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

[patgnds]

Has anyone seen this
Method to install root for Honeycomb:

Method to install root for Honeycomb - xda-developers

I can't install busybox, can't get past

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 #

 

[gayborg1]

* UPDATE 2/2 SOUND AND SD CARD STORAGE NOW WORK!!! DOWNLOAD THE IMAGE POSTED IN THE INSTRUCTIONS BELOW. IF USING THE PREVIOUS IMAGE, IT'S PROBABLY EASIEST TO START OVER FRESH **

Yes, you read correctly. The dev who's been teasing us with pics and videos has released what he has. Here's how to get Honeycomb running on your Nook Color right now.

Credit to dev deeper-blue (Rafael Brune) whose thread can be found here: Android 3.0 Honeycomb Image - xda-developers

1. Download the image:

nookhoney02.img.zip

Mirror: nookhoney02.img.zip

Mirror 2: nookhoney2.img.zip

Torrent: nookhoney02.img.zip (might be faster than either of the above options - of course you'll need a torrent client like bittorrent)

* Torrent link to image w/Google apps, LCD Density = 150 already in place (credit dehidding): nookhoney02a.zip

Unzip the image onto your computer (use WinRAR, others might not work).

2. Get an SD card, at least 4GB.

Some had problems with 4GB cards, others said the image stalled burning, but then it worked anyway. Worth a try, but larger than 4GB, you should be fine.

3A. PC Users:

- The usual program for this, Win32DiskImager, isn't working with this large file. So download WinImage, and under 'Disk' choose "Restore Virtual Image to Physical Drive." Change the files shown at the bottom to "all files" and select the file.

On Mac:

3B. Mac Users:

- Open a terminal window

-Find which drive the sd card is mapped to: type in the terminal this:
diskutil list

- Be very careful to identify the SD card and not your hard disk. Be VERY careful.

- Now unmount that drive typing this:
diskutil unmountDisk /dev/disk#
(My computer is was disk2 replace # with your number. Do NOT use the disk#s)

The computer should say: Unmount of all volumes on disk was successful

Type:

dd if=nookhoney02.img of=/dev/rdisk# bs=1m

Everything needed should copy right over to the card.

4. Power down your Nook, insert the microSD card, and it should boot into Honeycomb!!!!!!

Installing the Android Market on the Nook Color running Honeycomb:

1. Download this version of the Market (2.2.11).

2. Download GoogleServicesFramework.apk.

3. Place the files in your adb tools folder (or platform-tools on the newer version - wherever adb.exe is)

4. Open a command prompt in that folder, and issue the following commands:

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

adb push Vending.apk system/app/Vending.apk

adb push GoogleServicesFramework.apk system/app/GoogleServicesFramework.apk

adb shell

cd system/app

chmod 6755 Vending.apk

chmod 6755 GoogleServicesFramework.apk

exit

adb reboot

Then go to apps, open the market, sign in. If the Market won't open at first, reboot and try again.

Overclocking Honeycomb to 1.1GHz (might work, might not, might work then stop working):

Credit for the general basis of these instructions to Divine _Madcat, his thread: [FYI] dalingrin's 1.1Ghz Eclair kernel works on Honeycomb - xda-developers

1. Download uImage

2. If you haven't yet booted Honeycomb, skip to 4. If you've already booted it, see 3.

3. With the Nook booted into Honeycomb, connect via adb, and issue the following:

adb shell

cd data/dalvik-cache

rm *

exit

. . . and then power off your Nook immediately, without opening any apps. It's probably best to power it off with a hard reset (hold power down 10-15 seconds).

** If this doesn't work, try repeating the same steps above with this 1GHz kernel. The 1.1 stopped working for me, but this one works great and is very fast!

(the 1GHz kernel credit goes to Geniusdog254, whose thread is here: [KERNEL] [GPL] Quickie - Flashable Overclock Kernel - "Screamer" - xda-developers)

4. Remove the SD card, and place it back in an SD reader.

5. Open the folder (it should say boot) and make a copy of that uImage file on your computer. If you discover later on that the overclocking kernel doesn't work, simply replace the new one with this original that you're backing up now.

6. Now replace it with the uImage folder you downloaded earlier. Reboot, and enjoy the overclock!

Making items on your screen larger:

The LCD Density is 133, so everything will be pretty small. You can change this manually by editing your build.prop file, but when I tried, anything larger than 160 or so caused crashes. 150 works well for me. If you want, you can simply download this build.prop preset at 150, place it in your sdk tools directory and, with your nook connected, type:

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

adb push build.prop system/build.prop

adb reboot

Features currently not working:

- no root/su access for apps

Does not work. I took a 8Gb SD card and then ran the WinImage program for the card. When I got to 99%, an error popped up saying it was unable to read the NookHoney2.img file. I've tried this many times and come up with the same results. How do I get around this?

BTW, my NC has been rooted and I've been trying to unroot it with no luck. Will this have an affect on Honeycomb loading on the SD card?

 

[MoggSquad]

How reliable is Honeycomb so far? I am running Froyo from SD and will be switching to honeycomb from SD card next week.

With Froyo, I haven't found a great way to transfer files to my NC. My PC doesn't seem to recognize it. I'm using dropbox for now, but it doesnt play my music files. Will this be similar with Honeycomb?

I have experienced a few issues here and there with some apps not working on my Froyo, how have the apps been running on Honeycomb?

 

[mperschke]

Got Honeycomb up and running. Why is it so slow??? Using Kingston8gb sdhc class4

 

[bluecamel]

This is awesome! I can't wait until the apps work on this.

Here's what I've tried:

browser works great
kindle app crashes or causes a reboot
nook app stalls and crashes
Gmail works pretty well
youtube app runs, but won't play videos

 

[mperschke]

getting the usb drivers to work is hurting my brain!!!

 

[AHfootball12]

Does not work. I took a 8Gb SD card and then ran the WinImage program for the card. When I got to 99%, an error popped up saying it was unable to read the NookHoney2.img file. I've tried this many times and come up with the same results. How do I get around this?

BTW, my NC has been rooted and I've been trying to unroot it with no luck. Will this have an affect on Honeycomb loading on the SD card?

At least you got an error, mine goes all the way through to 100% error free, and then when I check the SD card it is still blank, no rhyme or reason.

anyone have a fix for this? Thanks!

 

[mperschke]

AH did you burn it to correct directory(where the disk is)

 

[Bandzdaddy]

Is there any way to install Google apps without using ADB? Like side loading or install on SD card. ADB just will not work for me.

 

[AHfootball12]

AH did you burn it to correct directory(where the disk is)

Hey, thanks.

Yeah, I burned it to the exact one the SD card is located in. So I went to my computer, checked to see which drive it was and planned to go from there, realized that the program does use the letter system, then click the one that had over 15,000,000 bytes (since mine is a 16gb card) nothing else in my computer besides my ipod shuffle was plugged in, (2gb) and that showed up as over 1,000,000 bytes.

I even tried unplugged the shuffle and doing it again.

Then my SD card drive stopped being recognized on my computer so I have to fix that problem later. So I tried using my phone as a sd reader and did the process over again.

same problem, it goes through to 100%, check the drive, and its the same, blank.

 

[ferrels]

Is there any way to install Google apps without using ADB? Like side loading or install on SD card. ADB just will not work for me.

Hey Sherlock, why don't you just download the version that has the Market and Google framework pre-installed. The link is on the first page of this thread. The image is called nookhoney02a.

 

[Bandzdaddy]

GThanks how did you know my real name is Sherlock. You guys so helpful.

 

[MoggSquad]

Have you tried any games? Facebook, playing music, etc? Wondering how those work.

This is awesome! I can't wait until the apps work on this.

Here's what I've tried:

browser works great
kindle app crashes or causes a reboot
nook app stalls and crashes
Gmail works pretty well
youtube app runs, but won't play videos

 

[chris_saeger]

I downloaded the bittorrent file nookhoney02a.zip winimage reported a damaged img file. I tried Win32DiskImage which accepted the file and copied it fine to the sdcard. Inserted the card and it booted with market. I get an occasional crash with the launcher when trying to add things to the home screen. other than that it seems to work fine. I am not sure how flash is supposed to be added.

 

[Radrobe]

Hey guys,

Thanks for all the hard work with this awesome programing. I couldn't get my Nook to recognize the wifi while in honeycomb. I rebooted it several times and reentered my wep key, a bunch of times to no avail.

I'm thinking at this point I'm going to hold off on honeycomb for a few weeks, but I'm not sure which files on my SD card I need to delete so my device doesn't restart in honeycomb every time I turn on. Help is greatly appreciated.

Rob

 

[kellybrf]

ok, i installed honeycomb to the sd yesterday without any real issues. tonight it tried to push the market and google services and everything appeared to go fine in adb, but after reboot the color is just hanging on the android screen. any ideas?

 

[kellybrf]

when i run the
adb shell mount -o remount,rw /dev/block/mmcblk1p2 /system
i get Usage: mount [-r] [-w] [-o options] [-t type] device directory

so now im getting this. i reimaged my sd card per the previous error, again loaded hc just fine but im running into this when trying to push the vending apk

 

[bluecamel]

Have you tried any games? Facebook, playing music, etc? Wondering how those work.

Thanks, I forgot to mention that the music app works great. So does Mog (which didn't work on any of the other roots/Froyo, etc.). A working Mog makes me very happy!

Edit: Pandora also works great!

I'm not a heavy gamer or facebooker, but...

Facebook app works very well.
I tried installing Fruit Ninja (the game used on the Google demo) and it wouldn't install.
Angry Birds will not install.

Suggest a free app/game and I'll try it out and let everyone know how it works. I'm sitting at home sick so playing with this is keeping me sane

 

[mullman71]

I hope this question isn't too stupid... Regarding the steps above:

3. Place the files in your adb tools folder (or platform-tools on the newer version - wherever adb.exe is)

4. Open a command prompt in that folder, and issue the following commands

How do I change the file location and open a command prompt? I got Honeycomb booted on my NC then used the browser on it to visit this page and download the market and google apps files but I don't see any way to move them to a different directory and run the commands.

 

[Froalskiner#WN]

I hope this question isn't too stupid... Regarding the steps above:

3. Place the files in your adb tools folder (or platform-tools on the newer version - wherever adb.exe is)

4. Open a command prompt in that folder, and issue the following commands

How do I change the file location and open a command prompt? I got Honeycomb booted on my NC then used the browser on it to visit this page and download the market and google apps files but I don't see any way to move them to a different directory and run the commands.

You need to download the files to your computer...not the nook. Then run adb to push the files using the instructions from the first post.