[HOW-TO] Root Honeycomb on Nook Color

[Will Shanklin]

This is some command line stuff - no easy one-click yet. Proceed with caution!

Credit goes to nuroslam, whose post can be found here: xda-developers - View Single Post - Android 3.0 Honeycomb Image - now with sound (02/02/2011)

Also credit to chhaggerty for the instructions in his thread: Method to install root for Honeycomb - xda-developers

* These instructions are for the SD card version of HC. If your internal version of HC somehow lost root, the instructions are the same - except you'll want to replace mmcblk1p2 with mmcblk0p5 in the commands.

Download the following files:

- su

- Superuser.apk

Extract them (WinRAR will do) into your sdk tools or platform-tools directory (where adb is).

1. Open a command prompt window in your adb directory

2. Issue the following commands:

adb push su /data/local

adb push Superuser.apk /data/local

adb shell mount -o remount,rw /dev/block/mmcblk1p2 /system

adb shell

cd system/bin

rm su

cd /

cd system/xbin

rm su

cd /

cd /data/local

cat Superuser.apk > /system/app/Superuser.apk

cat su > /system/bin/su

ln -s /system/bin/su /system/xbin/su

chmod 06755 /system/bin/su

su

Then install Titanium backup on your Nook (via market, or grab the apk here). Open the app and choose "Problems?" at the bottom. This will download busybox.

Congrats, you're rooted!!

 

[patgnds]

New to this sorry, I can't seem to get past this line:

cat busybox /system/xbin/busybox

root@android:/data/local # cat busybox /system/xbin/busybox
cat busybox /system/xbin/busybox
busybox: No such file or directory
/system/xbin/busybox: No such file or directory
1|root@android:/data/local #

I renamed the busybox-1.18.2 to busybox
Using windows 7

 

[theological]

Ok, I know you may think I'm a noob, but I push files to my X in this fashion all the time. I was able to do this before, when I had to in order to get Gapps on honeycomb, but now I get "device not found". I have the drivers installed, usb debugging on, any tips?

 

[ljp274]

the prompts you say uts just windows/mac/linux prompts?

 

[ljp274]

Other question, if i have a new nook color, i just have to do this to root, or I have to have before?
Thanks

 

[bbalz]

Everything goes smooth until this point. . .at busybox /system/xbin/busybox

I get a kickback of. . .
"busybox: No such file or directory
/system/xbin/busybox: No such file or directory
1:root@android:/data/local#"

Any suggestions?

 

[Will Shanklin]

New to this sorry, I can't seem to get past this line:

cat busybox /system/xbin/busybox

root@android:/data/local # cat busybox /system/xbin/busybox
cat busybox /system/xbin/busybox
busybox: No such file or directory
/system/xbin/busybox: No such file or directory
1|root@android:/data/local #

I renamed the busybox-1.18.2 to busybox
Using windows 7

I cleaned up the instructions - Titanium is a much easier way of dealing with buysbox. Just go over the new OP, it should work no probs.

Other question, if i have a new nook color, i just have to do this to root, or I have to have before?
Thanks

You need to have Honeycomb installed on your SD card. This has nothing to do with stock Barnes & Noble.

the prompts you say uts just windows/mac/linux prompts?

Good question, I'm on Windows - I often forget we aren't all. This would be done in Terminal in Mac/Linux. But commands should be identical.

Ok, I know you may think I'm a noob, but I push files to my X in this fashion all the time. I was able to do this before, when I had to in order to get Gapps on honeycomb, but now I get "device not found". I have the drivers installed, usb debugging on, any tips?

I'd say keep trying, reboot both devices, check the thread in our forum on adb driver problems.

 

[bbalz]

I cleaned up the instructions - Titanium is a much easier way of dealing with buysbox. Just go over the new OP, it should work no probs.

I have the same issue as him and following the new OP - still the same results that he is getting.

 

[Will Shanklin]

I have the same issue as him and following the new OP - still the same results that he is getting.

I meant for all references to busybox (except getting it via titanium) to be cut - don't worry about that line. I fixed op to cut that part.

 

[Loondog]

at this line:

cat Superuser.apk > /system/app/Superuser.apk

I am getting:

1:root@android:/data/local # cat Superuser.apk > /system/app/Superuser.apk
cat Superuser.apk > /system/app/Superuser.apk
Superuser.apk: No such file or directory

 

[Will Shanklin]

at this line:

cat Superuser.apk > /system/app/Superuser.apk

I am getting:

1:root@android:/data/local # cat Superuser.apk > /system/app/Superuser.apk
cat Superuser.apk > /system/app/Superuser.apk
Superuser.apk: No such file or directory

Did you successfully push superuser in the previous step? Go back to the step that says adb push superuser... and make sure it's actually doing it. Then this step should be fine. Be aware of capitalization, it can be case sensitive (look at the actual file in your adb folder and see if it's upper or lower case, match that in your commands).

 

[ljp274]

Other question.
After installing, i can use the SD to put music and photos on the nook?

 

[Loondog]

Did you successfully push superuser in the previous step? Go back to the step that says adb push superuser... and make sure it's actually doing it. Then this step should be fine. Be aware of capitalization, it can be case sensitive (look at the actual file in your adb folder and see if it's upper or lower case, match that in your commands).

Got it to work. superuser was pushed just fine in the previous command. Capital letters were good also. I just re-downloaded everything and started over and all went well.

Honeycomb is pretty nice. A little laggy since it is running off of SD. Looking forward to a full flash version. Also nice to not need Softkeys anymore with the new menu system of Honeycomb.

 

[Loondog]

Other question.
After installing, i can use the SD to put music and photos on the nook?

Yes, but you have to remember that Honeycomb is also residing on the SD card. So it depends on how big your card is. I have a 8gig card and I only have about 1.5 gigs to work with as "SD card" space. The remaining space is taken up by Honeycomb.

This is my understanding.
Correct me if I am wrong.

 

[ljp274]

Yes, but you have to remember that Honeycomb is also residing on the SD card. So it depends on how big your card is. I have a 8gig card and I only have about 1.5 gigs to work with as "SD card" space. The remaining space is taken up by Honeycomb.

This is my understanding.
Correct me if I am wrong.

Even if you root?
When you root, the system isnt install in nook, so you dont need the SD anymore. Right?
I dont know, im only asking

 

[vegeta_2123]

I keep getting ln -s /system/bin/su /system/xbin/su link failed File exists

 

[TheJoker138]

Seeing as there's already some confusion, I have a couple questions as well. First off, this will put Honeycomb onto the internal storage, not the SD card, correct? Second, will I be able to access the stuff on the Nook already, like the nook library and my ebooks? Because that's an important thing for me still.

 

[Loondog]

Even if you root?
When you root, the system isnt install in nook, so you dont need the SD anymore. Right?
I dont know, im only asking

No, to get Honeycomb running you need to 'burn' the honeycomb image on the SD card with your computer. Then put the SD card in the Nook and turn it on. When starting up, the Nook will ignore its internal software (whatever that might be - B&N or Froyo) and boot directly from the SD card. Currently there is not a way to install Honeycomb to the Nook device itself that I know of. This really is not the thread you should be starting out in. This thread is for only after you have Honeycomb running (from SD) to get root. This thread is where you should start.

Seeing as there's already some confusion, I have a couple questions as well. First off, this will put Honeycomb onto the internal storage, not the SD card, correct? Second, will I be able to access the stuff on the Nook already, like the nook library and my ebooks? Because that's an important thing for me still.

No, see comment above. When you boot from the SD card, you will not have access to your B&N library that resides on the Nook itself and is not accessible when honeycomb is running (that I know of). When you remove the SD card and reboot, then you will boot back into your old configuration. The 'burned' SD card must be present to boot into Honeycomb.

If others are reading this and I am wrong, please speak up.

 

[gayborg1]

I originally have my NC rooted, then put honeycomb on the SD card, it boots beautifully. Now, i'm trying to root honeycomb and open the command window and go to where the adb is located, and su and superuser.apk. I type in the first line, hit enter, and it tells me its looking for daemon, then pops up with a message something along the lines of file not found. What am I doing wrong?

 

[ljp274]

No, to get Honeycomb running you need to 'burn' the honeycomb image on the SD card with your computer. Then put the SD card in the Nook and turn it on. When starting up, the Nook will ignore its internal software (whatever that might be - B&N or Froyo) and boot directly from the SD card. Currently there is not a way to install Honeycomb to the Nook device itself that I know of. This really is not the thread you should be starting out in. This thread is for only after you have Honeycomb running (from SD) to get root. This thread is where you should start.



No, see comment above. When you boot from the SD card, you will not have access to your B&N library that resides on the Nook itself and is not accessible when honeycomb is running (that I know of). When you remove the SD card and reboot, then you will boot back into your old configuration. The 'burned' SD card must be present to boot into Honeycomb.

If others are reading this and I am wrong, please speak up.

When you root it using SD it still use SD to boot?
Please anybody help me?
ok. I use SD to root, but after root i STILL need the SD to boot honeycomb. the root doesnt install the OS in internal storage of NC?