Newbie trying to put Honeycomb on SD card.

[RagmanXLT]

Hello, Just picked up 2 Nook Colors for my daughters. Wanted to give them as Xmas gifts when I read that I could put Honeycomb 3.0 on an SD card and boot the Nooks to run that way.

I followed instructions here and when I run winimage on the 8gb Class 4 Sandisk micro SD card I have, it gets to 99% then fails. I have surfed for this issue and found a few others who have experienced it but no solutions. Some said that the SD card worked anyway. All I get is a card that is no longer readable by Windows or the Nook and both want to format it.

So here I am stuck. I have 2 8gb Sandisk Class 4 Micro SD cards with usb adapter/readers, 2 nook colors and Computers running Win7 64b, WinXP 32b and Mac OS 10 although I havent tried the mac yet.

ANyone that could provide any help, I would greatly appreciate.

Right now I am trying to put the unzipped nookhoney4.img file on each of the SD cards but it is taking for-ever.

Thanks.

 

[RagmanXLT]

Ok got Honeycomb on the Nook Color. I had to unzip the nookhoney4.img.zip and run Winimage on the actual image file, not the zip file. Took much longer, about 40 minutes, but when it was finished it worked as expected. I did however have to run the EASEUS Partition Master program to increase the storage on the SD card from 1.25gb to 5.97gb on my 8gb Micro SD.

Now I have Honeycomb running but having issues pushing the apps to it using instructions found on butterscotch.com video.

Seems the Google USB drivers dont work as well as I hoped they would... I will continue to research and post back with my results so that it may help others.

 

[RagmanXLT]

ok, actually it seemed the driver worked fine. It was the "adb" that butterscotch.com video had me put at the end of the second part of the addition to the environmental variables path. It is unnecessary and makes the honeygapp batch file fail because it doesnt recognize adb as a valid command. Removing that abd from the end of the path allowed the honeygapps batch file to push the apps to my Nook.

pretty sweet I must say.

 

[koopakid08]

FYI Honeycomb is an incomplete, buggy, and dead OS. If you really want to see what your Nook can do use CM7 and wait for ICS.


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[RagmanXLT]

thanks koopakid, Im finding that out. Pushed the apps over, tried to put some custom backgrounds on for the kids and cant access the gallery. crashes every time. Running Win32 Disk Imager on the clockwork mod image now. Found a nice video tutorial by some guy on youtube. Wish it didnt take so dam long to burn an 8gb image.

I heard Ice Cream Sandwich should be out for Cyanogenmod 9 sometime in January. I wonder when it will be available for Nook COlor?

Thanks.

 

[cbill]

Ragman: Given your situation I am going to pass the following info on to you. I too wanted to set up my Nook Color to boot off a microSD. After attempting to follow the steps outlined on this and other sites several times with mixed results, I ran across a sandisk microSD 8gig Clk 4 disk, preloaded with CM7, on Amazon. It is sold directly by them, and works like a charm. Fast and smooth. Also you get boot option choice on startup. $20 for disk and CM7/ with adapter. For the money it may offer a quick solution to assist in your reaching your desired goal.

When I have tried to offer this info to others in the past, Koopakid has reacted with some unfounded accusations about me and negative comments in general (I do not know why); and this may happen again. All I can tell you is these preloaded microchips work like a dream. You may want to give one a try. If you do please provide feedback, as I know this would be of great help to many of the less experienced Nook Color users who are having trouble getting their tablets to duel boot.

Hope this is of help to you.

Cbill

 

[koopakid08]

thanks koopakid, Im finding that out. Pushed the apps over, tried to put some custom backgrounds on for the kids and cant access the gallery. crashes every time. Running Win32 Disk Imager on the clockwork mod image now. Found a nice video tutorial by some guy on youtube. Wish it didnt take so dam long to burn an 8gb image.

I heard Ice Cream Sandwich should be out for Cyanogenmod 9 sometime in January. I wonder when it will be available for Nook COlor?

Thanks.

There is already a ICS Alpha build out. I tried it out and it is very far along but is still not ready for daily use. I am thinking late January will be when we have a decent working build.


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[koopakid08]

Ragman: Given your situation I am going to pass the following info on to you. I too wanted to set up my Nook Color to boot off a microSD. After attempting to follow the steps outlined on this and other sites several times with mixed results, I ran across a sandisk microSD 8gig Clk 4 disk, preloaded with CM7, on Amazon. It is sold directly by them, and works like a charm. Fast and smooth. Also you get boot option choice on startup. $20 for disk and CM7/ with adapter. For the money it may offer a quick solution to assist in your reaching your desired goal.

When I have tried to offer this info to others in the past, Koopakid has reacted with some unfounded accusations about me and negative comments in general (I do not know why); and this may happen again. All I can tell you is these preloaded microchips work like a dream. You may want to give one a try. If you do please provide feedback, as I know this would be of great help to many of the less experienced Nook Color users who are having trouble getting their tablets to duel boot.

Hope this is of help to you.

Cbill

I have told you why these cards are a rip off in other threads. I am not in the mood to get into this again...


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[cbill]

Koopakid:

And I have told you why I believe your opinion is misleading and inaccurate. Based on my experience, the "Amazon" "Root My Nook Color" Sandisk Micro SD cards are an inexpensive, simple, fast and dependable way of getting "root", using the MicroSD card. If you have information showing the card does not work as I have described then please present it, and if it appears valid then I will no longer suggest use of the card.

Otherwise I will continue to recommend the purchase of the "Amazon" card to "Newbies" having problems rooting their Nook Color tablets using the MicroSD card technique.


Nothing personal intended, I am sure you, like I, are just trying to help.

Cbill





















Cbill

 

[anon(123479)]

I have done the Froyo and Honeycomb version both, and none of them even come close to CM7.1
One thing about buying flash memory from Amazon and Ebay, too many fakes out there.
If they can follow directions, anyone can do it. Hell, if I can do it, anybody can do it.
lol!

I love CM7. Wouldn't have it any other way.

One question about the Amazon cards though,
Is the remaining space usable by the nook as storage for apps and such?

 

[koopakid08]

Koopakid:

And I have told you why I believe your opinion is misleading and inaccurate. Based on my experience, the "Amazon" "Root My Nook Color" Sandisk Micro SD cards are an inexpensive, simple, fast and dependable way of getting "root", using the MicroSD card. If you have information showing the card does not work as I have described then please present it, and if it appears valid then I will no longer suggest use of the card.

Otherwise I will continue to recommend the purchase of the "Amazon" card to "Newbies" having problems rooting their Nook Color tablets using the MicroSD card technique.


Nothing personal intended, I am sure you, like I, are just trying to help.


Cbill

Ok here is my problem with these cards:
1. They are making money by sticking an SD card into a computer and pressing a button. They did not help create the software they are selling and they do not donate ANY of their profits to those who did. Maybe I would be OK with them if they at least contributed a little bit of the money they make back into the cause. As an Android developer myself I know the hard work that goes into creating these things. They don't just magically happen overnight. It takes months of hard work to get this stuff as good as it is.

2. Updates: Most of the people who buy these cards will have no idea how to update them. So when something is fixed in an update they do not get the benefit or worse the people who create these cards leave ROM Manager installed and when their customers see that there is an update they go in and completely erase their internal memory by not knowing what is going on.

3. Security: Do you know exactly what they are putting on your card? You put a lot of personal information on these tablets it would not be hard at all for someone to sell you a card with malware on it. Although unlikely this is very possible.

There is probably more I can list off but I'll leave it there for now.



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