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

[roberto]

Wait, so I will have to issue the adb command WHILE the SD CARD is connected to my computer via the SD card reader? I thought I can do so ONLY when the NC is connected to my Mac AND recognized by the Mac. I.e. showing as a drive.

BTW, looking at the command, can you tell me where it will say to push to my SD card? My SD Card is in /dev/disk1, but I don't see it in the command:

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

As a matter of fact, I get "error: device not found" from the terminal.

No, you use the ADB command when the Nook is connected to your Mac. The second partition of the SD card shows up as /dev/block/mmcblk1p2 on the Nook (which is running Linux).

ADB basically allows you to use your Mac terminal to communicate with the Nook. As such, it is powerful enough to allow you to really mess things up if you are not careful.

It seems that many of us are seeing the "device not found" error. I hope somebody figures out the solution to that problem.

 

[anon(220176)]

OK, so it was the original problem that I have: my Mac does NOT recgonize the NC while in Android mode.

When my NC is in normal mode (NO SD CARD), then Mac recognized it as another drive. A "MyNook" drive shows up in the desktop.

When my NC is in Android mode (SD card installed), then Mac will NOT recognized it. I looked in "diskutil list", etc. and there is none. There is no drive shown up on the Mac desktop or Diskutil command.

So it looks like for Mac users, there is no way to install Android marketplace since the Mac will not recognize the NC running Android.

No, you use the ADB command when the Nook is connected to your Mac. The second partition of the SD card shows up as /dev/block/mmcblk1p2 on the Nook (which is running Linux).

ADB basically allows you to use your Mac terminal to communicate with the Nook. As such, it is powerful enough to allow you to really mess things up if you are not careful.

It seems that many of us are seeing the "device not found" error. I hope somebody figures out the solution to that problem.

 

[Lou Nook]

Hi everyone, quick question!

When I wrote the image on my SD card, powered off my nook and put the SD card in...when I turn the nook back on it just stays stuck with it saying "Android_" along the left side of the screen...Does anybody know what I'm doing wrong?

I have discovered that pushing the Home button on the bottom of the Nook Color twice will start Honeycomb. It works for me. Not sure why.

 

[roberto]

OK, so it was the original problem that I have: my Mac does NOT recgonize the NC while in Android mode.

When my NC is in normal mode (NO SD CARD), then Mac recognized it as another drive. A "MyNook" drive shows up in the desktop.

When my NC is in Android mode (SD card installed), then Mac will NOT recognized it. I looked in "diskutil list", etc. and there is none. There is no drive shown up on the Mac desktop or Diskutil command.

So it looks like for Mac users, there is no way to install Android marketplace since the Mac will not recognize the NC running Android.

As far as I can tell, the issue with the Nook not mounting on the desktop is independent of any adb issues, and neither problem is unique to Macs. I don't see the drive either, but I sometimes can get adb to talk to my Nook via USB. Most of the time I cannot, however (either rooted stock Nook or Honeycomb on the SD card). I share your frustration.

However, I was at one time able to install the marketplace on Honeycomb and after that I installed ADBWireless, which always works for me, unlike USB.

 

[woodytxag]

I have discovered that pushing the Home button on the bottom of the Nook Color twice will start Honeycomb. It works for me. Not sure why.

Unfortunately that didn't work on mine. Guess I'll have to buy a 4g card. Anyone else have this issue?

 

[reddeth]

Followed the directions, Honeycomb boots up fine. Issue now is getting this adb to work, I get this error when trying to install the USB drivers:

The specified location does not contain information about your hardware

I'm honestly pulling my hair out right now. Windows XP SP3, any ideas?

 

[bradleybossard]

Sometimes you need to start WinImage as an Administrator. Try right-clicking on WinImage in the start menu and "Start as Administrator." Then it will propagate the drives drop-down properly.

 

[legion of doo]

As far as I can tell, the issue with the Nook not mounting on the desktop is independent of any adb issues, and neither problem is unique to Macs.

For me, it was Windows assuming that the Nook (with Honeycomb SD card) was an external storage device rather than an Android device.

This page helped me (after hours of stupidity & frustration), although it might not be helpful for Mac OS 10.whatever users.

If I have time, I'll test it out on our Mac...

 

[reddeth]

Followed the directions, Honeycomb boots up fine. Issue now is getting this adb to work, I get this error when trying to install the USB drivers:

The specified location does not contain information about your hardware

I'm honestly pulling my hair out right now. Windows XP SP3, any ideas?

Holy crap I think I got it to work...

First I downloaded the "Driver Only" pack from here: [DRIVER PACK] Easy USB ADB Installer for Windows (32/64 bit) - xda-developers

Now for some reason the automated install didn't do anything. But if I directed windows to search specifically for the .inf file that came in that .zip file, it installed fine and now appears as an ADB composite device!

 

[anon(220176)]

Can we install app and/or use the INTERNAL storage? Having a 4GB SD card, I only have about 500MB free on the SD card now...

 

[roberto]

Can we install app and/or use the INTERNAL storage? Having a 4GB SD card, I only have about 500MB free on the SD card now...

I would expect you to see ~2.5 GB. When you copy the image to the card, it only uses as much space as the size of the image itself and you need to resize the "sdcard" partition (the last partition) to use the free space which follows it on the card. This is most-easily done with EASEUS (free partitioning software for Windows).

 

[jasoncann]

I see the 2/8 image is the latest available here. Does anyone know when a new image will be making its debut?

 

[seren]

I can't get it to boot to honeycomb. It just goes to regular BN and it says i need to format the sd card in order to use it. That is all. I am using a 16 gig sd card. Any ideas what might be wrong?

 

[epicrean]

Ok I got the image to boot and the nookcolor is working great with Honeycomb. However I can't ADB to connect. I have rebooted the nook, the computer etc... I tried kill-server, start-server etc... I tried running the CMD as an admin and nothing works. When I hook the nookcolor up to the comp it doesn't ask for for drivers nor does the comp seem to detect the device, however the usb light (the N) lights up. Ive turned debugging mode on and off on the nook and that produced no results... So I am at a complete loss!!! ANY HELP

 

[anon(220176)]

However, I was at one time able to install the marketplace on Honeycomb and after that I installed ADBWireless, which always works for me, unlike USB.

I downloaded ADBWireless from Android marketplace and get this error:

"Sorry, but your kernel does not have all necessary features for running this application, you need rooted phone."

My HoneyComb is definitely rooted, so if it doesn't work on mine, how did you get it to work on your Nook Color?

 

[roberto]

I downloaded ADBWireless from Android marketplace and get this error:

"Sorry, but your kernel does not have all necessary features for running this application, you need rooted phone."

My HoneyComb is definitely rooted, so if it doesn't work on mine, how did you get it to work on your Nook Color?

I didn't do anything special and was able to install it without any such message (??)

 

[anon(220176)]

I didn't do anything special and was able to install it without any such message (??)

I tried a couple of other apps, like Titanium Backup Pro and same messages: my device is NOT rooted.

I thought that following the instruction in the 1st post will automatically rooted my NC?

Or.. do I have to follow the STICKY THREAD titled "[GUIDE] How to Root Your Nook Color that talks about ROOTING the NC using Auto-neuter? I read this one and I don't see any reference for rooting HoneyComb that HAS BEEN INSTALLED onto the SD card...

 

[Adontain]

Ok I got the image to boot and the nookcolor is working great with Honeycomb. However I can't ADB to connect. I have rebooted the nook, the computer etc... I tried kill-server, start-server etc... I tried running the CMD as an admin and nothing works. When I hook the nookcolor up to the comp it doesn't ask for for drivers nor does the comp seem to detect the device, however the usb light (the N) lights up. Ive turned debugging mode on and off on the nook and that produced no results... So I am at a complete loss!!! ANY HELP

Download the ADB/driver pack linked earlier in this thread, or search for it here and/or at XDA-developers.

I tried a couple of other apps, like Titanium Backup Pro and same messages: my device is NOT rooted.

I thought that following the instruction in the 1st post will automatically rooted my NC?

Or.. do I have to follow the STICKY THREAD titled "[GUIDE] How to Root Your Nook Color that talks about ROOTING the NC using Auto-neuter? I read this one and I don't see any reference for rooting HoneyComb that HAS BEEN INSTALLED onto the SD card...

Follow the "How-To Root Honeycomb on the Nook Color" sticky. I think you were in the updating part (which is updating from a previous version of HC), and missed the first lines that said you needed to be rooted first anyways.

 

[epicrean]

No love with the driver pack either.... I tried rebooting and everything and still no love.

 

[epicrean]

So to recap

I burned the sd card and it works.

I installed the ADB drivers and under Windows 7 device manger my nook shows up as

Android phone
Android ADB Interface

I have rebooted both the computer and the nook countless times, tried different varitions of the nook color plugged in and unplugged for all these reboots

I use CMD (which I placed in the platform-tools folder) when I run ADB devices I get

C:\Android\android-sdk\platform-tools>adb devices
List of devices attached


C:\Android\android-sdk\platform-tools>

I have killed the server and restarted it and get the same results every time. I also noticed when I installed the ADB drivers it made a new folder under my Android directory called "android-sdk-windows" in there is another platform-tools folder. So various reboots and etc and then running the adb commands from that folder I get the following...

C:\Android\android-sdk-windows\platform-tools>adb devices
List of devices attached


C:\Android\android-sdk-windows\platform-tools>


SO I know windows is seeing the nook color, I know ADB is working just fine so where am I going wrong?


Epicrean