Im getting stuck on this... Can someone help? I try and finish the process in the terminal but it tells me that nookhoney04.img file doesn't exsit. Also when i download the file sdcard and boot appear on the desktop and the nookhoney04.img is in the download folder. I'm not the best with computers so if someone could give me some hints if they know what I'm doing wrong just by looking at this post I would really appreciate it.
[HOW-TO] Download/Install Honeycomb to Nook Color (SD card)
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Congrats!!! The hard part for you is over. Now follow the instructions for pushing the market and framework over to the phone!
Yes, amazon marketplace is a separate app that can install without the need for the google market. The first post has the steps necessary to push the market over to the NC. Although if you are confused, I would stay as you are.
start from the beginning...
What type of computer are you using? PC or Mac?
You have downloaded the nookhoney04.img.gz file to your computer?
You have downloaded and installed WinImage?
You have downloaded and installed WinRar on your computer?
Adontain
After I move the apk files into platform tools and get ready to do my command prompt work....do I need to have the nook booted and connected to the computer (usb) before I enter these commands???? I guess I type each command then hit enter (win7) ???
Also, I take it I shouldn't see anything in reference to the nook in "my computer" explorer window when the unit is connected.
If I get the market on it I won't need to use the computer in the future I hope.
Thanks for your help so far...it has helped a lot.
After I move the apk files into platform tools and get ready to do my command prompt work....do I need to have the nook booted and connected to the computer (usb) before I enter these commands???? I guess I type each command then hit enter (win7) ???
Also, I take it I shouldn't see anything in reference to the nook in "my computer" explorer window when the unit is connected.
If I get the market on it I won't need to use the computer in the future I hope.
Thanks for your help so far...it has helped a lot.
Is the image file in your current directory? If not, you need to preface the path to the directory containing that file (you are replacing the # with the actual disk number, aren't you?)
Has lion been released yet? I thought it was a few months away.
Interesting story on the NookApps to come in April.
Nook Color to Get Apps, Flash Support - PCWorld
I love my Nookoid and will be interested to see how B&N runs their app market. You gotta love dual-boot capabilities.
Nook Color to Get Apps, Flash Support - PCWorld
I love my Nookoid and will be interested to see how B&N runs their app market. You gotta love dual-boot capabilities.
Im using a mac, i downloaded the stuffit expander to unzip the file, every time i try it says no stuffit expander was unable to determine the file type. Every time i download the image file from the internet in comes in 3 parts, one says boot, which has U-boot.bin, UImage, uRamdisk and MLO
the other says sdcard (which is not the one i have inserted) and it has things you would see on a phone, applications, movies, music, pictures, downloads, DCIMs, alarms, podcast, ringtones.
then i have the image file in the download folder. But every time i try and do
dd if=nookhoney04.img of=/dev/rdisk# bs=1m
its says no such file or directory? any ideas?
the other says sdcard (which is not the one i have inserted) and it has things you would see on a phone, applications, movies, music, pictures, downloads, DCIMs, alarms, podcast, ringtones.
then i have the image file in the download folder. But every time i try and do
dd if=nookhoney04.img of=/dev/rdisk# bs=1m
its says no such file or directory? any ideas?
There have been several questions recently on the nook device not showing up in windows explorer. Does anyone have any definitive answer why not or a fix or workaround?
Here is my problem. I also do not see any nook device or actually any partition when I just plug the nook into a USB port. The former is a problem e.g. for Adobe Digital Editions. Is this a permanent issue with this approach?
Some said they see the boot partition but nothing else. I don't see even that. Again, expected or not, and does anyone have any ideas what might be the issue? I installed a little app found here [APP][02/26] Nook Color USB Mass Storage utility - Mount any partition to your PC - xda-developers - it also does not work as expected and on a similar question I see the one-word answer "root - SU" over there which is not enough for me to understand. (Do I need to 'root' the SD card-installed honeycomb? If so - how? I assume that was the stock configuration) I can manually mount the sdcard partition by issuing.
adb shell
echo /dev/block/mmcblk1p4 > /sys/devices/platform/usb_mass_storage/lun0/file
and the eMMC (embedded) partition via
adb shell
echo /dev/block/mmcblk0p8 > /sys/devices/platform/usb_mass_storage/lun1/file
So I can manually copy stuff there. ButI have no way to move ebooks for the nook application to read. Simply copying the files to the digital edition directory under nook does not do the trick. Books got via the B&N store of course do show up
Appreciate any insights!
Regards,
Rich
Here is my problem. I also do not see any nook device or actually any partition when I just plug the nook into a USB port. The former is a problem e.g. for Adobe Digital Editions. Is this a permanent issue with this approach?
Some said they see the boot partition but nothing else. I don't see even that. Again, expected or not, and does anyone have any ideas what might be the issue? I installed a little app found here [APP][02/26] Nook Color USB Mass Storage utility - Mount any partition to your PC - xda-developers - it also does not work as expected and on a similar question I see the one-word answer "root - SU" over there which is not enough for me to understand. (Do I need to 'root' the SD card-installed honeycomb? If so - how? I assume that was the stock configuration) I can manually mount the sdcard partition by issuing.
adb shell
echo /dev/block/mmcblk1p4 > /sys/devices/platform/usb_mass_storage/lun0/file
and the eMMC (embedded) partition via
adb shell
echo /dev/block/mmcblk0p8 > /sys/devices/platform/usb_mass_storage/lun1/file
So I can manually copy stuff there. ButI have no way to move ebooks for the nook application to read. Simply copying the files to the digital edition directory under nook does not do the trick. Books got via the B&N store of course do show up
Appreciate any insights!
Regards,
Rich
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You are seeing the folders which are in the image file. You don't need to worry about them at this time.
If you didn't cd to the download folder, you need to specify the full path to the file. For instance, I downloaded the file to the Desktop and used the command:
dd if=~/Desktop/nookhoney04.img of=/dev/rdisk4 bs=1m
(substitute the correct disk # which you can find with the command "diskutil list".)
Got Honeycomb up. Got my wireless connection going. Try to bring up Market but sign in says "Your phone needs to communicate with Google servers to set up your account." Um, don't think that's ever going to happen.
Is there some setting I need to change?
Is there some setting I need to change?
I don't think there is any way to access the market without a Google account. Likewise, an Amazon account is required for their app store (even to get free apps). Amazon even emails me an invoice ($0) for free apps.
You can often download apps to a computer and install with adb (or even download them to the NC and use root explorer or possibly Astro to install them to the proper location).
You can often download apps to a computer and install with adb (or even download them to the NC and use root explorer or possibly Astro to install them to the proper location).
I tried copying to the desktop and using your example, except replacing rdisk4 with my disks #. Still giving me the same message, I'll keep messing with it and try and figure it out.
thanks for the help, i'll keep trying to mess with it and see what i'm doing wrong.
rkleinhenz
I don't have anything in MY COMPUTER either...but. If you look in device manager you should have an entry for android phone then under that one for composite (see my previous post) plus it shows up in the remove usb hardware icon in my task bar. I simply booted to HC4 and hooked up the usb cable to my win 7 computer. Then I went to my C:/android-sdk-windows folder ( created when I installed Easy adb )then opened the platform-tools folder where adb.exe was. (I had already downloaded the google services and vending apk into that folder as stated in the instructions in the first post.) In a blank part of the folder I pushed my SHIFT key and right clicked and then selected "open command window here. It brought up a dos window and at the prompt I copy and paste each line one at a time from the first post about installing the market...hitting ENTER after each line pasted brought up another prompt for the next line of text. After I pasted the reboot line and hit enter the nook rebooted and the marketplace icon was there...I set up the marketplace with my gmail account info and I was downloading free apps.
My biggest issue was getting the right driver installed with the EASY ADB download to get an android listing in the widows device manager with no yellow ! marks.
This has been a learning experience. There is much more to learn. It's tough picking through the content on this thread since most of it assumes we have an idea what we are doing.
hopefully I won't need to ever see the card in windows my computer. My next thing is to figure out how to get my personal music and video on the thing, if at all possible. Maybe it's done by syncing with a windows based media player.
I also need to find a program to make an exact copy of this sd card so I'll have a backup.
I don't have anything in MY COMPUTER either...but. If you look in device manager you should have an entry for android phone then under that one for composite (see my previous post) plus it shows up in the remove usb hardware icon in my task bar. I simply booted to HC4 and hooked up the usb cable to my win 7 computer. Then I went to my C:/android-sdk-windows folder ( created when I installed Easy adb )then opened the platform-tools folder where adb.exe was. (I had already downloaded the google services and vending apk into that folder as stated in the instructions in the first post.) In a blank part of the folder I pushed my SHIFT key and right clicked and then selected "open command window here. It brought up a dos window and at the prompt I copy and paste each line one at a time from the first post about installing the market...hitting ENTER after each line pasted brought up another prompt for the next line of text. After I pasted the reboot line and hit enter the nook rebooted and the marketplace icon was there...I set up the marketplace with my gmail account info and I was downloading free apps.
My biggest issue was getting the right driver installed with the EASY ADB download to get an android listing in the widows device manager with no yellow ! marks.
This has been a learning experience. There is much more to learn. It's tough picking through the content on this thread since most of it assumes we have an idea what we are doing.
hopefully I won't need to ever see the card in windows my computer. My next thing is to figure out how to get my personal music and video on the thing, if at all possible. Maybe it's done by syncing with a windows based media player.
I also need to find a program to make an exact copy of this sd card so I'll have a backup.
Can't wait to see what B&N app store looks like and what changes they make. I was tired of waiting so I can here.
can i do this through a usb cord to my phone and burn the image to my phones micro sd card? or do i need to get an adapter for the micro sd card? that brings another question does it have to be an empty sd card? quick response would be great!
This maybe a dumb comment but why isn't there an easy script that you can just put onto the microSD card to get the market installed? All this pushing onto the NC when the computer is attached seems like a waste of time. Im not at all savy in programing or this kind of stuff but it just seem silly to keep on interacting with the stupid SDK interface and having to go to a command prompt to get a device recognized just so you can install a program....
cammerrill.....if your computer sees the phone card in my computer as a mass drive it should work I suppose. I was doing mine in the card slot on my laptop then put it in the nook.
arise---wouldn't that be nice. Who would have thought I'd have to deal with Dos style programming after all these years. My card only shows me the boot partition in my computer and I can't see the other three partitions it made from the image. So much for drag and drop files. I like what I have been able to do so far with my nook and I like being able to pull the card and have a stock nook. I do see spending to many hours trying to learn my way around this system.
arise---wouldn't that be nice. Who would have thought I'd have to deal with Dos style programming after all these years. My card only shows me the boot partition in my computer and I can't see the other three partitions it made from the image. So much for drag and drop files. I like what I have been able to do so far with my nook and I like being able to pull the card and have a stock nook. I do see spending to many hours trying to learn my way around this system.
In answer to this part of my own question: No the SD installation image is not rooted. Rooting instructions can be found here Once I did this I can mount partitions - but I still do not see a 'nook' device I can sideload to with Adobe Digital Editions
Rich
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I have Honeycomb running on a 8 gig card and everything is working great except that now when I'm trying to install additional apps I'm getting an insufficient space msg. I've maxed out the size of the SD partition but it doesn't do any good. Any ideas on what's wrong?
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