Just to give you a little firmer foundation, "rooting" refers to gaining root access, or super-user permissions, in an Android operating system. It's equivalent to being Administrator on a Windows machine. ManualNooter is a rooting process, which makes some additional adjustments so that the Android Market will see the device as compatible. If you root, you're looking to keep your current operating system, but have more control over it, so that you can, for instance, install third-party apps (like the Market). It's a series of changes you make to the existing software on the device.
The "dual boot SD card" ("dual boot" also confuses it with another process, but we'll leave that for now) is not rooting. You're running completely different, custom software (Android speak: custom ROM) from the SD card without doing anything to the software on the device. The custom ROM will have root access (to itself!), but you do not have to root the stock software to install or run it.
A third option is replacing the stock software with a custom ROM. SD installs work quite well, and are advisable as a first step, but custom ROMs are built to actually run on the device, and in general tend to be more stable and perform better that way (though a good SD setup can be quite comparable), as well as freeing your entire SD card for storage (or to run a second or third or fourth ROM
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Originally Posted by jhempel24
No, I'm not rooted permanently, I can re-install the original firmware anytime.
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That's somewhat misleading. Nothing you do to the NC is permanent in the sense of irreversible, but you are rooted as permanently as it is possible to root.
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Originally Posted by Tireman9
So far I have not been able to load any apps as the latest build of CM7 seems to no longer support the Reboot-restore function which is needed to expand the .zip files such as Gapps.
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Translation: you're having trouble installing gapps. Did you use verygreen's SASD (
this method) to make your card?
If you're having trouble booting into recovery, there are multiple methods.
- From CM7, hold Power to bring up the Power menu, then Reboot > Recovery.
- From the initial "Loading" or "CyanogenMod" boot screen, hold 'n' to bring up a boot menu, and navigating with the volume buttons and changing/selecting with 'n' choose Boot Device: SD and Boot Mode: Recovery.
- The rhythm method (if you can't get a boot menu):
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Originally Posted by verygreen
hold nook N key and then press and hold power until the "Loading..." message appears and then disappears with screen going blank. Release power button, then press it again and hold for ~5 seconds, the bootloader "Loading..." message should be on the screen for three seconds or so before you release power button, keep holding N button until screen blanks again. If the screen went off while you were holding the power key, that means you were holding it for too long
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Of course, you must have the gapps.zip package on the boot partition of your SD card for any of these methods to serve your purpose. Also, verygreen's update/recovery utility can flash by quite quickly--in CM7, check
Settings > Accounts & Sync to see if you have the option to set up a google account before you assume the package didn't install.
ETA: Also, when you say "latest build of CM7," do you mean nightly build 177? The last stable build, 7.0.3, is quite out of date and may have issues with either verygreen's card, the latest gapps, or both.