After fdisk, do the following to format the partition *****

partprobe /dev/mmcblk0
mkdosfs -F 32 /dev/mmcblk0p1

mount /dev/mmcblk0p1 /mnt

Now, copy the bootfiles from the rar:
cp bootfiles/* /mnt

Then copy the zip files needed for installing CM10.1

umount /mnt

I put int sdcard in the nook hd+, and it booted right up!
I hope this help others out there unable to boot from SD. Maybe the newer nook hd's expect the partition to match the card's geometry before they will boot.

 

[espylacopa]

I'll fire up my laptop running Ubuntu later on tonight and give what you suggested a shot and then let you know if I was able to replicate your success.

 

[grobiballon]

Maybe the newer nook hd's expect the partition to match the card's geometry before they will boot.

The 8GB card I used (see above) had a 1GB image on it.

 

[Hexen525]

So I am trying this for the first time and running into the same issues as everyone else.

Tried everything listed here (except for the Linux part, no Linux installs in this house atm).

One question I have is does the bootfile work on the 7" HD as well as the larger HD+?

 

[jdburns]

My booting experience

Just wanted to relate my experience attempting to boot from SD to flash CM 10.1 and get my Nook+ 32GB off the ground. Nothing really new to add except that I booted at least 30 to 40 times without any success, removing and reinserting my SD between each iteration. I FINALLY got it to boot into CWM and was halfway through my baseline nandroid backup of the stock ROM when, to my profound dismay, the device powered off without warning. After shedding a few tears, I began the process anew, and after ANOTHER 30 or 40 boot attempts, literally one or two trys away from giving up and shipping it back for a replacement, it finally booted again. I didn't bother redoing the backup and just forged ahead with the factory data wipe and installation of CM/gapp zips. After reboot, everything worked perfectly. This was three weeks ago, and I'm still going strong, installing ROM updates and enjoying my tablet, with no major issues.

Just thought I'd reassure anyone out there who is about to give up. I can't promise, of course, that you'll succeed, but I can state that you may fail dozens of times and then suddenly win big.

The only SD I used was a brand new Amazon Basics 32GB, which I wiped after copying nandroid to my Mac and have been using in my Nook ever since with no issues.

Patience, grasshoppers.