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

[richarc]

I have the image set up on the sd card, the nook is booted and running HC, but my system can't load the drivers.

I see the partitions, but they are greyed out since the drivers aren't loaded, and therefore I can't copy over the last two files and set up the market.

Any ideas?

 

[aimeekate]

Honeycomb on SD card 16gb "Android_" in blue bottom corner

Alright, I didnt do this to my nook but i am trying to figure out what i need to do to make this work, i put the sd card that he gave me and it goes to black screen, says "loading..." in white then it goes to another black screen and just says "Android_" in blue letters and that is it. i pop it out and the Nookcolor still works but i am getting so frustrated trying to get this work... please in normal language, like talking to a small child can someone please explain to me what the hell is going on and what i need to do to make this stupid thing work! :'(

 

[aimeekate]

hello, i just recently bought a nook color and i sarted using a class 10 32gb micro sd card but couldn't get past the password to decrypt storage so i took the class 10 back and got a patriot class4 32gb microsd card and now i can't get it to go past the small blinking android in the bottom left corner..any suggestions would be helpful... I have already reformatted and put honeycomb on the microsd card 4 times!!! please help!

Hi did you figure out this problem? this is the SAME problem i am having.. someone please help me fix this!!!

 

[SchachMeister]

Hi! First, thanks for writing such an excellent guide! I'm a computer tech by trade in the Windows world and I also consider myself a decent Linux desktop user. However, I'm fairly new to the world of modding Android phones & tablets, so I'm afraid I may have some very "noobi" type questions.

I successfully wrote that Honeycomb image to my 16 GB SD card and then my Nook Color booted from it beautifully! No rooting required, that was GREAT! I'm also impressed at the speed of the tablet even without the overclocking.

Now for my string of questions:

1. Under Settings & Storage, I noticed that Honeycomb is listing 1.25 GB of SD storage & 656 MB of "Internal" storage. First, I want to be certain that Honeycomb can not detect the Nook's true "internal" storage and that it is only aware of its environment on the SD card. Second, since I did use a 16 GB SD card, how can I adjust the partitions on the SD card to make optimal usage and what program shall I use? Can I even do it from a Windows environment? Could I use a program such as Partition Magic or Easeus Partition Master to adjust the current sizes?

2. I've downloaded the two packages needed to install the Android Market. However, when browsing the SD card from my Windows PC, I did not see where to copy them to. Also, what program do I need to run those commands to make the packages executable? I expected to see a terminal program in Honeycomb and that I could just run the commands on the tablet. Do I need to install a special Android Debug Bridge program on my PC to perform these initial setup changes to the Nook? Can I be certain that I won't write something to the Nook's internal memory by accident? Or will the ADB only see the Honeycomb environment on the SD card?

Sorry for the "newbee" type questions. I'm sure the answer is plain as day in what has already been written here. I'm just missing it.

Also, what is the verdict on overclocking this version of Honeycomb? Shall I try the grayed out instructions? How much faster does this tablet get? How much stability is lost?

Thanks in advance!

-SchachMeister

 

[penmkr]

I've noticed quite a few users that have had the problem of installing HC to an SD card, and then not being able to reformat the drive to recover the space. I've used HP USB Disk Storage Formatter tool (it's free, just Google it for download sites). I don't know what is done to the storage card when winimage is run , but it WILL take a minimum to 15 minutes for the storage card to be formatted.

 

[Jahbody]

This don't work...Says 'no such file or directory' on the last step

 

[scabsk8s]

sorry if this is a stupid question ..
I am looking to do this to my daughters nook & was wondering if i was to get a 32gb card & put CM7 on it would i still be able to use the remaining memory on the card for storage ?

 

[ronrico51]

Hi all -
I am having some serious issues.
First - I followed the directions. I used a 16G drive - I don't know what class. It then became a 115MB SD card. Formatting the drive did nothing. Thinking I'm screwed, I went out and bought a new 16G class 4 drive. After getting the same errors that many others have gotten with the WinImage (error #5) and finding out that this drive too is now 115MB I was at a loss.
I did the MiniTool program. I'm using Win7. It sees that the drive is 16G and a whole lot that is unpartitioned and whatever else it has. But after all the attempts to get it back to a 16G drive, I'm still at a loss. First and foremost I want to get my two 16G drives back. Then I'll try to figure out a new or other way to root the Nook.
I see many other posts asking for help - but I don't see too many responses that actually help. I've looked through the 37+ pages - but I must not be seeing what would help me restore my drives before re-attempting to root the nook.
Thanks, I do appreciate any help that I can get.
Theocrat Issak

Your card is not ruined at all. The 115 mb size shown is a result of the linux formatting and partitioning of the card for the Android OS. To recover the card's entire space, download SDFormatter. I think I got it from sdcard.org. Format your card using this, and it will return your cards to their full size, formatted in fat32. Very simple process.

 

[ronrico51]

sorry if this is a stupid question ..
I am looking to do this to my daughters nook & was wondering if i was to get a 32gb card & put CM7 on it would i still be able to use the remaining memory on the card for storage ?

I used this howto Flavors of Daylight: Running CyanogenMod 7 from SD (Nook Color): Simplified Instructions very easy, works beautifully for me. Make sure you use a good quality card. I have a 16gb sandisk class4, and it runs very smoothly. You will need to download all the correct files, the generic sd card image, the cyanogenmod7 image, and the google apps image. If you try it and it doesn't work, just try the steps again, being careful to follow as exactly as you can. You don't even need to reformat your card to try again, just reinstall the generic image using win32 disk imager as described in the howto. It took a few tries for me but now is very easy. The process will not affect your nook itself in any way, all action takes place on the sd card.
Honeycomb v4 did not work for me. It booted fine, but the touchscreen is unresponsive. CM7 works great, and makes a very nice table environment on the Nook Color. Not as nice as my Acer Iconia 500 (which I really like), but pretty fair..
And yes, all remaining space will be available in your cm7 environment. I have 13.5gb available on the one I set up using the 16gb card.

 

[scabsk8s]

Ronrico51- thank you for your response , very helpful ..

 

[taosaur]

I used this howto Flavors of Daylight: Running CyanogenMod 7 from SD (Nook Color): Simplified Instructions very easy, works beautifully for me.

Hey, that's my blog Glad you found it useful.

I would advise anyone looking at this thread to give Honeycomb on the NC a pass, except maybe as a novelty item if you have an extra SD around and it doesn't seem like too much bother. Back in February when this guide was posted (and the last time it was updated), the Honeycomb port halfway made sense because there wasn't much of anything better around. Since about March, though, CM7 has been a much better choice, adapting Gingerbread to the small tablet environment and offering increasingly robust performance and features. Not to count our chickens before they're hatched, but CM9 (Ice Cream Sandwich) in its Alpha 3 stage is already about on par with the abandoned Honeycomb ports, and under active development.

Just my two cents. The devs who put the HC ports together did a great job with what they had, but what they didn't have was source code, which is why they moved on to CM7/9 and other projects.

 

[SchachMeister]

Hi! Thank you for your excellent guide. I have successfully written the Honeycomb image to my 16 GB SD card and my Nook now can boot to Honeycomb from the SD card. I also used GParted on Ubuntu Linux to resize the partitions on the SD card so that I could utilize my entire SD card. I did not touch the boot partition, but I enlarged all the rest. I really don't know what the other partitions do (which partition holds apps that are downloaded?) I think I could have extended the FAT32 /SDCard partition from the Windows disc manager, but I could not find a Windows program that could extend the EXT3 & EXT4 partitions.

My main question is how do I install the Google Market? I have installed the Android SDK (after installing Java SDK) and I copied the .apk files you mentioned to my \platform-tools folder. However, when I run your command using the Windows command prompt from within that folder: adb shell mount -o remount,rw /dev/block/mmcblk1p2 /system I get the following error: error: device not found. I have tried this with the Nook booted up into Honeycomb and connected to my PC via USB and I have tried this with the SD card removed from the Nook and inserted into a card reader in my PC. How do I mount the SD card in Windows so that I can use these ADB commands? Is there a different syntax because I am in Windows? I thank you in advance for any suggestions you may have.

 

[Iptouchfan]

Hey, that's my blog Glad you found it useful.

I would advise anyone looking at this thread to give Honeycomb on the NC a pass, except maybe as a novelty item if you have an extra SD around and it doesn't seem like too much bother. Back in February when this guide was posted (and the last time it was updated), the Honeycomb port halfway made sense because there wasn't much of anything better around. Since about March, though, CM7 has been a much better choice, adapting Gingerbread to the small tablet environment and offering increasingly robust performance and features. Not to count our chickens before they're hatched, but CM9 (Ice Cream Sandwich) in its Alpha 3 stage is already about on par with the abandoned Honeycomb ports, and under active development.

Just my two cents. The devs who put the HC ports together did a great job with what they had, but what they didn't have was source code, which is why they moved on to CM7/9 and other projects.

A) Thank you for this guide.
B) Have they been able to get ICS to run off the SD card? Everything I've seen says EMMC only. That's my draw to the old Honeycomb rom.

 

[jaykap510]

thanks for the guide, but im having a problem. i have honeycomb running on my 8 gb sd card and it boots up fine but after downloading the android sdk and java sdk, i download the appropriate stuff and when i plug in my nook color, my laptop is not installing the drivers so i can run the scripts in the command prompt. am i doing something wrong? PLEASE HELP!!!

 

[taosaur]

A) Thank you for this guide.
B) Have they been able to get ICS to run off the SD card? Everything I've seen says EMMC only. That's my draw to the old Honeycomb rom.

...I was not saying, "You should try ICS instead of Honeycomb." ICS is not ready to go. The only reason to try either one (at least until CM9 is stable) is for novelty. If you want the best available OS, get CM7. If you're just fooling around making SD cards to try out, then try all of the above, though I'd imagine the novelty of Google's dead-end "tablets only" Android would be wearing off by this point.

 

[tybion]

I couldn't get the Market install working because I couldn't get ADB working, but in Ubuntu (Oneiric) when I inserted the sdcard, Ubuntu automatically created several mount points - including /media/system. Then all I had to do was ..

sudo cp -v GoogleServicesFramework.apk /media/system/app
sudo cp -v Vending.apk /media/system/app
sudo chmod 6755 /media/system/app/GoogleServicesFramework.apk
sudo chmod 6755 /media/system/app/Vending.apk

(and safely remove drive and then put it back in the NC and boot NC up)

 

[gregakey]

Having trouble installing android market. There is no adb tools folder or platform-tools folder. Android loads without any problems. Wifi works fine. Just no market. Also, what happens to the rest of the space on my SD card. Can I access it to store files on it? I'm having difficulty locating it. Thanks.

 

[johnnyandroid1999]

:'( i did the first part and when i turn the nook on the android screen is there but the touch screen won't work. any help?

 

[TheUngeek]

When running EASEUS, you will see the last formatted partition, which on my case only showed about 1GB, and then the unused after that. Highlight the last formatted partition and then choose the top option in the drop down menu under Partitions. I believe it is called resize/move. You will see a bar partially dark colored which represents the formatted part. Just drag it all the way across to increase the size and hit the ok button. The action will now show as a pending operation. To finish just just save from the drop down menu.

I've tried doing this. I really need some help here.

When I try to do this it tells me the disk is write protected. Help?!

 

[TheUngeek]

Oh and I'm sorry... guess I should go into this a bit more.

I have a class 4 4 GB card that is saying it only has 113 MB of space. Now it's saying it's write protected when I try and resize the partition.