[HOW-TO] Download/Install Honeycomb to Nook Color (SD card)

[dmklein]

I hate to whine here, but I have had the hardest time getting this to decompress. I have use Winzip, Win7 and WinRAR. They ALL report the CRC is bad.
I have downloaded from both mirrors.

What am I doing wrong here?

 

[niv24]

How do I open terminal in the tools folder?

 

[bbalz]

What doesn't work = Gallery. It comes up with a constant force close for the camera app.

Sucks because you can get screenshots but can't access them or upload them to anywhere online because of this. Sad day.

 

[niv24]

How do you open terminal in a folder?

 

[Radrobe]

I hate to keep asking the same question, but what do I need to delete to get my SD card back to normal....should I just delete everything on it or wipe it on my comp? I'm running froyo off my NC.

 

[niv24]

How do i install the market someone please help me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Froalskiner#WN]

How do i install the market someone please help me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Dude, settle down. Half of us haven't even gotten out of bed yet. The instructions have been posted several times. Post 111 and 155 have the link for troubleshooting.

However you can also try the attachment to this post. Extract it to a new folder on your C drive at the root called NookTools. Copy the market files at the beginning of the post to the folder as well.

Then navigate to the folder by opening a terminal window (start-run then type cmd, then enter)

then type the following commands

c:
cd \nooktools

Then run all of the adb commands listed in post #1

No guarantees that this will work for you. You may need the Java SDK, you WILL need the USB drivers listed on the NookDev site as well.

Good Luck!

Mods, I'm allowed to upload the adb.exe right? If not, go ahead and delete the attachment.

 

[Froalskiner#WN]

I hate to keep asking the same question, but what do I need to delete to get my SD card back to normal....should I just delete everything on it or wipe it on my comp? I'm running froyo off my NC.

By "back to normal" do you mean wiping it clean and going back to the stock rom? The easiest way to do that that I've found is to boot up the NC without the card then go to settings-device info-sd card, pop the SD card into the nook, then unmount, then format. This wipes the partitions out and lets you go back to stock.

 

[redwyvern]

Orientation is running wild

I installed build.prop, and now my screen orientation is all wrong. It displays portrait in landscape, flips upside down, and every which way. I can't use it like this. It took me 10 minutes to find out where the slide to unlock was really positioned at. Can someone help me?

 

[xjcannonx]

How do you open terminal in a folder?

Well when someone refers to terminal they are probably talking about Mac or Linux, in windows it would be the command box i think (sorry really bad with windows)

opening up terminal in the folder is like pointing the command line to that folder, we cd (change directory) to it by

cd system/app

for example, and now we are in the app folder that is inside the system folder.

If you need to push something from the platform-tools folder (wherever adb is) the files you want to push should be in there and your terminal should be in that folder when executing the command
Or if I want to for example clear the dalvik-cache I would:

root@joseph-PC:~# cd /home/jrc1883/Desktop/android-sdk-linux_x86/platform-tools
root@joseph-PC:/home/jrc1883/Desktop/android-sdk-linux_x86/platform-tools# ./adb shell
root@android:/ # cd /data/dalvik-cache
root@android:/system/app # Now I am in the "dalvik-cache folder"

 

[xjcannonx]

So is the nook app working in the new version? I love Honeycomb but I'd like to be able to leave the card in and be able to read my books...

Yes it is working for me

 

[joeybcdt]

I have no clue how to install the apk for the android market, cant find the folders to put it in and execute terminal commands.
could you just copy and paste into this text or email me the doc please.

OK, but if you figure this out I'm gonna want some help.

For #3, You connect the NC to your computer and make sure it's connected properly by running

adb devices

in a command window from the tools folder

For #4, yes, in the same command window as above, run the command. This mounts the Nook file system in read/write mode that will let you move files around.

The "adb devices" command starts the connector process and verifies there is an android device connected.

I followed this tutorial and now ADB and Market are working:

NookColor USB ADB - nookDevs

You need to run those commands from within your android sdk tool folder. on my machine the path is c:\program files\android\android-sdk-windows\platform-tools

Make sure you have installed the SDK tools . Then place those files in the same platform-tools dir and you should be able to run the push commands. good luck.

start-run then "cmd"

you need to download the Android sdk + Java JDK (in order for the Android SDK to install properly) in order to get adb.exe to work properly. Also I found the ADB Install (do a search, can't remember where I found it) for the Nook Win 7 driver. Everything installed and ran properly when these steps were followed

Yes, download both Android SDK and Java JDK (if you run the Android SDK installer it literally will halt you and tell you where to download the JDK from before allowing you to proceed), and once both of those are installed adb.exe should work.

Also a great tip for Windows 7 users - if you wanna get the command prompt open in the folder you're currently in (say, like the one with adb.exe in it ) simply hold 'shift' down and right click, and 'open command window here' will pop up, will save you time having to navigate to it in DOS box

There's a web based market now. Market.android.com. does anyone know if it'll work to download apps?

Here's the driver (and script) I used to get the Nook properly identified in Windows... [SCRIPT] Nook Color USB Drivers and ADB Setup (WinXP&7) - xda-developers

Once this was setup, running the previously mentioned commands got the nook up and running using adb.exe

You will download 2 files to your PC. Unzip them, and place the two .apk files in the same folder that contains the adb.exe file. THis is so when you run the adb command window, it knows where to get the files that it will push to your nook device.

Once you have found this folder and copied the files to it, make sure your nook is connected. I can't recall the link, but if you have issues, there is a set of drivers out there for recognizing the h.c. nook.

Assuming you have it connected correctly, open a command window by holding shift and right-clicking to get the "open command prompt from here" option in the context menu. Click that link, then type the commands exactly as shown. This should push the two files you need for the marketplace onto your nook, and you will be all set. Note that there are real stability problems with apps on h.c. right now.

What they don't say in the steps is that you need the Android SDK AND the Java SDK installed on your PC. You can find them here:

Android SDK | Android Developers
Java SE Downloads

adb.exe comes with the Android SDK.

Then to get your PC to see your Nook via USB you will need to read "ADB Access" at the end of the following link:

NookColor Rooting - nookDevs

 

[netposer]

Nothing I've done will allow any of my PCs to connect the nook in order to use the SDK. Windows recognizes it and both drives show up (neither of which can be accessed) and Windows now sees (after I install the drivers) the Nook as "Android Composite ADB Interface".

Nothing I have done so far allows the adb commands recognize my Nook.

I've

So now I can't side load the market...ugh.

 

[NoNook]

Okay,

I've got everything installed and my Windows PC can see the USB connection. Here are the problems I'm still having:

1. gmail account will not authenticate (yes, wireless is working and I can log into my gmail/gtalk acct. just fine.

2. Market will not download ANYTHING. It just says download unsuccessful.

3. I can't access ANY of my old Nook books that are on the device once I'm in HC3.

4. Can't access the Nook via Windows Explorer to copy over books and .pdf(s).

Booting into HC3 is not much good if I can't access my things that were already on my Nook before I put HC3 on the SD card.

Anyone have any ideas how to get around any of the problems listed above?

 

[Tobii1]

thank I am going to try it out real quick!! If it work than, perfect.

 

[jwigginton]

Same thing happened to me. Totally messed up and screws up the orientation. You need to remove this from the sticky until fixed. Where can i find the original build.prop?

 

[NoNook]

Formating your SD Card back to default

By "back to normal" do you mean wiping it clean and going back to the stock rom? The easiest way to do that that I've found is to boot up the NC without the card then go to settings-device info-sd card, pop the SD card into the nook, then unmount, then format. This wipes the partitions out and lets you go back to stock.

NookColor Rooting - nookDevs

Format Noot MicroSD Card

Once you've nooted your device, you probably want to reformat your card back to its normal filesystem and capacity so you can use it in your Nook.

1. Power down your Nook Color by holding the Power button for 3+ seconds and Power Off when prompted
2. When it's off, remove the MicroSD Card
3. Power the Nook Color back on
4. When it's booted, re-insert the MicroSD card
5. Go to Settings, Device Information, SD Card
6. Unmount the SD Card if it's mounted
7. Format SD card

 

[romsrini]

I can't get adb to recognize my NC with with either Honeycomb or nookie froyo. I can get adb to recognize my Nexus One, so I don't think adb is the problem. And I can get my Windows PC and my Mac to recognize the stock NC.

But I can't get adb on my Mac or Windows to recognize my NC when it has booted up in Froyo or Honeycomb. I have debug turned on on the device.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

[DNicolasL]

Is the kernel on 03 an overclock kernel? I'm running 03 now. Haven't added Market yet.

 

[rx515]

Would like to try this out but I don't have another large SD card. I'm running Nookie froyo from sd right now. Is there any way to perhaps copy that image on to my hard-drive, erase the card and try out honeycomb and then be able put the original nookie image (with all the apps and such) back on it if I wanted to?