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

[roberto]

I have the same problem with my Mac, either Honeycomb on a SD card or rooted stock. It was working for both initially, but no more (??) At least I was able to install the market. After that I couldn't get adb to see the Nook.

I installed the Dropbox app and used dropbox to copy the adbWireless app to my Nook. Using Root Explorer I then was able to move adbWireless.apk to /system/app. It was a bit of a pain to do that, but now ADB works great for me via wifi.

 

[Orphancow]

yeah thats my biggest problem, i cant get it to show at all so i cannot get market onto my device. once i can get market onto my nook then i will say screw usb wires and go to ADBwireless. i just need a solution for getting my mac to recognize just one time.

 

[Orphancow]

whoa just had an idea. what if i took my honeycomb sd out of my nook and booted back to rooted stock rom......downloaded to the ADBwireless app from the market and backed it up on my honeycomb sd card.....turn off nook....put the sd card back in and boot back into honey comb. and then grab the app from the sd card.

Is this stupid?

 

[Orphancow]

nevermind didnt work, ahhhhhhh i feel like i am losing my damn mind. not having my nook recognized is the only thing stopping me from have an awesome experience with honeycomb.

 

[ketvah]

I was doing fine, and everything works, until I got to this step:

3. Place the files in your adb tools folder

I am VERY new to this, so how exactly do I get into the adb folder? through the actual nook/ android? pc? and if so, how do I get the 2 files over to the nook/ android?

Thanks for helping a Noob

 

[Froalskiner#WN]

I was doing fine, and everything works, until I got to this step:

3. Place the files in your adb tools folder

I am VERY new to this, so how exactly do I get into the adb folder? through the actual nook/ android? pc? and if so, how do I get the 2 files over to the nook/ android?

Thanks for helping a Noob

Its on your local computer...same folder where you installed the Android SDK.

 

[Buzzman3]

Thats the one.

 

[rkleinhenz]

There is a fairly good way found here: [APP][02/26] Nook Color USB Mass Storage utility - Mount any partition to your PC - xda-developers

I installed the app. Not sre I got it working right.

I can't mount anything via the GUI. When I shell and execute "echo /dev/block/mmcblk0p8 > /sys/devices/platform/usb_mass_storage/lun0/file" it mounts the nook device, the internal one, not the uSD card. Which still foes not let me get anything on the honeycomb uSD card

Is this working for anyone? What's the trick?
Regards,
Rich

 

[bthackrey]

Need to be adminstrator for this to show. It should have loaded an admin shortcut on your desktop.

 

[jsthrower]

sd card file size after writing image ???

After downloading HC04 and unzipping it to a 3.41 gig image I put it on a 4 gig sd card with win image per instructions. When it was done my card was now formatted to 115MB in size with files totaling 109MB. It contains .android secure...Trash-1000...MLO....u0boot.bin....uImage....uRamdisk file and folders.
The trash1000 folder contain folders named files and info. The file folder then contains the folders... Alarms... DCIM ...Download... Lost.Dir... Movies ...Music....and a few more...

Is this correct, I thought I should have a 3plus meg image on the sdcard.

any ideas??? I ran it with "admin" winimage

 

[jsthrower]

Also

Also, winimage creates 5 partitions on the sd card ... boot 116meg...677meg...677meg...1.2 gig...and a 1.3 gig unallocated. I downloaded the file again and tried but same thing.

 

[donjoy]

Can I run this also on a Virtual Machine like Oracle Virtual Box ? Is there a separate ISO image for that otherwise?

 

[Adontain]

Also, winimage creates 5 partitions on the sd card ... boot 116meg...677meg...677meg...1.2 gig...and a 1.3 gig unallocated. I downloaded the file again and tried but same thing.

Yes, this is correct. The /boot partition is just that, what the nook will use to boot from. The next two are system partitions. The final two are your storage partitions. I would suggest expanding the 4th partition into the unallocated space.

You should be good to go. Now put the thing in and start it up. The SD card has 1st boot priority, so it won't hurt anything even if the image burn was messed up.

After that look a few posts back for an easy way to transfer files/mount the storage partition on your computer.

 

[Adontain]

I installed the app. Not sre I got it working right.

I can't mount anything via the GUI. When I shell and execute "echo /dev/block/mmcblk0p8 > /sys/devices/platform/usb_mass_storage/lun0/file" it mounts the nook device, the internal one, not the uSD card. Which still foes not let me get anything on the honeycomb uSD card

Is this working for anyone? What's the trick?
Regards,
Rich

I ran this just yesterday from my work laptop after I had it working on my home pc a week or so ago. You're looking for Mount 4th SD card partition or something like that. Might need to go to the "2nd mount option" or whatever it's called. After you select the button, scroll down to confirm. Then when done, select unmount and confirm.

Aside from that, I'm not sure what's going on.

 

[rkleinhenz]

I ran this just yesterday from my work laptop after I had it working on my home pc a week or so ago. You're looking for Mount 4th SD card partition or something like that. Might need to go to the "2nd mount option" or whatever it's called. After you select the button, scroll down to confirm. Then when done, select unmount and confirm.

Aside from that, I'm not sure what's going on.

This was on a honeycombed nook (via SD card not internal)? 4th SD card partition means 4th partition on the SD card? partitions can be seen via EASEUS or similar and are sequential? I tried mounting every option, and on the to bar in the UI it remained UNMOUNTED after confirming.

The only way I got anything to wiggle is via the adb shell command which only loaded an internal partition

Regards,
Rich

 

[rkleinhenz]

I should add the partitions I see with Easeus are boot, system, data and sdcard. I would have thought sdcard partition 4 should mount, it is fat32, but no joy.

 

[adick78]

hello... I am having trouble... on winimage, after I "restore virtual image", I am attempting to write the content on drive f(sd card, 8gb class 6) and get an error that "current image format not supported by drive f, it will be resized. I proceed, but the nook will not start up in android. Any suggestions?

 

[spencenicholson]

i cant seem to flash to my sd card using the terminal prompt dd if=nookhoney04.img of=/dev/rdisk# bs=1m it keeps giving me the following "No such file or directory" what am i doing wrong? i am running lion.

 

[jsthrower]

Now what

Well, The HC4 disc booted fine when put into the nook. I looked around then removed the card and repartitioned the fourth partionion to use the unallocated part of the card and tried again...everything fine. I then imaged a 16 gig card and repartitioned to use all the space. It worked in the nook but everything is really slow. Both cards are class four. I lowered the 12 gig partition back to 1.2 gig and it sped up but i went back to the faster 4gig card.

After reading everything about the next step I decided to load the Easy USB ADB Installer for Windows. It installed okay but never let me have any control over drivers. When it was done the sd card partitions were shown in my explorer windows for a few seconds then they all disappeared and I got the error that it couldn't find a driver. I went into device manager and saw a nook color icon with a yellow ! mark. I updated the driver there by pointing it to the usb-driver folder created by the Easy program and it updated and the icon changed to a android phone/ android composite adb interface, said it was right. It nook shows up in the usb remove hardware icon but it does not show icons in "my computer" explorer window. Shouldn't I see them there, if not... how do I access them.

I also went to the command prompt and typed in adb devices and it came back with 11223344556677 device attached.

 

[cyndiy777]

I have honeycomb on my Sd card. I was not able to put andriod market on I was a little confused on how to do it. Read on another site about AMazon apps now I have angry birds so I'm good! Thanks everyone for the honeycomb!! U ROCK!