New Nook Glowlight 4?

[jvscholz]

Ok, good news. Using "fastboot flash boot nnglow21.img"and "fastboot reboot" I was able to get it into recovery successfully. This time "update-binary 2 1 /data/media/0/update.zip" worked and the device rebooted as expected. I didn't have to create recovery in /cache as it already existed. Upon setting up the device it immediately started updating to 8.1.4.45 and now it appears as if the device is back to oem as it's no longer rooted (assuming it was rooted in the first place, I couldn't check in time). Should I reattempt to root the device? I had assumed that the latest update was already installed and that it would be safe to connect to wifi. thank you

[Renate]

Originally Posted by jvscholz

Ok, good news.

Oh, good.
Wasn't the update.zip that you used already the 45 version that I posted the link?
Why would it update after booting normal system?

In any case, you've seen that they make it almost impossible to get to "recovery".
The stock "recovery" is only "flash factory".

Edit: Certanly you can Magisk.
I just used the boot.img extracted directly out of the 45 update.zip
You can Magisk convert it then either "fastboot flash" or recovery & dd or like I did, just dd it in the rooted UART console.

[lovinguoi]

<font class="papago-parent"><font class="papago-source" style="display:none;">Hi! Always getting a lot of help.</font>안녕하세요! 항상 많은 도움을 받고 있습니다.</font><font class="papago-parent"><font class="papago-source" style="display:none;"> Is there a way to change screensaver?</font>화면 보호기를 변경할 수 있는 방법이 있습니까?</font><font class="papago-parent"><font class="papago-source" style="display:none;"> I really want to change.</font>저는 정말 바꾸고 싶어요.</font>

[Renate]

Originally Posted by lovinguoi

Is there a way to change screensaver?

The default "sleep" images are in /system/media/SleepImageNook.
The files are called 1.png to 6.png
If you are using Magisk you can write a module to overlay those files.
They are obviously 1072 x 1448 PNG images.

If you don't like Magisk you can flash neoglow21.img (in my sig) to recovery.
Then you can mount system and delete 2.png to 6.png and replace 1.png

mount -t ext4 /dev/block/mmcblk0p5 /system
cp whatever.png /system/media/SleepImageNook/1.png
reboot

[HLS]

I wonder when its coming out?

[Tialex]

Is it necessary for update.zip in the rooting procedure to match the exact version of the nook firmware onboard? I assumed this, but in my case I could not update from the listed 8.1.4.43(A) to (hopefully) match the mentioned 8.1.4.45 update. I also tried to predict the url based on the mentioned examples, but both /4.43/ and /4.43A/ variants didn't work.
Thanks

[Tialex]

Interestingly trying to work around the inability of my nook to upgrade over the air (see my previous post), discovered that the old way of manual update listed at this page kind of works on glowlight 4. So if I connect the device to the PC and copy update.zip file into to root of the storage drive then after disconnecting and about 50 seconds, Nook unexpectedly restarts and tries to upgrade the system. The only problem in my case was that the 8.1.4.43(A)->8.1.4.45 (downloaded from the link posted several times here and with https proto just in case) doesn't work with an error "Install failed'. It restores to the previous state, but mission was not complete unfortunately...