[HOW-TO] Root Honeycomb on Nook Color

[Loondog]

When you root it using SD it still use SD to boot?
Please anybody help me?
ok. I use SD to root, but after root i STILL need the SD to boot honeycomb. the root doesnt install the OS in internal storage of NC?

Not yet....I am sure developers will be able to do that soon. It only took a week to get this far!

 

[Loondog]

I originally have my NC rooted, then put honeycomb on the SD card, it boots beautifully. Now, i'm trying to root honeycomb and open the command window and go to where the adb is located, and su and superuser.apk. I type in the first line, hit enter, and it tells me its looking for daemon, then pops up with a message something along the lines of file not found. What am I doing wrong?

browse your adb folder with windows explorer (assuming PC) and make sure superuser.apk and su are indeed located there.
If that doesn't work then Will S. is the one with more experience.

 

[cvc56]

I keep getting ln -s /system/bin/su /system/xbin/su link failed File exists

I got the same message. But I did the chmod 06755 /system/bin/su and everything worked anyway.

 

[ljp274]

Not yet....I am sure developers will be able to do that soon. It only took a week to get this far!

So what is the adventage of root? If you STILL will need to have the SD everytime you want to use honeycomb?

 

[Loondog]

So what is the adventage of root? If you STILL will need to have the SD everytime you want to use honeycomb?

Having root allows you to install and properly use apps that require root. You can overclock the device if you wish and directly interact with files in the core operating system (though still on SD).

 

[ljp274]

Having root allows you to install and properly use apps that require root. You can overclock the device if you wish and directly interact with files in the core operating system (though still on SD).

Thanks man =D and two more things...
Sorry if i were boring asking this many things =/
1-Using honey combey i can use the internal memory of nook that I think is 8GB? To put the music and photos to honeycomb?
2-Do you think worth by nook to use like a cheap honeycomb tablet?
Thank you again =D

 

[NuroSlam]

I want to say that this root method bypasses SuperUser, there are no requests for access, any app requesting root will be granted root access. If you use this method till till su and superuser are rebuilt and your system gets cracked open, dont come anocking my way.

This was a proof of concept that it could be done and something that I need to have for my own reasons.

 

[NuroSlam]

I keep getting ln -s /system/bin/su /system/xbin/su link failed File exists

this is because the su that comes with honeycomb is located in xbin

cd /system/xbin
mv su su.old
ln -s /system/bin/su /system/xbin/su

 

[27scoob]

When I try the first and command I get an error about cant.. state Su... no file or directory exist . I have unzipped the files and placed in the platform-tools folder . Any pointers toward the right direction for me...

 

[ebarr727]

From what I did, the su and Superuser.apk were not zipped. Your instructions say to unzip them.

However, I can get my NC rooted to connect to my desktop, but I haven't been able to get the SD HC to connect to my desktop so I can't complete your instruction successfully. I keep getting a "Device Not Found" error.

Is it not possible to root the SD HC? Does this only work for the internal memory HC on the NC?

 

[vetteman30]

I seem to have root on my HC v.04 SD. I can access it in Set CPU but when I open Root Explorer it says: Root Access could not be obtained because su failed with the following message: su:access granted, courtesy of magicandroid.com

Any ideas what I need to do?

 

[slimxwhitman]

So I rooted my internal install of honeycomb last week, and last night I tried to take a screen shot or something else that required root and I no longer had root.. Ideas?

 

[jeffcalloway]

In Titanium I am not getting the Back/Restore Tab after rooting

 

[vettypayal623]

I seem to have root on my HC v.04 SD. I can access it in Set CPU but when I open Root Explorer it says: Root Access could not be obtained because su failed with the following message: su:access granted, courtesy of magicandroid.com

Any ideas what I need to do?

su on honeycomb has some bug. It's fixed on this link . They also have instruction on installing it. Fixed su is attached to the thread.

 

[mgmuldoon]

I cannot get adb to see my Nook Color at all. There are no devices listed when I run adb devices and Nook is plugged into computer. Running Windows 7 64 bit.

 

[amosm]

Nice instructions - worked great. I needed to do this to get ADB wireless working and Titanium is useful besides. Thanks!

 

[ted1735]

use adbwireless then you can switch to usb

 

[lfb02000]

you should have 5.9G on your sd card. did you use easeus to expand the 4th partition?

 

[ncfun]

su on honeycomb has some bug. It's fixed on this link . They also have instruction on installing it. Fixed su is attached to the thread.

Somehow I cannot download the su_fixed.zip file from the link. Is there any other way to get the file?

 

[ncfun]

Never mind. I found out I have not completed the registration.
I got the file.