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

[dgc]

Installing Market

Got Honeycomb working fine on SD. Trying to get Market installed. Nook connected to Win 7 machine via USB. When I open CMD window and paste the first abd command I get device not found.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Don

 

[Calma10]

Got Honeycomb working fine on SD. Trying to get Market installed. Nook connected to Win 7 machine via USB. When I open CMD window and paste the first abd command I get device not found.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Don

follow this guide first,
ADB Over USB - nookDevs

then follow the adb coomands from the original post.

 

[Wizzrobe]

ANDROID_ hang fix

Okay, I am officially frustrated. I am trying to install Honeycomb to my Nook
I have downloaded nookhoney04.img.zip both directly from
h t t p ://w w w . r b r u n e . d e / n o o k h o n e y 0 4 . i m g . z i p and using Bittorrent.
I have expanded it using WinRar,7z, and WinZip.
I have used both WinImage, and Win32DiskImager to install the disk image.
I am using an 8 gig HCSD card, (only class 4) from PNY.

I get the Loading . . .
Then the ANDROID_ (flashing underscore) and it stops there.
I have let it stay until the screen goes to sleep, and woken up.
I have powered down and restarted, no avail.

On the off chance that I had a bad card, I have installed Nookie Froyo on the card, version - 0.6.7, and this runs fine.

So I am officially frustrated



Any help or advice would be appreciated.

I experienced this same issue on an A-Data 8GB Class6 card. However I did find a fix!!!

1.) Obtain Partition Wizard Home Edition from Download.com (free)
2.) Use this to delete all partitions from the SD card. Then Write Zeros to it (quick mode is fine). (In this program you make your choices then choose apply at the top left and it will process them in the order you had chosen)

3.) Use Windows Disk Manager to format in standard FAT32 format (I did not use quick format).
4.) Use Windows Disk Manager to assign it a Driver Letter for access.
5.) Start again from step 1. on installing the nookhoney image to the SD Card using WinImage.

This worked great for me!!

 

[devilisht2003]

did you installed the drivers?

Yep got the Nook to show up in device manager as Android Composite ADB Interface. When I go to the command prompt i still get the error

adb is not a recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.

EDIT: if i open a CMD at the platform-tools folder and type adb devices it says "list of devices attached" but there are none listed

EDIT 2: finally got adb to launch in the CMD prompt but now when i type adb devices it still says "List of devices attached" and there are none listed but the nook is still shown in device manager as Android Composite ADB Interface

 

[vkelman]

Latest WinZip 15 unzips nookhoney04.img.zip without any problems.

 

[cwmartin59]

Installed the Android SDK and Java JDK. Rooted Nook 1.1.0 with Autonook 3.0. Installed Android USB driver so computer would see NookColor. Followed instructions to load Honeycomb. Looks great!!! YouTube loads some videos but not all. Can't seem to find controls to play or pause YouTube videos. Can anyone tell me if I have to download Adobe Flash 10 to make the videos work properly? Sound works well. Nook App allowed me to download my previously purchased Nook-books. Gmail works as adverstized. Facebook App works. The games I downloaded work. Overall, I am really impressed!!

 

[vyan28]

Installed the Android SDK and Java JDK. Rooted Nook 1.1.0 with Autonook 3.0. Installed Android USB driver so computer would see NookColor. Followed instructions to load Honeycomb. Looks great!!! YouTube loads some videos but not all. Can't seem to find controls to play or pause YouTube videos. Can anyone tell me if I have to download Adobe Flash 10 to make the videos work properly? Sound works well. Nook App allowed me to download my previously purchased Nook-books. Gmail works as adverstized. Facebook App works. The games I downloaded work. Overall, I am really impressed!!

what facebook app did you get?

 

[witnercoat]

I can help you with the windows set up,

First do you have the Android Sdk set up on windows?

1. No, you have to installed it follow this link: http://www.androidcentral.com/sdk-driver-root-oh-my

once the sdk is installed move to step 2

2. Yes, follow this link to get the drivers and adb working: ADB Over USB - nookDevs

if you get stuck, ask questions here

Thanks! I've tried both of these previously, but I guess it's time to uninstall and try from the beginning. I'll give it a try in a day or two when the frustration subsides!

 

[Calma10]

Yep got the Nook to show up in device manager as Android Composite ADB Interface. When I go to the command prompt i still get the error

adb is not a recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.

EDIT: if i open a CMD at the platform-tools folder and type adb devices it says "list of devices attached" but there are none listed

EDIT 2: finally got adb to launch in the CMD prompt but now when i type adb devices it still says "List of devices attached" and there are none listed but the nook is still shown in device manager as Android Composite ADB Interface

I might have a solution,

on your computer

Start > Right-Click Computer > Properties > Advanced > Environment Variables
Under 'System Variables', scroll down to 'Path' and double click it
In 'Variable Value', scroll to the end and add
";C:\android-sdk-windows\platform-tools;C:\android-sdk-windows\tools" (without the quotes)

and try this cmds
cd\
cd android-sdk-windows\platform-tools
adb kill-server
adb devices

let me know if that work

 

[Calma10]

Thanks! I've tried both of these previously, but I guess it's time to uninstall and try from the beginning. I'll give it a try in a day or two when the frustration subsides!

I would recomend this link too for the usb adb issues. It walks you thru everything and it has a check to make your abd is working properly.
let me know how it goes, good luck.

NookColor USB ADB - nookDevs

 

[djarnow1]

hand holding

OK, I confused between steps 2 and 3a. I have an sd card in. I downloaded honeycomb and expanded it. i don;t understand the process from step 2 through 3a. help. thanks!!

 

[djarnow1]

I don't understand the process from 2 to 3a. I need more basic info. thanks

 

[AudienceofOne]

Can you explain more of what you don't understand?

Are you running a desktop/laptop on Mac or Windows?

 

[nookster2011]

Sorry, but I am stuck on step 3. When I go to disk, do I chose a drive then? When I choose "Restore virtual hard ...." my only choice is disk 2, 7,761,920 kb, there are no other options. When i choose this option I get an error message "error in writing diks. the process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process" Please help!

 

[hksusa]

Sorry, but I am stuck on step 3. When I go to disk, do I chose a drive then? When I choose "Restore virtual hard ...." my only choice is disk 2, 7,761,920 kb, there are no other options. When i choose this option I get an error message "error in writing diks. the process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process" Please help!

Did you run winimage.exe as administrator?

 

[djarnow1]

I have completed all of step one, I have a large SD card I have downloaded WinImage. not sure exactly what to do from there. When I run WinImage, I get a message asking if I'm ok with erasing the disk. Is this right?

 

[emartoia]

I had to change the view of my start menu from classic to "start menu". That fixed the problem.

 

[djarnow1]

Ok, got it all figured out and honeycomb is running on my nook. Cool. but where are my books and magazines from B&N?

 

[devilisht2003]

I might have a solution,

on your computer

Start > Right-Click Computer > Properties > Advanced > Environment Variables
Under 'System Variables', scroll down to 'Path' and double click it
In 'Variable Value', scroll to the end and add
";C:\android-sdk-windows\platform-tools;C:\android-sdk-windows\tools" (without the quotes)

and try this cmds
cd\
cd android-sdk-windows\platform-tools
adb kill-server
adb devices

let me know if that work

I couldn't go past " cd android-sdk-windows\platform-tools ", i got "The system cannot find the path specified." So, i opened a command fromt he folder that my adb.exe is in (C:\Program Files (x86)\Android\android-sdk-windows\platform-tools) and tried the commands
adb kill-server
adb devices
...still get a blank list of attached devices.

EDIT: also noticed that the USB Mass Storage Device with the USB\VID_2080 keeps coming back everytime i uninstall it then check for hardware changes in device manager

 

[DNicolasL]

Has anybody managed to get this going on a 16GB sd card? Or is it still messed up?