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Hi, I finally finished installing CM7 7.1.0 on a 32GB card and make it dual boot with nook color without having to remove the card. I am totally new to tablet and this whole new stuff of android and all those apps. I feel it's cool and fun. Now I have some very simple and silly questions need to solve and put it into real use.
I am going to add a lot of files that I created and saved in the the past to this gadget and each of them has to go either to the 32GB card or the internal 8GB (actually 1 GB) memory. I used the USB cable connected it to my PC and it does not seem look that the two know each other. Maybe this is not the right way. How do I add files? would the location of each file matter when I add them? I will use both the stock nook and the CM7 tablet. Some files maybe used by both system, e.g. photos and PDF files and some books. Will this cause some potential problems? I intend to add most files to the 32 GB card. Which is the right way or good way to add files to it? Do I take the card out and put it into an adaptor on PC and create some sort of folders and add files in? Can the android do this the same way as windows? Since I have made the dual boot posisble without removing the card I am reluctant to take that tiny card out again. I am going to add PDF, office files, music, photo and video etc in them. Except some simple apps I am still not comfortable in using some apps. I am a very bewbie to the android environment.
Thanks.
[Updated 3/4/12] Add flashable SD card image
[Updated 3/5/12] Update instructions to include tethering
[Updated 4/16/12] Add compatibility warning (as suggested by lavero.burgos) and answers to common questions
Sorry for posting this here -- this is the first time I'm posting on xda-developers and I'm not allowed to post in the dev section.
Root for Nook Tablet 8GB (w/ Android Market)
So ever since I bought the 8GB Nook Tablet last week I've been checking this forum daily to see whether there's a root method that I could use to sideload apps etc.. But it seems that no current root method for the 8GB tablet existed, and I even came across a video showing that none of the current root methods for the 16GB version works on the 8GB.
So when I saw bauwks's updated 2nduboot that allows booting from an SD card, I started poking around to see if I could use that to root the tablet. While bauwks's kernel and ramdisk cannot boot into the stock Nook userland on the 8GB version (it reboots right after the "READ FOREVER" screen), they do allow me to boot into Android's init process, and that's enough to root the tablet and install Android Market. Basically, what I did was package the files I needed as well as a small installer script into bauwks's boot.img.
The result (root + Android market) is demonstrated in this video.
Compatibility
This method is for rooting the stock firmware version 1.4.2 that is shipped with the Nook Table 8GB when you buy one from B&N. It is not supposed to be used with other ROMs such as CM7, nor the Nook Tablet 16GB.
Included
- Root (su + Superuser.apk)
- Android market
Options
There are two equivalent ways to apply this root method.
1. The first, and easier method is to burn an image to your SD card.
2. The second method is to partition and format your SD card and copy over the files yourself. This latter is more complicated than you think as the SD card must be partitioned and formatted in a very particular (and peculiar) way for it to boot.
Instructions for option 1 - burning a pre-built microSD card image
0. Before you proceed, know that THIS IS EXPERIMENTAL SOFTWARE THAT PROBABLY VOIDS YOUR WARRANTY AND MAY PERMANENTLY OR TEMPORARILY BRICK YOUR TABLET. Even though it worked for me, it may not work for you, and worse, it is quite possible that it could cause your tablet to boot-loop or die. I AM NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY POSSIBLE DAMAGES TO YOUR TABLET / ANYTHING ELSE CAUSED BY THIS METHOD. BY USING IT YOU AGREE TO ASSUME ALL RESPONSIBILITY FOR YOUR ACTIONS.
1. You need a microSD card. The image itself is ~55MB, which means any card above 64MB will work. Backup anything you have on that SD card because THIS WILL ERASE ALL DATA ON YOUR microSD CARD.
2. Download this image. MD5: 1a4f5cb32f09d3003b11aa782fe9566f
3. Burn downloaded image to microSD card. This page explains how to burn an image on Linux, Mac and Windows. Ignore the Nook Color-specific stuff, don't download the Nookie Froyo image, and replace in the instructions the nookie froyo image with the image you've just downloaded. THIS WILL ERASE ALL DATA ON YOUR microSD CARD.
4. Turn off the tablet.
5. Put the microSD card with the burnt image into the tablet.
6. Connect tablet to computer using a USB cable. The tablet should boot up on its own; if not, press the power button to power on.
7. After the initial black screen with the "n" logo, you should see a brown box in the middle of a white screen. (If you do not, your tablet is not booting off the microSD card and you probably did something wrong.) After you hit the "READ FOREVER" screen, WAIT ABOUT TWO MINUTES. Even though nothing changes on the screen, a script is copying over root and Google stuff onto the /system partition.
8. After two minutes, hold down on the power button until the tablet turns off.
9. Take out the microSD card and power on again.
Instructions for option 2 - manual setup
0. Before you proceed, know that THIS IS EXPERIMENTAL SOFTWARE THAT PROBABLY VOIDS YOUR WARRANTY AND MAY PERMANENTLY OR TEMPORARILY BRICK YOUR TABLET. Even though it worked for me, it may not work for you, and worse, it is quite possible that it could cause your tablet to boot-loop or die. I AM NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY POSSIBLE DAMAGES TO YOUR TABLET / ANYTHING ELSE CAUSED BY THIS METHOD. BY USING IT YOU AGREE TO ASSUME ALL RESPONSIBILITY FOR YOUR ACTIONS.
1. Create a 50MB vfat partition with boot and lda flags set, as explained in this video. I followed the instructions on the page referred to by the video at the very beginning.
2. Download this zip file, and extract contents to root of the 50MB microSD card partition.
3. Turn off the tablet.
4. Put the microSD card with the burnt image into the tablet.
5. Connect tablet to computer using a USB cable. The tablet should boot up on its own; if not, press the power button to power on.
6. After the initial black screen with the "n" logo, you should see a brown box in the middle of a white screen. (If you do not, your tablet is not booting off the microSD card and you probably did something wrong.) After you hit the "READ FOREVER" screen, WAIT ABOUT TWO MINUTES. Even though nothing changes on the screen, a script is copying over root and Google stuff onto the /system partition.
7. After two minutes, hold down on the power button until the tablet turns off.
8. Take out the microSD card and power on again.
After Rooting
You will not see any visible difference in the interface when the tablet powers back on, nor will your firmware version change, but you should now be rooted. To launch the Android / Play Market, do the following: "n" -> Search -> hit top-left button on screen -> select "apps" -> type "market" in search bar -> select "Market". For a step-by-step guide on other things you'd probably want to do after you root (e.g., installing 3rd-party .apks, making the "n" button start a custom launcher), check out this thread by RevenantOne.
Common Questions / Problems
Here are some of the common issues people have run into according to this thread. Read this through if you have a question or problem before posting it!
1. Am I rooted? / I did everything correctly, but nothing changed after I reboot!
If you saw a brown box and then the "READ FOREVER" screen, you are already rooted. There will not be any visible differences in the interface / software version. To launch the Android / Play Market, do the following: "n" -> Search -> hit top-left button on screen -> select "apps" -> type "market" in search bar -> select "Market". Check out this thread by RevenantOne for other things you probably want to do after you root.
2. I don't see the brown box screen; instead the tablet just boots up normally.
There are a number of possibilities:
a. Some people have had better luck combining the files from this method with a root image for the 16GB tablet. Theoretically this could work for everyone, so make sure you do try this one out if your tablet refuses to boot (i.e., you don't see the brown box). Instructions can be found in post #131.
b. Your microSD card may be incompatible. As strange as it may seem, people have posted on this thread that certain microSD cards will simply not work. It appears to be somewhat random which cards work and which don't, so you might have to try out several cards from a different brand or with a different size before you find one that does work.
3. How to restore the microSD card back to its normal capacity from 50mb?
According to user Ashfire[/B], simply formatting the SD card through the Nook Tablet ("n" -> Settings -> Device Info -> SD Card -> Unmount SD card -> Erase SD card) should suffice to reclaim the normal capacity of your card. Otherwise you can use any disk partitioning tool for your OS to re-partition the card.
Disclaimer
Again, this is experimental software. That it worked for me does not mean it will work for you, or that it won't brick your tablet. I am not responsible for any possible damages resulting from using this method.
Credits
Credit goes to:
- [URL="http://forum.xda-developers.com/member.php?u=4426306"]bauwks for his 2nduboot hack (see this thread)
- Indirect for his root + gapps package (see this thread).
- Everyone on this thread for posting amazing feedback and a wealth of information and solutions to common problems, and most of all to those of you who donated! It's really appreciated
Did you happen to try any 3d games out?
In the video I linked to in my post I download and run Doodle Jump from the Android Market, but I guess that's not really a 3D game...what do you have in mind?
Sent from my rooted Nook Tablet 8GB using XDA app
just curious to know if it's stable enough to handle complex tasks
If you have a particular app in mind I can try it out on my tablet.
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No dice
My 8GB NT doesn't boot with your files on my SD.
I have been struggling to get any sort of alternate boot-up working...
I can boot to Cyanoboot (which is useless as I haven't gotten any boot.img to load from it), or... I can get into CWM Recovery with two specific flashing_boot.img and boot.img files.
Nothing else boots properly... the tablet either:
A) Sits there doing nothing with the SD card in the slot
or
B) Boots into Bauwks' Box, and after a couple seconds it reboots.
Your files are (A)... no boot at all.
is it stupid to ask what happens if I just place the extracted file directly onto the nook?
Farleytron said:
My 8GB NT doesn't boot with your files on my SD.
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The most likely reason is that you didn't create the boot partition correctly. I had the same symptoms at first, but then I decided to follow the instructions in the linked video to the letter (the instructions are also at omappedia.org/wiki/SD_Configuration), including setting the cylinder count and all that, and I was able to boot everything.
To verify, I just deleted all the partitions on my SD card, formatted it normally using the tablet itself, and copied over the files. The tablet refused to boot; the screen remained black. I re-partition it and format it using the instructions linked above, copy over the files and the tablet boots into the rooting script again.
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works for me
thanks, seems to work like a charm. couple force closes on twitter for some reason. market accessible, unfortunately the one program i need (HSTOUCH) gets hung up at launch. oh well. progress is good though, great work!
Thank you for posting this, especially your video showing how it looks on the 8GB NT. Where I get lost is at step #1 - the video showing how to create the 50MB vfat partition.
If it weren't for that, which makes my head spin, I'd be more comfortable going for the 8GB NT and tackling this.
nikiddawg said:
Thank you for posting this, especially your video showing how it looks on the 8GB NT. Where I get lost is at step #1 - the video showing how to create the 50MB vfat partition.
If it weren't for that, which makes my head spin, I'd be more comfortable going for the 8GB NT and tackling this.
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Yeah, that bit is quite confusing. To alleviate that I've created a pre-built microSD card image that you can directly burn to your microSD card without having to go through the weird partitioning and formatting. I've updated the original post with the link and instructions.
Farleytron said:
My 8GB NT doesn't boot with your files on my SD.
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Can you try out the pre-built SD card image I've added to the original post and see if that works?
jichuan89 said:
Can you try out the pre-built SD card image I've added to the original post and see if that works?
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Used the SD image, and it didn't work. Boots up fine both times, but I have no market.
Edit: After watching your video, should I see the box image when using the image? Because that never showed up.
teddykgb715 said:
Used the SD image, and it didn't work. Boots up fine both times, but I have no market.
Edit: After watching your video, should I see the box image when using the image? Because that never showed up.
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If you do not see the box, the tablet is not booting from the SD card. Can you elaborate on exactly what you're doing to burn the image to your SD card (i.e., which OS you're using and if OS X or Linux the exact command you're running)?
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If you do not see the box, the tablet is not booting from the SD card. Can you elaborate on exactly what you're doing to burn the image to your SD card (i.e., which OS you're using and if OS X or Linux the exact command you're running)?
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I'm using Win 7 Ulimate 64 bit and using the Win32DiskImager utility....
Pre-built SD Card Image
jichuan89
I tired the pre-built SD card image and it did NOT work. Can I get some help?
kr00lplatinum said:
jichuan89
I tired the pre-built SD card image and it did NOT work. Can I get some help?
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Please give your OS, the command you're running and the size of your SD card.
jichuan89 said:
Please give your OS, the command you're running and the size of your SD card.
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FYI Mine's an 8gb card
teddykgb715 said:
I'm using Win 7 Ulimate 64 bit and using the Win32DiskImager utility....
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Ouch...I don't have access to a Windows machine at the moment and so won't be able to debug the issue for a while. If anyone else has had any success / failures on Windows, please confirm by replying in this thread.
Alternatively, I guess you could always reboot your machine into a Linux LiveCD for now...
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Please give your OS, the command you're running and the size of your SD card.
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I tried the Win32 application on Windows 7 X64. Then on Linux Mint 12 KDE using the command line.
Hello, I would like to use some android apps on my nook 15 GB running 1.4.2 without rooting permenently. I need to make a SD card so I can revert back to my regular nook operating system. At age 70 the more I read the more confused I get, there is just too much information out there. Is there a simple list of instructions with no exotic extras suggested and starting with the 1.4.2 OS?
Hello, hope this vid helps (better than trying to read instructions).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBjxZxHoUsY
Thanks for the link but...
I viewed the video but it seems to be about restoring to the original software. I guess I did not explain well that I have an unaltered nook tablet and have done nothing yet. I need first to create a sd card to insert and boot to. My understanding is that I then turn off, remove the card and reboot to access the B&N software with no permanent change to my nook. Is that possible with 1.4.2?
Perfectly possible and exactly what you should do. I'll find a link in a bit, busy at the moment.
If you run CM7 from an SD card you can do a power on start to CM7 and reboot back to native nook. Booting to the SD version does nothing to the internals of the nook. The following address should get you to the development thread for CM7 alpha final. Follow the instructions for the SD version.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1481826
I suggest a Sandisk Class 4 micro SD card. Depending on how much material you intend to download, get an appropriate size card. I am using an 8 GB and I have allocated all the leftover space to the last partition.
Directions are easy. Download the file and unzip to get the image. Use the win32diskimager program to write the image to the SD. CAUTION here be sure it is the SD that you write the image to. Google Mini Partition Wizard Home Edition and download the home edition noted as freeware to reallocate the SD space. That is simple as well. Go to the bottom partition and move the slider to the right and then save.
If you have specific questions please post and someone will respond.
Bill
I apologize for misunderstanding your original post, anyway here's another YouTube vid you can check out...hopefully this one works out for you.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxKO8-seTLU
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1679089
Generally, if you follow the steps above (short of installing the Asian apps), you'll be fine. Easy 1/2 hour to 1 hour to go through the downloading of apps, OS, Root image, etc. to having a bootable Nook that's running off the MicroSD card.
Keep in mind that ROOTing the Nook (easy, doesn't hurt) is needed to prevent B&N from disabling your external MicroSD card CM7 OS boot in the future. (You can skip ROOTing if you want to tempt fate later on however....)
Keep in mind that Sandisk MicroSD cards are generally recommended for their stability, speed, and trouble free use. You can use other brands, but if you encounter an error with your new OS, use a Sandisk card instead.
adorable said:
Keep in mind that ROOTing the Nook (easy, doesn't hurt) is needed to prevent B&N from disabling your external MicroSD card CM7 OS boot in the future. (You can skip ROOTing if you want to tempt fate later on however....)
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This is only really necessary if you think B&N will push some update that will affect the current method used to bypass the bootloader.
This would imply a level of intelligence I don't think them capable of.
aquarian1 said:
Is there a simple list of instructions with no exotic extras suggested and starting with the 1.4.2 OS?
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Hi, Aquarian1. I'm old, too.
Did you get it figured out? It really is fairly straightforward once you understand what each basic step is doing. You can practice repeatedly until you get comfortable without doing any harm or damage.
Let us know how it's going. The folks here are awesome. We'll get you there!
Well apparently I was sent to the wrong forum (NOOK COLOR) I thought the color and tab's used the same stuff. Apparently not. I have CM7 working on a 32GB SD card and will have one on a 16GB SD card in a few minutes for my fiancee's NT. I have all my apps that are linked to my Google account installed on my NT now what?
I have noticed the remaining SD card space is small. Surely I didn't use up all 32GB already. I assume the windows writing software made a small partition on the SD card for CM7 so how do I gain that space back or make the NT use the extra space for installations of apps etc?
Do apps have to come just from the app store or is this considered a rooted OS now where I can put apps on the SD card from anywhere and is there a special way to do this?
Just popped the 16GB SD card in my fiancee's nook and powered it on for the first time. I saw the Team-B screen then it went black. Apparently it rebooted and loaded up the stock nook OS. I suppose a re-write is in order on the SD card?
The SD ROM that you made is already rooted. It can do...root things.
As for the rest of your storage space on the microSD card, you'll have to do a little repartitioning. Looks like you're using Windows, so I recommend the freeware called MiniTool Partition Wizard. The user interface is every simple to understand.
All you want to do is resize the last partition on your SD card to consume all of the unallocated space that was left over. Then you will have access to your entire SD card space.
EDIT: Just saw your second post. Turn the NT off completely and plug it into the wall charger. Let it power on and see if it boots all the way through to CM7. If not try rewriting the ROM to the card. Or you may need to use a different SD card. I know I had problems with a 16GB PNY Class 10 card.
That is correct. I'm on windows 7
This is normal correct?
Solar.Plexus said:
EDIT: Just saw your second post. Turn the NT off completely and plug it into the wall charger. Let it power on and see if it boots all the way through to CM7. If not try rewriting the ROM to the card. Or you may need to use a different SD card. I know I had problems with a 16GB PNY Class 10 card.
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I drug the bar all the way to the right on the last block on the SD card. Plopped it back in my nook and its booting to Nook stock.
Now for the above edit Its on a 16GB PNY C4 hmmmm.......
Would it have anything to do with not being fully charged yet being plugged into the wall though?
So now both are fubared for the second only booting to nook stock. LOL This was going so well about an hour ago and here I'm worried about what bells and whistles can be done and things can be added and how to add them. Sheesh I can't even keep CM7 working.
Both don't even try to boot from SD anymore? You might have to try and remake the ROM and switch to a different card.
Got another question. Just full of them I suppose.
Is there a way to have a boot menu on start up vs pulling out the SD card to get to the stock NT OS?
I would say CM7 also but it seems its not supported yet for SD booting.
Easiest way to get your boot menu would be to flash fattire's Cyanoboot. It's a second bootloader that allows you to choose from where you would like to boot at each power up.
Yea pulled the sd out of my fiancee's and it wont even boot into nook os wtf.
Plugged in or not.
Mine is booting fine into either again kinda weird.
Did the N/Power 20 seconds thing and got her NT powered back up without the SD card in. So it went into Vanilla nook with video and all since it is a new unit. Running the img file over the SD card again to see if it was just a hiccup and not an issue with the PNY SD.
I'm going to chock it up for the nook doesn't like class 4 pny 16gb cards since I re-wrote the sd card and I get the same problem.
It boots showing the N then flashed to the team-b loading screen then goes black for a while then shows the N and then loads nook stock.
So I'll go over to Frys and pick up another Patriot 32GB Class 4 card and give that a whirl. (It's what is running in mine just fine.)
That might be all it needs. Lots of people have success with SanDisk Class 4 SD cards, too.
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That might be all it needs. Lots of people have success with SanDisk Class 4 SD cards, too.
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Since the NT is technically rooted via the SD card on mine how do I go about putting apps on it? Is there a certain place they need to go etc?
Not talking about apps from the Play Store either.
Meaning files like *.apk
So this is exactly how I run my nook tablet, and thankfully, I've had only one issue with SD cards and formating it with https://www.sdcard.org/downloads/formatter_3/ helped.
As for the rest, depending on the image that you used, it may or may not have Google Play Store installed, if it is, great, if not, you need to get it onto the card.
If it's already installed (and it most likely should be) then you just go into the Google Play store and download whatever you want.
You just need to be registered with a Google Account on the device.
Any more specific questions, just let me know, as I said I run the same thing for my nook, so I'm fairly familiar with it.
scgt1 said:
Since the NT is technically rooted via the SD card on mine how do I go about putting apps on it? Is there a certain place they need to go etc?
Not talking about apps from the Play Store either.
Meaning files like *.apk
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If you're talking about sideloading apps, just put the .apk files on your SD card and open them with a file manager/explorer, then it will prompt you to install the app.
Your NT should mount the 1st (boot) partition of the SD card, unless you go into the vold.fstab and tell it otherwise.
Sent from my Slider SL101.
Solar.Plexus said:
If you're talking about sideloading apps, just put the .apk files on your SD card and open them with a file manager/explorer, then it will prompt you to install the app.
Your NT should mount the 1st (boot) partition of the SD card, unless you go into the vold.fstab and tell it otherwise.
Sent from my Slider SL101.
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Sounds easy enough lol. I'll mess around with that after I watch the evening tv shows and my fiancee lays down. I still need to search for the dual boot thing you told me about earlier so I can choose where to boot to instead of pulling out the sd card. (What a terrible design where they put it. They could have just put a slot in the bottom or something instead of hiding it in the cut out area so you can't maneuver it around.)
Can the APK files be deleted off the SD card once they are installed?
Ok so made a folder and put all apk files in it on the SD card
I open the file manager on android and that folder can't be found???
I just tried to put the apk files on the root of the SD card now its just loading the stock nook OS.
So obviously putting the apk's in the root isn't a good idea.
scgt1 said:
Ok so made a folder and put all apk files in it on the SD card
I open the file manager on android and that folder can't be found???
I just tried to put the apk files on the root of the SD card now its just loading the stock nook OS.
So obviously putting the apk's in the root isn't a good idea.
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what file manager are you using? you should be using something like es file explorer or root explorer. the standard file manager that comes with android is useless when it comes to sideloading apk's
ShinnAsuka said:
what file manager are you using? you should be using something like es file explorer or root explorer. the standard file manager that comes with android is useless when it comes to sideloading apk's
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Using ES File Explorer now. :good:
My cousin and I want to get Nook Tablets 16GB to mess around with, but we don't have the time anymore to (sorry, *I* don't have the time anymore, she can't figure out technology whatsoever) to figure out if we're always doing things right via the forums at this point and stay updated.
I still want to support the community as I've utilized a lot of information (namely for my old HTC TP2) here. I was thinking about buying an N2A card for the both of us, but wanted to make sure that I can copy the files from one card to another SD card so that we can use them in our respective tablets. And I rest easier knowing that I was able to make a small contribution to the community.
Is this possible? We'd both like to access the Google Play market.
Use the link in my sig. It literally takes 5 minutes after you make the cards, and you can get screaming deals on cheap cards (you can probably find 2 2gig cards for about $10) and then you'll both have full access to the market and still have access to the stock interface if you so choose (note that you will not be able to use apps downloaded from the Play store on the stock interface if you're on firmware 1.4.3, only on an aftermarket launcher).
rebelx said:
My cousin and I want to get Nook Tablets 16GB to mess around with, but we don't have the time anymore to (sorry, *I* don't have the time anymore, she can't figure out technology whatsoever) to figure out if we're always doing things right via the forums at this point and stay updated.
I still want to support the community as I've utilized a lot of information (namely for my old HTC TP2) here. I was thinking about buying an N2A card for the both of us, but wanted to make sure that I can copy the files from one card to another SD card so that we can use them in our respective tablets. And I rest easier knowing that I was able to make a small contribution to the community.
Is this possible? We'd both like to access the Google Play market.
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If you are really wanting to go the N2A route (I personally would not), use Win32diskimager to READ the image (for backup purposes). Safely eject card. Insert new card and WRITE image. Safely eject card. Backup done!
Or do the $20 download only and buy your cards yourself. In any case, let us know what you do!
rebelx said:
My cousin and I want to get Nook Tablets 16GB to mess around with, but we don't have the time anymore to (sorry, *I* don't have the time anymore, she can't figure out technology whatsoever) to figure out if we're always doing things right via the forums at this point and stay updated.
I still want to support the community as I've utilized a lot of information (namely for my old HTC TP2) here. I was thinking about buying an N2A card for the both of us, but wanted to make sure that I can copy the files from one card to another SD card so that we can use them in our respective tablets. And I rest easier knowing that I was able to make a small contribution to the community.
Is this possible? We'd both like to access the Google Play market.
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You can use the method/tools posted here and here to build an SD card version of blogpost author's CM10 ROM, or the current version of some other CM10 ROM varieties such as "CM10 "Jelly Bean" 0.08.x", "CM10 PURE AOSP 4.1.2 JBV06.1-Hashcode", and "SGT7+CM10+Cherry Picks" which are posted and discussed on XDA Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet Dev. Forum.
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You can use the method/tools posted here and here to build an SD card version of blogpost author's CM10 ROM, or the current version of some other CM10 ROM varieties such as "CM10 "Jelly Bean" 0.08.x", "CM10 PURE AOSP 4.1.2 JBV06.1-Hashcode", and "SGT7+CM10+Cherry Picks" which are posted and discussed on XDA Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet Dev. Forum.
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It took me a few hours of trial and error but I sat down with my 4gb sandisk card and the second link up there and am now typing on my NT running CM10 off the SD card. There are a few glitches in the guide above, but I can walk you through them if you like.
Building a CM10 SD card for NT
FWIW, here the process I follow to build a CM10 SD card for my 16GB Nook Tablet:
1. Get the pair of files cm-10-yyyymmdd-UNOFFICIAL-acclaim.zip and cm-10-yyyymmdd-UNOFFICIAL-acclaim_sd_hd.zip from http://iamafanof.wordpress.com/2012/11/03/cm10-0-jelly-bean-for-nook-tablet-uploading/
2. Create 4 partitions using MiniTool Partition Wizard Home Edition per the instructions at http://iamafanof.wordpress.com/2012/11/11/how-to-guide-bootable-cm7cm9cm10-sdcard-for-nook-tablet/: boot, system, data, and sdcard. Make sure that you set the partition ID type for the boot partition to 0x0C FAT32 LBA and set its Active flag, otherwise the SDcard will not be bootable. Once this is done, the boot partition should appear as a (read/write accessible) drive under Windows. (Note that you can adjust the suggested sizes of the partitions upward to fill up the entire SDcard; FWIW the sizes I use on my 8GB card for the 4 partitions are, respectively: 0.5GB/0.5GB/2GB/[remainder of SDcard]).
3. Copy to the boot partition of the SD card the following files from cm-10-yyyymmdd-UNOFFICIAL-acclaim_sd_hd.zip: boot.img (in folder p2), flashing_boot.img, MLO, recovery.img, u-boot.bin.
4. Replace updater-script in folder META-INF\com\google\android of cm-10-yyyymmdd-UNOFFICIAL-acclaim.zip with the updater-script from in folder p2 of cm-10-yyyymmdd-UNOFFICIAL-acclaim_sd_hd.zip.
5. Replace vold.fstab in folder system/etc of cm-10-yyyymmdd-UNOFFICIAL-acclaim.zip with the vold.fstab from folder CM10_Jelly_Bean\1_os of SD_Boot.zip (obtained http://iamafanof.wordpress.com/2012/11/11/how-to-guide-bootable-cm7cm9cm10-sdcard-for-nook-tablet/).
6. Replace updater-script in folder META-INF\com\google\android of gapps-jb-20121011-signed.zip (obtained from http://goo.im/gapps/gapps-jb-20121011-signed.zip) with the updater-script in folder CM10_Jelly_Bean\p2\gapps of SD_Boot.zip.
7. Copy to the boot partition of the SD card cm-10-yyyymmdd-UNOFFICIAL-acclaim.zip and gapps-jb-20121011-signed.zip that get modified with the replacement updater-scripts and vold.fstab files in the above steps (which cause the CM10 ROM and JellyBean Google Apps to be installed on the SDcard rather than on your NT itself).
You should now have a bootable SD card with 7 files on it, ready for the phase of “installing ROM and gapps” described at http://iamafanof.wordpress.com/2012/11/11/how-to-guide-bootable-cm7cm9cm10-sdcard-for-nook-tablet/.
A few additional points worth noting:
If your NT is like mine, you will have to plug in the powered USB cable to the NT in its power-off state -- in order for the NT to boot from the SDcard.
Generally the lower rating (and also cheaper) class 4 SD cards are more suitable for running a ROM than the higher classes 6 and 10 cards (since the latter are optimized for large & sequential block read/write at the expense of random read/write). So if you happen to use a class 10 or 6 card and your apps frequently crash or freeze, consider switching to a lower class SD card.