[USER Tips] HD/HD+ Stock Root User Tips from LeapinLar

[catseyenu]

If you do a factory reset no need to install the new launcher after flashing universal root rev3. Just select zeam on first boot.

And I meant my plain 2.2.0 zip from my item 6 from my HD/HD+ CWM thread.

Got it, the NookHDplus-bootable-CWM-6028-for-stock-BOOTFILES-r4-(05.15.13) I have installed will allow this flash?

 

[leapinlar]

Got it, the NookHDplus-bootable-CWM-6028-for-stock-BOOTFILES-r4-(05.15.13) I have installed will allow this flash?

If you followed my instructions in item 1a.

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[catseyenu]

Flash from the CWM recovery I made on the sd card? /Doah

 

[leapinlar]

Flash from the CWM recovery I made on the sd card? /Doah

yes

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[catseyenu]

Success!
After a wipe/reset, 2.2.0 flashed from SD card copy of CWM.
Universal Root for Stock (rev3 - 09/10/13 ) was reapplied along with CWM for internal memory (emmc).
I was then able to modify build.prop on /system and set the LCD Density to 280, rebooted to a new world.
:good:
I am also looking to free up some space by deleting unneeded apps in system/app, I notice this doesn't remove then from the Nook's "drawer" when I open apps. Any hints or tips on cleaning this space out?
You sir have "beer money" coming your way.

 

[catseyenu]

I am setting this one up for my wife, she will primarily use it as a reader, light browsing and email.
She's coming from a Nook tablet and will want the Nook skin but not all the bloat.

Getting rid of B&N apps in drawer, some wouldn't die w/ the tap/hold delete method & are beyond the grasp of Titanium Backup's delete.
I found this tip in the B&N forums.
"Go up to Edit Profile, select the profile, last item is "Manage Content." Select that, go down to apps, and then uncheck anything you don't want to use."
It's a start...

 

[visctrix]

To burn file image to SD card using Ubuntu, first format card in Nook. That will erase everything from the card and set it up for use on your device.

Insert SD card into your computer.

Then run this command in Terminal: sudo fdisk -l

That brings up a list of your drives. By looking at the size of your drives you can easily see from the size which your SD card is. My SD card in terminal is named /dev/mmcblk0

First a warning, by selecting the wrong device it is easy to overwrite your hard drive by mistake, make sure you know which drive is which.

Then to write the image to your card you would use: sudo dd if=~/filename.img of=/dev/mmcblk0

This is assuming the image is called filename.img and it is in your home folder, adjust your path and filename to suit.

For example, my full command was: sudo dd if=~/NookHD-bootable-CWM-6025-for-emmc-stock-4GB-rev2.img of=/dev/mmcblk0

It will ask for password and then not really do anything. Do not worry, it is writing. However, It could take a while depending on the speed of your card reader.

When it is finished, unmount and remove SD card, and then reinsert. The card will have been renamed to boot.

From this point on just follow the instructions in this thread

Enjoy!

Very important information for me, thanks, but I couldn't get this to work. Eventually found a completely unrelated thread on another forum that pointed out you can't write an image to a partition. (It was writing previously, but then the SD card was unreadable/unusable.)
So my SD card was on /dev/sde1 and I used Gparted to delete the partition.
My command was then: sudo dd if=/home/henry/Downloads/NookHD-bootable-CWM-6027-for-emmc-stock-4GB-rev3-02-03-13.img of=/dev/sde
This worked, and I could see the SD card, and I simply added a further partition using Gparted to make the rest of the unallocated space on the card usable. The rest of the procedure was fine.
Hope this helps someone.

 

[bluepen61]

I did a couple of backups using CWM 6.0.2.7 on uSD card of my rooted stock Nook HD and each time it ended with this error: Error while making a backkup image of /data! The first time this occurred, I deleted a couple of older backups thinking it was out of room on the uSD card. I then deleted the most recent backup on the subsequent tries.

Is there something I can do to fix this?

 

[leapinlar]

I did a couple of backups using CWM 6.0.2.7 on uSD card of my rooted stock Nook HD and each time it ended with this error: Error while making a backkup image of /data! The first time this occurred, I deleted a couple of older backups thinking it was out of room on the uSD card. I then deleted the most recent backup on the subsequent tries.

Is there something I can do to fix this?

It depends on the size of the SD you put the image on. Each backup takes over 1GB. Just copy your backups to your PC and delete them from the SD. Or put the CWM on a larger SD.

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[bluepen61]

It depends on the size of the SD you put the image on. Each backup takes over 1GB. Just copy your backups to your PC and delete them from the SD. Or put the CWM on a larger SD.

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I purchased a new uSD card (16 gb), created a CWM, and did a backup with no errors! Thank you leapinlar for the advice!

 

[jasmynr]

computer not recognizing nook

Hi,
Im using a nook hd+ with a hp laptop running xp, but when I connect the nook it needs drivers
will the drivers in this thread work for this,
it shows a file for setting up nook in the folder, when I download that it is a dmg file and I get an error saying windows cant open it,
the device manager shows mtp with a question mark next to it and says drivers for this device are not installed
I did install windows mtp drivers from microsoft and windows media player 11 but it still doesnt work or allow me to transfer files to the nook

thanks for any advice

 

[leapinlar]

Hi,
Im using a nook hd+ with a hp laptop running xp, but when I connect the nook it needs drivers
will the drivers in this thread work for this,
it shows a file for setting up nook in the folder, when I download that it is a dmg file and I get an error saying windows cant open it,
the device manager shows mtp with a question mark next to it and says drivers for this device are not installed
I did install windows mtp drivers from microsoft and windows media player 11 but it still doesnt work or allow me to transfer files to the nook

thanks for any advice

Those are not really MTP drivers they are looking for, they are ADB drivers. Go to settings and turn off ADB debugging and you will stop getting those messages.

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[jasmynr]

Those are not really MTP drivers they are looking for, they are ADB drivers. Go to settings and turn off ADB debugging and you will stop getting those messages.

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thanks, but without the drivers its not letting me transfer files to the nook, should I download adb drivers?

 

[leapinlar]

thanks, but without the drivers its not letting me transfer files to the nook, should I download adb drivers?

If you turn off ADB debugging and plug in, you should see the nook device in windows explorer in the left pane below the lettered devices.

No ADB drivers are just for ADB, not MTP.

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[jasmynr]

thanks

If you turn off ADB debugging and plug in, you should see the nook device in windows explorer in the left pane below the lettered devices.

No ADB drivers are just for ADB, not MTP.

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I will try that, thanks so much for your help!

 

[santos1958]

Nook HD firmware 2.10

Have Nook HD 2.10, create bootable SD, install Universal root rev3 zip file.

Pls advice do I need to install any additional zip file.

Also how do you compare version of Android on Nook version 2.10 with other version of CM?

Any advantage to install CM zip + Gapps.zip.

Thank you in advance for the advice.

 

[specu]

So adaway doesn't seem to be installing cleanly with rom 2.2.0 (It's fine with 2.1.1, and I assume earlier):
First of all 1mobile.com has 3 version of adaway, all outdated. Google link for adaway no longer works either. Their homepage looks to be: http://sufficientlysecure.org/index.php/adaway/

I'm trying to create a symlink (I don't believe it's no longer needed but still) and it tells me "Symlink could not be created by Android....A solution is to boot your phone into recovery mode and create the symlink there with 'ln -s /data/data/hosts /system/etc/hosts'..."
So I went into terminal and did:
su
ln -s /data/data/hosts /system/etc/hosts
and got "lnk failed File exists"
the hosts file is already in there and that file system is read-only
I'm going to try some things, but just wanted to let you know and if there's an easy solution please let me know. This happens in adaway 2.3 and 2.8.1.

I really like blocking updates this way since I'm getting some spyware protection this way (I feel like I can safely install some apps that have ads and analytics).

 

[leapinlar]

So adaway doesn't seem to be installing cleanly with rom 2.2.0 (It's fine with 2.1.1, and I assume earlier):
First of all 1mobile.com has 3 version of adaway, all outdated. Google link for adaway no longer works either. Their homepage looks to be: http://sufficientlysecure.org/index.php/adaway/

I'm trying to create a symlink (I don't believe it's no longer needed but still) and it tells me "Symlink could not be created by Android....A solution is to boot your phone into recovery mode and create the symlink there with 'ln -s /data/data/hosts /system/etc/hosts'..."
So I went into terminal and did:
su
ln -s /data/data/hosts /system/etc/hosts
and got "lnk failed File exists"
the hosts file is already in there and that file system is read-only
I'm going to try some things, but just wanted to let you know and if there's an easy solution please let me know.

I really like blocking updates this way since I'm getting some spyware protection this way (I feel like I can safely install some apps that have ads and analytics).

Unless you rooted with Universal Root rev3 you do still need to symlink as any changed /system file will still trigger a system reset with out it. If the /system/etc/hosts file already exists in 2.2.0 the a symlink cannot be created. So it looks like if you want to use adaway with 2.2.0 you must use universal root rev3 and then you don't need the symlink anyway. You can let adway modify hosts directly since file protection is removed.

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[specu]

Unless you rooted with Universal Root rev3 you do still need to symlink as any changed /system file will still trigger a system reset with out it. If the /system/etc/hosts file already exists in 2.2.0 the a symlink cannot be created. So it looks like if you want to use adaway with 2.2.0 you must use universal root rev3 and then you don't need the symlink anyway. You can let adway modify hosts directly since file protection is removed.

That's all happening after rooting with ver3 (installed your plain stock 2.2.0, rebooted then rooted with ver3 and installed unknown sources using ver0). I've let it modify /system/etc/hosts directly and it worked perfectly. Adaway 2.8.1 can even reboot my nook afterwards which is nice that they've fixed it.

Thanks for your help.

 

[sandersonsister]

Someone please help as I am going bonkers. I have a nook hd which I rooted in June 2013 following this thread purely so that I could load xbmc. I have not fiddled with the software since. Everything has been working fine for me as I don't use my tablet for anything other than surfing, reading and watching media.

I had all my ebooks loaded onto the sd card. Recently I deleted all of these from the sd via my pc and after some categorising I added them back onto the nooks sd card. Then I found I had duplicate and triplicate ghost files. All I wanted to do was remove these ghost files from my library. Searches online tell me it's virtually impossible without deregistering the device.

I thought I might be able to do something via root but I can't fine the CWM launcher. I downloaded an app to check for 'Su' but that suggests that I've lost root - I still have the backup I made at the time of rooting almost a year ago. The nook is now on firmware 2.2.0 so I don't even know if the old backup would work.

All I want to do is remove the ghost files but right now I'm not sure what I'm actually working with. If I deregister what will i lose and will I have to start again from the start - rooting, trying to add xbmc and downloading all my apps again?

Not sure what my next step is. I could just leave the ghost files but there are over 1,500 showing as books with useless thumbnails which is confusing. Any help would be very much appreciated!