Has anyone who uses an SD card to root installed the latest 1.2 software upgrade?

Just wondering if running off SD card is still good and that nothing in the upgrade makes problems.

Has anyone who uses an SD card to root installed the latest 1.2 software upgrade?

Just wondering if running off SD card is still good and that nothing in the upgrade makes problems.
Yes, no issue whatsoever - just remove the SD card before flashing. I am running CM7 on SD.

Thanks

Are there any clear instructions for installing CM7 to the device itself over 1.2?

Are there any clear instructions for installing CM7 to the device itself over 1.2?
It would have to be rooted and AFAIK, there is no root yet for 1.2 - probably be a few days for the XDA geniuses to work it out. But, why not just run CM7 from an SD Card - get the best of all with a dual-boot system.

Are there any clear instructions for installing CM7 to the device itself over 1.2?

If you want to overwrite the B&N Nook system with CM7 there is no need to root the Nook before doing so. Just follow these instructions:
http://nookdevs.com/NookColor:_CyanogenMod_Internal_Installation

Now running CM7. Thanks for the help. There was no need to root.

Now running CM7. Thanks for the help. There was no need to root.

Way to go!!!

If you want to overwrite the B&N Nook system with CM7 there is no need to root the Nook before doing so. Just follow these instructions:
http://nookdevs.com/NookColor:_CyanogenMod_Internal_Installation

Love this. I'm doing this tonight. Unrooted mine, installed update, it's ok, and now I want my stuff back. :P

I can't see anyone going from CM7 to stock. I backed up my setup and reverted to stock, updated to 1.2 and... Meh... I restored my CM7 backup. If I'd never rooted I'd be happy with the update I suppose, but CM7 has changed all the rules.

So now that you've put CM7 on it, what reader do you use, and is it easy to get them on there from Calibre?

So now that you've put CM7 on it, what reader do you use, and is it easy to get them on there from Calibre?
See:

http://www.appbrain.com/app/calibre-library/com.tonymaro.calibreLibrary.apk

although I have not used nor installed that app.

I do use FBreader - it has all the useful features (such as black screen with white type for night reading) - and it is what I used on my Palm years ago:

http://www.appbrain.com/app/fbreader/org.geometerplus.zlibrary.ui.android

In my case, I use the Samba Filesharing app to move files from my laptop to my NOOKcolor. It creates a password-protected wifi connection to your NC, and then you can use Windows Explorer to move things to your SD card, without removing it from the Nook:

http://www.appbrain.com/app/samba-filesharing/com.funkyfresh.samba

So now that you've put CM7 on it, what reader do you use, and is it easy to get them on there from Calibre?

Nothing has changed as far as Calibre is concerned. The only thing now is that it identifies the SD card as "Main" and the 5 GB user partition as "SD A." But that doesn't change functionality, it can still send books to the Nook by USB connection.

I use Moon+ Pro.

Ok thanks. Ima still on the fence. I think for a reader Id use Aldiko, but will wait until there is an auto nooter for this latest one.

hi everyone! I'm currently running cm7 on sd card, but my problem is, my sd card isn't recognized by my pc. when i plug the cable in, the pc (windows 7 os) only recognizes the internal memory. Do you have any idea why it does this? Does it have anything to do with my brother doing the cm7 install in a mac?

Another thing, can we update the version of cm7 even if it's on the sd card? if so, how?

thanks! :)

Just tried from 1.2, failed. Followed instructions EXACTLY, usually am pretty good at these, dont' know what happened, won't boot now.

EDIT: Or not...rebooted 3 times, 3rd time was a charm.

Just tried from 1.2, failed. Followed instructions EXACTLY, usually am pretty good at these, dont' know what happened, won't boot now.

EDIT: Or not...rebooted 3 times, 3rd time was a charm.

Is it possible that you were too impatient? The first boot of a completely new system takes quite a bit of time since the Dalvik cache must be completely rebuilt from scratch. If you power off before that is finished on the first boot, it is just going to have to do it again the next time.

Is it possible that you were too impatient? The first boot of a completely new system takes quite a bit of time since the Dalvik cache must be completely rebuilt from scratch. If you power off before that is finished on the first boot, it is just going to have to do it again the next time.

No, it came up with a FAILED TO BOOT on the screen, not impatient.

Okay, going back to stock, this is not for me. Can't get my books to look right in the Android readers, hell, I even got a low memory after trying to get a stupid book cover in Moon+ and Aldiko, which didn't work by the way. Everything worked fine stock.

I'll wait for an Autonooter for the new firmware to work WITH the stock B&N Reader.

No, it came up with a FAILED TO BOOT on the screen, not impatient.


Hmmm, from your initial description of your installation problems and then your description of your experience after installation it sounds like your installation was doomed to failure from the start due to some error along the way.:chinscratch:
Until now, I can't recall reading of anyone who has tried CM7 and not preferring it over B&N stock. I'll not go back. :p

Well my big thing is that my eBooks are not showing up right in the eReaders, about 50% have no covers, even though there is a jpg file in the folder, and I can't change the cover in either Aldiko, or Moon+ Reader.

So until an Autonooter comes along, I'm stock all the way.

I wonder if converting epinions to republic will fix that. If so then I may go back. I'll try it tonight

I have no idea what I typed there, my stupid phone must have auto spelled me LOL.

Re-converting the books that had cover issues from ePub to ePub seemed to have solved the problem.

I can't stay connected to my wifi with the CM7. It is there for less than a minute then is disabled. I am typing from my laptop, so my wifi isn't the issue and signal strength is excellent. I re-wrote the card and did everything all over, but I still have this issue. I am using the 7.0.2 if that helps.

Edit to add: I reformatted the card with SDFormatter and did the process over again from scratch. I still can't get my wifi to stay connected. This is driving me nuts. I can't do anything if I don't have wifi.

I can't stay connected to my wifi with the CM7. It is there for less than a minute then is disabled. I am typing from my laptop, so my wifi isn't the issue and signal strength is excellent. I re-wrote the card and did everything all over, but I still have this issue. I am using the 7.0.2 if that helps.

Edit to add: I reformatted the card with SDFormatter and did the process over again from scratch. I still can't get my wifi to stay connected. This is driving me nuts. I can't do anything if I don't have wifi.

Could be a hardware problem. I have been running CM7 for a few days now with no such issues.

Could be a hardware problem. I have been running CM7 for a few days now with no such issues.

I have no WiFi issues either, although I did have such issue under autonooter.

I have no WiFi issues either, although I did have such issue under autonooter.

I have a similar, but different, WiFi strangeness that occurred when I updated from 7.0.0 to 7.0.2 . When I turn WiFi on it usually turns on/off a couple of times before it comes on and stays on. It is really no big deal to me, so I have not tried to debug it, but I thought it might help to add another data point to this thread?

I have a similar, but different, WiFi strangeness that occurred when I updated from 7.0.0 to 7.0.2 . When I turn WiFi on it usually turns on/off a couple of times before it comes on and stays on. It is really no big deal to me, so I have not tried to debug it, but I thought it might help to add another data point to this thread?

Did it actually only go off and on a couple times? Mine just keeps going on and off, even after I let it sit I still have no wifi. If I need to let it sit for longer I will try that.

Did it actually only go off and on a couple times? Mine just keeps going on and off, even after I let it sit I still have no wifi. If I need to let it sit for longer I will try that.

I will add a little further clarification since we seem to be seeing something similar.:chinscratch:

I normally use a WiFi widget to turn WiFi on, and sometimes the WiFi button that pops up from the home screen status bar. Both of those methods exhibit the on/off behavior that eventually turns WiFi on.
If I turn on WiFi using SETTINGS/WIRELESS & NETWORKS/Wi-Fi then WiFi seems to turn on fine first time every time. Again, this only started happening after upgrading from 7.0.0 to 7.0.2

Has anyone been trying the nightly versions of CM7? I understand they include bug fixes. My question is whether upgrading, say weekly, to a newer CM7 version will put me back at square one with just a new install and all my apps and data gone?

A question for those that have kept NC stock and are booting using SD card.

I have been able to access market and obtained a couple of reader aps but they cannot access my books on the NC internal memory.

When I hook up my NC to PC it sees it but when I go to the USB transfer function and turn it on it only access the NC's memory.
How does one go about putting data on the SD card such as books and pictures and videos. Will Calibre place books on the sd card?

How does one go about putting data on the SD card such as books and pictures and videos.
I used MyPhoneExplorer to put media on the SD when I was running CM7 on an SD card. In fact, now that CM7 is running directly on the Nook, I still often use MyPhoneExplorer for that.
If you want to mount the SD partition on the SD card in the Windows OS then you can try this solution:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=952456


Will Calibre place books on the sd card?
Not unless the SD card is mounted in Windows. If Windows does not see it, how could Calibre see it? Try the NookColorUMS on the XDA-Developers forum if you want Calibre to do your book transfers for you.

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A question for those that have kept NC stock and are booting using SD card.

I have been able to access market and obtained a couple of reader aps but they cannot access my books on the NC internal memory.

When I hook up my NC to PC it sees it but when I go to the USB transfer function and turn it on it only access's the NC's memory.
How does one go about putting data on the SD card such as books and pictures and videos. Will Calibre place books on the sd card?
:deadhorse:

This post is identical to your post from 1/2 an hour ago??????????????
:rofl:

:deadhorse:

This post is identical to your post from 1/2 an hour ago??????????????
:rofl:

Thanks not sure how that happened, you can be sure my memory isn't good enough to type a word for word same post a second time.

Thanks not sure how that happened, you can be sure my memory isn't good enough to type a word for word same post a second time.

If the post was more than three words I could not do that either. :thumbsup:
I just thought that it was funny. I guess the MobilRead system is having fun with a few folks today.

I am Confused
Some people write as if their internal memory has not been flashed and others write as if their internal memory HAS been flashed.
If I want to run a modification without flashing my internal memory, what method should I use. BTW I would want to have access to android market and other good things as well

I am Confused
Some people write as if their internal memory has not been flashed and others write as if their internal memory HAS been flashed.
If I want to run a modification without flashing my internal memory, what method should I use. BTW I would want to have access to android market and other good things as well

I flashed the NC's internal memory with CM7 because I didn't like or want the stock software. I use the NC as a tablet rather than just a reader now.

You do have the option of running CM7 from a microSD card. If you do it that way, when you want to boot into the stock NC software, you can just remove the card. Hope this helps.

If you want to mount the SD partition on the SD card in the Windows OS then you can try this solution:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=952456


Not unless the SD card is mounted in Windows. If Windows does not see it, how could Calibre see it? Try the NookColorUMS on the XDA-Developers forum if you want Calibre to do your book transfers for you.

I just got CM7 installed on a 4 GB card, created an image, wrote the image to a 16 GB card, used Easeus Partition to allocate the unallocated memory and it finally works! Slow as molasses...but that's likely my SD card (apparently Sandisk Class 4 is the way to go for speed).

The NookColorUMS worked great once I figured it out...you have to download it with something other than the built in browser then tell it to mount the appropriate partition.

I can't stay connected to my wifi with the CM7. It is there for less than a minute then is disabled. I am typing from my laptop, so my wifi isn't the issue and signal strength is excellent. I re-wrote the card and did everything all over, but I still have this issue. I am using the 7.0.2 if that helps.

Edit to add: I reformatted the card with SDFormatter and did the process over again from scratch. I still can't get my wifi to stay connected. This is driving me nuts. I can't do anything if I don't have wifi.

Some people on XDA have found that wifi problems may be resolved with a higher class card, like class 10. My wifi seems to be working but it's slow! I'll probably try the famous Sandisc Class 4 cards they're all raving about.

You should. It works like nothing else. I had tried putting CM7 on two different cards and couldn't figure out why anyone would want to use it. It was incredibly slow and buggy and force closed practically every program I tried to use. On the Sandisk card it is as fast as stock, smoother on the internet, and plays youtube videos like a champ. I can sideload onto the card or the internal memory by activating the USB transfer on the nook. I don't use calibre though, so I can't tell if it would work.

The only strange thing is that I can only sideload onto the card when it is in the nook and the nook is plugged in to my computer. It won't work if I put the card in a card reader or the card slot on my computer.

The only strange thing is that I can only sideload onto the card when it is in the nook and the nook is plugged in to my computer. It won't work if I put the card in a card reader or the card slot on my computer.

Odd, because I had exactly the opposite problem. I loaded CM7 on a class 4 sd card and it ran just fine, but I could not put books on the NC directly. I had to remove the card, place it in the sdcard reader on my computer and then transfer the books. That got tiresome quickly. To add a book I had to (1) power down the NC, (2) remove the card, always worrying that I would break the plastic connectors, (3) insert the card into the laptop and transfer the files, (4) reinsert the card in the NC again worrying about breaking the connectors and then (5) restart the NC.

But my big problem was that the icons on the rooted NC were very, very small and I could find no way to increase their size. Given the issues I ended up removing the card and using the NC as stock. Would not have been so bad if I could have increased the icon size on the device, but there did not seem to be any way ...

I haven't had any trouble mounting the SD storage partition over USB, but my default method for moving files from my PC now is ES File Explorer. It's a free app that lets you log into your PC over WiFi, as well as being a full-featured file explorer (go figure!) and having the best video player I've tried so far.

I only mess with USB anymore to get access to the boot partition for updates.

What a clever idea. I never thought about using wifi.

I haven't had any trouble mounting the SD storage partition over USB

Were you mounting the storage card for a normal NC? Or for a rooted NC? I ask because I never had a problem accessing the storage card for a normal NC, but when I opened a usb connection to a soft-rooted CM7 NC I could see the entries for the device and the card, but could not get access to either. When I tried it told me nothing was there (you know, something like "insert a formatted device" error).

I assumed that the device was unreachable because it was not really being used and the sd card was unreachable because it was the root partition. But I don't really know.

A lot of people (including me at first) don't realize that CM7 doesn't automatically mount any storage when you plug in the USB. You need to go through notifications (expand the status bar upward, or hit the green-arrow-in-a-broken-circle button) to the USB screen and "Turn on USB transfer." If you're running CM7 from SD, it will then mount the system (not boot) partition as if it were internal storage and the remaining partition as "SDcard" (though technically both are on the SD card). I never bothered exploring whether you can get it to also mount the eMMC.

In ES File Manager, your default homescreen will be the storage partition of the SD, but if you click button in the upper left with the SD card icon, it will take you to the root directory where you'll find the folder "emmc."

My NC is running the latest stable CM7 from SD with dalingren's OC kernel @1.3Ghz. On the eMMC I have un-rooted stock 1.2 and ClockworkMod Recovery (that was quasi-accidental, but has come in handy). All of the details of how I got my build except the overclock are in the link in my sig.

So that is what I need to do. I would never have guessed it. Thanks so much!:thanks:

I don't have access to the NC at present, but will try this when I do again. Probably next week.

Thanks so much for the help. Now if you know how to increase the size of those teeny tiny icons, that would also be a big help. I can see them without problem, but this device is for my wife.

A lot of people (including me at first) don't realize that CM7 doesn't automatically mount any storage when you plug in the USB. You need to go through notifications (expand the status bar upward, or hit the green-arrow-in-a-broken-circle button) to the USB screen and "Turn on USB transfer." If you're running CM7 from SD, it will then mount the system (not boot) partition as if it were internal storage and the remaining partition as "SDcard" (though technically both are on the SD card). I never bothered exploring whether you can get it to also mount the eMMC.

In ES File Manager you have to go into Settings and point "Extra Storage" at /emmc to get at the internal storage, but after that you have access to everywhere except, as far as I can tell, the boot partitions.

My NC is running the latest stable CM7 from SD with dalingren's OC kernel @1.3Ghz. On the eMMC I have un-rooted stock 1.2 and ClockworkMod Recovery (that was quasi-accidental, but has come in handy). All of the details of how I got my build except the overclock are in the link in my sig.

ES File Manager I touch the little home icon on the top left. Looked for the settings / extra. Storage. But cannot find on my version but it sounds better as it sometimes takes me a few tries

ES File Manager I touch the little home icon on the top left. Looked for the settings / extra. Storage. But cannot find on my version but it sounds better as it sometimes takes me a few tries

You know what? I was thinking of a different app (Elixir). You don't have to do anything to point to eMMC with ES, just navigate back to the root directory and choose the folder "emmc." Your home screen will default to the "sdcard" folder (storage partition), but if you hit the button with the sdcard icon, it will take you back to the root directory.

Sorry for the confusion.

ETA: corrected info in the erroneous post

So that is what I need to do. I would never have guessed it. Thanks so much!:thanks:

I don't have access to the NC at present, but will try this when I do again. Probably next week.

Thanks so much for the help. Now if you know how to increase the size of those teeny tiny icons, that would also be a big help. I can see them without problem, but this device is for my wife.

It depends on which launcher you're using but in zeam you would go settings softkey-preferences-workspace-columns (or rows). What you are doing is controlling the number of columns and rows of icons which makes them (and your gadgets) resize. Fewer rows or columns means bigger icons. In the dock I don't know if you can resize the icons but you can increase the spacing between them. I assume adw or whatever other launcher has similar settings.

It depends on which launcher you're using but in zeam you would go settings softkey-preferences-workspace-columns (or rows).

I had tried this with the default launcher. I halved the number hoping that it would increase the size of the icons, but it made no difference. Perhaps if I used a different launcher the problem would disappear? When I again get my hands on the NC I will add a different launcher and try.

Thanks for the idea.

I had tried this with the default launcher. I halved the number hoping that it would increase the size of the icons, but it made no difference. Perhaps if I used a different launcher the problem would disappear? When I again get my hands on the NC I will add a different launcher and try.

Thanks for the idea.

The easiest way to increase the size of your icons is probably just download this free app "LCDDensity" the only problem with it I have found is that you have to adjust the sizes again on each reboot.

There is a slider which lets you custom the size up from the default of 161 or you can pick 180 200 etc.

Try it.

The only strange thing is that I can only sideload onto the card when it is in the nook and the nook is plugged in to my computer. It won't work if I put the card in a card reader or the card slot on my computer.

Does the computer not recognize your card at all, or just show you a ~1GB folder with some odd-looking files in it? Windows will only read the first partition on the SD card, and on a bootable card, that's the boot partition. Most people recommend EASUS Partition Manager (for Windows) if you want to see the rest, but I haven't tried it--it's simpler to just use USB or go over WiFi with ES File Manager.

Does the computer not recognize your card at all, or just show you a ~1GB folder with some odd-looking files in it? Windows will only read the first partition on the SD card, and on a bootable card, that's the boot partition. Most people recommend EASUS Partition Manager (for Windows) if you want to see the rest, but I haven't tried it--it's simpler to just use USB or go over WiFi with ES File Manager.

That's the bunny. I found the same as you and just use the cable.